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Experiencing Ritual is Edith Turner's account of how she sighted a spirit form while participating in the Ihamba ritual of the Ndembu. Through her analysis, she presents a view not common in anthropological writings—the view of millions of Africans—that ritual is the harnessing of spiritual power.
If you make your bed, you lie in it, my parents used to say, growing up in a very traditional household with my father as the head and my mom, the caregiver. When I got married, I wanted moreI wanted some independence. My life took a turn when I discovered my marriage was a lie. In the midst of getting out, I was raped, got pregnant, and was trapped in the marriage. The situation got worse, and the battle to escape was a challenge that I do not wish on my worst enemy. Riddled with guilt of not wanting my son made me overcompensate for the injustice against this innocent child. I was determined to get out even if it meant I left the crime scene in a body bag. I remarried a loving and amazing man, but my past was an invisible obstacle which made me angry and happy on the same day. My battle to survive against all odds came at a pricepost-traumatic stress disorderand many sessions with a psychologist and psychiatrist helping me to have a better relationship with my son and to get to know myself better with the goal to heal.
ISA agent Yael Lavie has seen more than enough death and suffering throughout her industrious career. But after losing her husband in a bomb attack, her work takes on a much deeper, personal meaning. When she is called to investigate a series of cybersecurity attacks that leave the government exposed, Yael’s instincts immediately take over. Everything leads her back to one man – The Assyrian. The Assyrian is a shadow, moving from one place to another, wreaking havoc and political turmoil in his wake, with one clear goal - the destruction of the old order in the violent and corrupt Middle East, and the creation of a new areal order. Yael and her team must work with both friends and foes to bring him and his army of sympathizers to justice before they deliver another concussive blow to the self-consuming - war-ravaged Middle East. But the closer she gets, the more The Assyrian seem to slip away, and the more it feels like she’s just a game tool in his big plan.
Mustafa reminds me of the tale of the two neighboring oysters, the one where one of them complained to the other his pain and suffering, to which he replied “As for me, I am blessed with good health”. Little did they know that a crab had overheard their conversation and said to the second oyster, “That pain and suffering that your neighbor enduring, is because of the formation process of a beautiful pearl.” And this reminds me of Mustafa because out of his suffering, he completed and published this book which will benefit a world of people, like that beautiful pearl that would leave people in awe. I ask Allah SWA to bless him with the best of luck and success. H.E. Mohammed Ahmed Khalifa Al Suwaidi Writer, Poet and Former Director General of Cultural Foundation Abu Dhabi-UAE
In Sikh Evolution to Revolution, Mohindra S Chowdhry bares his ideas on the Sikh revolution and how against all odds, his Sikh ancestors transformed into a formidable force that dismantled the most powerful empire in India.
This volume of Anti-natural Framework & Its Consequences is a conspiracy theory on how certain scientific findings/principles have been concealed from the world and how alternatives to each one of them have been projected to the world. A few examples of this are: The concealment of the Upright Rectangular Universe and Projection and propagation of the Universally Accepted Running and Moving Global Universe; the concealment of the Sirius Binary System [Two Horizons—West Horizon and East Horizon], Mercurial System [Two Hemispheres —Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere], and Existential Import of the Barrier between Equal and Opposite Natural Mechanisms [Solar System] and Projection and Propagation of the Universally Accepted Solar System as if Sirius Binary System—Mercurial System—Solar System.
This new rendering of the Holy Quran into the English language is the first of its kind, since it is a combination of translation and exegesis in which the author 'opens out' the verses of the Holy Book to reveal some of the layers of meaning expounded by the Prophet and transmitted through the ages by the Prophet's companions, family and the scholars who followed them. The fruit of over thirty years of research into the principles of Quranic exegesis and hadith analysis, this work matches a depth of Arabic and Islamic learning with a mastery of English that is lucid and accessible while preserving the integrity of the original text.