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The Second Edition of Profane Justice has been expanded and updated for 2001, and covers the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997. It truly is a comprehensive guide for parents who want to know what to expect during a child abuse/neglect investigation and court case. The book exposes the motivation and deceit behing child protection and gives you the tools you need to protect your family from unwarranted intrusions by the state.
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The truth had to be told .......2007-10-05
This book is an excellant resource for those who have been falsely accused of child abuse. In this modern day society , we would like to belive that this does not happen but it does. There are many people who have had to deal with this intrusive system. In fact in LaMonte McNeese's book "How to be Strong when falsely accused" , has gone through some of the similiar horrors that Ms. Suell shared in her book. Is it a coincidence? I don't think so. I would like to peronally praise Ms Shell for this book because I followed her advice step by step and I was able to get my son . I give this book five stars.
Ridiculous advice.......2007-03-20
The author of this book offers some truly absurd advice. I stopped reading this book about 1/3 of the way in, when it was clear how harmful this book could be to your actual kids. It reads more like a militant anarchist bible than something designed to protect your rights. I did some research on this lady afterwards and she seems completely insane.
This book seems like it's more helpful to people who neglect and abuse their kids than to protect parents' rights. The author is VERY obese. Who would take advice from someone who can't even control her own weight?
The book in two sentences:.......2007-03-19
A woman who's been convicted for giving false legal advice decides to write a book to share her advice with YOU.
She was a bad mommy and the government decided to protect her kids, and now she's got a vendetta.
Gripping Drama.......2007-03-18
Though others have mixed feelings about the content of this book, rest assured that this is truly the best novel of the early part of the 21st century.
Young Reginald "P" Linux is stuck in a house with a strange figurine that he cannot get rid of. He seems destined to be stuck in a house that is a "doom" house, until Child Protective Services arrives at the door. They attempt to extract the figurine time and time again, only to fail as well when the figurine tells them she is happy with her current living conditions.
The 400 page monologue of Reginald at this point, some feel is a tad excessive, but it just goes to show how much the author truly cares about the emotional development of their character.
Finally, Suzanne Shell shows up and beats the figurine within an inch of its life with a cat of nine tails until Child Protective Services arrives yet again. This time, the figurine is more than happy to leave.
Reginald is grateful! But now... she is in his BASEMENT and in his MIND.
Overall, some folks would have a problem with this book and its seeming advocacy of severe child abuse, but I personally found that to be the only comic relief after a rather tense and nail-biting drama. If I could rate it 5 AND A HALF stars, I would.
The SS SHAM.......2006-01-16
While this book is one of the first of its kind, buyers and readers must be aware that the author does not speak with complete truths. The CPS system varies State by State what works in one area may not work in another. For instance using FOIA to get records from CPS..... So while this is a plethora of helpful information..... most of which was stolen from others and written in this book as her own ideas... especially the Document Document Document phrase which was actually developed and taught at Yale Law as early as the mid 1900's. Also be aware the author has been charged by Colorado State Prosecutors for Unlicensed Practice of Law and subsequently was again charged in 2004 for Contempt of Court..... she is appealing the guilty charges and may face some actual jail time soon. Is she a Martyr maybe..... so let the buyer beware.
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In today's society, many undesirable' parental practices are being falsely interpreted as abuse; practices such as home schooling, spanking and other methods of discipline, Bible reading and believing in the Constitution, and even breast-feeding. This results in the prosecution of many innocent parents. Most parents accept plea bargains without knowing the dreadful consequences. They don't know that they are being deceived and manipulated in the name of Federal dollars, and they don't know how to protect their families and their rights. They don't even know they can fight and the odds are overwhelmingly in their favor that they would win.
This book is unique in that it is not an expose' of abuses perpetrated on families by the agents of the state. Rather, it is an intensive how-to manual that teaches exactly how the child savers' use the color of law to violate the rights of parents and destroy the family, and how parents can fight the corrupt child protection system and win. Once the you have learned about the deceitful and illegal tactics that are employed against you in the state's hysterical endeavors to protect children who don't need protecting, the author gives specific actions to take to thwart those tactics. The author operates on the premise that most people don't know their rights, and in not knowing their rights, they effectively have no rights. This book teaches you just what your rights are, and how to peacefully and lawfully protect your rights. It covers every possible aspect related to parental rights and false allegations of child abuse.
The author of Profane Justice is an advocate of spanking, a disciplinary technique that has been recently maligned by so-called experts.' In spite of spankings being universally legal, it is often classified as abuse by the agents of the state, and parents who spank often face child abuse charges for their disciplinary actions. This book examines the fallacy that spanking a child teaches him violence' and discusses when, why and how-to spank effectively, safely and defensively, including disciplining the child who misbehaves in public. It examines other discipline techniques in light of their effectiveness and their potential risks for being charged with child abuse when parents employ them.
The book provides in-depth coverage of what activities put parents at risk of child abuse charges, including a discussion of warning signs that indicate a child could be considering turning them in for abuse. Innocent medical emergencies are often the trigger for abuse charges, and this book teaches how to protect yourself in that situation. It also discusses exactly how the schools are involved in the child protection scam - from actively teaching children that spanking is abuse to casually turning children over to the custody of social services without the parents' knowledge. Once again, the reader is given specific tactics to take to thwart these actions. It exposes the little known truth that social services has little statutory authority, and mainly operates on bluff and intimidation.
Other topics discussed include an examination of the statutory law relating to child abuse, what to expect and how to react when you are under investigation; what to expect when facing criminal or civil court and the ramifications of each venue; what to expect during the trial and how to act in court; how to prepare your defense; how to find a lawyer and what he should be doing in your defense; the benefits, risks and requirements for defending yourself; how to sue the agents of the state when your rights are violated; and a discussion of the jury and Grand Jury. It also contains a section on Supreme Court rulings which uphold parental rights and information on state-employed interview tactics that taint children's testimony. The book closes with nineteen ways to change the law and a plea from a young girl who was dragged into the child protective system after falsely accusing her father of sexual abuse. She claims she learned to do that at school, and when she recanted, nobo! dy would believe her. The appendix includes a list of resources for the falsely accused and a bibliography.
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READ IT!!!!!!! - It is all about $'s not child protection!.......2000-09-20
PARENTS!!!!!!! Want a really good taste of reality and a GOOD scare? READ IT! It is all about getting more dollars into a system that is supposed to protect children and when they are in error there is absolutely no recourse for the innocent.
MANY FAMILIES ARE TORN APART and the system that caused it is no where to be found. This is no different that the IEP (Individual Education Programs) that public schools have and get more $'s for the more children they can place.
Social Services gets more funding for more children they place in foster care. Talk to people who were in the foster care system about the abuse they suffered there and most of the foster care providers are adults who were once abused children. By their own admission they wouldn't know normal family life yet these are the homes that many children are placed in. It is a scary world when parents are held accountable, do the best for the child and an outside influence can come in and make a subjective observation that can lead to the destruction of the family unit.
Think it can not hapen to you? think again. Learn how to protect yourself and learn what really goes on in yet another government system that has no accountability.
Excellent Book!.......2000-05-31
A must read for any of the thousands of parents who are unjustly accused of neglecting or abusing their children.
CPS---Neither Protective nor Helpful to Children.......2000-01-01
Suzanne Shell is still active in Colorado helping families who have had children unfairly kidnapped by the state of Colorado.
She is part of a larger network of parents who are actively challening CPS throughout the US. One such group is CPSWatch.com. Another group is in Utah and is at the Website Nationaloutrage.org
CPS can force you into testifying against yourself. One would be well advised to not say anything to CPS, as Ms. Shell advises. Should they want to see your children, let them look through a window.
Recent court cases in CA Calabretta v. Floyd confirm that caseworkers need warrants to enter homes. As of August, 1999.
Parents have been disempowered by CPS. CPS is notorious for neither providing services, nor for helping children, merely dumping one-half million children into foster care in the US.The agency operates with virtual immunity, little oversight, and not much accountability.
Parents must network to defeat this Federal program which has been very efficient in providing jobs for caseworkers and service providers, but not helpful to families.
In many cases, they have torn families apart.
The why and how our families are being raped by the states........1998-06-25
I read this book out of a need to find out why my children were being illegally seized by the state agency CPS (child protective services). This book gives detailed information on the techniques used to take our children and the why's and how's this is done. Most Americans naively trust government at it's face value and the reality of their true agenda is revealed in this book. It's alarming to find that no one is safe from the agency that takes the children of innocent families and exploites them to their own advantage. This book gives in detail the underlying reasons that no one is immune from having their children taken away and sometimes never returned.
It also shows that depravity of this agency's denial of an individual's constitutional rights. The fact that one is innocent until proven giulty is never acknowledged by the agency that takes your children from you for unfounded reasons. They not only take your children, they also take your dignity, your financial stablity, your reputation and anything that you value in life all for their own financial and political gain. This book traces how the federal government finances this atroscity by allowing the state governments to defraud it of millions in funds.
I can't touch on all the ways this book reveals the things in this industry that are corrupt and vile. But, the facts are substantiated in this book and it's a must read for anybody who has children and wants to protect them from losing their American right to live free and happy.
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The only book about the war in Iraq by a soldier on the ground-destined to become a classic of war literature.
John Crawford joined the Florida National Guard to pay for his college tuition-it had seemed a small sacrifice to give up one weekend a month and two weeks a year in exchange for a free education. But one semester short of graduating, and newly married, he was called to active duty-to serve in Kuwait, then on the front lines of the invasion of Iraq, and ultimately in Baghdad. While serving in Iraq, Crawford began writing short nonfiction stories, his account of what he and his fellow soldiers experienced in the war. At the urging of a journalist embedded with his unit, he began sending his pieces out of the country via an anonymous Internet e-mail account.
In a voice at once raw and immediate, Crawford's work vividly chronicles the daily life of a young soldier in Iraq-the excitement, the horror, the anger, the tedium, the fear, the camaraderie. All together, the stories slowly uncover something more: the transformation of a group of young college students-innocents-into something entirely different.
In the tradition of Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, this haunting and powerful, brutal but compellingly honest book promises to become the lasting, personal literary account of the United States' involvement in Iraq.
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At leat it was published.......2007-10-17
I had to read this book for a war lit class. This was followed by "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien which I had read bits and pieces of for another lit class. Knowing that Crawford took a few creative writing classes, I'm sure he had to read O'Brien's work because it is so widely used in creative writing classes. This book is a cheap imitation of the very well written Tim O'Brien book.
I've never been in the military, regretfully, but by adding "Accidental Soldier" to the title, the author discredits himself. Every time a police officer or fireman goes out on a call, they know their life is in danger, they knew that when they signed up for the job. I'm guessing that being in the military is the same way. You know that when your country says go that you have to go. When a coal miner enters a mine, he knows the dangers that lie within the throat of the tunnel he enters.
I consider the book a piece of creative non-fiction as opposed to straight non-fiction, and I do hope the author tries his hand at something other than more Iraq stories. I think everyone is tired of the mis-information that comes from those with agendas--whether they are for or against the war. To the author, congrats on a publishing credit!
The Saddest True Story You'll Ever Read.......2007-08-11
This was a tough one for me to review. Vietnam was my era and I read Crawford's book hoping to use it as a basis of comparison with Vietnam. That Crawford's account of Iraq is so similar to Vietnam saddened me, another case of botched American foreign policy prosecuted by alternative means.
At times his story read like a war memoir and a good one. At other times it read like a confession and a sad one. I could not help asking myself `would more/better officer supervision have made a difference in Crawford's performance wrt his view of the Iraqi people?' I'm mainly talking about morale factors here--making sure the men weren't so overworked, making sure they had better living conditions, e.g., regular laundry/showers, making sure the treatment of the Iraqis was at all times respectful and professional (whether they deserved it or not).
I wondered also at the apparent lack of officer participation on patrols. (Crawford's account seemed to run very counter to what we see on CNN from the embedded reporters.) It was reminiscent of the field grade officers in Vietnam micromanaging ground battles from their C&C helicopters. Or when those same officers would helicopter into the base camps from their air conditioned trailers in the rear with their fresh starch and spit-shined jungle boots (everything brand new, of course) thinking they would somehow be more inspirational to the field troops.
I'd like to see Crawford get a do-over on his year in Iraq--not for real, of course, just a thought experiment. But if he'd had the up-close-and-personal junior officer participation he deserved, would he have still come home a PTSD basket case? Would the insurgency effort in Iraq be so progressed as it is today, i.e., would the Iraqis still hold us in such universal disdain? Or would he have just had a bunch of foul-smelling, dope-using, bad-attitude junior officers to contend with?
What really did it to Crawford? What put him over the top? Was it the year of ill-defined missions and bad living conditions and worse leadership, or was the collateral casualty he was involved with? Help me out, Crawford. Write me one more `last true story'.
Still, Crawford's memoir/confession--whatever you choose to call it--has a ring of truth, and for that I give him 5 stars.
--Ejner Fulsang, author of "A Knavish Piece of Work" Aarhus Publishing 2006
Very good rendering.......2007-06-16
I overlooked this for a while, but it is worth the time. It is a quick read, and has the same intensity of Jarhead, the book. Tim O'Brien seems to have been an influence on the author, and I would reccommend his version, The Things They Carried. Loved that, six stars. As far as Crawford, I lost him in the final chapter. Did his wife leave him? I wish he'd flushed out his final stories more.
Raw and Devestating!.......2007-06-11
I was brought up in the military, was a military wife and now have a brother and a nephew in both Iraq and Afghanistan - the military code of honor is as natural to me as breathing. And yet, this Iraq war has me angry, ashamed, worried and terrified. This war is being bungled and mishandled. This enemy cannot be fought with a conventional military using conventional tactics. And it is our servicemen and women and their loved ones who are paying the price - because, as we have seen, our Government has no intention of shelling out any extra money to them for their safety, welfare or healthcare. They don't even want to take proper care of the ones who do get wounded in this damn war!
This is a very hard story to read. You'll feel dirty, sweaty and hear the bullets whiz by your head. The hopelessness of ever going home will exhaust you as surely as the night patrols will. The stench of feces'-filled streets will penetrate your nose but you'll get use to it like the soldies do; as you will the flies that gather around your nose and mouth. A shower won't come for a week or so but you'll just have to cope; after all, when everyone smells the same, no one notices and there is a reason G-d put feet as far away from the nose as He did. The nights are scary and long but sleep is short - or non-existant which is every soldier's lament. Sounds are magnified and unidentifiable, nerves are shot, helmets or rocks never make comfortable pillows and no matter how total the exhaustion, a deep, recuprative sleep never comes in a combat zone. You only zone and the body remains hungry, washed-out and in limbo. The perfect state to be in as you head out into unfamiliar territory where every step you take, every moment of exposure and everything you are surrounded with are an invitation to a lethal encounter.
This is a soldier's story. The story of one who fought with honor, courage and dignity in a war waged by a dishonorable ego maniac.
man's inhumanity toward his fellow man!.......2007-06-06
I was amused by all the visceral respones to john Crawford's brilliant book. Those on the right belittle his style, condemn his whinning about having to serve in the Iraq war (sorry, O P E R A T I O N!!!) Iraqi freedom., and call him a spoiled frat-boy, and assign his story one star. Those on the left give him five stars, and rave about a true, powerful depiction of the Iraqi occupational war! Crawford's tome is so much more! He captures man's inhumanity towards man better than any book since All Quiet On The Western Front. How can you not identify with his addiction and marital problems? His point is not whether you are a Democrat or Republican; or for that matter whether one lives in a democracy or toils under the yoke of a dictator; the end result is always the same, namely that the L I T T L E guy is harnessed to do the bidding of misguided leaders, whether their name is Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Clinton ,Bush 41 or Bush 43. Little people like Crawford are both physically and spiritually mamed for life, while the privelaged like the ambitious officers in his book, like Barbara and Jenna Bush, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Senator Bentson avoid serving in harms way.
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Long ago, across seas and centuries...So begins this exquisite children's tale of Ignacio and the extraordinary chair he lovingly carves. Through the pages of Ignacio's Chair young readers travel over four hundred years, from mid-15th century to present day, as the beautiful chair passes from monk to king, queen to explorer, pirate to fisherman, slave to soldier, and on. From the English court of Henry the VIII to the Golden Age of Piracy, from the Civil War to the Industrial Revolution, this story is a wonderful weave of history, art, society, and culture. Told by award-winning author Gloria Evangelista and illustrated in vividly imagined full-color drawings by Cathy Morrison, Ignacio's Chair is an engaging picture book that introduces young readers to how various events and people in history have shaped our world.
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Beautiful!.......2002-11-11
This is a very beautiful book! The illustrations are breathtakingly lovely, and the story is warmly touching -- we follow a wonderful hand-carved chair as it travels through history, attended by the shade of the gentle monk who carved it. A piquant footnote is the addition of a timeline that stretches page by page, from 1492 all the way to 2001, running parallel the chair's adventures.
As a grandmother and sometime schoolteacher, I know that some picture books stay in our memories all our lives: Tenniel's evocative drawings for "Alice," John Neil's magical portraits in the Oz books, the d'Aulaires' magnificent drawings in "Abraham Lincoln." The pictures in "Ignacio's Chair" belong in that company.
FABULOUS.......2002-11-06
When I first heard about this book, I wondered who would be interested in a story about a chair. After reading it, I can recommend that every reader from age 9 onup should spend a little lap time with this one. The story weaves a journey through time, with a progression that is believable and easy to follow. The illustrations offer a penetrating landscape, and a poignancy that could almost make this a wordless book. This one is a great buy for boys, girls, grownups-- the whole family. --A rare find and a refeshing tilt on history and bookmaking. I'll be buying this book for the holidays.
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History: Fiction or Science? is the most explosive tractate on history ever written - however, every theory it contains, no matter how unorthodox, is backed by solid scientific data. The book is well-illustrated, contains over 446 graphs and illustrations, copies of ancient manuscripts, and countless facts attesting to the falsity of the chronology used nowadays, which never cease to amaze the reader. Eminent mathematician proves that: Jesus Christ was born in 1153 and crucified in 1186 The Old Testament refers to mediaeval events. Apocalypse was written after 1486. Does this sound uncanny? This version of events is substantiated by hard facts and logic - validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources - to a greater extent than everything you may have read and heard about history before. The dominating historical discourse in its current state was essentially crafted in the XVI century from a rather contradictory jumble of sources such as innumerable copies of ancient Latin and Greek manuscripts whose originals had vanished in the Dark Ages and the allegedly irrefutable proof offered by late mediaeval astronomers, resting upon the power of ecclesial authorities. Nearly all of its components are blatantly untrue! For some of us, it shall possibly be quite disturbing to see the magnificent edifice of classical history to turn into an ominous simulacrum brooding over the snake pit of mediaeval politics. Twice so, in fact: the first seeing the legendary millenarian dust on the ancient marble turn into a mere layer of dirt - one that meticulous unprejudiced research can eventually remove. The second, and greater, attack of unease comes with the awareness of just how many areas of human knowledge still trust the three elephants of the consensual chronology to support them. Nothing can remedy that except for an individual chronological revolution happening in the minds of a large enough number of people.
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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03
Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.
Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19
Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.
Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09
There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.
For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.
Very Interesting.......2007-03-07
It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.
History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10
Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.
I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.
Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.
Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.
I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.
This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.
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The Bathhouse at Midnight: An Historical Survey of Magic and Divination in Russia (Magic in History Series)
ASIN: 0801432588 |
Book Description
A pioneering, richly interdisciplinary volume, this is the first work in any language on a subject that has long attracted interest in the West and is now of consuming interest in Russia itself. The cultural ferment unleashed by the collapse of the Soviet Union reawakened interest in the study of Russian religion and spirituality. This book provides a comprehensive account of the influence of occult beliefs and doctrines on intellectual and cultural life in twentieth-century Russia. Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal's introduction delineates the characteristics of occult cosmology which distinguish it from mysticism and theology, and situates Russian occultism in historical and pan-European contexts. Contributors explore the varieties of occult thinking characteristic of prerevolutionary Russia, including Kabbala, theosophy, anthroposophy, and the fascination with Satanism. Other contributors document occultism in the cultural life of the early Soviet period, examine the surprising traces of the occult in the culture of the high Stalin era, and describe the occult revival in contemporary Russia. The volume includes bibliographical essays on Russian occult materials available outside Russia. Contributors MIKHAIL AGURSKY, Hebrew University
VALENTINA BROUGHER, Georgetown University
MARIA CARLSON, University of Kansas
ROBERT DAVIS, New York Public Library
MIKHAIL EPSTEIN, Emory University
KRISTI GROBERG, North Dakota State University
IRINA GUTKIN, University of California, Los Angeles
MICHAEL HAGEMEISTER, Ruhr University, Bochum
LINDA IVANITS, Pennsylvania State University
EDWARD KASINEC, New York Public Library
JUDITH DEUTSCH KORNBLATT, University of Wisconsin
HKAN LVGREN, independent scholar
BERNICE GLATZER ROSENTHAL, Fordham University
WILLIAM F. RYAN, Warburg Institute, London
HOLLY DENIO STEPHENS, University of Kansas
ANTHONY VANCHU, University of Texas, Austin
RENATA VON MAYDELL, Munich University
GEORGE YOUNG, independent scholar
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Russian and Soviet Occultism and Esoterica........2003-09-23
_The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture_ is a compilation of essays written by various scholars on the various underground and occult aspects of Russian culture and later of the culture of the Soviet Union. The Bolsheviks who created the Soviet Union did much to portray Russian culture under the Tsars as backward and the Russian peasant as illiterate and prone to superstition; however, as one sees by reading this book many individuals within the Soviet Union themselves had elaborate occult and esoteric beliefs. While the Soviet Union tried to ban writers and intellectuals and suppress all religion or "irrational" developments of the human spirit, this effort largely failed due to the very creative nature of man (so misunderstood by Marxists). Russian culture has always been influenced by surviving pagan beliefs and through the Christian tradition preserved in the Russian Orthodox Church; however, influences from freemasonry, Swedenborgianism and spiritism, Theosophy, Anthroposophy, Eastern religions, and other occultists such as Gurdjieff and his interpreter Ouspensky have also played an important role in shaping the occult underground culture in Russia. In addition, various German philosophical idealists such as Kant, Schelling, and Hegel came to play an important part in the development of Russian thought along with iconoclasts such as Nietzsche and romantics and anarchists. This book includes a brief introduction to the occult culture in Russian and Soviet thought and various essays, followed by a conclusion dealing with modern developments in Russian culture. Essays included are an essay on folk magic and divination among the Russian peasantry with emphasis on the survival of paganism and the role of the Russian Orthodox Church; an essay on the role of the peasant and the occult in Russian literature with reference to the authors Ivan Turgenev, Andrei Bely, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; an essay on the role of the Jewish Kabbalah in Russian occultism including reference to Christian Sophiologists including the theologians Vladimir Solovyov, Pavel Florensky, and Sergei Bulgakov; an essay on the role of Satanism with emphasis on the role of Satan in the Orthodox Churches and Russian tradition as well as mention of the novels of Andrei Bely; an essay on "fashionable occultism" including reference to the Theosophical and Anthroposophical societies, spiritualism, and freemasonry; an essay on the thought of Nikolai Fedorovich Fedorov; an essay on Russian cosmism which included ideas on space exploration and immortality with reference to Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Biocosmist and panpsychist; an essay on technology and the role of the Soviet engineer; an essay on occult socialist realism (interestingly occult ideas based upon the Christian veneration of saints were behind the Soviet action taken in preserving Lenin's body); an essay on the filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein and the role of the occult and gnosticism in his thinking; an essay on Vsevolod Ivanov; an essay on Daniil Andreev famous mystic and writer who combined world religions in what he termed "The Rose of the World"; and a concluding essay on the role of occultism in politics which mentions various Russian Rightist groups including the Traditionalist thought of Aleksandr Dugin and the role of the infamous antisemitic tract, _Protocols of the Elders of Zion_. In sum, this book constitutes an enormous compendium of material on various occultists, writers and groups, as well as a useful bibliography including details about various obscure journals and rare books, and will prove invaluable to the researcher in esoteric thought. Many in America are largely ignorant of the alternative belief systems which exist among the Russians and which existed under the Soviet tyranny, and hopefully this book will prove a useful tool to alleviating that ignorance. For all those interested in alternative modes of perceiving reality and in discarded belief systems, the ideas presented in this book will prove to be a fascinating look at the deep recesses of the Russian (and Soviet) psyche.
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Russian Americans (Spirit of America Our Cultural Heritage)
C. Ann Fitterer
Manufacturer: Child's World
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Binding: Library Binding
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ASIN: 1567661580 |
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Introduces readers to the Russian American culture, immigration aspects, customs, religion, foods, and holidays. Famous Russian Americans, as well as noted contributions and inventions by Russian Americans, are also presented.
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- A few remarks after reading M. Levinshteinýs book
- The Spirit of Russian Science
- My pleasure
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The Spirit of Russian Science
Michael E. Levinshtein
Manufacturer: World Scientific Publishing Company
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 9810249462 |
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The Spirit of Russian Science comprises dozens of short and funny true stories about the relations between people working in science, the ways people of science interacted, and their attitudes towards life. On the one hand, these stories are very Russian. On the other hand, the spirit of science displayed is very international. One cannot help feeling it, and it is something that is very difficult to define. This book shows the way this spirit manifests itself, providing amusing examples.
Customer Reviews:
A few remarks after reading M. Levinshteinýs book.......2002-11-01
The author of the book writes in his introduction that "The Sprit of Russian Science"
charms him by the of certain atmosphere, the style of relationships between the people.
After reading "The Sprit of Russian Science", like any other good prose, there comes a need of a dialogue with an author. You need to pinpoint all the features of intangible spirit that was so well portrayed in the book. You unavoidably see the author as a human being with great deal of will power, enormous ability to survive and rather significant influence on people.
"The Spirit..." is ironic and wise, cynical and sentimental, rather optimistic and at the same time soaked in all the troubles of modern reality. And after all, it's not that important whom the turns pout to resemble: Baron Munchauzen, Tile Ulenshpigel, brave soldier Shveyka or Jvanetsky's lyric hero? "The Spirit..." isn't "teachy" or "preachy", he doesn't require adoration, and that is why so many a time my hand seeks the book, and doesn't get tired of discovering and rediscovering it.
I think that the power and the charm of "The Spirit..." are only in its appearance, but in its inside all-sufficient that is so powerful that it energizes anybody who touches it one way or the other.
Being employed as an instructor of Russian Linguistics in Technical University (Taganrog Radiotechnical State University), I always appreciated the charming atmosphere of professionalism and genuine humor that our instructors-physicists created. Most of them in their forties or fifties, they have attended Moscow, Rostov and other state academic institutions all over the Russia, their souls have obviously drunk that fairy tale liquor that has "The Spirit...".
It's seems as if "The Spirit..." isn't alone in this world. He has blood siblings that are scattered on numerous islands of professionalism, quality work and culture that still manage to exist in Russia. And although author's end isn't quite a happy one: "We are writing applications, receiving grants, working abroad. But the doors are closing slowly but steadily. Equipment is aging, the fittest are leaving, and those who are left are getting weaker...But the doors are closing. " I want to believe that everything is not as bad as it seems.
I draw resources for hope from my personal experiences. Russian workaholics of today, living in America, miss Russia. They still keep in touch with their Russian friends, family and colleagues. And last but not least, this "The Spirit..." identified by the author, goes on living here, on the foreign soil.
Here, like in Saint Petersburg, Moscow or tiny Taganrog, small groups of people are formed that are capable to appreciate high quality work, that are capable of not being afraid of work, and of keeping sense of humor in any circumstances.
New life will demand continuation of this book, but I want to thank the author for what's already written. I realize what kind of work you have endured by gathering accidental jokes scattered in the stream of every day's reality.
The author succeeded in saving in his writing the style, the language and genuine charm of real life.
Of course the elements of Russian "get-together" and masculine folklore add certain spice to the overall dish of the book, but most of all I appreciate something else about it. Having read the book in quite unfavorable for myself circumstances, I realized: life isn't over yet, and our sadness has to be light, no matter what. It seems like this book is able to settle optimism and love of life in any mind and do it in a very easy and elegant manner.
Today "The Spirit..." lives like we all do, through difficult and surprising times.
And one more thing. When my sixteen-years-old daughter, who according to unwritten laws of her age, neglected the ideals of her parents, read the book with the same pleasure as myself, I have secretly celebrated. But when she wrote a version of review of "The Spirit...", I was puzzled. The review was sincerely encomium, only it was written in English... Having lived in America for two years, my daughter didn't loose the ability to be influenced by unknown to her "The Sprit of Russian Science", but it became easier for her to express her emotions in English and in typical American manner.
I sighed deeply and thought: "But maybe this is good?" "The Sprit of Russian Science" is alive and respected by us, and our children are able to comprehend it. So let it take its second breath, and let life bring into this new process its own sudden corrections.
"We are born to make fairy tale reality."
Maya Solovieva, Ph. D.,
Instructor of Russian Language
Currently residing in the United States
The Spirit of Russian Science.......2002-10-29
I finished the "The Spirit of Russian Science" by Prof. M.E.Levinshtein in one day.
I was sick, had a bit of a fever and could not do much. So I got "The Spirit" to get some distraction. And distraction I got! I started to smile from the very first page and constantly called my husband to come to my room so I could read out loud to him and laugh with him again. I could not stop either reading or smiling and often laughing until the very end of the book.
It is a great book about people who create, practice and breathe Science every day of their lives. It is also about how they live, work and manage to have a lot of fun regardless of poor living conditions.
Lots of my friends have borrowed "The Spirit", I actually had a waiting list at one point, and the comments were always most favorable with a request to keep it another day or two for a husband/wife to finish.
I am delighted "The Spirit" is published in English and am getting several copies for my friends. The publication of this book in English has solved, at least for a while, a problem with Christmas/New Year, end of school year and birthday presents.
Enjoy the book,
Lara Yendler
My pleasure.......2002-10-22
My name is Irina Semenova, I'm a scientific fellow at the Ioffe Physical Technical Institute in St.Petersburg, Russia.
Recently I had a great pleasure reading a book "The Spirit of Russian Science" by Michael Levinshtein. To my mind it is one of the best books of this kind.
The author has a good sense of humor and ability to notice such small but very important things as glances, comments, gestures etc. which bring all the spices to human relations and communications.
Unfortunately nowadays people are so busy with an enormous amount of urgent everyday things that the ones who have a potential ability to write something similar don't have time to do or even think about doing that. Although such a book gives a chance to stop in the everyday race for a little while and think
what is really important in life and what is not.
I am absolutely sure the book will be very successful and gone very quickly.
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