When you want to find out where some of the most interesting ideas on the planet came from, this book will help you out. I didn't agree with everything I read in it, but I still loved it. What a great overview of some of the most original thinking of our time.

This poet with a strong personal voice in the Lowell tradition now writes about America since the 1960s, not in anger directly, but from anger recollected in tranquillity. Extraordinary richness and complexity.

Michael Mandeville has done in his book, what no one else I have read has done. He has torn away the old scientific sigular way of looking at cosmology and earth science. He has brought it to wholeness. Science is finally beginning to study what he has already figured out. He brings Earth science, prophecy, ancient text from all over the world, to prove the theory of Vortex Tectonics. This book is excellect!! It brought together the facts and sound reason for a future pole shift. This book is a definate read for anyone who has ever studied Edgar Cayce, or wondered how everything fits together as ONE. It proved to my rational side what my intuition already knew!! Michael Mandeville has studied Edgar Cayce, his prochecies and predictions like no one else has. In the process he has come up with the an astonishing new theory on the earth sciences! It has been life changing for me. He has brought science,prophecy,sprituality together as ONE. Excellent!!!

Riding the Phoenix has sparkling gems of metaphysical ideas that catch both your eye and your imagination. As a book compiled of articles it covers a really wide range of subject matter from ET civilizations to Urine Therapy. It makes one wonder if perhaps Ms. Beaconsfield is herself an ET, planting gentle seeds in the Earth consciousness that will take root and help us evolve into a more positive world.

The Rise Of The Phoenix is an impressive and engaging debut novel by Dawn Rivers Baker about the impending fate of an Empire, the dark force that menaces it, and the Prophecy surrounding two fraternal twins caught in the twists and machinations of grand schemes. A transcendent and splendor-filled work of high fantasy, The Rise Of The Phoenix is vividly descriptive and complexly woven, filled with intrigue throughout, and enthusiastically recommended reading.

I ran into this book years ago accidentally when I was still a little high school intellectual and never heard anything about the author anywhere else- Leave it to the immensity of Amazon.com for my re-encounter. I can tell you, this book has a great "something about it" ness that's better than most new age tripe. Hills makes all kinds of big, ridiculous contentions but they're enjoyable. I like the idea best of all that at the highest stages of spiritual evolution, the massive harmonic complexity of the highly evolved soul is more akin to the raw simplicity of a single atom than it is to the resonance of mediocrity. Hills has all kinds of delightful pseudoscience (? but I don't really know...) that reminds me of the work of Oscar Brunler, the scientist who created a dowsing system for measuring brain radiation as an index to the age of a soul. It's heady because on the surface it sounds so strangely precise that you really wonder if there might be some deep, unsuspected legitimacy to it all. Hills also makes the familiar claim that light has infinite speed, but still I think there are some very legitimate people who would say this is not outright undeniably ludicrous. I always wonder what happened to Hills and his university of the Trees. There is a great sadness to this fellow who supposedly found the Cosmic Credit Card. I wonder if he ever heard of the Avatara Adi Da...

This book is extremely recommended. Not only does it start at conception of Phoenix, go to his death at age 23, but it goes beyond that. From the funeral to the way the world views his legacy now. It has a section that list River's quotations. I was surprised at how humorous he was. He was very intelligent, and this book proves that to you. Get this one today! You won't be sorry!

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In the tradition of Sylvia Beach's "Shakespeare and Co." and Frances Stetloff's "Wise Men Fish Here," Robert Wilson presents an engaging memoir of his years as owner of the Phoenix Bookstore in NY's Greenwich Village from the '60s to the '80s. The autobiographies of bookstores (and to some degree their entrepreneurial owners) afford the book enthusiast the opportunity to vicariously experience the ownership of a storefront bookshop, but to also experience first hand the people who pass through their doors (the Phoenix guest book signers are listed as an appendix). In this case Wilson focuses both on the Beats, their circle and successors, providing sincere portraits of Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, Diane di Prima and many others, as well as on other major 20th century icons including W.H. Auden, Marianne Moore, and Alice B. Toklas. His chapter "Tea with Miss Toklas" is among the book's highlights! A wonderful read.

I read the first of these books when I was in 7th grade. It took me two years to locate a copy of the 2nd book and two more to find the 3rd. It was well worth the wait and I stayed up all night to read the final book. The characters are wonderfully crafted, the story line is multilevel. The only books I have read more times are "The Count of Monte Cristo" and "The Lord of the Rings". If you can locate a copy of these in a used book store, buy them! Don't let the romance novel apperance keep you from enjoying these great books.