Books published by Hampton Roads Publishing Co

"Based on the author's real-life story of dying on a mountain, this enthralling book combines the thrills of a wilderness adventure with the awe inspiring elements of a paranormal novel. In March of 1980, college senior Peter Panagore went ice climbing on the world-famous Lower Weeping Wall, along the Ice Fields Parkway in Alberta, Canada. His climbing partner was an experienced ice climber, but Panagore was a novice. On their descent, they became trapped on the side of the mountain. As the sun set, he was overcome by exhaustion and hypothermia. He died on the side of that mountain in 1980. In his minutes on the other side, he experienced hell, forgiveness, and unconditional love."--

Discover fresh and modern interpretations of each card and gain insights into your inner self and your future. This accessible and easy guide teaches you how to unlock the secrets concealed within the tarot. An outstanding tarot reader for over forty-five years, Sasha Fenton brings her professional expertise to help beginners learn to read tarot for themselves and others. Her no-nonsense guidelines, combined with your own intuition, make reading the cards easy and fun. Fenton provides fresh and modern interpretations of each card, including their positive and negative implications, and what they mean when they are dealt in reverse. She includes multiple suggestions for spreads--from the simple to the complex--that can be used for general readings as well as focused readings to provide clarity and to resolve specific questions. Unique to this tarot guide, Fenton discusses how to link card interpretations together to create a full narrative in a reading. Included are tips and advice for purchasing and handling tarot cards, along with a brief history of their origin. Fenton includes a discussion of failed readings to help you understand why things sometimes go wrong and what to do about it. This book gives the beginner an ideal introduction to the tarot, and before long you will be ready to explore your inner self and your future, and that of others.

PA dream is not just white noise or something that happens to you while you sleep. Dreams are the secret language of your unconscious./PPThis book will teach you how to:BRULLIUnlock the secrets of your personal dream language/LILIExplore and interpret the meaning of your dreams/LILIHarness the power of the brain to uncover a life of greater richness and meaning/LI/UL/PPSo often when we awake we find that our dreams have either evaporated like mist or seem to be just on the edge of our memory. Many people cannot recall their dreams at all. Cohen has developed a 7-step process to let you tap into the rich repository of your subconscious:BROLLIRecall and record./LILITitle your dream./LILIRead or repeat aloud./LILIConsider what is uppermost in your life right now./LILIDescribe your dreams objects and qualities as if you were talking to a Martian./LILISummarize the message from the unconscious./LILIConsider the dreams guidance for waking life./LI/OL/PPDrawing on years of clinical experience and her familiarity with Freud, Jung, myth, and sacred writings, Cohen presents a program that results

Originally published under title: A little book of forgiveness: challenges and meditations for anyone with something to forgive: New York, NY: Viking, 1994.

Goswami's basic premise is that quantum physics is not only the future of science, but is also the key to understanding consciousness, life, death, God, psychology, and the meaning of life. Quantum physics is an antidote to the moral sterility and mechanistic approach of scientific materialism and is the best and clearest approach to understanding our universe. In short, quantum physics is indeed the theory of everything.Here in 17 chapters, Dr. Goswami and his friends and colleagues discuss, among other things, how quantum physics affects our understanding of: ZenThoughts, feelings, and intuitionsDreamsKarma, death, and reincarnationGod's will, evolution, and purposeThe meaning of dreamsThe spiritualization of economics and business, politics and education, and society itselfThis fascinating new book will appeal to a wide array of readers, ranging from those interested in the new physics to those captivated by the spiritual implications of the latest scientific breakthroughs.

Rowdy, ecstatic, and sometimes stern, these teaching stories and fables reveal new and very human properties in Rumi's vision. Included here are the notorious Latin parts that Reynold Nicholson felt were too unseemly to appear in English in his 1920s translation. For Rumi, anything that human beings do--however compulsive--affords a glimpse into the inner life.Here are more than 40 fables or teaching stories that deal with love, laughter, death, betrayal, and the soul. The stories are exuberant, earthy, and bursting with vitality--much like a painting by Hieronymus Bosch or Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The characters are guilty, lecherous, tricky, ribald, and finally possessors of opened souls.Barks writes: These teaching stories are a kind of scrimshaw--intricately carved, busy figures, confused and threatening, and weirdly funny.This is an entertaining collection from one of the greatest spiritual poets of all time, rendered by his most popular translator.The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.--Rumi

The E.T. Chronicles grapples with the big questions such as Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? through a careful reading of world mythology. The authors organize these ancient stories into a chronology that starts with in the beginning and ends with the advent of civilization in an effort to discover the true story of human origins. The book brings together myths from many cultures including the Sumerians, the Greeks, the Maya and the Aborigines of Australia. Current scientific discoveries are then placed side-by-side with these early worldviews. Among the topics covered are creation myths, gods and goddesses, heaven, the gods and their toys (space ships or chariots?), and the quest for immortality. Could it be that those ancient stories of the gods were more than the product of someone's fanciful imagination? Is it possible that the writers, chroniclers, and scribes of our distant past actually record an accurate view of our origin?

"UNCONVENTIONAL FLYING OBJECTS is an excellent reference guide for the researcher, a wake-up call for the sceptic - and a great mystery story for all trying to understand how the UFOs can really work." -Robert Wood, from the foreword Paul Hill was a well-respected NASA scientist when, in the early 1950s, he had a UFO sighting. Soon after, he built the first flying platform and was able to duplicate the UFO''s tilt-to-control manoeuvres. Official policy, however, prevented him from proclaiming his findings. "I was destined," says Hill, "to remain as unidentified as the flying objects." For the next twenty-five years, Hill acted as an unofficial clearing house at NASA, collecting and analysing sightings'' reports for physical properties, propulsion possibilities, dynamics etc. To refute claims that UFOs defy the laws of physics, he had to make "technological sense...of the unconventional object." After his retirement from NASA, Hill finally completed his remarkable analysis. This book, published posthumously, presents his findings that UFOs "obey, not defy, the laws of physics." Vindicating his own sighting and thousands of others, he proves that UFO technology is not only explainable, but attainable.