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Living the Life That You Are by Nic Higham

by Fredrik Livheim, PhD, Frank W. Bond, PhD and Daniel Ek, MS

New Harbinger 9781684030859 $22.95 • pb July 2018

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Slow

by Brooke McAlary Sourcebooks 9781492665540 $36.99 • cl July 2018

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The Art of Psychic Reiki by Lisa Campion

The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Stress Reduction

The Untethered Soul: 52-Card Deck by Michael A. Singer New Harbinger 9781684034314 $25.95 • dc October 2018

This Extraordinary Moment by John Astin, PhD New Harbinger 9781684031818 $24.95 • pb November 2018

Heal the Body, Heal the Mind by Susanne Babbel, PhD New Harbinger 9781684031047 $24.95 • pb September 2018

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DIVINATION – SCRYING – ORACLES – DRE

This is a small selection of the Divination tools Automatic Writing

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Automatic writing or Psychography occurs by first meditating to a soft gaze allowing a person to produce written words without consciously writing. • Calligraphy Ritual Set – 9780741857 $63.00 Dowsing by using rods and pendulums has been used to find water, minerals, lost items and ley lines throughout history. They are also used for divination and diagnosis.

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Runes

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Dreamwork Burning Mugwort and placing Selenite Crystals close by while you sleep are great tools for dream recall. There are many other crystals and scents available that can assist ones heightened perception and recall abilities. • Mugwort, Sage & Cedar 3pk – 856350000791 $19.95 • Selenite Egg – x1639 - $9.95

I Ching An ancient Asian Cleromancy method of divination uses the I Ching or Book of Changes either with sticks or coins. • I Ching - Wilhelm, Baynes – 9780691097503 • I Ching Coins – 9789000029877

Scrying Meditating with a soft gaze on a candle flame, glass sphere, a flat dark surface like an obsidian mirror or a shallow pool of water have all been used for centuries for Scrying visions. • Glass Gazing Balls 2.5“ – 9780738748825 $28.95 3“ – 9780738748832 $36.95 4“ – 9780738748849 $62.95 • Obsidian Scrying Mirror – x7308 $19.95 • Heritage Drip Beeswax 7“ Candle – 9789000197569 $60.00

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Chiromancy, more popularly known as Palmistry has been practiced worldwide for thousands of years. • Palmistry Hand – 9789000206513 $17.95 • Palmistry - Fincham, J – 9781846940477 $21.95

Music on CD

SACRED SOUND

Song of the Feminine Divine

ETERNAL

SHE

$23.95, CD. Real Music. 55 minutes

$23.95, CD. Real Music. 54 minues

by Kevin Wood

This is a gorgeous album, beautifully produced with sacred and tribal chant, and lush instrumentation. Compositions and arrangements are by Kevin Wood. The one exception is “Grace Eternal,” Wood’s lovely rendition of “Pachelbel’s Canon in D.” He was inspired during meditation to share this piece as it expresses so perfectly the grace and love of God that is eternal and always flowing. Eternal is a contemplative album from beginning to end, offering a peaceful place for the listener to open up to their own inner spiritual journey and to examine it in an environment that is both comforting and safe. My hope is that my journey will inspire others to look within themselves in stillness, feel the Eternal presence of God, and share their love and Eternal light with the world.

Another unique quality of Eternal is the combination of musical and cultural traditions it includes, sometimes in the same pieces: classical, African, Native American, Celtic, Indian and Gregorian chants and vocals are backed by an impressive list of guest instrumental artists such as Jami Sieber (cello), Francois le Roux (cello and vocals), Kelly Andrew (strings and drum production), and Paul Avgerinos (bass and percussion) in addition to Kevin Wood’s piano, keyboards and percussion. It’s a fascinating mix … not an album to be relegated to the background (although it would be very pleasant in that role!), as Kevin Wood has shared so much of himself with the world through this very emotive music. On this intensely personal album, Kevin Wood has delved deep into the connective thread of humanity and produced an album rich with global influence melded to a contemporary vision of New Age Music.

ADD COLOURS TO MY SUNSET SKY by Trine Opsahl

$22.95, CD. New Leaf. 65 minutes

Trine Opsahl embodies the very essence of healing and contemplative music. On this album Trine blends in wordless vocal toning and monochord (similar to the drone of the tamboura) with the amazing solo harp. The music on Add Colours To My Sunset Sky takes the listener ever so gently in its embrace, comforting her/him even while its harp melodies and spacious soundscapes draw them into a state of reflection where deep-rooted memories will hum and shine. Opsahl’s wordless vocals, newly featured here, match her exquisite Celtic harp artistry, adding an element of haunting beauty when they are present. Add Colours To My Sunset Sky is a delight from start to finish. We are all travelers on this road called life and as we walk along we add colours to each other’s lives. I am deeply grateful for every colour that has been added to my own life through the meeting of so many

by Peter Kater & Peia Luzzi

Grammy Award winning pianist and composer Peter Kater presents She, an evocative new recording featuring archival songstress Peia Luzzi. She “resounds from within the profound sanctity of life, from the depths of our innermost vulnerabilities and to the heights of our most ecstatic rejoicings.” On She, Peter and Peia celebrate in joyous music, wordless harmony, the sounds of nature and the divine feminine in all her earthy sensuality and celestial mystery. Kater on piano and synths marries the wordless vocal lyricism of Peia Luzzi, starting with the perfect building composition in “She Awakens in the Garden,” with lush natural sounds and layered with lovely musical textures. Their artistry of tone continues with the deeply moving and quite beautiful “Her Flames Burns Within Him.” An utterly evocative track, Kater’s piano is nothing short of sublime, while the vocal talents of Luzzi are...beyond. Tracks like “The Rain Speaks Her Name,” which will resonate with every cell, alongside the ethereal “She Whispers in Tall Grasses,” partner together with “He Searches for Her in the Sea,” a track that will move you to the very borderlands of your deepest emotions. Contained within this album of genius are remixes of the first three tracks off the album, all brilliantly arranged. And we finish this journey with the track “She.” The deep bass sound in the distance, the mesmeric piano, (one that sweetly creates a narrative that swims within the sounds of the ocean with ease), the pertinent rhythmic percussion, and the full flowing strings, ends the album in a triumphant composition of departure, one that rounds out the release with great style. She by Peter Kater is an album that may invent an entirely new realm of totally classy music. Among Peter Kater’s other great recordings are Resonance and The Meditation Music of Peter Kater.

DEVA

by Deva Premal

$22.95, CD. White Swan.

Deva Premal’s composition, the Seven Chakra Gayatri Mantra, debuts on DEVA, nearly 20 years since her original, ground-breaking version of the ancient Gayatri Mantra began appearing on playlists and en-chanting people worldwide. Alternately soothing, uplifting, and inviting, Deva’s voice ushers us into deeper states of meditation, serving as a musical, tonal portal to inner peace (whether you “understand” the “meaning” of the mantras or not. The album is book-ended by versions of the Seven Chakra Gayatri Mantra, creating an experience of a mystical journey well-travelled and coming full circle. The rich mix of alluring chants includes soaring bansuri lines by Nepalese maestro Manose, embedded inside a musical landscape created by producer Joby Baker‘s sensual groove based instrumentation – including the prayerful Prabhujee, written by Pundit Ravi Shankar and featuring his daughter, Anoushka Shankar, on sitar. Deva means “divine” in Sanskrit, and this beautiful collection of mantras reflects the many dimensions of Deva Premal’s soul and musical expression, from the beginning of her spiritual journey through today. beautiful souls I feel a deep gratitude to all the dying, who have trusted me by letting me travel alongside them for a while and allowing the spirit of my music to guide their souls’ journey. Together we searched for and found that sacred space inside and between us. A sacred space so vibrant, so soft and flowing with loving kindness.

Trine’s previous album, recorded with her daughter on cello, is the popular Unbroken Dreams. She hails from Denmark.

SATTVA TEMPLE TRANCE by Deuter

$21.50, CD. New Earth Music. 63 minutes

With Sattva Temple Trance, Deuter enters into a new dimension of circular, wave sounds. Two long tracks come together to create one hour of continuous healing trance music that induces a natural state of awareness, bringing you to the optimal level of consciousness to facilitate self healing and deep relaxation. Great for guided trance and healing arts. Excellent to tone along BRANCHES OF LIGHT F

with “in the field” as your voice can join with the greater waves of the music, too. Creating the music for this album was a new experience for me. Usually, inspiration for my music stems from a place within and then expands from that space. Sattva Temple Trance was born from a personal request made by Waduda (New Earth Records). Her vision was to create an album to use for her guided group trances, and for people who work in the healing arts. I listened to her suggestions, translating her vision into sounds. The creation of Sattva Temple Trance represents a new adventure for me. I am walking in a different territory—one I hope you will enjoy walking in as well. Track 1 is “Circle of Light” at almost 40 minutes. Track 2 is “Temple Trance.” Deuter continues to learn and master an ever-expanding array of instruments. He’s been musically tuning spirits for over 30 years— the grand old master of inner space music,

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Art & Music QUIETING THE MONKEY MIND How to Meditate with Music by Dudley & Dean Evenson $23.95, paper. 158 pages, colour photos Soundings of the Planet.

Drawing from over four decades of creating music for meditation and yoga (Banyen has offered many of the Evensons’ albums), Quieting the Monkey Mind is filled with practical tips, exercises, photos, and illustrations to support readers on an empowering journey of finding inner peace in our often chaotic world. Rich with gorgeous colour illustrations, Quieting The Monkey Mind shares some basic principles of meditation along with a wide array of sound tools and practices that can be used to take one into deeper states of inner peace and meditative bliss. To the often asked question “What is the benefit of meditation and music?”, co-author Dudley Evenson shares, What we endeavored to accomplish with Quieting the Monkey Mind, is to help make meditation understandable, accessible and simple to do. At its core, meditation is an inner training of our mental processes to attain a calm state of centered balance, awareness and spiritual expansiveness. It is a powerful and beneficial tool that can assist you in all aspects of your life. Silence and music are not only calming but deeply healing.

Quieting the Monkey Mind provides some helpful answers to these questions and many more: u What is the difference between prayer and meditation? u How can we let go of our thoughts? u How do we choose music that enhances meditation? u What is the benefit of a regular meditation practice? u What is our goal in contemplation? u How do we use breath to focus the mind? This creative guide for using music as a tool for enhancing meditation offers sage advice for integrating meditative practices of sounding, chanting, mantra, affirmations, kirtan, working with singing bowls, and many other creative methods to expand the self-tuning options you can bring to life… Quieting the Monkey Mind offers its readers a brilliant medicine bundle of inspirations for how to participate in this age-old search for deep, meaningful, sonic resonance in our lives, relationships, and world… It offers a wealth of practical guidance for developing and sustaining a personal meditation practice with music. For those more experienced in contemplative practice or modern psychonauts who are seeking new ways to refine, deepen, and expand their consciousness, musical practices are offered to help one listen more deeply to the subtle interweaving harmonies of complex waveforms of the music of life. For beginners or for experienced meditators, this book is a jewel with the power and potential to heal the world. —Joel & Michelle Levey, from the foreword

ARTFUL ALTARING

The Mission of Art

MORNING ALTARS

A Seven-Step Practice to Nourish Your Spirit through Nature, Art, and Ritual by Day Shildkret $39.95, cloth. Norton. 240 pages, 60 colour photos

Morning altars are colourful mandalas that combine nature, art, and meditation. Incorporating the natural world into the everyday encourages positive well-being, even with the simplest of the earth’s gifts, such as leaves, flowers, berries, feathers, and stones. These stunning pieces of art are a peaceful and creative avenue to express gratitude for nature, to practice mindfulness, and to add meaning to daily life. In this book, Day Schildkret guides readers through the creation of morning altars, a seven- step process that includes wondering and wandering, place meditation, clearing space, creating, gifting, walking away, and sharing his art with others. It’s an astoundingly beautiful, simple way of being, also subtitled The Joy of Earth Art. Really a homecoming practice, and a practical way to make beauty in this earth, each morning… or any morning. Try it. Process : morning time. take basket and go on walk. stay alert. watchful. forage. hike to hill or creek bed. clear space. be quiet and listen. build altar: feathers, leaves, berries, bones pray. offer it. watch it alter.

Since his first morning altar, Schildkret has built hundreds more. His work has been warmly received on social media and he teaches workshops on altar building, all with the intention of sharing the positivity and beauty they have brought to his life. As an artist what interests me most is to consider that the artwork may actually be shaped by the memory of the place, as if what I build may actually be an ancient remembering that the land itself is actualizing through me. In today’s overly virtual landscape, I want my viewers to be enchanted by each altar’s capacity to awaken their imagination, their awe, their nuanced eye and deep love and connection with the magic and mystery of our earth. I long to have my audiences linger on that ephemeral edge where death and rebirth bring forth an ancient remembering and a new impermanent beauty.

For more: morningaltars.com.

Poetry & Stories THE POETRY PHARMACY

Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul by William Sieghart $31.99, cloth. Penguin. 138 pages

Sometimes only a poem will do. These poetic prescriptions and wise words of advice offer comfort, delight and inspiration for all; a space for reflection, and that precious realization—“I’m not the only one who feels like this.” In the years since he first had the idea of prescribing short, powerful poems for all manner of spiritual ailments, William Sieghart has taken

THE MISSION OF ART by Alex Grey

$25.95, paper. Shambhala. 272 pages, 66 illustrations

Twenty years after the original publication of The Mission of Art, Alex Grey’s inspirational message affirming art’s power for personal catharsis and spiritual awakening is stronger than ever. This book combines extensive knowledge of art history with phases of human consciousness evolution and shares firsthand experiences in creating art at the boundaries of madness and mysticism—and his profoundly affecting psychedelic experiences. Grey examines the roles of conscience and intention in the creative process, including some hands-on experiences. Included are practical techniques and exercises that can be used to explore the spiritual dimension of art—exercises that are taken from the visionary art workshops the author leads with his wife, Allyson Grey. The text is accompanied by drawings created by Alex expressly for The Mission of Art. Religion and Art which emphasize ecstasy and mystical experience will always fulfill profound human needs, bringing people back to the source of infinite love and ultimate reality. A reverence for life is one of the hallmarks of true spirituality. Our violence as a species and destructive assaults on the web of life make obvious humanity’s spiritual blindness and the critical need for spiritual awakening. Art can serve that awakening.

Challenging and thought-provoking, The Mission of Art will be appreciated by everyone who has ever contemplated the deeper purpose of creative expression. Though we may try to write about it, the Transcendental is beyond all conceptual or theoretical frameworks. The best that theory and critique can do is point us toward the creative source. Artists rely on themselves, peering into their own souls for inspiration and guidance, yet the artist’s friends, mentors, and a spiritual practice, may all be able to assist the birth of spirit in their art.

Alex Grey is the visual artist whose amazing work is portrayed in the books Sacred Mirrors and Transfigurations, among others. More info: cosm.org.

DANCING WITH THE GODS Reflections on Life and Art by Kent Nerburn

$35.95, cloth. Canongate. 245 pages

When Kent Nerburn received a letter from Jennifer, a young woman questioning her calling to spend her life in the arts, the writer and artist was struck by how closely her questions mirrored the doubts and yearnings of his own youth. Nerburn resolved that he would write his own letter: a letter of welcome and encouragement to all young artists setting out on the same strange and magical journey, sharing the wisdom of a life spent working in the arts. From struggles with money and the bitterness of rejection, to spiritual questions of inspiration and authenticity, Dancing With the Gods offers insight, solace and courage to help young artists on the winding road to artistic fulfilment. Tender and joyous, it is a celebration of art’s power to transform the darkest of human experience and give voice to the grandest of human hopes. Feelings come to us—honest feelings, human feelings, feelings that do not fit inside our square-cornered life. We want to cry out—from joy, from terror, from grief, from some emotion that wells up and overwhelms us—and we are, for a moment, in a place that has no shape and no edges; a place that expands toward the infinite and breaks all bonds of human understanding. This is when we turn to art, because art can give shape to that moment. Art gave me a way to grieve my mother. Art can allow you to sing the birth of your child, or dance the joy of a fresh and overwhelming love. If we are fortunate enough to have to tools to create art that gives form to that moment, it is a treasure beyond compare. If we are able to shape that moment in a way that communicates to others, we are twice blessed.

Among Ken Nerburn’s other books are Voices in the Stones and Letters to My Son.

his Poetry Pharmacy around the length and breadth of Britain, into the new, and onto radio and television, honing his prescriptions all the time. This pocket-sized book presents the most essential poems in his dispensary: those which, again and again, have really shown themselves to work. Whether you are suffering from loneliness, lack of courage, heartbreak, hopelessness, or even from an excess of ego, there is something here to ease your pain. Above all, when we’re grieving, when we’re broken-hearted, and when we find ourselves struggling to understand the things we’re feeling, we long for the connection poetry can provide.To find the right poem at that crucial moment, one capable to expressing our situation with considerably more elegance than we can ourselves,… The poet has made what you’re going through seem more intriguing, more timeless, BRANCHES OF LIGHT F

and mare valid in some way, and that can be a great comfort… Love has many moods and many stages, just as do regret, and life, and solitude. However momentary or enduring it might be, my hope is that you will find a poem within this book that fits your need.

Organized by “ailments” (from Glumness, Emotional Baggage, and Feelings of Worthlessness to Losing the Spark, Rocky Relationships, Guilt at Not Living in the Moment, etc.) this take-me-with-you volume’s prescriptions/poems, nimbly organized and brightly commented on by William Sieghart, are organized into bins: u Mental and Emotional Wellbeing u Motivations u Self-Image and Self-Acceptance u The World and Other People u Love and Loss If, for example, you find Self-Recrimination is your problem, take Wild Geese, by F FALL -WINTER 2018-2019

Mary Oliver. And many more. “Truly a marvellous collection... There is balm for the soul, fire for the belly, a cooling compress for the fevered brow, solace for the wounded, an arm around the lonely shoulder—the whole collection is a matchless compound of hug, tonic and kiss.” — Stephen Fry “The book is delightful; it rightly resituates poetry in relation to its biggest and most serious task: helping us to live and die well.” —Alain de Botton

HIPPIE

by Paulo Coelho

$34.95, cloth. Dutton. 256 pages

Drawing on the rich experience of his own life, best-selling author Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist, etc.) takes us back in time to re-live the dreams of a generation that longed for peace and dared to challenge the established social order. In Hippie, he tells the story of a young Brazilian man, Paulo, and Karla, a Dutch woman in her twenties, who share a journey of self-discovery aboard the Magic Bus, as it travels from Amsterdam to Kathmandu in 1970. In his most autobiographical novel to date, Paulo Coelho interweaves adventure, philosophy, and the true stories of his own life to give readers an essential book for our time. Following the “three days of peace and music” at Woodstock, the 1969 gathering in Bethel, New York that would change the world forever, hippie “pads, patchouli and paradises” began to emerge all around the world. In the Dam Square in Amsterdam, long-haired young people wearing vibrant clothes and burning incense were being high, meditating, playing music, and discussing sexual liberation, the expansion of consciousness and the discoveries of inner truth. They were a generation refusing to live the robotic and unquestioning life that their parents had known. At this time, Paulo is a young, skinny Brazilian with a goatee and long, flowing hair who wants to become a writer. He sets off on a journey in search of freedom and a deeper meaning for his life: first, with a girlfriend, on the famous “Death Train to Bolivia,” then on to Peru and later hitchhiking through Chile and Argentina. His travels take him further, to the famous square in Amsterdam, where Paulo meets Karla. She convinces Paulo to join her on a trip to Nepal, aboard the Magic Bus that travels across Europe and Central Asia to Kathmandu. They embark on a journey in the company of fascinating fellow travelers, each of whom has a story to tell, and each of whom will undergo a transformation, changing their priorities and values, along the way. As they travel together, Paulo and Karla explore their own relationship, an awakening on every level that brings both of them to a choice and a decision that sets the course for their lives thereafter.

L E O N A R D, Y O G A N A N D A, B H A K T I . . . Yoga & the Hindu Traditions

Leonard Cohen’s Gift THE FLAME

Poems and Selections from Notebooks by Leonard Cohen

THE INNER TRADITION OF YOGA

$32.95, cloth. McClelland & Stewart. 288 pages

Just weeks before his death in late 2016, Leonard Cohen told The New Yorker that he was ready for the end to come. He just wanted enough time to put his last book in order. Fortunately, that time was granted. The Flame is Cohen’s eloquent farewell, a valedictory collection of lyrics and poems that maps his singular creative journey. In addition to new poems about war, desire, regrets, lamb chops, and hummingbirds, and lyrics from his last three albums, including the final “You Want It Darker,” The Flame includes carefully selected excerpts—both writing and drawings— from Cohen’s voluminous notebooks, which he kept faithfully, in poetic form, all his life. Listeners will hear about the subjects that have always preoccupied Cohen: the dimensions of love, the secret code of existence, and the hope for transcendence in a broken world. In the words of Cohen’s longtime manager and friend, Robert Kory, The Flame “reveals to all the intensity of his inner fire” to the end. An enormously powerful final chapter, The Flame showcases the full range of Leonard Cohen’s lyricism, from the exquisitely transcendent to the darkly funny. By turns devastatingly sad and winningly strange, these are the works of a poet and lyricist who has plumbed the depths of our darkest questions and come up wanting, yearning for more. So I’ve come here to revisit What happens to the heart I was selling holy trinkets I was dressing kind of sharp Had a pussy in the kitchen And a panther in the yard In the prison of the gifted I was friendly with the guard…

Every soul is like a minnow Every mind is like a shark I’ve opened every window But the house, the house is dark Just say Uncle, then it’s simple What happens to the heart I was always working steady But I never called it art…

It ain’t pretty, it ain’t subtle What happens to the heart Now the angel’s got a fiddle And the devil’s got a harp

Sure it failed my little fire But it’s bright the dying spark Go tell the young messiah What happens to the heart (June 24, 2016)

$24.95, paper. Shambhala. 244 pages

“There is no daily practice without some formal training; and there is no deep spiritual training without the mess of relational life. The two are one,” says Michael Stone. This wise, accessible guide— now revised and updated—makes the spiritual and ethical teachings of the yogic tradition immediately relatable to our practice on the mat and in our everyday relationships and activities. Stone draws from numerous disciplines—including Buddhism and psychotherapy—to provide an in-depth, completely clear explanation of yogic philosophy, along with teachings on how to work with the conditions of our life and fully appreciate yoga as a practice of being intimate with moment-to-moment reality. Yoga is a practice that helps us be more present with the actual, fluid life we are living right now—and there is no yoga without the conditions of your life.

“This volume contains my father’s final efforts as a poet,” writes Cohen’s son, Adam Cohen, in his foreword. “It was what he was staying alive to do, his sole breathing purpose at the end… Each page of paper that he blackened was lasting evidence of a burning soul.” I have witnessed many great events, some of which were sorrowful: the birth of children, the death of friends, the ends of time & the intermediate wildernesses. A chill goes down my spine and up, when I reflect how graciously I have been placed in the mazes of creation. My beloved is with me, the wife of my youth, and in the midst of suffering when it is our lot, if I remember to incline my self toward the source of light, I know that I have never strayed too far from my bridal days. As it was promised, I have inherited the gates of my enemy, and I fear with him, rejoice with him, at the irresistible tides of majesty that sweep across the world.

“With Cohen, one feels he knew who he was and where he was going from the beginning, and only digs deeper, deeper, deeper.” —Pico Iyer

MATTERS OF VITAL INTEREST

A Forty-Year Friendship with Leonard Cohen by Eric Lerner $35.00, cloth. Da Capo. 304 pages

Leonard Cohen passed away in late 2016, leaving behind many who cared for and admired him, but perhaps few knew him better than longtime friend Eric Lerner. Lerner, a screenwriter and novelist, first met Cohen at a Zen retreat forty years ago. Their friendship helped guide one another through life’s myriad obstacles, a journey told from a new perspective for the first time. Funny, revealing, self-aware, and deeply moving, Matters of Vital Interest is an insightful memoir about Lerner’s relationship with his friend, whose idiosyncratic style and dignified life was deeply informed by his spiritual practices. Lerner invites readers to step into the room with them and listen in on a lifetime’s ongoing dialogue, considerations of matters of vital interest, spiritual, mundane, and profane. In telling their story, Lerner depicts Leonard Cohen as a captivating persona the likes of which we may never see again. “There is a lot of beauty in this book, the beauty that exists between two old friends who love and understand one another.” —New York Journal of Books “Matters of Vital Interest is a portrait of a decades-long friendship, and the vision of Leonard Cohen that emerges from it is much like the persona he invents in his songs—seductive, knowing, hyper-articulate, not always likable but always fascinating. More than a foil, Lerner is the singer’s partner in crime, spiritual questing, and, until Leonard Cohen’s death, sheer survival. They are brothers, and this is their story, told from the heart.”--Anthony DeCurtis, author of Lou Reed: A Life

BRANCHES OF LIGHT F

A Guide to Yoga Philosophy for the Contemporary Practitioner by Michael Stone

“Intense, poetic, wise, practical, intimate, and visionary—the mind-body connection has never been better explored or explained.” —Sharon Gannon, cofounder of Jivamukti Yoga This book is about how to cultivate a yoga practice, what constitutes a yoga practice, how to recognize and work with the different stages on the path, and how to keep the tradition of yoga a living tradition through committed practice and critical engagement. On a heart level, this book is about the cultivation of patience, honesty, nonviolence, wisdom, and the ability to meet life as it occurs from moment to moment without habitual forms of clinging. Whether you are just beginning your practice or you have studied deeply in a particular system, you should be able to find here some suggestions and encouragement for deepening your practice. There are two themes in this book: (1) The essence of yoga teaches us that all forms of clinging create suffering. Nothing can be owned as “I, me, and mine.” And (2) a disciplined and appropriate practice leaves no stone unturned… It brings yoga off the mat, out of the meditation hall and into the tangled world of our interpersonal relationships, our habitual psychological holding patterns, and the complexity of ethical action. This book moves back and forth between these two themes—practice and letting go—by weaving together theory and responsive action.

Also by Michael Stone (1974-2017) are Freeing the Body, Freeing the Mind and Awake in the World.

THE LIFE OF YOGANANDA

The Story of the Yogi Who Became the First Modern Guru by Philip Goldberg $35.00, cloth. Hay House. 336 pages, b/w photos

He was called “the 20th century’s first superstar guru” (Los Angeles Times), and today, nearly a century after he arrived in America, he’s still the best known and most beloved of all the Indian spiritual teachers who have come to the West. Now, finally, Paramahansa F FALL -WINTER 2018-2019

Yogananda has the authoritative biography he deserves. Yogananda, considered by many to be the father of modern yoga, has had an unsurpassed global impact thanks to the durability of his teachings, the institutions he created or inspired, and especially his iconic memoir, Autobiography of a Yogi. Since its publication in 1946, that book has sold millions of copies and changed millions of lives. But it doesn’t tell the whole story. Much of Yogananda’s seminal text is devoted to tales about other people, and it largely overlooks the three vital decades he spent living, working, and teaching in America. Huge chunks of his life—challenges, controversies, and crises; triumphs, relationships, and formative experiences—remain unknown to even his most ardent devotees. This captivating biography fills the gaps, charting a journey that spanned six decades, two hemispheres, two world wars, and unprecedented social changes. The result is an objective, thoroughly researched account of Yogananda’s remarkable life in all its detail, nuance, and complex humanity. I sincerely hope that every reader will find something of value in the book, and that even Yogananda’s most earnest students will learn something they did not know before. More important, as a highly practical guru, Yogananda would, I believe, want any book about him to not only inform but transform. It is my hope that readers will be enriched, expanded, and deepened by this humble account of his life.

“Sympathetic yet critical, the book brings to light an enormous number of facets of Yogananda’s life, times, spiritual realization, culture clashes, and personal dimensions… I highly recommend you read this book, and get a profound reminder of what the spiritual search is all about.” —Ken Wilber, author of The Religion of Tomorrow “Deeply informed by Phil Goldberg’s years of practice and study… A delightfully written, juicy, and inspiring portrait that takes us right into the heart of the yogic experience.” —Sally Kempton, author of Awakening Shakti

THE BHAKTI COLORING BOOK Deities, Mandalas, and the Art of Playful Meditation by Ekabhumi Charles Ellik $19.50, paper. Sounds True. 112 pages, 10x10, b/w illustrations

In the yoga tradition, bhakti is the path of the heart. This devotional branch of yoga is growing in popularity as increasing numbers of practitioners seek greater peace and more heartfelt connections in their personal and professional lives. Artist and scholar Ekabhumi Charles Ellik invites us to cultivate these feelings of love and connection through coloring, meditation, and art in The Bhakti Coloring Book. Following on the success of The Shakti Coloring Book, Ekabhumi has created 40 brand-new, easy-to-color images from the bhakti tradition. Mandalas, deities, and symbols adorn the pages of this heart-centered book along with guidance for using the images both in spiritual practice and for simple pleasure. Devotional art is an important part of the bhakti tradition, as sacred imagery can shift our consciousness into a nat-

T H E G I T A, R A M A N A & Y O G A

Classics of the Path

Yoga for Hips and Spines

HIP-HEALTHY ASANA

THE BHAGAVAD GITA

The Yoga Practitioner’s Guide to Protecting the Hips and Avoiding SI Joint Pain by Charlotte Bell

translated by Ravi Ravindra

$14.95, paper. Shambhala. 144 pages

$24.95, paper. Shambhala. 108 pages, 7x9, b/w photos

The mind and body benefits of daily yoga practice are unquestionably positive, but as yoga has become more popular, an increasing number of yoga practitioners are suffering from hip and lower back pain and intense sacroiliac joint discomfort. The urge to push yourself too far, too fast, along with forceful “adjustments” by well-meaning yoga instructors, can result in hip pain caused by hypermobility—too much flexibility or excessive range of motion. Because of the nature of the hip joint, these enthusiastic practitioners often do not feel the effects of their practice until they wake up one day with immobility and debilitating pain. Hip-Healthy Asana is a concise, practical guide that will teach you how to protect your hips as you practice—and will help you adapt your practice as necessary if hip problems do develop. Yoga and meditation teacher Charlotte Bell gives a complete, accessible explanation of the hip structure, and offers practice tips, modifications, and sequences that enhance hip strength and stability for a sustainable practice that can last through every age and stage of life. I’ve learned a whole lot about what poses and alignment beliefs might contribute to hip joint degeneration. When you’ve got no cartilage, the feedback is immediate, definitive, and at times, shockingly painful. That is why I’m inspired to share the information in this book. Yoga practice continues to grow, for lots of good, healthy, inspiring reasons. But many practitioners feel pressured to perform, to push ever further into poses, ignoring their better judgment and their body’s own signals. My hope is that this book will help yoga practitioners begin to think about partnering with their bodies as they are, rather than using practice as a way to “conquer” them.

Holding the body, neck, and head erect and motionless, with gaze fixed on the tip of the nose, not looking in any direction, steadfast in the view of dwelling in the Vastness, with a calm spirit from which fear has been driven out, with a mind under control and a heart absorbed in Me, a yogi should sit steadily devoted to Me. Thus practicing yoga, with the mind controlled, the yogi finds the supreme peace of Nirvana which abides in Me. —Bhagavad Gita

by Ramana Maharshi

$14.95, paper. Shambhala. 136 pages

Developing Stability and Mobility For Your Spine by Bernie Clark

$38.95, paper. Wild Strawberry. isbn 9780968766552 8x11, b/w photos

Your Spine, Your Yoga is arguably the first book that looks at the spine from both the Western anatomical/biomechanical point of view and the modern yoga perspective. It is filled with detail, discussion, illustrations, and practical advice for spines of all types. This emphasis on variety is welcome and necessary: no two spines are exactly alike, and no two people have the same biology and biography. What your spine is able to do may be vastly different from what other yoga students or teachers spines can do. Just as all tissues and areas of the body need a healthy amount of stress to regain and maintain optimal health, so too our spine needs the appropriate levels of stress to remain functional throughout our lives. How we choose to exercise the spine makes a difference, though. Knowing the way the spine is built, specifically, how your spine is built, will allow you to tailor your exercises wisely to match your goals. Your Spine, Your Yoga focuses on the axial body—the core, from the sacral complex, which includes the pelvis, sacrum, and sacroiliac joint, through the lumbar and thoracic segments of the spine, to the cervical complex, which includes the neck and head. The structural components of each segment are examined: from the bones, to the joints, ligaments, fascia, tendons, muscles, and even the neurological and blood systems. The range and implications of human variations are presented, as well as the ways these variations may affect individual yoga practices. Whether the reader is a novice to yoga, anatomy, or both, or a seasoned practitioner with an in-depth knowledge in these fields, this book will be valuable. For the novice, there are easily understood illustrations and photographs, as well as sidebars highlighting the most important topics. For the anatomy geek, other sidebars focus on the complexity of the topic, with hundreds of references provided for further investigation. For the yoga teacher, sidebars suggest how to bring this knowledge into the classroom. Your Spine, Your Yoga can be used as a resource when specific questions arise, as a textbook to be studied in detail, or as a fascinating coffee-table book to be browsed at leisure for topics of current interest. Also by Bernie Clark are Your Body, Your Yoga and Yinsights.

compassionate as a result, then you were refining a skill, not performing a spiritual practice. Following the suggestions given may make the act of coloring inexplicably more difficult than usual, because creating the artwork is just the tip of the iceberg. The majority of the work is done in your heart, unseen. Be patient with yourself, yet consistent. Complete these images, and your karma will be transformed.

Ellik also created 20 original illustrations for Sally Kempton’s book, Awakening Shakti. BRANCHES OF LIGHT F

“All there is is Krishna.” Upon hearing this famous and enigmatic line from the Gita’s seventh chapter when he was a boy, Ravi Ravindra embarked on a journey to understand its deep meaning. The search led him far beyond the tradition from which the text originally arose to an exploration of world mystical wisdom, including Zen, Christianity, Yoga, and particularly the teachings of J. Krishnamurti and G. I. Gurdjieff. Dr. Ravindra’s fresh prose translation is the fruit of that lifelong process. It stands out from the many other versions with its assertion that the Bhagavad Gita is at heart a universal guide to navigating the battle of life required of each and every one of us. It is through that navigation, he shows, that we can discover and connect with the Krishna deep within ourselves: the Eternal Witness who is above the battle, and who is, ultimately and joyfully, all there is.

THE SPIRITUAL TEACHING OF RAMANA MAHARSHI

YOUR SPINE, YOUR YOGA

As you color the images in this book, remember that the goal is to transform your inner experience by expanding your sense of self. The artworks are just documentation, evidence of your inner work, the manifestation of a divine principle you have nurtured in your own heart. If you produce a bunch of colorful images but have not grown wiser and more

New in Paperback

This Shambhala Pocket Edition includes only the translated text of the Gita, not the extensive commentaries that are included in the larger edition.

Also by Charlotte Bell (who’s been teaching for over 30 years) are Mindful Yoga, Mindful Life and Yoga for Meditators.

urally meditative state. For experienced artists and novices alike, this book offers an enjoyable entry into this powerful practice.

Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950), was one of the greatest spiritual teachers of modern-day India. At age 17 he attained a profound experience of the true Self without the guidance of a Guru and thereafter remained conscious of his identity with the Absolute (Brahman). After six years of silent seclusion he finally began to reply to questions of spiritual seekers from all over the world. He followed no particular traditional system of teaching, but rather spoke directly from his own experience. He wrote virtually nothing; his teaching took the form of conversations with visitors (transcribed by followers), brief instructions and a few songs. His method of instruction was to direct the questioner again and again to her true self and to recommend, as a path to realization, a tireless form of self-inquiry featuring the question “Who am I?” The transcribed conversations of Ramana Maharshi are known among spiritual seekers the world over; their great inspirational power transcends all religious differences. This classic book of Sri Ramana’s instructions draws together three works in question-and-answer format which contain the essence of Maharshi’s teachings: Who am I, Spiritual Instruction, and Maharshi’s Gospel. A biographical sketch and glossary are also included. Truly speaking, pure Consciousness is indivisible; it is without parts. It has no form and shape, no “within” and “without.” There is no “right” and “left” for it. Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth… But the experience of Consciousness can be with bodily awareness as well as without it.

“Sri Ramana Maharshi can be appreciated by any tradition. He was perhaps the brightest light, East or West, in the modern era, and his words never fail to enlighten. He is really unique in so many ways, and this book is a wonderful glimpse of his intense radiance, which blinds the ego and discloses the Divine in every word and gesture.” — Ken Wilber, author of No Boundary.

Buddhism IN THE COOL SHADE OF COMPASSION The Enchanted World of the Buddha in the Jungle by Kamala Tiyavanich $22.95, paper. Shambhala. 342 pages, b/w illustrations

This fascinating collection of stories of the Thai forest monks illuminates the Thai Forest tradition as a vibrant, compassionate, and highly appealing way of life. This work ingeniously intermingles real-life stories about nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Buddhist monks in old Siam (today’s Thailand) with experiences recorded by their Western contemporaries. Stories of giant snakes, bandits, boatmen, midwives, and guardian spirits collectively portray a Buddhist culture in all its imaginative and geographical brilliance. By juxtaposing F FALL -WINTER 2018-2019

these eyewitness accounts, Kamala Tiyavanich presents a new and vivid picture of Buddhism as it was lived and of the natural environments in which the Buddha’s teachings were practiced. This book was previously published under the title The Buddha in the Jungle. “This is one of the most remarkable, honest, and rich accounts of how Theravada Buddhism actually flourished in Thailand. It gives us a new picture of the true breadth and fullness of the tradition in every part of life.”—Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart

TEACHINGS OF THE BUDDHA

JOURNEY TO MINDFULNESS

The Autobiography of Bhante G. Expanded Anniversary Edition by Bhante Gunaratana

$25.95, paper. Wisdom. 306 pages, illus.

Bhante Gunaratana—Bhante G., as he is affectionately called—has long been among the most beloved Buddhist teachers in the West. Ordained at twelve, he would eventually become the first Buddhist chaplain at an American university, the founder of a retreat center and monastery, and a bestselling author. Here, Bhante G. lays bare the often-surprising ups and downs of his more than ninety years, from his boyhood in Sri Lanka to his decades of sharing the insights of the Buddha, telling his story with the “plain-English” good-humored approach for which he is so renowned. Author of the bestseller Mindfulness in Plain English, Bhante repeatedly ran away from monasteries where he lived as a boy monk, stole things as a child, smoked and had traumatic fear-inducing accidents with water. As his story makes clear, his is a very human journey of teaching himself as well as others what the Buddha taught about how to live. The monk-author is fluent in different cultures as well as languages, and his autobiography contributes to an understanding of the relationship between the American Buddhism of converts and the traditional Theravada Buddhism as practiced in his native Sri Lanka. This plain-English look back at 75 years of an admixture of adversity, humility, and hard-won wisdom tells an engaging story that non-Buddhists can appreciate as well as Buddhists. This expanded anniversary edition includes four new chapters in which Bhante reflects on the impact of the tsumani that struck his homeland in 2004 and his subsequent appearance on Larry King Live, his brief experiment in ordaining nuns at his monastery, as well intimate reflections on the loss of family members, and his own aging and infirmity—providing an inspiring model to us all of gracious equanimity. We are left with the image of a good man who has lived an extraordinary life, and that this kind of life is within reach of all of us.

THE DHAMMAPADA

translated by Gil Fronsdal $14.95, paper. Shambhala.

New in Paperback

The Dhammapada is a collection of sayings of the Buddha, presented in verse form. Poetic, inspirational, and broadly accessible, this is the most widely read of all classical Buddhist texts. All experience is preceded by mind, Led by mind, Made by mind. Speak or act with a peaceful mind, And happiness follows Like a never-departing shadow.

This classic text of teaching verses from the earliest period of Buddhism in India conveys the philosophical and practical foundations of the Buddhist tradition. The text presents two distinct goals for leading a spiritual life: attaining happiness in this life (or in future lives); and the achievement of absolute peace. For centuries, this text has

Mindful of Race, Disease & Death

MINDFULLY FACING DISEASE AND DEATH

Compassionate Advice from Early Buddhist Texts by Analayo $28.95, paper. Windhorse. 282 pages

This book provides a practical guide for those facing disease and death by helping them to access the ageless wisdom of the Buddha’s teaching. Disease and death are undeniably integral parts of human life. Yet when they manifest we are easily caught unprepared and just want to run. To prepare for these, we need to learn how to skillfully face illness and passing away. A source of practical wisdom can be found in the early discourses that record the teachings given by the Buddha and his disciples. Analayo’s chief aim is to provide a collection of passages taken from the Buddha’s early discourses that provide guidance for facing disease and death. He focuses on the theme of compassion, and is concerned with anukampa : compassion as the underlying motivation in altruistic action. Analayo uses his own translations from the Chinese originals, presented here for the first time. Taken together with his practical commentary, we thereby gain a first-hand impression of what early Buddhism had to say about disease and death. Analayo offers us a much higher-resolution microscope with which to investigate how a mindfulness-based wisdom approach might be cultivated in the face of sickness, pain conditions, disease, and death. It taps early Buddhist textual sources mostly from the Chinese… The instructions for dealing with sickness, pain, and/or death, one’s own and others’, contain clear, uncompromising, and practical advice for any practitioner… Above all, these teachings invite us to integrate their guidance directly into the laboratory of our own meditation practice and life, in the spirit of deep investigation and inquiry. —Jon Kabat-Zinn, from the foreword

“Serious meditation students will benefit tremendously from the clarity of understanding that Venerable Analayo’s efforts have achieved.” —Sharon Salzberg, author of Real Happiness Analayo is a professor of Buddhist Studies at the Sri Lanka International Academy in Pallekele. He also wrote Satipatthana: The Direct Path to Realization.

MINDFUL OF RACE

Transforming Racism from the Inside Out by Ruth King $20.95, paper. Sounds True. 262 pages

“Racism is a heart disease,” writes Ruth King, “and it’s curable.” Exploring a crucial topic seldom addressed in meditation instruction, this revered teacher takes to her pen to shine a compassionate, provocative, and practical light into a deeply neglected and world-changing domain profoundly relevant to all of us. With Mindful of Race, Ruth King offers: Tend first to our suffering, listen to what it is trying to teach us, and direct its energies most effectively for change.

Here, she invites us to explore: u Ourselves as racial beings, the dynamics of oppression, and our role in racism u The power of paying homage to our most turbulent emotions, and perceiving the wisdom they hold u Key mindfulness tools to understand and engage with racial tension u Identifying our “soft spots” of fear and vulnerability—how we defend them and how to heal them u Embracing discomfort, which is a core competency for transformation u How our thoughts and emotions “rigidify” our sense of self—and how to return to the natural flow of who we are u Body, breath, and relaxation practices to befriend and direct our inner resources u Identifying our most sensitive “activation points” and tending to them with caring awareness u “It’s not just your pain”—the generational constellations of racial rage and ignorance and how to work with them …and many other compelling topics. King helps readers of all backgrounds examine with fresh eyes the complexity of racial identity and the dynamics of oppression. She offers guided instructions on how to work with our own role in the story of race and shows us how to cultivate a culture of care to come to a place of greater clarity and compassion. “Ruth King, a deeply wise and caring meditation teacher and diversity consultant, not only helps us understand the complexity of our great racial divide, she offers a core of practices, reflections, and actions that gives us hope for transformation. Our world needs this book. We need this book. Please read with a receptive heart and share with all you know!” —Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance

been studied in its original Pali and this translation combines Gil Fronsdal’s personal knowledge of the Buddhist path with his rigorous attention to detail in bringing forth the original text. Better than one hundred years lived Without seeing the arising and passing of things Is one day lived Seeing their arising and passing. Better than one hundred years lived BRANCHES OF LIGHT F

Without seeing the Deathless Is one day lived Seeing the Deathless.

In his foreword, Jack Kornfield writes: One page, one verse alone, has the power to change your life. Do not merely read these words but take them in slowly, savor them. Let them touch your heart’s deepest wisdom.

Also by Gil Fronsdal: The Buddha Before Buddhism.

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NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are by Jack Kornfield

New in Paperback

$22.00, paper. Simon & Schuster. 320 pp.

In his first big book in several years, mindfulness meditation teacher Jack Kornfield (author of A Path with Heart, Bringing Home the Dharma, etc.) invites us into a new awareness. Through his wise, warmhearted, poignant, often funny stories, with their Aha moments and O. Henry-like outcomes, Jack shows how we get stuck and how we can free ourselves, wherever we are and whatever our circumstances. Renowned for his mindfulness practices and meditations (he is a teacher of teachers), Jack provides these keys for opening gateways to immediate shifts in perspective and clarity of vision, allowing us to see how to change course, take action, or—when we shouldn’t act—just relax and trust. Each chapter presents a path to a different kind of freedom—freedom from fear, freedom to start over, to love, to be yourself, and to be happy—and guides you into an active process that engages your mind, heart, and spirit, awakens your spirit, and brings real joy, over and over again. Drawing from his own life as a son, brother, father, and partner, and on his forty years of face-to-face teaching of thousands of people, Jack presents a stirring call to be here, in the power of the now, the present, as we work through life’s passages. His keys to life will help us find hope, clarity, relief from past disappointments and guilt, and the courage to go forward. If not now, when? “With its incomparable blend of deep wisdom, evocative stories, and powerful meditations, No Time Like the Present is the fruit of a lifetime of spiritual teaching. Jack Kornfield’s message is, we don’t have to wait. Love, peace, freedom… it’s all available right here, in this very heart.” —Tara Brach, author of True Refuge “A consommé of goodness, heart, laughter, tears, and breath, nourishing and delicious. Rich in hope and deep wisdom for these revved up, rattling times.” — Anne Lamott author of Grace (Eventually)

EMPTINESS

A Practical Guide for Meditators by Guy Armstrong $24.95, paper. Wisdom. 306 pages

It may seem odd for emptiness to serve as the central philosophy of a major religion. In fact, emptiness points to something quite different than nothingness or vacancy. And by developing a richer understanding of this complex topic, we can experience freedom as we live consciously in the world. Guy Armstrong has been a leading figure and beloved teacher of insight meditation for decades. In this book, he makes difficult Buddhist topics easy to understand, weaving together Theravada and Mahayana teachings on emptiness to show how we can liberate our minds and manifest compassion in our lives.

F It is not actually possible to cling to reality, because change is so rapid and universal that a graspable thing cannot be found anywhere. All that we can cling to is the memory of something fleeting… For example, bodily processes cannot be stopped or frozen even for a second. When we see that this is true in every facet of life, it changes us deeply… The Buddhist path is different for each person, but there is a common trajectory for most of us, a series of steps in the seeing of emptiness and an accompanying series of releases. It is these insights and the resultant freedom that I do my best to describe in this book.

“For anyone seeking to understand emptiness, this is a clear and fine guidebook, with precise and practical ways to explore and deepen your practice.”— Jack Kornfield, author of A Path With Heart “Emptiness is a brilliant and practical introduction to the practice and attainment of liberation. It presents profound Buddhist teachings and describes ways practitioners can experience them for themselves. This is an important foundation for anyone interested in the meditation practices of Buddhism.” — Gil Fronsdal, author of The Buddha before Buddhism

ZEN IN THE AGE OF ANXIETY Wisdom for Navigating Our Modern Lives by Tim Burkett, with Wanda Isle

$22.95, paper. Shambhala.

Here Zen teacher Tim Burkett helps us in identifying the causes of mental and emotional anxiety epidemic in today’s world and in finding the path to a peaceful heart in the midst of them—a path that leads directly though the center of the anxiety we’re trying to escape. This book offers an approach to life that unlocks a new way of thinking and being in the world. Written in the style of an owner’s manual, a guide to being human, Burkett focuses on areas of pain and anxiety as they tend to manifest for modern people: feelings of unworthiness, and issues surrounding sex, money, failure, and even death. Providing wisdom from Zen (channeled through his many experiences as a psychotherapist) and using language and metaphors from popular culture, he takes anxiety and teaches us to turn those fears into the building blocks of a fulfilling life. Slowing down our thoughts so we can see the gaps between them creates the possibility to intervene, to make a course correction. Developing this skill is often difficult and confusing, but we can no longer be content to live on autopilot, allowing ourselves to be driven continually by impulse and emotional reactivity and missing the wonderful freedom that surrounds all thought and emotion.

Each chapter ends with a section called “Doing the Work,” which consists of three or four questions and/or meditative exercises. This section brings home the main points of the chapter, applying them directly to the reader’s own life situations. “This is a book imbued with love and wisdom, full of passages of fluid prose, woven in with carefully chosen Zen stories, poetry, and relevant research findings. It includes clear explanations of the power of diligent meditation practice to transform our various human difficulties into clear seeing,

ZEN FOR DAILY LIFE

Zen Koan Practice

INTRODUCTION TO ZEN KOANS Learning the Language of Dragons by James Ishmael Ford $24.95, paper. Wisdom. 248 pages

This marvelous book opens the treasure house of Zen and yet, happily, does not dispel its mystery. James Ford, an excellent storyteller and longtime Zen practitioner, presents a detailed and beautiful description of the craft of zazen, including just sitting and various forms of breath meditation—but focuses primarily on koan introspection. The power of koans, these ‘public cases’ from China, has never ceased to enrich my own experience of Zen. They are a medium of exploration of the history, culture, and view of Zen, but most importantly are a medium of awakening. James Ford is fundamentally a koan person, and for this, the book is particularly rich, opening the practice of koans in a splendid way. I am grateful for his long experience as a teacher and practitioner of this rare and powerful practice. Since the word koan has found its way into popular English usage, I am grateful too for the more nuanced and fertile view of koans that Ford presents. His definition of the word is telling: “a koan points to something of deep importance, and invites us to stand in that place.” He has also has created a wonderful translation of the Heart Sutra, Zen’s central scripture, and carefully opens up the heart of the Heart Sutra through scholarship and practice. Rich in textual sources and woven throughout with the perspectives of contemporary teachers, Introduction to Zen Koans sheds new light on ancient teachings. Through it, the reader will discover the importance of lineage, the traceless traces of the Zen ancestors, and the places of just sitting and koan practice as paths to awakening, as the great doorways into Zen. —from the foreword by Joan Halifax Also by James Ishmael Ford is If You’re Lucky, Your Heart Will Break.

THE CROW FLIES BACKWARDS AND OTHER NEW ZEN KOANS by Ross Bolleter

Each act in a Buddhist monastery— washing up, putting on clothes, entering the Buddha hall, sitting down for meditation, getting up from meditation—receives its own Dharma poem. Events on pilgrimage—encountering a tree, a river, a bridge, a dignitary, a mendicant—likewise offer entries into truth. My purpose in this book is similar: to show how ordinary occurrences in our modern lay lives are in fact the Buddha’s own teachings—and also to show how we can involve ourselves accordingly in the practice of wisdom and compassion with family and friends, with everyone and everything.” —Robert Aitken, from the Preface

“Poetry is comprised of images and music, and images make the practice easy. Robert Aitken Roshi is a poet who deeply appreciates practicing with these gathas. He offers us many beautiful verses, sterling examples of this practice, that we can use to reflect more deeply on what we are doing.”—from the Foreword by Thich Nhat Hanh Among the other books of Zen master Robert Aitken (1917-2010) are Zen Master Raven and Taking the Path of Zen.

THE COMPLETE COLD MOUNTAIN

$24.95, paper. Wisdom. 312 pages

Traditionally, Zen koans—the teaching stories of Zen—are drawn from the words and teachings of ancient masters and primarily address the concerns of (male) monastic practitioners. In The Crow Flies Backward, Ross Bolleter changes all that. The 108 modern koans offered within address sexuality and childbirth, family, parenthood, work, money and even the nature time itself. How do you inhabit that dimensionless space where the crow flies backwards?... How would you explain Zen to a teenager?... Isn’t any moment up for this?... When you’re making love, who is the other?

These koans are drawn from a variety of modern sources: Western philosophy, the Bible, contemporary and classic literature from Proust to Lewis Carroll and Mary Oliver and Anne Carson, as well as stories provided by author’s encounters with his Zen students. The long-term effects of koan study on our lives include increasing intimacy with our circumstances: we find we can stay present in situations where we might have previously moved off out of fear… We become more intimate with the world, which no longer feels like some painted backdrop to our fantasies of power and control. Rather, we breathe the world, sleep the world, walk the world, and finally die the world. Moreover our life feels as though it has been let out at the seams; it feels edgeless and unbounded.

Bolleter’s commentaries provide guidance to the reader on how to engage with each koan and koans in general, and direct guidance in to meditate with koans. An appendix offers rarely-seen intimate and in-depth accounts of the process of koan introspection, from four of the author’s senior students. “A beautiful, fun, and at the very same time profoundly challenging book.” —James Ishmael Ford, author of Introduction to Zen Koans

equanimity, and ease, followed by practical exercises about how to go about this work. This is a book about the substance and beauty of Zen practice, a book I will happily read and recommend to my own students.”—Jan Chozen Bays, author of Mindful Eating and How to Train a Wild Elephant “I gained so much from reading Tim’s book, especially about how to hold and handle my own anxieties… I especially liked Tim’s Nine Keys that can open any of us to healing powers in life events and in ourselves too.” —David Richo, author of How to Be an Adult in Relationships Also by Burkett: Nothing Holy About It.

ZEN VOWS FOR DAILY LIFE by Robert Aitken

$33.95, cloth. Wisdom. 110 pages

Originally published in 1992 as The Dragon Who Never Sleeps, this classic collection of gathas, vows in verse form for daily Buddhist practice, similar to prayers or affirmations, is again BRANCHES OF LIGHT F

again and again to our highest aspirations, with acceptance, joy, and compassion. The book provides touchstones for daily practice that the reader will want to return to again and again.

available. Reciting these poetic vows can help us be fully present in each moment and each activity of our lives. When I’m worried about my condition I vow with all beings to rest in my human condition: breathing in, breathing out, heart beat. u

Whenever I’m tempted to judge I vow with all beings to remember we both have two nostrils and the same implacable fate. u Whenever I’m feeling discouraged I vow with all beings To take my cue from the thrushes Who sing to the gloomiest sky.

Robert Aitken offers ways through life’s difficulties with insight and humor. These gathas serve as gentle reminders to return F FALL -WINTER 2018-2019

Poems of the Legendary Hermit Hanshan translated by Kazuaki Tanahashi, & Peter Levitt $24.95, paper. Shambhala. 264 pages

This fresh translation—and new envisioning—is a gem. The Hanshan (“Cold Mountain”) poems are unquestionably the most enduring works to come out of the poetically rich Tang dynasty (seventh to early tenth century) of China. They entered modern Western consciousness though the influence of the Beat generation writers for whom they were a major influence, and they’re rightfully known as some of the most accessible of classic Chinese poetry--the kind of poetry that speaks even to those who don’t usually relate to poetry. They have been much translated. This new translation is unique both in its scope— it includes all the poems traditionally associated with Hanshan, more than 300—and in its tone: it is a collaboration between two renowned and very different poets and Zen students who honor the Buddhist elements of the verse while perceiving in the Cold Mountain poems a kind of humor and tenderness of heart that makes their renditions particularly delightful. I see someone with great knowledge who uses his mind all day long. He stands at a fork in the road and shouts out, deceiving everyone. This only creates the dregs of hell, not true practice. When impermanence suddenly arrives, he’ll know he has squandered his life.

The translation includes the full Chinese text of the poems and a wealth of fascinating ancillary materials. This collection also stands out from the others in its organization: scholars often identify two different authors of the Cold Mountain poems, whereas Tanahashi and Levitt identify three poets from three different periods (explained in a fascinating appendix), and they have arranged the poems accordingly.

F Let me say to those who practice the way: Seeking worthless things exhausts your mind. People have a spiritual essence, beyond words or description. When you call on it, it responds clearly, when it is hidden, you don’t know where it is. Keep it well, don’t let it be stained.

Tibetan Buddhism SADNESS LOVE OPENNESS The Buddhist Path of Joy by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche

$21.95, paper. Shambhala. 108 pages

Here’s a direct, pithy, and accessible guide to the entire path of Tibetan Buddhism by one of the most beloved and respected contemporary lamas. Accessible, playful, and genuine, this concise guide shows how we can incorporate our own daily experiences into our spiritual path and awaken to how things truly are. By embracing sadness, love, and openness in our lives, we develop an altruistic attitude to help all beings who suffer and to reduce our own greed and aggression. This easy-toread manual by one of the most widely loved and respected Tibetan Buddhist teachers of our time teaches us how to honestly explore and deal with our own hang-ups and neuroses. Through knowing our own true nature as aware and compassionate, we can progress, step-by-step, on the Buddhist path and use Rinpoche’s pithy wisdom along the way as a touchstone. When we recognize that everything, including ourselves and all that we love, is going to perish, we cannot but respond with affection. With the recognition of the impermanent world comes great compassion, genuine care. This pivotal discovery provides the circumstance for a complete opening our our minds… Sorrow and pain become catalysts for deep-felt loving care, and the power of universal compassion delivers the realization of the true view. That’s when we have truly become students of the Dharma.

Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche’s fresh and engaged approach to timeless Buddhist wisdom enables us to deeply connect with authentic teachings in a modern context. This work is a delight and inspiration to read, outlining the major teachings and practices of Buddhism in a succinct way. Our meditation is uncontrived naturalness. Remember the example of the murky water—if you leave the water alone, it clears on its own. The same goes for the mind. If we don’t keep consciousness occupied, it settles—and the nature of mind reveals itself.

GRADUAL AWAKENING

The Tibetan Buddhist Path of Becoming Fully Human by Miles Neale

$20.95, paper. Sounds True. 248 pages

Western culture is fascinated by quick fixes, glamorous fads, and celebrity teachers—and spiritual practice is no exception. “What we see in North America today in both the yoga and mindfulness booms,” writes Dr. Miles Neale, “is a presentation of technique alone, sanitized and purged of

TIBETAN BUDDHISM

Reggie Ray

THE PRACTICE OF PURE AWARENESS

Somatic Meditation for Awakening the Sacred by Reginald Ray $24.95, paper. Shambhala. 286 pages

A respected teacher presents the core and essential wisdom of Tibet and shows us the possibilities of “enlightenment in this present life” through the meditative practice of Pure Awareness. Traditional Tibet held a unique spirituality, one with a depth and power far beyond anything most modern people have experienced. At the same time, its spirituality was often obscured under a heavy overlay of Tibetan cultural assumptions, beliefs, attitudes, and practices. Sometimes, many of us think that the cultural trappings somehow are the essence of Tibetan Buddhism. Then we end up trying to force ourselves into a rigid and alien cultural mold, leading to all kinds of emotional, psychological, and spiritual problems. According to Reginald Ray, the spirituality of Tibet in its most basic and integral form is quite real; but it is not about Tibet, Buddhism, or even religion. It is about how to discover, engage, and realize our deepest and most complete humanity. Perhaps the most precious teaching Tibet has to offer us in the modern world is the practice of meditation. Ray presents the core and essence of this tradition through the somatic practice of Pure Awareness--a unique kind of meditation that is thoroughly grounded in the body and in ordinary experience. This fundamentally transformative practice offers the possibility of enlightenment in this present life and invites us into the immensely powerful journey that Tibetan tantric spirituality has to offer. The more we practice and the more sensitive and aware we become, the more we experience a world that is rich, colorful, and magnificent; strangely, at the same time, it is also a world where literally everything can lead us either down into the quicksand of egotism, self-absorption, and neurosis or else upward into the light of sanity, compassion, and realization, depending on how we relate to it. Such is the nature of the spiritual quest in the modern world.

The book includes links to online audio recordings of the guided meditations to further aid the reader. “Read this book and be awakened throughout your whole body. The Practice of Pure Awareness reminds us that every last part of us is meant for joy, and our whole body is as vast as the cosmos.”—Adyashanti “A brilliant synthesis of traditional Vajrayana wisdom and contemporary somatics teachings, The Practice of Pure Awareness shows us that the true doorway to the dharma is not through the endless examination of the contents of the mind but through the awakening of the felt presence of the body. This is not Buddhism Lite. It’s Buddhism Essential.” — Will Johnson, author of Aligned, Relaxed, Resilient and Cannabis in Spiritual Practice

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 materialism, hedonism, and nihilism 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 LamRim—interpreted with fresh insights from modern scientific research. Through each step, Dr. Neale offers astute guidance on areas where Western audiences get stuck—particularly on the developmental realizations of selfcare, altruism, and quantum vision. Here is a landmark book that replaces shallow spirituality with a new paradigm that integrates science with spirit, theory with practice, and personal meditation with the desire to transform the world. I very much enjoy Dr. Neale’s fresh interpretation of the profound Lam Rim teachings that he has thoughtfully and respectfully examined through the perspectives of neuroscience and psychotherapy. Because of his long years of committed study, practice, teaching, and synthesis done with a sincere, altruistic motivation, I trust this book will reach many people who might otherwise not have had the fortune to be exposed to and to derive benefit from the dharma… May these teachings benefit numberless sentient beings as vast as space and sow the karmic seeds of enlightenment in BRANCHES OF LIGHT F

everyone fortunate enough to encounter them. May all beings have happiness and the causes of happiness. May all beings be free from suffering and the causes of suffering. May all being never be separated from the supreme happiness of enlightenment. May all beings abide in equanimity, free from clinging to close ones and aversion to others. —Geshe Tenzin Zopa, from his foreword

INTERCONNECTED

Embracing Life in Our Global Society by The Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje $24.95, paper. Wisdom. 248 pages

Plucked from a humble nomad family to become the leader of one of Tibet’s oldest Buddhist lineages, the young Seventeenth Karmapa draws on timeless values to create an urgent ethic for todays global community. We have always been, and will always be, interconnected— through family, community, and shared humanity. As our planet changes and our world grows smaller, it is vital we not only recognize our connections to one another and to the earth but also begin actively working together as interdependent individuals to create a truly global society. The Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, is uniquely positioned to guide us in this process. Drawing on years of intensive Buddhist training and a passionate commitment to social issues, he teaches how we can move F FALL -WINTER 2018-2019

from a merely intellectual understanding to a fully lived experience of connection. By first seeing, then feeling, and finally living these connections, we can become more effective agents of social and ethical change. The Karmapa shows us how gaining emotional awareness of our connectedness can fundamentally reshape the human race. He then guides us to action, showing step by step how we can change the way we use the earth’s resources and can continue to better our society. In clear language, the Karmapa draws connections between such seemingly far-flung issues as consumer culture, loneliness, animal protection, and self-reliance. In the process, he helps us move beyond theory to practical and positive social and ethical change. “This important book will convince you that a commitment to social and environmental justice flows naturally from mindfulness of interdependence. The Karmapa’s vision of a heart-centered spiritual practice fills one with hope, even as it addresses the most serious challenges facing us today.” — Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness

THE FUTURE IS OPEN

Good Karma, Bad Karma, and Beyond by Chogyam Trungpa $22.95, paper. Shambhala. 192 pages

Renowned meditation master Chogyam Trungpa here challenges popular misconceptions of the Buddhist doctrines of karma and rebirth, in the process showing how to step beyond karma on the path to awakening. Karma has become a popular term in the West, often connected with somewhat naive or deterministic ideas of rebirth and reincarnation. It is also often equated with views of morality and guilt. In The Future Is Open, Chogyam Trungpa unpacks this intriguing but misunderstood topic. He viewed an understanding of karma as good news, showing us that liberation is possible and that the future is never predetermined. His unique approach to presenting the Buddhist teachings lends itself to an insightful and profound view of karma, its cause and effects, and how to cut the root of karma itself. Topics include: the origin of karma; samsara and the world of ego and how they are shaped by karma; traditional teachings on karma; the difference between karma and fate; individual, group, and national karma; good karma, bad karma, beyond karma; karma and reincarnation; buddha activity and how it relates to ordinary practitioners; and meditation practice as the vehicle to step outside of the normal cycle of karma. Chogyam Trungpa (1940-1987) authored numerous books, among them Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism and Shambhala: Sacred Path of the Warrior.

WASTELAND TO PURELAND Reflections on the Path to Awakening by Doug Duncan & Catherine Pawasarat

$23.95, paper. Planet Dharma.

Honest, edgy, and accessible, Wasteland to Pureland is for anyone ready to shed limiting beliefs, and wake up to the vibrant, creative nature of reality.

WASTELAND TO PURELAND

The Dalai Lama & Pema Chodron BECOMING BODHISATTVAS

A Guidebook for Compassionate Action by Pema Chodron $29.95, paper. Shambhala. 386 pages

Beloved American Buddhist nun Pema Chodron presents a friendly and encouraging guide to spiritual practice for all those who want to take up the path of the bodhisattva--one who aspires to live life with courage, generosity, patience, fearlessness, and compassion. The Way of the Bodhisattva has long been treasured as an indispensable guide to enlightened living, offering a window into the greatest potential within us all. Written in the eighth century by the scholar and saint Shantideva, it presents a comprehensive view of the Mahayana Buddhist traditions highest ideal—to commit oneself to the life of a bodhisattva warrior, a person who is wholeheartedly dedicated to the freedom and common good of all beings. And it has inspired many of the tradition’s greatest teachers, providing a remarkable source of insight on the means by which we may heal ourselves and our troubled world. These essential teachings present the core of the Buddhist path, from cultivating deep-seated confidence to infusing one’s life with

THE POCKET PEMA CHODRON $14.95, paper. Shambhala. 132 pages, 4x6

Here is a treasury of 108 short selections from the best-selling books of Pema Chödrön, the beloved Buddhist nun. Designed for on-the-go inspiration, this collection offers teachings on u becoming fearless u breaking free of destructive patterns u developing patience, kindness, and joy amid our everyday struggles u unlocking our natural warmth, intelligence, and goodness.

THE BODHISATTVA GUIDE

We have no time to lose. When I look at the state of the world today, I know his message could not possibly be more timely. And now as long as space endures, As long as there are beings to be found, May I continue likewise to remain To drive away the sorrows of the world. —The Way of the Bodhisattva, V. 10.55

Among Pema Chodron’s many other books are When Things Fall Apart and Comfortable with Uncertainty. To relate with others compassionately is a challenge. Really communicating from the heart and being there for someone else—our child, spouse, parent, client, patient, or the homeless woman on the street—means not shutting down on that persona, which means, first of all, not shutting down on ourselves. This means allowing ourselves to feel what we feel and not pushing it away. It means accepting every aspect of ourselves, even the parts we don’t like. To do this requires openness, which in Buddhism is sometimes called emptiness—not fixating or holding on to anything.

to any genuinely spiritual path. His Holiness’s profound wisdom—the result of a lifetime of practice and study—shines brilliantly throughout this extraordinary book.

by The Dalai Lama

$14.95, paper. Shambhala. 204 pages, 4x6

The Dalai Lama’s indispensable commentary on a beloved Tibetan Buddhist text—now in the Shambhala Pocket Library series. One of the most beloved of all Buddhist texts, The Way of the Bodhisattva is a practical guide to generating the qualities of love, compassion, generosity, and patience. In his commentary on key sections of the text, the Dalai Lama shows how any of us can develop a truly “good heart,” and why aspiring toward the happiness and enlightenment of others is central

THE POCKET DALAI LAMA

As for wealth, we go to great lengths to obtain it, and are even prepared to lose our lives for it. Once we have it, we are forever afraid of losing it. Because of wealth, brothers and sisters are set at odds, couples break up. When we do not have it, we suffer; when we have it, we also suffer!

Previously published as A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night and later as For the Benefit of All Beings, this book is a manual for all those who wish to make the bodhisattva ideal a living experience. practice of patience and tolerance is indispensable. There is no fortitude similar to patience, just as there is no affliction worse than hatred.

by the Dalai Lama, edited by Mary Craig $14.95, paper. Shambhala.

This collection of wisdom on a wide range of topics is a pocket-sized inspirational companion for anyone—and the perfect short introduction to the Dalai Lama for the beginner. It offers brief, stand-alone readings drawn from many sources, including lectures, personal appearances, correspondence, and previously published books by the Dalai Lama. Topics include: forgiving one’s enemy; finding happiness in a secular society; understanding suffering, impermanence, and death; ways to world peace; spirituality and social action; and democracy and human rights. As I see it, compassion is the essence of a spiritual life. And in order for you to become successful in practicing love and compassion, the

Rooted in Buddhist philosophy and modern psychology, these teachings emerge out of decades of practice and study by master teachers Acariya Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat. Wasteland to Pureland addresses very typical events in a person’s life–including relationship and career, creativity and pain, and loss

I am indebted to Shantideva for his determination to get this message across: people like you and me can transform our lives by awakening the longing of bodhicitta. And I am deeply grateful to him for expressing, unrelentingly, that it is urgent, very urgent, that we do so.

u BEING THERE FOR OTHERS

by Pema Chodron

A spiritually awakening being is one who abides in the clear sky realization, even as they live, relate and work in the world with clouds.

selflessness, joyfulness, kindness, and compassion. Pema Chodron here invites you to journey more deeply into this liberating way of life, presenting Shantideva’s text verse-by-verse and offering both illuminating stories and practical exercises to enrich the text and bring its timeless teachings to life in our world today.

• Wars arise from a failure to understand one another’s humanness. Instead of summit meetings, why not have families meet for a picnic and get to know each other while the children play together? • Real love is not based on attachment, but on altruism. In this case, your compassion will remain as a humane response to suffering as long as beings continue to suffer.

The Dalai Lama became head of the Tibetan government at the age of 15 and escaped the Chinese invasion of his country in 1959, living in exile in India since. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.

and trauma. It also talks about practices that you can use, such as tantras, meditations, therapies and psychological approaches that open doors where we get stuck. Grounded in the belief that awakening is available to everyone, Doug & Catherine teach us how to reunite with our gifts, to become agents of compassion and transformation, personally, interpersonally and globally. Where do we find happiness and security amidst environmental degradation, unsustainable resource consumption, and a growing gap between the rich and the poor? How do we work with suffering in ourselves and those around us? Rather than retreating from suffering, Wasteland to Pureland dives into the heart of the uncertainty and busyness of our modern BRANCHES OF LIGHT F

world, and provides clear steps to greater fulfillment and spiritual growth.

The book is a contemporary guide to integrating spiritual practice with everyday life. In this book, you will discover: u How your career, creativity, sex, relationship and daily life can become your spiritual practice. u How the ego and trauma may be holding you back - and how to transcend it. u Discover new ways to push your awakening edge. u Maps of the self that draw from Buddhist philosophy, Western psychology and wisdom traditions such as karma yoga, astrology and tantra. u By learning to embrace “what is” we can transform ourselves, our relationships, F FALL -WINTER 2018-2019

F and our world from the inside out. Doug Duncan was a student of Namgyal Rinpoche for over 20 years. We’ve all experienced trauma. We all hold this in our being, in various ways. We hold it in the body, we hold it in emotional patterns, psychological patterns and thought patterns. Its important to look at where we’re holding tension and trauma in the body. There’s lots of amazing exercises and methodologies to work with that help release. Once we are more aware of the body we can begin looking at the subtler levels of emotions and thinking. Much of the spiritual path consists of purification; through various practices we purify our bodies, speech, emotions, and our minds. Through training and practice, we polish the mirror of our hearts.

Also by Doug Duncan is Dharma If You Dare. For more info: PlanetDharma.com.

Taoism & Chi Energetics AIKIDO OFF THE MAT One Woman’s Journey Using Aikido Principles to Stay Sane in Body, Mind, and Spirit by Kathy Park

$25.95, paper. North Atlantic. 256 pages

Kathy Park uses stories from her own life to illustrate how the principles of Aikido can help us cope with the many challenges of life in an increasingly chaotic world. Combining memoir with analysis, Kathy Park describes how the basic principles of Aikido can be applied to our daily encounters in order to live sanely and peacefully in an increasingly conflicted and disembodied world. Drawing from a full and wide-ranging life as well as more than forty years’ experience as an Aikido practitioner and teacher, Park explains how principles such as embodiment, grounding, centering, extension, 360 degree awareness, entering, blending, and alignment can be applied to the problems and challenges found in relationships, stressful situations, leadership roles, and questions of identity and purpose. Candid stories from her own life not only bring a striking intimacy to the narrative but also illustrate with vital immediacy how the entire point of practicing Aikido on the mat is to take it off the mat and into the world. “Aikido Off The Mat is a thoughtful, poetic, and intimate account of one woman’s journey of transformation. Part memoir, part adventure story, with a solid dose of pragmatic philosophy added, Kathy Park reveals how decades of practicing Aikido, both on and off the mat, have enriched her relationship life, her talents as a sculptor and artist, and her place of belonging in the natural world. Don’t expect a ‘how-to-book’ of executing martial techniques but rather a generous sharing of a life fully lived with all its hard edges and well-earned joys.” —Richard Strozzi-Heckler, author of The Art of Somatic Coaching

TAOISM & HEALING

Mr. Chia & the Power of Chi

BodyMind Healing, Ayurveda & Chinese Medicine

EMDR AND THE UNIVERSAL HEALING TAO An Energy Psychology Approach to Overcoming Emotional Trauma by Mantak Chia & Doug Hilton

$24.95, paper. Inner Traditions. 211 pages, colour illustrations

Through the energy psychology practices from the 5000-yearold Taoist Chi Kung system, you can recycle negative emotional states into positive energy for your spiritual, emotional, and physical benefit. By combining these ancient practices with the recently developed therapy of EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, you can produce fast, profound relief from emotional trauma, as well as address the emotional imbalances underlying depression, anxiety, PTSD, and even addiction. In this illustrated guide, Taoist master Mantak Chia and Doug Hilton explain how to integrate the eye movements of EMDR with the energetic exercises of the Universal Healing Tao to rid yourself of the negative feelings associated with past trauma. The authors explore how negative emotions are stored in the organs, the effects they have on physical, mental, and spiritual health, and the maladaptive emotional states people develop to deal with the pressures of modern life. Providing step-by-step instructions for each practice, the authors show how to deactivate your emotional triggers, trace energy disturbances back to the affected organ systems, transform negative emotions into positive ones, and harmonize the organs with EMDR and the Universal Healing Tao techniques of the Inner Smile, the Six Healing Sounds, and the Microcosmic Orbit. The result is a powerful self-healing practice.

CHI NEI TSANG AND MICROCURRENT THERAPY Energy Massage for Pain Relief, Self-Healing, and Rejuvenation by Mantak Chia & Aisha Sieburth

$21.50, paper. Inner Traditions. 179 pages, b/w illustrations

This illustrated guide to combining the new healing modality of microcurrent therapy with Chi Nei Tsang energy massage explains how microcurrent has a regenerative effect on the nervous system, helping to increase energy levels, promote circulation of blood and lymph, relieve acute or chronic pain, restore pH balance of the blood, balance hormone function, and improve the immune system. Its effects on circulation extend to all the body’s vessels, tissues, and cells as well as enhancing toxin elimination and reducing inflammation. The authors show how microcurrent therapy pairs extraordinarily well with Chi Nei Tsang massage. The microcurrent, flowing through the hands of the massage practitioner into the body, enhances the effects of the massage within the nerves and tissues, making it easier to harmonize the flow of energy, release tensions, and dissolve energetic knots in the meridians. With illustrated, step-by-step instructions, the authors explain how to use microcurrent therapy during massage and describe the basic techniques of Chi Nei Tsang massage. They show how CNT microcurrent therapy is beneficial for physical health and for specific ailments such as nerve pain, arthritis, sciatica, fibromyalgia, shingles, headaches, slow-healing wounds, and tension and ligament pain.

IN HARMONY WITH THE TAO

A Guided Journey into the Tao Te Ching by Francis Pring-Mill $23.95, paper. White Cloud. 246 pages, b/w photos

The Tao Te Ching is one of the most widely read and deeply loved works of ancient spiritual wisdom in the world. But its dense and cryptic lines can sometimes yield more confusion than illumination. If you’ve ever found yourself understanding the printed words but thinking, Yes, but what does this mean and how is it relevant to me? then Francis Pring-Mill’s In Harmony with the Tao: A Guided Journey into the Tao Te Ching is your guide into deeper understanding of this classic work of Chinese philosophy. Today’s fast-paced world leaves us little time to spend with the timeless questions, such as how to live a meaningful life in harmony with the world around us. Nonetheless we yearn for answers and answers are to be found in the Tao Te Ching, a book written twenty-five hundred years ago that resonates with people everywhere as though it had been written yesterday. Of the many English

translations and versions, some are scholarly, others are philosophical. What’s new in In Harmony with the Tao is the concept of a guided journey accompanying the text of perhaps the best-known English edition: Stephen Mitchell’s elegant, authoritative Tao Te Ching: A New English Version. This book, In Harmony with the Tao, includes the complete text of Stephen Mitchell’s work accompanied by Francis PringMill’s illuminating commentaries on each chapter. In a skillful rendition of ancient wisdom reimagined for modern times, In Harmony with the Tao reveals the common threads weaving through the eighty-one brief chapters. This deeply beautiful book will appeal to anyone keen to understand the ideas contained in, and especially between, the lines of theTao Te Ching. When you are centered in the Tao there is only emptiness and silence. If you dwell here, all your actions will be in natural harmony with the Tao and thus infinitely capable and inexhaustible. No thoughts. No words, Just dwelling, acting, and letting go…. And we can step into the flow at any time… Children do it unconsciously all the time. As adults, however, we can do it on purpose. And when we do, we discover we can use the Tao “any way we want.” BRANCHES OF LIGHT F

BAREFOOT WISDOM

Better Health through Grounding by Sharon Whiteley & Ann Marie Chiasson $23.95, paper. Schiffer. 118 pages, colour photos

Discover how to reconnect with nature’s energy and step into better health by grounding. Grounding is a freely available way to tap into the Earth’s always-accessible and ever-powerful natural energy to rebalance the body and restore health. In this primer on the natural health benefits of grounding, find out how to use the Earth’s power to counteract the harmful nature deficiency found in our modern society. Any outdoor activity that puts you into direct contact with the Earth for a period of time will do: twenty to thirty minutes a day is all it takes, and of course, the more the better. All these allow for the transfer of electrons, from the Earth to your body, to occur. By increasing the number of electrons in your body, you naturally become more energized. You sleep better, you are less stressed, and your health improves. There’s not one right way to get grounded; there are many. Earth to you can work wonders.

Learn what people knew in the past about grounding and its use in linking to nature and the Earth. Find out how you can use grounding to change your life, regain connections to the Earth, dispel misconceptions and challenge myths, and stay grounded wherever you are. By using the Earth as a treatment table, you will begin to understand how to both keep your feet on the ground—sole to soil!—and can walk your way to a healthier future today. The Earth has always been the treatment table of choice, a place where healing energy was abundant, naturally sustainable, and free. After all, the function of the Earth is to support life… The challenge— and the opportunity—is to integrate its energy back into our lifestyles today. Taking the first step to better health is as easy as taking a walk outside. It’s the best way we know to stay grounded in all that is naturally good for you.

“The authors explain in very simple terms the essence of the Schumann energy–the Mother Earth energy field of 7.83 HZ—and offer proven, scientific methods that will help heal your life… Barefoot Wisdom is chocked full of real-life experiences and remarkable individual case studies… Trust me, Nature heals, and grounding is the most basic and primitive way to get your life back!´—Steven Sinatra MD, co-author of Earthing

HOW TO BE SICK (SECOND EDITION)

A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill New in and Their Caregivers Paperback by Toni Bernhard $25.95, paper. Wisdom.

Now updated with added practices, How to Be Sick is a must-read for anyone who is— or who might one day be—sick. That is, any of us. And it may be a gift of guidance, en-

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couragement, and inspiration to family, friends, and loved ones struggling with the many terrifying or disheartening life changes that come so close on the heels of a diagnosis of a chronic condition or even life-threatening illness. The author tells the reader how she got sick and, to her and her partner’s bewilderment, stayed that way. Toni had been a longtime meditator, going on long meditation retreats and spending many hours practicing, but soon discovered that she simply could no longer do it. She had to learn ways to make “being sick” the heart of her spiritual practice—and through truly learning how to be sick, she learned how, even with many physical and energetic limitations, to live a life of equanimity, compassion, and joy. She clearly explains how such Buddhist principles as the four noble truths, impermanence, no-self, and dependent origination help her cope with limited energy and frequent enforced solitude. No longer able to meditate formally, Bernhard describes a set of easy mental practices, drawn from her own daily experiences as well as vipassana (insight meditation), Zen koans, Tibetan Buddhist compassion exercises, and the “inquiry” technique of Byron Katie, a practice for working with thoughts. Whether we ourselves are sick now—or later—there is much we can learn of the vital arts of living well in this book. “Toni Bernhard has written a beautiful and heartfelt account of chronic illness and inner transformation. Her immense courage is present on every page. Truly worth reading.” —Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness

HANDBOOK OF CHINESE MEDICINE AND AYURVEDA An Integrated Practice of Ancient Healing Traditions by Bridgette Shea $37.50, cloth. Inner Traditions. 372 pages, b/w illustrations

Chinese medicine and Ayurveda are two of the oldest healing systems in use today. Each is a complete art, in and of itself, and has profoundly contributed to the health and well-being of millions of people around the world. Drawing on their shared roots and spiritual principles, Bridgette Shea, L.Ac., MAcOM, shows how these two practices integrate seamlessly, with the two traditions’ individual strengths harmonizing to form a practical basis for prevention, wellness, detoxification, and treatment. The author explains the foundational principles of both Chinese medicine and Ayurveda in detail, providing the reader with a working understanding of both disciplines. She examines shared concepts such as qi and prana, meridians and nadis, and energy centers and chakras. She explores the strengths of each practice, such as the clinical efficiency of diagnosis and the use of acupuncture for pain relief, improving fertility, and stress reduction in Chinese medicine and the dietary, detoxification,

G U T, C A N C E R, C H A K R A S & L I G H T

Gut Healing & the Microbiome

THE GUT WELLNESS GUIDE

The Power of Breath, Touch, and Awareness to Reduce Stress, Aid Digestion, and Reclaim Whol-Body Health by Allison Post & Stephen Cavaliere $24.95, paper. North Atlantic. 224 pages, b/w illustrations

This user-friendly guide is for anyone grappling with hard-to-pindown causes of chronic pain, fatigue, gas, bloating, and other common disorders associated with the gut, as well as those wanting to improve their overall health. Addressing a wide range of conditions—including digestive problems, anxiety, and depression—this easy-to-use guide presents simple and direct ways to relieve the stress related to some of today’s most pressing health problems. It shows the devastating impact that imbalances of gut microbiota and the microbiome can have on digestion—and on hormonal, immune, and brain function—and demonstrates proven techniques to reconnect with our bodies and reclaim our health. Allison Post, an integrative medicine health coach and somatic educator, and Stephen Cavaliere, a fitness coach, offer a holistic, step-by-step plan to overcome stress, settle into authentic breathand body-centered experience, and navigate through the exciting new world of the microbiome. The Gut Wellness Guide introduces the method of Unwinding, a clear and accessible way to connect the “gut brain” to the “main brain” and to relax, tune in to your body, and create a customized action plan to heal. Previously published as Unwinding the Belly, this book has been thoroughly updated and revised. The book also: u Provides new information about the gut microbiome u Shows how to hold onto health goals while navigating mainstream medicine and alternative health programs u Explains why the gut is critical in hormonal and immune function u Helps with a wide variety of digestive ailments, including Irritable Bowel Syndrome, constipation, diarrhea, heartburn, and food sensitivities u Teaches self-help techniques for increasing metabolism and cellular energy and revitalizing the natural healing powers of the body.

THE SECRET LIFE OF YOUR MICROBIOME Why Nature and Bidiversity are Essential to Health and Happiness by Susan Prescott & Alan Logan $24.95, paper. New Society. 336 pages

For too long our bodies have been viewed as capsules, sealed off and protected from “bugs” by our immune systems and an arsenal of antibiotics, pesticides, processed foods, and anti-bacterial soaps. The more insulated from nature, the better. The Secret Life of Your Microbiome shatters this deeply held myth, presenting a revolutionary new paradigm, backed by vast science; we’re deeply connected to the biodiversity of nature through our microbiomes—the rich microbial ecosystem of our guts and skin—and this connection is essential to health and happiness. From sugar-rich diets wiping out good gut bacteria and exacerbating depression, to microbes mediating phytonutrient absorption in the brain, to inflammation and cancer, the influence of biodiversity on our bodies is everywhere. The great communicator is our immune system, a “mobile brain” that interacts with micro-organisms in and around us with profound health consequences. Written with pace, clarity, and humor by world-renowned scientists in immunology, nutrition, and environmental health, The Secret Life of Your Microbiome makes the irrefutable case that health and happiness depends fundamentally on the health of biodiversity, and shows how we can nurture this nature.

and spiritual guidance of Ayurveda, including the detox branch of Ayurveda known as Panchakarma. Moving beyond theory into practical application, she explores the Elements, known as the Five Phases and the Panchamahabhutas, and how they affect our well-being. She provides tools for self-assessment including a primer on tongue diagnosis and a mental, emotional, and physical constitutional questionnaire. Offering treatment and prevention strategies that draw from both disciplines, she encourages the reader to implement an integrated practice of these two systems in daily life or clinical practice. She details breathing exercises, dietary regimens, herbal recommendations, and guides for detoxification, including safe and gentle home cleanses, all rooted in the holistic synergy between Ayurveda and Chinese medicine. Sharing case studies that highlight the interconnectedness of these approaches, Shea provides a comprehensive guide for self-healing of body, mind, and spirit and a practitioners resource to cross-reference complex questions with respect to both healing traditions.

CANCER AS A WAKE UP CALL

An Oncologists’ Integrative Approach to What You Can Do to Become Whole Again by M Laura Nasi $28.95, paper. North Atlantic. 352 pages

Cancer as a Wake-Up Call is an easy-to-read guide to an integrative approach to preventing and treating cancer. Conventional medicine focuses on attacking cancer cells, but doesn’t address why a person gets sick. But cancer is a systemic disease manifesting a global condition locally. In this well-researched volume, oncologist Mara Laura Nasi offers holistic approaches to cancer. Rather than trying to disprove traditional methods of dealing with cancer, she demonstrates the limitations of seeing and treating cancer merely as an invader that must be eradicated; why do some people’s bodies metabolize mutations without forming canBRANCHES OF LIGHT F

cer while someone else exposed to the same carcinogens develops cancer? Why do some people see cancer return after it’s eradicated while others see no remission? Nasi invites the reader to look at cancer from a whole-person perspective that takes into account experiences, environment, and the full picture. “This book is for anyone with cancer, anyone who works with those who have cancer, and for all of us who know someone who has cancer. It offers a treasury of approaches to living with and beyond cancer, bringing holistic perspectives into focus as a path on the journey of cancer.” —Roshi Joan Halifax, author of Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet “In Cancer as a Wake-Up Call, Dr. Nasi gifts us with an engaging and entertaining overview of holistic cancer care. This incredible resource presents a huge amount of information in easily digestible doses with the assistance of charming illustrations, valuable Take-Home Messages, and vital Practice for Healthy Living recommendations. The patient interactions and quotations from a host of international sages really help target the message. A must-read for anyone living with or beyond cancer, the people that love them, and hopefully, for their oncologists!” —Donald Abrams, editor (with Andrew Weil) of Integrative Oncology

Healing Energies, Healing Herbs CHAKRAS BEYOND BEGINNERS Awakening to the Power Within by David Pond $19.50, paper. Llewellyn. 213 pages

Building on concepts presented in Chakras for Beginners, David Pond takes you past basic understanding to explore the many ways chakras can enhance the flow of vital energy in all aspects of your life. Learn how to identify and remove the obstacles that inhibit your energy, as well as how to keep that flow open. Raise your awareness of other people’s energy fields and use it to improve your relationships. Find fulfillment, security, and happiness by balancing your chakras. With this guide, you can unlock your true essence and the source of your well-being. In this book, a chapter is dedicated to each chakra, identifying its qualities, attributes, and areas of influence in your life. Techniques for identifying the blocks and obstructions that inhibit the energetic flow of each chakra will be covered, as well as methods for removing these obstacles. Exercises, activities, and meditations are included to help you bring each chakra to its full potential. For those interested in yoga, postures that can help activate and balance each chakra are presented; however, practicing yoga postures is not a requirement for working with your chakras.

“An insightful and uplifting gift—a true gem. David takes us on an enlightening tour of each chakra, explaining the energetic essence of who we are and making clear that when we control our energy, we control our destiny.” —Alex Holland, author of Voices of Qi “Anchored at the center of converging illumination, inspiration, and compassion, gifted teacher David Pond opens the way F FALL -WINTER 2018-2019

for a spiritually mature journey, embracing the depths and riches of the eternal path through the chakras.”—Linda Howe, author of How to Read the Akashic Records

LIGHT THERAPIES

A Complete Guide to the Healing Power of Light by Anadi Martel

$31.50, paper. Inner Traditions. 368 pages, colour illustrations

Beginning with sun worship in prehistory and sunshine therapies in ancient Egypt, Greece, and India, light has long been associated with the sublime, the divine, and healing. Yet only recently have we begun to understand how different parts of the light spectrum, from infrared to ultraviolet, can affect our physical and psychological well-being. Covering the historic, scientific, and spiritual aspects of light and its role in energy medicine, Anadi Martel explores the vibrational nature of light and the interaction between light, biology, and consciousness. He demonstrates light’s incredible effects on the physical, energetic, and cognitive dimensions of life and examines several forms of light therapy, including chromotherapy (color therapy), heliotherapy (sun therapy), actinotherapy (ultraviolet therapy), and thermotherapy (infrared therapy). He details how to use light therapy daily, get optimal benefits from sunlight, and avoid the health risks of new artificial lighting such as compact fluorescents and LEDs. Combining his own 30 years of research with practical insight from the many phototherapy pioneers he’s encountered, the author examines scientific studies on how specific wavelengths of light influence our cells and DNA, brain function, sleep patterns, and emotional stability; speed the healing of wounds; and are effective in the treatment of disease, including arthritis, stroke, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and brain and nerve injuries. Exploring the spiritual aspects of light, the author explains why auras and halos have been used to represent sages and saints of all traditions, revealing the intimate link between light and consciousness. Investigating the many laser, monochrome, audiovisual, and infrared machines designed to heal disease and treat emotional disorders, Martel also reveals promising medical applications for light that are currently in development, inviting the reader not only to appreciate the complexities of light but to maximize its therapeutic dimensions. Light Therapies is an encyclopedia of light and color therapy unique in the depth and breadth of information and knowledge it shares.

THE PENDULUM KIT

All the tools you need to divine the answer to any question and find lost objects and earth energy centers by Sig Lonegren $34.95, paper. Schiffer. guidebook, pendulum and charts

The pendulum is a tool that bridges the gap between the logical left brain and the intuitive right brain: dowsing with a pendulum, you can unlock the mysteries of the earth and its energy fields and tap into the unlimited potential of your own mind. Follow exercises that will instruct you how to

E N E R G Y, M E D I C I N E & H E R B S

Energy Clearing & Ethics

Herbal Wisdom

MODERN GUIDE TO ENERGY CLEARING

NATURAL ANTIBIOTICS AND ANTIVIRALS

by Barbara Moore

18 Infection-Fighting Herbs and Essential Oils by Christopher Vasey

$21.99, paper. Llewellyn. 216 pages

$18.99, paper. Inner Traditions. 200 pages, b/w illustrations

This book is a complete guide to transforming your life by working with energy. Discover how to clear inappropriate energy and how to maintain healthy energy in yourself, your home, your workplace, and other shared or public spaces. Explore techniques for personal clearing, chording, shielding, supporting the spirit of a place, clearing clutter, setting intentions, and addressing the elements. Like any kind of hygiene, spiritual wellbeing depends on consistent attention and good habits. Modern Guide to Energy Clearing provides the basic techniques you need.

Nature offers us many natural antibiotics from the plant kingdom that work powerfully against germs while also being gentle on the body. Knowledge of these safe and natural antibiotics and antivirals is more crucial now, as modern antibiotics become less effective due to the growing threat of antibiotic-resistant germs. Natural antibiotics even offer an opportunity to reverse antibiotic resistance by reducing the use of pharmaceutical antibiotics to only the most critical cases. In this practical guide, Christopher Vasey presents 18 of the most potent antibiotic and antiviral herbs from around the world and one beehive remedy, propolis. He details how to use them effectively as mother tinctures and essential oils as well as what illnesses each is best suited to treat. Drawing on the latest research, he explains how microbes can’t build resistance against these natural substances due to the many molecules in their make-up and their large spectrum of action in the body, which makes them effective against viruses as well. He reveals that, unlike pharmaceutical antibiotics and antivirals whose list of side effects grows in proportion to their strength, natural antibiotics generally lack any malignant side effects and have no adverse effects on non-targeted bacteria, such as intestinal flora. The author also includes information on probiotics to restore gut health after the use of pharmaceutical antibiotics, ways to strengthen your immune system and become less receptive to infections, and guidance on detox treatments to support the natural antibiotics as they work. He also provides an index of more than 50 common ailments and diseases with the most effective medicinal plants and essential oils to use in each case. Offering a way to break free from the threat of antibiotic-resistant germs and improve the body’s immune system and internal terrain, this guide gives each of us the ability to fight infections naturally.

Energy clearing and cultivation are neither hard nor complicated. You don’t have to subscribe to any specific tradition, belief system, or religion… We’ll use clear, common language to create a shared vocabulary that will make it easier to talk about the nature of energy. We will also discuss in greater detail the purpose of energy work. The language and purpose will help us have realistic expectations about what we are going to do and how we are going to do it… Personal clearing includes creating a toolkit of techniques that you can use in different circumstances as needed, clearing long-standing energy blocks within yourself and developing an energetic maintenance practice… After you are feeling cleared and centered, we move outward, learning about the energy of spaces and places and how you can affect the energy of your home, workplace, car, etc. Finally, you’ll learn how simple practices can change the world, one small action at a time… Together, your journal and this book will help you create your own personal energy practice.

ETHICS IN ENERGY MEDICINE

Boundaries and Guildelines for Intuitive and Energetic Practices by Heidi Light

$22.95, paper. North Atlantic. 152 pages

This is the first guidebook to discuss the full scope of the intuitive process, to introduce revolutionary concepts related to the energetic world, and to propose structures to keep practitioners and clients safe. Emphasizing that the world of intuition, energy, mysticism and ancient knowledge is awakening on a grand scale, Heidi Light, a family counselor and certified hypnotherapist, explains that we are in desperate need of guidance and standards so that we can approach these practices from a healthy and respectful place. Drawing from her more than forty years as a medical intuitive, empath, and energy tracker—as well as twenty years as a counselor in private, clinical, and institutional settings—Light offers practical, simple solutions to the alarming lack of boundaries in the fields of intuition and energy medicine. From massage therapists who just throw in a little extra “energy work,” to psychics who read your sister instead of you, to Reiki practitioners who tell you to take off your clothes, Light shares case studies and vignettes of ethical boundaries mistakenly being crossed. This book explains the traditional Psychological Model of Ethics, that counselors and psychologists are taught, and outlines an Energetic Ethics Model, comprised of six pillars of practice, that creates a framework for moving through the process of accessing intuitive information and working with energy--including channeling, intuitive and psychic readings, energy tracking, astral travel and journeying, mediumship, angels, past lives, and more. interpret the movements of a swinging pendulum to tune into your intuition; answer questions about your love life, health, or career; forecast the weather, predict events, locate lost objects and underground reserves of water or oil, and more! Use nineteen dowsing and astrological charts to acquire definitive answers, learn how to triangulate your movements to find misplaced items, discover additional applications for using the pendulum, and explore complementing tools. Have fun as you begin with the basics and continue your training to expert status. Kit includes pendulum with chain and pouch, 128-page book, and nineteen dowsing and astrological charts.

CANNABIS FOR CHRONIC PAIN

A Proven Prescription for Using Marijuana to Relieve Your Pain and New in Heal Your Life Paperback by Rav Ivker $22.00, paper. Scribner

This comprehensive guide for treating chronic pain with medical marijuana is from a holis-

tic family physician who has treated more than six thousand chronic pain patients with cannabis. While the number of patients using medical marijuana increases every year, misconceptions about cannabis and whether it’s harmful or dangerous still exist. In Cannabis for Chronic Pain, Dr. Rav explains cannabis’s potential capacity for healing anyone afflicted with chronic pain. Medical marijuana is a safe, non-addictive alternative to dangerous opiate pain pills. Along with sharing his own story of using medical marijuana to heal from a severe case of shingles, Dr. Rav guides you through the cannabis and holistic treatment for your specific chronic pain condition. If you are suffering from arthritis, back pain, migraines, fibromyalgia, menstrual cramps, IBS, Crohn’s Disease, anxiety, depression, or pain from cancer or its treatment (etc.)— this book is for you. Dr. Rav offers step by step instruction on the benefits and appropriate use of medical marijuana. And he dispels many of the misconceptions. Did you know that you don’t have to smoke or eat cannabis for it to be effective? There are now vaporizers, patchBRANCHES OF LIGHT F

WEEDS IN THE HEART

Explorations in Intuitive Herbalism by Nathaniel Hughes & Fiona Owen $67.00, cloth. Aeon. 168 pages, 8x12, colour illustrations

This is a unique and unusual herbal—a labour of love by herbalist Nathaniel Hughes and artist Fiona Owen. It is not a book of cures, it is a book of doorways. Through rich storytelling, first hand accounts of plant-meetings and tales of healing, the consciousness that can emerge within these plant-human relationships reveals itself. Artist and herbalist have worked closely together over three years, patiently letting the character of each plant express itself through Fiona’s illuminations and Nathaniel’s words. Our hope is to share our experiences and in so doing, encourage you to dive into your own. We don’t dress up opinion as fact, rather we celebrate the rich diversity of subjective experience and encourage this. We believe direct relationship with the plants is the best way to develop herbal wisdom. Each of us percieves the plant through our own, conditioned filters—none are true, all are valuable.

The “doorways” in this magnificent book are Wild Garlic, Primrose and Cowslip, Nettle, Dandelion, Cleavers, Lady’s Mantle, Lemon Balm, Marigold, Horsetail, Chamomile, St John’s Wort, and Rose. Immersing myself in the herbs through these pages, I am transported closer to the essence of my being. A healthy humbling is what plants truly offer—especially the oft neglected weeds—a means of getting close to the earth, to our roots, to the source. Savour this book as if smelling plants in a perfumed garden and allow the wise words and potent pictures to act as a spell… Each plant holds a key to our opening and unfolding, enfolding and healing us with its own unique blend of magic. —from the foreword by JJ Middleway, celebrant

Illustrated throughout with full colour gilded illustrations, this beautiful volume has to be seen to be believed. The plants can guide us. They remind us that symbiosis is possible, that a thousand species can find shelter in a single tree and that nature possesses a potent force for healing, adaptation and wholeness, a force which awaits us in the realm of our wild companions.

“This is as richly imbued with spirit as it’s possible for a book to be. Holding it in your hands, you are already drawn into the woodlands and meadows, called by the plants into their realm. It reveals the alchemical blend of science and art that is true medicine.” —Pip Waller, author of Deeply Holistic: A Guide to Intuitive Self-Care es and drops. We are entering a new age of acceptance and perhaps most importantly, it is now possible to create a distinct cannabis prescription for different types of chronic pain. The book is in 3 parts: u Cannabis as Medicine u Self-Care 101: MMJ + Holistic Medicine = Long-Lasting Pain Relief u Fully Alive: Getting High on Life! In the chapter “Cannabis as a Sacred Herb,” he writes beautifully about celebrating the Sabbath (our own sacred time, regularly) with cannabis: It can serve as a facilitator and assist you F FALL -WINTER 2018-2019

in navigating through your uncharted interior landscape. It will help to empower you and accelerate the healing process… When used on occasion as a sacred heart-opening, soul-awakening herb, it can help take you to new heights of self-awareness and self-love… The energy conveyed by cannabis is both medicinal and mystical, which is most evident with its impact on the heart. Parts I and II have provided you with a wealth of information of the use of cannabis as a medicine, primarily for physical pain relief. In Part III you learn to apply the mystical heart chakra-opening properties of the herb to heal the deeper emotional and spiritual pain underlying all physical pain.

BODYFULNESS

Bodywork & Movement PSYCHIC REIKI

Divine Life-Force Energy Healing by Brett Bevell $21.50, paper. Monkfish. 155 pages, b/w illustrations

Psychic Reiki is the culminating work of Bevell’s previous books about Reiki, plus some new techniques, combined into one elegant and user-friendly energy healing system. As with traditional Reiki, its practitioners practice accessing the Divine Life Force energy known as Reiki for well-being and spiritual development. Yet this system differs from traditional Reiki in that there are no symbols and no hand positions, since the practitioner learns to communicate with and direct the energy of Reiki telepathically. This system of Reiki has no hand positions, no use of the traditional Reiki symbols, and no hierarchy of degrees that exists in traditional Reiki, such that anyone empowered to it can also initiate others to Psychic Reiki. Yet the energy Psychic Reiki draws from is still the same vibration of Reiki as traditional Reiki. Psychic Reiki simply accesses Reiki Divine Life-Force Energy in a way that fits more with the egalitarian evolution into an Aquarian Age. In other words, it is a new structure, a new human container for Reiki, though the energy of Reiki itself remains as pure and as Divine as it has always been.

Introduction to this book begins like this: The book you hold in your hands is conscious. Yes, that is a very bold statement, yet one which is true. It is conscious in the sense that it can relate to you on the psychic level as you request it to send you healings, as well as be a guide for you to enter into deep meditative states. I know of no other book that is capable of this.

Also by Brett Bevell: The Wizard’s Guide to Energy Healing.

THE BODYMIND BALLWORK METHOD A Self-Directed Practice to Help You Move with Ease, Release Tension, and Relieve Chronic Pain by Ellen Saltonstall $28.95, paper. North Atlantic. 256 pages, 7x10, b/w photos

Release stress and tension in the body using only simple rubber balls with this accessible, step-by-step guide to a bodywork system that can benefit people of any age or physical condition. The Bodymind Ballwork Method is an accessible guide to the method developed by yoga and bodywork teacher Ellen Saltonstall—a self-directed, gentle practice to help people release tension and move with ease. The Bodymind Ballwork Method features the use of rubber balls in a range of sizes to support, massage, and stretch the body in specific places, with clear instructions for techniques from head to toes. With 70 black and white photos and 25 drawings to illustrate techniques and concepts, the author offers exercises for spine, head, neck, face, abdomen, ribs, shoulders, arms, hands, pelvis, thighs, knees, lower legs, and feet. An integrative body-mind practice, Bodymind Ballwork works to relieve soft tissue pain

Anatomy & The Muscles

Food & Healing

THE POCKET ATLAS OF HUMAN ANATOMY

EAT FEEL FRESH

$22.99, paper. North Atlantic. 272 pages, colour illustrations

$32.00, cloth. DK. 248 pages, 7x9, colour photos

A Reference for Students of Physical Therapy, Medicine, Sports, and Bodywork by Chris Jarmey

This durable, lay-flat, user-friendly illustrated guide is for students of anatomy and anyone interested in the workings of the human body. This concise, pocket-sized reference guide is a handy, comprehensive reference for students and practitioners of anatomy, massage, physical therapy, chiropractics, medicine, and physiotherapy—or for anyone who would like a quick and well-organized manual of human anatomy. The first seven chapters explain anatomical orientation, tissues, bone, the axial and appendicular skeletons, joints, and skeletal muscle and fascia. In the book’s final chapters, the muscle groups of the body’s four major regions are amply illustrated, with composite drawings detailing each region’s deep and superficial muscles in both anterior and posterior views. Color tables show each muscle’s origin, insertion, innervation, and action. A final chapter by Thomas Myers outlines the Anatomy Trains myofascial meridians, which present a map of how tracks of fascial fabric wind longitudinally through the muscles. This new approach to structural patterning has far-reaching implications for effective movement training and manual therapy treatment. Written in clear, accessible prose, the book offers a wealth of knowledge to the lay reader, the aficionado, or the practitioner.

THE CONCISE BOOK OF MUSCLES 4th Edition by Chris Jarmey

New in Paperback

$39.95, paper. North Atlantic. 272 pages, 8x11, colour illustrations

This newly revised fourth edition of The Concise Book of Muscles is a comprehensive guide to the major muscle groups. Fully illustrated with more than 500 drawings, and easy to use, this compact reference provides a complete profile for each muscle, clearly showing its origin, insertion, nerve supply, and action, the movements that use it, and, where appropriate, exercises that stretch and strengthen it. The book’s distinctive quick-reference format shows students exactly how to locate and identify specific muscles, highlighting those that are heavily used and therefore subject to injury in a variety of sports and activities. Each muscle chapter now includes an overview of the gross anatomy of the body area to show bony landmarks, cross-sections of muscle layers, and points of attachment as well as a quick reference table and an overview of the nerve pathways that are most relevant. The book also includes a new chapter on the pelvic floor muscles—of particular interest to those studying or practicing yoga and Pilates—as well as a 20”x35” detachable muscle wall chart. While designed for the student and beginning practitioner of anatomy, massage, bodywork, physical therapy, chiropractic medicine, physiotherapy, yoga, and Pilates or any other health-related field, The Concise Book of Muscles is equally useful for athletes and anyone interested in the workings of the human body. “The Concise Book of Muscles… is the best anatomy book for nonmedical students that I’ve ever seen, and I’ve looked at them all. Get it.”—Timothy Ferriss, author of Tools of Titans

as well as emotional stress and trauma, and is also designed to empower individuals to maintain their own health and mobility in connection with any ongoing physical activity they do.

BODYFULNESS

Somatic Practices for Presence, Empowerment, and Waking Up in This Life by Christine Caldwell $25.95, paper. Shambhala. 288 pages

Breathing, sensing, and moving—the ways we know our body—carry tremendous contemplative potential, and yet, we so often move through our days unaware of or in conflict with our physical selves. In Bodyfulness, renowned somatic counselor Christine Caldwell offers a practical guide for living an embodied contemplative life, embracing whatever body we are in. Each chapter offers insights and practices that help us recover our lost physical wisdom— to integrate our bodies with mindfulness, to deal with emotions, and to develop attuned relationships. Bodyfulness inspires us to reclaim a body-centered contemplative life and challenges us to harness our potential to effect social and personal transformation in this body now. BRANCHES OF LIGHT F

This book for contemplative practitioners and people in the helping professions introduces the importance of somatic awareness, physical self-reflection, and conscious movement practices as a companion to sitting practice. Both theoretical and practical, Bodyfulness will educate the reader about the body’s role in consciousness, emotional maturity, connection to others, personal and social transformation, and spirituality. Chapter by chapter, the reader will be introduced to practices that help recover lost physical wisdom of sensation, breath, and movement. Most importantly, Bodyfulness will assist the reader in reclaiming a body-centered contemplative life, one that values both sensation and thought equally, as well as celebrating their interconnected nature. “This beautifully organized and superbly informative book is a road map for an intimate and deep exploration of what it truly means to be a ‘bodyful’ being.” —Ann Weiser Cornell, author of The Power of Focusing Bodyfulness is at once a hands-on manual suitable for beginners, a rich resource for somatically-oriented trainers and counselors, and a heartfelt call for humanity to wake up to the untapped resources our bodies hold for living more fulfilling, wise, and ethical lives. I fell in love with this book. —from the foreword by David I. Rome, author of Your Body Knows the Answer

Christine Caldwell was core faculty at Naropa University for 30 years. Also by her are Getting Our Bodies Back and Oppression and the Body. F FALL -WINTER 2018-2019

A Contemporary Plant-Based Ayurvedic Cookbook by Sahara Rose Ketabi The ancient science of Ayurveda teaches that food is divine medicine with the power to heal—but the best foods for one person may not be beneficial to another. Unlike many diets with rigid, onesize-fits-all guidelines, Ayurveda is a lifestyle that recognizes the ever-changing needs of each individual. Join author Sahara Rose on a journey to wellness and discover how to eat according to your body’s specific needs. Identify your Dosha, or mind-body type, and find out what foods are best for your body. Learn how changes in season and climate affect your digestion and how to adjust what you eat accordingly. Rather than focusing on calories, you’ll focus on food qualities. Rather than focusing on macronutrients, you’ll focus on tastes— and you’ll feel better than ever. Fall in love with cooking as you explore more than 100 plant-based, gluten- and dairy-free recipes for every meal of the day, including contemporary twists on classic Ayurvedic cuisine, such as turmeric-ginger kitchari and gut-healing seaweed broth. Packed with practical guidance and very beautiful photography, Eat Feel Fresh integrates traditional Ayurvedic wisdom with contemporary nutritional science, providing a much-needed plant-based approach, and invites you to change your relationship with food and connect with your highest self. By evolving into the healthiest, most radiant version of you, you have more energy and joy to share with the world… True health doesn’t end with the self, but rather transcends out into the universe, creating ripples of healing across the planet.

“Eat Feel Fresh provides a wealth of knowledge about the Ayurvedic way of cooking. This book is well organized, a treat to your eyes, and a sheer pleasure to read. Sahara Rose is a shining light who will inspire you towards a healthier and happier lifestyle.” —Dr. Suhas Kshirsagar, Ayurvedic physician and author

NO RECIPE

Cooking as Spiritual Practice by Edward Espe Brown $20.95, paper. Sounds True.

Instilling the food you prepare with your spirit and good heart is a great undertaking—one that will nourish you in the doing, in the offering, and in the eating. With No Recipe, renowned author of The Tassajara Bread Book (Shambhala, 1970) Edward Espe Brown invites us into his home and kitchen to explore how cooking and eating can be paths to awakening and realization. Often my practice has been to work on these intentions in the kitchen: I want to feel simply and reliably okay about being here, being at home here. Whether or not I have problems or difficulties. I wish for intimate connection with others, with food, with the work at hand…

F Reading Browns witty and engaging collection of essays is like learning to cook— and meditate—with your own personal Zen chef and teacher. Brown shares that the way to cook is not only about following a recipe, but about letting the ingredients come forward to awaken and nourish our bodies and minds. Baking, cutting, chopping, and tasting are seen as opportunities to find joy and satisfaction in the present moment. From soil to seed and preparation to plate, No Recipe brings us a collection of timeless teachings on cooking as spiritual practice. What we are learning in the kitchen is how to do it our way. If we are lucky, we are learning how to learn, studying how to study. Trying out recipes and styles of cooking, we find out something about who we are and what we have to offer.

“This is the only cookbook you will ever need. True, it contains no recipes and no directives to cook this way or that. Instead, it invites you into the kitchen to explore your senses, your hands, your heart. Ed Brown is a Zen master artist; food is his medium. Cooks and non-cooks alike will be moved by his soulful meditations on topics as varied as taste-testing a single potato chip, studying a stalk of broccoli until it tells you how it wants to be flavored, how (and whether) to de-stem spinach or tear or cut lettuce, and preparing food for a bachelor party. This book of down-to-earth spiritual teachings has a simple, insistent message: find out for yourself!” —Norman Fischer, author of What Is Zen? Plain Talk for a Beginner’s Mind “Ed’s approach to nourishment will help you melt the boundaries between the act of cooking and the edges of yourself and make the kitchen sacred ground for unfolding and awakening.” —Peter Coyote, author, actor, and Zen priest

KISS THE GROUND

How the Food You Eat Can Reverse Climate Change, Heal Your Body & Ultimately Save Our World by Josh Tickell $22.00, paper. Scribner. 334 pages, b/w illustrations

From Josh Tickell, a celebrated documentary filmmaker, comes “a fascinating, easy-tofollow blueprint for how eating in ways that nourish and regenerate the soil can not only help reverse global warming, but also bring greater vitality to our lives.” (Wolfgang Puck). It turns out that for all our gadgetry we are still bound by the same contract as our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Soil gives food and in so doing soil gives life. Earth is our home and without the substance we call earth, we cannot survive. This is why we humans will tell this same story in some form or another over and over again. It’s why we show our children how to garden and how to farm. And it’s why they show us how to eat dirt. Us and soil—it is a time-tested relationship… The ground, otherwise known as the soil, is our home. No matter where we go, or how far we venture, or how long we live, we will always return home. And because of this, and because of the discoveries in these pages, I have great hope.

“A must read for anyone committed to healing our bodies and our Earth” (Deepak Chopra), Kiss the Ground explains an incredible truth: by changing our diets to a soil-nourishing, regenerative agriculture diet, we can reverse global warming, harvest healthy, abundant food, and eliminate the poisonous sub-

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stances that are harming our children, pets, bodies, and ultimately our planet. This richly visual look at the impact of an underappreciated but essential resource—the very ground that feeds us—features fascinating and accessible interviews with celebrity chefs, ranchers, farmers, and top scientists. Kiss the Ground teaches you how to become an agent in humanity’s single most important and time-sensitive mission: reverse climate change and effectively save the world—all through the choices you make in how and what to eat. Also a full-length documentary executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio and narrated by Woody Harrelson, Kiss the Ground both informs and inspires with compelling storytelling, and you-arethere explorations of our human being-with soil, plants, food, garbage, and compost—the huge mystery that makes our life possible. As someone said, “History celebrates the fields whereon we meet our death, but rarely speaks of the plowed fields whereby we live.”

Inspiration & Self-Help LOVE & WISDOM

Timeless Reflections by Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave $22.75, cloth. Giles. 108 pages, 6x6, colour photos

The 37 timeless reflections in this book have survived through space and time, offering inspiration. Love & Wisdom is a heartening, emotive and enchantingly visual book, glimmering with gold, a wonderful gift that will bring comfort and hope. The uplifting, inspirational quotes, that are as relevant today as they were centuries ago, are framed by an extraordinary combination of exquisite sixteenth century art from the Smithsonian Institutions Freer|Sackler Gallery, and stunning contemporary images of the heavens and earth, many from National Geographic Creative. Each of the 37 two-page spreads is like a timeless poem or quote floating in a vast cosmic landscape, all inside an interlaced Persian jewelbox frame. The wound is the place where the Light enters you. —Rumi

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MORE TOGETHER THAN ALONE

Discovering the Power and Spirit of Community in Our Lives and in the World by Mark Nepo $36.00, cloth. Scribner. 332 pages

Mark Nepo spent 12 years working on this poignant and timely meditation on the importance of community. At once a moving reflection and an empowering guide, More Together Than Alone is an compelling testament to the power of community and why it’s so essential in our lives, now more than ever. Mark Nepo draws from historical events, spiritual thought leaders, and the natural world to show how, in every generation, our tendency is to join together to accomplish our greatest achievements, from creating education to providing clean drinking water, and preserving the arts. This book could inspire us to come together. Nepo’s historical snapshots, from ancient times to contemporary examples, show how community creates a light in the darkest of times, and gets to the heart of how we come together in varied and beautiful ways, whether forming resistance groups during the Holocaust or rebuilding after the nuclear devastation in Nagasaki. These inspiring stories teach us that even in the bleakest days, we have the power to create connections and draw strength from one another. It is my hope that, by understanding authentic moments of community, we can affirm that community is real and possible—beyond any illusion or deception… The lessons gathered here are meant to be neither cynical nor idealistic, but resilient and useful. While some moments of community were long-standing and multi-generational, others may have lasted a week or an hour. I seek to learn how they work. To uncover the pathways that bring us together… To understand that our exchange of love is akin to how photosynthesis enlivens a field of ferns.

Clearly a labour of love weaving thought-provoking analysis and practical takeaways, More Together Than Alone will “reveal the power of community and how the life of connection can add more meaning to our lives… And that the conversation of the book will help you develop your own care-based communities. For the work of community is the practice of care stitching the world together.” “A powerful cry that we are one, interconnected living community, stretching through time and space. Weaving together stories with profound reflections, this book strikes at the deepest need of our time… So many stories across millennia, so much on which to meditate deeply.” —Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, editor of Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth

FLAMES THAT LIGHT THE HEART

Ten Lessons for Living with Meaning, Truth, and Kindness by Mark Nepo $39.95, 5 CDs. Sounds True. 5.7 hours

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“Each of us carries some wisdom waiting to be discovered at the center of our experience, and everything we meet, if faced and held, reveals a part of that wisdom,” teaches Mark Nepo. Flames That Light the Heart brings you into the company of the beloved poet and author for a rich conversation on the life of transformation and the heartwork that is required to be a spirit in the world. These are Teachings and Practices for Making Sense of Our Experience. How do we listen to life and not to what life does to us when suffering and loss meet us at every turn? How do we make sense of our experience? My offering here is to explore these challenges and introduce you to your own wisdom and gifts, to help you personalize the ways you can nourish the spark of life we each carry inside.

Alexandra de Borchgrave is a photojournalist, poet, and philanthropist. She’s founded a charity with the mission of giving books as gifts to hospitals and hospices to bring comfort and healing to those in need. In studying Pythagoras’s writings, I decided to divide Love & Wisdom into seven sections, Hope, Beauty, Forgiveness, Love, Kindness, Sorrow, and Wisdom and to fill each page with quotes from philosophers who lived more than a hundred years ago to reflect those categories.

This jewel of a book, with such precision of artistic devotion and detail, is a timeless gift. Open at any page and be inspired.

JUDGMENT DETOX

Release the Beliefs That Hold You Back from Living a Better Life by Gabrielle Bernstein

New in Paperback

$22.00, paper. Scribner. 240 pages

From popular inspirational author Gabrielle Bernstein comes a clear, proactive, step-by-step process to release the beliefs (aka judgments) that hold you back from living a better life. BRANCHES OF LIGHT F

In 10 audio sessions, he explores the passages that open us, as well as the skills and ways of being that help us meet the difficulties that life brings us. Join him in this intimate conversation on our shared “growing pains of transformation” and the art of living “as an awakened part in an awakened whole.” Highlights: u What it means to be transformed by what we go through u Being true to your own nature u The wisdom of a broken heart u Changing our relationship with fear u The practice of loving what you do u Obstacles as teachers u The peace that abides in every moment With more than five hours of insightful teachings, moving poetry, and practical guidance, the audio set will be a heart-companion. Among Mark Nepo’s many beautiful books are The Book of Awakening, The One Life We’re Given and Things That Join the Sea and the Sky. This six-step practice offers many promises. Petty resentments will disappear, compassion will replace attack, the energy of resistance will transform into freedom and you’ll feel more peace and happiness than you’ve ever known. I can testify to these results because I’ve lived them. I’ve never felt more freedom and joy than I have F FALL -WINTER 2018-2019

when writing and practicing these steps. My commitment to healing my own relationship to judgment has changed my life in profound ways. My awareness of my judgment has helped me become a more mindful and conscious person. My willingness to heal these perceptions has set me free. I have been able to let go of resentments and jealousies, I can face pain with curiosity and love, and I forgive others and myself much more easily. Best of all, I have a healthy relationship to judgment so that

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I can witness when it shows up and I can use these steps to quickly return to love. The Judgment Detox is an interactive sixstep process that calls on spiritual principles from the text A Course in Miracles, Kundalini yoga, the Emotional Freedom Technique (aka Tapping), meditation, prayer and metaphysical teachings. I’ve demystified these principles to make them easy to commit to and apply in your daily life. Each lesson builds upon the next to support true healing. When you commit to following the process and become willing to let go, judgment, pain and suffering will begin to dissolve. And the miracles will keep coming. Once you begin to feel better you start to release your resistance to love. The more you practice these steps, the more love enters into your consciousness and into your energetic vibration. When you’re in harmony with love, you receive more of what you want. Your energy attracts its likeness. So when you shift your energy from defensive judgment to free-flowing love your life gets awesome. You’ll attract exactly what you need, your relationships will heal, your health will improve and you’ll feel safer and more secure. One loving thought at a time creates a miracle. Follow these steps to clear all blocks, spread more love and live a miraculous life.

Also by Gabby Bernstein are Judgment Detox Journal and Miracles Now.

Psychology, Therapy & Dreams THE ATTACHMENT EFFECT

Exploring the Powerful Ways Our Earliest Bond Shapes Our Relationships and Lives by Peter Lovenheim $22.00, paper. Penguin. 276 pages

Here’s a revealing look at attachment theory, uncovering how our early childhood experiences create a blueprint for all our relationships to come. Attachment theory is having a moment. It’s the subject of much-shared articles and popular relationship guides. Why is this 60-year-old theory, widely accepted in psychological circles, suddenly in vogue? Because people are discovering how powerfully it sheds light on who we love—and how. Our attachment system tells us that for safety and security we always need connection to at least a few special others and that only through interdependence do we become our strongest and most authentic selves.

Fascinated by the subject, author Peter Lovenheim embarked on a journey to understand it from the inside out. He interviewed researchers, professors, counselors, and other experts, as well as individuals and couples whose attachment stories illuminate and embody the theory’s key concepts. The result is this engaging and revealing book, which is part journalism, part memoir, part psychological guide—and a fascinating read for anyone who wants to better understand the needs and dynamics that drive the complex relationships in their lives. Topics include: u What it means to be securely and insecurely attached u How our early childhood experiences create a blueprint for future relationships—and how to use those insights to gain self-awareness and growth u Why anxious and avoidant attachment types tend to attract each other, and how to break the negative cycle

u How anyone can work to become

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“earned secure” regardless of their upbringing and past relationships.

From this book, I hope you’ll learn not only how attachment affects all our lives but also how attachment affects your own relationships and life. In the epilogue, I discuss the ten top lessons we can take from understanding attachment—practical and useful things you can do to improve your life and the life of your community. In the appendix you’ll find an attachment quiz to measure your own attachment style.

“Every reader will find this book about attachment enlightening—and, above all, moving… An easy, absorbing read.” —Sue Johnson, author of Hold Me Tight

THE EMPATH’S SURVIVAL GUIDE Life Strategies for Sensitive People by Judith Orloff

New in Paperback

$20.95, paper. Sounds True. 264 pages

With The Empath’s Survival Guide, intuitive psychiatrist Judith Orloff offers a resource to help sensitive people develop healthy coping mechanisms in our high-stimulus world—while fully embracing the empath’s gifts of intuition, compassion, creativity, and spiritual connection. Having empathy means our heart goes out to another person in joy or pain. But for empaths it goes much further. We actually feel others’ emotions, energy, and physical symptoms in our own bodies, without the usual defenses that most people have.

This practical, empowering book was created to support empaths and anyone who wants to develop their sensitivities to become more caring people in an often-insensitive world. It also helps their loved ones better understand the needs and gifts of the sensitive people in their lives. Dr. Orloff offers crucial practices: u Self-assessment exercises to help you identify your empath type u Tools for protecting yourself from sensory overload, exhaustion, addictions, and compassion fatigue while replenishing your vital energy u Simple and effective strategies to stop absorbing stress and physical symptoms from others and protect yourself from narcissists and other energy vampires u How to find the right work and create relationships that nourish you u How to navigate intimate relationships without feeling overwhelmed u Guidance for parenting and raising empathic children u Awakening the empath’s gift of intuition, and deepening your spiritual connection to all living beings. For any sensitive person who’s been told to “suck it up” or “grow a thick skin,” here is an invaluable resource for staying fully open while building resilience, exploring your gifts of depth and compassion, and feeling welcome and valued by a world that desperately needs what you have to offer. “Reading Judith’s book is like having a very savvy sister who teaches you the insider skills of how to deal with this perplexing and amazing talent of extreme sensitivity… This book is packed with practical hints for embracing sensitivity and turning it into a gift.” —Lorin Roche, author of The Radiance Sutras Among Judith Orloff’s other books are Emotional Freedom and The Power of Surrender BRANCHES OF LIGHT F

IT’S NEVER TOO LATE

Healing Pre-Birth and Birth at Any Age by Mia Kalef $26.95, paper. Red Alder. 144 pages, b/w illustrations

Following her first book, The Secret Life of Babies, Dr Mia Kalef now deepens her exploration of human sentience before conception and during birth.

Whether you aim to understand your baby’s messages, are wishing to detect and heal your experiences from your time in the womb and at birth, are a health professional, or in a position of care for another, this book offers a courageous and clear guide for decoding and healing some of society’s hardest to reach issues—depression, anxiety, violence, addiction, suicide—as well as other subtler and more pervasive adult challenges like low self-esteem, feelings of exclusion, and fears of intimacy. It’s Never Too Late also addressees common challenges parents and their babies encounter. Rarely discussed issues like how to heal after challenging births, hospital interventions, and what to do when babies are inconsolable, experiencing movement or postural challenges, or having trouble making eye contact, are just some of the issues this book explores. With a detailed and fascinating journey through conception, the early stages of embryonic growth, birth, and the myriad of ways human love and development get interrupted at these sensitive times, you will find gentle and effective ways to address the roots of personal and societal challenges. With an accessible and easy to implement approach, this book challenges our long-held assumptions that pre-birth and birth are forgotten, and offers a compassionate path back to experiencing the richness of our human lives. What I had just discovered was that emotions were locked away in my body, and by feeling them my body had less pain! A spark was lit that day, one that made me curious about what was at the root of pain, both physical and emotional… The healing work in this book is designed to reunite people of every age with their young, disenfranchised, and still hurting places, and move them forward in the present. Thus, this book is for anyone who wants to explore, discover, and work towards healing the challenges they faced between pre-conception and just after birth… Even though the suffering from challenging pre-birth and birth experiences can be debilitating, Nature has made it so that we all can heal.

“In Mia Kalef’s book you’ll find solid reasons to learn about the actual reality, validity of early learning and patterning for later life.” — Andrew Feldmár, psychotherapist “At last, clinicians and parents have a book of authoritative knowledge that provides a solid foundation for working with the effects of prenatal imprinting. Mia Kalef brings together a clear understanding and set of skills for anyone working in this field and concerned about the lifelong mental and physical health of their smallest and biggest clients. Her case studies especially ground the material in the living reality of the treatment room and the heart. .” — Michael Shea, author of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Volumes 1-5 than you may currently realize. You are a traveler in your dreams, whether or not you remember them… What is going on in your dreams doesn’t necessarily stop when you wake up or switch to a different screen. The action may play on, like episodes in a television series that continue to run after you turn off the set… In Mysterious Realities, you’ll confirm that the doors to the imaginal realm open from wherever you are. You’ll see what it means to live on a mythic edge. At any moment, you may fall, like the author, into the lap of a goddess or the jaws of an archetype. Are you ready? A survival tip: don’t go to any world without your sense of humor.

MYSTERIOUS REALITIES A Dream Traveler’s Tales from the Imaginal Realm by Robert Moss

$21.50, paper. New World Library. 251 pp

Dreams have been called the royal road to the unconscious, but to dream expert Robert Moss, they are something more: portals to the imaginal realm, a higher reality that exists at the intersection of time and eternity. Sifting through several decades of research, Moss retells some of the remarkable dream narratives that he has gathered from his own journals and those of his students. With the flair of a natural storyteller, Moss takes readers on an excursion into the furthest reaches of the imaginal realm, a place where the improbable is commonplace. Readers will encounter here ancient gods, uncanny animals, doppelgangers from parallel worlds, and spirits of the dead (both famous and obscure). Whether beautiful, terrifying, or whimsical, these stories remind us that dreams have much to teach us if we are willing to listen and watch. The traveler’s tales in this book are justso stories in the sense that they spring from direct experience in the imaginal realm, my own and that of other dream travelers who have shared their adventures with me. This territory is more familiar to you F FALL -WINTER 2018-2019

Robert Moss is the creator of Active Dreaming, an original synthesis of modern psychology and shamanism. Among his other books are Dreaming the Soul Back Home and Conscious Dreaming.

Through the empty branches the sky remains. It is what you have. Be earth now, and evensong. Be the ground lying under that sky. Be modest now, like a thing ripened until it is real. So that he who began it all can feel you when he reaches for you. Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

T R A U M A, E L D E R S & J U N G dictate our demise. But how we travel the arc toward the sunset of our lives is ours to choose: will it be denial, defiance, or collaboration?

Trauma & Resilience RESILIENCE

Powerful Practices for Bouncing Back from Disappointment, Difficulty, and Even Disaster by Linda Graham $23.95, paper. New World Library. 292 pp

Resilience is the learned capacity to cope with any level of adversity, from the small annoyances of daily life to the struggles and sorrows that break our hearts. Resilience is essential for surviving and thriving in a world full of troubles and tragedies, and it is completely trainable and recoverable— when we know how. In Resilience, Linda Graham offers clear guidance to help you develop somatic, emotional, relational, and reflective intelligence — the skills you need to confidently and effectively cope. We’ll begin at the beginning and look at how we develop the capacity for resilience in the first place—or don’t—and then what tools and techniques we can reliably use to build or recover our resilience… to cope with anything, anything at all… Because resilience is truly recoverable, I have designed this toolkit specifically as a brain-training program to help you strengthen your capacities to bounce back. You will find 130 experiential exercises that will train you—and your brain—to steady or right yourself no matter what is happening around you, to respond skillfully to the most common and the most challenging external stressors, and help you work through any negative internal messages you may be believing about your ability to cope with those stressors… They are organized by the five different kinds of intelligence that are foundational to resilience: somatic, emotional, relational within ourselves, relational with others, and reflective…You can apply these processes to any level of disruption to your resilience, from barely a wobble to serious sorrows and struggles to a potentially traumatizing “too much.” Practiced regularly, they will build your resilience, strength, and wisdom, enhancing your well-being for the long haul.

“Linda Graham combines her wealth of knowledge of ancient practices and neuroscience with years of clinical work to create a masterful guide to building flexibility and stability — qualities essential to resilience. Resilience offers a rich array of practices for navigating both the ordinary and extraordinary challenges of being human.” —Deb Dana, author of The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy “We need skills for coming back from hard times, and that’s what this book is all about. So many of us today struggle to find emotional balance and to heal the web of our human connections in the face of increasing anxiety and disorder. This book, with its astonishingly wide range of resources, could not have come at a better time.” — Ann Weiser Cornell, author of The Power of Focusing

HEALING TRAUMA WITH GUIDED DRAWING A Sensorimotor Art Therapy Approach to Bilateral Body Mapping by Cornelia Elbrecht & Cathy Malchiodi

Here’s a body-focused, trauma-informed art therapy that will appeal to art therapists, somatic experiencing practitioners, bodyworkers, artists, and mental health professionals. While art therapy traditionally focuses on therapeutic image-making and the cognitive or symbolic interpretation of these creations, Cornelia Elbrecht instructs readers how to facilitate the body-focused approach of guided drawing. Clients draw with both hands and eyes closed as they focus on their felt sense. Physical pain, tension, and emotions are expressed without words through bilateral scribbles. Clients then, with an almost massage-like approach, find movements that soothe their pain, discharge inner tension and emotions, and repair boundary breaches. Archetypal shapes allow therapists to safely structure the experience in a nonverbal way. Sensorimotor art therapy is a unique and self-empowering application of somatic experiencing—it is both body-focused and trauma-informed in approach—and assists clients who have experienced complex traumatic events to actively respond to overwhelming experiences until they feel less helpless and overwhelmed and are then able to repair their memories of the past. Elbrecht provides readers with the context of body-focused, trauma-informed art therapy and walks them through the thinking behind and process of guided drawing—including 100 images from client sessions that serve as helpful examples of the work.

ON THE BRINK OF EVERYTHING

Grace, Gravity & Getting Old by Parker Palmer

$25.95, cloth. Berrett-Koehler. 198 pages

From beloved and bestselling author Parker J. Palmer (Let Your Life Speak, The Courage to Teach), comes a beautiful book of reflections on what we can learn as we move closer to “the brink of everything.” Drawing on eight decades of life—and his career as a writer, teacher, and activist —Palmer explores the questions age raises and the promises it holds.

How can we learn to embrace with love the whole of who we are—a task that need not and should not await our elder years? Of course there are tried-and-true aids such as meditation, journaling, and therapy, all of which have been helpful to me. Here are three others that I sometimes find even more helpful: Reach out to the younger generation—not to advise them but to learn from them… Move toward whatever you fear, not away from it… Spend time in the natural world, as much time as you can.

With compassion and chutzpah, gravitas and levity, Palmer writes about cultivating a vital inner and outer life, finding meaning in suffering and joy, and forming friendships across the generations that bring new life to young and old alike. I can’t think of a sadder way to die than with the knowledge that I never showed up in this world as who I really am. I can’t think of a more graced way to die than with the knowledge that I showed up here as my true self, as best I knew how, able to engage life freely and lovingly because I had become fierce with reality.

THE AGING OF AQUARIUS

Igniting Passion & Purpose as an Elder by Helen Wilkes $17.95, paper. New Society. 189 pages

$39.95, paper. North Atlantic. 336 pages, 7x10, colour illustrations

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From beginning to end, the book is laced with humor and poetry as well as gravitas— beautifully enhanced by three free downloadable songs from the gifted singer-songwriter Carrie Newcomer, written in response to themes in the book.

Old is just another word for nothing left to lose, a time to dive deep into life, not withdraw to the shallows.

But this book is not for elders only. It was written to encourage adults of all ages to explore the way their lives are unfolding. It’s not a how-to-do-it book on aging, but a set of meditations in prose and poetry that turn the prism on the meaning(s) of one’s life, refracting new light at every turn. The laws of nature that dictate sundown BRANCHES OF LIGHT F

This book can help you live your passion and purpose and change the world as an empowered elder. Your career has wound down, the kids have moved, and your schedule is clear... for the next 30 years. In your youth, you cared about people and planet earth, and you had grand visions of changing the world. At some point, those passions and that sense of purpose got buried under diapers and the 9-5. Still, that old you remains alive. Now, with the rest of your life ahead, you can be the change and make this next stage of your life the most powerful yet. But where to start? Helen Wilkes, an 80+ retired professor and activist from Vancouver, takes readers on an inspiring journey to find renewed purpose in retirement. Along the way she helps readers navigate the transition to a post-work identity by fanning the embers of lost passions and developing new interests. As we age, we need lots of windows in the walls that shelter us. Sometimes, this means leaving our “comfort zones” and becoming adventurous. Increasingly, I see wisdom not as a place of certainty, but as a process of staying open and responsive… I have learned that there are many old assumptions that I need to pitch along with possessions that clutter my closets but add no joy to life.

Whether you are drawn to gardening clubs, to social justice issues, political campaigning, ethical investing, philosophical journeys, or creativity through the arts— whatever your vision and passion might be—The Aging of Aquarius offers inspiration, practical steps, and extra resources to help reignite your passion, your sense of purF FALL -WINTER 2018-2019

F pose, and to effect real change in the world as an empowered elder. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade wind in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. —Mark Twain

“In this inspiring work Helen Wilkes wastes no time raging against the dying of the light, showing instead that the light of mind and soul can shine ever more brightly even as our bodies grow old. The Aging of Aquarius is both an intimate personal account and a call to enlivenment and action for an entire generation.” —Gabor Maté, author of When the Body Says No

Jungian & Depth Psychology THE QUOTABLE JUNG by C.G. Jung, collected & edited by Judith Harris

New in Paperback

$26.95, paper. Princeton. 340 pages

In seeking to establish an interdisciplinary science of analytical psychology, C. G. Jung (1875–1961) studied psychiatry, religion, mysticism, literature, physics, biology, education, and criminology. He introduced the concepts of extraversion and introversion, and terms such as complex, archetype, individuation, and the collective unconscious. He stressed the primacy of finding meaning in our lives. The Quotable Jung is the single most comprehensive collection of Jung quotations ever assembled. It is the essential introduction for anyone new to Jung and the Jungian tradition. It will also inspire those familiar with Jung to view him in an entirely new way. The Quotable Jung presents hundreds of the most representative selections from the vast array of Jung’s books, essays, correspondence, lectures, seminars, and interviews, as well as the celebrated Red Book, in which Jung describes his own fearsome confrontation with the unconscious. Organized thematically, this collection covers such topics as the psyche, the symbolic life, dreams, the analytic process, good and evil, creativity, alchemical transformation, death and rebirth, the problem of the opposites, and more. The quotations are arranged so that the reader can follow the thread of Jung’s thought on these topics while gaining an invaluable perspective on his writings as a whole. Succinct and accessible, The Quotable Jung also features a preface by Judith Harris and a detailed chronology of Jung’s life and work. “An ideal resource for anyone seeking to find Jung’s most fertile ideas succinctly and powerfully stated.” —John Beebe, author of Integrity in Depth Judith Harris is President of the Philemon Foundation and a Jungian analyst in private practice in Toronto. Also by her is Jung and Yoga: The Psyche-Body Connection.

S H A D O W, S O U L, B E L O N G I N G & G O D

BRINGING YOUR SHADOW OUT OF THE DARK Breaking Free from the Hidden Forces that Drive You by Robert Augustus Masters

$20.95, paper. Sounds True. 228 pages

Our shadow is the part of ourselves that holds the feelings, beliefs, and behavioral patterns that we are most ashamed of or that we cannot accept about ourselves. And the degree to which we’re unconscious of our shadow is the degree to which it influences and controls us. Rooted in Robert Augustus Masters’ decades of reflection and experience as a therapist and psycho-spiritual guide, this definitive offering helps us to understand and skillfully work with the rich yet neglected shadow dimensions of who we are. With depth and clarity, Masters illuminates the process of welcoming our shadow elements in a safe way—to catalyze a more complete and healthy experience of who we are. This powerful book is in four sections: Meeting Our Shadow: our conditioning, fear, sense of danger, anger, shame, grief, narcissism, addiction, sexuality, spirituality, fear of death, resistance, honesty, choice,

evil, the shadow of shadow work Working with Our Shadow: shadow work in practice, strengthening the foundation for shadow work, inner child work, dethroning our inner critic, self-sabotage uncovered, and dreams: private shadow theatre Pain and How to Work with It: becoming more intimate with our pain, turning toward, naming, and entering our pain; emerging from our pain Exploring Shared Shadow: generational trauma and collective PTSD in our shadow, collective shadow unveiled. This exploration becomes a portal to an experiential knowingness and deepening that affects the very foundation of our being. As daunting as this might sound, and as much courage as it may require, the rewards it offers are immense. What are some of the benefits of bringing our shadow out of the dark? Far more freedom from our conditioning (our ingrained programming)… A strongly enhanced capacity for intimacy and healthy relationship… A fuller, more grounded and awakened sense of wholeness… The ability to make much better use of difficult conditions… More vitality… A deepened capacity for skillful activism.

Among Masters’ other titles are Spiritual Bypassing and Emotional Intimacy, and the audio workshop Knowing Your Shadow: Becoming Intimate with All That You Are.

BELONGING

Remembering Ourselves Home by Toko-Pa Turner

$24.95, paper. Her Own Room Press. 248 pages, b/w illustrations

We live in one of the most connected times on earth, but never before have we been so lonely, so alienated from each other, from ourselves, and from the natural world. Whether this manifests as having difficulty finding community, feeling anxiety about your worthiness and place in the world, or simply feeling disconnected, the absence of belonging is the great silent wound of our times. This is the grand endeavour I like to call Remembership. Most of us think of belonging as a mythical place, that if we keep diligently searching for, we might eventually find. But what if belonging isn’t a place at all, but a skill: a set of competencies, that we in modern life, have lost or forgotten? Like the living bridge, these competencies are the ways in which we can coax, weave, and tend to the roots of our separation—and in so doing, restore our membership in belonging.In Belonging, Toko-pa Turner explores the origins of our estrangement, how that alienation affects the choices we make as individuals, and as a culture, and what are those skills to which we can apprentice ourselves, to restore a sense of belonging in our lives, and in our world. As you learn to walk with this ever-allowing, others catch glimpses of their intactness in your mirror. This is the great irony of belonging: that in all your searching for a home of love, it was yours to give away all along. And the real reward of your quest is to fling your doors open and let your life become a shelter of belonging for others.

With her signature depth and eloquence, Toko-pa Turner maps a path to Belonging from the inside out. Drawing on myth, stories and dreams, she takes us into the origins of our estrangement, reframing exile as a necessary initiation into authenticity. Then she shares the competencies of belonging: a set of ancestral practices to heal our wounds and restore true belonging to our lives and to the world. The turning point in healing my own belonging was the moment when I finally dropped my resistance to pain, against which I had mounted a full-scale opposition, and began to see it as a beggar who’d arrived on my doorstep who I’d been treating as an unwelcome guest. But it was because the conditions of my life were so sweet that this friend finally— perhaps after generations of being outcast—felt safe enough to raise its voice and ask to be welcomed into belonging with me. One after the other, new guests related to my friend arrived on my steps. Anger, resentment, anxiety and depression—each one asking, in turn, to be let into my house of acceptance.

Michael Meade on Soul

AWAKENING THE SOUL

A Deep Response to a Troubled World by Michael Meade $23.95, paper. GreenFire Press. 177 pages

In his newest book, Awakening The Soul: A Deep Response to a Troubled World, mythic storyman Michael Meade explores the impact of great cultural and environmental upheaval on the human soul. Delving into territories including the loss of truth and meaning, collective anxiety, and feelings of despair and helplessness, Meade directs attention to the need for an awakening of individuals to address the collective problems of the modern world. Awakening the Soul begins with a description of one of the oldest stories ever found. On a papyrus scroll written 4500 years ago, an Egyptian scribe laments the condition of his culture, which includes violence, loss of all civility and the collapse of major institutions. Despite the age of the manuscript, the author could be describing the conditions of our contemporary world, which suffers from the withering effect of collective anxiety and the isolating results of a collective loss of soul.

In order to find antidotes to overwhelming problems facing us on both collective and personal levels, Michael Meade turns to inspiring mythic stories, and deeply moving experiences from his own life that surprisingly lead to an awakening of soul and renewal of life. Meaning is essential to the human soul and the current crisis of meaning and truth imperils the heart and soul of human culture. Each time an individual soul awakens to a genuine sense of meaning and purpose, there is more presence in the world and more meaning and truth in life.

As a pioneer and guide to “telling the story” of soul in our culture and our time, Michael Meade’s energy comes through this book with renewed urgency. In some sense, the world has fallen asleep and is suffering a loss of the dream of life, leaving us with nightmares that produce pollution in nature as well as poisons in culture. There is a growing “collective trauma” as the hollowing of institutions and flood of rapid changes can cause everyone to become “dis-oriented” and feel disillusioned by the daily conditions of life. Traumatizing agents include the rise of mass culture and the subsequent diminishing of the individual soul, the spread of rampant materialism, and the rise of “connective” technologies that contribute to deep disconnections while “linking” people at surface levels of life. We live in a time of overwhelming challenges and seemingly impossible tasks. Yet, this is not the end of time, but a break in the rhythm of history that also creates openings to the realm of great imagination and the possibility of reconnecting to the Soul of the World. When time cracks, the moment opens to eternity, making knowledge and wisdom available. Such moments of awakening become “lived time;” time fully lived in which we awaken to a greater sense of the world and our place in it. No matter what threats and disasters occur at the surface of life, the underlying soul remains an endless resource and vital source of change and renewal. This is a book about the necessity of soul at a time when the world seems to be losing its soul. This is a book about the human soul; but also about the underlying Soul of the World. It is about the necessity of waking the deep resources of the soul and making more soul at a time of widespread divisions and growing disasters. This is a book about the awakening of the individual soul and the capacity of each soul to contribute to the healing and renewal of a world gone wrong.

Among the other books (he has audio CDs & videos too) of Michael Meade are The Water of Life and The Genius Myth. For more info: mosaicvoices.org.

The Heart of Religion HOW I FOUND GOD IN EVERYONE AND EVERYWHERE

An Anthology of Spiritual Memoirs edited by Andrew Davis & Philip Clayton How I Found God in Everyone and Everywhere captures for a general audience the spiritual shift away from a God “up there” and “out there” and towards an immanent Divine that exists right here, all around us, within everything—including ourselves. This particular vision of Divine immanence, called “panentheism,” is serving as a spiritual path for a g rowing number of seekers. Panentheism is entirely compatible with modern science, particularly contemporary astrophysics. It postulates an interconnected cosmos in which each of its parts exist only in relationship to the other parts. Strains of panentheism can be found in every major religion.

In the breaking open of my heart I am learning to make a true encounter with life. The more I fall in love with it, the sharper the pain of witnessing it becomes. As Arthur Miller once wrote, “I dreamed I had a child, and even in the dream I saw it was my life, and it was an idiot, and I ran away. But it always crept onto my lap again, clutched at my clothes. Until I thought, if I could kiss it, whatever in it was my own, perhaps I could sleep. And I bent to its broken face, and it was horrible…but I kissed it. I think one must finally take one’s life in one’s arms.” In kissing our own beautiful idiot lives, I believe we are contributing to the larger presence we need to cross the threshold of our collective initiation. We are being called to stop turning away from ugliness, to witness the shattering, so that we can consciously participate in the reconstitution of a new world. It’s only in remembering our wounded, outcast selves that we can belong our world back together.

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Mythology

$22.75, paper. Monkfish. 260 pages

Here’s another gem from this book:

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A deeply immanent and participatory conception of the God-world relationship can vastly reorient one’s spiritual journey, transforming how one experiences the world. As these diverse spiritual memoirs testify, for many people today, the spiritual and intellectual journey has led to the discovery a divine reality that, it turns out, we already inhabit, and that encompasses us all. This relationsl God—whether you want to call it “panentheism” or not—is the spiritual heartbeat found in the following pages. This heartbeat is not found in some people and some places, but in everyone and everywhere… Often it takes encountering the journey of another to help continue our own. The best journeys, after all, are those that are shared.

The book is built around the personal journeys of a close-knit group of prominent contributors. Contributors include Deepak Chopra, Ilia Delio, Keith Ward, Richard Rohr, Rupert Sheldrake, Matthew Fox, Cynthia Bourgeault, and others. “Such rich stories, such clear, insightful, and at times tender writing, with common themes arising spontaneously and enriching one another.” —Brian McLaren, author of The Great Spiritual Migration

MEDITATING WITH TEACHERS

Meditation THE SCIENCE OF ENLIGHTENMENT

How Meditation Works by Shinzen Young

New in Paperback

$20.95, paper. Sounds True. 230 pages

“Enlightenment”—is it a myth or is it real? In every spiritual tradition, inner explorers have discovered that the liberated state is in fact a natural experience, as real as the sensations you are having right now— and that through the investigation of your own thoughts, feelings, and perceptions you can awaken to clear insight and a happiness independent of conditions. In The Science of Enlightenment, Shinzen Young brings to readers an uncommonly lucid guide to mindfulness meditation for the first time: how it works and how to use it to enhance your smarts, your kindness and connection with the world, and the richness of all your experiences. This unique text, adapted from his talks, is probably most relevant to those who have at least some level of ongoing practice and meditative insight. As thousands of his students and listeners will confirm, Shinzen is like no other teacher you’ve ever encountered. He merges scientific clarity, a rare grasp of source-language teachings East and West, and a gift for sparking insight through unexpected analogies, illustrations, humor, and firsthand accounts that reveal the inner journey to be as wondrous as any geographical expedition. Join him here to explore: u Universal insights spanning Buddhism, Christian and Jewish mysticism, shamanism, the yogas of India, and many other paths u How to begin and navigate your own meditation practice u Concentration, clarity, and equanimity— the core catalysts of awakening u Impermanence—its many aspects and how to work with them u Experiencing the “wave” and “particle” natures of self u Purification and clarification—how we digest mental blockages and habits through inner work u Emerging neuroscience research, the future of enlightenment, and much more For meditators of all levels and beliefs— especially those who think they’ve heard it all—this many-faceted gem will be sure to surprise, provoke, illuminate, and inspire. Shinzen the hard-nosed researcher and Shinzen the poetic dharma teacher get along just fine. After all, they’re both just waves. Particles may bang together. Waves automatically integrate.

PAUSE BREATHE SMILE

awakening mindfulness when meditation is not enough by Gary Gach

$19.50, paper. Sounds True. 201 pages

Pause… breathe… smile. Three small words, yet each contains a universe of wisdom. With Pause, Breathe, Smile, Gary Gach (lay-ordained by Thich Nhat Hanh) invites us to bring the practice of mindfulness into every moment of our lives. Writing freshly and directly for students of all levels, Gach draws on 50-plus years of study and practice in this elegant and acces-

sible presentation of three central aspects of mindful living. The Pause is about setting our intention before we think, speak, or act—the ethical dimension of mindfulness. When we Breathe we unite mind, body, and spirit, making every moment an opportunity for meditation. With a Smile, we open to a wisdom beyond words. This simple process will water your innate seeds of awakening, to help you pave your own path to total fulfillment and peace. As with a cookbook, this book is not meant to be just read, it’s to be performed, tried out, played with. If you’re relatively new to mindfulness, here are various recipes for a nourishing, wholesome diet. If you’ve already danced with it a bit, this simple handbook offers a comprehensive view, as a top-level reference, with a few possible additions to your repertoire. And old hands might enjoy seeing already familiar basics in possible new ways… My inmost wish is for these words to water your own, innate seeds of awakening.

For all who may wish to explore mindfulness in their lives as a healing and transformative practice, remember three little words: Pause, Breathe, Smile. As mindfulness continues to evolve in the West, I hope this simple, threefold approach to its complete scope might help deepen and extend its meaning and potential. It is my experience that anyone can engage it in their lives as a healing and transformative practice, as they wish.

Also by Gary Gach is The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Buddhism.

Western Spiritual Teachers & Teachings EVERYTHING IS HERE TO HELP YOU A Loving Guide to Your Soul’s Evolution by Matt Kahn $33.99, cloth. Hay House. 200 pages

Everything Is Here to Help You, by intuitive spiritual teacher Matt Kahn (also author of Whatever Arises, Love That) offers an emotionally supportive way to shift out of the inner war of ego, and into the illuminated presence of your soul. To assist in ending the inner war in the most nurturing way, this book has been created to explore the most crucial levels of the soul’s expansion with clarity and ease. From cultivating our highest Divine attributes and balancing out inner masculine and feminine energies, to transforming our relationships through the gifts of spaciousness and self-love, our journey together guides us beyond each sticking point and into the joy of our deepest heartfelt surrender.

In this book, Matt Kahn redefines the spiritual path for the modern-day seeker, and offers original, innovative ways to resolve fear, unravel judgments, and learn how to view life from a clear, expanded perspective. By redefining our understanding of the spiritual journey from the point of view of the soul, Matt breathes fresh life into all aspects of the healing journey to usher in a revolutionary and loving approach to personal growth. Each chapter highlights Matt’s most cutBRANCHES OF LIGHT F

Spiritual Transmission SPIRITUAL TRANSMISSION

Paradoxes & Dilemmas on the Spiritual Path by Amir Freimann $22.75, paper. Monkfish. 208 pages

The term “spiritual transmission” refers to the passing of the state of enlightenment from teacher to student, which takes place in many spiritual traditions. In itself, the transmission is synonymous with the experience of enlightenment. But the fact that the student’s experience is rooted in a relationship with a human teacher who is perceived to possess absolute knowledge lends the experience much of its intrinsic, yet hidden, nature Spurred by the breakup of his 21 year-long relationship with his own spiritual teacher, Amir Freimann sought answers to the most pressing questions regarding the spiritual teacher-student relationship. He logged over 1,000 hours of interviews with students and teachers alike in an effort to better understand what these powerful relationships are all about. The best of these interviews were compiled and edited in this volume. He discovered that the central questions devolved around paradoxes and dualities such as the differences and similarities between therapists and gurus; the role of trust vs rationality in the spiritual quest; and how money, power and sex are dealt with the course of a student’s training. Spiritual Transmission includes never-before-published dialogues with many prominent spiritual teachers, plus a revelatory afterword by renowned integral theorist Ken Wilber. How we interpret that Waking Up depends almost entirely on our stage of Growing Up…. What all of this means is that if a person goes to a guru and begins study, that guru might be quite Enlightened or have had a profound Waking Up, but at the same time they might also be at virtually any stage of Growing Up. The profound problem here is that, if the guru is believed to “never be wrong,” and yet they are operating from a low level of Growing Up, the students are going to be forced to accept for ultimate reality items that are in fact deep pathologies. —Ken Wilber

Interviewees in this book include Peter (Hakim) Young, Andrew Cohen, Stephen Fulder, Christopher Titmuss, James Finley, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri, Saniel Bonder, Mariana Caplan, Mooji, Lakshmi, Barry Magid, Claire Slemmer, James Swartz, Diane Hamilton, Bill Epperly, Aliya Haeri, Thomas Steininger, Peter Campton, Carolyn Lee, Terry Patten, Steve Brett and Mary Adams. The guru is representing a status that your own True Self fully possesses, and you will see the guru as specially possessing this status only until you realize your own, whereupon the guru returns to his or her actual status: an acknowledged honor of being one who has realized the ultimate Reality of their own being, which is a Reality possessed by all beings but realized by few—and that in itself deserves enormous respect, exactly the same amount your own realization of this Reality deserves. —Ken Wilber, from the afterword

ting-edge teachings and loving wisdom. From learning how to unravel blame by exploring the five stages of surrender, to providing step-by-step energy clearings and recited activations to amplify the power of your consciousness, this book offers a clear road map to explore the magic, mysteries, and miracles that reside in every heart. To all empaths, lightworkers, and energetically sensitive beings who have been overwhelmed by the energies of others and wish to find true relief as we usher in a new spiritual paradigm for humanity, this book is for you.

This book also includes engaging questions to contemplate, as well as energetically encoded mantras to offer readers a direct experience of our unlimited spiritual potential.

THE GURDJIEFF MOVEMENTS

A Communication of Ancient Wisdom by Wim van Dullemen $33.50, paper. Hohm. 290 pages

Scores of books exist about the life and teachings of the Russian spiritual visionary G.I. Gurdjieff (~18661949), yet few devote significant coverage to “the Gurdjieff Movements.” These several-hundred precise and mostly asymmetrical gestures, arranged into detailed choreographies for groups of practitioners, were designed by Gurdjieff himself. This new book reconsiders the eminent role of the Movements, revealing them as a vital yet F FALL -WINTER 2018-2019

often-neglected component in the transmission of Gurdjieff’s legacy. Van Dullemen, whose first Movements’ teacher received her instruction from Gurdjieff himself, is in a unique position to offer background, theory and first-hand experience about this subject. He is a professional musician and a long-time practitioner of the Gurdjieff work who trained in these Movements and served as a master accompanist for the practice for over thirty years. “No book can teach the Movements,” the author clearly asserts. And, he makes no such attempt here. Far from an instruction manual, The Gurdjieff Movements, A Communication of Ancient Wisdom offers invaluable insight into and greater understanding of the whys and wherefores of this fourth arm of the vast teaching that comprises Gurdjieff’s complete communication: his books, his oral teachings, his music and finally his Movements. Along with fascinating stories of his own journey of discovery, van Dullemen has skillfully integrated: u autobiographical descriptions of the master Gurdjieff u interviews direct pupils of Gurdjieff u diligent research within a wide range of firsthand sources u descriptions of the scientific, cultural and social climate during Gurdjieff’s time, and the relationship between these and his teaching. The book is also a rare accomplishment. While highly authoritative, it is nonetheless written in a direct style with clear language, making it accessible to the public at large who may have interest, but little background, in this esoteric science and practice. A DVD with a 7-page companion boolet is available from: hohmpress.com/video.

L A L I TH A, M I R A N D A, K A T I E, S E R A . . .

Women Teachers

CULTIVATING SPIRITUAL MATURITY

practical map of the territory. —from the foreword by Red Hawk, author, Self Remembering

the courge to practice by Lalitha Thomas

$23.95, paper. Hohm. 185 pages

The message of this book is that spiritual practice is not a weekend hobby or an activity for adolescent seekers (of any age). Instead, Lalitha makes a case for mature spirituality, which evolves from a serious commitment to the Path, and assumes dignity, integrity and personal responsibility for one’s life choices. She proposes a series of “questions that matter”… including: What Path Are You Really On? What Are You Seriously Committed to? What Do You Call Love? Are You on Your Deathbed? “The playing field of spiritual maturity can never be separate from one’s everyday life—one’s work, relationships, art, physical limits, suffering, aging and dying”—Lalitha affirms. And, “it will always reflect a sacred regard for the highest principles (one’s aim), along with gratitude for what is, and kindness, generosity and compassion toward others.” The important question which must arise with any spiritual teaching is this: Can I use this right now to help me find my way out of hell? If not, it is of no practical use. Lalitha’s teaching sets my foot at once in the right direction on the path which leads out of hell. I must walk the path, but she provides a most useful and

THE WAY OF GRACE

The Transforming Power of Ego Relaxation by Miranda Macpherson $20.95, paper. Sounds True. 224 pages

Many of us struggle to truly live what we believe spiritually. What if closing that gap wasn’t about trying harder, but something quite the opposite? Through the practice of ego relaxation we can stop trying to beat ourselves into spiritual shape and yield instead to an unshakable presence within.

The Way of Grace is an invitation to let go of the need for control, release our fears, and learn to be open and undefend-

MEDITATIONS ON BOUNDLESS LOVE

There is a depth of love within your heart that is eternal and ever-present—an oasis of serenity that connects you to everything in existence. With Meditations on Boundless Love, Miranda Macpherson invites you to stop searching for your heart’s desire “out there” and relax into the love that surrounds you (and is you!) right this moment. Join her in this four-part program of reflective inquiries and guided meditations, including: u The Mountain of Presence—a grounding practice to let down our defenses and touch the joyful bliss of being u Liberating Your Core Wound of Love—a healing journey

REDVELATIONS

A Soul’s Journey to Becoming Human by Sera Beak $28.95, cloth. Sounds True. 279 pages in red ink

In her remarkable spiritual memoir Red Hot & Holy, Sera Beak told the story of how she lost and found her soul as a modern woman. With Redvelations, Sera ventures further down the soul path, revealing her unorthodox experiences of the daughter of Jesus and Mary Magdalene and the undeniable power of the soul that this figure brings to life. By transparently sharing her soul’s journey (poetic, imagistic, and in bright red ink), Sera illuminates our common struggles in an uncommon way and

Do not waste any time on guilt and blame and shame. Those are ego’s tricks to keep you distracted, weak and stuck. Just clean your space… You can effect such subtle changes in your body and mind on purpose, renewing your availability to what it is you seek. This simple physical activity—cleaning a space—makes literal changes in the psychic field and the physical body, both.

Lalitha is a spiritual teacher whose ashram in BC is also a working organic farm. She knows the disciplined efforts needed to prepare a ground for planting, to nurture and maintain young shoots, to guard against predators and to harvest a mature crop. As a longterm spiritual practitioner, she has worked with students for over twenty years. She knows the risks, the sweat and the fruits of the spiritual path. Full of practical help, her book cites dozens of examples relative to spiritual authority, doubt and confusion, a life of practice, and the facing and embracing of death, as well as other issues that matter! She is also author of Waking to Ordinary Life. ed with what is. Using teaching stories, guided meditation, self-inquiry practices, prayer, and more, Miranda Macpherson takes us step by step through the liberating process of undoing our fixed egoic patterns as we explore the four dimensions of Grace: Relaxing into the Ground of Grace, Receiving the Blessings of Grace, The Transforming Power of Grace, and Living Gracefully in the World. The Way of Grace is a journey to the heart of spiritual surrender to unfold the essential qualities of our true nature—joy, peace, wisdom, and boundless love. Miranda Macpherson leads the Awakening Love and Wisdom Sangha in San Francisco. Mirandamacpherson.com. for meeting everything with love u The Breath of the Heart—a guided meditation to open the heart and bring its gifts into the world u Relaxing the Search for Love—dissolving the limitations to our natural experience of love, unity, and deep peace

Teachings and Practices to Relax the Ego, Surrender Spiritual Resistance, New on and Rest in Your Vast Heart CD by Miranda Macpherson $34.50, 4 CDs. Sounds True. 4.5 hours

“A much needed book in a world where the desire for instant gratification and instant enlightenment seem to be the norm. Lalitha beautifully offers the reader a road map for both understanding the path one is on, as well as for clarifying and refining it.” – Yogacharini Maitreyi, founder of Arkaya Yoga

The work of boundless love is not all sweetness and light. Real transformation calls you in and through the crucible of your human challenges, of your deepest questions and yearnings, so that you can embody and extend the gifts you receive for a world that needs us all to wake up and love now!

Meditations on Boundless Love offers the essential teachings and practices to support you in this sacred work. A spiritual teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area, who leads the Awakening Love and Wisdom Sangha, Miranda Macpherson’s new book is also just out: The Way of Grace: The Transforming Power of Ego Relaxation.

explores one of the most profound spiritual mysteries: Why do souls incarnate? Why does something that is perfect and whole choose to enter an imperfect world where it can be wounded, shattered, and betrayed? As Sera reveals, our souls choose the adventure of embodiment so we may learn about the strength that can only come from vulnerability, the love that can only grow in the presence of heartbreak, and the achingly beautiful gift of being fully human. Sharing your truth with the world is rarely easy, especially when it contradicts history and a major world religion. But truth, much like love, can’t stay buried forever. Redvelations is my story of remembering and reclaiming Sarah, the forgotten daughter of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, as the lost part of my own soul. If your eyebrows have raised, I understand. Your doubts and disbelief are well-warranted, and you’re welcome to interpret my story however you wish. What’s more important than believing in my soul’s reality is believing in your soul’s reality. Above all else, this book champions the importance of recovering and BRANCHES OF LIGHT F

embodying the lost parts of your soul so you can become fully human, wildly alive, and contribute to the well-being of this planet. I hope my soul’s journey reminds you to trust your unique journey, cherish the entire human experience, and share your soul’s truth—no matter what others think. This book is an unorthodox offering, a fiery reminder, and a living testament. But most of all, Redvelations is my heart smashed onto pages. Handle with care.

A MIND AT HOME WITH ITSELF How Asking Four Questions Can Free Your Mind, Open Your Heart, and Turn Your World Around by Byron Katie & Stephen Mitchell

New in Paperback

$21.00, paper. HarperCollins.

In A Mind at Home with Itself, Byron Katie illuminates one of the most profound Buddhist texts, The Diamond Sutra (newly F FALL -WINTER 2018-2019

translated in these pages by Stephen Mitchell) to reveal the nature of the mind and to liberate us from painful thoughts, using her revolutionary system of self-inquiry called The Work. Katie doesn’t merely describe the awakened mind; she empowers us to see it and feel it, in action. Startlingly fresh, A Mind at Home with Itself offers us a transformative new perspective on life and death. As she says, If you find internal work exciting, you’ll look forward to the worst that can happen, because you won’t find a problem that can’t be solved from the inside.

In the midst of a normal American life, Byron Katie became increasingly depressed and over a ten-year period sank further into despair and suicidal thoughts. Then one morning in 1986 she woke up in a state of absolute joy, filled with the realization of how her own suffering had ended. The freedom of that realization has never left her. Its direct result, The Work, has helped millions of people all over the world to question their stressful thoughts and set themselves free from suffering. You can’t have anything. You can’t have any truth. Inquiry takes all that away… The Work wakes us up to reality. When we take it on as a practice, it leaves us as flawless, innocent, a figment of pure imagination. Practicing inquiry takes us to the Buddha-mind, where everything, without exception, is realized as good. It leads to total freedom. Why would you want to experience a problem and pretend it isn’t there—to skip over it and find just some tiny place inside you that’s free? Don’t you want to find freedom with every breath? Nothing exists but the concept in the moment. Let’s meet that now with understanding.

“A truly illuminating and lively hookup of revered ancient Zen Diamond Sutra teachings and a wild and clear-eyed modern sage. It will help you to question deeply, inspire your spirit, and awaken your understanding.” — Jack Kornfield “I think Byron Katie is just a real thing. I love her to death. She’s pure and her intent is only to serve and she brings people back to reality so quickly.”— Tony Robbins Among Byron Katie’s other books are Loving What Is and I Need Your Love—Is That True?

Dying, Near-Death & Grieving CHANGED IN A FLASH

One Woman’s Near-Death Experience and Why a Scholar Thinks It Empowers Us All by Elizabeth Krohn & Jeffrey Kirpal $25.95, paper. North Atlantic. 352 pages

This first-hand account of a young mother’s awakening into a psychic consciousness after being struck by lightning is paired with a revolutionary analysis by a respected professor of religion. When Elizabeth Greenfield Krohn got out of her car with her two young sons in the parking lot of her synagogue on a rainy night in September 1988, she couldn’t have anticipated she would within seconds be struck by lightning and have a near-death experience. She felt herself transported out-of-body to a garden and

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engaging in a revelatory conversation with a spiritual being. When she recovered, her most fundamental understandings of what the world is and how it works had been completely transformed. She was “changed in a flash.” She was able to interact with those who had died and had prescient dreams predicting news events. She came to believe that even some early traumatic and abusive experiences had been part of preparing her for her near death experience. Told in matter-of-fact, calm language, the first half of this book is the story of Elizabeth’s journey, while the second half is an interpretation and analysis by respected professor of religion at Rice University, Jeffrey Kripal. He places Elizabeth’s experience in the context of religious traditions and proposes the groundbreaking idea that we are shaping our own experiences in the future by how we engage with these near-death experiences in the present. Changed In a Flash is not about “proving” a story but about carving out space for serious discussion of the phenomenon of near death experience.

LIFE’S LAST GIFT

Giving and Receiving Peace When a Loved One is Dying by Charles Garfield

$22.95, paper. Central Recovery. 236 pp.

After four decades of training volunteers to sit at the bedsides of the dying, psychologist and Shanti founder Charles Garfield has created an essential guide for friends, families and healthcare professionals who want to ease someone’s final days but don’t know how to begin. Life’s Last Gift is an indispensible emotional lifeline to hand to the grief-stricken, offering compassionate, practical advice on reaffirming connection and acquiring skills to be of the greatest service to those at the end of life. By focusing on the reciprocal and healing relationship between the living and the dying, which continues until the last breath, Garfield offers a path toward clarity and wholeness, and even growth. My hope and belief is that the insights and stories you’ll read in the pages to come will help you find your center when your world is spinning and let you be the person you most want to be as you accompany someone through his or her last months and days… There is one promise that dying people need to hear, more than any other, from those who love and care about them: I choose to be with you in a healing partnership, though I know you’re dying. I will stand with you in the midst of despair. I’d like to help you make this brave and comforting choice. It can be life’s last gift.

“Here is a book on end-of-life care that you will not be able to put down. Life’s Last Gift offers family members, friends, and health professionals the support they need to navigate life’s final chapter with grace, courage, and skill. It is a deeply honest work about dying, living, and loving. I recommend it enthusiastically.” —Frank Ostaseski, author of The Five Invitations “Beautiful, heartfelt, and overflowing with hard-won, compassionate wisdom. My prayer is that it be offered in every hospice, hospital, and chaplaincy program—in every setting and to every person who will lovingly accompany someone at the end of life. My prayer is that my children will read it when it comes my time. This book is a gift.” —Kathleen Dowling Singh, author of The Grace in Dying

Ram Dass: Dying in Love WALKING EACH OTHER HOME Conversations on Love and Dying by Ram Dass & Mirabai Bush

$28.95, cloth. Sounds True. 209 pages, 8x8, b/w illustrations $34.50, 6 CDs. 6 hours, unabridged, read by the author

We all sit on the edge of a mystery. We have only known this life, so dying scares us—and we are all dying. But what if dying were perfectly safe? What would it look like if you could approach dying with curiosity and love, in service of other beings? What if dying were the ultimate spiritual practice? Ram Dass says that “Death is an incredible opportunity to awaken.” Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush began their friendship more than four decades ago at the foot of their guru, Neem Karoli Baba, also known as Maharaj-ji. They have reunited once more with Walking Each Other Home to enlighten and engage readers on the spiritual opportunities within the dying process. They generously share intimate personal experiences and timeless practices, told with courage, humor, and heart, gently exploring every aspect of this journey. In Walking Each Other Home, readers will learn about: guidelines for being a “loving rock” for the dying, how to grieve fully and authentically, how to transform a fear of death, leaving a spiritual legacy, creating a sacred space for dying, and much more. In his introduction, Ram Dass writes: Dying is the most important thing you do in your life. It’s the great frontier for every one of us. And loving is the art of living as a preparation for dying. Allowing ourselves to dissolve into the ocean of love is not just about leaving this body; it is also the route to Oneness and unity with our own inner being, the soul, while we are still here. If you know how to live and to love, you know how to die. In this book, I talk about what I am learning about death and dying from others and from my getting closer to it, and I talk about what I have learned from being at the bedsides of friends who have died, including how to grieve and how to plan for your own death as a spiritual ceremony. I talk about our fear of death and ways to go beyond that fear so we can be identified with our spiritual selves and live more meaningful lives.

This loving, inclusive heart-dialogue relates loving to dying in surprising ways. This book is a conversation between old friends, in which we talk about love and death in an intimate setting. We hope we’ve captured Ram Dass’s wisdom, expressed in a new way now that he is eighty-six and close to death himself… Our guru told us to love everyone. This is it, Ram Dass says, the way to live and the way to die. Love everyone, including ourselves. Be in the moment. Be tender, be kind, be generous. Know that we share this journey with each and every person.

Join these two lifelong friends and spiritual luminaries as they explore what it means to live and die consciously, remember who we really are, and illuminate the path we walk together. Ram Dass, born Richard Alpert, is the founder of the Love Serve Remember Foundation and the author of many books, including the spiritual classics Be Here Now and Be Love Now. Mirabai Bush co-wrote Compassion in Action with Ram Dass in the 1990s. She’s director of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society.

NOTES FOR THE EVERLOST A Field Guide to Grief by Kate Inglis

$22.95, paper. Shambhala. 176 pages

Part memoir, part handbook for the heartbroken, this powerful, unsparing account of losing a premature baby will speak to all who have been bereaved and are grieving, and offers inspiration on moving forward, gently integrating the loss into life. When Kate Inglis’s twin boys were born prematurely, one survived and the other did not. This is the powerful, unsparing account of her experience, her bereavement, and ultimately how she was able to move forward and help other parents who had experienced such profound loss. Inglis’s story is a springboard that can help other bereaved parents—and anyone who has experienced wrenching loss—reflect on emotional survival in the first year; dealing with family, friends, and bystanders post-loss; the unique survivors’ guilt, feelings of failure, and isolation of bereavement; and the fortitude of like-minded community and small kindnesses. Inglis’s unique voice—at once brash, irreverent, and achingly beautiful—creates a nuanced BRANCHES OF LIGHT F

picture of the landscape of grief, encompassing the trauma, the waves of disbelief and emptiness, the moments of unexpected affinity and lightness, and the compassion that grows from our most intense chapters of the human experience. Vulnerability—to continue loving and creating in the face of loss—is the only real strength. When you fall prey to people who make you feel like vulnerability is weakness, you fall. Do not lose your inner wick, the green strand of persistent aliveness seen in a cut twig that would otherwise, from the outside, appear to be brittle and dead. Tend to your conversations with nature, spirit, and baby. This is your stamina. Cultivate the fortitude to be still in this place. Be brawny, sturdy, and robust in your care of yourself… Any yes is a form of strength… Water is determined, intentional, softly inexorable. There’s nothing more pliable and more uncompromising than water. Strong is strong like water.

Transpersonal Psychology IN SEARCH OF WISDOM

A Monk, a Philosopher, and a Psychiatrist on What Matters Most by Matthieu Ricard, Christophe Andre & Alexandre Jollien $21.95, paper. Sounds True. 320 pages

In Search of Wisdom is a book born of the

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friendship of three gifted teachers, exploring the universal human journey and our quest for meaning and understanding. This translation of the French bestseller brings readers an intimate, insightful, and wide-ranging conversation between Buddhist monk and author Matthieu Ricard, philosopher Alexandre Jollien, and psychiatrist Christophe André. Join these three luminaries as they share their views on how we uncover our deepest aspirations in life, the nature of the ego, living with the full range of human emotion, the art of listening, the temple of the body, the origin of suffering, the joy of altruism, true freedom, and much more. We don’t pretend to be experts on the subject matter or models in accomplishing the work or overcoming the obstacles involved in it. We are only travelers in search of wisdom, aware that the path is long and arduous, and that we have so much still to discover, to clarify, and to assimilate through practice… Our dearest wish is that when you cast your eyes on these pages, you will discover subjects for reflection to inspire you and brighten the light of your life.

Highlights of In Search of Wisdom u Discovering our deepest aspirations u The ego: friend or impostor? u Learning to live with the full spectrum of our emotions u The art of listening u The body: burden or idol? u Suffering and its origins u The joy of altruism u The school of simplicity u Guilt and forgiveness u True freedom u Daily practice This is not intended to be a book of moral lessons but rather an opportunity to share our views and our experience with you. It seemed to us that our very different paths in life, our three ‘trades’—philosopher, monk, and psychiatrist—might lead to a fertile exchange of ideas on the big subjects that all human beings must reflect upon in considering how to lead our lives.

“Delightfully stimulating for the mind plus full of soulful and practical suggestions for a happier and more loving life. Wow. Highly recommended.” —Rick Hanson, author of Buddha’s Brain

THE INTEGRAL VISION

A Very Short Introduction by Ken Wilber

$14.95, paper. Shambhala. 176 pages

This pop-culture presentation of the Integral Approach from visionary genius Ken Wilber is an easy introduction to his work. Suppose we took everything that all the various world cultures have to tell us about human potential—about psychological, spiritual, and social growth— and identified the basic patterns that connect these pieces of knowledge. What if we attempted to create an all-inclusive map that touches the most important factors from all of the world’s great traditions? Ken Wilber’s Integral Vision provides such a map. Using all

F the known systems and models of human growth—from the ancient sages to the latest breakthroughs in cognitive science—it distills their major components into five simple elements, and, moreover, ones that readers can verify in their own experience right now. In any field of interest, such as business, law, science, psychology, health, art, or everyday living and learning—the Integral approach ensures that we are utilizing the full range of resources for the situation, leading to a greater likelihood of success and fulfillment. With easily understood explanations, exercises, and familiar examples, The Integral Vision shows how we can accelerate growth and development to higher, wider, deeper ways of being, embodied in self, shared in community, and connected to the planet, which can literally help with everything from spiritual enlightenment to business success to personal relationships. Ken Wilber, author of many books including A Brief History of Everything, is founder of the Integral Institute, a think-tank for studying issues of science and society. See www.integralinstitute.org. This Shambhala Pocket Library edition is a more minimalistic approach to the highly graphic 2007 edition.

Entheogens / Psychedelics PSYCHEDELIC MYSTERY TRADITIONS - Spirit Plants - Magical Practices - Ecstatic States by Thomas Hatsis

$24.99, paper. Inner Traditions. 270 pages, b/w illustrations

Unbeknownst—or unacknowledged—by many, there is a long tradition of psychedelic magic and religion in Western civilization. As Thomas Hatsis reveals, the discovery of the power of psychedelics and entheogens can be traced to the very first prehistoric expressions of human creativity, with a continuing lineage of psychedelic mystery traditions from antiquity through the Renaissance to the Victorian era and beyond. Describing how, when, and why different peoples in the Western world utilized sacred psychedelic plants, Hatsis examines the full range of magical and spiritual practices that include the ingestion of substances to achieve altered states. He discusses how psychedelics facilitated divinatory dream states for our ancient Neolithic ancestors and helped them find shamanic portals to the spirit world. Exploring the mystery religions that adopted psychedelics into their occult rites, he examines the role of entheogens in the Mysteries of Eleusis in Greece, the worship of Isis in Egypt, and the psychedelic wines and spirits that accompanied the Dionysian mysteries. The author investigates the magical mystery traditions of the Thessalian witches as well as Jewish, Roman, and Gnostic traditions. He reveals how psychedelics were integrated into pagan and Christian magical practices and demonstrates how one might employ a psychedelic agent for divination, magic, alchemy, or god and goddess invocation. He explores the use of psychedelics by Middle Eastern and medieval magicians and looks at the magical use of cannabis and opium from the Crusaders to

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Aleister Crowley. While no one knows how the great story of earth and her inhabitants will play out in the decades and centuries to come, those of us who, like Tom Hatsis, have a deep abiding love for life and for this most beautiful sacred planet of the gods, are working diligently to nudge and nurture the reopening of the temple. In my respectful view, that is ultimately what tsi remarkable book is really about. —from the foreword by Stephen Gray

From ancient priestesses and Christian gnostics, to alchemists, wise-women, and Victorian magicians, Hatsis shows how psychedelic practices have been an integral part of the human experience since Neolithic times.

DMT DIALOGUES

Encounters with the Spirit Molecule edited by David Luke & Rory Spowers $23.99, paper. Inner Traditions. 336 pp.

Encounters with apparently sentient beings are reported by half of all first time users of the naturally occurring psychedelic DMT, yet the question of DMT beings and plant sentience, interspecies communication, discarnate consciousness, and perhaps even dialoguing with the divine has never been systematically explored. In 2015, ten of the world’s leading luminaries noted for exploring the mysterious compound DMT (dimethyl-tryptamine, the psychoactive element in ayahuasca) gathered with other researchers at Tyringham Hall in England. Over three days, they pooled their expertise from a wide range of subjects—archaeology, anthropology, religious studies, psychology, neuroscience, chemistry, and psychopharmacology, to name a few--to explore the notion of entheogenic plant sentience and the role of DMT as a conduit between Spirit and Matter. Offering cutting-edge insights into this visionary domain, this book distills the potent exchange of ideas that occurred at Tyringham Hall, including presentations and discussions on DMT entities, the pineal gland, the possibility of DMT as a chemical messenger from an extraterrestrial civilization, the Amazonian shamanic perspective on Invisible Entities, morphic resonance, and the science behind hallucinations. Contributors to the talks and discussions include many leading thinkers in this field, including Rupert Sheldrake, Rick Strassman, Dennis McKenna, Graham Hancock, Jeremy Narby, Erik Davis, Ede Frecska, Luis Eduardo Luna, Peter Meyer, Jill Purce, David Luke, and Cosmo Feilding Mellen, among many others. “DMT is famous in the world of psychedelic research for inducing experiences that are short, a matter of minutes, but with effects that are profoundly dazzling and lead to lengthy essays that try to explicate the puzzle. It clearly affects the language centers of the brain! It has led to the recognition of DMT entities, which may or may not be a new class of weird beings, neither animal nor plant, molecular nor metaphysical. This book is a fascinating series of explorations of the paradigm-busting and mind-blowing experiences triggered by this substance. Just reading about them is mind-blowing!” —Ralph Metzner, author of Searching for the Philosophers’ Stone BRANCHES OF LIGHT F

DISMANTLED

How Love and Psychedelics Broke a Clergyman Apart and Put Him Back Together by Bruce Sanguin

$24.95, paper. Viriditas. 218 pages

With the ending of a marriage, a career as a clergyman in the church, and the alluring promise of love, the author turns to psychedelics, sacred ceremony and psychotherapy to get his life back. During this process, he discovers how childhood trauma forced him to develop a false self in order to survive. His personality is dismantled as these sacred medicines reveal the truth to him. In the process, Sanguin presents evidence for the shocking prevalence of childhood trauma. As I tracked the thread of frustration with love to its source in childhood, the great unraveling began… The mechanisms of denial and repression, as we’ll see, are stubborn. They were put in place for a good reason. That said, this isn’t everybody’s work to do, and psychedelics aren’t for everybody. But they are an invaluable aid for those, like me, who need to go deeper into why we limit ourselves so severely when it comes to matters of the heart.

Along the way, the author questions and ultimately undermines much conventional wisdom, including the sentimental-ization of family, the rush to forgiveness as a cure all, and dogmatic Christianity. He supports the forgotten tradition in the gospels that authentic suffering and the acceptance of reality is the key to living a full and authentic life. The book is a testament, both to the importance of conscious integration of psychedelic experiences and to the healing power of these medicines when taken in the proper set and setting. By the end, we are given a model of healing which is not a quick fix, but rather one that honours the complexity of the human experience. This is a hopeful book that supports a growing body of research indicating that psychedelics as medicine hold one key to the healing and evolution of our species. The dignity of being human is that once we become aware, we can move on and participate in the emergence of a new future—one that is not determined by past trauma. This becomes clear on the medicine… Healing is possible. It takes a dismantling of the life we thought was ours, a dying to “me” and a resurrection of “I”, again and again. With the time we have left we may make a true offering of our unrepeatable life to this beautiful world… It is possible to gain the freedom that is the fruit of taking radical responsibility for our lives.

Sanguin offers revealing personal stories as well as psychological, philosophical and spiritual insight suggesting that becoming trauma-informed is one key to the evolution of our humanity. “Dismantled is a remarkable book of highly applicable wisdom. Bruce Sanguin has done much of the inner transformative work anyone interested in spiritual healing needs to do. Based on this inner work and his many years working with others, he brings to bear a powerful gift for elucidating essential insights and truths about the work of awakening, delivering it all in language both eloquent and accessible. Too often to count I marveled at sentences that jumped off the page with crystalline clarity. And just as often, I found myself nodding in agreement at experiences and insights that rang true and resonated personally. Brilliant.” —Stephen Gray, editor of Cannabis and Spirituality Among Bruce Sanguin’s other books are The Way of the Wind and The Emerging Church.

PSYCHEDELIC PSYCHOTHERAPY

A User Friendly Guide to Psychedelic Drug Assisted Psychotherapy by R Coleman $42.95, paper. Transform. 153 pages

Psychedelic Psychotherapy is a resource for therapists and laypeople who need practical guidelines for psychedelic drug-assisted psychotherapy. The book contains valuable insiders’ information for those using psychedelics for their own healing, and for practitioners who facilitate their sessions. Its focus is the nitty-gritty of healing trauma using MDMA, LSD, and psilocybin. It includes step-by-step guidance on how to safely and effectively navigate through the psychedelically-enhanced healing process. R. Coleman has been a pioneering, underground psychedelic therapist for thirty years, working with survivors of severe childhood trauma who have been unable to heal using mainstream therapies. In this one-of-a-kind book, he imparts knowledge gathered from facilitating more than three thousand psychedelic therapy sessions. This heartfelt, clearly-written, practical, and easy-to-understand guide focuses on actually doing therapeutic journeywork. Coleman argues that psychedelic psychotherapy works by helping patients or “journeyers” recall past trauma, feel it, and discharge it. Once this happens, the patient is forever free of the pain and trauma. [Psychedelics] give us an objective look from outside our ordinary thinking, which lays bare the lies we tell ourselves, the things we run from, and the parts of ourselves we don’t want to look at. In the safe and sympathetic presence of a sitter, it is liberating to see these truths.

After dedicating a chapter to the uses for, qualities of, and suggested dosages of MDMA, LSD, psilocybin, and marijuana, Coleman methodically offers chapters containing guidelines for professional psychotherapists, non-professional guides (sitters), and journeyers (patients) alike. Coleman recognizes that many patients choose to work with non-professional sitters instead of professional psychotherapists. That is why he included the chapter on guidelines for sitters. These medicines can bring about powerful healing when used properly in a therapeutic setting. The guidelines for sitters are intended to prevent naive, uninformed sitters from hurting, rather than helping, journeyers.

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Plant & Animal Spirits

Cannabis in Spiritual Practice

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CANNABIS IN SPIRITUAL PRACTICE

Transform Your Life with the Spirit of Plants by Fay Johnstone

by Will Johnson

$21.50, paper. Inner Traditions. 136 pp.

This exploration of cannabis as a sacrament in spiritual practice has instructions for using marijuana for the spiritual practices of spontaneous movement, ecstatic dance, sitting meditation, and gazing meditation, allowing you to open the body’s energies more fully and get closer to the Divine or your higher self. With the end of marijuana prohibition, people now openly seek a spiritual path that embraces the benefits of cannabis. Drawing upon his decades of experience as a teacher of Buddhism, breathing, yoga, and embodied spirituality, Will Johnson examines Eastern spiritual perspectives and offers specific guidelines and exercises for integrating cannabis into spiritual practice. He explains how the Hindu god Shiva enjoyed consuming bhang, a marijuana mixture that would cause his body to make spontaneous movements. From these cannabis-inspired movements, Shiva brought the body-focused practices of dance and yoga to the world. Examining the spiritual path of Shiva, including the Sadhu tradition, Johnson provides specific instructions and protocols for using marijuana as a sacrament as Shiva did. He reveals how the ecstatic surrender to the feeling energies of the body in these practices is enhanced through the ingestion of Shiva’s herb. For those who feel that cannabis has no place in spiritual practice, we can justifiably point to how it makes many people more sleepy and muddled than awakened and clear. Once again, everything depends on how you’re doing what you’re doing when you’re doing it. Or, as a young man who was exploring ecstatic dance as his personal path of awakening once told me years ago: “Cannabis is like technology. It can make some people smarter and other people dumber. So it’s not about the cannabis. It’s about you.”

If you primarily use cannabis to catalyze your spiritual and creative practices, there will be much of the day when you are not high and not so stimulated with sensation and movement. During those time, let the practice of embodied mindfulness ground you in the clear perception of the present moment. Because embodied mindfulness encourages as full an awareness of the awakened body and liberated breath as of the fields of vision and sound, it functions as a seamless support to your more formal practices of dance and yoga.

Shamanic Wisdom for Invoking the Sacred in Everyday Life by Sandra Ingerman

$21.95, paper. Sounds True. 193 pages

Ceremony is a central part of human life and spiritual practice, yet in today’s world, many of our ceremonies have become rote or superficial. That’s why shamanic teacher Sandra Ingerman has created The Book of Ceremony—to help us recover the sense of deeper meaning and sacred connection that makes ceremony a powerful tool for transformation and healing. Ceremonies have always been used to create transformation. Performing ceremonies creates a bridge between the material world we live in and the world of the unseen, the divine, the power of the universe.

In this practical guidebook, Ingerman shares essential instruction for ceremonies that combine the power of your intention, the support of family and community, and the aid of the spirit world. Join her for this invaluable guide for adapting traditional wisdom to create ceremonies for modern practitioners—including rites of adulthood,

sacred marriages, the Prayer Tree ceremony for blessing communities, and many more. I reflect on the ceremonies I’ve performed in the past. I often think joyfully of being in community, drumming, rattling, singing, dancing, and entering an ecstatic state of consciousness in communion with the helping spirits, nature, and others who are like-minded, all focusing on the intention of supporting each other during our healing and transitions. These experiences are tied to the most marvelous, most precious, and happiest memories I have about my life… Storms on all levels of life impact us as they are part of nature’s cycles. Performing ceremonies helps us navigate the turbulent waves and builds up the spiritual strength to ride the challenging waves of any crisis. And when we gather together in community during times of crisis, we have a community “Spirit Boat” to help carry us through any challenge.

This work offers road-tested savvy on: u Envisioning, Preparing, and Performing Ceremony u Turning Points & Rites of Passage u Releasing Blocking Energies u Working in the Unseen Realms u Blessing and Healing Ceremonies for People and for Places u Joining Together to Bless our Community In addition to her many books, among them Soul Retrieval and Awakening to the Spirit World, Sandra Ingerman has created The Transmutation App “to keep you focused on integrating sacred ceremony into your daily life.” [get on iTunes, etc.] BRANCHES OF LIGHT F

As our lives become more absorbed in screen time rather than the great outdoors, it feels essential to open up our senses again to the riches of nature, reestablishing our connection with the heartbeat of the Earth. In this book, Fay Johnstone provides a road map for bridging the gap between plants and people, allowing our sacred relationship with the Green Kingdom to be restored. Fay shows how to confidently meet, explore, and build relationships with key plant allies. Sharing her passion for the plant world, she provides a practical guide to rekindling your connection with nature, opening up to plant consciousness as a way to enrich your path and weave the enchantment of nature back into your own life. She includes practical exercises and meditations to guide you on a heart-centered journey of transformation and commune with the environment, the seasons, the cycles of the moon, and the Earth Heart. Addressing plants as conscious beings we meet their spirit, while at the same time aligning with our own true nature and sense of purpose as a creature of this Earth. The book also introduces the shamanic practice of plant spirit healing, emphasizing that ceremony begins at home with our local plants, rather than with the famous plant healers of the Amazon.

Whether you explore your back garden, office plants, or just your morning cup of tea… Reaching out to interact with nature is a step forward not only on your personal journey to wholeness but also toward healing our Earth. This book provides over 40 exercises, including shamanic journeys, as well as links to digital downloads for a shamanic drumming track and guided meditations.

THE BOOK OF BEASTIES

Your A-to-Z Guide to the Illuminating Wisdom of Spirit Animals by Sarah Bamford Seidelmann $25.50, paper. Sounds True. 362 pages, 7x9, b/w illustrations

Nine audio tracks, designed to allow you to move more deeply into a meditative state when completing the exercises in the book, are available free at: audio.innertraditions.com/casppr

THE BOOK OF CEREMONY

$18.99, paper. Findhorn. 156 pages

You may already have an inkling, a sense that there is much more to the plants that grow around you than you have been led to believe; this book will help you follow your senses, develop an understanding and feel your way with your heart. The book’s exercises will expand your consciousness to help you experience plants in a new way while at the same time providing you with support for your journey of plant discovery and permission to play.

Exploring the Buddhist practices of calming the mind and grounding yourself in sensory awareness, Johnson shows that, while traditional Buddhist teachings forbid the use of intoxicants, Buddhists who use cannabis are not committing a cardinal sin—in following our dharma, we embrace what best supports our spiritual practice. He concludes with a new translation of the Five Moral Precepts of Buddhism—what he calls the Five Precepts of Embodied Responsibility—adapted to include energetic practices using breath, interaction with the energies of nature, sacred sex, and the judicious use of entheogenic substances, such as cannabis, as legitimate support for spiritual growth.

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Beastie [bee-stee]: The overarching spirit of any species of insect, reptile, bird, mammal, or mythical creature that exists or has ever existed, from salmon and dragonflies to woolly mammoths and unicorns. As more and more people seek help with the challenges of modern life, many of us are looking to the wisdom of nature for guidance—especially when it comes in the form of spirit animals. In a quirky and delightful style, Sarah Seidelmann’s The Book of Beasties introduces us to the power of animal totems, or beasties, inviting us to explore why certain animals show up in our lives and what teachings they may be trying to share. Is there a zoo in you? Some shamanic cultural traditions believe that people have just a single core beastie, but others believe you can work with dozens—even one hundred… If you’re just beginning to work with beasties, I invite you to build a relationship with a single core beastie. Working on this path steadily for nearly a decade, I have developed a close working relationship with a half-dozen animal spirits (and many more in plant and human form)… More is not necessarily better. What’s important is the quality of the relationship.

“A message brought by a beastie may be about beauty or family or work,” teaches Sarah “It might offer you guidance on a prickly problem. Or it might make you smile just when you need it.” Perfect for seekers and shamans alike, created for people who live in the countryside or the big city, here is a book that decodes nature mysticism and invites you to explore the world of spirit animals. From Alligator to Zebra… This book and its large collection of “Beastie Portraits” will shed light on their fantastic attributes and provide you with delightful provisions to fortify you on your unique voyage.

THE THREE QUESTIONS

How to Discover and Master the Power Within You by Don Miguel Ruiz

$31.00, cloth. HarperCollins. 198 pages

Don Miguel Ruiz builds on the message of his enduring bestseller The Four Agreements with this guide that takes us deeper into the tradition of Toltec wisdom, helping us find and use the hidden power within us to achieve our fullest lives. In The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz introduced seekers on the path to enlightenment to the tenets of Mesoamerican spiritual culture—the ancient Toltec. Now, he takes us deeper into Native American practice, and asks us to consider essential questions that drive our lives and govern our spiritual power. Three key questions can help us into our F FALL -WINTER 2018-2019

power and help us use it judiciously: u Who am I? u What is real? u How do I express love? At each stage in our lives, we must ask these simple yet profound questions. Finding the answers will open the door to the next stage in our development, and eventually lead us to our complete, truest selves. But as Don Miguel Ruiz makes clear, we suffer if we do not ask these questions—or if we fail to pay attention to their answers—because we either never act on our power or use it destructively. Only when power is anchored in our identity and in reality will it be

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able to be in synch with the universe—and be of true benefit to ourselves and to others. At any time, we can wake up and see the totality of what we are. We can see life as it is and accept everything we see. We can show how truth walks and talks in the world without attempting to govern others. We can offer our presence—not our rules—to demonstrate the best of what a human can be.

The three questions provide a practical framework that allows readers to engage with Ruiz’s transformative message and act as a vehicle for overcoming fear and anxiety and discovering peace of mind. A guide for all travelers pursuing soul understanding and acceptance, The Three Questions is the next step in our unique spiritual metamorphosis. “Expansive… insightful… thought provoking, the book [takes] readers on a journey to self-knowledge, transformation, and truth. . . . Ruiz’s [many fans] will not be disappointed.” — Booklist

THE SHAMAN’S HEART MEDITATION TRAINING PROGRAM Tools & Practices for Discovering Your Authentic Power, New on Purpose & Presence CD by Byron Metcalf $79.00, 7 CDs. Sounds True. 7 hours

The heart is the center point of all human experience. Though our modern culture focuses on the brain, current neuroscience is confirming what shamans have always known: that the heart is the gateway to healing, maturity, and fully engaged living. With The Shaman’s Heart Meditation Training Program, shamanic teacher and transpersonal psychologist Byron Metcalf combines progressive meditation training with cutting-edge sound technology to help you explore and expand the four essential aspects of your heart: u The Clear and Intelligent Heart: Unlock your visionary gifts for clarity, intuition, and spiritual perception u The Full and Compassionate Heart: Discover your healing potential as you expand your capacity for love, empathy, and generosity u The Open and Trusting Heart: Follow your heart’s guidance for releasing unhealthy attachments and trusting in the unfolding of reality u The Strong and Powerful Heart: Awaken your warrior nature as you tap new resources for strength, courage, and confidence. Using his proprietary Field Effect Audio Technology (FEAT) to help you easily and safely access expanded states of consciousness, this renowned teacher presents a program created to help you eliminate outdated behaviors and beliefs; explore your ancestral imprints; journey to the shamanic realms of power; accelerate your evolution at the personal, interpersonal, and transpersonal levels; and much more. Also available from Byron Metcalf are two extraordinary music CDs (excellent for journeying): Inner Rhythm Meditations (gentle) and Shamanic Trance Dance (strong)

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And the bird song, and the people’s song, and the song of life will become one. —Song of the Long Hair Kachinas, Hopi

SPIRIT CLANS

Native Wisdom for Personal Power and Guidance by David Carson

$24.95, paper. Hampton Roads. 198 pp.

Written by David Carson (Choktaw), co-creator of the very popular Medicine Cards oracle deck, this book is an introduction to spirit clans, our most ancient spiritual roots. A spirit clan is your spirit mother and father— your original blessing that you carry inside you. A clan can be guided by an animal, a plant, a stone, an object, such as an arrow, or even a phenomenon, like fire. Knowing and understanding your clan will empower you, help carry you through life, and see you through difficult times. Each of us is profoundly related to a particular expression of Spirit, whether animal, plant, or other earth element… He also describes how our relationship with this aspect extends through many lifetimes, stretching back to our earliest ancestors who had developed an intimate affiliation with a specific plant, animal, or other naturally occurring life form. This is your Spirit Clan. The life form that is at the center is the thread that can provide greater understanding of your lineage and characteristics, and offer a detailed road map of your spiritual journey… Read this book slowly and try some of the methods that I’m sure will be helpful in identifying your clan. Meditate, journey, contemplate that connection once you discover it and you’ll find a greater understanding and satisfaction with your purpose in this lifetime. —Steven Farmer, from the foreword

An introduction to spirit clans is presented along with an overview of shamanism and ways to discover your clan through dreams, visions, and meditation. Thorough explanations of the physical, psychological, and spiritual aspects of 75 clans are included, and stories, traditions, and descriptions of modern day clan manifestations lift the teachings off the page and into life.

Wicca, Pagan Paths & Western Magick A BOOK OF PAGAN PRAYER by Ceisiwr Serith

$24.95, paper. Weiser. 290 pages

Based on more than a quarter century of research and practice, A Book of Pagan Prayer teaches us to pray in the ways of our ancestors, yet for very modern times and concerns. A Book of Pagan Prayer provides the pagan community a comprehensive and thoughtful selection of prayers—and shows readers how

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they too can create their own. After an introduction on why to pray, author Ceisiwr Serith explores how to pray through words, posture, dance, and music. He explains how to prepare for and compose prayers, how to address and honor the deities, and how to conclude a prayer. Serith also answers important questions, such as: Why should pagans pray? Should prayers be spontaneous? What are offerings about? Is all this just trying to buy the gods off? Gathered from many traditions - including Celtic, Germanic, Egyptian, Greek, and Zoroastrian - this guide includes nearly 500 sample prayers organized by purpose: for the family and household; times of the day, month, and year; life passages; thanksgiving, grace, and petition; as well as litanies and mantras. Whether offering a blessing, celebrating new life, safeguarding travel, or honoring the seasons, readers will discover timeless pagan prayers for worship, spiritual connection, and personal relationship with the gods.

High Magick

A Guide to the Spiritual Practices that Saved My Life on Death Row by Damien Echols

$28.95, cloth. Sounds True. 188 pp, illus

At age 18, Damien Echols was sentenced to death for a crime he didn’t commit. “I spent my years in prison training to be a true magician,” he writes. “I used magick—the practice of reshaping reality through our intention and will—to stave off incredible pain, despair, and isolation. But the most amazing feat of all that practice and study was to manifest my freedom.” With High Magick, this bestselling author shares his first teaching book on the powerful spiritual techniques that helped him survive and transcend his ordeal on death row. What is High Magick? Most people either think of magic as stage illusions or an occult practice involving dark rituals. “Magick is an incredibly deep, meaningful, spiritual tradition that equals the Eastern practices of Buddhism and Taoism in beauty,” says Echols. “It’s an ancient discipline that lets you literally change reality by working with the divine energies of creation.” Join this extraordinary teacher as he shares key meditations, insights, and step-by-step instruction to awaken the power of magick in your own life. In my opinion, if you’re constantly exerting influence on reality, it’s a good idea to learn how to do it well… We can all shape reality and create better environments for ourselves. We can actually do something about it. Call this something whatever you’d like. I prefer to call it magick… Magick is a specific spiritual tradition—an amalgamation of Gnostic Christianity, esoteric Judaism, Taoist energy practices, and often forms of divination such as the Tarot or the I Ching… This book is about high magick because it’s mostly about spiritual growth, energetic practices, ceremonies, rituals, and invocations… This particular book is my offering to help get you started down the path with some basic practices. Some will appeal to you, others will not. However, I encourage you to try each of them for a short time, in order to find the techniques that most strongly resonate with you. I also encourage you to seek out other authors, practices, techniques, and approaches, because no single magician or text is the ultimate authority.

THE SONG OF LIFE

Native American Wisdom edited by Helen Exley

$21.95, cloth. Conari. 144 pages, 6x6, colour photos

The profound Native American wisdom collected in this beautifully illustrated book is a gift to us all, for it opens our eyes to the Native North American sensitivity to nature and humanity. These collected sayings remind us of our connection to the earth and to each other and bring us back to a place of peace. The combination of haunting vintage photos and words of insight and inspiration make this a gift for any occasion. Included are over 100 quotes from a variety of native traditions covering topics ranging from the sacred, serenity, peaceful living, the earth, and kinship with all life. At the edge of the cornfield a bird will sing with them in the oneness of their happiness. BRANCHES OF LIGHT F

“It is good to be reminded that each of us has a different dream.” –Crow “In the darkest moments of your own life, never lose sight of the fact that the sun is going to shine through to a great day, a great life. Whatever your potential is, you can reach it.” --Bear Heart “The trail is beautiful. Be still.” --Author unknown, Dakota

A COURSE IN HIGH MAGICK

Evoking Divine Energy to Heal Your Past, Transcend Your Limitations, and Step into Your True Potential by Damien Echols $79.00, 7 CDs. Sounds True. 7 hours

New on CD

“High Magick is the ability to shape the world around us with our will,” teaches Damien Echols. “This ability to change our reality with our thoughts is not the gift of a select few—we do it every waking moment that we are alive. The difference between a magician and the average person is that a magician does it consciously, deliberately, and intentionally.” With A Course in High Magick, this compelling teacher immerses listeners in a venerable Western spiritual tradition for expanding consciousness and unlocking our hidden potential. Echols credits the practice of magick not only for helping him survive the pain and despair of death row, but also for allowing him to create the circumstances that led to his freedom. With this audio training, he now shares the essential elements of magick for anyone facing crisis, disillusioned by dogma, or committed to creating positive change in their world. In these sessions, he introduces listeners to the history of magick, offers guided exercises and meditations, presents step-by-step instruction in key techniques, and much more.

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CELTIC CHRISTIAN JEWISH SOUL

Prayers have been labeled with the deities to which they are addressed and arranged in logical order within each chapter. I bring greetings to the gods of this place from my people, from my family, from me, and not only greetings but gifts of friendship. I give them to you to establish between us the sacred bond.

TRADITIONAL WICCA A Seeker’s Guide by Thorn Mooney

$25.99, paper. Llewellyn. 188 pages

“Traditional Wicca: A Seeker’s Guide reveals the time-honored practices of initiatory Wicca, thought all but lost by many, but hidden like so many occult secrets in plain sight. Drawing a clear and respectful distinction between eclectic Wicca and its older more traditional sibling, Thorn Mooney takes us on a personal journey exploring the powers and the pitfalls of the initiatory inner court, revealing the persistence of a thriving and dynamic Craft.” —Storm Faerywolf, author of Betwixt and Between “Traditional Wicca is a unique and important book. It’s amazing to me that in over 70 years of publishing on the subject of Wicca, nothing like this book has ever been written!... The chapter on initiation is, by itself, worth the cover price. If you want to understand what people mean by traditional Wicca, whether or not you’re seeking it, this is the one book you must read.” —Deborah Lipp, Wiccan high priestess and author of Tarot Interactions “Thorn writes with obvious sincerity, with feeling, and from experience. Her book covers everything from defining Witchcraft, through the workings of a coven, to actual initiation and beyond. She warns that Wicca is not for everyone and—I am personally delighted to see—includes a chapter on recognizing red flags when first contacting others… especially those who might claim to be more than they actually are. This book is the quintessential guide for the true, sincere seeker.” —Raymond Buckland, author of Buckland’s Complete Book of Witchcraft

Celtic Soul AN INVITATION TO CELTIC WISDOM

A Little Guide to Mystery, Spirit, and Compassion by Carl McColman

$22.95, paper. Hampton Roads. 208 pp.

Drawing on myth, folklore, poetry, and the tales of Celtic gods and heroes, this little book is an invitation to readers to explore the spiritual tradition of the Celtic peoples—a tradition rooted in hospitality and one that is of growing importance in these increasingly fractured and troubled times. An Invitation to Celtic Wisdom is divided into three parts: u The Celtic Mystery: In this section McColman illustrates the mystery inherent in the Celtic spiritual path with a brief discussion of the three

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WALKING IN WONDER

Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World by John O’Donohue $34.00, cloth. Dutton. 208 pages $29.95, 4 CDs. Sounds True. 4.5 hours

A beautiful companion to To Bless the Space Between Us, this is a welcome collection of insights from one of the most charismatic and inspirational spiritual writers of the last twenty years. When author John O’Donohue passed away suddenly in January 2008, he left behind a remarkable body of work on the subjects of spirituality and Celtic mysticism. Walking in Wonder is a poignant and inspirational collection of conversations and presentations from O’Donohue’s work with Irish broadcaster John Quinn. These timeless conversations, collated and introduced by Quinn, span a number of years and explore themes such as wonder, landscape, the medieval mystic Meister Eckhart, the gifts of aging, our fascinating relationship with memory, and why we need not fear death. Presented in O’Donohue’s inimitable lyrical style, and filled with rich insights that will help to feed the “unprecedented spiritual hunger” that he observed in modern society, Walking in Wonder is a celebration of the beauty and mystery of everyday things. From the mountains of Connemara to friendly pub conversations, John O’Donohue could make the most numinous questions personal. His words still breathe with vibrant life. A foreword is written by Krista Tippett and narration (on the unabridged audio edition) is by John’s brother Pat O’Donohue. Highlights include: u Why the insights of mystics like Meister Eckhart are more relevant than ever in a world prioritizing image over substance u Contemplation of nature, its landscapes, and our intertwined relationship with both u A reading of one of the special dawn Easter masses given by John at Corcomroe Abbey u Poems and blessings in celebration of the ache of absence, imagination, and the turning of the seasons u Life’s hidden narratives—whether in the history of mountains or your inner world. Among John O’Donohue’s other books are Anam Cara and Beauty: The Invisible Embrace. Also available is a beautiful DVD called Celtic Pilgrimage with John O’Donohue. streams of Celtic spirituality and an introduction to thin places and holy wells. u The Celtic Saints: McColman explores how faith in the Celtic saints is rooted in the desert spirituality of the early Christian tradition. Also included are profiles of Patrick, Brendan, and Bridget. u How to Walk the Celtic Path: In this section the author explores hospitality, spiritual direction story-telling, spiritual power, and the Grail. Celtic spirituality emerges from the heart of hospitality, of welcoming and invitations, of coming together. It’s not particularly interested in what separates us from one another. The Celtic character is marked by kinship and convivial fellowship. It’s a spirituality of stories and adventures, of conflicts fearlessly fought and love passionately shared. In other words, the Celtic people are a people of loyalty and relationship, characterized not by the ideas in their heads but by the fire in their hearts.

McColman has written a splendid intro to a spiritual path that will appeal to both believers and seekers who are interested in all things Celtic. Among Carl McColman’s other books are The Big Book of Christian Mysticism and Answering the Contemplative Call.

Christian & Jewish Spirituality THE NEW TESTAMENT A Translation by David Bentley Hart

$46.95, cloth. Yale. 616 pages

David Bentley Hart undertook this new translation of the New Testament in the spirit of “etsi doctrina non daretur,” “as if doctrine is not given.” Reproducing the texts’ often fragmentary formulations without augmentation or correction, he has produced a pitBRANCHES OF LIGHT F

ilessly literal translation, one that captures the texts’ impenetrability and unfinished quality while awakening readers to an uncanniness that often lies hidden beneath doctrinal layers. The early Christians’ sometimes raw, astonished, and halting prose challenges the idea that the New Testament affirms the kind of people we are. Hart reminds us that they were a company of extremists, radical in their rejection of the values and priorities of society not only at its most degenerate, but often at its most reasonable and decent. To live as the New Testament language requires, Christians would have to become strangers and sojourners on the earth, to have here no enduring city, to belong to a Kingdom truly not of this world. And we surely cannot do that, can we? —from the introduction

Also by David Bentley Hart is The Experience of God.

Readers can use this book to initiate themselves into this visionary and ecstatic spiritual lineage, and they can also use it as a book of daily meditations. Small enough to fit in pocket or handbag, this is truly a user-friendly introduction to this venerable body of wisdom. Among Carl McColman’s other books are The Big Book of Christian Mysticism and Answering the Contemplative Call.

THE POCKET THOMAS MERTON by Thomas Merton, edited by Robert Inchausti $14.95, paper. Shambhala

New in Paperback

A treasury of wisdom from the influential Christian contemplative, political activist, social visionary, and literary figure. The Pocket Thomas Merton offers insights into the key themes of Merton’s teachings—the distinction between our false and true selves, the modern world, cultural illusions, and the struggle for justice and sanctification. Faith then is not just the grim determination to cling to a certain form of words, no matter what may happen… Above all faith is the opening of the inward eye, the eye of the heart, to be filled with the presence of the Divine light.

An abridgement of his larger collection, Seeds, this edition features some of his most poignant writings and showcases his mastery of the paragraph. The purpose of a book of meditations is to teach you how to think and not to do your thinking for you. Consequently if you pick up such a book and simply read it through, you are wasting your time. As soon as any thought stimulates your mind or your heart you can put the book down because your meditation has begun.

Previously compiled in The Pocket Thomas Merton, this book is now presented in a larger trim size for the first time and includes a new introduction by Robert Inchausti. I believe the reason for the inner confusion of Western man is that our technological society has no longer any place in it for wisdom that seeks truth for its own sake, that seeks the fullness of being, that seeks to rest in an intuition of the very ground of all being.

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In his foreword, Robert Thurman writes, “What we have here is the quintessential cream of Merton’s reflective kindness… Each of us must look within to find our deepest nature, freedom, joy, and the natural true concern for others that is the key to life.”

$24.95, paper. Hampton Roads. 304 pages, French flaps

KABBALAH

Essential Wisdom of Saints, Seers, and Sages edited by Carl McColman

With over 300 quotations this book invites the reader to delve into the writings of the great contemplatives and mystics of the past two thousand years. The Little Book of Christian Mysticism provides a user-friendly, insightful, and potentially life-changing introduction to the essential teachings of the greatest mystics in the western wisdom traditions, past and present, including Francis of Assisi, Hildegard of Bingen, Thomas Merton, Evelyn Underhill, Meister Eckhart, Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, and Julian of Norwich. F FALL -WINTER 2018-2019

The Way of the Jewish Mystic by Perle Besserman

$14.95, paper. Shambhala. 236 pages

Unraveling the web of ancient traditions hidden in such texts as the Sefer Yetzirah and the Zohar, this book traces history and offers an accessible introduction to understanding Kabbalah and its practices. Jewish mysticism has flourished—sometimes brilliantly, sometimes darkly—over five thousand years. In Kabbalah, Perle Besserman offers a lively and accessible introduction to the methods, schools, and

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practitioners of this intriguing world. She traces the history of Kabbalah through the lives of its illustrious scholars and saints and unravels the web of ancient traditions hidden in such texts as Sefer Yetzirah and the Zohar. Running through these pages are the words of the outstanding Kabbalists and mystics—including Simeon bar Yohai, Isaac Luria, Abraham Abulafia, and the Baal Shem Tov—giving instructions on practices ranging from contemplation of the Bible’s secret teachings to ritual, ecstatic prayer, and intensive meditiation. “Explains the Kabbalah with as much clarity as it can be explained with and with a genuine feeling for mystic lore.”—Isaac Bashevis Singer “Jewish mysticism is a rose bush of a thousand thorns. Most books snare the reader on the thorns; Kabbalah allows us to smell the flower. This is a book to read over and over again.”—Rabbi Rami M. Shapiro, author of Minyan

Sufism & Rumi SUFI ENCOUNTERS

Sharing the Wisdom of the Enlightened Sufis by Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri & Muneera Haeri

$27.95, paper. Watkins. 382 pages, photos

Written for all who are interested in exploring non-duality, the nature of consciousness and the mystical path, this is an unparalleled guide to Sufism as it is practiced around the world. Describing face-to-face meetings with the enlightened teachers of the current era and offering wonderfully inspiring translations of the great Sufi masters of the past, including Jalal ad-Din Rumi, Shams ad-Din Tabrizi, Mansur al-Hallaj, Omar Khayyam, Farid ad-Din Attar and many more, this book shines a light on the Sufi path and offers wise insight into the meaning and purpose of life. The Sufi way described here leads the seeker past ordinary states of consciousness towards a new experience of infinitude—the perfect Oneness—that is the source of the universe. The book is at once an autobiography, a didactic treatise and a literary opus full of wonderful translations of the words of earlier Sufis, as well as the author’s own poetry. From India and Pakistan, to the Mahgreb, South Africa and Iran, the book follows his travels around Sufism’s holy sites. Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri also addresses profound Sufi teachings concerning the nature of God, the Universal Man, the cosmos… addressing difficult doctrinal issues as only a master who has digested fully such knowledge could do. The book also reveals much about the present-day Islamic world where, despite the tragedies that are to be seen everywhere, tradition and spirituality survive. The work is also a metaphysical and spiritual guide as well as a compendium of Sufi sayings and poems. —Seyyed Hossein Nasr, from the preface

“In our present time of so much divisiveness, it is a blessing to know of these luminaries who have lived a light of oneness beyond any division.” —Llewellyn Vaughan-

Lee, author of Spiritual Ecology: 10 Practices “A compelling view of Sufi history together with vivid personal remembrances of living mystics. This is an inspiring and at the same time beautifully subtle book, with light-filled insights on every page.” —Saadi Shakur Chishti, author of The Sufi Book of Life

THE LITTLE BOOK OF SUFI STORIES Ancient Wisdom to Nourish the Heart by Neil Douglas-Klotz $22.95, paper. Hampton Roads. 206 pages, French flaps

The stories in this book are drawn from the dozens that Douglas-Klotz has enjoyed telling in his seminars over the past 20 years. Most of them appear in works of the classical Sufis, such as Rumi, Attar, or S’adi. To preserve some of the in-person feeling and bring the language up to date, he has given them his own improvised turns. Rather than add to our storehouse of learned information, these stories help us “unlearn” and break down the neurotic, mental-emotional patterns that protect our false sense of who we are. As we go beyond these boundaries, we may find ourselves in the province of wild nature. We discover an inner landscape, less controlled yet richer than that of our self-imposed rules for life. In this sense, these stories function almost exactly opposite to the computer algorithms of social media, which feed back to us things that reinforce what we already like, or think we like. These great stories of humanity provide us with incomparable examples of the “genetic history of the soul.” We share this depth of soul with all human beings. So, hearing a story live and unrehearsed brings us closer together, creating and re-creating our all-toofragile sense of human community.

“If you want to hear a good story but prefer to read it instead, then read Douglas-Klotz! He writes as if he’s sitting in your living room, invited over for afternoon tea to entertain you with some heart-pleasing, often humorous, yet soul-searching Sufi stories. His modernization of these old texts is gentle and mindful, yet unapologetic.” —Maryam Mafi from the Foreword

Astrology, Tarot & Divination THE STARS WITHIN YOU

A Modern Guide to Astrology by Juliana McCarthy $24.95, paper. Shambhala. 261 pages, b/w illustrations

This fresh introduction to astrology, by astrologer, energy healer, and Shambhala Buddhist Juliana McCarthy, provides a contemporary perspective on this age-old practice. Astrology is a powerful tool for discovering our authentic selves in this wild world. The Stars Within You is a practical guide for self-exploration. Want to know what brings you contentment? Delve into your moon sign. What kind of first impression do you make? Tap into your rising sign. Who is your ideal partner and why? It’s in the placement of your houses. BRANCHES OF LIGHT F

Understand your complexities, gifts, and karma with clear instruction on reading and interpreting your own birth chart. Equipping us to forge deeper, more meaningful relationships, astrology reflects who we are, how we love, and what we have to offer the world. Where have we been? Where are we going? There is no greater roadmap than the stars for helping us to recognize habitual patterns, discovering our gifts, and figuring out how to move toward greater joy and contentment. With accessible depictions of the astrological signs and symbols, this guide opens up the rich world of astrology as a tool to deepen self-awareness and lead a more fulfilling life. Astrology can help us develop more tolerance, depth, and humor so we can find meaning and connection, and grow more fully into our truest selves. … What are our gifts, and how can we offer them to the world in joyful and meaningful ways?... Keep in mind that there are no bad aspects or placements in astrology. Where we struggle becomes our opening to healing, empathy, and the desire to help each other. In other words, our pain can be our biggest gift. As always, it is up to us what we do with our potentials. As the saying goes, the stars incline, they do not compel.

The Stars Within You highlights the basic concepts of astrology that provide entryways into an understanding of the factors that shape our lives in fundamental ways. Many websites generate charts for free if you type in your birthdate, time, and location. The best site for this is astro.com. Once you have a copy of your chart and know which signs your planets fall into, you can begin to dive into this book, looking up the meaning of each of your placements.

ASTROLOGY AND RELATIONSHIPS Simple Ways to Improve Your Relationship with Anyone by David Pond

$32.99, paper. Llewellyn. 344 pages

Most of the advice you read about astrological relationships covers the same ideas over and over: Libra gets along well with Leo, Aries clashes with Capricorn, and so on. But there’s one problem: people are not that simple, and neither are relationships. Using the power and wisdom of the planets, this revised edition of Astrology and Relationships uncovers the astrological keys to improving all your relationships. It addresses the complexities of real connections by revealing the essential nature, needs, strengths, and challenges of each sign. Explore unique exercises to help you increase self-understanding and manifest the true potential of your relationships. Discover ideas and techniques that have been tried, tested, and refined so that they’re easy to integrate into daily living. Drawing on experiences and knowledge gained from working with thousands of people, David Pond presents a program that has been proven to work, not just in theory but also in real life. “[Pond] skillfully demonstrates his premise not only through interpretive text, but also through exercises and meditations… It is these exercises that I feel are a major feature that sets this book apart.” —Maria Kay Simms, professional astrologer and author F FALL -WINTER 2018-2019

THE LIFE YOU WERE BORN TO LIVE A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose (Revised 25th Anniversary Edition) by Dan Millman

$28.00, paper. New World Library. 482 pp

In 1993, Dan Millman (The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, etc.) presented his new Life-Purpose System, based in numerology. In the past 25 years, the system has helped hundreds of thousands of people find new meaning, purpose, and direction in their lives. The book describes thirty-seven paths of life; a precise method to determine your life path and the life paths of others; and the core issues, inborn talents, and special needs of each path. Virtually every aspect of life is addressed, including health, career, relationships, money, and sexuality. Revelatory insights are shared for finding a career consistent with your innate drives and abilities, understanding the hidden dynamics of your relationships, and living in harmony with the cycles of life. Key spiritual laws specific to each life path help to clarify the past, understand the present, and shape the future generating a quantum leap in self-understanding. In this newly revised 25th anniversary edition, Millman shares the fascinating story of how he learned this system and why he chose to share it as well as a variety of new, updated, and extended insights, such as: u New examples of well-known people on each life path u Original insights into what makes a “master number” and why u How to live in harmony with the nineyear cycles of your life The result is an ever more powerful tool for understanding, changing, and optimizing the course of any life. “The Life Purpose System as expressed in Dan Millman’s new book is absolutely amazing in its predictive value. It will help you sort out the conflicts in your life and guide you on the path of fulfillment.” —Deepak Chopra, author of Ageless Body, Timeless Mind Go to PeacefulWarrior.com and use the free Life-Purpose Calculator, or turn to the appendix in the book, to determine anyone’s birth number and life path. Other popular books by Dan Millman include No Ordinary Moments and The Four Purposes of Life.

TAROT CORRESPONDENCES

Ancient Secrets for Everyday Readers by T. Susan Chang $38.99, paper. Llewellyn. 336 pages

With the increasing popularity of Tarot as a divination and life orientation process, here’s a savvy book on using the power of correspondences to breathe magic and life into tarot practice. Correspondences are embedded in the structure of every modern deck, whether you recognize them or not. Focusing on four main systems of correspondences—the elements, astrology, numbers, and Kabbalah—this book helps you explore and integrate the images, associations, and myths that give tarot its unique and powerful qualities. Based on her 20 years of reading Tarot, author T. Susan Chang provides comprehensive correspondence tables for court cards, majors, minors, and the four suits, making this book a must-have resource for

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New Divination Card Sets

STARMAN TAROT KIT

by Davide De Angelis, in collaboration with David Bowie

The most eagerly anticipated tarot kit of the year! In 1995, David Bowie and Davide De Angelis began collaborating on a highly innovative and visually spectacular tarot deck. Bowie himself helped design the look and iconographic elements of the cards, providing notes and revisions before his untimely death. Now released, this tarot deck, decades in the making, expertly weaves together intricate sacred geometries, alchemy, magic, and the sacred teachings of the world’s mystery traditions. This deck is a must-have for collectors and a reading deck designed to help you connect with spirit or energize a creative project… A “cosmic friend” deck to help you navigate the strange changes that we all must turn and face.

BLUE MESSIAH READING CARDS Transformational Cards for the Soul by Nari Anastarsia $31.95, cards. Rockpool. 36 colour cards + guidebook in a box

The Blue Messiah Reading Cards have been divinely created as a universal heart compass to guide and support humanity through the immense changes and energy shifts occurring presently on Mother Earth. As we move through this period, this card set will provide clarity and insight into our evolving inner worlds and expanding consciousness. The visionary artworks and messages in these cards have been channeled by spiritual teachers and masters aligned in the power and love of the blue light. If you have been drawn to this oracle, the Blue Messiah invites you to continue your journey with renewed passion and vitality, to shine your light and increase the luminous radiance of your growing rainbow body, to transcend the last of any limiting beliefs and behaviors and step fully into the world of endless possibilities. By activating dormant light codes and gaining deeper understanding of the extension of the creative intelligent life force within you, you can envision and co-create a beautiful world of manifested dreams. With an open heart, allow the wisdom of the Blue Messiah to guide you to the greater cosmos within you. Trust that this oracle will guide your soul to a place of miracles and remind you of your infinite creative power.

WITCHES’ WISDOM ORACLE CARDS by Barbara Meiklejohn-Free, illustrated by Richard Crookes

$30.99, cards. Llewellyn. 48 colour cards + guidebook, in a box

Do you sense anticipation at the prospect of re-engaging with the wisdoms of the Old Ways? Each stunning card speaks of methods, spells, and magic that connect you with the elements, mystical realms, and spirit to bring about a more powerful sense of positivity and change in your life. These cards can be used by a seasoned witch or one who is dabbling in the path of the wise. Venture down this magical avenue and draw upon ancient wisdom that is still alive today. This Witches’ Wisdom Oracle Cards kit includes 48 silver-gilded oracle cards encapsulating the wisdom of the Wise: healers, teachers, herbalists, and gifted oracles who are the custodians of the magical potency of the Craft. Also includes a guidebook with sample spreads, easy to remember and repeat invocations, information about the cards, and much more.

THE WILD OFFERING ORACLE

A 52-Card Deck on Giving It All to God by Tosha Silver

The Chronicles of a Modern Exorcist by R H Stavis

New in Paperback

$21.00, paper. HarperCollins. 320 pages

We may not be able to see them, but they’re always there. Smoke and shadows, ghoulish features or lifelike forms, there are the demons, or what Rachel calls “entities,” that float around us, or even attach themselves to our bodies, feeding off our fears, traumas, and our negative energy. As the world’s only nondenominational exorcist, Rachel has found herself at the crux of the spiritual crossroads of thousands of clients all of whom she’s been able to save by ridding them of their spiritual baggage, and getting at the root causes of their low frequency at the same time. Stavis realized her gift as young child, but for years she pushed it away, wishing for it to disappear. After years of denying her gift for communicating with the spirit world, she turned what she once regarded as a curse into a blessing to help those in need. Stavis has cleansed thousands of tormented people, from small children to musicians, politicians, and everyone in between, quietly performing her work pro bono and in obscurity. In this book, I’ll welcome you not just into my strange world, but into the entire realm of entities, Spirit, frequency, and how they directly affect you. I’ll describe the many levels of entities— and what you might have attached to you right now—and show you what you can do to avoid attracting others… During my exorcisms, I call in Spirit Guides, Master Teachers, angels, my ancestors, even gods and goddesses, all of whom come from and are part of Spirit… You can change your energy—which I also call frequency—to help make a better world. That, in turn, will keep entities from attaching to you—now and for the rest of your life.

A unique look at demonology removed from religious dogma, Sister of Darkness is the true story of Rachel’s journey to becoming an exorcist. Chronicling some of her most extreme and interesting cleansings, the hows and the whys of what she does, and stories of danger and of triumph, Stavis creates a world that is at times frightening, eye-opening, and utterly enthralling.

$24.99, cards. Hay House. 52 colour cards, in a box

A new oracle deck from the beloved and irreverent spiritual teacher Tosha Silver (Outrageous Openness, Change Me Prayers) offers inspiration to help users “let go and let God” on their way to a more spacious and abundant life. Nothing is more exhausting than endlessly working on “yourself.” When you offer your whole Being fully to Love, self-acceptance arises spontaneously. May I rest in our Oneness, dear Divine!

If you read the lines above and think, “Easier said than done,” this oracle deck is for you. In 52 beautifully illustrated cards, beloved spiritual author-teacher Tosha Silver uses her accessible, slightly quirky style to convey her key teaching messages of Surrender and Offering to Divine Will. These messages, familiar to readers of Tosha’s acclaimed books are, at their essence, about releasing attachment to ego-defined outcomes. Each card addresses a particular situation—Aging, Ambition, Money, Regrets, Solitude, Travel, Truth—with a comment or invocation that encourages you to offer your pain around this situation to the Divine, and to call in Divine Will for the highest outcome. Intentionally non-prescriptive, the deck can be used in a variety of ways: as an oracle where the Divine guides you to a specific card; to carry or put on an altar as a reminder to reflect on a specific issue; or in any way you choose.

students, professional readers, spiritual seekers, and magical practitioners. Tarot Correspondences also shares methods for working with correspondences in readings, focusing on elements, astrology, number,

or Kabbalah separately or in combination. You will also discover meditation and visualization exercises, creative interpretation techniques, and tips for using correspondences to enhance spells and magical rituals. BRANCHES OF LIGHT F

THE OCCULT BOOK

A Chronological Journey from Alchemy to Wicca by John Michael Greer

$22.95, cloth. Sterling. 212 pages, 7x9, colour illustrations

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$47.99, cards. Llewellyn. 78-card deck +192-page guidebook, boxed

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Take an enlightening journey through occult history, exploring 100 dramatic incidents, arcane knowledge, and key historical figures from around the world. John Michael Greer delves into two millennia of tradition, from the earliest alchemists to pagan rituals; from the Philosophers Stone to Cabala, the first tarot, and the Knights Templar; and from the first horoscopes to fortune-telling trials and the birth of modern witchcraft, or Wicca. Each entry features a stunning image or intriguing item of ephemera. It can be useful to think of occultism as the rejected knowledge of the Western world… The occult remains the oldest and the most savagely persecuted of all the Western world’s bodies of rejected knowledge. Among the core elements of occultism are these: Magic—“the science and art of causing changes in consciousness at will”… The mage, or practitioner of magic, uses rituals, symbolism, meditation, and other methods to enter into unusual states of consciousness in which subtle powers can be directed and disembodied entities contacted to cause changes in the world. Divination—the art of knowing hidden things in the present and the secrets of the future through the same subtle links that in occult tradition make magic work… Initiation—the process by which an ordinary person develops the powers and abilities needed to master magic and divination. There are many methods of initiation… Alchemy—Alchemists prepare herbal medicines, practice spiritual meditation, and work with a dizzying array of substances in their pursuit of hidden knowledge. Occult philosophy—a philosophy that explains how and why occultism works. Three main schools of occult philosophy have played a predominant role in the history of occultism. Neoplatonism, an offshoot of the philosophy of Plato… Hermeticism, a blend of Greek philosophy and Egyptian magical teaching… and Cabala (also spelled Kabbalah and Qabalah), born in the Jewish communities of southern France… These core ingredients, combined with one another and with an assortment of other practices and teachings, make up the heart of the occult traditions of the West.

John Greer is one of the most widely respected writers and scholars in the occult field today. The author of more than 40 books, including The New Encyclopedia of the Occult, he served for twelve years as Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America.

THE SCHOOL OF LIFE...AND CHANNELLING

GREAT THINKERS

Transmissions & Revelations

The School of Life

by The School of Life

$43.50, cloth. School of Life. 476 pages, colour images

THE BOOK OF FREEDOM

Typically, great thinkers have been included in encyclopedic works on the basis of reputation and historic influence. The School of Life takes a different approach, focusing instead on the thinkers whose ideas are the most helpful to our lives now. This is a collection of sixty of the most important and most useful ideas of Eastern and Western culture.

A Channeled Text by Paul Selig

$23.00, paper. Tarcher/Penguin. 368 pp.

The focus of this book is to present some of the greatest minds of all time in a clear, relevant and charming light.

Many of these thinkers have previously been caught in a fiendish trap; what they’ve said has been hugely relevant and important, but how they have said it has resulted in them going unheard. The sixty chosen thinkers include La Rochefoucauld, Lao Tzu, Matsuo Basho, Sen no Rikyu, Alexis de Tocqueville, St Benedict, Donald Winnicott, John Bowlby, Melanie Klein, Andrea Palladio, Coco Chanel, Henri Matisse; as well as more familiar entries such as Plato, Wittgenstein, Foucault, Marx, Confucius and Freud. This book contains the canon of The School of Life, the gallery of individuals across the millennia who help to frame our intellectual project—and we will have succeeded if, in the days and years ahead, you find yourself turning to our thinkers to illuminate the multiple dilemmas, joys and griefs of daily life.

The book is arranged in sections: Philosophy being the largest, followed by Art & Architecture, Political Theory, Sociology, Eastern Philosophy, Psychotherapy, and Literature.

THE SCHOOL OF LIFE DICTIONARY

The Language of Emotional Intelligence by The School of Life $43.50, cloth. School of Life. 278 pages, colour illustrations

A dictionary is a guide to a language. This dictionary is for the distinctive language that The School of Life speaks: that of emotions. It is an alphabetical selection of some 200 words and phrases that shed light on our feelings about ourselves, other people, and the workings of the modern world. Too often, we struggle to find the right words to explain what we mean; The School of Life’s dictionary is a tool to help us convey our true intentions with economy and precision. The School of Life, an organisation dedicated to making sense of our emotional lives, offers us a complete vocabulary with which to understand some of our key emotional states and ideas and to express them succinctly and successfully to the world Definitions include: Cheerful Despair Cure for Unrequited Love Existential Angst FOMO

Impostor Syndrome The Quiet Life Utopia

Here’s a sample entry: Insomnia Insomnia is seldom a disease: it’s an inarticulate, maddening but ultimately almost logical plea released by our core self, asking us to confront certain issues we’ve put off for too long. Insomnia isn’t really to do with not being able to sleep; its about not having given ourselves a chance to think. It is revenge of all the many thoughts we didn’t take seriously enough in the day. See also: Philosophical Meditation, Unprocessed Emotion

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The channeled literature of Paul Selig— who receives clairaudient dictation from unseen intellects called the Guides—has quickly become the most important and celebrated expression of channeling since A Course In Miracles rose to prominence in the 1970s. Selig’s previous trilogy of channeled wisdom—I Am the Word, The Book of Love and Creation, and The Book of Knowing and Worth—won a large following around the world for its depth, intimacy, and psychological insight. The first two books of his new Mastery Trilogy, The Book of Mastery and The Book of Truth, likewise attained popularity and praise. Now, Selig continues the “Teachings of

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Mastery” with the widely anticipated third volume in the series: The Book of Freedom, which shows readers how to find full expression as the Divine Self through surrender and acquiescence to the true nature of their being. You will hear these words, if you like. You will dismiss them if you don’t like them. But what we are offering you on a level of frequency through attunement and sound and vibration is the resurrection of the self as the True Self, and the embodiment of this is where we wish you to know yourselves through. What is the embodiment of this? The awareness of the Divine in all manifestation. “Does this mean you walk on water?” he asks. “Does this mean we become saints?” Of course not. You are looking for outcomes again. You are looking for product. What you get is yourself as you are in your true nature.

“Paul’s messages arrive from a consortium of unseen ‘Guides’ whose voices are deeply ethical, penetratingly insightful regarding the foibles of human nature, and unsparingly blunt about the possibilities and pitfalls facing us in the present era. As an intellect, Paul, too, possesses these qualities and serves as a fine instrument—a kind of Stradivarius of the soul—through which the Guides can play their notes.”—Mitch Horowitz, author of One Simple Idea

Lars Muhl

The Seer - The Magdalene - the Grail by Lars Muhl $28.95, paper. Watkins. 540 pages

In the opening scene of The O Manuscript, Lars Muhl is an aging, washed-up rock star who has been lying in bed for three years. Abandoned by doctors and living alone on an island, a friend gives Muhl the phone number of a ‘seer’ in Andalusia. After a single phone call, Muhl is back on his feet and a three-year apprenticeship to the seer ensues. During their time together, the seer challenges Muhl to abandon his old life and initiates him into the mysteries of the Montsegur and the Cathars. When an old manuscript shows up in the mail, Muhl finds himself in possession of the secret history of Mariam Magdalene, Yeshua, and the Holy Grail. Muhl learns that he and the seer have crossed paths many times in past lives. Part memoir, part novel, and part spiritual treatise (three books in one volume: The Seer, The Magdalene, and the Grail), The O Manuscript has been an underground sensation for years, selling over 60,000 copies in Denmark alone— and is now available in a popular edition. Lars Muhl and his wife, Githa Ben-David, operate the Gilalai Institue of Energy and Consciousness in Denmark.

THE GATE OF LIGHT

by The School of Life

Healing Practices to Connect You to Source Energy by Lars Muhl

$28.95, cloth. School of Life. 248 pages, colour photos

So often, we exhaust ourselves and the planet in a search for very large pleasures—while all around us lies a wealth of small pleasures, which—if only we paid more attention—could daily bring us solace and joy at little cost and effort. But we need some encouragement to focus our gaze. This is a book to guide us to the best of life’s small pleasures: everything from the distinctive delight of holding a child’s hand to the enjoyment of disagreeing with someone to the joy of the evening sky; an intriguing, evocative mix of small pleasures that will heighten our senses and return us to the world with new-found excitement and enthusiasm. There are 51 small pleasures offered in this book, from the many more any of us can find if we’re looking and feeling. Here are a randomly sampled few of them: Figs, Very Dark Jokes, Feeling at Home in the Sea, A Book that Understands You, Kissing, Feeling Someone Else Is So Wrong, The Teasing of Old Friends, Pleasant Exhaustion after a Productive Day, Old Photos of One’s Parents, The Friend Who Listens, Up at Dawn, A Hot Bath. And near the end of the book, there’s a short list of another 52 “Very Small Pleasures” such as Tidying a Cupboard, Cradling Someone, the sound of cicadas, nice bits of religion you don’t believe in, and “becoming a person who is alive to small pleasures.” Small pleasures need rituals. They easily get crowded out. We actively need to build up their presence in our lives… Small pleasures seem small until we pay them greater and more systematic attention. We are trying to educate ourselves in a central part of life: that of discovering how to make the most of the opportunities for satisfaction that come our way and through them to create for ourselves and others more flourishing and less pained and lonely lives.

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$21.95, cloth. Watkins. 192 pages

The Gate of Light describes an ancient healing method used by the Essenes, or “The Sons of Light,” 2500 years ago. It brings this forgotten practice to the modern age, complete with practical tools, meditations and visualisations. A companion book to The Law of Light but can be read on its own. Until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1946, little was known of the Essenes; a brotherhood of holy men and women living together within a community over two thousand years ago. The Essenes considered themselves to be a separate people—not because of external signs like skin colour, hair colour, but because of the illumination of their inner life and their knowledge of the hidden mysteries of nature. The Gate of Light, based on Lars Muhl’s lifelong search for God, sets out to provide a practice based on Essene teachings that allows us to look at how we judge ourselves and how we live in the world. He asks: What motivates us? How do we create a balance between thoughts, words and actions? How do we align ourselves in relation to our higher self and become the universal light beings we are meant to be? The Essenes understood that everything is interactively connected and that everything is energy. For them, God was the name for the highest form of awareness, something omnipresent and, if a human wished to learn how then they could communicate with this ever present energy and through this communication humans could realize their full potential. Drawing on this ancient knowledge Lars presents a complete practice to help us recognize and answer the above questions. He particularly looks at: Grief and Happiness, Balance and Awareness, Selflessness, Boredom and Renunciation, Loneliness, Gratitude, Silence and Thoughtfulness.

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B U S I N E S S, M O N E Y & W A T E R

Business, Work & Money A WORLD OF THREE ZEROS

The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions by Muhammad Yunus $22.50, paper. Public Affairs. 288 pages

Muhammad Yunus, who created microcredit, invented social business, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in alleviating poverty, is one of today’s most trenchant social critics. Now he declares it’s time to admit that the capitalist engine is broken—that in its current form it inevitably leads to rampant inequality, massive unemployment, and environmental destruction. We need a new economic system that unleashes altruism as a creative force just as powerful as self-interest. Is this a pipe dream? Not at all. In the last decade, thousands of people and organizations have already embraced Yunus’s vision of a new form of capitalism, launching innovative social businesses designed to serve human needs rather than accumulate wealth. They are bringing solar energy to millions of homes in Bangladesh; turning thousands of unemployed young people into entrepreneurs through equity investments; financing female-owned businesses in cities across the United States; bringing mobility, shelter, and other services to the rural poor in France; and creating a global support network to help young entrepreneurs launch their start-ups. In A World of Three Zeros, Yunus describes the new civilization emerging from the economic experiments his work has helped to inspire. He explains how global companies like McCain, Renault, Essilor, and Danone got involved with this new economic model through their own social action groups, describes the ingenious new financial tools now funding social businesses, and sketches the legal and regulatory changes needed to jumpstart the next wave of socially driven innovations. And he invites young people, business and political leaders, and ordinary citizens to join the movement and help create the better world we all dream of. Also by Yunus are Banker to the Poor and Creating a World without Poverty.

DARE TO LEAD

Bold Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. by Brené Brown

$37.00, cloth. Random House. 320 pages

In her previous bestsellers, Brené Brown explored what it means to dare greatly, rise strong, and brave the wilderness. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers, and culture shifters, she’s showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step up and lead. Leadership is not about titles, status, and power over people. Leaders are people who hold themselves accountable for recognizing the potential in people and ideas and developing that

Clean Money & Investing in Life

THE CLEAN MONEY REVOLUTION Reinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism by Joel Solomon, with Tyee Bridge

New in Paperback

$19.95, paper. New Society. 252 pages

By 2050, $50 trillion will pass from elders to youngers in North America alone. From Boomers to Millennials, the largest intergenerational wealth transfer in history is underway and the ramifications will remake the world. The dirty money of “business as usual” is on the brink, wedged between catastrophic climate change and the demographic tidal wave of Millennials pounding the consumer table for real change. These forces are transforming the very nature of capitalism into something different and powerful, towards a clean money revolution. Clean money is money aligned with a purpose beyond self- interest. Money for the commons. Money that makes the world better. Money regenerating ecosystems and engendering a healthy balance between people and planet. Money that builds true security: long- term, safe, fair resilience.

Joel Solomon, pioneering clean money investor and change agent (one of the gardener-visionaries behind Hollyhock), lays it on the line. The revolution is underway, the opportunities are everywhere, and the challenges and rewards are immense. There is enough money to solve global challenges. It must be activated… Your name is on your money. Know what it is doing, right now, to people and place. Ask questions. Demand good options… We own slaves, kill other people’s babies, and start wars. We must align our money with our values.

Part memoir of an inspiring thought leader’s journey from presidential campaigner to budding oceanographer to multi-millionaire investor, part insider’s guide to the businesses remaking the world, and part manifesto for a bright new future. The Clean Money Revolution explores this massive economic shift, and how you can ride the $50 trillion wave to create the new, ethical, and sustainable businesses that power local economies, restore ecosystems, and build social and financial equity. Joel urges “a $100 trillion vision to save civilization by 2050: Let’s be billionaires of good deeds and good ancestors who did everything we could.” Our entire society is built around [money]. It is seductive. It is perhaps the dominant religion in the world today. But money has no values of its own. Money doesn’t account for fairness, justice, beauty, consciousness, or love. That’s our role, and it’s ever more crucial that we assume it. We need to start to talk about money in ways that dethrone it and make it subject to human ethics and standards of love and decency… This book is a small attempt, part of an emerging movement, to start making vital distinctions about how wealth is made and used in the world.

The Clean Money Revolution is a must-read for investors, aspiring business leaders, wealth managers, and entrepreneurs looking to align values with assets and chart a unique and profitable life course. It could also be a GPS for the 1%, for those entrusted with wealth for humanity. Joel Solomon is chairman of Renewal Funds, a $98 million mission venture capital firm. He has invested in over 100 early growth-stage companies in North America, delivering above-market returns while catalyzing positive social and environmental change.

INVEST LIKE YOU GIVE A DAMN

Make Money, Change the World, Sleep Well at Night by Marc de Sousa-Shields $18.95, paper. New Society. 236 pages

You give a damn, right? You want your money to do good, but your pension is riddled with oil and defense companies. Besides, investing is a pain in the ass. It’s tedious, and most sustainable and responsible investing books are as much fun as a root canal. You’re fighting the urge to bury your head in the sand. What to do? There is a better way. Invest Like You Give a Damn is a different kind of investment book. It tells real life stories of people just like you. People who give a damn but who have stomped the devil of inertia and chosen to align their money with their values. This is a fun, thought-provoking page-turner. Coverage includes: u Why you need to give a damn about your investments u Engaging investor stories to guide financial planning and investment decisions u Ground-breaking financial and SRI (“sustainable and responsible investment”) asset allocation tool for profit and sustainability impact maximization u Money makeover profiles u How-to investing from one-click to deep-dive portfolio building. Authored by a leading SRI expert and replete with humour and irreverence, Invest Like You Give a Damn is for everyone from college graduates waiting tables, to mid-life Gen Xers, to Boomers who want to live their ideals. Get it, read it, give a damn! Aim for 7% and you should get it. More importantly, you will send a signal to companies that long term is fine, that life on this planet is a game of centuries, not fiscal quarters. Wanting more is to want unsustainable returns, which only stands to fuel unsustainable production and consumption.

“From college graduate to retired Boomer, this is the investment guide for everyone with a pension or portfolio, no matter how modest, wanting to change the world for the better. Get it, use it and give a damn about what your money does!” —Joel Solomon, author of The Clean Money Revolution “One of the most insightful personal finance books of the past decade, it shows how to vote with your wallet for what you care about.” —Bob Willard, author of The Sustainability Advantage BRANCHES OF LIGHT F

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F potential. This is a book for everyone who is ready to choose courage over comfort, make a difference, and lead. When we dare to lead, we don’t pretend to have the right answers; we stay curious and ask the right questions. We don’t see power as finite and hoard it; we know that power becomes infinite when we share it and work to align authority and accountability. We don’t avoid difficult conversations and situations; we lean into the vulnerability that’s necessary to do good work. But daring leadership in a culture that’s defined by scarcity, fear, and uncertainty requires building courage skills, which are uniquely human. The irony is that were choosing not to invest in developing the hearts and minds of leaders at the same time were scrambling to figure out what we have to offer that machines can’t do better and faster. What can we do better? Empathy, connection, and courage to start.

Brené Brown spent decades researching the emotions that give meaning to our lives. In recent years, she found that leaders in organizations ranging from small entrepreneurial startups and family-owned businesses to nonprofits, civic organizations, and big companies, are asking the same questions: How do you cultivate braver, more daring leaders? And, how do you embed the value of courage in your culture? Dare to Lead answers these questions and gives us actionable strategies and real examples from her new research-based, courage-building program. Brene writes, One of the most important findings of my career is that courage can be taught, developed, and measured. Courage is a collection of four skill sets supported by twenty-eight behaviors. All it requires is a commitment to doing bold work, having tough conversations, and showing up with our whole hearts. Easy? No. Choosing courage over comfort is not easy. Worth it? Always. We want to be brave with our lives and work. It’s why we’re here.

Among Brené Brown’s other books are Daring Greatly and Braving the Wilderness.

Ecology, Community & Politics WHEN THE RIVERS RUN DRY Water—The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century by Fred Pearce

$27.00, paper. Beacon. 312 pages, maps

This is a new edition of the veteran science writer’s groundbreaking work on the world’s water crisis, featuring all-new reporting from the most recent global flashpoints. Throughout history, rivers have been our foremost source of fresh water for both agriculture and individual consumption, but looming water scarcity threatens to cut global food production and cause conflict and unrest. In this visionary book, Fred Pearce takes readers around the world on a tour of the world’s rivers to provide our most complete portrait yet of the growing global water crisis and its ramifications for us all. With vivid on-the-ground reporting, Pearce deftly weaves together the scientific, economic, and historic dimensions of the water crisis, showing us its complex origins—from waste to wrong-headed engineering projects to high-yield crop varieties that have saved developing countries from starvation but are

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now emptying their water reserves. Pearce argues that the solution to the growing worldwide water shortage is more efficiency and a new water ethic based on managing the water cycle for maximum social benefit rather than narrow self-interest. Or should we think small, catching the rain from our roofs, irrigating crops with plastic sheaths bought from ice-cream salesmen, and saving rivers by turning our poo into fertilizer? Nothing, perhaps not even climate change, will matter more to humanity’s future over the next century than the fate of our rivers. Plenty of explorers have sought the source of the world’s great rivers. My journey began as a mission to chart their deaths. But it is a hopeful journey nonetheless. I am an optimist. Water, after all, is the ultimate renewable resource.

Also by Fred Pearce is Fallout: Disasters, Lies, and the Legacy of the Nuclear Age.

21 LESSONS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY by Yuval Noah Harari

$34.95, cloth. McClelland & Stewart. 372 pages

With Sapiens and Homo Deus, historian Yuval Noah Harari first explored the past, then the future of humankind, selling millions of copies around the world. In 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, he devotes himself to the present. This a kind of instruction manual for the present day to help readers find their way around the 21st century, to understand it, and to focus on the really important questions of life. Once again, Harari presents this in his distinctive, informal, and entertaining style. Some sections focus on technology, some on politics, some on religion, and some on art. There are chapters that celebrate human wisdom, and others that highlight the crucial role of human stupidity.

The topics Harari examines in this way include major challenges such as international terrorism, fake news, and migration, as well as turning to more personal, individual concerns, such as our time for leisure or how much pressure and stress we can take. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century answers the overarching question: What is happening in the world today, what is the deeper meaning of these events, and how can we individually steer our way through them? Few writers of non-fiction have captured the imagination of millions of people in quite the astonishing way Yuval Noah Harari has managed, and in such a short space of time. His unique ability to look at where we have come from and where we are going has gained him fans from every corner of the globe. The “21 Lessons” are: u Disillusionment: The End of History Has been Postponed u Work: When You Grow Up, You Might Not Have a Job u Liberty: Big Data is Watching You u Equality: Those Who Own the Data Own the Future u Community: Humans Have Bodies u Civilization: There is Just One Civilization in the World u Nationalism: Global Problems Need Global Answers u Religion: God Now Serves the Nation u Immigration: Some Cultures Might Be Better than Others u Terrorism: Don’t Panic u War: Never Underestimate Human Stupidity

Hearth & Community HEARTH

A Global Conversation on Community, Identity, and Place editied by Annick Smith & Susan O’Connor $34.95, cloth. Milkweed. 264 pp, photos

This multicultural anthology is about the enduring importance and shifting associations of the hearth in our world. A hearth is many things: a place for solitude; a source of identity; something we make and share with others; a history of ourselves and our homes. It is the fixed center we return to. It is just as intrinsically portable. It is, in short, the perfect metaphor for what we seek in these complex and contradictory times—set in flux by climate change, mass immigration, the refugee crisis, and the dislocating effects of technology. The contributions, written expressly for this anthology, explore ideas about what, if anything, takes the place of hearth in the lives of refugees and immigrants, and how ideas of hearth have evolved for a young generation in a globalized world. With passion and care, these authors celebrate natural and spiritual hearths, or mourn hearths that are being destroyed—never to be replaced—in our increasingly endangered, highly populated, but still natural world.

Featuring original contributions from some of our most cherished voices—including Terry Tempest Williams, Bill McKibben, Pico Iyer, Natasha Trethewey, and Chigozie Obioma—Hearth suggests that empathy and storytelling hold the power to unite us when we have wandered alone for too long. This is an essential anthology that challenges us to redefine home and hearth: as a place to welcome strangers, to be generous, to care for the world beyond one’s own experience. All around the world, individuals, families, friends, and neighbors gather around a campfire or a computer, a kitchen table or an auditorium stage to share ideas, and warmth, and often food. This book, we hope, may become one such gathering place where questions are asked that have no answers, but where the talk goes on and on, connecting us in peace and trust. Keeping the fire alive.

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The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block

$28.95, paper. Berrett-Koehler. 240 pages

In Community, Peter Block explores a way of thinking about our places that creates an opening for authentic communities to exist and details what each of us can do to make that happen. A wonderful book—now expanded to tackle the rise of isolation and fear in a digitally interconnected world. This second edition of Community offers practical advice and uplifting stories exploring the benefits of community and belonging to foster social change and reconciliation. As we continue to find new ways of being in constant connection with each other through technology, our workplaces are depopulated and we face growing trends of fundamentalism and nationalism, and our fear of the stranger deepens. Block challenges this mindset and shows how community and the structure of belonging has the power to bring about positive social change when supported by the frameworks of compassion, equity and respect for the other. Backed by extensive research, this updated and expanded edition illuminates successful stories of community building as a form of healing. This book is written to support those who care for the well-being of their community. It is for anyone who wants to be part of creating an organization, neighborhood, city, or country that works for all, and who has the faith and the energy to create such a place.

Block provides an exploration of the exact way community can emerge from fragmentation. How is community built? How does the transformation occur? What fundamental shifts are involved? What can individuals and formal leaders do to create a place they want to inhabit? We know what healthy communities look like—there are many success stories out there. The challenge is how to create one in our own place. Questions are more important than answers in this effort, which means leadership is not a matter of style or vision but is about getting the right people together in the right way: convening is a more critical skill than commanding. Block outlines “five kinds of conversations for structuring belonging” (possibility, ownership, dissent, commitment, and gifts) that will create communal accountability and commitment and then goes on to describe how we can design physical spaces and structures that will themselves foster a sense of belonging.

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the World u God: Don’t Take the Name of God in Vain u Secularism: Acknowledge Your Shadow u Ignorance: You Know Less Than You Think u Justice: Our Sense of Justice Might Be Out of Date u Post-Truth: Some Fake News Lasts Forever u Science Fiction: The Future is Not What You See in the Movies u Education: Change is the Only Constant u Meaning: Life Is Not a Story u Meditation: Just Observe BRANCHES OF LIGHT F

There is an immediacy to this new book which makes it essential reading for anyone interested in the world today and how to navigate its turbulent waters.

TOGETHER RESILIENT

Building Community in the Age of Climate Disruption by Ma’ikwe Ludwig

$23.95, paper. Fellowship for Intentional Community. 166 pages

We know that we need to reduce our personal carbon footprint, but for all our awareness, real change is a rare commodity. Real hope comes from looking unflinchingly at our current circumstances and then F FALL -WINTER 2018-2019

F committing wholeheartedly to creative action. Never has that been more urgently needed than right now, with the climate crisis looming larger every day. Together Resilient explores intentional community as a viable model for a low carbon future. While looking realistically at the state of the world and the realities of climate disruption, it finds hope in examples of communities that already live high quality lives that the planet can sustain. It also looks at community as an essential element for surviving the coming (and already present) changes with more resilience and grace, and offers concrete examples of building community as a tool for reducing carbon emissions, outside the context of residential intentional communities. From small solutions to the full re-invention of the systems we find ourselves in, author Ma’ikwe Ludwig mixes anecdote with data-based research to present a wide range of options that all embody compassion, creativity, and cooperation. Above all, Together Resilient is a call for citizen-led, community-based action: why wait for the government when you can take action today, with your neighbors? “When people ask me where to move to escape climate change, I tell them there’s no escape and that the thing to look for is a strong community. This book explains how to build that kind of community anywhere—it’s a manual for the future.” —Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

LEADING FROM WITHIN

Conscious Social Change and Mindfulness for Social Innovation by Gretchen Ki Steidle $23.95, paper. MIT. 236 pages

Gretchen Steidle knows first-hand the transformation that mindfulness practice can bring. But she doesn’t believe that transformation stops at personal wellbeing. In Leading from Within, Steidle describes the ways that personal investment in self-awareness shapes leaders who are able to inspire change in others, build stronger relationships, and design innovative and more sustainable solutions. Steidle offers a roadmap for integrating mindfulness into every aspect of social change, which calls for leading with a deeper human understanding of change and compassion for the needs and perspectives of all stakeholders. Offering mindfulness practices for individuals and groups, she presents the neuroscientific evidence for its benefits, and argues for its relevance to social change. She describes five capacities of conscious social change, devoting a chapter to each. She writes about her own experiences, including her work helping women to found their own grassroots social ventures in post-conflict Africa. She describes the success of a group of rural, uneducated women in Rwanda, for example, who now provide 9,000 villagers with clean water, ending the sexual exploitation of disabled women unable to collect water on their own. Steidle also draws from the work of change agents in the U.S. to showcase applications of conscious social change to timely issues like immigration, racism, policing,

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and urban violence. Through personal stories and practical guidance, Steidle delivers both the inspiration and tools of this innovative approach to social transformation. Drawing from and integrating my life’s work to date, I explain the what, why, and how of conscious social change… I provide practices that you can conduct, alone or with your community, to foster mindfulness and enact conscious social change… I share how-to practices, theoretical frameworks, and practical tools.

“Many are uncertain about the relationship between mindfulness practice and social change—they seem so different, in intent and application—can they possibly enhance one another? If you would like to see how powerfully they can come together, this book is for you. Through her experience and understanding of each, Gretchen Steidle illuminates the vast potential held in pursuing both.” — Sharon Salzberg, author of Real Love

Eco-Philosophy RADICAL JOY FOR HARD TIMES Finding Meaning and Making Beauty in Earth’s Broken Places by Trebbe Johnson

$22.95, paper. North Atlantic. 256 pages

In a world devastated by human interaction and natural disaster—from clearcutting and fracking to extreme weather and urban sprawl—creating art, ritual, and even joy in wounded places is essential to our collective healing. When a beloved place is decimated by physical damage, many may hit the donate button or call their politicians. But Trebbe Johnson argues that we need new methods for coping with these losses and invites readers to reconsider what constitutes “worthwhile action.” She discusses real wounded places ranging from weapons-testing grounds at Eglin Air Force Base, to Appalachian mountain tops destroyed by mining. These stories, along with tools for community engagement—ceremony, vigil, apology, and the creation of art with on-site materials—show us how we can find beauty in these places and discover new sources of meaning and community. Trebbe Johnson, after years of leading workshops, retreats, and rites of passage programs internationally, founded an organization of the same name that has an annual Global Earth Exchange Day, where communities come together in a local place that has been wounded by toxicity, greed, or simply modern progress, to make art out of the trash and found objects there. The experience encourages acceptance for the place as it has become—“ugly” and yet beautiful in its own way. In a well-crafted narrative that includes interviews with cutting-edge thinkers and doers from around the world, she reminds us that spending time in these places, finding beauty there, discovering what they can tell us about ourselves, and making simple creative gifts for them, we can discover new sources of community and even joy. “It’s a great vision that Trebbe Johnson is sending out into the world, and it is very much her own. The great central truth of what she is doing is the very hard lesson for all of us in our lives, and yet it is our blessing.” —W. S. Merwin, poet “Trebbe Johnson’s idea is a revolutionary one and imperative: to look directly at loss. This manifesto is a song—not a dirge, but a symphony with all the complexity and emotion our home, the ever-creative Earth, calls forth.” —Melissa Pierson, author of The Place You Love Is Gone

INTRINSIC HOPE

Rainwater & Real Toilets

living courageously in troubled times by Kate Davies $18.95, paper. New Society. 183 pages

“This deeply wise book… evolves our consciousness and frees our heart to act on behalf of this world we love.” —Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance Climate disruption. Growing social inequality. Pollution. We are living in an era of unprecedented crises, resulting in widespread feelings of fear, despair, and grief. Now, more than ever, maintaining hope for the future is a monumental task. Intrinsic Hope offers a powerful antidote to these feelings. It shows how conventional ideas of hope are rooted in the belief that life will conform to our wishes and how this leads to disappointment, despair, and a dismal view of the future. As an alternative, it offers “intrinsic hope,” a powerful, liberating, and positive approach to life based on having a deep trust in whatever happens. The author, a hopeful survivor, shows how to cultivate intrinsic hope through practical tips and six mindful habits for living a positive, courageous life in these troubled times. These “habits of hope” include: u Being Present (mindfulness, using our senses, wonder, bearing witness, being present to the universe u Expressing Gratitude (appreciation, joy, choosing to be grateful u Loving the World (community, loving places, loving the Earth, loving future generations) u Accepting What Is (opening to painful emotions, forgiveness, expressing feelings) u Taking Action (results, responsibility, purpose, commitment, small steps) u Persevering for the Long Haul (resilience, long-term thinking, curiosity, looking after ourselves, celebrating good news). She transmutes hope for the future into trust in ourselves and relationship with whatever comes. We become sturdy and peaceful rather than anxious and stuck. The practices she suggests turn our attention to this presence, out of which we again rise and rise to occasions large and small. We need intrinsic hope in these challenging and unpredictable times. Cutting through the din of crushing analyses and the triviality of panaceas, Kate offers a lucid and empowering framework. —Vicki Robin, from the foreword

Whether working directly on ecological or social issues or worried about children and grandchildren, this book is for everyone concerned about the future and looking for a deeper source of hope for a better world.

Earth Energies & Eco-Design ECOVILLAGES AROUND THE WORLD 20 Regenerative Designs for Sustainable Communities edited by Frederica Miller

$24.99, paper. Findhorn. 176 pages, 8x11, colour photos, French flaps

In 2015, the United Nations introduced 17 sustainable development goals to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all. Aligning perfectly with the practices of ecovillages around the world, these initiatives show that ecovillages and sustainable communities are leading by example as we move into a future focused on partnership, environmental proBRANCHES OF LIGHT F

ESSENTIAL RAINWATER HARVESTING A Guide to Home-Scale System Design by Rob Avis & Michelle Avis $39.99, paper. New Society. 160 pages, 8x11, b/w & colour photos

Design a rainwater harvesting system for any home in any climate. Water is a crucial resource increasingly under stress. Yet rainfall, even in arid climates, can make up a sizable portion of any home, acreage, or farms water requirements if harvested and utilized with care. The key is high-quality site-specific design and sensible maintenance. Essential Rainwater Harvesting is a comprehensive manual for designing, building, and maintaining water harvesting systems for the warm and cold climates of the world. Presenting design considerations and approaches for the most common household rainwater supply scenarios—primary, supplemental, and off-grid— this step-by-step approach covers: u Planning for full-property water security u Guidance on navigating regulatory requirements u Templates for building your own spreadsheet-based calculation tool u Site-specific planning and spatial layout u Materials and component design and selection u System maintenance and upkeep. Incorporating the latest independent research, this practical resource provides DIYers, trades, and rainwater practitioners with the essential tools, methods, and technical knowhow to design, confidently build, and maintain rainwater harvesting systems that produce quality water without necessarily needing end-of-line disinfection or sterilization. The authors have over 20 years of combined experience in project management, ecological design, and sustainable technologies, which they share at vergepermaculture.ca from their suburban house and yard that they’ve transformed into a model of cold climate urban permaculture in Calgary, Alberta.

ESSENTIAL COMPOSTING TOILETS

A Guide to Options, Design, Installation, and Use by Gord Baird & Ann Baird $39.99, paper. New Society. 160 pages, 8x11, b/w & colour photos

From wastestream to mainstream, a practical guide to composting toilet systems. Composting toilets are a key feature for local resilience, money saving, water conservation, resource recovery, septic system replacement, and an improved bathroom experience in rural and urban buildings. Essential Composting Toilets is a streamlined manual that takes a practical, how-to approach to composting toilet system selection, design, installation, and operation, while meeting universal health and safety objectives. Drawing from existing regulations and research, this book dispels myths and provides tools to assess various systems. It includes: u Easily-understood drawings, plans, and photos u Coverage of all main composting toilet systems u Selection criteria including site considerations, urine separation pros/cons, renovations/new builds, ventilation, servicing, and composting details u Design and installation details. Offering a professional approach accessible to DIYers, homeowners, designers, building consultants, water conservation advocates, and regulators, Essential Composting Toilets provides key information for redesigning toilet systems anywhere in the world. Drawing from existing regulations and research, this book will dispel myths, satisfy regulators, and provide tools to assess various systems in terms of meeting the health and safety objectives driving regulations Ann and Gord Baird are the co-creators, designers, and builders of the award winning Eco-Sense home in Victoria, BC, Canada, They implemented greywater systems, rainwater harvesting, and compost toilets into North America’s first legal two story seismically engineered load-bearing cob home. Eco-sense.ca.

tection, prosperity, and peace for all life and the planet we live in. Offering a visual tribute to the work ecovillages do to alleviate climate change, social conflict, and environmental damage, including more than 300 full-color photographs, maps, and diagrams, this beautiful book highlights 20 best practice designs from ecovillages around the world to show how we can live lightly on the planet no matter where on earth we live, in all climate zones and cultures. It demonstrates how ecovillages have already achieved the climate goals all of us are now striving toward through practical lifestyle changes that promote peaceful and joyful coexistence both among people and between people and nature. Far from being F FALL -WINTER 2018-2019

only aesthetic choices, these changes give an increased quality of life, healthy homes, delicious organic food, playful interdependence, a new spiritual connection to our living planet, and much more. Through their regenerative, sustainable, and peace-promoting practices, ecovillages continue the culture of traditional village living in a modern way that addresses the critical challenges of our time. The book features the following 20 ecovillage projects: Hurdal Ecovillage and Hurdal Sustainable Valley, Norway; Svanholm, Denmark; Permatopia, Denmark; Solheimar, Iceland; Lilleoru, Tallin, Estonia; Findhorn, Scotland; Sieben Linden, Germany; Tamera, Portugal; Damanhur, Italy; Torri Superiore, Italy; Kibbutz Lotan, Israel; Sekem, Egypt; Chololo, Tanzania; Tasman Ecovillage, Australia; Narara, Australia; Hua Tao Ecovillage, China; Auroville, India; Ecovillage at Ithaca, New York, USA; Huehuecoyotl, Mexico; Ceo do Mapia, Brazil.

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There is only one criterion for “the best” ecovillage and that is whether you actually answer the challenges you face where you are. In this sense, these ecovillages are only a small number of examples, which represent the many thousands of wonderful initiatives constantly popping up all over the world. In a modern day context, all these initiatives represent the BEST of what we humans can do! Thank you. May diversity reign and the seeds of this book multiply! —the editor

Gardening & Farming THE NEW ORGANIC GROWER, 3RD EDITION

A Master’s Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener, 30th Anniversary Edition by Eliot Coleman $39.95, paper. Chelsea Green. 304 pages, 7x10, colour photos

Since its original publication in 1989, The New Organic Grower has been one of the most important farming books available, with pioneer Eliot Coleman leading the charge in the organic movement in the United States. Now fully illustrated and updated, this 30th Anniversary Edition will help organic farmers build successful farms in deep accordance with nature. Inspired by European intensive growers, The New Organic Grower offers a very approachable and productive form of farming that has proven to work well for the earth and its stewards for centuries. Some keynotes: u Farm-Generated Fertility—how to meet your soil-fertility needs from the resources of your own land, even if manure is not available u The Moveable Feast—how to construct home-garden and commercial-scale greenhouses that can be easily moved to benefit plants and avoid insect and disease build-up u Pests?—how to find “plant-positive” rather than ”pest-negative” solutions by growing healthy, naturally resistant plants u The Information Resource—how and where to learn what you need to know to grow delicious organic vegetables, no matter where you live. In his foreword, Paul Hawken writes: The new pioneers are those who restore native land and soil. As biota leaves the soil, so does life vanish from society and civilization as we know it. The act of learning to garden and farm, so sincere and simple on its face, is in the hands of Eliot an act of restoration that has implications far beyond one lifetime. It is a practice. And like any practice, it can only be learned through repetition, dedication, and good teaching. This is the good teaching.

Gardeners working on 2.5 acres or less will find this book especially useful, as it offers proof that small-scale market growers and serious home gardeners can live good lives close to the land and make a profit at the same time. The New Organic Grower is ideal for young farmers just getting started, or gardeners seeking to expand into a more productive enterprise. New material in this edition includes: u Beautiful color photographs taken by master gardener and author Barbara Damrosch (Eliot’s wife and co-farmer) u A new preface positioning the book

Regenerating Soil & the Earth

CALL OF THE REED WARBLER A New Agriculture, A New Earth by Charles Massy

$32.95, paper. Chelsea Green. 528 pages

“Charles Massy has written a definitive masterpiece that takes its place along with the writings of Aldo Leopold, Wendell Berry, Masanobu Fukuoka, Humberto Maturana, and Michael Pollan. No work has more brilliantly defined regenerative agriculture and the breadth of its restorative impact upon human health, biodiversity, climate, and ecological intelligence.” —Paul Hawken In Call of the Reed Warbler, Charles Massy explores regenerative agriculture and the vital connection between our soil and our health. It is the story of how a grassroots revolution—a true underground insurgency—can save the planet, help reduce and reverse climate change, and build healthy people and healthy communities, pivoting significantly on our relationship with growing and consuming food. Using his personal experience as a touchstone—from an unknowing, chemical-using farmer with dead soils to a radical ecologist farmer carefully regenerating a 2000-hectare property to a state of natural health—Massy tells the real story behind industrial agriculture and the global profit-obsessed corporations driving it. With evocative stories, he shows how other innovative and courageous farmers are finding a new way. At stake is not only a revolution in human health and in our communities, but the very survival of the planet. For farmers, backyard gardeners, food buyers, health workers, policy makers, and public leaders alike, Call of the Reed Warbler offers a tangible path forward and a powerful and moving paean of hope. It’s not too late to regenerate the earth. Call of the Reed Warbler shows the way forward for the future of our food supply, our planet, and our health.

GROWING A REVOLUTION Bringing Our Soil Back to Life by David Montgomery

$22.95, paper. Norton. 320 pages

For centuries agricultural practices have eroded the soil farming depends on, stripping it of organic matter vital to its productivity, and now threatening disaster for the world’s growing population. In Growing a Revolution, geologist David R. Montgomery travels the world, meeting farmers at the forefront of an agricultural movement to restore soil health. From Kansas to Ghana, he sees why adopting the three tenets of conservation agriculture—ditching the plow, planting cover crops, and growing a diversity of crops—is the solution. For when farmers restore fertility to the land it helps feed the world, cool the planet, reduce pollution, and return profitability to family farms. Seeing farmers across a wide range of social, environmental, and economic settings heal and improve their land faster than I thought possible motivated me to write this book… The degradation of soils and the loss of organic matter are the most underappreciated environmental crises humanity now faces. But the stage is set for ground-up transformational change, as the short-term interests of farmers increasingly align with preserving long-term soil fertility… Though already underway, the revolution still has a long way to go… Yet if it succeeds, it could solve one of humanity’s most pressing problems: how to keep feeding us all on this lonely rock in space.

“This is a Sand County Almanac of agriculture, a Walden of loam and tilth, a paradigm-bending journey into the principles that guide the life beneath our feet and thus the life that nourishes us.” — Paul Hawken, author of Drawdown “Being a long time ‘doom bat’ regarding the fate of the natural world, I was given hope by Growing a Revolution that there is a real possibility of revolutionizing agriculture with the result of growing more food, employing people, and putting carbon back into the ground. — Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia in the context of the organic farming movement u More information on new tools Eliot has invented that don’t appear in any of his other books Organic growing is not complicated. Nor is it difficult. It is the most straightforward way of raising plants. Difficulties usually arise from a misunderstanding of how it works. Once the principles are clear, gardeners from backyard to back forty can tune into the existing balances of the natural system and grow the crops they have always dreamed of.

Nature as Teacher & Healer THE HEALING CODE OF NATURE Discovering the New Science of Eco-Psychosomatics by Clemens Arvay

$20.95, paper. Sounds True. 198 pages

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bond. In The Healing Code of Nature, Austrian biologist Clemens G. Arvay illuminates the miraculous ways that the human body interprets the living code of plants, animals, and our larger natural habitat for healing and sustenance. Did you know that the sight of a tree activates the self-healing powers of a human being? Or that contact with friendly animals is proven to strengthen our immune system and help with recovery? Or that different natural landscapes hold unique healing properties? “People have been connected with plants, animals, and ecosystems over eons,” writes Arvay. “Nature is full of influences and stimuli that are healthy for us when we open to them.” The Healing Code of Nature is as inspiring as it is fascinating, offering readers a new vision for the future of medicine and the way we relate to our environment. Everything in this book revolves around scientific explanations for the hidden powers F FALL -WINTER 2018-2019

of plants and animals, which keep us healthy when we open up to them. We will be exploring the healing effects of nature down to our organs and deep into our cells. Thus, we will see, for example, how our nerves translate the symbolic language of nature and sensory stimuli from the world of plants and animals into something physical. With that in mind, I welcome you now to join me in exploring nature-human medicine. Our journey will take us all the way back to the Big Bang.

Also by Clemens Arvay, The Biophilia Effect.

THE ANIMALS’ AGENDA

Freedom, Compassion and Coexistence in the Human Age by Mark Bekoff & Jessica Pierce $23.00, paper. Beacon. 240 pages Every day we are learning new and surprising facts about how intelligent and emotional animals are—did you know rats like to play and laugh, and also display empathy, and the ears and noses of cows tell us how they’re feeling? At times, we humans translate that knowledge into compassion for other animals; think of the public outcry against the fates of Cecil the lion or the captive gorilla Harambe. But on the whole, our growing understanding of what animals feel is not resulting in more respectful treatment of them. Animal-behavior expert Marc Bekoff and bioethicist Jessica Pierce explore the real-world experiences of five categories of animals, beginning with those who suffer the greatest deprivations of freedoms and choice—chickens, pigs, and cows in industrial food systems—as well as animals used in testing and research, including mice, rats, cats, dogs, and chimpanzees. Next, they consider animals for whom losses of freedoms are more ambiguous, namely, individuals held in zoos and aquaria and those kept as companions. Finally, they reveal the unexpected ways in which the freedoms of animals in the wild are constrained by human activities and argue for a more compassionate approach to conservation.In each case, scientific studies combine with stories of individual animals to bring readers face-to-face with the wonder of our fellow beings, as well as the suffering they endure and the paradigm shift that is needed to truly ensure their well-being. The Animals’ Agenda will educate and inspire people to rethink how we affect other animals, and how we can evolve toward more peaceful and less violent ways of interacting with our animal kin in an increasingly human-dominated world. “The Animals’ Agenda is a bold and important book that everyone should read, argue over, and think about deeply. Not only does this book expose the obscene abuses of factory farms and lab animals, but it tackles deeper, harder, more complex questions as well. Should humans eat animals at all? The Animals’ Agenda brings us closer to the day when our behavior toward our fellow species is determined not by convenience or greed but by compassion.” —Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus “This wonderful and inspiring book reminds us in particular that we should treat wild animals as our co-citizens on this planet and treat them with respect and protect their natural environment. A must-read for anyone who aspires to morality and justice.” —Matthieu Ricard, author of A Plea for the Animals

P L A N T S, T R E E S, C U L T U R E & C L I M A T E

Genius of Plants & Trees THUS SPOKE THE PLANT

A Remarkable Journey of Groundbreaking Scientific Discoveries and Personal Encunters with Plants by Monica Gagliano $23.95, paper. North Atlantic. 176 pages, b/w illustrations

In this “phyto-biography”—a collection of stories written in partnership with a plant—research scientist Monica Gagliano reveals the dynamic role plants play in genuine first-hand accounts from her research into plant communication and cognition. By transcending the view of plants as the objects of scientific materialism, Gagliano encourages us to rethink plants as people—beings with subjectivity, consciousness, and volition, and hence having the capacity for their own perspectives and voices. The book draws on up-close-and-personal encounters with

AN REVOLUTIONARY GENIUS OF PLANTS A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior by Stefano Mancuso

$37.00, cloth. Scribner. 225 pages, photos

Do plants have intelligence? Do they have memory? Are they better problem solvers than people? This fascinating, paradigm-shifting work upends much you thought you knew about plants, and makes a compelling scientific case that these and other astonishing ideas are all true. Plants make up eighty percent of the weight of all living things on earth, and yet it is easy to forget that these innocuous, beautiful organisms are responsible for not only the air that lets us survive, but for many of our modern comforts: our medicine, food, even our fossil fuels. On the forefront of uncovering the essential truths about plants, scientist Stefano Mancuso reveals the surprisingly sophisticated ability of plants to innovate, to remember, and to learn, offering us creative solutions to the most vexing technological and ecological problems that face us today. Despite not having brains or central

TREE: A LIFE STORY

Revised Edition by David Suzuki & Wayne Grady $19.95, paper. Greystone. 193 pages, line drawings

New in Paperback

This story spans a millennium and includes a cast of millions. It is the story of a single tree—in this case a Douglas fir—that “connects us to other times and to all parts of the world. This book tells that story. But it is also the story of all trees—and all life—throughout this place called Earth.” Renowned environmentalist David Suzuki joins with writer Wayne Grady, describing how a single tree grows over generations, how it receives nourishment and what role the tree plays in the forest throughout its life, and beyond (“When it finally falls, the decaying tree continues to feed and support a succession of life-forms for centuries.”). Tree also looks at the community of organisms that share its ecosystem, and the tree is placed with the context of the events going on in the larger world during the tree’s lifetime. Lyrical, richly detailed, and scientifically eye-opening, Suzuki’s text is augmented by Robert Bateman’s evocative original art. The result is a revelatory salute to life itself.

THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES The Illustrated Edition by Peter Wohlleben

$45.00, cloth. Greystone. 176 pages, 9x10, colour photos

the plants themselves, as well as plant shamans, indigenous elders, and mystics from around the world and integrates these experiences with an incredible research journey and the groundbreaking scientific discoveries that emerged from it. Gagliano has published numerous peer-reviewed scientific papers on how plants have a Pavlov-like response to stimuli and can learn, remember, and communicate to neighboring plants. She has pioneered the brand-new research field of plant bioacoustics, for the first time experimentally demonstrating that plants emit their own ‘voices’ and, moreover, detect and respond to the sounds of their environments. By demonstrating experimentally that learning is not the exclusive province of animals, Gagliano has re-ignited the discourse on plant subjectivity and ethical and legal standing. This is the story of how she made those discoveries and how the plants helped her along the way.

nervous systems, plants perceive their surroundings with an even greater sensitivity than animals. They efficiently explore and react promptly to potentially damaging external events thanks to their cooperative, shared systems; without any central command centers, they are able to remember prior catastrophic events and to actively adapt to new ones. Every page of Plant Revolution bubbles over with Mancuso’s infectious love for plants and for the eye-opening research that makes it more and more clear how remarkable our fellow inhabitants on this planet really are. In his hands, complicated science is wonderfully accessible, and he has loaded the book with gorgeous photographs that make for an unforgettable reading experience. Plant Revolution opens the doors to a new understanding of life on earth. When it comes to robustness and innovation, nothing can compete with plants. Their way of functioning is a useful model, especially in an age when the ability of perceive change and find innovative solutions has become a requirement for success. We would do well to bear this in mind when planning for our future as a species.

Rooted securely in the earth, trees reach toward the heavens. All across the planet, trees—in a wonderful profusion of form and function—literally hold the world together. Their leaves receive the Sun’s energy for the benefit of all terrestrial creatures and transpire torrents of water vapor into the atmosphere. Their branches and trunks provide shelter, food, and habitat for mammals, birds, amphibians, insects, and other plants. And their roots anchor the mysterious underworld of rock and soil. Trees are among Earth’s longest-lived organisms; their lives span periods of time that extend far beyond our existence, experience, and memory. Trees are remarkable beings. Yet they stand like extras in life’s drama, always there as backdrops to the ever-changing action around them, so familiar and omnipresent that we barely take notice of them.

This is the powerful story of a single tree, from the moment the seed is released from its cone until, more than five hundred years later, it lies on the forest floor as a nurse log, giving life to ferns, mosses, and hemlocks—even as its own life is ending. Among David Suzuki’s other books are Good News for a Change and The Salmon Forest.

He convincingly makes the case that the forest is a social network. And it’s been around long before humans arrived.

In The Hidden Life of Trees, a forester’s fascinating stories, supported by the latest scientific research, reveal the extraordinary world of forests and illustrate how trees communicate and care for each other. It’s a powerful reminder to slow down and tune into the language of nature. And this breathtakingly illustrated edition brings those wonders to life. In this international bestseller (first published in Germany) forester Peter Wohlleben draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families; tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, support them as they grow, share nutrients with those who are sick or struggling, and even warn each other of impending dangers. With their newfound understanding of the delightfully complex life of trees, readers will never be able to look at a walk in the woods the same way again.

A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web” of soil fungi that connects vegetation in an intimate network that allows the sharing of an enormous amount of information and goods. Scientific research aimed to understanding the astonishing abilities of this partnership between fungi and plant has only just begun. The reason trees share food and communicate is that they need each other. —Tim Flannery, from the foreword

“A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement that will make you acknowledge your own entanglement in the ancient and ever-new web of being.” —Charles Foster, author of Being a Beast Also by Peter Wohlleben are The Inner Life of Animals and The Weather Detective. Today he manages a forest academy and an environmentally friendly woodland in Germany, where he is working for the return of primeval forests.

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Conscious Evolution & Planetary Culture HOW SOON IS NOW

The Handbook for Global Change by Daniel Pinchbeck $18.95, paper. Watkins. 275 pages

Here’s a bracing “big-vision” book from Daniel Pinchbeck, who wrote Breaking Open the Head and co-edited What Comes After Money? and Exploring the Edge-Realms of Consciousness. Beyond denial, cynicism, despair, and grief, we have the option to embrace our role as agents of planetary regeneration, helping to redeem and restore our world—to find joy in surrendering limited forms of self-interest for planetary communion.

We are on the brink of an ecological mega-crisis, threatening the future of life on earth, and our actions over the next few years may well determine the destiny of our descendants. Between a manifesto and a tactical plan of action, How Soon is Now? by radical futurist and philosopher Daniel Pinchbeck, outlines a vision for a mass social movement that will address this crisis. Drawing on extensive research, Daniel Pinchbeck presents a compelling argument for the need for change on a global basis. The central thesis is that humanity has unconsciously self-willed ecological catastrophe to bring about a transcendence of our current condition. We are facing an initiatory ordeal on a planetary scale. We can understand that this initiation is necessary for us to evolve from one state of being our current level of consciousness to the next. Overcoming outmoded ideologies, we will realize ourselves as one unified being, a planetary super-organism in a symbiotic relationship with the Earth’s ecology and the entire web of life.

Covering everything from energy and agriculture, to culture, politics, media and ideology, How Soon Is Now? is ultimately about the nature of the human soul and the future of our current world. Pinchbeck calls for an intentional redesign of our current systems, transforming unjust and elitist structures into participatory, democratic, and inclusive ones. His viewpoint integrates indigenous design principles and Eastern metaphysics with social ecology and radical political thought in a new synthesis. “This provocative and honest book pushes the climate change conversation well beyond its usual edges. It conveys the enormity of the changes before us—in politics, the economy, and technology of course, but also in our psychology and even our metaphysics. I recommend it to anyone who is trying to make sense of climate change within a bigger picture that includes the evolution of civilization and consciousness.” —Charles Eisenstein, author of Sacred Economics

CLIMATE: A NEW STORY by Charles Eisenstein

$25.95, paper. North Atlantic. 352 pages

Flipping the script on climate change, Charles Eisenstein makes a case for a wholesale reimagining of the framing, tactics, and goals we employ in our journey to heal from ecological destruction. His research and insight details how the quantification of the natural world leads to a lack of integration and our “fight” mentality. With an entire chapter unpacking the climate change

THE NEW STORY OF EARTH & SCIENCE

Science & Revelation

ORDER OF THE SACRED EARTH

An Intergenerational Vision of Love and Action by Matthew Fox, Skylar Wilson & Jennifer Listug

SCIENCE AND SPIRITUAL PRACTICES

$22.75, paper. Monkfish. 233 pages

Matthew Fox, a 76-year-old elder, activist and spiritual theologian, along with Skylar Wilson, a 33-year-old wilderness guide, leader of inter-cultural ceremonies, and Jennifer Listug, a 28-yearold writer, spiritual leader, and publicist, are presenting a challenge and an opportunity in the vision launched in this modest book. That vision is about creating an Order of the Sacred Earth. The one unifying element of the Order is the vow which members are asked to take: “I promise to be the best lover and defender of Mother Earth that I can be.” The intent is to build a community of like minded individuals who are working to keep Mother Earth healthy, to network with other individuals and organizations doing similar work, and to bring a deeper spiritual grounding to that work through the study of creation spirituality. To quote Matthew Fox from his vision of OSE “It is a community and a movement, not an institution; a verb, not a noun; a gathering of people very diverse but drawn together by a common value: the survival and thriving of Mother Earth.” The question addressed in this book might be summarized as this: After religion, what? Or, How can we now build a conscious community that gives us a sense of our common sacredness and purpose? That question is explored and answered by essay contributors—including Mirabai Starr, Brian Swimme, Adam Bucko, David Korten, and many others. Like glowing embers ready to flare up into a fire, or subterranean plates shifting, ready to become an earthquake that will reshape the entire landscape as we know it, this movement is a rich potentiality, ready to blossom into a full revolution… Our knowledge of our one planet and its unique place in an ever expanding cosmos illuminates humanity within a new earthly and cosmic perspective. It is now time for our wisdom to expand accordingly. Included in wisdom is our capacity for gratitude, love, and respect. We feel the Order of the Sacred Earth can play a dynamic role in this expansion. Read and see if you agree. Become a part of something larger than yourself and our combative histories—part of something that is alive, vital, and nourishing, in which we can learn to set ourselves free in the fullest sense of that term. Free to serve. Free to give back. Free to celebrate. Free to contribute to the return of community and a thriving planet.

the multiple crises we face as a society and as individuals. By recognizing the many aspects that play into the overall environmental crises, rather than looking for one cause or culprit, we are adopting a healthier and more workable strategy. We must recognize that everything is interdependent, feel the hurts of the planet, and let the resulting grief open us to transformation and empathy.

“What a blast of sanity! Eisenstein’s corrective is a bracing piece of work, dazzlingly thought through and eloquent in its articulation. He writes from within an uncannily woke worldview, enacting a full-bodied way of thinking that discerns and feels into the complex entanglement of our lives with every facet of this breathing biosphere. This book is visionary and prophetic, achingly grounded and useful to the max.” —David Abram, author of Becoming Animal

Science & Cosmology YOU ARE THE UNIVERSE

Discovering Your Cosmic Self and Why It Matters New in by Deepak Chopra Paperback & Menas Kafatos $20.00, paper. Crown. 288 pages

Here Deepak Chopra joins forces with physicist Menas Kafatos to explore some of the most important and baffling questions about our place in the world—and the world itself. BRANCHES OF LIGHT F

Reconnecting through Direct Experience by Rupert Sheldrake $19.99, paper. Hodder. 256 pages

The effects of spiritual practices are now being investigated scientifically as never before, and many studies have shown that religious and spiritual practices generally make people happier and healthier. Rupert illustrates how science helps validate seven particular practices which underpin all major world religions: Meditation; Gratitude; Connecting with nature; Relating to plants; Rituals; Singing and chanting; and Pilgrimage and holy places. Sheldrake summarizes the latest scientific research on what happens when we take part in these practices, and suggests ways that readers can explore these fields for themselves. For those who are religious, Science and Spiritual Practices will illuminate the evolutionary origins of their own traditions and give a new appreciation of their power. For the non-religious, this book will show how the core practices of spirituality are accessible to all, without the need to subscribe to a religious belief system. Results [of research studies] generally show that religious and spiritual practices confer benefits that include better physical and mental health, less proneness to depression, and greater longevity. The old-fashioned opposition between science and religion is a false dichotomy. Open-minded scientific studies enhance our understanding of spiritual and religious practices… The practices themselves are about experience, not belief… At the end of each chapter I suggest two ways in which you can gain direct experiences of these practices for yourself.

“I love this book! Few living scientists have the courage and the verve to ask the questions Rupert does, research them, and deliver answers in language all can understand. Be prepared as you read this book for an exciting and free-ranging ride, a sort of scientific pilgrimage journeying into spiritual practices and how they have benefited and can benefit humanity.—Matthew Fox, spiritual theologian and author of Original Blessing Among Rupert Sheldrake’s other books are Science Set Free and The Sense of Being Stared At.

“I feel grateful for this inspiring book and the inspiring initiative it launches. The Order of the Sacred Earth gives me new hope; its founders are visionaries who set out a plausible program to engage all aspects of our life, and motivate much-needed change. I hope and pray that their message and their Order will spread and transform our relationships with the Earth and with each other.”—Rupert Sheldrake, PhD, author of Science Set Free “The Order of the Sacred Earth is a vision as vital and inspired as any on our planet in this time of cultural collapse and regeneration—a gathering together of mystic warriors and visionary artisans of cultural evolution. There are now millions of us—imaginal cells of emerging ecocentric cultures—but what is needed is a consciously convened community that brings us together to synergistically deepen and amplify our artistry and to train and initiate others. Fox and Wilson’s co-dreamed vision draws from the very heart of the dream of the Earth.”—Bill Plotkin, author of Soulcraft

denier’s point of view, he advocates for expanding our exclusive focus on carbon emissions to see the broader picture beyond our short-sighted and incomplete approach. The rivers, forests, and creatures of the natural and material world are sacred and valuable in their own right, not simply for carbon credits or preventing the extinction of one species versus another. After all, when you ask someone why they first became an environmentalist, they’re likely to point to the river they played in, the ocean they visited, the wild animals they observed, or the trees they climbed when they were a kid. This refocusing away from impending catastrophe and our inevitable doom cultivates meaningful emotional and psychological connections and provides real, actionable steps to caring for the earth. Freeing ourselves from a war mentality and seeing the bigger picture of how everything from prison reform to saving the whales can contribute to our planetary ecological health, we resist reflexive postures of solution and blame and reach toward the deep place where commitment lives. Eisenstein takes up powerful themes of inner and outer transformation, the convergence of activism and spirituality, and

THE QUANTUM REVELATION

A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality by Paul Levy $22.95, paper. Select Books. 362 pages

“The Quantum Revelation is mind-blowing.” —Sting To say that quantum physics is the greatest scientific discovery of all time is not an exaggeration. In their discovery of the quantum realm, the physics community stumbled upon a genuine multifaceted revelation which can be likened to a profound spiritual treasure—a heretofore undreamed of creative power—hidden within our own mind. Quantum physics unequivocally points out that the study of the universe and the study of consciousness are inseparably linked. Einstein declared that what it reveals is so immensely important that it should be everyone’s concern. Paul Levy’s The Quantum Revelation is for those who have heard that quantum physics is a fascinating subject but don’t quite understand how or why. Levy contemplates the deeper philosophical underpinnings of quantum physics, exploring the fundamental questions it provokes: What does it mean that quantum theory has discovered that there is no such thing as objective reality? How are we participating—via our consciousness—in creating our experience of a reality that quantum theory itself describes as dreamlike? What are the implications for us in our day-to-day lives that—as quantum theory reveals—what we call reality is more like a dream that we had previously imagined? The Quantum Revelation is unique in how it synthesizes science and spirituality so as to reveal and explore the dreamlike nature of reality. It is a book not just for people interested in quantum theory, but for anyone who is interested in waking up and dreaming lucidly, be it in our night dreams or our waking life. This is one of the most fascinating, evocative, and important books that I have ever read… Quantum theory demands a radical re-visioning of the role of consciousness as the underlying organizing principle of the universe. With this understanding, quantum physics is introducing us to ways of seeing that profoundly impact human thinking, feeling, sensing, knowing, and being… The infinite self directs the development and unfolding of the finite self, and the finite self offers joy, entertainment, and knowledge to the infinite self. This is the paradox of partnership resolved. The game is to overcome the illusion of separation. This is the revelation of quantum physics that Paul Levy brings to life in a most splendid and captivating way. —Jean Houston, from the foreword

Also by Paul Levy is Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil What happens when modern science reaches a crucial turning point that challenges what we think we know about reality? In this brilliant and practical work, Chopra and Kafatos tell us that we’ve reached just such a point. In the coming era, the universe will be completely redefined as a “human universe” radically unlike the cold, empty void where human life is barely a speck in the cosmos. F FALL -WINTER 2018-2019

You Are the Universe literally means what it says—each of us is a co-creator of reality extending to the vastest reaches of time and space. This seemingly impossible proposition follows from the current state of science, where outside the public eye, some key mysteries cannot be solved, even though they are the very issues that define reality itself: u What Came Before the Big Bang? u Why Does the Universe Fit Together So Perfectly? u Where Did Time Come From? u What Is the Universe Made Of?

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u Is the Quantum World Linked to

Everyday Life? u Do We Live in a Conscious Universe? u How Did Life First Begin? The shift into a new paradigm is happening. The answers offered in this book are not our invention or eccentric flights of fancy. All of us live in a participatory universe. Once you decide that you want to participate fully with mind, body, and soul, the paradigm shift becomes personal. The reality you inhabit will be yours either to embrace or to change.

What these great minds offer is a new understanding of who we are and how we can transform the world for the better while reaching our higher potential. Cosmic consciousness has the urge to build upon the old to create the new. This behavior is called evolution. Confining evolution to life on Earth is a narrow perspective. The entire cosmos exhibits evolution as a basic trait… Cosmic consciousness mirrors the observer’s state of being. There is no privileged point of view, even though in the past religion claimed to have a privileged point of view while today science does the same. But each story is provided with evidence to support it. Because our state of being interacts so intimately with reality that observer, observed, and the process of observation are inseparable.

AWARE

The Science and Practice of Presence by Daniel Siegel

$37.00, cloth. Knopf. 378 pages, diagrams

Aware, from prolific author and psychiatrist Daniel Siegel, provides practical instruction for mastering the Wheel of Awareness, a life-changing tool for cultivating more focus, presence, and peace in one’s day-to-day life. An in-depth look at the science that underlies meditation’s effectiveness, this book teaches readers how to harness the power of the principle “Where attention goes, neural firing flows, and neural connection grows.” Siegel reveals how developing a Wheel of Awareness practice to focus attention, open awareness, and cultivate kind intention can literally help you grow a healthier brain and reduce fear, anxiety, and stress in your life. Whether you have no experience with a reflective practice or are an experienced practitioner, Aware is a hands-on guide that will enable you to become more focused and present, as well as more energized and emotionally resilient in the face of stress and the everyday challenges life throws your way. This brilliant summary of the new sciences of the mind is fascinating, sometimes jaw-dropping, and always wonderfully useful. As Ruby Wax, author of Sane New World says, “For me almost every line is an ‘aha’ moment. At long last, someone nails what it is to have a healthy mind, and if you don’t have one, how to get one.” “An illuminating new view of the nature of the mind and the practices of awareness that lead us to profound wellbeing. Siegel’s Wheel of Awareness is an elegant and groundbreaking synthesis of these practices, an accessible tool for inner integration and healing, as well as for realizing the loving awareness that links us to all beings. This brilliant book is poised to transform countless lives.” —Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance “Dan is a brilliant integrator and Aware is a visionary blend of neuroscience, physics, and cutting-edge psychology combined

with creative approaches to mindfulness and compassion. The practice of the Wheel brings together many skillful and wise elements of meditation, all rolled into one.” —Jack Kornfield, author of The Wise Heart Among Daniel Siegel’s other books are Mindsight, Mind, and The Yes Brain.

SACRED GEOMETRY FOR ARTISTS, DREAMERS, AND PHILOSOPHERS Secrets of Harmonic Creation by John Oscar Lieben

$50.00, cloth. Inner Traditions. 246 pages, 8x10, 2-colour illustrations

We are in the midst of a revival of an ancient way of looking at the world—an approach that enabled great civilizations of the past to bring forth inventions of great beauty and power. This school of thought—harmonics—envisioned the natural world and the solar system as an interlocking matrix of harmonious numbers, perfectly woven into the creative fabric of life and the surrounding universe. This new way of seeing is really very old. It has been called harmonics, which includes the disciplines of number, geometry, music, and cosmology—the quadrivium of the ancient mystery schools.

Exploring the art and science of harmonics, John Oscar Lieben shows how to create harmonious forms using the ancient tools of number, geometry, and musical tone—an approach that resonates with nature’s own ways of creation. He demonstrates many practical applications that result from the study of harmonics, providing analyses of ancient sculpture and architecture, as well as original examples of building floor plans, pottery figures based on planetary proportions, gardens based on harmonic principles, and ceremonial spaces that honor cosmic harmonies and sacred geometric relationships. Showing how harmonics can also be applied to the mysteries of time and space, the author demonstrates how the vesica piscis and many other variations of the vesica shape reveal numerical synchronicities and correspondences that connect cosmic time cycles, measures of space, and musical tones. The author applies harmonics and the vesica construction matrix to illustrate many of nature’s wonders, including the EarthMoon relationship, the interactions of the Golden Number and the musical scale, and how the Flower of Life symbol connects the universal field with the pattern of raindrops falling on a pond. Offering an expertly illustrated approach to sacred geometry that pairs the mystical with the practical, the cosmic with the earthly, the author reveals how the art and science of harmonics should be required study for both the artist and the seeker of eternal truths as well as the scientist who seeks an entrance into the sacred foundations of nature.

THE POWER OF EIGHT

Harnessing the Miraculous Energies of a Small Group to Heal New in Others, Your Life, Paperback and the World by Lynn McTaggart $23.00, paper. Scribner. 314 pages

Discover astonishing new findings about the miraculous power of group intention and its boomerang effect, in this new book by the author of The Intention Experiment and The Field. BRANCHES OF LIGHT F

What we send out into the universe comes back to us, magnified. Although the power of intention—the energy of positive thoughts—is widely accepted as an influential force in transforming lives, the exponential power of group intention has never been explored, until now. In The Power of Eight, Lynne McTaggart reveals her remarkable findings from ten years of experiments about how group intention can heal our lives—and change the world for the better. When individuals in a group focus their intention together on a single target, a powerful collective dynamic emerges that can heal longstanding conditions, mend fractured relationships, lower violence, and even rekindle life purpose. But the greatest untold truth of all is that group intention has a mirror effect, not only affecting the recipient but also reflecting back on the senders. At some point I began to acknowledge that the group-intention experience itself was causing big changes in people: changing individual consciousness, removing a sense of separation and individuality, and placing members of the group in what can only be describe ed as a state of ecstatic unity… The inciting instrument for all of this was simply the gathering of these people into a group.

Drawing on hundreds of case studies, the latest brain research, and dozens of McTaggart’s own university studies, The Power of Eight provides solid evidence showing that there is such a thing as a collective consciousness. Now you can learn to use it and unleash the power you hold inside of you to heal your own life, with help from this riveting, accessible book. And you can join a series of worldwide Intention Experiments that will run on a major web television channel in 120 countries during the book’s initial publication and afterward. Every experiment I ran, every Power of Eight group that assembled demonstrated that thoughts are not locked inside our skulls, but find their way into other people, even into things thousands of miles away, and have the ability to change them.

Family & Parenting THE FIELD GUIDE TO PREGNANCY

Navigating New Territory with Research, Recipes, and Remedies by Caylie See $19.50, paper. North Atlantic. 240 pages, b/w photos

For women who feel excited, overwhelmed, terrified, or just plain curious about their pregnancy journey, acupuncturist and integrative fertility expert Caylie See has written this pragmatic, insightful, and straightforward guide to finding the best information, resources, and foods to nourish their pregnancies. Balancing Eastern and Western medical perspectives, natural remedies, and recipes, she maps out the terrain of symptoms that women typically encounter from month-toF FALL -WINTER 2018-2019

month—insomnia, morning sickness, and fatigue, to name a few—and gives explanations and solutions for each symptom. The Field Guide to Pregnancy is an encouraging, enjoyable, and inspiring gem that helps women find comfort in an inherently uncomfortable time. “Pregnancy is a time of joy, wonder, and unsolicited—even coercive—advice. The Field Guide to Pregnancy by Caylie See gives women an intimate, honest picture of all the intricacies of pregnancy, so each woman can manage herself, her life, and her own unique healthy pregnancy.... The checklists are practical and surprisingly simple; rather than feeling overwhelmed, women will think, ‘I can do this!’ This empowerment comes from See’s understanding of pregnancy as not just a physical phenomenon—a woman’s sense of self, not to mention mental and emotional health, is a vital part of the process.” —Melissa Wuske, Foreword

RAISING RESILIENCE

The Wisdom and Science of Happy Families and Thriving Children by Christopher Willard $22.95, paper. Sounds True. 190 pages

In every spiritual tradition, we find teachings about qualities of being that lead to a fulfilling life such as generosity, kindness, honesty, determination, and patience. Today, growing research from neuroscience and social psychology supports these teachings, offering insights into cultivating these virtues in ourselves and our families. Raising Resilience is a practical guide for parents and educators of children from preschool through adolescence, detailing ten universal principles for happy families and thriving children. These ten paramis (or high tunings) as they are called in Buddhism, include generosity, ethics, renunciation, wisdom, energy, patience, honesty, determination, kindness, and equanimity. Bridging the latest science with Eastern wisdom to explore ourselves and share with our children, Dr. Christopher Willard offers a wealth of teachings on: u Getting through Giving—the many types of generosity we can model for kids, and the fascinating new findings on the power of giving u Why Doing the Right Thing Is the Right Thing to Do—living in harmony with oneself, one’s family, and one’s community u Less is More Parenting—how letting go of what’s no longer necessary creates space, freedom, and the possibility for something new u Building a Wiser Brain—three types of wisdom and how to steer kids’ “under-construction” minds toward wise action u Even the Buddha Had Helicopter Parents—releasing anxiety about over— or under—parenting and the desire for the “perfect” family u The Buddha and the Marshmallow— patience in spirituality and science, including practices to strengthen patience in yourself and your children u The Kindness Contagion—cultivating lovingkindness, compassion, and empathy u Finding Balance in a Broken World and Staying Steady through the

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Stress—how to abide life’s inevitable ups and downs through the attitude of equanimity “The practices in this book ultimately come together to help us build thriving, happy, and resilient families and communities, regardless of how we categorize them,” writes Dr. Willard. Raising Resilience is an accessible resource to help each one of us and our family members, “evolve and grow into our best selves.” Also by Chris Willard is Growing Up Mindful.

HOW CHILDREN THRIVE

The Practical Science of Raising Independent, Resilient, and Happy Kids by Mark Bertin

$19.50, paper. Sounds True. 228 pages

How do children thrive? As a parent, you probably think about this all the time. You want your children to have happy, healthy, and meaningful lives—but what’s the best way to support them? In How Children Thrive, developmental pediatrician and parent Dr. Mark Bertin provides a positive, simple, and empowering approach for raising children of all ages. Bringing together mindfulness, new science on brain development, and the messy reality of being a parent, Bertin has a created a relaxed, instinctual, and evidence-based approach to raising children who thrive. Research has shown that the key to raising resilient, kind, and independent children lies in Executive Function, our mental capacity to manage just about everything in life. Despite its wonky, overly scientific name, there is nothing complicated about building executive function, It’s actually a lot more straightforward and less anxiety-provoking than most of the parenting advice out there.

Through easily applied chapters, Dr. Bertin provides simple strategies for helping your children develop healthy EF— while taking care of yourself and enjoying your family. Highlights include: u Mindfulness—how it directly builds EF and how to incorporate mindful practices for the whole family u The importance of free play, the science behind it, and how to encourage more of it u Technology—how much is too much? At what age is screen time OK? Help your kids to a healthy relationship with media. u Create simple routines that support independence around homework, nutrition, sleep, friendships, and more u Age-appropriate advice for toddlers, teens, and even your twenty-somethings u Limits and discipline: How to determine—and stick with—consequences for unwanted behavior u Understand markers for whether your child is developmentally on track or if extra support might be needed u Find the advice you need when you need it with short, independent chapters full of concrete practices u Bring more calm, ease, and joy to your parenting while taking care of yourself—even when family life gets chaotic u Give yourself permission to make mistakes and adapt along the way

The pressure to be the perfect parent is overwhelming, but the truth is the job is too challenging and varied to ever be done to perfection.

DARING TO LOVE

Intimate Relating

Move Beyond Fear of Intimacy, Embrace Vulnerability, and Create Lasting Connection by Tamsen Firestone, with Robert Firestone

Relationships & Sex

$22.95, paper. New Harbinger. 192 pages

TANTRIC SEX AND MENOPAUSE

Practices for Spiritual and Sexual Renewal by Diana Richardson & Janet McGeever $21.50, paper. Inner Traditions. 204 pages, b/w illustrations

As women, we live so closely to the body— through menstruation, pregnancy, birthing, motherhood, and then menopause. Each of these transitions changes a woman in a multitude of ways, most of which are celebrated. Yet menopause often causes women to feel despondent, as if our bodies are broken or deficient, especially when it comes to sex and intimacy. However, as tantric teachers Diana Richardson and Janet McGeever show, menopause has many hidden gifts to offer if we learn to embrace these natural changes. Shining the light of tantric intelligence on menopause, the authors reveal how to explore and experience menopause in a radically positive fashion, suffused with a sense of vital awakening and re-wilding of a woman’s sexuality, creativity, and spirituality. Explaining what to expect physically, emotionally, and spiritually, as well as what it means for relationships, they detail tantric practices and tools to connect with the body’s inner intuitive wisdom and heart energies, remove the performance pressure of conventional sex, and set the stage for passion and pleasure to thrive both in the bedroom and beyond. They explain why Tantra works for menopausal women and how their bodies are naturally entering a more tantric phase focused on creative, spiritual energy. They explore how, in Tantra, sex is practiced not for the sake of sex itself but as an instrument for going beyond sex, for better health, improved relationships, enhanced self-control and emotional balance, and even higher states of consciousness. They also offer many self-help practices, exercises, and meditations to reinforce a positive attitude toward menopause and overcome many of the physical and sexual problems, such as pain, dryness, loss of interest, and loss of libido. Transformation happens for both men and women. Words cannot even describe the connection and depth of love available. It is profound. Because hormones do not drive the menopausal woman so much anymore, a woman’s ability and capacity to open into a silent, restful state is greatly amplified. For a man to experience making love with the menopausal woman means that he will, if she has surrendered authentically to accepting her body changes, receive the gift of silence and sensitivity he may never before have encountered. This transforms him as he experiences a deep relief inside his body with not having to do so much, just learning to relax and be, and so balancing his body, heart, and soul.

Does it feel like your relationships never work out? After a breakup, do you spend most of your time dwelling on what the other person did to cause it, rather than reflecting on yourself? It may seem obvious that we want our romantic relationships to work, and that love and long-term commitment are our ultimate goals. But what if, instead of letting love in, you’re unconsciously pushing it away? And if so, how do you stop? Daring to Love will help you identify the self-protective behaviors that keep you from building the intimate, lasting relationship you truly desire. Using techniques based in the authors’ groundbreaking voice therapy—the process of acknowledging unhealthy patterns aloud—you’ll uncover the real reasons you’re sabotaging your love life and learn to quiet destructive thoughts that are rooted in fear of rejection, shame, or jealousy. With this book as your guide, you can approach your relationship with openness and fearlessness—two key ingredients for romantic bliss! With compassion for yourself, you can develop an understanding of what limits you in your intimate relationship. You will benefit as you come to see yourself and your partner from an interested and caring perspective rather than through the eyes of your inner critic. Accepting that you are human, and realizing that change takes time, will allow you to have a kind attitude toward yourself as you strive to allow more love into your life. This book deals with a very unpleasant reality—when it comes to sabotaging love, we are our own biggest problem. But the book also carries an optimistic message—we are our only real solution to this problem. The act of looking within, to identify the defenses that obstruct love and then learn how to challenge them, is the very thing that provides a way to establish or recapture the feelings of friendship and love that we desire in our intimate relationship.

If you’re struggling to cultivate lasting relationships, this book can help you embark on your next romantic journey with more openness and self-knowledge. “This book invites us into raw vulnerability only made possible by the competent, compassionate hands of two authors who have lived—and loved—the principles they set forth. Perhaps the last paragraph of this book explains why it deserves to be read, integrated, and actualized into practice: ‘Love is worth believing in. Love is worth fighting for. Love is worth the personal challenge. No other endeavor offers higher rewards.’” —Pat Love

AWAKENED RELATING

A Guide to Embodying Undivided Love in Intimate Relationships by Lynn Marie Lumiere

$22.95, paper. New Harbinger. 201 pages

Our natural state is to love and be loved. From deep within, we’re compelled to seek connection. Yet relationships remain a struggle—even for the most spiritually enlightened among us. Traumatic experiences, insecure attachment, and especially the false but commonly held belief that we are separate, both from each other and from the love we seek, can cause endless problems in relationships. As long as our connections are built on this untruth, lasting love and harmony in relationship will elude us. Awakened Relating can help. Written by a licensed therapist and pioneer in bringing the most direct teachings of non-duality into the practice of psychotherapy, this book offers practical guidance for improving relationships through awakened relating—a more enlightened experience of falling in love, communication, conflict resolution, and sexuality. With examples, guidelines, and experiential inquiries for realizing your true nature, this book will dispel common myths and mistaken beliefs about intimacy and help you cultivate a loving relationship with yourself and others. Awakened relating is about sharing and celebrating real Love together, rather than trying to get it from each other. Once we know we are what we seek, it is possible to relate from a place of freedom, harmony, and acceptance, rather than from lack, grasping, and attachment. As we move into awakened relating, we enter the timeless freedom that perfect Love offers.

Including inspirational stories of people who practice awakened relating in their own lives—including Adyashanti and Mukti, and Rupert Spira and Ellen Emmet— this book will show readers how to identify, transform, and resolve the deep psychological issues that prevent them from having the harmonious, loving relationships they seek. It is most helpful to relax your mind and open your heart to allow a felt-sense of what is being read to emerge… To the best of your ability, allow your experience of this book to be a contemplation or a meditation, rather than an intellectual study.

“Full of wisdom as well as practical guidance about how to bring spiritual illumination into the very heart of our humanness.” —John Welwood, author of Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships and Journey of the Heart

Providing a guide for women who are approaching, experiencing, or have gone through menopause, the authors show how a more informed, tantric approach to menopause allows each woman to deepen her trust in the perfect functioning of the female body, embrace her natural sexual response, and reconnect with herself. Also by Diana Richardson is Tantric Orgasm for Women. BRANCHES OF LIGHT F

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Women & Men THE WILD WOMAN’S WAY

Unlock Your Full Potential for Pleasure, Power, and Fulfillment by Michaela Boehm $35.00, cloth. Scribner. 242 pages

Here’s a practical tantra handbook for the high-achieving modern woman. For women today, achieving a successful career, a fulfilling romantic relationship, and a rewarding personal life can feel like opposing goals, leaving their deepest yearnings seemingly beyond reach. It has even become difficult to enjoy the simplest pleasures of our lives. We are stuck in go-mode, damaging our romantic relationships, pleasure, and creativity. But what if there were a way to experience the simplest pleasures of our lives on a deeper level, freeing the body and psyche from these damaging patterns? Beyond our current stereotypes about femininity lies the wisdom of the Wild Woman archetype, a model of building a feminine body intelligence. By embodying this archetype and using tantra—not just in the bedroom, but also to build intimate connections to our senses and physical movements, bringing bliss to ordinary activities like taking a sip of tea or walking down the street—we can soften harmful psychological patterns while nurturing deeper pleasure in being itself. Each of us has that native, embodied wisdom—a wild, untamed, undomesticated body-mind and heart that know what is true for us. This looks and feels different for each woman, and no two are ever alike. It guides our passion, whispers in our ears with longing, and reveals itself when we allow the natural genius of our bodies to show us the way.

In The Wild Woman’s Way, Michaela Boehm shares practical rituals and exercises drawn from years of experience as a celebrity relationship and life counselor and teacher of tantric yoga. She reveals the power of different types of touch, while also training you in forms of meditation and stretching that increase activity and sensual pleasure. Soon, you will learn to switch between the aggressive go-mode required to compete in the world, and the feminine flow-mode of softness and receptivity. By harnessing this duality of the “Wild Woman,” you can attract and inspire meaningful relationships with romantic partners, your own body, and with life itself.

THE HOLY WILD

A Heathen Bible for the Untamed Woman by Danielle Dulsky $21.50, paper. New World Library. 274 pp

Many women feel alienated from the spiritual paths outlined by traditional religions and by those described by popular spiritual alternatives. This ode to the Feminine Wild speaks to those women. Here are ideas and practices based on the elements (earth, fire, water, air, ether) rather than traditional patriarchy hierarchies and designed to connect individual women to their universal but usually denied powers. While goddesses and heroines from

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Heart of the Divine Feminine

THE HEART OF THE GODDESS

Art, Myth and Meditations of the World’s Sacred Feminine by Hallie Inglehart Austin $36.25, paper. 176 pages, 8x11, colour illustrations

Ancient images of the Goddess principles are reemerging, bringing renewed attention and expression to mythical and spiritual inner and outer guides. First published in 1990 and now reborn in a gorgeous revised edition, The Heart of the Goddess presents a worldwide selection of the art, values, and living lessons of Goddess culture. For author Hallie Iglehart Austen, respect for the Earth, restoration of community, and regaining the long lost power of Woman are inseparable. This extraordinary compilation of the art, values and living lessons of Goddess culture dating from 30,000 years ago to the present, from Africa to Hawaii, Siberia to North America, is a multicultural tapestry of artwork, historical background, and meditations, bringing focus and expression to the myth and spirituality of the feminine. The Heart of the Goddess is an invaluable addition to the literature of feminist spirituality. Someone called it “returning to the Mother of us all.” She writes of the Goddesses with the ease of someone who knows them well, and in introducing them, she provides us with a sketch of the historical, archeological, mythological, and anthropological context in which they existed or were found. There is a priestess in this author, whose arrangement and progression of the Goddesses is an enactment of ritual invocation that takes us from Creation to Transformation and then to Celebration. Her inclusion and choice of chants, poetry and ritual invites us to hear words, feel the cadence, respond with feelings and imagination, and thus shift out of the objective realm into a luminal one.To be moved by these images is to be part of what I have long been calling “the last wave of the women’s movement,” otherwise called “women’s spirituality.” It is the acceptance of women’s experience as sacred, as spiritual, and whatever women do to honor what they know, as ritual. — Jean Shinoda Bolen, from the foreword “A loving contribution towards illuminating the many attributes of the great, great Goddess. Intuitive and practical, Hallie Iglehart Austen’s work will nourish and heal its readers on many levels.” —Marija Gimbutas, author of The Language of the Goddess

AN CIRCLE OF NINE

An Archetypal Journey to Awaken the Divine Feminine Within by Cherry Gilchrist $24.95, paper. Weiser. 252 pages

As women cultivate an understanding of their lives, a mythological model can provide a tool for self-discovery and realizing individual potential. The Circle of Nine presents nine archetypes that represent different, but equally important aspects of the feminine psyche. They portray both the life of the individual and the story of woman as a whole—a circle of ever-changing patterns that is a source of wisdom and inspiration. Three mothers, three queens, and three ladies form the circle. The Great Mother nurtures her children with a love that embraces the cycle of life, the Queen of the Night transforms the raw energy of instinct into skill and vision, and the Lady of the Hearth brings warmth and creativity into the home. By recognizing these and the other six archetypes of the circle, women can hold up a mirror to their souls to gain new perspectives and unlock their potential. Queen of the Earth / The Weaving Mother / Lady of the Dance / Queen of the Night / The Just Mother / Lady of the Hearth / Queen of Beauty / The Great Mother / Lady of Light… To make our discussion more concrete, the final chapter of the book describes specific ways you can work with the archetypes, either as an individual woman or in a group. It also takes up the theme of inter-generational work, with suggestions for activities to engage in with daughters or granddaughters.

Drawing from history, her work with women’s groups, and contemporary insights, Cherry Gilchrist’s analysis, interpretations, and poetic/practical advice help to unravel the mystery of the divine feminine. My final recommendation is to encourage and maintain a sense of play and pleasure in what you do… Joy and sorrow may mingle in your work, but if the archetype touches something true in your own nature, you will gain rich experience from both emotions… You can find further stories about and additional material on the archetypes and working with the Circle of Nine at www.circleofnine.org.

“Change happens when women gather together. The Circle of Nine is a beautiful book that assists women coming together to consider the feminine from a spiritual perspective. It provides poetic portraits of nine archetypes… It’s a wonderful source for women’s interests and needs.”—Carol Pearson, author of Persephone Rising: Awakening the Heroine Within Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, and Norse mythology are drawn upon to illuminate uniquely feminine virtues, the author deftly dismantles indoctrinated belief systems that limit women’s spiritual autonomy. Why “heathen”? The ancient Germanic definition of the word refers to “inhabiting uncultivated land, being wild and nourished by the natural world.” Dulsky embraces the word as an invitation to experience the exhilaration of being fully what we are, rather than what we are told we should be. This book is a five-part ode to Her, to BRANCHES OF LIGHT F

you, and to the yet-to-be rebuilt bridge between our spirituality and our lived, embodied experience. What you will find here is an invitation to descend into the dark with me, to gather up pieces of ourselves we have forgotten, and to rise. The wilds of nature will always be our ancestral home, no matter how long we wander or how far we stray from our roots, and what I offer you in these pages is a fervent call to come home to the truth of who you are, to take your rightful place in the circle of wise ones who came before you… As women of the wild, we deserve our F FALL -WINTER 2018-2019

own holy books, our own teaching tales, and our own venerable verses of validation.

Through poetry, ceremonies, and myths, teaching practices including journaling, myth work, yoga, and energy exercises, and exploring and embracing sacred feminine archetypes such as the Mother Goddess, the Crone, and the Maiden, Danielle empowers every reader to own their own authority and unique spiritual path. Also by activist witch Danielle Dulsky is Woman Most Wild, a key book for the witchcraft spirituality movement blossoming into popular culture.

TO BE A MAN

A Guide to True Masculine Power by Robert Augustus Masters

$19.50, paper. Sounds True. 289 pages

With To Be a Man, psychotherapist and spiritual teacher Robert Augustus Masters offers this new and deeply insightful guide to masculine power and fulfillment. I’ve got it all—so why am I so dissatisfied with my life? Why am I never happy in my romantic relationships? How do I become more courageous and powerful without becoming that jerk everyone hates?

Masters has helped many, many men address these issues. And for nearly all of them, he’s found that one solution is clear: we must face our early wounds and the shame that holds us back—and then “bring our head, heart, and guts into full-blooded alignment.” To Be a Man clarifies what’s needed to enter a manhood as strongly empowered as it’s vulnerable, as emotionally literate as it’s unapologetically alive—a manhood at home with truly intimate relationship. This is a true hero’s journey of healing and awakening, connecting the dots of past and present emotionally as well as intellectually, encountering all that we’ve been and are. Along the way, we cultivate an intimacy with everything that we are— high and low, dark and light, masculine and feminine, dying and undying—for the benefit of one and all. This is the primal odyssey pulsing in every man’s marrow, whether he embarks on it or not.

In this book, readers can explore: u How your past may be dominating your present u Shame in its healthy and unhealthy forms, and how to make wise use of it u How vulnerability can be a source of strength u Emotional literacy—an essential skill for relational well-being u Releasing sex from the obligation to make you feel better u How to disempower your inner critic u Bringing your shadow (whatever you’ve disowned in yourself) out of the dark u Embodying your natural heroism and persisting regardless of fear u What women need from men u Understanding and outgrowing pornography and other addictions u Entering the heartland of true masculine power. If you’ve read your share of popular advice on relationships and being a man—but realize on a gut level that it’s going to take some serious inner work—here’s a great guide to doing it. Among Masters’ other books are Emotional Intimacy and Spiritual Bypassing.

INDEX OF AUTHORS & THEIR TITLES

Aitken, Robert

Davies, Kate

Ivker, Rav

Meade, Michael

Saltonstall, Ellen

Zen Vows for Daily Life. . . . . . . . . 13

Intrinsic Hope. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Cannabis For Chronic Pain. . . . . . 18

Awakening the Soul. . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Analayo,

Davis, Andrew

Jarmey, Chris

Meiklejohn-Free, Barbara

The Bodymind Ballwork Method. . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Mindfully Facing Disease, Death. . . 12

How I Found God in Everyone and Everywhere. . . . . 23

The Pocket Atlas of Human Anatomy. . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Witches' Wisdom Oracle Cards. . . 32

Sanguin, Bruce Dismantled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

De Angelis, Davide

Jarmey, Chris

Merton, Thomas The Pocket Thomas Merton. . . . . 30

Starman Tarot Kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

TheConcise Book of Muscles. . . . 19

School of Life • The Small Pleasures. . . . . . . . . . 33

de Sousa-Shields, Marc

Johnson, Will

Metcalf, Byron The Shaman's Heart Meditation. 29

Invest Like You Give a Damn . . . . 34

Cannabis in Spiritual Practice. . . . 28

• The Great Thinkers . . . . . . . . . . 33

Deuter, Sattva

Johnson, Trebbe

Miller, Frederica

• The School of Life Dictionary. . 33

Anastarsia, Nari Blue Messiah Reading Cards. . . . . 32

Armstrong, Guy Emptiness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Arvay, Clemens The Healing Code of Nature . . . . 37

Austen, Hallie Inglehart TheHeart of the Goddess. . . . . . . 42

Avis, Rob Essential Rainwater Harvesting. . . 36

Baird, Gord Essential Composting Toilets . . . . 36

Beak, Sera Redvelations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Bekoff, Marc The Animals' Agenda . . . . . . . . . . 37

Bell, Charlotte Hip-Healthy Asana. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Bernhard, Toni How to Be Sick (2nd Edition) . . . 16

Bernstein, Gabrielle Judgment Detox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Bertin, Mark How Children Thrive . . . . . . . . . . 41

Besserman, Perle Kabbalah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Bevell, Brett Psychic Reiki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Block, Peter Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Boehm, Michaela The Wild Woman's Way. . . . . . . . . 42

Bolleter, Ross The Crow Flies Backwards and Other New Zen Koans. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Borchgrave, Alexandra Villard de Love & Wisdom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Brown, Brené Dare to Lead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Brown, Edward Espe No Recipe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Burkett, Tim Zen in the Age of Anxiety. . . . . . . 13

Caldwell, Christine Bodyfulness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Carson, David Spirit Clans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Chang, T. Susan Tarot Correspondences. . . . . . . . . 31

Chia, Mantak

• EMDR and the Universal Healing Tao. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 • Chi Nei Tsang & Microcurrent Therapy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Chodron, Pema

Temple Trance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Deva Premal Deva . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Douglas-Klotz, Neil

Radical Joy for Hard Times. . . . . . 36

Johnstone, Fay Plants That Speak, Souls That Sing. . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

The Little Book of Sufi Stories. . . 31

Jung, C.G.

Dullemen, Wim van

TheQuotable Jung. . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

The Gurdjieff Movements. . . . . . . 24

Kahn, Matt

Dulsky, Danielle The Holy Wild. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Everything is Here to Help You. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Duncan, Doug

Kalef, Mia It's Never Too Late. . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Echols, Damien

Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje

• High Magick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Eisenstein, Charles Climate: A New Story. . . . . . . . . . . 38

Elbrecht, Cornelia Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

The Interconnected . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Kater, Peter She . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Katie, Byron A Mind at Home with Itself. . . . . . 25

Ketabi, Sahara Rose

Ellik, Ekabhumi Charles

Eat Feel Fresh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

The Bhakti Coloring Book. . . . . . 10

King, Ruth

Evenson, Dudley & Dean

Mindful of Race. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Quieting the Monkey Mind . . . . . . 8

Kornfield, Jack

Exley, Helen

No Time Like the Present. . . . . . . 12

TheSong of Life. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Krohn, Elizabeth

Firestone, Tamsen

Changed in a Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Daring to Love. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Lerner, Eric

Ford, James Ishmael

Matters of Vital Interest. . . . . . . . . 10

Introduction to Zen Koans. . . . . . 13

Levy, Paul

Fox, Matthew

The Quantum Revelation. . . . . . . 39

Order of the Sacred Earth . . . . . . 39

Lieben, John Oscar

Freimann, Amir Spiritual Transmission. . . . . . . . . . 24

Sacred Geometry for Artists, Dreamers, and Philosophers. . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Fronsdal, Gil

Light, Heidi

The Dhammapada. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Ethics in Energy Medicine . . . . . . 18

Gach, Gary

Lonegren, Sig

Pause Breathe Smile . . . . . . . . . . . 24

The Pendulum Kit. . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Gagliano, Monica

Lovenheim, Peter

Thus Spoke the Plant . . . . . . . . . . 38

The Attachment Effect . . . . . . . . . 21

Garfield, Charles

Ludwig Ma'ikwe

Life's Last Gift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Together Resilient. . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Gilchrist, Cherry

Luke, David

A Circle of Nine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

DMT Dialogues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Goldberg, Philip

Lumiere, Lynn Marie

TheLife of Yogananda. . . . . . . . . . 10

Awakened Relating . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Graham, Linda

Macpherson, Miranda

Resilience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Greer, John Michael The Occult Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

• The Pocket Pema Chodron. . . . 15 • Becoming Bodhisattvas. . . . . . . . 15

Grey, Alex

Chopra, Deepak

Gunaratana, Bhante

TheMission of Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

You Are the Universe. . . . . . . . . . . 39

Journey to Mindfulness. . . . . . . . . 12

Clark, Bernie

Haeri, Shaykh Fadhlalla

Your Spine, Your Yoga. . . . . . . . . . 11

Sufi Encounters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Coelho, Paulo

Harari, Yuval Noah

Millman, Dan The Life You Were Born To Live . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Montgomery, David Growing a Revolution. . . . . . . . . . 37

Wasteland to Pureland . . . . . . . . . 14 • A Course in High Magick. . . . . . 29

Ecovillages Around the World . . . 36

• Meditations on Boundless Love. . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Mooney, Thorn

The Book of Freedom. . . . . . . . . . 33 A Book of Pagan Prayer. . . . . . . . . 29

Shea, Bridgette

Moss, Robert

Handbook of Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Mysterious Realities. . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Sheldrake, Rupert

Muhl, Lars

Science and Spiritual Practices. . . 39

• The Gate of Light. . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Shildkret, Day

• The O Manuscript. . . . . . . . . . . 33

Nasi, M Laura Cancer as a Wake Up Call. . . . . . . 17

Neale, Miles Gradual Awakening. . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Nepo, Mark Flames That Light the Heart. . . . 20

Nepo, Mark More Together Than Alone . . . . . 20

Nerburn, Kent Dancing with the Gods. . . . . . . . . . 9

Nyima Rinpoche, Chokyi Sadness Love Openness . . . . . . . . 14

O'Donohue, John

Morning Altars. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Siegel, Daniel Aware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Sieghart, William The Poetry Pharmacy . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Silver, Tosha The Wild Offering Oracle. . . . . . . 32

Smith, Annick Hearth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Solomon, Joel The Clean Money Revolution. . . . 34

Stavis, R H Sister of Darkness . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Walking in Wonder. . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Steidle, Gretchen Ki

Opsahl, Trine

Leading from Within. . . . . . . . . . . 35

Add Colours to My Sunset Sky . . . . 8

Stone, Michael

Orloff, Judith

The Inner Tradition of Yoga. . . . . 10

The Empath's Survival Guide. . . . 21

Suzuki, David

Palmer, Parker

Tree: A Life Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

On the Brink of Everything . . . . . 22

Tanahashi, Kazuaki

Park, Kathy Aikido Off the Mat. . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Pearce, Fred When the Rivers Run Dry. . . . . . . 34

Pinchbeck, Daniel How Soon Is Now. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Pond, David Chakras Beyond Beginners. . . . . . 17

Pond, David Astrology and Relationships. . . . . 31

Post, Allison

The Complete Cold Mountain. . . 13

Thomas, Lalitha Cultivating Spiritual Maturity. . . . 25

Tickell, Josh Kiss the Ground. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Tiyavanich, Kamala In the Cool Shade of Compassion.11

Trungpa, Chogyam The Future is Open. . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Turner, Toko-Pa

The Gut Wellness Guide. . . . . . . . 17

Belonging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

• The Way of Grace. . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Prescott, Susan

Vasey, Christopher

Mancuso, Stefano

The Secret Life of Your Microbiome. . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Natural Antibiotics and Antivirals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Pring-Mill, Francis

Whiteley, Sharon

In Harmony with the Tao. . . . . . . 16

Barefoot Wisdom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Ram Dass

Wilber, Ken

A Revolutionary Genius of Plants. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Martel, Anadi Light Therapies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Walking Each Other Home. . . . . . 26

Massy, Charles Call of the Reed Warbler. . . . . . . . 37

Ramana Maharshi

Masters, Robert Augustus

The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi. . . . . . . . . 11

Hart, David Bentley

The Flame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

TheNew Testament. . . . . . . . . . . . 30

• To Be A Man. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

The Bhagavad Gita . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Coleman, Eliot

Hatsis, Thomas

McCarthy, Juliana

Ray Reginald

Psychedelic Psychotherapy. . . . . . 27

Selig, Paul

Modern Guide to Energy Clearing . . . . . . . . . . 18

Cohen, Leonard

Coleman, R

The Book of Beasties. . . . . . . . . . . 28

Serith, Ceisiwr

• Bringing Your Shadow Out of the Dark. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Weeds in the Heart . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Seidelmann, Sarah Bamford

Moore, Barbara

21 Lessons for the 21st Century. . 35

Psychedelic Mystery Traditions. . . 27

The Field Guide to Pregnancy. . . 40

Traditional Wicca. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Hippie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

The New Organic Grower, 3rd Edition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

See, Caylie

Ravindra, Ravi

The Integral Vision. . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Wilkes, Helen TheAging of Aquarius. . . . . . . . . . 22

Willard, Christopher Raising Resilience . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Wohlleben, Peter The Hidden Life of Trees. . . . . . . 38

The Stars Within You. . . . . . . . . . . 31

The Practice of Pure Awareness. . 14

McColman, Carl

Ricard, Matthieu

Eternal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Ingerman, Sandra

• The Little Book of Christian Mysticism. . . . . . . . . . 30

In Search of Wisdom. . . . . . . . . . . 26

Richardson, Diana

Young, Shinzen

The Dalai Lama

The Book of Ceremony. . . . . . . . . 28

• An Invitation to Celtic Wisdom. 30

Tantric Sex and Menopause. . . . . 41

The Science of Enlightenment. . . 24

• The Pocket Dalai Lama . . . . . . . 15

Inglis, Kate

McTaggart, Lynn

Ruiz, Don Miguel

Yunus, Muhammad

• The Bodhisattva Guide. . . . . . . . 15

Notes for the Everlost. . . . . . . . . . 26

The Power of Eight. . . . . . . . . . . . 40

The Three Questions . . . . . . . . . . 28

A World of Three Zeros. . . . . . . . 34

Hughes, Nathaniel

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One thing is clear: it's not where we're going that matters, but who we are while we are here. Mark Nepo, from More Together Than Alone

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