Ten-year-old Judith McPherson sees the world with the clear eyes of faith. Other students persecute her for her differences. To escape, Judith builds a Land of Decoration, a model in miniature of the Promised Land. When her father's factory job is threated by a strike and the taunting of school slips into dangerous territory, they threaten the very foundations of Judith's world
Topics: Girls, Fathers and daughters, Good and evil, Miracles, Bullying, Future life, Single fathers,...
1: A long, personal, but necessary introduction explaining how I came to write this book -- 2: Ancient Egypt, the origins of the afterlife, and the birth of the idea that each of us is a god in training -- 3: The Egyptian and Tibetan books of the dead, the mortal and immortal parts of the soul, and the key differences between the eastern and the western views of the afterlife -- 4: The need for a single map, the imaginary and the imaginal, what the brain does (and doesn't) do, and the nonlocal...
Topics: Future life, Future life, Future life, Future life
336 pages ; 22 cm
Topics: Conduct of life -- Fiction, Future life -- Fiction, Reincarnation -- Fiction, Death -- Fiction,...
