Bøger af Richard Power

Humanifesto is about the inner game; it is about what YOU can bring to this profound shift in the nature of civilization and culture. For that is what our circumstances demand of us. And that profound shift in civilization and culture is impossible without a profound shift in consciousness.Humanifesto includes both practical techniques for the journey of self-discovery and a bold agenda for collective social action.Our way of life is unsustainable. We are destroying the natural order upon which we depend for our physical existence. Our governance has failed protect us or our world from our own ignorance. Governments no longer serves the common good, they has been subverted to indulge the voracious appetites of corporations. We are lost. And just as we have lost our sense of oneness with the life of the planet all around us, we have also lost our sense of oneness with the divine reality within us. Neither religious fanaticism nor soulless materialism nourish our beings. All sentient life calls for a new humanism, with which to redeem the past and rescue the future by revitalizing the now. It is our primal reality we must call upon to birth a new civilization from the singularity which we have created for ourselves. Our primal reality is not savagery or selfishness or survival of the cruelest; our primal reality is unconditional love and impeccable clarity of mind. And it is accessible to us here and now. Humanifesto ("Y-O-U manifesto") is a guide to how to live and be the change we seek in this era of planetary peril.

Planetary Emergency, Personal Emergence: Path of An Evolutionary focuses on three vital themes: the "Evolution of Yoga and the Yoga of Evolution," the "Ascendancy of the Feminine in Psyche (Human and Divine)" and "Unto the Seventh Generation - Altruism and Sustainability As Spiritual Imperatives." Interspersed with Power's exploration of these powerful evolutionary forces are five sets of his Epiphanies, mystical, poetical writings offering a unique Shamanic message of empowerment and embodiment. Will humanity shift into a new reality, and birth a new civilization? Or will we falter, thereby hastening our own extinction? Either way, this dangerous threshold offers us an unprecedented opportunity for personal emergence into a fuller experience of unconditional love, clarity of mind, celebratory joy, artistic expression and oneness with all life.

I could have written a book about my path of healing from the severe physical and sexual abuse I endured in childhood. I could have written a book about my professional life in intelligence and security and what it taught me about what goes on in the shadows of power (state and corporate). I could have written a book about my lifelong journey into mysticism, yoga, shamanism and the occult, and articulated the powerful realizations I have stumbled into along the way. I could have written a book about my life as a writer and a poet, and offered a compelling narrative of the agonies and ecstasies of the artist's life, and the grim, heroic struggle to keep the creative process alive and free in the depraved conditions of the modern age (industrial and post-industrial). But I have chosen instead to write one memoir woven out of all four of these narrative threads. Nothing less would deliver the truth. -- Richard Power

Dispatches from the Ancient Future. Existential. Somatic. New language for perennial truths. Open secrets. Reality-based perspectives on the pathless path. Cauldron Yoga, Gaian Poetics and the Way of the Ancient Future is the fifth book in Richard Power's Primal Reality series. This work celebrates love (human and divine), beauty (sacred and profane) and truth (relative and absolute). In one hundred twenty pages, Power articulates three powerful themes: Cauldron Yoga offers a Tantric vision of birth, death and transformation, in which human incarnation is experienced as divine revelation. Gaian Poetics explores our creative relationship with the primordial goddess, that vast planetary intelligence within which we live, move and have our being. The Way of the Ancient Future heralds the coming of that great shift to a global, green civilization, the radical reorientation required of us if our species is to evolve.Power's Primal Reality series also includes (in reverse chronological order): Planetary Emergency/Personal Emergence: Path of An Evolutionary (2014) User's Guide to Human Incarnation: Yoga of Primal Reality (2013) Humanifesto: A Guide to Primal Reality In An Age of Global Peril (2012)Between Shadow and Night: The Singularity In Anticipation of Itself (2010) The Primal Reality series is a significant contribution to the emerging global wisdom tradition. For more, information, visit http: //wordsofpower.ne

Wyrds of Power: New Language for A New Reality includes Richard Power's entire Primal Reality series (five books) in one deluxe edition. This work constitute a significant contribution to the emerging global wisdom tradition of the 21st Century. Several overarching themes frame this work: The evolution of yoga and the yoga of evolution. A Tantric vision of birth, death and transformation, in which human incarnation is experienced as divine revelation. The ascendancy of the feminine in psyche (human and divine). The poetics of our intimate, creative relationship with the vast planetary intelligence within which we live, move and have our being. A contemplation of the human condition in the early 21st century. A celebration of some simple truths that could help redeem us and heal our world, e.g. altruism and sustainability as spiritual (and existential) imperatives A call to the great shift required of us if our species is to evolve, i.e., the great shift to a green global civilization. Interspersed between each movement of this sweeping exploration, Power has inserted batches of his "epiphanies." Existential. Somatic. Reality-based. Experiential. New language for perennial truths. Dispatches from the Ancient Future. An inventory of open secrets. A compass for the pathless path. The books included in this deluxe one-volume edition include (in reverse chronological order): "Cauldron Yoga, Gaian Poetics and the Way of the Ancient Future" (2015) "Planetary Emergency/Personal Emergence: Path of An Evolutionary" (2014) "User's Guide to Human Incarnation: Yoga of Primal Reality" (2013) "Humanifesto: A Guide to Primal Reality In An Age of Global Peril" (2012) "Between Shadow and Night: The Singularity In Anticipation of Itself" (2010) For more information on the work of Richard Power, author, speaker, yoga teacher, visit http: //words-of-power.blogspot.com

A journey into psyche, and a response to planetary crisis.

True North on the Pathless Path is a book of essays that explore perennial themes and powerful practices drawn from the diverse mystical traditions of the world. It articulates a bold, new vision of spirituality with which to meet the challenges of the 21st Century. The essays were inspired by the author's long friendship with the legendary American sage, Joe Miller.

At the funeral, several priests remarked how appropriate it was that Father Conroy should have returned on his last day to Rosnagree, the parish in which he was born. Father Tom Conroy - a spiky, difficult man -dies at a reunion of his seminary colleagues. As this masterly novel unfolds, we are taken through the years that formed this troublesome priest, who knew his life had been a failure. The Hungry Grass is a sharply witty and moving novel of a world on the cusp of change.

An accomplished novelist, short story writer, and playwright, Richard Power (1928-1970) was most well-known for his 1969 novel The Hungry Grass. Gathered together for the first time, Power's subtle and poignant stories capture the daily lives of urban and rural dwellers in Ireland at the turn of the twentieth century.