Pathos is Greek for Feeling, specifically Experience and Suffering. Pathos can mean passion in a speech or a method of rhetoric to pull the feelings out of an audience. In this collection of dreams, Cari goes deep into her emotions and deals with a variety of issues. She has moved away from the larger more mythic themes to incredibly personal and intimate ones. Her subconscious brings to light feelings she didn't know she had and allows her to develop relationships with people she hasn't in her waking life or have deeper relationships with people she has met, but never got a chance to resolve...

Ethos is Greek for Ethics. Essentially means character, custom or habit of a person. Ethos is often used in Rhetoric to appeal to the beliefs, values and virtues of an audience. In Volume 3 of the Subconscious Series, Cari explores and works on Ethical Dilemmas. She struggles with her relationship and feelings of infidelity, along with her complicated family dynamics. As her life shifts and changes, so does the dreamscape. However, she is constantly pulled back to her childhood home to deal with unresolved issues. Slowly, Cari learns to unravel the signs and symbols within her dreams and...

Logos is Greek for Word, Logic, Rhetoric or Wisdom. For Aristotle, logos is something more refined than the capacity to make private feelings public: . It makes it possible for him to perceive and make clear to others through reasoned discourse the difference between what is advantageous and what is harmful, between what is just and what is unjust, and between what is good and what is evil. For the Christians, Logos is another way to think of Jesus. For Gnostics, it can represent Sophia or the personification Wisdom. In this Dream Diary, Cari explores many of these ideas and more. Perhaps her...

What is a Literary Canon? A Canon is a body of books, music, and art that scholars generally accept as the most important and influential in shaping culture. That includes works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama generally perceived as being of major artistic merit and representing the high culture. Belonging to the canon means a work has status, social, political, economic and aesthetic value. It is a guarantee of quality. The authors and poets represented here in Cari's Canon are a unique representation of the Current Critical Cannon. These Essays and Journal Entries span from 1991...

There is Something Special about these two new 90s stories from Cari Lynn Vaughn. In Something Special, Sue Ellen has an ordinary life. Roller Skating is all that she is good at. All she dreams about is winning the skating championship and feeling special. Will she win the competition? In The End of Forever, Elena finds the passage from girlhood to womanhood painful. From her parents' divorce, to the breakup of her own relationships, Elena finds nothing but loss in her life. She struggles to find something to hold onto. Can she find something in her life that will last forever?

What's The Point Blurb What's The Point Includes two new stories by Cari Lynn Vaughn. The first story, Falling to Dawn, is a story about obsession and depression. Fourteen year old Holly Etheridge has two Moms and is unsure of her sexuality. Everything changes when Holly becomes obsessed with Rose, who doesn't return her feelings. She falls deep into depression, but eventually finds her way out with her friend Trent. The second story, What's The Point, features Cori, who is starting her first year of college. She feel a bit lost and unsure of what the point of working and going to college is....

Sophia is the Greek Goddess of Wisdom and Wiki is the Hawaiian word for quick, hence the Quick Guide to Wisdom. In this short volume, you will find a brief introduction to philosophy--its themes and major players. In the second half of the book she focuses on Linguistics and Literary Criticism. Sophia's Wiki concludes with Cari's Graduate Research and Notes from the Pop Culture and Philosophy Series of books. This Guide is a must have for any scholar's shelf.

Kairos Blurb Kairos is Greek for A Moment in Time. This fifth dream diary in the Subconscious Series captures a very particular and painful time in Cari's life. Her subconscious reflects her feelings of being lost and unsure of her direction in life. Though many of the same people appear, new characters also come into play. She continues to dream about Lost, but her focus shifts to The Game of Thrones and others shows. However, the strongest thematic element is the symbol of the ever shifting maze that takes the form of everything from shopping centers to parking lots to hospitals to houses.