Photography BLACK AND WHITE edition: Luminous Places is a guide for personal development that can lead to finding locations, both geographical and internal, where various kinds of luminosity predominate. This is a special volume of practical information, short stories, autobiographical narratives and wilderness landscape photography. Selections of source materials and inspiration came from my website: Luminousplaces.com. This book offers much more, with new photographs, updated and edited selections, including a table of contents, reference notes and a bibliography. Today people do not have time to read as much as they would like, yet want to know, as soon as possible about useful ideas or tips. For this reason, important information is listed by titles and subjects that can be accessed directly from the table of contents. This book meets the need to find information that is to the point, easy to read, and saves time. A Bibliography and End Notes has been included for those who would like to read more about the many subjects referred to. This edition is specially designed for Kindle readers, which can also be used with Kindle software on tablets and computers. Part I Inner Luminosity covers subjects including developing personal sensitivity, food and diet, breathing and air energy, mental concentration, lucid dreaming, vivid imagination, improved memory and extraordinary states of consciousness. Part II Outer Luminosity is about personal vitality, luminous people, home improvements, high metabolism, walking, drumming, lightning, solar activity, the geomagnetic field, and much more. In addition, I have included auto-biographical narratives to provide entertaining stories relevant to the subjects discussed in both part I and II. These stories are about my inner journeys to learn and explore via hypnosis, yoga, shamanism, drumming and dreaming. Subjective experience is the basis to perceive and locate luminous places. Methods to facilitate a calm and clear inner state of awareness, essential for differentiating a very wide range of subtle feelings, are included in this guide. It takes dedicated practice to learn how to see with feeling, and in the beginning, it is difficult recognizing and distinguishing between qualities within the spectrum of invisible luminosity. Powerful spiritual and religious experiences are associated with some luminous places. Excellent examples are Jesus and the transfiguration on Mount Hermon and Moses receiving the ten commandments on Mount Sinai. Also, Mt. Shasta in California and Mt. Kailash in Tibet have facilitated spiritual experiences and revelatory insights for many people. Worldwide there exist many undiscovered luminous places capable of enhancing spiritual or religious experiences to various degrees of intensity. These blessed natural locations can open inner doors, clarify the heart, mind and soul. I hope this guide will help people find luminous places everywhere, leading to inner luminosity, insight and wellbeing. About the Author: Paul Adams has worked in electronics technology, as an associate professor, instructor at seminars and lectures, as a percussionist, a wilderness and tour guide, an art collector-salesman; he has also worked in self-storage, and as a sales associate in grocery and hardware. During his teenage years, he designed and built ham radio transmitters, receivers, and set up antenna systems used for worldwide amateur radio communications. In the field of electronic air purification technology, age 30, he received a patent, for a unique air purifier-ionizer design: operational prototypes of this device gained endorsements from distinguished professionals. In his youth, Paul was a falconer, hiking in wilderness areas searching for falcons and hawks. Prior to this, he was a volunteer for a series of hypnosis experiments at Stanford University.
