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Hindu Images in the Global Age explores changes in perception of
Hindu icons in the United States where second and third generation
Hindu Americans have increasingly adopted American attitudes toward
sacred objects. Viewing them as symbolic, rather than as actual
presence of the deity, this change marks an important transition in
Hindu attitudes. The text describes the traditional path in India
where Hindu images have been cast for millennia through the lost
wax process and brought to life by priests. It also explores the
origins of western attitudes toward sacred objects as symbolic.
Both perceptions now co-exist in a western globalized world in the
United States in a complex layering of attitudes.
This is the 3rd text edition & the first illustrated one,
12-12-2013. This book explores the making of the later myths about
Santa Claus. It tracks down through the centuries what happened to
the early Christian beliefs of Christ's world wide treks, that were
also defended & used to answer early anti-Christians' charges
that Christ neglected other nations. Having gone all over the world
and into the spirit prison, & appearing, as a spirit, to
prophets in other lands before his birth. He was not neglectful,
but is merciful. There are many art works, writings, monuments,
artifacts, legends, customs, & lore around the world that are
like Christ's foot prints, evidences as to where he went. The
ritualistic dramas of the nations also offer some clues too. How is
it that Christianity, in many places, legendized this doctrine
during the dark ages, on down to modern times? How is it that other
nations also turned the memories of Christ's visits to them, into
their own myths? This book explores these issues, with original
illustrations, and drawings of old art works. It explores these
questions: Did Christ go throughout the ancient Americas? Into
England, Ireland, Germany, Russia, China, Japan, India, and the
islands of the seas? Did he go into Africa, Australia, and many
other lands, and even to other inhabited worlds? The testimony of
history, Near Death Experiences, NDEs, and many other evidences,
seems to suggest these real possibilities. According to Matthew 25,
Christ would be out wandering in different guises, as the poor,
leper, homeless wanderer, stranger, a small child in need, etc.
These became the foundational aspects of early to later Christmas
traditions about Christkind, or Christkindl, German for
Christ-child. Kriss Kringle is an Americanization of Christkindl.
Which are earlier versions of Santa Claus. This book invites the
reader to get back to the earlier traditions, earlier beliefs about
Christ going to other nations. (This is the 3rd text edition and
the first illustrated edition. Published by RH&PS = Religious,
Historical & Polemical Studies & MMM 3rd Millennium
Music/Movie Makers, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. 12-12-2013. For more
information contact: [email protected] The author,
Darell Thorpe, would like to thank Allen Richardson, Jeni Thorpe
for their part in some of the illustrations. Used with permission.
Copy right Darell Thorpe, 1992, 2013. Merry Christmas.
This 3rd edition includes updated materials, more sources, plus
color illustrations, 12-17-2013. Ever wondered how Santa Claus
started to dominates & X-out Christ from X-mas? Ever wondered
why "Santa" Claus isn't called "Santo" Claus? "Santa" being Latin
for female "saint." But isn't Santa Claus a male? Did you know that
earlier versions of Santa Claus are blond female youths? Ever heard
of the Christkindl, or Christkind? This book removes the mask to
reveal how the early Christian doctrine, that "Christ went to other
nations," is one of the main themes behind that mask of the later
myths about Santa Claus. It explores art works, legends, writings,
customs & artifacts to show where many original beliefs go back
to. However, unlike the other study: "Jesus Christ, The World Wide
Wounded Wanderer," which explores evidences from other nations'
writings, etc., that shows Jesus went around the world. This book
centers on Christmas traditions, legends, customs, writings &
art works. It traces the later myths back through the centuries to
the early Christian doctrines. Did Christ go to into Russia?
Germany? England? The Americas? The islands of the seas? What about
Kriss Kringle, Christkindl, or Christkind? Plus other gift bearers
& the different guises Christ wanders the world as? Find out by
reading this new edition, & enjoy looking at the art works to:
"The Christ in Santa Unmasked," by Darell D. Thorpe. Darell is
currently a radio producer for K-Talk, KTKK 630 AM radio, Drive
Time Live, The Mills Crenshaw Show. It currently aired Monday -
Friday, 3-6 PM Mountain Time, Utah and Internet. From 1983 to 2013,
Darell has done extensive research into all kinds of topics to get
ready for radio shows & to write numerous manuscripts now being
published. He has an associates degree from the Salt Lake Community
College, & continues to on with his on going quest to learn
more about different topics in Religions, Politics, Polemics &
world history. For more information:
[email protected] Published by Religious, Historical
& Polemical Studies, RH&PS & MMM = 3rd Millennium
Music/Movie Makers, 12-17-2013. Copy right Darell Thorpe, 1994,
2013.
This is the first illustrated edition, with a lot of original art
works & photos. Edition #3, 2013]. Does the universe end? Does
time? Is there no end to life, even on earth? If there are no ends
to these things, there are no ends to what we can imagine what
might have been, what is now, & what will be out there This
science fiction novel explores what probably exist somewhere. Thus,
when inhabited worlds invent, take from others, or buy global
killer weapons Universal Mission Command sends in teams of Cosmic
Agents They're highly trained in everything imaginable to get the
job done. But, often intergalactic bounty hunters track some of
them down & martyr them. That's what happens to Cosmic Agent,
Max Pointer. He dies, but has a Near Death Experience = NDE. While
with the angels in paradise, he has a pre-mortal life review, where
he finds out who he was before he was born. Ever wondered who you
were before you were born too? He finds out Sees visions of the
pre-existence, when he was a spirit, who got recruited to help
teams of Cosmic Agents help save entire inhabited worlds from
global killers, in possession of global killer weapons. Cosmic
Agents are time travels, which makes space travel instant, for they
can plot a course to some distant inhabited world, and arrive there
in the moment they started because they were traveling back in time
as they went, called "time-looping." Thus, they get that time back,
credited to their life account. Training is done the same way, you
get that time back. Cosmic Agents, are highly trained; gifted,
skilled & experienced soldiers with accesses to endless
resources through Universal Mission Command. They often work with
the good angels. They are also realm travelers too, descending
& ascending in and out of hell, or into paradise, according to
what different missions require. Every imaginable inventions &
futuristic toys, & weaponry are all available, as tools of the
trade, to help them complete their missions. If they need to change
mistakes, they go back in time and "re-choice" their choices so as
to send out the desired ripple effects down the time-line. While on
missions, they have to be able to blend in, deal with life forms,
ferocious aliens, & blood thirsty bugs & plants. They
sometimes have to battle monsters, demons & ghosts. So they use
spirit cameras to see the unseen world around us. They sometimes go
to the spirit courts, to witness against evil spirits & Dark
Lords who have been caught for attempting to kill entire worlds.
There's no where this series can't go, for imagination is as
endless as space & time. This is an educational one too, for it
includes studies in Near Death Experiences or NDES. Pre-Birth
Experiences or PBES. All wrapped around historical threads of
related areas of study, such as the journey of the soul in historic
Christian writings & art works. This book also gets into a lot
of historic Christian concepts that relate to the study of the
pre-existence of souls, of realm travels, going into paradise, and
descending into the underworld. Thus, this story weaves together
these different areas to take the reader on a journey through
different realms of existence. Encounters with angels, our Divine
Parents, and with the forces of darkness. There are art works and
end notes of historical sources to consider and learn from. This
can also be a soul stirring quest for, and is kind of like a modern
day "The Divine Comedy," by Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321; or like
John Milton's Paradise Lost, 1674. But different, because it blends
in these other things with futuristic science fiction themes. Hope
you all enjoy the journey and multiple stories, quests, &
missions with in each other. (DT, 12-5-2013, Published by
Religious, Historical & Polemical Studies, & MMM 3rd
Millennium Music/Movie Makers, [email protected] ).
D. Thorpe, radio producer, documentary maker, musician, stars in a
comical, martial arts, science fiction film: Cosmic Agent
Give bad habits the boot by learning Allen Richardson's tools for
personal discipline. Whether you want to stop overeating,
procrastinating, smoking or running late for meetings, you'll find
the tools and tips you need to succeed!
True believers and skeptics beware: what you know about science may
be wrong. Science commentators Jim and Allen Richardson are more
faithful than the believers and more skeptical than the skeptics --
and they're funnier, too.
Seeing Krishna in America describes the Hindu sect, the Vallabha
Sampradaya, in India and its movement to the United States. Founded
in the fifteenth century by a devotional saint, Vallabhacharya, the
tradition worships a variety of forms of Krishna as a seven year
old child. Following U.S. immigration reforms in 1965, members of
the sect established a spiritual headquarters for the faith in
Pennsylvania and began to construct temples in a number of states.
Since then, the growth has continued as this 500 year old faith
becomes an American religion.
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