YUGA describes five falls--the Fall into Time, the Reign of Quantity, the Mutation into Machinery, the End of Nature, and the Prison of Unreality. Taken together, these comprise the fate of historical humanity and are, the author is convinced, one-way trips. And the urban-industrial-vehicular-commercial-technological-pharmaceutical-electronic-information-spectator secular society they have produced has ripped the human world to shreds. . . . The book is hard-hitting, but readers who find it disturbing overlook the invincible beatitude that undergirds its every line. When we awaken from our modern nightmare--as sooner or later we all shall--this book will help us remember what that nightmare was. In YUGA the perennial wisdom has found a new and clarion voice. Glass's poetic and novelistic vocabulary, combined with exhaustive and blithely eclectic research, the mind-boggling diversity of his sources and references, even the peculiar Table of Contents, is a radical departure. Equally at home with the Diamond Sutra and the Grundrisse of Karl Marx, while being a careful student of magazine displays at the checkout counters of supermarkets, the author cheerfully presents his book as a provocation rather than as argument. But the master achievement of YUGA, which lies neither in its 'argument' nor its style, is its voice. That voice speaks so palpably from the author's heart that we find it resonating in our hearts as well. The final pages of YUGA are celebrations of joy and love, and the discerning reader will detect those qualities lurking between the lines of the book's every page. For remember, Marty Glass is a spokesman for the truth that underlies all the world's wisdom traditions. Behind the world of appearances--samsara, maya, and the shadows on Plato's cave--stands the uncreated Light, Reality, which is eternal Bliss. This reality speaks to individuals in the darkest of times, and its grace never falters. No one need be completely captive to history's downward trajectory. Its dream unfolds, and we can actually love that dream if we are awake to the fact that it is we ourselves that are, collectively, the immortal Dreamer. The message of YUGA is the message of Tradition, the Sophia Perennis. -- Huston Smith, author of The World's Religions, etc. For those seriously concerned with the plight of present-day humanity and the unprecedented crises through which human society is passing, this book offers many profound insights. It can offer guidelines and openings onto the understanding of the traditional world and that perennial wisdom whose loss has brought about the present age of spiritual darkness. -- Seyyed Hossein Nasr, author of Knowledge and the Sacred, etc.
Marty Glass lives with his wife Carol beyond the power and water lines in Humboldt County, California, relying on his 1965 pick-up truck "Old Brown" to take him the final two miles up a dirt road to his owner-built home. He has worked as a college English instructor, wharehouseman, and janitor. A devoted father of five children, loving husband and neighbor, he now teaches sixth grade in a rural elementary school, and plays jazz piano and cards. For the past thirty years, he has seriously practiced the religion of India, spending the long necessary hours meditating in "Marty's Cell," an old chicken coop reborn as an austere shrine. His spiritual practice is his real life. Marty's acclaimed book Yuga: An Anatomy of our Fate, was published by Sophia Perennis in 2001. He now gives us perhaps his most beautiful and thoughtful gift, reminding us that the world is woven of the infinite Love and Joy that is God, and showing us how, inspired by the Hindu tradition, that Love and Joy can be directly experienced as the heart of the universe and the heart of our hearts. We have it from Frithjof Schuon (The Transcendent Unity of Religions) and many others that the Vedanta appears among explicit doctrines as one of the most direct formulations possible of what makes the very essence of our spiritual reality. The work in hand can be read as a book-length unpacking of that accurate description. Reliable from beginning to end, it is distinctive among the innumerable renditions of the Vedanta in two ways. First, because its author is an accomplished wordsmith, he makes the Vedanta's profundities-which delve as deep as those of any philosophical theology-read like an open book; and second, because he has worked for thirty years to shape his life by those profundities, his vivid accounts of what he experienced along the way make his words jump off the page into the reader's heart. The book is inspiring. Huston Smith, author of Why Religion Matters, The World's Religions, etc.
Eight memorable scenes, including the little mermaid's discovery of a shipwrecked young prince, her pact with the Sea Witch, and transformation into a human being.
According to Native American folklore, dreamcatchers capture nightmares, allowing only sweet dreams to pass. This imaginative collection features 16 dreamcatcher designs, decorated with feathers, beads, and other traditional ornaments.
Sharp, smart, dazzling Art Deco designs literally shine through a striking mix of stained glass pictures. Sixteen ornate full-page illustrations include people, buildings, abstracts, and ironwork. Hold the colored pages up to the light and watch them come to brilliant life!
Sixteen boldly rendered scenes, displaying the clever and imaginative work of Richard Doyle (1824-1883) display wood elves and winged creatures at play, pixies and imps nestled in the leaves of a flowering plant, fairies afloat on a lily pond, and other captivating images. The full-page designs glow with life when placed near a light source.
Calming and comforting, these 16 sophisticated illustrations offer a dazzling array of possible color combinations. Place the colored pages near a window or lamp to produce the rich, glowing appearance of stained glass.
Eight fairyland princesses with long tresses and garbed in flowing gowns come to life with a touch of color and a source of bright life. Apply hues of your choice to dainty sprites clutching a rose, holding a feathered friend, gently treading among water lilies, and simply posing prettily. These lovely young ladies in their flowing gowns will add a charming accent to any room. After you finish coloring in the pictures, place them in a window for a stained glass effect.
Youngsters can create a brilliant bouquet of garden flowers by coloring drawings of cone flowers, sweet William, columbines, irises, fuchsia, pansies, and cosmos. To color, use felt-tip pens, crayons, paints, or other media and place near a source of bright light for glowing effects.
This stained glass coloring book presents a soul-satisfying combination of the beauty and wonder of flowers with the peace and inspiration of mandalas. Sixteen images offer hours of meditative coloring.
The Congressional ethics process has been transformed into a lethal, partisan political tool, feared by lawmakers from both sides of the aisle. . Newt Gingrich, the Ghengis Khan of recent American politics, wrenched the humdrum Congressional ethics process out of its lethargy and turned it into an offensive tool for partisan gain. Now, instead of yawning, lawmakers quake at the thought of an ethics inquiry that can easily, often unfairly, tip elections and ruin careers. While members of the House and Senate confront the public's changing attitudes toward money, sex, and power, they are also forced to raise ever-escalating sums to finance their campaigns. Practices tolerated a decade ago now may cost lawmakers their seats or land them in jail. Lawmakers often don't know if they live in Salem or Gomorrah. Using new information culled from dozens of Capitol Hill interviews, Sue and Marty Tolchin show how ethics in Washington have changed over two centuries while offering new interpretations of past ethics cases. The first book to analyse the politicization of the ethics process, Glass Houses reveals in wicked and telling detail the forces that drive the modern lawmaker into a maelstrom of fierce corruption battles.
Starry Night" shines even brighter in this stained glass collection, featuring 16 full-page illustrations that include "The Church at Auvers, ""Van Gogh's Bedroom, " and "Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers.
Each of these mandala designs features an intriguing image at the center — a face, mythical creature, abstract form, or flowers. Every design is printed on a tinted background of green, blue, yellow, or red. Color the images with crayons or markers, and watch dazzling designs emerge. Includes 16 designs printed on both sides of perforated sheets.
These 16 stained glass butterfly images soar to imaginative heights! Posed against backgrounds of sunbursts, clouds, and lush tropical gardens, the butterflies feature wings decorated with flowers and other fanciful figurative designs.
The Congressional ethics process has been transformed into a lethal, partisan political tool, feared by lawmakers from both sides of the aisle. . Newt Gingrich, the Ghengis Khan of recent American politics, wrenched the humdrum Congressional ethics process out of its lethargy and turned it into an offensive tool for partisan gain. Now, instead of yawning, lawmakers quake at the thought of an ethics inquiry that can easily, often unfairly, tip elections and ruin careers. While members of the House and Senate confront the public's changing attitudes toward money, sex, and power, they are also forced to raise ever-escalating sums to finance their campaigns. Practices tolerated a decade ago now may cost lawmakers their seats or land them in jail. Lawmakers often don't know if they live in Salem or Gomorrah. Using new information culled from dozens of Capitol Hill interviews, Sue and Marty Tolchin show how ethics in Washington have changed over two centuries while offering new interpretations of past ethics cases. The first book to analyse the politicization of the ethics process, Glass Houses reveals in wicked and telling detail the forces that drive the modern lawmaker into a maelstrom of fierce corruption battles.
This little coloring book invites youngsters into the magical world of the unicorn. Crayons, paints, or felt-tip pens will bring to life 8 bold designs of this gentle beast.
These 16 stained glass butterfly images soar to imaginative heights! Posed against backgrounds of sunbursts, clouds, and lush tropical gardens, the butterflies feature wings decorated with flowers and other fanciful figurative designs.
Sixteen full-page illustrations include the wedding at Cana, healing the sick, the Sermon on the Mount, raising Lazarus from the dead, the Last Supper, the Crucifixion, many other moving scenes.
Help celebrate the holiday with adorable images of chicks in baskets, long-eared rabbits, a lovable duck, and more. Bring them to life with crayons, felt-tip pens, or paints and place near a source of bright light.
From dainty butterflies to bold dragons, these 48 gorgeous images of traditional motifs from Chinese art and culture include dainty blossoms, realistic and fanciful animals, and an array of kite designs.
Nothing says romance more sweetly than the hearts that abound in this engaging collection of stained glass illustrations. Eight charming, ready-to-color designs, boldly outlined on translucent paper, include doves entwined with a garland of ribbon, a cherub taking aim with bow and arrow, another cupid wheeling a barrowful of valentines, and five more delightful images. Bring them all to glowing life by coloring them with crayons, colored pencils, or felt-tip pens. Then place them in a window or near another source of bright light for dazzling stained glass effects.
Sixteen ready-to-color illustrations depict seraphs with harps, accompanied by cherubs, surrounded by doves, and more. Color, place near bright light, and be dazzled!
This little coloring book invites youngsters into the magical world of the unicorn. Crayons, paints, or felt-tip pens will bring to life 8 bold designs of this gentle beast.
Watch 8 engaging spirits — seen playing a stringed instrument, frolicking among the flowers, and posing prettily — come to life as they're colored with crayons, felt-tip pens, or other media and placed near a bright light.
The circular symmetry of mandala designs makes them ideal aids to meditation as well as fun motifs for coloring. These 16 stained glass patterns abound in faces, flowers, mythological creatures, and abstract images. Pages are perforated for easy removal and display — hold them up to a light source and they will glow with color. Specially designed for experienced colorists, Mandalas Stained Glass Coloring Book and other Creative Haven® adult coloring books offer an escape to a world of inspiration and artistic fulfillment. Each title is also an effective and fun-filled way to relax and reduce stress.
Horse lovers and experienced colorists alike will be thrilled by these 16 images of equine power and grace. Pages are perforated for easy removal: after coloring, place the images near a light source for glowing stained glass effects.
Watch 8 engaging spirits — seen playing a stringed instrument, frolicking among the flowers, and posing prettily — come to life as they're colored with crayons, felt-tip pens, or other media and placed near a bright light.
With roots that reach back to ancient Iran and India, flowery paisley designs combine aspects of the psychedelic and the spiritual. Sixteen bold illustrations offer a dazzling array of possible color combinations.
Eight fairyland princesses with long tresses and garbed in flowing gowns come to life with a touch of color and a source of bright life. Apply hues of your choice to dainty sprites clutching a rose, holding a feathered friend, gently treading among water lilies, and simply posing prettily. These lovely young ladies in their flowing gowns will add a charming accent to any room. After you finish coloring in the pictures, place them in a window for a stained glass effect.
Sixteen magnificent illustrations portray these graceful ladies wearing lovely robes, playing musical instruments, carrying flowers, and more. Color each portrait and place near a bright light to bring these charming figures to life.
Eight memorable scenes, including the little mermaid's discovery of a shipwrecked young prince, her pact with the Sea Witch, and transformation into a human being.
Starry Night" shines even brighter in this stained glass collection, featuring 16 full-page illustrations that include "The Church at Auvers, ""Van Gogh's Bedroom, " and "Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers.
Is it possible to hold the crisis of the modern world in the palm of one's hand, rotating it thoughtfully to view it from all angles? This, in effect, is what Marty Glass does in The Sandstone Papers. Through the eyes of alter-egos, he analyzes our dilemma from the six leading, rival, philosophical perspectives that are jostling for acceptance - all to the (unspoken) end of forcing the reader to ask what he or she takes to be the fundamental problem/opportunity of our time. It is a sensitive and deeply reflective book." - HustonSmith, author of The World's Religions, etc.
Described as a universal genius, Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was also one of the greatest painters that ever lived. Sixteen masterful works of art by this celebrated Renaissance man, adapted by Marty Noble, invite would-be artists of all ages to apply their own colors to skillful renderings of Mona Lisa, The Annunciation, St. John the Baptist, The Virgin of the Rocks, Portrait of Beatrice d'Este, Vitruvian Man, and ten other masterpieces. Color these famous creations with crayons, felt-tip pens or other media, place them near a source of bright light, and enjoy the glow of a lovely stained glass effect.
Sharp, smart, dazzling Art Deco designs literally shine through a striking mix of stained glass pictures. Sixteen ornate full-page illustrations include people, buildings, abstracts, and ironwork. Hold the colored pages up to the light and watch them come to brilliant life!
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