Holy Ice takes us on a breathtaking journey through time, to the heart of the mystery of the crystal skulls. Revered by shamans, held by indigenous peoples, displayed in the museums of the world, the crystal skulls are ancient artefacts that can inspire us to awaken to our power. Change is coming - climate change, pollution - today's environmental crisis shows that the old ways aren't working. We can't stop change, but we can choose to work with it and bring in a Golden Age. In Holy Ice past life memories researched through regression span from Atlantis to the present day, building a cosmic vision for the future. Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. Here are the secrets of time.

Michael Hugh Lythgoe grew up in Evansville, Indiana. A retired Air Force officer, he holds an MFA from Bennington College. He worked for the Smithsonian Institution, and directed an educational foundation. He lives in Aiken, SC. His collection, BRASS, won the Kinloch Rivers chapbook contest in 2006. His poems, reviews and interviews appear in Windhover, The Writers Chronicle, Christianity & Literature, The Caribbean Writer. Praise for BRASS: In the riveting, precise language of an experienced poet, Lythgoe not only probes the horror of war with uncanny clarity and insight but leavens it with exquisite poems about art and color (Larry Thomas, author of Where Skulls Speak Wind). Lythgoes poems are frequently in tense settings facing potential destruction, yet they seem to morph into the natural or the homespun without any sense of ironyalmost hypnotic sonority. (John Harris, editor of Praesidium) Prasise for Holy Week: Shifting in remarkably spry fashion from gargoyles to bear-men to Degas to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to knee surgery to Ash Wednesday, Lythgoes poems read like a travelogue through one mans diversely lived and deeply considered life. His poems are at once serious, surreal, and sacrosanct. In his work, tragedy and triumph are inevitable bedfellows (case in point, the poignant and mournful Easter Sonnet). Returning is all about the leaving, he writes. At their most profound, these poems are poems of loss. At his most profound, he is a poet of redemption (Jill Alexander Essbaum, author of Harlot). From the Foreward by Audell Shelburne: There is a Renaissance conceptknown as copiousness, a fullness and richness that comes when a poem is complete, expansive, whole. It gains in richness from the texture of the details. It adds depth through the insight and thought of a considerate, kind and intelligent poet. Lythgoes work is copious.

The autobiography of the Swedish explorer who started the international race in the early half of the twentieth century to uncover and remove the long-lost treasures of the ancient Silk Road in China.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.

Daniel is 16 and completely alone. His father is in prison, his mother is in the graveyard. His only direction comes from his mother's passing gifts--a Bible, a Miraculous Medal, and a spiritual journal guiding him through the Catholic Faith. Along with these items, and a job at the local grocery store, he sets out to 'pray for others more than he prays for himself.' The result is 33 miracles occurring to 33 different people, over the course of three years, with a most unexpected outcome.

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