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

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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.