These texts were written to accompany the screenings of the Images of the Afterlife in Cinema film season held at the Swedenborg Society during the Autumn of 2010. They seek out parallels and congruencies between the life and thought of the Swedish visionary, Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), who famously claimed to have travelled into the afterlife, and portrayals of life after death in a variety of cinematic genres. The volume includes essays on Adrian Lyne's Jacob's Ladder (1990); Hirokazu Kore-Eda's After Life (1998); Marc Forster's Stay (2005); Goran Dukic's Wristcutters: A Love Story...

"We are haunted by what we want to forget, whilst what we want to remember fades slowly and incompletely away."

Flaws of Oblivion is a collection of poetry, prose and photography that approaches-sometimes willfully, sometimes unwittingly-the illusory and problematic qualities of memory, and the vast spectra of emotions that accompany our awareness of the unstemmable coursing of time.

The volume showcases the talents of five emerging writers from around the world-Plamen Chetelyazov (Paranoia and Imago), Virginia Goebel, Devon Pearse (A...

Basketball drills coupled with strong fundamentals are the key for any top basketball player.
"You can practice basketball shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise."- Michael Jordan.

People believe that in order to excel at anything in life practice is absolutely essential. What most people will not tell you is that without technique, discipline and character no amount of practice will help you achieve your goal, especially when...