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MURRAY, Joseph

Jun 9, 2021 | *Featured books, *listed, Alternative Spirituality, Australian, Self-help \ Personal Development, Victoria
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ISBN 978-1-922527-67-7
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The Universal Wisdom in Aboriginal Dreamings

Is Aboriginal spirituality an echo from the past, a secretive and elusive enigma few non-indigenous people can genuinely experience? Or is it a timeless and definitive call for all humankind to seek reconciliation and harmony with each other, our mother Earth, and the Universal Essence in everything?

These and many other existential questions are examined in this enlightening and insightful book. Inspired by the spirit of Uluru and the inner recognition of our interconnectedness with the totality of life, it takes the reader to the heart of indigenous cultures, illuminating the essence and purpose of being human.

Drawing on a lifetime of practical experience seeking veracity in traditional and gnostic wisdom, the author explores the relevance to all humanity of the Universal Wisdom in Aboriginal Dreamings. With its fearless and revolutionary interpretation of Western religions and Aboriginal Dreamings, this book challenges traditional presumptions and prejudices and articulates an imperative and liberating perspective on life and spirituality.

If you feel the necessity of a revolutionary change in consciousness, this book will inspire and assist your journey of self-discovery with radical and meaningful consequences.

Whatever your perspective on love, life, and the universe, this profound book will change you!

About the Author

The Age of Aquarius brought tumultuous changes to the world of the 1960s and ’70s. The resulting changes in consciousness reached every corner of the globe. As children and adolescents, we quickly discovered life was no longer bound by the axioms of truth and reality from times now past.

Some made their peace with this new reality and, satisfied with the ‘new’ status quo, felt no urge to seek a deeper meaning or purpose in life. Those more sensitive to the vagaries of life felt called to a new worldview and, driven by an urgent and unquenchable thirst for inner peace, wrestle tirelessly with the existential questions of life.

Being the latter kind, I share my experiences of this search, that it might help others on that path.

BERMAN, Kade

May 24, 2021 | *Featured books, *listed, Melbourne, Philosophy, Poetry, Victoria

Reason and Passion by self-published author Kade Berman
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ISBN 978-0-6451513-7-4
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Reason & Passion

Reason and Passion is a collection of poetry pieces crafted through a meditative and unique lens. Within this book lie writings of philosophy, perceptions of the world, and personal experience.

Through these short poems, there is a hope to revivify others with a newfound love of the world, a love of language and intentional living.

Among the hills, where the trees grow in purposeful harmony, it is clear that reason rests with the forest.

Yet through the harsh forest fire that blazes through the innocent leavers, it is clear that passion rests in the forest.

Like an arcane forest at the mercy of the elements, you too shall rest in the cool shade of reason and move with passion’s fire.

PERTA, Maria

Apr 19, 2021 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Melbourne, Poetry, Poetry by Women, Victoria

StupIT People by self-published author Steve Eatts
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ISBN 978-1-922452-37-5
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Beneath the Shimmer

Around us beautiful things shine.

An ocean under moonlight.

Diamonds on the curve of a neck.

A lover’s eyes through candlelight.

All glints between the shadows.

We choose whether to step inside.

To meet the story.

Darkness. Sorrow. Great radiance.

Whatever lies amid the light.

We can find it.

It depends only on whether we pause

and look

beneath the shimmer.

WESTFIELD, Drew

Apr 19, 2021 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Autobiography, Family History, Melbourne, Memoir, Victoria
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ISBN 978-1-922527-43-1
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Until The End

Set on the beaches that stretch along the far north-eastern reaches of Tasmania, ‘Until The End’ is a story of the bond between two brothers that has been forged on family separation. They journey together through personal disappointment, teenage wildness, emotional struggle, and eventually the loss of the older brother’s life to suicide.

A gripping read that delves into the depths of the aftermath, the devastation that it has on the family, and the distance it takes the younger brother on his own journey.

About the Author

 
This is the first story written by Drew Westfield, who grew up in suburban Launceston, Tasmania. This story follows Drew around with a move to Brisbane, a return to Launceston, Hobart and eventually Melbourne. Drew has since dedicated his life and work to improving the physical and mental health of himself and now those around him after the experiences that he shares in this novel.
 

SELOCHAN, Viberto

Apr 19, 2021 | *Featured books, *listed, Design, Family History, Melbourne, Social Sciences \ Politics \ Government

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ISBN 978-1-922527-80-6
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The Portuguese Lady’s Earrings

The Portuguese Lady’s Earrings covers the rich tapestry of the de Oliveira Evora family. Their rise to power and wealth began with their role in the Portuguese Empire, the Church predominantly through Jesuits, and with military regimes. Jewish money financed the family’s business from the spice trade to trading people and ownership of sugar plantations in Brazil.

In 1940, Portugal was under the dictatorship of President Antonio de Oliveira Salazar who was ambivalent about Jewish refugees flooding Lisbon. Sitting on the Atlantic, the City on the Tagus from where explorers launched the ‘Age of Discovery’ became a perfect port to flee from the Nazis.

The Establishment de Oliveira Evora family remained well entrenched in the business community and to a lesser extent with the Salazar government. It, however, maintained a strong relationship with the country’s centuries old established, successful and integrated Jewish community.

Follow Lia Maria who entwines herself with Tascha, a Jewish architectural student from Odessa; Olga Sara, the child of Tascha and Lia Maria, who is reared by her great uncle in Sao Paulo, Brazil after her mother disappears in Madeira; and Olga Sara’s son Carlos, born out of wedlock, who is sent to boarding school in England.

The Portuguese Lady’s Earrings elaborates on the secrecy that surrounds the family’s historical relationship with the Jewish community and indeed Olga Sara’s heritage.

About the Author

VIBERTO SELOCHAN moved to Australia from England. After completing a PhD at the Australian National University, he worked as an academic, intelligence analyst and an Australian diplomat. He is a business executive and entrepreneur. He published and edited books and wrote for Australian and Asian newspapers and magazines and is a public commentator. His philanthropic activities include micro finance. He lives in Melbourne.

NEWNHAM, Janice

Apr 19, 2021 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Earth \ Nature, Melbourne, Memoir, Victoria
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ISBN 978-1-922527-72-1
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From the Inside

The first nine weeks of the Black Summer fires in the Upper Murray

A personal view of the impact of the 2019/20 Green Valley Bushfire on the Newnhams’ home, family, and community from inside the fire zone in Walwa, Upper Murray, Australia.

Isolated from friends and family and enmeshed in the fight to defend her family’s farm from the 2019/2020 Black Summer fires, Janice Newnham was moved to document and communicate the situation to the outside world via Facebook posts.

It started as a need to quickly reassure worried friends and family, but soon became a mental health exercise, a necessity to unload by uploading to Facebook!

This book represents the first nine weeks of an ongoing story of the impact of bushfire disaster on a small rural community and is representative of many Australian farmers and rural communities during an unprecedented bushfire season: The Black Summer.

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ISBN 978-1-922890-57-3
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White Lies

Where there is smoke

Based on a true story, White Lies (Where there is smoke…) is set in ‘God’s Own Country’, in Walwa, Northeast Victoria.

A fiery car wreck extinguishes the life of Raymond (Dickie) White’s devoted wife and catapults him to the attention of enthusiastic police investigators and newspaper journalists and simultaneously reignites the local rumour mill.

Is he the victim of small-town gossip, ultimately hounded to death by misinterpretations of his actions? Or is he a cunning, scheming individual who manipulates situations and takes advantage of innocents to achieve his ambition of owning his own farm?

His plans unravel as his web of lies is unpicked by the persistent, dedicated investigations of police utilising innovative forensic techniques and insightful deductions. As the net closes around him, he is left with only one option for escape.

Janice Newnham author

About the Author

Janice Newnham is a veterinarian by profession, a farmer by passion and is easily distracted by cows, dogs, family and the environment! She is a time-poor would-be creative with ambitions to indulge in her love of writing, art, and photography to capture images and stories of her environment, family and community. Imbued with a strong community spirit, she advocates for- and supports her community by serving and supporting several community organisations. Family is her number one priority, and she is devoted to her husband, Crundle (Robert), and their growing family of two sons, Connor and Sasha, (step-) daughter Bianca and their partners and children. The Newnhams own a small piece of paradise in Walwa in the Upper Murray and breed Angus cattle.