Bøger af Alan Richardson

It's London, back in the swinging 1960's. Newly-weds Chris and Sally Taylor are moving into their new flat. Ron, a telephone engineer with a passion for paperwork is installing a new telephone. But the Taylors hadn't ordered a new phone, and once they start getting some very strange calls, they soon wish they didn't have this one. They encounter a glamorous Russian spy, not to mention Dracula, John Wayne and a yellow zebra, and an ordinary day becomes crazier by the minute. A play for everybody who hates filling out forms.

Charlie Brown's day in hospital begins very well. His devoted wife is at his bedside; a scene of conjugal bliss, that is until another female visitor arrives. When she reveals that she is also Mrs Brown, it looks like Charlie's got some explaining to do. As his previously secret life is hilariously disentangled, a third female visitor arrives, also claiming to be Mrs Brown. You'd think Charlie's day couldn't get much worse - but it does. Highly Commended in the SCDA Playwriting Competition and tailor-made for a "mature" cast, the play was described by one adjudicator as "A witty comedy... beautifully written". Cast 1m 4f

The Google Tantra is a rude and uproarious account of one man's efforts to awaken the dreaded powers of the kundalini and remain reasonably sane. Written in a fast-flowing and compelling style. from his own typically unexpected perspective. Alan Richardson has created a new genre of black comic New Age Humour. Here is everything you need to know about raising the kundalini from the safety of your laptop, and igniting the Serpent Fires of love and wisdom. Light-hearted, analytic but hopeful. it shows us that spirituality - real spirituality doesn't have to be po-faced and pompous.

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I have often said that it would take a book in itself to describe the incredible levels of chance, coincidence, synchronicity and totally bizarre serendipity that enabled (and often forced) me to research and write about this energy/entity/great magical soul known as Dion Fortune. This is the book.

This is a new release of the original 1950 edition.

This ridiculous book is purely and solely for the staff of Chapman's Building in Trowbridge which is soon to be demolished, and where I have spent 8 happy years. Readers of my other books will find nothing of merit in this tome whatsoever and will not understand the in-house jokes and references, so keep well away. Mind you, the staff I write about herein, throughout this fly-on-the-wall observance, will probably not find anything of merit or humour in it either. The basic message is: I thought you might all prefer something as bizarre as this to an ordinary card. So, Happy Farewell or Happy Christmas to everyone. And if I don't see you before it all comes tumbling down, then thanks for the fun....

'Sulis is the most important Goddess of current times as she contains the essence and lessons relevant to our present times and planetary predicament as a species.'This is a book about a little known Goddess called Sulis, whose time has now come, and who influences you whether you realise it or not. It is a loose journal about our local expeditions to visit sacred wells, ponds, rivers and streams within our area, while trying to find out more about Her and - if this doesn't sound too mawkish - about ourselves. We will tell you about: obscure and near-forgotten deities that lurk behind us today, hidden wellsprings (on more than one level), dubious inner-plane beings, potent nursery rhymes, ancient hauntings, angry trolls, faery glades, phantom monks, enchanted tea-shoppes, Weeping Sisters, curses and healings, reincarnations of Dion Fortune and her family - and those simple folk Earth and Water Magicks you can all try at home that yet lead to the Stars. And hopefully we will make each reader feel that they have been personally involved in our search.

Twisted Light is the story of Kaspar O'Malley, a naïve, malformed, asexual young man who has been equally damaged by a bomb and his upbringing in an orphanage. He is aware that he can't feel emotions as 'normal' folk do but is determined to fit in. His wild talents for Remote Viewing bring him to the attention of the Security Services, who use him for various black projects within the little known (but historically real) department known as Defence Intelligence 15, As a young, disabled man in the 1960s he manages to create something of legend for himself. He becomes linked with the Gang Wars of London, the Cambridge spy ring, the first gig of the Rollin' Stones and the Cuban Missile Crisis. He also has his own secret life within the failed Boudiccan Revolt of the Year 60, for which he feels entirely responsible. Kaspar wrestles with the notions of good and bad and the bewilderments of love. Although he can see through Time and influence its flow, he constantly searches for an explanation as to his own origins. Bizarrely, he also teaches us how to invite his friend Boudicca into our own lives by means of a simple chant. Toward the end, after a lifetime of wrestling with inner demons, he returns to the remote house in Wiltshire where he faces his final battle... It is not a love story, but a story of love.

You will find within these essays stories of outer plane magicians and their often dodgy inner plane Masters; yarns about past lives in Egypt, Roman Britain and Brittany; challenging ideas about parallel lives gained while cruising up the River Wye and gorging on custard creams. You will also learn about un-Holy Grails, time travel, Horned Gods, astral adventures, wild faery races, personal contacts with Beings of exalted provenance - some which were quite useless, though they still persist in nudging me even now. You will learn how stones can sing and hills can speak, and how All is One. Without invoking them, you will find the High Priest of Ptah, the Lady Tiu, Dion Fortune, the storm-force of du Lac and the wandering soul of Robert Kirk standing right behind you ready to teach you things - wonderful things - even though it might take you half a lifetime to understand.

This is not a book on fortune-telling. Although it uses images from the Tarot, it is not even about the Tarot. There will be no tedious histories, or any New Age jargon. Well, not much!Instead, this is a book that you can use when your love life is, at very least, tangled - or apparently about to swirl you toward darkness, nothingness and everlasting night. It offers a means of facing up to yourself and your fears. And when the worst happens, and the bleak, heart-stopping Bad Love Days paralyse you, it shows a way to give yourself a kind of cardiac massage to get you going again.

James Day is a minor young Hollywood star who has just made a dog of a movie and got the daughter of the Mafia boss pregnant. He just has to leave the country until everything is sorted out or calms down, even though this might jeopardise his chances of getting the plum role of Robin Hood that he has been competing for against his arch-rival Errol Flynn.Although completely Americanised, he is the son of 'Lady Day', an aristocratic Englishwoman who brought him to Los Angeles as a baby and raised him there. So he decides to 'go home' to England (where he has never been) and lie low.He ends up (after being mugged) abandoned in mid-Dorsetshire in February, penniless, where neither the people of the village nor of the Manor have ever heard of 'Lady Day'. He realises that his history is a product of his mother's lies and Hollywood myth-building. But was his mother really an aristocratic widow? Or simply a serving-girl that was sent away when she got pregnant by the Lord of the Manor? Are his relatives nobles or village trash?The community is so rural that they've never heard of him. The Twentieth Century has scarcely impinged upon this valley. Public transport is non-existent. And radios don't get reception because of the hills. Few of them know what an American accent is. They think he is insane...

This is one of the most important books produced in this century by an English scholar Dr Richardson'sbook is short, but almost every other sentence requires to be underlined. It is sifted knowledge, succinctly expressed, and though closely packed, it is always lucid' (The Guardian).'Dr Richardson has rendered an important service to the Christian Church by offering us this remarkably fresh, stimulating, and competent survey ... In addition to the working out of its main thesis, Dr Richardson's book contains full and valuable notes on many of the critical problems which have been hotly debated by New Testament scholarship' (Times Literary Supplement).Alan Richardson is now Dean of York and author of a number of distinguished works, among which are: Christian Apologetics, Creeds in the Making, An Introduction to the Theology of the New Testament,The Political Christ, Preface to Bible Study and Religion in Contemporary Debate. He is also the Editor ofA Theological Word Book of the Bible and A Dictionary of Christian Theology.

Did the Romans survey the lands that they conquered? This study puts forward evidence in support of the idea that geometric patterns can be discerned in the angles of road alignments and the position of forts and towns to suggest that the Romans surveyed Britain shortly after the invasion.

Comprising a rectangular enclosure bounded by a rampart and ditch, the Roman camp displayed the skills of the Roman military engineers in assessing and deploying human and other resources.

The Neural Sublime features an array of cognitive and neuroscientific approaches, providing an engaging and readable introduction to the emergent field of cognitive literary studies.

In this innovative study Alan Richardson argues that transformations in schooling and literacy in Romantic Britain helped shape the provision of literature as we now know it. Topics include definitions of childhood, educational methods and institutions, children's literature, and female education.

In this provocative and original study, Alan Richardson examines an entire range of intellectual, cultural, and ideological points of contact between British Romantic literary writing and the pioneering brain science of the time. Richardson breaks new ground in two fields, revealing a significant and undervalued facet of British Romanticism while demonstrating the 'Romantic' character of early neuroscience. Crucial notions like the active mind, organicism, the unconscious, the fragmented subject, instinct and intuition, arising simultaneously within the literature and psychology of the era, take on unsuspected valences that transform conventional accounts of Romantic cultural history. Neglected issues like the corporeality of mind, the role of non-linguistic communication, and the peculiarly Romantic understanding of cultural universals are reopened in discussions that bring new light to bear on long-standing critical puzzles, from Coleridge's suppression of 'Kubla Khan', to Wordsworth's perplexing theory of poetic language, to Austen's interest in head injury.

Edwina and Jonathan Lovelock are to divorce - hardly the best advertisement for 'Perfect Partners', the dating agency they run together. When a prospective client is revealed as a journalist looking to write a blistering exposé of dating agencies, the couple have a battle on their hands. Sparkily amusing, combining a satirical glimpse of the cynical yet romantic world of dating agencies with a witty, touching personal drama.|2 women, 2 men

A brief and accessible commentary on the Fourth Gospel.

An entertaining burlesque of modern magic and Arthurian archetypes, the fat git of Strathnaddair has his work cut out being a Merlin and weaving the age-old patterns amid the tangle of contemporary life.

Biography of William G. Gray, the British occultist and magician whose pioneering work on the Qabalah and ritual magic contributed enormously to the modern pagan and wiccan revivals.