But from the Hellenistic age onwards, some Greek and Roman philosophers and magicians portrayed her quite differently, allotting to her such duties as ensouling the cosmos and the individual men within it, forming the connective boundary between the divine and human worlds, and facilitating such communication between man and god as could lead eventually to the individual soul's release. She was celestial and potentially beneficent, rather than chthonic and threatening.

    Today, the practice of channeling spirit guides through hypnotized mediums is hotly debated. This strange phenomenon is either dismissed as a dubious parlor trick, or regarded as a form of communication between this world and the next. Many view "the guides" as a source of love and wisdom...but are they? For five years, Joe Fisher painstakingly investigated the claims of channelers and the mysterious voices that speak through them. The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts is his gripping journey into a realm of darkness and deception.

    Discusses such themes as love of family, friends, God, and self, obstacles to love, love and crisis, and loss of love.

    Starting from the belief that we all have musical ability,Making Music for the Joy of It challenges popular assumptions about musicality, and shows you how to remove self-limiting beliefs and avoid frustration as you discover and express the musician within, whether you want to play classical or jazz, pop or be-bop, old-time or new wave.

    Here is one woman's quest, unceasing, to live a life in which "there is nothing to expect, nothing to be gained, nobody to blame; only a purpose to be served".