Bøger af Tom Butler

Tobin Goffe is a struggling artist, until one day he receives a letter asking him to submit works for an up and coming exhibition featuring new and emerging artists. It a short space of time Tobin is the talk of Auckland Over-night, he goes from a nobody to a somebody now everybody wants him - from Amy, a hostess with a high-class strip joint - to Emma, the stunning blonde who 'discovered' him. Amy is in an abusive dead-end relationship with Troy, a no-good boyfriend. Tobin's success is placed into jeopardy when he attempts to help Amy in her bid to escape. They go back to Troy's house to gather Amy's belongings and are discovered by Troy before they are able to leave. In the ensuing fight Amy accidentally kills Troy and in the heat of the moment Tobin decides the only thing to do is take the body with them. In a desperate attempt to hide the crime, Tobin becomes the artist of death and transforms Troy's corpse into an effigy as he is entombed in a plaster cast that Tobin makes into a life-size jazz singer. But Tobin's life goes further into a tailspin when Wayne, Troy's cousin, goes looking for him. Catching up to Tobin, the artist now finds himself in a horrific situation when he is beaten and abducted by Wayne and is forced to witness a brutal rape and murder. Comfort and support comes to Tobin from and unlikely source - Helen - a transgender who stands by Tobin's side. Helen helps him pick up his shattered life by being the woman he finds he wants to love, who wants to love him back, a kind of love that he thought had escaped him from ever having. But is this the happy ending that Tobin has craved for all his life, or is there a final twist to the artist's troubled life.

Immortal Self-Centric MindfulnessThe most important understanding seekers of spiritual maturity must come to is the difference between lucidity and hyperlucidity. Lucidity is the degree to which we are able to clearly sense information from our mostly unconscious mind. Hyperlucidity is a term used in the Implicit Cosmology for a complex of behaviors motivated by the belief we are lucid when we are actually only sensing what we have been taught to expect.The second most important understanding is that lucidity is the seeker's objective, but that it is achieved in small steps. The only real conscious influence we have on our mostly unconscious mind is the expression of intention. This means that we must learn to consciously examine what we think is true. Mind changes only slowly, and so, the seeker's objective is to habitually express the intention to align perception with the actual nature of reality.In the first book, Your Immortal Self, the process of consciously seeking greater lucidity is referred to as the Mindful Way. Many people practice mindfulness simply to improve personal wellbeing. A few step onto the Mindful Way to seek greater understanding of their immortal nature and the nature of the reality they inhabit. Even fewer remain as wayshowers for those who seek greater lucidity.The fact of our immortality is explained in Your Immortal Self. This book, Exploring the Mindful Way, includes twenty-one essays explaining some of the more important concepts encountered on the Mindful Way. While you will benefit from first reading Your Immortal Self, there are sufficient explanations in this book to make it a stand-alone text.Will you be a wayshower?

Anyone interested in communication with a departed loved one or learning more about the "other side" will want to read this book.Many may be shocked to learn that the so-called dead have been communicating across the veil through electronic devices since the early 1900s.You than anecdotal evidence exists that we survive physical death and that our loved ones on the "Other Side" continue to communicate with us. Indeed, objective evidence collected from Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) and Video Instrumental TransCommunication (ITC) reveals that they actively seek ways to contact us and to offer guidance to experimenters on improving these communications.You need not be a gifted medium or psychic to collect examples of EVP-ITC for yourself. As have people all around the world, all you need to do is follow a few simple steps using equipment you probably already have. Written as a tool for people interested in experimenting with EVP and Video ITC, the book includes: -A History of EVP and ITC-Numerous examples from researchers and their stories-Easy-to-follow instructions for conducting your EVP and ITC sessions-What is known today about these phenomenaThe authors, Tom and Lisa Butler, have been researching EVP and ITC since 1988. They are the Directors of the AA-EVP.

We Can Know the Nature of RealityOur understanding of the nature of reality is undergoing an important shift from mostly supposition and belief to actionable facts based on important developments in parapsychology and transcommunication. This means the emergence of new tools which are helping us better understand our nature and the nature of the world we live in.To be sure this shift involves theory and research, but it ultimately comes down to who we are and what we can become. The best way to describe this future paradigm is in terms of mindfulness and the middle way of mindful living. This is not the mindfulness of living in the moment based on the belief that we are our body. It is the mindfulness of experiencing life from the perspective of your immortal self.This book is written to show you the evidence of survival and the implications of that evidence as an important model for future research. While your personal progression depends a lot on understanding the evidence, the community sharing your journey is equally important. To help you learn where to look for help, a comprehensive survey of our paranormalist community is included.Mindfulness can lead to important growth in your ability to work with nature, to sense the subtle fields influencing your life and more confidently commune with your loved ones on the other side. But it is important to understand how this paradigm shift is changing our understanding of the phenomena of transcommunication and interconnectedness in our community. The last part of this book includes a comprehensive discussion of the phenomena, including EVP-ITC, healing intention and mediumship transcommunication phenomena.

This book is a collection of many substantial and fascinating quotations about life and old age. It is mainly written for senior citizens, many quotes can apply to others as well.

Comprehensively updated to cover PHP 8 and modern best practice, this highly practical and fun book covers everything from installation through to creating a complete online content management system.

A handbook of ideas for coping with the loss of a loved one.Written by one who has personal experience.

Protected natural areas have historically been the primary tool of conservationists to conserve land and wildlife. These parks and reserves are set apart to forever remain in contrast to those places where human activities, technologies, and developments prevail. But even as the biodiversity crisis accelerates, a growing number of voices are suggesting that protected areas are passe. Conservation, they argue, should instead focus on lands managed for human use-working landscapes-and abandon the goal of preventing human-caused extinctions in favor of maintaining ecosystem services to support people. If such arguments take hold, we risk losing support for the unique qualities and values of wild, undeveloped nature.Protecting the Wild offers a spirited argument for the robust protection of the natural world. In it, experts from five continents reaffirm that parks, wilderness areas, and other reserves are an indispensable-albeit insufficient-means to sustain species, subspecies, key habitats, ecological processes, and evolutionary potential. Using case studies from around the globe, they present evidence that terrestrial and marine protected areas are crucial for biodiversity and human well-being alike, vital to countering anthropogenic extinctions and climate change.A companion volume to Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of Earth, Protecting the Wild provides a necessary addition to the conversation about the future of conservation in the so-called Anthropocene, one that will be useful for academics, policymakers, and conservation practitioners at all levels, from local land trusts to international NGOs.