Bøger af John Stubbs

These stories are written as if they were happening to different people, but really they are happening to only one person: Micro, a remarkable human soul passing through many lifetimes, again and again, and you his faithful or not so faithful shadow-reader, tagging along behind him like Sancho Panza once, twice, now and then, or maybe only for half a page before tossing it. On these loose, non-deterministic trips neither Micro, living and re-living 16 lives from the first to the last page, nor you his shadow-reader tagging along, have to clutter up your pea-brain minds trying to remember them all. Just live them one life at a time again and again, word by word, one sentence after another, living or reading them, but always forgetting once, twice, three times. No sweat....

Ever wonder about the lost or hidden meaning of your existence on Earth? Is there even a meaning? Read "Inner Connections". Basing his discussion on more than thirty years of study and practice of the Fourth Way, the author explores one of its pivotal conceptions -- Rodney Collin's theory of six processes. Born asleep and dying that way normally, each one of us has locked up inside of us an extraordinary capacity for becoming conscious and living in a state of continuous presence. How does one find the key to unlock this? It is lost, the author tells us, somewhere among six organic processes -- growth, destruction, healing, elimination, corruption, and regeneration. One of these is a catalyst for continuous presence: Regeneration. Finding the key then means being taught how to recognize and practice this sixth process. Continually. This is the inner practical meaning of all the ancient teachings and their Schools of Awakening. But Mr. Stubbs does not stop here. He has not written an archeology textbook on ancient teachings. What is the Fourth Way, he asks. What accounts for its extraordinary attractiveness to tens of thousands of us today? One reason, he writes, is that the Fourth Way is suited to people who would like to learn how to practice regeneration, but also want to continue their daily lives as they always have. The Fourth Way connects the two worlds. Continuing the ancient tradition of teaching us how to recognize and practice the sixth process, it also takes place in everyday life. Indeed, the author tells us, its power lies precisely in the fact that everyday life contains all the raw material and lessons for waking up spiritually. By remembering to detach oneself from our everyday ordinary experiences and becoming present to them, we progress along the path of regeneration just as fast as we would in a monastery or a hermit's cave. And in some cases, perhaps even faster. Without leaving ones occupation, ones daily routines, ones family, one can still start the steep personal ascent to self-mastery. But because it takes place in everyday life, the Fourth Way is also the most difficult way. One continually forgets to follow an aim, or loses the subtle thread of what one was trying to do or falls asleep thinking one is awake. That is why a spiritual teacher and a School are necessary -- even with the Fourth Way. "Inner Connections" is truly encyclopedic. Compressed into 106 pages, it not only discusses the stages of spiritual development all of us must go through as students of the Fourth Way, it tells us how to recognize those stages. It describes the major influences guiding our progress, and the great cosmic design behind it. A tour de force of higher consciousness? Divinely inspired madness? The distilled wisdom of a Fourth Way School? All three? Illustrated with original never-before-seen diagrams of the six processes.

Architectural Conservation in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands addresses cultural heritage protection in a region which comprises one third of the earth's surface.

With stunningly original illustrations by Kevin Watts, The Awakening of Man Hamlet is psychological commentary at its finest. Reminding us at the very beginning that Hamlet's main message is about awakening, what it is and, most importantly, what it is not: the author John Stubbs points out that you cannot awaken, for example, just by behaving differently from now on, that is by "adding virtue" to your resume. Why? The author explains: "Because your old self will absorb the new and make it its own, thus corrupting it... Consequently, you have to remove the old stock completely - your entire old self has to go." Letting this first message resonate, the author then points out the second, equally disquieting message: "In order to completely remove the old self you must even remove the part which is doing the removing." That is why by the end of Hamlet, with the exception of Horatio cast in the role of being the messenger, every major character is dead. Nothing of the old self remains -- not even its highest and most noble part, Hamlet. Be or Not Be.

From disastrous foreign forays to syphilitic poets, from political intriguing to ambitious young playwrights keen to curry favour with the king, John Stubbs brings alive the vibrant cast of characters that were at the centre of the English Civil War. Stubbs shows the reader just how the country was brought to one of the most destructive moments in its history

John Donne's life story is inextricably tied up with the fabric of a society in the throes of religious persecution. His family had long been subject to the terror inflicted upon Catholics under the reign of Elizabeth I, and while his brother languished in prison, and his mother and uncles fled to exile in Europe, Donne was consumed by the question of his own faith and by trying to figure out what it is that connects human beings - and keeps them apart.In his biography of Donne, John Stubbs chronicles not only a long and bitter sectarian conflict, but also the love story of a young couple who broke the rules of their society, and paid the ultimate price.From the raucous streets of late sixteenth-century London to the personal and political intrigues of Donne's family and public life, from the horrors of the Reformation to the delight of Donne's poetry, John Stubbs' book is a vivid, dazzling biography of an extraordinary man, as well as a compelling portrait of England at a time of bewildering transformation..