In this book of poems and prayers for the planet, you find not only beautiful prose written by modern writers and from ancient cultures but illuminating passages and reflections on the condition of the planet, and humans' place here.
The nurturing words gathered here offer the courage to move toward recovery and healing and to summon faith and grace in the midst of pain to anyone who is ill, as well as to their families and friends.
Author and business leader David Mezzapelle, author of 2013's best-selling Contagious Optimism, is on a mission to get people to "e;power their lives with the positive.
In the hurly burly of this busy world, simple kindness and goodness can get left behind in the rush to be first in line, at the top of the corporate ladder and have the most "e;likes.
Staring in the face of prostate cancer at age thirty-five and metastatic disease and proposed surgical castration at age forty, Paul Steinberg was forced to take two simultaneous journeys.
If you have received an incurable cancer diagnosis, hearing about someone who made it is like spotting a rescue ship when youre drowning in a stormy sea.
Hollywood in Heels is a sexy, smart, shockingly honest and wickedly hilarious memoir of a young woman finding her way in a city where sex is the primary commodity and illusion the name of the game.
A yin yoga practice incorporates poses designed to improve the flow of qi, the subtle life force essential to organ health, immunity, and emotional well-being.
At a time in her life when she once thought a person should have been well settled in for the long haul, Sandor and her new beloved set out to being a new life together.
A Life Worth Breathing teaches us how mindful breathing, in tandem with the physical practice of yoga and spiritual practice of meditation, raises us to a more powerful level of awareness.
With clear, simple prose, and poetic turns of phrase, this inspirational collection of quotations reflects the unique country of Bhutan and its universal embrace of compassion, understanding, and kindness.
A practical guide to the magic of the feminine side of the Norse pantheon *; Provides invocations and rituals to call each goddess forth for personal and group spirit work *; Details the author's trancework to discover the personalities and powers of Frigg the Allmother, wife of Odin, and the 12 lesser-known Aesir goddesses associated with her *; Offers a comprehensive guide to tranceworking to connect with the deities Combining traditional research on folklore and the Eddas with trancework and meditation techniques, Alice Karlsdttir was able to rediscover the feminine side of the Norse pantheon and assemble working knowledge of 13 Norse goddesses for both group ritual and personal spirit work.
An exploration of musical harmony from its ancient fundamentals to its most complex modern progressions, addressing how and why it resonates emotionally and spiritually in the individual.
A verse-by-verse examination of the guide to self-transformation presented in the Bhagavad Gita *; Reveals the scientific approach to personal development and spiritual enlightenment laid out in Krishna's advice to Arjuna *; Shows how the Gita prepares you to work with a guru, advocating authenticity and skepticism rather than blind devotion and obedience *; Explores Krishna's advice on which societal limitations to reject to overcome your fears and reconnect with the suppressed parts of your inner being Drawing on his more than 40 years of in-depth study of Indian Philosophy under the tutelage of his guru, Nitya Chaitanya Yati, author Scott Teitsworth explores the scientific approach to self-transformation and spiritual enlightenment encoded in Krishna's advice to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita.
Using essential oils to influence your energetic make-up and karmic patterns *; Details how to identify which tattvas--the Five Great Elements--are dominant in your energetic make-up *; Explores the energetic signatures of the essential oils associated with each tattva and chakra, including their archetypes, sacred geometry, sacred sounds, and colors *; Explains how to identify your personal vibrational signature, purify your energy body, impart vibrational properties to jewelry, and work with yantras and mantras The tattvas, the Five Great Elements--earth, water, fire, air/wind, and ether/space--create and sustain not only the universe but also all of its inhabitants.
Scientific evidence for the continual presence of consciousness with or without connection to a living organism *; Examines findings on the survival of consciousness beyond life, including near-death experiences, after-death communication, and reincarnation *; Explains how this correlates precisely with cutting-edge physics theories on superstrings, information fields, and energy matrices *; Reveals how consciousness manifests in living beings to continue its evolution Evidence now points to consciousness existing beyond the brain, such as when the brain is temporarily incapacitated, as well as to the survival of consciousness after death.
This unique series of paintings takes the viewer on a graphic, visionary journey through the physical, metaphysical, and spiritual anatomy of the self.
The first complete guide to this ancient Greek form of divination *; Explains how to cast and interpret this oracle using either coins or traditional animal bones *; Reveals how the use of oracle bones predates the I Ching *; Includes the complete matrix of oracle interpretations reconstructed by the author from stanzas in ancient Greek temples In ancient Greece methods of foretelling the future were widespread, whether they were official oracles of the gods or simple dice games to divine one's luck.
Long out of print, this is a landmark study on narcotic and psychedelic substances by a world-renowned pharmacologist and toxicologist *; The first book to bring non-judgmental scientific insights to the use of drugs around the world*; Provides detailed information on all major drugs of the time, including opium, cocaine, heroin, cannabis, peyote, fly agaric, henbane, datura, alcohol, kava, betel, coffee, tea, cocoa, and tobacco*; A book credited with starting an era of ethnobotany that continues to the present dayThe publication of Louis Lewin's Phantastica in 1924 began an era of ethnobotany that is still flourishing today.
A powerful exploration of diverse world views long ignored by the Western world that suggests possible solutions to the environmental and social problems that face us in the next millennium.
Todas las culturas humanas, desde las clásicas y la biblica hasta las indígenas de Norteamérica y Suramérica, comparten el mito respecto a un diluvio antiguo que frecuentemente coincide con una lluvia de fuego que cae de los cielos.
