Do humans have a special capacity designed to foster experiences of God? What role do specific bodily actions or emotions play in the cultivation of a divine experience? Prayer as Divine Experience in 4 Ezra and John's Apocalypse: Emotion, Empathy, and Engagement with God explores these questions in a systematic study of the emotions in two apocalyptic texts. The book of 4 Ezra, an ancient Jewish apocalypse, and the book of Revelation, an ancient Christian Apocalypse written by John, are examined with a focus on the emotional language of the prayers and prayer preludes contained in this literature. Both texts were composed in the first-century of the Common Era, a time when most people exposed to literature heard the content as it was recited. The emotive language in these writings could potentially arouse similar emotions in the readers or hearers of these texts, allowing the person to have access to the divine experiences, which are described by the seer in 4 Ezra and are expressed by the angelic choir in John's Apocalypse. Prior to examining the prayers, Prayer as Divine Experience will describe the neurological processes that cause a person to mirror the emotions expressed by another individual, thereby prompting an imitation of the experience that is perceived.

An exceptional saddle-shape of the Saddleback Mountain is formed by two distinct peaks, from the Santiago Peak to the southeast and Modjeska Peak to the northwest. Santiago Peak is the higher and more visited of the two. It is recommended that you explore both summits in order to see the differing views if you have the time. They are remarkably different with Santiago Peak giving a deeper view into San Diego County and Modjeska Peak offering a more complete view of eastern Los Angeles County and northern Orange County. From both summits, you can see Sandstone Peak, Mount Baldy, Mount San Gorgonio, San Jacinto Peak and Catalina Island.

Philbert Bono and Buddy Red Bird are about to prove that the spirit of the great warriors is still alive and kicking. Their "war pony," a burned-out, rusty 1964 Buick LeSabre, has left a trail of dust from Montana's Lame Deer Reservation halfway down Interstate 25 as they take off to bail Buddy's sister out of jail. The basis for the great movie of the same name, this quiet debut novel, first published in 1979, has become a classic of American Indian literature.

contemporary novel based on the author's many years of living in Libya

Table of Contents --- Forward . . . . The Buffalo Triangle; Act One of a screenplay treatment, introducing the poetic summary of the Arizona historical landscape with ATOMIC BOMB research in the deserts between New Mexico and California, leading to the events of September 11, 2001; the false Christian religion as the quasi-moral rationalization for the millenial crimes, since the 1500s, against Indigenous "Pagan" Native peoples and eco-social economic systems; narrated by the Author on location in Flagstaff Preface . . . . . news releases from 2010-2011 about the sewer wastewater pipeline from Flagstaff to the Snowbowl ski area, trespassing, desecrating sacred lands, over the Author's family cemetery, with invaluable archaeological ruins from Mu, and pre-Anasazi star cities PART ONE - Of Time & The West chapter 1 - North Dakota: "That Indian Girl from Canada" ch. 2 - Colorado: "David, you're Sitting Bull' ch. 3 - Wyoming: "We were born where our fathers lived" ch. 4 - Nebraska: "Crazy Horse, Strange Man of the Oglalas" ch. 5 - South Dakota: "There is the sound of heavy gunfire" ch. 6 - California: " What about the cowboys?" ch. 7 - Minnesota: "an internal expatriate a blacklisted pariah" PART TWO - THE OTHER WORLD ch. 8 - New Mexico: "RAAF Captures Flying Saucer" ch. 9 - Oklahoma: "The little pup ran out under the truck" ch. 10 - Texas: "Indah keh-ho-ndi Nde-nda-i Chiricahua Di-yin" ch. 11 - Chihuahua: "Aqua y Libertad" ch. 12 - Nicaragua: "What's Ward Churchill got against you?" ch. 13 - Ixachitlatlan: "The Red Giants of Atlantis" ch. 14 - Hawai'i: "Pu'uhonua o Waimanalo" ch. 15 - British Columbia: "Deganawidah in Armorica" Act Two - The Buffalo Triangle (summarizing more on-location research about 'Buffalo Commons', Animal and Earth Liberation Fronts helping the American Indian Movement (AIM), Hopi prophecies, Earth First and Monkeywrench Gangs, Ted Turner's buffalo herds, Custer State Park and Yellowstone slaughters of buffalo, federal & state grasslands, Colorado River and Grand Canyon dams and uranium mines, Denver and Rocky Flats, Cattle mutilations, Crop Circles) PART THREE - BLACK HILLS ch. 16 - The Golden Buffalo Casino: "United Nations and Tribal Councils" ch. 17 - Sylvan Lake: "THE LIBYAD, Book 20" ch. 18 - Ellsworth Bombs: "An Elegy to the Thunderbird" ch. 19 - Anna Mae & Leonard: "In video-theatre 'FREE PELTIER'" ch. 20 - the face of crime: "Governor Janklow goes to jail" ch. 21 - Wakan Inyan: "The limitless water-rock in motion' AFTERWORD - Arizona (racist Immigration laws, pro-gun laws, more violent assassinations and general crime sprees) Act Three - The Buffalo Triangle (Sacred sites - Wyoming Medicine Wheel, gravesites, Wounded Knee, Bear Butte, Forests andclear-cutting, cattle herds destroying more than anything, churches, and finally back to Flagstaff at the Seals cemeteries)

The New Powwow Highway - the inside story of the revolutionary American Indian Movement (AIM), of indigenous natives fighting the illegal and genocidal oppression of the United States in the last third of the 20th century. Wounded Knee massacres in South Dakota, targeted U.S. Government assassinations of legitimate 'Indian' leaders all over the American hemisphere, the continuing imprisonment of many Indian leaders in AIM like Leonard Peltier who were defending their unarmed camps from the FBI, and many other atrocious stories of murder and deceit by David Seals, who was in the AIM leadership from 1971-Present. Seals is the author of the underground classic novel and feature film 'The Powwow Highway' (produced by George Harrison), and many other books and plays chronicling the tragedy and comedy of his fellow warriors all around North and South America. Reviews of some of his other books, like 'Sweet Medicine' Random House, NY, 1992], included a full page NY Times rave review describing it as "a comic masterpiece, full of elequent rage, adventure, and sex." The Denver Post wrote in 1984, "Seals takes us into the places where Indians live, not yesterday, but today, and into their hearts, their lovemaking, and their tragedies."

Confessions of the Gods, 'The Herodeia Decalogue' is the 7th volume of an encyclopedia of the New Literature, as a genre presenting an anagogic form of mythological poetry, such as sacred scripture, "or its analogues in other modes" as the literary critic Dr. Northrop Frye once described it in his classic study 'Anatomy of Criticism'. "Confession is Autobiography regarded as a form of prose fiction, or prose fiction cast in the form of autobiography." The Herodeia Decalogue is the overall title of 10 literary works by David Seals, written over many years (since he was a college student in Colorado in the 1960s), and this volume combines excerpts of two of the ten, in #6 - 'Abduction at Roswell' - beginning with its chapter three, and then cutting back and forth to the epic poetry from Book # 7 - 'Geodesy: The Creation Myth of the Colorado Plateau' - in heroic blank verse, and then alternately to the contemporary prose narrative of the factual UFO reminiscences of his U.S. Air Force family over the decades beginning in 1947 in Roswell New Mexico, and then in Japan, Libya, and his mother's hometown of Flagstaff, Arizona (where Seals lives with his family). This collection introduces "the High Mimetic mode" of gods and human characters who are often above our own level of power and authority, though within the order of nature and subject to social criticism. The Ten subjects of the Decalogue are: #1) 'Hymn to My Mother' with synopsis and review at http: //www.witchvox.com/books/dt_bk.html?a=usaz&id=2175] A good review of it is also posted at www.scribd.com/davidseals; but the book was written years ago about his mother Mary. K. O'Brien Seals. and is only on typed paper in the olden days before the advent of hard disk. {343 pages single spaced, inquire of the author for a printed copy, [email protected]} #2) 'Humnos Oides of Thoth: Slayer of Argus {ibid.} #3) 'Osiris' {420 pages} #4) 'Ausar Tehuti' subtitle 'Someday, My Son'; 220 pages, ibid.] #5) 'The Libyad' available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle] #6) 'Abduction at Roswell' available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle] #7) 'Poems of the Pagan Revolution' excerpted in this present book, but this is the first part only, of five, which goes much further into the biography of Herod Philip, the true life model of the fictional Jesus Christ, and hence the basis of the overall title referring to The Herodeia: but the remaining four long books of it in blank verse are available only on paper from the author] #8) 'Abduction at Flagstaff' {full-length stage play, only on paper from the author, unproduced} #9) 'The Veiled Grotto' {modern verse in 3 short cantos, on paper from the author, about Leroux Springs on the Sacred Flagstaff Mountain, and site of prehistoric ruins of Mu} #10) 'Les Voyageurs' {modern verse in-progress, about the High Heavens of outer space, where The Black Voice of The White God is the origin}

In this study, David Seale argues that Sophocles's use of stagecraft, which has thus far received little attention, was as sophisticated as that of Aeschylus or Euripides. His discussions of the physical and visual elements of Sophocles's seven plays center around the theme of sight; he demonstrates that each play is staged to maximize the implications and effects of "seeing" and not "seeing," of knowledge and ignorance. This emphasis on visual perception, Seale maintains, harmonizes with Sophocles's use of verbal and thematic techniques to create dramatic movements from delusion to truth, culminating in climaxes that are revelations--moments when things are truly "seen" by both audience and characters.