The Best Works of Fiction

By Martin Davis

It is very easy to assume that enjoyment of a book is entirely down to personal tastes, but there are always novels and short stories that everyone should experience in their lives. Every book, every story told, is an adventure we are a part of. We learn to love or to hate the characters as we join them on their journey and without this vital element, any story is lifeless. Whether you are an avid reader or whether you just enjoy some holiday literature, picking something engaging is quite a task.

Simply being a page turner might be enough. With simple reads like The Da Vinci Code or Twilight flooding the market, it may seem hard to pinpoint something with depth and significance. You have to look a little harder and dig a little deeper. Despite the popularity of some authors out there, their well known name does not necessarily make them particularly esteemed and you can't always trust the bookstore recommendations either.

So, what should you be looking for? A good novel has something important to say. It has longevity and significance, commenting on one or many aspects of society that capture attention; religion, environment, politics, psychology - anything and everything can be discussed via the medium of literature, simultaneously engaging the reader with an appealing story and loveable characters that have a subtext to stir debate.

There are novels in every century that have achieved this; Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Waugh's Bright Young Things, McEwan's The Cement Garden, McCarthy's The Road. You have undoubtedly heard of the first novel. It is what is commonly known as a 'classic' and there is a reason for that.

Each of these novels offers substance and meaning, presenting important themes we can apply to our own lives or the lives of someone way back in history. Reflecting a society we may or may not know, they comment on what is wrong and what is right within it. Building a story around these elements is a skill few have mastered. A good novel should change us for the better.

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Polar Shift 2012: Are You Prepared?

By Cole R. Simers

Some people led to the theory of Polar Shift 2012 - what things that caused them to arrive to this matter? What is a polar shift anyway? For an information, polar shift is supposed to take place on the year 2012 with the Earth believed to start rotating on the opposite direction as a result of some catastrophic event.

Such is part of the scientific explanation that some people arrived to saying that the rotation of the Earth is never stable. While there are others who believe it is, some clues pointing to the shift happening on 2012 can be found in some history pieces. Experts have been able to theorize this phenomenon because of some ancient manuscripts and other forms of writings containing these clues.

The magnetic field that is reflected by the sun to the earth continues to rotate is another scientific explanation. Solid core, layer of magma, and crust are the parts of the earth. The magnetic field coming from the sun recharges the magma layer, which is just like a gigantic rotating donut .

It is not fully known why the magnetic field has decreased by 60% for the last couple of thousand years; however, it has been seen as the reason why, unless a pole shift occurs, the earth no longer contains many years left to last. According to Egyptians and Mayan beliefs, polar shift will happen because the decrease in the magnetic field has colossal destructive impact to the earth.

The factor to yield the shift in the direction that the poles go is the weakening of the earth's magnetic poles. Some expert people believe that the shift will occur in 2012 causing many people to wonder what will happen as the year comes near. Different predictions were made that suggest massive destruction to the people. One is the effect it can cause on activities like the road users and other complex operations that functions depend on magnetic north.

If the shift happens, the functions of these operations will be significantly affected. But more serious than that is that the magnetosphere, which is that element that provides protection against destructive particles to the earth, is in danger. The magnetism that functions as barrier to the earth does not only send protection from these damaging particles but from the solar winds as well.

As the earth is left exposed to the danger that the charged particles and radiation bring once the barrier is broken, the lives of the people and other inhabitants are risked. The theory contains that massive flooding, tsunami and earthquakes, as a result of the polar shift, will disastrously affect the tectonic plates of the earth and will cause many negative physical changes.

The change and effect will be catastrophic leading to a doomsday scenario if that theory does happen, as some prophecies have told the human race. It is not the question whether it is to happen or not. Should the doomsday occur, the question that is yet to be answered is how much the Polar Shift 2012 will affect the humankind or how much the people are prepared for it.

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It is not whether the theory is believable or not. The question is how much prepared we are for the changes that Polar Shift 2012 can possibly provide.

Earning While Learning The Medical Field Inspired By Miracles

By Darren T. Feild

Are you ready to begin learning the medical field inspired by miracles? If people tell you miracles don't exist, tell them to take a better look at what is happening in fields such as; acupuncture, homeopathy, reflexology, bioidentical hormones, surgery, and more.

In February of 2010, a 7 year old girl, Heather McNamara, experienced a miracle in the form of a 23 hour operation to remove a tumor in her little abdomen, that was the size of an official MLB baseball. In order to get to it, the surgeons had to remove both intestinal tracks, her stomach, liver, spleen and pancreas. They had to make a new stomach for her and put back the intestines and liver; rendering her without a spleen and pancreas.

A lot of people who have experienced the fountain of youth effects of bioidentical hormone replacement, say they have found their miracle. (Don't confuse this treatment with conventional synthetic (horse) hormone therapy.) Here are some of the benefits: A decade or more of aging may be reversed; symptoms and diseases often disappear, and energy and vitality regenerates.

Thousands of surgeries have been "miraculously" canceled, thanks to the practice of hand (and more often) foot "reflexology". All the nerves in our bodies have endings in our hands and feet. It is possible to detect maladies within the body by pressing specific areas in the hands and feet to see if they are tender. The act of forceful massage creates increased blood flow to the specific organs and areas the nerves are connected to, which many times helps the recipient to return to health.

Homeopathic remedies are natural, not chemical. They are not poisonous like drugs are, so they don't create more problems. Indeed they go to the cause of the problem, rather than just cover up the symptoms like conventional medicine does. A "remedy" would never merely deaden headache pain, but rather, fix the source of the pain to prevent it from happening. Worldwide, 500 million people use homeopathic remedies, and many of them use homeopathic doctors for their primary care.

Pharmaceutical drugs are all toxic and they all have side effects, that doctors often treat with more drugs. This is not the case in homeopathy. The remedies are all natural and they are free from side effects, costing merely pennies per dose. In some European countries, conventional doctors refer their difficult cases to homeopathic practitioners.

Reports of recovering from major conditions like cancer and autism are not rare, and minor ailments, like colds, often are resolved within one day. This field of medicine is more than 200 years old and many people believe it's the answer to the health care crises in the United States -- and that it may be able to prevent the predicted collapse of the economy, due to health care costs.

From China comes another miracle; the ancient practice of acupuncture, which has shown good results for treating dozens of conditions. It is said to unblock energy pathways in the body, called, meridians; which in turn, allow the body to function normally. In acupuncture sessions needles are placed along meridian points to create a better flow of energy. It helps with addictions, weight loss, stress relief, male and female issues, digestive and immune disorders and more.

The relief of pain without suffering the addiction and other harmful side effects of pain medication, is one of the main reasons people initially try acupuncture. Indeed, acupuncture is one more example of why learning the medical field inspired by miracles, is of vital importance.

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Techniques For Developing And Increasing Mind Power Abilities

By Jade Lemmings

Considering how to go about unlocking mind power effectively is the first step that should be taken when it comes getting at certain abilities that exist within the minds of all humans. Most people, though, have difficulty in conceiving of their existence, first of all. Fortunately, there are a number of methods for doing so, and which can help anybody improve the vast universe of powers lying within everybody.

For a fact, humans seems to have been born with a number of extra-sensory mental abilities, though almost all are locked firmly behind a wall or set of mental barriers. When they finally are, people have reported that they're able to "see" things in ways that most couldn't conceive of prior to unlocking those powers. They're outside the realm of normal human experience, either in the present or at any time in the past, so keep that in mind.

Most of these higher mind powers are referred to as extra-sensory perception, psychic power or some other sort of descriptive term. They've been the subject of much research over the years by scientists from many different communities, too. This research has shown that humans generally only use around 10% of their total brain power, but that the other 90% could be accessed once work is undertaken using a number of mental exercises and techniques.

Extrasensory and even psychic powers of the mind has been a recognized phenomenon among people for years and years. There is a vast universe of power within the human mind just waiting to be unlocked, and depending upon the slow pace of human evolution to jump-start people forward quickly enough to where they can harness some of that power could take thousands and thousands of years.

There are ways available today -- drawn from years of study on how these powers can be accessed and which can be enhanced over time -- that can help a person find out how to use ESP. Making use of them will require some work, though. Fortunately, there a wide base of knowledge that can studied by a person who has the desire and the determination to make use of what are actually fairly simple methods, when looked at realistically.

Most people, though, will have difficult in accessing these higher powers at first because they'll have to overcome years of habit built up in the mind. This starts from the time a person is first born and a fair bit of deprogramming will first need to occur before any progress can be made. Basically, the subconscious will need to be reprogrammed after deprogramming, which removes many barriers, has been completed.

A number of well-known techniques exist, including mental and physical relaxation exercises and binaural beats. These beats can help a brain "entrain" such that it can then operate more efficiently on several different levels of awareness. When this occurs, the extra-sensory abilities of the mind can make themselves known and a person can then begin to make better use of them.

In the end, the ability to unlock mind power depends on the desire one has to do so. Understand that years of subconscious programming seems to be the culprit that prevents humans from making use of the higher orders of perception and senses locked within their brains. Using certain techniques to not only develop but improve those powers can be done, both effectively and fairly speedily.

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Golden Rosaries For Real Luxury

By Owen Jones

Have you ever seen a golden rosary? They are not things you see every day, but they are very striking and they can be found if you look around. A rosary is a symbol of your faith, a method of doing atonement and even a way of remembering who gave you your faith.

Because of the symbolic character of a rosary, it does not matter at all what it is made from. However, if you like beautiful things, a golden rosary could be a luxury item for you, even though there is more chance of it being stolen.

You certainly would not want to have it stolen of course, but a valuable rosary is a beautiful object to have, like a golden business card case or an expensive fountain pen. It is not so much that it shows that you can afford one, it is more that it demonstrates that it is an important item to you. Something of significance. If you like writing, you want a good pen, if you want to give a good impression, you can have a good business card case and if you love God, you can have a lovely rosary.

However, you do not have to take it to church with you, if you are worried about being flash. You could only use it at home, if that made you feel easier. After all, you are not buying a golden rosary to show off to the world's populace, just to illustrate your loyalty to yourself. The weight of a golden rosary seems to add solemnity to the proceedings, but that might be a personal thing.

However, you do not necessarily have to buy a gold rosary for yourself. You might buy one for a child or godchild in order to illustrate how much you want that they will discover or uphold the faith.

You will have to go to a professional dealer who knows about gold rosaries. This is because if the beads are too heavy for the chain, the chain might not last long. The constant moving of the beads could either wear the gold chain thin too swiftly or just snap it.

That would be a real shame, because you might lose one or more of your beads too and the beads on a gold rosary would necessarily be quite classy too. Replacing one or more beads might be difficult or even impossible years down the line.

A gold rosary would almost certainly become a family heirloom and be passed down for generations or even hundreds of years. It would be a great inducement for a young person to contemplate the important things in life.

Your church could give you pointers about where to purchase a gold rosary from someone that actually knows what the proportions of the beads to the chain should be. They will also offer you different purities of gold, usually 9, 14 or 18 carat gold and the beads could be anything from glass to pearls.

If you do go in for a gold rosary, get the retailer to attest to the materials used in its manufacture and the various weights so that if you have a problem, you have proof to show the insurance company.

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Drug And Alcohol Abuse

By Lawrence Jameson

Drinking and Driving in America has gotten way out of hand ! Every day there are just so many new Fatalities caused by People who Drink then get in their Cars and Drive home. Every day when you look in the paper you hear so many Horror stories and they all seem to involve the Death of a Child ! Drinking and Driving is a huge Problem and the Answer to stopping it does not seem to be forth coming.

One of the big problems seems to be the same people are getting DWI's over and over . Why is it that these people are not getting the help they need to stop them from Drinking and Driving!

Recently I unwillingly took a look into what happens after a person is convicted of a DWI. What I found out made me both very mad and also very Scared ! It seems that at many of the Drug and Alcohol treatment Centers it is all about the all mighty dollar and there is not much concern put on Treatment.

I went to Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma NY run by Ruth M Meyer for an Evaluation. Now as a person who Drinks very little and who's Drug use was left back in the 90's with my Old Bongs, I was not worried about the out come . I was a little Surprised when I was told I would need to start going to Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma NY for treatment twice a week. I was very Surprised when I heard the cost per week for this was more then half my income per week. But I had Court and I did not have a Choice but to do as they said.

I was quickly told by just about every staff Member at Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma to go apply for Medicaid. I was told that they can charge Medicaid allot of Money. I took the hint that it was in my best interest to apply for Medicaid, After a trip to the Department of Social Services I was given a form that said I was Medicaid Pending, This seemed to make everyone Happy.

I set up to go to Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma twice a week once for one on One Consoling and once for what was called the Group Class. The One on One Counseling which was planed out to be a one hour a week talk almost always seemed to be me sitting in the room for some where around 15 Minutes with a Counselor named Chris. He would ask me how my week had been and then I would sit there listening to him apologies while he did paper work that had nothing to do with me! I remember about every week he would tell me how He was over booked and then tell me that He was going to let me go early.

The Group was just a little better it was two hours long and run by a Women named Heather , The Group meeting would consist of People Complaining about their lives, Heather loved to give advice to the Group Members and She was never shy about telling you your opinion on something was wrong and of Course She was Never wrong about anything.

Now to tell the Truth at the Time I did not care at all I was just going to these meetings to look good in court for my DWI trial . Things where going fine with me at Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma , I was not getting any real treatment but I also did not care.

After about four Months of Treatment I found out I did not qualify for Medicaid. Well things Changed quick with the relationship between me and Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma , I was told by Ruth Meyer that I owed over a Thousand Dollars. I told Her I did not have the Money. I was then informed if I did not pay a huge part of the Debt off and sign a paper stating I owed the Money that Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma would report to the Judge in my case I was Non Compliant and ruin any chance at a plea Bargain ! All I could think was this is Blackmail, I signed the paper and gave Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma a Couple of Hundred Dollars!

After Court was done the Sentence I received was I had to do 50 Hours of Community Service and Attend a Meeting of Mothers Against Drunk Driving and also my License was Suspended for 90 days.

In my next one on one Counseling with Chris after my DWI case was over, I was told by Chris I no longer needed to come to Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma anymore. Chris looked at me laughed and said We both know you don't have a problem with Drugs or Alcohol and you don't have the Money any way.

After 40 days with no licence I received a letter from DMV saying I could get a conditional License if I attended a Seven week Drinking and Driver Program. One part of the Class is you must get an Evaluation, when I told the Teachers of the class I had taken one an attended Classes at Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma I was told that was fine! Around the end of the Seven weeks of Classes I received a letter from the Drinking and Driver Program saying I was going to fail the Class because I had never gone and had an Evaluation done! Confused I called the DDP and told them I had taken one at Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma . They told me that Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma told them I had never Completed the course there! When I called Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma and spoke with Ruth Meyer I was told that they would not consider me completed and release my info to the DDP until after I was finished paying Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma all the Money I owed them. Well I got very angry and I made a big Mistake I began Speaking loud to Ruth Meyer that I did not have all the Money right now and if She didn't release my info to the Drinking and Driver program I would lose my License for 90 days all over again! Ruth told me that it was a Business and she felt this was the only way to get me to pay.

I borrowed the money from a friend and paid off Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma figuring everything was now Finally over, I found out real fast what happens when you raise your voice to Ruth Myer. After paying Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma they told the Drinking and Driver Program that I had never finished the Classes at Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma. I called and ask to speak to Chris but was told he no longer worked for Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma. I of Course lost my License for another 90 days!

This is just one outpatient rehab I had to deal with, I have talked to many Poeple who have gone threw the DWI System and I found out that it is a very cut throat Business run by People who if you do not do as they say when they say it, will do what ever they can to make your life a living Hell. During this whole ordeal the only time I felt that anyone really didn't want me to drink and drive again was when I attended the Mothers Against Drunk Driving meeting and Surprise that meeting was free! The MADD meetings are run by Mothers who have lost Children to Drinking and Driving! These Women were not rude or condescending they just gave an honest heartfelt plea asking us to please not drink and drive! After hearing their Stories I know I never will again.

Drinking and Driving is a big Problem in America, But it is also a very large and Profitable Business !

This is only my opinion and how I remember the events.

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Lawrence Jameson Begs everybody come on do not Drink and Drive Lawrence Jameson hopes for an end to Drinking and Driving

How Does Someone Develop Precognition

By Kelsey Allan

The ability to foresee events that may occur in the future before there is any way possible to know about them is often called precognition. These visions are sometimes symbolic and the person that experiences it has to try to decode the message that is in the vision. Other times they are very straight forward and the person is able to look straight into the future. Many people are of the belief that time is a spiral variant, not linear. This is why they believe you can see, at times, straight into the future.

In order to completely understand what precognition is about you must be willing to understand it. Many people believe that clairvoyance is the same as precognition. Clairvoyance allows people to see problems, situations, and people that are happening in the present and precognition involves things in the future. ESP, or extra sensory perception, is used in clairvoyance and precognition is more like a paranormal experience. Knowing before is the definition of precognition.

Dreaming presents the easiest way to experience precognition. Dreaming about the future is something that most people do from time to time but they are often unable to remember their dreams. They do sometimes feel a sense of "dejavu", or that they have been in the same place once before. This nearly always comes from a precognition that they have had in a dream but were unable to remember.

Some people who are trained mystics may even be able to see the future consciously in an awakened state. However, this happens only after a lot of practice and is not as common. These kinds of seers or mystics use their conscious will to see the future.

Some professional psychics also use old techniques like crystal ball and mirrors for precognition.

Anyone can achieve precognition. Once you have sharpened your intuitive abilities you are ready. Most people do not allow their mind to think past what their five senses can tell them. Listening carefully to intuition and gut feelings is important in order to develop precognition. The subtleties in the environment are valuable to give attention to and beginning to believe in your subtle senses is also very important if you want to develop precognition.

A person is made up of much more than a simple physical body and many people are not aware of it. The energies about them and their emotions play a large role in who they are as a person. This is why it is so important to pay close attention to how you feel on a daily basis so you can get a feel for what kind of day you will have in advance. Guessing games are very helpful in developing precognition. Using a deck of playing cards you can try to guess what the next card flipped will be.

Dreams are an important instrument in the development of our precognitive abilities; Try to start recalling your dreams after you wake up. Keep a dream journal on your bedside. Record your dreams in vivid details the moment you get up. If writing is too much for you (some of us find it cumbersome), then you can try recording your dream on a small recorder immediately when you wake up. If you do this regularly, you will find that you will remember dreams which you could never remember before!

If your dream repeats then you should think hard about what the meaning is that is hidden or look for any symbols and signs in the dreams that can lead you to gaining a better understanding of what the dream means.

Other than via dreams, you can develop precognition using hypnosis and meditation. Meditation is said to be the practice of allowing your mind to fall quiet so it is open to the highest levels of consciousness in the universe. It is commonly a belief that there is a central life force that flows through each of us and that we are all connected to each other by it. As you are able to clear the chaos from your daily life from your head your mind will become quiet and you can feel the connection to supreme consciousness and you will know the past and the future.

Meditation is a method that has been around for many years. Many thinkers, seers, and sages have used this practice all over the world. There are actually several ways to meditate. One group of people prefers to have perfect quiet and solitude when they meditate while others would like to have the natural sounds of life around them. No matter what the preference is, your mind will surely wander in the beginning and you may have to fight through several thoughts. Just keep brining your mind back to the thought of making the mind still and simply observing, not wandering into, the random thoughts that are going by. You will slowly find yourself in the area that the mountain of information is stored in the universal consciousness.

One barrier that we have to overcome when we begin the quest to develop precognition is fear. Many people are very afraid of the future because the end is always death and not being around the people they love any longer. The universal information is blocked by the fear. That is why it is so important to rid your psyche of fear in order to develop precognition. It is simple to develop precognition. It simply takes continuous commitment and a lot of practice.

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