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1) The list
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List (Forde) volume 1
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Letta, charged with collecting and saving words, uncovers a sinister plan to suppress language, robbing the people of Ark of the power of speech, and realizes she must also save the culture, itself.
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"February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. "My poor boy, he was too good for this earth, " the president...
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[This] newly revised and updated edition of the internationally bestselling spiritual classic, is the ultimate introduction to Tibetan Buddhist wisdom. An enlightening, inspiring, and comforting manual for life and death that the New York Times calls, "The Tibetan equivalent of [Dante's] The Divine Comedy, " this is the essential work that moved Huston Smith, author of The World's Religions, to proclaim, "I have encountered no book on the interplay...
9) Wildfires
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Learn about wildfires and how firefighters fight them.
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Explore the esoteric meaning of dying, rebirth, and enlightenment; and how we might prepare ourselves for death. Glenn's recent book, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, an illustrated edition, is a re-contextualization of the classic Tibetan text and provides the basis for this workshop.
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Explore the esoteric meaning of dying, rebirth, and enlightenment in the Tibetan tradition. Believing that there is a continual birth and death of the mind from one moment to the next, Tibetan Buddhists recognize that when dreaming, we are in a Bardo state and that the body and mind are then reborn into the waking state. The Tibetan Book of the Dead offers teachings that prepare one for the inevitable transformation, liberation, and a "successful"...
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The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol) is traditionally believed to be the work of the legendary Padma Sambhava in the 8th century A.D. The Bardo Thodol teaches that once awareness is freed from the body, it creates its own reality as one would experience in a dream. This dream occurs in various phases (bardos) in ways both wonderful and terrifying. Overwhelming peaceful and wrathful visions and deities appear. Since the deceased's awareness...