Unfortunate Destiny focuses on the roles played by nonhuman animals within the imaginative thought-world of Indian Buddhism, as reflected in pre-modern South Asian Buddhist literature. These roles are multifaceted, diverse, and often contradictory: In Buddhist doctrine and cosmology, the animal rebirth is a most "unfortunate destiny" (durgati), won through negative karma and characterized by a lack of intelligence, moral agency, and spiritual potential. In stories about the Buddha's previous lives, on the other hand, we find highly anthropomorphized animals who are wise, virtuous, endowed with human speech, and often critical of the moral shortcomings of humankind. In the life-story of the Buddha, certain animal characters serve as "doubles" of the Buddha, illuminating his nature through identification, contrast or parallelism with an animal "other." Relations between human beings and animals likewise range all the way from support, friendship, and near-equality to rampant exploitation, cruelty, and abuse. Perhaps the only commonality among these various strands of thought is a persistent impulse to use animals to clarify the nature of humanity itself--whether through similarity, contrast, or counterpoint. Buddhism is a profoundly human-centered religious tradition, yet it relies upon a dexterous use of the animal other to help clarify the human self. This book seeks to make sense of this process through a wide-ranging-exploration of animal imagery, animal discourse, and specific animal characters in South Asian Buddhist texts.

This book constitutes the first major study of Indian Buddhist ideas about nonhuman animals and the roles played by animal characters in Buddhist literature.

Prophecies of the end of the world began to interest Lennart Wingardh in 1981, after reading Prophecies & Predictions Everybody's Guide to the Coming Changes by Moira Timms He found that God's ancient prophecies were revealed in the Jewish Bible and in the book of Revelation and were later on complement, very extensively, in the Qur'an. It is the aspiration of this book that the reader shall realize that the ancient prophecies are real and that they were given by God to provide the understanding that will help you change your life.

Prophecies of the end of the world began to interest Lennart Wingardh in 1981, after reading Prophecies & Predictions Everybody's Guide to the Coming Changes by Moira Timms He found that God's ancient prophecies were revealed in the Jewish Bible and in the book of Revelation and were later on complement, very extensively, in the Qur'an. It is the aspiration of this book that the reader shall realize that the ancient prophecies are real and that they were given by God to provide the understanding that will help you change your life.

Prophecies of the end of the world began to interest Lennart Wingardh in 1981, after reading Prophecies & Predictions Everybody's Guide to the Coming Changes by Moira Timms. He found that God's ancient prophecies were revealed in the Jewish Bible and in the Book of Revelation and were later on complement, very extensively, in the Qur'an. It is the aspiration of this book that the reader shall realize that the ancient prophecies are real and that they were given by God to provide the understanding that will help you change your life. About the Author Lennart Wingardh is a Swedish and American citizen who was born in Cuba in July 1934, where he educated until age eleven, when the family moved to Sweden. After graduating he joined the Swedish Telecommunications giant Ericsson and worked with Latin America up to the level of General Manager in Mexico and Venezuela. In 1980 he switched over to Motorola in Chicago, with who he pioneered the entry of Cellular to Latin America. In Argentina he became known as the Father of Cellular. Upon retirement in 1998 he began studying the prophecies, to try to uncover the reason for their existence something that had intrigued him deeply, culminating in the creation of this remarkable book!

Astrology of the Seers is a clear yet comprehensive presentation of Vedic astrology and makes this difficult-to-understand subject clear, practical and relevant. it reveals the deeper implications of the Vedic system in sections on astrology as a spiritual science, astrology and psychology, astrology and yoga. Of special interest, the book explains the cycle of the world-ages (yugas), showing the Vedic view of human history, and the connection of our solar system with galactic sources of energy. Thirty-two example charts of all types are explained including those of many spiritual teachers, covering all the main aspects of its philosophy, background and practice, including chart interpretation and methods of balancing planetary influences such as mantra and gem therapy. The present edition has been throughly revised and updated.

When faced with global instability and economic uncertainty, it is tempting for states to react by closing borders, hoarding wealth and solidifying power. We have seen it at various times in Japan, France and Italy and now it is infecting much of Europe and America, as the vote for Brexit in the UK has vividly shown. This insularity, together with increased inequality of income and wealth, threatens the future role of the West as a font of stability, prosperity and security. Part of the problem is that the principles of liberal democracy upon which the success of the West has been built have been suborned, with special interest groups such as bankers accruing too much power and too great a share of the economic cake. So how is this threat to be countered? States such as Sweden in the 1990s, California at different times or Britain under Thatcher all halted stagnation by clearing away the powers of interest groups and restoring their societies' ability to evolve. To survive, the West needs to be porous, open and flexible. From reinventing welfare systems to redefining the working age, from reimagining education to embracing automation, Emmott lays out the changes the West must make to revive itself in the moment and avoid a deathly rigid future.

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I hope I am not snobbish. Indeed, I think I have proved over and over again that I am not, by frankly confessing that I am an American. But at the same time I could not repress a little exclamation of pleasure at the fact that we were haunted by the ghost of a member of the English aristocracy. You may say what you will, but there is a certain something—a manner—an air—I scarcely know how to describe it, but it is there; it exists. In England, one meets it so often—I hope you take me...FROM THE BOOKS.