A groundbreaking, authoritative exploration—rich with powerful personal stories and convincing research—of the many ways the living can and do accompany the dying on their journey into the afterlife. In 2000, end-of-life therapist William Peters was volunteering at the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco when he had an extraordinary experience as he was reading aloud to a patient: he suddenly felt himself floating in midair, completely out of his body. The patient, who was also aloft, looked at him and smiled. The next moment, Peters felt himself return to his body…but the patient never regained consciousness and died. Perplexed and stunned by what had happened, Peters began searching for other people who’d shared similar experiences. He would spend the next twenty years gathering and meticulously categorizing their stories to identify key patterns and features of what is now known as the “shared crossing” experience. The similarities, which cut across continents and cultures and include awe-inspiring visual and sensory effects, and powerful emotional after-effects, were impossible to ignore. Long whispered about in the hospice and medical communities, these extraordinary moments of final passage are openly discussed and explained in At Heaven’s Door. The book is filled with powerful tales of spouses on departing this earth after decades together and bereaved parents who share their children’s entry into the afterlife. Applying rigorous research, Peters digs into the effect these shared crossing experiences impart—liberation at the sight of a loved one finding joy, a sense of reconciliation if the relationship was fraught—and explores questions like: What can explain these shared death experiences? How can we increase our likelihood of having one? What do these experiences tell us about what lies beyond? And, most importantly, how can they help take away the sting of death and better prepare us for our own final moments? How can we have both a better life and a better death?
Throughout his life Peters depicted the ordinary places and people of America. From Rochester to Rockport, Peters made an amazingly coherent group of fascinating, masterful American pictures.
Preface Throughout my Creative Writing and Speaking journey, i have always had a special place in my psyche for messages. When it comes to Poetry, it, Messages along with Love are the predominant topics of my expressions. I have always felt that understanding things was essential to the lowering of my "Angst Index". This collection of work found in The Vine Keeper is such a work. My intent is that it will assist the reader in their own journey. It is not that i proclaim to provide the answers another may be seeking, but perhaps you will find the questions that help you recognize that you already possess all that you need within you. I too am a Seeker, and i have been since the formative years of my thinking and the acknowledgment of the structure of this world with it's Rite and Rote and various other Dogmas and Indoctrination that does not necessarily provide me any particular insight to the questions we all ask at one time or another. Bill
An extraordinary woman tells a moving story of her courtship and marriage to heroic civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Myrlie Evers describes her husband's devotion to the quest for achieving civil rights for black Mississippians and his ultimate sacrifce on that hot summer night in 1963.
Based on incisive analyses of economic globalization, class, politics, and bureaucracy, The Assault on Social Policy examines the ordinary speech used to make poverty and extreme inequality seem acceptable, the corporate strategies co-opting the distribution of wealth and other resources, and the negative effect of these efforts on our more vulnerable citizens, such as those with disabilities, incarcerated individuals, children, and the elderly. This second edition incorporates new research on the hotly contested policies dealing with poverty, welfare, disability, social security, and health care. It also takes stock of the ongoing effects of globalization and adds a chapter on education.
Bill Peters was seven years old when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. He lived next to Lockheed Aircraft Company where they built warplanes. His dad worked there. In the sky were dozens of yellow-wing trainers teaching pilots to fly, Bill was enchanted with flight. Little did he know that later in his life, he would own and fly one of those yellow-winged birds. At this young age, his help to the war effort was to build models of Japanese and German fighters, climb up in the oak tree in his backyard, light the wing on fire, and glide the aircraft to the field below. The wing would fail, and the aircraft would spin and crash and burn. One more enemy aircraft destroyed--a good feeling for a little kid. Fifty years later, Bill bought a Fairchild PT23 yellow-winged trainer. He researched the history and found that its first military duty station was Fletcher Field Mississippi. He flew the old plane back to Fletcher Field and enjoyed a reunion with the World War II veterans living there--several who had worked on and one who had instructed in his PT-23. A memorial flight with a little excitement both ways. This is what this book is about. Well worth the read and a compliment to our veterans.
The Army Navy Prayer Book of the Confederate States is the Episcopal Prayer Book for the Armed Services of the Confederacy. It went through annual editions from 1861-1865, and was the official military prayer book of the Confederate States. As an Afterword, some additional prayers by Bp. Thomas Atkinson, bishop of North Carolina, have been included. Also added are national calls to prayer by President Jefferson Davis throughout the War, and a sermon by Bp. Stephen Elliot delivered upon the Day of National Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer in 1861. This work is printed for ease of carrying, and daily use by Christians who want a Prayer Book that connects us to our Southern ancestors and their cause of freedom.
ForewordMy Beloved Brothers and SistersThese expressions contained herein are reflections of a very definitive time period in my own personal Spiritual Journey. Between the latter half of 2010 and the Spring of 2011 i had the opportunity to visit and tour some very inspiration States and Landmarks in the Western United States such as Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona. During that period of my life i noticed the changing in my "expressive voice" and how it related to my position, perspectives, understanding and acceptance of the world about me.I, claiming to be Human, have like so many of us found myself oft' times convexed and perplexed about Life's situations, circumstances and experiences. Many times when we look across the landscape of Creation, there are questions that arise deep within our reasoning, whether it be Emotional, Intellectual or Spiritual. The Poems within these covers are a direct reflection of these juxtapositions and how it relates to such. Many times there was Anger, sometimes Joy and most times Questions. For myself, writing has always been my "Therapy". It did not always matter whether my concerns were satisfied, because the most intriguing aspect in writing i found to be but to address and espouse this inner reflections and queries. "This Too Shall Pass" 'a spiritual poetic journey' is my Poetic Journal of these timesOver the years many have found some solace or identity in my works and expressions, and i hope that you too may find some peace and commonality in them as well. Please enjoy.blessingsnamaste'bill
Sermons of the Confederacy, edited by Dr. William G. Peters, is a collection of sermons by Southern ministers, bishops, priests, and a rabbi from 1861-1865. This volume covers the years 1861-1862. A second volume will cover the years 1863-1865. Several sermons are in response to calls by President Jefferson Davis for national days of prayer, and illustrates the South's commitment to Christian values, aligning one's life and nation with God's plan, and the need for divine aid and mercy. These men of God cover, in their sermons and discourses, a wide range of subjects, from the cause of the War, differences between Yankees and Southerners, Negroes and their purpose among Southerners, the life and death of Confederate heroes, service to God, military service and Christian Faith, etc. This is an excellent book for those who want to understand our Confederate ancestors, the C.S.A., and the South's Faith in God and victory in the face of implacable invasion by the United States. --
In the midst of the Federal Government's war against the Southern people of the Confederate States of America, the Great Seal was commissioned from England. The story of its creation, secret journey to Richmond, loss and recovery after the War is unknown to many in the South, or the North. The Great Seal is the emblem of the sovereignty of the Confederate States of America as a nation, and also its coat of arms. This book is a collection of articles about the Great Seal and its history. It is a thrilling story about the search for clues as to whether it had survived Yankee pillage and plunder with the fall of the South. And the story of Southerners ultimately tracking down its whereabouts, leading to its final recovery, and its survival to this day as the continuing symbol of the Southern nation.
Sermons of the Confederacy 1863-65, edited by Dr. William G. Peters, is a collection of sermons by Southern ministers, bishops, priests, and a rabbi. This volume covers the years 1863-1865. Several sermons are in response to calls by President Jefferson Davis for national days of prayer, and illustrates the South's commitment to Christian values, aligning one's life and nation with God's plan, and the need for divine aid and mercy. These men of God cover, in their sermons and discourses, a wide range of subjects, from the cause of the War, differences between Yankees and Southerners, Negroes and their purpose among Southerners, the life and death of Confederate heroes, service to God, military service and Christian Faith, etc. This is an excellent book for those who want to understand our Confederate ancestors, the C.S.A., and the South's Faith in God and victory in the face of implacable invasion by Federal forces.
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