EVIDENCE AND BURDEN OF PROOF UNDER THE FOREIGN SOVEREIGN IMMUNITIES ACT, 1976 is practical guide for assessing the quality of the evidence and the burden of proof in sovereign immunity trials under the FSIA 1976. The study concludes in demonstrating two distinct rules of the burden of proof, for each kind of immunity; the rules are widely uniform, and were corroborated by most US District Courts, Courts of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. Pierre F. Walter shows in this study that solid knowledge of procedural rules and the law of evidence in sovereign immunity litigation is often the basis of winning a case. While this is generally so, it is of even more importance in the highly complex trials that involve foreign sovereign immunity. The law firm stands out that can anticipate the judge's assessment of the burden of proof situation in every phase of the trial, thereby reducing cost for the client and substantially shifting probability up for winning the case. DR. PIERRE F. WALTER, ESQ. is an international lawyer holding degrees in German and European law, and a 'Docteur en droit' in international law from the law faculty of the University of Geneva (1987). Before expanding his career into corporate training and business consultancy, he has worked as a research assistant with Freshfields, Bruckhaus, Deringer in Cologne, Germany, with Lalive Lawyers in Geneva and with Professor Louis B. Sohn, UGA Law School, Department of International Law.

VIBRANT LIFE is the final conclusion of more than twenty years of research on the vibrational nature of life and our universe. Instead of presenting a dry scientific treatise, the author organizes the material as a guide for a richer, and healthier life. It consists of six main parts: 'The Vibrant Nature of Consciousness', 'The Vibrant Nature of the Cosmos', 'The Vibrant Nature of Pleasure, Emotions, and Sexuality', 'The Vibrant Nature of Life Cycles', 'The Vibrant Nature of Health' and 'The Vibrant Nature of the Human Psyche'. The book shows that while the split between science and religion, at the time of Newton and Descartes, created a science that was myopic and hostile to nature, the author advocates a holistic understanding of the field nature of life, and a systemic view of living systems that is coherent and sustainable. It is here, at this intersection between science and a lifestyle that fosters vibrancy that the author situates the present book. It is neither a simple review of more than one hundred books nor is it a selfhelp guide without scientific backup. The intention of the author was to bring science and selfhelp together in a unique plot that makes science fruitful as a direct guidance for a richer, healthier and fuller life, and a point of departure for self-discovery. The result is a true life guide that gives scientifically proven answers to all our fundamental questions, from birth to death, over sexuality, the handling of emotions, coping with violence, and other conditions for truly intelligent living.

THE NEW PARADIGM IN SCIENCE AND SYSTEMS THEORY is a sampler with 40 bestselling science books reviewed. Among the reviewed authors are Fritjof Capra, Riane Eisler, Herbert James Campbell, Masaru Emoto, Amit Goswami, Valerie Hunt, Ervin Laszlo, Lynne McTaggart, Candace B. Pert, Dean Radin, Wilhelm Reich, Rupert Sheldrake, Michael Talbot, and William A. Tiller, to name only...

CREATIVE PRAYER is a selfhelp essay representing a witness report of a prayer method the author is working with since 1990 and that was originally created by Ernest Holmes in 1927 as "The Science of Mind," also called Religious Science, as it was founded by Ernest Holmes in 1927, and expanded and commercialized in the 1960s, by Dr. Joseph Murphy and Catherine Ponder. The author came across this uncanny praying technique for the first time in Joseph Murphy's book "The Power of Your Subconscious Mind" and has quoted many prayer examples in his review of Murphy's other book, 'Think Yourself Rich', which is one of his best. - Pierre F. Walter, 110 Book Reviews (2010). - The New Paradigm in Consciousness and Psychology (2011). When the author started out with the prayer healing technique, he was doing a psychotherapy, but his psychiatrist fully welcomed his idea of doing the prayers as an add-on to the therapy. And in fact, the combination proved to be very powerful. In the present selfhelp essay the author explains the technique that Dr. Joseph Murphy called "scientific prayer," explicates what the science is about, and teach with examples how to practice it and what it does. It can be used namely not only for healing self and others, but also for building self-esteem, self-confidence and high self-worth, and also for creating inner peace. And there is more. There is one aspect of the technique that Joseph Murphy did not mention in his books, and which is why the author came to call the technique 'creative prayer'. The technique namely also enhances creativity, and very powerfully so.

CHILD PLAY: COACHING YOUR INNER CHILD is a comprehensive guide in the whole of the procedure of Inner Child Recovery, Healing and Artwork, with a systematic roadmap. It is a selfhelp guide and provides many examples and sample dialogues....

PROCESSED REALITY is a systematic elaboration of all possible distortions of the direct perception of reality, and the various factors or pitfalls that bring about this distortion. Among them are factors that are related to the nature of the memory matrix, but also outside factors such as spiritual, ideological and emotional...

EMOTIONAL FLOW is a science production that presents a non-moralistic, functional and bioenergetic regard on emotions, sexuality, sexual paraphilias and sexual crime that asserts the importance of the flowing, ethereal and self-regulatory nature of our...

POWER OR DEPRESSION is an essay that was inspired by the author's selfhelp guide 'Macht oder Ohnmacht', originally written in German language. The essay points out the historical roots of abuse and patriarchal society's systematic breeding of depression as something like a cultural disease. However, the author does not stay with the analysis what depression is and how it is systematically bred by our culture, but he shows practical ways to get free from the cultural trap so as to find a way to personal liberation and creative realization. His approach to healing the abuse pattern is mainly focused upon establishing a strong identity, built on soul values, and realizing a high level of personal autonomy....

THE NEW PARADIGM IN BUSINESS, MARKETING AND CAREER is a sampler with ten bestselling books reviewed. Among the reviewed authors are training gurus such as Edward de Bono, career consultants such as Laurence G. Boldt or marketing gurus such as Sergio Zyman. The books of Edward de Bono were a precious resource for me, and I studied them in minute detail, both for the concise in-depth research the great corporate trainer did on the human mind and our infinite human potential, and his specific and for the most part cutting-edge training techniques. Then I reviewed the books of Laurence G. Boldt, and was fascinated from the first to the last page. I found this man was more than even an excellent career coach, but a real sage, steeped in the Zen tradition and with a talent for wistful speech and talk. Finally I found Tom Butler-Bowden's volume "50 Success Classics" that I virtually devoured. I can only express my great admiration for this author's research and literary talent. Sergio Zyman's amazing and insightful book captivated me to a point I never put it down until I finished it. This book is a must-read for everyone who wants to know more about marketing or, rather, the end of marketing as we know it. An amazing career, an amazing man, not very much the type of individuals I am having social intercourse with, one of the toughest vintage, so to speak, but an admirable and extravagant person all in all, and a genius in his kind.

THE IDIOT GUIDE TO EMOTIONS sets out to elucidate the nature and functions of our emotions and provides clear instructions and examples how to handle emotions and keep them in a healthy balance. The author stresses the fact that emotions have a kaleidoscopic nature, that all emotions are interlocked and that balance is vital to emotions in the sense that they assume a rather negative and devastating character when getting out of balance. The author demonstrates that most passion crimes are committed because people mishandle their emotions, or have never learnt to handle them in the first place. This is so because in our culture the bioenergetic nature of emotions is veiled or outright rejected; this means emotions are not seen as what they are, that is, flowing streams of vital energy that are part of our luminous body. The audience for this guide is both the professional and lay audience, including those who are directly concerned and who have a problem with handling their emotional flow. The need for solutions to our emotional problems is not only an individual quest, but also a matter of public hygiene. It results from our our collective denial of the basic patterns of living. This collective denial resulted in our messing up the code of life, thereby bringing about large-scale perversion and violence. The social and legal policies in place for handling antisocial conduct are largely ineffective because they are based on the ignorance of bioenergetic truth and reality. The guide contains effective solutions both for the individual quest for emotional sanity and for forging new and effective social and legal policies for handling emotional flow within society at large, and with the ultimate objective to regulate our social conduct responsibly and without the need of law enforcement, coercion and monolithic state control.

THE IDIOT GUIDE TO CONSCIOUSNESS presents a novelty approach to consciousness research. I show that boosting our level of self-awareness can be undertaken as a deliberate activity, and has nothing 'magic' about it. 5000 years of patriarchy by and large suppressed the intuitive wisdom of the ancient world and replaced it by large-scale dogmatism and the control of the individual by first the ecclesiastical dominators and later the nation states with their blown-up police forces, their secret agents, and their fast growing prison miles. This led to more and more people being discarded out of mainstream society because of their intellectual, emotional and sexual difference. However, people often do not realize their highest potential because they lack a critical mindset in the face of conformity pressure and the general solidifying framework of modern consumer culture that models citizens instead of accepting them as they are - in their full humanity. To develop humanity at a level beyond the norm, self-awareness and critical thinking must go together, whereas mere criticism leads to inevitable projections. The approach I have taken is to combine insights from my background in law and politics with consciousness research, and to offer the reader practical work tools for developing self-awareness. Sharpening self-awareness is achieved through writing statements where the reader intuits their present level of awareness in all areas treated in the guide, that is General Level, Love, Power, Science, Health, Emotions, and Peace. After having done this awareness check, consciousness will do the rest, for it is self-healing, self-cleaning and self-renewing from the moment the person sees herself without projections and self-delusion.

WALTER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA is a unique scientific and personal research glossary published by a maverick researcher of our times. This present version of the glossary is addressed to the academic world. An illustrated edition is equally available and comes in two volumes. The research goes back to 1985 and thus spans a period of 25 years. In the first part, terms are explicated that are general, redefined or proprietary. In the second part, personalities of fame and renowned people are descibed who had some or the other impact upon the author's perception and value system. The most important entries of this research glossary are those that are proprietary to the author, such as 'The Eight Patterns of Living', 'The Science of Emonics', 'Emosexuality', 'Emosexcoaching', 'Life Authoring', 'Live Your Love', 'Oedipal Culture', 'Pedoemotions', 'Pedoerotics', 'Primary Power', or 'The Legal Split in Child Protection'.

FRITJOF CAPRA AND THE SYSTEMS VIEW OF LIFE is a passionate study about the great contemporary physicist and a review of six of his books. The author considers Fritjof Capra as one of the most important authors on new science and systems research. He found Capra's Tao of Physics in 1985, at a time when his life was in a complete reorientation. He compares the impact of the book on his psyche and his personal evolution with his discovery of the I Ching and Taoism, as well as the writings and psychoanalytic teaching of Francoise Dolto. The author underlines Capra's unique gift of genius to formulate and explain complex scientific and philosophical insights and interrelations in a way that the educated reader can understand. He sees certain parallels in Capra's life with the lives of Albert Einstein and Wilhelm Reich who, like him, were from Germanic origin and after their emigration to the United States only wrote and published in English. The author especially lauds Capra's basically non-judgmental worldview and his ability to understand people from ultra-orthodox to very liberal with the same generosity and magnanimity. Another noteworthy instance from Capra's life is his long involvement in the counter culture and his meeting with most of the celebrities of that culture, as for example Timothy Leary, Stan Grof, Terence McKenna, Gregory Bateson, or Ronald David Laing and Thomas Szasz, the founders of the antipsychiatry movement. The author especially notes Capra's merit is to have introduced the systems view of life to scientific research, while he is not the originator of the idea, which was mainly developed by Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Ilya Prigogine, Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela. But Capra has carefully surveyed and summarized this important research that is generally difficult to grasp to the non-scientific reader, and has rendered the important idea accessible for the interested lay audience.

CULINARY PLEASURES IN THE PROVENCE is not a cook book. There are no recipes. Nor is it a book about food photography in the traditional sense of the term. The photos are no digital high-quality prints, but taken spontaneously before enjoying the food the author had cooked. This being said, the book is rather autobiographical, and that's why every photo is dated. It is noteworthy that Pierre F. Walter's cuisine is not planned in any way, that there was no daily, weekly or monthly setup, as he was at that time very busy with his music, his videos, his art and his web sites. He cooks a spontaneous kind of cuisine, and most of the dishes take only 5 to 15 minutes of preparation. All the ideas that you see displayed as 'menus' came up spontaneously and were executed on the spot. Any kind of planned and organized cuisine would go against his way of living. All in his life is spontaneous creation This is the secret of the vibrancy of his photography, and generally, the secret of happiness, of eternal youth, and of childlike adventure. In this sense, Walter's food photography expresses the creativeness of his inner child just as his visual art and his music. (All photos taken with a Sony VX-2000 as 640x480 stills).

Pierre F. Walter presents a comparative law analysis that spans two of the seven existing national statutes on foreign sovereign immunity, the United States' Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 1976, and the Canadian State Immunity Act, 1982. The study concludes in demonstrating two distinct rules of the burden of proof, for each kind of immunity; the rules are widely uniform, and were corroborated by case law and scholarly opinion in both of the examined jurisdictions. In addition, they can be said to form today rules of international law. The monograph is of high practical importance for international lawyers and government counsel in both the United States and Canada. It can be taken as a reference guide for foreign sovereign immunity litigation in these important jurisdictions. Pierre F. Walter shows in this study that solid knowledge of procedural rules and the law of evidence in sovereign immunity litigation is often the basis of winning a case. While this is generally so, it is of even more importance in the highly complex trials that involve foreign sovereign immunity. The law firm stands out that can anticipate the judge's assessment of the burden of proof situation in every phase of the trial, thereby reducing cost for the client and substantially shifting probability up for winning the case.

EVIDENCE AND BURDEN OF PROOF IN SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY LITIGATION is the first specialized, and very practically important, analysis of the evidence problems and the burden of proof in matters of foreign sovereign immunity litigation, both regarding jurisdictional immunities and immunity from execution. The monograph is a comparative law analysis that spans six of the seven existing national statutes on foreign sovereign immunity, starting with the United States' Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 1976, to the Canadian State Immunity Act, 1982. The study concludes in demonstrating two distinct rules of the burden of proof, for each kind of immunity; the rules are widely uniform, and were corroborated by case law and scholarly opinion in all of the examined jurisdictions. They can be said to form today rules of international law. The monograph is of high practical value for litigation involving foreign sovereign immunity, particularly for international lawyers and government counsel. It can be taken as a reference guide for solving the evidence problems in those trials, and as such is a precious asset in any international law library. The only titles that in scope, depth and size can be compared with the present study are already quite out of date, and they have, if ever, only randomly dealt with the specific procedural problems of evidence and burden of proof in international sovereign immunity litigation.

THE NEW PARADIGM IN CONSCIOUSNESS AND PSYCHOLOGY is a sampler with 53 bestselling books reviewed. Among the reviewed authors are Joseph Campbell, Deepak Chopra, Francoise Dolto, Mircea Eliade, Stanislav Grof, J. Krishnamurti, Alexander Lowen, Terence McKenna, Ralph Metzner, Thomas Moore, Michel Odent, O. Carl Simonton, Hal and Sidra Stone, Dora van Gelder and Alberto Villoldo, to name only...

TOWARD SOCIAL CHANGE, Revised Edition, 2012, presents an articulate Peace Agenda that contains twelve distinct proposals for reducing violence to a minimum while promoting and encouraging pleasure-seeking behaviors both in children and adults. The proposals are based upon research evidence of the often overlooked bioenergetic roots of violence demonstrating how the historical turndown of the pleasure function through compulsive morality or moralism resulted in an inevitable upsurge of violence through the neurodissociative brain. Newest research on early tactile deprivation conducted by James W. Prescott, Ashley Montagu, Frederick Leboyer, Michel Odent and others namely shows the correlation between mother-infant affectional bonding, tactile pleasure and breastfeeding for the development of the healthy, neurointegrative brain and the building of peaceful and affectionate behaviors. The most important research results are: - Violence is learnt, not inborn, and not part of natural human behavior; - Violence is a response of the biosystem to the denial of pleasure/desire; - Violence is a collective malfunctioning of a society that replaced love with moralism. The Peace Agenda consists of the following 12 Proposals: 01/12 - Crime Prevention 02/12 - The Possible Human 03/12 - Fostering Public Sanity 04/12 - Respecting Natural Intimacy 05/12 - Serving Children 06/12 - More Public Education 07/12 - Free Education 08/12 - Politically Neutral Science 09/12 - Humanism and Realism 10/12 - Promoting Pleasure-Seeking Behaviors 11/12 - Male Affection as a Peace Conductor 12/12 - Fostering Permissive Education