I agree with the Canadian reader who reviewed this. It's just one amazing book--factual, passionate, life-changing (on a personal as well as a societal level). Also very very funny in parts. Morgan's is such an interesting writer, much more complex than your usual feminist or political rhetoric. A whole other level. I've wanted to give many copies of this reissued edition to friends but found that it's tmporarily unavailable altough not out of print. So I hope another print run is imminent.

I first read this book about 5 years ago and it changed the way I regard myself, activism, science. Surely it is an antidote to the pop-psychology that makes millions off of people's lives without dealing with the roots of oppression. In this book, Robin Morgan instead reveals herself and her ideas about what is necessary for true change - personal and political - to occur. There is hope and wisdom here. Sex, spirituality, activism, commitment to oneself, lovers, friends & beliefs, complex social theory and the parallels between feminism and physics - all of this written with wit and the joy of revelation, revolution. Buy this book, donate a copy for your community's library and also local women's centre...

Donna J. Harroway is an important and equally exciting feminist to read on the issues of feminism, science and technology...she follows a parralel branch of theory. Although her points are often different, not as personal as Morgan, and her writing is more academic in style, her work is important companion reading.

All through my life I've come across various books and booklets claiming to "unseal" the Book of Revelation. Only this book, however, can truly claim to have "unsealed" the true meaning of the book. Not everyone will agree with Pryse's translation and commentary. Yet, for initiates who have actually experienced its meaning, it is very clear.

The opening of the Seven Seals are the seven chakras and the awakening of the Speirema (444), the uncoiled serpent, otherwise known as the Kundalini or Serpent Fire. Iaonnes used the cosmological imagery of ancient astrology to depict the titanic struggles of the initiate during the process of spiritual awakening. The end result is the "New Jerusalem," which as Pryse explains, is the Soma Heliakon or Solar Body. This is because 12,000 Roman Stadia is the equivalent of 1,600 Jewish miles, and 1600 happens to be the numerical equivalent in gematria to "to soma heliakon."

Thus we see that the inner teachings of early Christianity were in perfect harmony with those of the Hermetic Mysteries, the Philosopher's Stone of Alchemy, the Mithraic Mysteries, and the Kundalini Yoga of the Vedas and Upanishads. I cannot recommend a book more highly. Yet, I know full well that few are ready to understand its full value. ...

Written in 1910, The Apocalypse Unsealed attempts to prove that the so-called "Revelation" of John (which in the original Greek was really named "The Apocalypse: The Initiation of John") is in reality a gnostic work that shows an individual's path to enlightenment and peace. Pryse shows how all of the symbols and mysterious figures in The Apocalypse (666, the Dragon, etc) are really (not so) hidden puzzles and clues, that once discovered and solved will enable the reader to use the book as a helpful guide in conquering the material world.

But if this is just a helpful guide, why is it so occultic? Pryse claims that John knew the church would one day get rid of it's esoteric foundation and become more exoteric - the 1958 discovery of portions of a so-called "Secret Gospel" of Mark, which was possibly kept hidden by the Church alone prove this, not to mention the Church's total subjugation of the gnostic sects. So John wrote his book in a code that could be understood by those with the gnosis, the knowledge, and he even made sure that it wouldn't be butchered by future editors by inserting a warning that the text should be left alone, in order to avoid God's wrath.

Some of the things Pryse uncovered are very interesting, such as his claim that 666 is nothing but the numerical transliteration of "he phren," ancient Greek for "the lower mind." The Lamb, 888, is Iesous (Jesus - be prepared for Pryse's usage of the original Greek names for all New Testament figures), the higher mind, whereas 1,000 is "ho nikon," Greek for "the conquerer." There are other numbers besides, such as 777: "stauros" - the Cross, and Pryse shows that there is a numerical chart hidden in the Apocalypse, showing in numbers the progress of a man's journey, from the lowest reaches of his carnal desires (333, "akrasia" - sensuality) to his total mastery over them, and return to his true spiritual self - "ho nikon," the conquerer. This number chart is one of the more interesting aspects of the book; ancient Greeks and Hebrews used letters for numbers, and so by figuring out the word equivalents to the numbers in the Apocalypse, and vice versa, Pryse was able to crack one of the book's many codes.

As I said, this was written in the early 1900s, and it shows. Pryse is about as prudish as an old maid. This book can be read as a code of its own, one which totally sneers at sex. For Pryse, sex is contemptible and profane; he very much has the celibate attitude of an old-school mystic. He also has that old-school mystic disregard for women. In ancient times, women were considered to be the source of all ills, for tempting men away from the pursuit of spirituality. Pryse is an adherent to this pattern of thought. For a better, more modern view of Pryse's thoughts, one which refutes his no-sex, anti-women beliefs, I would recommend Michael Wassil's "Dance of Ecstacy," which is available for free on-line. All you have to do is search for it.

I'm giving this book 5 stars because of the work and scholarship Pryse put into it. If you compare this to the paranoid works of Hal Lindsey or all those other people who put out their "end is near" books in 1999, Pryse's makes a lot more sense. However, I don't agree with all of the things he considers certainties - such as that John was really Jesus, and that Jesus wasn't a person at all, instead just a symbolic reference to the higher mind that lurks within all humans. Pryse also translates the Apocalypse to fit his needs, such as referring to the Seven-Headed Beast that rises out of the waters as a "constellatory Beast," so he can prove that in reality John is referring to a constellation of stars.

I could go on about this book...there are so many ideas and information in it that it's hard to grasp until you've read it at least a few times. It's also hard to explain what Pryse has written, unless you're talking to someone who's read the book. Also, I don't particularly like Kessinger's version of this; they're just selling a cheap-looking photocopy of the original manuscript. You might be better off finding a used copy of the original edition, or the 1972 trade paperback re-release, which will look a little better on your bookshelf.

Roberts' words come truly from his heart. I had the pleasure of hearing him speak when he was the interim pastor at our church in Birmingham, AL. Even as a teenager, I was able to absorb what he said and apply it to my own life, both then and now. I have always been a daydreamer, but I was never able to turn my daydreams into real life Christianity. This quote by Roberts I read everyday and it continues to make my life a little more livable and I little more in touch with God. "So, one thing that I believe is that there are dreams that are energizing and that God has some dream plan which is implanted in every heart. I don't know what God's dream is for you but I believe that God has one and that it is important for you to keep seeking that dream. Make sure that it is somewhat impossible and don't ever confuse a dream for some easily attainable goal. Make sure that it's a big enough dream and that it is your very own dream - not one others choose for you. Your dream doesn't have to be one of the limited, proper dreams that meets approval of others. What matters is that it is your dream and that it keeps urging you on, invigorating you, bringing the best out of you, making you your best self." Though I am still uncertain what my dream is I know that it is there inside me now and that it always had been. Even when I was confused about my life, it was always there, just temporarily misplaced. Now that it has been rediscovered I wake up every morning with something truly to live for - my own dream and my own life. Once I have this true sense of happiness I know that I can continue my life confident that God knows what he is doing with it and it is beautiful. And I thank Dr. Roberts for that gift.

I was priveleged to hear Morgan Roberts preach as an Interim minister at Independent Presbyterian Church. I've never been an avid church goer, but after hearing Morgan's sermon the first time I was "hooked", so to speak, and went almost every Sunday until he finished his time with our congregation. Morgan's philosophies and view points are special in that they appeal both to Intelligence and Christian values without blurring any lines or making any radical interpretations. To summarize what I mean, here is an excerpt from the first chapter of the book: "Do you really want everyone in your heaven? Do you want the multitude of every tribe and tongue and nation which is pictured in Revelation? Must everyone in heaven look like you and yours? Do you want the foreigners, the undesirables, the homeless, the addicts, and the gays to come home to our heavenly Father? Do you hope and pray and work for their homecoming? Do you love them unconditionally as Christ loves them unconditionally? And if you don't, how can you hope to be forgiven if you do not forgive others their debts? Heaven is for the forgiven and the forgiving".

A hardened lawman with no patience for the gentler things in life, Federal Marshal, Morgan Caine, is a hunter of men. At thirty-two, he has already outlived the life expectancy of a man in his profession. A survivor of an Indian massacre and raised by a Cayuse tribe, he carved a life out of the wilderness for him and his younger half-Indian sister. When his sister is brutally murdered, Morgan must track her killers. There is no place in his life, or his heart, for the young, headstrong daughter of his long time friend.

Lacey Ashton has dreamed all of her life for a place to belong. After battling years of cultural diversity in England where she was a virtual outcast, Lacey journeys back to America to live with a father whom once abandoned her. An idealist, she lands in a man's world that has no tolerance for anything weak. Lacey vows to make Morgan see her as his equal. But when a powerful enemy returns from the grave to destroy them both, Lacey discovers the crippling legacy that has shadowed her life for twenty years. Where the will to love is stronger than life itself, Lacey will fight for the life of the man she loves.
Autumn Star combines the traditional west hero with a society woman who aches to find her place in the world. Together they learn the importance of depending on one another, trust and finally love.

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In 1873, US Marshal John Morgan Caine had a personal reason to see that justice occurred, vengeance for the murder of his sister by Bret Lawton and his men. Now a hero by delivering Bret and company several hundred miles to San Francisco to stand trial, Morgan still feels lonely. While Bret and many of his gang are to publicly hang, English lady Lacey Ashton arrives in town to stay overnight before continuing her journey to Portland to see her father for the first time in thirteen years. She finds no room as everything is booked for the gallows spectacle, but Morgan gallantly gives her his room, but in gratitude she desperately steals from him after someone stole her stuff.

She continues to Portland where she meets up with an obsessed Morgan still completing his trek of revenge and justice. As they begin to fall in love, her past and his quest seem tied together. This makes their growing feelings seem moot as a permanent relationship between the idealistic romantic female and the realistic cynical male could never happen.

AUTUMN STAR is a captivating romance starring two opposites in life’s philosophy. The story line is captivating because of the diverse thinking of the lead twosome. Fans of western romance will enjoy Lori Morgan’s trek along the Pacific Ocean states that provides a warm wonderful reading experience.

Harriet Klausner

of course anyone who lives in new york city can tell you where the white horse and cedar tavern are, but do they all know that where sam goody now stands on sixth avenue and ninth street is the very same place that the cafeteria kerouac wrote about extensively in visions of cody once stood?

this book is filled with a lot of well-known and plenty of not so well known places where various members of the beat generation ate, performed, lived, got drunk in, or otherwise played out their lives. the tours are broken down by area and there are clear directions to help you find where you're going (even if the place no longer exists). each tour also begins with a street map of the area covered and clearly numbered destinations, which was very helpful, although i did wish that the book had also come with an overview map of all manhattan and destinations so that i could more easily combine tours or skip around to places of interest if i didn't want to follow a complete tour.

each stopping place in the tour book includes a paragraph or two on why the place is important to beat history and who/what occured there. although the title of the book claims that new york was "jack kerouac's city," the tours really include many of the other important beat figures as well as a few others that were influenced by the beat movement, such as bob dylan.

this is a great way for beat aficionados visiting new york to get a taste of the city, and a fun way for locals to spend an afternoon or two discovering new spots and seeing familiar places in a new light.

It would be next to impossible to find these places on your own. Even more impossible to learn as much about each of the sites as is presented in this guide. Each tour follows a logical route and there are plenty of stops that you probably never would have thought of--eg. Serpico's apartment, the former site of Thomas Wolfe's East 8th St. apartment. Using this guide is a great way to see the Village, East and West. And the insight will keep you reading even as you're moving to the next stop. Take your time. Spread the tours over a couple of afternoons. And linger for a while in Washington Square.

A great companion to this book is "The Beat Generation in New York." I wouldn't recommend carrying this heavy book around with you, but after you've finished the tours, open the book to look at the pictures taken at many of the places you've just visited.

Robert W. Morgan is a personal friend of mine, but, before you think of this as a conflict of interest, you must realize the relationship we share... one of HONESTY and mutual RESPECT. When he has constructive criticism, he is brutal, but only out of respect. Therefore I must do the same for him, to return the respect and give him an honest review of his talking book: BIGFOOT:THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE.
The man puts his decades of research of The Forest Giants and other phenomena into this little tape. The adventures he describes happened before I was even born, yet I was there! Thanks to the excellent accoustics and sound effects created by expert sound engineer Scott Church. Turn off the lights , close your eyes, and imagine you are there,the tape will do the rest. You will here every footstep, every raindrop, every creature of the woods and snap of a twig! Church's artistic presence puts YOU right in the woods with Morgan and his student Steve Jones, veteren woodsman, radio and TV personality. You are right there with Robert W. Morgan as he teaches Jones how to contact ,communicate, and RESPECT the presence of the Forest Giant PEOPLE. Yes I said PEOPLE. Morgan teaches us that these are NOT dumb ape-like animals. They are beings to be respected. Robert also talks about the American Indian's and in general, the relationship with Bigfoot and mankind.


I have yet to exercise the techniques described on this tape in regards to Sasquatch research, but, I have talked to many who have. I even know two guys who have developed an on-going friendly relationship with a Forest Giant in their use of this knowledge. Skepticle? I DARE YOU TO LISTEN AND NOT BE SATISFIED! Become a TRUE seeker.


Scott A. Kleinhans

This tape is incredible. A wealth of knowledge at your fingertips about the Bigfoot people. I learned alot and I know anyone can have an encounter of their own if they do exactly what the tape tells you to do.

This book was riveting. Sometimes after reading many books, it is hard to find one you can't guess the ending to ... this one is it. I will definitely be looking for more books by this author.

I opened the box, started reading and couldn't put it down. Finely tuned, tightly woven, forward moving adult fiction (not erotica) that grabs you from the first page. As good as Clancy on the twists and turns. Unusual, original story -- totally believable -- this young psychopath is an SOB and leaves a trail of misery on his way to becoming the only Bootlegger in Caravelle County. Set in rural Northeast Georgia just after World War II this is story telling at its best -- delicious suspense -- and its more amazing because this is the first published book by this author. I'm waiting for more and I'll buy every one of them.

I bought this book for my daughter when I was 5 months pregnant with her and over the years I have read it to her once and awhile, but now she is 6 years old and it has become one of her favorate books and we are always on the look out for more good age approrate Women's History books because the good ones and few and far between and this is one of the good ones.

A woman dressed in ankkle length blomers arrives in Seneca Falls, NY, in 1851. People are shocked. Women have been bound by corsets and floor length dresses "that sweep the floor." The town fathers read a book called, "Ruling a Wife," which praised wives who "submit and obey." Excuse me! Elizabeth Stanton embarrassed her son by wearing bloomers to his school. Amelia Bloomer printed a picture of these liberating and comfortable garments in her newspaper, "The Lily." "Women needed freedom not only from drunken husbands but also from cumbersome, crippling clothes." Women were "not parlor ornaments or mere playthings for man," and that a woman is "man's equal, and not his slave." Allowing women to run for office and to vote was Bloomer's radical thought. Elizabeth Stanton and Susan B. Anthony traveled the country speaking for woman's rights, wearing bloomers. Before theeir speeches began they were spreading the concept that women be allowed choices and equal rights. I am 50. When I was a child, women were not allowed to wear pants in the workplace. No pantsuits. No kidding. Rhoda Blumberg's book makes this piece of history come alive. Mary Morgan's illustrations are a treat.

This book was written before the age of thinking that invention could be accompished on paper alone. Hands on experimentation was the order of the day. Real understanding was the result. The world we live in today is a direct result of those who marched to the beat of Alfred Morgans' drummer. Of course, if he published this book today, he would be shot (in California, New Jersey, New York, and Massachusits) for suggesting that "boys" actually go beyond safe video representation of physical science, and try to really build working devices. "Time out" parenting is not compaible with this book.

On the other hand, I first read this book in the late 60's, and built a few of the projects therein. My parents didn't quite understand, but they tolerated my enthusiasm, and my understanding of our world was better off for it. Get this book. Even if you are a boy that happens to be over 50, you will enjoy many hours of adventure and new understanding of things that have been with you from your beginning. I am thrilled to find a reprint after so many years.

The classic how-to book, first published in 1913, is filled with dozens of electrical projects and experiments for the young and old alike.
Learn the principles behind radio and other early electrical wonders.
Build a spark coil, a crystal radio, even a toy train with the easy-to-follow instructions contained herein.
With the original long out of print, this modern paperback reprint may be the only affordable way to obtain a copy of this wonderful classic.

If you think it's all just casinos and tacky wedding chapels, read this book. Who would have thought Nevada, of all places, had such a rich architectural heritage? Nicoletta covers the history of Nevada, from wickiups to atomic test sites to the latest reinvention of the Las Vegas Strip, and everything in between, with clarity, conciseness, and keen observation. Her descriptions, precise without being dry or overly technical, bring to life not only the buildings but the individuals and communities that built them. I can open this book to any random page and be hooked by a fascinating, unexpected tidbit. The book also contains a helpful glossary of architectural terms, a thorough bibliography, and index. My only complaint is I would have liked even more of Bret Morgan's excellent photographs.

The one and only book on this subject, BUILDINGS OF NEVADA is thoroughly researched and wittily opinionated. It ventures far beyond the familiar territory of Hoover Dam and Las Vegas, to explore boom towns and ghost towns, courthouses and whorehouses.

It will be indispensable for anyone interested in understanding the history and psychology of the Old West. Loaded with helpful maps and photos, it's also a great travel companion for anyone who interested in seeing more of Nevada than the view from I-80.