Alternative belief systems

Using simple rituals--whose roots draw from shamanism, spirituality, religion, Native American studies, vibrational energy, and alternative medicine--becoming conscious of healing abilities is possible.

Using Spirituality in Psychotherapy: The Heart Led Approach to Clinical Practice offers a means for therapists to integrate a spiritual perspective into their clinical practice.

Nazi Occultism provides a serious scholarly study of a topic that is often marred by sensationalism and misinformation.

Join Jung Eun Sophia Park on her personal quest for God and her true self through the writings of Thomas Merton.

In 1964, Augusto Del Noce assembled in a book some of his best works on Marxism, atheism, and the history of modern philosophy.

This volume advances our understanding of early Christianity as a lived religion by approaching it through its rites, the emotions and affects surrounding those rites, and the material setting for the practice of them.

This volume offers the most comprehensive survey available of the philosophical background to the works of early Christian writers and the development of early Christian doctrine.

This is the story of a Englishman who gave up a job in journalism to spend fourteen years with the controversial Indian mystic Osho, also known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and frequently referred to as 'the sex guru'.

The mass killing of Ottoman Armenians is today widely recognized, both within and outside scholarly circles, as an act of genocide.

"e;Secrets of Strict Observance"e; delves into the veiled world of Freemasonry, offering a rare glimpse into the rituals and historical significance of this enigmatic fraternity.

The Modern Art of Dark MagickAt night it's easy to see yourself as you really are: artistic, elegant, romantic, Goth.

Philosophy and the advances in cosmology, neurology, molecular biology, and the social sciences have made the convincing and converging arguments for God's existence more probable than ever in history.

A Jehovah's Witness' Painful but Liberating Realization that She Must Give Up Her Faith';An inherently compelling and candidly revealing memoir .

Trauma and the Supernatural in Psychotherapy explores how traumatic experience interacts with unconscious phantasy based in folklore, the supernatural, and the occult.

In this book, Henrik Lagerlund offers students, researchers, and advanced general readers the first complete history of what is perhaps the most famous of all philosophical problems: skepticism.

Aus seiner jahrzehntelangen geomantischen Arbeit und den vielfältigen Kommunikationen mit anderen Sphären beschreibt Marko Pogačnik in diesem Buch, wie sich eine neue Erde allmählich und zuerst in der »kausalen« oder »archetypischen« Dimension heranbildet, um – nicht zuletzt durch unser Mittun – in unserer Dimension Gestalt anzunehmen.

Witch cult and ritual have not yet, as far as I am aware, been subjected to a searching scientific investigation from the anthropological side.

This volume addresses dealings with the wondrous, magical, holy, sacred, sainted, numinous, uncanny, auratic, and sacral in the plays of Shakespeare and contemporaries, produced in an era often associated with the irresistible rise of a thinned-out secular rationalism.

Explores beliefs in magic and witchcraft in modern Ireland (1800–2000) and representation in literature, historical writing and the press.

This book explores how and if the mandate for children to worship in schools can be justified within the context of declining church attendance and increasing nonreligious identification in British society.

Although there has been a massive increase in the volume of pilgrimage research and publications, traditional Anglophone scholarship has been dominated by research in Western Europe and North America.

A powerful story of spiritual awakening, reconnection with Nature, and rekindling of ancestral wisdom *; Details the author's encounters with ancestral spirits and animal teachers, such as Coy-Wolf, and profound moments of direct connection with the natural world *; Shows how ancestral connections and intimate communications with Nature are not unique or restricted to those with indigenous cultural roots *; Reveals how reconnection with ancestors and the natural world offers insight and solutions for the complex problems we face We are but a few generations removed from millennia spent living in intimate contact with the natural world and in close commune with ancestral spirits.

Walter Abendroth ist der Frage nachgegangen, was Reinkarnation in der Anthroposophie Rudolf Steiners bedeutet.

Some argue that atheism must be false, since without God, no values are possible, and thus "e;everything is permitted.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der Maya und entdecken Sie die tief verwurzelte Spiritualität und die komplexe Götterwelt dieser beeindruckenden antiken Zivilisation.

Named a Best Book of 2021 by Newsweek and a Most Anticipated by People, TIME, USA Today, Real Simple, Glamour, Nylon, Bustle, Purewow, Shondaland, and more!

A journey through the three pathways of time--present, past, and future--to open yourself to shamanic visions*; Presents shamanic tools to help you prepare to receive visions, release the burdens of the past, and bring clarity to your visions of the future*; Shares Earth Whispering practices to expand the senses, set intentions, and connect deeply with intuition and spirit helpers*; Offers advice on working with guides and soul protectors as well as the different realms a guide might emerge fromVisionaries dream the future into life, and throughout the ages shamans have served this role within their communities.

A presentation of seven essential texts, central to the Hermetic Tradition, never before published together*; Includes Theogony, The Homeric Hymn to Hermes, The Poem of Parmenides, The Poimandres, The Chaldean Oracles, Hymn to Isis, and On Divine Virtue, each translated from the original Greek or Latin*; Presents interpretive commentary for each text to progressively weave them together historically, poetically, hermeneutically, and magicallyLinked to both the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth, Hermes Trismegistus is credited, through legend, with thousands of mystical and philosophical writings of high standing, each reputed to be of immense antiquity.

A practical guide to creating plant extracts, essences, and complexes for use in Druidic sex magic rituals *; Explores the identification, harvesting, and magical properties of more than 70 flowers and trees *; Details the careful and meticulous spagyric preparation of plant extracts and complexes *; Demonstrates how plant compounds are used in Druidic sex magic rituals by both couples and groups In this practical guide to Druidic plant magic, Jon G.

Weiße Magie"Zwischen Himmel und Erde gibt es mehr, als die Naturwissenschaft erklären kann.

This multidisciplinary collection probes ways in which emerging and established scholars perceive and theorize decolonization and resistance in their own fields of work, from education to political and social studies, to psychology, medicine, and beyond.

An Archaeology of Disbelief traces the origin of secular philosophy to pre-Socratic Greek philosophers who proposed a physical universe without supernatural intervention.

This is the first full-length study of Demetrius of Alexandria (189-232 ce), who generated a neglected, yet remarkable hagiographic program that secured him a positive legacy throughout the Middle Ages and the modern era.

Spirituality and the Occult argues against the widely held view that occult spiritualities are marginal to Western culture.

If we are to believe sensationalist media coverage, Satanism is, at its most benign, the purview of people who dress in black, adorn themselves with skull and pentagram paraphernalia, and listen to heavy metal.

Within contemporary Western European academic, media, and socio-political spheres, Muslims are predominantly seen through the lens of increased religiosity.

Alles darf sein - denn wir sind schon vollkommen !

Are you curious about magic, but don't know where to begin?

The inspiration and insight of these Gnostic writings can become a companion on your own spiritual journey.

An exploration of the personal and spiritual truths revealed through LSD *; Reveals that LSD visions weave an ongoing story from trip to trip *; Shows that trips progress through three stages: personal issues and pre-birth consciousness, ego-loss, and on to the sacred *; Explores psychedelic use throughout history, including the mass hallucinations common in the Middle Ages and the early therapeutic use of LSD Toward the end of his fifties, Christopher Gray took, for the first time in years, a 100-microgram acid trip.

Success A longtime Coming.

This book provides a condensed but comprehensive up-to-date overview of spirituality and its application to health care.

'The treasure-trove of the real self is within us, but it can be lifted only when the mind is still.

Do you want to cast a spell on a suitor, banish a ghost, cure a toothache, or harvest protective herbs?

Originally published in 1974, Ritual in Industrial Society is based on several years' research including interviews and observations into the importance of ritual in industrial society within modern Britain.

According to the Bible, Eve was the first to heed Satan's advice to eat the forbidden fruit and thus responsible for all of humanity's subsequent miseries.

Numerologie für Anfänger - Das PraxisbuchSie glauben, nichts geschieht einfach aus Zufall?

The essays in this Handbook, written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing field of witchcraft studies, explore the historical literature regarding witch beliefs and witch trials in Europe and colonial America between the early fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries.