Títulos em Metafísica e Visionária

When you’re the editor of a successful investigative journal, you don’t dash around Scotland chasing after loch monsters. But Gill McArdle didn’t believe in unicorns either, and speaking honestly, he was fortunate to walk away from that one. He’s a scientist, and not one of the wild-eyed optimists spending their days, scanning the loch for a creature. And here’s his problem. With every passing hour, evidence mounts that something is stirring.

When Trevor Harrison founded New Argana, he envisioned it as a place magical and nonmagical people could call home without fear of the powerful and sadistic Talented. An arcane shield protected them from the deadly magic of the Calanarian Wastes and allowed them to live in peace.

In what appears as a mental breakdown plagued by depression and addiction, is actually a spiritual awakening and initiation from the world of scientific materialism into an eternity of spiritual freedom. Volume 2 of 3.

Yoren Healy appears to have it all: a lucrative career, financial stability and a loving fiancé. It's a seemingly brilliant life, one he has carefully crafted since childhood. But deep down, he is lost, confused, stuck and unfulfilled. BECOMING - The Emergence of Being follows Yoren as he embarks on a journey of exploration with the support of his coach. Along the way, he discovers the reasons behind his lack of fulfillment, from his upbringing and family heritage to his perception of societal expectations and how he relates to the world, others and himself.

Joe Slade is a detective with a hot lead and no idea where he is. Fallen from the world of fiction, Joe journeys through a hellscape of conflicting happy endings. There, he must confront the story–and the life–he left behind. His last chance to escape his fictional existence is to navigate an impossible labyrinth of genre tropes and reunite with his mentor Ellodrine, a wizard who suffers from reinterpretation. Their quest will take them through genres dark and deadly: Treacherous Spy Fiction, Gothic Horror, Gritty Cyberpunk, Urban Fantasy, and others too terrible to tell.

Fünfhundert Jahre nach dem von allen nur als "Etwas, das passiert ist" bezeichneten Ereignis ist eine neue Gesellschaft entstanden. Eine Gesellschaft, in der die eigene Stellung davon abhängt, welchen Teil des Farbspektrums man sehen kann. Dies ist die Welt, in der Eddie Russett und Jane Grey leben. Jane und Eddie müssen die engen Regeln der Farbpolitik überwinden und die Wahrheit über ihre Welt herausfinden: Was ist sie, wo ist sie, ja sogar, wann ist sie? Während sie die Lügen entlarven, die ihre Existenz bedrohen, kommen sie zu einem beunruhigenden Schluss: Sie sind nicht allein.

Mistakes. Everyone in the New England beach town of Stony Point has made one. Some mistakes are as big as the blue depths of Long Island Sound. Others, as small as a speck of sand. Some mistakes make their presence known, like the call of the gulls feeding on the bluff. Then there are the mistakes that whisper like the slightly swaying marsh grasses. More than anyone, Jason Barlow is ready to admit his mistake. But is it too late?

Es läuft gut für Eddie Russett: Seine Rotsicht ist exzellent, er wird mit etwas Glück auf der Farbskala nach oben heiraten, und sein Leben plätschert angenehm ereignislos dahin - bis zu dem Tag, an dem er sich unrettbar verliebt. Denn Jane ist nicht nur geheimnisvoll und wunderbar stupsnasig, sie ist auch komplett farbenblind und gehört damit der gesellschaftlichen Unterschicht an: eine Graue! Jane hebt Eddies geordnete Welt aus den Angeln: Plötzlich hat er einflussreiche Feinde, wird mit unbequemen Wahrheiten konfrontiert, und zu allem Überfluss versucht seine Angebetete auch noch immer wieder, ihn umzubringen.

The story follows a trial lawyer who believes he is a precocious teenager in London. In what appears as a mental breakdown plagued by mental illness and addiction, is actually a spiritual awakening and initiation from the world of scientific materialism into an eternity of spiritual freedom.

For several days, a strange and bright new star in the sky above Norway has sown an unyielding sense of foreboding, of agitation, and of fear. Tove, a painter on holiday with her family, has spiraled into a psychosis that stirs her into a flurry of unbridled creativity. Geir, a policeman who has been investigating a grisly triple murder, comes to a sinister revelation he must keep to himself. Nineteen-year-old Line falls in love with the lead singer of a metal band and is lured into a secret and frightening world.

Todos nós, em algum momento, já ouvimos essa passagem da carta de São Paulo aos Coríntios. Mas será que realmente compreendemos sua mensagem? No final do século XIX, o jovem missionário Henry Drummond é convidado a substituir um famoso pregador. A princípio a plateia fica contrariada, mas logo é cativada por sua análise das palavras do apóstolo Paulo. Esse sermão, The Greatest Thing in the World, tornou-se um clássico e sem dúvida é um dos textos mais bonitos já escritos sobre o Amor. Drummond o decompõe em nove elementos.

Adjustment Team is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published in Orbit Science Fiction (September–October 1954, No. 4) with illustration by Faragasso. A man called the Clerk approaches a talking dog, and explains in businesslike manner that "Sector T137" is scheduled for "adjustment" at 9 o'clock. He instructs the dog to bark at exactly 8:15, which the Clerk explains will summon "A Friend with a Car", which will take real estate salesman Ed Fletcher to work before 9, but while the Clerk is preoccupied, the dog falls asleep and as a result barks a minute too late.

On his journey in and around New York City, Evan learns to trust his instincts and intuition in discovering his true self. How is it that a young thirty-something, multi-millionaire stockbroker with all of the trappings that wealth brings could leave it all behind to live penniless? Is there more to life than having great wealth? Can one more readily discover the meaning of life, love and true happiness by living with nothing?

Gli Adami e le Eve è un libro racchiuso in un libro. Da ogni Adamo nasce una Eva, così come ogni foglia è aggrappata al suo stelo senza il quale non potrebbe esserci vita. Un romanzo spirituale che descrive il significato di anima gemella e racconta il modo in cui lavorare su sé stessi per poter vivere con essa, una volta incontrata.

What is the purpose of life? There is none. I exist so I find purpose. We exist so we find purpose. Kanon is forced to reevaluate his purpose when he suffers a loss. He decides to leave everything he has ever known behind and becomes homeless. Should he continue northbound, away from the life he left behind, or go back? Kanon will have to face reality either way.

19 febbraio 2080. Martedì grasso. C’è nebbia, sulla laguna deserta, i turisti non sono ancora arrivati. Affluiranno appena farà giorno, pagando il biglietto e passando dai tornelli: già, perché da quando Venezia è stata dichiarata non più agibile, evacuata e trasformata in Venice Park – la più pittoresca delle attrazioni italiane – non esistono più residenti. Solo il circo quotidiano dei visitatori e degli accompagnatori, oltre a un pugno di Resistenti che vorrebbe vederla tornare viva e abitata. In questo giorno d’inverno ci sono Michele e Sandro, guardiani che pattugliano la laguna.

September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of Görbersdorf, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women born inferior? War or peace? Meanwhile, disturbing things are happening in the guesthouse and the surrounding hills. Someone—or something—seems to be watching, attempting to infiltrate this cloistered world.

Take the plunge down the rabbit hole of insanity and wonder in this fast-paced, nonstop psychological thriller that will leave you questioning the very nature of reality and beyond. Part thriller, part romance, part existential horror, A Dream of Waking Life delves into lucid dreaming, psychedelics, existential ontology, video games, the nature of love, the nature of reality, and more.

Devorah Fields, a former teen actress and model, is hiding out from her estranged, abusive husband in her childhood home in the Malibu hills. With every odd creak, she fears the worst—her husband’s return. Her father, a former Hollywood heavyweight turned con artist, is serving time in federal prison. Her mother, an English born actress, has fled to her home country out of shame and embarrassment.

Jared Crandall’s life seems as broken as the Utah landscape surrounding him. With the Great Quake having shattered roads throughout the country and isolating him in his cabin, Jared assumes he will die alone. But Keith Martin, his old LDS missionary companion, finds him, arriving on an unusual motorcycle called the XEB. Keith brings a letter from Church headquarters asking Jared to serve again as his companion—to cross a desolate country where anarchy prevails and to fulfill a mission whose purpose is unclear. A call Jared cannot refuse.