I have always thought that a poem does not have 'one' meaning. It can (and has to) have many: one for each and every reader. If it's so, what could be the meaning of the following verses?"/ Your eyes –Ethereal / Like butterfly wings./"Or :"Imagine how / Long was the night / And it broke into a day / Loaded with shadows — ../"Or, again:"/ Where charcoal snow falls and freezes her heart, / With an occasional acid rain that melts her bones./"Following...

As we friends and poets were celebrating via email our third publication of poems [the Anthology of Poetry "Scattering Dreams & Tales"], our senior editor, Fabrizio Frosini of Florence, Italy, suggested a wonderful gambit: each of us would give him one of our poems which he would translate into Italian, and we would have a book in another language.Why are we doing this? To celebrate speech, to extol language, to emphasize the wonder and beauty of language as well as its utility. As ...

From one-million copy best-selling author Daniel Arenson comes Utopia 58, a dystopian novel as chilling as The Handmaid's Tale and Black Mirror.Imagine a perfect society. A world with no racism, sexism, or ageism. A utopia.In Utopia 58, everyone is equal. Everyone must be equal.Too beautiful? A mask will hide that pretty face. Too tall? We'll saw your legs down to size. Too male or female? The surgeon's knife will...

Neuroscience, Selflessness, and Spiritual Transcendence conveys the manner by which selflessness serves as a neuropsychological and religious foundation for spiritually transcendent experiences. The book combines neurological case studies and neuroscience research with religious accounts of transcendence experiences from the perspective of both the neurosciences and the history of religions. Chapters cover the subjective experience of transcendence, an historical summary of different philo...

At a time when American political and cultural leaders asserted that the nation stood at “the center of world awareness,” thinkers and artists sought to understand and secure principles that lay at the center of things. From the onset of the Cold War in 1948 through 1963, they asked: What defined the essential character of “American culture”? Could permanent moral standards guide human conduct amid the flux and horrors of history? In what ways did a stable self emerge through the life cycl...

This latest collection of poems, our third, can be considered a grace note attached to the full melody to the first two.The title, "Scattering Dreams and Tales," was written to reflect the other two publications. According to my co-editor, Fabrizio Frosini, "Dreams & Tales" recalls 'Nine Tales of Creation'. "Scattering" evokes 'At the Crossing of Seven Winds".In this Anthology, you will find poems by 13 poets.According to the Random House Dictionary, a POET is a person...

Come liberarsi dalla timidezza e dalla fobia sociale con la terapia cognitivo comportamentale di terza generazione e la mindfulness.

L’anima sopravvive alla morte? Le nostre esistenze si susseguono nel tempo? Possiamo accedere al sapere e alle memorie acquisite nelle vite precedenti? L’autore risponde a queste e altre domande, spiegando come la reincarnazione sia un principio fondamentale dell’esistenza umana. Egli traccia l’evoluzione delle teorie riguardo alle rinascite passando dal pensiero egizio sul percorso dell’anima, agli insegnamenti di Platone sullo spirito, fino a giungere alle teorie delle scuole moderne di ...

In Sussurri dall'Eternità, Paramhansa Yogananda, il grande maestro indiano autore di Autobiografia di uno yogi, condivide poeticamente con noi i suoi meravigliosi pensieri colmi di anelito al Divino. Nel libro trovano ampio spazio sacre richieste all’Infinito, canti e poesie, invocazioni ai grandi maestri del mondo, preghiere per ottenere la devozione, l’illuminazione, la saggezza, la prosperità, la salute, l’amore divino e molto altro ancora! Yogananda non fu solo un maestro, ma un maestr...

Talk like an Italian!As you may already know, Italian is far from being an easy-to-learn language.The best way to try to master Italian is through conversation. If you already know the grammar, now it's time to put it in practice.In this book, you will find 5-6 possible answers to 100 Italian common conversation questions. I promise you they will come in handy if you are thinking of travelling to Italy....

Author's Note:Signora,la vostra sensibilità di grande interprete dell'anima vi ha messa in diretta e immediata comunione coi miei personaggi, sicchè voi avete scritto di questa opera mia con quello stesso fervore spirituale che, facendo passare l'altrui vita a traverso il vostro temperamento, crea le palpitanti opere vostre. Scrivendo de La piccola fonte, voi, quasi per iscusarvi presso i vostri lettori d'una effusione che non vi consentiva un'analisi molto minuta del mio la...

Learn Italian fast: Impara l'Italiano velocemente.As you may already know, Italian is far from being an easy-to-learn language.The best way to try to master Italian is to learn by heart its most popular idiomatic expressions.In this book, you will find the corresponding English version below every Italian Modo di dire, plus a couple of ready-to-use examples to help you catch its full meaning.