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    Unmanned
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    Unmanned

    By Stephen Oliver

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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    Stephen Oliver

    Stephen has been interested in personal growth and the bringing out of the best of people’s potential for well over 40 years. Even as a computer programmer and systems analyst since the beginning of the ’80s, his aim has always been to improve the quality of life for himself and others. This interest led him to learn about psychology and growth techniques, resulting in his becoming an NLP Practitioner (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) in 1993.At the beginning of 1994, he came into contact with Reiki, attending a First Degree Reiki seminar run by a Reiki Master of The Reiki Network® with his parents. Seeing the improvements that Reiki brought to the whole family, they quickly went on to the Second Degree. It became apparent to him that Reiki was one of the best tools for the non-invasive support of personal growth that he’d encountered, so he applied for training as a Reiki Master within the Network. He finished his year’s training mid-1996, and now gives treatments and teaches Reiki in English and German, in England, Switzerland and Spain.In 2004, he began a training course as an adult educator, which he completed in the following year. As part of his training, he created the written training concept that The Reiki Network® now uses.In 2013, he published his first self-help book and is now a full-time writer. He started working on a follow-up self-help book as soon as the previous one was published. However, he has since started writing fiction, with genres including science fiction, space opera, fantasy, urban fantasy, magical realism, horror, fairy tales, fairy stories, noir, detective fiction, action, thriller, humour, YA, and children's stories. He is presently seeking to publish four anthologies and two novels while working on another three anthologies and three novels.

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      Unmanned - Stephen Oliver

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, Unmanned, by Stephen Oliver

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      Title: Unmanned

      Author: Stephen Oliver

      Release Date: August 2, 2004 [eBook #13081]

      Language: English

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      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK UNMANNED***

      Copyright (C) 1999 by Stephen Oliver

      Unmanned

      Stephen Oliver

      Also by Stephen Oliver

                 & INTERVIEWS

            (Horizontal Press, 1978)

              EARTHBOUND MIRRORS

            (Horizontal Press, 1984)

            GUARDIANS, NOT ANGELS

              (Hazard Press, 1993)

        ISLANDS OF WILDERNESS A ROMANCE

            (Penguin Australia, 1996)

      HEADWORX WELLINGTON

      (C) Stephen Oliver, 1999

      First published 1999

      ISBN 0-473-05753-0

      Published by

             HeadworX Publishers

                   26 Grant Rd,

             Thorndon, Wellington

            Aotearoa / New Zealand

      Printed by

      Otago Uni Print

       Typeset by HeadworX Publishers

           in Elegant Garamond 11 pt

      HeadworX is a registered trademark

            of HeadworX Publishers

              This book is copyright.

           Apart from any fair dealing

        for the purposes of private research,

        criticism and review, no part may

          be reproduced without written

           permission from the author.

      Contents

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      Cultural Misappropriation Word Maps 1. Down By The River 2. National Park Holiday 3. False Idols 4. Surveyors Party 5. Got Ourselves A Convoy! 6. Cultural Desert 7. Down By The Station 8. Continental Shelf Co. 9. Three Cheers The Militia! 10. Video Conference 11. Crow Country 12. Hills Of Home 13. Eco-Tourism Generation of Pat Boone & Tonto To Talk of Flags Words to Lure a Ghost Chistmas Emblems 1. Adam 2. Oblation 3. Detail 4. Born 5. Style 6. Beachcomber Transgenic Pigs Sheet Music Myth & Mariolatry Stork Unmanned Braidwood Modern Love Brilliant Losers Hotel Diligencias Wardrobe Drinkers Girl. Gold. Boat Domestic Pack Shots 1. The Gays Next Door 2. Working Hot 3. Hooking For Jesus 4. The Priest Across The Lane 5. Corruption Is Glorified Mateship 6. Inner City Camping Blues Tarts & Takeaways Who Killed Brett Whiteley Sugarbag Carpenter Aunty Eve Harold Lloyd Conrad & Wells & Co. Hoppalong Cassidy Bob Orr Dave Spencer You Dont Remember Dying Graham Clifford Bruno Lawrence The Still Watches

      Poets have wrongd poor storms: such days are best;

      They purge the air without, within the breast.

      George Herbert

      Cultural Misappropriation

      is that what I hear you cry, citizen? If a delph-glazed moon with its O so delicate pattern pans over Holland, flat as a tack, it also comes by way of the Antarctic circle right to your doorstep in equal measure. If the sun clamps its golden torque on mosque or synagogue, pa, cathedral or sacred site, does this endorse any one people over another? Is it your wish to head off the cultural bandits at the historical impasse, citizen, by placing a patent on your mana? Beware the polemicists who define and so divide, who aggregate authority unto self where before lay none. Symbol becomes the circumference of time & custom. It is not the thing itself, but the beautiful echo of a peoples harmonic which cannot be bounded nor weakened. Here lies the camouflage that protects the ancient matrix, the silent memory of our bloods journey & sound leads you to it.

      Word Maps

      1. Down By The River

      Of the brain, mushroom shaped as bomb blast, we project the image to fact; up river from the torrent, amongst the calmness of boulders, the angler shadow-casts looping the steady surface for the archetypal fish whose leapt arch anticipates t but the headwaters are held greyly back by a concrete-net on this dappled and uncaptured urban afternoon. He deftly flicks & spools back and forth from channel to channel.

      2. National Park Holiday

      If you go into the woods today you will be part of a task force moving in line-formation. You will allow that the plastic yellow tape which cordons off select areas does not imply a Sacred Grove. If you go into the woods today, disinterment, not picnics, is the order of inquiry. The Vegetable Kingdom remains thoroughly documented and every species is accounted for; some of whom are human, or parts thereof.

      3. False Idols

      It was

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