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In the teachings of Jesus, there are prayers, and then there is prayerthe silent, loving communion with the divine, beyond words or ritual. With Father Thomas Keating's book Open Mind, Open Heart, hundreds of thousands discovered the transformative power of Centering Prayer as a form of Christian meditation. Now, with The Path of Centering Prayer, Keating's senior student, friend, and advisor David Frenette reveals the profound depths of this practice, making it easier for meditators to deepen their connection with God.

Has your spiritual path grown routine or unfulfilling, or is it at a crossroads for new discovery? For all Christians who seek to move closer into the presence of the divine, The Path of Centering Prayer offers guidance in this rewarding and time-honored meditation practice, to help break through obstacles and illuminate the way.

"This book in my view is the best, most comprehensive, and most practical book on centering prayer."

Father Thomas Keating

"In this beautiful book, David Frenette expands the map of the known Centering Prayer universe. With the blessing of his spiritual father, Thomas Keating, David develops and gently reshapes fundamental building blocks of the Centering Prayer teaching. This is an important moment in the Centering Prayer lineage transmission, when a faithful student emerges into mastery. David's work will breathe significant new life into your personal practice."

Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault, author of Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening

"This excellent book represents Christianity come to maturity! Here you will find good theology, good practice, good psychology, and a recovery of the foundation itselfhow to live in communion all the time."

Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM, founding Director of the Center for Action and Contemplation

"With simplicity and great wisdom, David Frenette reconnects you to the universal tradition of how to open to God, how to pray in silence, and finally, how to let the spirit pray within your heart. If you want, or need, to be drawn deeper into prayer, read this book and live its guidance."

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, PhD, Sufi teacher and author of Prayer of the Heart in Christian and Sufi Mysticism

"In his lucid guide to Centering Prayer, David Frenette navigates a path for beginners and seasoned practitioners who wish to enter ever-deepening states of loving friendship with the Divine."

Mirabai Starr, author of God of Love: A Guide to the Heart of Judaism, Christianity and Islam

"This wonderful book provides direction, encouragement, and support for a prayer practice with ancient roots. Drawing on his considerable experience as a spiritual director, David Frenette skillfully shares stories and offers wisdom that illuminates the heart of the practice and will lead practitioners through the subtle challenges that inevitably arise in the process of living into ever-deepening levels of prayer. This is a book not only to be read, but to be consulted regularly for insight and help along the way."

The Right Reverend Robert O'Neill, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado

"The Path of Centering Prayer is a beam of light in what can sometimes be a dark and unknown journey with God. It is written from the heart of David's relationship with God and his discoveries along his contemplative journey in solitude, in community, and in spiritual direction. From this place of wisdom, David enlightens readers with encouragement and enrichment, which will nourish them in their own commitment to the centering prayer practice and the contemplative life."

Gail Fitzpatrick-Hopler, President of Contemplative Outreach, Ltd.

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Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times

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What guides us when our world is changing? Discover the path to deeper meaning and purpose through depth psychology and classical thought.

 

How did we get to this crossroads in history? And will we make it throughindividually and as a species? "We all assumed that learning, rationality, and good intentions would prove enough to bring us to the promised land," says Dr. James Hollis. "But they haven't and won't. Yet what we also do not recognize sufficiently is that this human animal is equipped for survival. In time, as we have seen of life's other insolubles, we grow large enough to contain what threatened to destroy us."

 

Dr. Hollis's readers know him as a penetrating thinker who brings profound insight and sophistication to the inner journey. In Living Between Worlds, he broadens his lens to encompass the relationship between our inner struggles and the rapidly shifting realities of modern human existence. You will learn to invoke the tools of depth psychology, classical literature, philosophy, dream work, and myth to gain access to the resources that supported our ancestors through their darkest hours. Through these paths of inner exploration, you will access your "locus of knowing"an inner wellspring of deep resilience beyond the ego, always available to guide you back to the imperatives of your soul.

 

Though many of the challenges of our times are unique, the path through for us, personally and collectively, will always rely on our measureless capacity for creativity, wisdom, and connection to a reality larger than ourselves. Here you will find no easy answers or pat reassurances. Yet within the pages of Living Between Worlds, you will encounter causes for hope. "We can find what supports us when nothing supports us," Hollis teaches. "By bearing the unbearable, we go through the desert to arrive at a nurturing oasis we did not know was there."

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How Quantum Physics Can Improve the Way You Think, Live, and Love

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How would you like to experience your life? It's an intriguing question, and yet we've been conditioned to believe our life visions and goals are often unattainableuntil now. With The Possibility Principle, psychotherapist Mel Schwartz offers a revolutionary approach to living the life we choose.

Though science has vastly expanded our knowledge, it has also led us to adopt a worldview where we see ourselves as insignificant specks living in a mechanical universe. Now, insights from quantum physics reveal that our universe is, in fact, a vibrantly intelligent reality and that each of us plays a vital role in shaping it. In this groundbreaking book, Schwartz shows us how to integrate this new quantum worldview into our everyday lives, allowing us to transcend our limitations and open to infinite possibilities.

 
The Possibility Principle reveals how we can apply the three core tenets of quantum physicsinseparability, uncertainty, and potentialityto live the life we choose, free from the wounds of our past and the constraints of our old beliefs. You can learn to:

 Develop a mastery of your thinking as you free yourself from the replication of old thought patternsUtilize the concept of wave collapse to realize that you are not imprisoned by your genes, brain chemistry, or past traumasOvercome anxiety and depression through a shift of mindThrive in resilient relationships and develop powerful communication skills that foster empowerment and intimate connectionEmbrace uncertainty to ride the waves of personal change

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How to Use Your Pain and Most Difficult Emotions as the Doorway to Inner Freedom

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Disruptive practices to revolutionize your relationship with meditation and fully engage with the full breadth of your experience.

Why do we meditate? The main reason most modern people start meditating is because it helps us feel betterreducing anxiety, improving sleep, decluttering the mind, and so forth. "But where does your meditation go when things go bad?" asks Andrew Holecek. "Where is your spirituality when 'rock meets bone,' as they say in Tibetwhen the crap hits the fan?"
Reverse Meditation is for anyone who wants to bring the challenges of life onto the path of awakening. When things get hard, it's time to turn your practice on its headand throw out any assumption that meditation exists to insulate you from the confusion, difficulties, and uncertainty of life. "By putting your meditation into reverse," Holecek teaches, "you'll actually find yourself going forward. Step into your pain and you can step up your evolution."

With his signature blend of depth and accessibility, Holecek invites you to explore:

 Three core forms of meditationmindfulness, open awareness, and the boundary-smashing reverse meditations

 How to know when you're ready to engage with reverse meditation

 On-the-spot practices for snapping into a meditative mindset in difficult situations

 Contraction and expansionhow to dismantle habits of avoidance to become more open, resilient, and fully alive

 How reverse meditation opens you to a direct experience of the fundamental perfection of realityjust as it is

"These unique meditations are designed to reverse our relationship to unwanted experiences, which means going directly into them instead of avoiding them," says Andrew Holecek. "It's not an easy journeyyet this path leads to the discovery of unconditional happiness, basic goodness, and true freedom in the most turbulent situations."

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An Invitation to Radiant Health, Unconditional Love, and the Awakening of Your Energetic Potential

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For new and experienced students, practical guidance in kundalini yoga for happiness, health, and fulfillment

 

Kundalini is a universal life force within each of us that, once awakened, holds the power to transform every facet of our lives. Kundalini yoga is the art and practice of activating this radiant energy. With Essential Kundalini Yoga, Karena Virginia and Dharm Khalsa present the core principles and practices of this revered tradition in an inviting and accessible guide.

 

"Kundalini yoga opens joyous space for connecting deeply with the energy states of our being," write Karena and Dharm, "It brings vital health to the body and opens our consciousness to new potentials of awareness."

 

Created for the modern practitioner, this book offers clear, comprehensive instruction in the key insights and practices of kundalini yoga. From philosophy and lifestyle, to working with anatomy and physical asana, to activating our energy bodies, Essential Kundalini Yoga is a uniquely practical and in-depth manual. Highlights include:  Gorgeous photos illuminating step-by-step instructionsDetailed instructions, explanations, and illustrations for core kundalini practicesmantra, pranayama, bhanda, asana, kriya, meditation, and moreSeven traditional kundalini yoga routines, including a pituitary gland series for intuition, yoga for the immune system, and detoxing for radianceUnderstand the science of the practice, including its effects on the glandular system, spine, nervous system, and skeletonMeditations, mantras, and yoga poses to activate each of the chakras and bring health to your energetic bodyRemedies for common emotional challengesdealing with fear, shame, and depression, among othersKundalini secrets for getting better sleep, aging gracefully, enhancing fertility, cultivating vitality, and more Rooted in tradition and infused with a sense of infinite possibility, Essential Kundalini Yoga is a joyful invitation for practitioners of all levels to awaken the vital energy within and receive the gifts that emerge from connecting more deeply with your own potential for creativity, abundance, and joy.

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A Journey Toward Understanding, Active Treatment, and Societal Prevention of Trauma

 

Imagine, if you will, a diseaseone that has only subtle outward symptoms but can hijack your entire body without notice, one that transfers easily between parent and child, one that can last a lifetime if untreated. According to Dr. Paul Conti, this is exactly how society should conceptualize trauma: as an out-of-control epidemic with a potentially fatal prognosis.

 

In Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic, Dr. Conti examines the most recent research, clinical best practices, and dozens of real-life stories to present a deeper and more urgent view of trauma. Not only does Dr. Conti explain how trauma affects the body and mind, he also demonstrates that trauma is transmissible among close family and friends, as well as across generations and within vast demographic groups.

 

With all this in mind, Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic proposes a course of treatment for the seemingly untreatable. Here, Dr. Conti traces a step-by-step series of concrete changes that we can make both as individuals and as a society to alleviate trauma's effects and prevent further traumatization in the future.

 

You will discover: The different post-trauma syndromes, how they are classified, and their common symptomsAn examination of how for-profit health care systems can inhibit diagnosis and treatment of traumaHow social crises and political turmoil encourage the spread of group traumaMethods for confronting and managing your fears as they arise in the momentHow trauma disrupts mental processes such as memory, emotional regulation, and logical decision-makingThe argument for a renewed humanist social commitment to mental health and wellness It's only when we understand how a disease spreads and is sustained that we are able to create its ultimate cure. With Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic, Dr. Conti reveals that what we once considered a lifelong, unbeatable mental illness is both treatable and preventable.

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A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind

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"When something is bothering youa person is bugging you, a situation is irritating you, or physical pain is troubling youyou must work with your mind, and that is done through meditation. Working with our mind is the only means through which we'll actually begin to feel happy and contented with the world that we live in." Pema Chodron

Pema Chodron is treasured around the world for her unique ability to transmit teachings and practices that bring peace, understanding, and compassion into our lives. With How to Meditate, the American-born Tibetan Buddhist nun presents her first book exploring in depth what she considers the essentials for a lifelong practice.

More and more people are beginning to recognize a profound inner longing for authenticity, connection, and aliveness. Meditation, Pema explains, gives us a golden key to address this yearning. This step-by-step guide shows readers how to honestly meet and openly relate with the mind, embrace the fullness of our experience, and live in a wholehearted way as we discover:

 The basics of meditation, from getting settled and the six points of posture to working with your breath and cultivating an attitude of unconditional friendliness

 The Seven Delightshow moments of difficulty can become doorways to awakening and love

 Shamatha (or calm abiding), the art of stabilizing the mind to remain present with whatever arises

 Thoughts and emotions as "sheer delight"instead of obstaclesin meditation

"I think ultimately why we practice is so that we can become completely loving people, and this is what the world needs," writes Pema Chodron. How to Meditate is an essential book from this wise teacher to assist each one of us in this virtuous goal.

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A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and in Your Life

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The average person spends nearly 25 years of their life sleeping. But you can get a lot more from sleeping than just a healthy night's rest. With the art of lucid dreamingor becoming fully conscious in the dream stateyou can find creative inspirations, promote emotional healing, gain rich insights into your waking reality, and much more.

Now, with Lucid Dreaming: A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and in Your Life, Stephen LaBerge invites you on a guided journey to learn to use conscious dreaming in your life. Distilled from his more than 20 years of pioneering research at Stanford University and the Lucidity Instituteincluding many new and updated techniques and discoverieshere is the most effective and easy-to-learn tool available for you to begin your own fascinating nightly exploration into Lucid Dreaming.

Guided dream practices include:

Two trance inductions into the lucid-dream state

- Two daytime exercises designed to trigger lucid dreams at night

- LaBerge's breakthrough MILD technique for increasing lucid-dream probability fivefold or more

- A Tibetan-yoga dream practice

Includes digital access to audio tracks.

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A Year to Becoming an Excellent Writer and Living an Awakened Life

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The best writers say their work seems to come from a source beyond the thinking mind. But how do we access that source? "We must first look inside ourselves and be willing to touch that raw emotional core at the heart of a deeper creativity," writes Albert Flynn DeSilver. In Writing as a Path to Awakening, this renowned poet, writer, and teacher shows you how to use meditation to cultivate true depth in your own writingso your words reveal layers of profound insight that inspire and move your readers.

 

Constructed as a year-long exploration with a new focus for each month and season, Writing as a Path to Awakening includes:

 

 How to approach writing and reading with a greater level of presence and immersion

 Engaging curiosity, playfulness, and spontaneity to keep your regular practice fresh

 Meditating with poetry to deeply embody the power of language

 How you can spark your imagination by connecting to the groundless source of creation

 The meditative approach to storytellinghow not being trapped in your story liberates your capacity to create

 Editing, rewriting, and the path of spiritual transformation

 

"Writing and meditation practice are a powerful pair, a dynamic duo," Albert Flynn DeSilver teaches. "Together they nourish and push, trigger and define, inform and inspire, enable, and energize. To engage in both practices fully is to activate a more complete, creative, and spiritual self." With a mixture of engaging storytelling and practical exercises, Writing as a Path to Awakening invites you on a yearlong journey of growth and discoveryto enhance your writing through the practice of meditation while using the creative process to accelerate your spiritual evolution.

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A Reader for Navigating the Depths of Our Lives

The Universe holds us and tosses us about, only to hold us again. With Things That Join the Sea and the Sky, Mark Nepo brings us a compelling treasury of short prose reflections to turn to when struggling to keep our heads above water, and to breathe into all of our sorrows and joys.

Inspired by his own journal writing across 15 years, this book shares with us some of Mark's most personal work. Many passages arise from accounts of his own life eventsmoments of "sinking and being lifted"and the insights they yielded. Through these passages, we're encouraged to navigate our own currents of sea and sky, and to discover something fundamental yet elusive: How, simply, to be here.

To be enjoyed in many waysindividually, by topic, or as an unfolding sequenceThings That Join the Sea and the Sky presents 145 contemplations gathered into 17 themes, each intended to illuminate specific situations.

The themes include: Unraveling Our Fear, Beyond What Goes Wrong, The Gift of Deepening, The Practice of Relationship, What Holds Us Up, Right-Sizing Our Pain, The Reach of Kindness, Burning Off What's Unnecessary, How We Make Our Way and many more.

For those interested in either beginning or expanding their own journaling explorations, this reader also provides a guide to the practice of daily writing, with 100 compelling questions to get us started. "Joy is the sea that holds all," writes Mark, "the Unity of Being where feelings don't separate, but surface like waves to remind us we are alive."

Here, he helps us swim in those waters until we are held in the mystery of their buoyancy.

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"We are created in rhythm, kept alive in rhythm, evolve through rhythm. Tides, breath, and blood flow in rhythm. We are born into a universe of currents, and our heart is the great conductor of the body, orchestrating our flow."

The mystical foundations of all the world's spiritual paths meet in a single, sacred place: the heart of the seeker. We have reached a time when scientific understanding mirrors the teachings of the great wisdom traditions in revealing our energetic heart as the light of consciousness, the fire of love, a field of intelligence. Tending the Heart Fire, the first book by pioneering yogini Shiva Rea, is an invitation to embody our extraordinary potential at this turning point in time, to reconnect your life to the rhythms of your body and the natural worldto live in flow with the pulse of life.

Weaving together wisdom from the great world traditionsincluding yoga, Ayurveda, Tantra, and modern scienceShiva presents an essential resource for becoming a firekeeper of the sacred heart. This diverse treasury is filled with mediations, life guidance, seasonal rituals, and daily practices, including:

Insights for harmonizing with the sacred junctures of timethe daily, weekly, lunar, and solar cycles of manifestation and renewalAligning with the seasonshow to adapt your diet, exercise, and yoga rhythms throughout the annual cycle Ways to honor the great sacred holidays, rites, and festivalsAwakening of sahajathe natural flow at the origins and source of yoga asana and sacred embodiment at the heart of yoga and TantraSkills for tending your inner fire in every aspect of life and healing imbalances that can support a renewable energy lifestyleA visual teaching with over a hundred full-color images, including reference charts, diagrams, illustrations, and ancient poetry for inspiration

The legacy of the Heart Fire is more than eight hundred thousand years oldand in our modern world, we need more than ever to consciously reconnect to the radiant field that transcends time, space, and culture. "The direct awakening of the heart often happens when we are at a crisis point, when the armor of our heart has to crack," writes Shiva Rea. "Let us return to the power and magnificence of our heartsas living fire, as intelligent energy and electromagnetic radiance, and as our illuminating guide toward love, creativity, and deep knowing of our true sacred nature."

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Mastering the Art of Giving Thanks Every Day, A Month-by-Month Guide

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What would happen if you made gratitude your focal point for one full year? With Living in Gratitude, Angeles Arrien invites you to find out. Integrating the latest teachings from social science with stories, prayers, and practices from cultures and traditions spanning the globe, she presents a 12-month plan for making gratitude your foundation for daily living.

Opening with themes such as "Beginning Anew" and "The Power of Equanimity" and progressing to "Letting Be and Letting Go," "The Mystic Heart," and more, readers will steep themselves in "the parent of all virtues," exploring:

How to overcome habitual tendencies toward envy, comparison, and narcissismBlessings, learnings, mercies, and protectionsthe four portals to the grateful heart, and how to cultivate these key entryways in our work, relationships, health, finances, and personal growthJournaling and reflection exercises, perennial and indigenous wisdoms, and universal practices for every season and situation

"The practice of gratitude bestows many benefits," writes Angeles Arrien. "Anger, arrogance, and jealousy melt in its embrace. Fear and defensiveness dissolve. Gratitude diminishes barriers to love and evokes happiness, keeping alive what has meaning for us." Living in Gratitude is a dependable resource for making this cherished virtue your guiding light along life's journey.

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Navigating the Hero's Journey Through Risk to Results

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Awaken the Courageous Leader Inside You

 

True leaders inspire us with their confidence, dedication, and track record of achievementbut does their success arise from innate gifts, or qualities that we all can develop? "Each of us, no matter what our title or job, can become an effective leader by cultivating the same essential attributes found in the classic hero's journey," says Eric Kaufmann. With The Four Virtues of a Leader, this top executive coach presents a must-read guide to help you awaken and amplify the fundamental competencies that every successful leader embodies.

 

Through his interaction and study of some of today's top executives and innovators, Kaufmann has identified the four cornerstones of good leadership: Focus that combines self-awareness with vision; Courage to move toward what you'd rather avoid; Grit for persevering through fatigue and discouragement toward your long-term goals; and the Faith to overcome doubt and stay fully committed to your work. Here he shares powerful insights and field-tested guidance to help you develop these qualities, including:

 

 Four key questions to keep you on track: What am I creating? What am I avoiding? What am I sustaining? What am I yielding?

 How to recognize fear as the gatekeeper to your true power

 Employing effective communication and genuine empathy to improve your relationship with your team

 Using mindfulness and meditation to instill leadership qualities at the neurological level

 Training yourself to consistently make better decisions that always serve your ultimate goals

 

"The hero's journey challenges you to leave your comfort zone and become a different personand a better leader," writes Eric Kaufmann. With The Four Virtues of a Leader, he invites you to embark upon a time-honored path of personal evolution to become the inspirational leader you were meant to be.

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How Intention, Joy, and Certainty Will Supercharge Your Life

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"Moshe Gersht turns spiritual truths into medicine our hearts are longing for."
Marianne Williamson, New York Times bestselling author

Why can't positive thinking lead us all to more fulfilling lives? Because thinking is only part of the equation, according to spiritual teacher and bestselling author Moshe Gersht. The other part, the crucial part that can actually shape the life you want, is how you apply your beliefs. "Knowledge is just a seed in your mind," writes Gersht. "What makes it grow is your inspired action." This is the power he shares with his simple and accessible formula for actively pursuing the joy and fulfillment you've been longing for.

The Three Conditions are surprisingly straightforward:

 Through Intention, you're choosing to live and experience the Truth of who you are

 By expressing Certainty, you're trusting that the Universe is always directing and assisting you in experiencing your authentic Self

 Joy is the feeling of happiness that acts as the barometer of how aligned you are with intention and certainty

With lucid insight and practices for reflection and growth, Gersht shows you how to embody these conditions more deeply each dayand tap in to your full power and potential.

Rooted in the Torah tradition, Kaballa, and Chasidus, as well as an array of spiritual traditions, this book provides real-time tools to help you cultivate and practice intention, certainty, and joy right now. By following Moshe's formula, you'll start living the life you're destined to live regardless of race, color, or creed. It will point you toward the life behind your life circumstances.

"There are two things that matter most: what you believe about your Self and what you believe about the Universe," says Gersht. "This guide is a reminder of the incredible power you have to choose what you believeand how you are going to live."

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An Exploration of Expanded States of Consciousness

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Feelings of oneness with other people, nature, and the universe. Encounters with extraterrestrials, deities, and demons. Out-of-body experiences and past-life memories. Science casts a skeptical eye. But Dr. Stanislav Grofthe psychiatric researcher who cofounded transpersonal psychologybelieves otherwise.
When the Impossible Happens presents Dr. Grof 's mesmerizing firsthand account of over 50 years of inquiry into waters uncharted by classical psychology, one that will leave readers questioning the very fabric of our existence.

From his first LSD session that gave him a glimpse of cosmic consciousness to his latest work with Holotropic Breathwork, When the Impossible Happens will amaze readers with vivid explorations of topics such as:

- Temptations of a Non-Local Universeexperiments in astral projection

- Praying Mantis in Manhattan and other tales of synchronicity

- Trailing Clouds of Gloryremembering birth and prenatal life

- Dying and Beyondsurvival of consciousness after death


When the Impossible Happens is an incredible opportunity to journey beyond ordinary consciousness, guaranteed to shake the foundations of what we assume to be reality, and sure to offer a new vision of our human potential.

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What Honeybees Can Teach Us about Collective Wellbeing

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Potent and timely lessons on healing and connectionboth individually and collectivelythrough the wisdom and magic of honeybees.

We've heard the refrain to save the bees, but what if the bees can save us too?

Beloved equity educators, authors, and beekeepers Michelle Cassandra Johnson and Amy Burtaine invite us to contemplate this question deeply. By looking at bees as teachers, the authors draw us into an examination of our relationship with each other and the world at large. Honeybees illustrate communal interdependence, attunement to nature, coexistence with darkness, and so much morelessons worthy of emulating within our own human world.

In times marked by turmoil and uncertainty, honeybees offer a powerful example of how to turn toward each other, to deeply commit to creating conditions for survival of all beings, and to build a future where all can thrive. As Michelle and Amy write, "We won't survive unless we remember our interconnectedness to all beings and change our ways of beinghow we are to ourselves, one another, and the planet."

This beautiful and thought-provoking book offers:

 Insights from beekeeping, Buddhism, and nature-based shamanic practices

 Stories, meditations, reflection questions, and practices to bring the wisdom of the hive to our own lives and bodies

 Encouragement to connect with nature and each other in new ways

With each chapter, we learn more about the life of a honeybee, our own lives, and our relationship to the collective as a part of an ever-changing ecosystem.

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Michelle Cassandra Johnson, Amy Burtaine, Jacqueline Freeman

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A Guided Journey to Crafting a Magickal Life Through Witchcraft, Ritual Herbalism, and Spellcrafting

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Discover the Magick that lives within you. A Box of Magick will connect you with herbalism, rituals, and spells through the guidance of two priestesses, one from beyond the veil.
A Box of Magick is a call to adventure, an invitation to awaken and activate the deepest part of your most mystical, powerful self. Traditionally, Magick has been taught with close, one-on-one guidance that is rarely available to practitioners of all levels today. This book invites us to practice with two magickal guides, author Jamie Della and her Elder Wiccan High Priestess and mentor Connie DeMasters. Fifteen years after Connie's passing, Jamie received a literal box of Magick on her doorstep, 23 pounds of Connie's rituals, hymns, spells, charts, astrology, and more. Through this unexpected gift, Connie is still teaching Jamieand now they are both teaching us!

With the warmth of female mentorship, A Box of Magick offers a path of personal growth and empowerment and shares:

 Inspiration to recognize the magickal lessons, universal messages, and helpful signs that exist all around usfrom cycles of the sun, moon, and planets to herbs

 Rituals that help us face and integrate the shadow self, develop abiding self-love, and stand with a sword of personal truth held ready

 Lessons in how to foster a relationship with crystals, herbs, living creatures, and elemental spirits, as well as our own stories, and write your own spells

 Storytelling and parables that teach discernment as we connect magickal insights with our own experiences

As Jamie shares, this guide offers "a mentor to help you live the craft of the wise and deepen your ability to manifest, intuit, and connect with the language of our alive world and its limitless possibilities." A Box of Magick shares seeds of magickal wisdom and shows us how to turn them into a blossoming, evolving magickal life, spiced with the essence of our own unique spirit.

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The Tibetan Buddhist Path of Becoming Fully Human

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Rediscover the Promise of Enlightenment

 

As Western culture has embraced practices like meditation and yoga, has something been lost in translation? "What we see in America today in both the yoga boom and mindfulness fad," writes Dr. Miles Neale, "is a presentation of technique alone, sanitized and purged of the dynamic teachings in wisdom and ethics that are essential for true liberation." For anyone seeking a path dedicated to both authentic personal growth and the overthrow of the nihilism, hedonism, and materialism that are threatening our planet, this compelling teacher presents a well-conceived, sustainable solution with Gradual Awakening.

 

The core of this book is Tibetan Buddhism's "gradual path"or Lam Riminterpreted with fresh insights from modern scientific research. Offering an illuminating new presentation of Tibet's deep psychology, meditative techniques, and virtuous rituals, Dr. Neale presents a time-honored path of enormous transformational potential. Each chapter serves as a practical manual that will allow you to experiment with and actualize the benefits of role-modeling visualization, affirmations, contemplative themes, textual recitation, prayers, altars, offerings, and meditation. Here you'll explore:

 

 Uprooting the "sickness of paradigm"why a complete spiritual practice must directly confront the fundamental human suffering caused by the modern ethos of scientific reductionism

 The Lam Rim paththe history, heritage, and power of this 30-step "hero's journey" of awakening

 Evolutionary self-careunderstanding the Buddhist concept of renunciation as a form of self-love and healing

 Radical altruismawakening Bodhicitta, our innate aspiration to evolve fully in service to others

 Quantum visionhow the teaching of "emptiness" allows us to pierce the illusion of materialism and accurately perceive the subtlest nature of reality

 Dr. Neale's MAPS process (Maturity, Acceptance, Possibility, and Seeds) to integrate and manifest key insights and skills in your everyday life

 

The mass-market dilutions of Eastern wisdom that focus on symptom relief and easy answers have left behind the ultimate promise of spiritual practice: enlightenment. "Enlightenment is an unfolding processopen to everyone." writes Dr. Neale. For most of us, this path to awakening must be realized through a gradual process: building on incremental insights into who we truly are, learning to care for ourselves and others, and discovering creative ways to engage the problems we all face. Gradual Awakening will serve as a lifelong companion for anyone willing to embrace a new paradigm that integrates science with spirit, theory with practice, and personal meditation with the desire to transform the world.

 
A portion of the proceeds from this book will benefit the Buddhist nuns of Kopan Nunnery in Nepal.

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Break Free from Beauty Culture and Embrace Your Radiant Self

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Learn to love your bodyfor real this time
Women in touch with the wisdom of their bodies are the single greatest threat to societal systems of domination, oppression, and control. We are also the greatest possibility to bring healing, peace, and restoration to our world. Lauren Geertsen

No matter how much we try to tell ourselves to love our bodies and accept our flaws, most women can't quite get there. Even though we know the beauty standard is unrealistic, we secretly feel like it would be so much easier if our stomach were just a little flatter, or our skin a little smoother, or a million other little things. As a result, we sacrifice our health, heritage, sanity, and lives on the altar of beauty culture. Why is it so hard to feel confident about our bodies, or even just accept them?

Because willpower alone isn't enough to undo generations of brainwashing intended to repress women's confidence and power. In The Invisible Corset, Geertsen carefully illustrates the psychological gaslighting that leads women to internalize the belief that their appearance makes them not only unworthy of love, but incapable of fulfilling their actual destiny. By highlighting each restricting string of the invisible corset all women wear, Geertsen helps us reclaim our bodies for ourselves, discovering newfound confidence, power, joy, and pleasure as we do. You'll explore:

 How the invisible corset cuts you off from your body's wisdom and nature's intelligencethe true sources of your intuition, pleasure, and power

 How beauty culture is the most recent form of patriarchal oppression  and why women are both responsible and able to free ourselves

 Why the body positivity movement often makes self-criticism even worse

 The racist history of beauty culture, and how it still perpetuates racism today

 Journaling prompts, rituals, meditations, and other exercises to help unravel the toxic beliefs that keep the invisible corset in place

 A variety of practices to help you reconnect with your bodyto tune into your intuition, set healthy boundaries, align with your True Self, and more

For any woman who is ready to go from struggle, discomfort, control, and shame to pleasure, confidence, freedom, and soul-fulfilling purpose, The Invisible Corset is an essential guide.

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A master thief waited his whole life to acquire the most beautiful diamond in the world. When he heard it had been purchased, he spent three days trying to steal the rare jewel. He failed.

Finally, the thief walked right up to the owner and asked, "How did you hide this precious jewel from me?"

To which the owner replied, "I placed it where I knew you would never lookin your own pocket!"

This insightful tale opens the first major book release from Gangajian American-born teacher who has influenced the lives of thousands of people through her public events.

In The Diamond in Your Pocket, Gangaji describes our never-ending search as human beings to find fulfillmentwhich, paradoxically, already exists if only we will stop long enough to experience it. Readers join Gangaji to learn more about:

How to let go of your need to control, and activate instead the choice of where you put your mind's attentionCultivating the courage to be vulnerable, so you can meetand deeply merge withthe unknownHow to unearth the roots of sufferinglearn to stop replaying your life's dramatic stories over and over, and much more

As long as you are searching for it, it cannot be found, " teaches Gangaji. Written as a series of short contemplations, The Diamond in Your Pocket shows you thought-by-thought how to stop the endless activity of your mind, and experience the brilliance and radiance of who you really are.