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Dancing with Fire: A Mindful Way to Loving Relationships New Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment May 14, 2013 0 By John Amodeo Ph.D. The search for inner peace and the heart’s desire for love often seem like irreconcilable aims. Spiritual teachers say that love seduces us away from spiritual growth, while psychologists argue that love’s juiciness is what life is about; meditation is navel-gazing.Reconciling these opposites, John Amodeo shows how spirituality and vibrant relationships are identical. He says that Buddha’s concept of... Read more Read reviews Write review	34	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Finding the On-Ramp to Your Spiritual Path: A Roadmap to Joy and Rejuvenation Inspiration » Spirituality & Religion April 27, 2013 0 By Jan Phillips True to the title, this guidebook directs beginners on the spiritual journey. Author Jan Phillips, reared Catholic, has traveled through Buddhist, Hindu, and Muslim cultures merging dualities of East and West. A popular workshop leader for decades, she is a dynamic, upbeat, straight-talking, wise old woman in her own right, and her prose reflects her character. In warm, engaging... Read more Read reviews Write review	96	Editor rating 5.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Practical Centering: Exercises to Energize Your Chakras for Relaxation, Vitality, and Health Health » Body, Mind & Spirit March 10, 2013 0 By Larkin Barnett Practical Centering enhances physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual balance with innovative breathing techniques and empowering exercises. It provides an instant vacation in this hectic world, enabling us to elevate our energy, relax our body, strengthen our core, and quiet our mind.Physical therapist Larkin Barnett links her original techniques with the chakras-ancient, non-Western concept of the seven physical and spiritual... Read more Read reviews Write review	96	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Soul of Light: Works of Illumination Hot Inspiration » Art & Literature February 17, 2013 0 By Joma Sipe The visionary art of Portuguese artist Joma Sipe is all about light-not the ordinary light of day but the light of spiritual illumination, which brilliantly radiates from the over one hundred, full-color images in this stunning book. Sipe thinks of his work as sacred geometry that unites this temporal world with higher planes. Each painting thrills with the dispersion... Read more Read reviews Write review	138	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Faith Beyond Belief: Stories of Good People Who Left Their Church Behind Hot Inspiration » Spirituality & Religion October 04, 2012 0 By Margaret Placentra Johnston Faith Beyond Belief gives a much-needed voice to the good” people who have left their church but whose spirituality continues to mature. Johnston uses first-person stories as well as known spiritual authorities in describing various stages of religious growth. Some of these real-life accounts are by nonbelievers; others are by those among the growing numbers of the spiritual but... Read more Read reviews Write review	121	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Power of the New Spirituality: How to Live a Life of Compassion and Personal Fulfillment Inspiration » Spirituality & Religion September 28, 2012 0 By William Bloom Everyone has religious experiences; most people just don’t know how to identify them, says author William Bloom. Carolyn Myss calls this well-known British Body-Mind-Spirit teacher a “genius” who finally “separates spiritual reality from New Age nonsense.” His Power of Modern Spirituality uniquely straddles mainstream and alternative forms of belief. In commonsense, everyday language, Bloom speaks directly to the legions... Read more Read reviews Write review	89	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Sojourns of the Soul: One Woman's Journey Around the World and into Her Truth Hot Inspiration » Biography & Memoir July 26, 2012 0 By Dana Micucci Sojourns of the Soul differs from other inspirational travel books by providing a rare mix of in-depth wisdom and literary insights from the holistic view of one experienced female traveler. Dana Micucci gives a compelling account of her growing spiritual illumination through visits to some of the most sacred places on earth. Her lively, engaging narrative takes us to... Read more Read reviews Write review	113	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Nature Spirits, Spirit Guides, and Ghosts: How to Talk with and Photograph Beings of Other Realms Hot Meta-Reality » Paranormal Phenomena July 26, 2012 0 Boulders laugh, trees talk, and practically each patch of ground has meaning, in Atala Toy’s experience. Faeries, angels, ghosts, orbs, and spirits of place are just some of the life forms with which she helps us attune-and shows us how to record their image! Readers will cherish her rare combination of esoteric wisdom and practical guidance. With substantive clarity,... Read more Read reviews Write review	131	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Working Class Mystic: A Spiritual Biography of George Harrison Hot Inspiration » Biography & Memoir May 04, 2012 0 By Gary Tiller John Lennon called himself a working class hero. George Harrison was a working class mystic. Born in Liverpool as the son of a bus conductor and a shop assistant, for the first six years of his life he lived in a house with no indoor bathroom. This book gives an honest, in-depth view of his personal journey from his... Read more Read reviews Write review	139	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Reality of ESP: A Physicist's Proof of Psychic Abilities Hot Meta-Reality » Psychic Communication April 21, 2012 0 By Russell Targ On February 4, 1974, members of the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped nineteen-year-old newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst from her Berkeley, California apartment. Desperate to find her, the police called physicist Russell Targ and Pat Price, a psychic retired police commissioner. As Price turned the pages of the police mug book filled with hundreds of photos, suddenly he pointed to one... Read more Read reviews Write review	267	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 5.0 (1)
The Yoga of Time Travel: How the Mind Can Defeat Time Hot Meta-Reality » Science & Consciousness September 13, 2011 0 By Fred Alan Wolf Time travel is not just science fiction; it may actually be possible. Wolf draws on yoga and quantum physics to show that time is a flexible projection of mind. Cheating time, he says, is an ancient metaphysical idea from the Vedas having to do with moving through meditation to a place where time stands still. Read more Read reviews Write review	230	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
A New Science of the Paranormal: The Promise of Psychical Research Hot Meta-Reality » Paranormal Phenomena September 13, 2011 0 By Lawrence LeShan Mainline science rejects the paranormal because it cannot be proven by the classical methods of controlled experiments. But sciences such as geology, astronomy, and anthropology also don’t rely on laboratory testing for repeatable results. Moreover, psi concerns consciousness, which is by definition nonquantitative. "Psi researchers must stop acting like science’s poor relations," says author Lawrence LaShan, "limiting themselves to... Read more Read reviews Write review	156	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Creative Evolution: A Physicist's Resolution Between Darwinism and Intelligent Design Hot Meta-Reality » Science & Consciousness September 09, 2011 0 By Amit Goswami By denying evolution altogether, says quantum physicist Amit Goswani, intelligent design believers fly in the face of scientific data. But the idea of intelligent design does contain substance that neo-Darwinists cannot ignore. Goswani posits that consciousness, not matter, is the primary force in the universe. Biology must come to terms with feeling, meaning, and the purposefulness of life, as... Read more Read reviews Write review	227	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Sufism and the Way of Blame: Hidden Sources of a Sacred Psychology Hot Inspiration » Spirituality & Religion May 07, 2011 0 By Yannis Toussulis This is a definitive book on the Sufi "way of blame” that addresses the cultural life of Sufism in its entirety. Originating in ninth-century Persia, the "way of blame” (Arab. malamatiyya) is a little-known tradition within larger Sufism that focused on the psychology of egoism and engaged in self-critique. Later, the term referred to those Sufis who shunned Islamic... Read more Read reviews Write review	469	Editor rating 5.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Brightened Mind: A Simple Guide to Buddhist Meditation Hot Inspiration » Spirituality & Religion April 27, 2011 0 By Ajahn Suman Bhikkhu Ajahn Sumano Bhikkhu was part of the original group of monks and yogis to visit England in the mid-70's. He was the first Westerner to be ordained in the tradition of Ajahn Chah. During the seven years he lived and trained in England, he worked to restore the old Victorian estate that has become the Dharma lotus of Theravada... Read more Read reviews Write review	264	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Quotable Krishnamurti Hot Meta-Reality » Science & Consciousness March 09, 2011 0 By Robert Epstein Truth is a pathless land; you cannot approach it by any religion. . . . My only concern is to set men absolutely free. So said Jiddu Krishnamurti, one of the most influential spiritual leaders of the twentieth century. Born in India in 1905, as a teenager he was groomed by Theosophists C. W. Leadbeater and Annie Besant to... Read more Read reviews Write review	500	Editor rating 4.7 User rating 0.0 (0)
Embodying Osiris: The Secrets of Alchemical Transformation Hot Meta-Reality » Alternative History February 09, 2011 0 By Thom F. Cavalli, Ph.D The modern Western movement to embrace Eastern spiritual traditions usually stops with India and the Orient. Westerners have yet to discover the wisdom that dates back even further to ancient Egypt. With a Jungian perspective, clinical psychologist Dr. Thom F. Cavalli plumbs that wisdom through the myth of Osiris, the green-skinned Egyptian god of vegetation and the Underworld. As... Read more Read reviews Write review	475	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Masters Speak: An American Businessman Encounters Ashish and Gurdjieff Hot Inspiration » Spirituality & Religion December 02, 2010 0 By Seymour B. Ginsburg "If you want to pursue in a Western way the path that we follow here at Mirtola, you need to study and work with the Gurdjieffian teaching." Thus did the guru Madhava Ashish, at their first meeting, invite American businessman Sy Ginsburg on a spiritual journey that would last 19 years (until the guru's death) and include both annual... Read more Read reviews Write review	306	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
A New Science of the Paranormal Hot Meta-Reality » Science & Consciousness November 20, 2010 0 By Lawrence LeShan The Promise of Psychical Research Mainline science rejects the paranormal because it cannot be proven by the classical methods of controlled experiments. But sciences such as geology, astronomy, and anthropology also don’t rely on laboratory testing for repeatable results. Moreover, psi concerns consciousness, which is by definition nonquantitative. "Psi researchers must stop acting like science’s poor relations,"... Read more Read reviews Write review	332	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 3.7 (1)
Processmind: A User's Guide to Connecting with the Mind of God Hot Meta-Reality » Science & Consciousness November 20, 2010 0 By Arnold Mindell Einstein said, "I want to know the mind of God, the rest are details.” This book is therapist Arnold Mindell’s response. By processmind he means an earth-based experience of the universal state of consciousness that, he argues, pervades all reality. It is perhaps our most basic, least known, and greatest power, combining the nonlocality of modern physics with altered... Read more Read reviews Write review	732	Editor rating 5.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Force Is With Us: The Higher Consciousness That Science Refuses to Accept Hot Meta-Reality » Paranormal Phenomena October 30, 2010 0 By Thomas Walker Inspired by encounters with his son from beyond the grave, Tom Walker went searching for answers. He discovered that paranormal phenomena have not only been exhaustively studied, but that scientific evidence exists to support it. He uncovered numerous scientific studies involving telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and psychokinesis, as well as government-funded scientists who proved their validity. Through his research, Walker... Read more Read reviews Write review	523	Editor rating 5.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
To Be and How to Be: Transforming Your Life through Sacred Theatre Hot Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment July 12, 2010 0 By Peggy Rubin Life can be experienced as a great play — sometimes a comedy, sometimes a tragedy, sometimes an epic, sometimes a satire, but always a play. We can think of ourselves as the main character in our own story. Author Peggy Rubin brilliantly uses traditional theatre as a metaphor for living life more authentically and joyfully. To understand our lives... Read more Read reviews Write review	288	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)