The Darkness: Close Your Eyes


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ALES KOT (ZERO, WILD CHILDREN) joins MARO OLEKSICKI (Judge Dredd, Predator, Books of Magick) to deliver this special Darkness one-shot! Los Angeles more than a hundred years ago: a different place, yet the sun still burns down the ground and the oilfields flow. This is a story of another Estacado. This is a story of love. This is a story of death.




Don't Close Your Eyes


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The coastal town of Falls Church, Massachusetts, has a disturbing history of violence. Victoria Kennelly has never forgotten the night a fire killed her family and something beyond description claimed her childhood friend. Now things are happening again. Original.




Close Your Eyes


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Includes an excerpt from the author's Taking Eve.




Close Your Eyes


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"Close Your Eyes -- Tales from the Blinkspace" features 55 new stories from the online blog Welcome to the Blinkspace. It's a great new work of fantasy/horror fiction from independent publisher, Hellbender Media. Edward Martin III dips into Lovecraftian Mythos and makes it his own in stories that take you to the treacherous edge of the ocean, across harsh desert sands, and well into the future. From the soft subtlety of "True Love" to the violent end of love in "Scales", this book is thought-provoking, intriguing, often humorous, and just plain fun to read.




Close Your Eyes


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'Close Your Eyes is an astonishing book. It manages to be both clear-eyed and harsh, compassionate and just. It takes us right to the heart of the turbulent social changes that defined our last quarter century and it is a revealing, honest, searing novel about mothers and children, about what it means to be part of a family. The story, the writing, the moral intelligence: all of it is a knock out' Christopher Tsiolkas, author of The Slap In 1981 a mother abandoned her child and drove into the night, never to return. Her disappearance was reported in the press as a fatal road accident. Her body was never found. Thirty years later, Rowan has a child of her own. Afflicted by post-natal depression, she is convinced that she'll hurt her daughter unless she unpicks the mystery of her past, buried deep within a commune in the remote highlands of Scotland. Leaving her young family and life in London, she returns to her childhood home to find a failed utopia shrouded in secrecy. And there, with a looming cult leader, among the rites and rituals, the sacraments and ceremonies, is a single postcard dated a week after her mother's death. As she draws ever closer to the truth about her mother, she fears she might lose even herself.




Darkness Visible


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The first book to examine the spiritual and therapeutic practice of retreat in physical darkness to explore inner light • Shows how experiencing complete darkness over prolonged periods helps in developing mental clarity and creativity • Draws upon many indigenous and spiritual traditions that use this technique The use of ceremonial darkness is a classic and cross-cultural method for exploring hidden aspects of unconscious and super-conscious states, accessing invisible landscapes, and embracing the deeper recesses of the self. In Darkness Visible Heaven and Buxton examine the spiritual and therapeutic practice of taking retreat in physical darkness. For millennia mystics and sages have used darkness as a spiritual tool for breaking with their pasts, prior conditioning, and the limited reality of their societies. Spiritual seekers from many traditions--Celtic, Eastern, indigenous North and South American, Tibetan, and African--have used darkness as a tool for spiritual enlightenment. Heaven and Buxton show how experiencing complete darkness, even for only a period of hours, brings about a remarkable clarity and mental stillness and thus provides a springboard for creativity, intuition, and spiritual development. They include exercises that explore lucid levels of dream consciousness, drawing both from their experience as teachers of this method and from the many cultures that include this practice in their spiritual traditions. Darkness Visible shows how deprivation of sight can truly teach us to see.




The Book of Secrets


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The Book of Secrets is a step by step guide to find the best meditation suitable for you. 112 methods of meditation are described and introduced here with helpful background information to give contemporary people a door to meditation. Reading this book, not only will your outlook on life change, but so will your life. If you want to know more about life and yourself this is your book. Each chapter that focuses on describing specific meditation techniques is followed by a chapter of questions from those who were present during the talks. In most cases, their questions relate to the techniques given in the previous chapter. So, as you start to experiment with a technique, it will be helpful to look into these chapters for some extra hint, some greater depth of understanding, or response to a question that might have arisen for you in your experiments.




Chinese Buddhism


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First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.




Through Wolves' Eyes


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John Justice is a man with a reputation as a gunfighter that he never wanted, until one day his life is changed by divine intervention. As a changed man, he becomes a preacher and follows the Lord, promising to become a better man. He follows this path alone until he enters into a relationship with Lillian Campbell, AKA Cactus Lil, a soiled dove. The two are connected by their past that throws them together for self-preservation. When a gang of killers comes to take over the town, the men seek vengeance on John for killing the brother of their leader. John and Lillian join forces to fight back. Can Lillian's young daughter - aided by her supernatural powers and the huge wolves she has befriended and can see through their eyes - help them in the fight? Through Wolves' Eyes is a surprising Western, filled with action and romance. J. M. Schubert is a handgun instructor who lives on land his grandfather bought in 1881. "The closest town is a settlement called Rosanky, Texas. I live there with my wife Paulette, Cookie our dog, and a bunch of cows." He was on a cruise with a writers' group that was challenged by their publisher to write a Western. "I thought about what I would write, and came up with a preacher who was a gunfighter and falls in love with a prostitute." Publisher's website: http: //sbprabooks.com/JMSchubert




The Dark Splendour


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Billy Joe thought of himself as beyond the restrictions of the common herd. He was free to do his own will as no other was, above limits and laws, past apprehension, unreachable, untouchable, an entity unto himself alone. This is what he thought. But this is not what he was. Everything he did served the will and the interests of a force far older and deeper than he would ever reach. In comparison, he was like a child playing with blocks. He served a master who was loyal to no one, just as he was loyal to no one. There were many men like Billy Joe in the world, less accomplished in their evil, but moving deliberately down that ancient staircase into the 'Dark Splendor'. One part crime novel and one part occult thriller, the book takes us behind the veil of appearances into a world where nothing is what it seems. Set against the backdrop of the island of Maui, the pacing grips us from the first page and sends us at a gallop on a white-knuckled ride featuring serial killers, drug dealers, horrific murder, martial artists, reincarnation, ceremonial magic, a black magician and an immortal Tibetan Master. For pure enjoyment and surprise this book is guaranteed to remain in your thoughts long after you have finished reading.