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BRANCHES OF LIGHT ✦ 4 ✦ BANYEN BOOKS & SOUND • PUBLIC TALK LIBERATING MOMENTS • TALK & LIVING & EATING • TALK & EYE OF THE LOTUS SIGNING SIGNING Tues. May 8 GLUTEN FREE Chakras & Spiritual Healing 6:30-8 pm Authors of Enlightening Moments Wed. May 30 Sun. June 10 & Pacific Horizon Coaching Free at BANYEN 6:30-8 pm with Alyce Feindel 11:30-1:00 Dr. Jelusich PhD is founders Gary & Radha Bello will Free at BANYEN Free at BANYEN a renowned spiritual • WORKSHOP present radical tools for freeing healer, technology Sat. May 12 ourselves from limiting patterns. researcher, & lectur- • GUIDED EMOTIONAL CLARITY er who blends • PUBLIC TALK MEDITATION Western science LOVE HAS WINGS Join Phillip Moffitt & SIGNING & TALK and Eastern philoso- Isha Judd is the for a free in-store Mon. May 14 Thurs. May 31 phy. 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Music on CD Included are classics such as “Let New Worlds Come,” “Winds of Birth,” “Festival of Music for Deep Opening Light,” “Pan and Jesus,” and “In the ACOUSTIC PSYCHEDELIC CHILL Beginning.” Each song’s lyrics can be clear- by Michael Waters ECKHART TOLLE’S MUSIC FOR INNER STILLNESS ly heard, and your heart will want to sing $13.25, CD. Ladybird. 60 minutes compiled by Eckhart Tolle along. Michael Waters is a solo guitar wizard of $17.98, CD. Sounds True. 1 hour 2 minutes the first order, one of our West coast native The spirit of the New Troubadours In a really noisy world, how can we easily access the realm (affectionately called “the Troubs”) was treasures. His spa- of inner stillness? Through the avenue of music. Why? cious finger-picking one of fun, laughter, and a joy at the “Because music, like nature, bypasses the conceptual vision of a possible new world and a new harmonics have pre- mind,” explains Eckhart Tolle. For his many listeners, the consciousness of wholeness evolving viously been fea- author of A New Earth and The Power of Now presents this within humanity. I think that spirit and joy tured on his albums handpicked compilation of music purposefully sequenced comes across in our music. We were all such as Lost in to center us in the moment, in what Eckhart calls “the joy of being.” Artists include young and whatever our deficiencies as Tierra Del Fuego Tibetan flutist Nawang Khechog, ambient composer and sound healer Alex Theory, musicians we made up for in enthusiasm and (with his kora- Grand Master of the shakuhachi flute Riley Lee, Tim Wheater, Patrick Bernard, and a desire to serve through our music. strumming African Manose, Marjorie de Muynck, Master Charles Cannon, and others. I’m proud of the work we did and love buddy Kinobe) Each piece of music has a certain magic to it. Each piece is eminently suitable for the songs as much now as when they were Nomad. first written. The vision and consciousness Waters casts a “star blossom” of steel reducing or eliminating the activity of thought in you, the listener. For this to work, however, there needs to be a willingness on your part to give your full attention to the they celebrate is as real and powerful— string sparkle dimensions, with a delicate, sounds and to receive them in a state of relaxed alertness... and needed—now as it was then. grooving rhythm that makes his journeys —David Spangler, 2008 easily listenable many a But there is more: don’t just give your attention to the sounds. As you listen to them, For lyrics and more info visit the website time. His style and compo- be aware also of yourself (your presence) as the silent space of awareness in which the at lorianpress.com/troubs. sitional chops, refined over sounds appear and disappear. more than thirty years of Also available is Eckhart’s earlier music selection, Eckhart Tolle’s Music to Quiet the playing, have been creative- Mind. JAYA! ly amplified by his work by Shantala with shamanic plant teach- Michael Waters REIKI HEALING MUSIC $19.95, CD. Wolf Cub. 64 minutes ers. by Christopher of the Wolves Dedicated “to Neem Karoli Baba, Ram Nobody could ever tell me the genre I $17.98, CD. Sounds True. 64 minutes Dass, and Krishna Das for constant inspi- was playing, until some twenty-something Musician and Reiki master Christopher of the Wolves in- ration and love,” Jaya year old said, “Hey man, that’s Acoustic vites you to journey to the tranquil lands of relaxation with CD by the Shantala Psychedelic Chill... I’ve never heard that Reiki Healing Music. Using his finely tuned hands, he draws duo Benjy and before.” out the soothing vibrations of a new kind of steel drum Heather Wertheimer The music in Acoustic Psychedelic Chill— known as the hang, gently evoking a sense of calm and invit- offers all new songs of all crisply composed though it sounds im- ing a listening into resonant depths. With delicate and spa- Sanskrit Mantras for pressionistic and at times you think it is cious rhythms, these mesmerizing soundscapes will help you create a peaceful and yoga music. improvised—is more beautiful than you healing environment. Jaya is a heart-open- might think from the title. Waters can evoke The hang is a new kind of steel drum designed to be played with the hands and has ing journey into sa- a deep range of feeling and as you allow the memorable shape of a UFO. I used two hangs for the basis of this album: a Japanese cred chant that takes your listening to open, his bottomlessly minor scale and an Indonesian major scale. I think the mix and contrast of these the listener from ancient to contemporary, beautiful riffs and at times harplike glitter- scales—minor scale to build some tension and major scale for joyous harmonic relief— from India and Bali to Gregorian chant, ing tapestries invite a broad and lovely state provide a strong foundation for healing. Playing the hang can produce rainbows of and from rocking celebration to the deep- of smiling-being. sound, full of rich tones and harmonics that gently permeate body and mind with est meditation. The album features the For more info about Michael Waters’ positive waves of energy… work of many incredible musicians, in- “Opening the Creative Floodgates” pro- The vibrations of sound flow from the instruments to the listener allowing me to share cluding Grammy-winning flute player Steve gram for artists and his other recordings, healing energy in a different way… Gorn, the incredible multi-instrumentalist The songs are simple and spacious with room to breathe. visit ladybirdmusic.com. Sean Frenette, bassist/guitarist Alvin Young (from Sean Johnson & the Wild Lotus who listens to it will find in it the voice of horizon to incorporate imaginative experi- Band, who also used to tour with both UNDEFENDED HEART their longing and ecstatic soul.” —Andrew ments in world music styles that delight the Wynton and Branford Marsalis), the great by Hans Christian Harvey young and the old. He is an orthodox poet/percussionist John de Kadt, Matt $15.95, CD. Allemande. 64 minutes among the traditional and optimistically Butler of the internationally acclaimed Hans Christian’s work has been fearless among the creative. Everyone Orchestra, and more! documented on countless recording projects, PURE JOY If you love the curried pleasures of the Benjy studied Indian music for many from his participation as a cellist, bass player Divine Sounds sitar, Pure Joy is a delight. years with the legendary Ali Akbar Khan... or multi-instru- by Niladri Kumar & friends and the expert-level musicality of this album mentalist, to his $16.95, CD. White Swan. 52 minutes seamlessly underlies the sweet call-and-re- collaborations On this recording, sitar Maestro Niladri IN MY NAME sponse chants. with other artists Kumar evokes beautiful feelings, riffing The Vintage Best Jaya’s album cover was painted by as a producer and upon traditional of the New Troubadours Shantala’s beloved friend, the extraordinar- engineer, to his Indian ragas but im- by the New Troubadours ily talented artist, dancer and musician works as a compos- provising “further $16.50, CD. Lorian Press. 55 minutes Jahnavi Harrison, and the ever-amazing er of solo record- and deeper,” to give The New Troubadours was a musical Annette Orban did the graphic design. ings and of Rasa’s the listener Pure Joy, band formed by David Spangler and his well-known CDs. a succulently sitar- friends during On this lovely solo album, Hans rich East-West feast their days in SANGHA Christian plays solo cello with live loops of musical bliss. He Findhorn, by Various Artists, and delays, recorded live in Chartres, teams up with Scotland. These presented by Ben Leinbach France, during a weeklong retreat with Rakesh Chaurasia beautiful and var- $16.95, CD. White Swan. 56 minutes Wisdom University in 2010. on Flute, Abhijit ied recordings, Alchemist producer Ben Leinbach pre- Undefended Heart is a courageous step Pohankar on Keyboards, Rupak Kulkarni made in the sents this collection of new recordings fea- towards vulnerability, a documentation of on Flute, Aditya Kalyanpur on Tabla and 1970s, capture the turing the pre- a journey towards a light that liberates us Chandrajeet on Guitar. spirit and creativi- mier artists from from ourselves, from the egoic selves, and The album unfolds in five sections: Pure ty of those times, the sangha opens an internal space that permits us to Joy, Pure Affections, Pure Emotions, Pure and are resonant with spiritual values: “in (“community”) be who we really are. It is also a place of Peace, and Pure Calmness. They are really that tiny moment, you are transformed.” of mantra. These healing, where all internal tensions, lies, quite refreshing tonal landscapes which Specially compiled by Mike Scott, this 16- fresh arrange- and deceptions recede and yield to a vision bear repeated listenings with ease. song compilation features all the best loved ments and per- of the compassionate true nature of Son and disciple of Sitar Maestro Pandit New Troubadours songs for the first time formances invite mankind. It opens a timeless listening expe- Kartick Kumar, Niladri Kumar is undoubt- ever on CD, all original recordings by the the listener to join rience, perfect for yoga, massage, move- edly one of the finest young sitar virtuosos classic lineup of David Spangler and Kathi their voice with ment, or just being quiet. today. Years of learning have resulted in a Lightstone (lead vocals), Milenko the many and re- “Hans Christian’s music is unique. It mar- prodigious technique and deep under- Matanovic (guitar), Lark Batteau (guitar, vo- imagine the pow- ries sumptuous classical elegance with a raw standing of diverse musical styles. His open cals), Jewels Manchester (vocals) and Jim er and place of mantra in the modern world. and profound spiritual passion. Anyone mind has led to an extension of his musical Bronson (bass). Ben has become the go-to producer in t

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the modern New Videos mind: the Steven Halpern’s Healing Harmonics idea that THE WAVY GRAVY MOVIE: divinity and SAINT MISBEHAVIN’ humanism go RELAXATION SUITE together. This by Steven Halpern, with David Darling directed by Michelle Esrick, starring Wavy Gravy means that to $14.95, CD. Inner Peace Music. 75 minutes be a fully Steven Halpern has been pioneering sound healing mu- & a lot of friends New on human sic since 1975. He began with Spectrum Suite, now titled $32.95, DVD. Docurama. DVD person, Chakra Suite. His new tonal vocabulary and style explores 87 minutes + extras developing the healing power of the space between the “An unabashed love letter to the world all your latent notes. His music is used in leading inte- that defies the cynicism of our age”(The abilities and grative medicine and healing centers, New York Times), points of character, you have to be in hospitals, spas, massage schools, hospice THE WAVY contact with that which is beyond you, the care, at work and in homes worldwide. Halpern’s unique use of tone, GRAVY MOVIE: profound and visionary mysteriousness of SAINT MISBE- your situation. —from the foreword by time and space makes it an ideal complement and support for yoga, Thomas Moore meditation, and a wide range of spiritual and therapeutic practices. HAVIN’ takes us On Relaxation Suite, Steven has at last teamed up with old musi- on an unforget- Writers quoted include Petrarch, Marsilio Steven Halpern cal friends to craft a real jewel in sound healing for stress relief. table trip through Ficino, Pico della Mirandola, Michelangelo, The music gently transports you to your own oasis of serenity. the amazing life Leonardo da Vinci, Lorenzo de’ Medici, From the very first notes, you may notice that you’re breathing more deeply. Tension and times of poet, Leone Ebreo, Tullia D’Aragona and in your neck and shoulders melts away, and within moments, you feel relaxed and at clown, activist and Moderata Fonte. Their soulful, timeless peace. FUNdraiser Wavy words are illustrated with evocative images The soulful, warm sounds of David Darling’s cello join Steven’s grand piano and Gravy, the self-de- to create a book that reveals the attitude ethereal electric piano. Their soaring melodies create majestic cathedrals of sound scribed “psyche- and quality of mind of a period that re- that are further nuanced by Bettine Ware on silver flute, Jorge Alfano on shakuhachi delic relic” who, mains fundamental to modern spiritual flute, Georgia Kelly on harp, and Schawkie Roth on alto flute. among many other adventures, offered well-being. Among Steven Halpern’s many other recordings are Crystal Bowl Healing, In the Om “breakfast in bed for 400,000!” at “In the Renaissance, art was intended to Zone, and Music for Sound Healing. For more info: innerpeacemusic.com. Woodstock. This film is a loving tribute to have both body, visual aesthetics, and soul, an irrepressible life artist and huge-hearted philosophical insight. Too often modern human being. art histories praise the body but ignore the DEEP THETA Through candid interviews with Wavy’s soul. Julianne Davidow has re-souled High Coherence Soundscapes family and friends, including Jackson Renaissance art.” —Robert Place, author of by Steven Halpern Browne, Odetta, and Bonnie Raitt, and The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and $14.95, CD. Inner Peace Music. 76 minutes close encounters with Wavy himself, SAINT Divination Adding brainwave entrainment technology to healing MISBEHAVIN’ paints a moving portrait of music amplifies the benefits of the music itself. Taking ad- a surprisingly complex crusader for vantage of the well-documented ‘frequency-following ef- peace, justice and understanding. This riv- fect,’ Deep Theta allows you to tune your brain to the theta eting film shows how one individual can THE LISTENING BOOK range of brainwave activity associated with deep medita- make a difference—and have fun doing it! Discovering Your Own Music tion, enhanced healing and heightened creativity. Revealing the man behind the countercul- by W.A. Mathieu From the first notes of Steven Halpern’s luminous tural icon, SAINT MISBEHAVIN’ showcases $20.50, paper. Shambhala. 178 pages Rhodes Mark 7 electric piano, you’ll feel uplifted and relaxed. Listening with head- the enormous humanity and intelligence of First published in 1991 and now re-issued phones, you’ll discover sonic subtleties and spiritual resonances that open the heart this Holy Fool and his commitment to basic with a new cover, The Listening Book is about and nurture your being. human needs. rediscovering Each song is enhanced with Aural-Sync brainwave entrainment to 4, 5, 6 or 7 cycles From poetry readings in Greenwich the power of per second to deepen your experience. Virtuoso bassist Michael Manring adds very Village to an epic bus trip from England to listening as an tasty melodic harmonics on several tracks. Nepal by way of Afghanistan…from Merry instrument of “Deep Theta takes brainwave entrainment and balancing soundscapes to a higher Prankster days and keeping the peace at self-discovery octave of coherence, bliss and healing.” —Leading Edge Review Woodstock (his commune the Hog Farm and personal Steven Halpern has released many CDs. More info: stevenhalpern.com. took on “Security”!) to his present-day mis- transforma- sion raising funds for Seva’s sight-saving op- tion. By ex- SLEEPSCAPE DELTA VOL. 1 erations in developing countries and co-di- ploring our ca- Restful Music Enhanced recting Camp Winnarainbow, a circus and pacity for With Audio Brainwave Entrainment performing arts camp… this entertaining listening to By Steven Halpern and captivating film shines a fresh light on sounds and $14.95, Cd. Inner Peace Music. 68 Minutes many of the seminal events of our time and for making If you’re one of the 65 million of us who have problems reveals the deep determination of a truly music, we can sleeping, you might try this CD, Sleepscape Delta Vol. 1. one-of-a-kind individual. awaken and re- Steven Halpern’s atmospheric compositions have a 35+ A testament to the sheer joy of living a life lease our full year track record of helping people relax and effortlessly of service to humankind and our planet, creative pow- ease into sleep. THE WAVY GRAVY MOVIE: SAINT MISBE- ers. Mathieu To amplify these effects, the music (Halpern on piano & HAVIN’ will entertain, enrich and inspire. offers suggestions and encouragement on keyboards, Michael Manring on electric bass, and Georgia Kelley on harp) is melodi- See the trailer: vimeo.com/16232393 many aspects of music-making, and pro- cally combined with subtle sound technology (Aural-Sync) that gently entrains your vides playful exercises to help readers ap- brain into the delta brainwave frequencies (1–3 cycles per second) associated with Art, Creativity & Music preciate the connection between sound, deep, restorative sleep. All you have to do is listen. music, and everyday life. To deepen the sleep-inducing effect of the music on its own, I add the delta “In this superb collection of short essays, brainwave frequencies associated with sleep. Researchers have discovered that although OUTER BEAUTY, INNER JOY this creative genius opens doors to music, we cannot hear the actual sounds that vibrate below 20 cycles per second, our brains Contemplating the Soul of the Renaissance ears, listening, walking, originality, practice, create a virtual sound that is the differential between two close frequencies... by Julianne Davidow and singing. There is such thematic rich- Remember: Sleepscape Delta is a functional soundscape. It is not intended to be $27.00, cloth. Bunker Hill. 143 pages, 8x8, ness and lyrical beauty in Mathieu’s writing listened to as entertainment. The tracks are sequenced to gradually slow your colour photographs as he probes silence, discovering your own brainwaves for the deepest, most restorative sleep. This is a spiritual book about beauty in music, mistakes, finding a teacher, age which the author has gathered the wisdom matters, and the magical scale. This is the of the Renaissance writers and artists into kind of book you don’t want to put down as he mantra/chant genre, and has produced ment those transcendent vocal perfor- a contemplative modern-day book of you move from one bounty to another!” — and collaborated on albums by some of mances, setting familiar chants against a hours. Julianne Davidow brings together SpiritualityandPractice.com yoga music’s biggest names. Sangha’s A-list fresh, loving and gorgeous sonic backdrop. the visual beauty of Renaissance master- William Allaudin Mathieu is a composer of revered voices includes Deva Premal & These beautiful new songs, delivered by pieces and wisdom of the poets and artists pianist whose career ranges from his early Miten, Jaya Lakshmi, Jai Uttal, Snatam Kaur, this devoted tribe of yoginis/artists and of the time to create a book that movingly work with the Stan Kenton band, to his ex- Mukti, Donna De Lory, Prajna Vieira and translated through the sonic prism of a gift- embodies Keats’ lines: “Beauty is truth, tensive catalogue of song cycles, works for David Newman. ed producer, make Sangha 2011’s most truth beauty, that is all ye know on earth, choir, and instrumental concert music. He For Sangha, Ben invited these illustrious highly anticipated yoga/chant album. and all ye need to know.” has recorded extensively, and is the author artists to record their best-loved tracks in his Another popular album you might like [Outer Beauty Inner Joy] shows in of Bridge of Waves and Harmonic San Anselmo studio. He then crafted wholly from the alchemy of Ben Leinbach is Spirit visual images, words and description, a Experience: Tonal Harmony from Its Natural original soundscapes designed to comple- of Yoga. point of view that has been utterly lost to Origin to Its Modern Expression.

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Creating Time Poetry as a Way of Learning

THE DRAWING MIND TEN POEMS TO SAY GOODBYE Silence Your Inner Critic and Release Your Creative Spirit by Roger Housden by Deborah Putnoi $19.00, cloth. Crown. 124 pages $20.50, paper. Shambhala. 192 pages, 7x9, b/w illustrations Can we stand to gaze into the heart of our loss, the pre- throughout ciousness of what we are losing, and not look away? In The Drawing Mind, Deborah Putnoi takes us on an in- In Ten Poems to Say Goodbye, the newest addition to his cel- teractive journey to rediscover our innate creativity. ebrated Ten Poems series, Roger Housden continues to When we drew as children, we never worried about mak- highlight the magic of poetry, this time as it relates to per- ing mistakes—we took risks and trusted ourselves, and had sonal loss. But while the selected poems in this volume fun in the process. But as we become adults, anxiety steps in: (from poets such as Pablo Neruda, Jack Gilbert, Dorianne “Am I doing this right?” “What is expected of me?” “This is Laux, e.e. cummings, Leonard Cohen, Rainer Maria Rilke, wrong!” And from drawing, we can extrapolate into the Jane Hirshfield) may focus upon loss and grief, they also re- rest of our lives. The fear of making a mistake hinders us from being as creative as flect solace, respite, and joy. we could be. A goodbye is an opportunity for kindness, for forgiveness, for intimacy, and ultimately Deborah Putnoi’s interactive sketchbook helps us reconnect to that open, non- for love and a deepening acceptance of life as it is rather than what it was. Goodbyes judgmental state, which she calls the “drawing mind.” Her bold, lively drawings and can be poignant, sorrowful, sometimes a relief, and—now and then—even an occasion encouraging instructions lead you on a process of self-discovery, first reclaiming the for joy. freedom to express yourself through drawing and then learning how to take that free- They are always transitions that, when embraced, can be the door to a new life both dom into the activities of your daily life. for ourselves and for others. In this inspiring and consoling volume, Housden en- Putnoi is both encouraging and inspiring as she leads you through a fun, thought- courages readers to embrace poetry as a way of enabling us to better see and ap- ful series of exercises that allows you to rediscover your drawing mind and how it can preciate the beauty of the world around and within us. connect you with the world in fresh, exciting, creative ways. To bless the savor of this precious moment even as it slips through our fingers? To allow its sorrow, its joy, its silence or laughter to enter our life stream and add a CREATING TIME measure to who we are? This is the spirit of these ten poems, and the hope of this book. Using Creativity to Reinvent the Clock and Reclaim Your Life CLEAR MIND, WILD HEART by Marney Makridakis Finding Courage and Clarity New on $25.50, paper. New World Library. through Poetry CD 256 pages, 7x9, colour illustrations throughout by David Whyte Most of us have said, “If only I had more time,” as a way of ex- $69.95, 6 CDs. Sounds True. 6 hours plaining why we aren’t leading our most fulfilling lives. This The language of poetry has held a special power to book turns the concept of time management upside down by lend us courage, to give us the vision of those who en- presenting exciting new tools for viewing and experiencing dured, and to hazard ourselves boldly at the “fierce your time. Creating Time combines creativity with science in a edges” of our lives. On Clear Mind, Wild Heart, join gorgeous colorful format that presents a fascinating adventure in which you will poet and teacher David Whyte to engage with poetic imagine, create, and completely reshape the way you experience time. Each chapter imagination as it was meant to be experienced: as presents a shift-making concept illustrated by real-life examples, step-by-step intro- your companion and guide for the difficult terrain spective processes, and powerful creative projects that inspire a new sense of time, a we are all traversing “in the middle of the road of our lives, in a dark wood, where liberating view of self, and a fresh perspective on the meaning of being human, em- the true way is wholly lost.” powered, and fully alive. Poetry offers some powerful tools to help us see beyond the fragile surfaces of our The book features full-colour art illustrating each chapter’s not-just-for-artists lives—as “executives,” “parents,” or “lovers”—and to open ourselves to the difficult ARTsignment. and extreme events that we will all eventually face. On this “frontier of the unknown,” “Creating Time is life changing, full of practical and magical ways to feel free, flowing, the voices of the poetic imagination—and our own poet’s sense of attention and pos- inspired, and gifted with time in your life.” —SARK, author of Glad No Matter What sibility—come to our aid, helping to place us on the universal cycles and patterns that shape our lives, and to awaken our conversation with what has been called the Untouchable, the Numinous, the Eternal. Clear Mind, Wild Heart offers six hours of exploration and poetry with David Poetry, Writing & Stories He’s been called “the poet laureate of the global justice democracy movement.” Whyte, including the verses of such inspired voices as Emily Dickinson, William Blake, W.B. Yeats, Rainer Maria Rilke, Antonio Machado, and a number of others. Through LOVE LETTER TO THE MILKY WAY I am myths where violets blossom from their words, you can explore how to “apprentice yourself to beauty” and to find a place blood a book of poems of belonging where you can hold loss and grief, the difficulties of change, and the like dying and rising gods by Drew Dellinger, forewords by wonder of new discovery and adventure in your life. I’m the boundary of time Themes include looking the world in the eye; beginning a conversation with the Thomas Berry & Matthew Fox soul encountering soul groundless; the language of poetry and our relationship to silence; standing on the $16.95, paper. White Cloud. and tongues of fire 64 pages, French flaps, colour photos holy ground of our own experience; the poetic spirit in marriage, parenting, and Inside this slim volume of poems, Drew it’s 3:23 in the morning friendship; and more. Dellinger takes us on a beautiful journey and I can’t sleep Also by David Whyte are the books The Heart Aroused and Crossing the Unknown Sea, into the because my great great grandchildren as well as several volumes of his own poems, the most recent of which is River Flow: emerging new ask me in dreams New and Selected Poems. A CD of David reading his poems is called Close to Home. He universe sto- what did you do while the earth was also offers a you-are-there DVD called David Whyte Live in San Francisco. ry, with all its unraveling? glory and suf- fering, mys- —from the poem “hieroglyphic stairway” here so vividly: ing US Vice-Prez Joe Biden tery and read on the floor of Congress during cli- the acorn that chose to read one of her meaning. mate change hearing hides within it an poems during the 9/11 re- Here you’ll ex- Drew Dellinger’s poetry and perfor- entire tree, the membrance at Ground perience not mances have touched thousands across six wings of the swan Zero. Few poets express only the call to continents. He is, in the words of Cornell like the stretching the immense complexities oneness and West, “one of the most creative, courageous light of the river, of human experience as and prophetic poets of his generation.” wildness, you the frogs singing skillfully as Mary Oliver, Mary Oliver will also come to rage against the forces of in the muddy shal- or capture so memorably injustice and greed that threaten to extin- lows. the smallest nuances… speaking, for exam- guish not only species but the beauty of the SWAN Always on the ple, of stones, “the little ones you can / world itself. The poems are interspersed Poems and Prose Poems lookout for “the hold in your hands, their heartbeats / so se- here and there with colour photos of by Mary Oliver next exquisite moment” (“Trying to Be cret, so hidden it may take years / before, fi- Earth rising, galaxy clusters, cloud pat- $17.00, paper. Beacon. 80 pages Thoughtful in the First Brights of Dawn”), nally, you hear them.” Oliver also includes more conversations terns, and other wonders. “Joy is not made to be a New in Dedicated to ‘eco-theologian’ Thomas crumb,” writes Mary Oliver, with and about her dog Percy, offers a What Can I Say Paperback What can I say that I have not said before? Berry, this small book of very big poems reach- and certainly it abounds in homage to trees she climbed but now must So I’ll say it again. es out to the far ends of the Milky Way and to her book of poetry and prose poems. Her only walk under, and offers more praises of The leaf has a song in it. the inner depths of the soul. The power of twentieth volume, Swan shows us that birds. As the Los Angeles Times noted recently, so Stone is the face of patience. his poetry is tied to his passion for ecologi- though we may be “made out of the dust Inside the river there is an unfinishable cal survival and social justice movements. of stars,” we are of the world she captures many readers “go to her for solace, regener- ation and inspiration” that it is not surpris- story

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and you are somewhere in it BLOODLETTING and it will never end until all ends. Great Lives: Harrison & Mandela & MIRACULOUS CURES Take your busy heart to the art museum Short Stories and the chamber of commerce by Vincent Lam but take it also to the forest. GEORGE HARRISON $17.95, paper. Doubleday. 374 pages The song you heard singing in the leaf Living in the Material World Another book in the genre of “doctors when you were a child by Olivia Harrison who are also great writers” is Bloodletting & is singing still. $45.00, cloth. Abrams. 400 pages, Miraculous Cures I am of years lived, so far, seventy-four, 9x11, 260 illustrations, many in colour by Vincent Lam. and the leaf is singing still. Drawing on George Harrison’s personal archive of This short story photographs, letters, diaries, and memorabilia, Olivia collection de- Among Mary Oliver’s other titles: Why I Harrison reveals the arc of his life, from his guitar- scribes Lam’s ex- Wake Early and Many Miles: Mary Oliver obsessed boyhood in Liverpool, to the astonishment periences in med- Reads Mary Oliver (CD). of the Beatles years, to his days as an independent ical school and as a musician and bohemian squire. Here too is the record professional emer- of Harrison’s lifelong commitment to Indian music, gency room physi- NEW COLLECTED POEMS and his adventures as a movie producer, Traveling cian. These linked by Wendell Berry Wilbury, and Formula One racing fan. The book is stories reveal the $34.50, cloth. Counterpoint. 392 pages filled with stories and reminiscences from Harrison’s friends, including Eric Clapton, complex moral In Wendell Berry’s New Collected Poems, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and many, many others. Among dilemmas faced by the poet revisits his immensely popular its previously unpublished riches are photographs taken by Harrison himself begin- four young med- Collected Poems, ning in the mid-1960s. It is a rich tribute to a man who died far too young, but who ical students and which the New York touched the lives of millions. physicians—Ming, Times Book Review “George was the quiet Beatle, so it’s a real magical mystery tour to peer behind Fitz, Sri and described as “a the scenes with this nearly four-hundred-page book.” —New York Post Chen—as they move from hopeful under- straight-forward grads to doctors. With a doctor’s humane search for a life LONG WALK TO FREEDOM and precise eye, Lam uses the language of connected to the The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela medicine to reveal what it is to be human. soil, for marriage by Nelson Mandela Deftly navigating his way through 12 in- as a sacrament and $21.99, paper. Little, Brown. 656 pages terwoven short stories, this 2006 Scotiabank family life” that We need stories that offer us models of commitment, Giller Prize winner explores the characters’ “affirms a style that compassion, endurance, and resilience. Nelson Mandela’s relationships with each other, their patients, is resonant with autobiography is one such story. and their careers. Lam shares an insider’s the authentic,” Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political perspective on the fears, frustrations, and and “[returns] leaders of our time: his lifelong dedication to the fight responsibilities of “being a doctor.” American poetry against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel I wanted to write about the way in to a Wordsworthian clarity of purpose.” Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his tri- which a person changes as they become a In his New Collected Poems, Berry umphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century physician—how their world view shifts, reprints the nearly two hundred pieces in of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the and how they become a slightly different Collected Poems, along with the poems from most compelling and inspiring political drama in the version of themselves in the process of his most recent collections—Entries, Given, becoming a doctor... I wanted to write world. As president of the African National Congress and about the reality that doing good and and Leavings—to create an expanded col- head of South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement, he was in- lection, a handsome vol- trying to help others is not simple. It is strumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. ethically complicated and sometimes ume many will treasure. He is revered as a vital force for human rights and racial equality. The foster son of This book contains all the involves a reality that can only be a Thembu chief, Mandela was raised in the traditional, tribal culture of his ancestors, expressed by telling a story. poems Berry wants to col- but at an early age learned the modern, inescapable reality of what came to be called Lam’s exceptional talent for describing lect from previous collec- apartheid, one of the most powerful and effective systems of oppression ever con- tions, except no selections scenarios with great precision is showcased ceived. In classically elegant and engrossing prose, he tells of his early years as an im- in “Take All of Murphy,” when Ming, Chen, from been made from his poverished student and law clerk in Johannesburg, of his slow political awakening, and ongoing sequence pub- and Sri find themselves at a moral cross- Wendell Berry of his pivotal role in the rebirth of a stagnant ANC and the formation of its Youth lished as The Sabbath roads while dissecting a cadaver. League in the 1950s. Throughout the book, readers are treated Poems. He describes the struggle to reconcile his political activity with his devotion to his Let us enlighten then, our earthly burdens to the physicians’ internal thoughts and the family, the anguished breakup of his first marriage, and painful separations from his By going back to school, this time in mental drama involved with treating pa- children. He brings vividly to life the escalating political warfare in the Fifties between gardens tients. the ANC and the government, culminating in his dramatic escapades as an under- That burn no hotter than the summer day. From delivering babies to evacuating pa- By birth and growth, ripeness, death and ground leader and the notorious Rivonia Trial of 1964, at which he was sentenced to tients and dealing with deadly viruses, the decay, life imprisonment. He recounts the surprisingly eventful twenty-seven years in four primary characters in Bloodletting & By goods that bind us to all living things, prison and the complex, delicate negotiations that led both to his freedom and to Miraculous Cures are made thoroughly hu- Life of our life, the garden lives and sings. the beginning of the end of apartheid. man by Lam’s insightful detail, realistic dia- The Wheel of Life, delight, the fact of logue, and expert storytelling. wonder, Contemporary light, work, sweat, and CUTTING FOR STONE ical lore and poses interesting questions hunger A Novel like What does it mean to be a healer and Bring food to table, food to cellar shelves. by Abraham Verghese how do you heal yourself? A creature of the surface, like ourselves, $22.00, paper. Crown. 688 pages “Even with its many stories and layers, The garden lives by the immortal Wheel If you are looking for an engaging and Cutting for Stone remains clear and concise. That turns in place, year after year, to heal imaginative read, check out Cutting for Verghese paints a vivid picture of these set- It whole. Unlike our economic pyre Stone, an epic story about Shiva tings, the practice of medicine That draws from ancient rock a fossil fire, and Marion Stone, two con- (he is also a physician) and the An anti-life of radiance and fume joined twins separated at birth, characters’ inner conflicts. I felt That burns as power and remains as doom, the product of an intriguing as though I were with these peo- The garden delves no deeper than its roots union between an Indian nun ple, eating dinner with them And lifts no higher than its leaves and and a British doctor. This story even, feeling the hot spongy in- fruits. is set in India, Africa and jera on my fingers as they “Berry’s sage mind and poetic skills com- America, involves a cast of com- dipped it into a spicy wot. In The bine to skewer political arrogance, savage pelling characters and deals Interior Castle, Saint Teresa’s commercial folly, muse on growing old and with big issues like love, loss, work on mystical theology, she lament a good dog’s death. Mindful of time betrayal, forgiveness and des- wrote, ‘I began to think of the and earth, of joy and love, Berry calls us to tiny. The author, Abraham soul as if it were a castle made of the hard work of a hope and peace and a single diamond or of very gratitude so incarnate that they rest ‘on the Verghese, is also professor and Senior Associate Chair for the clear crystal, in which there are ’” ground underfoot. —The Christian many rooms, just as in Heaven Century theory and practice of medi- cine at Stanford University, so there are many mansions.’ Having lived and farmed with his wife Tanya this book is filled with vivid Cutting for Stone shines like that in Kentucky for more than forty years, Wendell place.” —The Washington Post Berry is the author of over forty works of poet- images of surgery and med- ry, fiction, and non-fiction.

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Yoga & the Hindu Traditions tional essays lead to the heart of yoga as a path of transformation. The Great Yoga Teachers It takes courage to say: I want to reflect PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA on my life; I want to clarify what my A Biography with Personal Reflections words and actions are. In this way, THE YOGA OF THE YOGI & Reminiscences leading a spiritual life can be a political The Legacy of T. Krishnamacharya by Swami Kriyananda act. You are making a statement that you by Kausthub Desikachar $18.95, paper. Crystal Clarity. want more than a life that is driven by $27.50, paper. North Point. 222 pages, 85 b/w photos 332 pages, French flaps, b/w photos social pressure, instincts and common This deeply personal biographical tribute by Paramahansa Yogananda’s classic habits. Can you take a stand in your life, Krishnamacharya’s grandson includes photographs, archival Autobiography of a Yogi was more about the or for a principle that you believe in? materials, and family recollections that have never been pub- saints Yogananda Following on her recent memoir, Carried lished elsewhere, as well as unique insights into the “master of met than about by a Promise, which detailed her personal masters” by some of his most famous students—Indra Devi, Sri himself—in spite journey, Living the Practice offers practical, K. Pattabhi Jois, B.K.S. Iyengar, and T.K.V. Desikachar. First pub- of the fact that down-to-earth advice based on Swami lished in 2005 by the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram, The Yogananda was Radhananda’s experience as a student, a Yoga of the Yogi is at last available in a portable paperback format. much greater than teacher, a householder yogi and a swami. Yoga’s teachings were at risk of being diluted, transformed into many he described. How do you live your practice? Start a dull handbook of physical exercises. Now, one of small. Make a commitment. Follow When we enter a tunnel, the darkness surrounds us, giving the impression that all is Yogananda’s few through. Keep doing it until it works for lost. But sooner or later, the light breaks through again. And so it was with yoga. This remaining direct you. Test it out – don’t just do a practice light came in the form of a man from South India. Over the course of a lifetime that disciples tells the in your room. Try it in real-life situations. spanned more than one hundred years, he would bring life back into the dying world of untold story of You can bring the practices into whatever yoga and revolutionize its practice for a modern world. this great spiritual you do – cooking, gardening, driving your master and world With many rare photos, this book by Krishnamacharya’s grandson explores his life car, working, being with people. work and his emphatic belief that there is no “one size fits all” yoga, and how prac- teacher: his An ordinary life infused with practice teenage miracles, his challenges in coming tices can and must be adapted to serve the changing need of each individual student. and inquiry becomes a meaningful life. For anyone interested in the heart of yoga, this book will be an invaluable resource. to America, his national lecture campaigns, There are many questions in the book but his struggles to fulfill his world-changing let your own questions come forward. mission amid incomprehension and painful Think, relax, chant, do Hatha Yoga, HEALTH, HEALING, AND BEYOND betrayals, and his ultimate triumphant remember your dreams, bring the Light Yoga and the Living Tradition of T. Krishnamacharya achievement. into your days, do service. Expand the by T.K.V. Desikachar, with R.H. Cravens Swami Kriyananda’s subtle grasp of his mind of yoga! $21.95, paper. North Point. 210 pages, b/w photos great guru’s inner nature reveals Beautifully written, this book offers ac- Yogananda’s many-sided and extraordinary A much-sought-after, greatly beloved exploration of the cessible wisdom for making yoga real. work of Krishnamacharya, teacher of many of twentieth-cen- greatness. This book includes many never- Swami Radhananda is the president and before-published anecdotes. Included is tury yoga’s greatest and most influential exponents, Health, spiritual director of Yasodhara Ashram in Healing, and Beyond is filled with deep wisdom—an indispens- an insider’s portrait of the great teacher’s Kootenay Bay, BC, Canada. last years. More than a factual biography, able guide to the philosophy, principles, and limitless possibili- Paramahansa Yogananda also outlines the ties of yoga. Written by Krishnamacharya’s son T.K.V. great master’s key teachings. Desikachar and first published in 1998, it is now available again THE SCIENCE OF YOGA to yogis, students, and teacher trainees everywhere in a beautiful edition rich with old I will share with you what I know, what The Risks and the Rewards photos. I heard from the Master’s own lips (yes, he by William Broad This affectionate and lively classic recounts the life and work of the man most re- was indeed a spiritual master, and he $29.99, cloth. Simon & Schuster. sponsible for preserving and modernizing a five-thousand-year-old body of wisdom himself would never use that word lightly), 298 pages that today benefits millions around the world. what I myself experienced, and what I In this unique book, William Broad, a In its pages we watch Krishnamacharya’s thinking evolve over a lifetime—sweeping sincerely believe because I heard it from lifelong yoga practitioner, shows us that un- others who were close to him, and whose aside prohibitions against certain practices for women, innovating therapeutic treat- common states are ments for a wide range of physical and mental disabilities, and searching for ways to words were, in my opinion, believable. integral to a hidden The advantage of this book is that it will make yoga available to each individual regardless of age, sex, race, culture, station in world of risk and re- life, and belief or non-belief. be written from first hand knowledge. ward that lies be- “This delightful book recounts the story neath clouds of of Paramahansa Yogananda from a fresh myth, superstition, SPARKS OF DIVINITY perspective. It includes details and adven- and hype. Five years The Teachngs of B.K.S. Iyengar from 1959 to 1975 tures not found in the Autobiography. The in the making, The by B.K.S. Iyengar, compiled by Noelle Perez-Christiaens reader gains a deeper sense of the robust Science of Yoga draws $20.95, paper. Rodmell. 256 pages, 6x7 greatness of this spiritual pioneer. Packed on more than a cen- Sparks of Divinity is a collection of the teachings of yoga mas- with history, anecdote, and wisdom, this tury of painstaking ter B.K.S. Iyengar first published in a French-English bilingual honest examination of Paramahansa research to present edition in 1976. The material for this book was gathered and Yogananda’s accomplishments and legacy the first impartial compiled by Noëlle Perez-Christiaens from class notes and helps further our understanding of yoga evaluation of a prac- correspondence during the formative years of Iyengar’s ca- in America.” —Christopher Chapple tice thousands of years old. It celebrates reer. The entries cover the period from the late 1950s, when what’s real and shows what’s illusory, de- Iyengar was invited by Yehudi Menuin to teach in Gstaad, scribes what’s uplifting and beneficial and Switzerland, to the year following the death of Iyengar’s wife and the opening of the LIVING THE PRACTICE what’s flaky and dangerous—and why. Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute in Pune, India. When Noëlle first studied with Iyengar in Pune in 1959, he was still teaching his Collected Writings on the Transformative Broad illuminates how yoga can lift moods pupils one-on-one at his home. During her stay in India, Noëlle was regarded virtual- Potential of Yoga and inspire creativity. He exposes moves that can cripple and kill. As science often ly as one of the household, and this intimacy continued in their subsequent letters, by Swami Radhananda where Iyengar wrote to her more as a colleague and friend than as a teacher. We are $19.95, paper. Timeless Books. 216 pages does, this groundbreaking book also reveals fortunate to include Noëlle’s Indian Journal for 1959 and her Early Life of B.K.S. How do we maintain the ideals of yoga in mysteries. It presents a fascinating body of Iyengar, translated into English especially for this edition, for the intimate glimpses our daily lives, in our families, in our work, evidence that raises questions about they give of Iyengar’s personal life and family. in our communi- whether humans have latent capabilities for Sparks of Divinity is also a testament to the deep bond between teacher and student. ties? What would it entering states of suspended animation and In an Afterword about Noëlle, we learn how an early suggestion from Iyengar moved mean to accept the unremitting sexual bliss. her in a completely new direction, and how she attributes her discoveries about challenge to The Science of Yoga takes us on a riveting Aplomb (natural balance) to Iyengar’s ongoing inspiration. change, to open tour of unknown yoga that goes from old B.K.S. Iyengar, born in India in 1918, is one of the world’s leading teachers of yoga our hearts and archives in Calcutta to the world capitals of and the author of the bestselling yoga book of all time, Light on Yoga. minds and to live medical research, from storied ashrams to life fully? Swami spotless laboratories, from sweaty yoga stu- Radhananda’s dios with master teachers to the cozy offices Living the Practice of yoga healers. Broad unveils a burgeoning Overall, the risks and benefits turned My research has prompted me to is an exploration of global industry that attracts not only curi- out to be far greater than anything I ever change my own routine. I have what it means to ous scientists but true believers and charis- imagined. Yoga can kill and maim—or deemphasized or dropped certain poses, live a spiritual life matic hustlers. In the end, he shatters save your life and make you feel like a added others, and in general now handle in the world today. myths, lays out unexpected benefits, and god. That’s quite a range. In comparison, it yoga with much greater care. I hope you These inspira- offers a strong vision of how the ancient makes most other sports and exercises benefit, too. practice can be improved. seem like child’s play. I see this book as similar to informed

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POSER Ajahn Brahm left a scholar’s life in My Life In Twenty-Three Yoga Poses London to train as a monk in the jungles of Yoga: Postures & Practices by Claire Dederer Thailand under the highly esteemed $17.00, paper. Picador. 332 pages Buddhist master Ajahn Chah. A monk for YOGA FOR MEDITATORS Ten years ago, Claire Dederer put her over 30 years, he is abbot of one of the Poses to Support Your Sitting Practice back out while breastfeeding her baby largest monasteries in the southern hemi- by Charlotte Bell daughter. Told to try sphere, in Serpentine, Australia. $16.50, paper. Rodmell. yoga by everyone 128 pages, 7x9, 46 colour illustrations from the woman be- Charlotte Bell, author of Mindful Yoga, Mindful Life, has hind the counter at PATIENCE blended the practices of yoga and meditation since 1986. In her the co-op to the The Art of Peaceful Living new book, Yoga for Meditators, she writes: homeless guy on the by Allan Lokos Asana practice, by its very nature, is about preparing the body corner, she signed up $16.00, paper. Tarcher/Penguin. for meditation. So a book on yoga for meditators may seem for her first class. She 221 pages redundant. All yoga is for meditators, after all. Still, there are poses fell madly in love. To survive the rollercoaster of life, with its that I have found to be optimal in addressing the specific physical challenges that arise Over the next ever-changing shifts from pleasure to pain, during meditation, and it is in this spirit that I offer the practices in this book. decade, she would gain to loss, and Divided into four parts, the book offers practices that are designed for beginning tackle triangle, wheel, praise to blame, re- and seasoned practitioners: and the dreaded quires a substantial ✦ Taking a Seat: Steady and Comfortable —addresses the most common physical is- crow, becoming fast depth of patience. In sues that can cause discomfort during sitting in meditation. friends with some poses and developing this book, mindful- ✦ Yoga Poses for Sitting Meditation—outlines asanas to guide you to a more easeful long-standing feuds with others. At the same ness meditation practice. Whether you practice vipassana, Zen, Transcendental, kriya, or any other time, she found herself confronting the teacher Allan Lokos kind of sitting meditation, these poses will help you collect the mind, awaken the forces that shaped her generation. explores the nature spine, relax the base, soften the shoulders, and quiet the body-mind. Daughters of women who ran away to find of anger and impa- ✦ Practicing Yoga—uses the asanas from part two to create sequences for calming ag- themselves and made a few messes along the tience (in their many itation, increasing energy, opening the hips, relieving stress, easing the lower back, way, Dederer and her peers grew up deter- troubling forms) and during the moon cycle. mined to be good, good, good—even if this and offers in-depth ✦ Alternate Meditation Postures—discusses the other traditional meditation posi- meant feeling hemmed in by their organic- practices for devel- tions—walking, standing, and lying—with ways to settle into each. buying, attachment-parenting, anxiously oping true patience to the point where it becomes part of who we are. Our minds and bodies are interwoven. When the body is at ease, the mind has a conscientious little world. Patience is born when we create a pause be- much easier time settling into silence. May your asana and meditation practices uncover Yoga seemed to fit right into this virtuous the peace that already lives within. program, but to her surprise, Dederer tween our experience of a feeling and our re- found that the deeper she went into the sponse to that feeling. Forgiveness has space to YOGA FOR ANXIETY poses, the more they tested her most basic develop; fires have a chance to cool. Meditations and Practices for Calming the Body and Mind ideas of what makes a good mother, daugh- Mindfulness is an important tool for cre- by Mary & Rick NurrieStearns ter, friend, wife—and the more they made ating that space, and Lokos takes time to ex- $21.95, paper. New Harbinger. her want something a little less tidy, a little plore this theme in depth. To illustrate his 220 pages, b/w photos more improvisational. Less goodness, more points, he also tells the per- According to yogic philosophy, there are five causes of suf- joy. Yoga became, for Dederer, a rebellion sonal stories—“Profiles in fering: separation from the spiritual, limited self-concept, at- against goodness, not a path to it. Patience”—of people he tachments, aversions, and fear of death. Within this philosoph- Poser is unlike any other book about yoga met during the writing of ical context, Yoga for Anxiety examines the causes of anxiety you will read—because it is actually a book the book who have demon- and helps readers create personal yoga programs designed to about life. Witty and heartfelt, sharp and ir- strated extraordinary heal their symptoms and promote personal growth. reverent, Poser is for anyone who has ever depths of patience, espe- We’re inclined toward relaxation because it’s a natural state, tried to stand on their head while keeping cially in trying circum- one wherein we connect to ourselves and don’t struggle with life. both feet on the ground. Allan Lokos stances. Being relaxed doesn’t make you passive, uninvolved, or “Let me be honest about something: I When we teach a child irresponsible. Rather, it allows you to enjoy your life and feel okay being you. At the love yoga, I live for yoga, and yoga has to be truthful we offer them the gift of an same time, it helps make you sane and enables you to make wise choices. changed my life forever—but it is very diffi- ethical life. When we teach a child to take The book includes yoga of self-healing practices, including meditation, self-in- cult to find books about yoga that aren’t in- responsibility for their actions we offer them the gift of an honorable life. When quiry exercises, and recitation of mantras that have been used for centuries to quell credibly annoying... Thank goodness, then, for Claire Dederer, who has written the book we teach a child patience we offer them anxious feelings and restore mental clarity. A chapter devoted to mindfulness helps the gift of a dignified life. readers learn to pause and regroup when they feel stressed instead of acting on their we all need: the long-awaited funny, smart, thoughts. Guided by the authors—themselves a psychotherapist and yoga teacher, and clear-headed, thoughtful, truthful, and in- In this revelatory book, Lokos draws on a meditation teacher—readers will also learn how to accept their emotions and devel- spring yoga memoir.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, years of Buddhist practice. He’s an inspiring op compassion for themselves as they learn to do away with the feelings of anxiety. author of Eat Pray Love teacher. As the founder of New York’s “An excellent guide for anyone seeking greater serenity, peace, and fulfillment— Community Meditation Center, Lokos di- and who isn’t?” —Larry Dossey, author of Healing Words Buddhism & Zen rects his book to non-Buddhist readers as well as practitioners. HEALING YOGA FOR NECK AND SHOULDER PAIN There is no question in my mind that Easy, Effective Practices for Releasing Tension THE ART OF DISAPPEARING the most impatient among us can, with and Relieving Pain Buddha’s Path to Lasting Joy calm effort and determination, overcome by Carol Krucoff by Ajahn Brahm anger and impatience and lead happier, $20.95, paper. New Harbinger. 176 pages $18.50, paper. Wisdom. 192 pages more satisfying lives. Everyday activities such as using the computer, driving, or As human beings, we strive to make life go “The stories and exercises give practical even curling up with a good book can create tension in the neck smoothly for ourselves and others, but that is guidance in coming home to an open- and shoulders. It’s no wonder that so many of us have persistent expecting from the hearted presence in the midst of difficul- discomfort and pain in these areas. Healing Yoga for Neck and world something it ty. This book is a compelling and beautiful Shoulder Pain presents simple, yoga-based practices that you cannot give. Ajahn invitation to pause and arrive fully in our can do at work and at home to release muscle tension for im- Brahm, the best- life.” —Tara Brach, author of Radical mediate relief. selling author of Who Acceptance After suffering from chronic neck pain for years, author and Ordered This Also by Allan Lokos is the nifty Pocket yoga therapist Carol Krucoff developed the unique self-care program found in this Truckload of Dung? Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened book. Now you, too, can free yourself from neck pain by practicing simple yoga ex- and Mindfulness, Living. ercises to stretch tight muscles and strengthen weak ones and by learning to properly Bliss, and Beyond, pre- align your body when performing everyday activities that may be contributing to your sents in this new work pain. This fully illustrated, easy to follow guidebook also addresses common problems wisdom for learning that may accompany neck tension, including headaches, upper back pain, and stress. to abandon the head- wind of false expecta- tions and follow in- consent—the information that the subjects stead the path of understanding in order to of medical experiments and novel find true joy within. By releasing our attach- treatments are given to make sure they ment to past and future, hope and fear, we understand the stakes, pro and con. can settle into the stillness underlying all our To me, the benefits unquestionably thoughts and discover the bliss of the pre- outweigh the risks. sent moment.

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New by Jack Kornfield Phillip Moffitt on the Dharma

TEACHINGS OF THE BUDDHA New in EMOTIONAL CHAOS TO CLARITY edited by Jack Kornfield Paperback How to Live More Skillfully, Make Better Decisions, $16.95, paper. Shambhala. 232 pages and Find Purpose in Life This treasury of Buddhist writings draws from the most by Phillip Moffitt popular sources of Indian, Tibetan, Chinese, and Japanese $27.50, cloth. Penguin. 304 pages literature. Some of the earliest recorded sayings of the his- At age 40, Moffitt, owner of Esquire, left to “explore the toric Buddha on the practice of freedom, passages from inner life.” After drifting with no clear direction, he later Indian Buddhist scriptures on the perfection of wis- moved from New York to California, went on many medi- dom, verses from the Tibetan masters on the enlightened tation retreats, underwent Jungian analysis, and founded mind, and songs of praise by Zen teachers on the great val- the Life Balance Institute. Now a meditation teacher at ue of meditation are among the selections. The book also Spirit Rock Center in California, Phillip Moffitt’s previous offers traditional instruction on how to practice sitting book is Dancing with Life. meditation, cultivate calm awareness, and live with com- Grounded in Western psychology and Buddhist phi- passion. losophy, each chapter introduces a mind state that pre- Jack Kornfield, one of the most respected American vents us from living skillfully, narrates stories from Buddhist teachers, has compiled these teachings to impart Moffitt’s hundreds of students and clients, and provides the essence and inspiration of Buddhism to readers of all spiritual traditions. step-by-step exercises for readers to find clarity in their own lives. Among the many As you read the teachings in this book, remember that they are not meant to be benefits of skillful living are being able to gain wisdom from both pleasant and un- philosophy, poetry, or spiritual studies for you to consider. They are words of truth that pleasant experiences and having an inner life that can flourish, even if our outer life can bring you to awakening. Most of these words are so powerful that when they were is filled with difficulty. first spoken, all who were present to hear them were awakened; their eyes and ears Part one, “Practices That Empower You to Achieve Clarity,” helps the reader con- opened, and a true inner freedom was discovered. nect with what matters most. The second section, “Developing Skillful Behaviors,” fo- Go through these pages little by little, savor them in your heart. Let them enter your cuses on goals that enable one to confront life more effectively and authentically. The being and resonate within you, so that you too may be awakened. third part, “Removing the Sources of Chaos,” examines why people behave unskill- This revised and expanded edition—now in a handsome Shambhala Library fully and cause suffering for themselves and others. hardcover as well as two different paperback editions [the teachings of the Buddha Emotional Chaos to Clarity describes emotional chaos as a reaction to negative life sit- have made it into drugstores and airports!]—includes a number of new selections of uations rather than an honest and clear response. He shows how a proactive response, the role of women in Early Buddhism, as well as a broader array of teachings repre- using the skills of mindfulness and intention, can transform life’s challenges into op- senting the full spectrum of Buddhist teachings. portunities for growth. Through Moffitt’s explanations, exercises, and assessments, Jack Kornfield has refreshed this edition with a new afterword. readers can cultivate the practices of “skillful living,” such as learning to let go of ex- pectations, ending the cycle of self-violence, and living life with gratitude. AWAKENING IS REAL New on A Guide to the Deeper Dimensions CD DANCING WITH LIFE of the Inner Journey Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning by Jack Kornfield and Joy in the Face of Suffering $69.95, 8 CDs. Sounds True. 10 hours by Phillip Moffitt Millions of people first learned to meditate through $18.99, paper. Rodale. 336 pages Jack Kornfield’s books, audios, or retreats. Now, with Phillip Moffitt is a mindfulness medita- New in Awakening Is Real, he invites us to journey further. We tion teacher. Dancing with Life is his first Paperback asked this gifted teacher to choose eight of his most book—and it’s a beauty. It is, Jack Kornfield valuable advanced sessions from his decades of audio says, “a book that will be on the reading lists of sincere archives. The result is this superb collection of teachings Buddhist students for generations ahead.” on the very real possibility of awakening in this lifetime. Spanning topics seldom heard In 1987, Moffitt walked away from his successful post as in beginner’s programs, here listeners will explore: the six stages of awakening • editor-in-chief of Esquire: courage, impeccability, and other essential qualities of the spiritual warrior • initiation I had no plans. I did not know what city or even what and surrender • igniting a passion for the immortal and transcendent • facing diffi- country I would be living in, let alone what I would be doing culties on the path • the Buddha’s final insights on “letting go,” and much more. Ten with my time. Had I known that I would spend most of the hours of high octane Dharma! next few years living in various meditation centers in rooms so small that I often could Jack Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma, and India, and has reach out and touch both walls, I might not have so cheerfully left my comfortable taught worldwide since 1974. He is a cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society and Manhattan apartment. the Spirit Rock Meditation Center. For more information, visit jackkornfield.com. For years he lived a moment-to-moment practice of living without goals: “Just now. Just be present in this moment.” Gradually, he learned how to dance with life. THE LANKAVATARA SUTRA rienced for oneself and cannot be ex- Even under the best of circumstances, life is challenging, and much of Translation and Commentary pressed in words. In the words of Chinese the time it is difficult. It is always uncertain, constantly changing, and by Red Pine Zen masters, these two teachings became mostly out of your control. Whether it is taking you on a wonderful ride $34.50, cloth. Counterpoint. 256 pages known as “have a cup of tea” and “taste the or stepping on your toes, life will move you with the rhythm and in the Having translated The Diamond Sutra and tea.” direction of its own unfolding, irregardless of your best intentions. Life The Heart Sutra, and following with The This is the first translation into English dances and you must dance with it. This is the necessary price and Platform Sutra, Red of the original text used by Bodhidharma, Phillip Moffitt mysterious gift of being incarnate—alive in a body… Pine now turns his at- which was the Chinese translation made by Finding a way to be at ease with the dance itself is a crucial skill in tention to perhaps Gunabhadra in 443 and upon which all finding freedom and meaning in life. the greatest Sutra of Chinese Zen masters have relied ever since. Why do we suffer? Is there a purpose to our pain? Can we affect how much we suf- all. The Lankavatara In addition to presenting one of the most fer? Noting how we humans have wrestled with such questions for thousands of years, Sutra is the holy grail difficult of all Buddhist texts in clear Phillip explores the twelve insights that underlie the Buddha’s core teaching of the of Zen. Zen’s First English, Red Pine has also added sum- Four Noble Truths. Patriarch, maries, explanations and notes, including relevant Sanskrit terms on the basis of These twelve insights teach you to dance with both the joy and pain, finding peace in Bodhidharma, gave a a balanced mind and calm spirit. As the most specific, practical life instructions I have copy of this text to his which the Chinese translation was made. ever encountered, they serve as an invaluable tool for anyone who seeks a life filled successor, Hui-k’o, This promises to become an essential text with meaning and well-being. and told him every- for anyone seeking to deepen their under- thing he needed to standing or knowledge of Zen. know was in this expressions of Zen wisdom ever put on pa- tors that represent a Who’s Who of book. Passed down from teacher to student TREASURY OF THE TRUE DHARMA EYE per, and also the most outstanding literary American Zen have produced a transla- ever since, this is the only Zen sutra ever Zen Master Dogen’s Shobo Genzo and philosophical tion of the great work that combines accu- spoken by the Buddha. Although it covers by Dogen, work of Japan. It is a racy with a deep understanding of Dogen’s all the major teachings of Mahayana translated by Kazuaki Tanahashi collection of essays by voice and literary gifts. The finely pro- Buddhism, it contains but two teachings: $176.00, cloth. Shambhala. Eihei Dogen duced, two-volume boxed set includes a that everything we perceive as being real is 1616 pages, 2 volumes in slipcase (1200–1253), founder wealth of materials to aid understanding, nothing but the perceptions of our own Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Shobo of Zen’s Soto school. including maps, lineage charts, a bibliogra- mind, and that the knowledge of this is Genzo in Japanese) is a monumental work, Kazuaki Tanahashi phy, and an exhaustive glossary of names something that must be realized and expe- considered to be one of the profoundest and a team of transla- and terms—and, as a bonus, the most

BRANCHES OF LIGHT ✦ 12 ✦ BANYEN BOOKS & SOUND ✦ BUDDHA STANDARD TIME & NATURAL BRILLIANCE ✦ renowned of all Dogen’s essays, Tibetan Buddhism “Recommending Zazen to All People.” “At long last! A discerning, poetic, and in- Every Breath...with Thich Nhat Hanh timate rendering of Dogen’s true expres- NATURAL BRILLIANCE sion of the dharma. Dogen’s devotees have PEACE IS EVERY BREATH A Buddhist System for Uncovering Your long awaited Tanahashi’s complete transla- A Practice for Our Busy Lives New in Strengths and Letting Them Shine tion of the Shobogenzo into a contempo- by Thich Nhat Hanh Paperback by Irini Rockwell rary and deeply profound version. Those $18.99, paper. HarperCollins. 160 pages $21.50, paper. Shambhala. 188 pages, 7x9 new to the wisdom of this great teacher as Around the world, Thich Nhat Hanh has seen a growing un- Understanding yourself is the key to deal- well as those who treasure him will delight happiness among many people. He’s seen the hectic pace of ing with—and even enjoying—the inevitable in this extraordinary work.”—Pat Enkyo our day-to-day lives taking a deep toll on our “ease of well-be- complexity of life. O’Hara, Abbot of Village Zendo, New York ing.” In response, he sat down to write Peace Is Every Breath, a Irini Rockwell pre- “I am convinced that Zen students will book that makes the core teachings of Buddha accessible for sents us with a power- find this text especially valuable to contem- everyone. In this gentle jewel of a book, Thich Nhat Hanh does ful system for the plate, study, and absorb over the entire not suggest that we escape from reality and put our busy lives on kind of self-under- course of their lifetimes.”—Stephen Addiss, hold—far from it. Instead, he provides the insight and tools we standing that leads to author of The Art of Zen need to incorporate the practice of mindfulness into our just that kind of satis- “For adventuresome Dharma students of every waking moment. He shows us how we can transcend the mad rush of our days fying relationship any tradition… Dogen’s writings offer the and discover within the here and now our own innate ability to experience inner with life. It’s a possibility of a profound exploration into peace and happiness. Buddhist model for the nature of practice, words, intimacy.” — Offering personal anecdotes, meditations, “Gathas for Daily Practice,” and ad- identifying your Inquiring Mind vice for mindfully connecting with our present experience, he guides us around po- unique mix of per- tential pitfalls along the way. We do not need to escape reality, but rather to really con- sonality traits that nect with it, to enjoy the ease and peace that is possible with every breath we take. The make up your innate power of mindfulness can heal us from the suffering caused through the many intelligence. All five qualities—presence, BEYOND HAPPINESS stresses that surround us. Including original calligraphy by Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace clarity, richness, passion, and action—are The Zen Way to True Contentment Is Every Breath is filled with seasoned wisdom-presence and practical advice. your rich resource. By cultivating them by Ezra Bayda This book, Peace Is Every Breath, is a continuation of The Miracle of Mindfulness and you begin to see how you can use this re- $16.95, paper. Shambhala. 176 pages Peace Is Every Step in that it’s a short book, easy to read, and very easy to put into markable system to enhance your relation- Many books have been published in re- practice. I guarantee that you can be in touch with real peace and joy many times each ships, your work, and your creativity. cent years on happiness. Ezra Bayda, a re- day, even if you live a very full schedule. Allow this book to be your companion… Each of us has a primary form of intelli- gence, which we are wise to identify and un- markably Thich Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese Buddhist Zen Master, poet, scholar, and peace ac- derstand. Rockwell includes a detailed self- down-to- tivist. earth Zen assessment quiz to help readers discover teacher (and their wisdom type. We can also learn to cul- AWAKENING OF THE HEART tivate those forms of wisdom that are less author of Essential Buddhist Sutras and Commentaries Being Zen), natural to us and to use them to suit our by Thich Nhat Hanh changing circumstances. Along the way, believes that $45.95, paper. Parallax. 532 pages Rockwell presents useful stories and case the happiness Awakening of the Heart is a comprehensive, single volume studies to illustrate how to put the five wis- “boom” has collection of the Buddha’s key sutras, translated with con- doms teachings to use in personal and pro- been largely a temporary commentary by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. It is fessional life. bust for read- an essential complement to Happiness, his collection of medita- ers. Why? tion and mindful practices released in 2009. Awakening of the I’ve written this book to be interactive. Because it’s Heart captures the heart of Buddhist wisdom and Thich Nhat There’s explanatory text as well as many exercises for you to use to explore these precisely the Hanh’s unique talent to make the Buddha’s pursuit of teachings for yourself. Most of the teachings accessible and applicable to our daily exercises can be done on your own. happiness lives and times. This is a wonderful gift for any- that keeps us one looking to deepen their practice and understanding of the teach- Ultimately, this system introduces us to a trapped in cy- ings, as well as a unique resource to understand the fundamentals of larger world: the totality and interconnect- cles of dissatisfaction and suffering. Buddhism from its source. edness of everyone and everything. In Beyond Happiness, Bayda draws on Zen With a new introduction and updated commentary, Awakening of Irini Rockwell is a senior teacher in the teachings to question our conventional no- the Heart Buddhist lineage of Tibetan meditation tions about what happiness is and where we master Chögyam Trungpa. She is also the Thich Nhat contains the following sutras and their commentaries: can find it. Most of us seek happiness in author of The Five Wisdom Energies: A Hanh Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra, Diamond Sutra, Sutra On Full Awareness things that are external to us. We imagine of Breathing, Sutra On The Four Establishments of Mindfulness, Buddhist Way of Understanding Personalities, that getting more money, a juicier relation- Sutra On the Better Way To Catch a Snake, Sutra On the Better Way to Live Alone, Emotions, and Relationships. For more infor- ship, or going on that awesome vacation will Sutra On the Eight Realizations of The Great Beings, the Sutra on Happiness, and the mation, visit fivewisdomsinstitute.com. finally make us happy. But Bayda shows us Sutra on the Middle Way. that the deepest and most lasting form of happiness does not rely on external cir- There are many Buddhist sutras, but those compiled here are your foundation. These BUDDHA STANDARD TIME cumstance at all. Bayda offers Zen insights are the sutras to keep under your pillow, always with you. These sutras will shine light on the essence of living in an awakened way as taught by the Buddha. In them you will Awakening to the Infinite and practices that point readers toward New in discover the true nature of all that is taking place in the present moment... Possibilities of Now the true sources of lasting happiness: Read one of these sutras slowly to discover its deepest meaning. These sutras are by Lama Surya Das Paperback mindfulness, compassion, gratitude, and thousands of years old, but it is only by relating them to your own real-life experience $18.99, paper. HarperCollins. generosity. that they come alive. 224 pages Students often judge meditation periods We’re all given the same 24 hours a day. as bad if they can’t focus, or if they don’t PATH OF COMPASSION We can spend our time feeling harried and hurried, over- feel good. But one of the great benefits of Stories from the Buddha’s Life meditation comes from persevering whelmed by chores by Thich Nhat Hanh anyway, regardless of how we feel. and demands, dis- $14.95, paper. Parallax. Eventually, a learning and a settling will tracted and burned 128 pages, b/w illustrations begin to take place. And gradually, the out… or we can Path of Compassion is a collection of key stories from Thich sense of presence and equanimity that is awaken to “Buddha cultivated through a daily meditation Nhat Hanh’s classic Old Path White Clouds. It tells the fasci- Standard Time,” the practice begins to be infused into our nating life story of Prince Siddhartha, who left his family and realm of timelessness everyday living. renounced his carefully guarded life, and after many years of where every choice, spiritual seeking became the Buddha, the Enlightened One. “Bayda’s writing is straightforward and his every action, and Far more than the description of an unusual life story, it serves wisdom hard-earned. When he tells us that every breath can be as an enjoyable, compelling, and informative introduction to he himself was ‘born with a fairly low set one of renewal and Buddhism by conveying its most important teachings in a com- point for happiness,’ you get the feeling infinite possibilities. pact and accessible format. that Bayda understands what it is that gets Buddha Standard Thich Nhat Hanh’s ability to show the Buddha as a person who deals with the same people stuck and, having learned a few Time shares one of the great realizations of life issues as we do is unique and unsurpassed. This book combines the description of things himself over years of practice, that Buddhism, an insight that anyone can learn the major life stages of the Buddha with his most important teachings. Reaching far his only agenda for Beyond Happiness is to to apply. The minutes and hours of our days beyond the biography genre Path of Compassion is a highly readable and informative help people find their own way. do not simply march from future to present introduction to Buddhism, written in language accessible to readers of all ages and Fortunately for readers, he’s a trustworthy to past. Rather, each moment is intersected levels of experience. guide.”—Tricycle Magazine by a fourth dimension. By learning to live in

BRANCHES OF LIGHT ✦ 13 ✦ BANYEN BOOKS & SOUND ✦ TIBETAN BUDDHISM ✦ this dimension—Buddha Standard Time— we reduce the amount of stress in our lives and find greater focus, fulfillment, creativi- Pema & Shambhala Love ty, and even wisdom. Drawing on Tibetan Buddhism and oth- AWAKENING LOVE Pema Chödrön brings her unique blend of er great wisdom traditions, as well as on Teachings & Practices to New on kitchen-table common sense, scholarship, and neuroscience, Surya Das shares real world Cultivate a Limitless Heart CD empathy to help you discover the resilience and examples, practical exercises, and essen- by Pema Chödrön joy of your own tender, undefended, and gen- tial techniques. The pace and pressure of $69.95, 8 CDs. Sounds True. 9 hours uine heart. Whether you’re in the midst of a chal- today’s “whirled” can feel relentless. Yet, he Do you want to connect with others more lenging relationship, grief, or simply in need of says: deeply, but feel you could use a little help shed- heart-centered rejuvenation, Awakening Love of- As you progress through the book, you ding the “emotional armor” and opening your fers gentle reflections and step-by-step instruc- will find your notions of time and self heart? tions to awaken the natural goodness within you. undergoing a change… In Buddha On Awakening Love, Pema Chödrön invites you Highlights: Standard Time you will come to realize to start wherever you are, amid any and all of the ✦ The Four Qualities or Limitless Ones, the that, in spite of your hectic days, you have challenges, frustrations, or fears you may be fac- roots of suffering, and expanding the capacity much more time than you think. In fact, ing, and to use them as the starting place to awaken the natural to love you have all the time in the world. and boundless capacity to give and receive love more fully. ✦ Seeing where we’re blocked and bringing lovingkindness to “Das (founder of the Western Buddhist This practice-centered program, recorded at Gampo Abbey our biases and fears Teachers Network) is a media-savvy sort of in Nova Scotia, will teach you how to apply the insights of ✦ Aspiration practice, “not faking it,” unblocking the flow of love, modern-day lama. Buddha Standard Time Buddhism’s Four “Limitless Ones”—lovingkindness, compassion, and benefactors suggests we have fallen out of step with the sympathetic joy, and equanimity—to even your most difficult obsta- ✦ Changing our attitude toward pain, working with anger, com- essences of natural time. Written with un- cles. passionate abiding, tonglen, and “making friends with the hard usual clarity and directness, this work ad- What if you could open to that frustration, just for a moment, stuff” ✦ dresses itself effectively to the needs of mod- to discover not just where love is free flowing… but where it’s Meditations and practices for receiving unconditional love, ern readers and should appeal both to not? That is how we all begin to uncover the soft spot within. resting in natural awareness, cultivating gratitude and sympa- individual seekers and practicing Western thetic joy, opening to the world, and more. Buddhists.” —Library Journal ✦ Surya Das, one of the most accessible A LITTLE BOOK OF LOVE Listening and speaking with love ✦ Western Buddhist teachers, has trained in Heart Advice on Bringing Loving and letting go. the Dzogchen tradition. Among his other Happiness to Ourselves and Our Good communication lies at the heart of a healthy books are Awakening the Buddha Within and World relationship, and like learning to dance, Buddha Is As Buddha Does. by Moh Hardin communication requires space and time... When we $17.95, cloth. Shambhala. 144 pages flash generosity, in little drops, we are letting go of In the Buddhist tradition, love is not just a feeling manipulation. In little drops, we are daring to be but a way of being present with ourselves and others. open. In little drops, we are learning to love more THE MIND’S OWN PHYSICIAN deeply. A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama This book offers practical advice on how to cultivate on the Healing Power love, how to deepen it, and how to let it flower in our Hardin ultimately introduces the inspiring idea of Meditation lives. of becoming a “bodhisattva warrior,” a person who edited by Jon Kabat-Zinn We may feel great love for our partners, our chil- commits to living open-heartedly and working to & Richard Davidson dren, and our friends, but how do we put that love ease the suffering of the world. Written with un- $27.95, paper. New Harbinger. into action so that others are nurtured by it? And usual clarity, simplicity, and warmth, this little book 266 pages, 16 colour photos what about loving ourselves? How can we develop contains a wealth of wisdom and guidance that By often inviting the Dalai Lama and greater self-acceptance and self-compassion? could change your life. leading researchers in medicine, psycholo- Meditation teacher Moh Hardin offers key insights and practices “A wonderfully heartfelt and heart-centered manual that gy, and neu- from the Buddhist tradition. shows how love can be fully do-able and be-able by all of us. I roscience to Topics include: found this little book big in wisdom and deeply encouraging.” — ✦ join in con- Simple Buddhist practices for awakening the heart David Richo, author of How to Be an Adult in Relationships ✦ versation, the How and why to become your own best friend Moh Hardin is a senior teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist lin- ✦ Mind & Life Finding freedom from destructive patterns in relationships eage. Institute sets the stage for THE BUDDHA WALKS INTO A BAR Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. Examples are drawn a fascinating A Guide to Life for a New Generation from situations that might be encountered by 20- exploration by Lodro Rinzler somethings coping with work and relationship chal- of the heal- $16.95, paper. Shambhala. 210 pages lenges; practices are included. ing potential This isn’t your grandmother’s book on meditation. It’s about taking these traditional teachings that have of the human been tried and tested over thousands of years and Can the younger generation discover Buddhism saying, “I am going to try to live my day with a bit mind. The more easily if Siddhartha Gautama is referred to as Mind’s Own more compassion,” or, “I’m going to slow down a bit Sid? That is an open question in this guide by and enjoy my life.” You don’t have to change you. You Physician Rinzler, a 28-year-old teacher in the Shambhala presents in are great. This book is just about how to live your life Buddhist tradition. Aiming at young people who to the fullest. its entirety “like to have a beer once in a while, enjoy sex, have the thir- This book is about integrating that “spiritual prac- figured out that parents are crazy, or get frustrated tice” thing into a real everyday life. It’s about making teenth Mind at work,” Rinzler explores classic Buddhist tech- and Life dialogue, a 2005 discussion ad- a difference in yourself and making a difference in niques and concepts such as shamatha (calm abid- your world—whether you’ve got everything figured dressing a range of vital questions con- ing) and vipashyana (insight) meditation, the five cerning the science and clinical applica- out yet or not. Lodro Rinzler is a bright and funny kleshas (afflictive emotions), and the six paramitas (perfections). young teacher with a knack for showing how the Buddhist tions of meditation: How do meditative His lens for doing so is the “four dignities” (tiger, snow lion, garu- practices influence pain and human suffer- teachings can have a positive impact on every little nook and da, and dragon) of Shambhala Buddhism, based on teachings by cranny of your life—whether you’re interested in being a ing? What role does the brain play in emo- Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and currently led by his son tional well-being and health? To what ex- Buddhist or not. tent can our minds actually influence physical disease? Are there important syner- gies here for transforming healthcare, and Davidson, this book presents this remark- THE SEVEN-POINT MIND TRAINING sents one eminently practical way of tap- for understanding our own evolutionary ably dynamic interchange along with in- A Tibetan Method for Cultivating Mind ping into that meaning. limitations as a species? triguing research findings that shed light and Heart The central theme of The Seven-Point Contributors include Ajahn Amaro, Wolf on the nature of the mind, its capacity to re- by B. Alan Wallace Mind Training is to make the liberating Singer, Robert Sapolsky, Zindel Segal, fine itself through training, and its role in $18.95, paper. Snow Lion. 148 pages passage from the constricting solitude of Helen Mayberg, Alan Wallace, David Sheps, physical and emotional health. In this society with its crazy pace demand- self-centeredness to the warm kinship John Sheridan, and Ralph Snyderman, in “The Mind’s Own Physician lets us eaves- ing our time, it is ever so easy to let life slip with others which occurs with the cultiva- concert with the Dalai Lama. A closing drop on a fascinating conversation at the by. The process of simply existing is not nec- tion of cherishing others even more than chapter also summarizes some of the excit- frontier of science and spirituality, medi- essarily meaningful. And yet, there is an un- oneself. ing new developments that have taken place cine and meditation. Anyone who cares limited potential for meaning and value in This mind training technique is especial- in the science and clinical applications of about well-being and health will find both this human existence. The Seven-Point Mind ly well suited for an active life. It does not meditation in the years since 2005. news and wisdom here.” —Daniel Training (a new edition of a book previous- require that we withdraw into seclusion, Edited by world-renowned meditation Goleman, author of The Brain and ly published as A Passage from Solitude) pre- but that we re-examine all of our relation- researchers Jon Kabat-Zinn and Richard J. Emotional Intelligence ships—to family, friends, enemies, and

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Taoism, Ch’i control of your physical, mental, and spiri- tual health and live a long and healthy life. Trungpa & Son, Rinpoches & the Martial Arts In Simple Chi Kung, Taoist master Mantak Chia distills thousands of Chi CHÖGYAM TRUNGPA SIMPLE CHI KUNG Kung practices into one simple daily rou- His Life and Vision New in Exercises for Awakening tine perfect for beginners and ideal as a by Fabrice Midal Paperback the Life-Force Energy warm-up to more advanced practices. $27.95, paper. Shambhala. by Mantak Chia & Lee Holden Designed to relax our muscles, loosen the 576 pages, 23 b/w photos $18.95, paper. Inner Traditions. joints, improve circulation, and develop Chögyam Trungpa is virtually synonymous with the 132 pages, colour photos flexibility, strength, resiliency, and supple- transmission of Tibetan Buddhism to the West. Over Practicing Chi Kung allows us to visit our ness, the gentle, flowing movements of Chi the course of his seventeen-year teaching career in place of inner vitality and harmony, clearing Kung mirror the movements of nature and North America, Trungpa ushered in a radically new ap- physical and help practitioners connect to their own in- proach to spirituality—both rooted in the ancient wis- mental stress, ner flow of chi, clearing blockages and stag- dom of the buddhadharma and thoroughly situated in detoxifying nation in our life-force energy and tapping the contemporary world. His teachings, grounded in the body and into our natural powers of healing and dis- what he called the “Shambhala vision,” focused on the mind, and ease prevention. development of an enlightened society through the helping us re- Walking readers step-by-step through transformation of ordinary, everyday life into sacred ac- turn to our each exercise, from movement work with tivity. natural state the knees, hips, and spine to internal ener- Steering between Western biography and tradition- of abundant gy work through controlled breathing, al Tibetan hagiography, Fabrice Midal takes you on a health, calm- Master Chia explains how daily practice of soaring journey through Trungpa’s life and teachings. Touching on all of the most ness, and Chi Kung cultivates life-force energy, a momentous events, this series of glimpses into Chögyam Trungpa’s world provides a mental clarity. stronger immune system, emotional bal- rare view on the formation of Trungpa’s thought and the remarkable body of teach- An ideal com- ance, and spiritual awareness, transforming ings and writings that remain as his legacy. Included are accounts of: plement to the patterns and assumptions that limit our ✦ Chögyam Trungpa’s education in Tibet under the tutelage of great tantric masters, the treatment body and mind as well as enhancing our like Jamgön Kongtrül of Sechen and Khenpo Gangshar of chronic connection to nature and the universe. ✦ The founding of landmark centers for Buddhist practice and education, such as the pain, asthma, Mantak Chia founded the Universal Naropa Institute (now Naropa University), Karmê Chöling, and the Rocky Mountain diabetes, high Healing Tao System in 1979. Among his Dharma Center (now the Shambhala Mountain Center) blood pressure, headaches, and even heart books are Chi Self-Massage and The Multi- ✦ Trungpa’s historic meeting with the sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa in 1974, the first-ever disease and cancer, Chi Kung is a way to take Orgasmic Man. visit of the Karmapa to America ✦ Behind-the-scenes stories of Trungpa’s most treasured writings, including Meditation in Action, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, and Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior. . . and much more Al Huang on Tai Chi

RUNNING WITH THE MIND OF MEDITATION ESSENTIAL TAI JI Lessons for Training the Body and the Mind by Chungliang Al Huang by Sakyong Mipham $19.95, paper. Singing Dragon. $24.00, cloth. Crown. 208 pages 78 pages, colour photos throughout This unique fitness program from a highly respected First published over twenty years ago, this classic book spiritual leader blends physical and spiritual practice. distills the basics of the art of Tai Ji, lovingly presented in By paying attention to how your mind and body feel, eloquent writing, and accompanied by splendid full- you are empowering both yourself and your running. colour photography and beautiful calligraphy. Developing this respect for mind and body changes Master dancer, brush calligrapher, running from simple exercise to a journey of discovery and bamboo flute player and philosopher growth. Respecting how you feel during your run allows Chungliang Al Huang shares the basic you to appreciate who you are in the very life you are movements of Tai Ji—and its relation- leading. ships with nature, space and time— As a Tibetan lama and leader of Shambhala (an inter- alongside stunning, inspirational pho- national community of 165 meditation centers), tography by Si Chi Ko. The book promotes strength, relaxation and Sakyong Mipham has found physical clarity, as Master Huang teaches how to unify mind and body, achiev- activity to be essential for spiritual Al Huang ing a healthier and more fulfilling state of being. In doing so, he well-being. He’s been trained in horsemanship and martial arts but touches on everything from the origins and meanings of Tai Ji to the has a special love for running. Here he incorporates his spiritual vocabulary, basic moves, practice, and the Tai Ji dance. practice with running, presenting basic meditation instruction and This beautiful and inspiring book has an essential place in any Tai Ji library, and will fundamental principles he has developed. Even though both activi- be of interest to students, scholars, academics, professionals, and the general reader. ties can be complicated, the lessons here are simple and designed to Also by Al Huang: Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain. Sakyong show how the melding of internal practice with physical movement Mipham can be used by anyone—regardless of age, spiritual background, or ability—to benefit body and soul. EMBRACE TIGER, RETURN TO MOUNTAIN This book is not a training manual, but a guide to integrating particular elements of The Essence of Tai Ji meditation into the activity of running. I offer basic meditation instruction and explain by Chungliang Al Huang those fundamental principles I have found helpful in running. I also give some pithy $19.95, paper. Singing Dragon. instructions and some themes that might be helpful in integrating running with the 192 pages, illustrations throughout mind of meditation. Also by Sakyong Mipham are Ruling Your World and Turning Your Mind into an Ally. To work with Al Huang is to learn to move with wind and water... in the course of everyday life... a truly superior and gifted teacher who works upon others as the sun and rain upon plants. strangers—and provide an eternal wellspring of joy in our —From the foreword by Alan Watts, one of the great gradually trans- lives that allows us to be more and more writers of Comparative Philosophy and Religion and Taoist form our re- effective in relieving the distress of others and Zen literature and bringing them to a state of greater sponses to First published in 1973, this all-time classic of Tai Ji lit- contentment and well-being. whatever life erature remains as fresh and illuminating today as when throws our way. B. Alan Wallace trained for many years as it was first published. Written with true passion and eloquence, the book richly con- The core a monk in Buddhist monasteries in India veys the subtle yet profound principles underlying Tai Ji. Movement, stillness, joy- of Dharma and Switzerland. He has served as inter- fulness, and the ability to live in the moment are the threads running through the practice is preter for numerous Tibetan scholars and text, as well as the humor and compassion to acknowledge the impossibility of human to find contemplatives, including H.H. the Dalai perfection. Containing the original foreword by Alan Watts, the book is illustrated whatever Lama. He has published many books on with beautiful calligraphy by the author, and photographs by Si Chi Ko, one of China’s works to Tibetan Buddhism, including Buddhism “National Treasures.” bring about with an Attitude and The Four This timeless masterpiece is essential reading for anybody interested in Taoism, Tai a more Immeasurables. wholesome Ji, or the Tao philosophy of “Living Our Own Tao,” and the author is a wonderful, dra- way of life. matic, and inspiring presence throughout the book. It can

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The Visual Tao Reborn Egoscue’s Pain Free Work

TAO TE CHING PAIN FREE by Lao Tsu, A Revolutionary Method for Stopping Chronic Pain translated by Gia-Fu Feng by Pete Egoscue, with Roger Gittines and Jane English with Toinette Lippe $20.00, paper. Bantam. 296 pages, b/w photos $25.00, paper. Vintage. Egoscue’s breakthrough system for eliminating chronic pain Unnumbered pages, 8x11, b/w photos without drugs, surgery, or expensive physical therapy is leg- $14.95, paper. 109 pages, text only endary—it has worked where nothing else did. Developed by Know the strength of a man, Pete Egoscue, a physiologist and sports injury consultant to But keep a woman’s care! many top athletes, the Egoscue Method has a 95 percent suc- Be the stream of the universe! cess rate. The key is a series of gentle exercises and care- fully constructed stretches called E-cises. Inside you’ll find The Tao Te Ching, written in China about six hundred detailed photographs and step-by-step instructions for years before Christ, has been translated into English more dozens of e-cizes specifically designed to provide quick and often than any other book except the Bible. It expresses lasting relief of: and articulates the dynamic of a natural wisdom applicable to all circumstances of life; ✦ Lower back pain, hip problems, sciatica, and bad knees it’s as useful for individual awakening as it is pertinent to social and business life. ✦ Carpal tunnel syndrome and even some forms of arthritis Teaching without words and working without doing ✦ Migraines and other headaches, stiff neck, fatigue, sinus problems, vertigo, and Are understood by very few. TMJ * ✦ Shin splints, varicose veins, sprained or weak ankles, and many foot ailments In the pursuit of learning, something is acquired every day. ✦ Bursitis, tendinitis, and rotator cuff problems In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is relinquished. ✦ Plus special preventive programs for maintaining health through the entire body. Since 1972, this translation of the Tao Te Ching has been the standard for those seek- Pete Egoscue has shown thousands of individuals, corporations, schools, and cham- ing access to the wisdom of Taoist thought. Now Jane English and her long-time edi- pionship sports teams how to eliminate pain without investing in expensive ergonom- tor, Toinette Lippe, have refreshed and revised the translation, so that it more faith- ic devices or resorting to surgery or drug therapies. fully reflects the Classical Chinese in which it was first written, while taking into Filled with easy instructions, photos, and line illustrations throughout, Pain Free account changes in our own language and eliminating any lingering infelicities. will provide quick, effective pain relief—if you do the work. Green plants are tender and filled with sap. At their death they are withered and dry. PAIN FREE LIVING The Egoscue Method for Strength, Book Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. & DVD The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life. Harmony, and Happiness by Pete Egoscue This Tao is published in two editions: a compact text-only edition and a beautiful $21.95. Sterling. 165-page paperback, oversized edition which features over a hundred black-and-white photographs by b/w illustrations + 90-minute DVD Jane English that help express the vast spirit of the Tao. Also included is an intro- Pete Egoscue takes his world-renowned program of pos- duction by the scholar of philosophy and religion, Jacob Needleman. tural therapy—which treats chronic musculoskeletal pain In Toinette’s words: without drugs, surgery, or manipulation—to a whole new Lao Tsu’s philosophy is simple: Accept what is in front of you without wanting the level. Using Eastern religions as a guide, Egoscue explores situation to be other than it is. Study the natural order of things and work with it rather the mental and emotional, as well as physiological, than against it, for to try to change what is only sets up resistance... If we watch processes of his Method. Egoscue’s unique system has carefully, we will see that work proceeds more quickly and easily if we stop “trying,” if transformed the wellbeing of hundreds of thousands of we stop putting in so much extra effort, if we stop looking for results. In the clarity of a people through personalized stretches and exercises that still and open mind, truth will be reflected. Te—which may be translated as “virtue” or strengthen specific muscles, restore proper alignment, and “strength”—lies always in Tao meaning “the way” or “natural law.” In other words: leave the body feeling the way it was designed to be: pain Simply be. free. With a 90-minute DVD showing the exercises and much more, Pain Free Living BAGUA AND TAI CHI According to the National Center for will be a treasured resource for learning how our body can function the way it was Exploring the Potential of Chi, Martial Complementary and Alternative Medicine, designed to be: pain free. the 2.3 million Americans who currently Arts, Meditation and the I Ching The Egoscue Method—my life’s work—delivers results because it rests on trust that by Bruce Frantzis practice tai chi report improved sleep, con- stems from how the patient really feels. Those feelings are always right. $23.95, paper. North Atlantic. ditioning, and overall wellness. Bagua and 216 pages, 7x9, b/w illustrations Tai Chi offers a gentle healing and strength- In Bagua and Tai Chi, noted teacher ening system that will appeal to a wide au- and how these tiny Bruce Frantzis demonstrates through these dience, including martial artists, medita- ANNI’S CANCER COMPANION constituents of the two impor- tors, dancers and athletes, personal An A–Z of Treatments, Therapies body communi- tant prac- trainers, and anyone looking to reduce and Healing cate, connect, and tices what is stress and increase calmness and clarity by Anni Matthews touch. Alongside required to through an effective, low-impact body prac- $18.95, paper. Singing Dragon. 288 pages this biological develop tice. When Anni Matthews was diagnosed with backdrop, they’ll and em- Among Bruce Frantzis’s other books are cancer, she decided to do something really find fresh mind- body high Opening the Energy Gates of Your Body and valuable with the body imagery, in- levels of The Power of Internal Martial Arts. experience: she sights, and energiz- chi flow. produced a book ing healing Inside the that is a friendly BodyMind Healing techniques that will slow-mo- companion for take them on a tion move- those who must deep inner journey. ments of tai RESONANCE face the disease. chi is a so- Nine Practices for Harmonious This book is Of huge practi- phisticated Health and Vitality about going deeper in your own spiritual cal help to anyone by Joyce Hawkes practice to become an exceptional healer diagnosed with mind/body/spirit practice. Derived from $24.95, cloth. Hay House. for yourself or potentially for others. cancer and those the I Ching (Book of Changes), bagua is 210 pages, colour photos I encourage you to explore for yourself. who care for unique in its circular movements, spiraling In Resonance, respected cell biologist and I encourage you to trust yourself. them, this book is energy, and unpredictable changes of direc- healing facilitator Joyce Hawkes (who pre- Throughout the book, Hawkes also de- a one-stop guide tion. viously wrote Cell-Level Healing: The Bridge scribes the profound, numinous experi- to making sense Frantzis begins with an overview of both from Soul to Cell) offers a rich distillation of ences she shared with shamans, priests, and and use of the or- bagua and tai chi and their origins in science, spirit, and storytelling. Detailed healers. Each chapter is presented as a cou- thodox treatments, complementary thera- Chinese culture, followed by comprehen- with Joyce’s experiences studying shamanic plet—two words, two related ideas that to- pies, and psychological, spiritual and holis- sive advice on how to incorporate these healing in South East Asia and stories of the gether provide a simple, grounded starting tic options available. Subjects ranging from practices into daily Western life. Written in people she has assisted back to health, this place for a personal practice of health and the most current major advances in treat- an easy, conversational style, the book pro- book will allow readers to explore their own vitality. Resonance gives readers valuable ments and diagnosis to the small but effec- vides an explanation of an art that is prac- ability to heal at every level. They will dis- tools to enhance their health at the cell-lev- tive ways of relieving the side-effects are ex- ticed by millions in China to release stress cover current research and fascinating el, their spirit at the soul-level, and their plained clearly and concisely, often with and maintain a vigorous level of health. findings about the language of their cells consciousness at the mystery-level. humour and always with warmth. The book

BRANCHES OF LIGHT ✦ 16 ✦ BANYEN BOOKS & SOUND ✦ HEALING ENERGIES, CHAKRAS & HERBS ✦ includes more than 150 entries, from A is With step-by-step guidance, Anodea for Acupuncture and C is for Judith teaches: Chemotherapy to M is for Meditation and R Healing Touch ✦ An opening warm-up to get our energy go- is for Radiotherapy, and much more ing Written by a bright, articulate woman, HEALING TOUCH ✦ Seven yoga-based sun salutations to acti- who was determined to have an informed Essential Energy Medicine for Yourself and Others vate, open, and balance each chakra say in what happened to her, Anni’s Cancer by Dorothea Hover-Kramer ✦ A savasana cool-down to integrate and sta- Companion marks a new generation of $16.95, paper. Sounds True. bilize awakened energy flow books about cancer. It is that rare thing: a 236 pages, b/w photos ✦ Insight into the meaning and function of reference book that is human. Healing Touch is one of the most accepted and wide- each chakra during the movements, to “The whole approach of this book is to spread energy-healing modalities in the world. With more bring the information directly into the explore possibilities, at a time when it is easy than a hundred hospitals in the US and Canada using en- body. to give up hope. As such it is a remarkable ergy medicine as part of their regular care, the number of Anodea Judith has taught this practice at achievement, and something that every can- people who have learned Healing Touch has surpassed yoga conferences and workshops around cer victim should have. 100,000 and several thousand have become certified prac- the world, and students have been asking Each individual will find some of the titioners. her for a home practice DVD. Chakra items not to their taste, but Anni has not dis- This practical guidebook is the first to give instruction in Awakening provides it—a movement-based criminated in any way, nor does she aim to some of the foundational and easily learned methods in an workout and bridge between spirit and push a particular type of philosophy. introductory format. Presented by founding elder Dr. body via the sacred center of our being. Professor Karol Sikora says ‘this is a book I’d Dorothea Hover-Kramer, Healing Touch takes readers Anodea Judith is author of several classics want if I were diagnosed with cancer’—and through 18 fundamental exercises for applying this scientifically validated energy on the chakra system, such as the book I could not agree more.” —Health Matters medicine for yourself and others. Wheels of Life and the DVD The Illuminated Starting with the theory and research behind it, Dr. Hover-Kramer proceeds to “give Chakras. us a taste of HT compassion in action,” through case studies and practices that address TRANSFORMING THE NATURE such key arenas as emergencies, family relationships, self-care, life transitions great and small, and perhaps most importantly, the alleviation of physical discomfort and OF HEALTH THE HERBAL LORE OF WISE WOMEN anxiety. Learn the preliminary yet critical steps of Centering and Grounding, AND WORTCUNNERS A Holistic Vision of Healing That Honors Magnetic Passes to restore balance to the human vibrational matrix, Laser and The Healing Power of Medicinal Plants Our Connection to the Earth, Ultrasound for acute pain relief, special interventions for trauma release, and much Others, and Ourselves by Wolf Storl more. $33.00, paper. North Atlantic. 364 pages by Marcey Shapiro “This is a superb book! Your hands can be powerful tools for healing. While our an- $21.50, paper. North Atlantic. 296 pages Traditional herbalists or wise women cestors knew this well, we have forgotten. Healing Touch is a wonderful guide for re- were not only good botanists or pharmacol- A provocative blend of personal memoir, embracing your natural healing abilities. It shows you how to use your hands to bol- new science, and philosophical treatise, this ogists; they ster the energies that are at the foundation of health.” were also book presents a —Donna Eden, coauthor of Energy Medicine fresh model for shamanic healing by re- practitioners HEALING TOUCH MEDITATIONS and keepers thinking our re- Guided Energy Practices to Awaken lationships with New on of occult Healing Energy for Yourself and Others CD knowledge one another, the by Cynthia Hutchison natural world, about the $19.95, 2 CDs. Sounds True. 2 hours powerful our bodies, and Healing Touch has been embraced by both the main- our innermost properties of stream medical community and holistic health practitioners. plants. selves. Dr. Not only has it been clinically demonstrated to be an effec- Marcey Shapiro Traveling tive way to support physical, mental, and emotional well- back to the focuses on elimi- ness—Healing Touch empowers people to take an active role nating us/them healing arts in caring for their own health. of the an- or friend/enemy With Healing Touch Meditations, Cynthia Hutchison brings you three foundation- dichotomies, cient al practices for using Healing Touch to cleanse, balance, and energize your body’s Egyptians, shifting instead subtle energy system. Drawing from the same training material used to certify to a model based on enduring values of Greeks, and Healing Touch practitioners worldwide, this respected teacher invites you to learn Romans, love, compassion, harmony, and peace. more about: Throughout the book she reevaluates ✦ The Herbal Lore of Wise Women and Centering, Grounding, Attuning—a key three-part practice for preparing for a heal- Wortcunners takes readers deep into this prevailing cultural beliefs about the causes ing session, staying present and focused, and maintaining inner harmony and meaning of illness and offers a vision ✦ world, through the leechcraft of heathen The Self-Chakra Method—how to tune into and balance your body’s seven energy society and witches’ herb bundles to the for a different type of societal under- centers to address specific conditions standing of health with a new view of the ✦ cloister gardens of the Middle Ages. It also The Hara Alignment Method—a technique that connects all four dimensions of your examines herbal medicine today in the tra- possible role of medicine in healing. energetic being to the higher source of healing energy Interweaving inspiring anecdotes from her ✦ ditional Chinese apothecary, the Indian How Healing Touch can be used to enhance any conventional healing practice, en- ayurvedic system, homeopathy, and Native experiences of the natural world, in medical ergy medicine, or spiritual healing modality. training and practice, and with mystical ex- American medicine. ploration, Dr. Shapiro includes examples The great thing about Healing Touch is that it is universal and non-dogmatic. All that Balancing the mystical with the practi- of medical advances that honor our inter- you need is a compassionate heart, willing hands, and some basic knowledge. cal, author Wolf Storl explains how to be- connectedness and provides practical Whether you are a healing professional who wants to complement your practice, or come an herbalist, from collecting materi- tools like breathing techniques, tips for self- you are looking for a proven energy medicine method to enhance your own health, al to distilling and administering examination, and methods for expanding Healing Touch Meditations brings you guided practices to activate your own capacity medicines. He includes authoritative advice awareness. to transmit healing energy for yourself and others. on herb gardening, as well as a holistic in- Transforming the Nature of Health traces ventory of plants used for purposes both be- the roots of the matter/spirit split in con- nign and malign, from herbs for cooking, temporary science and medicine, evaluating Healing Energies, Healing Herbs Using seven healing, beauty, and body care to psyche- its constraints as a paradigm for us as evolv- variations on delic plants, witches’ salves for opening al- ing beings. Dr. Shapiro presumes that we the classic sun ternative realities, and poisonous herbs that are much more than our physical bodies CHAKRA AWAKENING salutations, can induce madness or cause death. Storl and asks readers to join in co-creating a Seven Sun Salutations to this practice also describes traditional “women’s plants” new language and new science that express Activate Your Energy Centers teaches how and their uses: dyeing cloth, spinning and the whole of our miraculous existence. by Anodea Judith to tone, awak- weaving, or whipping up love potions. The $19.95, DVD. Sounds True. 1 hour She suggests that this book, ultimately, en, and align Herbal Lore of Wise Women and Wortcunners “Yoga offers the most di- each of our is written for professional and amateur is an invitation to imagine together the New on rect access to your chakras,” energy cen- herbalists as well as gardeners, urban home- role of healing in a world that understands teaches Anodea Judith. “If DVD that divine Love is the underlying ters with the steaders, and plantspeople interested in you’re a student of chakra substance that makes up physical reality. integrative these rich ancient traditions. healing, yoga is a practice that accelerates Woven within and through this remains principles of We are asked to consider what herbs the original inspiration of kindness toward the healing process, through aligning ener- yoga. Suitable really are, what our relationship to plants all beings: insects, plants, animals, and gies at your core.” With her new instruc- for all levels, is all about, and why plants heal. We are even microorganisms. I welcome you to tional DVD Chakra Awakening, healer and beginning introduced to astrology, alchemy, and the join me in exploring our magnificent spiritual teacher Anodea Judith merges and advanced doctrine of signatures in reference to our world of love, health, and meaning. yoga and energy healing into one ground- practitioners alike will quickly learn to tap relation with plants. It’s a full feast. —from breaking new video program. into the healing power of these sessions. the foreword by Rosemary Gladstar

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THE FUNGAL PHARMACY Medicinal Mushrooms and Lichens of North America Somatic Bodywork Pioneers by Robert Rogers AWAKENING SOMATIC INTELLIGENCE Recounting her own struggle with chronic pain, $34.00, paper. North Atlantic. The Art and Practice of Embodied Kaparo begins with a moving description of her 592 pages, 8x10, 200 colour photos Mindfulness journey from crippling pain to renewed health and In The Fungal Pharmacy, noted herbalist by Risa Kaparo, forewords by aliveness. Kaparo introduces the concepts and char- Robert Rogers introduces readers to more Rick Hanson & James Oschman acteristics of Somatic Learning, a method that grew than 300 $24.95, paper. North Atlantic. out of her personal healing experience. species of 352 pages, photos & illustrations Incorporating the latest brain research in mindful- medicinal Awakening Somatic Intelligence: The Art and ness and neuroplasticity, the book presents breath- mushrooms Practice of Embodied Mindfulness offers a guide to ing exercises; postures and stretches for morning and lichens Somatic Learning, an innovative body-oriented and bedtime; instructions for integrating mindful- found in approach that incorporates mindfulness, visual- ness practice into one’s daily life; and ways of deep- North ization, breathing exercises, postures, and stretch- ening the practice through touch and caring inter- America. es. Developed by author, psychotherapist, and poet action with others. Enhanced with over 100 detailed These fungi, Risa Kaparo, Somatic Learning is based on leading- instructional photos and illustrations, the book in- Rogers ex- edge research demonstrating the power of the mind to activate cludes inspiring case stories and the author’s own expressive po- plains, have physiological, mental, and emotional healing. Kaparo has suc- etry that illuminate the healing power of this practice. the capacity cessfully used her approach with patients suffering from chronic “Dr. Kaparo’s book represents the forefront of mindfulness, to heal both pain, high blood pressure, and mood disorders including de- psychology, neuroplasticity, body awareness, and self-healing— the body pression and anxiety. integrated into practices that anyone will enjoy and deeply ben- and, through efit from.” —Shakti Gawain, author of Creative Visualization the process of myco-re- MEET YOUR BODY has developed a focus on the inseparable connection mediation, the planet itself. Throughout A Rolfer’s Guide to Releasing Bodymindcore Trauma between our minds and our bodies, our bodymind- the book, he documents their success in by Noah Karrasch core. Guiding the reader through the various hinges optimizing the immune system and treat- $22.95, paper. Singing Dragon. of the body, from the big toe to the hip to the head, ing a wide range of acute and chronic dis- 234 pages, 30 b/w illustrations the author shows how learning to isolate and stretch eases, including cardiovascular, respiratory, Many of us hold on to old fears, traumas and stress- these hinges in new ways can lead to a happy body- and liver problems, blood sugar disorders, es and allow them to define and frame our lives. This mindcore, making a great difference to overall health cancer, and obesity. book shows how to relieve these problems and help and well-being. Each chapter addresses a particular Entries discuss the mushroom or lichen’s you look and feel better on a profound level. Based hinge physically as well as sharing ideas about its emo- medicinal traits and properties, including on the idea that the body is composed of twenty- tional component, and includes photographs and active chemical components, preparation one important hinges, Meet Your Body shows how we drawings illustrating a variety of bodymindcore tech- methods (including extracts, essences, and can “oil” and free these hinges, stretching the body niques. essential oils), and historical as well as mod- out so we can feel healthy and happy more of the This book offers people with both ordinary and ex- ern-day usage. Two hundred full-color pho- time. traordinary body challenges new ideas for how they tos and thorough descriptions make iden- Noah’s therapeutic work is influenced by his back- can make changes in the way their bodies work for tification easy for the reader. Rogers also ground in Rolfing, a hands-on manipulation of the body’s con- them. A practical guide to releasing bodymindcore trauma, delves into the cultural, religious, and liter- nective tissue designed to enhance posture and freedom of Meet Your Body challenges us all to get in touch with and listen ary significance of each mushroom, featur- movement. From this theory of structural integration, Karrasch to our bodies to improve our health and overall happiness. ing fascinating tidbits about each one’s ety- mology and history. ORTHO-BIONOMY arthritic pain in the hands. Quick fixes for sciatica, “The Fungal Pharmacy is the first book in A Path to Self-Care suggestions for dealing with menstrual cramps, the field to attempt to understand the en- by Luann Overmyer and gentle movement exercises to address pos- ergetics and personality of the medicinal $33.00, paper. North Atlantic. ture, scoliosis, and flexibility of the spine are just mushrooms rather than relying solely on 292 pages, 8x11, b/w photos a few among 150 techniques described. The book their pharmacological profiles. By ‘energet- Ortho-Bionomy is based on the premise that the also includes simple movements and exercises to in- ics’ I mean the basic pathological patterns body inherently knows how to heal and self-correct, crease ease, function, strength, and flexibility once of the mushroom, such as hot or cold, given the opportunity. This user-friendly self-help the pain has subsided. Rounded out with human-in- damp or dry; by ‘personality’ I mean the in- guide by one of the pioneers of the approach pre- terest stories and client examples, this accessible dications peculiar to a mushroom that sents positions, postures, and movements de- work can be used quickly and effectively by anyone come from an intimate working knowledge signed to release tension and ease pain. Not only with pain. of a medicine. This method represents the are the techniques simple to perform, but they can “Ortho-Bionomy is not only a wonderful self-help high road for the intuitive practitioner.” — be done on one’s own, without the use of special book for consumers, but also a valuable reference Matthew Wood, author of The Earthwise equipment. Positions for each part of the body are for practitioners. It empowers each of us to take our Herbal clearly described in lay terms and illustrated with photos and physical care literally into our own hands.” —Kathy Kain, author drawings. Selected topics include low back, hip and knee pain, of Ortho-Bionomy: A Practical Manual neck, shoulder, and rib releases, repetitive strain injuries, and Luann Overmyer has worked with thousands of patients in her Bodywork & Movement Ortho-Bionomy private practice. BIOHARMONIC SELF-MASSAGE massage problem areas, Bligny shows how to take THE HEALING POWER OF How to Harmonize Your Mental, Emotional, inventory of your body, mind, and memories and THE BREATH and Physical Energies use the conscious touch of self-massage to re- Simple Techniques to Reduce by Yves Bligny move energy blockages, release trapped emotions, Stress and Anxiety, Enhance $22.50, paper. Inner Traditions. 192 pages, and relieve anxieties, stress, and muscle tensions as Concentration, and Balance 8x10, colour illustrations throughout well as gain stability and strength. Effective for Your Emotions Drawing upon biological decoding, reflexology, chronic back, neck, and shoulder problems, the by Richard Brown Book lymph massage, and yoga as well as recent neuro- movements and stretching exercises of biohar- & Patricia Gerbarg & CD science and quantum physics research, therapist monic self-massage can also be used to increase flu- $21.50. Shambhala. and kinesiologist Yves Bligny shows how to awak- idity of motion, ward off illness, and attain a state 162-page paperback + audio-CD en the body’s natural potential to harmonize en- of bioharmonic—physical, emotional, mental, and Here’s a drug-free, side-effect free solu- ergy through the release of tensions and emotion- energetic—well-being. tion to common stress and mood prob- al memories trapped within our muscles. He “Bligny’s respect for body and spirit radiates lems—developed by explains how the synergy between the physical throughout this fine work. A compendium of the two physicians. body, emotions, thoughts, energy, and consciousness creates a research on the body/mind connection combined with a loving Millions of us suffer delicate balance, or “bioharmony,” that can be tuned and adjust- self-help program for greater holistic personal awareness, from mood problems ed through self-massage. Bioharmonic Self-Massage is a treasure for both bodywork pro- and stress-related is- Using the power of intention—directed thought aided by ex- fessionals and lay people alike.” sues including anxi- panded awareness of the body—as well as tennis balls, curtain —Mary Bond, author of The New Rules of Posture ety, depression, in- rods, foam tubes, and other common objects to reach hard-to- somnia, and trauma-induced emo- tions and behaviors; ditions due to troublesome side effects, Drs. Richard Brown and Patricia Gerbarg tion, the Chinese practice of qigong, and most would pre- withdrawal symptoms, and disappointing provide a drug-free alternative that works Orthodox Christian monks, and other fer not to take med- success rates. through a range of simple breathing tech- sources. These methods have been scientif- ication for their con- niques drawn from yoga, Buddhist medita- ically shown to be effective in alleviating

BRANCHES OF LIGHT ✦ 18 ✦ BANYEN BOOKS & SOUND ✦ PILATES, RAW FOODS & BEYOND ✦ specific stress and mood challenges such as anxiety, insomnia, post-traumatic stress dis- order, and many others. Raw Food Essentials & Beyond The authors explain how breathing prac- RAW & BEYOND diet contains large quantities of nuts and seeds, tices activate communication pathways be- How Omega-3 Nutrition is most of which are extremely high in omega-6s and tween the mind and the body, positively im- Transforming the Raw Food Paradigm low in omega-3s. pacting the brain and calming the stress by Victoria Boutenko, Elaina Love Raw foodists are not the only ones lacking suffi- response. The enclosed audio-CD guides & Chad Sarno cient omega-3s in their diet. Because omega-3s are readers through the techniques and helps $18.95, paper. North Atlantic. 156 pages easily damaged by heat, anyone whose diet is high in make these breathing practices an ongoing Victoria Boutenko, Elaina Love, and Chad Sarno processed foods and oils probably has an omega-3 part of daily life. have been leaders in the raw food movement since deficiency. Many symptoms of this deficiency can be This book+CD set includes breathing the 1990s. Each of them maintained and promoted mistaken for other health problems or nutrient de- techniques to relieve anxiety and depres- the 100 percent raw diet for years. Since then, all ficiencies, so few people realize the cause of their sion, trauma-related emotions and behav- three have independently arrived at the same con- ailments. Boutenko’s chapters on omegas provide iors, post-traumatic stress disorder, insom- clusion: that a totally raw diet is not necessarily the readers more in-depth nutritional information. nia, and addiction-related behaviors. best diet. One reason for their shift in thinking is One hundred recipes—from raw to steamed and It also offers breathing techniques to en- the latest scientific research on the impact of lightly cooked dishes, from appetizers to desserts— hance concentration, peak performance, omega essential fatty acids on human health. offer readers the means to enjoy a more sustainable, and personal relationships. Studies show that if eaten in excess, omega-6s can healthy, and energetic lifestyle. cause inflammation and obesity. A typical raw food NO-RISK PILATES ANI’S RAW FOOD ASIA being, longevity, fitness, beauty, and entertaining 8 Techniques for a Safe Full-Body Workout Easy East-West Fusion Recipes as inspired by a healthy Asian lifestyle. by Blandine Calais-Germain by Ani Phyo Recipes include Mixed Vegetable Skewers with & Bertrand Raison $26.00, paper. Da Capo. Almond-Butter Sauce, Creamed Curry Saag, $22.50, paper. Inner Traditions. 272 pages, 7x9, 100 colour photos Vegetable Tempura with Orange Lemongrass 128 pages, 8x10, full colour throughout You’ve been to her kitchen, enjoyed her desserts, Dipping Sauce, Marinated Shiitake Mushroom Developed in the early 20th century by and mastered the essentials; now go with raw food Dumplings, Corn Fritters with a Hot and Sour accomplished boxer and gymnast Joseph goddess Ani Phyo back to her roots for the first Cucumber Dipping Sauce, Dosas, Moo Shoo Pilates, the ever Asian raw food cookbook. Along with recipes Vegetables, and many more. Pilates from Korea, China, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Ani Phyo is a premier raw food chef and the au- Method India, Indonesia, and Hawaii and background in- thor of several cookbooks, including Ani’s Raw aligns the formation on traditional dishes, Ani’s Raw Food Food Kitchen and Ani’s Raw Food Essentials. She body, Asia also offers essential tips on green living, well- lives in Los Angeles. builds long, lean mus- cles, and ANI’S RAW FOOD ESSENTIALS you-won’t-believe-they’re-raw desserts. Ani’s Raw develops Food Essentials once again proves that you don’t core ab- Recipes and Techniques for Mastering the Art of Live Food have to sacrifice taste to reap the benefits of raw dominal foods and a greener lifestyle. strength. by Ani Phyo $22.00, paper. Da Capo. For the new raw chef, Phyo (Ani’s Raw Food However, 368 pages, 7x9, colour & b/w photos Kitchen) lists kitchen tools and pantry and fridge practiced Want to go raw, but not sure how to start? items and includes a selection of breads (dehydra- improperly, Ani’s Raw Food Essentials offers easy transitional tor required), smoothies, cereals, salads, and cook- Pilates exer- ies—all with a short list of ingredients. Phyo’s web- cises can lead to injuries such as pinched recipes—using the equipment you already have in . Looking for innovative meals that are site (aniphyo.com) features additional recipes, discs, hyperextension of the wrists, or low- your kitchen healthy and delicious? Ani offers everything from “uncooking” videos, and information on ingredi- back pain. No-Risk Pilates reveals how to comfort classics like nachos and burgers to more ents and kitchen tools. If you’ve avoided raw cook- minimize the risk of injury and maximize gourmet dishes like risotto, angel hair pasta, and her books in the past, this is a great starter title. physical benefit for a strong, toned, and aligned physique. Using Blandine Calais-Germain’s signa- afford it to on buying in bulk and storing food on the consumption, ture anatomical style, this illustrated guide an essential cheap; techniques, from canning to dehy- examines the body’s movements during 8 including: element of drating; and the tools—what you need and ✦ The loss of fundamental Pilates exercises, including getting by. what you don’t. vast tracts of practices using the Pilates Reformer, and ex- But aside from In addition, it focuses on how to live on a arable land and plores the specific risks and common mis- the locavores pantry diet year-round, how to preserve fresh water to takes associated with each exercise. and slow food on a community scale, and how to re- intensive live- Detailing how injuries occur to the pelvis, foodies, who duce reliance on industrial agriculture by stock produc- back, wrists, and ankles during Pilates, the else really creating vibrant local economies. tion authors offer tips and guidelines to main- knows how to Better food, plentiful food, at a lower cost ✦ tain correct alignment, improve stability, eat outside of Increased and with less energy expended: pollution, loss and prevent injury as well as increase the ef- the supermarket Independence Days is for all who want to of biodiversity, fectiveness of your Pilates workout. and out of build a sustainable food system and keep deforestation, Blandine Calais-Germain is a dancer and season? And eating—even in hard times. and accelerat- physical therapist. Renowned for her move- who knows Also by Sharon Astyk are Depletion and ing climate ment-based classes on anatomy, she is the how to eat a Abundance and A Nation of Farmers. change author of several books, including No-Risk diet based on easily stored and home ✦ The environ- Abs and the bestselling Anatomy of preserved foods? mental and health impacts of too much an- Movement. I don’t think there’s any doubt that food HIGH STEAKS imal fat, and of antibiotics and other chem- security is one of the central issues of our Why and How to Eat Less Meat icals in our food. Food, Nutrition & Healing time. Our food system is inextricably tied by Eleanor Boyle Timely and compelling, this powerful to our energy system. Over the last 75 $17.95, paper. New Society. book offers a modest, commonsense ap- years, a smaller and smaller percentage of 208 pages, b/w illustrations, photos proach to a serious problem, suggesting INDEPENDENCE DAYS Americans have been involved in Each year the average North American in- strategies for all of us to cut back on our A Guide to Sustainable Food Storage & agriculture while human power has been gests well over two hundred pounds of ani- consumption of animal products and en- Preservation replaced by the heavy use of fossil fuels. Our long-term energy crisis is also a food mal protein. Meanwhile the global appetite sure that the meat we do consume is pro- by Sharon Astyk for meat has increased dramatically. But duced in a sustainable, ecologically respon- $19.95, paper. New Society. 349 pages crisis; nearly 20 percent of all fossil energies are used in the food system. feeding our meat addiction comes at sible manner. At the same time, High Steaks In just a few decades, North America’s Meanwhile, more than 30 percent of all tremendous cost. Maintaining our current describes progressive food policy shifts approach to food has changed radically global-warming emissions are tied in some level of consumption is ecologically impossi- that will discourage factory farming and en- from the self-sufficiency of our way to our agricultural system. ble in the long term and undermines our courage people to eat in ways that support grandparents to the convenience foods of ecosystems and personal health. mega-supermarkets. At the same time, Independence Days tackles both the nuts personal health and community well-being. Eleanor Boyle is an instructor at the increasing poverty means the idea of and bolts of food preservation, as well as High Steaks documents the disastrous eating locally is shifting from being a a host of broader issues tied to the cre- consequences of modern large-scale in- Centre for Sustainability at the University of fringe activity for those who can ation of local diets. It includes information dustrial meat production and excessive British Columbia.

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Gluten-Free Diet & Recipes Ayurvedic & Vegetarian Cooking

WHEAT BELLY FORKS OVER KNIVES: A YEAR OF MEALS Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, 365 Recipes for Plant-Based Eating and Find Your Path Back to Health Every Day of the Year by William Davis by Del Sroufe $17.99, paper. HarperCollins. 304 pages $22.50, paper. The Experiment. 320 pages A surprising bestseller, Wheat Belly is a provocative look Forks Over Knives, both the documentary and com- at how eliminating wheat—even so-called healthy whole panion book, appeared on the scene in 2011 with an as- grain wheat—from our diets is the key to permanent tonishing claim: Following a fully plant-based diet can weight loss and can offer relief from a broad spectrum of save your life. By avoiding meat, fish, eggs, dairy, and em- health and digestive problems. phasizing whole, unrefined plant foods, millions of peo- Drawing on decades of clinical studies and the extra- ple have begun to notice huge improvements to their ordinary results he has observed after putting thou- physical fitness, weight, blood sugar and cholesterol lev- sands of his patients on wheat-free regimens, Dr. els, lifestyle, and overall health—including preventing, William Davis makes a compelling case against this ubiq- managing, or recovering from illnesses like diabetes, uitous ingredient. A wheat-free diet has been associated heart disease, and even cancer. with significant benefits, including the following: Yes, the book Forks Over Knives: The Plant-Based Way ✦ Weight loss of twenty, thirty, even fifty pounds in the to Health includes a solid foundation of recipes for anyone newly aware of the bene- first few months fits to be gained from a plant-based diet. But home cooks are hungry for even more ✦ Alleviation of metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes delicious, satisfying, from-scratch recipes full of whole plant foods like grains, ✦ Recovery from intestinal woes, like ulcerative colitis and celiac disease legumes, fruits, and vegetables. That’s what this cookbook provides: A full year’s ✦ Marked improvement in overall cholesterol and LDL counts worth of meals for anyone hoping to cut out animal products, refined oils, and ✦ Improvement in bone density and reversal of osteoporosis processed foods for the sake of their health. ✦ Cessation of skin conditions from psoriasis to oral ulcers and hair loss The recipes are eclectic, global, low fat, often gluten free, and simple to prepare, re- ✦ Reduction of inflammation and rheumatoid arthritis pain. lying on common ingredients easily found in food stores. These recipes will take read- Readable, thought-provoking and carefully researched, Wheat Belly offers a new and ers through an entire year with recipes that rely often on seasonal produce and al- vitally important perspective on some of the most critical health concerns of our time. ways on the fundamental building blocks of a plant-based diet. Covering breakfast, lunch, dinner, and even desserts—provided by Isa Chandra Moskowitz—and ranging from everyday classics like Mac and Cheese and Baked Ziti to festive, holiday-ready GLUTEN-FREE RECIPES FOR THE CONSCIOUS COOK dishes like Chard and Bean Stuffed Delicata Squash, these recipes will encourage read- A Seasonal, Vegetarian Cookbook ers to cook the plant-based way every day. by Leslie Cerier $19.95, paper. New Harbinger. 176 pages THE TASTES OF AYURVEDA A gluten-free diet can help you feel more energetic, im- More Healthful, Healing Recipes for the Modern prove digestion, aid in weight loss, and dramatically im- Ayurvedic prove the symptoms of many mental and physical health by Amrita Sondhi disorders. It’s no wonder that more and more people, both $26.95, paper. Arsenal Pulp. with wheat allergies and without, are discovering the health 336 pages, 7x9, 16 colour & b/w photos benefits of going gluten-free. In Gluten-Free Recipes for the Ayurveda, the five thousand-year-old healing tradition Conscious Cook, Leslie Cerier, “The Green chef,” presents from India linked to the development of yoga, is based over 100 remarkably delicious recipes for easy-to-make, on the concept that one’s physical, mental, and spiritual gluten-free, vegetarian meals. You’ll learn to create delec- well-being comes from a number of sources, including a table, high-protein breakfasts, dinners, desserts, and more, healthful diet based on one’s individual constitution. In use organic and seasonal ingredients to put a fresh twist on this vegetarian cookbook, Amrita Sondhi, author of your favorite family recipes, and come up with your own The Modern Ayurvedic Cookbook, provides new twists on original gluten-free creations. traditional Ayurvedic recipes that are also inspired by ✦ Whip up tasty grab-and-go meals and snacks the growing popularity of whole grains (quinoa, spelt, and barley) and raw foods. ✦ Get tips for using organic and seasonal ingredients to make gluten-free food even The Ayurvedic diet is based on the concept of three “doshas”: vata (air), pitta (fire), more delicious and kapha (earth). Each of us has a primary dosha that we can strive to maintain at a ✦ Enjoy pancakes and waffles, casseroles, pastas, and pastries—all made without healthy balance, but which can cause problems if excessive. The book includes a ques- gluten tionnaire so readers can determine their own primary dosha and then look for ✦ Get creative with the wealth of recipe variations and ideas in this book. recipes that will help them to maintain or reduce it for optimal health. Recipes include modern interpretations of Indian cuisine (spicy paneer zucchini kabobs and mango and coconut kulfi), and Ayurvedic spins on vegetarian fare THE TRANSFORMATIONAL POWER mind and heart release their toxic buildup (sprouted barley rainbow pilaf and raw zucchini hummus). The book also includes OF FASTING as well. As Stephen Harrod Buhner reveals, yoga and breathing exercises that one can easily do at home or at work, full-color The Way to Spiritual, Physical, and in order to be truly transformed, you must recipe photos, and information on sprouting/fermenting techniques and backyard Emotional Rejuvenation first empty yourself. gardening. by Stephen Harrod Buhner Offering step-by-step guidelines to fully Amrita Sondhi is a yoga instructor, Ayurvedic cooking teacher, and the owner of $18.95, paper. Inner Traditions. 224 pages prepare yourself for a deep fast, Buhner ex- Movement, a sustainable fiber clothing line. For millennia humans have fasted for plores what to expect dur- spiritual, emotional, and physical reasons— ing and after spiritual, as a way to heal their emotional, and physical THE ART OF FERMENTATION economics, this bodies, reconnect to fasting and detoxification. An In-Depth Exploration of Essential is primarily a the sacred, regain a He details the necessary Concepts and compendium sense of life’s pur- dietary and mental prepa- Processes from of practical in- pose, and allow their rations leading up to your Around the World formation— souls to detoxify. We fast, what you can and can’t Stephen Harrod by Sandor Ellix Katz, how the are evolutionarily do during a fast, and how Buhner foreword by Michael Pollan processes designed to fast, and to end your fast. He also $45.00, cloth. Chelsea Green. work; parame- the body knows how explains how to plan the length of your fast 528 pages, illustrations ters for safety; to do it very well. and how to choose between a water fast, a The Art of Fermentation is the most com- techniques for Fasting allows the juice fast, or a mono-diet fast. Revealing prehensive guide to do-it-yourself home effective preser- body and all its sys- how fasting can help or heal many chronic fermentation ever published. Sandor Katz vation; trou- tems to rest, purify, conditions, such as type II diabetes, child- presents the concepts and processes be- bleshooting; and heal. During a hood seizures, hypertension, cardiovascular hind fermentation in ways that are simple and more. fast, the body enters disease, arthritis, psoriasis, insomnia, and fi- enough to guide a reader through their first With illustrations and extended re- the same cleansing and healing cycle it nor- bromyalgia, Buhner shows fasting as a way experience making sauerkraut or yogurt, sources, this book provides essential wis- mally enters during sleep. As a fast pro- to truly inhabit the body, to experience its and in-depth enough to provide greater un- dom for cooks, homesteaders, farmers, gresses, the body consumes everything that sacredness, and to activate its deep capa- derstanding and insight for experienced gleaners, foragers, and food lovers of any is not essential to bodily functioning—in- bilities for self-healing. practitioners. kind who want to develop a deeper under- cluding bacteria, viruses, fibroid tumors, Buhner’s other books include Ensouling While Katz expertly contextualizes fer- standing and appreciation for arguably waste products in the blood, buildup Language, The Secret Teachings of Plants, mentation in terms of biological and cultur- the oldest form of food preservation, and around the joints, and stored fat-—and the and Sacred Plant Medicine. al evolution, health and nutrition, and even part of the roots of culture itself.

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Readers will find detailed information on fermenting vegetables, sugars into alcohol Wayne Dyer’s Wishes Fulfilled (meads, wines, and ciders), sour tonic bev- erages, milk, grains and starchy tubers, WISHES FULFILLED of being. From the lofty perspective of your highest beers (and other grain-based alcoholic bev- Mastering the Art of Manifesting self, you will learn how to train your imagination in a erages), beans, seeds, nuts, fish, meat, and by Wayne Dyer new way. eggs, as well as growing mold cultures, using $24.95, cloth. Hay House. 201 pages, colour photos The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of fermentation in agriculture, art, and energy $24.95, 6 CDs. 6 hours, unabridged your imagination. Everything that now exists was once production, and considerations for com- I’m offering what I consider to be a program that imagined. And everything that will ever exist must first mercial enterprises. Sandor Katz has intro- guarantees you the ability to manifest into your life all be imagined... Wishes Fulfilled is designed to take you duced what will undoubtedly remain a clas- that you desire, as long as what you desire remains on a voyage of discovery, wherein you can begin to aligned with your Source of being. tap into the amazing manifesting powers that you sic in food literature, and is the first—and possess within you and create a life in which all that only—of its kind. In Wishes Fulfilled, Wayne Dyer explores the region you imagine for yourself becomes a present fact. Also by Katz are Wild Fermentation and of your highest self, and definitively shows you how Fermentation Workshop DVD. you can truly change your concept of yourself, em- By using your imagination and practicing the art of bark upon a God-realized way of living, and fulfill the assuming the feeling of your wishes being fulfilled, and spiritual truth that with God all things are possible— steadfastly refusing to allow any evidence of the outer FERMENTATION and “all things” means that nothing is left out. world to distract you from your intentions, you will dis- New on By practicing the specific technique for retraining your sub- cover that you, by virtue of your spiritual awareness, possess the WORKSHOP WITH ability to become the person you were destined to be. SANDOR KATZ DVD conscious mind, you are encouraged to not only place into your imagination what you would like to manifest for yourself, but This book will help you See—with a capital S—that you are di- by Sandor Katz vine, and that you already possess an inner, invisible higher self that $38.50, DVD. Chelsea Green. 110 minutes you are given the specifics for realigning your life so you can can and will guide you toward a mastery of the art of manifestation. Thousands of readers consider Sandor live out your highest calling and stay connected to your Source Ellix Katz’s Wild Fermentation to be their guidepost for ex- I AM WISHES FULFILLED idea that these sounds, when accompanied by your ploring and making MEDITATION New on own I am mantra, can and will provide you with the ability to live a wishes fulfilled life. fermented foods. by Wayne Dyer & James CD Twyman I AM Wishes Fulfilled Meditation includes: Now, in this new ✦ DVD, Katz offers $15.00, CD. Hay House. 50 minutes Introduction by Wayne Dyer in which he explains fermentation begin- The two words I am are the name of God. As the Divine nature of the words I am, as well as how the ners and enthusiasts Wayne Dyer explains: powerful frequencies are used in his daily meditation a chance to “sit in” I discovered while reading James Twyman’s book practice. He assures listeners that you will end up feel- on one of his popu- The Moses Code that the sounds you will be hearing ing as he does, that you’ve made “blissful conscious in this CD were the result of some intense research to contact with God.” lar workshops and ✦ learn through reproduce the exact sounds associated with the name The “Moses Code Meditation:” This recording hands-on demon- of God found in the Old Testament, translated from the original is literally the sound of the name of God, following the an- stration and instruc- Hebrew as I am that I am. cient Kabbalistic form of numerology called Gematria. It is It turns out that specific numbers can be assigned to letters. designed for a relaxed meditation. tion, accompanied And the tuning-fork sounds you’ll be meditating to are the exact ✦ “Moses Code Meditation” (with guitar): This meditation is the by an interview on the benefits of fermenta- sounds ascribed to the letters that comprise the Divine name of same frequency, featuring the original tuning forks. It is de- tion, and social implications as it relates to God. This has been called the most powerful meditation tool in signed for a more active meditation. food security. the history of the world. I encourage you to become open to the Fermenting foods is a simple process, but it needs to be done correctly, and there’s no Paradigm featuring four questions to unlock a better person to inform us about managing EXCUSES BEGONE! How to Change Lifelong, “stuck” mind and move into new realms of microbial bacteria to produce highly nutri- New on Self-Defeating Thinking Habits possibility. tious food. In fact, with Sandor Ellix Katz as DVD If I changed, it would create family dramas... I’m their guide, viewers will find fermentation by Wayne Dyer $19.95, DVD. Hay House. 2 hours too old or too young... I’m far too busy and tired... I is much more than just a way of preserving In this transformational lecture (taped live in can’t afford the things I truly want... It would be very food: it’s a method of self-sufficiency, a California), Wayne Dyer reveals a powerful process difficult for me to do things differently... and I’ve crucial historical component to all agricul- for changing limiting thinking habits that keep us always been this way... may all seem to be true, but tural movements, and utterly delicious. from living at our highest potential. Wayne’s ap- they’re in fact just excuses. So the business of This intimate workshop and interview will proach is simple and very effective: identify those ex- modifying habituated thinking patterns really comes prove invaluable for total beginners and cuses that are self-defeating and turn them around by down to tossing out the same tired old excuses and longtime fermentation lovers. The DVD in- examining your beliefs in a new and truthful light... consciously choosing a new way of thinking. He has cludes: You’ll ultimately realize that there are no excuses identified key excuses that many of us have used for ✦The history of fermentation and cultur- worth defending, ever, even if they’ve always been years to keep from moving forward in life, and pro- ing part of your life—and the joy of releasing them will resonate vides scientific, psychological, literary, poetic, and philosophical ✦Information about microorganisms and throughout your very being. When you eliminate the need to explanations for why these excuses do not have to be the road- pre-digestion explain your shortcomings or failures, you’ll awaken to the life of blocks we think they are. ✦Demonstrations on making kefir and your dreams. Wayne also presents a breakthrough Excuses Begone! sauerkraut ✦Tips on fermentation vessels and storage ✦The truth about food safety (botulism, adults, we want nates fear, worry, grief, and depression, and a disorder of hope surface mold, and other fears de-mysti- to be around brings happiness, clarity, patience, kindness, and will that sucks fied)... and more... kids just to feel compassion, understanding, and peace of the life out of com- The DVD includes cultural commentary, that magic again. mind. Gratitude brings solutions to prob- petent, idealistic, practical preparation guidance (including She then ex- lems, and the opportunities and wherewith- hardworking people recipes), and a demonstration for just-right plains how we al to realize your dreams. like you; and it will be sauerkraut, and features an extended inter- can feel that Also by Rhonda Byrne are The Secret DVD an ongoing chal- view with Katz. magic again as and The Power. lenge for you to take adults. your power back. Inspiration & Self-Help In this book The good news Rhonda Byrne fi- FRIED is that you’re free nally gives us Why You Burn Out and How to Revive to leave the THE MAGIC some practical by Joan Borysenko Inferno anytime by Rhonda Byrne step-by-step ex- $12.95, paper. Hay House. 156 pages you like... $14.99, paper. Simon & Schuster. ercises we can What happened to that juicy spark you Let’s begin the 254 pages, b/w illustrations use to incorpo- had as a child that powered curiosity, en- journey by tracing the 12 stages of descent In The Secret, Rhonda Byrne introduced rate the law of attraction into our lives. gagement with life, and creativity? Has it fad- into the “Burnout Inferno.” Then—just as millions of readers to the concept of The Each of the 28 daily exercises focuses on ed or burned out? Are you feeling emotion- in Dante’s Purgatorio—you’ll have a Law of Attraction. In her new 2012 book, gratitude and recognition of the abun- ally and physically exhausted and cynical, chance to reflect on which of your The Magic, she focuses on how gratitude can dance you already have in order to ensure wondering if you’ve got what it takes to personal beliefs and behaviors have led change our lives; that we will attract all we that the abundance continues and grows. make it in this rapidly changing world? you into the fiery pit. By the book’s end— want when we practice feeling gratitude. Gratitude is the cure for broken or diffi- Burnout looks a lot like depression, but it’s and with a little willingness on your part The book begins with a reminder of how cult relationships, for lack of health or mon- not a biological bogeyman that medication to examine your life—you’ll begin to get we felt magic in life as children; how as ey, and for unhappiness. Gratitude elimi- or simple stress management can cure. It’s glimpses of heaven on Earth.

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In Fried, Joan Borysenko—a Harvard- Creative Mind & Success - Ernest Holmes trained medical scientist, psychologist, and Prosperity - Charles Fillmore renowned pioneer in stress and health— Michael Beckwith Rocks In Tune with the Infinite - Ralph Trine straddles psychology, biology, and soul in The Master Key System - Charles Haanel a completely fresh approach to burnout. LIFE VISIONING The Secret of Success - William Atkinson Joan’s deeply human (and often amusing) A Transformative Process for Activating The Art of Money Getting - P.T. Barnum personal accounts of burnout and recovery; Your Unique Gifts and Highest Potential The Way to Wealth - Benjamin Franklin the science of helplessness, hopelessness, by Michael Bernard Beckwith The Secret of the Ages - Robert Collier (1926 and empowerment; and the rich wisdom of $22.95, cloth. Sounds True. 192 pages original edition) people who have gone from fried to re- Why have you been given this singular treasure that is your The Conquest of Poverty - Helen Wilmans vived—including many of Joan’s vibrant life—and how will you use it? What is the purpose for the How to Attract Success - F.W. Sears community of 5,000 Facebook Friends— unique blend of gifts, skills, experiences, and perspectives that The Power of Concentration - Theron Dumont make this practical book a real resource in you alone possess? To support you in answering these ques- How to Grow Success - Elizabeth Towne these times. tions and living in sync with your inner calling, Michael The Mental Equivalent - Emmett Fox Bernard Beckwith presents Life Visioning—a companion for The Prosperity Bible is a treasury of guid- anyone seeking to accelerate their spiritual evolution. ance, ideas, know-how, and inspiration. HEART THOUGHTS Michael Beckwith created the Life Visioning Process to be These are the beloved teachers and writers A Treasury of Inner Wisdom, Illustrated a transformational technology for applying deep inquiry who created the idea of a mental formula Gift Edition and spiritual practice to enable the growth, development, and unfoldment of your for success. Their principles, comprehen- by Louise Hay soul. With Life Visioning, he details the process in its entirety, with invaluable insights sively collected in 19 selected writings, have $19.95, paper. Hay House. and meditations to help you each step of the way, including: been proved in the experience of millions of 160 pages, 6x9, ✦ The four stages of consciousness: Victim, Manifester, Channel, and Being—the char- men and women who have cherished their colour illustrations acteristics of each stage, and how we move through them works from the late 19th century to now. In Heart Thoughts, Louise Hay has lov- ✦ The dance of co-creation—establishing the balance between effort and surrender ✦ Where powerful intentions come from, and why they are much greater than self-serv- ingly compiled her favourite treatments, LOVE HAS WINGS meditations, and af- ing desires Free Yourself from Limiting Beliefs firmations to help ✦ The “dark night of the soul”—a guide for navigating the uncertain transition between and Fall in Love with Life you address and learn stages of consciousness by Isha Judd New in to release the issues ✦ Cultivating intuition as a key to realizing the highest vision for your life ✦ Applying the Life Visioning Process in all of your life structures including relationships, fi- $16.50, paper. New World Paperback that trouble you. As Library. 208 pages nances, livelihood, and spiritual practice. you read, you can feel Isha Judd has taught thousands of people With Life Visioning, this dynamic teacher shares his unique method for navigating every the joy and peace em- a simple system that shows how to find the lu- stage of your evolutionary journey—and fulfilling your highest calling as only you can. anating from every minous state of mind she word, every thought, calls “love-consciousness,” every expression. YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE in which every moment of It is now time for Life Visioning Practices for Activating New on life—even the most chal- you to release old Your Highest Potential CD lenging and frustrating— beliefs and old habits, by Michael Bernard Beckwith can be filled with love, and the meditations and treatments within $19.95, 2 CDs. Sounds True. 2.3 hours peace, and self-accep- these pages can help you build your You have a great destiny waiting to emerge. And it’s your tance. In Love Has Wings, confidence as you make necessary choice to make it welcome. On Your Life’s Purpose, you will join Isha will teach you to: changes in your life. Michael Bernard Beckwith to learn how to apply the spiritual ✦Free yourself from the This is a time of awakening. Know that technology of Life Visioning to help you identify, activate, most common fear- you are always safe. And also know that and deliver the one-of-a-kind gifts and talents eager to find based illusions we cling it’s possible to move from the old to the expression through you. to out of habit, illusions new, easily and peacefully. In quiet moments when you’re honest with yourself, begins Beckwith, you can tune such as “there is not enough,” “comfort is The larger, illustrated edition of Heart in to a subtle yet ever-present urge—the inner call to “be more and never less than king,” and “being passive protects me from Thoughts is a lovely, colourful, wise book your true self.” This is the first step, he teaches, in breaking free from mediocrity and making mistakes” which will certainly uplift any reader while living “by default,” and leaping headlong into an uncharted life in sync with the grand ✦ Empower yourself to permeate all your offering resource-full inspirations and re- design of the cosmos itself. With this 2-CD program, you will explore: roles and responsibilities with love-con- minders. ✦ Insights and practices for consciously embracing both your individual mission and sciousness, to joyfully become the best Each one of us is always working with the universal purpose we all share to discover our true nature woman or man, partner, parent or child, the three-year-old child within us. Most of ✦ Right livelihood—how your profession can be a simultaneous expression of creativi- and employee or boss you can be us, unfortunately, spend our time yelling at ty and prosperity ✦Soar above fear, boredom, impatience, that child and then wondering why our ✦ A guided Life Visioning session you can practice any time to clarify and realign jealousy, insecurity, loneliness, and the lives don’t work. with your evolving purpose. uncertainty of a world in crisis. Also available is the book, Your Life’s Purpose, which articulates the whole program in detail. Greatness goes out on a limb; it doesn’t BEYOND FORGIVENESS stick to the status quo. To trust ourselves, Reflections on Atonement: Healing the high-profile thinkers and activists includ- THE PROSPERITY BIBLE to stand in integrity without abandoning Past, Making Amends, and Restoring ing Huston Smith, Michael Bernard The Greatest Writings of All Time on the ourselves in order to please others—that’s greatness. Balance in Our Lives and World Beckwith, Azim Khamisa, Rabbi Michael Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity * edited by Phil Cousineau Lerner, Jacob Needleman, Michael Nagler, by Napoleon Hill & Various Authors Whenever you feel lonely, as though $21.95, paper. Wiley. 226 pages Diane Hennacy Powell, James O’Dea, Arun $21.00, paper. Tarcher/Penguin. 1280 pages something is missing, instead of looking As indispensable as forgiveness has been Gandhi, Kate Dahlstedt, Ed Tick, Richard J. The Prosperity Bible is a one-of-a-kind re- outward in a search that inevitably leaves to the healing process throughout history, Meyer, Rev. Heng Sure, Douglas George- source that collects the greatest success se- you empty-handed, focus on appreciating there is another Kanentiio and Katharine Dever. Atonement crets of authors from even the smallest things that surround you. equally profound ac- is put forward as a process that we must every field—religion, Start with the smallest flowers you almost tion that is needed for all learn to practice—from individuals to finance, philosophy, stepped on without noticing... What will ultimate reconcilia- nations—if we are to heal our wounds and and self-help—and happen if you look at everything through tion, which Arun move forward. makes them available the eyes of appreciation? You will notice Gandhi, grandson of Cousineau provides a profound and in this all-in-one that something in your chest begins to open, Mahatma Gandhi, provocative book that has us ponder where “bible” on how to har- and suddenly you will surprise yourself with calls “the other side of we might need to forgive ourselves and oth- ness the creative pow- a smile that bubbles up from within. the coin.” Turning ers and to look at atonement and what it ig- ers of our mind to Isha Judd is the founder of Isha over the coin of for- nites in the human spirit. achieve a life of pros- Educating for Peace and also the author of giveness, we discover “Nothing will help us survive the present perity and fulfillment. Why Walk When You Can Fly?, which pre- atonement, the half- age more than breaking the tragic cycles of vi- Classics included in sents the facets of the Isha System, “an ex- hidden, much-over- olence and revenge that threaten our very ex- this “master class”: cellent tool for taking you beyond the sur- looked other half of istence. To do so, we must honor our soul’s Think and Grow Rich face level of the mind.” the reconciliation desire for deeper forms of reconciliation, a - Napoleon Hill process. process that Phil Cousineau reveals here as Acres of Diamonds A COURSE IN WEIGHT LOSS Beyond Forgiveness shows how acts of being on the other side of forgiveness, in the - Russell Conwell 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering atonement—making amends, providing ancient ritual of atonement. His book is a pro- A Message to Garcia Your Weight Forever restitution, restoring balance—can relieve foundly important contribution to the heal- - Elbert Hubbard by Marianne Williamson us of the pain of the past and give us a hope- ing of the world, and I give it my blessing.” — The Game and Life and How to Play It $15.95, paper. Hay House. 298 pages ful future. This rich and powerful book in- Robert Johnson, author of Inner Work and - Florence Scovel Shinn What is the connection between spirituality cludes 15 thoughtful contributions by Owning Your Own Shadow Science of Getting Rich - Wallace Wattles and weight loss? Marianne Williamson an-

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The essence of the shaman’s power to for cultural soul re- travel and to heal is the ability to dream covery. Journeys with Mark Nepo strong. In our everyday modern lives, we Dreamers are stand at the edge of such power when we time travelers, and HOLDING NOTHING BACK dream and remember to do something with you’ll discover our dreams. If you want to be a shaman, Essentials for an Authentic Life here how the start at the breakfast table, by sharing dreams depth of healing by Mark Nepo the right way with your family and friends. $19.95, 2 CDs. Sounds True. 2.5 hours and guidance The greatest contribution of the ancient becomes available All spiritual traditions affirm that fully par- New on ticipating in our own life is what allows us to shamans to our medicine and healing today when you operate CD in that knowledge. find our place in the fullness and beauty of is the understanding that in the course of any life we are liable to suffer soul loss—the You’ll learn how the world. As such, holding nothing back is less a forceful act to enter past lives of will and more a surrender into the current of life we are al- loss of parts of our vital energy and identi- ty—and that in order to be whole and well, and future lives, ways in. In Holding Nothing Back, Mark Nepo invites us to en- and the life we must find the means of soul recovery. liven the one obligation we are born with: to be completely experiences of who you are. Our reward is nothing less than the realization that “all of Robert Moss teaches us that our dreams parallel selves, and how to bring back life is in whatever moment we wake to.” Holding Nothing Back illuminates: give us maps we can use to travel to where lessons and gifts. ✦ energy that was lost or stolen can be found The Fall into Life—our inevitable journey into what is real, and “It’s not just about keeping soul in the how we only find meaning through relationship and brought home. Dreaming the Soul Back ✦ Home shows how to recover our animal spir- body. It’s about growing soul, becoming Alone and Together—the paradox of being and belonging and how more than we ever were, embodying more we need both solitude and community its and ride the windhorse of spirit to places of the Greater Self,” writes Moss. With fierce ✦ The Mystery of Transformation—staying true to the spirit within of healing and adventure in the larger reali- while the person carrying it keeps evolving. ty. We can discover how the ancestors come joy, he incites us to take the creator’s leap Mark Nepo seeking us through dreams and how, and bring something new into our world. To hold nothing back means staying committed to letting whatever we through conscious engagement, we can Among Robert Moss’s other fine books experience make its way in and letting whatever is in make its way out... Holding nothing back means holding the intention to be an open vessel, in a daily way. heal ancestral wounds and open the way are Active Dreaming and Dreamgates. Here is his passionate call to each of us to find and befriend the quiet courage to bring all of who we are to every step we take through the miraculous world. Among Mark Nepo’s books are The Book of Awakening and The Exquisite Risk. Family Constellation Work STAYING AWAKE The Ordinary Art TOWARD A SPIRITUAL PSYCHOTHERAPY by Mark Nepo • $69.95, 8 CDs. Sounds True. 8.5 hours Soul as a Dimension of Experience Most of us can remember a time when we felt completely by Hunter Beaumont, foreword by Peter Levine awake—fully present, deeply engaged, our heart and mind wide $21.50, paper. North Atlantic. 240 pages open. We also know very well those periods of sleepiness when Toward a Spiritual Psychotherapy collects a series of lectures our purpose is unclear, we lose our way in relationship, or life’s presented by psychologist Hunter Beaumont over a 10-year pe- challenges seem more than we can bear. In Staying Awake, Mark riod. Covering such themes as relationships, family, healing, Nepo invites us to inhabit our truest selves “in all ways in all di- grief, mourning, and death, the book features case stories that rections,” as we find our own voices in the One Conversation in which each of our lives demonstrate clients’ healing experiences. is a story waiting to be told. Practicing in Germany for the past 30 years, Hunter With a poet’s keen view of the vast and often hidden territories of the inner life, Beaumont has had the unique experience of working with Mark talks directly about what a gift it is to be here and about the resources that the World War II and Holocaust survivors and their descendants. mysteries of being and experience reveal. Informed by his journey through cancer, Through this work he discovered that healing requires attending to the soul, a process he explores the lessons brought to us by the press of love and suffering. For each he describes as an “inner ‘felt sense’ and common, everyday dimension of experi- of us is born awake and yet it takes courage to stay awake, to remember that all we en- ence.” Demonstrating how therapists can integrate this more spiritual approach into counter is real. their practices, Beaumont highlights the particular successes of the innovative fam- We are stronger, gentler, more resilient, and more beautiful than any of us imagine. ily constellations therapy. Developed by German psychologist Bert Hellinger and expanded by Beaumont and others, this therapy takes place in a group setting, with Sharing his own rich poetry along with the inspired writing of luminaries across gen- group members standing in for family members or others involved in the client’s prob- erations, Nepo guides us in the central practice of staying awake: to be who we are, lem. A crucial part of Beaumont’s spiritual psychotherapy practice, this method has no matter what we face, and to enter our days and moments to the fullest. We do helped many of his clients release and resolve profound tensions, and offers hope to this, he teaches, by holding nothing back—by bringing all of who we are to every situ- readers recovering from trauma or PTSD, or simply trying to navigate life’s difficulties. ation, enlivening our connection with everything life has to offer. Highlights: CONNECTING TO OUR ANCESTRAL PAST ✦ The direct tasting of life Healing through Family Constellations, Ceremony, and Ritual ✦ The unwanted guest: what it asks of us by Francesca Mason Boring ✦ The deep listener, the deep speaker, and the deep questioner within $21.50, paper. North Atlantic. 224 pages ✦ The risk to be present Connecting to Our Ancestral Past is a pragmatic, spiritual jour- ✦ The reliable truths that never change. ney that introduces a variety of specific rituals and conversa- Over eight hours of poetry, teaching stories, exercises, and explorations for prac- tions in connection with Constellations work, an experiential ticing the ordinary art of staying awake. process that explores one’s history and powerful events of the past in order to understand and resolve problems of the present. Constellations facilitator and author Francesca Mason swers that question, which does. As your mind reclaims its spiri- Boring presents this therapeutic method in the context of cul- sharing “21 spiritual tual intelligence, your body will reclaim its tures like the Shoshone, of which she is a member, that have lessons to help you sur- natural intelligence as well. seen the world through a prism of interrelationships for mil- render your weight for- These lessons take you on a deep, sacred lennia. In Constellations work there is an organic quality that requires a discipline ever.” These lessons journey. One step at a time, you will learn of non-judgment, one that is embraced in traditional native circles, where the whole form a holistic para- to shift your relationship with yourself— truth of a person’s life, roots, and trans-generational trauma or challenge is under- digm for weight loss, and your body—from one of fear to one stood and included. addressing the spiritu- of love. And you will begin to integrate the Mason Boring provides a transformational walk through the universal indigenous al, emotional, and psy- various parts of yourself—mind, body, and field—that place of healing and knowledge used by Native healers and teachers for chological elements in- spirit—to become, once again, and in all centuries—by describing stories and rituals designed to help people with their par- volved in what ways, the beautiful and peaceful person you ticular struggles. These rituals, such as “Facing the Good Men”—designed to help Williamson refers to as were created to be. women who have suffered abuse in relationships with men— stress a comfortable en- “conscious weight vironment whereby the “client,” with the help of a facilitator, interacts with people loss.” If you are a food Psychology, Therapy chosen to represent concepts, things, and other people. addict, a compulsive eater, or someone who for In Western culture “medicine” is thought of as a concrete object, but Mason Boring any reason sees food as the enemy, this book is & Dreams explains that indigenous cultures favor a process of healing as opposed to an itemized for you. substance. She re-opens doors that have been closed due to the exclusion of indige- A Course in Weight Loss addresses the DREAMING THE SOUL BACK HOME nous technology in the development of many Western healing traditions and intro- true causal root of your weight-loss issues: Active Dreamwork for Becoming Whole duces new concepts to the lexicon of Western psychology. a place within you where you have forgotten by Robert Moss A range of voices from around the world—leaders in the fields of systems con- your divine “as is” perfection. This forget- $17.50, paper. New World Library. 304 pages stellations, theoretical physics, and tribal traditions—contribute to this exploration fulness has confused not only your mind but In this extraordinary book, shamanic of aboriginal perspectives that will benefit facilitators of Constellations work, thera- also your body, making you reach for that dream teacher Robert Moss teaches us how to pists, and human beings who are trying to walk with open eyes and hearts. which cannot sustain you and reject that become shamans and healers of our own lives.

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Healing Trauma Tools Andrew Weil on Healing Depression FREEDOM FROM PAIN Discover Your Body’s Power to SPONTANEOUS HAPPINESS Overcome Physical Pain by Andrew Weil by Peter Levine $29.99, cloth. Little, Brown. 281 pages & Maggie Phillips Spontaneous Happiness gives us the foundation for attain- $17.95, Sounds True. Book ing and sustaining optimum emotional health. Rooted in 240-page paperback + 1-hour CD & CD Dr. Weil’s pioneering work in integrative medicine, the $19.95, 2 CDs. Sounds True. 2.2 hours book suggests a reinterpretation of the notion of happi- For those suffering chronic pain, even after years of ness, discusses the limitations of the biomedical model in surgery, rehabilitation, and medication, only one question treating depression, and elaborates on the inseparability of matters: How do I find lasting relief? body and mind. (Did you know that one in 10 people in With Freedom from Pain, two pioneers in the U.S., including children, takes antidepressants?) the field reveal a crucial missing piece for The set point of emotional variability in our society has millions in need—the unresolved emotional become displaced too far into the negative zone. Too many of trauma held within the body. The path out us are sad and discontented... of pain is unique for each person, explain Peter Levine and Maggie It is possible to increase emotional resilience and shift one’s Phillips. It’s a labyrinth shaped by physical injury, genetics, learned re- emotional set point in the direction of greater positivity. sponses, and—crucially—prior traumatic events. When all of these el- Weil offers an array of scientifically proven strategies from Eastern and Western Peter Levine ements are successfully addressed, complete recovery begins. This psychology to counteract low mood and enhance contentment, comfort, resilience, book (also in an abridged 2CD set) will teach readers how. serenity, and emotional balance. Drawn from psychotherapy, mindfulness training, Informed by a broad new vision of the pain response, decades of clinical insight, Buddhist psychology, nutritional science, and more, these strategies include body-ori- and including guided practices on audio CD, Levine and Phillips teach us how to: ented therapies to support emotional wellness, techniques for managing stress and ✦ calm the overreactive “fight” response to pain anxiety and changing mental habits that keep us stuck in negative patterns, and advice ✦ release the fear, irritability, and depression amplified by prior traumas on developing a spiritual dimension in our lives. ✦ build resilience and promote self-regulation Ever practical, Weil presents an eight-week program that can be customized ac- ✦ target specific conditions such as joint and muscle pain, migraines, and the after- cording to specific needs, with short- and long-term advice on nutrition, exercise, sup- math of surgical procedures plements, environment, lifestyle, and much more. His top three suggestions are ✦ amplify our current treatment program to achieve true, long-term freedom from omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin D, and regular exercise. “Secular spirituality” strategies in- pain. clude visualization, gratitude and volunteering. “Limiting information overload” is an “Brilliant, practical and wise, this is an enormously helpful book. I cannot recom- integral part of the program. Weil’s revelations from his own lifelong dance with de- mend this work highly enough.” —Jack Kornfield, author of The Wise Heart pression lift this guide from a hip and clinical “how to” to a generous and heartfelt Peter Levine is the creator of Somatic Experiencing, a body-based approach to trau- “here’s how.” ma recovery. He is also author of In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma Whether you are struggling with depression or simply want to feel happier, Dr. and Restores Goodness. Weil’s integrative approach will shift the paradigm of emotional health and help you Maggie Phillips is also author of Reversing Chronic Pain. achieve greater contentment in your life.

THE TRAUMA TOOL KIT Healing PTSD from the Inside Out In a fascinating evolution of thought and ness, often feel by Susan Pease Banitt practice, Flourish refines what Positive alone, overwhelmed, $21.95, paper. Quest. 282 pages Psychology is all about. While certainly a exhausted. William According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in part of well-being, happiness alone doesn’t and Nancy Martin 2010, at least 30% of soldiers returning from war in the give life meaning. Seligman now asks, What have worked as Middle East suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is it that enables you to cultivate your tal- counselors, hospice (PTSD). Because this is a relatively new phenomenon in ents, to build deep, lasting relationships trainers, and Zen Western medicine, treatments of PTSD and other stress-re- with others, to feel pleasure, and to con- guides—and as care- lated disorders have often been inadequate and poorly un- tribute meaningfully to the world? In a givers themselves. derstood—at the expense of sufferers. The Trauma Tool Kit word, what is it that allows you to flourish? With empathy and addresses the physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritu- “Well-being” takes the stage front and cen- insight, they offer al needs that arise in healing from traumas of all kinds. ter, and Happiness (or Positive Emotion) readers solace drawn PTSD is a whole body tragedy, an integral human event of becomes one of the five pillars of Positive from the eternal wis- enormous propositions with massive repercussions. Susan Psychology, along with Engagement, dom of the Tao Te Bannitt draws on her decades-long background as a psy- Relationships, Meaning, and Ching. chotherapist, yoga teacher and alternative healer to provide a compendium of holistic Accomplishment—or PERMA, the perma- Like the original techniques and interventions for healing from traumatic stress set in a yogic philo- nent building blocks for a life of profound Chinese text, this sophical framework. fulfillment. book contains The Trauma Tool Kit provides the information needed to heal fully from PTSD and With implications for education, econom- eighty-one chapters. Each chapter includes other stressful conditions. It is a comforter, guide and manual designed to provide full ics, therapy, medicine, and public policy— a poem for caregivers, evocative of the support on the journey of healing from extreme events. The tools outlined in the the very fabric of society—Flourish tells in- verses of the Tao Te Ching, followed by a book include a roadmap for healing trauma, from rebooting to forgiveness; methods spiring stories of Positive Psychology in reflection that presents practical guidance for healing the spiritual core and physical body, including both Eastern and Western action, including how the entire U.S. Army for navigating the emotional and physical techniques; and a list of the types of services that can help heal. is now trained in emotional resilience; how hardships of care-giving. The resulting re- With the comprehensive information and exercises provided in this tool kit, those innovative schools can educate for fulfill- source gently awakens readers to the grace, who suffer—and those who work with them—will be able to learn how to deal with ment in life and not just for workplace suc- growth, and even joy possible at each step stress before it becomes debilitating, gain the ability to make good decisions for ef- cess; and how corporations can improve along their path. fective interventions, increase resilience to overwhelming events, and go forward in performance at the same time as they raise We talk of returning to our “own life with a greater measure of joy and fulfillment. employee well-being. Included are interac- hearts” or coming back to “center.” We At the 2009 Evolution of Psychotherapy conference Jack Kornfield noted, “We tive exercises to help readers explore their speak of our “true nature,” which is need a trauma tool kit.” Here it is. own attitudes and aims. compassion. In all these ways we point to Also by Martin Seligman are Authentic something that cannot be named. It can Happiness and Learned Optimism. only be rediscovered through direct FLOURISH the human condi- experience. A Visionary New New in tion. Flourish builds We recognize it when we are doing on Dr. Seligman’s Midlife Passages well in the midst of the challenges of Understanding of Happiness Paperback and Well-Being game-changing work & ElderWisdom care-giving. We see it when we know by Martin Seligman on optimism, motiva- deep within that all truly is well, even in the middle of the most distressing day. $18.99, paper. Simon & Schuster. 368 pages tion, and character to THE CAREGIVER’S TAO TE CHING show how to get the We sense it when we find tenderness Flourish, psychologist Martin Seligman’s Compassionate Caring for most out of life, un- welling up to soothe our frustration and first book in ten years, presents his dynam- Your Loved Ones and Yourself veiling an electrifying despair when we feel we are failing at our ic new concept of what well-being really is. by William & Nancy Martin new theory of what task. Traditionally, the goal of psychology has $15.50, paper. New World Library. makes a good life— Watch for these experiences. They are been to relieve human suffering, but the 144 pages, French flaps for individuals, for available to all of us, to remind us of the goal of the Positive Psychology movement, Those who care for the ailing, whether which Dr. Seligman has led for fifteen communities, and for trustworthiness of our own hearts. helping someone recover, grapple with a Also by these authors are The Parent’s years, is about actually raising the bar for nations. long-term disability, or face a terminal ill- Tao Te Ching and The Tao of Forgiveness.

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AGING AS A so Myths of Light offers SPIRITUAL PRACTICE Jung’s Psyche Hijacked by Eros a glimpse into the A Contemplative Guide to heart of Eastern mysti- Growing Older and Wiser cism. by Lewis Richmond TRAMPLED TO DEATH BY GEESE In these seven lec- $23.50, cloth. Penguin. 243 pages More Eros, and a Lot More Nonsense tures and articles on The author of Work as a Spiritual Practice by Daryl Sharp subjects ranging presents a fresh, earthy vision of the aging $25.00, paper. Inner City. 158 pages from the ancient process, awakening a This Jungian analyst’s whimsical perspective on the inner Hindu Vedas to Zen spirit of fulfillment life, “Volume 2 of the Eros series,” is the book many have been koans, Tantric yoga, and transformation. waiting for—a sequel (of sorts) to the author’s acclaimed Live and the Tibetan Everything Your Nonsense. Book of the Dead, changes. For Zen Jung described projection as “an automatic process whereby Campbell explores the contents of one’s own unconscious re perceived to be in Buddhist priest and the core philoso- others.” meditation teacher phies and mythologies of the East, com- I believe that is true psychologically, but all the same, in Lewis Richmond, paring them through vivid examples and everyday life projection is very sexy. It makes Eros and stories to each other and to the West. A this fundamental relationship possible. Buddhist truth is the worthy companion to Thou Art That and to A toad can become a prince in the wink of an eye. Likewise, that plain wallflower Campbell’s Asian Journals, this volume con- basis for an inner can become a soulful princess. I have written this before, but it bears repeating—no one road map that veys complex insights through warm, acces- is so homely or misshapen that another may not love and desire him or her. sible storytelling, revealing the intricacies emerges in the later Trampled to Death by Geese is a rare anomaly in the world of Jungian writing. There years, charting an and secrets of his subject with his typical en- are some racy, picaresque scenes, as befits the author’s style, but on the whole it is a thusiasm. understanding that can bring new possibili- delicate balancing act between narcissistic self-indulgence and serious explications ties, fresh beginnings, and a wealth of ap- Joseph Campbell’s works, including the of Jung’s ideas, with sheer fun along the way. four-volume The Masks of God and The Power preciation and gratitude for the life journey Daryl Sharp is a graduate of the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich and the author of itself. of Myth (with Bill Moyers), rank among the many other books in this series. He is the publisher of Inner City Books in Toronto, classics in mythology and literature. In Aging as a Spiritual Practice, Richmond Canada, where he has an analytic practice. acknowledges the fear, anger, and sorrow many people experience when they must confront the indignities of their aging bod- HIJACKED BY EROS INNER WISDOM ies and the unknowns associated with mor- A Jungian Analyst’s Picaresque Adventures in the Pleroma The Eternal Youth New on tality. This wise, compassionate book guides by Daryl Sharp and the Wise Old Sage CD readers through the four key stages of ag- $25.00, paper. Inner City. 128 pages by Michael Meade ing—such as “Lightning Strikes” (the mo- This final volume in The Eros Trilogy is all one might expect $38.50, 4 CDs. Mosaic Multicultural. 4.5 hours ment we wake up to our aging)—as well as from the author who coined the term “Jungian romance.” Following myths from ancient India the processes of adapting to change, let- Sharp and his rogueish side-kick Razr jostle for position, adroit- and Ireland, mythopoetic storyteller ting go of who we were, embracing who we ly balancing Logos and Eros, puer and senex. Overall, it is both and mentor are, and appreciating our unique life chap- heady and hearty. Michael ters. It is the contrasexual complexes, anima/animus, that regularly Meade Unlike many philosophical works on ag- bedevil relationships. This reality should be taught in high school weaves ing, however, this one incorporates illumi- and university. It would also wisely be a requisite for those together cos- nating facts from scientific researchers, doc- contemplating cohabitation. It is shameful how little maturing mology, psy- tors, and psychologists, as well as adults know of the human psyche and the dynamics of relationships... chology, phi- contemplative practices and guided medi- Psychologically a man’s inner woman, his anima, functions as his soul. When a man losophy, and tations on aging’s various challenges and is full of life we say he is “animated.” The man with no connection to his feminine side poetry in or- rewards. The tandem of maintaining a feels dull and listless, both to himself and to others. Nowadays we call such a state der to open healthy body and healthy relationships, in- depression, but the experience is not new. For thousands of years, among so-called the soul’s vi- fused with an active spiritual life, is explored primitive peoples, it has been known as loss of soul. sion and in rejuvenating detail. A bonus here is the inclusion of a long-lost scholarly essay by the late A. R. Pope of catch the fish of wisdom. Rather than “Articulating our inevitable failure to Zurich, “The Eros Aspect of the Eye.” being abstract knowledge, “embodied manage, even defeat, aging and mortality, Hijacked by Eros is a remarkable blend of thinking and feeling, Logos and Eros. It wisdom” is shown to be both immediate Lewis Richmond offers a practical, step-by- is a refreshing and informative read, light-hearted and yet bold in elucidating the ba- and eternal, both spiritual and soulful. step set of attitudes and practices that sic tenets of Jungian psychology. The point here is “living philosophy” open the reader to philosophical matura- Daryl Sharp is a graduate of the C. G. Jung Institute of Zurich and the author of that connects the “uniqueness” of each tion, a proactive engagement with the many other books. individual with the Soul of the World. meaning of one’s changing state, and the at- Using the “inner eyes of tainment of personal dignity through our the soul,” Meade looks be- childhood filled with terrifying visions to his first meeting the founder of modern depth shared journey into mystery.” —James hind the great conflicts of marriage and early adulthood in which he psychology—the man who introduced spirit Hollis, Jungian analyst and author of modern culture and un- pursued outer, material goals, through his into the practice of psychotherapy. Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life covers hidden connections mentorship and split with Freud, to his “Even more striking is the variety and rich- between youth and the el- midlife return to the realm of inner trans- ness of these illustrations. From modern ders. Using poetry and wit, Jungian Psychology formation, from breakdowns to break- art to ancient objects, key motifs are made he makes the case for the throughs, to old age and death. visible in the most striking way... The book Michael Meade necessity of a meaningful Through Jung’s own letters and writings itself is a work of art, the kind of enduring life and the authenticity of CARL JUNG: and commentaries of friends, colleagues tome which is picked up again and again for each soul. Using cogent ideas from the East WOUNDED HEALER OF THE SOUL and acquaintances, this book portrays his the pleasure of the eyes as well as that of the and the West, he brings a soulful sense of An Illustrated Biography down-to-earth, human side, with all the mind.” —Olivier Bernier, art historian wisdom back to life. by Claire Dunne, strengths and frailties that accompany the introduction by Jean Houston Wisdom combines the spontaneous with human condition. Readers are shown how the eternal, the personal with the universal, $29.95, cloth. Watkins. Mythology his all-too-human qualities became material the practical with the symbolic, and unites 272 pages, colour images throughout for his pioneering work. soul with spirit. Inner wisdom fosters This magnificently illustrated biography Deftly interweaving letters and com- MYTHS OF LIGHT emotional intelligence, reveals unique of Carl Jung (1875–1961), the Swiss psy- mentary with an extraordinary array of Eastern Metaphors New in visions, and keeps the soul lively at any age. chologist who intro- 150 ancient and contemporary images, in- of the Eternal Paperback THEMES INCLUDE: Wisdom and the duced the world to cluding three of Jung’s paintings from his by Joseph Campbell Soul • An Authentic Life • Darkness Matters the concept of indi- private journal, the Red Book, Dunne helps $16.50, paper. New World Library. 192 pages • Swimming Towards God • Paths to the viduation, arche- readers grasp Jung’s insight that the divine In Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Sacred • The Fish of Wisdom • Soul Making types, and the col- contains both light and dark. At the age of Eternal, Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) ex- • The Inner Sage • Puer and Senex • lective unconscious, 79, Jung wrote: plores, with his characteristic clarity and Unique Torchbearer. is less an outward A ‘complete’ life does not consist in a jaunty humor, the principle that underlies all Inner Wisdom also includes these stories, chronicle of his life theoretical completeness, but in the fact the great religions of India and East Asia, told in Michael’s spellbinding storytelling- than it is a probing that one accepts, without reservation, the from Jainism and Hinduism to Buddhism and with-drumming style: Markandeya, the first look into his mind particular fatal tissue in which one finds Taoism: the transcendent World Soul. Just as seeker, Fionn and the Fish of Wisdom, and and heart. Claire oneself embedded. Campbell’s book Thou Art That: Transforming The Young God and the Old One. Dunne chronicles This portrait is accessible to readers fa- Religious Metaphor revealed the mythic un- Among Michael Meade’s books are The Jung’s life from a miliar with Jung’s work as well as to those derpinnings of the Judeo-Christian tradition, Water of Life and Fate and Destiny.

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The Heart of Religion Western religion. She provides not only an excellent introduction to the basic beliefs, scriptures, and practices of Judaism, Mindful Medicine for Stress & Anxiety TWELVE STEPS TO A Christianity, and Islam, but also a new COMPASSIONATE LIFE emerging context called InterSpiritual THE NOW EFFECT by Karen Armstrong with which to understand our religiously How This Moment Can $18.95, paper. Crown. 208 pages pluralistic world. Unlike its precursor move- Change the Rest of Your Life $32.95, 4 CDs. 4 hours, unabridged ment, “interfaith,” which is largely focused by Elisha Goldstein The prolific, well-informed, and passion- on cooperation between religious institu- $27.00, paper. Simon & Schuster. 268 pages ate Karen Armstrong (The Case for God, tions, an “interspiritual” approach is one You can calm your anxious mind, have greater focus at work etc.) writes a some- that tends to the personal and spiritual di- and home, feel more empathy toward yourself and others, ap- what different book mensions of religion. An interspiritual ap- proach difficulties with more grace and less stress, and be aware here, stemming from proach sees and participates in the com- of what is most important to you. The secret is in the spaces. her winning the TED mon roots found in all religious A leader in mindfulness psychology, Dr. Elisha Goldstein Lectures prize which expression. demonstrates how to use the space between stimulus and re- provided her with the Author of critically acclaimed new trans- sponse to break free from habitual beliefs and thoughts that means to promote an lations of St. John of the Cross and St. don’t serve you. These excellent mindfulness techniques will al- idea worth spread- Teresa of Avila, Mirabai Starr uses fresh, low you to connect to the present moment to make deep, lasting life changes. In ing: The Charter for lyrical language to help make timeless wis- essence, this book teaches the foundation for how the now—this very moment—can Compassion (see dom accessible to a contemporary circle of change the rest of your life. charterforcompas- seekers. As a teenager, Starr lived at the Mindfulness is the ability to pay attention, on purpose, while putting aside our sion.org). Lama Foundation, an intentional spiritual programmed biases. You’ll be exposed to mindfulness practices throughout this book, This is a book with community that has honored all the world’s but you’ll also be turning the wheel a notch further, refining the focus with specific an agenda: We all faith traditions since its inception in 1967. techniques that are tailored to prime your mind toward spaces or choice points. In a ought to be more compassionate, and short time, those spaces of awareness will begin dropping in on you like moments of here’s how. So instead of being her usual grace throughout the day, guiding you with more freedom to live as if it matters. somewhat academic teacher of religious his- Meditation This is exactly what the writings and practices in this book intend to help you do. tory, in Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life Most chapters in the book end with Now Moments, specific reflections and practices she is more of a personal spiritual teacher. MEDITATION: THE COMPLETE GUIDE for bringing aspects of the Now Effect into your life. To enhance and ease your expe- rience, the text also contains links to simple instructional videos of the author lead- That task, and corresponding tone (“Be pa- Techniques from East and West to Calm ing you through a practice. tient with yourself during this meditation”), the Mind, Heal the Body, is not her long suit. Still, this slightly self- and Enrich the Spirit help-y book is deeply grounded in what by Patricia Monaghan & Eleanor Viereck A MINDFULNESS-BASED Armstrong knows, and presents well: The $20.50, paper. New World Library. 370 pages STRESS REDUCTION WORKBOOK core teachings of all religions that can make More than ever, people of all ages, back- by Bob Stahl & Elisha Goldstein Book us better, more compassionate humans. grounds, and traditions are becoming $27.95, New Harbinger. & CD The twelve steps Armstrong suggests begin aware of the benefits 224 pages, 8x10 + audio-CD with “Learn About Compassion” and close of meditation. And Stress and pain are part of the human condition. They can with “Love Your Enemies.” In between, she doing it! This book, often leave us feeling irritable, tense, overwhelmed, or takes up “compassion for yourself,” mindful- first published in burned-out. The key to maintaining balance is responding ness, suffering, sympathetic joy, the limits of 1999 and now updat- to stress not with frustration and self-criticism, but with our knowledge of others, and “concern for ed, is “a wonderful mindful, nonjudgmental awareness of our bodies and everybody.” She suggests concrete ways of source for the many minds. enhancing our compassion and putting it ways of going-in, for In A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook, mindful- into action in our everyday lives, and pro- the letting-go the ness experts Bob Stahl and Elisha Goldstein adapt Jon vides, as well, a reading list to encourage us soul longs for. You Kabat-Zinn’s groundbreaking program into an accessible workbook format: Readers to “hear one another’s narratives.” will go back to it, as turn to this book once a week for eleven weeks, gradually improving their ability to re- Throughout, Armstrong makes clear that a to a spring, again lieve intense stress and reconnect with the present. compassionate life is not a matter of only and again, for fresh Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is a clinically proven program for alle- heart or mind but a deliberate and often life- water.” —Coleman viating stress, anxiety, panic, depression, chronic pain, and a wide range of medical altering commingling of the two. Barks, translator, The Soul of Rumi conditions. Taught in classes and clinics worldwide, this powerful approach shows you The former nun pulls ideas and refer- Broad-based yet addressing the specific how to focus on the present moment in order to permanently change the way you han- ences from religions Eastern and Western needs of individuals, Meditation: The dle stress. with aplomb and respect for all sources. Complete Guide offers information on forty- This workbook invites readers to participate in formal and informal practices and This counter to the “religion-is-homicidal- three meditation practices. An easy-to-use use fill-in exercises to reflect and track their progress. The enclosed audio-CD in- and-superstitious” school of invective pass- self-test on personal habits and preferences cludes 21 guided meditations and offers extensive supplemental material that read- ing for thought is well-informed, welcome, directs readers to choose a practice to fit ers can listen to anytime to receive a refresher course on MBSR techniques and useful and practical. their tastes and circumstances. guidance for bringing these techniques into their days. “Armstrong has delivered something These experienced authors describe all “These illuminating insights and practical exercises can transform your life and people badly want: a way to acknowledge the major forms of Eastern and Western re- even help you build a stronger brain.” —Daniel Siegel, author of Mindsight that faith can be taken seriously as a re- ligious practice—from Christianity, “This is an excellent, systematic, helpful, and practical workbook. Doing these prac- sponse to deep human yearnings without Judaism, and Islam to the traditions of tices brings many blessings. They will reduce stress and truly transform your life.” — needing to subscribe to the formality of India, Japan, China, and Tibet. Readers can Jack Kornfield, author of The Wise Heart organized belief.” —The Economist explore techniques derived from Asian and African customs or meditations simply way that works for them, regardless of faith Here, the teacher, found in life practices such as sports, gar- or inclination. A real contribution.” — scientist, and clini- GOD OF LOVE dening, and creative arts. Learn about tech- Anodea Judith, author of Eastern Body, cian who first A Guide to the Heart of Judaism, niques such as drumming, yoga breathing, Western Mind demonstrated the Christianity and Islam trance dancing, Tai Chi, Sufi dancing, jour- benefits of mindful- by Mirabai Starr naling, visualization, pilgrimage, listening, ness in mainstream $17.50, paper. Monkfish. 298 pages as well as the contemplative practices at the Western medicine of- Though greatly influenced by modern heart of world spiritual traditions. Very in- MINDFULNESS FOR BEGINNERS fers a book that you teachers of Eastern spirituality such as Ram teresting. Reclaiming the Present Moment can use in three Dass, Mirabai Starr Meditation: The Complete Guide is de- —and Your Life unique ways: as a has spent her life signed for all readers, from the beginning by Jon Kabat-Zinn Book collection of reflec- responding to the meditator to the healing professional, with $21.95, Sounds True. & CD tions and practices call to honour the chapters on practices to heal physically, emo- 166-page hardcover + 74- to be opened and diversity and cele- tionally, and mentally. minute audio-CD explored at random; as an illuminating brate the unity be- As we mature in our practice, we can find The practice of mindfulness holds the pos- and engaging start-to-finish read; or as an tween all paths that more freedom by facing the ways in which sibility of not just a fleeting sense of content- unfolding “lesson-a-day” primer on mind- lead us home to we have tried to escape, imitate, or hide. ment, but a true embracing of a deeper uni- fulness practice. love. Best known Meditation is not the answer for all of ty that envelops and permeates our lives. Beginning and practiced meditators for her translations life’s problems. It can, however, provide With Mindfulness for Beginners you are invited alike will discover in these pages a valuable of the Spanish mys- us with skills and strengths that allow us to learn how to transform your relationship distillation of the key attitudes and essential tics, in God of Love to find the answers for ourselves. to the way you think, feel, love, work, and practices that Jon Kabat-Zinn has found Starr explores the “With so many techniques included and play—and thereby awaken to and embody most useful with his students, including: spiritual roots of elegantly described, everyone can find a more completely who you really are. ✦ Why heartfulness is synonymous with

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true mindfulness ✦How the pain-body arises, what fuels it, ✦ The value of coming back to our bodies and its role in the process of awakening and our senses over and over again The Reality of Being / Gurdjieff ✦Healing at the physical, emotional, and ✦ How our thoughts “self-liberate” when subtle levels—guided meditations from touched by awareness THE REALITY OF BEING Kim Eng for relieving suffering with spa- ✦ Moving beyond our “story” into direct The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff New in cious awareness experience by Jeanne de Salzmann Paperback ✦The Pointing Exercise—a key practice ✦ Stabilizing our attention and presence $24.95, paper. Shambhala. 336 pages for dissolving our identification with the amidst daily activities Based on notebooks kept by G.I. Gurdjieff’s closest follower, pain-body ✦ The three poisons that cause suffering— The Reality of Being offers new insight on his spiritual teach- Eckhart Tolle and Kim Eng teach that and their antidotes, and more. ings—a way of gnosis or “knowledge of being” passed on from when we view the pain-body as a reminder The prescription for living a more mind- remote antiquity. It is a complete and uniquely authoritative to become more present, it can become a ful life seems simple enough: return your guide to the great teacher’s ideas and to his methods for lib- powerful ally in our awakening. With Resist awareness again and again to whatever is go- erating ourselves from the state of “waking sleep” in which Nothing, they offer an illuminating and ing on. But if you’ve tried it, you know that most of us live our lives. practical program on one of the most im- here is where all the questions and chal- Gurdjieff respected traditional religious practices, which he portant steps we can take on the journey of lenges really begin. Mindfulness for regarded as falling into three general categories or “ways”: the Way of the Fakir, relat- spiritual awakening. Beginners provides welcome answers, in- ed to mastery of the physical body; the Way of the Monk, based on sights, and instruction to help us make faith and feeling; and the Way of the Yogi, which focuses on develop- Dying, Near-Death that shift, moment by moment, into a ment of the mind. He presented his teaching as a Fourth Way that in- more spacious, clear, reliable, and loving tegrated these three aspects into a single path of self-knowledge. & Grieving connection with ourselves and the world. Progress in the Fourth Way comes through conscious effort toward a Includes a complete CD with five guided quality of thinking and feeling that brings a new capacity to see clear- THE MODERN BOOK OF THE DEAD mindfulness meditations by Jon Kabat- ly and to love. A Revolutionary Perspective on Death, Zinn, selected from the audio program that This long-awaited guide to Gurdjieff’s teaching, describing the the Soul, and What Really Happens inspired this book. Jeanne routes to be traveled and the landmarks encountered along the way, in the Life to Come Also by Jon Kabat-Zinn is the classic de Salzmann is organized according to themes, touching on all the important con- by Ptolemy Tompkins Wherever You Go, There You Are. cepts and practices of the Work, including: $29.99, cloth. Simon & Schuster. 274 pages ✦ awakening from the sleep of identification with the ordinary level of being From Egyptian and Tibetan books of the ✦ Western Spiritual Teachers self-observation and self-remembering dead to contemporary near-death experi- ✦ conscious effort and voluntary suffering ence reports, & Teachings ✦ understanding symbolic concepts like the Enneagram Tompkins (The ✦ the Gurdjieff Movements, bodily exercises that provide training in Presence and Divine Life of THE KRISHNAMURTI READER the awareness of subtle energies Animals) rigorously ✦ by J. Krishnamurti the necessity of a “school,” meaning the collective practice of the teaching in a group. reviews literature $16.00, paper. Shambhala. Madame de Salzmann brings to the Work her own strong, direct language and per- about the edge of 173 pages, 4x7, French flaps sonal journey in learning to live that knowledge of a higher level of being, which, she life in seeking an- J. Krishnamurti was renowned for the insists, “you have to see for yourself” on a level beyond theory, concept, or belief. swers to what the af- penetrating insight and immediacy of his Jeanne de Salzmann (1889–1990) met Gurdjieff in 1919 and became his closest terlife may hold. spiritual teachings. pupil. Before his death in 1949, Gurdjieff directed her to continue his work worldwide. “Our beliefs about Radical in his day for Madame, as she was called with respect, was an esteemed teacher in her own right, the world beyond seeking truth be- transmitting the Gurdjieff Work and especially his “Movements,” or sacred dances. are hopelessly yond the boundaries vague,” writes the of religion, ideology, author, who argues or tradition, he de- CONVERSATIONS ON NON-DUALITY RESIST NOTHING that scientific rea- clared that “Truth is Twenty-Six Awakenings Guided Meditations to Heal New on son has undermined our faith in the possi- a pathless land, and edited by Eleanora Gilbert the Pain-Body CD bility of consciousness surviving the body. you cannot ap- $21.95, paper. Cherry Red Books. 406 pages by Kim Eng, with 30-minute Tompkins, whose research was prompted in proach it by any From a rich variety of backgrounds, the introduction by Eckhart Tolle part by the death of his father, New Age au- path whatsoever.” people profiled here have been through ex- $19.95, 2 CDs. Sounds True. 2.3 hours thor Peter Tompkins, synthesizes Eastern He traveled and lec- traordinary ex- “No Judgment, No Resistance—the Path and Western beliefs to arrive at a theory of tured throughout periences lead- to Liberation from the Pain-Body” the afterlife that accepts reincarnation the world, calling for ing to amazing Why do our and a forward-moving process of spiritual a new approach to new percep- negative experi- evolution. By incorporating timeless tradi- life and spirituality. tions. They all ences seem to stay tions alongside more esoteric ideas, The In this compilation of Krishnamurti’s shared a com- with us so persis- Modern Book of the Dead is a winning history most essential teachings, he explores what mon sense of tently? It is be- of humanity’s numerous imaginings of the he calls “the art of living.” The topics ad- dissatisfaction cause they are the hereafter. dressed include such perennial human con- with their lives fuel for what For no matter what kind of a brave face cerns as: living life without conflict and con- and a longing Eckhart Tolle we might try to put on it, a life lived fusion, how to act with skill and clarity, the for happiness, calls the pain- without a coherent, focused, and serious significance of meditation, death and dying, connection, body, an ener- picture of the afterlife is, quite simply, a true freedom, and bringing the sacred into health, love, ful- getic field that ac- life without context: a life that will, in the end, always be missing half of itself. everyday life. These timeless teachings filling relation- tually feeds on guide us to live our lives simply, intelligent- ships, wealth, toxic thoughts and emotions. Liberation Ptolemy Tompkins grew up in a family ly, and with great love—free from the bonds and freedom. As from the pain-body is not about repressing where questions about the shape and fate of of sorrow and fear. they reveal the means by which they each or denying our the human soul were discussed on a daily This is not a philosophy as a series of went about achieving an end to their suffer- thoughts. Instead, basis, But as he explains in his boldly un- theories; it is exactly what the word ing—from therapy to study with gurus— as Eckhart’s teach- conventional new book, it was only with his philosophy means, the love of truth, the their stories range from funny to moving ing partner Kim father’s death that he began to think about love of life. It is not something that you go and tragic to inspiring, but there is a com- Eng reveals, we death in a genuinely concrete way—as to a university to learn. We are learning mon element in their engagement with must develop a something that really and truly will happen about the art of living in our daily life. nonduality. In simple terms, nonduality complete recep- to each one of us. Part memoir, part histo- * means no separation—although it appears Kim Eng tiveness to all expe- ry of ideas of the afterlife, and part road To see clearly, to have great clarity in that there are separate individuals and ob- & Eckhart Tolle rience—rejecting map to what might truly await each of us perception, there must be no distortion. jects in our world, in reality there is only nothing, judging when we leave our bodies behind, The Distortion is brought about by any form of oneness. It is this realization that has trans- nothing, and resisting nothing. Modern Book of the Dead is a wise and motive, purpose, direction. formed the lives of these 26 ordinary men On Resist Nothing, Eckhart and Kim pre- courageous book that approaches the * and women from many cultures and from a sent essential wisdom and practices for dis- question of the afterlife in a refreshingly Another form of learning is never to wide range of social, economic, and ethnic solving the pain-body. Beginning with a 30- intimate manner. Weaving together philos- accumulate, is to become so totally aware backgrounds. Here they share their insights minute exploration by Eckhart into the ophy, science, stories of near-death experi- that you only register what is absolutely and their stories. nature of the pain-body, you will then learn ences, and theology, the author comes to necessary and nothing else. Then the mind Among the 26 people interviewed in five of Kim’s most effective guided medi- one amazing and uplifting truth: that some- is not cluttered up all the time with the this book are Jeff Foster, Gangaji, Mooji, tations and on-the-spot practices for clear- how, human consciousness lives on after movement of knowledge... so there is no Tony Parsons, Genpo Roshi, Pamela ing blockages, releasing unhealthy attach- death. Both inspiring and intimate, this is a psychological building up of the “me,” the Wilson, Rupert Spira, and Wayne ments, and becoming fully present in any modern meditation that allows the reader structure of the self. Liquorman. situation. Join them to learn: to think about death in an all-new way.

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LEANING INTO SHARP POINTS This new edition “The Great Field is a provocative synthesis Entheogens / Psychedelics Practical Guidance and Nurturing Support is a thoroughly of scientific, spiritual, and therapeutic data for Caregivers revised and supporting the once and future potential of by Stan Goldberg expanded humanity and our place in the universe. It is SINGING TO THE PLANTS $16.50, paper. New World Library. 214 pages presentation of an inspiring read that will raise questions A Guide to the Mestizo Shamanism At least once in almost everyone’s life, these essential for some and provide answers for others. It in the Upper Amazon they will become a caregiver. Though an es- commitments, is a book for seekers and a book of hope, by Stephan Beyer timated 35 million including many new written from vision and love.” —Jenny $32.95, paper. U. of New Mexico. North Americans realizations that I Wade, author of Change of Mind 530 pages, b/w photos currently provide feel fortunate to In the Upper Amazon, mestizos are the care for someone have gained over Spanish-speaking descendants of Hispanic terminally or chroni- these recent years. THE PASSIONATE MIND REVISITED colonizers and the cally ill, those who ac- We already possess everything we need to Expanding Personal indigenous peoples cept this responsibili- have satisfying relationships and a happy, and Social Awareness of the jungle. They ty often feel alone in fulfilling life; all we need to do is learn how by Joel Kramer & Diana Alstad have retained fea- a frightening foreign to bring forth our natural wisdom—which $21.00, paper. North Atlantic. tures of a folk land. Whether visit- includes our innate kindness, understand- 362 pages Catholicism and tra- ing occasionally or ing, and courage. Psychotherapist David The Passionate Mind Revisited offers a lib- ditional Hispanic caregiving 24/7, they Richo draws on four decades of his coun- erating inner journey that can transform medicine, and have are brushing up seling experience to create this manual on the way readers incorporated much against life’s sharpest how to nurture the best in ourselves and look at them- of the religious tradi- point. As only one our relationships. He teaches how to access selves and the tion of the Amazon, our natural abilities to: world. This ex- especially its shaman- who has been there can, hospice therapist ✦ Stan Goldberg offers an honest, caring, and Care for ourselves as the basis of caring panded inquiry ism, sorcery, healing, comprehensive guide to those on this jour- for others reflects the au- and the use of potent ✦ Find freedom from fear thors’ own and plant hallucinogens, including ayahuasca. ney. Everyone wants to “do the right thing” ✦ and this is the real how-to—from bedside Maintain healthy boundaries in rela- the world’s evo- Singing to the Plants sets forth just what tionships lution since The this shamanism is about—what happens at etiquette and practical decisions to initiat- ✦ ing difficult conversations, navigating Develop greater honesty with ourselves Passionate Mind an ayahuasca healing ceremony, how the and others came out in apprentice shaman forms a spiritual rela- rapid changes, caring for oneself in the ✦ midst of caring for another, and even offer- Let go of regret. 1974. The origi- tionship with the healing plant spirits, how ing “permission” to die. Because death is a The book also includes practical exercis- nal book focus- sorcerers inflict the harm that the shaman process, not an event, Goldberg also ad- es—including journaling, contemplation, ing on the indi- heals, and the ways that plants are used in dresses the caregiver’s recovery, including and guided meditations—to foster inward vidual is now healing, love magic, and sorcery. their recovery of joy. growth and lasting positive change. An ap- extended to so- Beyer’s thoroughly explored analysis of Regardless of what stage of dying a loved pendix describes “Our Commitments to cial and philosophical spheres and global ayahuasca-based shamanism is encyclope- one is in, caregivers will find Goldberg’s Loving-Kindness,” which is a summary and challenges, exploring how the world’s life- dic in scope, and carefully catalogs the im- suggestions both practical and heartening. reminder of the main commitments dis- threatening dramas are largely a function of portant anthropological aspects of the tra- Among the many themes: cussed in the book. people’s genetic and cultural conditioning, ditional and culturally-blended ✦ How to handle abuse from someone worldviews, beliefs, and values. ayahuasca-based healing ceremonies. He you’ve devoted your life to Kramer and Alstad assert that humanity sees ayahuasca healing ceremonies as pri- ✦ THE GREAT FIELD is on an evolutionary cusp requiring fur- marily being a theatrical art form, a type How to begin the discussion of end of Soul at Play in a Conscious Universe life issues with loved ones ther awareness and conscious social evolu- of performance that combines costumes, ✦ by John James tion. In exploring what it is to be a human props, music, conjuring, poetry, move- How to balance your loved one’s needs $19.95, paper. Energy Psychology. social animal, The Passionate Mind ment, plots, suspense, stagecraft, dialogue, with your own 292 pages, b/w illustrations ✦ Revisited offers fresh vantage points on and sleight-of-hand stage magic. How to accept a loved one’s changing In The Great Field, transpersonal psychol- life’s core issues: the nature of thought, au- The ceremony, like other compositions personality. ogist John James draws on nearly twenty thority and belief, pleasure and pain, desire in art, dance, and music, does not Leaning into Sharp Points offers sugges- years of therapeutic and fear, identity, love and care, freedom, contribute a single message sent intact to tions for things to discuss, from practical practice to present power, gender, time, meditation, violence, receivers; it relies instead on the spectators matters such as pain medication and legal elegant and some- and evolution. to make meaning of the performance. documents to support groups and profes- times startling con- By demonstrating how to inwardly see Like all psychedelics, ayahuasca has a ten- sional support to the more challenging clusions about the and break through one’s conditioning, the dency to increase both suggestibility and a themes around “saying goodbye.” nature of the uni- authors delve deeply into the nature and sense of enhanced meaning, and when this When someone is learning to accept a verse and its implica- processes of the mind, including how sub- experience is combined with the proper chronic illness or is dying, it’s the melody tions for the human jectivity filters perception. This approach to type of ceremony, or guidance by an experi- of her life that she strives to hear and experience. Drawing self-inquiry can help free people from me- enced shaman, it is often reported to help wants others to experience. She is on the established struggling to find a place in a world that chanical responses that develop from unex- the body heal itself from a variety of diffi- scientific wisdom of has cruelly stripped her of many things amined beliefs and habits. This book cult-to-treat illnesses. With ayahuasca-based biology and astrono- that gave her pleasure... She will be through its discussion and methodology fos- shamanism the body’s innate healing ability my, he shows that struggling with some of the most difficult ters curiosity and truth-seeking. takes center stage, where it seems to be- everything that exists psychological issues there are and may be “Don’t go to the movies. Put down your come magnified, and there are numerous has been created out of and within the vast simultaneously seeing the world through magazine. Shut off your computer. Read stories of people who have had both long- pain. domains of energy that form the Great this book. It will show you what is really hap- standing medical illnesses suddenly and Field, and that soul—that energetic part of Also by Stan Goldberg is Lessons for the pening now. Being able to understand how miraculously vanish, or vastly improve, after us that connects with the universe—is as Living: Stories of Forgiveness, Gratitude, and the world is changing and what that means an ayahuasca healing ceremony. powerful a creative factor as DNA in our Courage at the End of Life. to you and your children is the real news of A rare mixture of exhaustive scholarship physical and psychic development. today. Accessible and profound.” —Jeremy and gripping first person account, Singing Transpersonal Psychology The research leads to two inescapable Tarcher, founder of Tarcher books to the Plants is “elegantly written… incorpo- conclusions: that everything in the Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad are also co- rating thoughtful analyses of psychological, universe is simultaneously physical and authors of The Guru Papers: Masks of cultural, and spiritual perspectives. A very energetic, including the human psyche, and that every movement—every Authoritarian Power. Their Web site is valuable contribution.” —Ralph Metzner, COMING HOME TO WHO YOU ARE www.joeldiana.com. author of Sacred Vine of Spirits Discovering Your Natural Capacity for movement—in one realm affects every Love, Integrity, and Compassion part of the other. by David Richo Because his findings are based upon an $14.95, paper. Shambhala. 162 pages innovative combination of scientific evi- This book is a completely revised and up- dence, diverse cultural and spiritual wis- dated edition of Everyday Commitments by dom, and therapeutic case histories, James’ therapist and author David Richo, among conclusions provide a stimulating and orig- whose popular books are The Five Things inal theory of how the Great Field is the We Cannot Change and How to Be an Adult foundation of everything in the uni- in Relationships. verse—including the personal energy we What does it take to be a really good call soul. person? Answers that began to emerge for The book concludes with a discussion on me became a list of specific commitments how knowledge of the Field may support a we can all make to a life of integrity and more intimate connection with the whole- loving-kindness... ness of the universe.

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Entheogens & Direct Revelation Martin Prechtel’s Flowering Earth

ENTHEOGENS AND THE FUTURE OF RELIGION THE UNLIKELY PEACE AT CUCHUMAQUIC edited by Robert Forte The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping $18.95, paper. Inner Traditions. 236 pages the Seeds Alive It is the ability of these substances to catalyze religious by Martín Prechtel experience that is of interest to us; to emphasize this, we use the $28.95, cloth. North Atlantic. 441 pages word entheogen, coined from Greek roots signifying “to realize the This book is meant as a gift to that thing in original humans, divine within”, to describe them when used for spiritual purposes. which at one time made them a welcome sound in the symphony —Bob Jesse of all Nature. We live in a time when many voices are calling for a spiritual Martín Prechtel’s experiences growing up on a Pueblo Indian renewal to address the problems that face humanity, yet the way reservation, his years of apprenticing to a Guatemalan shaman, of entheogens—one of the oldest and most widespread means of and his flight from Guatemala’s brutal civil war to life in the U.S. attaining a firsthand religious experience—is forbidden, sur- inform this lyrical blend of memoir, cultural commentary, and rounded by controversy and misunderstanding. Widely employed in traditional spiritual call to arms. The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic is both shamanic societies, entheogens figure prominently in the origins of religion and an epic story and a cry to the heart of humanity based on the author’s realization their use continues today throughout the world. They alter consciousness so pro- that human survival depends on keeping alive the seeds of our “original forgotten foundly that, depending on the set and setting, they can produce the ultimate human spiritual excellence.” experiences: union with God or revelation of other mystical realities. Prechtel relates our current state of ecological crisis to the rapid disappearance of First published in 1997 and here in a new edition, Entheogens and the Future of biodiversity, indigenous cultures, and shared human values. He demonstrates how real Religion includes contributions by Albert Hofmann (“The Message of the Eleusinian human culture is exterminated when real (not genetically modified) Mysteries for Today’s World”), Terence McKenna, Ann and Alexander Shulgin, seeds are lost. Like plants that become extinct once their required Brother David Steindl-Rast, Thomas Riedlinger, Dale Pendell, and Rick Strassman as conditions are no longer met, authentic, unmonetized human cul- well as interviews with R. Gordon Wasson and Jack Kornfield (“Psychedelic Experience tures can no longer survive in the modern world. and Spiritual Practice”). To “keep the seeds alive”—both literally and metaphorically—they This book explores ancient and modern uses of psychedelics and the importance must be planted, harvested, and replanted, just as human culture of psychedelics to the future of religion and society. Revealing the mystical-religious must become truly engaging and meaningful to the soul, as necessary possibilities of substances such as psilocybin mushrooms, mescaline, and LSD, this as food is to the body. The viable seeds of spirituality and culture book exposes the vital need for developing an organized spiritual context for their Martín Prechtel that lie dormant within us need to “sprout” into broad daylight to use in order to fully realize their transformative value. Stressing the importance of create real sets of cultures welcome on Earth. academic and religious freedom, the authors call for a revival of scientific and reli- Set into the matrix of the chirping, storming, growing, dying, dew-covered, immense gious inquiry into entheogens so they may be used safely and legally by those seeking crushing wheel of the wildness of the universe, the stories of how all things went to cultivate their spiritual awareness. together—or not—lay like a massive clutch of eggs of culture hatching beneath the From Robert Forte’s introduction: warm heavy breast of the Holy in Nature, in a nest called the world. Though they affect the psyche so powerfully, entheogens are among the biologically “The Unlikely Peace at Cochumaquic is like one of the seeds Martin Prechtel describes. safest drugs known… These writings aim to direct attention to the distinctly sacred When planted in fertile ground, the words and thoughts and images and prayers will nature of these substances with the hope that religious-minded investigators, policy grow into a life-giving complexity. This is a wondrous and powerful book.” —Derrick architects, and the concerned public will take note. Jensen, author of A Language Older than Words A master of eloquence and innovative language, Martín Prechtel teaches at Bolad’s THE PSILOCYBIN SOLUTION Kitchen, his school in New Mexico. Through music, ritual, farming, sacred architec- The Role of Sacred Mushrooms in the Quest for Healing ture, textiles, tools, and story, Prechtel helps people in many lands to remember their by Simon Powell own sense of place in the daily sacred through the search for the Indigenous Soul. $21.50, paper. Inner Traditions. 304 pages Among his other books are Secrets of the Talking Jaguar and Long Life, Honey in the It has been more than 50 years since sacred mushrooms were Heart. More info: floweringmountain.com. plucked from the shamanic backwaters of Mexico and presented to the modern world by R. Gordon Wasson. After sparking the psychedelic era of the 1960s, however, the divine mushroom re- Incorporating A SHAMAN’S GUIDE TO DEEP BEAUTY turned underground from whence it mysteriously originated. Yet the wisdom teach- Connecting with the Mojo of the Universe today, the mushroom’s extraordinary influence is once again ings of Seneca by Francis Rico being felt by large numbers of people, due to the discovery of Wolf Clan $19.95, paper. Council Oak. hundreds of wild psilocybin species growing across the globe. Grandmother 222 pages, b/w illustrations In The Psilocybin Solution, Simon Powell traces the history of the sacred psilocybin Twylah Nitsch A guide to moving into the spiral of Cre- mushroom and discusses the shamanic visionary effects it can induce. Detailing how with shamanic ation’s energy and discovering the deep psilocybin acts as a profound enhancer of consciousness and reviewing the research journeys and beauty in each mo- performed by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), shamanic breath- ment. A Shaman’s Johns Hopkins University, and the Heffter Research Institute on psilocybin’s ability work practices, Guide to Deep Beau- to dispel anxiety in the terminally ill and its helpful effects on obsessive-compulsive dis- Linda Star Wolf ty presents 11 sim- order, he examines the neurochemistry, psychology, and spirituality underlying the vi- and Anne Dillon ple practices, each sionary psilocybin experience, revealing the interface where physical brain and con- explain how to a step on the spiral scious mind meet. Showing that the existence of life and the functioning of mind are heal the past, learn path, that will help the result of a naturally intelligent, self-organizing Universe, he explains how sacred from the future, you to embody the mushrooms provide a direct link to the wisdom of Nature and the meaning of life. and activate the imaginal cells within our hu- ageless wisdom of The sacred mushroom is, at least potentially, a very powerful eco-psychological man energy field. Imaginal cells are the en- Spirit—bringing catalyst able to heal our relations with the rest of the web of life. Of this no one should ergies of what has already happened and will happiness, heal- be fearful. happen stored in the blueprint of the invisi- ing, and real magic “A magnificent, multifaceted argument for the reintegration of psychedelics into ble world. By tuning in to these imaginal into your life. science, culture, psychotherapy, and religion to inspire our unbalanced species before cells, you can open access to your spiritual 1. Enlightenment is Easy. Throughout we ‘push the biosphere into total decline.’ The Psilocybin Solution persuasively illumi- blueprint—the hologram of who your high- history, our spiritual teachers have nates the profound social value of large numbers of people experiencing communion est, best self is meant to be—and accelerate done their best to share this secret with and direct personal perception of Nature as a single system of self-organizing in- your evolutionary potential in this lifetime. with us. telligence.” Including information received by Star 2. Forgiveness is the Key. Practicing for- —Rick Doblin, MAPS director Wolf from the future and a 55-minute CD giveness leads to the recovery of life of visionary musical journeys, the book ex- energy bound up in past injuries. plores how to develop a communication 3. Suffering Is Optional. A practice that ration for the new world that link with the universe, receive guidance will support your choice not to suffer. Shamanism & Ritual Book is coming. The accelerated from the universal mind, and draw informa- 4. Wellness Flows Like Water. Life ener- & CD pace of this time of spiritual tion from the future to be more potent and gy flowing through us is the fountain of VISIONARY SHAMANISM evolution is forcing each of us powerful in the present, live in harmony youth and vitality. But when this energy Activating the Imaginal Cells of the to awaken the shaman within and reach our with one another and the planet, and fully is obstructed, we become depressed, Human Energy Field highest potential as quickly as possible. We prepare yourself for the new world to come. distressed and eventually diseased. by Linda Star Wolf & Anne Dillon no longer have the luxury of learning only Linda Star Wolf, a visionary teacher and 5. The Great Mystery. At the center of $17.95. Bear & Company. from the past—we must also download in- shamanic guide for more than 35 years, is everything, including you, is a great 172-page paperback + 56-minute audio-CD formation from the future in order to be also the author of Shamanic Breathwork and mystery. We are in a highly transitional time on fully present, fully conscious, in our most co-author of Shamanic Egyptian Astrology 6. Alignment with Creation. What are Earth as old structures break down in prepa- embodied and best self now. and The Anubis Oracle. you aligned with in your life? Align

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with Creation and the prison doors LIVING THE LAKOTA WAY will open! Learning from the Land, the 7. Freedom. The focus on “freedom New on Shamanic Wiccan Practice Spirits, and Our Ancestors CD from”—from lack, from hunger, from by Joseph Marshall oppression—prevents us from seeing $69.95, 6 CDs. Sounds True. 6 hours BY LAND, SKY & SEA that freedom is found in movement. We are all indigenous to the planet Three Realms of Shamanic Witchcraft 8. Dreaming. We dream at night, but Earth—and that is why each of us can ben- by Gede Parma we’re also dreaming during the day. efit from indige- $19.50, paper. Llewellyn. 182 pages 9. Deep Beauty. Beauty is more than a nous wisdom. For Witches and Pagans of all traditions and paths, By Land, personal attribute—it is the language Throughout Sky & Sea will help you develop an intimate understanding of spoken by Creation. As you become flu- their history, the magickal lore and traditions of modern shamanic path- ent in this language, beauty permeates the Lakota peo- working. Based upon the Celtic realms of land, sky, and sea, you, radiates from you, and the deep ple discovered this wise and unique book explores the ancient trinity and its beauty of every moment is revealed. many profound Greek, Hawaiian, Hindu, Stregheria, and Wiccan customs. 10. Seeing. We continue “seeing” what we insights and Gede Parma guides you through effective methods for working expect to see, because our attention is practices for in the three realms, culminating in powerful rituals for each. directed by our beliefs. We can learn to achieving har- ✦ Gain basic skills in breathwork, omenwalking, divination, see what really is, with no expectations. mony with all and celebrating the body through dance 11. Being. The shamanic path offers a the forces in our life—including the land, ✦ Learn techniques for energy work and expanding consciousness, such as astral simple, natural way to be. the spirits, our community, and ourselves. projection, clearing and balancing the chakras, and clairvoyance Francis Rico has led shamanic journeys to With Living the Lakota Way, Joseph ✦ Enact true shamanic practices of trance, vision journeying, channeling, oracle Peru and Teotihuicán for two decades. Marshall explores how you can apply the reading, initiation, and rebirth. core principles of Lakota “Lyrical, anecdotal, and practical... This book will engage and refresh the seasoned Native American wisdom to your own life, practitioner of modern Witchcraft and enlighten the novice equally. Recommended.” no matter who you are or —Kala Trobe, author of The Witch’s Guide to Life Medicine Ways where you come from. Join this Lakota elder and mas- ECSTATIC WITCHCRAFT THE LAKOTA WAY ter storyteller as he shares Magick, Philosophy & Trance in the Shamanic Craft by Gede Parma OF STRENGTH AND COURAGE essential lessons on finding courage, attuning to the $20.95, paper. Llewellyn. 264 pages Lessons in Resilience from Joseph Marshall natural and spirit world, Many modern Witches yearn for a deeper, more primal, and the Bow and Arrow overcoming obstacles to more authentic form of witchcraft. This timely book by award- by Joseph Marshall healing, and much more. winning author Gede Parma invites Witches, Wiccans, Pagans, $19.95, cloth. Sounds True. 184 pages Joseph M. Marshall III is a teacher, histo- and other seekers down a shamanic path that embraces the ec- In Lakota tradition, the bow and arrow rian, writer, and Lakota elder. He is one of static, the wild, the gnostic, the transformative, and the vision- were more than tools for hunting or battle. the few voices empowered to share the au- ary. The bow’s resilience thentic wisdom teachings of his people to This unique guide presents a shamanic craft apprenticeship and flexibility, the non-Native Americans. For more info, visit that readers can incorporate into their own spiritual journey. It arrow’s grace and thunderdreamers.com includes techniques and rituals for fundamental shamanic power, the archer’s practices, including drawing down the gods, working with spirit allies, moving between focus and pa- the worlds, ecstatic spellcraft, healing, and divination. It is designed to deepen and en- tience—in these, we Wicca, Paganism & Magick hance the path already being followed by the reader. find the essential Also by Gede Parma is By Land, Sky & Sea: Three Realms of Shamanic Witchcraft. qualities for living a life of strength and CASTING SACRED SPACE purpose. In The The Core of All Magickal Work ing grounding, centering, symbols, and Packed with 20 years of fresh research, Lakota Way of by Ivo Dominguez timing, as well as several paths and varia- and previously unpublished “Crowleyana” Strength and $19.95, paper. Weiser. tions of magickal teaching. Readers learn and photographs, this is the unexpurgated, Courage, Joseph 204 pages, b/w illustrations to set the stage for their magickal work and true story of Crowley. It demolishes the Marshall builds The use of casting as a means of estab- how to maintain it with protection, symbols, myths, establishes the facts and tells with upon the central metaphor of the bow and lishing sacred space is a common practice and meditations. verve and style the pretty astonishing story arrow to provide a treasury of insights, in Wiccan and “A brilliant book, practical and pragmatic of his life, including many “missing years,” stories, and wisdom. With eloquent prose Neopagan traditions. in its explanations of the whys and hows of intrigues, discoveries and adventures. and an elder’s perspective, Marshall draws In fact it is widely circle casting.” —Karen Harrison, author of from traditional stories, the history of the considered the most The Herbal Alchemist’s Handbook Lakota, and his own experiences to offer important step in Celtic Spirit lessons on: spiritual and magick- ✦ Transformation—what the journey of the al work. And yet few Lakota people teaches us about preserving really know how to ALEISTER CROWLEY: THE BIOGRAPHY CELTIC VISIONS what is essential as our external circum- do it or do it well. Spiritual Revolutionary, Romantic Explorer, Seership, Omens and Dreams of the stances change In Casting Sacred Occult Master—and Spy Otherworld ✦ Simplicity—the story of Grandmother Space, Neopagan by Tobias Churton by Caitlin Matthews Grass Braid, who understood that “the practitioner Ivo $35.95, cloth. Watkins. $17.95, cloth. Watkins. 242 pages more you know, the less you need to car- Dominguez, Jr., of- 475 pages, b/w & colour photos Through prayers, chants, and practical ry” fers a comprehensive In early 20th-century England, Aleister exercises, Celtic Visions teaches readers how ✦ Purpose—how the world unveils our pur- introduction to the Crowley (1875–1947) was considered “the to tap into their inner pose to us, as revealed in the story of the techniques and rituals of casting, including: wickedest man in the spiritual power, en- Keeper of the Winter Count ✦ How to become grounded and cen- world.” Nicknamed abling them to expe- ✦ Strength—the moving story of Henry One tered before one begins “The Beast,” he was rience heightened Bull, and how adversity teaches us to de- ✦ The proper timing for casting and ritu- vehemently anti- perception and open velop the true core of our strength al work Christian, and sup- portals to other ✦ Resiliency—the lessons of Grandma Red ✦ How to open up one’s psychic senses to ported the use of realms of existence. Leaf on facing the challenges of life with work with subtle energies drugs and sexual mag- Drawn from ancient the best we have to offer. ✦ How to set the stage for magickal work ic as a means to access Gaelic and Welsh Joseph M. Marshall offers a book that is at both internally and externally deeper levels of con- sources, this visionary once profound, honest, and rich with ✦ Protection, symbols and meditations sciousness. Today he’s guide reveals the meaning as he reveals The Lakota Way of for maintaining sacred space seen as a prophet, a truth behind the Strength and Courage. ✦ The Circle, the Quarters, and other master of the occult, prophetic visions of “This is a book in which a traditional sto- modes of casting sacred space and a spiritual pio- the druids and seers. ry offers us an interesting bit of advice: ‘If ✦ Quartering, energy work, and many neer—and his reputa- It explains their methods for communicat- you do not know who you are, then it does cross-practice connections including tion just keeps on growing. This new biog- ing with the Otherworld through omens not matter what you believe.’ In this book, Qabala and chakras. raphy, written with the cooperation of and fairy lore and explores the Celtic gift of Lakota lineage holder Joseph Marshall has This is a practical, accessible handbook leading Crowley scholars and including “second sight”—the ability to perceive both made very good medicine indeed.” —Hank for the beginner with cross appeal to sea- new revelations from Crowley’s grandson, the visible and the invisible aspects of reality. Wesselman, author of The Bowl of Light soned practitioners of ritual magick. displays the full scope of the man’s many Our instincts have been tuned down, Among Joseph Marshall’s other books are Creating Sacred Space teaches readers achievements as poet, explorer, spiritualist, our insights dulled from too much Keep Going: The Art of Perseverance and The the importance of sacred space as the root wartime spy, and a thinker as significant as electronic interface and our inspirations Lakota Way. of all rituals. It covers the basics, includ- Jung, Freud, or Einstein. ignored because we don’t live in a society

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✦ Know when to intervene and when to let spirituality. Marion go in a situation uses his extensive Beloved John O’Donohue ✦ Respond with wisdom when someone grasp of scripture, his treats you harshly own considerable in- AN ABUNDANCE OF BLESSINGS ✦ Find inner quiet and peace when you feel ner experience, and 52 Meditations to Illuminate Your Life agitated, and much more a pioneering integra- by John O’Donohue In each chapter, Felder includes exam- tion of the models of $16.50, cards. Crown. 52 cards in display box ples drawn from his clients’ experiences developmental psy- Drawn from John O’Donohue’s wonderful Card and explanations from mind-body psycholo- chology and book, To Bless the Space Between Us, this gift con- Set gy and neuroscience to support the effec- transpersonal psy- sists of 52 selected blessings and meditations, tiveness of this kind of mindfulness practice. chology to document each of which is printed on a beautiful two-sided card. They Whatever you choose to call this his claim that come in a frameable box which can stand up, acting as a frame ultimate source of energy/flow/insight, “putting on the mind for your chosen “blessing of the day.” your daily opportunity is to remember to of Christ,” or achieving the same degree connect more closely with it and to let it of spiritual illumination as Christ, is the May the light of your soul strengthen your inner wisdom and your true and original goal of Christianity. bless your work ability to do good in the world. With love and warmth of heart. This book describes the inner growth to May you see in what you do full spiritual maturity in the context of the Christian spiritual tradition…It is the the beauty of your soul. THE INNER RIVER purpose of this book to show how the Christian spiritual tradition both Many people are left stranded in a chasm of emptiness and doubt; without rituals to A Pilgrimage to the Heart of Christian recognize, celebrate, or negotiate the vital thresholds of people’s lives, the key cross- complements and completes the work of Spirituality the psychologists. ings pass by, undistinguished from the mundane, everyday rituals of by Kyriacos Markides life. This is where we need to retrieve and reawaken our capacity for $18.00, paper. Crown. 315 pages Marion outlines the seven levels of con- blessing. Blessings are able to invoke and awaken the gifts our life A scholar’s personal exploration of the sciousness, the descent and resurrection crossings have to offer. mystical side of Eastern Orthodoxy, The through the “dark night of the soul,” seri- This shy inner light is what enables us to recognize and receive our Inner River revolves ous conceptual obstacles that typically con- very presence here as blessing. We enter the world as strangers who all around Father front contemporary Christians as they at- at once become heirs to a harvest of memory, spirit, and dream that has Maximos, a respected tempt to “put on the mind of Christ,” the long preceded us and will now enfold, nourish, and sustain us. Each life monk at Mount Kingdom of Heaven as the highest level of John is clothed in raiment of spirit that secretly links it to everything else. Athos, a leading cen- human consciousness, where individuals O’Donohue The gift of the world is our first blessing. ter of Greek and the church can go from here, and A blessing is a powerful and positive intention that can transform Orthodox monasti- much more. situations and people. Herein are fifty-two blessings to illuminate the milestones in cism. Through multi- “The first book to describe the overall your life’s journey and bring light to your daily experiences. It is the modest wish ple conversations path of consciousness development from that this collection shares the gift that a blessing can be, the doors it can open, the with Father a Christian perspective. As such, it is a healing and transfiguration it can bring. Maximos, the author stunning achievement... and a gentle guide Among John O’Donohue’s other books are Beauty and Anam Cara. shares monastic wis- to the deepest terrain of our own souls, dom on a wide array where there awaits, as there has through all LONGING AND BELONGING eternity, Christ as Source and Suchness of The Complete John O’Donohue of topics, including New on the seven fruits of the spirit: love, joy, peace, this and every world.” —Ken Wilber, author Audio Collection CD of Integral Psychology by John O’Donohue patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, $149.00, 24 CDs. Sounds True. 24 hours gentleness and self-control. On one visit to Since his passing in 2008, appreciation of the Celtic poet Cyprus, Markides and his wife visited an ag- Sufism, Islam & Rumi and teacher John O’Donohue grows each year. For over a ing novelist and engaged him in a lengthy decade, Sounds True had the privilege of capturing John’s discussion about the existence or nonexis- tence of an afterlife. PRAYER OF THE HEART IN CHRISTIAN words as they were meant to be heard—unhurried and il- & SUFI MYSTICISM luminated by his own voice. In another chapter, the author chronicles by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee Longing and Belonging gathers together John O’Donohue’s complete 24-CD spo- his visit to St. Catherine Monastery at Mt. $13.95, paper. Golden Sufi. 128 pages ken-word legacy, an odyssey into our common yearning for the sacred beauty and wis- Sinai, where he viewed its ancient artistic Guiding the reader through the stages of dom of nature, for the anam cara or “soul friends” who walk with us, and for finding and historical treasures and climbed the mystical prayer—a way to create a living re- a place to call our true home. Includes the full-length audio recordings Anam Cara, holy mountain where Moses received the lationship with the Beauty, Wisdom of the Celtic World, and To Bless the Space Between Us. Ten Commandments. Divine within the John O’Donohue was born in 1956 and lived much of his life in Conamara, County As a student of world religions and a soci- heart—this book Clare, Ireland. His bestselling books and recordings have introduced the living ologist, Markides sees Orthodoxy from a draws upon essence of Celtic wisdom to millions. See johnodonohue.com. larger perspective: I realized that what many Western Christian and Sufi intellectuals searched for in the ashrams sources such as St. that validates the gifts of seership or work with clients of India and the lamaseries of Tibet—that Teresa of Avila, vision... over the last thirty is, an experiential pathway to the ‘Attâr, St. John of Methods of Celtic seership and vision years, and incorpo- Divine—has been all along within the the Cross, and have been my study for many years, both rates traditional very heart of Christianity. Rûmî. Llewellyn from written sources as well as from oral Jewish prayers and Markides creates a useful collage of con- Vaughan-Lee de- transmission and personal practice. With blessings that have temporary Eastern Orthodoxy, “an integrat- scribes the stages many students worldwide, I’ve explored been used for cen- ed system of spiritual practices within of prayer: how how these methods can work today. turies to refocus the Christianity that can lead to a direct experi- prayer is first born Among the other books of Caitlin mind. The author has ence of God.” of need, but then takes one deep within the Matthews are Celtic Spirit and Sophia: a long history of mul- Also by Markides are The Mountain of heart, into the stages of union and ecstasy. Goddess of Wisdom. ti-faith counseling Silence and The Magus of Strovolos. Through mystical prayer, one is drawn into and dialogue and has the silence of real communion with God. Christian & Jewish Spirituality made these stress- Here, in the silence within the heart, a management practices resonant with peo- meeting and merging takes place that car- ple of all religious backgrounds who are PUTTING ON THE MIND OF CHRIST ries one beyond the self into the mystery of HERE I AM looking for more awareness, clarity, and The Inner Work of Christian Spirituality divine presence. Using Jewish Spiritual Wisdom to Become calmness when faced with stress-related by Jim Marion, foreword by Ken Wilber This exploration delves into the secret of More Present, Centered, emotions. $21.95, paper. Hampton Roads. 296 pages how to pray without ceasing, in which and Available for Life Shehecheyanu (which means seeing the What does it mean to follow the path of prayer becomes alive within the heart, and by Leonard Felder newness and greater possibilities in each Christ today? Putting On the Mind of Christ is includes a chapter on the need to pray for $17.95, paper. Shambhala. 179 pages unique moment) will help you and your the first book to offer an integral under- the well-being of the Earth. It brings to- During stressful times, it’s easy to get loved ones discover a daily state of standing of the Christian spiritual path— gether the Christian and Sufi mystical tradi- caught up in feeling anxious, tense, foggy, curiosity, renewed passion, and positive one that examines the basic stages of spiri- tions and will benefit any practitioner of and overloaded. Here, a popular psycholo- energy, even when you face recurring tual development described by the great prayer who is drawn to discover a relation- gist shares eight “remedies,” easy-to-use tension-filled challenges. saints and sages, along with the psychologi- ship with God within their heart. meditation and refocusing techniques for In this book you’ll learn how to: cal stages of development used by modern Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee is a Sufi teacher managing and rebalancing these emotions ✦ Regain your equilibrium when you feel psychology. and is the author of more than 15 books, in- and helps you to find your calm, strong cen- pulled in too many directions Jim Marion asserts that individuals, not cluding Alchemy of Light and Return of the ter. Dr. Leonard Felder draws from his ✦ Outsmart your moody, anxious brain the Church, must do the hard inner work of Feminine and the World Soul.

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William Stoddart on Sufism & Islam Hafiz & Rumi: the Great Sufi Poets

WHAT DOES ISLAM MEAN IN TODAY’S WORLD? A YEAR WITH HAFIZ Religion, Politics, Spirituality Daily Contemplations by William Stoddart by Hafiz, $19.95, paper. World Wisdom. translated by Daniel Ladinsky 128 pages, 7 colour photos $19.00, paper. Penguin. The religion of Islam, still relatively unknown in the West, has 415 pages, French flaps been forcefully brought to the public’s attention by the acts and I am a hole in a flute threats of the “Islamic terrorists.” As a result, the question is re- that the Christ’s Breath peatedly asked: “What kind of religion is this?” moves through — The aim of this book is to argue that today traditional Listen to this Music. Christianity has nothing to fear from traditional Islam. In spite of appearances, the two ancient religions are really al- Hafiz (1320–1389) is the most beloved poet of Persians. He lies; they have common enemies and they are united in their was born and lived in Shiraz, a beautiful garden city, where he opposition to all kinds of modern errors and immoralities, including materialism and became a famous spiritual teacher. His Divan (collected poems) is a classic in the lit- secularism. Consequently, a true notion of Islam, and indeed of every complete and erature of Sufism and mystical verse. uncorrupted religion, is what the present book—taken in its entirety—is all about. The poems of Hafiz are not literary remnants from a remote past but surprisingly In surveying Islam, Stoddart provides a wealth of relevant background information lively and at times complex masterpieces filled with cherished wisdom. With learned and an illuminating treatise on traditional art highlighting the often neglected role insight and a delicate hand, Daniel Ladinsky in A Year with Hafiz explores the many of art and beauty in spirituality. emotions addressed in these verses. His renderings, presented here in 365 poignant Islam in general and Sufism in particular have a special role to play in cultivating poems—including a section based on the translations of Hafiz by Ralph Waldo inter-religious concord and amity... at the heart of Islam there is a universal message Emerson—capture the compelling wisdom of one of Islam’s most revered artistic about the mystical unity of all integral traditions. That message was most powerfully and religious voices. Intimate and often spiritual, the poems are beautifully sensuous, actualized within two of Islam’s most radiant saints and sages, Ibn ‘Arab and R m . playful, wacky, profound, and full of wonderful wit and humour, and provide guidance Well-known to Sufis everywhere is the noble passage in which the Shaikh al-Akbar for everyday life, as well as reflection points to help readers grow as individuals. declares, Look at the smile on the earth’s lips “My heart has opened unto every form; it is a pasture for gazelles, a cloister for this morning, Christian monks, a temple for idols, the Kaaba of the pilgrim, the tables of the Torah, she lay with me again last night. and the book of the Koran. I practice the religion of Love; in whatsoever direction its * caravans advance, the religion of Love shall be my religion and my faith.” I had a legitimate excuse for not going to the mosque and temple to pray. Also by William Stoddart is Remembering in a World of Forgetting. It was because love is so wild in me I might break the fragile glass cage that all religions are made of. OUTLINE OF SUFISM * The Essentials of Islamic Spirituality The wonder of my body aging, dying, is finding another flame within, by William Stoddart A holy eternal sphere, that will never go out and is more beautiful $19.95, paper. World Wisdom. than all the form you have known—put together. 132 pages, 8 colour photos When the fields on the body begin to turn gray This concise book seeks to make available to the public what Let your hand’s touch upon all, soften. may be called “the other side of Islam”: not the violent aspect Other titles by Daniel Ladinsky include The Gift and The Subject Tonight is Love. appearing in the nightly news headlines which focus on radical terrorists, but the long and rich tradition at the heart of THE RUMI DAYBOOK Islamic spirituality known as Sufism. With great lucidity and 365 Poems and Teachings from clarity, Stoddart offers a succinct, yet comprehensive overview the Beloved Sufi Master of Sufism’s fundamental doctrines and spiritual practices, Rumi, selected & translated which are followed by many millions of Muslims throughout the by Kabir and Camille Helminski world. Known for his capacity to give clear explanations of unfamiliar and complex $21.50, paper. Shambhala. material, Stoddart emphasizes the importance of the role of art and beauty, highlights 384 pages, French flaps its intricate symbolism, and explains the central role of the invocation of the Name of God in Sufi spiritual practice; an appendix includes central Koranic, Prophetic, and My heart wandered through the world constantly seeking after my cure, but the sweet and delicious water of life had to break traditional Sufi sayings. through the granite of my heart. Outline of Sufism is based upon an earlier and much shorter book Stoddart wrote 35 years ago, which was highly acclaimed by leading experts in the field of Islamic Studies. When the words of Rumi enter your heart, something soft- Harvard professor Annemarie Schimmel remarked that it was “Useful… adorned with ens, breaks, and is subtly reborn. That he wrote the words sev- many good illustrations…[and] contains many important points clearly expressed.” en hundred years ago in a medieval Persian world that bears little resemblance to ours makes their uncanny resonance to us today just that much more remarkable. Even though you’re dark as iron, PHYSICIANS OF THE HEART Names are best understood in relational practice polishing, polishing, polishing, A Sufi View of the Ninety-Nine clusters, and that is how the book is so that your heart might become a mirror full of images, Names of Allah organized, into families like the family of with a lovely lighthearted one shining from every direction. by Wali Ali Meyer, Bilal Hyde, Abundance, or Ecstasy, or Forgiveness. Or Though the iron was dark and lacking light, Faisal Muqaddam & Shabda Kahn the modalities of Omnipotence, or how polishing cleared the darkness from it. $40.75, paper. Sufi Ruhaniat. 412 pages, 8x11 the opposites combine. Here is a treasury of daily wisdom from this most beloved of all the Sufi mas- Prayerful recitation of the 99 Names of Allah It is a guidebook for progressing ters—both his prose and his ecstatic poetry—that you can use to start every day for has been a sacred practice by Sufis, and by the through the stages of the spiritual path a year, or that you can dip into for inspiration any time you need to break through the various Sufi Orders, and an instruction manual for teachers on granite of your heart. since the time of the how to work with students wisely, as The heart is your student Prophet Muhammad. physicians of the heart. In the process of for love is the only way we learn. Through active re- this voyage of discovery, the reader is Night has no choice but to grab the feet of daylight. membrance of these systematically exposed to the universal It’s as if I see Your Face everywhere I turn. divine qualities, trav- mysticism encoded in the Qur’an and in It’s as if Love’s radiant oil elers on the spiritual the classical Sufi traditions, as well as to a never stops searching path can overcome modern psychological approach that for a lamp in which to burn. works with the Names to achieve narcissism, resolve Jalaluddin Rumi (1207–1273) was a poet, mystic and founder of the Mevlevi Order individuation and wholeness. their issues of separa- of the Sufis, the mystics of Islam. tion from God and —Wali Ali Meyer from humanity, and “The meanings to be discovered in these awaken to God’s pres- pages can potentially open us to a mar- ence manifesting in all their relationships, velous universe of Divine Beauty, and inner and outer, earthly and heavenly. through these gems, traditionally called This book takes you into the heart of the ‘The Most Beautiful Names,’ we may our- mystery of these sacred Names. It is a selves ultimately be beautified. Rich in lin- vehicle for understanding the infinite guistic knowledge and personal reflection, nature of God, and for discovering the this book helps to make this subject applic- divine potential in every soul. It does this able and real.” —Kabir Helminski, auhor of through a wide variety of methods. The The Knowing Heart and translator of Rumi

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Astrology, Tarot & Divination Astrology & the Archetypes Tarot Journeying

CODEX OF THE SOUL AROUND THE TAROT IN 78 DAYS Astrology, Archetypes, and Your Sacred Blueprint A Personal Journey Through the Cards by VerDarLuz by Marcus Katz & Tali Goodwin $22.50, paper. Evolver Editions. 256 pages $22.95, paper. Llewellyn. In Codex of the Soul, VerDarLuz guides the reader through the 456 pages, 7x9, b/w illustrations multifaceted nature of astrology, focusing on its practical use Journey into the fertile, symbolic world of tarot with this and spiritual nature. Providing practical and effective tech- comprehensive 78-day course. Uniquely presented in a one- niques for experiencing your birthchart, VerDarLuz explores card-per-day format, this workbook provides a solid founda- the planets as an evolutionary force within the soul, seeking to tion in tarot—and offers new ways to enrich your life using be awakened and realized at certain regular intervals. the wisdom of the cards. In part one, VerDarLuz provides a thorough description of Well-known British tarot readers and instructors Marcus the historical, metaphysical, and cosmological foundations of Katz and Tali Goodwin take you through the symbolic land- astrology, followed by an overview of a wide-ranging set of cos- scape of tarot card by card. Progress through the exercises in sequence or study the mologies related to astrology, from the Greek and Roman pantheons to Hindu scrip- cards in whatever order you’d like. Casting traditional interpretation methods in a tures, sacred geometry, and archetypes. Part two probes the deeper meanings of plan- fresh and modern light, Katz and Goodwin teach you how to interpret spreads by ex- ets, signs, houses, and aspects and introduces methods of chart interpretation. Part periencing them as meditations, activities, affirmations, and oracles. Discover the key- three explores the connection between planetary cycles and personal rites of passage, words of each card and how to use them. Delve even deeper with gated spreads—a helping readers create their own “life reviews” and become better equipped to meet series of spreads guiding you toward a powerful experience—and integrative lessons pivotal life changes (such as the Saturn return) as well as the rites of passage of part- on magick and kabbalistic correspondences. ners and children. Utilizing famous biographies and tools of practical magic, Codex of the Soul paints a mythical map of the entirety of the human journey, offering tools for THE DRUIDCRAFT TAROT harmonizing with all of life’s initiations. Use the Magic of Wicca and Druidry to Card A unique and far-reaching twist on traditional astrology, Codex of the Soul incorpo- Guide Your Life Set rates sacred geometry, archetypes, fractals, relationships, and deities from diverse cul- by Philip & Stephanie Carr-Gomm tures. $32.99. St. Martin’s. VerDarLuz is an astrological coach, a shamanic practitioner, a breathwork and re- 78 colour cards + 192-page guidebook gression guide, and a multimedia artist. He has developed a unique, embodied prac- At a time when we seek a closer connection with the natural world, this tice of Experiential Astrology, which includes Zodiac Yoga and AstroDance. beautiful deck invites us to celebrate the earth and the rhythm of her seasons. Combining the two great streams of Western Pagan tradition—Wicca and THE ARCHETYPAL COSMOS Druidry—Philip and Stephanie Carr-Gomm, together with artist Will Worthington, Rediscovering the Gods in Myth, have created a tarot of remarkable depth and relevance that can help guide and il- Science and Astrology luminate your life. by Keiron Le Grice The Druidcraft Tarot’s powerful images have emerged from a vast store of teachings $38.50, paper. Floris. 328 pages and storytelling rooted in our ancient past. Use them as gateways to your inner spiri- The modern world is passing through a time of critical tual world, and deepen your knowledge of yourself and of the earth. Let the natural change on many levels: cultural, political, ecological, and spiri- wisdom of Druidcraft bring you insight and inspiration for the life issues that you face tual. We are witnessing the decline and dissolution of the old today. order and the tumult and uncertainty of a new birth. Against The guidebook accompanying this deck provides, for each of the 78 Tarot images this background is the urgent need for a coherent framework of in both upright and reversed positions, an evocative analysis, symbolism, keywords, sig- meaning to guide and to lead individuals and society beyond nificance of the image, divinatory meanings, core message, and more. the growing fragmentation of culture, belief, and personal identity. Keiron Le Grice asserts that developing insights of a new cosmology can provide this framework helping us to discover an underlying order that shapes our life experi- ets, and each chapter ends with practices cusps and the planets ruling the signs on ences. In a compelling synthesis of ideas from the seminal thinkers of depth psy- people can try to help get them back in houses express the nature of each house. chology and new paradigm sciences, The Archetypal Cosmos positions the new dis- touch with their sacred selves. The planets, signs, and houses in a chart cipline of archetypal astrology at the center of an emerging worldview that reunifies “Renna Shesso has woven a luminous ta- represent the “whats”, “hows”, and “wheres” psyche and cosmos, spirituality and science, and mythology and metaphysics to enable pestry, sharing her insights, her personal ex- of your life. The planets tell us “what” kind us to see mythic gods, heroes, and themes in a new light. The author draws especially perience, and her deep knowledge of an- of energy is at work. The signs indicate on the work of Jung, Joseph Campbell, Richard Tarnas, Fritjof Capra, David Bohm and cient wisdom traditions. This brilliant book “how” this energy is working. But it is the Brian Swimme. is a map that leads us back to our sacred houses that reveals “where” the events, Heralding a “rediscovery of the gods” and passage into a new spiritual era, The selves.” —Sandra Ingerman, author of Soul people, and places in your life may be Archetypal Cosmos presents a new understanding of the role of myth and archetypal Retrieval found. Alan Oken provides an expert guide principles in our lives, one that could give a cosmic perspective and deeper meaning to the understanding of the astrological to our personal experiences. houses and their interaction with these oth- “A fantastic achievement, combining complex theories from leading figures in psy- HOUSES OF THE HOROSCOPE er elements of the horoscope. chology and the physical sciences. The Archetypal Cosmos is destined to be an essential An Introduction Houses of the Horoscope brings Oken’s in- element in the contemporary planetary canon.” —Brian Swimme, author of The by Alan Oken sights into an important area of astrology in Universe Story $21.95, paper. Nicolas Hays. 188 pages a profound but easy-to-understand way. Keiron Le Grice is founder-editor of Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology. Every astrologer needs a good under- It gives the meanings and areas of life for standing of the astrological houses, and each of the houses of the horoscope, in- Houses of the cluding how derivative houses are found. A MAGICAL TOUR OF THE NIGHT SKY the heavens that Horoscope: An Alan Oken forges a new field of study Use the Planets and Stars for Personal and can’t help but fill Introduction provides which he calls “soul-centered astrology”— Sacred Discovery readers with awe and a practical and valu- distinct from the personality-oriented ap- by Renna Shesso guide them to per- able sourcebook. proach which is in vogue. This field of study $22.50, paper. Weiser. sonal and sacred dis- Alan Oken masterful- emanates from Alice Bailey’s Esoteric 258 pages, 7x9, b/w illustrations coveries. ly guides you through Astrology, which calls for a higher level of The sky was our original calendar, our Using a planet-by- the concepts of the interpretation, manifestation of the soul, original storybook, the first illustrated planet, star-by-star meanings and the na- and service. He has written several books, edition, the prototype GPS. Beyond its chapter format, A ture of the twelve as- including Alan Oken’s Complete Astrology, pragmatic usefulness, the sky was the Magical Tour of the trological houses. He Soul-Centered Astrology, and Rulers of the domain of spirit, traversed by deities and a Night Sky draws on provides a core de- Horoscope. place to which human souls departed. astronomy, Tarot, shamanism, astrology, scription of the Let’s re-enchant it, shall we? Wicca, lore, legend, and history to inter- twelve areas of life Shamanic practitioner, Wicca priestess, pret the patterns and movement of the delineated by the astrological house sys- WHY DO NUMBERS COUNT and author of Math for Mystics Renna night sky and re-awaken our spirits. tem. The energy of each of the planets in by Lance Shaler Shesso invites readers along as she takes a Included is a treasure trove of informa- the houses tells us where on Earth that plan- $22.00, paper. Sci-com Data Services. pagan’s look at the night sky—as messen- tion about the North Star (including et’s energy lands and what area of our life it 276 pages, b/w illustrations ger, guide, storyteller, and mother. She Ophiuchus!), the Sun, the Precession of the highlights. He gives a masterful analysis of The subtitle of this book could be weaves together facts and folklore about Equinoxes, the Moon, and the visible plan- how the astrological signs on the house Making Numerology Credible & Easy to

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Learn. The goal of lized, and a small Glossary defines a num- this book is to pre- ber of terms, especially those from musical sent the power and theory, which may be unfamiliar to the non- Remote Viewing & ESP integrity of this de- technical reader. tailed subject without Thomas Stanley (1625–1678) was the REMOTE VIEWING wading through end- first English historian of philosophy. The Complete User’s Manual for less data that drones Coordinate Remote Viewing the reader into a by David Morehouse trance, if not a deep $19.95. Sounds True. INVOKING THE SCRIBES Book New in sleep. Yet, the data 394-page paperback + 77-minute OF ANCIENT EGYPT & CD Paperback must be comprehen- The Initiatory Path of Spiritual Journaling brainwave entrainment CD sive enough that a by Normandi Ellis & Gloria Taylor Brown We typically think of psychics as “special” or “gifted” with un- numerological evalu- $19.95, paper. Bear & Company. usual abilities. But David Morehouse teaches that all humans— ation is more than a collection of obvious 308 pages, b/w & colour illustrations every one of us—have the inborn capacity for Remote generalities that are quickly discarded by Within each of us is a story, a sacred story Viewing—the ability to see across space and time. With discerning minds. that needs to be told, of our heroic efforts Remote Viewing: The Complete User’s Manual he presents com- To resolve this dilemma, the author em- and of our losses. prehensive, step-by-step instructions on how to use remote ploys a series of four metaphors that focus The scribes of an- viewing techniques to observe details from the past, the future, and across physical dis- on numerological principles and concepts cient Egypt devoted tances to expand your consciousness of the many dimensions of reality. The book in- rather than on factual detail. Instead of their lives to the writ- cludes a 77-minute pink noise CD—a brain synchronization tool that induces an ide- telling the story once, at length, he tells it ing of sacred stories. al alpha-theta mind state for your remote viewing journey. four times quickly. Each story is different, These technicians of Morehouse was trained by the U.S. government in Remote Viewing—an exact sci- yet similar. From the interplay of the four the sacred were mas- entific protocol for tapping the human power to gather information across space and stories, basic patterns emerge that create a ters of hieroglyphic time. In this comprehensive manual, he has taken his military training as an “opera- foundation upon which you can build a sys- thinking, or heka— tional” Remote Viewer and turned it into a step-by-step training system—one that tem of esoteric knowledge. the proper words, in teaches any serious reader how to unlock their natural abilities and become more than The net result offers a tangible, working the proper sequence, the physical world allows. As you gain experience and confidence as a Viewer, you will knowledge of numerology so that you can with the proper into- tap into the collective unconscious that connects you to everything and everyone in substantiate the principles for yourself. nation and the prop- the universe. With this working knowledge in hand, you er intent. Learning David Morehouse’s superiors in the CIA called him “the most exceptional candidate can immediately apply the insights of nu- heka provided scribes with the power to in- ever to have grasped this difficult intelligence collection methodology.” What sets him merology to your personal and professional voke and create worlds through their words apart as a teacher is his unparalleled ability to present the complexities of Remote life. and thoughts. To the writer, heka is a magi- Viewing in an accessible, logical, and artful manner. As more than 23,000 students The book includes more than 60 illustra- cal way to create meaning from experience. have already discovered, David Morehouse has set a new and brilliant standard for tions in support of the four metaphors and Through heka we manifest new visions and teaching the scientific protocol of Remote Viewing. to facilitate visual learning. Why Do Numbers new relationships to ourselves and to oth- Also by David Morehouse is Remote Viewing: An Introduction (4 CDs, 1 DVD). Count is a journey of discovery that offers ers. We can make new art filled with beauty deep insight into the essential nature of the and light. THE REALITY OF ESP human experience, life’s basic rhythms and Revealing the spiritually A Physicist’s Proof of Psychic Abilities life itself. transformative power of by Russell Targ A frequent response of readers is “This writing, the authors take $20.50, paper. Quest. 272 pages book validated my life’s experience.” us on a journey of self-dis- Whether you call it ESP, psychic ability, clairvoyance or crazy covery through the sacred talk, everyone has an opinion about extra-sensory perception. Metaphysics & Philosophy sites of Egypt, from the Aerospace physicist Russell Targ needed hard evidence, so he’s Temple of Isis to the Great done the research. His experience is based on two decades of Pyramid of Giza. Through investigations at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), which he cofounded with physicist Harold Puthoff in 1972. This pro- PYTHAGORAS Normandi Ellis meditations and creative His Life and Teachings writing exercises explor- gram was supported by the CIA, NASA, the Defense by Thomas Stanley ing the powerful themes found in the hi- Intelligence Agency, etc. The experiments they conducted rou- $29.95, paper. Nicolas Hays. 352 pages eroglyphic texts of ancient Egypt and the tinely presented results that could have happened by chance This compendium of ancient sources on Egyptian Book of the Dead, they show less than once in a million. the life and teachings of Pythagoras, the how, through writing, we can live beyond A good storyteller as well as researcher, Targ describes four types of experiments: Father of Philosophy the ordinary, give our dreams form, and dis- 1. Remote Viewing, in which a person describes places and events independent and Founder of the cover who we really are and what our lives of space and time. For example, while in California one man drew to scale a So- Western Esoteric really mean. Sharing transformative and viet weapons factory at Semipalitinsk with great accuracy later confirmed by Satel- Tradition, was first inspiring pieces written by those who’ve lite photography. published in 1687 in attended their Egyptian sacred tours, the 2. Distant Mental Influence, where the thoughts of the experimenter can positive- Thomas Stanley’s authors reveal how writing your spiritual bi- ly or negatively affect the physiology (heart rate, skin resistance, etc.) of a distant massive tome, The ography allows you to reconnect to the cre- person. History of Philosophy. It ativity and divine within, face your fears, of- 3. Whole field isolation, where someone in a state of sensory isolation accurately remains as contempo- fer gratitude for what you have, manifest describes the visual experiences of someone else in another place. rary today as it was new destinies, and recognize your life as 4. Precognition and retrocausality, showing that the future can affect the past. over three hundred part of the sacred story of Earth. That is, the elephant you see on television in the morning can be the cause of years ago. Also by Normandi Ellis is Awakening your having dreamed about elephants the previous night. The text of the Osiris. Final chapters present evidence for survival after death; explain how ESP works 1687 book has been based on the Buddhist/Hindu view of our selves as nonlocal, eternal awareness; dis- reset and modernized to make it more ac- Transmissions & Revelations cuss the ethics of exercising psychic abilities; and show us how to explore ESP our- cessible to the modern reader. Spelling has selves. been regularized, obsolete words not found I am convinced that most people can learn to move from their ordinary mind to one in a modern dictionary have been replaced, not obstructed by conventional barriers of space and time. Who would not want to try and contemporary conventions of punctua- THE AARON-Q’UO DIALOGUES that? tion have been used. An Extraordinary Conversation between “Targ has produced some of the most significant scientific research on the nature Biographical sketches of Thomas Two Spiritual Guides of consciousness ever conducted. He has demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that Stanley and Pythagoras by Manly Palmer by Barbara Brodsky & Carla Rueckert the mind can function without limitation in space and time, and that this ability is Hall, founder of the Philosophical $27.95, paper. North Atlantic. 628 pages widespread, teachable, and practical.” —Larry Dossey, author of The Power of Research Society, have been included, Inspired by the breakthrough channeled Premonitions along with a profound overview of series The Law of One, Buddhist teacher Pythagorean philosophy by Platonic scholar Barbara Brodsky sent its author, Carla Dr. Henry L. Drake. Rueckert, some transcriptions of her own fers teachings from a “positive polarity” per- Offering wise solutions to the major The extensive Greek language references material. Struck by Brodsky’s lucid, witty, spective, and provides answers to a wide problems that prevent people from living throughout the text have been corrected and fearless channeling, Rueckert invited range of spiritual questions, such as: with more awareness and compassion, and contextualized, and reset in a modern Brodsky to co-channel a conversation be- ✦“What is the spiritual path and how do these conversations offer the spiritual Greek font. Each quotation has been veri- tween their spirit teachers, Q’uo and we live it?” seeker a valuable template for a life of fied with the source document in Greek. An Aaron. Developed from the transcripts of ✦“Why do seemingly bad things happen to spiritual peace. extensive annotated appendix of these clas- nine weekends of joint channeling, The people who are trying to follow the dic- As you allow yourself to move beyond sical sources is included. A complete bibli- Aaron/Q’uo Dialogues: An Extraordinary tates of love?” the limits of the small ego-self and ography details all the reference works uti- Conversation between Two Spiritual Guides of- ✦“How do we open the heart?” recurrently experience, through

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Joscelyn Godwin is the author, editor, and Madoff financial translator of many books, including scandal, Roth took a Patricia Cori Channels the Cosmos Athanasius Kircher’s Theatre of the World. hard look at her own habits—and found ATLANTIS RISING direct parallels be- The Struggles of Darkness and Light THE RETURN OF THE REBEL ANGELS tween her relation- by Patricia Cori The Urantia Mysteries ship with food and $20.00, paper. North Atlantic. 210 pages and the Coming of the Light money: binge shop- The second book in Patricia Cori’s Sirian Revelations Trilogy, by Timothy Wyllie ping followed by pe- Atlantis Rising explores the wisdom ancient Atlantis can offer $24.95, paper. Bear & Company. riods of budgetary contemporary seekers. The lost continent of 458 pages, 8 pages of colour illustrations self-deprivation, Atlantis has existed in the collective conscious- As recorded in The Urantia Book, two hun- “treating” herself in ness of humankind for eons—contemplated as dred millennia ago 37 planets, including our ways that ultimately early as 355 BC by Plato and echoing in the own, were quaran- failed to sustain, and using money as a sub- modern mind. In this controversial book, au- tined from the rest of stitute for love—among others. As she ex- thor Patricia Cori provides compelling, often the Multiverse to amined the deep sources of these habits, startling insights into this lost culture and the quell the spread of she faced the hard truth about where her lessons it holds for us as both a high civilization and a metaphor for the Lucifer rebellion “self-protective” financial decisions had led. Patricia Cori our current world situation, earth changes, growing extraterrestrial within the angelic hi- She discovered a haunted and compulsive phenomena, and government conspiracy theories. Only by embracing erarchy. Now, after quality in her relationship with money— and recognizing what Atlantis can teach us, says Cori, can we expect to heal and uplift eons of isolation, the and faced with a crisis, she needed to find our own increasingly threatened civilization. fallen angels have out why. been forgiven and Using the tools she developed to unlock THE COSMOS OF SOUL Earth’s connection unconscious patterns around food and di- A Wake-Up Call for Humanity with the Multiverse is eting, she examines the crisis of suffering by Patricia Cori being restored, initi- around money that pervades our culture $20.00, paper. North Atlantic. 208 pages ating a massive trans- and causes us anxious nights—regardless of The first book of the pioneering trilogy, The Sirian formation of consciousness as we reconnect how wealthy or poor we might be. Revelations, The Cosmos of Soul offers a bracing tonic to the with angelic guides, extraterrestrial beings, As in all her books, Roth’s writing is shadow of war, disease, and other grim phenomena of contem- and our spiritual heritage as sacred vessels deeply personal and laced with irreverent porary life. The solution, according to noted clairvoyant for God’s presence. humour and hard-won wisdom. Here, she Patricia Cori, is to awaken into the richer, more meaningful, Providing an update to The Urantia Book offers provocative strategies for transform- and empowered existence that is our true fate. Through her through angelic transmissions he has re- ing how we feel and behave about the re- psychic contacts with more evolved beings, Cori offers timely in- ceived and remarkable spirits he has met, sources that should, and ultimately can, sus- sights into the ethics of cloning, the dangers of the Internet, the Timothy Wyllie investigates the underlying tain and support our lives. truth about the AIDS virus, genetic engineering, and other in- motives of the angelic rebellion and the im- “A compelling, gorgeously written, sear- formation. Of special interest are the author’s predictions of what to expect after 2012, pact it has had on our planet for the past ing, funny, and utterly inspiring book. You the closing of the Mayan Calendar—a time of galactic events that may change life for- 200,000 years. Offering a profoundly opti- won’t be able to put Lost and Found down ever. mistic vision of the future and reassurance and when you’ve finished with it, your rela- The Sirian Revelations series are channeled teachings from the Speakers of the Sirian that the coming spiritual transition will be tionship with money will never be the High Council, sixth-dimensional beings dedicated to the transformation of human gentle, Timothy Wyllie describes his en- same.” —Lynne Twist, author of The Soul of consciousness. Patricia Cori has been Scribe to the Speakers since 1997. counters with angels, ETs, and other en- Money Also by Patricia Cori are Atlantis Rising, No More Secrets, No More Lies, and The lightened beings around the world, includ- Starseed Dialogues. ing how he made contact with his own guardian angels, met the man who may have been Grand Master of the Prieure de Zion, INFINITE VISION meditation and many of the great fell in love with a beautiful Cathar reincar- How Aravind Became the World’s Greatest through awareness, occultists and es- nate in Provence, and officiated at the 1981 Business Case for Compassion your connection otericists of the Conference in Spirit inside the Great by Pavithra Mehta & Suchitra Shenoy with all that is, you 19th and 20th Pyramid of Giza. $22.95, paper. Berrett-Koehler. stop struggling like centuries, includ- 322 pages, b/w photos a fish out of water He explores different planetary cos- ing Fabre mologies, authentic extraterrestrial intelli- The Aravind Eye Care System, based in with the d’Olivet, G.I. India, is the world’s largest provider of high- experiences that gence, entheogenic revelations, and the Gurdjieff, Guido spiritual implications of the Holographic quality eye care. It is life brings. As you von List, Julius also one of the relax into the Paradigm, weaving together a coherent and Evola, Edgar provocative understanding of the current world’s most incredi- incarnation, faith Cayce, Dion ble and revolutionary does deepen. state of our planet within the larger context Fortune, and of a benevolent and caring Multiverse. organizations—deliv- Increasingly you René Guénon, ering surgical out- find the ability to “It is hard to overestimate the speculative whose writings of- power and fulfilling beauty of these master- comes equal to or be more ten stem from exceeding those in undefended when you are threatened. It is ful narratives. Wyllie’s is a vast landscape deeper, metaphysical sources, such as sa- the developed world a matter of practice. that extends into all dimensions, toward cred texts, prophecy, or paranormal com- at less than one per- Also by Barbara Brodsky, a Buddhist farthest reaches of prehistory and to the munication. cent of the cost, teacher, is Cosmic Healing. Carla Rueckert is deepest mysteries of esoteric revelation Seeking to unravel and explain the his- treating more than best known for her channeling of The Law and planetary destiny. Those fortunate tories and interpretations of Atlantis and half of its patients of One, also called The Ra Material. enough to travel with him will receive a gen- its kindred myths of Lemuria and Mu, the tle initiation into a more expansive and lov- free of charge, and author shows how these different views go ing cosmos.” —Byron Belitsos, coauthor of taking no grants or donations. Aravind’s hand-in-hand with the concept of cyclical The Center Within success is so perplexing it has been the sub- ATLANTIS AND THE CYCLES OF TIME history, such as the Vedic system of the four ject of a popular Harvard Business School Prophecies, Traditions, Yugas, the Mayan calendar with its 2012 case study. This is the first book to explore and Occult Revelations end-date, the theosophical system of root Business, Work & Money Aravind’s history and the distinctive by Joscelyn Godwin races, and the precession of the equinoxes. philosophies, practices, and commitments $23.50, paper. Inner Traditions. 448 pages Venturing broader and deeper than any that are the keys to its success. Atlantis has held a perennial place in the other book on Atlantis, this study also cov- LOST AND FOUND Mehta and Shenoy share incredible sto- collective imagination of humanity from an- ers reincarnation, human evolution or de- One Woman’s Story of Losing Her Money ries about how Aravind grew from humble cient Greece onward. Many great minds of volution, the origins of race, and catastro- and Finding Her Life beginnings—founded by a retired ophthal- the occult and esoteric world wrote at phe theory. by Geneen Roth mologist with no money or prior entrepre- length on their theories of Atlantis—about “As absorbing as it is erudite, both com- $16.00, paper. Penguin. 224 pages neurial experience—to the world-class or- its high culture, its possible location, its ulti- prehensive and profound, essential as a ref- In Women, Food and God, Geneen Roth ganization it is today. They explain the mate demise, and their predictions of a re- erence work, and quintessential to grasp drew on her years of teaching about the mysteries of a model that integrates inno- turn to Atlantean enlightenment or the the depth and breadth of a grievously mis- charged connection between food and our vation with empathy, service with business downfall of modern society. understood, perennially fascinating, and inner lives. Now, in Lost and Found, she turns principles, and inner change with outer Beginning with a review of the rationalist perhaps critical subject, Atlantis and the her attention to that other great secret in transformation. And they show how choic- writings on Atlantis—those that use geo- Cycles of Time is a unique work: the ‘com- Western culture: our conflicted relationship es that seem foolish and unworkable can, graphic and geologic data to validate their pleat’ Atlantis.” —John Anthony West, au- with money. when executed with compassion and in- theories—Joscelyn Godwin then analyzes thor of Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom Precipitated by the loss of her and her tegrity, yield powerful results—results that and compares writings on Atlantis from of Ancient Egypt husband’s entire life savings in the Bernie literally light the eyes of millions.

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“In the world of blindness, Dr. V. has This smart, fascinating film gives us a warm performed a miracle.” —Ram Dass, author “download” of David Suzuki and his ideas. of Be Here Now and cofounder, Seva The Business of Sustainable Energy Special features include “It Takes a Foundation Family: The David Suzuki Foundation by “Reveals the power of a model that com- REINVENTING FIRE Claudia Molina, and “Legacy Lecture – bines business discipline with compassion. Business-Led Solutions for the New Energy Era Excerpts.” May the wisdom of Dr. V and Aravind by Amory Lovins shared here inspire many such initiatives $38.50, cloth. Chelsea Green. 288 pages for the well-being of future generations.” — Imagine fuel without fear. No climate change. No oil spills, THE NON-TOXIC AVENGER Muhammad Yunus, author of Building no dead coalminers, no dirty air, no devastated lands, no lost What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You Social Business wildlife. No oil-fed wars, tyrannies, or terrorists. No leaking nu- by Deanna Duke clear wastes or spreading nuclear weapons. Nothing to run out. $17.95, paper. New Society. 278 pages Nothing to cut off. Nothing to worry about. Just energy abun- Most of us turn a blind eye to the startling GREAT BY CHOICE dance, benign and affordable, for all, forever. array of chemicals lurking in everything Uncertainty, Chaos and Luck That richer, fairer, cooler, safer world is possible, practical, from shampoo to —Why Some Thrive Despite Them All even profitable—because saving and replacing fossil fuels now works better and baby bottles to the by Jim Collins & Morten Hansen costs no more than buying and burning them. Reinventing Fire shows how business— money in our wal- $33.99, cloth. HarperCollins. 302 pages, charts motivated by profit, supported by civil society, sped by smart policy—can get the U.S. lets, choosing to Ten years after his bestseller Good to Great, completely off oil and coal by 2050, and later beyond natural gas as well. believe that gov- Jim Collins returns with another ground- Authored by a world leader on energy and innovation, the book maps a robust path ernment agencies breaker, this time to for integrating real, here-and-now, comprehensive energy solutions in four indus- ensure the safety ask: Why do some com- tries—transportation, buildings, electricity, and manufacturing—melding radically of the products we panies thrive in uncer- efficient energy use with reliable, secure, renewable energy supplies. wear, use, ingest, tainty, even chaos, and Popular in tone and rooted in applied hope, Reinventing Fire shows how smart busi- and breathe in others do not? Based on nesses are creating a potent, global, market-driven, and explosively growing movement daily. Yet the stan- nine years of research, to defossilize fuels. It points readers to trillions in savings over the next 40 years, and dards for product with rigorous analysis trillions more in new business opportunities. safety in North and engaging stories, Pragmatic citizens today are more interested in outcomes than motives. Reinventing America lag far Collins and Hansen Fire answers this trans-ideological call. Whether you care most about national security, or behind those of enumerate the princi- jobs and competitive advantage, or climate and environment, its startling innovations will other countries. ples for building a truly support your values, inspire your support, and transform your sense of possibility. We frequently hear that a substance we’ve great enterprise in un- Amory Lovins, a consultant physicist, is among the world’s leading experts in ener- relied on for years turns out to have serious predictable, tumul- gy and its links with resources, security, development, and environment. He serves as effects on our health, the environment, or tuous, and fast-moving times. Chairman and Chief Scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute, an independent, market- both. Great by Choice distinguishes itself from oriented, entrepreneurial, nonprofit, nonpartisan think-and-do tank that creates After coming to terms with the fact that Collins’s prior work by its focus not just on abundance by design. He is also the co-author of Natural Capitalism. the autism and cancer which had impacted performance, but also on the type of unsta- her family were most likely the result of en- ble environments faced by leaders today. THE NEW SUSTAINABILITY ADVANTAGE vironmental toxins, author Deanna Duke They studied companies that rose to great- Seven Business Case Benefits of a Triple Bottom Line undertook a mission to dramatically reduce ness—beating their industry indexes by a —10th Anniversary Edition her family’s chemical exposure. She com- minimum of ten times over fifteen years— by Bob Willard mitted to drastically reducing the levels of in environments characterized by big $19.95, paper. New Society. all known chemicals in both her home and forces and rapid shifts that leaders could 224 pages, charts & tables work environments, using the help of body not predict or control. The research team The New Sustainability Advantage shows how the benefits of burden testing to see what effect, if any, she then contrasted these “10X companies” to a the “triple bottom line” can increase a typical company’s was able to have on the level of toxins in carefully selected set of comparison compa- profits by fifty-one to eighty-one percent within five years, de- her body. nies that failed to achieve greatness in simi- pending on the company’s size and industry sector, while avoid- Follow Deanna’s journey as she uncovers larly extreme environments. ing risks that could jeopardize its financial well-being. how insidious and invasive environmental The study results were full of provoca- Fully revised and updated, this tenth anniversary edition toxins are. Learn about your day-to-day tive surprises, such as: clearly demonstrates that, by focusing on seven powerful yet chemical exposure, the implications for ✦ The best leaders were not more risk tak- easy-to-grasp sustainability strategies, businesses can increase revenue, improve pro- your health, and what you can do about it. ing, more visionary, and more creative ductivity, reduce expenses, and decrease risks. And find out whether the author’s quest is than the comparisons; they were more Expressed in clear business language and presented in an appealing, graphically mission impossible, or whether she is ulti- disciplined, more empirical, and more rich format, this practical guide and the accompanying online Sustainability mately able to improve her family’s health paranoid. Advantage Simulator Dashboard enables executives to enter their own data and by taking steps towards leading a chemical- ✦ Innovation by itself turns out not to be quickly identify the high-leverage benefit areas for their organization. More detailed free life. the trump card in a chaotic and uncer- downloadable spreadsheets help them drill down into specific areas of interest and Deanna Duke is a Seattle urban home- tain world; more important is the ability fine-tune the assumptions to their specific situation. steader, and author of the highly acclaimed to scale innovation, to blend creativity An indispensable tool for both sustainability champions and senior management, environmental blog The Crunchy Chicken. with discipline. The New Sustainability Advantage proves that the quantified business case for sustain- ✦ Following the belief that leading in a ability is more compelling than ever before. “fast world” always requires “fast deci- Bob Willard has delivered hundreds of presentations demonstrating the business case for sustainability to companies, consultants, academics, and NGOs worldwide. LOVING THIS PLANET sions” and “fast action” is a good way to Leading Thinkers Talk About get killed. Bob is also author of The Sustainability Champion’s Guidebook and The Next ✦ Sustainability Wave. How to Make a Better World The great companies changed less in by Helen Caldicott reaction to a radically changing world $19.95, paper. New Press. 384 pages than the comparison companies. ture’—what he de- This beautifully crafted, articulate film Ever since quitting her job as a pediatri- The authors challenge conventional wis- cian at Harvard Medical School in 1980, dom with thought-provoking, sticky, and scribes as “a distilla- shows David speaking of the interconnect- tion of my life and edness we are as a species, and that we Helen Caldicott supremely practical concepts. This book is has worked for a classic Collins: contrarian, data-driven, thoughts, my legacy, should have a stronger connection to place what I want to say be- and what that means. The film interweaves safe, sustainable, and uplifting. He and Hansen show con- nuclear-free planet, vincingly that, even in a chaotic and uncer- fore I die.” the lecture with scenes from the places and Filmed before a events in Suzuki’s life—creating a biography most recently by tain world, greatness happens by choice, hosting a weekly not chance. live audience, in of ideas—forged by the major social, scien- front of a memory tific and cultural events of the past 70 years. radio show featur- box of moving, dis- Suzuki does not consider himself to be ing environmental- Ecology & Community tilled images, he ar- the greatest of scientific minds, but sees ists and leading ac- ticulates a core, ur- himself as being a good communicator of tivists from around gent message: We science to the public, as seen through his the globe. FORCE OF NATURE have exhausted the long-running television show “The Nature Together with The David Suzuki Movie limits of the biosphere and it is imperative of Things with David Suzuki” (1960). His in- some of the most directed by Sturla Gunnarsson that we re-think our relationship with the terest in the environment took a stronghold brilliant thinkers $26.75, DVD. E1 Films. natural world. Suzuki looks unflinchingly at in the 1980s when he was made aware of the and inspiring advo- 93 minutes + special features New on the strains on our interconnected web of fight against logging in Haida Gwaii. This cates of our time, including Naomi Klein, David Suzuki, iconic DVD life—and out of our dire present circum- connection is now all the more important as David Suzuki, Bill McKibben, Daniel Canadian scientist, educator, stances, he offers up a blueprint for sus- his daughter Severn Cullis-Suzuki has since Ellsberg, Maude Barlow, Lester Brown, broadcaster and activist delivers a ‘last lec- tainability and survival. married into the culture. Martin Sheen, and others, Caldicott, whom

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Meryl Streep has called “my inspiration to Compelling new case studies and ex- speak out,” scrutinizes our unsustainable panded treatment of sustainability in rural dependence on nuclear energy and the ab- Earth: The Big Picture as well as urban settings are complemented surdity of nuclear arms, as well as raising by contributions from a range of experts awareness about other planetary issues, in- THE GREAT DISRUPTION around the world, demonstrating how cluding deforestation, sea level rise, and pri- Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring on the End of “community capital” can be leveraged to vatization of water reserves. Shopping and the Birth of a New World meet the needs of cities and towns for: We talk with Chris Hedges, Ralph Nader, by Paul Gilding ✦ Energy efficiency, waste reduction, and Jonathan Schell, Lily Tomlin, and others. $19.50, paper. Bloomsbury. 304 pages recycling We learn from Miriam Pemberton that the Civilization is on a collision course, warns ✦ Water, sewage, transportation, and hous- United States spends more money per year Gilding, former head of Greenpeace New in ing on military bands than on its entire diplo- International and adviser to Fortune 500 com- Paperback ✦ Climate change and air quality matic corps, and we learn from Janette panies, as he details dire stats: humans using 140 ✦ Land use and urban planning. Sherman that the IAEA and WHO have percent of Earth’s resources, overpopulation, fisheries collaps- Fully supported by a complete suite of drastically underestimated the number of ing, deforestation, extreme weather, and lots of scary math. He online resources and tools, Toward deaths caused by the 1986 Chernobyl fall- advocates putting the world on an economic war footing, as Sustainable Communities is packed with out, and that its true number comes close to during World War II. His “One-Degree War” is an action plan concrete, innovative solutions to a host of one million people. Nuclear engineer Arjun to reduce the planet’s temperature, caused by greenhouse gases, to only one percent municipal challenges. Required reading Makhijani speaks on transitioning to a soci- higher than at the start of the Industrial Revolution. for policymakers, educators, social enter- ety based completely on renewable energy, We need instead to brace for impact, says Gilding, because global crisis is no longer prises, and engaged citizens, this “living omitting the need for fossil fuels or nuclear avoidable. This “Great Disruption” started in 2008, with spiking food and oil prices book” will appeal to anyone concerned power. and dramatic ecological changes, such as the melting ice caps. It is not simply about about community sustainability and a liv- Loving This Planet collects the key inter- fossil fuels and carbon footprints. We have come to the end of Economic Growth, able future. views from Caldicott’s popular radio show Version 1.0, a world economy based on consumption and waste, where we lived be- Mark Roseland is director of the Centre for the first time and offers an informative yond the means of our planet’s ecosystems and resources. for Sustainable Community Development at and accessible overview of the chief envi- The coming decades will see loss, suffering, and conflict as our planetary overdraft Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. ronmental issues critical to our well-being. is paid; however, they will also bring out the best in humanity: compassion, innovation, resilience, and adaptability. The global nature of the problem means only a global solution can fix it, and that CULTIVATING PEACE SHARE OR DIE means we are going to come together as a people like never before… This crisis The Art and Science of Personal Voices of the Get Lost Generation presents what may be a “once in a civilization” opportunity for a steep change in and Planetary Peacemaking in the Age of Crisis human evolution, but one driven consciously rather than biologically. by James O’Dea edited by Malcolm Harris, The crisis is also a business opportunity: old industries will collapse while new com- $17.95, paper. Shift Books. 210 pages with Neal Gorenflo panies will reshape our economy. After the Great Disruption, we will measure “growth” Penned by a world-renowned social heal- $14.95, paper. New Society. 224 pages, b/w not in quantity of stuff but quality and happiness of life. er and peacemaker, this guide provides photos & illustrations throughout “A clear-eyed and moving assessment of our predicament, but more importantly, he strategies for navi- America stands at a precipice; limitless offers a plausible way forward and good reasons to think we will rise to the occa- gating disagree- consumption, reckless economics, and dis- sion... Essential reading.” —David Orr, author of Down to the Wire ments in conflict sit- regard for the en- uations of any vironment have HERE ON EARTH type—within oneself, put the country A Natural History of the Planet between family mem- on a collision by Tim Flannery bers, in the work- course with disas- $19.99, paper. HarperCollins. place, or between na- ter. It’s up to a 336 pages, b/w illustrations throughout tions or religions. younger genera- Beginning at the moment of creation with the Big Bang, Here The study offers an tion to rebuild ac- on Earth explores the evolution of Earth from a galactic cloud integral approach to cording to new of dust and gas to a planet with a metallic core and early signs the field of building forms of organi- of life within a billion years of being created. In a rich narrative, peace, covering its zation, and Share Flannery describes the formation of Earth’s crust and atmos- often-ignored cultur- or Die is a collec- phere, as well as the transformation of the planet’s oceans al, spiritual, and sci- tion of messages from toxic brews of metals to life-sustaining bodies covering 70 entific dimensions in one volume. Ideal for from the front percent of the planet’s surface. Life, Flannery shows, first ap- psychologists, negotiators, peace activists, lines. peared in these oceans in the form of microscopic plants and bacteria, and these met- educators, business leaders, and clergy, this From urban Detroit to central als served as catalysts for the earliest biological processes known. handbook presents a unique set of pro- Amsterdam, and from worker co-operatives From this starting point, Flannery tells the fascinating story of the evolution of found tools and perspectives needed for fos- to nomadic communities, an astonishing va- our own species, exploring several early human species—from the diminutive crea- tering peace in the 21st century. Topics cov- riety of recent graduates and twenty-some- tures (the famed hobbits) who lived in Africa around two million years ago to Homo ered include how to navigate conflict with thing experimenters are finding (and shar- erectus—before turning his attention to Homo sapiens. Drawing on Charles Darwin’s wisdom and effectiveness, develop the es- ing) their own answers to negotiating the and Alfred Russell Wallace’s theories of evolution and Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis, Here sential skills of a social healer, learn lessons new economic order. Their visions of a on Earth is an intriguing, wide-screen account of life on our planet. from the new “science of peace,” and con- shared future include: Narrow horizons and short time frames are always misleading. That’s why it’s nect with an inspiring community of “peace ✦ Collaborative consumption networks in- impossible to determine whether, even in the dramatic changes we see over a lifetime, builders” worldwide. stead of private ownership we’re witnesses to a descent into chaos, or a profound revolution that will lead to a James O’Dea is a past president of the ✦ Replacing the corporate ladder with a better future. A wider view, one that encompasses humanity over the millennia and the Institute for Noetic Sciences and the co-di- “lattice lifestyle” world over the aeons, is required if we are to discern the true path of our evolutionary rector of the Social Healing Project. ✦ Do-it-yourself higher education trajectory. In writing this book I’ve taken that long view, and, despite the challenges we As a call to action, “share or die” doesn’t now face, I feel optimistic—for ourselves, our children and our planet. only refer to resource depletion, disappear- “Paleontologist-environmentalist Flannery elucidates two ways of viewing Earth’s A FUTURE TO BELIEVE IN ing jobs, or stagnating wages. It refers to so- fate. The Medea hypothesis argues that, left untrammeled, species will exploit their 108 Reflections on the Art cial death too, and to finding the common- ecosystems to the point of collapse. But James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis counters and Activism of Freedom sense ideas and practices needed to not that Earth knows how to adjust. Flannery favors the latter view, urging us to bond bet- by Alan Clements only merely survive, but to build a place ter with self-regulating nature.” —Library Journal $24.95, paper. World Dharma. 260 pages where it’s worth living. A series of forays Also by Flannery is The Weather Makers. Alan Clements’ visionary book, A Future into uncharted territory, this graphically to Believe In: 108 Reflections that Could rich collection of essays, narratives, and Transform the World, how-tos is an intimate guide to the new TOWARD SUSTAINABLE viable places. weaves the wisdom of economic order and a must-read for any- COMMUNITIES This comprehen- hundreds of the one attempting to understand what it Solutions for Citizens and Their sive update of world’s most creative means to live as part of Generation Y. Governments—Revised Fourth Edition the classic text and courageous Malcolm Harris is the Life/Art channel by Mark Roseland presents a lead- thinkers—artists, ac- editor and a writer at Shareable and man- $34.95, paper. New Society. ing-edge tivists, scientists, and aging editor at The New Inquiry, a criticism 288 pages, 8x9, 200 colour illustrations overview of sus- risk-takers—with his site devoted to collecting and promoting The need to make our communities sus- tainability in a own most compelling the work of young, unaffiliated writers. Neal tainable is more urgent than ever before. new fully illus- life-lessons, ques- Gorenflo is the co-founder and publisher of Toward Sustainable Communities remains trated, full-color tions, and discover- Shareable, a nonprofit online magazine the single most useful resource for creating format. ies, from his forty- about sharing. vibrant, healthy, equitable, economically year-long pursuit of

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New World Library. 272 pages chitects (no less), “For me, every hour is grace,” Elie “To the future beings of the twenty-second century, Active road gypsies, water Wiesel tells us. “And I feel gratitude in my Hope might turn out to be the most important book written in dwellers, dreamers, heart each time I can meet someone and the twenty-first.” —Bill Plotkin, author of Soulcraft people of all ages, look at his or her smile.” Most books addressing global issues focus on either our dire all over the world are making do creative- And if I were you and you were me, problems or grand-scale solutions. Authors Joanna Macy and ly with under-500 sq. ft. shelters. This is a how might we conduct ourselves Chris Johnstone focus instead on equipping us with a transfor- real and powerful alternative to high rents, differently today? mational mindset. or a lifelong obligation to a bank on an An iconoclastic blend of radical cultural overpriced home. We examine what makes it so difficult to talk about our planetary commentary, edgy political punditry and The heart of our 1973 book Shelter was provocative life-inquiry, this field guide crisis and provide tools that support us in having the empowering conversations our times call for... Scattered throughout the book are “Try This” boxes inviting you to experience on small buildings, which we for revolutionaries, and a model for a new practices we find valuable both for personal use and in groups. recommended as a starting point in society, is designed to liberate the human providing one’s own living space. Now, spirit—igniting gutsy transformation in We face the facts of a planet and economies in crisis, and we ac- almost 40 years later, there’s a significant one’s daily life and nonviolent political knowledge that individuals can’t necessarily create their desired out- tiny house movement all over the change around the world. Burma’s Nobel comes, but rather than allowing these two realities to shut us down, we world—which we’ve been tracking over Peace laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, with choose active hope. This hope is something we do rather than some- the past year. whom Clements co-authored the acclaimed thing we have. Rather than acting only when we deduce we may suc- John Field sold his 2800 sq. ft. house in book of conversations, The Voice of Hope, ceed, we focus on our intention and let that be our guide. On this path upstate New York and built a 128 sq. ft. cab- calls this global movement a revolution of the we discover new strengths, open to a network of allies, and experience in in the high Texas desert. The “Lady on spirit or the awakening of a new language of Joanna Macy a deepening of aliveness. Because we are actively giving—and receiv- the Road” (who wishes to remain anony- freedom. By fearlessly fusing timeless spir- ing—hope, we can face global crises without despair and play a per- mous) has been living full-time in a highly itual values with nonviolent political ac- sonal role in the collective “Great Turning” toward a life-sustaining society. decorated bus since she was 51 (she’s now tions, Clements writes, we can unite and co- The spiral of the Work That Reconnects is something we can come back to again and 72). A couple in British Columbia have a again as a source of strength and fresh insights. It reminds us that we are larger, stronger, create a future to believe in. houseboat with adjacent floating garden. A deeper, and more creative than we have been brought up to believe. It maps out an “A startling distillation of Clements’ life’s rustic cabin has been built on a remote practice, a missal of contemplative activism, empowerment process that journeys through four successive movements, or stations, described as Coming from Gratitude, Honoring Our Pain for the World, Seeing with beach in Mendocino, reachable only by a catalyst for the torpor of our times.” — New Eyes, and Going Forth... boat. A lot of small houses have been built Paul Hawken The spiral offers a transformational journey that deepens our capacity to act for the on trailers, so they can be moved around “This book is the music of wisdom, a sake of life on Earth. and don’t necessarily require land owner- dance with the finest places of the human “If you have despaired for our world, and if you love life, Active Hope will be for you ship. heart. You will want to keep this timeless an extraordinary blessing.” —John Robbins, author of The Food Revolution More and more people are living in bus- treasure within reach, so you can open it to Joanna Macy is a scholar of Buddhism and lifelong eco-activist. Among her works es, trucks, houseboats, and other movable any page, and let a paragraph or a line ig- are Coming Back to Life and the DVD Joanna Macy: The Work That Reconnects. Chris shelters. There are a large number of pre- nite you again to the truth of your own be- Johnstone is a specialist in the psychology of addiction and resilience. fabs and kits now available. There are inno- ing.” —Joanna Macy, Buddhist teacher, au- For more in-depth: ActiveHope.info. vative solutions in cities, such as the “cap- thor of World as Lover, World As Self sules” in Tokyo. There are numerous For more info: worlddharma.com. websites with news, photos, and/or plans who have worked here, including Sarah declutter, refresh, for tiny houses. Eco-Philosophy, Deep Ecology Leen of the National Geographic. Wade and enhance your These pocket-sized cabins, houseboats, Davis’ compelling text describes the re- living space. buses, trucks, and prefabs display a win- gion’s beauty, the threats to it, and the re- Xorin’s wonderfully ning and an envy-provoking simplicity. THE SACRED HEADWATERS sponse of the inhabitants. The inescapable unique technique Tiny Homes can win you over with even a ca- The Fight to Save the Stikine, message is that no amount of methane gas will nurture and sual browse and it reminds us that the rest Skeena, and Nass can compensate for the sacrifice of a place transform both your of the world is still out there. by Wade Davis that could be the Sacred Headwaters for soul and your home. $50.00, cloth. Greystone. all the peoples of the world. Through client 134 pages, 11x10, colour photos The book includes a foreword by David stories, exercises, PASSIVE SOLAR ARCHITECTURE In the rugged northern Rocky Mountains Suzuki and an afterword by Robert and Q&As, Balbes Heating, Cooling, Ventilation, and lies a spectacularly beautiful valley, known Kennedy, Jr. guides readers to Daylighting Using Natural Flows to the Native We must all listen to the stories of the decode clues to by David Bainbridge & Ken Haggard peoples as the Tahltan people, learn from them, and what they wish for, $93.50, cloth. Chelsea Green. Sacred celebrate the wonder of this remarkable deny, and need to move forward. Suitable 300 pages, 8x10, place, if for no other reason than the Headwaters. for any budget and for one wall or one colour illustrations throughout survival of our children. —David Suzuki There, on the room, apartments or mansions. New buildings can be designed to be so- Even in small spaces, creating nooks edge of the lar oriented, naturally heated and cooled, and corners that inspire focused activities Spatsizi Earth Energies, Eco-Design naturally lit is more than possible: it is what will make Wilderness, and ventilated, your home unique and perfect for you. the Serengeti Express yourself in all ways in your space. and made with of North SOULSPACE If you can’t do it at home, you won’t be renewable, sus- America, Creating a Home That is Free of Clutter, able to do it anywhere... tainable mate- three of the Full of Beauty, and Inspired by You Your home is not just your castle—it is rials—no mat- continent’s most important salmon rivers— by Xorin Balbes, your altar, your temple, your Soul-Space... ter the location the Stikine, the Skeena, and the Nass—are foreword by Marianne Williamson My wish for you is to live in beauty, in or climate. born. Now, against the wishes of the Native $16.50, paper. New World Library. 188 pages your home and in your life—the kind of In this com- inhabitants, the government of British Architectural designer Xorin Balbes cre- beauty that works for you. prehensive Columbia has opened the Sacred ated his eight-stage SoulSpace process to overview of Headwaters to industrial development. help his clients create homes that reflect passive solar Imperial Metals proposes an open-pit cop- and celebrate what is essential about their TINY HOMES design, two of America’s solar pioneers per and gold mine, called the Red Chris inhabitants. The process works for any bud- Simple Shelter give homeowners, architects, designers, mine, processing 30,000 tons of ore a day, get, anytime, anywhere and results in inspi- by Lloyd Kahn and builders the keys to successfully har- and Royal Dutch Shell wants to extract coal ration, self-discovery, and practical solu- $30.95, paper. nessing the sun and maximizing climate bed methane gas from an anthracite de- tions. Through the stages—assess, release, Shelter. 218 pages, resources for heating, cooling, ventilation, posit across an enormous tenure of close to cleanse, dream, discover, create, elevate, 9x12, colour & b/w photos throughout and daylighting. a million acres. and celebrate—you will explore not only This is a spectacular book, no kidding! Bainbridge and Haggard draw upon ex- The splendor of the region is portrayed the design of your abode but also your It’s our first major building book since amples from their own experiences, as well in this collection of photographs by the own interior: how you think, feel, and Builders of the Pacific Coast was as those of others, of more than three International League of Conservation sense the world. Empowered with this self- published in 2008. Like our other building decades to offer both overarching princi- Photographers, and by other professionals knowledge, you will discover fresh ways to books, it has at least 1000 photos, along ples as well as the details and formulas

BRANCHES OF LIGHT ✦ 38 ✦ BANYEN BOOKS & SOUND ✦ GARDENING & SELF-RELIANCE ✦ needed to successfully design a more com- ✦ Small-animal husbandry & beekeeping fortable, healthy, and secure place in which ✦ Canning, drying, freezing, fermenting, to live, laugh, dance, and be comfortable— New Editions of Gardening Classics and pickling techniques even if the power goes off. ✦ Grinding grains for flour, etc. Passive Solar Architecture also discusses HOW TO GROW MORE VEGETABLES ✦ Tips for creating farmer-to-consumer con- “greener” and more-sustainable building (and Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other nections materials and how to use them, and ex- Crops) Than You Ever Thought Possible ✦ Forming a buying club with neighbors plores the historical roots of green design on Less Land Than You Can Imagine, ✦ “Opportunities for Change” steps to fol- that have made possible buildings that pro- 8th Edition low. duce more energy and other resources than by John Jeavons You actually can manage to avoid the they use. $22.99, paper. Ten Speed. supermarket even if you don’t have a Fully illustrated with many diagrams and 236 pages, 8x11, charts & illustrations garden. You can choose which steps you photographs, Passive Solar Architecture is an Since 1974 this pioneering work has gained an interna- want to take, from buying a grain grinder invaluable resource to anyone who wants to tional reputation as the bible on “Grow Biointensive mini- and baking your own bread, to ripping out undertake a sustainable building project, farming,” as originally developed by Alan Chadwick. What it your front lawn and getting dairy goats, to from planning and design, to building, re- offers us is a direction that is now increasingly necessary, a simply shifting your buying dollars from one market to another. modeling, and operating the completed method that produces high yields of organic food crops in building. very small spaces, using less water while nourishing the soul—with minimal daily care. A resident of Seattle’s Sand Point neigh- This revised and significantly expanded 8th edition incorporates the latest tech- borhood, Annette Cottrell is a mother of niques and methods developed by Jeavons and thousands of people around the world two small kids. Starting in 2009, she and her Gardening & Self-Reliance now using the method—including new information on harvesting, ro- family transitioned from supermarket to tating crops, composting, and fertilizing, with a vast and varied re- farm-fresh food, one step at a time and MAKING HOME source section. largely within the limits of their suburban city lot. Follow her at SustainableEats.com. Adapting Our Homes and Our Lives The edition represents forty years of working with plants, soils, and to Settle in Place people—in virtually all climates and soils around the world. by Sharon Astyk As with the “French Intensive,” double-digging method, so with the A YEAR ON THE GARDEN PATH $19.95, paper. New Society. 336 pages book: a great deal of useful, experienced gardening information is of- A 52-Week Organic Gardening Guide Making Home is about improving life with fered in a modest space. There’s basic, seasoned, practical informa- John Jeavons by Carolyn Herriott the real people around us and the resources tion on bed preparation, tools, fertilization, compost, seed propaga- $24.95, paper. Harbour. we already have. tion, making the garden plan, companion planting and weed control, “a balanced 176 pages, 200+ b/w photos & illustrations While encouraging natural backyard ecosystem and insect life,” and an incredible bibliography. Full of seasonally relevant, practical in- us to be more re- Written for gardeners and farmers on all levels with any-sized plot of land, How to formation, this popular weekly gardening silient in the face of Grow More Vegetables also offers detailed illustrations and charts with essential in- guide from the hard times, author formation for growing a wide range of crops. This work has continued for a genera- green-thumbed au- Sharon Astyk also tion to revolutionize food production around the world. It offers practical ways to ac- thor of The Zero-Mile points out the beau- complish what is perhaps the greatest service we can offer to this Earth: to increase Diet can be picked up ty, grace, and ele- soil fertility. gance that result, be- any day of the year We need to stop growing crops and start growing soil. Granted, in order to grow soil, for timely advice on cause getting the we need to grow crops, But rather than growing crops for the sole purpose of most out of every- how to create a beau- consumption, the goal changes to one of giving and creating life-producing soil, and in tiful, healthy orna- thing we use is a way the process, an abundance of food. of transforming our mental landscape lives into something “This must-read essential reference is about how to grow pretty nearly all your food and and food garden. your garden’s fertilizer on a modest amount of land.” —Carol Dieppe, author of The much more fulfilling. Full of helpful tips Resilient Gardener Written from the perspective of a family and recipes, this Also by John Jeavons is The Sustainable Vegetable Garden. who has already made this transition, highly illustrated Making Home shows readers how to turn the book covers everything from soil building WINTER GARDENING IN THE MARITIME NORTHWEST to pruning to four-season food growing challenge of living with less into settling for Cool Season Crops for the Year Round Gardener—Fifth Edition more—more happiness, more security, and and seed saving, interspersed with recipes, by Binda Colebrook more peace of mind. Learn simple but ef- poetry and humour. $17.95, paper. New Society. Recommended as a course text in a local fective strategies to: 208 pages, 50 b/w illustrations ✦ Save money on everything from heating Permaculture design course, A Year on the Here’s a great local gardening classic back in a new edition, Garden Path takes beginning and experi- and cooling to refrigeration, laundry, wa- just in time for the great gardening revolution. ter, sanitation, cooking, and cleaning enced gardeners week by week through a ✦ Many gardeners can supply a significant amount of their own whole yearly cycle. Victoria-based organic Create a stronger, more resilient family food during the plentiful summer harvest. But the key to sub- ✦ Preserve more for future generations. gardening expert Carolyn Herriot digs up: stantial savings on your food bill is putting fresh, homegrown four secrets of successful soil building; We must make fundamental changes to produce on your table every month of the year. And in the mild, our way of life in the face of ongoing eco- methods to maintain a healthy green lawn; forgiving climate of the maritime Pacific Northwest, it can be non-toxic solutions to common garden nomic crisis and energy depletion. Making easier than you think. Home takes the fear out of this prospect, and problems; plants for impossible places and In Winter Gardening in the Maritime Northwest, Binda Colebrook provides a com- perennials with personality; pruning, plant invites us to embrace a simpler, more abun- plete guide to cool season crops and how to raise them. Gardeners from southeast- dant reality. propagation and more! ern Alaska to southern Oregon will benefit from her clear, practical advice on: “A wealth of information... compiled by Sharon Astyk is also the author of three ✦ Selecting and preparing the ideal winter gardening site somebody who knows her stuff.” —Des previous books, including Depletion and ✦ Maximizing production and minimizing pests with cloches, cold frames, mulches, Abundance and Independence Days. Kennedy, gardening guru and companion planting “Herriot’s enthusiasm is infectious; she ✦ Choosing the best strains and hardiest varieties for a year-round growing season. leaves the reader feeling encouraged and This revised and updated edition of the classic text will have you serving up fabu- inspired.” —Victoria Times THE URBAN FARM HANDBOOK lous alternatives to bland, expensive, and tasteless imported supermarket vegetables in City-Slicker Resources for Growing, Raising, no time. Whether your favorite meals include hearty roots or succulent greens, Winter Sourcing, Trading, and Preparing Gardening in the Maritime Northwest will help you maximize your food production year- Nature as Teacher & Healer What You Eat round. by Annette Cottrell & Joshua McNichols Binda Colebrook is a lifelong gardener with extensive experience as a homesteader THE NATURE PRINCIPLE $27.95, paper. Mountaineers. in western Washington. A widely recognized authority on raising cool season vegeta- Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age 382 pages, 7x9, b/w & colour photos bles in the maritime Northwest, she is developing her own property to maximize year- by Richard Louv Is that...a goat in your garage?! It might round food production, as well as restoring its native habitat. be if you’ve been reading The Urban Farm $17.95, paper. Algonquin. 352 pages Handbook: City- In this wide-ranging study of how humans Slicker Resources off the supermarket nipple, the authors how to do everything from making cheese can thrive through the “renaturing of every- for Growing, map a plan for how to manage a busy, ur- and curing meat to collaborating with day life,” Louv takes nature deficit disor- Raising, Sourcing, ban family life with home-grown foods, neighbors on a food bartering system, the der, introduced in his seminal Last Child in Trading, and shared community efforts, and easy yet authors share their own food journeys the Woods, a step further, to argue that Preparing What healthful practices. along with those of local producers and adults need nature, too. You Eat. In this More than just a few ideas about garden- consumers who are changing the food sys- A reconnection to the natural world is comprehensive ing and raising chickens, The Urban Farm tems in the Pacific Northwest. Organized fundamental to human health. What would guide for city- Handbook uses stories, charts, grocery lists, seasonally, this handbook instructs on: our lives be like if our days and nights were dwellers on how to recipes, and calendars to inform and in- ✦ How to maximize space for planting a va- as immersed in nature as they are in wean themselves struct. As busy urbanites who have learned riety of fruits and vegetables electronics?

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Louv’s “Nature Principle” consists of seven precepts, in- Permaculture’s Humming... cluding balancing SEPP HOLZER’S PERMACULTURE ✦ How he sets up a permaculture system technology excess A Practical Guide to Small-Scale, Integrative Farming ✦ The fruit varieties he has found best for permacul- with time in nature; a and Gardening ture growing mind/body/nature by Sepp Holzer ✦ How to construct terraces, ponds, and waterways connection, which $32.95, paper. Chelsea Green. ✦ How to build shelters for animals and how to work Louv calls “vitamin 232 pages, 7x9, colour photos & illustrations with them on the land N,” that enhances Sepp Holzer farms more than 100 acres of steep ✦ How to cultivate edible mushrooms in the garden and physical and mental mountainsides in Austria some 1,500 meters above sea on the farm... and much more. health; expanding level. His farm is an intricate network of terraces, Holzer offers a wealth of information for the gar- our sense of com- raised beds, ponds, waterways and tracks, well covered dener or small farmer yet the book’s greatest value is munity to include all living things; and pur- with productive fruit trees and other vegetation, with the attitudes it teaches. He reveals the thinking posefully developing a spiritual, psychologi- the farmhouse neatly nestling amongst them. This is in processes based on principles found in nature that cal, physical attachment to a region and its dramatic contrast to his neighbors’ spruce monocul- create his productive systems. These can be applied natural history. The book presents exam- tures. anywhere — for both rural farming and emerging forms of ur- ples of these precepts, from studies of how In this book, Holzer shares the skill and knowledge acquired ban agriculture. exposure to a common soil bacteria in- over his lifetime. He covers every aspect of his farming methods, “Here’s great news for fruit-loving gardeners everywhere! Most creases production of serotonin in the brain not just how to create a holistic system on the farm itself, but of the work of establishing, pruning, and tending fruit trees by to designing shopping malls inspired by ter- how to make a decent living from it. Holzer writes about every- ‘modern methods’ is unnecessary and even counterproductive. mite mounds. thing from the overall concepts, down to the practical details. This book is The One Straw Revolution for tree crops.” —Carol The Nature Principle urges us to change In Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture readers will learn: Dieppe, author of The Resilient Gardener our vision of the future, suggesting that if we re-conceive environmentalism and sus- PERMACULTURE: THE GROWING EDGE an oil spill with mushrooms. They interview some tainability, they will evolve into a larger Exploring Real Solutions to Our Grave Ecological of the key figures in the Permaculture movement, movement that will touch every part of soci- Crisis including David Holmgren, Penny Livingston- ety. by Starhawk & Donna Read Stark, James Stark, Paul Stamets, Mark Lakeman, This New Nature Movement taps into $21.95, DVD. Belili. 45 minutes Dr. Elaine Ingham, Maddy Harland, and others. the restorative powers of the natural world Permaculture: The Growing Edge is an antidote Permaculture is a sustainable system of earth to boost mental acuity and creativity; pro- to environmental despair, a hopeful and practi- care that offers solutions to many of our grave mote wellness; build smarter and more cal look at a path to a viable, flourishing future. environmental problems and a hopeful, proac- sustainable businesses, communities, and The film introduces us to inspiring examples of New on tive vision of change. The Permaculture movement, started by economies; and ultimately strengthen hu- Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in the 1970s, is projects, and includes a visit to David Holmgren’s DVD man bonds. It’s supported by groundbreak- own homestead, tracking deer with naturalist Jon now a worldwide network of skilled ecological designers, ing research, anecdotal evidence, and com- Young, sheet mulching an inner-city garden with Hunters Point teachers, food growers, natural builders, environmental ac- pelling personal stories. Family, transforming an intersection into a gathering place with tivists and visionaries. “Permaculture is the key to a post-carbon “Eloquently documents our schism from City Repair and joining mycologist Paul Stamets as he cleans up future,” says Maddy Harlan, editor of Permaculture Magazine. nature and the very real physical and psy- chic consequences. This book provides a ples are simple, the in-depth topics cover every aspect way back to where we belong, a world full THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO PERMACULTURE of permaculture, including: of reverence, joy and discovery.” —David by Nicole Faires ✦ Building green homes and passive solar design Suzuki $19.95, paper. Skyhorse. ✦ Growing edible plant communities and forest gardens Richard Louv is cofounder of the 224 pages, 7x10, 150 colour photos ✦ Using no-till and natural farming methods Children and Nature Network (chil- Year by year gaining more attention and practition- ✦ Creating microclimates for extended growing seasons drenandnature.org). ers, Permaculture is an integrated but often misunder- stood method of growing food and building homes in ✦ Raising livestock with ecological foraging tech- a manner that works with nature, rather than against niques. it, to create beautiful, healthy, and useful gardens. This is a common-sense approach to sustainable liv- EARTH WISDOM Blending ecology, organic agriculture, green home ing that creates a self-sufficient and low-effort home A Heartwarming Mixture of the Spiritual, design, appropriate technology, and biology can be for the people that live there, whether in the city or the the Practical, and the Proactive confusing and overwhelming, but The Ultimate Guide country. The Ultimate Guide to Permaculture isn’t a phi- by Glennie Kindred to Permaculture simplifies this vast field for practical losophy book, or a dissertation on theory. It is a step- $17.95, paper. Hay House. application. This is a hands-on guide, taking the beginner by-step guide to permaculture design by a greenwoman based on 275 pages, b/w illustrations through each step of the design process, so that anyone can ap- Vancouver Island. Lovingly crafted by Glennie Kindred, ply permaculture principles to their own life. While the princi- Also by Nicole Faires is The Ultimate Guide to Homesteading. British “alchemist of the heart,” Earth Wisdom is a friendly, nature-tuned offer- Cycles.” The more extensive part 2, “Be and opportunities of ages a responsible and joyful—and ulti- ing of clear insights Here Now,” cycles through the seasonal this planetary mo- mately healing—participation in this criti- into new ways of look- wheel of the year, offering insights and ment. He also shows cal moment in life. ing at the world to practices connected with the Winter and us how to play with bring about positive The growing consensus is that this new Summer Solstices and the Spring and this structure, climb- change, integration, worldview will incorporate not just the Autumn Equinoxes, as well as the “cross- ing around on it with rational, left-brain, linear, solar mode of and renewal. quarters” of Samhain (Nov. 1), Imbolc uninhibited curiosi- consciousness that has defined the last This book can in- (Feb. 1), Beltain (May 1), and Lammas ty.” —Joanna Macy, few millennia, but will also honor a more spire us to restore (Aug. 1). coauthor of Active relational, right-brain, cyclical, lunar our own connection With earthy line drawings, suggestions Hope mode of awareness. If indeed humanity is to the earth. Its start- for natural rituals and ceremonies, and In The Four Global able to change its mind as quickly as ing point is our nat- much more, Earth Wisdom ends with a Truths, Darrin Drda would seem necessary, the worldview ural affinity with na- that will finally emerge will be a truly repertory of the many herbal remedies contends that as glob- ture, and it’s a potent reminder to integral one defined by a shared sense of mentioned in the text. al temperatures rise and natural systems de- experience the natural intelligence of all global community and universal cline, humanity is forced to confront the de- life. Glennie invites us, in a bouquet of responsibility. structiveness of unfettered material ways, to follow our own personal spirituality Conscious Evolution Evolver Editions promotes a new coun- progress and mechanistic thinking. He and intuitive wisdom, embrace a heart-cen- terculture that recognizes humanity’s vi- & Planetary Culture posits a more enlightened worldview that tered common unity with all life, explore sionary potential and takes tangible, prag- honors the interdependence of all forms of our inherent potential for communication matic steps to realize it. life and aspects of reality, a concept increas- on many different levels, and become part THE FOUR GLOBAL TRUTHS ingly seen as a practical and compassionate of the change our earth deserves. Awakening to the Peril approach to averting disaster. “Dedicated to all of Earth’s children,” & Promise of Our Times Writing in a warm, open style recalling AN INTRODUCTION TO Earth Wisdom encourages spiritual and per- by Darrin Drda that of Eckhart Tolle in The New Earth, SPONTANEOUS EVOLUTION sonal action for the good of all, and inspires $21.50, paper. Evolver Editions. Drda integrates elements of Western phi- with Bruce Lipton imaginative ways to experience our rela- 328 pages, b/w illustrations losophy, transpersonal psychology, deep $24.95, DVD. Hay House. 1 hour 20 minutes tionship with the earth in a meaningful way. “In a brilliantly appropriate application ecology, modern cosmology, and quantum If looking at today’s head- Part 1, “All Things Are Connected,” of- of the Buddha’s Four Noble Truths, physics to get at the heart of worldwide eco- lines makes you wonder New on fers chapters on “The Gifts of the Earth,” Darrin Drda provides a conceptual struc- logical suffering. In the process he encour- about the fate of civilization DVD “Spirit of the Land,” and “The Earth’s ture for perceiving the unique challenges as we know it and the future

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Barbara Marx Hubbard & The Birth Day of Humanity Science, Brain & Cosmos THE MOTHER OF INVENTION to have her name placed in nomination for the vice THE BOND Why “I Win/You Lose” The Legacy of Barbara Marx presidency of the United States by a major political Doesn’t Work Anymore and Hubbard and the Future of YOU New in party, traveled to Russia as a cultural ambassador for New in How to Prosper Through by Neale Donald Walsch Paperback peace, visited the Oval Office and asked the President Paperback $14.95, paper. Hay House. 272 pages a question that he could not answer, and developed a Deep Connection The Mother of Invention tells the story of every hu- deep acquaintanceship with the American space pro- by Lynne McTaggart man being now on the earth through the telling of gram. Today, she continues at the leading edge of $17.00, paper. Simon & Schuster. 304 pages the life story of visionary futurist Barbara Marx contemporary thought and co-creative action re- Here the author of the bestsellers The Hubbard. We are all moving through the same evolu- garding our construction of the “Synergy Engine” Field and The Intention Experiment uses the tionary process, the book and its subject declare. It is of conscious evolution. interconnectedness of mind and matter the process of the birthing of our species. It is time. Because Science and Technology have to demonstrate that I’m talking about all of us helping to create the given us new powers, greater than humans have ever had before. Now we can truly call ourselves very the key to life is in container... We say yes to that within us. This Yes the relationship be- triggers regenopause. We make it possible and young Universal Humans. Earth is like a kindergarten comfortable for others around us to realize their own for ‘godlings’—all of us who are ready and willing! But tween things. fullest potential physically, mentally, and spiritually. We provide we have to learn ethical, conscious evolution quickly. That We are always con- the space for that to happen, individually and collectively. means to love each other, and nature, as ourselves. If we don’t nected with others, do this, we will self-destruct. hardwired at our This biography begins in the future, unraveling Barbara’s story most elemental lev- backward: from December 22, 2012, to the date of her birth. In a sense, the story of Barbara Marx Hubbard is the story of the future of all of us, making this one of the relevant and evolu- el—from the quan- Throughout the book are special sections inviting us to explore tum level to the cel- how we may directly apply what Barbara has observed, embod- tionarily potent stories of our time. You are inventing your Self right now, at this moment, re- lular, from personal ied, and learned during her remarkable 80+-year journey… to relationships to busi- our own daily lives. creating yourself anew in every nanosecond, in the next grandest version of the greatest vision you ever held about who you are. ness and societal structures. This view is at I am not alone. It is not as if I’m the only ‘catalyst’ on the You are doing this either consciously or unconsciously, but you the core of Lynne McTaggart’s The Bond, earth. It feels as if there are many, in many different areas, are doing it... Bring yourself today the experience for which your the fruit of her extensive research with fron- undertaking many different activities. life was designed: Conscious Evolution. tier scientists working in a broad range of We witness Barbara as she became one of the first women ever Not out of necessity, but out of desire. fields. The world essentially operates through relationships: within the space be- BIRTH 2012 AND BEYOND lutionary emergence entered into Barbara’s expand- tween things. The essential impulse of all of Humanity’s Great Shift to the ing vision over five decades, as she herself evolved to life is a will to connect. Age of Conscious Evolution become America’s most beloved futurist. Birth 2012 Her discussion of the Bond encompasses by Barbara Marx Hubbard and Beyond goes even further, heralding the ap- quantum physics, genetics, evolutionary bi- $17.95, paper. Shift Books. proaching new era by inviting you to a global day of ology, neuroscience, astronomy, sociology, 240 pages, b/w illustrations initiation, one that Barbara long ago envisioned: the psychology, and a host of other disciplines. This book introduces an established popular glob- Planetary Birth Day celebration on December 22, She provides ample and fascinating exam- al movement to co-create a massive transition 2012 that is now sponsored by The Shift Network. ples of “holistic,” altruistic, and uplifting be- around a symbolic “Planetary Birthday” event on Featured in Part II of this book is a special group of haviors in the hugely diverse body of anec- December 22, 2012. twelve luminaries and evolutionary leaders, known dotes she provides. Birth 2012 and Beyond distills the remarkable life as the “Welcoming Committee,” who join Barbara “The Bond brilliantly reveals the essence work of Barbara Marx Hubbard, and offers the purest in evoking the great shift. of who we are, backed by rigorous new sci- statement yet of her prophetic call for a great plane- Featured contributors include Ervin Laszlo, ence and expressed with clarity and power. tary shift. This book presents essential memes for to- Michael Beckwith, Jack Canfield, Jean Houston, and McTaggart is a visionary and an extraordi- day’s evolutionaries—including Barbara’s masterful Neale Donald Walsch. Their short essays echo and nary scholar of the heart. In this seminal insight that our crisis is a birth—while pointing to key indica- enhance Barbara’s timely call for the inauguration of a sustain- book, she communicates a life-altering mes- tors of the planetary birth. Learn how the core concepts of evo- able planetary civilization. sage that has the power to transform the way we see ourselves and therefore the way EMERGENCE providing meditations and practices, personal sto- we see the world.” —Lynne Twist, author of The Shift from Ego to Essence: ries, and encouragement to help your Universal The Soul of Money Revised & Updated Human emerge. “There is something on every page of this by Barbara Marx Hubbard “A greater evolution is the real goal of humanity,” book to make you jump for joy. Rarely does $20.95, paper. Hampton Roads. 158 pages Hubbard writes. And this guide to “Emergence” is “a a book so tell it like it is.” —Marianne “What is presented here is not only a new way to un- handbook for Co-creators of a New World.” Williamson, author of The Gift of Change derstand our human history but a way to magnifi- My Story is an integral part of this Guide. And my cently create the history of our tomorrows, changing hope is that you, when you finish this journey yourself, our very idea of what it means to be human. Here is a will pass your own story on to others, that they may A UNIVERSE FROM NOTHING short but fascinating story of our species and the also see where they are going by seeing where you Why There is Something path it has taken, as well as the path went. We do not take this journey for ourselves alone. Rather Than Nothing it now has an opportunity to take...” Hubbard describes the steps of the Emergence by Lawrence Krauss —from the introduction by Neale Process, invites readers to consider making a pro- $28.99, cloth. Simon & Schuster. 202 pages Donald Walsch, author of found commitment, and suggests ways we can “be in What was there before the Universe? Why Conversations with God the Inner Sanctuary” and integrate these potent seeds is there something rather than nothing? Barbara Marx Hubbard, a philosopher and into our unfolding. Now, in a cosmo- logical story that riv- futurist, has acted as a quiet consultant to polit- Co-creative partnerships expand personal levels of Barbara Marx ical, business, and spiritual leaders, and her consciousness and become catalysts to self-transformation into ets as it enlightens, Hubbard book Conscious Evolution and DVD Visions of a Universal Humans. Co-creation as a way of life evokes multiple theoretical physicist Universal Humanity along with her workshops cycles of unfolding, With each unfolding, more of our encoded Lawrence Krauss ex- and lectures have inspired many to activate their unique threads genius is accessed. plains the ground- in the fabric of awakening humanity. In this fully revised and up- More: evolve.org. breaking new scien- dated edition of Emergence, she articulates her latest learnings, tific advances that turn the most basic philosophical ques- of our planet, here is credible step forward in the growth of our PowerPoint-illustrated lecture, Bruce pre- tions on their heads. some news that may species. sents compelling scientific evidence that One of the few surprise you: From an This lively 80-minute DVD of a talk given shows how our collective perceptions are prominent scientists evolutionary stand- by Lipton in Florida in 2010 gives you an en- contributing to global crises and how, by today to have actively point, we are exactly ergetic “download” of his rather infectious changing those perceptions, civilization will crossed the chasm between science and where we need to be. insight and optimism: he’s an evolutionary thrive into the future. popular culture, Krauss reveals that modern According to emi- vitamin personified. Bruce Lipton, a pioneer in the new biolo- science is addressing the question of why nent biologist Bruce Just as a terminally ill patient can have a gy, is an internationally recognized leader in there is something rather than nothing, Lipton, we are sur- “spontaneous remission”—usually following bridging science and spirit. A cell biologist with surprising and fascinating results. The rounded by the a profound life change or change in be- by training, he is also author of The Biology staggeringly beautiful experimental obser- proof that we are liefs—human society is now on the verge of of Belief and coauthor of Spontaneous vations and mind-bending new theories poised to take an in- a similar healing. In this dynamic Evolution. are all described accessibly in A Universe

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Cosmic Codes & Worldviews Hidden Geometries

THE BASIC CODE OF THE UNIVERSE THE HIDDEN GEOMETRY OF LIFE The Science of the Invisible in Physics, Medicine, and The Science and Spirituality of Nature Spirituality by Karen French by Massimo Citro & Ervin Laszlo $23.95, paper. Watkins. $27.85, cloth. Inner Traditions. 274 pages 240 pages, 8x10, French flaps, colour photos & il- DNA dictates the physical features of an organism. But lustrations throughout what dictates how something grows—from the division of Encompassing nature, science, art, architecture, and spiri- cells in a human being to the fractal patterns of a crystal? tuality, and illustrated with over 700 photographs and line Massimo Citro reveals that behind the complex world of drawings, The Hidden Geometry of Life illuminates the secret Nature lies a basic code, a universal information field—also underpinnings of existence. In her trademark easy-to-under- known as the Akashic field, which records all that was, is, and stand style, mathematician Karen French shows how sacred will be. This basic code directs not only physical develop- geometry permeates every level of being, manifesting itself ment and behavior but also energetic communication and in simple shapes and numbers, music and sounds, light and interactions among all living and non-living things. The au- color, even in the mysteries of creation itself. But these geometrical archetypes are thor examines research on consciousness, quantum physics, more than the building blocks of reality: they are gateways to profound new levels of animal and plant intelligence, the power of intention, emotional fields, Kirlian pho- awareness. tography, and the effects of thoughts, emotions, and music on water. Conceived as a journey through geometry, sciences, the arts and spirituality, the Linking the work of Ervin Laszlo on the Akashic field, Rupert Sheldrake on mor- book moves from basic shapes in structure and symbol, to detailed ideas about the phogenetic fields, Richard Gerber on vibrational medicine, and Masaru Emoto on building blocks of matter, how Nature uses pattern-sharing to spawn a huge variety the memory of water, Citro shows how the universal information field connects of life forms, how sound contributes to propagating reality as we experience it, and every person, plant, animal, and mineral—a concept long known by shamans and ex- the vital role played by light. French brings all these concepts together and also ex- pounded by perennial wisdom. plores “unified ideas about space, time and life in the Universe, to show how insights Everything is information: the melody that makes you dream or the molecule that from ancient and mystical traditions correspond to the latest scientific theories about activates a receptor. The universe is a net whose knots are the bodies and whose threads the world in which we live.” are the waves and radiations. The knots may be perceived by the senses, but the threads Sacred geometry is the use of geometry with intent as a tool or vehicle, invoking are not, though they inform, exchange, and organize life. Everything exchanges purpose. Around the globe scribbles on walls, rocks and artefacts have evolved into information with everything in the communication network of the world. Every being sophisticated systems representing an inseparable fusion of art, mythology, science, sends messages that contain history, conditions, and properties, almost in eagerness to music, religion and “magic”. As tools, geometry, colour and the Classical Elements can reassert identity and communicate it. be used in a variety of ways in our creative expressions to commune with reality and Putting this science of the invisible to practical use, he explains his revolutionary expand the Mind. system of vibrational medicine, known as TFF (Pharmacological Frequency Transfer), which uses the information field to obtain the benefits of natural sub- THE HIDDEN GEOMETRY OF FLOWERS stances and medications in their “pure” informational form, offering side-effect-free Living Rhythms, Form and Number remedies for health and well-being. by Keith Critchlow Massimo Citro is an Italian medical doctor specializing in psychotherapy. $57.00, paper. Floris. 288 pages, 560 colour illustrations WAR OF THE WORLDVIEWS Flowers are beautiful, offering us delight in their colour, Science vs. Spirituality fragrance and form, as well as their medicinal benefits. by Deepak Chopra & Leonard Mlodinow Flowers also speak to us in the language of the plant form $28.00, cloth. Crown. 316 pages itself, as cultural symbols in different societies, and at the These authors first met in a televised Caltech debate on highest levels of inspiration. “the future of God,” one an articulate advocate for spiritual- In this beautiful and original celebration of the geo- ity, the other a prominent physicist. This book arises from metric lawfulness of flower forms that embody universal that serendipitous encounter and the contentious—but re- spiritual archetypes, Keith Critchlow has chosen to focus on an aspect of flowers that spectful—clash of worldviews that grew along with their has received perhaps the least attention. This is the flower as teacher of symmetry and friendship. geometry (the “eternal verities,” as Plato called them). In this sense, he says, flowers In War of the Worldviews these two great thinkers battle can be treated as sources of remembering—a way of recalling our own wholeness, as over the cosmos, evolution and life, the human brain, and well as awakening our inner power of recognition and consciousness. What is evident God, probing the fundamental questions that define the in the geometry of the face of a flower can remind us of the geometry that under- human experience. How did the universe emerge? What is lies all existence. the nature of time? What is life? Did Darwin go wrong? What Working from his own flower photographs and with every geometric pattern makes us human? What is the connection between mind and brain? Is God an illusion? hand-drawn, the author reviews the role of flowers within the perspective of our rela- Doctor Chopra (The Seven Spiritual Laws of Superheroes and many other books) and tionship with the natural world. His illuminating study is an attempt to re-engage the Caltech physicist Mlodinow have teamed up to present two sides of some of the most human spirit in its intimate relation with all nature. difficult questions facing science and spirituality. In response to ponderings like “This is less a book for what we call ‘reading’ than a book to be lived with as a de- “What is life?” and “How did the universe emerge?” each writes a brief response from lightful and instructive companion for a long time. I admire the honest circularity of his own perspective. While spirituality and religion are not synonymous, Chopra well its plot that begins in mystery, passes through much knowledge, and returns again represents the pan-religious spiritual point of view. Providing an excellent summary of (in fact again and again) to mystery.” —Wendell Berry contemporary thought on issues of science and religion, and helping to expand the dis- “Anyone giving proper attention to [this book] will feel that they are indeed cussion in new directions, this book is useful for readers interested in how scientific and brought closer to the mysterious form-creating life-processes that emanate from the spiritual worldviews differ and concur and for those who want an overview of both. world of spirit.” —Jeremy Naydler “As well as being informative and eye-opening, reading this book is refreshing, like a visit to paradise.” —Z’ev ben Simn Halevi, Caduceus from Nothing, and they suggest that not A fascinating antidote to outmoded Keith Critchlow is a founder member of Research into Lost Knowledge only can something arise from nothing, philosophical and religious thinking, A Organisation and President of the Temenos Academy. His previous books include something will always arise from nothing. Universe from Nothing is a provocative, Islamic Patterns and Time Stands Still: New Light on Megalithic Science. With his characteristic wry humor and game-changing entry into the debate wonderfully clear explanations, Krauss takes about the existence of God and everything and explores its memory works through morphic fields, us back to the beginning of the beginning, that exists. “Forget Jesus,” Krauss has ar- far-reaching impli- which organize the bodies of plants and an- presenting the most recent evidence for gued, “the stars died so you could be born.” cations in the imals, coordinate the activities of brains, and how our universe evolved—and the implica- fields of biology, underlie conscious mental activity. tions for how it’s going to end. It will pro- chemistry, physics, Sheldrake shows how all human beings draw voke, challenge, and delight readers as it psychology, and upon and contribute to a collective human looks at the most basic underpinnings of ex- THE PRESENCE OF THE PAST sociology. memory and that even our individual recol- istence in a whole new way. And this knowl- Morphic Resonance His theory pro- lections depend on morphic resonance edge that our universe will be quite different and the Memory of Nature poses that all self- rather than physical storage in the brain. He in the future from today has profound im- by Rupert Sheldrake organizing sys- explores the major role that morphic reso- plications and directly affects how we live in $27.95, paper. Inner Traditions. 448 pages tems, from nance plays not just in animal instincts and the present. As Richard Dawkins has de- In this fully revised and updated edition crystals to human cultural inheritance, such as religion and scribed it: This could potentially be the most of The Presence of the Past, Cambridge biolo- society, inherit a ritual, but also in the larger process of evo- important scientific book with implications gist Rupert Sheldrake lays out new evi- collective memo- lution, which Sheldrake shows to be more for supernaturalism since Darwin. dence and research in support of his con- ry that influences an interplay of habit and creativity than a troversial theory of morphic resonance their form and behavior. This collective mere “survival of the fittest.”

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Charlotte Kasl, a practicing therapist and workshop leader for more than 20 years, Brain Healing, Brain Training has had lifelong connections to feminism, THE EMOTIONAL LIFE OF YOUR BRAIN to give us a new model of the emotional brain, one that Buddhism, Quaker practice, and Reiki heal- How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way will even go so far as to affect the way we treat condi- ing. Among her other books are If the You Think, Feel, and Live—and How You tions like autism and depression. And, finally, he pro- Buddha Dated and If the Buddha Got Stuck. Can Change Them vides strategies we can use to change our own brains by Richard Davidson, with Sharon Begley and emotions—if that is what we want to do. $27.50, cloth. Penguin. 278 pages Written with author Sharon Begley, this original ROOTS OF EMPATHY This long awaited book by a pioneer in neuro- book gives us a new and therapeutically useful way to Changing the World, Child by Child science research offers a new model of our emotions— look at ourselves. by Mary Gordon their origins, their power, and their malleability. “The Emotional Life of Your Brain is an eye-opener, re- $19.95, paper. Thomas Allen. 296 pages For more than thirty years, Richard Davidson has plete with breakthrough research that will change the With a new foreword acknowledging the been at the forefront of brain research. Now he gives way you see yourself and everyone you know... Cutting growth and changes to this revolutionary us an entirely new model for understanding our emo- edge findings formulated in a delightful, can’t-put-it- program in the last decade, this updated tions, as well as practical strategies we down read. I loved this book.” —Daniel Goleman, au- edition highlights how we can change the can use to change them. thor of Emotional Intelligence world one child at a Davidson has discovered that personality is “By looking at Davidson’s scientific proof that meditation and time. composed of six basic emotional “styles”: other cognitive practices actually change the brain, the authors With violence, bul- Resilience, Outlook, Social Intuition, Self- enable all of us to genuinely modify our most difficult emotion- lying, and aggression Awareness, Sensitivity to Context, and al habits and create new and more fruitful ones. Look forward to among young chil- Attention. Our own personal emotional fin- cultivating keener attention, having more attunement to others, dren escalating, we gerprint results from where on the continuum and being more connected to your own intuition. It’s all possi- need to develop a Richard of each style we fall. He explains the patterns ble—and this book shows you how.” —Deepak Chopra, author of new understanding Davidson of brain activity that underlie each style in order How to Know God of childhood. Mary Gordon, an educator Not only will you be given the necessary knowledge who has worked for BREAKING THE HABIT OF BEING YOURSELF more than three How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One of brain-healthy habits to change any aspect of your- self, you will be taught the step-by-step tools to apply decades with chil- by Joe Dispenza dren from all kinds $25.95, cloth. Hay House. 328 pages what you learn in order to make measurable changes in any area of your life. Dr. Joe demystifies ancient un- of backgrounds, has discovered that the so- The author of the popular Evolve Your Brain contin- lution to bullying and other anti-social be- ues with this how-to-do-it companion book in which he derstandings and bridges the gap between science and spirituality. Through his powerful workshops and lec- haviour lies within each shows how we are not doomed by our genes and hard- child’s innate sense of car- wired to be a certain way for the rest of our life. A new tures, thousands of people in many countries have ing and compassion. She science is emerging that empowers all human beings used these principles to change from the inside out. believes that infusing chil- to create the reality they choose. In Once you break the habit of being yourself and truly Breaking the Habit dren with empathy consti- , researcher and chiropractor Joe change your mind, your life will, as they say, never be of Being Yourself tutes nothing less than a Dispenza combines the fields of quantum physics, the same! “Clearly explains the ‘hard science’ of how our new paradigm in our ap- neuroscience, brain chemistry, biology, and genetics proach to child-raising. to show us what is truly possible. brains and bodies work. He then applies it practically in a four- week program of fundamental personal change, showing how we Mary Gordon Empathy is the ability to Once you can open your mind to the way things really are, understand another per- and let go of your conditioned beliefs with which you are can use a structured meditation program to consciously rewire our neural network for creativity and joy.” —Dawson Church, son’s point of view and respect their feel- accustomed to framing reality, you should see the fruits of your ings. Even the most troubled children can efforts... The information in these pages is there to inspire you to author of The Genie in Your Genes quell violent and aggressive behaviour if prove to yourself that you are a divine creator. they are loved and nurtured. Through Roots of Empathy, her highly THE MINDFULNESS PRESCRIPTION cludes practices such as sitting meditation, body aware- successful organization, Mary Gordon cre- FOR ADULT ADHD ness, thoughtful speaking and listening, development ates a rich, rewarding classroom experi- of self-acceptance, mindful self-coaching, cultivation of An Eight-Step Program for Book ence that fosters empathy within children. a balanced view of thoughts and emotions, and more. Strengthening Attention, Managing & CD Bringing babies and children together cre- Dr. Zylowska educates readers about ADHD, helping Emotions, and Achieving Your Goals ates a symbiotic loving environment that re- them to understand how their ADHD brain works and by Lidia Zylowska, foreword by Daniel Siegel duces aggression in children while increas- how they can use mindful awareness to work with their $21.50. Shambhala. ing tolerance and emotional literacy. An 230-page paperback + 68-minute audio-CD challenges. She also explains how the mindful ap- interactive experience for parents, teach- proach can be combined with other treatments, in- Do you: ers, and children, the Roots of Empathy ✦ cluding medications, to boost self-improvement. Have trouble paying attention and staying on task? program aims to solve current and future ✦ Suffer from disorganization, procrastination, or for- The way you focus your mind can actually change problems in our society by teaching emo- getfulness? the structure of your brain. No kidding. By taking the tional literacy now. ✦ Have difficulty with restlessness or trouble managing practical steps in this book, you can strengthen the In Roots of Empathy, Mary Gordon shares connections in your brain that support a more focused way of strong feelings such as anger and frustration? her vision of a nation of compassionate and ✦ living. People with and even without ADHD can benefit from Struggle with self-doubt and difficulty following through? In a caring children who will pass on their lega- way that causes problems in your relationships or your work? learning to develop mindful awareness in their lives. This book is tailored for those with attentional challenges, who will find it cy of empathy to their own children. If so, you may have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder especially relevant and accessible to use. —from the foreword by “This brilliant program belongs in every (ADHD)—like an estimated 8 million adults in the U.S. Daniel Siegel, author of Mindsight classroom in every school in every country Physician-researcher Lidia Zylowska has created an 8-step pro- of the world, forever. There’s no better gram for using mindfulness practice (attention and awareness This book is accompanied by a 68-minute audio program of guided mindfulness exercises for successfully managing ADHD. way to teach empathy—the essential hu- training) to overcome the symptoms of ADHD. The program in- man trait.” —Raffi Cavoukian, singer, au- thor, ecology advocate Offering a replacement for the outdated, Family & Parenting that finding mechanistic worldview that has dominated peace within a biology since the nineteenth century, family is the first RAISING A LEFT-BRAIN CHILD Sheldrake’s new understanding of life, IF THE BUDDHA HAD KIDS step towards cre- IN A RIGHT-BRAIN WORLD matter, and mind shows that rather than Raising Children to Create a ating a peaceful Strategies for Helping Bright, Quirky, being ruled by fixed laws, nature is essen- More Peaceful World world. In an age Socially Awkward Children to Thrive tially habitual. And because memory is in- by Charlotte Kasl where most kids at Home and at School herent in nature, he explains, in order to $17.50, paper. Penguin. 240 pages clock more time by Katharine Beals survive successfully for generations to come, The wise and insightful If the Buddha with electronic $19.95, paper. Shambhala. 232 pages we will have to give up our old habits of books have won Charlotte Kasl thousands of devices than Does your child: thought and adopt new ones: habits that are devoted readers. In her latest work she their parents ✦ Have impressive intellectual abilities but better adapted to life in a world living in the turns her attention to parenthood, a stage and dinner is of- seem puzzled by ordinary interactions with presence of the past-—as well as the pres- of life that leaves most of us searching for ten fast food on other children? ence of the future. answers. If the Buddha Had Kids applies the way to a soc- ✦ Prefer to spend time with adults or alone Among Rupert Sheldrake’s other books Kasl’s signature blend of spiritual guide- cer game, this rather than with other kids? are Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are lines, exercises, and practical advice to gentle volume will appeal to the legions of ✦ Have deep, all-absorbing interests or seem- Coming Home, Morphic Resonance, and help parents raise peacemakers in our in- readers eager for an enlightened alternative ingly encyclopedic knowledge of certain The Rebirth of Nature. He lives in London. creasingly turbulent times, emphasizing to mainstream parenting books. subjects?

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and supporting them, both at school and at in-laws who should home. be outlawed, and Birthing Wisdom Katharine Beals is an educator and the amusingly answers vi- mother of three left-brain children. tal questions such as SACRED PREGNANCY Can housework im- A Loving Guide and Journal for Expectant Moms prove sex life? Why by Anni Daulter Relationship & Sexuality should husbands ar- $23.95, paper. North Atlantic. 232 pages gue? And why must In today’s Western cultures, the typical pregnancy focuses on wives relax? She ac- the baby to the exclusion of the woman herself, so that the en- ATTACHED knowledges the tire experience has become more about preparing for the The New Science of Adult Attachment and unglamorous aspects baby’s arrival than looking closely at oneself to prepare emo- How it Can Help You Find of being married but tionally for all of the changes that creating a new life brings. —and Keep—Love puts marriage into Sacred Pregnancy was written to help the pregnant woman jour- by Amir Levine & Rachel Heller the larger context of home and society. ney within herself to prepare for the birth of her baby. $17.00, paper. Tarcher/Penguin. 294 pages Even if you lived together before, and Sacred Pregnancy is a gorgeous four-color book especially cre- Is there a scientific explanation for why superficially your life remains the same, ated for mothers-to-be to reflect on the many personal mile- some people seem to navigate relationships marriage alters the compass of your stones of the full gestation period of a pregnancy. With beautiful professional photos effortlessly, while oth- world. In the eyes of the law, friends, and that correspond to each topic, Sacred Pregnancy also features a journal space for the ers struggle? family, from now on, you are side by side, pregnant woman to record her thoughts and feelings. Each week the mother-to-be is According to psychia- in a three-legged race, before the obstacle course of life. Like an axle between given information on her baby, her body, and her spirit and is asked to reflect on these trist and neuroscien- via the topic of the week, which touches on a variety of issues such as sexuality, fears wheels, marrying shifts your center of tist Amir Levine and gravity to somewhere between you two. about labor, becoming a mother, courage, rite of passage, adornment, body image, social psychologist This is your wedlock. Henceforth, your meditation, and sisterhood to name a few. Mothers-to-be are invited to look deeply at Rachel Heller, the an- first obligation is not to yourself but to a the issues unique to their journey and find a centered, peaceful place to live their swer is clearly “yes.” strange new state of being, us. It means pregnancy fully. Lastly, Sacred Pregnancy includes space for the new mother to record In Attached, something simple but profound: putting her birth story and a large resource section on various birthing options and sup- Levine and Heller re- “we” before “I.” ports for pregnant women. veal how an under- This is not so much a self-help guide for Anni Daulter has also founded a Sacred Pregnancy sisterhood to offer Sacred standing of adult at- marriages in trouble as it is inspiration Pregnancy “circles.” tachment—the most and assistance for those in relationships advanced relation- that are fairly healthy. As Catherine Blyth INTO THESE HANDS ship science in existence today—can help us so eloquently puts it, “Each story has at Wisdom from Midwives find and sustain love. Pioneered by psy- least two sides. Reconciling them is the art edited by Geraldine Simkins chologist John Bowlby in the 1950s, the of marriage.” $26.95, paper. Spirituality & Health Books. field of attachment shows how each of us Blyth also wrote The Art of Conversation. 370 pages, b/w photos behaves in relationships in one of three Into These Hands is a comprehensive anthology of the life distinct ways: stories of 25 remarkable women who have dedicated their ✦ Anxious people are often preoccupied Women’s Spirit & Healing lives and careers to the path of midwifery and social with their relationships and tend to change. Each author has contributed significantly to mod- worry about their partner’s ability to OUR BODIES, OURSELVES ern childbirth reform and shaping maternity healthcare in love them back 2011 Revised Edition America. Each midwife shares a lifetime of accumulated wis- ✦ Avoidant people equate intimacy with a New in by the Boston Women’s dom about what really matters to women of childbearing loss of independence and constantly try Paperback Health Book Collective age. to minimize closeness. $29.99, paper. Simon & Schuster. This wisdom has been gathered in over 800 years of work- ✦ people feel comfortable with in- Secure 928 pages, 7x9, b/w photos ing with mothers, newborns and families while assisting in over 35,000 births. The au- timacy and are usually warm and loving. Since its first newsprint version in the thors are among the best-known and best-loved midwives in America. According to Levine and Heller, one’s early 1970s, Our Bodies, Ourselves has grown The memoirs are not only about pregnancy and birth, newborns and new parents, adult romantic partnerships have patterns to become an but also about the politics and power struggles that have shaped how midwives do what similar to those one has as a child with essential, em- they do. Many have risked arrest or being jailed as this beloved and honoured profes- one’s parents. Our individual attachment powering, and sion was outlawed. styles are thus, they conclude, hardwired informing re- into our brains. Focusing on three main at- As seasoned midwives, each of us has stories to tell. Our years are filled with tales source on tachment styles (secure, anxious, and worth telling, and they will perish with us if they go untold. That is why I offered an women’s avoidant), the authors explain the biologi- invitation to these remarkable women to tell their stories about walking through the health and sex- world in the shoes of a midwife. cal facts behind our relationship needs, uality. As Gloria teach readers how to identify their own Each memoir begins in the author’s early life and carries the reader along the Steinem says, and loved ones’ attachment styles, and path of what led her to becoming a midwife, healer, revolutionary and reformer. “Within these warn of the emotional price of connecting Each author shares stories of the risks and rewards of her chosen profession. Each au- pages, you will with someone with drastically different inti- thor shares pearls of wisdom about women’s procreative lives—conception, preg- find the voice macy needs. Teaching readers communica- nancy, birth, lactation and parenting. of a women’s tion skills to breach these differences, the Because most of these authors are approaching the end of their active careers as health move- authors stress that people have very differ- midwives, they were also asked to share wisdom about what really matters in life. They ment that is based on shared experience. ent capacities for intimacy, and that part- reflect on the ethics of self-determination, serving one’s community, and living a life Listen to it—and add your own.” ners must ensure each other’s emotional of compassion, activism and meaning. Now completely revised and updated in Every story is filled with unforgettable gems. They contain luscious nuggets about well-being. Chock-full of tips, question- a 2011 edition, Our Bodies, Ourselves re- crafting the kind of life one desires and deserves. naires, and case studies, this is a solidly re- flects the vital health concerns of women searched and intriguing approach to the of diverse ages, ethnic and racial back- perennial trials of “looking for love in all the grounds, and sexual orientations. In these right places” and improving existing rela- ✦ Seem uncomfort- kids are often found on the margins of the pages, women will find new information, tionships. able with unstruc- classroom and the playground, the ones resources (including websites), and person- tured play or social en- who tend not to fit in with their peers but al support for the decisions that will shape gagements? have rich interior and intellectual lives. their health—and their lives—from living a If you answered According to Beals, left-brain children are THE ART OF MARRIAGE healthy life, to relationships and sexuality, “yes” to some or all of increasingly misunderstood and underval- A Guide to Living Life as Two to childbearing, growing older, dealing these questions, you ued, particularly at school. In today’s class- by Catherine Blyth with the medical system, and organizing for may be raising a left- rooms, assignments tend to favor children $17.00, paper. Gotham. 288 pages change. brain child. Bright, who are collaborative, artistically creative, The thrust of Catherine Blyth’s The Art of This great mother lode of information— eccentric, and social- and comfortable speaking in front of Marriage is that a lifelong marriage is worth the book women turn to for definitive, ev- ly awkward, these are groups. Left-brain children tend to be high- all the angst and compromises that are idence-based, trusted info about all as- children whose tal- ly intelligent but shy, and unsuited to group necessary to make it work. Blyth uses ex- pects of their health—has undergone a ents and inclinations activities, and they are often downgraded for amples from history (Napoléon), philoso- major overhaul, with much new or revised lean heavily toward the logical, linear, ana- social aloofness and emotional immaturity. phy (Diderot), and popular stardom material, and reflects the major changes lytical, and introverted side of the human Drawing on Beals’ research and inter- (Madonna and Guy Ritchie) to illustrate the that have occurred in every area of psyche—what is commonly referred to as views with parents and children, this book challenges inherent in everyday relation- women’s health. It’s still the definitive the “left brain”—as opposed to the “right offers a new understanding of left-brain ships and offers entertaining advice on how everywoman’s health reference. brain” which is our emotional, holistic, in- kids and practical strategies for nurturing to enjoy a successful marriage. She also Among the newer issues covered are tuitive, and extroverted side. Left-brain shows how to deal with wandering eyes or changes in the healthcare system; safer sex;

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TRANSFORMATION THROUGH INTIMACY Sexual Dimensions The Journey toward Awakened Monogamy by Robert Augustus Masters $20.50, paper. North Atlantic. 284 pages SEX AND THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE HEART Intimate relationship has long been viewed and lived as a Nature, Intimacy, and Sexual Energy lesser alternative to spiritual life. More recently, the need to in- by Julie McIntyre $22.50, paper. Inner Traditions. 352 pages tegrate our spiritual and intimate lives, rather than maintaining Nature is having sex all the time—that’s one of the separate spheres and relationships on autopilot, has become reasons we feel so alive when we are immersed in it. increasingly apparent. Given the high rates of infidelity and di- Sexuality is essential to the sensation of Nature in your vorce, it would seem that the possibilities of freedom through own body, of connecting to the piece of Earth closest intimacy have not been explored in much depth. Too often we to you—your own flesh and bones. Many a couple has pull away when relationships become difficult, missing out on been overcome by passion while walking in the woods the rewards of connecting more profoundly. or on the beach; many a soul has found solace or The passage from immature to mature monogamy is not only epiphany in Nature. Living in accordance with Nature a journey of ripening intimacy with a beloved other, but also a depends on you being your true, whole self—a sexual, journey into and through zones of ourselves that may be quite sensual, erotic, fully alive human being. difficult to navigate, let alone get intimate with and integrate with the rest of our being. Exploring the territory of intimacy, sacred sex, Transformation through Intimacy explores intimate relationships through a four-stage and emotional healing as a journey to wholeness, lens: me-centered, we-centered codependent, we-centered coindependent, and being- Julie McIntyre examines the sacred relationship be- centered. Bringing his many years of experience as a psychotherapist and spiritual tween sexuality and the Earth and reveals how to cre- practitioner to the subject, Masters shows readers not only how to navigate the thick- ate deep, lasting intimacy with your lover by recapturing the wild, spontaneous, nat- ets of reactivity, conflict, shame, anger, fear, and doubt, but how to understand them ural sexuality that is your birthright. in a new light so that a deeper level of relating to oneself and one’s partner becomes Detailing the process of moving from your head to the secret garden of your heart, possible, opening new levels of trust, commitment, and love. she provides exercises to heal your psyche of old emotional trauma, reconnect with Whatever its privacy, this kind of relationship is not isolated from the rest of Life; the intuitive intelligence of the heart, and cultivate a deeper relationship with the rather, it is connected, and willingly connected, to the community at large, while Earth in order to trust yourself and become vulnerable and open with your lover and maintaining the relationship’s integrity. thus truly intimate. When we’re in the presence of such a relationship, such a richly embodied sanctuary She shows how there is a direct relationship between our beliefs and values about of deep intimacy, we tend to feel more open, looser, happier, safer to do deeper work or sex and intimacy and our beliefs and values about the environment and the Earth. She take needed risks. Awakened monogamy feels good to be around. It’s that simple. reveals how, by healing our separation from Nature and our sexuality, we can bring the Among Robert Masters’ other books are Spiritual Bypassing and The Anatomy and sacred back into our lives, shape our own ecstatic sexual experiences, and move to- Evolution of Anger. ward healing the whole planet. Julie McIntyre is an Earth Ceremonialist and spiritual teacher who leads Earth Medicine apprenticeships, wilderness retreats, and Deep Ecology intensives. questioning breast cancer treatment op- for their patients’ healing, but they also sug- tions; recent developments in contracep- gest certain images for the patients to med- TANTRA GODDESS tion, infertility, and reproductive technolo- itate upon. A Memoir of Sexual Awakening gy; anti-depressants and sexuality; fighting These images are known to be by Caroline Muir medicine for the soul. It is with this the “war” on obesity; violence as a women’s $18.50, paper. Monkfish. 256 pages sentiment in mind that our book has been public health issue; environmental health Tantra Goddess is Caroline Muir’s memoir of her illustrated and we believe that the risks; chiropractic, herbal, and other com- personal journey from innocent Kansas girl to skilled illustrations found within are a vital part of plementary therapies, including natural ap- sexual and spiritual healer and leader. She shares the proaches to menopause; exercise and the reader’s experience. It is our sincere hope that Moon experiences that shaped her and lessons learned over women’s strength; and poverty and racism a lifetime of searching for, and most often finding, as major determinants of women’s health. Mysteries will remind women everywhere of the sacredness of the blood cycle. The love. See companion website, ourbodiesour- While pioneering the now burgeoning Tantra selves.org for links & up-to-the-minute data. connection between women and the moon reveals a mysterious and inherent movement in the United States and abroad, she expe- wisdom that is a part of all women, and riences the highs and lows of her quite luscious MOON MYSTERIES has been, since the most ancient of times. polyamorous, Tantric lifestyle, and after many dimen- Reclaiming Women’s Menstrual Wisdom: A For more info and resources, charts, etc. sions of loving adventures finds peace at last in a sex- 13 Month Journey with the Cycling Moon visit moonmysteries.com. ually monogamous relationship, and a new-found by Nao Sims & Mikiah Seeds sense of herself. $29.95, paper. Nao Sims. Conscious sexual loving, practiced as an art form, is 144 pages, 9x8, b/w illustrations & charts SOPHIA not for the faint of heart, but for the kings and queens Moon Mysteries is a unique and beautiful The Feminine Face of God: and poets of love. Your body is an instrument for loving. Fine-tuning your instrument warms you for the symphony of harmonies that you play with another... Each moment combination of breathtaking images, an- Nine Heart Paths to Healing calls us into an awareness of how well we live the true nature of love... cient matriarchal teachings and personal and Abundance I believe that spiritual/sexual education is the next frontier in human sexuality. stories. by Karen Speerstra Healing the feminine as mightily as she loves is the passion I now share with you. Sims and $19.95, paper. Divine Arts. “An eye-raising tour de force of sexual healings, female ejaculations, experimental Seeds boldly 340 pages, b/w illustrations polyamory and emotional crescendos... a breathtaking rollercoaster ride... a soul-satis- address the As the world experiences greater and fying read.” —The Tantric News menstrual greater challenges everywhere we turn, re- Caroline Muir is the co-author of Tantra: The Art of Conscious Loving, a pioneering disconnect spect and love for the feminine is growing book first published in 1988. There is also a DVD of the same title. that women faster than ever. After centuries of being have been hidden and repressed, the Divine undergoing Feminine (a.k.a., Great Mother, Holy how she calms and excites, befriends, and own experience with historical threads for cen- Spirit, Sophia) is showing herself again. nurtures. reaching far and wide, Ms. Speerstra turies, but She’s aware of what we’ve Karen Speerstra takes us shows us how to access this profoundly not without been doing to our planet and on a journey of the mind and wise feminine spirit; or more accurately, offering to ourselves and offers her heart through history, psy- she teaches us how to open our hearts to remedies to heal this split. Moon Mysteries age-old—but ever-new—wis- chology, myth, archeology Sophia’s wondrous potential influence on our lives. invites all women to reclaim the wild and dom for spiritual growth and and architecture; through inherent menstrual wisdom that is their healing. Within the context of the width and breadth of Each chapter will look at various ways birthright. “spiritual memoir-essays,” the time and culture. She finds she is embedded in our hearts, in our The concept of 13 moons, or chapters, book brings together the Sophia wherever she turns, relationships and in our world... She came from an old 1810 Farmers Almanac, many faces of Sophia—his- in us, in life, in death, in the dances in sacred places and warms the in which each moon of the lunar year was torical, folklored, fairy- past, and in our hopes for the hearts of those who meet her. She’s outlined and given a name to describe the taled—as well as stories of future. evident in crop circle, in sacred geometry, season associated with its cycle. her mystical presence For Speerstra Sophia is a and in the Heartbeat Questions that open Each chapter of this book is dedicated to throughout different times living spirit who, each chapter. At the end of each chapter, exploring a component of the female psy- and cultures. Sophia – The in the words of C.S. Lewis, in- we’ll “hear” her actual voice... che as it relates to the blood cycle. It has Feminine Face of God is about vades our earthly domain in For men and women alike, she is our been said that healers of indigenous tradi- how Sophia enlightens, the very best sense of that Essential Feminine, for right now... tions not only prescribe medicinal tinctures strengthens, and illuminates... word. Weaving stories of her Ready or not, here she comes.

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Armstrong, Karen Davidow, Julianne Herriott, Carolyn Marshall, Joseph Seligman, Martin Twelve Steps to a Outer Beauty, Inner Joy...... 7 A Year on the Garden Path . . . 39 The Lakota Way of Flourish ...... 24 Compassionate Life ...... 26 Davidson, Richard Hill, Napoleon Strength and Courage ...... 30 Shaler, Lance Astyk, Sharon The Emotional Life The Prosperity Bible ...... 22 Martin, William & Nancy Why Do Numbers Count . . . . . 33 Independence Days ...... 19 of Your Brain ...... 43 Holzer, Sepp The Caregiver's Tao Te Ching 24 Astyk, Sharon Davis, Wade Sepp Holzer's Permaculture . . 40 Masters, Robert Augustus Shantala Making Home...... 39 The Sacred Headwaters ...... 38 Housden, Roger Transformation Jaya! ...... 6 Bainbridge, David Davis, William Ten Poems to Say Goodbye. . . . 8 through Intimacy ...... 45 Shapiro, Marcey Passive Solar Architecture . . . . 38 Wheat Belly...... 20 Hover-Kramer, Dorothea Mathieu, W.A. Transforming the Balbes, Xorin Dederer, Claire Healing Touch ...... 17 The Listening Book ...... 7 Nature of Health ...... 17 SoulSpace ...... 38 Poser ...... 11 Huang, Chungliang Al Matthews, Anni Sharp, Daryl Banitt, Susan Pease Dellinger, Drew Embrace Tiger, Anni's Cancer Companion . . . 16 The Trauma Tool Kit...... 24 Love Letter to the Milky Way . . 8 Return to Mountain ...... 15 Matthews, Caitlin Hijacked by Eros...... 25 Bayda, Ezra Desikachar, Kausthub Huang, Chungliang Al Celtic Visions ...... 30 Sharp, Daryl Beyond Happiness ...... 13 The Yoga of the Yogi ...... 10 Essential Tai Ji ...... 15 McIntyre, Julie Trampled to Death by Geese. . 25 Beals, Katharine Desikachar, T.K.V Hubbard, Barbara Marx Sex and the Intelligence Sheldrake, Rupert Raising a Left-Brain Child Health, Healing and Beyond. . 10 Birth 2012 and Beyond ...... 41 of the Heart ...... 45 The Presence of the Past . . . . . 42 in a Right-Brain World...... 43 Dispenza, Joe Hubbard, Barbara Marx McTaggart, Lynne Shesso, Renna Beaumont, Hunter Breaking the Habit Emergence ...... 41 The Bond ...... 41 Toward a Spiritual of Being Yourself ...... 43 Hutchinson, Cynthia Meade, Michael A Magical Tour Psychotherapy...... 23 Dogen Healing Touch Meditations. . . 17 Inner Wisdom...... 25 of the Night Sky ...... 33 Beckwith, Michael Bernard Treasury of the True Iyengar, B. K. S. Mehta, Pavithra Simkins, Geraldine Life Visioning ...... 22 Dharma Eye ...... 12 Sparks of Divinity ...... 10 Infinite Vision...... 35 Into These Hands...... 44 Beckwith, Michael Bernard Meyer, Wali Ali Dominguez, Ivo James, John Sims, Nao Your Life's Purpose ...... 22 Casting Sacred Space ...... 30 The Great Field ...... 28 Physicians of the Heart ...... 32 Moon Mysteries ...... 45 Bell, Charlotte Drda, Darrin Jeavons, John Midal, Fabrice Yoga for Meditators ...... 11 The Four Global Truths . . . . . 40 How to Grow Chogyam Trungpa ...... 15 Sondhi, Amrita Berry, Wendell Duke, Deanna More Vegetables...... 39 Mipham, Sakyong The Tastes of Ayurveda ...... 20 New Collected Poems ...... 9 The Non-Toxic Avenger . . . . . 36 Judd, Isha Running with the Speerstra, Karen Beyer, Stephan Dunne, Claire Love Has Wings ...... 22 Mind of Meditation ...... 15 Sophia ...... 45 Singing to the Plants ...... 28 Moffitt, Phillip Carl Jung: Wounded Judith, Anodea Sroufe, Del Bligny, Yves Healer of the Soul ...... 25 Chakra Awakening ...... 17 Dancing with Life...... 12 Forks Over Knives: Bioharmonic Self-Massage. . . . 18 Dyer, Wayne Kabat-Zinn, Jon Moffitt, Phillip Blyth, Catherine Excuses Begone! DVD ...... 21 Mindfulness for Beginners . . . 26 Emotional Chaos to Clarity . . . 12 A Year of Meals...... 20 The Art of Marriage ...... 44 Dyer, Wayne Kabat-Zinn, Jon Monaghan, Patricia Stahl, Bob Boring, Francesca Mason I AM Wishes Fulfilled The Mind’s Own Physician . . . 14 Meditation: The A Mindfulness-Based Stress Connecting to Our Meditation ...... 21 Kahn, Lloyd Complete Guide ...... 26 Ancestral Past ...... 23 Morehouse, David Reduction Workbook...... 26 Dyer, Wayne Tiny Homes ...... 38 Stanley, Thomas Borysenko, Joan Wishes Fulfilled ...... 21 Kaparo, Risa Remote Viewing ...... 34 Pythagoras...... 34 Fried ...... 21 Egoscue, Pete Awakening Somatic Moss, Robert Boston Women’s Health Book Pain Free...... 16 Intelligence...... 18 Dreaming the Soul Starhawk Collective, the Egoscue, Pete Karrasch, Noah Back Home ...... 23 Permaculture: Our Bodies, Ourselves ...... 44 Pain Free Living ...... 16 Meet Your Body ...... 18 Muir, Caroline The Growing Edge ...... 40 Boutenko, Victoria Ellis, Normandi Kasl, Charlotte Tantra Goddess ...... 45 Raw & Beyond ...... 19 Nepo, Mark Starr, Mirabai Invoking the Scribes If The Buddha Had Kids . . . . . 43 God of Love ...... 26 Boyle, Eleanor of Ancient Egypt...... 34 Katz, Marcus Holding Nothing Back...... 23 Stoddart, William High Steaks...... 19 Eng, Kim Around the Tarot in 78 Days. . 33 Nepo, Mark Brahm, Ajahn Resist Nothing ...... 27 Katz, Sandor Ellix Staying Awake ...... 23 Outline of Sufism ...... 32 The Art of Disappearing . . . . . 11 Esrick, Michelle The Art of Fermentation . . . . . 20 New Troubadours Stoddart, William Broad, William The Wavy Gravy Movie: Katz, Sandor In My Name ...... 6 What Does Islam Mean The Science of Yoga...... 10 Saint Misbehavin’ ...... 7 Fermentation Workshop NurrieStearns, Mary & Rick Brodsky, Barbara Yoga for Anxiety ...... 11 in Today's World?...... 32 Faires, Nicole with Sandor Katz ...... 21 Storl, Wolf The Aaron-Q'uo Dialogues . . . 34 The Ultimate Guide to Kindred, Glennie O'Dea, James Brown, Richard Cultivating Peace ...... 37 The Herbal Lore of The Healing Power Permaculture ...... 40 Earth Wisdom...... 40 O'Donohue, John Felder, Leonard Kornfield, Jack Wise Women and of the Breath...... 18 Longing and Belonging...... 31 Wortcunners ...... 17 Buhner, Stephen Harrod Here I Am...... 31 Awakening Is Real ...... 12 O'Donohue, John The Transformational Flannery, Tim Kornfield, Jack An Abundance of Blessings . . . 31 Surya Das, Lama Power of Fasting ...... 20 Here on Earth ...... 37 Teachings of the Buddha . . . . 12 Oken, Alan Buddha Standard Time ...... 13 Byrne, Rhonda Forte, Robert Kramer, Joel Houses of the Horoscope . . . . 33 Targ, Russell Entheogens and the The Passionate Mind The Magic ...... 21 Oliver, Mary The Reality of ESP ...... 34 Calais-Germain, Blandine Future of Religion ...... 29 Revisited ...... 28 Swan ...... 8 Frantzis, Bruce Krauss, Lawrence Tolle, Eckhart No-Risk Pilates ...... 19 Overmyer, Luann Eckhart Tolle's Music Caldicott, Helen Bagua and Tai Chi ...... 16 A Universe from Nothing . . . . 41 Ortho-Bionomy...... 18 Loving This Planet ...... 36 French, Karen Krishnamurti, J. Parma, Gede for Inner Stillness...... 6 Campbell, Joseph The Hidden The Krishnamurti Reader . . . . 27 By Land, Sky & Sea ...... 30 Tompkins, Ptolemy Myths of Light ...... 25 Geometry of Life ...... 42 Kriyananda, Swami Parma, Gede The Modern Book Gilbert, Eleanora Paramahansa Yogananda. . . . . 10 Carr-Gomm, Philip & Stephanie Ecstatic Witchcraft ...... 30 of the Dead ...... 27 The Druidcraft Tarot ...... 33 Conversations On Krucoff, Carol Phyo, Ani Non-Duality...... 27 Healing Yoga for Neck Various Artists Cerier, Leslie Ani's Raw Food Asia ...... 19 Sangha...... 6 Gluten-Free Recipes Gilding, Paul and Shoulder Pain ...... 11 Phyo, Ani for the Conscious Cook ...... 20 The Great Disruption...... 37 Kumar, Niladri Ani's Raw Food Essentials . . . . 19 Vaughan-Lee, Llewellyn Chia, Mantak Godwin, Joscelyn Pure Joy...... 6 Powell, Simon Prayer of the Heart in Simple Chi Kung ...... 15 Atlantis and the Lam, Vincent The Psilocybin Solution...... 29 Christian & Sufi Mysticism. . . . 31 Cycles of Time ...... 35 Bloodletting Chodron, Pema Prechtel, Martin VerDarLuz Goldberg, Stan & Miraculous Cures ...... 9 Awakening Love ...... 14 The Unlikely Peace at Codex of the Soul ...... 33 Chopra, Deepak Leaning Into Sharp Points . . . 28 Lao Tsu Cuchumaquic ...... 29 War of the Worldviews ...... 42 Goldstein, Elisha Tao Te Ching ...... 16 Putnoi, Deborah Verghese, Abraham Christian, Hans The Now Effect...... 26 Le Grice, Keiron The Drawing Mind...... 8 Cutting for Stone ...... 9 Undefended Heart...... 6 Gordon, Mary The Archetypal Cosmos...... 33 Radhananda, Swami Wallace, B. Alan Christopher of the Wolves Roots of Empathy...... 43 Levine, Amir Living the Practice ...... 10 The Seven-Point Gunnarsson, Sturla Attached ...... 44 Reiki Healing Music...... 6 Red Pine Mind Training ...... 14 Force of Nature ...... 36 Levine, Peter Churton, Tobias The Lankavatara Sutra...... 12 Walsch, Neale Donald Aleister Crowley: Hafiz / Ladinsky Freedom From Pain ...... 24 Richmond, Lewis The Biography ...... 30 A Year with Hafiz ...... 32 Levine, Peter Aging as a Spiritual Practice . . 25 The Mother of Invention. . . . . 41 Citro, Massimo Halpern, Steven Freedom From Pain ...... 24 Richo, David Waters, Michael The Basic Code of the Universe42 Deep Theta ...... 7 Lipton, Bruce Coming Home to Acoustic Psychedelic Chill . . . . 6 Clements, Alan Halpern, Steven An Introduction to Who You Are ...... 28 Weil, Andrew Relaxation Suite ...... 7 Spontaneous Evolution ...... 40 A Future to Believe In ...... 37 Rico, Francis Spontaneous Happiness...... 24 Colebrook, Binda Halpern, Steven Lokos, Allan. A Shaman's Guide to Winter Gardening Sleepscape Delta Vol. 1 ...... 7 Patience...... 11 Deep Beauty ...... 29 Whyte, David in the Maritime Northwest . . . 39 Hanh, Thich Nhat Louv, Richard Rinzler, Lodro Clear Mind, Wild Heart ...... 8 Collins, Jim Awakening of the Heart...... 13 The Nature Principle ...... 39 The Buddha Willard, Bob Great by Choice ...... 36 Hanh, Thich Nhat Lovins, Amory Walks into a Bar ...... 14 The New Sustainability Cori, Patricia Path of Compassion ...... 13 Reinventing Fire...... 36 Rockwell, Irini Advantage ...... 36 Hanh, Thich Nhat Macy, Joanna Atlantis Rising...... 35 Natural Brilliance ...... 13 Williamson, Marianne Cori, Patricia Peace Is Every Breath...... 13 Active Hope ...... 38 Rogers, Robert The Cosmos of Soul ...... 35 Hardin, Moh Makridakis, Marney The Fungal Pharmacy ...... 18 A Course in Weight Loss ...... 22 Cottrell, Annette A Little Book of Love...... 14 Creating Time ...... 8 Roseland, Mark Wolf, Linda Star The Urban Farm Handbook . . 39 Harris, Malcolm Mandela, Nelson Toward Sustainable Visionary Shamanism ...... 29 Cousineau, Phil Share or Die ...... 37 Long Walk to Freedom ...... 9 Communities ...... 37 Wyllie, Timothy Beyond Forgiveness ...... 22 Harrison, Olivia Marion, Jim Roth, Geneen The Return of the George Harrison ...... 9 Putting on the Mind of Christ. 31 Critchlow, Keith Lost and Found ...... 35 Rebel Angels ...... 35 The Hidden Geometry Hawkes, Joyce Markides, Kyriacos Rumi / Barks of Flowers ...... 42 Resonance...... 16 The Inner River ...... 31 The Rumi Daybook ...... 32 Zylowska, Lidia Daulter, Anni Hay, Louise Marshall, Joseph Salzmann, Jeanne de The Mindfulness Prescription Sacred Pregnancy ...... 44 Heart Thoughts ...... 22 Living the Lakota Way ...... 30 The Reality of Being ...... 27 for Adult ADHD ...... 43

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