Turning Away from Ego, the first book in the I See Only Your Perfection series, relates visions and experiences of my early spiritual search in which I was gently guided away from self-destructive patterns of thought and behavior. This process, which began with my study of A Course in Miracles and other spiritual texts, led to surprising spiritual answers to everyday problems related to health, finances, career choices and relationships. More importantly, it deepened my awareness of the Loving Presence that is with us always. John Joseph Creek I See Only Your Perfection is a miraclea collection of simple, everyday experiences that shows us how to apply the wisdom of A Course in Miracles to our own lives in a profound yet practical way. John Joseph Creek is a master storyteller who has truly discovered how to know peace. And this is his gift to us. ~Jennifer Read Hawthorne, co-author, #1 New York Times bestsellers Chicken Soup for the Womans Soul and Chicken Soup for the Mothers Soul
Susan Kalter presents seventeen previously unpublished short stories by John Joseph Mathews and skillfully intertwines literary analysis, author biography, and archival research with his journals and personal correspondence. Mathews is considered one of the founders and shapers of the twentieth-century Native American novel, yet literary history has largely ignored his work. An Osage writer from Oklahoma, Mathews also spent time in Los Angeles and Europe. The stories in this volume were written at the dawn of the nuclear age by an author who exposed the social dynamics of an emerging world order, an author who had also published explicitly about the ways he observed the East Coast establishment suppressing southwestern writers. This work shows us the aesthetics we missed out on as a result. Topics range from adulterous murder to Cherokee removal, from the thrill of the hunt to the cultural impasses between U.S. citizens in Mexico and their hosts, from the modern Middle East to the fantastical future. The stories bear the consciousness of a postwar world—its confusions and regrets, its orthodoxies and hypocrisies—as well as the mark of a practiced and prolific writer. The Short Stories of John Joseph Mathews, an Osage Writer sheds light on the complexity of Native American experiences of the last century and the ripple of these stories today.
The Miocene Columbia River flood basalt province covers ~210,000 km2 of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, and forms part of a larger volcanic region that also includes contemporaneous silicic centers in northern Nevada, the basaltic and time-transgressive rhyolitic volcanic fields of the Snake River Plain and Yellowstone plateau, and the High Lava Plains of central Oregon. The Columbia River flood basalt province is accessible and well exposed, making it one of the best-studied flood basalt provinces worldwide, and it serves as a model for understanding the stratigraphic development and petrogenesis of large igneous provinces through time. This volume details our current knowledge of the stratigraphy and physical volcanology; extent, volume, and age of the lava flows; the tectonic setting and history of the province; the petrogenesis of the lavas; and hydrogeology of the basalt aquifers.
Turning Away from Ego, the first book in the I See Only Your Perfection series, relates visions and experiences of my early spiritual search in which I was gently guided away from self-destructive patterns of thought and behavior. This process, which began with my study of A Course in Miracles and other spiritual texts, led to surprising spiritual answers to everyday problems related to health, finances, career choices and relationships. More importantly, it deepened my awareness of the Loving Presence that is with us always. John Joseph Creek I See Only Your Perfection is a miracle a collection of simple, everyday experiences that shows us how to apply the wisdom of A Course in Miracles to our own lives in a profound yet practical way. John Joseph Creek is a master storyteller who has truly discovered how to know peace. And this is his gift to us. ~Jennifer Read Hawthorne, co-author, #1 New York Times bestsellers Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul and Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul
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