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  MSI Press authors are located all over the world. Getting to know the authors can also mean getting to know a new part of the world. We will be sharing this information on a regular basis. Follow us and map our authors' locations. Elaine Imady, author of Road to Damascus , is in Syria. Here is some information about Damascus.  C Damascus has a wealth of historical sites dating back to many different periods of the city's history. Since the city has been built up with every passing occupation, it has become almost impossible to excavate all the ruins of Damascus that lie up to 2.4 m (8 ft) below the modern level. [ citation needed ]   The   Citadel of Damascus   is in the northwest corner of the Old City. The   Damascus Straight Street   (referred to in the account of the   conversion   of   St. Paul   in   Acts   9:11), also known as the   Via Recta , was the   decumanus   (east–west main street) of Roman Damascus, and extended for over 1,500 m (4,900 ft). Today, it consists

  MSI Press authors are located all over the world. Getting to know the authors can also mean getting to know a new part of the world. We will be sharing this information on a regular basis. Follow us and map our authors' locations. The late MSI Press author, Alfred Stites ( Forget the Goal, the Journey Counts ) , spent his retirement years in Costa Rica (lit. rich coast) before moving to New Mexico with his children in his 90th decade. After leaving Costa Rica, he wrote a book, Sidewalks in the Jungle , to tell others what Costa Rica is really like. Costa Rica was the point where the  Mesoamerican  and South American native cultures met. The northwest of the country, the Nicoya peninsula, was the southernmost point of  Nahuatl  cultural influence when the Spanish conquerors ( conquistadores ) came in the 16th century. The central and southern portions of the country had  Chibcha  influences. The Atlantic coast, meanwhile, was populated with African workers during the 17th and 18th

  MSI Press authors are located all over the world. Getting to know the authors can also mean getting to know a new part of the world. We will be sharing this information on a regular basis. Follow us and map our authors' locations. Yasir Sakr, author of  The Subversive Utopia ,  lives in Amman, Jordan, where he teaches architecture at one of the many universities there.  Here is some information about Amman.  Amman  ( English:  / ə ˈ m ɑː n / ;  Arabic :  عَمَّان ,  ʿAmmān   pronounced  [ʕamːaːn] ) [5] [6]  is the capital and the largest city of  Jordan , and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. [7]  With a population of 4,061,150 as of 2021, Amman is Jordan's  primate city  and is the  largest city  in the  Levant  region, the  fifth-largest city  in the  Arab world , and the  ninth-largest metropolitan area  in the  Middle East . [8] The earliest evidence of settlement in Amman dates to the 8th millennium BC, in a Neolithic site known as  'Ain Ghaz

  MSI Press authors are located all over the world. Getting to know the authors can also mean getting to know a new part of the world. We have been sharing this information on a regular basis. Follow us and map our authors' locations. The famous Dr. Ekaterina Filatova introduced socionics to the Eastern world -- and through MSI Press to the Western world. MSI Press published her first and only book in English.  Katya was a professor at St. Petersburg University (formerly, Leningrad State University) in Russia. Our editor (who speaks Russian) and Katya (who did not speak English) were friends and met from time to time in "Piter" (as the Russians colloquially call the city). St. Petersburg is known for many things. One of the most beautiful cities of the world, it was the capital of Russia during the days of Peter the Great (hence, the name of the city). It is often called the Venice of Russia because of the canals throughout the city (and you do not want to be caught on th

A sharing  S ., 20 years old, completely inexperienced in spiritual practices and in therapeutic processes, after her first experience expanding a positive emotion.  When I was asked, at the beginning of the process, to revive the most positive experience in my life, the first image that came into my mind was the day on which I had parachuted for the first time. I had been waiting to jump from the tiny plane; my entire body was already outside of it, and I had felt sure of myself—happy, free and limitless. I had felt that it would be much better to be up in the sky than down on the ground. When I took the leap, it was like floating, and my entire body felt fresh and alive. I was particularly excited while hovering over the sea and seeing the green areas all around. I identified the emotion as “Freedom” and located it in my heart. It felt like confidence and also, lightness, as if all my cells were opening up. The shape was a circle; the color, pink; the feeling, lighthearted

  The following story is shared by Fred Craigie, author of the award-winning book,  Weekly Soul: Fifty-two Meditations on Meaningful, Joyful, and Peaceful Living . When my wife and I came into each other’s lives over 50 years ago, she had four living and age-appropriately healthy grandparents. They lived locally when she was growing up and she was blessed to have known them well.   For several years until they began passing away, I was blessed to spend time with them and come to know them, as well. Among them was her paternal grandfather, Charles. Charles had spent much of his adult life around motor vehicles, running a small bus line that failed after the stock market crash, selling trucks in upstate New York during the Depression (often, we understand, to bootleggers, the only people who had money to buy trucks) and selling cars after that. Befitting his professional life, he had an engaging interest in people and a ready smile, coming naturally with total sincerity and genuineness