Ancient Memories

In ancient, pre-literate cultures across the globe, tribal elders had encyclopedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across a landscape, identify the stars in the sky, and recite the history of their people. Yet today, most of us struggle to memorize more than a short poem. Using traditional Aboriginal Australian song lines as a starting point, Dr. Lynne Kelly has since identified the powerful memory technique used by our ancestors and indigenous people around the world.

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. His writings cover many subjects including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theatre, music, rhetoric, psychology, linguistics, economics, politics and government.

In the city of Seraphine, obedience is a hymn sung through every wall, every street, every vein. Silence is not absence here—it is policy, programmed into memory and stitched into the body. But when a single forbidden name surfaces in a place it shouldn’t exist, one woman begins to pull at the threads of a tapestry woven from surveillance, faith, and forgetting. What she finds beneath isn’t just a hidden truth—it’s an unmaking of the world’s most sacred lie. Hallowed Be Thy Name is a haunting, atmospheric descent into a society where control is scripture, history is curated, and...

In the past the elders had encyclopaedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across the landscape and the stars in the sky, too. Yet most of us struggle to memorise more than a short poem. Using traditional Aboriginal Australian songlines as the key, Lynne Kelly has identified the powerful memory technique used by indigenous people around the world.

Some nightmares are memories. And some memories stay with your every waking moment. Every time Ella thinks about the past, it feels like a dream she's not sure she ever woke from. When she was a child, it was always the two of them: Ella and Michael, Michael and Ella. Twins. Soulmates. Two halves of a single whole. Best friends against the world. Until the day Michael vanished without a trace. Twelve years later, Ella begins dreaming again—of what might have happened back then. Of the black beach with its waves crashing over diamonds of ice. Of Michael’s voice calling from somewhere ...

Losing someone we love is never easy, but the Orthodox Church provides a wealth of resources that help us to bear it. Chaplain and bereavement coordinator Sarah Byrne-Martelli draws on these theological, scriptural, and liturgical resources, as well as the collected experience of a variety of people undergoing grief and loss, to provide a kind of road map to the grieving process. Included in the book is a guide to an eight-week bereavement curriculum that can be used in a group or on one’s own.

Distraction isn't a new problem. We're also not the first to complain about how hard it is to concentrate. Early Christian monks beat us to it. They had given up everything to focus on God, yet they still struggled to keep the demons of distraction at bay. But rather than surrender to the meandering of their minds, they developed powerful strategies to improve their attention and engagement. How to Focus is an inviting collection of their strikingly relatable insights and advice—frank, funny, sympathetic, and psychologically sophisticated.

One night in 48 BCE, a tactical blaze meant to cripple a fleet licked from ship timbers to a mud-streaked quay and into warehouses rumored to hold the world’s notebooks. What followed is less a neat tally of lost scrolls than an old wound that would grow teeth: an emblem of how fragile memory can be when it lives in buildings, markets, and politics rather than in abstract ideals. This book does not try to inventory every missing title. It moves instead from the crackle of kindling to the slow work of historians—catalogues, palimpsests, scattered quotations—and asks why the story of a ...

Lucina of Greece was orphaned at a young age and brought up by foster parents. Now aged 13, she is sent to be educated by her philosopher guardian in the place he calls Elysium. There, she finds herself the only female in a masculine world: While she proves herself an intellectual equal, she cannot accept the rigidity of the scientific skepticism that disallows her intuition, psychic talents, and capacity for love.

The seventh of Joan Grant's Far Memory novels, So Moses Was Born, is set in Egypt, in the time just before the birth of Moses. The story is a familiar one: Found in the bulrushes, Moses's upbringing in the court of Egypt gave him the influence and power to set the Israelites free. Joan Grant enlarges the picture by depicting the events that led up to the discovery of the baby Moses, convincingly portraying the man she believed was his father, Ramoses II, through the words of his reclusive half-brother Nebunefer.

“This book is a brilliant recollection of lives lived in the past. It will make you think and possibly even trigger those memories that are stored within your own subconscious. That’s what it did for me!” - Annmarie Martin “Kelvin’s calm, empirical, and even skeptical approach to spiritual matters has always impressed me. And in his new book he shares with us memories of dozens of lifetimes using that same rational approach. More importantly, he shares how knowing these past lives makes a difference in the here and now. The stories are entertaining. And you will come away with a ...

Recollections from my early childhood years, and my miss-spent youth, in the small market town of Hailsham, in East Sussex, England, back in the 1960s and 70s.My journey through the ups and downs of life, my search for truth, and my personal testimony of coming to faith in Jesus Christ.

The world of ancestral healing opens up possibilities for mind, body, soul, and spirit wellness you’ve never imagined. The Ancestors Within offers a collection of life-changing experts’ stories and practical tools in the field of ancestral healing so you can understand what’s possible and experience improved health, wealth, and happiness.

The fourth of Joan Grant's Far Memory novels, Lord of the Horizon, the sequel to Eyes of Horus, is set in Egypt at the close of the dark XIth dynasty and is a profound commentary on the power of fear and the unlimited ability of light to shatter it. Lord of the Horizon is the story of Ra-ab Hotep, heir to the Nomarch of the Oryx. Ra-ab is 21 as the story begins. The dawn for which Ra-ab and the Watchers of the Horizon fought in Eyes of Horus has come, but to "Send Fear into Exile", as the Watchers' password promised, proves difficult.

Twelve-year-old Samantha Moon has a detective agency in her backyard treehouse, a notebook full of solved mysteries, and a flat fee of ten bucks per case. But nothing can prepare her for the strange symbols, whispering vines, and glowing feathers that start appearing near the edge of the woods. Something old has awakened behind Crater Hill. Something that remembers her name. When a local boy vanishes and a forgotten stone arch reappears in the forest, Sam and her best friend Jake find themselves unraveling a hidden world of memory trees, lost children, and a garden that feeds on secrets. ...

A relic that doesn’t whisper— —it remembers. On a dying moon where memory bends and thoughts become terrain, Zyra Valor confronts his most dangerous opponent yet: his own mind. Drawn into a Vault shaped by perception and haunted by echoes of unchosen lives, Zyra must navigate illusions that feel more real than truth—and resist the seductive lure of forgetting who he was. But the Veil of Thought doesn’t offer power. It offers alignment. And when a fractured former Inquisitor reawakens the Will within herself, and a telepathic collective proposes unity at the cost of identity, Zyra ...

Set on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England, these poems celebrate a place and lives once lived. Located at what was the authors family home for a quarter of a century, the poems are an intimate portrait of a special place, and the last years of his parents.

PAST LIVES: a catalogue of reoccurring dreams that have surfaced for year after year after many years. Dreams that are linked through time, during the most extraordinary times – and the more extraordinary, mostly forgotten, people. Yet it is people who make history. This is the 21st century. The logic part of me says these are just dreams, just imaginations firing through common neurons through my active brain, finding linkages between the dreams simply because of common pathways. The other part of me, that deep human part of me, asks the question … what if? What if this is something ...

Wildly original, poignant, and a must read. Have you ever wondered if you were royalty or a famous celebrity in a former life? Imagined a life path with your soul mate? Laurel is a simple woman living a simple life in an average house in an average town. Her lottery dream is to replace the old furnace and maybe get some lawn furniture. Desperate to kick a nasty habit so that she and her husband can start a family, she turns to an inexperienced hypnotist who accidentally unlocks buried memories. While her husband is mysteriously pulling away from her, Laurel is haunted by dreams that spill ...

When the rabbis composed the Mishnah in the late second or early third century C.E., the Jerusalem Temple had been destroyed for more than a century. Why, then, do the Temple and its ritual feature so prominently in the Mishnah? Against the view that the rabbis were reacting directly to the destruction and asserting that nothing had changed, Naftali S. Cohn argues that the memory of the Temple served a political function for the rabbis in their own time.