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  Anatolia in the Iron Age: The...

  Editors Charles River

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  During the Late Bronze Age, from about 1500-1200 BCE, the Near East was a time and place where great kingdoms and empires vied for land and influence, playing high stakes diplomatic games, trading, and occasionally going to war with each other in the process. The Egyptians, Hittites, Babylonians, Assyrians, and several smaller Canaanite kingdoms were all part of this system, which was one of the first true “global” systems in world history and also one of the most materially prosperous eras in antiquity.  
  Thus, the transition from the Bronze to the Iron Age during the late 13th and early 12th centuries BCE arguably changed the structure and course of world history more fundamentally than any period before or since, and at the center of this period of turmoil was a group of people known today as the Sea Peoples, the English translation of the name given to them by the Egyptians. Despite their prominent role in history, however, the Sea Peoples remain as mysterious as they were influential; while the Egyptians documented their presence and the wars against them, it has never been clear exactly where the Sea Peoples originated from, or what compelled them to invade various parts of the region with massive numbers. Whatever the reason, the Sea Peoples posed an existential threat to the people already living in the region, as noted by an Egyptian inscription: “The foreign countries made a conspiracy in their islands. All at once the lands were removed and scattered in the fray. No land could stand before their arms: from Hatti, Qode, Carchemish, Arzawa and Alashiya on, being cut off at one time. A camp was set up in Amurru. They desolated its people, and its land was like that which has never come into being. They were coming forward toward Egypt, while the flame was prepared before them."

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  Essay on the Creative Imagination

  Théodule-Armand Ribot

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  It is quite generally recognized that psychology has remained in the semi-mythological, semi-scholastic period longer than most attempts at scientific formulization. For a long time it has been the spook science" per se, and the imagination, now analyzed by M. Ribot in such a masterly manner, has been one of the most persistent, apparently real, though very indefinite, of psychological spooks. Whereas people have been accustomed to speak of the imagination as an entity sui generis, as a lofty something found only in long-haired, wild-eyed "geniuses," constituting indeed the center of a cult, our author, Prometheus-like, has brought it down from the heavens, and has clearly shown that imagination is a function of mind common to all men in some degree, and that it is shown in as highly developed form in commercial leaders and practical inventors as in the most bizarre of romantic idealists. The only difference is that the manifestation is not the same." - Albert H. N. Baron, in translator's preface to Essai sur l'imagination créatrice

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  George Washington: A short...

  5 Minutes, 5 Minute Biographies,...

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  George Washington, Founding Father and first President of the USA: Life and works in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!

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  A Rare Recording of Henry Cabot...

  Henry Cabot Lodge

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  Henry Cabot Lodge (May 12, 1850 - November 9, 1924) was an American Republican politician, historian, and statesman from Massachusetts. He served in the United States Senate from 1893 to 1924 and is best known for his positions on foreign policy. The following recording documents his successful crusade against Woodrow Wilson's Treaty of Versailles and ensured that the United States never joined the League of Nations and his reservations against that treaty influenced the structure of the modern United Nations.

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  Paris to the Pyrenees - A...

  David Downie

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  Driven by curiosity, wanderlust, and health crises, David Downie and his wife set out from Paris to walk across France to the Pyrenees. Starting on the Rue Saint-Jacques then trekking 750 miles south to Roncesvalles, Spain, their eccentric route takes 72 days on Roman roads and pilgrimage paths—an 1,100-year-old network of trails leading to the sanctuary of Saint James the Greater. It is best known as El Camino de Santiago de Compostela—"The Way" for short. The object of any pilgrimage is an inward journey manifested in a long, reflective walk. For Downie, the inward journey met the outer one: a combination of self-discovery and physical regeneration. More than 200,000 pilgrims take the highly commercialized Spanish route annually, but few cross France. Downie had a goal: to go from Paris to the Pyrenees on age-old trails, making the pilgrimage in his own maverick way.

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  Cosmic Convergence - Journeys of...

  Barbara Lamb, Sheila Seppi, Mary...

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  Stand upon the threshold of a new era of human consciousness and embark on an extraordinary odyssey into the realms of walk-ins, starseeds, and hybrids. In this groundbreaking book, reimagine the complexity of the human experience and navigate where certainty and the cosmic merge. 
   
   
   
  Confront profound questions about the nature of reality, consciousness, and our place in the cosmos. Authors Sheila Seppi and Barbara Lamb thoughtfully answer these questions and more: 
   
   
   
  ● Learn who and what walk-ins, starseeds, and hybrids are. 
   
   
   
  ● Delve into a comprehensive list of identifying signs and attributes to intuitively tell if you could possibly be one. 
   
   
   
  ● Explore the myriads of timelines, parallel realities, and planes of existence within the cosmos. 
   
   
   
  Cosmic Convergence invites you to expand your horizons and question your assumptions. For in the presence of walk-ins, starseeds, and hybrids, we may unlock the mysteries of the universe and find the seeds of our awakening. 
   
   
   
  In the end, may we never forget that we are stardust—woven from the same cosmic fabric that binds the universe together in a tapestry of infinite possibilities.

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