"For behold, the Kingdom of God is within you." ---Luke17:21
God is the creative life force within each one of us. In the new book The Last Dream:A search for God, author Samuel Alesich does not seek to preach or proselytize. Rather in the course of nineteen stories, that inner Kingdom where God resides is explored.
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Regarding The Last Dream, Alesich says: "There is no Satan, unless it's one's own ego. There is no God sitting in judgment of us. Our every thought is creative. We create the good and the negative conditions that come into our life. We must love ourselves and love others. When we do, we will have returned home. And we will trcognize for the first time that we are one with the Father."
Our culture has taught us to believe in many ideas which aren't actually real. Exposing these illusions allows us to recover the power to live our lives according to our deepest desires.
Poetry. Various urgent, lively, and sometimes haunting poems appear here alongside stark black and white photos of Jones' homeless subjects. Jones takes on the plight of the homeless in different voices, echoing the thoughts of people on the streets,
