Category: Spirituality

By Ellen Dugan

A traditional Witch has an appreciation of nature and an understanding of the magickal energies found in all issues. This kinship with the unseen international is on the middle of Witchcraft. it's also the basis of all magickal paintings.

You will increase your spellcrafting, empower your witchery, and upload richness and intensity in your lifestyle via constructing your instinct and psychic abilities. Natural Witchery features effortless how-to's, first-hand tales, spells, rituals, enjoyable quizzes, and artistic workouts that will help you stay a extra magickal lifestyles:

Learn the way to music in to many alternative sorts of strength, resembling the cycles of the moon and the power of the seasons, and use it to gasoline your spellwork  
Explore kinds of psychic talents, and notice your personal elemental strengths and demanding situations
Use usual witchery to create extra concord and stability in your house, office, and circle

This pleasant guidebook additionally contains a booklet of Witchery with magickal correspondences and a convenient magazine part for keeping an eye on your progress.

By Toinette Lippe

"The principles in Nothing Left Over are seeds bursting with power and her booklet is a primer in thankful residing. As you return to grasp her in a pleasant intimacy, you return to grasp your self from unsuspected perspectives."—Brother David Steindl-Rast

"A fabulous piece of writing . . . "—Stephen Batchelor

By Joseph Chilton Pearce

Explains the phenomenon of shaktipat, the non secular transmission of strength from a instructor to a devotee

• exhibits how expertise has eroded own energy and the way perception and knowledge can play a better function in our lives

• unearths how perception is the car for profound self-transformation

Shakti is the artistic strength, the bonding energy, that holds the universe jointly. Shaktipat is the instant whilst enlightenment is conferred upon a scholar instantly by means of his master’s contact. The guru conferring shaktipat creates a bond of energy in those that have accredited her or him as their instructor. In Spiritual Initiation and the leap forward of awareness Joseph Chilton Pearce describes his adventure of shaktipat from his instructor Swami Muktananda. From this awakening Pearce stories a dramatic shift of brain and is derived to the belief that notion is fact and that perception is our in simple terms car for profound self-transformation.

Oneness with God is the birthright of each person, notwithstanding we're culturally vaccinated to withstand experiencing this better recognition. Our look for aim fact has lead us to not wholeness, yet as a substitute to the assumption that we have got no bond to one another, to God, or to an inanimate, actual international. Our know-how reduces our skill to event revelation and leads us as an alternative towards the chatter of stressed pondering. The problem confronted by means of glossy humanity, that is the problem Muktananda gave to his scholars, is to passionately assemble up the scattered fragments of our lives and channel them into the artistic realm, the place with perception or revelation we will turn into greater than ourselves.

By Pierre Feuga

En quête passionnée de connaissance et de beauté, Heredia décide à 30 ans de s'engager sur une goélette. Pendant sept ans, il navigue autour du monde. Des Caraïbes aux Galapagos, de l'Amérique latine à los angeles Polynésie, il rencontre partout des êtres ordinaires ou extraordinaires qui, l'un menant mystérieusement à l'autre, finissent par former autour de lui une sorte de cercle magique en perpétuel mouvement. Mais c'est en Asie, continent qui le fascine entre tous, qu'il connaît ses expériences essentielles : révélation érotique dans une ville chinoise, chocs spirituels terrifiants en Inde... Puis vient le retour, l. a. découverte amère d'une sagesse motionless, et peut-être un nouveau départ possible... Ce récit coloré, chatoyant, preferable d'une série de cinq, où le réel et l'illusion se déjouent sans fin, peut se lire à l. a. fois comme un roman d'aventures et comme l. a. description d'un processus initiatique contemporain, nourri des enseignements du tantrisme, du taoïsme et de l'alchimie occidentale qu'a longuement fréquentés l'auteur. Connu jusqu'ici pour ses travaux sur les philosophies orientales, Pierre Feuga nous invite maintenant à un dépaysement overall. N'ayez pas peur d'embarquer !

By Daniel Odier

• Explains how the primal power generated by means of actual hope can be utilized to accomplish enlightenment

• unearths the recommendations utilized by Tantric adepts to achieve mastery over breath, concept, and all actual methods

Nothing can fit the explosive strength created within the physique by way of natural hope. For millennia, Tantric adepts have harnessed this strength as a way of achieving the summits of the magical existence. The energies fueled by means of ardour are used to nourish the internal flame that burns away the egotistical belief of the brain.

Desire explores the delicate strategies of Tantra that permit the seeker to realize the triple mastery of the breath, inspiration, and the typical tactics of the physique. Tantrics think that the physique is the temple and divinity lies at its middle. so that it will arrive at profound knowledge, the physique has to be completely tuned and dealing towards a kingdom of ideal fluidity. Desire unearths a few of the mystery practices meant for this goal which were handed down within the significant Tantric treatises resembling the Vijnanabhariva Tantra and Ch'an grasp Chinul's treatise at the Secrets of Cultivating the Mind, together with the real ideas of the ritual sexual observances often called Maithuna.

By D. Cameron Webb

Despicable Meme is D. Cameron Webb’s short yet biting attack at the large spectrum of religiosity that dominates twenty first century the United States, from the hateful and anti-intellectual dogma of the Christian correct to the whitewashed progressivism of spiritual moderates. it's also a desirable and humbling trip into the center of the universe's so much mind-numbing wonders.

Drawing on contemporary insights from cosmology and evolution, Despicable Meme paints a vibrant portrait of a cosmos not like whatever ever imagined through the provincial, human-centered faiths of the previous – a universe of numerous worlds unfold throughout unfathomable distances and occasions, and the place, on at the least a kind of worlds, the sluggish march of time may mix with the purposeless mechanisms of chemistry and physics to create a being able to believing that he by myself is the cause of it all.

With piercing intelligence and candor, Despicable Meme exposes the folly of that conceit and dispenses with the frequent yet totally inconceivable thought of a private author. however it saves its most harsh feedback for the vapid accommodationism of non secular liberals, those that unknowingly or uncaringly provide disguise to the misogynistic, racist, homophobic paranoia of the lovers by means of refusing to sentence, or quietly tolerating, the outlandish and immoral doctrines that lie festering on the heart in their personal “moderate” faiths.

Despicable Meme isn't just a blistering condemnation of radical fundamentalism, it's an impassioned entice the remainder of us to as soon as and for all abandon the superstitions of the faith we have been raised in and include the wonderful thing about an forever wondrous, yet godless, universe.

By C. S. Lewis

Publish 12 months note: First released in 1971
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God within the Dock is without doubt one of the most sensible recognized of C.S. Lewis's collections of essays and comprises Myth turn into Fact, The Grand Miracle, Priestesses within the Church and, after all, God within the Dock.

By André Padoux, Roger-Orphe Jeanty

Notwithstanding many practitioners of yoga and meditation are acquainted with the Shri Chakra, a sacred diagram, few totally comprehend the intensity of that means during this illustration of the cosmos. The Yoginihrdaya, a Hindu tantric textual content relationship again to the 10th or 11th century Ce, discloses to initiates the key of the center of the Yogini, or the excellent fact: the divine aircraft the place the Goddess (Tripurasundari, or cognizance itself) manifests her strength and glory, via her yantra, mantra, and worship. André Padoux, with Roger Orphe-Jeanty, deals the 1st English translation of this seminal textual content. Padoux demonstrates that the Yoginihrdaya isn't really a philosophical treatise aimed toward expounding specific metaphysical tenets. quite it goals to teach a manner in the direction of liberation, or, extra accurately, to a tantric kind of liberation during this life-jivanmukti, which promises either liberation from the fetters of the realm and domination over it.

Editorial Reviews

"This long-awaited English-language variation of André Padoux's vintage examine and translation of the Yoginihrdaya is a window onto a remarkably subtle ritual and metaphysical process. provided in a transparent and interesting layout, it's an incredible creation and consultant to the area of Hindu Tantra." --David Gordon White, J. F. Rowny Professor of Comparative faith, college of California, Santa Barbara

About the Authors

André Padoux is Senior examine Fellow (retired) on the French nationwide middle for medical Research.

Roger-Orphé Jeanty is an self reliant practitioner of Kashmir Shaivism and Sri Vidya.

By Mitch Albom

A especially produced paperback edition--with flaps--of the outstanding number one New York Times bestseller, that has offered greater than six million copies in hardcover

Eddie is a grizzled battle veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless lifetime of solving rides at a seashore enjoyment park. His days are a lifeless regimen of labor, loneliness, and regret.

Then, on his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies in a sad twist of fate, attempting to store a bit lady from a falling cart. He awakens within the afterlife, the place he learns that heaven isn't a lush backyard of Eden, yet a spot the place your earthly existence is defined to you via 5 humans. those humans could have been family or far away strangers. but each one of them replaced your direction forever.

one after the other, Eddie's 5 humans remove darkness from the unseen connections of his earthly existence. because the tale builds to its beautiful end, Eddie desperately seeks redemption within the still-unknown final act of his lifestyles: used to be it a heroic good fortune or a devastating failure the reply, which comes from the main not likely of resources, is as inspirational as a glimpse of heaven itself.

In The 5 humans You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom supplies us an astoundingly unique tale that may switch every thing you have ever thought of the afterlife--and the that means of our lives the following on the earth. With a undying story, beautiful to all, it is a publication that readers of good fiction, and people who enjoyed Tuesdays with Morrie, will treasure.

For greater than 20 years, famous therapist Eva Pierrakos used to be the channel for a spirit entity recognized in basic terms because the advisor. Combining infrequent mental intensity and perception with an inspiring imaginative and prescient of human threat, the Guide's teachings, referred to as the Pathwork, have encouraged many New Age thinkers. Now the middle teachings of the advisor were accrued in a single quantity synthesizing its crucial knowledge.