Ergebnis für "Crossroads" in Biografien & Erinnerungen

In 1958, a successful businessman named Robert Monroe began to have experiences that drastically altered his life. Unpredictably, and without his willing it, Monroe found himself leaving his physical body to travel via a "second body" to locales far removed from the physical and spiritual realities of his life. He was inhabiting a place unbounded by life or death. Out of the Body and Far Journeys.

Legendary baseball player and manager Dusty Baker reflects on his extraordinary career—filled with invaluable lessons on perseverance, leadership, and living life meaningfully on the field and off. Dusty Baker walked with baseball legends and became one himself. After he signed with the Braves...

This inspiring meditation on the intersection of science, nature, and spirit shows readers how to deepen their connection to the natural world. In Rooted, cutting-edge science supports a truth that poets, artists, mystics, and earth-based cultures across the world have proclaimed over millennia...

This diligent study of Johnson's life debunks these myths while emphasizing the effect that Robert Johnson, said to be the greatest blues musician who ever lived, has had on modern musicians such as Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones and fans of the blues. Tom Graves, a master of what Ernest Hemingway called "the true sentence" and the telling detail, pieces together the fragments of the jagged, elusive puzzle that is Robert Johnson.

An inspiring story of hope and resiliency On April 6, 2018, sixteen people died and thirteen others were injured after a bus taking the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team to a playoff game collided with a transport truck in a rural intersection. The tragedy moved millions of people to leave...

Joseph McMoneagle is now known as the best Operational Remote Viewer in the history of the U.S. Army's Special Project-Stargate. His intelligence collection results have never been surpassed and rarely equaled. Among his achievements: He described the interior of a top-secret Soviet manufacturing plant and accurately predicted a new class of submarine under construction there.

Some histories refuse to stay buried. Whispers At The Crossroads is a true-account podcast investigating the dark, the discarded, and the supernatural. We go beyond folklore to bring you documented hauntings, poltergeist activity, and occult encounters that defy explanation. Focusing on the rugged landscape of Australia, from the heavy shadows of historic haunted pubs to the isolation of the outback, we examine the evidence and the eyewitnesses who have stared into the void and had it stare back.

Gentleman Jack Newton: Confessions of a Crossroad Gambler" is an autobiography by Jack Newton, a legendary high-stakes gambler, narrated by 7-time WSOP bracelet winner and Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu. Jack recounts his life on the road from the Depression era through the 1970s, detailing his adventures in card games across America. The book offers a glimpse into the world of "crossroad gamblers," where both skill and cunning were used to win

She didn't have an engagement ring, or get down on one knee, or ask that magical four-word question, but Adriana Forsman knew her secret girlfriend had essentially just proposed. Their forbidden love had led Forsman to the greatest crossroads moment of her life. Would she choose to serve Jesus or be with the woman she loved? Or could she choose both?

I am Carrie Woodcock - mother, musician, writer, entrepreneur, P90X Live! instructor, personal trainer, life coach, and dreamer. Crossroads (the complete set) is a six-book series and my collection of journal entries and songs that I composed in an effort to work my way through the many curve balls life threw at me - divorce, suicide of a close family member, building a health and wellness business, parenting, heartbreak, and losing my father…just to name a few.

She didn’t have an engagement ring, or get down on one knee, or ask that magical four-word question, but Adriana Forsman knew her secret girlfriend had essentially just proposed. Their forbidden love had led Forsman to the greatest crossroads moment of her life. Would she choose to serve Jesus or be with the woman she loved? Or could she choose both?

Of the many living musical icons from the tempestuous 60s, Eric Clapton is perhaps the most enduring and talented. From his early stints with the Yardbirds and John Mayall as well as Cream and Blind Faith, Clapton has proven he is a blues master. Here is the untold story of the little boy from Ripley who rose through the ranks to become a true original.

William Sidis, 1897-1944, was the world's greatest child prodigy. His IQ was an estiamted 50 to 100 points higher than Einstein's, the highest ever recorded or estimated. His father, a pioneer in the field of abnormal psychology, believed that he and his wife could create a genius in the cradle. They hung alphabet blocks over the baby's crib-and within six months little Billy was speaking. At 18 months he was reading The New York Times; at three, Homer in the original Greek. At six he spoke at least seven languages.

Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle award for Nonfiction The New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois and The Age of Phillis makes her nonfiction debut with this personal and thought-provoking work that explores the journeys...

This biography was originally published in 1983 and has not been updated. Any events after 1983 are not included. Best known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce on the award-winning TV series M*A*S*H, Alan Alda has made his way into Hollywood's spotlight while keeping remarkably free of its whirlwind parties and endless gossip. He remains a private man - an actor whose personal life and politics are far different from the character of the womanizing, side-cracking army doctor that brought him international fame.

“Where every path leads deeper into the mystery.” Every tale is real. Every victim deserves a voice as do their families. Some may be gone…. But they are NOT forgotten. Crimson Crossroads is a gripping true crime podcast that explores the eerie intersections of solved and unsolved cases, chilling disappearances, and crimes that defy explanation and more. Each episode takes listeners down a different path—whether it’s a vanished person, a haunted location, or a twisted motive—revealing how even the smallest clue can unravel a tangled web of secrets. With haunting narration and ...

One of the most brilliant minds of the Middle Ages, Herman of Reichenau was a severely crippled monk who, though he was marginalized and even mistreated by his fellow monks, is celebrated to this day for his groundbreaking scientific work and the beauty of his musical compositions, among them "Salve Regina."

Carlo was a sweet, generous boy, a millennial, whose love for God and his fellow man was so strong he has already been recognized as a saint. Though his life was cut short by leukemia at just 15, he used his time to inspire others, showing them that true faith is something timeless, precious, and powerful.

The daughter of an artist, Helen Tworkov grew up in the heady climate of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism; yet from an early age, she questioned the value of Western cultural norms. At the age of twenty-two, she set off for Japan, then traveled through Cambodia, India, and eventually to Tibetan refugee camps in Nepal. Set against the arresting cultural backdrop of the sixties and their legacy, this intimate self-portrait depicts Tworkov's search for a true home but also into the ways each of us can better understand and transform ourselves.

Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian farmer, a devoted husband and father, and a devout Catholic, was executed in 1943 as a result of his refusal to serve in the Nazi army. Before taking this stand Jägerstätter consulted both his pastor and his local bishop, who instructed him to do his duty to the fatherland and to obey the law, an instruction that violated his conscience.