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It’s that time of the year again where we get to go and participate in the Miami Book Fair, particularly during the Street Fair weekend happening this November 22-24 in Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus. The book fair, considered America’s finest literary festival, is a great opportunity for national and international authors to showcase and promote their works to hundreds of thousands of attendees and book enthusiasts. It’s also a chance for authors, exhibitors, booksellers, and other professionals from the publishing world to share and exchange ideas and discover current trends in the industry. In this issue, we got to talk with Dr. Frank Douglas, author of the engrossing memoir Defining Moments of a Free Man from a Black Stream. Douglas shares how he became a successful researcher, scientist, and published author despite the challenges and adversities. In “Kids Need to Know About Mom’s Breast Cancer Diagnosis,” author Diane Davies explains how one can have a truthful and honest conversation with children when someone in the family has been diagnosed with a serious illness. Shirley Andrews makes her case that extraterrestrial beings helped mankind with their prehistoric achievements in “Gods from the Sky to Earth in Prehistory.” We also offer a glimpse of Kay Whidbee Sherwood’s new book, News From the Holy Land III: The Messiah’s Kingdom. We continue to receive contributions from various talents and genius creators, and in this issue, we feature the works of Gloria Winkles, Ivor Kovac, Mounina Bouna Aly, Thomas Reischel, Dr. Frank L. Douglas, and Ted Torgersen. Finally, get to know more about the wonderful city of Miami and its attractions in our lifestyle feature “My Oh My Miami.” We all love stories that resonate with our own, especially those that bring us to greater heights in mood and in thought. We hope you’ll enjoy reading this issue as much as we enjoyed piecing it together.
It’s that time of the year again where we get to go and participate in the Miami Book Fair, particularly during the Street Fair weekend happening this November 22-24 in Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus. The book fair, considered America’s finest literary festival, is a great opportunity for national and international authors to showcase and promote their works to hundreds of thousands of attendees and book enthusiasts. It’s also a chance for authors, exhibitors, booksellers, and other professionals from the publishing world to share
and exchange ideas and discover current trends in the industry.
In this issue, we got to talk with Dr. Frank Douglas, author of the engrossing memoir
Defining Moments of a Free Man from a Black Stream. Douglas shares how he became a successful researcher, scientist, and published author despite the challenges and adversities.
In “Kids Need to Know About Mom’s Breast Cancer Diagnosis,” author Diane Davies
explains how one can have a truthful and honest conversation with children when someone in the family has been diagnosed with a serious illness.
Shirley Andrews makes her case that extraterrestrial beings helped mankind with their
prehistoric achievements in “Gods from the Sky to Earth in Prehistory.”
We also offer a glimpse of Kay Whidbee Sherwood’s new book, News From the Holy Land III: The Messiah’s Kingdom. We continue to receive contributions from various talents and genius creators, and in this issue, we feature the works of Gloria Winkles, Ivor Kovac, Mounina Bouna Aly, Thomas Reischel, Dr. Frank L. Douglas, and Ted Torgersen.
Finally, get to know more about the wonderful city of Miami and its attractions in our
lifestyle feature “My Oh My Miami.”
We all love stories that resonate with our own, especially those that bring us to greater
heights in mood and in thought. We hope you’ll enjoy reading this issue as much as we
enjoyed piecing it together.
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friends from the cosmos brought
previously unknown fruits and grains
to the Earth. The first emperors of
China maintained that they were not
descended from human beings on
this planet; their ancestors came from
the heavens above in metal dragons
that spit fire. Recent translations of
ancient Indian epics contain hundreds
of references to the presence of the
Gods and their ships that flew in the
air. These books from the past include
information about the vehicles, details
of how to operate and repair them,
and even accurate portrayals of the
land of our world as it appears from
far above.
In the Bible, the Gods space vehicles
are referred to as swift clouds or
cloud chariots, or just chariots, the
primary means of transportation when
Biblical information was assembled
and interpreted. Pilots are charioteers
and liftoffs are whirlwinds. Ezekiel
1:4-5 offers one of the more graphic
descriptions: “As I looked, behold a
stormy wind came out of the north
and a great cloud, with brightness
round about it, and fire flashing forth
continually. And from the midst of
it came the likeness of four living
creatures.”
Airplanes, space ships and rockets were
unknown in the early 20th century
when the 25,000 clay tablets from the
library in Nineveh, the ancient royal
capital of Sumeria were discovered.
No one understood the Sumerians’
references to the all-powerful Gods
who came to their country in ships
from the heavens in the third
millennium B.C. Zecharia Sitchin,
an expert in Sumerian, Assyrian,
Babylonian and Hittite languages, as
well as the history and archaeology of
the ancient Near East, offers an up-todate
translation of these texts. Sitchin
reports that they reveal that Gods
from the sky spent time in the lands
between the Tigris and Euphrates
Rivers for hundreds of years. They
resembled humans, wore helmets,
possessed weapons, and were the
source of the rapid appearance of the
Sumerian’s sophisticated knowledge
of architecture, astronomy, metallurgy,
complex mathematics and advanced
medical techniques.
Striking similarities between the
Atlanteans’ and the Sumerians’ culture
suggest that extraterrestrials were
at least partially responsible for the
advanced civilization of Atlantis.
Plato describes the God Poseidon
settling in Atlantis and marrying
a mortal woman who bore many
children. In a similar way, Sumerian
tests and pictography depict the
Gods uniting with women from
the Earth. Poseidon’s superhuman
feats as he constructed his home
in Atlantis, dug large canals and
excavated for the capitol city resemble
the capabilities of the Gods of history.
Plato’s Atlantean City of the Golden
Gates contains many similarities
to the beautiful capitol city of the
Sumerians who write that Gods and
Goddesses furnished a considerable
amount of assistance in its design
and construction.
Respected psychics offer insight
into the contributions and presence
of extraterrestrials at the time of
Atlantis. Ruth Montgomery gives
visitors from outer space the credit
for the great crystal which provided
the Atlanteans with a nonpolluting
source of power. In 1938 Edgar Cayce
relates that occupants of vehicles
came to the Earth during its last
period and warned the Atlanteans of
the impending destruction of their
country.(Reading 1681-1) At another
time he refers to visitors to the Earth
from other worlds or planets at the
beginning of the Mayan civilization.
(Reading 1616-1)
One of the greatest mysteries in the
study of the evolution of mankind is
the sudden appearance on the Earth’s
surface of Cro-Magnon peoples.
For hundreds of thousands of years
the human race was unchanged.
Individuals retained the same physical
characteristics, worked with simple
stone tools and searched for food
in similar ways. Suddenly, without
progenitors, Cro-Magnons appeared
in widely separated areas. These
intelligent, modern people lived on
the southern tip of Africa 100,000
years ago, in Australia and the Near
East 60,000 years ago, and in France
and Spain in the valleys of rivers
leading to the Atlantic Ocean 35,000
years ago. Zecharia Sitchin and many
others believe the abrupt emergence
of Cro-Magnons was the result of
“when the sons of God came into
the daughters of men, and they bore
children to them,” as described in the
Bible in Genesis VI.
Ancient Sumerian clay tablets refer
to the Gods who came from above
and supervised the construction in
their land of step pyramids with flat
tops. Similar prehistoric buildings
are prevalent in Mexico, Egypt and
China, all places favored by heavenly
visitors. The earliest pyramids in
Egypt were constructed with flat tops
for religious services, but before long,
because of the heat, the worshipers
preferred to be indoors and the sides
were extended up to a point.
Our visitors from space came from
a variety of places. The Cherokee
believe their forebears were people
from the stars known as the seven
dancers (the Pleiades) who settled in
Atlantis and moved to the American
continent when the Atlantean islands
sank into the ocean. The Pleiades are
a group of about 300 stars that lie
within the constellation Taurus the
Bull. Although they are 400 light
years from our sun, seven of these
stars are visible without a telescope.
References to the Pleiades and to
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