On December 11, 2009, Author William Moreira embarked upon a South American cruise aboard the Costa Concordia. In the wee hours of that first sleepless night, as the cruiser steamed for its first port of call, he decided to take a stroll along the ships top deck. There was no moon, and the dark ocean and sky met and fused into one. The only demarcation between heaven and hell was the glistening light of the infinite galaxies and stars. Suddenly, filled with an incredible feeling of inspiration, Moreira put pen to paper, words exploding onto the page. He wrote and wrote, not stopping until a burst of morning sunshine climbed over the horizon to announce the arrival of a new day of Gods great creation. Over the course of seven similar nights, God! The Realities of the Creator was born. This labor of love, inspired by the great canvas known as the universe, explores the deep theological and philosophical questions that reside deep within our hearts: Who is God? What is God? How did the Universe come to be? Moreira weaves his answers into a larger tapestry of personal stories and anecdotes, making God! The Realities of the Creator both engaging and relatable. He concludes by offering an eleventh commandment to deal with complexities of a changing world.
William Moreira doesnt appreciate hearing the theories of geniuses like Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. Their ideas make him feel like hes back in kindergarten listening to big-mouthed kids calling attention to themselves while mocking others. Instead of trying to solve real problems, these kids are spreading crazy ideas. These geniuses should stop thinking about reaching places billions of light years away so they can focus on critical, daily-bread problems, and the calamities that could befall us today that might prevent a tomorrow. Instead, we must contend with modern cars that only get fourteen to thirty miles per gallon, gas polluting the ground, toxins leaking into the air, and acid rain spoiling our drinking water. Our life on Earth is a comedy, as said Dante; we laugh and cry, but we must stop glorifying nonsense. We must look at the future through rational eyes and not worry about whether light is a wave or particles or both. Join the author as he pokes fun at some of historys greatest minds and seeks real solutions to real problems in The Age of Reason.
Author William Moreira has spent decades studying and seeking God-sometimes while flying high above the clouds in his Cessna. In that time, he has discovered that God is everywhere. Now, in this new study, he takes issue with Stephen Hawking and other scientists and individuals who argue against God's existence. He seeks to disprove their theories and contemplates ways you can - use your brain to discover the true nature of the universe; - live in a manner that will lead to a happy place in eternity; and - argue against the theories of Hawking and his constituents. While some aspects of the universe will remain a mystery, it's clear that God exists. What's more, it's up to you to find the right path to moral evolution. You must look at the infinity of the illuminated dark matter encrusted within the stars and, in exaltation, accept that there is a super power and that God is everywhere. Join Moreira as he takes on various foolish views about the universe and existence. You can find faith, understanding, and the knowledge needed to live a more fulfilling life with The Big Nest Originated the Big Bang of Stephen Hawking's Black Holes.
Throughout human history, religion has supposedly tried to help man live a better life. However, religion often does not want people to know the truth about the great spiritual messages. Jesus Christ, in his Parables, left a great message for mankind that is ignored by organized religion. This book answers the questions most people are afraid to ask. You can learn: · Why Christ's Parables have been ignored by religion. · Why the Parables teach us the greatest religious lessons. · What lessons the Parables hold for people in the modern world. · What Thomas Paine really understood about religion and Christ's message and why his works have been ignored. · Why Allan Kardec's message of Spiritualism can help you find happiness in your life. · Why you do not need to fear hell.
This book is the most profound in explaining and proving to our material world the existence of the spiritual world and its relation to our lives. Dr. Fritz is the most incredible example of the existence of the spiritual world related to ours. In this book we can feel the author's connection in trying to help us in our incertitude of life after death. He took more than 3,000 photos (180 photos are in the book) of incredible healing surgeries done by the power of the spiritual fluid affecting our bodies."Dr. Fritz" phenomenon is alive and happening in Rio de Janeiro at this present moment, as of the time this book is being printed. The author left October 8, 2001 to Rio de Janeiro to have a cancerous melanoma surgery done by this spiritual phenomenon without anesthesia or any modern concept. The medium Rubens de Faria, Jr. is presently working on this phenomena. The religious leaders know about it but try to cover this great contact because of controversial ideals of archaic beliefs not following men's evolution.
Happiness and contentment have been very difficult, if not impossible, for people to find throughout human history. People have turned to religion for the answers to their deepest questions but have often found the answers to be lacking. William Moreira, a lifelong student of religions, tells you what he has learned from his life and his own personal tragedies. He has now found happiness and contentment and explains how you can find it, too. This book explains: • Why Christ’s real message to mankind has been ignored. • Why religious leaders don’t want you to know the truth behind the Bible. • Why death does not separate us from our loved ones. • How we can understand the real reasons for our suffering. • What to do when your life is not working.
The success of Embrace In Love, We Reach Heaven published in June of 2001, bringing logics explanations on “why and why life is like this,” touching the hearts of so many in need of consolation and understanding on the polemics of life, brought me “e- mail” and phone calls from thousands of readers on this subject. The contact by readers gave me more than I needed to finish HOW TO SUFFER HAPPILY. I felt the “other dark side” of misunderstanding on suffering, the suffering that will not stop because it is permanent and even immutable (God will not give you back your daughter or another leg in this life) and the understanding on the present suffering to endure it in being less painful and even positively is a must. I spent thousands of hours reading what religion and cults can offer, listening to hundreds of preaching, hours of meditation and adding all this data to my experience in my 68 years of suffering (physical and emotional) I wrote this book that I know is absolute spiritual inspiration to heal the ones seeking beyond rituals and empty words. This is the century of high technology where we are closer to heaven and farther to each other. This missing link is called love to everyone as preached by Jesus and many others. Jails are springing like mushrooms and wars still ranging in all fronts. God’s warnings are here in natural disaster as part of life just like death, but we must wake from our spiritual ignorance and change our link of suffering to the right one that is love and our suffering will be happy. Author’s Web Site: www.spiritnew.com
This compilation of scientific papers has as main purpose to disseminate data and information pertinent to the area of concentration being conducted by students, with the help of some professors, in order to demonstrate not only the relevance of the field of maritime studies but also the diversity and complexity of geopolitical, historical, technical-scientific and maritime law themes. Esta compilação de artigos científicos tem como objetivo principal divulgar dados e informações pertinentes à área de concentração que está sendo conduzida pelos alunos, com o auxílio de alguns professores, a fim de demonstrar não só a relevância da área de estudos marítimos, mas também a diversidade e complexidade dos temas geopolíticos, históricos, técnico-científicos e de direito marítimo.
Suffering is a positive factor in everyones life and the dream of eternal existence in a painless world is in our heart. We all are seeking to reach this level of happiness and peace through religion, cult or any other avenue that is available in both the material and spiritual world. I reached this level after 67 years of going through the purifying process in evolution, where pain comes in every form, physically and morally, I bring to you the knowledge that intercommunication exists between the two worlds; the material one that we all see and feel and the spiritual world that only a few can see and feel, but that can be noticed by almost everyone if we pay close attention. This book is divided in 95 chapters, easy to understand, and in the form of a friendly conversation. It brings us the much needed consolation, especially to those who revolt against suffering. This revolt most commonly occurs when a person who is very dear to us departs tragically,leaving a huge hole, a suffocating emptiness in our hearts. (I personally went through this experience when my 33-year-old daughter died in a horrible accident only four years ago). I share my experience with you, as a lesson from our Creator, demonstrating His bountiful mercifulness to us, his children. It is something very important spiritual, as a warning that we must appreciate Him every single moment of our life. I want to share with you that death does not exist. We simply leave the material world to another world and should accept this as naturally as the act of being born. During our material life, we must make every possible effort to enjoy life, to live as a happy family and to understand that suffering is simple a lack of understanding our spirituality. After reading the pages of Embraced in Love, We Reach Heaven you will realize that heaven is inside your conscience, just as God is. It comes in the form of a Divine guidance to those seeking the answer to why and why life is like ths. You will learn from this book that life is not only to be born, suffer and die but a continuous process of evolution through time. Contrary to popular belief, death is a challenge to those that stays behind, and not to those who have left this world. We are the ones who grieve, looking at life in despair and hopelessness, revisiting the site where our loved ones are entombed, ignoring that this side holds only decomposed flesh, matters that once housed a marvelous energy called the spirit. William Moreira 305 Frank E.Rodgers Blvs.South - Harrison, NJ.07029 - (973) 485 3192 SpiritNew.com = SpiritNew@aol.com Death is a challenge to those that stays behind and not to those already on the other side. We are the ones that griefs, looking down at the windowless dark and muddy hole in the ground, where our loved ones are entombed, ignoring that inside is just a pile of matter, once the marvelous housing of a energy called spirit.
This book is for everyone of any age, social status--having religion or not--in hope of educating the soul to discover the positive side of our marvelous world in God's universe. This celestial message was whispered by an angel to the author authorized by the "High Authorities," educating that life is beautiful in any circumstance that it is not only to be born, suffer and die and why and why life is like this.
Winner of the 2020 Best Book in the Nineteenth Century Award from the LASA Nineteenth Century Section Swashbuckling tales of valiant gauchos roaming Argentina and Uruguay were nineteenth-century Latin American best sellers. But when these stories jumped from the page to the circus stage and beyond, their cultural, economic, and political influence revolutionized popular culture and daily life. In this expansive and engaging narrative William Acree guides readers through the deep history of popular entertainment before turning to circus culture and rural dramas that celebrated the countryside on stage. More than just riveting social experiences, these dramas were among the region's most dominant attractions on the eve of the twentieth century. Staging Frontiers further explores the profound impacts this phenomenon had on the ways people interacted and on the broader culture that influenced the region. This new, modern popular culture revolved around entertainment and related products, yet it was also central to making sense of social class, ethnic identity, and race as demographic and economic transformations were reshaping everyday experiences in this rapidly urbanizing region.
Swashbuckling tales of valiant gauchos roaming Argentina and Uruguay were nineteenth-century Latin American bestsellers. But when the stories jumped from the page to the circus stage and beyond, their cultural, economic, and political influence revolutionized popular culture and daily life. In this expansive and engaging narrative William Acree guides readers through the deep history of popular entertainment before turning to circus culture and rural dramas that celebrated the countryside on stage. More than just riveting social experiences, these dramas were among the region’s most dominant attractions on the eve of the twentieth century. Staging Frontiers further explores the profound impacts this phenomenon had on the ways people interacted and on the broader culture that influenced the region. This new, modern popular culture revolved around entertainment and related products, yet it was also central to making sense of social class, ethnic identity, and race as demographic and economic transformations were reshaping everyday experiences in this rapidly urbanizing region.
In the centre of the Mexican town of Mitla stands a run-down chapel on an overgrown pre-colonial pyramid. The chapel, housing three crosses, is the town's Calvario, the local representation of the hill on which Christ died. Although buses full of tourists on their way to Chiapas or on daytrips from Oaxaca City swarm the town every day almost none of them ever visit the Calvario. Instead they stick to the tourist zone to marvel at the famous mosaic friezes of the pre-colonial temples and shop for traditional souvenirs in the tourist market. If they would climb the steep steps to the chapel they would discover that despite appearances the building still sees extensive use as pilgrims from the wide Zapotec region visit it to bring offerings to and ask favours of the souls of their dearly departed. And as these offerings consist of elaborate arrangements of flowers, fruits, black candles, cacao beans and bundles of copal incense, such tourists might well start to wonder where the origins of these practices lie. It is this question that this thesis seeks to answer. To achieve this, current theories on cultural continuity, syncretism, the materiality of religion and ritual theory are combined with a study of archaeological, historical, iconographical and anthropological sources. In addition ethnographic fieldwork has been conducted to come to a better understanding of the offerings made in the Calvario today. In three parts, the thesis first addresses the history of Mitla as 'The Place of the Dead', then of the Calvario as a ritual location and finally of the offerings for the dead. Combining these three lines of research an interesting image is formed of the continuity of ancestor veneration in this busy tourist town.
After a coup in 1964 that ousted Brazil’s leftist President João Goulart from power, a brutal military dictatorship took the reins of the state. As a result, elements of the persecuted Brazilian Communist Party split from a more peaceful, orthodox line and declared their intent to wage an insurgent war against the government, plunging the country into a conflagration of violence marked by cycles of urban bombings, political assassinations, institutional torture, kidnappings, and summary executions. Concrete Inferno relays this period in Brazil in a lucid narrative history, exploring what drove the military coup of 1964, the subsequent rise of the Armed Left, and the successes and failures of the insurgency and how it concluded. Stretching from the rumblings of discontent during João Goulart’s ascendancy in 1961 to the strange conclusion of the dictatorship in 1985, the book draws on new primary sources and a wealth of English- and Portuguese-language resources to provide a complete and evenhanded portrait of the conflict.
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