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COSMIC DANCE
CREATIVE REBOOT Catalysing Creative Intelligence
by Stephen Ellcock
$47.00, cloth. Norton. 512 pages 10x10, colour illustrations throughout
A visual journey from the minute to the infinite, exploring the relationships and harmonies between all parts of the universe and inspiring personal contemplation regarding our place within it. In Cosmic Dance, renowned image alchemist Stephen Ellcock presents a panglobal collection of remarkable, arresting, and surprising images drawn from the entire history of art to explore the ancient belief that the cosmos is reflected in all living things. Organized thematically, the visual journey begins with the microscopic, the particulate and the elemental; then explores the human body as a cosmos in miniature, the beauty of divine proportions and our search for spiritual enlightenment; before finally reveling in the colossal, the celestial, and the infinite. An eloquent introduction provides an overview of the central themes and expert commentaries introduce each section. Detailed captions accompanying select images provide bitesize information on key concepts—from the golden ratio to the Tree of Life and the body politic— while thought-provoking quotations and poems interspersed throughout the artworks prompt a closer, more personal engagement with the images. This stunning treasury of artworks provides the perfect guide to a deeper contemplation of the world around us, allowing readers, in the words of William Blake, to “see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.” THE PATH OF DRAWING Lessons for Everyday Creativity and Mindfulness by Paricia Watwood
$39.95, cloth. Monacelli. 228 pages, 8x11, colour illustrations
Introducing a practice to enhance mental and spiritual well-being for the enrichment of one’s life in The Path of Drawing, author Patricia Watwood offers readers a systematic approach to drawing that combines basic instruction and mindfulness exercises. Today, many people look to cultivating creativity as a means to improve one’s quality of life, to unplug, to alleviate negative conditions like stress, anxiety, and depression, and to build resilience and enjoy the present moment. Adjacent to such practices as meditation and journaling, drawing is an accessible and personal medium that can facilitate both creativity and mental and spiritual health. The sample projects in this book are designed to be approachable and manageable in a short period of time. They are not intended to be a rigorous course of study toward mastering complex skills, but, rather, are designed to offer the reader exercises that will help them enjoy time spent working creatively, and develop some technical skills and master simple concepts along the way. Readers should find that daily creative practice and being more open to observing the joys & mysteries of the world around them can help build qualities of patience, confidence, calm, connectedness, and bravery. ♦ Teaches readers basic, accessible strategies for making drawing a part of their daily lives and routines. Drawing is a great foundation for learning all types of art. ♦ Patricia Watwood is a renowned figurative artist and a sought-after instructor
by Barbara Doran & friends
$58.00. Laurence King. 50 colour cards + 144-page colour-illustrated book, boxed
Catalyze creative intelligence with a game changing kit to ignite insights and innovations. A practical guide for change-makers wanting to tap imagination and amp-up creativity. Whether you are a rigid analytical thinker or an accomplished creative mind, over the course of these pages+cards, you’ll learn to use creativity to create, diverge from, and converge into new inventive pathways, finding innovative approaches to complex problems. By providing a sequential pathway of interdisciplinary creative exercises, Creative Reboot is the all-in-one toolkit that helps facilitate the building of your creative confidence. Creative Reboot comes as a kit, easily carried around in your pocket to give you access to your primary source of creativity whenever your day calls for it. Each of the six CANNABIS FOR CREATIVES How 32 Artists Enhance and Sustain Inspiration by Jordana Wright
$32.95, paper. Rocky Nook. 240 pages, 7x9, colour photos
Cannabis has long been used and revered for its many benefits, from its widely acknowledged medical applications to its commonly accepted ability to help people relax. And now, with the list of states and countries legalizing marijuana usage for all purposes growing rapidly, we’ve finally reached a tipping point where cannabis is achieving a level of mainstream acceptance and usage, especially among artists. Many established and aspiring artists are looking to cannabis use to aid in their creativity—whether that’s to expand the imagination, connect disparate ideas, take artistic risks,or myriad other ways to create and generate work. In Cannabis for Creatives, photographer and cannabis advocate Jordana Wright provides what you need to know to take full advantage of cannabis’s potential in your creative work. She begins with the basics—how cannabis grows, how it is ingested, and the nuances of
♦ Book will appeal to a broad range of artists from beginner to advanced ♦ Beautiful, inspirational artwork from Watwood and dozens of contemporary artists ♦ An elegant workshop-in-a-book that is good for body, mind, and spirit. ECHOES OF THE SUPERNATURAL The Graphic Art of Robert Davidson by Robert Davidson & Gary Wyatt $55.00, cloth. Figure 1. 240 pages 9x11, 160 colour illustrations
Over six decades of brilliant prints and paintings from the most prominent Northwest Coast artist of his generation. Since leaving Haida Gwaii to study art in Vancouver—where he carved argillite with Bill Reid in a department store and hand-sold prints on the UBC campus—Guud sans glans, Robert Davidson has moved between two worlds. As a host of Potlaches, carver of masks and totem poles, and performer and teacher of traditional Haida songs and dances, he has been one of the driving forces in the resurgence of Haida culture in the aftermath of colonization. As an artist working in serigraphs, acrylic, wood, silver, and aluminum to
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chapters is grounded in applied scholarly understanding and complemented by case studies that reveal real-world applications of creativity. These pages are further supported by a range of guided creative cards. Their potential for spontaneous combination allows you to develop creative flexibility, create a network of connections, and realize innovative solutions with your own creative intelligence. By using this book, you’ll enter a new age of creative thought leadership, its potential for serendipitous association of the cards allowing you to combine, cross-pollinate, and reorient the creative cards to push the bounds of creative problem solving even further. While embodying creative theory, Creative Reboot goes further and situates creativity as a catalyst of change within complex challenges, alchemically reframing once impossible tasks into physical paths to action. variety—then works through both the history of cannabis usage and all the pertinent details of the plant itself—lineage, strains, appearance, flavor, terpenes, and the types of high you can experience. Jordana also discusses the neuroscience of cannabis use, including how it affects the brain and how science (tries to) measure creativity. Then, Jordana reveals her findings after conducting more than 30 interviews with artists, including photographers, writers, sculptors, painters, actors, comedians, and musicians as she investigates how these artists use cannabis in their work—including what strains work best for them—and how it has helped them become more creative, increase their artistic output, and have creative breakthroughs. The book also features a series of creative prompts that you can use as guided creative experiences in your own creative work. Detailed conversations take our understanding of cannabis from the sphere of soundbites and listicles to a nuanced explanation of how it’s used, how it feels, why we like it, and what it can do for us.
preserve and breathe new life into Haida form-line, he has become among the most respected, celebrated, and thrilling artists in the country, if not the world. Echoes of the Supernatural is the first publication in over forty years to offer a comprehensive visual retrospective of his astonishing career. It includes new photography of over 150 prints, as well as images of over fifty paintings; numerous painted woven hats, painted and carved sculptures, jewellery, aluminum sculpture; and dozens of archival photos. His long-time gallerist Gary Wyatt, who worked closely with Davidson in shaping the book and received full access to his archives, details the artist’s life and career, and offers insights on the work based on extensive new interviews. A foreword by Karen Duffek situates the contours of Davidson’s practice within the broader Northwest Coast art world.
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Music – Sound – Song WIRED FOR MUSIC A Search for Health and Joy Through the Science of Sound by Adriana Barton
$32.95, cloth. Greystone. 290 pages
Though music has been used as a healing strategy since ancient times, neuroscientists have only recently discovered how melody and rhythm stimulate core memory, motor, and emotion centers in the brain. This is a why-to book: a passionate argument for following a yearning, however, slight, to make more space for music in our lives. Because the truth is, even if we hear music every day, many of us don’t realize just how potent rhythm and song can be. In countries around the world, countless people make music for hours on end while others squint at their smartphones, scrolling their lives away… Luckily for us, music also stimulates dopamine, while priming us for deeper meaning and connection to others From a time before memory, our early ancestors pulled music out of wood, seeds, animal skin, bone. Embedded in primeval rituals, and tucked inside our gray matter, are surprising answers to a simple question: How can music help us heal, and thrive? HEALING SOUNDS The Power of Harmonics by Jonathan Goldman
$24.99, paper. Inner Traditions. 250 pages, illus.
In this 30th anniversary edition of the classic guidebook on sound healing, internationally recognized master teacher Jonathan Goldman presents a step-by-step process of vibrational activation using sacred and healing sounds. Sharing many easy-to-follow sound healing exercises, such as Vowels as Mantras and Overtoning, Goldman explains in detail how to perform vocal harmonics--a form of overtone chanting--and experience their transformative and healing powers. He shows how harmonics can be used as sonic yoga for meditation and deep relaxation as well as to enhance energy and resonate the chakras, the energy centers of the body. Exploring the vibrational principles that underlie the framework of the universe, including frequency and resonance, Goldman explains how harmonics represent the colors of sound and affect us on all levels, bridging body, mind, and spirit. He provides diverse examples from sound healing systems incorporating both mystical and scientific traditions--from THE PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN SONG by Bob Dylan
$55.00, cloth. Simon & Schuster. 352 pages, 7x10, colour photos
The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One—and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyzes what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song, and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal. These essays are
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Adriana Barton learned the hard way. Starting at age five, she studied the cello for nearly two decades, a pursuit that left her with physical injuries and emotional scars. In Wired for Music, she sets out to discover what music is really for, combing through medical studies, discoveries by pioneering neuroscientists, and research from biology and anthropology. Traveling from state-of-the-art science labs to a remote village in Zimbabwe, her investigation gets to the heart of music’s magic. Blending science and story, Wired for Music shows how our species’ age-old connection to melody and rhythm is wired inside us. “Music, as much as language, is part of our essence as human beings. Since time immemorial every group of people has expressed who they are with music and employed it as a social glue and a healing elixir. Wired for Music seamlessly chronicles the universal power of music, rhythms, and synchrony to establish and maintain human connections, joy, and empathy. Beautifully written from both the heart and the intellect, it gives us a riveting account of how melodies and rhythms connect us, and help us deal with alienation and anxiety. May every parent and teacher—everybody who aspires to make our world a better place—read this wonderful book.” —Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score Tibetan monks use of tantric harmonics to Dr. Alfred Tomatis use of Gregorian chanting, from Pythagoras and sacred geometry to Kabbalistic God Names and neuro-resonance. He explores mantra and chakra chanting, sacred vowels, vocal toning, conscious listening, cymatics, sonic shamanism, magical incantations, and many other vibrational and sound healing techniques. Providing the basis for how and why sound can heal and transform, this new 30th anniversary edition of Healing Sounds also offers more than 100 minutes of exclusive audio downloads featuring recordings of sound healing exercises, guided meditations, and sonic excerpts to help you experience and embody the power of harmonics. The world of sound is infinite. All that’s needed to enter it is your voice; all that you must do to explore and experience this extraordinary world is simply to begin making sound. Experiment and practice and have fun! May joyous sounds resonate with you!
POETRY UNBOUND 50 Poems to Open Your World edited by Padraig O Tuama
$33.95, cloth. Canongate. 360 pages
This immersive collection of poetry to open your world is curated by the host of Poetry Unbound—a warmly recommended expression which emerged from Krista Tippett’s On Being Project—itself a heartful wellspring of surprisingly searching conversations. See OnBeing.org. This muscular, widely rooted collection, edited by Padraig O Tuama, presents fifty poems each with their own commentary and personal anecdotes alongside his generous insights into each poem. The poems gathered in this selection are from many walks of life, many experiences, many points of view. Engaging, accessible, diverse and inviting, Poetry Unbound is the perfect companion for everyone who wants to go deeper into poetry. Perhaps you’ve loved poetry but haven’t known where to start. Perhaps you’ve wanted to try your hand at having a conversation with a poem. Perhaps the sheer choice of what to read overwhelms you... These poems are for you to read when you can’t sleep, to learn and recite on a bus or train journey, to bring into a classroom, to accompany you in a crisis, to offer to a friend. When a poem lands in your life, it really lands, adding new richness and texture to your world. I know of no greater gift than when someone tells me they turned to a poem of mine or a poem by another poet during a time of importance, or an occasion, a funeral, a weeding, an anniversary. I consider myself lucky, now, to stand at the doorway to this anthology, saying hello, inviting you to greet these brilliant poems with stories of your own. The poems are eager to meet you, too. Poetry Unbound contains expanded reflections on poems as heard on the podcast, as well as exclusive new selections. Contributors include Hanif Abdurraqib, Patience Agbabi, Raymond Antrobus, Margaret Atwood, Ada Limón, Kei Miller, Roger Robinson, Layli Long Soldier and more. “A poem to Pádraig is like a child to Mary Poppins. It sits, alert, in wonder that he should know it so well. I would go out at night to hear Pádraig talk of the poems. The next best thing, maybe even better, is Poetry Unbound … There should be a copy of Poetry Unbound in every bar, every café, every train station, every bus station, every airport, every workplace, every school, every university, everywhere!” —Lemn Sissay
Jonathan Goldman’s website is healingsounds.com.
written in Dylan’s unique prose. They are mysterious and mercurial, poignant and profound, and often laugh-out-loud funny. And while they are ostensibly about music, they are really meditations and reflections on the human condition. Running throughout the book are nearly 150 carefully curated photos as well as a series of dream-like riffs that, taken together, resemble an epic poem and add to the work’s transcendence. In 2020, with the release of his outstanding album Rough and Rowdy Ways, Dylan became the first artist to have an album hit the Billboard Top 40 in each decade since the 1960s. The Philosophy of Modern Song contains much of what he has learned about his craft in all those years.
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by Stephen Mitchell
$23.99, paper. Picador. 188 pages
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In The First Christmas, Stephen Mitchell brings the Nativity story to vivid life as never before. A narrative that is only sketched out in two Gospels becomes fully realized here with nuanced characters and a setting that reflects the culture of the time. Mitchell has suffused the birth of Jesus with a sense of beauty that will delight and astonish readers. In this version, we see the world through the eyes of a Whitmanesque ox and a visionary donkey, starry-eyed shepherds and Zen-like wise men, each of them providing a unique perspective on a scene that is, in Western culture, the central symbol for good tidings of great joy. Rather than superimposing later Christian concepts onto the Annunciation and Nativity scenes, he imagines Mary and Joseph experiencing the angelic message as a young Jewish woman and man living in the year 4 BCE might have experienced it, with terror, dismay, and ultimate acceptance. In this context, their yes becomes an act of great moral courage. Readers of every background will be enchanted by this startlingly beautiful reimagining of the Christmas tale. “I love The First Christmas. What a charming way Stephen Mitchell has found to tell my favorite story of all, the Nativity, character by character (I love the donkey and the ox), with wise and thrilling interludes about God, reality, truth.” —Anne Lamott “The First Christmas is a wonderful book, tender and rich with bursts of humor, filled with curious contrivances and surprises. Reading it felt like opening a brightly-wrapped Christmas present and finding a second box (also brightly wrapped) inside, and inside that box a third, and then another, and another, and another. Until, at the very center, in a tiny box, there is a diamond: the wisdom contained THE BIRTHDAY OF THE WORLD A Story About Finding Light in Everyone and Everything by Rachel Naomi Remen, illustrated by Rachell Sumpter
$23.99, cloth. Cameron Kids. 32 pages, 10x11, colour illustrations
From the beloved author of Kitchen Table Wisdom, a modern retelling of a timeless story about healing the world by finding light in everyone and everything. In the beginning, there was only darkness, and then a great ray of light ended the darkness and the world was born—the world of a thousand thousand things. It was filled with light. Then something unexpected happened, and the light of the world broke into millions of sparks of light. These sparks fell everywhere. They fell into everyone and everything. This is why you were born and I was born, and why everyone was born—to find the light and change the world.
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$60.00, cloth. Library of America. 1067 pages, ribbon marker
Gary Snyder is one of Turtle Island’s indispensable poets, the Thoreau of the Beat Generation and our laureate of Deep Ecology. Now, for the first time, all of Snyder’s poetry is gathered in a single, authoritative Library of America volume. Here are all of Snyder’s published books of poetry spanning a career of almost seventy years. Early collections such as Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems, Myths & Texts, and The Back Country reflect his hardscrabble rural upbringing in the Pacific Northwest; his life as a logger, fire-lookout, freighter crewman, carpenter, and trail-blazer; his lifelong interest in Native American oral literatures; and his pioneering studies of Zen Buddhism. In Turtle Island and Axe Handles—the former a winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 and the latter the American Book Award in 1984—he explores countercultural alternatives to environmental and spiritual decline and envisioning new forms of harmony with nature. His epic Mountains and Rivers Without End, a poem four decades in the making and regarded by many as his masterwork, is followed by Danger on Peaks, and the
intimate, preternaturally candid late lyrics of This Present Moment, which meditate on his life as a father, husband, friend, neighbor, and homesteader in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada, where he has lived since 1971. The volume concludes with a generous selection, made by Snyder himself, of previously uncollected poems from little magazines and broadsides; translations from East Asian literatures; and drafts and fragments never before published. Also included are explanatory notes, a detailed chronology of Snyder’s life, and an essay on textual selection. Askesis, Praxis, Theoria of the Wild The shining way of the wild —it’s theoria is, that the world is unrelenting, brief, and often painful and its askesis, cold, hunger, stupid mistakes, bitterness, delusions, loneliness; hard nights and days are unavoidable to find the praxis is to hang in, work it out, watch for the moment, coiled and gazing, the shining way of the wild
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Tomorrow’s Song in the service of the wilderness of life of death of the Mother’s breasts! in the service of the wilderness of life of Death of the Mother’s breaths!
by Gary Snyder
$28.00, cloth. Counterpoint. 92 pages
This is a collection of previously uncollected and unpublished works by Pulitzer Prize-winning Beat poet Gary Snyder. Far from being a simple miscellany of poems, Uncollected Poems, Drafts, Fragments, and Translations contains some of Gary Snyder’s best work, written during his most productive and important years. Many of these have been published in magazines or as broadsides, including Spel Against Demons, Dear Mr. President, Hymn to the Goddess San Francisco, Smokey the Bear Sutra, A Curse on the Men in Washington, Pentagon. The collection also includes a great number of translations from Chinese and Japanese poets. Much of this work has been gleaned from journals, manuscripts and correspondence, and never before published in any form.
THE BOOK OF FORM AND EMPTINESS A Novel by Ruth Ozeki
$23.00, paper. Penguin. 548 pages
The Birthday of the World is a beautiful retelling of a timeless story about finding light in the darkness, one spark at a time, and remembering how to see with our heart. It’s a ‘children’s book’ for the child in any of us—of any age— with beautiful, interesting illustrations. My grandfather, a mystic and magnificent storyteller, told me the story of “The Birthday of the World” when I was four years old. This book is my retelling of his gift. Just as my grandfather gave it to me, I now give it to you… I see the light in you, dear reader. You are enough, just as you are, to heal the world.
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Here’s a brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the Booker Prize-finalist author of A Tale for the Time Being. One year after the death of his beloved musician father, thirteen-yearold Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house—a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn’t understand what these things are saying, he can sense their emotional tone; some are pleasant, a gentle hum or coo, but others are snide, angry and full of pain. When his mother, Annabelle, develops a hoarding problem, the voices grow more clamorous. At first, Benny tries to ignore them, but soon the voices follow him outside the house, onto the street and at school, driving him at last to seek refuge in the silence of
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a large public library, where objects are well-behaved and know to speak in whispers. There, Benny discovers a strange new world. He falls in love with a mesmerizing street artist with a smug pet ferret, who uses the library as her performance space. He meets a homeless philosopher-poet, who encourages him to ask important questions and find his own voice amongst the many. And he meets his very own Book—a talking thing—who narrates Benny’s life and teaches him to listen to the things that truly matter. With its blend of sympathetic characters, riveting plot, and vibrant engagement with everything from jazz, to climate change, to our attachment to material possessions, The Book of Form and Emptiness is classic Ruth Ozeki—bold, wise, poignant, playful, humane and heartbreaking. “Heartfelt... Ozeki, a practicing Buddhist priest, infuses her story with Zen philosophy, using themes of mindfulness and our connection to the living world to highlight pressing modern concerns like climate change, capitalism and the function of art. Inventive, vivid and propelled by a sense of wonder, The Book of Form and Emptiness will delight younger and older readers alike.”
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by Robert Macfarlane, illustrated by Jackie Morris
$31.99, cloth. Anansi. 120 pages, colour illus.
The follow-up to the internationally bestselling sensation The Lost Words, The Lost Spells is a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations that evokes the magic of the natural world. Since its publication in 2017, The Lost Words has enchanted readers with its poetry and illustrations of the natural world. Now, The Lost Spells, a book kindred in spirit and tone, continues to re-wild the lives of children and adults. The Lost Spells evokes the wonder of everyday nature, conjuring up red foxes, birch trees, jackdaws, and more in poems and illustrations that flow between the pages and into readers’ minds. Robert Macfarlane’s spell-poEAST OF THE SUN WEST OF THE MOON Tales from the Wild by Jackie Morris
$34.95, cloth. Unbound. 324 pages, colour illus.
From the moment she saw him, the girl knew the bear had come for her. How many times had she dreamed of him? Now, here he was, as if spelled from her dreams. This encounter marks the beginning of a long and extraordinary journey. At the bear’s secret palace in faraway mountains, she is treated courteously but troubled by the bear’s unfathomable sadness. As the bear’s secret unravels, another adventure unfolds, which takes her to the homes of the four winds and beyond, to the castle east of the sun, west of the moon. In this gorgeous edition of Jackie Morris’s captivating picture book, the acclaimed writer and artist retells this classic Norwegian fairy tale—a mysterious story of love, loyalty and freedom. There was a rush of air, a wild cry of joy from the Wind, a whistling like a thousand swans’ wings in flight, and she threw herself from the window and into the wild, turbulent air, arms spread wide. Arms became wings as the Wind lifted her, higher and
HANK HEALS A Novel of Miracles by David Guy
$22.95, paper. Monkfish. 236 pages
Hank Heals is a lighthearted comedy about the way a spiritual teacher tries to empower his followers, but they invest him with all the power. “…brilliant, wise, moving, and funny. Like, really funny… Spiritual writing like this is rare.“ —Shozen Jack Haubner, author of Zen Confidential Henry “Hank” Wilder, a divorced loner, is unsuccessfully trying to establish a new Zen center when he accidentally cures an ex-girlfriend’s recurring cancer with his touch and discovers— at least this is what people keep telling him—that he has healing powers. Suddenly the empty zendo is overcrowded with Zen students who also want to be touched and healed by Hank. At first he resists, but when he cures a local Mexican boy of a bad limp, his reputation takes off. A TV story on Hank’s healings goes viral. The Latino community shows up, bearing food and icons of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Hank befriends a Catholic priest and falls in love again. When his life gets totally out of hand, he escapes to Mexico on a spiritual odyssey and finds out who he really is. “A terrific novel written by a deft and effortless story-
ems and Jackie Morris’s watercolour illustrations are musical and magical: these are summoning spells, words of recollection, charms of protection. To read The Lost Spells is to see anew the natural world within our grasp and to be reminded of what happens when we allow it to slip away. A natural gift book. “The Lost Spells employs Robert Macfarlane’s rapturous language and Jackie Morris’s bewitching illustrations to return language and art to their ancient occupations: building bridges of understanding between human and non-human worlds. More than a mere book, it’s a brave act of shamanism that touches and transforms the reader’s heart, healing and encouraging at a time when the world feels most desperately in need of restoration.” —Steve Silberman, author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity higher, and she became falcon, white-feathered, fierce. In the room in the tower, the prince ran to the window and watched the beautiful white bird soar into the sky. On the windowsill a single white feather twisted in the faintest stir of breeze. Higher and higher the North Wind lifted Berneen until the earth below was covered with a roof of cloud. In the arms of the North Wind she flew, a white falcon, her heart filled with joy, with freedom, with love. “Jackie Morris does more than tell a story; she conjures glorious landscapes of the heart.” —Meg Rosoff For The Unwinding “A quiet masterpiece... a love story, a hope story, a story out of time, out of stricture, out of the narrow artificial bounds by which we try to contain the wild wonderland of reality because we are too frightened to live wonder-stricken.” —Maria Popova, Brain Pickings Jackie Morris is an author and renowned illustrator. The Lost Words, co-authored with Robert Macfarlane, won the Kate Greenaway Medal 2019.
teller who knows how to keep a yarn moving and immerse you in its characters. We recognize these people. They are us… In the course of the story we learn a lot of real stuff about Zen practice, zazen (Zen meditation), and why people need to do it—and, not incidentally, about healing: physically, psychically, spiritually. You will enjoy and learn from this book.” —Norman Fischer, author of When You Greet Me I Bow EMERGENCE MAGAZINE VOL. 3 Living with the Unknown
edited by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee $45.00, paper. Emergence. 280 pages, 8x11, colour photos
Emergence Magazine (learn more about this wonderful multi-media online journal at emergencemagazine.org) states its mission thus: It has always been a radical act to share stories during dark times. They are regenerative spaces of creation and renewal. As we experience a loss of sacred connection to the earth, we share stories that explore the timeless connections between ecology, culture, and spirituality.
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And… Emergence “publishes an annual print edition featuring a collection of essays, interviews, poems, adapted multimedia stories, and photo essays. Tactile and intimate, with hundreds of color-filled pages and a variety of textures of paper, inviting you to slow down and enjoy these stories over time. And for the first time we’re offering a companicon soundtrack with our latest volume.” What does living in an unfolding apocalyptic reality look like? Volume 3: Living with the Unknown explores this question through four themes—Initiation, Ashes, Roots, and Futures—moving from the raw unknowing of transformation to a place of rooted possibility. The stories in this edition offer what we hope can be a light in the darkness as we transition into the next chapter of our collective future and embrace the reality of living with the unknown. A remarkably fertile reading / beholding / listening experience… and most of the essays here are also available online as spoken word for listening to the writer’s voice. Here’s a tongue-tip taste from Martin Shaw’s “Navigating the Mysteries”: My petition is that we accept the challenge of uncertainty. As a matter of personal style. It’s the right thing to do. It’s what the Anglo-Saxons called “living in the bone-house.” We get older, we find life is riven with weirdness. We should be weird too. To know, tell, and create stories is a wonderous skill that keeps faith with the traditional and beauteous techniques our ancestors used when faced with the sudden mists and tripwires of living. THE WAY OF THE WILD GOOSE Three Pilgrimages Following Geese, Stars, and Hunches on the Camino de Santiago by Beebe Bahrami
$35.50, paper. Monkfish. 418 pages
The Way of the Wild Goose recounts anthropologist Beebe Bahrami’s journey on the Camino de Santiago, an inner and outer journey full of wild nature, ancient roads and history, quirky pilgrims, wise and humorous locals, and mysterious folklore. It’s a compelling tale of quest, initiation, and transformation following the Way of Saint James. The book is also reveals an old mystery: Why is the goose associated with the medieval Camino de Santiago, and how did it come to preserve a whole universe of pagan, pre-Christian lore in one innocent symbol? Longtime trekker Bahrami decided to find out, and unknowingly catapulted herself into a true wild goose chase, unearthing a magnetically alive and meaningful long walk on the ancient roads in France and Spain—and a journey into the Self. However it comes, this goose view, this seeing below the dusty surface into a marvelous, interconnected luminescence, is what the Game of the Goose, and life, and the Camino, and any good long walk or good sit-down meditation initiates us to, over and over, as our seeing more deeply goes from challenge to practice to devotion... And goose vision brings with it contentment, harmony, wholeness, and balance—all the things that sustain us and our magnificently beautiful earth. “A luminous, heartfelt journey. Beebe Bahrami has produced something unique: not one, but three magical pilgrim walks filled with web-footed Virgin Marys and mother goddesses, eerie coincidences, fairies, and Templar Knights—and with enough Cat Stevens, food poisoning, and scientific backup to keep it all real. Big fun!” —Rebekah Scott, author of A Furnace Full of God: A Holy Year on the Camino de Santiago
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$24.95, paper. Salmonberry Arts. 304 pp, photos
An unexpected liaison with an African horseman builds a courageous and tender-strong bridge across classic cultural divides. The backdrop is present-day Zimbabwe in all its political, economic and ecological complexities. Oriane Lee Johnston’s memoir takes the reader from her Cortes island home on the west coast of Canada into southern Africa as it is today, exploring ethical relations with land, with culture, the sacred and the human heart. The story follows an inner call to the Mavuradonha Mountains in the eastern edge of the Zambezi Escarpment. The quest to preserve this wild and unspoiled bioregion parallels the campaign to protect the Great Bear Rainforest, the author’s birthplace in coastal B.C. Horses are the wise guides, drawing Oriane Lee to Africa, giving her a purpose and a way of engaging deeply with people and wild places. A trusted ally throughout is a Buddhist meditation practice that rouses courage, compassion and openness to the unknown in her grandmotherly time of life. The love story with Stephen Hambani is a luminous thread that weaves an OUT OF HIDING Holocaust Literature of British Columbia by Alan Twigg
$24.95, paper. Ronsdale. 327 pp, colour photos
Alan Twigg, adept writer and longtime curator of BC Book World, has authored this thorough collection and examination of stories and perspectives from the Holocaust-related books of British Columbia authors, including nearly 100 photographs. Holocaust witnesses will soon cease to exist. As Tolstoy famously put it, what is to be done? One answer is Out of Hiding, a cross-section of stories collected from one region of the globe, British Columbia, Canada, examining 85 authors and 160 books. I believe such stories of the Holocaust must be passed along, from generation to generation, regardless of your ancestry… I believe each society ought to gather their particular Holocaust stories and claim them as their own, regardless of your skin colour or faith, or your lack of faith. Such stories must be taught in schools, as mandatory as math… If we fail to know what human beings are capable of, we fail our inner selves.
Yoga & the Hindu Traditions MOON PATH YOGA Kundalini Practices and Rituals for Women to Align with the Lunar Cycles by Sierra Hollister
$32.95, paper. Shambhala. 176 pp, 7x9, photos
Experience the powerful, revitalizing, feminine “lunar” energy at the heart of Kundalini yoga practice, through this beautifully-illustrated guide with over 170 asana, pranayama, mantra, and meditations for practitioners of all levels. One of the oldest forms of yoga, Kundalini Yoga is a timeless tradition that includes powerful, specific teachings for anyone identifying as female. These “lunar” practices not only support well-being, health, and vitality through every stage of life, but also awaken and enhance Shakti—the divine
inadvertent testament to Black Lives Matter. The Geography of Belonging is about longing and loss, commitment and impermanence, about the ethics of generosity and raises questions of identity for a 6th generation Canadian as she maps an intimate journey through the terrain of the heart, the body and the earth. “An everywoman story is told here, except that few sixty-year old women would dream of risking so much. Oriane Lee Johnston breaks free of expectations, follows her dream, dives into a new world in Africa, where finds a new culture, new landscapes, significant new interests and an unexpected and tender love affair. The reader applauds her, is intimidated by and in awe of her courage, her openness to experience, and her many very real gifts of character. This is a lovely, deeply touching and above all, a serious book about the possibilities of life that many of us close ourselves off to, far too soon.” —Sharon Butala, author of Perfection of the Morning Oriane Lee Johnston lives on Cortes Island, in the temperate rain forest of BC. As former program director for Hollyhock Leadership Centre, Oriane Lee introduced Compassion in Action retreats for environmental and social justice advocates and activists. Out of Hiding is both inspiring and chilling. The outstanding characters include the heroic whistleblower, Rudolf Vrba, credited by historian Sir Martin Gilbert with saving at least 100,000 lives, as well as Robbie Waisman, likely the only person ever to sneak his way into a concentration camp twice. This wide-ranging collection also features an afterword by Yosef Wosk and is dedicated to Dutch-born survivor Robert Krell, the MLK of Holocaust education in Canada. Even though the all-consuming fire of the Holocaust Sacrifice has been extinguished, embers still glow in the service of memory… May these words enlighten your path and illuminate your heroic journey of discovery. There is much to remember and even more to know as the Holocaust comes out of hiding. —from the afterword by Yosef Wosk, “Out of Hiding: Questions and Answers from the Depths” Illustrated and profoundly educational, this patchwork quilt of memory and history belongs in every British Columbia household if the Holocaust is not to be forgotten, under-estimated or disregarded.
WHISPER IN THE HEART The Ongoing Presence of Neem Karoli Baba by Parvati Markus
$26.95, paper. Mandala. 286 pages, b/w photos
Neem Karoli Baba (made famous through Ram Dass’s Be Here Now) left his body in 1973, but his presence has continued unabated. He has appeared to thousands of individuals across the globe, in dreams and visions, in meditation, and out of the blue in broad daylight. He comes to open hearts with a blast of unconditional love, to bring comfort and aid in response to calls for help, and as a reminder that we are, indeed, all One. Whisper in the Heart recounts the stories of over 150 people and the ways in which they met Maharajji, as he is fondly known. It could have been while chanting at a kirtan, while at a spiritual retreat or in a temple, while looking at a photo or reading a book, or as in some of the more extraordinary stories, when he shows up on a desperate woman’s doorstep in France, brings years of abuse to an end for a nine-year-old child in Australia, dances on a beach in Miami, or appears to a policeman in Taos, New Mexico. Maharajji himself used to say: When you think of me, I’ll be there. In this book, you will get a glimpse of how he is fulfilling that promise. The stories in this book can affirm for you that what you are experiencing, dreaming, and sensing in your heart is real. No matter how extraordinary these experiences might be, the most miraculous aspect is the way your heart opens and your life changes... Maharajji is beyond time and space. He would show up in two places at once, escape from locked rooms, and do other miraculous things on a regular basis that confounded so-called physical reality. What’s to stop him from coming to you from the beyond? God, guru, and your deepest Self are One. Open your heart on the path of devotion and follow your inner guidance into the realm of unconditional love. Listen to that whisper in your heart. Neem Karoli Baba’s teachings were brought to the west by Ram Dass, whose Love Serve Remember Foundation continues to preserve his legacy and spread his message.
feminine, creative life force. Sierra Hollister helps women discover their unique moon cycle and offers specific sequences (kriya) for daily life, for mothering, for sexuality and relationships—as well as practices, breathing exercises, mudra, mantra, and recipes to provide support and balance. Moon Path Yoga offers a comprehensive lunar rhythm practice that allows women of any age to awaken their innate divine feminine energy. llustrated with over 125 color photos, this guide includes: ♦ Practice for Radiance, Vitality, and Grace ♦ Gestating: A Prenatal Sequence ♦ Meditation for a Calm Heart ♦ Meditation for Couples ♦ Sequence to Relieve PMS—or to Slow Down and Experience Gratitude, “In these soulful times, Sierra’s offering of Moon Path Yoga is a generous gift of juicy movement, meditation, mudra, mantra, life-style practices for women of all phases
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Yoga: Biomechanics, Therapy YOUR UPPER BODY, YOUR YOGA Volumes 4+5 of the Your Body, Your Yoga series by Bernie Clark
$41.95, paper. Wild Strawberry. 375 pages, 8x11, colour illustrations
Your Upper Body, Your Yoga is the final book of the Your Body, Your Yoga trilogy—the definitive investigation of how your uniqueness affects your movements, postures and your yoga. This remarkable trilogy looks at the variations of human anatomy and its effect on the body’s biomechanics. Used as a standard text for many yoga teacher training programs it provides yoga students and teachers a system for exploring what asanas are possible and sensible and which postures should best be left alone. This third book in the series looks at the upper body: the shoulder complex, arms and hands. But, there is more. This final book also includes explorations of how asymmetries and proportions affect our practice. You are unique. No one else in this whole world has your biology or biography. Why suppose that your yoga practice should be, or even could be, the same as anyone else’s? How far apart should your hands be in Down Dog? Where should they be pointing? Should you avoid hyperextension of the elbows? Is hyperflexion of the shoulders safe? The answer is—it depends! PATHWAYS TO A CENTERED BODY (2ND EDITION) Gentle Yoga Therapy for Core Stability, Healing Back Pain, and Moving with Ease by Donna Farhi & Leila Stuart
$39.50, paper. Embodied Wisdom. 180 pages, 8x11, colour photos
Yoga teachers Donna Farhi and Leila Stuart have joined forces to produce a definitive guide to centering the body. With more than five decades of combined experience in working with people of all ages, and from diverse movement disciplines, Farhi and Stuart share their gentle, yet incredibly effective, approach to balancing body structure for optimal pain-free movement. This book demystifies the catch phrase “core fitness” and teaches you how to center your pelvis and find optimal spinal alignment as the foundation for true core strength and stability. Using easy-to-understand anatomical terms combined with beautiful illustrations, the authors unravel the complexities of the deepest core muscles, the psoas, to reveal its function as an extraordinary unifying structure for the entire body. When these deep core muscles become unbalanced, the position of the pelvis and spine is thrown
Your Upper Body, Your Yoga looks at the upper body 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 bodies of all types. Whether the reader is a novice to yoga and anatomy or a seasoned practitioner with an in-depth knowledge, 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 specialists, other sidebars focus on the complexity of the topic, with hundreds of references provided for further investigation. For the yoga teacher, other sidebars suggest how to bring this knowledge into the classroom. Your Upper Body, 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. “Bernie Clark is an anatomy medicine man expertly weaving together the often undervalued links between bones, muscles, fascia, neurodynamics and meridians into a compassionate look at how each person’s alignment must be made personal when practicing postures. No yoga or functional anatomy library should be without Your Upper Body, Your Yoga. It is another essential text for yoga teachers and practitioners of any and all influences.” —Sarah Powers, author of Lit from Within off-center. Poor posture, back pain, and discomfort in lying down, sitting, standing, and walking can result. In a step-by-step protocol, you’ll learn how to release, lengthen, balance, and engage your core muscles to move again with ease. And you’ll learn how to safely improve your flexibility in Yoga practices without compromising pelvic and spinal stability. As deeply held tension is resolved, this work will help you to feel more grounded, mentally focused, emotionally calm, and better able to stay connected to yourself and to others. Pathways to a Centered Body is an invaluable practical guide for Yoga and Pilates students and teachers, personal trainers, dancers, and athletes, as well as physical therapists, chiropractors, and somatic practitioners, indeed, anyone who wants to live in their body with greater ease, grace, and stability. With more than 108 color photographs, concise instructions, and rich experiential anatomy inquiries, this manual will be a requisite text for movement training programs worldwide. “This is embodied anatomy at its very best–a veritable treasure trove of tried and tested practices. Prepare to enter with one body and leave with another.” – Lisa Petersen, Yoga Teacher, Yoga Therapist, Somatic Movement Educator
Shakti, Devi, Tara… SHAKTI An Exploration of the Divine Feminine by Nilima Chitgopekar
$47.00, cloth. DK. 392 pages, 8x11, colour illus.
Shakti delves into the complex and rich tradition of the Divine Feminine as She is represented across India and the subcontinent. The book is a visually sumptuous, one-of-a-kind linear exploration of Goddess worship, neither a basic guide nor a dense academic treatise. Instead, it will invite the reader to learn about the Shakta culture, while telling the story of its birth and evolution, the many manifestations of the Goddess and their worship, and the myths, legends, and rituals that make up the tradition. This title will position itself as the first point of entry for anyone interested in the world of the Devi and Her culture. She is benevolent and nurturing, yet fierce and terrible, a warrior and a lover. She creates and gives life, is death personified, and the one who grants eternal salvation. She is the ultimate form of reality, the cosmos. As the Saundaryalahiri says, “Only when THE WAY OF THE GODDESS Daily Rituals to Awaken Your Inner Warrior and Discover Your True Self
Renowned Ayurvedic practitioner and spiritual teacher Ananta Ripa Ajmera sheds light on the goddesses and her own journey of healing and transformation, along with simple everyday rituals ranging from chakra balancing and spiritual reflection to journal prompts, creativity challenges, and more. Whether you’re looking to deepen your spiritual practice or simply to reconnect to what matters most, the daily spiritual practices in this vibrantly illustrated guide will help you reflect, rejuvenate, and feel more fully alive. “Ananta is a generous and authentic practitioner of Vedic spiritual traditions, and this book leads you on a transformational journey of ritual, reflection, and rejuvenation at all levels.” —Dr. Frank Lipman, Chief Medical Officer at THE WELL
by Ananta Ripa Ajmera
$36.00, cloth. Harmony. 240 pp, colour images
In our chaotic and isolating times, it’s more essential than ever to connect to our highest selves—finding the purpose, pleasure, and freedom that lives inside each of us. Grounded in the Vedic spiritual traditions of Ayurveda, Yoga, and Vedanta, the simple practices in this engaging guide offer us the space and perspective to do just that. You’ll meet the nine Indian goddesses who embody the essential facets of divine feminine power—courage, creativity, intuition, rejuvenation, transformation, and more—and discover simple spiritual practices to honor each of these divine energies within ourselves.
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Shiva joins with you, O Shakti, can he exert his powers as lord, on his own he has not even the power to stir. You are worshipped by Shiva, Vishnu, Brahma, and other gods. How dare I, meritless mortal, offer you reverence and praise?” The Goddess inspires deep devotion and it is not surprising to see Her being worshipped and revered across homes in India. This book illustrates that so beautifully. Sections include: ♦ Rise of the Goddess ♦ Evolution of Goddess Worship ♦ Buddhist and Jain Goddesses ♦ Tantra and the Goddess ♦ Divine Landscapes “A book that is true to history while remaining original and insightful… Shakti is inspiring: an evocative and insightful book that is a fine guide to this beautiful part of the story of Hinduism and of India.” —Shashi Tharoor
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BEING NATURE A Down-to-Earth Guide to the Four Foundations of Mindfulness
by Thich Nhat Hanh, illus by Mayumi Oda
by Wes “Scoop” Nisker
$23.95, paper. Parallax. 120 pages, b/w illus.
$24.99, paper. Inner Traditions. 224 pages
As Wes “Scoop” Nisker reveals, the way to enlightenment lies within our very biology. Taking us on an evolutionary journey to find the origins of emotions, desires, and thoughts in our own bodies, he shows not only how cutting-edge science is proving the tenets of the Buddha but also how we can interpret the traditional practices of Buddhism through this scientific lens for more personal freedom and peace of mind. Using the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, a traditional Buddhist meditation series, as a framework, Nisker offers a witty and insightful narrative along with practical meditations and exercises, to train the mind to overcome painful conditioning and gain greater self-awareness, increased wisdom, and happiness. He shows how recent discoveries in physics, evolutionary biology, and psychology express in scientific terms the same insights the Buddha discovered more than 2,500 years ago, such as the impermanence of the body, where thoughts come from, and how the body communicates within itself. Exploring the origins of attachment, desire, emotion, thought, and consciousness, as well as the essential role of biology in spiritual evolution, he demonstrates how we’re not separate from nature or the evolving universe. Presenting new ways to harness the power of mindfulness to transform our understanding of ourselves and the world, Nisker teaches us how to put our understanding of evolution in the service of spiritual awakening. Wes “Scoop” Nisker has been a meditation practitioner for more than fifty years, a teacher since 1990 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, as well as a standup “dharma comic.” He’s author of many books, including The Essential Crazy Wisdom and founding coeditor of The Inquiring Mind, an international Buddhist journal (archived at inquiringmind.com). SEEING WITH THE EYE OF DHAMMA The Comprehensive Teaching of Buddhadasa Bhikkhu by Buddhadasa
$29.95, paper. Shambhala. 310 pages
A milestone in Buddhist literature, this comprehensive presentation of the practice of Dhamma shows how it can quench the dissatisfaction and suffering common in our lives. Dhamma—a Pali word meaning “law of nature” or “truth,” but commonly used to refer to the overall body of Buddhist teachings—has the potential to fundamentally change one’s life. In this comprehensive set of teachings, Buddhadasa Bhikkhu, perhaps the most influential Thai Buddhist of the twentieth century, introduces the Dhamma to lay practitioners in a relatable and powerful way. Beginning with an extensive discussion of spiritual practice and moving into specific teachings on Dhamma, this book will be an indispensable resource for Theravada Buddhists, Insight Meditation practitioners, and all readers interested in a profoundly committed modern approach to the Buddhist path. Human life is at heart a contemplative journey of deepening wisdom, kindness, ethics, and freedom. For Ajahn Buddhadasa, this journey starts with the recognition that spiritual cultivation has a central place in our lives. The meditation this involves goes far beyond “sitting”,” or any particular technique.
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Beloved Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh offers this wonderfully inspiring handbook of 79 gathas, or “mindfulness poems”—now in a new updated edition. This beautifully illustrated book shares a simple verse with an enlightening commentary that will give you the space and heart to live each day in a connected and calm way. Developed during a summer retreat in Plum Village, Thich Nhat Hanh’s meditation center in France, these poetic verses were collected into a handbook designed to turn ordinary daily activities into opportunities to return to a natural state of mindfulness and happiness. In this food I see clearly the presence of the entire universe supporting my existence. Reading these poetic yet practical verses can help us slow down and enjoy each moment of our lives. There
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One way to help us dwell in the present moment is to practice reciting gathas or mindfulness verses. When we focus our mind on a gatha, we return to ourselves and become more aware of each action… When we practice with gathas, the gathas and the rest of our life become one, and we live our entire lives in awareness. This helps us very much, and it helps others as well. We find that we have more peace, calm, and joy, which we can share with others. Breathing in, I calm my body. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment, I know this is a wonderful moment!
CALL ME BY MY TRUE NAMES The Collected Poems of Thich Nhat Hanh
contemplation of hunger, desolation, destruction, and fear.His clarity of awareness illuminates each poem and profoundly transforms these experiences of darkness. This is poetry that celebrates the human spirit of love and wisdom as Thich Nhat Hanh shares his practice of taking refuge in the miracle of the present moment. With an introduction, and commentaries on each poem by the author.
by Thich Nhat Hanh
$23.95, paper. Parallax. 240 pages
Though he is best known for his works on applying mindfulness to everyday life, Thich Nhat Hanh was also a distinguished poet and Nobel Peace Prize nominee. This stunning poetry collection explores these lesser-known facets of his life, revealing not only his path to becoming a Zen meditation teacher but his skill as a poet, his achievements as a peace activist, and his experiences as a young refugee. Through more than fifty poems spanning several decades, Nhat Hanh reveals the stories of his past—from his childhood in war-torn Vietnam to the beginnings of his own spiritual journey—and shares his ideas on how we can come together to create a more peaceful, compassionate world. Uplifting, insightful, and profound, Call Me By My True Names is at once an exquisite work of poetry and a portrait of one of the world’s greatest Zen masters and peacemakers. Composed over the last forty years, these poems reflect the author’s intimate experience of war and deep
ZEN AND THE ART OF SAVING THE PLANET by Thich Nhat Hanh
They woke me this morning to tell me my brother had been killed in battle. Yet in the garden, a new rose, with moist petals uncurling, blooms on the bush. And I am alive, still breathing the fragrance of roses and dung, eating, praying, and sleeping. When can I break my silence? When can I speak the unuttered words that are choking me? —Saigon, 1966 Among Thich Nhat Hanh’s many books are Living Buddha, Living Christ and The Miracle of Mindfulness. and experiences from his own activism, as well as commentary from Sister True Dedication, one of his students—Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet shows us a new way of seeing and living that can bring healing and harmony to ourselves, our relationships, and the Earth. In her afterword, Sister Chan Khong writes:
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$21.99, paper. HarperCollins. 304 pages
To face the challenges in our world, we need to find ways to strengthen our clarity, compassion, and courage to act. Beloved Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh is blazingly clear: there’s one thing we all have the power to change, which can make all the difference, and that is our mind. Our way of looking, seeing, and thinking determines every choice we make, the everyday actions we take or avoid, how we relate to those we love or oppose, and how we react in a crisis. When you wake up and you see that the Earth is not just the environment, the Earth is us, you touch the nature of interbeing. And at that moment you can have real communication with the Earth. We have to wake up together. And if we wake up together, then we have a chance. Our way of living our life and planning our future has led us into this situation. And now we need to look deeply to find a way out, not only as individuals, but as a collective, a species. Mindfulness and the radical insights of Zen meditation can give us the strength and clarity we need to help create a regenerative world in which all life is respected. Filled with Thich Nhat Hanh’s inspiring meditations, Zen stories
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Whenever you receive devastating news, or witness injustice, or feel helpless and full of despair, please remember first of all to come back to your mindful in-breath and out-breath. Don’t do anything or say anything until you have touched that calm, that peace, that love. Mother Earth needs you right now. She is calling out for your help. You are her beloved children, and she needs you to be love, to be light, to be peace. You have light in you. You have the energy of the bodhisattvas in you. With a spiritual dimension in your life, you will be able to keep balance and live deeply in every moment, cherishing this life you have to live. And with that energy, you can take action to protect the planet and protect each other. Together, you can do it. Do not be a lone warrior. Find your allies and build community wherever you are. Mother Earth and our spiritual ancestors and land ancestors are counting on you. They are transmitting to you their energy of love and trust, and will accompany you every step of the way.
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In his teaching in Seeing with the Eye of Dhamma, he examines the capacities required for the journey and maps a progression of increasingly subtle inquiries that extend into all aspects of life. He describes how one can mature through ever more satisfying realizations of “the best that life has to offer.” —Santikaro Upasaka, from his preface
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As Zen as it gets THE PATH OF ALIVENESS A Contemporary Zen Approach to Awakening Body and Mind
ings such as the foundations of mindfulness meditation, the four noble truths, and the practice of loving kindness—while encouraging practitioners to rely on their own embodied experience for maintaining an alive and engaged presence no matter the circumstances.
by Christian Dillo
“Ajahn Buddhadãsa was a teacher ahead of his time. Delivered half a century ago in rural Thailand, the refreshing and informal lectures collected in this book prefigure many of the pragmatic, critical, engaged, and secular developments in Buddhist thought and practice that have become widespread today. A radical and often controversial figure, Buddhadãsa stripped away time-honored beliefs that have accumulated around Buddhism over the centuries and returned his audience to the immediacy of their own embodied experience. Dispensing with the metaphysics of rebirth and other realms of existence, he envisioned the Dhamma as a way of life here and now that can be realized by everyone, lay and monastic alike. This book opens a window onto an extraordinary Buddhist teacher, whose message may be even more relevant today than when it was first delivered.”—Stephen Batchelor, author of After Buddhism: Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age BEYOND DISTRACTION Five Practical Ways to Focus the Mind
$28.95, paper. Shambhala. 319 pages
Find a sense of nourishment and embodied aliveness in every aspect of your life with this fresh and accessible guide to Zen practice. Buddhism aims for the development of a flexible mind and skillful responsiveness— whether toward problems in one’s personal life or broader issues like the ecological crisis. But in a culture now saturated with clichés about mindfulness and unrealistic fantasies about happiness, what does it truly mean to walk this path? The key practice is that of embodied aliveness. In The Path of Aliveness, Zen and Taoist Qigong teacher Christian Dillo offers a path of meaningful transformation tailored to our times. Through potent conceptual work and practical examples, he shows how to carefully examine the interrelationship between our senses, body energy, thoughts, and emotions so that we can transform our lives in the direction of less suffering and more freedom, wisdom, and compassion. This secular reconstruction respectfully plumbs Buddhist tradition—including classic teach
Buddhist practice is not a means to “transcend our humanness” but to arrive more completely and freely in it… Feeling alive and intimate with the world… could even become the background sensation of all our experiencing. Imagine you could feel equally alive in being sad and in being happy… Exactly what kind of transformation can happen when we shift our focus to being unconditionally alive is the subject of this book. “The Path of Aliveness is a daring and breathtaking book! Deconstructing and reconstructing Buddhism based on his own experience, his training with Buddhist teachers, and his background in Western phenomenology and psychology, Christian Dillo astutely provides intelligent explanations and detailed practical examples to show us how Zen Buddhism can be, and perhaps always has been, a path to a luminously embodied sense of being alive.”—Norman Fischer, author of When You Greet Me I Bow
A TEMPORARY AFFAIR Talks on Awakening and Zen
by Shaila Catherine
$25.95, paper. Wisdom. 229 pages
The mind can be a potent tool, used to guide extraordinary achievements, but the mind can also produce thoughts that lead to suffering. For many people, thoughts run rampant and seem to oppress or control their lives. The Buddha tells us that before his enlightenment, he sometimes found his mind preoccupied by thoughts connected with sensual desire, ill will, and harm. But he figured out how to respond to thoughts skillfully and developed a step-by-step approach to calm the restless mind. In Beyond Distraction, Insight Meditation teacher Shaila Catherine offers an accessible approach to training the mind that is guided by the Buddha’s pragmatic instructions on removing distracting thoughts. Drawing on two scriptures in the Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, Shaila shows how to overcome habitual modes of thinking, develop deeper concentration, and discover the insights into emptiness that are vital for a liberating spiritual path. Shaila guides you through five steps for overcoming distraction and focusing the mind: 1. Replace unwholesome thoughts with wholesome thoughts. For example, if you find yourself thinking thoughts of ill will toward a person, try thinking instead of their good qualities as an antidote. 2. Examine the dangers of distracting thoughts. Weigh the costs of allowing thoughts of ill will, lust, greed, and so forth to obsess your mind. The costs of dwelling on distracting thoughts nearly always outweigh any supposed benefits. 3. Avoid it, ignore it, forget it. Develop the skill to turn your attention away from habitual distractions. Remove the fuel and let the fires of distraction die out. 4. Investigate the causes of distraction. By understanding the conditions that perpetuate habitual thoughts, you can learn to free yourself from those patterns. 5. Apply determination and resolve. Supported by wisdom, you can make a firm decision to stop dwelling on patterns of thought that are not supporting your deepest values and goals in life.
that free us from suffering when in difficult places.” Through these talks the reader can clearly see how he put that wisdom to use in his own life situation, and how they can do so as well.
by David Radin
$22.50, paper. Monkfish.128 pages
This collection of genuine teachings resonates with an authenticity that comes from many years of practice. It is both profound and practical. A Temporary Affair is a collection of talks given by Yoshin David Radin, abbot and founder of the Ithaca Zen Center for the past 40 years. The talks were given at a time when Yoshin’s health was severely compromised by end stage renal failure. In February 2019, he received a kidney transplant from a member of Ithaca Zen Center, to whom the publication is dedicated. The collection of 31 talks contains the insight of the individual dharma talks themselves, as well as the underlying story of how the dharma teachings helped the author cope, and even thrive, with his continuing loss of kidney function. The talks go right up to the days before he was admitted to the hospital. The comfort and guidance he received from the dharma during the times when he was most ill have been a great inspiration to all who know him, as they will be to readers. In his own words, “How extraordinary, how blessed, how wonderful, to have met the teachings
Taking pride in the thinking activity is the cause of suffering; laughing about the thinking activity is the cause of joy. That’s all, it’s that simple. Laughing about your life is simple… We are the recipient of an incredible amount of grace to be able to exist, and we should appreciate that. And if you don’t appreciate that your life is a miraculous gift, then you’ll have to settle for the futile pursuit of happiness. “These short discourses by an old Zen priest facing his possible imminent death are relaxed and friendly in tone. They speak directly to the heart of human suffering, the confusion that comes from not understanding what is clearly available for us to feel directly and be liberated. It is a book I keep on my bedside table, at close hand when I need a dose of encouragement.” —Sylvia Boorstein, cofounding teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center and author of Happiness Is an Inside Job
UNTANGLING KARMA Intimate Zen Stories on Healing Trauma
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by Judith Ragir
My message in this book is an intimate one, a call to each of us to turn toward our life experience with curiosity and courage, to excavate, investigate, and burn up the residue of our suffering. And with what pain remains, may we find the acceptance and kindness to embrace our wholeness and our humanity. With this soothing of our personal misfortunes, I pray that we can face and alleviate some of the pain of our world.
$25.95, paper. Monkfish. 252 pages
Untangling Karma is a memoir of accepting and healing personal trauma, both on and off the meditation cushion. Author Judith Ragir, an American Zen teacher, has used her spiritual practice to overcome anger and self-imposed isolation and become more loving. In Buddhism, the personal and the systemic are interwoven. If we are to heal from trauma, we need to find and face our deeply held, often hidden pain. Because we have been raised in a society of greed, aggression, and confused values, this is something we all must do, regardless of our ethnic or racial background. Ragir lets fall the stereotypical cool, calm Zen teacher’s demeanor to reveal her complicated, emotional self. She discusses what she has done to find greater inner peace as well as the personal impacts of transferring an Eastern philosophy onto her Western mind and applying a male-inspired monastic model to herself as an American woman, Jew, and mother. Untangling Karma is at once a love letter to Zen Buddhism and a critique of turn-of-the-century North
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“This is not the book you’d expect from a Zen teacher and senior Zen priest. Full of pain, passionate intensity, and brutally honest, Judith Ragir’s writing shows us what Zen looks like under the hood, in the context of an American woman’s lived experience of trauma, abuse, and intergenerational pain…. An uplifting, and searing, read.” — Norman Fischer, Zen teacher and author of When You Greet Me I Bow “This book is at once a love letter to Zen practice and a critique of late twentieth century American Zen. Judith inspires us to investigate our own karmic knots, and in the middle of this suffering, she invites us to walk quietly down to the neighborhood pond and take a cooling dip in the moonlight.” —Natalie Goldberg, author of Writing Down the Bones
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Each chapter includes exercises and reflections to help you cultivate the five steps to deeper concentration. You’ll learn about your mind and develop your ability to direct your attention more skillfully in meditation and daily activities. Ultimately, you’ll discover for yourself how these five steps boil down to one key realization: In the moment you recognize that a thought is just a thought, you will find yourself on the path to a life of remarkable freedom. “With clarity and heart, Shaila Catherine shows us many effective ways to be free of stressful, anxious, hurt, and resentful thoughts. Her book is deep and vast, grounded in science and illuminated by Buddhist wisdom, and useful for both specific issues and a lifetime of practice.” —Rick Hanson, author of Neurodharma
Tibetan Buddhism THE HEROIC HEART Awakening Unbound Compassion by Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
$24.95, paper. Shambhala. 218 pages, French flaps
A guidebook to making life meaningful by cultivating compassion, embracing adversity, and training the mind—from one of the foremost living Buddhist nuns. Freeing ourselves from our habitual emotional patterns starts with taming the mind. Why is this so important? Because a wild mind tends to hurt rather than heal. Taming the mind helps us uncover our true nature and connect with those around us from a grounded place of self-awareness. Through caring for others you can walk the Buddhist path of bodhisattvas, becoming a spiritual hero of compassion. Based on the classic fourteenth-century mind training text of Tibetan Buddhism called the Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva, this guidebook shares pithy advice on how to act as bodhisattvas in our everyday lives, enabling us to possess compassion in an authentic way. Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, an exemplary spiritual teacher who spent over a dozen years meditating in the Himalayas and one of the first Buddhist nuns to be ordained in the West, shares her reflections on this famous teaching and how to live a life of mindfulness and selflessness. It is important that we practice and take it to heart rather than merely read about it. This is why this text is so important. It is not high philosophy that we need to go away and think about, that is all up there somewhere in the sky. It is absolutely down to earth, which we can all use, all day with whomever we meet. In fact, only by meeting people can we truly practice. “These are instructions to open our hearts to compassion, including stories and anecdotes that provide further enrichment. What a deep and practical resource The Heroic Heart is! This is a timeless book you will want to have with you always.”—Lama Tsultrim Allione, author of Feeding Your Demons “The tradition of mind training, or lojong as it is known in Tibet, focuses on real-world experience and is filled with practical strategies to help us live with awareness, compassion, and wisdom. For centuries, these pithy teachings have provided inspiration and guidance to countless meditators. Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo has done a great service by sharing these teachings. Her deep practice, coupled with her understanding of the challenges we face in the modern world, has brought these teachings to life.”— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, author of Turning Confusion into Clarity
Is death an enemy or a friend? That, my dear, depends on you —from How We Live is How We Die
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TIBETAN YOGA Magical Movements of Body, Breath, and Mind
by Alejandro Chaoul
$25.95, paper. Wisdom. 212 pages, b/w illus.
In Tibetan Yoga, discover ancient Tibetan yogic practices that integrate body, breath, and mind on the journey to personal cultivation and enlightenment. Tibetan Yoga offers accessible instructions for performing the ancient yogic techniques of Tibet’s Bön religion. This is Tibetan yoga, or trul khor, a deeply authentic yogic practice. Drawing on thirty years of training with Bön’s most senior masters as well as advanced academic study, Dr. Alejandro Chaoul offers expert guidance on practices that were first developed by Bön masters over a millennium ago, framing them according to the needs of contemporary yoga practitioners and meditators. No matter their level of experience, dedicated practitioners of Tibetan yoga will discover its ability to clear away obstacles and give rise to meditative states of mind.
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In this book you’ll learn what it means to practice for the benefit of all beings, and to experience your body as a mandala, from center to periphery. These movements help you live in a more interconnected mind-breathbody experience, with benefits including better focus, stress reduction, the elimination of intrusive thoughts, better sleep, and general well-being. This is an open-minded and fascinating exploration of the practices, history, and context of Tibetan yoga. “An extraordinary teaching of the inner and secret practices of the Bön tradition’s yoga and the power of these practices to awaken and heal.” —Roshi Joan Halifax, Abbot, Upaya Zen Center “Reading Tibetan Yoga is equivalent to receiving the transmission of this ancient art directly from the mouth of a master. Chaoul reveals the secret of freedom through motion: how we too, can discover magic and wisdom in a way that is accessible, joyful, and liberating.” —Willa Blythe Baker, author of The Wakeful Body
CALM BREATH, CALM MIND A Guide to the Healing Power of Breath
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by Geshe Yongdong Losar
$21.95, paper. Wisdom. 182 pages
Discover ancient Tibetan breath practices for calming your mind and improving your health in this plain-English guide. Over millennia, many Eastern traditions have developed practices that use the powerful healing energy of breath to treat physical, emotional, and mental problems. In Chinese, this energy is called chi; in Sanskrit it is called prana; and in Tibetan it is called lung. Lung is life-giving energy that moves through our bodies. A lack or imbalance of lung can create illnesses of body and mind or cause emotional struggles such as confusion, anger, and sadness. In this book, Geshe YongDong Losar, a scholar and monk in the ancient Bön tradition of Tibet, guides us through time-tested practices to help balance our lung. His deep knowledge—garnered through years of study and practice—renders the practices simple and achievable, creating a clear path for us toward greater calmness,
HOW WE LIVE IS HOW WE DIE by Pema Chodron
$32.95, cloth. Shambhala. 220 pages
Discover newfound freedom in life’s ever-constant flow of endings and beginnings with the wise words of Pema Chödrön, beloved Buddhist nun and bestselling author of When Things Fall Apart. As much as we might try to resist, endings happen in every moment— the end of a breath, the end of a day, the end of a relationship, and ultimately the end of life. And accompanying each ending is a beginning, though it may be unclear what the beginning holds. In How We Live Is How We Die, Pema Chödrön shares her wisdom for working with this flow of life—learning to live with ease, joy, and compassion through uncertainty, embracing new beginnings, and ultimately preparing for death with curiosity and openness rather than fear. Poignant for readers of all ages, her teachings on the bardos—a Tibetan term referring to a state of transition, including what happens between this life and the next— reveal their power and relevance at each moment of our lives. She also offers practical methods for transforming life’s most challenging emotions about change and uncertainty into a path of awakening and love. As she teaches,
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Over and over I have personally witnessed, both in myself and in my students, the breath’s clear potential to heal and deeply transform lives. I truly believe that in the future such practices will play an important role as a medicine for preventing and treating physical, emotional, and mental maladies. —from the foreword by Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche “A deep and didactic exploration into the ancient art of Bön breathing from a master of the form. Highly recommended.” —James Nestor, author of Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art Geshe YongDong Losar is a Tibetan Bön lama, or spiritual teacher, in the Yungdrung Bön lineage, which is rooted in the indigenous spiritual tradition of the Himalayas. He lives in Courtenay, British Columbia. where he established and directs Sherab Chamma Ling, the only Tibetan Bön Buddhist Center in Canada.
“the more freedom we can find in our hearts and minds as we live this life, the more fearlessly we’ll be able to confront death and what lies beyond.” In all, Pema provides readers with a master course in living life fully and compassionately in the shadow of death and change. If we want to discover our own wisdom, there’s nowhere to look other than in our own neurosis. We can discover that there’s emotion with ego and emotion that is egoless… Whichever klesha consumes us most frequently and powerfully—whichever one we feel most weary of, most stuck in, most ashamed of—is the most direct gateway to our deepest wisdom, our basic goodness. That is, of course, if we can contact its energy directly without the grasping and rejecting of ego-clinging. Among Pema Chodron’s many other books are Comfortable with Uncertainty and Welcoming the Unwelcome.
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and introduced by David Hinton. Fluent in ancient Chinese and an acclaimed poet, he skillfully reveals how remarkably current and even innovative this text is after 2500 years.
by Lao Tzu, translated by David Hinton
THE ROOT OF CHINESE QIGONG Secrets for Health, Longevity, and Enlightenment
$24.99, cloth. Pan Macmillan. 112 pages
by YYang Jwing-Ming
$48.95, paper. YMAA. 336 pages, 7x9, b/w illus.
Long considered a classic text by teachers and students, The Root of Chinese Qigong offers the principles and theories of qigong practice. This third edition includes updated pìnyìn that includes diacritical tonal marks (for proper pronunciation of Chinese words). Dr. Yang is acclaimed for helping readers understand qigong concepts deeper and more clearly by expressing them in familiar methods for the Western mind. He takes these ancient concepts and presents them in a logical way that helps practitioners stay on the right path to deepen knowledge and skill. In this book Dr. Yang teaches sitting and standing meditation, demonstrates qi massage techniques, and examines the Qi pathways in your body. He explains correct breathing methods, shares secrets for quieting the mind, and discusses how to increase your body’s qi supply. He further explains important concepts such as the Three Treasures and regulating the body, breath, and mind. Contents include ♦ Qigong’s history ♦ Basic concepts of qigong ♦ Qi and the human body ♦ The five categories of qigong ♦ Regulating body, breath and mind ♦ Regulating your essence, qi and spirit ♦ Key points for improving practice ♦ A detailed look at qi channels and vessels in the body Whatever style of qigong you may practice, making sense of qigong theory and principles is the best way of achieving your goals sooner, more accurately, and deeper. Also available in new editions are two other classics by Dr. Yang: ♦ Qigong Meditation Embryonic Breathing: The Foundation of Internal Elixir Cultivation ♦ Qigong Meditation Small Circulation: The Foundation of Spiritual Enlightenment.
Healing: The Art & Science SACRED MEDICINE A Doctor’s Quest to Unravel the Mysteries of Healing
by Lissa Rankin
$37.99, cloth. Sounds True. 340 pages
In 2007, Lissa Rankin left a promising career in medicine to tend to her own health and well-being. Her search to discover why people really get sick and what truly optimizes health outcomes launched a book, television specials, and a revolution in the way we look at mind-body medicine. But so many questions remained for this doctor and skeptic. How is it that some people do everything right and stay sick, while others seem to do nothing extraordinary yet fully recover? How does faith healing work—or does it? What’s behind the phenomenon of spontaneous remission—and is this something we can influence? Can we make ourselves miracle-prone? Dr. Rankin embarked on a decade-long journey to explore these questions and more. The result is Sacred Medicine, both a seeker’s travelogue and a discerning guide to the sometimes-perilous paths available to patients when wellness fads, lifestyle changes, and doctors have failed them. In Sacred Medicine, follow Dr. Rankin around the world to meet healers gifted and flawed, go on pilgrimage to
This vibrant modern translation of Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching, the source of Zen Buddhism, and one of the most broadly influential spiritual texts in human history, is in a pocket-sized, gilt-edged cloth edition. According to legend, Lao Tzu left China at the age of eighty, saddened that men would not follow the path of natural goodness. At the border with Tibet, a guard asked him to record his teachings and the Tao Te Ching is what he wrote down before leaving. Lao Tzu’s spirituality describes the Cosmos as a harmonious and generative organism, and it shows how the human is an integral part of that cosmos. This complete and unabridged edition is translated WILD MIND, WILD EARTH Our Place in the Sixth Extinction
by David Hinton
$25.95, paper. Shambhala. 128 pages
Exploring the confluence of ancient Chinese spirituality and modern Western environmental thought, Wild Mind, Wild Earth reveals the unrecognized kinship of mind and nature that must be reanimated if we are to end our destruction of the planet. Earth is embroiled in its sixth major extinction event—this time caused not by asteroids or volcanos, but by us. At bottom, preventing this sixth extinction is a spiritual/philosophical problem, for it is the assumptions defining us and our relation to earth that are driving the devastation. Those assumptions insist on a fundamental separation of human and earth that devalues earth and enables our exploitative relation to it. In Wild Mind, Wild Earth, David Hinton explores modes of seeing and being that could save the planet
sacred sites, investigate the science of healing, and learn how to stay safe when seeking a healer. You’ll receive the wisdom offered by Indigenous cultures for whom healing begins with our sacred connection to Mother Earth, and dive deep into cutting-edge trauma research. With practices and protocols that Dr. Rankin has found particularly effective, Sacred Medicine delivers a thoughtful, grounded exploration of questions around how we heal. This is the wisest, most thorough analysis of the mysteries of healing to appear in years.” —Larry Dossey, author, One Mind “I strongly recommend Sacred Medicine. She addresses the paradoxes of healing, writing with nuance about the intersection of science with spirituality, medicine, energy healing, cutting-edge trauma treatments, and making informed medical decisions that are grounded in research and critical thinking and while in touch with emotional, somatic, and intuitive intelligence. This book is an important addition to the broad field of healing.” —Laurence Heller, coauthor of Healing Developmental Trauma MINDFUL MEDICINE 40 Simple Practices to Help Healthcare Professionals Heal Burnout & Reconnect to Purpose by Jan Chozen Bays
$24.95, paper. Shambhala. 230 pages
Healers need healing too. Mindful Medicine shares simple mindfulness practices and brief meditations that fit easily into the demanding schedule of a healthcare worker’s day, creating an experience of less stress and more presence, connection, ease, and flow. Addressing topics such as connecting with yourself and your patients, the
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Name or self: which is precious? Self or wealth: which is treasure? Gain or loss: which is affliction? Indulge love and the cost is dear. Keep treasures and the loss is lavish. Knowing contentment you avoid tarnish, And knowing when to stop you avoid danger. Try it and your life will last and last. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.
by re-establishing a deep kinship between human and earth: the insights of primal cultures and the Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism of ancient China. He also shows how these insights have become well-established in the West over the last two hundred years, through the work of poets and philosophers and scientists. This offers marvelous hope and beauty—but like so many of us, Hinton recognizes the sixth extinction is now an inexorable and perhaps unstoppable tragedy. And he reveals how those primal/Zen insights enable us to inhabit even the unfurling catastrophe as a profound kind of liberation. Wild Mind, Wild Earth is a remarkable and revitalizing journey. “Provocative and original, this one’s worth tracking down.”—Publishers Weekly Among David Hinton’s many other books are Classical Chinese Poetry: An Anthology and Four Chinese Classics: Tao Te Ching, Chuang Tzu, Analects, Mencius.
role of the Inner Critic in medicine, and rescue remedies for times of stress, this book offers evidence-based support for the many challenges of healthcare work. These short practices are an invitation to replenish the passion of healthcare work and douse the flickering flames of burnout. Mindfulness practices can reliably bring us to that sense of an unobstructed life. Obstructions always arise, of course, but once we have trained ourselves in how to enter the full experience of the present moment, we are able to flow, like water, around or over potential difficulties, and even penetrate straight into their heart. “A guide to being mindful during the busyness and chaos of clinical practice, this book is a must-read for clinicians wanting to experience greater joy, connection, and fulfillment in their work. A seasoned and wise pediatrician who has worked with some of the most challenging situations imaginable, Dr. Bays weaves her Zen teachings seamlessly into simple exercises that clinicians can incorporate into the workday—to connect us with our growing edge and inspire us to discover the unrealized potential that we all have. She shows how, in every moment, we can expand our capacity and courage to be curious, responsive and present to the needs of our patients, our colleagues, and, perhaps most importantly, ourselves.” —Ronald Epstein, family and palliative care physician and teacher of Mindful Practice in Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center
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The Myth of Normal, by Gabor Maté THE MYTH OF NORMAL Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture
by Gabor Maté & Daniel Maté
$39.95, cloth. Random House. 496 pages
From Gabor Maté—our trusted, compassionate “cultural physician” on stress, trauma, and mental well-being—comes this groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing. In the richest, most technically advanced, most health-obsessed society ever, all is not well. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, chronic illnesses were on the rise. Nearly 70 percent of North Americans are on at least one prescription drug; more than half take two. In Canada, every fifth person has high blood pressure. And everywhere, adolescent mental illness is on the increase. So what is really “normal” when it comes to health? Over four decades of clinical experience, Maté has come to recognize this version of “normal” as misleading, neglecting the roles that trauma and stress, and the pressures of life in the modern world, exert on our bodies and our minds. For all its expertise, Western medicine often fails to treat the whole person, which in turn stresses the body, burdens the immune system and
THE VIRUS AND THE HOST Protect Yourself from Infectious Disease by Reducing Toxicity, Improving Immunity, and Minimizing Chronic Illness by Chris Chlebowski
$34.95, paper. Chelsea Green. 288 pages
During the coronavirus crisis, not a single major public health official took the simple step of telling North Americans what we all need to hear: Robust good health—healthy immunity, low inflammation, low toxic burden, and freedom from stealth infection and chronic disease—is our best defense against infectious viral disease. Of course, it’s not that simple. The way our bodies interact with infectious disease is complicated—both a function of the “germ” and the “terrain”—the virus and the host. In The Virus and the Host, Dr. Chlebowski succinctly describes emerging science on the virome and how toxic exposure, chronic inflammation, infections, and chronic diseases interact and predispose us to poor outcomes from acute viral infection. He then clearly outlines the tools needed for better health, including: ♦ How to eat like your life depends on it ♦ The best nutrients to supercharge your immunity ♦ How to harness the power of botanical medicine ♦ How to detoxify simply and safely at home ♦ Valuable information on simple treatment and recommended diagnostic tests for given conditions As we move forward from the tragedy of COVID-19, it is essential that we come together to learn from our mistakes, and work hard—and work together—to prevent a similar crisis in the future. When the next pandemic hits, we need to be better prepared. Now is the time to do something, and it is the best investment we can make so that when—not if—the next “big one” hits we can keep our loved ones and ourselves safe and healthy. “Unlocks the key to survival in a world full of microorganisms—in a way that keeps our bodies, local ecosystems, and the larger world, in a healthy balance. I highly recommend The Virus and the Host. It is one of the most important books of our time.” —Dr. Henning Saupe, author
undermines emotional balance. Now, Maté brings his perspective to the great untangling of common myths about what makes us sick, and connects the dots between personal suffering and the pressures of modern-day living. It’s filled with stories of people in the grip of illness or in the triumphant wake of recovery, “The Myth of Normal takes us on an epic journey of discovery about how our emotional well-being, and our social connectivity (in short: how we live), is intimately intertwined with health, disease and addictions... This riveting and beautifully written tale has profound implications for all of our lives, including the practice of medicine and mental health.” —Bessel van der Kolk author of The Body Keeps the Score “Gabor and Daniel Maté have delivered a book in which readers can seek refuge and solace during moments of profound personal and social crisis. The Myth of Normal is an essential compass during disorienting times.” —Esther Perel, psychotherapist and host of Where Should We Begin? “Articulates bluntly, brilliantly and passionately what all of us instinctively know but none of us really want to face... Though the book makes clear what’s so terribly wrong, it also points to how we can make it right.” — Marianne Williamson, author of The Politics of Love
of Holistic Cancer Medicine Dr. Chris Chlebowski is naturopath, chiropractor, clinical herbalist, and homeopath with a medical practice in Oregon. At the clinic, Dr. Chlebowski and his staff use cutting-edge technology blended with traditional therapies, with particular specialty in the treatment of chronic Lyme disease, mold illness, cancer, neurological disorders, and—most commonly—“mystery” diseases that other doctors have been unable to even diagnose. TOXIC LEGACY How the Weedkiller Glyphosate is Destroying Our Health and the Environment by Stephanie Seneff
$27.95, paper. Chelsea Green. 272 pages
From an MIT scientist, mounting evidence that the active ingredient in the world’s most commonly used weedkiller is contributing to skyrocketing rates of chronic disease. Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Roundup, the most commonly used weedkiller in the world. Over 300 million pounds of glyphosate-based herbicide are sprayed on farms—and food—every year. Agrochemical companies claim that glyphosate is safe for humans, animals, and the environment. But emerging scientific research on glyphosate’s deadly disruption of the gut microbiome, its crippling effect on protein synthesis, and its impact on the body’s ability to use and transport sulfur—not to mention several landmark legal cases—tells a very different story. In Toxic Legacy, senior research scientist Stephanie Seneff delivers compelling evidence based on countless published, peer-reviewed studies—all in frank, illuminating, and always accessible language. As Rachel Carson did with DDT in the 1960’s with Silent Spring, Seneff sounds the alarm on glyphosate, giving you guidance on simple changes you can make right now and essential information you need to protect your health, your family’s health, and the planet on which we all depend. “A game-changer that we would be foolish to ignore.” —Kirkus Reviews
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“Stephanie Seneff’s Toxic Legacy continues on the path laid by Rachel Carson in Silent Spring. Seneff provides the scientific evidence of how, by disrupting our bodies’ metabolic pathways, glyphosate is at the root of multiple metabolic, neurological, autoimmune diseases that have taken epidemic form. More significantly, Seneff’s book introduces us to the complex, sophisticated, metabolic processes of life, from the soil to our gut microbiome. It is a book for governments who want to ban glyphosate. It is a book for every citizen who seeks to regenerate the health of the planet and people.” —Vandana Shiva, director, Navdanya; coauthor of Oneness vs. the 1%
Healing Energies, Healing Herbs THE CREATIVE PENDULUM Keys to Unlock Your Innovative Spirit by Joan Rose Staffen
$27.95, paper. Weiser. 244 pages, b/w charts
Awaken your own innate creative potential by using pendulum work to clear energetic blocks. The Creative Pendulum demonstrates how to use the pendulum to unlock your inner artist, allowing you to discover or expand your creative potential. Dowsing with a pendulum is a quick, direct path to the sub-and super-conscious levels, to higher forces, and to the Muse herself. Thirty pendulum creativity charts are offered that help clear, center, unblock, and guide a person forward, so that anyone may more easily enter the creative space to play and work. Staffen offers practical information and tips so that anyone can learn to dowse, but even experienced practitioners will find exciting new ways of using a pendulum. The book includes Joan’s own story of how the pendulum helped her transition from businesswoman to author and visual artist, bringing the power of the pendulum to real life. If you dowse every day, you will become a much better diviner, and if you do an art exercise each day, your art will improve in leaps and bounds. Even giving yourself fifteen minutes to draw, collage, and paint can enhance and open your creative senses. Doing the exercises in this book might spur you to... “The Creative Pendulum is an exceptional book on dowsing that goes far beyond the basics. Readers are invited to dig deep into the creative and intuitive side of pendulums, exploring practices as diverse as clearing your aura and choosing the best social media platform. Included is an extensive selection of pendulum exercises, thirty-three charts, and details on using pendulums to set up an intuitive coaching practice. In my many years of dowsing, this is the best reference material I’ve seen.” —Nancy Hendrickson, author of Ancestral Tarot
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$28.50, paper. New World Library. 320 pages
Ellen Meredith offers easy-to-follow exercises, illustrative stories, and lively explanations for enlisting the power of energy to heal and guide. In a world of upheaval and rapid change, how can you enlist the intelligence of your body’s subtle energies to help you heal, build resilience, and evolve? This revolutionary new book presents energy medicine as a conversation between body, mind, and spirit. It gently guides you on a journey to create personal, social, and even planetary well-being by working from the inside out. In a highly personal yet resonant voice, Ellen Meredith teaches you how to: ♦ enlist the intelligence of the body’s subtle energies to heal yourself and navigate uncertainty ♦ ground and anchor yourself in turbulent times and create coherence between your body, mind, and spirit ♦ work with the energies you are made of to dial into larger webs of connection ♦ employ easy-to-use tools to bring Spirit into your choices and actions every day ♦ remedy personal ruptures in ways that spread healing and well-being in and UNLOCK THE POWER OF YOUR CHAKRAS An Immersive Experience through Exercises, Yoga Sets & Meditations by Masuda Mahamadi
$30.99, paper. Llewellyn. 296 pages, 7x9, colour illustrations
From mycology expert Eugenia Bone Explore the rich country of your inner world with this full-colour book’s detailed approach to understanding the chakras and using a variety of physical and mental exercises to bring balance to each of them. Esteemed yoga teacher Masuda Mohamadi combines the ancient wisdom and philosophy of yoga with accessible practices you can use to make profound changes in your body, consciousness, and life. Each chapter is dedicated to a specific chakra and helps you have an immersive experience with it through exercises, yoga sets, and meditations. You’ll also explore affirmations, journal prompts, self-reflection questions, and poses from both Hatha and Kundalini yoga. Featuring color visuals throughout, this book brings you closer to your true nature and opens you to deeper levels of love and compassion.
CANNABIS HEALING A Guide to the therapeutic Use of CBD, THA, and Other Cannabinoids by Franjo Grotenhermen
$24.99, paper. Inner Traditions. 256 pages, 24 b/w illustrations
In this authoritative yet practical guide to the healing properties of cannabis and cannabinoids such as THC and CBD, Franjo Grotenhermen, M.D., explores how to use these substances to treat a wide range of physical and emotional conditions. Dr. Grotenhermen first examines the history of marijuana as medicine, including its important role in U.S. medical practice during the 19th century. He explains the biochemistry of cannabinoids and shows how they interact with the human body, including a look at cannabinoid receptors and how cannabinoids occur naturally in the body. The author then draws on his years of experience legally treating patients in Germany as well as numerous research studies and tests to provide an in-depth guide to the many healing applications for cannabis CBD: WHAT DOES THE SCIENCE SAY?
by Linda Parker, Erin Rock & Raphael Mechoulam $40.00, paper. MIT. 309 pages, diagrams
A comprehensive review of the scientific literature on the possible benefits of CBD, describing findings from both preclinical and human clinical studies. CBD (cannabidiol), a nonintoxicating compound derived from the cannabis plant, can be found in products ranging from lotion and smoothies to chewable gummies and pet treats. It’s been promoted—but not always scientifically validated—as a treatment for medical conditions including psychosis, anxiety, pain, and even cancer. This book by three leading cannabis researchers looks at the science of CBD. It offers a comprehensive review of the scientific literature on the possible benefits of CBD, describing findings from both preclinical and human clinical studies.
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The energy medicine exercises and explorations give you specific instructions on how to do them, but most are intended to act like yogurt starter, helping you to create your own personalized energy medicine. The Guided Visits will take you through the warp and weft of your web of meaning—the core energies that feed you. “This delicious book teaches you how to listen and make sense of what your body is saying, and how to respond creatively… I really believe your life will be empowered and strengthened forever when you feel the confidence to communicate with your own body and allow your energies to guide you into better health and more joy and vitality—plus, you will have these tools for a lifetime. I am going to shout about this book from the rooftops! Superb!” —Donna Eden, author of Energy Medicine “A brilliant guide to resolving our issues at every level. Ellen Meredith has given us comprehensive, practical, and effective tools for internal dialogue, much needed as we deal with the overwhelming stresses of our time. Thank you!” —Devi Stern, advanced Eden Method practitioner and author of Energy Healing with the Kabbalah
A book that is accessible to anyone, beginner or advanced, yet she comes from a depth of understanding that honors the roots of Kundalini. The wonderful pictures and practices are clear and inviting, and she effortlessly marries the theoretical to the step-by-step practices that produce a deep and rich experience... I sincerely hope that everyone takes advantage of this wonderful contribution to the field of chakras, yoga, and awak3ened consciousness. Consider it an invitation to explore the rich territory of your inner world, with the chakras describing the architecture of your soul. —from the foreword by Anodea Judith, author of Wheels of Life This cookbook also features five thoughtful and engaging essays written by mycologist Eugenia Bone that explore a wide range of topics, including proper cultivation, the many health benefits mushrooms possess, and the agricultural r book available, Fantastic Fungi Community Cookbook is the perfect gift for the mushroom enthusiast in your life.
and its derivatives. The therapeutic applications covered include the use of CBD to treat seizures, epilepsy, anxiety, several forms of cancer, muscular disorders, and psychotic states and the use of THC to treat schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s, ADHD, Tourette’s, Parkinson’s, impotence, depression, lupus, COPD, and chronic pain, among many other physical, neurological, and emotional conditions. The author examines the various cannabis-derived medications available, such as Cannabinol, Dronabinol, and Marinol, and the main methods of administering cannabis. He offers a complete discussion of safe use, possible side effects, contraindications, and precautions (including during pregnancy and chemotherapy), alongside research data that confirms cannabis as one of the least toxic substances in existence. Written by a practicing physician, this guide provides everything you need to know to use cannabinoids safely and effectively for health and healing. The authors report that the current CBD fad has some basis in preclinical animal research that indicates potential beneficial effects. Clinical studies, hampered by regulations governing research with cannabis, have lagged behind the basic animal research. The authors examine what research shows about chemical and pharmacological aspects of CBD and CBD’s interaction with THC, the main psychotropic compound found in cannabis. They go on to review current state of knowledge about CBD’s effectiveness in treating epilepsy, cancer, nausea, pain, anxiety, PTSD, depression, sleep disorders, psychosis, and addiction. “I have spent most of my life decoding the mysteries to be found within this incredible plant. I would like to see my colleagues forge ahead with their investigations, advancing even further the acceptance and integration of cannabinoids, in particular cannabidiol (CBD), in traditional medicine.” —Raphael Mechoulam
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$65.99, cloth. Hay House. 664 pages, 7x9, colour photos
This first of two essential books about our most complex organ—the brain—dives deep into why people all over the world are suffering with mental health and brain-related symptoms and conditions. In this book, find answers to 100+ symptoms, diseases, and disorders. With Medical Medium Brain Saver and its companion volume, Medical Medium Brain Saver Protocols, Cleanses & Recipes, Anthony William sheds light on our brain and nervous system. Brain Saver unveils the why behind more than 100 brain- and nervous system–related symptoms, diseases, and disorders; Protocols reveals the truth about how to heal in even more detail. Originally conceived as one life-saving book, Brain Saver had to be divided in two when it became too big to print. Each book now stands alone, so you can start with the one you need most—or read both for a full picture of your brain’s health. Medical Medium Brain Saver is designed to serve as a lifelong reference. In it, you’ll discover: ♦ What it means to have a static brain, an alloy brain, a viral brain, an emotional brain, inflamed cranial nerves, an addicted brain, an acid brain, and a burnt out, deficient brain—and what you can do about it MEDICAL MEDIUM BRAIN SAVER PROTOCOLS, CLEANSES & RECIPES For Neurological, Autoimmune & Mental Health by Anthony William
$59.99, cloth. Hay House. 608 pp, colour photos
With Medical Medium Brain Saver Protocols, Cleanses & Recipes and its companion volume, Medical Medium Brain Saver, Anthony William sheds light on our brain and nervous system. Originally conceived as one life-saving book, Brain Saver had to be divided in two when it became too big to print. Each book now stands alone, so you can start with the one you need most—or read both for a full picture of your brain’s health. In Medical Medium Brain Saver Protocols, Cleanses & Recipes, he provides more compassionate, life-altering guidance to help you understand how to heal from a vast range of brain and neurological symptoms, diseases, and disorders. With practical steps that you can customize to your unique needs, Brain Saver Protocols, Cleanses & Recipes offers: ♦ Details on everyday foods, supplements, and additives that are putting your brain at risk
GOOD MORNING HENRY An In-depth Journey with the Body Intelligence
by Tanis Helliwell
$19.95, paper. Wayshower. 192 pages
Learn to work with your body intelligence to heal deep-rooted physical, emotional and spiritual suffering. We are at a time of great change, a time when the old ‘normal’ has disappeared. The great transition that we are undergoing collectively is a dark night of the soul. It’s a time when the anchors of our life are ripped away and we find ourselves adrift in a world lacking meaning and safety. To come out of the dark night we need a new set of values, which are life-sustaining and based on love and health of all beings.
♦ In-depth insight into the reasons for the epidemic of mental, emotional, and neurological suffering—from everyday struggles with focus, concentration, and mood to life-altering diagnoses such as ALS, Parkinson’s, and long-haul COVID ♦ How to protect your brain against Alzheimer’s, PTSD, strokes, seizures, and more— before it’s too late Best of all, Brain Saver offers a way forward with specialized healing techniques. In addition to fresh perspective on how to nourish your brain and reduce your exposure to everyday toxins and contaminants, you’ll find cleanse protocols, heavy metal detox guidelines, and recipes for all-new Medical Medium Brain Shots Therapy—quick hits of medicinals in liquid form, designed to bring instant relief when the brain is under particular stress. And when you want even more healing options, you can turn to Medical Medium Brain Saver Protocols, Cleanses & Recipes to take the essential information this book provides to a higher level. We suffer for very real and physical reasons, and we can address those reasons at their core with the information here. When we know how to navigate this world, we have the power to heal. If you’ve been searching for direction about brain, neurological, or mental health, and whether you’re just starting out or your journey has taken you to multiple neurologists, internists, and functional medicine doctors, your time has come to discover the true causes of your suffering, move forward, and heal. ♦ A comprehensive guide to the supplements that will support your healing process—and exactly how to use them for over 300 symptoms and conditions, with dosages included ♦ More than 100 recipes for delicious foods custom-created to support brain health ♦ Profoundly effective brain meditations and other healing techniques ♦ Cleanse protocols, guidelines for detoxing from heavy metal exposure, and recipes for all-new Medical Medium Brain Shot Therapy— quick hits of medicinals in liquid form, in combinations of ingredients designed to bring instant relief when the brain is under particular stress. And when you want to understand your symptoms and conditions on a deeper level, you can turn to this book’s companion, Medical Medium Brain Saver, for details about what causes chronic physical and mental suffering. “As a functional-medicine doctor and a cardiologist, I see and help people with many chronic diseases. I use Anthony’s teachings in one way or another with most of my patients. It has made me a better doctor. I can help people I couldn’t help before.” —from the foreword by Alejandro Junger, M.D.
Against this background Good Morning Henry addresses how we can recognize the causes of our difficulties, implement solutions and experience healing. Fortunately, each of us has a precious helper inside us to assist. This consciousness sometimes is called “the inner body” or “body elemental”. Tanis Helliwell calls it “the body intelligence” or Henry and demonstrates with humor, spiritual wisdom and mystical ability how to co-create with your own body intelligence for deep healing and self-transformation.
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As you observe, the causes of most physical problems are feeling guilty, resentful, angry or helpless. Underlying these negative emotions is usually a deeper cause related to love. When in doubt about how to heal yourself, the solution is most often UNCONDITIONAL self-love, along with love of others and love of your life. “Good Morning Henry is the work of an ancient time-traveler who is at home within the labyrinth of the timeless truth. … This is not just inspiring but is also a highly useful book, rooted in the body, the earth and in everyday life… Wherever you are in your spiritual journey, Good Morning Henry will help you to take the next step.” —Richard Rudd, author of Gene Keys: Unlocking the Higher Purpose Hidden in Your DNA For more about Tanis’s teachings, go to myspiritualtransformation.com. THE INTIMATE HERBAL A Beginner’s Guide to Herbal Medicine for Sexual Health, Pleasure, and Hormonal Balance by Marie White
$24.95, paper. North Atlantic. 244 pages
In an empowering, accessible, and inclusive guide, herbalist Marie White shows readers of all genders how to enhance sexual and reproductive health through plant medicine. A must-have for those looking to revitalize intimacy with the special touch of medicinal herbs—and a few selected seaweed and fungi—The Intimate Herbal includes tried-and-tested protocols rooted in an intersectional, non-binary approach to holistic health, herbal healing, and supporting the body through physical stress. Readers will learn how to address and treat specific conditions; what not to try at home; and all about: ♦ The foundations of intimate herbalism: The history of herbalism for sexual and reproductive health--and why it works. ♦ Becoming an intimate herbalist: An introduction to terminology, types of extracts and remedies, solvents and ratios, and the art of extraction and delivery. ♦ Building an intimate herbal pharmacy: All about intimate herbs and full-spectrum aphrodisiacs--and how to make infusions, decoctions, syrups, powders, herbal baths, oils, salves, and extracts. ♦ Intimate health conditions and herbal protocols: Herbal remedies for breast health, contraception, endometriosis, erectile dysfunction, fertility, hormonal imbalances, libido, lubrication, menopause, menstrual cycles, PCOS, ovarian cysts, prostate health, urinary health, and the vaginal microbiome. With tips on ethical plant-medicine sourcing and a focus on buying herbs that are organic, fair-trade, and local, White brings a sustainable, community-oriented lens to modern herbalism. She shows readers how, why, and when to use herbal medicine to address sexual and reproductive concerns, taking a holistic approach that honors the interconnected nature of our bodies, prioritizes preventive medicine, and promotes a healthy, open relationship to sex and sexual wellness. Appropriate for beginners, DIY natural-medicine makers, and at-home herbalists, this book is also written for clinical herbalists, naturopaths, community health advocates, and complementary and alternative medicine practitioners. “Marie’s herbal knowledge shines through on every page… It’s a treasure trove of herbal goodness for anyone seeking sexual vitality!” —Kimberly Gallagher, author of Aphrodisiac
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INTIMACY IN EMPTINESS An Evolution of Embodied Consciousness
MUSCLE ENERGY TECHNIQUES (2ND EDITION) A Practical Guide for Physical Therapists
by Janet Adler
$43.99, cloth. Inner Traditions. 384 pp, b/w illus.
The Discipline of Authentic Movement, grounded in the relationship between a mover and a witness, connects us directly with the inner wisdom of the body. In the emptiness of the movement space, a mover’s inner experience—feelings, sensations, images, and thoughts—become outer, unchoreographed gestures. Seen by their inner witness in the presence of an outer witness, the mover steps into the intimate mystery of who they are becoming. Sharing vivid examples from founder of the Discipline of Authentic Movement Janet Adler’s 50-year inquiry, Intimacy in Emptiness brings her essential writings, including new and previously unpublished work, to a wider audience, guiding readers through the multiple layers of this experiential and innovative approach to embodied consciousness. Her writings illuminate the path of the developing inner witness, transforming toward compassionate presence, conscious speech, and intuitive knowing. This contemporary mystical practice, a breakthrough in the field of consciousness studies, includes personal healing as an essential base from which direct experience of the numinous can safely emerge, be witnessed, and become integrated into the fullness of the whole person. The emergence of the unique gesture and voice of each individual develops toward participation in consciously embodied groups. A new form of intelligence moves through collective bodies in service of healing in our world. “Intimacy in Emptiness invites us into the embodied witnessing of our moment- to-moment experience--a portal to the sacred mystery behind all existence. The gift is discovering the fullness of our love, creativity, wisdom, and aliveness.” —Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance “This book is a harvest, an ingathering, a symphony, singing us back into our sacred embodied selves. Janet Adler’s writings are deeply personal and powerfully universal, life-changing and life-giving, rendered even more lucid and accessible through the deft overtures offered by editors Bonnie Morrissey and Paula Sager. Intimacy in Emptiness not only invites us to celebrate the temple of our own bodies but is also an elixir for healing the body of the world.” —Mirabai Starr, author of Wild Mercy BODY AWARE Rediscover Your Mind-Body Connection, Stop Feeling Stuck, and Improve Your Mental Health with Simple Movement Practices by Erica Hornthal
$23.95, paper. North Atlantic. 216 pages
When we talk about movement, most of us think “exercise.” But the way we move our bodies—how we walk, roll, dance, stretch, connect, and take up space—is about so much more than physical fitness. Our movements impact our mental and emotional health... and when we change the way we move, we can change the way we live. Licensed clinical professional counselor and board-certified dance and movement therapist Erica Hornthal— aka “The Therapist Who Moves You”-takes readers on a step-by-step journey, showing how a mindful movement practice can: ♦ Help ease symptoms of depression ♦ Build a greater sense of connection and intimacy with loved ones ♦ Slow down thoughts to lessen anxiety and panic ♦ Impact how—and what—we feel.
by John Gibbons
$41.95, paper. North Atlantic. 192 pages, 8x10, colour photos
Revised and updated: a fresh new look to an established best-seller--an essential tool for physical therapists that offers unique insights into the versatile and highly effective technique of muscle energy techniques. Muscle Energy Techniques is a must-have for any student or practitioner of physical therapy, osteopathy, physiotherapy, chiropractic, or massage therapy. This practical guide--packed with full-color photographs and illustrations—fully explains the theory and practice of a range of muscle energy techniques. The book is broken in 5 parts. In part I, John Gibbons examines the theory and principles behind muscle energy techniques, with chapters that explain the BIODYNAMICS OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM Balancing the Energies of the Body with the Cosmos by Michael Shea
$56.50, paper. Inner Traditions. 456 pages, 8x11, colour & b/w illustrations
Drawing on more than 45 years of practicing Eastern medicine, Michael Shea presents a holistic guide to biodynamic manual therapy practices for optimizing the immune system and for healing the deep spiritual suffering of our contemporary world. Showing spiritual suffering to be the root of our modern epidemic of metabolic syndrome and other widespread health issues, the author explains how the pervasive degradation of the human body relates directly with the food we eat, the air we breathe, and our thoughts and emotions. He explains how the Five Element theory of Eastern medicine offers a method to reclaim the body by sensing each element in and around us as a single continuum. Focusing especially on “the fluid body” in biodynamic osteopathy and biodynamic craniosacral therapy, the author shows how inflamed components of the fluid body, such as the blood and lymphatic system, form the substrate of metabolic syndromes. He offers practices to visualize the health of the fluid body. He explains
Body Aware is a guidebook that addresses how the way you move impacts who you are. Embracing this approach is about more than adopting an exercise routine or a meditation practice; it comes down to the following: Identifying where you hold your emotions in your body Interpreting your body’s unique language Listening to and recognizing bodily sensations in order to identify emotional blockages Exploring how the smallest involuntary movements play a vital role in how you function Expanding your movement vocabulary to enhance your resilience and manage your emotions amid life’s greatest challenges.
technique, muscle imbalances, myofascial slings, and core muscle relationships. Parts II to IV break down the technique by body area--upper body, lower body, trunk, and pelvis--with clear descriptive explanations of the techniques. Accompanied by color photographs with directional arrows, each shows the practitioner how to maximize treatment benefits. Clear drawings allow the reader to understand the basic anatomy of each muscle. A concluding part V shows two applications of muscle energy techniques: self-lengthening techniques for the shoulder complex and muscle weakness testing of the gluteals. Author and osteopath John Gibbons has written books like The Vital Glutes, The Vital Shoulder Complex, The Vital Nerves, and Functional Anatomy of the Pelvis and the Sacroiliac Joint. how, in order to enact the full benefits of the immune system, we need to nurture a deep sense of safety inside the body--a symbolic return to our embryonic and cosmic origins and a restoration of our sacred wholeness. Offering an extensive section of therapeutic applications, including both in-person and remote techniques, the author shares new and unique biodynamic protocols to balance the metabolism with the cosmos as well as optimize the immune system and the function of the vagus nerve. Enacting healing at the deepest spiritual level, Shea reveals how to create inner and outer balance to restore wholeness as it was at the time of the origin of the universe. “In this paradigm-shifting book Michael Shea shares his biodynamic embryology, anatomy, and spiritual expertise so we too may clearly see. This book is about the pursuit of truth through compassion and critical thinking, giving us the insight and inspiration to see and heal the elephant in the room. In these times of COVID and a worldwide plague of heart disease, anxiety, depression, dementia, and obesity, this is the one book to read . . . and share!” —Mary Bolingbroke, osteopath and lecturer at the Daisy Clinic Trust
works best for us. Broken into three sections, “How You Move,” “How Movement is a Catalyst for Change,” and “Transforming Your Life Through Movement,” Body Aware is a revelatory transformational practice and an easy-to-use introduction to the mind-body power of intentional movement.
Readers will learn to identify where they physically hold their emotions; understand and interpret their body’s unique language; explore bodily sensations; identify emotional blockages; and upgrade harmful thought cycles to patterns that instead foster resilience, emotional regulation, and productivity. With a chapter on disability and movement diversity, Hornthal’s guide begins to move dance therapy to a more inclusive, non-prescriptive space, helping each of us discover the kind of movement that
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by Kirsten Chick
$41.95, cloth. Alchimia. 310 pages, 7x9, colour illus.
This complete guide to nutrition cuts through confusion and brings the science and research to life. At the same time, each chapter provides opportunities to reflect, explore new ways of eating and thinking about food, and try new recipes. So rather than imposing strict rules that may only work for a few people, it helps you to find your way—with clear guidance and a myriad of useful tips and support. Nutrition is not just about what food to put on your plate, but how well you digest, absorb and use it. It’s also about how food makes you feel, physically, mentally and emotionally. Kirsten takes you through every step of the process and explains how diet impacts every aspect of your health and well-being. Many years ago, nutrition helped bring me back to life. In return, I have spent years bringing nutrition to life... Describing how the sunshine that energizes the planet finds its way into every cell of your body, making everything that you think and do possible. Recounting which parts of your food make up your bricks and mortar, and which form the workers that make everything happen. How each of your body systems work (your heart, intestines, liver, hormones, immune system), how they interact with and form part of each other. And how what you eat can influence all of that. All in ways that are easy to understand, and that celebrate the wonder of it all, while keeping as true to the science and up-to-date with the search as I can... The passion behind all of this is a strongly held conviction that food is meant to nourish you. Not just give you fuel. Not make you feel inadequate, or lacking in willpower. But truly nourish you. Learn how to: ♦ Use proteins, carbohydrates, fats and other nutrients to your advantage, with an in-depth understanding of what they do and how to eat them ♦ Improve digestion and your relationship with food ♦ Increase energy and vitality ♦ Reduce inflammation and boost your immune system ♦ Nourish your microbiome (including gut bacteria) ♦ Support your gut-brain-adrenal triangle ♦ Support your detoxification processes—all the things that help stave off chronic illness and unhappiness, and keep you enjoying life for longer. A strong resource for anyone who wants to support their health through nutrition, as well as a complete handbook for nutrition students and health practitioners.
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NUTRITION BROUGHT TO LIFE A Thorough Grounding in Nourishment with 50 Delicious Recipes
WE ARE WHAT WE EAT A Slow Food Manifesto
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$53.95, cloth. Penguin. 384 pages, 7x9, colour photos
Have you ever wondered how to make your diet truly eco-conscious? In this beautiful plant-based cookbook, over 130 creative, delicious, planet-friendly recipes put vegetables at the very centre of the table. Embracing often-discarded parts such as leaves, stalks, tops, flowers, seeds and even peelings, this is cooking at its most sustainable. In The Whole Vegetable, London-based Sophie Gordon shows us how to: ♦ Cook with every part of every vegetable PLANT POWER BOWLS 70 Seasonal Vegan Recipes to Boost Energy and Promote Wellness by Supana Chadna
$2.95, pb. Sasquatch. 224 pp, 7x8, colour photos
Not strictly for vegans, these recipes will appeal to everyone who wants to include more plant-based meals in their diets. As a certified health coach, Sapana ensures that each bowl contains a balance of healthy fats, complex carbohydrates, and proteins—plus the yum factor! The recipes in this book honor Sapana’s common-sense philosophy for good health: eat real (food) and live well, and you will feel vibrant. Recipes are arranged seasonally so you can make the most of your area’s local bounty and eat fresh throughout the year, including offerings such as:
dinners, and prepackaged ingredients. Waters came to see that the phenomenon of fast food culture, which prioritized cheapness, availability, and speed, was not only ruining our health, but also dehumanizing the ways we live and relate to one another. Over years of working with regional farmers, Waters and her partners learned how geography and seasonal fluctuations affect the ingredients on the menu, as well as about the dangers of pesticides, the plight of fieldworkers, and the social, economic, and environmental threats posed by industrial farming and food distribution. So many of the serious problems we face in the world today—from illness, to social unrest, to economic disparity, and environmental degradation—are all, at their core, connected to food. Fortunately, there is an antidote. Waters argues that by eating in a slow food way, each of us—like the community around her restaurant—can be empowered to prioritize and nurture a different kind of culture, one that champions values such as biodiversity, seasonality, stewardship, and pleasure in work. How we eat is how we live. This is the guiding philosophy of my life... Beauty is a language of care.
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$24.00, paper. Penguin. 208 pages, b/w images
In We Are What We Eat, Alice Waters urges us to take up the mantle of slow food culture, the philosophy at the core of her life’s work. When Waters opened Chez Panisse in 1971, she did so with the intention of feeding people good food during a time of political turmoil. Customers responded to the locally sourced organic ingredients, to the dishes made by hand, and to the welcoming hospitality that infused the small space—human qualities that were disappearing from a country increasingly seduced by takeout, frozen
As Waters makes clear, every decision we make about what we put in our mouths affects not only our bodies but also the world at large—our families, our communities, and our environment. It is about connecting to and supporting those who take care of our precious land in order to bring universal human values—through food—forward into our ever-evolving future... It is our dilemma every time we eat: What farm? What table? What kind of future do we want to create? What kind of society? What kind of planet? We can all rise to the occasion. Slow food values are our shared, natural legacy. They have power. And they are there just waiting to be awakened in every one of us. It only takes a taste.
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♦ Reduce waste in your cooking ♦ Reinvent your leftovers ♦ Eat with the seasons From Cauliflower Carbonara, Broccoli Pesto and Chunky Pumpkin Tacos, to Cherry Breakfast Crumble, Maple-Roasted Pears and Apple & Walnut Danish Buns, The Whole Vegetable is packed with thoughtful recipes for every season. Most of all, it will ensure that nothing in your kitchen goes to waste. In The Whole Vegetable, Sophie Gordon demonstrates not only how to make filling, hearty vegan meals from scratch, but also how to eat seasonally, use every part of a vegetable, and give new life to plant-based leftovers.” —Vogue ♦ Shaved Asparagus & Barley Bowl ♦ Roasted Beet & Orange Bowl with a Pistachio-Lemon Dressing ♦ Watermelon Poke with Spicy Siracha Dressing ♦ Curried Cauliflower Bowl served with a Cilantro Chutney ♦ Warming Chickpea Coconut Curry Bowl ♦ White Bean & Crispy Rosemary Potato Bowl ♦ Coconut Chia Pudding Bowl with Caramelized Bananas ♦ Rosewater Bliss Ball & Yogurt Bowl ♦ Coconut-milk-based ice creams, such as Blackberry-Lavender, Ash-Lemon, and Chocolate-Tahini Fudge. “Creative, nutrient-dense, and colorful, these bowls are sure to inspire.” —Organic Authority
Addiction & Recovery ONE BREATH AT A TIME Buddhism and the Twelve Steps
by Kevin Griffin
$19.50, paper. Rodale. 286 pages
Merging Buddhist mindfulness practices with the Twelve Step program, this updated edition of the bestselling recovery guide One Breath at a Time will inspire you to live a better, healthier life. Many in recovery turn to the Twelve Steps to overcome their addictions, but struggle with the spiritual program. But what they might not realize is that Buddhist teachings are intrinsically intertwined with the lessons of the Twelve Steps, and offer time-tested methods for addressing the challenges of sobriety. I believe that even if you are not an alcoholic or addict, these tools can serve your meditation practice. The stories of alcoholism and drug addiction can even be thought of as dramatizations of common, subtler behaviors and mind states which meditators often see in their practice. The integration of the Steps with Buddhism can still be applied skillfully to these behaviors and states. In what is considered the cornerstone of the most significant recovery movement of the 21st century, Kevin Griffin shares his own extraordinary journey to sobriety and how he integrated the Twelve Steps of recovery with Buddhist mindfulness practices. With a new foreword by William Alexander, the author of Ordinary Recovery, One Breath at a Time takes you on a journey through the Steps, examining critical ideas like Powerlessness, Higher Power, and
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inebriation, and how it effects us even after it leaves our systems. With accessible, easy-to-understand language, Nutt ensures that readers recognize why alcohol can have such a negative influence on our bodies and our society. Drink? isn’t preachy; it simply gives readers clear, evidence-based facts to help them make the most informed choices about their consumption.
by David Nutt
$22.99, paper. Hachette. 244 pages, charts
I only hope that this book will be a small piece of the rebuilding and ultimate redemption of people who do find the way to a clean and sober life. RECOVERING YOU Soul Care and Mindful Movement for Overcoming Addiction by Steven Washington
$27.95, paper. New World Library. 174 pages
This uniquely holistic and joy-filled approach to breaking free from addiction and compulsion using meditation, movement, and motivational techniques has transformed the lives of many people. Why did that superstar overdose when she had it all? Why can’t my cousin get his act together when he has such beautiful children? Such questions are not uncommon with addiction running rampant in our culture. Yet the need and craving for comfort and control also affect many of us in lesser yet insidious ways—that drink, that scroll, that shopping. But as Steven Washington here shows, the recovery of well-being, faith, hope, peace, and, most importantly, a sense of one’s own original self and potential is possible no matter what. My goal is to provide a holistic pathway to an easier, kinder way of life that helps you move past the constraints that addictions and negative habits can create. This pathway is designed to meet you wherever you are on y our trek toward autonomy and to help you cultivate the freedom to become the person you want to be. Washington shares his own story of growing up around alcoholism and his experiences as a Qigong and meditation teacher, but the heart and soul of this book is his ninepart process of guiding readers through fear, shame, and regret. Self-massage, breathing, meditation, and, uniquely, a focus on Qigong, the ancient movement practice at the heart of Chinese medicine and Taoist philosophy, liberate, calm, energize, and soothe in an almost magical way. Whether one is long on the path of recovery, taking their first step in that direction, or simply feeling adrift and unmoored, this is a lifeline not just to recovering but to the discovery of a new and better way of being. The wide variety of tools, practices, movement techniques, and personal examples Steven offers in Recovering You are designed to help readers more intimately connect to themselves and their lives. Each chapter also includes a list of reflective questions and a short mindful movement practice based on Qigong to help readers integrate the concepts into their daily lives.
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World-renowned authority Professor David Nutt lays it out on the science of alcohol, exposing its influence on our health, mood, sleep, emotions, and productivity—and what we can and should do to moderate our intake. From after-work happy hour to a nightly glass of wine, we’re used to thinking of alcohol as a normal part of our daily lives. In Drink?, English neuropharmacology professor David Nutt takes a fascinating, science-based look at drinking to unpack why we should reconsider our favorite pastime. Using cutting-edge scientific research and years of hands-on experience in the field, Nutt delves into the long- and short-term effects of alcohol. He addresses topics such as hormones, mental health, fertility, and addiction, explaining how alcohol travels through our bodies and brains, what happens at each stage of DRUNK How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
Drinking alcohol needs to be, above all, a conscious act. You should treat it as more special than eating, more like—I would argue—it used to be treated in the past. Make drinking a positive, active pleasure rather than a reflex and habit, or something you’ve always done, or self-medication for stress or anxiety... It’s very easy to become psychologically and/or physically addicted to alcohol. I hope this book will show you how to drink for living rather than to live—or die—for drinking... Cheers to that! From marauding Vikings and bacchanalian orgies to sex-starved fruit flies, blind cave fish, and problem-solving crows, Drunk is packed with fascinating case studies and engaging science, as well as practical takeaways for individuals and communities. The result is a captivating and long overdue investigation into humanity’s oldest indulgence— one that explains not only why we want to get drunk, but also how it might actually be good for us to tie one on now and then. A libation to Dionysius.
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by Edward Slingerland
$23.99, paper. Little, Brown. 384 pp, b/w illus.
Here’s a deep dive into the evolutionary roots of humanity’s appetite for intoxication. Why do humans want to get high in the first place? Drunk elegantly cuts through the tangle of urban legends and anecdotal impressions that surround our notions of intoxication to provide the first rigorous, scientifically-grounded explanation for our love of alcohol. Drawing on evidence from archaeology, history, cognitive neuroscience, psychopharmacology, social psychology, literature, and genetics, Slingerland shows that our taste for chemical intoxicants is not an evolutionary mistake, as we are so often told. In fact, intoxication helps solve a number of distinctively human challenges: enhancing creativity, alleviating stress, building trust, and pulling off the miracle of getting fiercely tribal primates to cooperate with strangers. Our desire to get drunk, along with the individual and social benefits provided by drunkenness, played a crucial role in sparking the rise of the first large-scale societies. We would not have civilization without intoxication.
Inspiration & Self-Help A BOOK THAT LOVES YOU An Adventure in Self-Compassion
by Irene Smit & Astrid Van Der Hulst $43.50, cloth. Workman. 220 pages, 7x9, colour illustrations
Slow down, celebrate the flaws, own the good stuff, and focus on learning to love and appreciate yourself. These themes of self-compassion and selfcare are hugely popular, and Flow® has a unique and creative take on them. Now, following A Book That Takes Its Time, A Book That Loves You offers a message that will resonate in its simplicity: Be sweet to yourself, no matter what kind of day you’re having. (In fact, the challenging days are the days you’ll most want to pick up the book.) Discover the comforting effects of a daily ritual, like drinking tea. Why it’s okay—and even beautiful—to stumBRANCHES OF LIGHT
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It is only by recognizing both the benefits and dangers of intoxication that we can remain human, cautiously tapping into its power to help us to occupy this precarious ecological niche we have made our own... It is only in this way that we can leave a place for ecstasy in our lives, preserve the ability to “create sweet song,” and continue to flourish as humans, the strangest, and most successful, of apes. “A brilliant and definitive book. Alcohol has been used and abused by more people in more places at more times than all other intoxicants combined. The story of drinking is, indeed, the story of humanity, and Edward Slingerland tells it with endearing wit, irreverence, wisdom, and profound insight. “—Wade Davis, author of Magdalena: River of Dreams
ble now and again. Embrace the art of being alone. Release the reins on your schedule. And learn to love yourself with all your imperfections—including your over-productive mind. The book combines Flow’s signature scrapbook-like look and feel, focus on mindfulness, and high production standards. Sprinkled throughout the essays, illustrations, and sayings are paper “goodies,” designed to help readers put what they read into action: A “slow down” sticker puzzle, a pullout “My Own User Manual” map, a DIY flower to assemble and enjoy. It’s a delightful gift for yourself or someone you care about—a book to peruse and engage with, using creativity and intention. Flow magazine, created by Irene Smit and Astrid van der Hulst, is a popular international publication packed with paper goodies and beautiful illustrations that celebrates creativity, imperfection, and life’s little pleasures.
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$32.99, cloth. Picador. 272 pages
In Surviving Storms, spiritual teacher and poet Mark Nepo explores the art and practice of meeting adversity by using the timeless teachings of the heart.
HOW TO BE LOVING as your heart is breaking open and our world is waking up by Danielle LaPorte
$35.99, cloth. Sounds True. 302 pages $39.99, 9 CDs. 10 hours
We live in a turbulent time. Storms are everywhere, of every shape and size. And like every generation before us, like every soul’s journey on Earth, we must learn the art of surviving storms, so we can endure and build a better world. The reason heartwork is so important in surviving storms is that, as a tree needs to deepen its roots and widen its trunk to endure the force of unexpected storms, we need to know our true self so we can deepen our roots and solidify our connection to all Spirit and all life. Then we, too, can endure the force of unexpected storms. This is especially relevant now.
This is a counterculture call to gentleness, from a contemporary and accessible sage. What happens when you begin to identify as Love––as the Soul beyond your personality constructs? What changes when you see yourself––and others, through a Loving gaze? Everything.
A profoundly timely resource, Surviving Storms describes the heart’s process of renewal and connection with insight and accuracy. Though we must each map the territories of our souls for ourselves, this spiritually practical book is a reliable guide, “bringing us to common passages and paths and urging us forward on the journey. Once the rubble clears, we, like those before us, are inevitably called to build the world one more time, admitting that we need each other.”
We do not need to focus on “fixing” ourselves. As we focus on living from our heart center—from Love— anything that’s not in alignment with that Light falls away. This message is so liberating. And practical. You’ll learn that progress is more about letting go than learning new tricks. And… ♦ You can choose higher quality thoughts more consistently (without spiritual bypassing) and interrupt lifelong patterns of rejecting our shadow side. ♦ Your ego, which is just an exaggerated sense of a separate self, will begin to calm down. You can’t life
As in my other books, I offer writing and conversation prompts (Questions to Walk With) for you to personalize the themes uncovered along the way. And as with my other books, I encourage you to take your time in moving through the topics opened here, so you can integrate what arises inwardly with the unfolding of your days.
Love is universal, but how we learn about it and express it is incredibly personal. Being Loving doesn’t necessarily mean feeling more. It means feeling everything with more Love. It’s the ultimate inclusiveness. Because in the heart, it’s ALL IN—your light and your shadows—and everyone else’s.
HOW TO BE LOVING: THE JOURNAL Relax Your Mind. Connect with the Divine. by Danielle LaPorte
$24.99, paper. Sounds True. 168 pages, 7x9
In this book, Mark Nepo offers us a care-full vessel for heartwork, which he evokes and encourages so skillfully. Every generation has its share of turbulence and chaos—personal storms, relational storms, life storms. And all the traditions offer practices and resources to help us be strong enough and kind enough to meet the challenges of our day. It is our turn to rediscover these practices and resources in order to repair ourselves and our world. All this is inner practice. All this is heartwork. “How can we walk through the fractured landscape of today and keep our eyes clear and our hearts open? Through his ability to find the wisdom in ordinary things, Mark Nepo shows how heartwork can deepen us on this journey, helping us to repair ourselves and the world. Here are resources for the traveler, helping us to say yes to life, awakening us to the grace that is always present.” —Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Sufi teacher and author, Sufism: the Transformation of the Heart
A deep journaling tool for becoming less reactive, and more responsive and open to love. Resiliency is our capacity to respond from the heart. It has everything to do with Love and inclusiveness, and nothing to do with getting tougher. Resilience is a foil to the ego-mind’s way of dividing everything into “right or wrong.” The heart’s response to our emotions and experiences is always more welcoming and spacious. And that’s what this self-exploration is for: to welcome in all of our fears, questions, and gifts. You’ll be befriending doubt, creating more loving thoughts, and using Loving Kindness to witness your interior HOW TO BE LOVING: THE DECK For Resilience, Kindness and All Kinds of Idealism by Danielle LaPorte
$30.99. Sounds True. 60 colour cards in a box
Prompt your heart’s genius. A deck inspired by Danielle LaPorte’s book, How to Be Loving.
WINTERING The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
by Katherine May
$32.00, cloth. Random House. 241 pages
A moving personal narrative shot through with lessons from literature, mythology, and the natural world, May’s story offers instruction on the transformative power of rest and retreat. Illumination emerges from many sources: solstice celebrations and dormice hibernation, C.S. Lewis and Sylvia Plath, swimming in icy waters and sailing arctic seas. She is a poetic observer of the natural world, and quotable lines abound... You may want to share Wintering with friends who experience winter blues, and keep a copy close at hand for the inevitable winterings of your own life. Ultimately, Wintering invites us to change how we relate
THINK WITH LOVE. Open mindedness—spirituality—is the practice of thinking with love. First, we refer to our heart’s mind for the best way to proceed. Then we recruit the mental mind to support the heart. This is what it means to have our priorities straight. This is one of 60 cards in How to Be Loving: The Deck: For Resilience, Kindness, and All Kinds of Idealism—from Danielle LaPorte. A companion deck for her book and journal of the
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hack your way through fear—that only creates more fear. Instead, you can invite every part of yourself into the heart to rest in Love. ♦ You’ll stop talking yourself out of your natural inclination to Forgive. The heart is for… giving. It’s such sweet relief to opt for the power of Love and move on. ♦ You repeatedly choose higher-quality thoughts. Our thinking is magnetic. We can use the intelligence of Love to calm our nervous systems and experience real peace. ♦ You will create conditions for healing in your life. Accepting yourself and situations as is will free up so much of your life force—energy you can use to grow in new directions. I wrote this book because my heart is breaking (open) from the state of this world. I think we’re longing for Love and Truth—and for each other… Shifting from an emotion-driven live to a more heart centered life is a developmental process. The path to being more Loving is through a Loving process itself. It’s gentle and compassionate. It’s about creating a friendship with reality… This book is an urgent Love letter to the Light in every one of us. I hope it helps us remember who we are, together. How to Be Loving is available as this lovely hardcover book, and also as a journal-workbook, and also as a Card Deck, and also as an audio CD set! experience and visions of the future. This journal is a resilience tool. Every passage, reflection prompt, and tear-out in this journal can become a portal to your inner wisdom—and loving. From page to page, you’ll explore… ♦ “How would life change if I stopped trying to fix myself?” ♦ “Where in my life can I become more open and accepting?” ♦ “What is it that my heart wants to say to my mind?” ♦ “How have my doubts and worries served me on my journey?” ♦ “If I look at myself with a loving gaze, what shifts?” While yearly vision quests are a great practice, it’s regular reflection that keeps us close to our life force—and to each other. And the more often we reflect on what’s meaningful in our life, the more light we will find to steer by. same title, this collection is substance with a side of playful. Some cards are short paragraphs of deep teachings. Others are poignant one-liners that people will be posting everywhere: ♦ “Embrace your contradictions.” ♦ “Use your mind for holy purposes.” ♦ “Ask your heart what it wants to tell your mind.” There are beautiful questions that can be used as conversation starters or journaling prompts, like, “If you were to look at yourself with a loving gaze, what would shift?” Danielle has also sprinkled in textual art cards that are ready for framing or tucking into love notes. These nourishing words and sweet inquiries are antidotes to the fear-based, limiting scripts we’ve had on repeat for years. As daily writing motivation, oracle cards, date-night cue cards, or on-the-spot inspiration, here is a deck for deep thinkers and for anyone stepping on the path to healing—themselves and our world.
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♦ to our own fallow times. May models an active acceptance of sadness and finds nourishment in deep retreat, joy in the hushed beauty of winter, and encouragement in understanding life as cyclical, not linear. A secular mystic, May forms a guiding philosophy for transforming the hardships that arise before the ushering in of a new season. I may be embarrassed to admit it, but I pray earthwise, too... By closing my eyes, however briefly, and resting my thoughts on the core of my perception, I can gain some of the peace that meditation brings me. I have come to think of it as prayer, although I ask for nothing and speak to no one within it. It is a profoundly nonverbal experience, a sharp breath of pure being amid a forest of words. It is an untangling, a moment to feel the true ache of desire, the gentle wash of self-compassion, the heart swell of thanks, the tick tick tick of existence. It is a moment when, alone, I am at my most connected with others. I can feel entirely separate in a crowd of people, but when I close my eyes, it’s as though I have waded into a river of all consciousness, bathed in common humanity. “Wintering is every bit as beautiful and healing as the season itself. Katherine May thoughtfully examines the emotional, spiritual, and geographical reality of the cold times, the dark days, and those periods of our lives when things are neither soft nor easy. In so doing, she offers a great and humane service to her readers: she shows us that wintering cannot be avoided, but need not be feared. This is truly a beautiful book.” – Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
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Trauma and Emotion THE PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR HEALING DEVELOPMENTAL TRAUMA Using the NeuroAffective Relational Model to Address Adverse Childhood Experiences and Resolve Complex Trauma
by Laurence Heller & Brad Kammer
$33.95, paper. North Atlantic. 390 pages, b/w illus.
A practical step-by-step guide and follow-up companion to Healing Developmental Trauma--presenting one of the first comprehensive models for addressing complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD). The NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) is an integrated mind-body framework that focuses on relational, attachment, developmental, cultural, and intergenerational trauma. NARM helps clients resolve C-PTSD, recover from adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and facilitate post-traumatic growth. Inspired by cutting-edge trauma-informed research on attachment, developmental psychology, and interpersonal neurobiology, The Practical Guide for Healing Developmental Trauma provides counselors, psychotherapists, psychologists, social workers, and trauma-sensitive helping professionals with the theoretical background and practical skills they need to help clients transform THE PRACTICE OF EMBODYING EMOTIONS A Guide for Improving Cognitive, Emotional, and Behavioral Outcomes
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by Raja Selvam
$28.95, paper. North Atlantic. 366 pages, b/w illus.
Psychology, Therapy & Dreams UNWINDING ANXIETY How Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind
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by Judson Brewer
$24.00, paper. Random House. 304 pp, b/w illus.
From the author of The Craving Mind, here’s a step-bystep plan clinically proven to break the cycle of worry and fear that drives anxiety and addictive habits. We are living through one of the most anxious periods any of us can remember. Whether facing issues as public as a pandemic or as personal as having kids at home and fighting the urge to reach for the wine bottle every night, we are feeling overwhelmed and out of control. But in this timely book, Judson Brewer explains how to uproot anxiety at its source using brain-based techniques and small hacks accessible to anyone. We think of anxiety as everything from mild unease to full-blown panic. But it’s also what drives the addictive behaviors and bad habits we use to cope (e.g. stress eating, procrastination, doom scrolling and social media). Plus, anxiety lives in a part of the brain that resists rational thought. So we get stuck in anxiety habit loops that we can’t think our way out of or use willpower to overcome. Dr. Brewer teaches us how to map our brains to discover our triggers, defuse them with the simple but powerful practice of curiosity, and to train our brains using mindfulness and other practices that his lab has proven can work. Distilling 20+ years of research and hands-on work with thousands of patients, including Olympic athletes and coaches, and leaders in government and business, Dr. Brewer has created a solution-oriented program that anyone can use to feel better—no matter how anxious they feel.
From a therapist/senior trainer in Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing program, here’s an introduction to a new science-based somatic psychotherapy that effectively relieves emotional difficulties, regulates behavior, and improves wellbeing. Developed by author and psychologist Raja Selvam, Integral Somatic Psychology (ISP) is an effective somatic therapy that helps clients achieve optimal mental health by fully embodying their emotions. Drawing from research in neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and body psychotherapy, Selvam describes how the body can be used as a vehicle for affective processing to alleviate suffering, regulate behavior, and enhance memory, language, and thinking. You will learn concrete skills to help clients build tolerance for all feelings—especially uncomfortable ones—skills that can also be used for self-help to navigate life’s inevitable challenges. Selvam describes four steps of emotional embodiment work: ♦ Situation, which links context to affective response. ♦ Emotion, which fosters discovery and acceptance of feelings. ♦ Expansion/Regulation, expanding emotions in brain and body to improve affect tolerance ♦ ntegration, tending to physical, energetic, cognitive,
“Grounded in the best of current science and totally user friendly, Unwinding Anxiety reveals how a powerful set of mindfulness tools can free us from the worry that rules our lives. This is the most helpful and informative book on anxiety I’ve read!” —Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance “Showing clearly how and why worry is so addictive, he guides you how to shift through the gears to break the old habits that keep anxiety going, and to unwind the rope that’s been coiled around your life. With new insights on every page, this is evidence-based psychological science at its best.” —Mark Williams, co-author of Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World
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complex trauma. It explains: ♦ The four pillars of the NARM therapeutic model ♦ Cultural and transgenerational trauma ♦ Shock vs. developmental trauma ♦ How to effectively address ACEs and support relational health ♦ How to differentiate NARM from other approaches to trauma treatment ♦ NARM’s organizing principles and how to integrate the program into your clinical practice. “This book, from two experienced and insightful practitioners, offers a thorough and clear guide to a modality of therapy far deeper than the prevailing cognitive and behavioral treatments. It is highly promising because it goes beyond the surface manifestations to the root causes and dynamics of human distress.” —Gabor Maté, author of When The Body Says No “This practical manual offers step-by-step guidance to those wishing to work with some of the most hard-totreat patients who suffer from the heartbreak of developmental trauma… NARM offers a much-needed tool in the integrative trauma therapist’s medicine bag.” —Lissa Rankin, author of Mind Over Medicine
For everyone, I highly recommend that you start the practice of embodying emotion with yourself and others as soon as you start reading this book. We are generating emotions all the time, and difficult emotional experiences, big and small, are a daily occurrence. So what are you waiting for? If you are reluctant to start to expand an unpleasant emotional experience in your body, start with a pleasant experience as a trial run… Working with your emotions by yourself can go only so far. All of us need emotional support from time to time, from at least one other person, to resolve our emotions. Nature has just set it up that way. It is easier and quicker to process emotions with the support of others than on one’s own. ISP can be used as a complementary approach by therapists in all modalities who may be looking for innovative, research-backed ways to help patients self-regulate and enjoy a wider range of emotional experiences. The book includes free online resources of demonstration sessions of emotional embodiment work. See integralsomaticpsychology.com. “Don’t miss this book! A valuable guide for therapists and interested folks alike... The concept of sensorimotor emotions is a unique and much-needed contribution to the field of human consciousness.” —Ian Macnaughton, psychotherapist and author of Body, Breath & Consciousness
Also available is The Unwinding Anxiety Card Deck. Check it out!
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by Scott Barry Kaufman
$22.00, paper. Penguin. 382 pages
When psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman first discovered Maslow’s unfinished theory of transcendence, sprinkled throughout a cache of unpublished journals, lectures, and essays, he felt a deep resonance with his own work and life. In this groundbreaking book, Kaufman picks up where Maslow left off, unraveling the mysteries of his unfinished theory, and integrating these ideas with the latest research on attachment, connection, creativity, love, purpose and other building blocks of a life well lived. Kaufman’s new hierarchy of needs provides a roadmap for finding purpose and fulfillment—not by striving for money, success, or “happiness,” but by becoming the best version of ourselves, or what Maslow called self-actualization. While self-actualization is often thought of as a purely individual pursuit, Maslow believed that the full realization of potential requires a merging between self and the world. We don’t have to choose either self-development or self-sacrifice, but at the highest level of human potential we show a deep integration of both. Transcend reveals this level of human potential that connects us not only to our highest creative potential, but also to one another. CHOOSE GROWTH A Workbook for Transcending Trauma, Fear, and Self-Doubt by Scott Barry Kaufman
$24.00, paper. Random House. 256 pages, 7x9
A research-based toolkit for turning challenging times into a springboard for healing, insight, and new beginnings. The trauma, loss, and uncertainty of our world have led many of us to ask life’s big questions. Who are we? What is our higher purpose? And how do we not only live through but thrive in the wake of tragedy, division, and challenges to our fundamental way of living? Choose Growth is a practical workbook designed to guide you on a journey of committing to growth and the pursuit of self-actualization every day. Created by renowned psychologist and host of The Psychology Podcast Scott Barry Kaufman and positive medicine physician and researcher Jordyn Feingold, this is an evidence-based toolkit—a compendium of exercises intimately grounded in the latest research in positive psychology and the core principles of humanistic psychology that help us all navigate whatever choppy waters
THE DREAMWORK HANDBOOK Transform Your Life through Dreams by Nicholas Heyneman
$18.99, cloth. Watkins. 224 pages
Used alone or with a partner, The Dreamwork Handbook offers a radical programme of practical exercises to cut through the muddles of our waking thoughts and reveal the wealth of insight and revolutionary power that dreams can have. This interactive book helps you harness the power of waking and sleeping dreams to navigate through the emotional labyrinth towards clarity and fulfilment: ♦ Thought-provoking exercises and specially devised dream scenarios offer dozens of step-by-step ways to use dreams to enhance our love lives, as well as our relationships with family and friends. ♦ Discover new ways to benefit from your dream life, based on visualizations, role play, storytelling, and other techniques for solo or mutual dreamwork.
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With never-before-published insights and new research findings, along with exercises and opportunities to gain insight into your own unique personality, this empowering book is a manual for self-analysis and nurturing a deeper connection not only with our highest potential but also with the rest of humanity. As Carl Rogers noted, “The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.” This process won’t always bring feelings of happiness, contentment, and bliss, and it may even sometimes cause pain and heartache. It’s not for the “faint-hearted,” as Rogers notes, as it requires continually stretching outside your comfort zone as you realize more and more of your potentialities and launch yourself “fully into the stream of life.” Just like it takes courage to open your sail on a sailboat and see where the winds will take you, it takes a lot of courage to become the best version of yourself. “Both personal and universal, deep and engaging, easy to follow and mind-shifting, Transcend gives us a new understanding of Maslow’s famous self-actualization model and shows us how we can all achieve the kind of life we aspire to.” —Lori Gottlieb, author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone we find ourselves in. Topics include fostering secure attachment, setting healthy boundaries, practicing radical self-acceptance, and more—and each exercise is grounded in the latest research from the fields of psychology and positive medicine. Whether you’re healing from loss, adapting to the new normal, or simply looking ahead to life’s next chapter, this supportive and insightful guide will help you steer yourself to calmer waters—and deeper connection to your values, your life vision, and ultimately your most authentic self. “Gives us a new understanding of Maslow’s famous self-actualization model and shows us how we can all achieve the kind of life we aspire to.” —Lori Gottlieb, author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone Scott Kaufman is a cognitive scientist and humanistic psychologist exploring the depths of human potential, and director of The Center for Human Potential. He hosts The Psychology Podcast, and is author and/or editor of nine previous books, including Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization.
♦ Go beyond dream symbolism and get to grips with the detailed language of dreams, allowing you to explore your deep subconscious spirituality, health, soul lessons and desires. ♦ Dream together with others and discover the dream path of love. ♦ The Guided Daydreaming Toolkit offers a practical series of exercises to gently conduct any relationship back into alignment.
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Midlife & Elder Wisdom THE INSIDE STORY The Surprising Pleasures of Living in an Aging Body
by Susan Sands
$33.99, cloth. Sounds True. 238 pages
The new science of embodiment tells us that “body sense,” or interoceptive awareness, is a crucial factor for our well-being across the span of our lives. In this eye-opening and wide-ranging book, body image expert Dr. Susan Sands unpacks the research to make a bold call to aging women to find safe harbor from the ravages of age right where they strike the deepest—in the body. How can we manage the losses of aging? Stop focusing on the ‘outside body’ that others see—the one you may think is too fat, too wrinkled, or too saggy—and move your attention to the ‘inside body’ that you sense and feel. With wise and humorous insight, Dr. Sands calls on case studies, personal stories, and scientific findings to help us rewrite the cultural beliefs that put us at odds with our own bodies. Powerful yet accessible embodiment tools such as meditation, yoga, breathing practices, and neural feedback techniques make this a practical as well as enlightening self-care manifesto for women at midlife and beyond. This book is not about trying to look fifty when you’re seventy or thirty when you’re fifty. It’s about forging a healthier relationship with your actual maturing body—a relationship of respect, appreciation, tenderness, and yes, even love. “Rejoice! Susan Sands has crafted an exquisitely written antidote to the inexorable fear and revulsion attendant to the aging process, especially with respect to body image... With depth and grace, she turns our thinking about women aging on its head, challenging us to think about aging not as a problem or disorder but as a fresh and novel way to live in a stable older body. Sands invigorates our minds with the hope of finding solace and fertile ground through remaking and reexperiencing our relationship to our bodies so that we can live in and from them, in their ‘glory’ or not, as is.” —Jean Petrucelli, editor of Body-States “Every woman over 50 must read this book; it will transform their lives... Full of gripping first-person accounts of women struggling to come to terms with growing older, The Inside Story offers many practical methods—from mindfulness to touch, movement and yoga—for women to know themselves not for what others say they are, but for who they truly are, inside and out.” —Lewis Richmond, author of Aging as a Spiritual Practice FRONT-WAVE BOOMERS Growing (Very) Old, Staying Connected, and Reimagining Aging
by Gillian Ranson
$22.95, paper. UBC Press. 190 pages
Boomers are heading into (very) old age following a pandemic, a time of overt ageism and deficient eldercare. The front wave, now entering their seventies, are on the brink of life changes that will challenge everyone—family, friends, and the health care system too. Recognizing the dire need to meet these challenges, Vancouver-based Gillian Ranson investigates what they are doing to prepare for old age. Regardless of their situation—well off or struggling, partnered or on their own—front-wave boomers share one thing: the need for intimate, caring social ties.
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Many of them are making these connections with creativity and resilience. Their stories hold lessons for us all. Whether an elder orphan living in subsidized housing, a busy grandparent doing daycare pickups, a small business owner phasing into retirement, or a wife learning to cope with a husband’s dementia, they all share one thing: they need intimate, caring social ties to other people. Just as the baby boomer generation transformed life for teenagers and youth in the 1960s, they now have a chance to create a better way to grow old. Their stories—deftly woven throughout this book—hold lessons for us all. There is now widespread recognition, and the promise of federal funds, to support aging in place— hopefully in all-age-friendly communities... This takes us back to all the public spaces, and the homes, where people of all ages gather and get to know one another. Hopefully, in the course of all this gathering, and the intergenerational connections we establish, ageist stereotypes will diminish, and we will all come to recognize that very old age is part of the cycle of life, that, with luck, we’ll all experience. We’ll recognize that care is something that older people are owed, because they have right as citizens and because we as a society have a moral duty to care. This book is essential reading for baby boomers and their adult children, professionals and scholars who work with those in their golden years, and anyone who’s simply curious about what the future could look like for them.
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THE SOUL’S TWINS Emancipate Your Feminine and Masculine Archetypes by Jean Benedict Raffa
$26.99, cloth. Schiffer. 208 pages, colour illus.
Humanity today is plagued by a loss of meaning and alienation from self and others. The result: unprecedented levels of divorce, depression, anxiety, addictions, suicide, and crime. Because societal institutions have failed to resolve these and other everyday problems, it is now the task of each individual to heal and unite their divided self: body and spirit, conscious and unconscious, feminine and masculine. Drawing on depth psychology and wisdom traditions from world religions, Jungian therapist Jean Raffa offers a self-guided journey to heightened self-awareness and compassion for oneself and others. A self-assessment tool called the Partnership Profile gives readers a personalized status report on their inner forces, including the maturity of four feminine archetypes, four masculine archetypes, and a newly emerging archetype of egalitarian partnership. This awareness, combined with suggested practices, empowers readers to address their imbalances and create the lives for which they yearn. THE INNER MARRIAGE A Guide to Masculine and Feminine Polarity Work $23.99, paper. Inner Traditions. 224 pages, illus.
by Jor-El Caraballo
$21.99, paper. Adams. 256 pages
Explore and embrace all parts of yourself with the help of the mental health self-care practice of shadow work so you can dig deeper into discovering who you are and pursue a happier, more fulfilled life. Shadow work—the process of exploring your pain, trauma patterns, and unconscious parts—is a powerful tool to help you embrace and accept yourself, even the parts that are difficult. The Shadow Work Workbook gives you everything you need to get started with a clear explanation of what shadow work is, how it works, and how it helps you, as well as guided meditations and accompanying journal prompts and affirmations to walk you through your own shadow work. Written by licensed therapist Jor-El Caraballo, this book is a useful companion on your self-exploration journey.
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by Elliott Saxby
SHADOW WORK WORKBOOK Self-Care Exercises for Healing Your Trauma and Exploring Your Hidden Self
Each entry will discuss a different aspect of the shadow and provide thought-provoking questions for you to think on and explore… Some facets of the shadow that you will explore are: Meet your Inner Child Offer Self-forgiveness Explore Your Hidden Anger Reflect on Your Dreams Process Loss Sit with Difficult Emotions There are exercises exploring anger and shame, feeling your feelings, and so much more. The Shadow Work Workbook helps you gain a deeper love and understanding of all parts of yourself.
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Within our body, mind, and soul, each of us has both masculine and feminine dynamics. Through polarity work, we can balance, evolve, and integrate the masculine and feminine within our personality, creating an inner marriage that in turn supports the release and transformation of trauma on the cellular, emotional, and soul levels. In this practical guide, Elliott Saxby presents methods and exercises to apply polarity work as a tool in integrative and non-dual therapy to help you identify masculine and feminine traits within yourself, become less judgmental, and develop a more integrated relationship with yourself and others. He explains how emotional energy can affect you physically and spiritually and how understanding your inner masculine and inner feminine can help you evolve unhealthy expressions of polarity into healthy ones. He examines 11 common life experiences through the lens of mature and immature masculine and feminine expressions, providing
Mythology & Symbolism THE HEROINE WITH 1001 FACES
by Maria Tatar
$24.95, paper. Norton. 304 pages, b/w illus.
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World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman. How do we explain our newfound cultural investment in empathy and social justice? For decades, Joseph Campbell had defined our cultural aspirations in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, emphasizing the value of seeking glory and earning immortality. His work became the playbook for Hollywood, with its many male-centric quest narratives. Challenging the models in Campbell’s canonical work, Maria Tatar explores how heroines, rarely wielding a sword and deprived of a pen, have flown beneath the radar even BRANCHES OF LIGHT
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The purpose of the inner journey is to unearth the exquisite mosaic that lies at the bottom of every psyche. Self-discovery and self-knowledge fill an emptiness within us that nothing else can satisfy… Soul archeology is, in fact, the single most powerful way, the only lasting way, that each of us can contribute to the healing of the world… I believe real partnership between women and men is possible, but only to the extent that each partner knows and honors her or his true self and wants to learn how to love… This is holy work, my friends, Together, let us heal the separation between your soul’s twins. “A trustworthy and inspiring guide that helps us understand the most-powerful archetypal forces within us and how they shape and influence our lives. This knowledge can lead us to love, strength, tenderness, and creativity. Jean’s clear explanations, myths, stories, and exercises invite us to experience the transformation of our souls. This is a book that heals… it is to be read and savored.” —Bud Harris, Jungian analyst, author of The Fire and the Rose 44 traits to identify within yourself and consciously choose to change. He then shows what evolving the masculine and feminine looks like, as well as depicting the shadow in immature masculine and feminine expressions. You can find beneficial solutions to nearly any emotional or relationship scenario if you consciously work with your mature and immature aspects and with the shadow. Fusing ancient Vedic knowledge and Western psychology with Tantric and Taoist wisdom, Saxby offers simple yet profound methods for evolving your inner masculine and feminine, as well as healing the shadow, through applying universal laws of polarity, duality, and oneness and the laws of attraction, vibration, and resistance. He also explores sexuality and desire through polarity work and the need to re-align our physical, mental, and emotional bodies to generate power through sexuality. As the author reveals, the more adept we become at integrating our inner masculine and feminine, at supporting our inner marriage, the more empowered and able we become to evolve our relationships not only with ourselves, but also with our partners, family, and friends.
as they have been bent on social missions. Using the domestic arts and storytelling skills, they have displayed audacity, curiosity, and care as they struggled to survive and change the reigning culture. Animating figures from Ovid’s Philomela, her tongue severed yet still weaving a tale about sexual assault, to Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander, a high-tech wizard seeking justice for victims of a serial killer, The Heroine with 1,001 Faces creates a luminous arc that takes us from ancient times to the present. “From Penelope and Pandora to Katniss Everdeen and Lisbeth Salander, the ‘hero’s journey’ gets a much-needed makeover... Starting with Greek mythology and Scheherezade and moving through the centuries all the way to the Game of Thrones series and The Queen’s Gambit, Tatar incisively explores women’s reinvention of heroism to embrace empathy, compassion, and care, often to pursue social justice... The book really takes off when it gets to contemporary culture, particularly in a section that identifies a female version of the ‘trickster’ archetype in Everdeen and Salander. Of this lineage, among the shared interesting traits not traditionally associated with women characters is a prodigious appetite... As Wonder Woman might say,
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$23.99, paper. Inner Traditions. 208 pages
Long before the sword-wielding heroes of legend readily cut down forests, slaughtered the old deities, and vanquished their enemies, there were playful gods, animal-headed kings, mischievous lovers, trickster harpists, and vegetal magicians with flowering wands. As eco-feminist scholar Sophie Strand discovered, these wilder, more magical modes of the masculine have always been hidden in plain sight. Sharing the culmination of eight years of research into myth, folklore, and the history of religion, Strand leads us back into the forgotten landscapes and hidden secrets of familiar myths, revealing the beautiful range of the divine masculine, including expressions of male friendship, male intimacy, and male creative collaborations. Starting with Osiris and Genesis, Strand encourages us to think like an ecosystem, instead of like an individual. She connects dying, vegetal gods to the virtuous cycle of composting and decay, highlighting the ways in which mushrooms can restore soil and heal polluted landscapes. Exploring esoteric Christianity, the author celebrates the Gnostic Jesus of The Gospel of Thomas, imagining the ecology that the Rabbi Yeshua would have actually been referencing in his nature-focused parables. Moving into medieval history, legends, and fairytales, Strand frees Tristan, Merlin, and the Grail legends from the bounds of Campbell’s hero’s journey and invites the masculine into more nuanced, complex ways of dealing with trauma, growth, and self-knowledge. By rewilding the myths of the masculine, Strand reseeds our minds with new visions of male identity and shows how each of us, regardless of gender, can develop a matured ecological empathy, reinvigorate the magic of the world around us, and witness a blossoming of sacred masculine powers that are soft, curious, connective, and celebratory.
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shows modern readers how to rediscover nature’s potency and form a connection to something greater than ourselves. There was a time when meadow, grove and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Appareled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. —Wordsworth In her introduction, Karen writes: It is crucial that we behave differently not just when we feel like it but all the time. Here the religious practices and disciplines of the past have much to offer.
by Karen Armstrong
$32.95, cloth. Penguin. 206 pages
Since the beginning of time, humankind has looked upon nature and seen the divine. In the writings of the great thinkers across religions, the natural world inspires everything from fear to awe to tranquil contemplation; God, or however one defined the sublime, was present in everything. Yet today, even as we admire a tree or take in a striking landscape, we rarely see nature as sacred. In this deeply powerful book, historian of religion Karen Armstrong re-sacralizes nature for modern times. Drawing on her vast knowledge of the world’s religious traditions, she vividly describes nature’s central place in spirituality across the centuries: from the Book of Job to St. Thomas Aquinas, from Lao Tzu to Wordsworth, and from the Stoics to Jainism and beyond. Throughout, she reveals how we have lost our sense of the divine, and how we can get it back. Sacred Nature explores the power of silence and solitude, the nature of personal sacrifice and the need to reconnect with sorrow and compassion—and how greater contact with and appreciation for nature can help us in unexpected ways. In bringing this age-old wisdom to life, Armstrong
They can help us to develop an aesthetic appreciation of nature and to devise an ethical program that will guide our behavior and our thoughts. We must revive the reverence for the natural world that has always been essential to human nature but has become peripheral. “The poetry of nations shows us the dream. The mathematics of nature lights the way. The golden rule guides the spirit. Karen Armstrong’s book, Sacred Nature, anchors the theme for our salvation in the divinity of the natural world.” —Diana Beresford-Kroeger, author of To Speak for the Trees
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Meditating… GOOD MORNING, I LOVE YOU Mindfulness + Self-Compassion Practices to Rewire Your Brain for Calm, Clarity + Joy
it. The practices contained in this book offer a roadmap for strengthening the brain’s circuitry of deep calm, contentment, and clarity. Best of all, you canbegin wherever you are. As the fifteenth-century Indian poet Kabir says, “wherever you are is the entry point.”
by Shauna Shapiro
$23.99, paper. Sounds True. 228 pages
Discover the Transformative Effects of Being Kind to Yourself. “This brilliant book offers us both the science and practice of how self-kindness is the secret sauce of fulfillment, transformation, and joy.” —Lorin Roche, meditation teacher and author of The Radiance Sutras Many of us who yearn to feel a greater sense of inner calm, ease, joy, and purpose may have tried meditation and found it too difficult. We judge ourselves for being no good at emptying our minds (as if one ever could), or just for feeling sad or feeling bad, or compare ourselves with others who seem to have it all together. We live in a steady state of “not good enough.” It does not have to be this way. In Good Morning, I Love You, Dr. Shauna Shapiro brings alive the brain science behind why we feel the way we do—about ourselves, each other, and the world—and explains why we get stuck in thinking that doesn’t serve us. It turns out that we are hardwired to be self-critical and negative! And this negativity is constantly undermining our experience of life. What you practice grows stronger. It is never too late to rewire your brain and transform your life. I know this is possible for you because I experienced
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In short, lively chapters laced with science, wisdom, and story, Shapiro, one of the leading scientists studying the effects of mindfulness on the brain, shows us that acting with kindness and compassion toward ourselves is the key. Mindfulness also includes a kind attitude that imbues life with a loving quality that heals the heart, brings warmth to our relationships, and brings resilience into our approach to the world… Welcome to a wonderful journey into bringing more kindness and love into your life, inside and out. —Daniel Siegel, from the foreword With her roadmap to guide you, including her signature “Good Morning, I Love You” practice, in which you deliberately greet yourself each day with these simple words, you can change your brain’s circuitry and steady yourself in feelings of deep calm, clarity, and joy. For good. Available separately, to apply the practices in this book, is Good Morning, I Love You: A Guided Journal by Shauna Shapiro.
STRENGTH IN STILLNESS The Power of Transcendental Meditation by Bob Roth
$24.99, paper. Scribner. 224 pages
Every day, we face a growing epidemic of stress, one that is damaging our physical and emotional health at younger and younger ages. Billionaire CEOs, moms managing households, college students, people of every race, age, and income all make the same confession: I am so stressed. It is literally killing us. While there is no one single cure, there is a simple practice that dramatically changes how we respond to stress and life’s challenges: the Transcendental Meditation technique. With scientifically proven benefits—improved focus, sleep, resilience, creativity, and memory to name a few—this five-thousand-year-old technique has a clear and direct impact on our very modern problems. Each time you meditate, even if you mind is filled with a million thoughts, you do settle down toward levels of the mind that are deeper, quieter, more satisfying. And when you do that, the equanimity you experience during meditation naturally comes out to be lived more and more in every moment of your
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life. And that is a very good description of the zone. Once a skeptic, Bob Roth trained under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and has since become one of the most experienced and sought-after meditation teachers in the world. Roth saw the profound and practical capabilities of the technique, and as cofounder and CEO of the David Lynch Foundation, he has helped bring TM to more than 500,000 at-risk youth, veterans with PTSD, and women survivors of domestic violence. He also teaches TM to top leaders in government, business, medicine, and the arts. In Strength in Stillness, Roth breaks down the science behind meditation in a new, accessible way. He highlights the three distinct types of meditation—focused attention, open monitoring, and self-transcending— and showcases the evidence that the third, Transcendental Meditation, is the most effective and efficient way to reduce stress, access inner power, and build resilience. Free of gimmicks, mystical verbiage, and over-inflated research studies, Strength in Stillness is a simple and straightforward guide to calming mind, body, and spirit.
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We are all witnessing—and participating in—an evolutionary story. And we will all determine how the plot unfolds. This is the premise of Conscious Evolution, an impassioned and inspiring audio program with Eckhart Tolle, author of The Power of Now.
Western Spiritual Teachers & Teachings CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION How to Embrace Our Challenges and Opportunities in a New Era for Humanity by Eckhart Tolle
The world always moves between order and chaos. And in the present time, anybody who is not awaken-
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ing spiritually, even to some extent, will be drawn into deeper unconsciousness. Now, he shares four sessions of practical insights and teachings to help you become a “bringer of consciousness” in this precarious era: Session 1 ♦ True acceptance vs putting a positive spin on situations ♦ Becoming aligned with the “isness” of the moment ♦ The “horizontal dimension” of doing and the “vertical
Waking in the Dark LUMINOUS DARKNESS An Engaged Buddhist Approach to Embracing the Unknown by Deborah Eden Tull
$24.95, paper. Shambhala. 228 pages
Here’s a resonant call to explore the darkness in life, in nature, and in consciousness—including difficult emotions like uncertainty, grief, fear, and xenophobia—through teachings, embodied meditations, and mindful inquiry that provide us with a powerful path to healing. Darkness is deeply misunderstood in today’s world; yet it offers powerful medicine, serenity, strength, healing, and regeneration. All insight, vision, creativity, and revelation arise from darkness. It is through learning to stay present and meet the dark with curiosity rather than judgment that we connect to an unwavering light within. Welcoming darkness with curiosity, rather than fear or judgment, enables us to access our innate capacity for compassion and collective healing. Dharma teacher, shamanic practitioner, and deep ecologist Deborah Eden Tull addresses the spiritual, ecological, psychological, and interpersonal ramifications of our bias towards light. She explores the medicine of darkness for personal and collective healing, through topics such as: ♦ Befriending the Night: The Radiant Teachings of Darkness ♦ Honoring Our Pain for Our World ♦ Seeing in the Dark: The Quiet Power of Receptivity ♦ Dreams, Possibility, and Moral Imagination ♦ Releasing Fear, Embracing Emergence Endarkenment celebrates five aspects of embodied meditation and spirituality: WAKING UP TO THE DARK The Black Madonnaa’s Gospel for an Age of Extinction and Collapse
by Clark Strand
$23.95, paper. Monkfish. 128 pages, b/w illus.
Hidden in the darkness is an ancient secret suppressed by every aspect of our light-drunk modern world—there is a Great Mother from the bottom of time who has always guided us through perils and calamities. Now is the hour of Her return. Is darkness synonymous with ignorance and evil? Or is it the original matrix from which all life emerges, and the Mother to whom it returns? Higher and higher levels of artificial illumination have suppressed our contact with the numinous since the Industrial Revolution, with dire consequences for society, our planetary ecology, and our souls. This mystical testament weaves together paleobiology, memoir, history, science, and spiritual archaeology to lead readers back into the lost mysteries of the dark. Not since The Teachings of Don Juan or Ishmael has a book diagnosed with such urgency and cultural coherence the problems at the heart of modern life. In Waking Up to the Dark, Clark Strand offers penetrating insight into the spiritual NOW IS THE HOUR OF HER RETURN Poems in Praise of the Divine Mother Kali by Clark Strand
$23.95, paper. Monkfish. 83 pages, b/w drawings
Here are Clark Strand’s mystical poems to Ma Kali, the Dark Goddess of India, as occasioned by his encounters with the material dealt in depth in both Waking Up to the Dark and The Way of the Rose. In the early hours of June 16, 2011, Clark Strand witnessed a startling apparition of the Divine Feminine in the form of a young woman with an X of black electrical tape over Her mouth. Strand removed the tape, and She began to speak of a coming age of chaos and collapse in which the world of humankind would be severely chastened so that Her world—the world of Nature— could be renewed. Overwhelmed by the presence of One so fully Other, Strand found that love was the only language that would suffice. Drawing inspiration from Song of Songs and the Bengali mystics Ramprasad and Sri Ramakrishna, he began a series of poems to Ma Kali, the Dark Goddess of India, the words to which often came from the Great Mother Herself. With great illustrations by Will Lytle. The night is for listening,
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1. Our awakening through embodiment and earth connection… 2. The restoration of our ability to see clearly with the heart by surrendering to receptivity and by taking responsibility for the lens through which we are perceiving… 3. The reclamation of our true nature or original consciousness by releasing hierarchical perception… 4. The deepening of our relationship with ourselves and others and our intercommunicative relationship with nature, the visible and invisible matrix of life… 5. The willingness to meet all life—including shadows—with fierce compassion. Embodied meditation embraces all aspects of our humanity, rather than trying to transcend dark to get to the light. Tull shows us how the labeling of darkness as negative becomes a collective excuse to justify avoiding everything that makes us uncomfortable: racism, spiritual bypass, environmental destruction. We can only find the radical path to wholeness by learning to embrace the interplay of both darkness and light. “Luminous Darkness is a wise, beautiful, important book. Through personal story, deep dharma teachings and social commentary, Deborah Eden Tull reclaims the power of darkness and the divine feminine and reweaves the often-overlooked threads— of potent mystery, fierce compassion, receptivity and relationship, imagination, and emergence—into the cloth of spiritual life. This is essential reading for anyone seeking to heal the wounds of inner and outer divisiveness, and engage our wide, aching world with a radiant, tender heart.” —Pamela Weiss, author of A Bigger Sky enrichment that can be found when we pull the plug on our billion-watt culture. He argues that the insomnia so many of us experience as the Hour of the Wolf is really the Hour of God—a wellspring of rest and renewal, and an ancient reservoir of ancestral wisdom and inspiration. And in a powerful yet surprising turn, he shares with us an urgent message for the world, received through a mysterious young woman he calls Our Lady of Climate Change (aka The Virgin Mary), about the challenges we all know are coming. “In a modern world flooded with artificial light, Clark Strand reminds us what we have left behind in the dark. This beautiful, haunting meditation is filled with surprises and lost knowledge. Read it by candlelight—you will never forget it.” —Mitch Horowitz, author of One Simple Idea “In this exhilaratingly original work, Clark Strand shows us that the key to enlightenment lies where we don’t want to look. It is hidden in plain sight, but we have to turn the lights off to find it.” —Mark Epstein, author of The Zen of Therapy With his wife Perdita Finn, Clark Strand co-authored The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary. He is also editor of the Haiku Challenge, a monthly haiku contest sponsored by Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. She whispered once, and For other acts that don’t Belong to daylight, like Love And Revelation. But meditation... That can be done in the sun, where no one expects to be spoken to By God or a beloved Or touched in naked Places like the Soul. Haven’t you ever noticed Daylight makes Me clothed? “Clark Strand’s revelatory poems peer into the divide between order and disorder, separation and union, life and death. Not a word is wasted. In these pages we are pulled into relationship with a sensuous, even bemused Kali whose ‘children fly apart’ at the sight of her; a powerful Kali who lures and leads. Truths loom large here. Fling open Now is the Hour of Her Return and let yourself be consumed.” —Laura Grace Weldon, poet
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dimension” of Being ♦ Affirmations, vision boards, and other tools of manifestation Session 2 ♦ The relationship between challenges and awakening ♦ Moving from a sense of lack to satisfaction and fulfillment ♦ Why “the point of power” is always in the present moment ♦ Expanding your sense of self beyond your knowledge or accomplishments Session 3 ♦ How spiritual practice is meant to take you beyond spiritual practice ♦ Taking responsibility for your life in the here and now ♦ Practicing inner-body awareness to avoid getting swept up in opinions and “othering” ♦ Our mission: awakening to who we are beyond the egoic self Session 4 ♦ Trauma on the personal and collective levels ♦ Transmuting anger and resentment ♦ The ego’s need for enemies ♦ Empathy and compassion
Universe Always Has a Plan. In All for Love, Matt helps us all awaken our inner healer, transform conflict, and embrace our ever-changing world with confidence and compassion. Love thy neighbor. Lovingkindness. The love of the universe. From traditional religions to new spirituality, love is the foundation on which all practice rests. We all embrace the idea of love and then we get on social media. Or read the news. Or visit family. Whether divided by race, gender, sexual orientation, identity preference, or opinion, the incredible moral and social chasms in our world have become a source of pain and confusion for so many people. We know that love and unity are beautiful ideals, but the question remains: How do we get there? In what may be his bravest book yet, Matt Kahn invites us to see our differences as golden opportunities to explore the depth of our interconnectedness. Offering insights and tangible tools, Matt teaches how to remain aligned with our highest truths and values while we hold space for the experiences of others.
The awareness that is arising now can lead to a very positive change when an increasing number of people transcend their suffering by discovering the power that lies within. This is the promise and possibility of the present age.
Because moments of interaction always serve the progress of our highest evolution, each encounter also provides countless opportunities to strengthen bonds of intimacy... The more we learn how to hold space for the transformation of growth expanding within ourselves, the easier it will be to face any difficulty, even when others react from their most insufferable judgments, pain, and fear... I detail ten principles to help you transform the difficulties of human interaction into a sacred space of intimate connection... in each chapter, I offer key supportive statements that will help you embody the sharing of each principle and contribute to the benefit of your evolution, those you love, and our ever-changing world... May the words in this book offer you everything you need to answer the timeless question; When life gets overwhelming, and I don’t know what to do, what do I say to myself and to those around me?... Thank you for exploring the transformative power of holding space at a critical moment when space is needed to be held for the exquisite unfoldment of our rebirthing humanity.
BEYOND THEOLOGY The Art of Godmanship by Alan Watts
$26.95, paper. New World Library. 256 pages
Today, Alan Watts is remembered mainly as an eloquent interpreter of Eastern philosophies such as Taoism and Zen Buddhism. Not everyone knows that Watts was also a formidable scholar of Christianity who worked as an Episcopal chaplain early in his career. He eventually left the church to forge his own spiritual path, but his time there fueled a burst of literary creativity that culminated in Beyond Theology, originally published in 1964 and now back in print. In this landmark work, Watts asks whether a “rigorous, imperious, and invincibly self-righteous” religion such as Christianity can stay relevant in our modern, multicultural world. To answer that question, he deconstructs Christianity by using concepts borrowed from psychology, linguistics, science, and Eastern philosophy. In the process, he solves difficult problems of theology, traces the impact of Christianity on Western culture, and points the way to a new form of nondualistic spirituality. Playing the role of a philosophical jester, Watts artfully deploys paradoxes, riddles, and gently subversive humor to overturn conventional wisdom. His intention is not to hold sacred things up to ridicule but rather to expand our definition of the sacred. The ultimate aim is to help us see beyond the external trappings of religion—beyond ritual, myth, doctrine, and theology itself—to experience the divine within ourselves. “This witty little book is a large theological event.” —Joseph Campbell ALL FOR LOVE The Transformative Power of Holding Space by Matt Kahn
$30.99, cloth. Sounds True. 160 pages
Matt Kahn, a spiritual teacher and empathic healer, is a Youtube star with many millions of viewers of his intuitive updates and helpful, uplifting, heart-centered messages. He is also author of Whatever Arises, Love That and The
Each chapter contains personal stories and real-world applications, guiding us to reach into our own hearts and give one another respect, validation, and encouragement. RECKONING
by Stephen Jenkinson & Kimberly Ann Johnson $28.00, paper. Orphan Wisdom. 280 pages, flaps
Reckoning came on: A younger woman no longer young, author and teacher in her own right, sends a note in late fall, 2021, to someone she doesn’t know, an older man not yet old, author too and activist of some kind. She proposes a talk she’ll promote. Her purpose: to wonder about what is happening to the moorings of her generation. Whole-person heartbreak ensues, prompting another session, the next evening. As winter comes on, they do five more. By then, something is born of their wonder. They consider the transcripts, they write a letter to each other, blessings of a kind, bindings of a kind. Reckoning is what they call it. I was interested in how we got to a point with so little common ground, where a civil conversation was so difficult to have, even between people with whom I used to share so many common values. How did we get to a place that feels so surreal? You can appear to be inhabiting a shared reality with someone else, but then suddenly realize that that is a total illusion, that you’ve been papering over deep cracks, and
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actually you are each on your own island pulling up the gate against the barbarian, the other person... He [Jenkinson] was the first elder I’d encountered who offered no redemptive ending. Actually, he confirmed and elaborated on my fears and assessments, often deepening the severity of consequences that these continuous ruptures would have... The sobriety was unparalleled, and the refusal to sugar-coat felt like respect. I had encountered an entirely different kind of world and wisdom, a new vocabulary... Abut 200 people joined us for five Sundays in November and December of 2021, as another wave of the plague was rolling in. There is me. And there is Stephen Jenkinson, And then there is what happened between us. The manuscripts of those seven encounters, edited for clarity, are the body of this book. Then there is an exchange of letters that concludes things. —KAJ Reckoning is the cultural cyphering of Stephen Jenkinson and Kimberly Ann Johnson. It’s an unguarded, sober meeting with Spirit Work, Elderhood, Grief and Plague and Building Culture in a Me-First Era. To be tried at home. With Companions.
Dying, Near-Death & Grieving MAKING PEACE WITH DEATH AND DYING A Practical Guide to Liberating Ourselves from the Death Taboo
by Judith Johnson
$26.95, paper. Monkfish. 298 pages
Making Peace with Death and Dying dissolves death anxiety and equips readers to encounter death peacefully and well-prepared. Readers learn to: appreciate death as a natural part of life, be of greater service to the dying and grieving, live with greater purpose and passion, be more peaceful in the presence of death, and to approach death on one’s own terms with wisdom and competency. In the end it is love and our very breath which we hold most precious, and even those must be let go. It is death that makes life so very precious and profound. “Inspired by the death of her own mother, Judith Johnson reveals how the personal can touch the universal. With refreshing honesty, she exposes cultural taboos and helps us to examine limiting core beliefs and discover how to transform our relationship to death. Her book is at once practical, encouraging, and reassuring for those wishing to be a compassionate companion to people facing illness and death.” —Frank Ostaseski, author of The Five Invitations “As a guide to those seeking to consciously grow, serve, and thrive as elders, I find Making Peace with Death and Dying a comprehensive, powerful, and vitally important resource. Judith Johnson’s book is unique in its exploration of virtually every facet of death and dying in the contemporary world. It paints a vivid picture of how the strong cultural denial of dying and death disempowers and disables us from preparing in so many important ways for one of life’s most natural, and important, experiences. And it contrasts this with a rapidly emerging (yet grounded in many of the world’s spiritual traditions) understanding of how to meet death with compassion, acceptance, trust, and even curiosity. A significant section of this book is devoted to reflections, exercises, and poignant stories which help you explore your relationship to your mortality. These are in support of the book’s invitation to befriend life’s final passage and the smaller endings throughout life as opportunities for growth, compassion, and true embracing of each precious experience of transitory mortal life.” —Ron Pevny, director of the Center for Conscious Eldering and author of Conscious Living, Conscious Aging
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Grieving, Loss & Letting Go THE THRESHOLD BETWEEN LOSS AND REVELATION
by Rashani Rea & Francis Weller $49.50, paper. Sacred Spiral. 160 pages, 8x11, 108 colour plates
This is a book of aliveness and brilliance; a luminous synthesis of sacred, eloquent creativity; a unique collaboration between Rashani Réa and Francis Weller, two compassionate authorities known for their revolutionary work and healing presence. Rashani and Francis are skilled toolmakers who masterfully guide us through the raw vulnerability of grief to a place of reverence for the journey, offering a balm to the nomads of this harsh terrain. “The Threshold Between Loss and Revelation” infuses our lives with an immediate sense of perspective—deeper than, and beyond, conceptual understanding, inviting us to consider that suffering is an option, not an inevitable, ongoing condition! HOW TO LIVE WHEN A LOVED ONE DIES
Rashani Réa’s 108 stunning, full colour collages are accompanied by six chapters of exquisite, soulful writing by Francis Weller, author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow. Each collage contains inspired words from more than fifty women and men, whose insights invite us to glimpse That which is unbreakable and whole—That which has been colored by experience (and grief) yet not harmed or changed by any degree of pain or suffering. This book is a compass, a lamp, a valuable guide! It is a remarkable embodiment of the ancient Tibetan practice of Tonglen. Throughout these pages you will find a spaciousness for cultivating mercy and equanimity in the presence of grief and despair. Réa and Weller have breathed in personal and collective pain and are breathing out compassion, wisdom, wakefulness, and beauty. You can but hold this book and reach a peace you thought unattainable. But read it for perspective, and for the love of art and solace. clarity and compassion, Thich Nhat Hanh will guide you through the storm of emotions surrounding the death of a loved one.
by Thich Nhat Hanh
$17.50, paper. Parallax. 166 pages
In this comforting book that will offer relief to anyone moving through intense grief and loss, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh shares accessible, healing words of wisdom to transform our suffering.
The seed of suffering in you may be strong right now, but don’t wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy… The conditions for our happiness are already sufficient. We only need to allow ourselves to be fully alive in the present moment, and we will be able to touch them. Mindfulness is the lamp we light up that lets us recognize that we have many conditions for happiness even in the midst of suffering.
Wherever we are, we can practice conscious breathing, whether we’re sitting, walking, standing, or lying down. Just following your breathing can already bring a lot of peace and relief. Whenever we become overwhelmed with grief, despair, or sorrow, our breathing is the stable, solid ground that we can take refuge in. In the immediate aftermath of a loss, sometimes it is all we can do to keep breathing. With his signature TOUCHING TWO WORLDS a guide for finding hope in the landscape of loss by Sherry Walling
$23.99, paper. Sounds True. 270 pages
As a therapist, Sherry Walling knew all the “right” things to say to help people through grief. But when she lost her father to cancer and her brother to suicide within six months of each other, she had the unfortunate chance to encounter two types of mourning up close—the slowly unfolding terminal illness and the sudden and stigmatized death by suicide. She realized we’re getting grief all wrong. Touching Two Worlds dares to open the inner workings of her own grief—and in the process, provides an invaluable resource for those seeking hope in the aftermath of loss. Written with honesty, gentle humor, and deep understanding, this book was created to bring comfort to friends and family when there are few helpful words to say. Dr. Walling grieves as a sister, daughter, mother, and mental health expert. She shares moving personal stories while offering a broad range of healing strategies
How to Live When A Loved One Dies offers powerful practices such as mindful breathing that will help you reconcile with death and loss, feel connected to your loved one long after they have gone, and transform your grief into healing and joy. and exercises derived from neuroscience— like how to heal through movement, how to cry in public, how to talk to kids about death, and how to cope with survivor’s guilt. These are tips from someone who has been there, as well as approaches informed by professional expertise. I’ve been surprised at how much work grief is. Far more than simple sadness, grief is loud and forceful and dynamic. In this book, I share lots of ideas for things to write, think about, talk about, or do for yourself. Most chapters include a jounaling question, grief ritual, meditation, or other practice. My hope is that as you dive in, you’ll be accompanied by a few friends or family members who are available for thoughtful, openhearted conversation. Touching Two Worlds is a story of love, sadness, and renewal. Whether your loss is recent and sharp or old and familiar, Dr. Walling delivers wise and tender guidance to help you carry the weight of grief while finding your own path forward.
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THIS IS ASSISTED DYING A Doctor’s Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life
by Stefanie Green
$24.99, paper. Simon & Schuster. 294 pages
Here’s a transformative and compassionate memoir by a leading pioneer in medically assisted dying who began her career in the maternity ward and now helps patients who are suffering explore and then fulfill their end of life choices. Victoria, B.C.-based Dr. Stefanie Green has been forging new paths in the field of medical assistance in dying since 2016. In her landmark memoir, Dr. Green reveals the reasons a patient might seek an assisted death, how the process works, what the event itself can look like, the reactions of those involved, and what it feels like to oversee proceedings and administer medications that hasten death. She describes the extraordinary people she meets and the unusual circumstances she encounters as she navigates the intricacy, intensity, and utter humanity of these powerful interactions. Deeply authentic and powerfully emotional, This Is Assisted Dying contextualizes the myriad personal, professional, and practical issues surrounding assisted dying by bringing readers into the room with Dr. Green, sharing the voices of her patients, her colleagues, and her own narrative. As our population confronts issues of wellness, integrity, agency and community, and how to live a connected, meaningful life, this progressive and compassionate book by a physician at the forefront of medically assisted dying offers context, comfort and potential relief. My work in MAiD [medical assistance in dying] led me to ask some fundamental questions: Was I devoting the right amount of time and energy to the people who mattered most to me? Was I having the conversations I needed to have before it was too late? Most of the time I just hope I helped; sometimes I simply couldn’t. Much of my work has been to bear witness, often to scenes of breathtaking poignancy and sorrow. Although my job is to assist in death and dying, I believe that through this work, I have been privileged to see the best of life and living. This Is Assisted Dying will change the way people think about their choices at the end of life, and show that assisted dying is less about death than about how we wish to live.
Transpersonal Psychology BEING RAM DASS
by Ram Dass, with Rameshwar Das $30.99, paper. Sounds True. 520 pages, b/w & colour photos
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Set against a backdrop of nine decades of sweeping cultural change, Being Ram Dass shares his journey— from chubby Jewish rich kid to accomplished psychologist to renegade Harvard psychedelics researcher to beloved spiritual icon. It’s a rich read, with many vivid anecdotes. Perhaps no other teacher has sparked the fires of as many spiritual seekers in the West as Ram Dass. If you’ve ever embraced the phrase “be here now,” practiced meditation or yoga, tried psychedelics, or supported anyone in a hospice, prison, or homeless center—then the story of Ram Dass is also part of your story. From his birth in 1931 to his luminous later years, Ram Dass saw his life as just one incarnation of many. This memoir (written over the last decade of his life with the able heart-pen of Rameshwar Dass) puts us in the passenger seat with the one time Harvard psychologist and lifelong risk-taker Richard Alpert, who loved to take friends on wild rides on his Harley and test nearly every boundary—
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♦ inner or outer—that came his way. Here, Ram Dass shares his life’s odyssey in intimate detail: how he struggled with issues of self-identity and sexuality in his youth, pioneered psychedelic research, and opened the doorways to Eastern spiritual practices. In 1967 he trekked to India and met his guru, Neem Karoli Baba. He returned as a yogi and psychologist whose perspective changed millions. His iconic book, Be Here Now, has been a resonant touchstone and spiritual bestseller since 1971—and still reaches thousands of new readers every year! As a teacher, I always use my life experiences as a lesson plan—often as an example of what not to do... It’s important for me to share as truthfully as I can... I hope putting these experiences together in the context of this incarnation will be helpful to you, as it is to me. After all, we are fellow souls. We are on the same journey home to the heart. This is a story of awakening from feeling separate and alienated toward living in oneness and love. May this look back at my incarnation encourage you in yours. —Ram Dass, Maui, December 2019
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down to earth, so that it is “on earth as it is in heaven.” No comparable psychology of spirituality exists that draws from such a rich lifework of scholarship, experiment, and spiritual practice. Drawing from multiple disciplines and ranging across the world’s cultures, Dr. Metzner goes beyond his roots in transpersonal psychology to uncover universal structures of spiritual transformation. Readers who immerse themselves in these masterful descriptions can catalyze their own process of evolution. This kind of transition is characteristic of breakthrough experiences, where after a prolonged inner opposition of good and evil aspects of the psyche, there can occur a sudden opening to the light—a light that embraces both the polar opposites. This book is a completely revised, expanded, and illustrated version of what was originally published as Opening to Inner Light in 1986.. Ralph Metzner (1936-2019) was a recognized pioneer in psychological, philosophical, and cross-cultural studies of consciousness. He taught for 30 years at the California Institute of Integral Studies.
Populated by a cast of luminaries ranging from Timothy Leary to Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Allen Ginsberg to Sharon Salzberg, Aldous Huxley to Alan Watts—this intimate memoir chronicles Ram Dass’s experience of the cultural and spiritual transformations that resonate with us to this day, a journey from the mind to the heart, from the ego to the soul.
Psychedelic Science & Medicine
$21.95, paper. Greystone. 210 pages
$34.50, paper. Synergetic. 654 pages, 7x9
Before, after, and along these waypoints, readers will encounter many other adventures and revelations—each ringing with the potential to awaken the “loving awareness” that links this beloved teacher to all of us. The book includes some great photographs of his life journey, too. THE UNFOLDING SELF Varieties of Transformative Experience
by Ralph Metzner
$27.50, paper. Synergetic. 370 pages, b/w illus.
Transformational experiences are as unique as they are profound, yet each portrays universal truths of human nature. In The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience, Ralph Metzner unveils common dynamics and archetypes of the transformative experience, offering seekers and those in the throes of personal or societal transformation a reliable guide. Drawing from multiple disciplines ranging across the world’s cultures (beginning with his psychedelic collaborations with Dr. Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert at Harvard in the early 1960s), Dr. Metzner explores subtle concepts using a tapestry of myth, allegory, and historical context. The Unfolding Self can provide its reader with valuable tools to become “wise, impartial judges” in their process of transformation into becoming a more integrated and fulfilled person. If, as a result of unitive experiences and spiritual practices, a person no longer has the sense of separateness, even in ordinary, everyday consciousness, then the personality structure itself has been transformed… In the simplest terms, transcendence is ascending to heavenly realms, as in a mystical experience, whereas transformation is bringing heaven
Handwritten over four years from maximum-security federal prison cells, The Rose of Paracelsus: On Secrets and Sacraments, is a unique work of psychedelic literature that explores the potential of human cognition. This book follows the narrator, a Harvard graduate student and researcher, as he uncovers an intricate, global psychedelic network through encounters with “the Six,” clandestine LSD chemists who synthesize planetary-scale batches of the substance, traversing states of consciousness and advancing human evolution. From Cambridge to Moscow, Oxford to Zürich, Princeton to Mazar-i-Sharif and Bangkok, this book illuminates lifestyles within a rare and elusive organization, one that has evolved special gifts: advanced capacities of thought, memory and perception. The Rose is a psychedelic biography of its author, William Leonard Pickard, a former Harvard chemist who served 20 years in prison for conspiracy to manufacture and distribute LSD. One of the documentarians who made a podcast series dedicated to readings of The Rose said of the book, “Other than LSD, it’s quite possibly the most psychedelic thing you’ll ever find on paper.” HOW PSYCHEDELICS CAN HELP SAVE THE WORLD Visionary and Indigenous Voices Speak Out edited by Stephen Gray
$24.99, paper. Inner Traditions. 304 pages
Exploring the way forward for humanity in the face of our unprecedented crisis, more than 25 contributors show how the wisdom of indigenous peoples and the power of psychedelics can help us enact the radical shift in consciousness necessary to navigate the collapse of the old world order and the birth of a new consciousness centered on awakened-heart interconnectedness. We hear from psychedelic visionaries Christopher Bache, Zoe Helene, Wade Davis, Chris Kilham, Laurel Sugden, and many “experienced” others on the promise of psychedelic medicines for spiritual and
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PSYCHED Seven Cutting-Edge Psychedelics Changing the World by Amanda Siebert
THE ROSE OF PARACELSUS On Secrets and Sacraments by William Leonard Pickard
As I approach death, my perspective is shifting from my Richard Alpert or Ram Dass personality and the limited view of myself as a deteriorating body package. I go from my individual view to Maharaj-ji’s universal view, of life and death as a seamless whole in the vast ocean of love. As my mind dissolves increasingly into the heart, I go from thinking about love to being love.
healing work. We learn about indigenous stories to support our transformation from Native American leader Solana Booth, ancestral memory from Grandmother Maria Alice Campos Freire, cannabis’s role in world building from Minelli Eustàcio-Costa, the ritual roots of talking plants from Michael Stuart Ani, and alchemy across the arc of time from shaman Ya’Acov Darling Khan. We also hear from cannabis grower The Dank Duchess; Bruce Damer, a “mystic scientist” working on the question of life’s origins and its future in space; Tyson Yunkaporta, Australian Aboriginal artist and scholar; visionary artist Martina Hoffmann; professor of religious studies G. William Barnard; activist Duane Elgin; Kohenet Rachel Kann, ordained Jewish priestess and ceremonialist; and several other wise leaders for our time. Throughout these profound, inspiring, and ultimately hopeful essays we are reminded of the immense healing intelligence of nature and our plant allies, of the wisdom of ancient Indigenous prophecies and shamanic practices, of the importance of the Divine Feminine for environmental regeneration, and of the crucial role of psychedelic and entheogenic plants in initiating transformations of consciousness and healing our world’s collective disconnection from Spirit.
At once loved, feared and misunderstood, psychedelics have emerged as one of the most promising therapies of the 21st century. Through cutting-edge research, substances such as MDMA and LSD are being recognized as powerful keys to healing and human improvement, offering solutions for mental health issues including PTSD and depression. Similarly, plant medicines like ayahuasca, peyote, and iboga, used since time immemorial by Indigenous cultures for spiritual purposes, have been shown to promote feelings of empathy, connection, and love for the self, others, and the world around us. But how can everyday people benefit from psychedelics? And will they really transform healthcare as we know it? In Psyched, health journalist Amanda Siebert explores the history, culture, and potential of seven psychedelic substances. She interweaves real-life stories, clinical research, and interviews with the world’s leading psychedelics experts and cultural allies to offer a careful, definitive guide to these cutting-edge treatments. The book begins with an introduction, “How Our Attitude Toward Psychedelics Has Evolved.” Then there are sections on: ♦ The Classical Psychedelics (Psilocybin/Mushrooms, LSD, DMT/Ayahuasca and Mescaline and Sacred Cacti ♦ The Empathogen (MDMA) ♦ The Dissociatives (Iboga, Ketamine) ♦ And an afterword, “Moving Forward Mindfully.” As with any treatment, we (both clients and practitioners) have a responsibility to educate ourselves about the risks and the benefits of psychedelics. And that is why Siebert’s well-researched, measured explanation and advice in these pages are so important. Please don’t just read Psyched. Discuss it with the explorers in your life… Just as Siebert does, please emphasize harm reduction and consent and especially integration, because it’s what we do after the session that really matters. —Julie Holland MD, from the foreword “Fascinating and informative, with a colorful historical perspective, Psyched is an easily accessible source book heralding the mysterious new science that is helping to awaken extraordinary healing and creative powers within us.” —David Jay Brown, author of Dreaming Wide Awake
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Guidance for Guides THE MANUAL FOR PSYCHEDELIC GUIDES 2nd Edition by Mark Haden
$24.95, paper. Mark Haden. 130 pages, illus.
Manual for Psychedelic Guides describes in detail the process of supporting someone who is using a psychedelic for therapeutic or spiritual purposes. This manual is authored by Mark Haden (co-founder of MAPS Canada) with significant contributions from many others who are involved with this field, among them Dr. Birgitta Woods, Lidija Martinovic, Bradley Foster, and Dr. Devon Christie. This is a must read for anyone who would like to guide someone through a psychedelic experience. Psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists and shamans would all benefit from this important knowledge. Among the topics covered are: set and setting, ritualizing the process, role of the guide, core competencies of a guide, trauma resolution skills, consent, challenging situations, red flags/green flags, group experiences, dealing with specific behaviours, integration, accountability, how to offer incremental experiences, touch, soundproofing, code of ethics, “and many other new ideas.” The practice of working with psychedelics for THE SECRET CHIEF REVEALED Conversations with Leo Zeff, Pioneer in the Underground Psychedelic Therapy Movement by Myron Stolaroff
$18.50, paper. MAPS/Synergetic. 115 pp, photos
Leo Zeff (1912 - 1988) was a pioneering psychedelic therapist and researcher focused on LSD, MDMA and other psychoactive drugs. He conducted much of his work and practice underground after psychedelics were declared illegal in the 1960s. By the time he turned 70, Zeff was single-handedly responsible for the introduction of psychedelic compounds in use globally among nearly 4,000 individual therapists/ practitioners. The Secret Chief is a transcription of an interview conducted in the 1980s with Zeff about his research, studies and practice with psychedelic-assisted therapy. It includes thoughtful contributions on Zeff’s lifework/ research from other leaders in the psychedelic movement including Albert Hofmann, discoverer of LSD and Stanislav Grof, a founder of transpersonal psychology. Also included are sentimental, narrative-style tributes to Zeff, with notable words from Ann & Alexander (Sasha) Shulgin, renowned psychedelic researchers and authors. Other anecdotes come from Zeff’s children, apprentice therapists, and anonymous patients with whom Leo worked. These comments provide insights into how Zeff navigated in the underground psychedelic research space, his contributions to the field, and personal understandings of who he was as a man, father, friend, researcher, and healer.
THIS IS YOUR MIND ON PLANTS by Michael Pollan
$24.00, paper. Random House. 274 pages
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Of all the things humans rely on plants for—sustenance, beauty, fragrance, flavor, fiber—surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm, fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities of our mental experience. Take coffee and tea: people around the world rely on caffeine to sharpen their minds. We don’t usually think of caffeine as a drug, or our daily use as an addiction, because it is legal and socially acceptable. So, then, what exactly is a “drug?” And why, for example,
healing or spiritual purposes is not new. For centuries, many indigenous traditions have used “sacred medicines” in celebration of transitions (from puberty to seasonal changes), ceremonial healing and spiritual awakening. In the last few decades, guides within both research and underground communities have also been working with psychedelics in their healing practices… Having skills in the art of therapy can be helpful in navigating the complex terrain of projection, transference and countertransference, which are generally amplified by psychedelics. The development of the future profession of psychedelic psychotherapist/supervisor/guide will need a manual of best practices, to be used as a frame of reference and this book is offered as a first step in this direction. “Mark Haden provides a much-needed, comprehensive, cogent and detailed manual, aimed at those who would like to help guide safe and effective psychedelic experiences—a primer particularly for therapists and other professionals interested in such work.” —Gabor Maté, author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts One of the first things that they learn to do is to take complete responsibility for themselves and their lives. This is something that we all keep working on all the time. More and more and more. No more blaming. No more attributing the cause of anything out there to anybody else. That’s really the heart of the whole training that I’m involved in. These remarkable conversations convey much of both Leo’s character and style and of his unique and highly responsible therapeutic methods. There are chapters on the early beginnings of psychedelic work, selection and preparation, the individual trip, the group trip, materials and doses, and outcomes. Leo was a man who brought new life and opportunity to many hundreds of individuals, often in total life-transforming ways. He was dearly loved. This was not because of his elegant expression or professional training. It was because he was blessed with an abundance of heart, the most necessary prerequisite for someone accompanying others into the depths of their very souls… Nothing is more helpful than the presence of a kind, loving, understanding person thoroughly familiar with the dark regions of the mind—a companion who is confident of his ability to help one navigate and resolve those regions that have been an enormous burden in the past, a person who knows the wonder of being free. For further info visit: maps.org.
is making tea from the leaves of a tea plant acceptable, but making tea from a seed head of an opium poppy a crime? In This is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs—opium, caffeine, and mescaline—and throws the fundamental strangeness, and arbitrariness, of our thinking about them into sharp relief. Exploring and participating in the cultures that have grown up around these drugs, while consuming (or in the case of caffeine, trying
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not to consume) them, Pollan reckons with the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants. Why do we go to such great lengths to seek these shifts in consciousness, and then why do we fence that universal desire with laws and customs and such fraught feelings? With a unique blend of history, science, memoir, and participatory journalism, Pollan examines and experiences these plants from several very different angles and contexts. He “holds up a mirror to our deepest human needs and aspirations, the operations of our minds, and our entanglement with the natural world.” Not always, not even often, but every now and then, the encounter of a mind and a plant molecule changes things. If the human imagination has a natural history, as it must, can there be any doubt that plant chemistries have helped to inform it?... The spiritual or ceremonial use of plant drugs can also help knit people together, fostering a stronger sense of social connection accompanied by a diminished sense of self. We have only just begun to understand how the human involvement with psychoactive plants has shaped our history. Also by Michael Pollan is How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence. Also see Pollan’s excellent 4-part Netflix series, “How to Change Your Mind.”
Shamanism & Ritual RITUAL AS REMEDY Embodied Practices for Soul Care by Mara Branscombe
$23.99, paper. Inner Traditions. 286 pages, b/w illustrations
In this evocative and inspiring guide to ritual as healing balm for the psyche, Vancouver-based Mara Branscombe shares potent self-care and soul-care rituals that awaken freedom, joy, depth of spirit, and wild, untamed self-love. Harnessing the power of imagery and poetry, she shows how ritual can serve as a way to ground yourself, invite in the new, let go of what needs to be shed, and tap into your own inner powers. She explains how ritual invokes a unique magic that allows you to step outside of time and experience something beyond the mundane, connecting you to your inner mystic, the unseen realms, the sacred turning points in your life, and the truth of your soul’s calling. Mara offers rituals, ceremonies, and practices to connect with the pagan wheel of the year and the five elements, revealing how to harness the power of each element to invoke transformation. Branscombe explains how to attune to the moon’s rhythms and offers rituals for drawing energy from both full moon and new moon. She shares ancient and modern rituals and specific spiritual formulas to embody a loving existence, adapt to change, dance with your shadow self, work with grief, grow your intuition, dismantle limiting beliefs, heal toxic patterns, and connect with your body to find peace, inner strength and unconditional love. She offers detailed instructions for each ritual and ceremony as well as for the many transformative and healing practices in the book, such as guided meditations and visualizations, breathwork, altar creation, and discovery of your personal empowerment mantras. Live your life as a sacred ritual, share your gifts with your community, and integrate your soulful practices so that you may lead others in this meaningful way... May we speak with truth, listen with compassion, and train our eye to see the beauty in all things. May we remember that we are not alone and we are supported. May we give and receive equally and inspire others to live with an awakened awareness so that our actions, our voice, and our thoughts can and will
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make a difference in the world. “Ritual as Remedy emanates warmth and wisdom… The prose, invitations, and rituals overflow with a heartfelt authenticity that harmonizes the reader with his or her own soul, as if a tone is ringing through the words calling each heart to open, trust, and nurture the process of unfolding. This book is a wondrous journey.” —Elizabeth Meacham, author of Earth Spirit Dreaming THE AMAZONIAN ANGEL ORACLE Working with Angels, Devas, and Plant Spirits by Howard Charing
$37.50. Inner Traditions. 33 colour cards + 192-page book
Renowned shamanic artist Pablo Amaringo left behind countless unfinished drawings and paintings when he passed away in 2009--as well as hundreds of pages of writings on his knowledge of the mundo amazonica, the spiritual world of the Amazon. Working with these unfinished materials, Howard Charing, longtime friend and student of Amaringo, has created an oracle deck and guidebook inspired by Pablo Amaringo’s visionary art and spiritual wisdom. The deck includes 33 vivid full-color cards, each featuring an angel, deva, or nature spirit set against an intricate backdrop of Amazonian jungle plants and animals, celestial bodies, ancient temples, spiritual symbols, and ayahuasca visions. Many of these angels and devas have appeared in Amaringo’s paintings--part of the meaningful details that make his work unique and link it to the magic and mystery of the Amazon. The accompanying guidebook discusses the meanings of each card’s angel, deva, or plant spirit and provides card spreads based on traditional shamanic practices, such as the Mesa Norteña of northern Peru. The book also includes thoughts for reflection for each card to help you connect with the shamanic spirits and angelic beings of the Amazon as well as the visionary art of Pablo Amaringo. ALCHEMY ELEMENTALS A Tool for Planetary Healing by Shaman Durek
$52.99, cards. Picador. 88 colour cards + 136-page guidebook, boxed
Shaman Durek is a 6th generation shaman who has devoted his life to bringing a message of transformation and healing to the world. Following the success of his first book, Spirit Hacking, Shaman Durek has created a revolutionary new spiritual toolkit in this 88-card deck designed to up-level human performance. The visionary art of this deck can guide and tune your energetic system. Each card of the Alchemy Elementals Deck carries an energetic code, known as a spirit enhancer in shamanic tradition, designed to deepen your energetic wisdom and grow your spiritual power. These spirit enhancers will help you heighten your psychic and healing gifts and strengthen your spiritual journey. The cards correspond to the Celestial bodies—Moon, Sun, Star, and Earth—in combination with the Elemental powers—Storm, Rainbow, Wind, Snow, and Lightning—forging a connection between the natural world and your own inborn power. Beautifully designed by Jason McDonald, each card is not only a spiritual catalyst but also a work of art. You see, Alchemy Elementals aren’t just cards, they make up a shamanic tool kit, specifically intended to level-up your whole life. A lot of people think shamanism is about all this “out-there” spiritual stuff, when
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Shamans at Work THE WAY OF ABUNDANCE AND JOY The Shamanic Teachings of don Alberto Taxo by Shirley Blancke
$24.99, paper. Inner Traditions. 256 pages
Recognized as a master yachak, don Alberto Taxo is a celebrated spiritual elder, shaman, and healer of the pre-Inca Atik (Kichwa) people from the Andes Mountains of Ecuador. He has been sharing ancient Andean shamanic wisdom and practices in the United States for more than 20 years--his personal quest to fulfill the Andean prophecy that the Eagle and the Condor will fly together in the same sky in harmony. Written with don Alberto’s permission and as further fulfillment of the Eagle-Condor prophecy, this book shares don Alberto’s teachings and his simple approaches for building a reciprocal relationship with nature, centered on Sumak Kausay, the way of joy and abundance. As a yachak, a shaman of the elements, don Alberto shows how to relate to and receive help from nature. When we are connected with nature on an emotional and spiritual level it creates joy that is deeply healing and can be accessed during life’s difficulties. The book discusses traditional Ecuadorian shamanic beliefs and practices, including Andean Inca cosmology; how to connect with plants, animals, air, fire, and
water in sacred springs, the ocean, or your shower; and Inca concepts like Pacha, the space-time era in which we live that is now transitioning to a new one of connection and love after 500 years. The book explores don Alberto’s upbringing in a family of yachaks, his initiation, and his assumption of the role of shaman for his community. It also includes reflections and essays from don Alberto’s students and others who have worked with him, including shamanic teachers Itzhak Beery and John Perkins, showing how he influenced their lives and awakened them to the path of Sumak Kausay, Abundant Life. We discover that across time, through trial and error, the traditionals created families of techniques that could be called a technology of the sacred. In this technology are bright jewels of great interest to modern mystics and spiritual seekers alike—of many persuasions. These are spiritual methods, not organized religions, which we may practice with reverence and self-discipline to make contact with transpersonal forces that reside in the hidden world that we may explore with their assistance. —Hank Wesselman, from the foreword
JOURNEYING THROUGH THE INVISIBLE The Craft of Healing With, and Beyond, Sacred Plants, as Told by a Peruvian Medicine Man
detail what to expect—both physically and psychologically—while under the guidance of the sacred plants. Hachumak introduces his concepts of Soul Consciousness and Suffering Consciousness, which are central to his message and key to understanding the deep healing work that he performs while also provide new insights for personal self-reflection.
by Hachumak, with David Carroll
$34.99, cloth. HarperCollins. 370 pages
A traditional plant medicine with curative powers that is drunk as a tea during a sacred ceremony, Ayahuasca has been known to change people’s lives dramatically. But what was once a healing experience practiced only by Indigenous South Americans—and sought out by the adventurous few—has, in the past fifty years, become increasingly popular around the world. Hachumak, a Peruvian medicine man, has been practicing traditional healing arts in his country for more than twenty years. His unique approach is based on ritualistic simplicity and highlights the essence of the Art, which includes the borrowed forces from Nature. In this remarkable book, he shares his knowledge and experiences to broaden our understanding of this powerful medicine and protect it from misuse and exploitation. Whether you are among the uninitiated and curious, or a seasoned journeyer, you will gain a deeper understanding of what shamanism is and how and why it works, as well as its possibilities and limitations. Hachumak reveals his own path to becoming a shaman and explains how a well-crafted Ayahuasca ceremony unfolds when run by an experienced curandero. He describes in
the truth is that shamanism is about bringing the invisible world and the physical world together for tangible results that palpably improve people’s daily lives here on this plane of reality.
First Nations / Indigenous UNRECONCILED Family, Truth and Indigenous Resistance
by Jesse Wente
$19.95, paper. Penguin. 208 pages, b/w photos
Part memoir and part manifesto, Unreconciled is a stirring call to arms to put truth over the flawed concept of reconciliation, and to build a new, respectful relationship
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Intuition is the intelligence of the soul consciousness and binary logic is the intelligence of the suffering consciousness. Suffering Consciousness keeps us stuck in our negative ways, but when Soul Consciousness is awakened during a ceremony or spiritual moment, our entire being awakens, and we are shown the way to live according to the dictates of our conscience and the teachings of the spirits. With Hachumak as our experienced and trusted guide, Journeying Through the Invisible offers a new and healing way of seeing ourselves and the world around us. I want to offer a larger picture of the Medicine Craft and to create appreciation for other important aspects that are endangered or still not well-known. This larger picture includes influences from science, history, religion and the natural environment.
between the nation of Canada and Indigenous peoples. Jesse Wente remembers the exact moment he realized that he was a certain kind of Indian--a stereotypical cartoon Indian. He was playing softball as a child when the opposing team began to war-whoop when he was at bat. It was just one of many incidents that formed Wente’s understanding of what it means to be a modern Indigenous person in a society still overwhelmingly colonial in its attitudes and institutions. As the child of an American father and an Anishinaabe mother, Wente grew up in Toronto with frequent visits to
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the reserve where his maternal relations lived. By exploring his family’s history, including his grandmother’s experience in residential school, and citing his own frequent incidents of racial profiling by police who’d stop him on the streets, Wente unpacks the discrepancies between his personal identity and how non-Indigenous people view him. Wente analyzes and gives voice to the differences between Hollywood portrayals of Indigenous peoples and lived culture. Through the lens of art, pop culture, and personal stories, and with disarming humour, he links his love of baseball and movies to such issues as cultural appropriation, Indigenous representation and identity, and Indigenous narrative sovereignty. Indeed, he argues that storytelling in all its forms is one of Indigenous peoples’ best weapons in the fight to reclaim their rightful place. Wente explores and exposes the lies that Canada tells itself, unravels “the two founding nations” myth, and insists that the notion of “reconciliation” is not a realistic path forward. Peace between First Nations and the state of Canada can’t be recovered through reconciliation--because no such relationship ever existed. “Unreconciled is one hell of a good book. Jesse Wente’s narrative moves effortlessly from the personal to the historical to the contemporary. Very powerful, and a joy to read.” —Thomas King, author of The Inconvenient Indian A DRUM IN ONE HAND, A SOCKEYE IN THE OTHER Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast
by Charlotte Cote
$44.90, pb. U. of Washington. 184 pp, b/w illus.
In the dense rainforest of the west coast of Vancouver Island, the Somass River (c̓uumaʕas) brings sockeye salmon (miʕaat) into the Nuu-chah-nulth community of Tseshaht. C̓uumaʕas and miʕaat are central to the sacred food practices that have been a crucial part of the Indigenous community’s efforts to enact food sovereignty, decolonize their diet, and preserve their ancestral knowledge. In A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other, Charlotte Coté shares contemporary Nuu-chah-nulth practices of traditional food revitalization in the context of broader efforts to re-Indigenize contemporary diets on the Northwest Coast. Coté offers evocative stories of her Tseshaht community’s and her own work to revitalize relationships to haʔum (traditional food) as a way to nurture health and wellness. As Indigenous peoples continue to face food insecurity due to ongoing inequality, environmental degradation, and the Westernization of traditional diets, Coté foregrounds healing and cultural sustenance via everyday enactments of food sovereignty: berry picking, salmon fishing, and building a community garden on reclaimed residential school grounds. This book is for everyone concerned about the major role food plays in physical, emotional, and spiritual wellness. “I am so grateful for Charlotte Cote’s A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other, which creates a path into the living foodways and thoughtways of her people. Her warm, storytelling voice and sharing of collective knowledge embody the generous spirit of a feast, and this book itself, is a feast.” —Robin Wall Kimmerer (Potawatomi), author of Braiding Sweetgrass DI-BAYN-DI-ZI-WIN (TO OWN OURSELVES) Embodying Ojibway-Anishinabe Ways
by Jerry Fontaine & Don McCaskill $24.99, paper. Dundurn. 328 pages.
This book explores the importance of the Ojibway-Anishinabe worldview, use of ceremony, and language in living a good life, attaining true reconciliation, and resisting the notions of indigenization and colonialization inherent in Western institutions.
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Tomson Highway LAUGHING WITH THE TRICKSTER On Sex, Death and Accordions
by Tomson Highway
$22.99, paper. Anansi. 224 pages
Brilliant, jubilant insights into the glory and anguish of life from one of the world’s most treasured Indigenous creators. Trickster is zany, ridiculous. The ultimate, over-the-top, madcap fool. Here to remind us that the reason for existence is to have a blast and to laugh ourselves silly. Celebrated author and playwright Tomson Highway brings his signature irreverence to an exploration of five themes central to the human condition: language, creation, sex and gender, humour, and death. A comparative analysis of Christian, classical, and Cree PERMANENT ASTONISHMENT A Memoir by Tomson Highway
$21.00, paper. Doubleday. 364 pages
Capricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canada’s most acclaimed Indigenous writers and performers Tomson Highway was born in a snowbank on an island in the sub-Arctic, the eleventh of twelve children in a nomadic, caribou-hunting Cree family. Growing up in a land of ten thousand lakes and islands, Tomson relished being pulled by dogsled beneath a night sky alive with stars, sucking the juices from roasted muskrat tails, and singing country music songs with his impossibly beautiful older sister and her teenaged friends. Surrounded by the love of his family and the vast, mesmerizing landscape they called home, his was in many ways an idyllic far-north childhood. But five of Tomson’s siblings died in childhood, and Balazee and Joe Highway, who loved their surviving children profoundly, wanted their two youngest sons, Tomson and Rene, to enjoy opportunities as big as the world.
Indigenization within the academy and the idea of truth and reconciliation within Canada have been seen as the remedy to correct the relationship between Indigenous Peoples and Canadian society. While honourable, these actions are difficult to achieve given the Western nature of institutions in Canada and the collective memory of its citizens, and the burden of proof has always been the responsibility of Anishinabeg. Authors Makwa Ogimaa (Jerry Fontaine) and Ka-pi-taaht (Don McCaskill) tell their di-bah-ji-mo-wi-nan (Stories of personal experience) to provide insight into the cultural, political, social, and academic events of the past fifty years of Ojibway-Anishinabe resistance in Canada. They suggest that Ojibway-Anishinabe i-zhi-chi-gay-win zhigo kayn-dah-so-win (Ways of doing and knowing) can provide an alternative way of living and thriving in the world. This distinctive worldview — as well as Ojibway-Anishinabe values, language, and ceremonial practices — can provide an alternative to Western political and academic institutions and peel away the layers of colonialism, violence, and injustice, speaking truth and leading to true reconciliation. “There are many ways to honor land and our elders by embodying the teachings of both. Here is life found in kindness, loving, and truth. How do we access healing and how do we share this healing with others? Reading this book is one way. Tears of gratitude are for you both, Jerry Fontaine and Don McCaskill. Mahalo nui no ko ?ike nahenahe. Thank you for this mutual emergence shaped as much by friendship as it is by elder knowledge. What is
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mythologies reveals their contributions to Western thought, life, and culture—and how North American Indigenous mythologies provide unique, timeless solutions to our modern problems. Highway also offers generous personal anecdotes, including accounts of his beloved accordion-playing, caribou-hunting father, and plentiful Trickster stories as curatives for the all-out unhappiness caused by today’s patriarchal, colonial systems. Laugh with the legendary Tomson Highway as he illuminates a healing, hilarious way forward in these CBC Massey Lectures. Tomson is a member of the Barren Lands First Nation and lives in Gatineau, Quebec.
And so when Tomson was six, he was flown south by float plane to attend a residential school. A year later Rene joined him to begin the rest of their education. In 1990 Rene Highway, a world-renowned dancer, died of an AIDS-related illness. Permanent Astonishment is Tomson’s extravagant embrace of his younger brother’s final words: “Don’t mourn me, be joyful.” His memoir offers insights, both hilarious and profound, into the Cree experience of culture, conquest, and survival. “Tomson Highway is one of Canada’s most masterful magicians when it comes to literary prose… The Cree writer and playwright from Brochet, Manitoba, conjures and evokes emotions like no other… The land, language and culture weave throughout his storytelling of his formative years… Permanent Astonishment is many things, as much of Highway’s writing tends to be. But the most impactful is that it is a road map to what matters—a moment of pause for any of us who languish in existential angst.” —Winnipeg Free Press
within these pages are ceremonial gifts offered to all who will take the time to connect with what is inevitable about our collective evolution.” —Manulani Aluli Meyer, University of Hawaii
Wicca & Magick SPIRIT MARRIAGE Intimate Relationships with Otherworldly Beings by Megan Rose
$31.50, paper. Bear & Company. 424 pages
Exploring the phenomenon of the spirit spouse or spirit lover--an entity to which a human is psychically bonded--Megan Rose examines the practice and purpose of spirit marriage around the world, presenting transcultural evidence of this form of sacred union in anthropological research, religious literature, mythology, folklore, and the oral tradition. She shares her in-depth interviews with ten contemporary practitioners of spirit marriage, including a Faery Seer, a Shakta Tantric, a West African Shrine Keeper, a New Orleans Voodoo Mambo, Haitian Vodou practitioners, and a ceremonial magician. Through these respectful interviews, the spirit-marriage practitioners tell their stories of initiation and of having a spouse who is both otherworldly and able to assist in waking-world activities. They offer intimate insight into this growing global practice and its larger evolutionary purpose. We learn about their experiences of first contact, the decision to marry, how the relationship is
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♦ upheld by their community, and the impact on their other relationships. We also learn about the risks and challenges as well as one example of divorcing a spirit. Sharing her personal experience, the author discusses in detail her own spirit marriage, including the erotic nature of being spirit filled and her encounters with her Faery beloved. She explains how to cultivate a spirit marriage, sharing precautions and practices to spiritually prepare yourself, interpret your paranormal encounters, and navigate the potential challenges of spirit marriage. Presenting the first study of the transcultural, shamanistic practice of spirit marriage, this book shows how bonded relationships with spirits are needed now more than ever to assist with spiritual evolution. “Megan Rose’s exploration of this widely practiced but little-known phenomenon is illuminated with impeccable scholarship and a deep intuition born of her own experiences in this area. I know of no finer book on this important topic. It belongs in the library of anyone seeking to understand the emerging possibilities of connection and collaboration with allies in the realms of Spirit.” —David Spangler, spiritual director of the Lorian Association and author of Apprenticed to Spirit HIGH MAGICK A Guide to the Spiritual Practices that Saved My Life on Death Row
by Damien Echols
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$24.99, paper. Sounds True. 188 pages, b/w 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 stepby-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.
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$26.50, paper. New World Library. 190 pages, b/w illustrations
Simply put, a grimoire is a book of magick, a compilation of spells, ceremonies, and incantations used for casting, conjuring, and summoning the unseen forces. In this book, long-time witch Danielle Dulsky brings ancient, earth-centered spirituality into the modern age with a grimoire full of rituals, practices, and journaling prompts. The Holy Wild Grimoire is meant to empower readers to more deeply integrate the ideas from her previous book The Holy Wild: A Heathen Bible for the Untamed Woman into their lived experience. In this handbook are verses, prompts, stories, and spells for deepening your encounter with the Holy Wild, with your own fundamental essence as it has been formed and re-formed through your unique story and shaped by this transformational moment in the world story. The time to radically revision our place in the world is now. This is the moment in the human tale when hope meets sorrow, when innocence meets wisdom, a climactic union of polarities that is birthing—and will continue to birth—a new, more heathen reality. “Our heathen stories are the truest tales we know.” These are the stories of life, death, and resurrection THE PATH OF ELEMENTAL WITCHCRAFT A Wyrd Woman’s Book of Shadows
by Salicrow
$31.50, paper. Inner Traditions. 562 pages
A Book of Shadows is a Witch’s sacred journal, filled with personal experiences and the intimate working of spells. In this practical guide to elemental witchcraft, Salicrow invites you into her personal Book of Shadows, detailing hands-on techniques, spells, and rituals to work with the magic of the four elements--Water, Earth, Air, and Fire. She presents teachings on each element through the lens of different schools of magic, such as divination, healing, protection, manifestation, and enchantment. Within each of these elemental teachings are a series of progressive lessons, each paired with a personal story from the author’s lifetime of magical practice and followed by a technique for you to explore. Salicrow incorporates folk-magic teachings passed down through her family, traditional witchcraft methods, and advanced techniques of magic to help you at-
FALLING THROUGH THE TREE OF LIFE Embodied Kabbalah
by Jane Meredith
$44.99, paper. Llewellyn. 454 pages, 7x9
This dynamic, radical departure from traditional Kabbalah books takes you into the Tree of Life not as an observer but as an active participant who engages with every part of the Tree. Presenting dozens of rituals, meditations, memoirs, and hands-on activities, Falling Through the Tree of Life immerses you in living, breathing magic, transforming Kabbalah from a complex topic into an embodied dance of love and learning. No matter your experience level, Jane Meredith helps you explore each sephira in depth and use its real-world
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that persist no matter the news of the day, the devastation of the planet, the personal or collective challenges. And it is in these ageold tales and practices that real healing and change are possible. The sixty-five invitations Dulsky offers show readers how to: ♦ call upon the five elements of the earth and the five age-old archetypes ♦ transmute old wounds ♦ heal and liberate their own best selves and those of the ailing world ♦ make powerful use of the wisdom inherent in their bodies, minds, and spirits. Each of the five elements—earth, water, fire, air, and ether—has its own “book” within The Holy Wild Grimoire. These five sections begin with a “word-spell,” a “story lantern,” and an “artful invocation” that readers can use to feel into that element’s energy. Specific spells and stories that are born of each element’s medicine are also included, along with 13 journaling experiences per element that are drawn from verses in The Holy Wild. Hold yourself tenderly now. You were born for these times. You are here because these patterns are yours to break. The poisons are yours to remedy. The new language is yours to speak, and the story is yours to tell... May we stitch a new flag from our tattered histories and wild aches, stand on the bridge between what was and what will be, raise our arms, and sing. Also by Danielle Dulsky are The Sacred Hags Oracle and Seasons of Moon and Flame. tune with the energies of the elements for magical purposes. For the Water Witch, she explores scrying, engaging with undines, weather protection, fairy glamour, and healing with kitchen spells. For the Earth Witch, she describes reading the bones, animal messengers, listening to plants, crystal grids, and shadow work. For the Air Witch, she looks at communicating with sylphs and crows, divination through clouds and wind, sonic magic and healing, spell accelerants, and smudging. For the Fire Witch, she examines the Djinn, the magical hearth, fire divination, candle work, and sex magic. For all the elements, she explores how to build elemental altars and customize the ceremonies and rituals. Sharing intimate examples and practices to help you progressively develop the skills of witchcraft, Salicrow invites you to create your own personal Book of Shadows as you forge a magical relationship with the natural world.
lessons to grow your practice. You’ll begin like a butterfly falling through the Tree, unaware of its full power. But the farther you go, the more you’ll fall in love with each sephira, from the beauty of Tiferet to the scholarship of Hod. This masterwork shows you how to enjoy the journey—full of heart, spirit, and magic. Alive, we fall in love—with ideas, with other humans, with land, with magic, and, if we are lucky, with life itself. Falling is surrendering, letting gravity take us, toppling from the divine to the human… It’s all about falling… I fell in love. In love with the breath of the Tree and each breath of mine shared with/from/through the Tree. The tree wrote me, the tree sees me, breathes me, holds me, forms and unforms me. My body, the tiny scraps of breaking wings, will nourish the earth-
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drenched roots, but in the moment I fly, flutter through the spaces cut out in space by this tree, and celebrate, dance, glory in what I am reflecting and born from and born for: this moment of Treeness called butterfly. “In this daring, poetic, and committed book, Jane Meredith gives us a Tree of Life that is truly alive; not a diagram or a set of doctrines, but a vibrant and ever-growing Tree based in nature as well as ancient wisdom. This is a Tree that we experience by both surrendering to it and working
ANAM CARA A Book of Celtic Wisdom by John O’Donohue
$22.00, paper. HarperCollins. 288 pages
A 25th anniversary edition of the classic work of Celtic spirituality and mysticism, updated with new material, including an Introduction, Afterword and P.S. section. When St. Patrick landed on Irish soil in the 5th century, he encountered the Celts—a unique race of people with their own flourishing spiritual tradition, already thousands of years old. Where Christians worshipped one God, the Celtic people had many—and in fact found divinity all around them: in the rivers and hills, the sea and sky, in home and village, in every kind of animal, and within their own souls. The Celtic reverence for the spirit in all things and its celebration of the continuous mysteries of everyday existence survive to this day—a vibrant spiritual legacy unique in the Western world. In Anam Cara, Irish poet, priest, and scholar John O’Donohue guides us through Ireland’s remarkable spiritual landscape, yielding a treasure trove of insights, stories, and teachings. Presented originally in the oral tradition so beloved of the Celts (and later in the form of his first book as well), Anam Cara covers authentic Irish prayers and blessings; how to awaken the senses THE DRUIDRY HANDBOOK Spiritual Practice Rooted in the Living Earth by John Michael Greer
$27.95, paper. Weiser. 268 pages
This classic guide to living a spiritual life rooted in Celtic antiquity and revived to meet the challenges of contemporary life has forewords by eminent elders Philip Carr-Gomm and Dana O’Driscoll, Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America: Through meditation, ritual, history, and lore, these practices help facilitate the connections between one’s head, heart, hands, and spirit, and, in a Jungian sense, between one’s conscious and subconscious reality… Tools for developing and maintaining an inner life are critical for all of us to navigate these challenging times in a balanced way… These profound practices reshape and deepen our relationship to the natural world… John Michael Greer continues to bring inspiration and practices rooted in the Druid Revival at a time when they are needed most. Druidry offers people a path of harmony through reconnection with the green Earth. The Druidry Handbook
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Celtic Spirit as “thresholds of the spirit”; the “secret divinity” in our relationships; how the Irish “hospitality” toward death can help you become more compassionate, generous, and fearless; attuning yourself to sacred silence; the Celtic understanding of the afterlife; why God’s “wild, passionate” side should be acknowledged; and more. Tracing the cycles of life and nature, O’Donohue draws from the sacred waters of Ireland’s spiritual heritage—from the Celts and their Druid shamans; the charming imbas (inspiring sagas) of the wandering bards; and the holy fountainhead of Ireland’s Christian monasteries. According to Celtic spiritual tradition, the soul shines all around the body like a luminous cloud. When you are very open—appreciative and trusting—with another person, your two souls flow together. This deeply felt bond with another person means you have found an anam cara, or “soul friend…” When you are blessed with an anam cara, the Irish believe, you have arrived at that most sacred place: home. Also by John O’Donohue: Eternal Echoes and To Bless the Space Between Us. connection with the green Earth. The Druidry Handbook is the first hands-on manual of traditional British druid practice that explores the Sun Path of seasonal celebration, the Moon Path of meditation, and the Earth Path of living in harmony with nature as tools for crafting an Earth-honoring life here and now. From ritual and meditation to nature awareness and ecological action, John Michael Greer opens the door to a spirituality rooted in the living Earth. Featuring a mix of philosophy, rituals, spiritual practice, and lifestyle issues, The Druidry Handbook is an essential guide for those seriously interested in practicing a traditional form of druidry. It offers equal value to eclectics and solitary practitioners eager to incorporate more Earth-based spirituality into their own belief system. “In this book, Greer performs alchemy… He succeeds with consummate skill in offering a perspective that redeems Druidry’s core, revealing it to be a heritage around which we can grow and build a vital and dynamic practice rooted in the living earth.” Philip CarrGomm, author of The Druidcraft Tarot and The Druid Plant Oracle
Christian & Jewish Spirit THE WHOLE LANGUAGE The Power of Extravagant Language by Gregory Boyle
$24.99, paper. Simon & Schuster. 256 pages
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sands of lives through his work as the founder of Homeboy Industries, the largest and most successful gang-intervention program in the world. Boyle’s new book, The Whole Language, follows his earlier Tattoos on the Heart and Barking to the Choir, books that show what faith actually looks like—in action, in the real world. We see God’s light in everything and thereby choose mysticism over morality. We choose connection, not perfection. We explore the things that help us feel beloved rather than on probation... I travel here through essays and prolonged homilies on our notion of God, the immeasurable goodness present in every human being, and the need to re-sacralize things. I look at death; the church; the methodology of Homeboy’s therapeutic mysticism; tenderness; and a sangha of beloved belonging, among other themes. In a community struggling to overcome systemic poverty and violence, The Whole Language shows how those at Homeboy Industries fight despair and remain generous, hopeful, and tender. When Saul was thirteen years old, he killed his abusive stepfather in self-defense; after spending twenty-three years in juvenile and adult jail, he enters the Homeboy Industries training and healing programs and embraces their mission. Declaring, “I’ve decided to grow up to be somebody I always needed as a child.” Saul shows tenderness toward the young men in his former shoes, treating them all like his sons and helping them to find their way. Before coming to Homeboy Industries, a young man named Abel was shot thirty-three times, landing him in a coma for six months followed by a year and a half recuperating in the hospital. He now travels on speaking tours with Boyle and gives guided tours around the Homeboy offices. One day a new trainee joins Abel as a shadow, and Abel recognizes him as the young man who had put him in a coma. “You give good tours,” the trainee tells Abel. They both have embarked on a path to wholeness. Boyle’s moving stories challenge our ideas about God and about people, providing a window into a world filled with fellowship, compassion, and fewer barriers. Bursting with encouragement, humor, and hope, The Whole Language invites us to treat others—and ourselves—with acceptance and tenderness. THE MONASTIC HEART 50 Simple Practices for a Contemplative and Fulfilling Life by Joan Chittister
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$24.00, paper. Random House. 288 pages
The activist, nun, and esteemed spiritual voice who has twice appeared on OprahWinfrey’s Super Soul Sunday sounds the call to create a monastery within ourselves—to cultivate wisdom and resilience so that we may join God in the work of renewal, restoration, and justice… right where we are. In every beating heart is a silent undercurrent that calls each of us… to a place unknown, to the vision of a wiser life… to become what I feel I must be—but cannot name. So begins Sister Joan Chittister’s words on monasticism, offering a way of living and seeing life that brings deep human satisfaction. Amid the astounding disruptions of normalcy that have unfolded in our world, Sister Joan calls all of us to cultivate the spiritual seeker within, however that may look across our diverse journeys: We can depend only on the depth of the spiritual well in us. The well is the only thing that can save us from the fear of our own frailty.
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♦ This book carries the wisdom of the monastic spiritual tradition into the 21st century. Sister Joan leans into Saint Benedict, who, as a young man in the sixth century, sought moral integrity in the face of an empire not by conquering or overpowering the empire but by simply living an ordinary life extraordinarily well. This same monastic mindset can help us grow in wisdom, equanimity, and strength of soul as we seek restoration and renewal both at home and in the world. At a time when people around the world are bearing witness to human frailty—and, simultaneously, the endurance of the human spirit—The Monastic Heart invites readers of all walks to welcome this end of certainty and embrace a new beginning of our faith. Without setting foot in a monastery, we can become, like those before us, a deeper, freer self, a richer soul—and, as a result, a true monastic, so that in all things God may be glorified. “Essential reading for anyone wishing to find the compass of their heart and the wellspring from which to live fully.” —Gregory Boyle, founder of Homeboy Industries and author of Tattoos on the Heart THE KABBALAH OF LIGHT Ancient Practices to Ignite the Imagination and Illuminate the Soul by Catherine Shainberg
$24.99, paper. Inner Traditions. 332 pages
In this step-by-step guide to kabbalistic practices to connect with your natural inner genius and liberate the light within you, Catherine Shainberg reveals how to tap instantly into the subconscious and receive answers. This method, called the Kabbalah of Light, originated with Rabbi Isaac the Blind of Posquieres (1160-1235) and has been passed down by an ancient kabbalistic family, the Sheshet of Gerona, in an unbroken transmission spanning more than 800 years. The modern lineage holder of the Kabbalah of Light, Shainberg shares 159 short experiential exercises and practices to help you begin dialoguing with your subconscious through images. The images that pop up during these practices are unexpected and revelatory, and she discusses how to open them to greater understanding. At first, they may show you aspects of yourself you don’t like. But seeing them serves as both a diagnosis and a direct path to transformation. Fast and simple, the practices can help you discover your areas of stuckness, release past traumas and ancestral patterns, free the imagination, and open the way to the bliss promised us in the Garden of Eden. All it takes is three exhalations to reach the depth of the subconscious. Most of the exercises are very short and give you thirty seconds to a minute or two to look through the metaphoric window into the subconscious created by the words of the induction. When you go fast you have no time to indulge in fantasy. Breathe out, look through the window, see what you see, and open your eyes. Beginning this fertile dialogue with your inner world leads you to uncover your soul’s purpose and manifest your dreams in this world. Once your inner dream world and outer reality have merged, you will be able to see your superconscious--your soul’s blueprint--and experience the ecstatic illumination of a heart-centered life. “The Kabbalah of Light is an audacious endeavor to present the esoteric wisdom of the Jewish mystical tradition as the science of letting the unconscious speak. The guidance in this book is to lead one to spiritual enlightenment and psychic well-being, the experience that Kabbalists call dveikut, cleaving to the divine, the highest rung on the ladder of dreams.” —Elliot Wolfson, Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies, University of California
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and author much concerned with the healing of trauma, both personal and collective, I was struck by how aptly Tirzah’s hard-earned lessons could be applied to people hurting within but also well beyond the Jewish community.”
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by Rabbi Tirzah Firestone
$23.95, paper. Monkfish. 256 pages
The painful histories of our ancestors and their rich cultural wisdom intertwine within us to create the patterns of our future. Even when past trauma remains unspoken or has long been forgotten, it becomes part of us and our children—a legacy of both strength and woundedness that shapes our lives. In this book, Tirzah Firestone brings to life the profound impact of protracted historical trauma through the compelling narratives of Israeli terror victims, Holocaust survivors, and those whose lives were marred by racial persecution and displacement. The tragic story of Firestone’s own family lays the groundwork for these revealing testimonies of recovery, forgiveness, and moral leadership. Throughout, Firestone interweaves their voices with neuroscientific and psychological findings, as well as relevant and inspiring Jewish teachings. Seven principles emerge from these wise narratives—powerful prescriptive tools that speak to anyone dealing with the effects of past injury. At the broadest level, these principles are directives for staying morally awake in a world rife with terror. Gabor Maté writes in his foreword, “As a physician ON REPENTANCE AND REPAIR Making Amends in an Unapologetic World
by Danya Ruttenberg
$34.95, cloth. Beacon. 256 pages
A crucial new lens on repentance, atonement, forgiveness, and repair from harm— from personal transgressions to our culture’s most painful and unresolved issues. American culture focuses on letting go of grudges and redemption narratives instead of the perpetrator’s obligations or recompense for harmed parties. As survivor communities have pointed out, these emphases have too often only caused more harm. But Danya Ruttenberg knew there was a better model, rooted in the work of the medieval philosopher Maimonides. For Maimonides, upon whose work Rabbi Ruttenberg elaborates, forgiveness is much less important than the repair work to which the person who caused harm is obligated. The word traditionally translated as repentance really means something more like “return,” and in this book, returning is a restoration, as much as is possible, to the victim, and, for the perpetrator of harm, a coming back, in humility and intentionality, to behaving as the person we might like to believe we are. Maimonides laid out five steps: naming and owning
Sufism, Islam & Rumi THE 99 BEAUTIFUL NAMES OF ALLAH ORACLE CARDS Physicians of the Heart Wazifa Card Set by Shabda Kahn
$26.99, cards. Mandala. 101 colour cards + 20-page booklet, in a box
Discover the infinite nature of Allah with 101 inspirational cards in The 99 Beautiful Names of Allah: Physicians of the Heart Wazifa Card Deck. This card deck explores the meanings of the 99 Beautiful Names of Allah, also known as the Sifat, or attributes of Allah. The words “Allah” and “God” refer to the ineffable
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I have learned that all trauma is intergenerational. And while our individual wounds are rooted in our people’s particular stories and flavors, we all have an opportunity now to make a quantum leap in awareness. Because much that has gone unhealed in the past is coming due in our day. And much of the accrued wisdom of history is available to us now. We are the ones to help heal the past because it lives in the present. It lives in us. A rabbi and psychotherapist for over 30 years, Tirzah Firestone brings to life these real people who have surmounted their tragedies. From them we learn the many ways that past trauma shapes the present and they demonstrate what Viktor Frankl called, “the uniquely human potential to transform personal tragedy into triumph.” This book also awakens us to the impact of collective trauma in the world today, as entire populations are being dislocated by war, poverty, and climatic changes. The book provides a template for people everywhere to emerge from the wreckage of their tragedies and reshape their destinies.
harm; starting to change/transformation; restitution and accepting consequences; apology; and making different choices. Applying this lens to both our personal relationships and some of the most significant and painful issues of our day, including systemic racism and the legacy of enslavement, sexual violence and harassment in the wake of #MeToo, and Native American land rights, On Repentance and Repair helps us envision a way forward. Rooted in traditional Jewish concepts while doggedly accessible and available to people from any, or no, religious background, On Repentance and Repair is a book for anyone who cares about creating a country and culture that is more whole than the one in which we live, and for anyone who has been hurt or who is struggling to take responsibility for their mistakes. “When you read Danya Ruttenberg’s brilliant book, you see with fresh eyes that there is a huge omission in contemporary culture: we don’t have a road map for how someone who’s done harm can change and make amends to others, nor do we discuss why this is necessary for both individual recovery and societal well-being.” —Rebecca Solnit
Reality, the Essence of all things. The Sifat is differentiated aspects of Allah. The 99 Names have historically been invoked to awaken the consciousness of the Divine. Exploring the Sifat through the beautiful and sturdy card deck helps spiritual seekers learn and retain the meanings of the Names, supports the practice of Wazifa, or chanting their sounds, offers a fun and easy way to remember of God in daily life, and serves to form a relationship with the attributes of Allah. 101 CARDS: In addition to “God” and “Allah,” includes
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pronunciation, meaning and attributes of the 99 Beautiful Names of Allah. Lovely illustrations and beautiful design offer a beautiful background to the inspirational text Deepen your understanding of the Names and expand your practices through the helpful informational booklet Shabda Kahn, who serves as Pir (spiritual director) of the Sufi Ruhaniat International and is the spiritual lineage holder of the Sufi family, created these cards in response to numerous requests by students Also, enhance your study of the Names with the book Physicians of the Heart by Pir Shabda Kahn and eminent Sufi teachers Faisal Muqaddam, Imam Bilal Hyde, and Murshid Wali Ali Meyer. THE MYSTICISM OF SOUND AND MUSIC The Sufi Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan by Hazrat Inayat Khan
$39.95, paper. Shambhala. 398 pages
Music, according to Sufi teaching, is really a small expression of the overwhelming and perfect harmony of the whole universe—and that is the secret of its amazing power to move us. The Indian Sufi master Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927), the first teacher to bring the Islamic mystical tradition to the West, was an accomplished musician himself. His lucid exposition of music’s divine nature has become a modern classic, beloved not only by those interested in Sufism but by musicians of all kinds. This newly reissued edition includes a foreword by Pir Zia Inayat Khan, Hazrat Inayat Khan’s grandson and the current leader of the Inayati Order, the widespread Western Sufi organization that Hazrat Inayat Khan founded. Actually several books in one, this volume includes “Music,” “The Mysticism of Sound,” “Cosmic Language,” “The Power of the Word,” and “Phrases to be Repeated,” a selection of the inspired, beneficial mantric phrases he composed for the use of his students. What is wonderful about music is that it helps man to concentrate or meditate independently of thought. Therefore music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between the form and the formless. If there is anything intelligent, effective, and at the same time formless, it is music. Poetry suggests form, line and colour suggest form, but music suggests no form. Music also produces that resonance which vibrates through the whole being. It lifts the thought above the denseness of matter; it almost turns matter into spirit, into its original condition, through the harmony of vibrations touching every atom of one’s whole being. … Music touches our innermost being, and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that perfection in which lies the fulfilment of man’s life. Here is inspiration in spades for musical souls; profound glimpses of the vibratory, sonic nature of the universe. “Inayat Khan says that music is the ‘picture of our Beloved’ and then draws the picture stroke by stroke from every angle and plane until we see it. He is the only holy man I know who delivers an authentic and inclusive spiritual message from a musical sensibility. He does this rigorously, poetically, and spontaneously, until we perceive our own actions as music. Open to any line on any page: you will be opened.” —W.A. Mathieu, author of The Listening Book and The Musical Life
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divine orchestration that guides you, that you have a purpose in the world, and that both your light and your shadows are welcome participants in your psychological and relational lives.”
by Emily Jane O’Dell
$23.99, paper. Picador. 302 pages
As one of the world’s most loved poets, Rumi’s poems are celebrated for their message of love and their beauty, but too often they are stripped of their mystical and spiritual meanings. The Gift of Rumi offers a new reading of Rumi, contextualizing his work against the broader backdrop of Islamic mysticism and adding a richness and authenticity that is lacking in many Westernized conceptions of his work. Author Emily Jane O’Dell has studied Sufism both academically, in her work and research at Harvard, Columbia, and the American University of Beirut, and in practice, learning from a Mevlevi master and his whirling dervishes in Istanbul. She weaves this expertise throughout The Gift of Rumi, sharing a new vision of Rumi’s classic work. What is presented here is merely an introduction to Rumi’s message and the invisible dimensions of Islamic mysticism… May this collection of Rumi’s verses serve as inspiration for your ailing heart… In the ruins of your heart and broken fragments of your soul, may you find the treasure. At the heart of Rumi’s mystical poetry is the “religion of love” which transcends all religions. Through his majestic verses of ecstasy and longing, Rumi invites us into the religion of the heart and guides us to our own loving inner essence. The Gift of Rumi gives us a key to experiencing this profound and powerful invitation, allowing readers to meet the master in a new way. Peering into my eyes, he leaned forward. Listen: life is like a bird with two wings,” he said. “One wing is the material world—money and daily-life concerns—the other wing is love, ecstasy, and meditative bliss. To fly, we need both.” “In the crowded shelf of books about Rumi, there are a few books about Rumi’s life, and an increasing number that are or purport to be translations from the original Persian. E.J. O’Dell’s The Gift of Rumi is both: It gives the right amount of context for people new to the study of Rumi, combined with original and fresh translations. The Gift of Rumi is indeed a gift, and recommended to all lovers of Rumi!” —Omid Safi, author of Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition
Astrology, Tarot & Divination USE YOUR PLANETS WISELY Master Your Ultimate Cosmic Potential with Psychological Astrology
by Jennifer Freed
New in Paperback
$24.99, paper. Sounds True. 304 pages
Who am I, really? What did I come here to do? Who am I in relationships? A good therapist will help you answer these questions; so will a good astrologer. For the last 25 years, Dr. Jennifer Freed has combined her deep understanding of both these practices to deeply transform people’s lives. Freed introduces you to psychological astrology as a way to dive deep into understanding yourself and others in a profound and life-changing way. If you think of yourself as simply a Virgo or a Pisces or a Capricorn, be prepared to expand your self-knowledge many-fold. The knowledge in this book will give you a far more complete picture of your psychological and emotional blueprint. By understanding your cosmic DNA, nine core strengths, and cosmic committee, you’ll “come to trust that there is a
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Once any of us delve deeply enough into our own archetypal nature and its connection to universal themes, we become more available to help others find their way. We see how we are alike in ways that have nothing to do with our small ego concerns. We become more accepting of differences between people. Through understanding our planetary placements, we get clear about how we can be useful and meaningful to others around us. We need social and emotional skills to do this well. “Jennifer Freed’s ability to tap into an acute reading of the stars and their accompanying psychological impact is enormously intuitive, revelatory, and deeply helpful. She has honed her craft to a high art form and it is both a pathway and a liberation.” —Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues BODY ASTROLOGY A Cosmic Guide to Health, Healing, and Harnessing the Power of the Planets
by Claire Gallagher
$36.95, cloth. Shambhala. 320 pp, colour illus.
Your astrological makeup is like a window into how your unique body works. Because astrology, life, and the body are constantly changing, Body Astrology goes beyond the basics, teaching you how to interpret your birth chart and craft a whole-body daily and seasonal practice to match. Recognizing cosmic patterns can help reconnect you with your authentic preferences so you can create a unique daily routine that is tailored to your needs. Nutritionist, certified strength and conditioning specialist, and astrologer Claire Gallagher guides you in the healing powers of each planet and how to use food, movement, and lifestyle to realign and empower. Her integrative and intuitive full-body approach puts the wellness industry on mute so you can have confidence in your own self-directed health choices. You will learn: ♦ About your Body Astrology Triad: the pivotal pieces of your birth chart (Sun, Moon, and Rising signs) and what they mean for your daily routine ♦ When to upgrade your daily body astrology practice and use the power of the planets to rebalance, restore, or raise you out of a celestial rut ♦ How to become your own body astrologer by understanding the dynamics between the elements, signs, and planets and using food, movement, and other healing tools to restore balance. “Well-written, beautifully illustrated, and based on solid technique, Body Astrology is a true gift to the astrological community. Claire helps make sense of the complex associations between planets and foods and provides comforting advice for strengthening or mitigating one’s personal placements. As an often burnt-out Aries Sun with a foggy-brained Pisces Mercury myself, I’m looking forward to taking Claire’s remedial suggestions to heart!”—Madeline DeCotes, co-founder of Honeycomb Collective
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$39.99. Hay House. 78 colour cards + guidebook
From the creator of The Crow Tarot, a richly illustrated animal-themed 78-card tarot deck and guidebook that reminds us there is always light to be found even on the darkest nights—flickering fireflies illuminating our path through the forest. From bats to bees to elephants to elk, discover a global collection of animal energy NATURE SPIRIT TAROT A 78-Card Deck and Book for the Journey of the Soul by Jean Marie Herzel
$43.99. Bear & Company. 78 colour cards + 192-page colour book, boxed
Weaving the wisdom of the Tarot with the vastness and mystery of the natural world, this 78-card, full-color deck by artist Jean Marie Herzel offers the complete Major and Minor Arcana interpreted through the lens of Nature and the infinite diversity of forms that consciousness displays on the Earth. Drawn to the timeless and enduring messages of the Tarot and its ability to help us explore the depths of the psyche, Herzel researched the inner esoteric meaning of each card and then artfully interpreted that meaning in hand-painted watercolors featuring the colorful language of flowers and symbolic images of plants, birds, insects, reptiles, and gemstones. The symbolism of each card is derived from various traditions of the world, including Native American, Celtic, and Eastern THE STAR TAROT Your Path to Self-Discovery through Cosmic Symbolism by Cathy McClelland
$46.99. Schiffer. 78 colour cards + 268-page guidebook, boxed
Continue along your path of self-discovery through cosmic symbolism with the second edition of The Star Tarot. By using 78 stunningly colourful cards and detailed guidebook, you’ll gain an ever deeper understanding of this multi-dimensional world... and beyond. Created for all readers, this book and card deck offer a heightened methodology for deeper connection to your inherent gifts and the true purpose of your soul. Explore new sections linking numerology with the Major Arcana as you reveal your lifetime personality, along with astrological references, three added spreads, and larger artwork on the cards. Explore this comprehensive tool seeking infinite personality possibilities: spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically. THE BUDDHA TAROT A Mandala of Cards
to guide you on your journey through the darkest, toughest times and discover the light and the lessons contained in those moments. Not a tool to banish the darkness, this tarot deck is an invitation to dream the divine dreams that emerge from the night and to find beauty wherever you are on your path. The archetypal creatures of this deck will walk beside you and offer their individual gifts of wisdom and inspiration to your readings. Read intuitively with the detailed, lush artwork or consult the comprehensive guidebook filled with animal stories and messages from your guides. and Western Philosophy. In the accompanying guidebook, each card is given a two-page description that opens with the traditional Tarot meaning of the card, followed by a detailed explanation of the symbolic meaning of the specific plants and animals the card features. For example, on the cover, the Magician card shows a Merlin Falcon, Amanita Muscaria mushroom, Western Sword Fern, and the Eastern Pondhawk Dragonfly--each of these life forms was chosen because it represents one or more aspects of the Magician’s meaning in the Tarot. The book explains the connections between each form shown and the card’s Tarot archetype, further illuminating the meaning of the card and how it relates to the natural world, personal development, and the journey of the soul. Revealing a new vision of both the surrounding world and the unexplored territory within, the Nature Spirit Tarot offers a tool to deepen our connection to Nature, develop personal awareness, and awaken an understanding of the psychological and spiritual elements at play in our lives. Stars are full of miracles and magic—bring the beauty of them into your life and into your heart. In her foreword, noted Tarot guide Mary Greer, author of Tarot for Your Self, writes: This is a spiritual deck, introducing you to guides and places that, as you open to them, renew both soul and spirit... McClelland doesn’t shy away from the dangers and challenges of some cards, yet each card also illustrated opportunities to be discovered... With this deck you can enter into the energy of a card, sending you on a journey of exploration into the evolving universe. Ask each card what is its gift, its challenge, and its message to humanity. Turn to the book to discover strengths and inner resources... Use this deck and book together to renew your spirit and help you realign with your soul purpose and the guiding light of all creation.
you begin to communicate with the unconscious and bring its wisdom into consciousness.
by Robert Place
$52.99. Schiffer. 78 colour cards + 288-pp guide
The ancient philosophers and alchemists taught that the highest wisdom is to see the patterns that are timeless. This is what happened to Siddhartha as he sat under the Bodhi Tree—he saw the pattern of all his incarnations like a great wheel and became the Buddha, the Enlightened One. Now the archetypal similarities between his journey to enlightenment and the story told by the Major Arcana are brought to light in The Buddha Tarot. By viewing the Tarot as a mandala, with the four suits representing the four cardinal directions and the trumps as the sacred center, you can use this deck to change your consciousness and progress toward individuation. With this deck you will understand how the practice of divination itself prods us toward the realization that all is one as
TAROT: THE WAY TO MINDFULNESS Use the Cards to Find Peace & Balance by Johannes Fiebig & Evelin Burger
$24.99, paper. Llewellyn. 128 pp, colour illus.
Discover the amazing partnership of tarot and mindfulness with this comprehensive, full-color book by European tarot authorities Johannes Fiebig and Evelin Burger. Featuring spreads, charts, and card-by-card breakdowns with color illustrations of each, this guide is a concise resource for finding peace and balance through your tarot practice. Cartomancy is like wakeful dreaming—meditating on images that produce a sense of invigorating relaxation.
The Tarot is a set of individual images that are derived from the synthesis that is Renaissance culture, but in the entire deck there is an archetypal pattern that is sacred and enlightening... This deck is not just about Buddha. It is about us and about things in our culture that we may have forgotten. It is about how much our mystical heritage is like Buddhism. It is about why we can find Buddha in the Tarot, and a demonstration that the Tarot is a sacred tool—a mandala. Also by Robert M. Place are The Alchemical Tarot and The Alchemical Tarot of Marseille, and his excellent book is called The Tarot: History, Symbolism and Divination.
That’s why tarot and mindfulness go hand in hand, and this book makes it simple for you to unite these practices in fun and effective ways. Fiebig and Burger guide you through the entire deck, introducing you to the symbolic language of tarot and providing many spread suggestions. They also teach you how to best use the cards for special occasions, for answering mindfulness-related questions, and for overcoming challenges. This book is packed with tips and techniques.
of our personality... And like folktales, tarot images are a cultural heritage. The main section of this book is about this heritage and its modern-day meanings; here, each card is discussed individually.
When we work with tarot cards, all our senses are fully engaged with what we are doing. We are attentive to the present moment in which we pick and study the cards. We let the pictures affect us and explore what they mean to us currently. The cards and their motifs can open doors to deeper layers
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New Visionary Oracle Decks THE WILD AND SACRED FEMININE DECK 52-Card Oracle and Guidebook
vine (Inanna, Oshun). Also included is a full-color guidebook, which offers ideas for single-card draws and unique multi-card spreads along with inspiring quotations and an open-ended exploration of each card’s light and shadow aspects. May this deck reveal an exquisite aliveness, where everything is held sacred and nothing is held back. Honoring the potent and tumultuous time we live in, this insightful oracle deck is an invocation of the sacred feminine and a source of insight for clarity, confirmation, and guidance. The feminine creates and transforms, adapts and abides, loves and consoles. Your own potential is reflected in her many faces.
by Niki Dewart & friends
$43.95. Shambhala. 52 colour cards + guidebook
Gorgeously illustrated 52-card deck and guidebook with empowering archetypes of the sacred feminine to amplify your innate knowing and invigorate your potential. Within you lives the wild and sacred feminine. Invoke her empowering wisdom through cards separated into four facets—Wild (Butterfly, Lioness), Elemental (Mountain, Smoke), Archetypal (Muse, Shapeshifter), and DiTHE CANTIGEE ORACLE An Ecological Spiritual guide and Creative Prompt Deck
ceus, and The Voice of the Moon, The Cantigee Oracle offers you a space to reattune, reflect, and reconnect: to your own inner world, to yearnings and inspirations, and to the Earth that sustains us all.
by Rae Diamond
$33.95. North Atlantic. 52 colour cards, guidebook
Each card in this versatile deck can be used as: Part of a weekly year-round practice Prompts for spiritual practice Inspiration for ecological activism Inspirational icons and creative seeds A contemplative opportunity to connect with the natural world Together, they can be used for life direction, personal growth, and an ongoing guided practice to bring you healing and inspiring discoveries that support your fullest, truest self--in harmony with nature and in service to the greatest good for all.
For users of Inner Compass Cards and The Wild Unknown Animal Spirit Deck, a nature-based 52-card deck and guidebook for the modern seeker. Each of the Cantigee oracle deck’s 52 beautifully illustrated circular cards serves as a conduit for wisdom, creativity, and spiritual nourishment.
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Cantigee is the song the Earth sings. It’s the spell it weaves, the enchantment it whispers--an invitation to deepen into ourselves, come home to our place within the living Earth, and exist in right relationship with the natural world. Grounded in nature-based archetypes like The Self-Tending Fire, The Juniper CaduTHE WILD UNNOWN POCKET ANIMAL SPIRIT DECK by Kim Krans
$24.99. HarperCollins. 63 colour cards + guidebook
From the beloved artist-seeker behind The Wild Unknown comes the bestselling Animal Spirit tarot deck and guidebook—now in a compact, pocket-sized format. Hand drawn in the same dramatic, emotionally evocative style of The Wild Unknown Tarot, The Wild Unknown Pocket Animal Spirit Deck features 63 gorgeous cards, packaged in a perfectly portable keepsake tin. Divided into five suits structured by the five yogic elements that make up all living things Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Ether, you’ll find creatures that roam the field and forest, swim in the oceans and rivers, inhabit deserts and grasslands and soar through the sky. The Ether suit holds the seven spirit cards, and represent the seven chakras of the subtle body. The powerful animal archetypes from realms both natural and mystical of DIVINE ABUNDANCE ORACLE CARDS An 52 Card Deck
The Animal Spirit Pocket Tarot offer insight into relationships, personalities, behaviors and tendencies and can be used alone or alongside The Wild Unknown Tarot to add an additional layer of depth to readings. From the Peacock who symbolizes inner beauty and reminds us to practice self-acceptance to the playful Dolphin who indicates a profound blessing is headed our way, each animal has been carefully selected for its symbolic potency and the lesson at the core of its nature. The 200-page hand-lettered, fully illustrated guidebook offers grounded, easy to understand explanations of the cards and a detailed look at the many spreads, practices and concepts that power the Animal Spirit deck, as well as deep insight into how each animal helps illuminate our contradictions, our complex natures, and the endless mystery of who we are. A powerful tool for self-exploration, revealing how we are all connected in the complex and wondrous web of life.
the foundation of All is the key.
by Tosha Silver
$28.99. Hay House. 52 colour cards
From the author of Outrageous Openness and It’s Not Your Money, here is a new oracle deck to help you access abundance by letting go. Tosha Silver’s message about money is counterintuitive, fresh, and different from the norm. So many people push toward their goals, chase the means to meet their needs, and yearn for an ever-elusive feeling of security. Fear and worry are constant. Tosha takes a radical new approach: offer those desperate wishes and financial fears directly to Love, to the Divine itself--whatever that means to you. The result can bring freedom, spaciousness, and yes, even a sense of security unavailable any other way. Aligning with Divine Source as
Metaphysics & Philosphy LOVE IN THE TIME OF IMPERMANENCE
by Matthew McKay
$18.99, paper. Inner Traditions. 130 pages
We live in a world where nothing lasts. Everything we love--the relationships, places, and things we most count on, even our own bodies--will change or be lost. But, as psychologist Matthew McKay shows, the certainty of change and loss can actually support rather than diminish love. For at the heart of pain and loss is love. Collaborating with his late son, Jordan, McKay offers five ways to keep love alive in a world of impermanence. He explores how to see and know what we love, how to actively care for what we love, how to have
Radical acceptance says yes to Reality in any given moment so what’s needed can come next. (from the card “Allowing”) This beautiful deck offers a practical, soulful way to put Tosha’s teachings into practice. Drawing inspiration from her book It’s Not Your Money, the deck contains 52 quotes that will help you reflect on your relationship to money, career, and abundance. Your own heart will guide you to the message you need that day, helping you receive and live these liberating concepts more completely. As you work with the cards, you’ll find your mind expanding so that you can truly “be” abundance rather than just chase it.
compassion for the suffering of others, how to set the daily intention to act with love, and how to turn toward rather than away from the pain of impermanence. McKay shares practices and meditations to help love endure in the face of loss, disappointment, change, or any of the ways relationships and circumstances are altered by time. He examines what love is and is not, including how not to mistake yearning and neediness for love, sex for love, and attraction to beauty for love. He shows how to cultivate gratitude for every expression of love we encounter, learn to care for things we don’t like, and recognize the power of love after life--a love that reaches beyond death. He also provides concrete exercises for communicating with and channeling messages from loved ones who have crossed over. Ultimately, McKay shows that, by running from pain, we run from love. By avoiding pain, we lose the pathway to connection. Yet, by recognizing love in the heart of pain and loss, by knowing that change and impermanence are inevitable, we can navigate life with a compass pointing to love as true
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north, learning to love more deeply and making what we love more cherished. “Matt McKay has devoted his life to being a healer of the hurting in his thoughts, words, and deeds. He has walked the talk in his compassionate counseling as a clinical psychologist; and he has talked the walk as a lecturer and prodigious writer. When his son, Jordan, died tragically, Matt had the courage to step through the veil and enter into a cosmological dialogue with his son. In his latest work, Love in the Time of Impermanence, he offers the distillation of their joint wisdom in an articulate and comprehensive examination of the origin and motivating force behind all life, namely love. Jordan is proud of you, Matt.” — Seán ÓLaoire, spiritual director of Companions of the Journey Among the many other books by Matt McKay are The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook and The Luminous Landscape of the Afterlife.
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by Jennifer Lisa Vest
$22.95, paper. North Atlantic. 208 pages
Here’s a 101 guide for psychics and energy workers to build an authentic, equitable, and culturally sensitive healing practice, written by Afro-Indigenous intuitive, scholar, and healer Dr. Jennifer Lisa Vest. Being an ethical psychic means being of service--and learning how to navigate the thorny issues and unique risks inherent to intuitive work. From knowing your boundaries and limitations--and respecting those of your clients--to resisting the temptation of the guru lifestyle, The Ethical Psychic offers 7 critical guiding principles for grounded, ethical practice. Intuitive, philosopher, and ethicist Jennifer Lisa Vest explores why (and how) energy workers must be of service, authentic, and self-aware; learn from their mistakes; embody sensitivity to client needs; be humble; and listen to a higher source. With training in African American Hoodoo, Native American Sweatlodge, Jamaican Revivalism, Trinidadian Shango, Spiritualism, Reiki, Pranic Healing, and other traditions, Dr. Vest is uniquely positioned to address readers’ most common and pressing questions, like: How do I avoid crossing boundaries? What if I’m making things worse? What privacy considerations do I need to think about? How can I be financially ethical? How do I avoid appropriation? What do I need to know about working with spirits? A go-to-guide for any medium, spirit worker, psychic, or aspiring Reiki master, The Ethical Psychic helps readers become grounded and effective healers. This book is engaging, scholarly, accessible, and a must-read for anyone who works with others, regardless of the belief system, in the development of their spiritual gifts. HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY AND CREATIVE ALCHEMY The Emerald Tablet, The Corpus Hermeticum, and the Journey through the Seven Spheres by Marlene Seven Bremner
$49.99, cloth. Inner Traditions. 356 pages, 8x10, b/w & colour illustrations
Drawing on ancient Egyptian and Greek cosmogonies and essential Hermetic texts, such as the Corpus Hermeticum, the Emerald Tablet (Tabula Smaragdina), and the Nag Hammadi codices, Marlene Seven Bremner offers a detailed understanding of Hermetic philosophy and the art of alchemy as a foundation for a psycho-spiritual creative practice. Offering examples from traditional alchemical art and her own intricate esoteric paintings, Bremner examines the foundational principles of Hermeticism and alchemy and shows how these traditions are a direct means for accessing higher consciousness and true self-knowledge, or gnosis, as well as a way to extract the essence of one’s own creative gifts. The author takes the reader on a Hermetic journey through each of the seven traditional planets—Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury, and the Moon—exploring their mythological, philosophical, alchemical, Qabalistic, magical, astrological, and energetic natures and offering meditative discourses that reach past the rational mind to speak directly to the intuitive soul. She relates the seven planets to the esoteric anatomy of the human body, specifically the seven chakras, and shows how the planets can offer understanding and experience of archetypal energies and patterns in the body, in one’s life, and in the creative process. A profound synthesis of magical and occult teachings as
by Marcus Aurelius, edited by Robin Waterfield
$23.99, paper. Basic Books. 384 pages
This definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations is an insightful look into the mind of Ancient Rome’s sixteenth emperor. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome—and by far the most powerful man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and one of the wisest minds of his generation. He collected his thoughts in notebooks, gems that have come to be called his Meditations. Never intended for publication, the work has proved an inexhaustible source of wisdom and one of the most important Stoic texts of all time. In often passionate language, the entries range from one-line aphorisms to essays, from DISCIPLINE IS DESTINY The Power of Self-Control
by Ryan Holliday
$35.00, cloth. Random House. 352 pages
In his book Courage is Calling, author Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for a bold and brave life. In this second book of his Stoic Virtue series, Holiday celebrates the awesome power of self-discipline and those who have seized it. To master anything, one must first master themselves—one’s emotions, one’s thoughts, one’s actions. Eisenhower famously said that freedom is really the opportunity to practice self-discipline. Cicero called the virtue of temperance the polish of life. Without boundaries and restraint, we risk not only failing to meet our full potential and jeopardizing what we have achieved, but we ensure misery and shame. In a world of temptation and excess, this ancient idea is more urgent than ever.
well as an initiation into the alchemical opus, this book reveals how to integrate and apply Hermetic and alchemical principles to awaken inner knowing, liberate the imagination, and live a mystical, creative, and truly inspired life. “An important and necessary work, especially for anyone involved in art and art making who wishes to use their making as a spiritual practice. Alchemy is an art; in fact, it has been called ‘the Art’ of arts in that all creation, according to alchemical theory, flows from the same principles… Bremner provides a remarkably varied and thorough foundation in Hermetic philosophy, cosmology, and practice with leads for deeper study… Hermetic Philosophy and Creative Alchemy provides the maps and tools for this journey. It is all here. The only thing missing is you.” — Brian Cotnoir, author of Practical Alchemy: A Guide to the Great Work
Channeling & Revelation RESURRECTION: A CHANNELED TEXT Book One of the Manifestation Trilogy by Paul Selig
$24.99, paper. Picador. 307 pages
Resurrection is the first book in the groundbreaking new Manifestation Trilogy from renowned channel Paul Selig. Selig’s unique gift is to channel the voice of the Guides, otherworldly beings of great wisdom and tremendous spiritual insight. Resurrection is composed of their raw, unedited words, as spoken by Paul. In it, he shares the new manifestation of humanity, a vision of alteration and elevation that will shift how we think and move through the world.
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profundity to bitterness. This annotated edition offers the definitive translation of this classic and much beloved text, with copious notes from world-renowned classics expert Robin Waterfield. It illuminates one of the greatest works of popular philosophy for new readers and enriches the understanding of even the most devoted Stoic. “The full and accessible notes make this volume particularly useful for those reading the work as life-guidance, as well as for other readers.... The translation.... aims at accuracy in conveying the Greek meaning, while at the same time bringing out the content in accessible and expressive English.... Waterfield’s version is highly effective in this aim: the line of thought is clear even in passages where Marcus’ thought processes are somewhat convoluted or oblique, and the English idiom chosen is widely accessible.” — Chris Gill, Classical Review In Discipline is Destiny, Holiday draws on the stories of self-discipline, including Lou Gehrig, Queen Elizabeth II, boxer Floyd Patterson, Marcus Aurelius and writer Toni Morrison, as well as the cautionary tales of Napoleon, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Babe Ruth. Through these engaging examples, Holiday teaches readers the power of self-discipline and balance, and cautions against the perils of extravagance and hedonism. At the heart of Stoicism are four simple virtues: courage, temperance, justice, and wisdom. Everything else, the Stoics believed, flows from them. Discipline is Destiny will guide readers down the path to self-mastery, upon which all the other virtues depend. Discipline is predictive. You cannot succeed without it. And if you lose it, you cannot help but bring yourself failure and unhappiness. Also by Ryan Holiday: The Daily Stoic 365 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living.
The vibration that this teaching holds will be present for a long time as you each integrate it and, in some ways, become it. As you become it, the pages of this text may wither and fall away. The text is alive in its students. The song is sung through the reader, and we are graced to hear this song from where we sit, from where we know ourselves, the high light of being that we know as love and God itself. Building on the success of his Beyond the Known series (Realization, Alchemy, and The Kingdom), this new trilogy will give readers a glimpse into the spiritual underpinnings that govern the world we live in. Resurrection is an astonishing invitation to rethink, reconstruct, and rebirth our world view in a transcendent way. What you are offering now, what you are agreeing to, is to become the light incarnate at a level of vibration where your encounters with the world are transformed by nature of being... How you be at this level of vibration, in an encounter with the manifest world, is what alters the vibrational field of what you see and experience... If each day you would take ten minutes in the Upper Room in an agreement to the Source of all things, you will begin to find very quickly that your encounter with the manifest world is an encounter with Source. And the radiance of your vibrational field will be felt
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Archangel Attunement THE FEMALE ARCHANGELS ORACLE A 44-Card Empowerment Deck and Guidebook by Calista
$31.50. Inner Traditions. 44 colours cards + book
The first oracle to focus on the female Archangels, this deck and book set includes 44 full-color cards to help you partner with the Archeiai, the female twins to the male Archangels. The stunning illustrations intimately transmit the unique frequencies of each Archangel and are embedded with vibrational keys of angelic energy, sacred geometry, crystalline Lightcodes, and alchemical fires, bringing the angels to life and creating a direct bridge into their consciousness. The deck includes 17 female Archangel cards, 17 male Archangel cards, and 10 cards with universal, powerful symbols. In the accompanying guidebook Calista explores who the Archeiai are, why they have come now, how they work in cooperation with their male counterparts, ANGEL WEALTH MAGIC Simple Steps to Hire the Divine & Unlock Your Miraculous Financial Flow by Corin Grillo
$25.50, paper. New World Library. 190 pages
Corin Grillo (also author of The Angel Experiment) understands that magic is easily dismissed as new age or woo-woo. But she has also learned, personally and professionally through her work with thousands, that it is both accessible and effective. Magic, she shows, is in everyone’s DNA. Employing methods used for millennia, she offers simple rituals, practices, and everyday mindsets that will illuminate how powerful self-care rituals have always been essential for the survival and success of humanity. She explores why a desire to grow wealth is not the least bit selfish, shallow, or greedy and teaches readers how to detox from self-defeating notions of lack, unworthiness, and personal or familial shame.
by you as you walk, as you speak, as you are embodied at this level of vibration. The tone you are singing, you see, at this level of agreement, the one note played in articulation as all things, summons all things to its like accord.. CONVERSATIONS WITH THE Z’S BOOK 1 The Energetics of the New Human Soul by Lee Harris
$25.50, paper. New World Library. 132 pages
A high-profile spiritual teacher presents channeled conversations with his guides offering fascinating details about how we live and connect with Spirit in the multidimensional universe. Lee Harris has been receiving communication from his guides, the Zs, for twenty-four years. These communications have allowed him to help hundreds of thousands around the world. He has made this wisdom available in a variety of ways, including audio recordings, live events, and online seminars, but here he offers a truly unique way of communicating with his guides and readers. In this one-of-a-kind and distinctly modern format, Harris presents his channeling in conversation with psychotherapist Dianna Edwards, who describes her work as “listening to hear.” Her questioning allows for a crystal-clear exploration of Harris’s method and a beautifully contemporary way of encountering and absorbing the wisdom
and how they can help us. She introduces the Archangel or symbol of each card, along with an angel message, a blessing, an expanded card meaning to aid interpretation, a reverse card meaning that serves as a divine wake-up call, and a “Rise Like an Angel” experience to integrate the angels’ energies into your everyday life. She details how to use the cards in connection with her high-vibration Angel Healing system and shares practices to help you embody the virtues of each Archangel and integrate their angelic frequencies, practices such as healing techniques, guided journeys, creative exercises, energetic attunements, and angel rituals. The guidebook also includes a download link for a free attunement audio track from Calista. Offering a hands-on tool to connect with the female Archangels and take you beyond divination into divine knowing, this oracle will help you accelerate your path of Ascension, manifest your dreams, heal your heart, and fill it with Love. Part 2 of the book offers a powerful 11-Day Wealth Ritual readers can use to work directly with the angels to supercharge their wealth attraction. Each day of this eleven-day ritual includes an invocation and an angel meditation/activation that takes only ten to fifteen minutes a day to complete. Indulge in these practices, play with them… and keep yourself open to new financial insights, opportunities, and inspiration along the way. Your magical wealth wonderland awaits. “Corin Grillo is the real deal when it comes to working with the divine. She is a bridge between the angelic and human realms, and she delivers insights with a ton of love in a humorous, grounded, and relatable way… A beautifully grounded and wise book!” —Lee Harris, author of Energy Speaks
transmitted from the Zs. Readers explore how to connect to your guides, interpret and learn from dreams, employ the magnetics of manifestation, and navigate the current environmental and cultural disarray. The material channeled from the Z’s is practical and meaningful—even transformational—for seekers with open hearts and minds. Seeing the world through a multidimensional lens, feeling the world through the multisensory being inside you — that is the purpose of these conversations... I hope they help you to remember your brilliance, your light, and your unique purpose at this time on Earth. That is what the Z’s continually remind us of. “While I’ve enjoyed collaborating with many spiritual teachers and healers during my time as a past-life psychic over the past two decades, every now and then I meet one with an extra-special gift. Lee Harris is among the very best. Not only is he an enlightened old soul, he’s also a kind and compassionate human whose work is helping elevate our collective consciousness. Lee’s new book is everything he is — insightful, engaging, and filled with wisdom.” —Ainslie MacLeod, author of The Instruction
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BETTER BUSINESS How the B Corp Movement is Remaking Capitalism by Christopher Marquis
$26.50, paper. Yale. 312 pages
Gold Medalist in the Business Ethics category, 2021 Axiom Business Book Awards Businesses have a big role to play in a capitalist society. They can tip the scales toward the benefit of the few, with toxic side effects for all, or they can guide us toward better, more equitable long-term solutions. Christopher Marquis tells the story of the rise of a new corporate form—the B Corporation. Founded by a group of friends who met at Stanford, these companies undergo a rigorous certification process, overseen by the B Lab, and commit to putting social benefits, the rights of workers, community impact, and environmental stewardship on equal footing with financial shareholders. Informed by over a decade of research and animated by interviews with the movement’s founders and leading figures, Marquis’s book explores the rapid growth of companies choosing to certify as B Corps, both in the United States and internationally, and explains why the future of B Corporations is vital for us all. “An important blueprint for how businesses can and should be both successful and a force for good.”—Rose Marcario, President and CEO, Patagonia “Better Business is the book to read if you want to put values and purpose at the center of your company. It’s an inspiring book with great insights to share.” —Jerry Greenfield, co-founder, Ben & Jerry’s LEADING WITH JOY Practices for Uncertain Times
by Akaya Windwood & Rajasvini Bhansali $25.95, paper. Berrett-Koehler. 240 pages
In a time of increasing disconnection and uncertainty, Leading with Joy shows how leaders can reclaim their purpose and embrace joy in service of social transformation. Leadership that connects people and centers compassion and trust instead of competition and disconnection is needed more than ever before. There are plenty of manuals that show people how to manage organizations, but what is really needed in this moment is a book that shows us how to include kindness and inspiration within leadership. Leading with Joy promotes a courageous and compassionate approach to leadership that can sustain purposeful action and social change. This book takes the form of a series of vignettes about the authors’ insights and stories, with reflection questions at the end of each one. Through these stories—which address topics such as workplace triumphs and lessons, family relationships, and even near-death experiences— Akaya Windwood and Rajasvini Bhansali illuminate different aspects of leadership, such as humility, forgiveness, and kindness, and invite leaders to respond to the current moment. The book draws on the authors’ lived experiences as leaders, including their encounters with oppression, and their wisdom in principled leadership. The authors use their wisdom as queer women of color to demonstrate how leaders can create conditions of abundance and well-being, which are necessary for long-term social transformation. “In compact chapters, delicious and meditative as poems, succulent with story, this book offers empowerment, clarity, pleasure, and an infinite array of tools and guidance to help us feel better about our lives and the work
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TRUST & INSPIRE How Truly Great Leaders Unleash Greatness in Others by Stephen M.R. Covey
$39.99, cloth. Simon & Schuster. 342 pages
From the author of The Speed of Trust, a revolutionary new way to lead, deemed “the defining leadership book in the 21st century.” We have a leadership crisis today, where even though our world has changed drastically, our leadership style has not. Most organizations, teams, schools, and families today still operate from a model of “command and control,” focusing on hierarchies and compliance from people. But because of the changing nature of the world, the workforce, work itself, and the choices we have for where and how to work and live, this way of leading is drastically outdated. Stephen M.R. Covey (son of Stephen R. Covey, author of Seven Habits of Highly Effective People) has made it his life’s work to understand trust in leadership and organizations. In Trust and Inspire, he offers a simple yet LIVE LIFE IN CRESCENDO Your Most Important Work is Always Ahead of You by Stephen R. Covey and Cynthia Covey Haller
$36.99, cloth. Simon & Schuster. 288 pages
The inspirational, encouraging final book from the legendary leadership expert Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Covey spent his storied career inspiring millions of individuals to make their lives more effective, compassionate, and meaningful. Near the end of his life, Covey felt there was a final component to his work: How to live your best life no matter your age? How to best respond to life-challenging experiences? How to approach the challenges and opportunities of middle to later life— like raising children, caring for your parents, leading and inspiring others, staying on top of your career, contributing to your community, and what follows next? Live Life in Crescendo is Covey’s answer to these questions, outlining his vision for those in the prime of life, whatever age you may be. Covey urges all to “live life in crescendo,” continually growing in contribution, learning, and influence. In the same way that music builds on
we do, both together and alone.” —Naomi Shihab Nye, Young People’s Poet Laureate “This slim volume engaged me powerfully. It’s a book about being human. It’s not just smart; it’s wise— kind, generous, rigorous, and necessary and exactly right for the tough moment we find ourselves in.” —Bill McKibben, founder of Third Act
Racism & Reconciliation TRUE RECONCILIATION How to Be a Force for Change by Jody Wilson-Raybould
$32.00, cloth. McClelland & Stewart. 224 pages
There is one question Canadians have asked Jody Wilson-Raybould more than any other: What can I do to help advance reconciliation? It is clear that people from all over the country want to take concrete and tangible action that will make real change. We just need to know how to get started. This book provides that next step. For Wilson-Raybould, what individuals and organizations need to do to advance true reconciliation is self-evident, accessible, and achievable. True
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bold solution: to shift from this “command and control” model to a leadership style of “trust and inspire.” People don’t want to be managed; they want to be led. Trust and Inspire is a new way of leading that starts with the belief that people are creative, collaborative, and full of potential. People with this kind of leader are inspired to become the best version of themselves and to produce their best work. In this “beautifully written page-turner” (Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business School professor), Covey offers the solution to the future of work: where a dispersed workforce will be the norm, necessitating trust and collaboration across time zones, cultures, personalities, generations, and technology. “Like the gardener described in this book, the job of leaders is to create an environment where the seeds of greatness within people are able to flourish. Trust & Inspire powerfully demonstrates how to cultivate this kind of growth in any setting.” —Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Price winner, founder of Grameen Bank the previous notes, life too, builds on the past and unfolds in the future. This crescendo mentality urges you to use whatever you have—your time, talents, resources, gifts, passion, money, and influence—to enrich the lives of people around you, including your family, neighborhood, community, and the world. Train those you mentor in what I call the Law of the Harvest—“we reap what we sow.” With most things that have value, there is no shortcut, no easy out, no quick fix. What you put into the ground and how you attend to it ultimately determine what you get out… It is the same with relationships. Teach those you mentor the timeless “agricultural principles” of preparing the soil, seeding, cultivating, watering, weeding, and harvesting to reap success in life. Remember we are teaching one thing or another all of the time, because we are constantly radiating what we are. Cowritten with his daughter, Cynthia Covey Haller, and published posthumously, Live Life in Crescendo is a life-changing and life-affirming read.
Reconciliation is broken down into three core practices— Learn, Understand, and Act—that can be applied by individuals, communities, organizations, and governments. The practices are based not only on the historical and contemporary experience of Indigenous peoples in their relentless efforts to effect transformative change and decolonization, but also on the deep understanding and expertise about what has been effective in the past, what we are doing right, and wrong, today, and what our collective future requires. Fundamental to a shared way of thinking is an understanding of the Indigenous experience throughout the story of Canada. In a manner that reflects how work is done in the Big House, True Reconciliation features an “oral” history of these lands, told through Indigenous and non-Indigenous voices from our past and present. The ultimate and attainable goal of True Reconciliation is to break down the silos we’ve created that prevent meaningful change, to be empowered to increasingly act as “inbetweeners,” and to take full advantage of this moment in our history to positively transform the country into a place we can all be proud of. Wilson-Raybould has written two books, “Indian” in the Cabinet: Speaking Truth to Power (2021) and From Where I Stand: Rebuilding Indigenous Nations for a Stronger Canada (2019). Jody Wilson-Raybould is a descendant of the Musgamagw Tsawataineuk and Laich-Kwil-Tach peoples, which are part
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of the Kwakwaka’wakw, also known as the Kwak’wala-speaking peoples. She is a member of the We Wai Kai Nation. Her traditional name, Puglaas, means “woman born to noble people.” DEEP DIVERSITY A Compassionate, Scientific Approach to Achieving Racial Justice by Shakil Choudhury
$24.95, paper. Greystone. 215 pages
With clear language and engaging stories, Shakil Choudhury explains how and why well-intentioned people can perpetuate systems of oppression, often unconsciously. Using a trauma-informed approach that removes shame or blame, he offers us the tools to recognize, take authentic responsibility, and enact deep change. Choudhury interweaves research into the brain and studies on human behavior with hard-won lessons from his career of helping organizations create more inclusive environments. He models vulnerability and mistake-making, sharing examples of his own bias-missteps so readers are encouraged into their own racial justice journey without judgment. Readers will come away from the book with practical tools and an understanding of: ♦ How to becomes a systems thinker by developing racial pattern recognition skills in order to challenge racism and other forms of systemic discrimination when we encounter them, while minimizing the tendency to shame or blame ourselves or others. ♦ How to recognize when the unconscious influence of bias, identity, emotions, or power contradict our beliefs about equality, and how to realign our thoughts/words/ actions. ♦ How to break the racial prejudice habits we have all been socialized into since birth, using research-based strategies. We need to understand why humans do what we do, the evolutionary impulses underlying our group-ish nature and our struggles with power, bias, and social dominance. This is why psychology and neuroscience perspectives are critical to integrate into anti-racist work, as is practicing compassion for ourselves and for others. “Shakil is a rare jewel in the work of what it means to heal, repair, and take responsibility...This book is required reading for anyone interested in building a loving, just and diverse world.” —Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison, Zen teacher & author of Wholehearted: Slow Down, Help Out, Wake Up
Ecology, Community & Social Change BEAUTIFUL SOLUTIONS A Toolbox for Liberation
by Eli Feghali & Rachel Plattus
$27.95, paper. Or Books. 230 pages, b/w images
Beautiful Solutions brings together some of the world’s most innovative community leaders to share examples of a new economy under construction. Many of those examples are already happening in your community. Look around. Can you find a credit union? A food cooperative? A community garden? What about a mutual aid project? The chances are that you or someone in your family is already involved in a beautiful solution! While these examples may seem small at first sight, they don’t have to be. When they are connected to each other or given the resources they need to grow, the solutions that already exist in our communities can be the starting point for collective transformation.
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This time of turmoil is also a time of great opportunity. As the cracks in the system get bigger, more and more people are open to ideas that have the power to change everything. Beautiful Solutions is a collaborative project that highlights many interlocking pieces of a complex puzzle. It helps us see where pieces are missing and allows us to get closer to putting the whole thing together. Featuring concrete examples from every area of our economy—from food and finance to energy and education—Beautiful Solutions demonstrates that another, better world is already under construction. This book is not a work of theory or polemic so much as a starting point for practical politics. What sets it apart is the sheer breadth of examples and voices it brings together, all in an accessible, teachable format aimed at emerging activists. Rather than focusing on the debates that so often divide people today, Beautiful Solutions focuses on radical, practical projects that can become part of a global effort that transforms economic and political life at every level. Beautiful Solutions is also part of the broader family of Beautiful Trouble books, online toolkit, trainings and resources—thereby connecting the practice of resistance of the earlier books to visions of the world we are working toward.
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Kind Words & Commitment LIVING A COMMITTED LIFE Finding Freedom and Fulfillment in a Purpose Larger than Yourself
by Lynne Twist
$25.95, paper. Berrett-Koehler. 240 pages
What would your life be like if you committed to something larger than yourself? Find out in the newest book from global transformation thought leader and author of The Soul of Money Lynne Twist. How does one person make a difference in the world? People constantly seek to discover meaning in their lives, but as humans take on the challenges facing us in this decade and beyond, we’re searching for it now more than ever. Living a Committed Life demonstrates the power of dedication that goes beyond the self and teaches how to live a committed life that enables you to draw on resources and capacities from your most authentic self. In five parts, Lynne Twist
shows how to make and keep commitments, engage in individual and collective action, and discover ways to connect and collaborate to make a difference. By sharing stories and perspectives from her life, Twist reveals her unique experience as a thought leader and activist in multiple causes, from ending world hunger and protecting the Amazon rainforest to empowering women’s leadership. The book presents the guiding principles that have enabled her own success and that turn inspiration into action for everyone. “In this inspiring book Lynne Twist emphasizes that each one of us makes some impact, every day. Let us make good decisions and work together— the cumulative effect will make this a better world.” —Dr. Jane Goodall, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and United Nations Messenger of Peace
WHAT WE SAY MATTERS Practicing Nonviolent Communication
♦ Extending empathy to yourself and others ♦ Distinguishing between feelings and needs ♦ Making requests rather than demands ♦ Creating mutually satisfying outcomes ♦ And many more
by Judith & Ike Lasater
$25.95, paper. Shambhala. 158 pages
TOWARDS ZERO WASTE How to Live a Plastic and Junk Free, Healthier Life
by Feidhlim Harty
$24.95, paper. Permanent. 176 pages, b/w illus.
Is recycling really the answer to household waste? How do we eliminate microplastics from our wastewater? How do we avoid consumer goods that are designed to break? How do we stop the oceans being trashed? Towards Zero Waste offers practical tools for change in your own kitchen, on your weekly shop and around your home, as well as in the wider world. Fidhlim Harty explores how and why we need to go zero waste, firstly looking at where waste currently goes, and revealing the hidden world of food and product miles and embodied energy. He shares how to reduce waste room by room, at events, parties, during our travels, and at work. Having minimized waste for over two decades, Feidhlim and his family share their clever ideas to eliminate junk, buy wisely, free yourself from useless packaging, reduce not only your eco footprint but your household bills, compost all biodegradables, and reuse, repair and reroute. They share five simple steps to zero waste and inspire us to be active and push for change. There is a hunger now within society to address the root causes of plastic waste, right back to the point of oil and gas extraction. People want no part in adding to plastics in the oceans or spreading microplastics into our water, soils and food. Towards Zero Waste offers clear guidance for anyone wanting to actively be part of the solutions and not the problems. HOW TO BE A CLIMATE OPTIMIST Blueprints for a Better World by Chris Turner
$23.00, paper. Penguin. 284 pages
Chris Turner has reported from the places where the sustainable future first emerged—from green islands in Denmark and green office parks in southern India, to solar panel factories in California and idealistic intentional communities from Scotland to New Mexico. Here, he condenses the first quarter century of the global energy transition into bite-sized chunks of optimistic reflection and reportage, telling a story of a planet in peril and a global effort to save it that is already well under way. There is still much work to be done, but Turner lays out the political
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maneuvers, policy initiatives and industrial innovations emerging to finish the job. We have already avoided the worst possible outcomes of climate change and pointed humanity’s inventive nature at a future that is healthier, more sustainable and more vibrant than ever before. Daily life is not on the verge of perfection. But it will be durable again, insofar as anything wrought by human hands ever can be. It won’t be barrelling headlong toward ecological catastrophe. And that is enough, and worth the struggle... I think if the climate stabilizes anywhere below 2 degrees Celsius increase, it will come to be regarded as one of the most amazing collaborative projects humanity has ever accomplished... This transition has to be optimistic. It has to have some excitement to it, at least a little exuberance... Let’s build a much better world. Or try to—and in that effort make something at least much more durable and admirable. Something maybe even a little enviable... That much better world is waiting.
Our continued learning has created effects that have been nothing short of miraculous in our lives... We hope that some of these techniques will help you speak in a way that meets your needs for clarity and ease and the world’s need for compassion. This new edition includes updated resources and a preface by Judith Hanson Lasater. “What We Say Matters offers an approachable yet nuanced gift—a guide to speaking from our truth and listening with our hearts. Each page is filled with wise insights, relatable stories, and profound practices that, if even a fraction of the human race were to dabble with, have the power to transform the world as we know it.” —Aimee Ryan, Certified Trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication
SAVING US A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World by Katharine Hayhoe $25.99, paper. 308 pp.
“Those of us who see climate science clearly can become too despairing and too angry. Saving Us reminds us we need to start from a place of love, open-mindedness and respect. Katharine is the rarest of gifts to our troubled world, equipped with the mind of a scientist and the heart of a saint. This is the book we all need.” — Elizabeth May, Former Leader of the Green Party of Canada “Saving Us contains profound insights on human behavior, and it shows us how our conversations can launch us on the journey away from despair toward awareness and engagement. A real joy to read.” — Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
How to Be a Climate Optimist moves beyond the anger and futile despair over ecological collapse, shifting that passion toward the project of building a twenty-first century world that surpasses the twentieth-century version in every way.
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$19.99, paper. New Society. 174 pages, b/w photos
The economic operating system keeps crashing. It’s time to upgrade to a new one. Five decades ago, The Limits to Growth shocked the world by showing that population and industrial growth were pushing humanity towards a cliff. Today the world recognizes that we are now at the cliff edge: Earth has crossed multiple planetary boundaries while widespread inequality is causing deep instabilities in societies. There seems to be no way out. Earth For All is both an antidote to despair and a road map to a better future. Using powerful state-of-the-art computer modeling to explore policies likely to deliver the most good for the majority of people, a leading group of scientists and economists from around the world present five extraordinary turnarounds to achieve prosperity for all within planetary limits in a single generation. Coverage includes: ♦ Results of new global modeling that indicates falling well-being and rising social tensions heighten risk of regional societal collapses ♦ Two alternative scenarios – Too-Little-Too-Late vs The Giant Leap – and what TERRA VIVA My Life in a Biodiversity of Movements by Vandana Shiva
$29.95, paper. Chelsea Green. 258 pages
“All of us who care about the future of Planet Earth must be grateful to Vandana Shiva.” —Jane Goodall, UN Messenger of Peace Vandana Shiva has been described in many ways: the “Gandhi of Grain,” “a rock star” in the battle against GMOs, and “the most powerful voice” for people of the developing world. For over four decades she has vociferously advocated for diversity, indigenous knowledge, localization, and real democracy; she has been at the forefront of seed saving, food sovereignty, and connecting the dots between the destruction of nature, the polarization of societies, and indiscriminate corporate greed. In Terra Viva, Dr. Shiva shares her most memorable campaigns, alongside some of the world’s most celebrated activists and environmentalists, all working toward a liv-
they mean for our collective future ♦ Five system-shifting steps that can upend poverty and inequality, lift up marginalized people, and transform our food and energy systems by 2050 ♦ A clear pathway to reboot our global economic system so it works for all people and the planet. Written in an accessible, inspirational style using clear language and high impact visuals, Earth For All is a profound vision for uncertain times and a map to a better future. “Earth for All is an extraordinary, potentially historic, breakthrough guide to a viable and fulfilling future for all on a finite living Earth. My highest recommendation. Read it. Share it. Discuss it.” —David Korten, author, The Great Turning. “This latest, most urgent, and most carefully researched version of system science’s scenarios for our human future is essential reading for collapse preventers everywhere. Whether its recommendations are taken up by policy makers everywhere—and whether we humans are therefore able to avert worldwide ecological, economic, and social breakdown sometime during the remainder of the 21st century—is up to all of us.” —Richard Heinberg, author, Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival able planet and healthier democracies. For the very first time, she also recounts the stories of her childhood in post-partition India—the influence of the Himalayan forests she roamed; her parents, who saw no difference in the education of boys and girls at a time when this was not the norm; and the Chipko movement, whose women were “the real custodians of biodiversity-related knowledge.” Throughout, Shiva’s pursuit of a unique intellectual path marrying quantum physics with science, technology, and environmental policy will captivate the reader. Terra Viva is a celebration of a remarkable life and a clear-eyed assessment of the challenges we face moving forward—including those revealed by the COVID crisis, the privatization of biotechnology, and the commodification of our biological and natural resources. “Vandana Shiva is an expert [on the dangers of globalization] whose analysis has helped us understand this situation much more deeply.” —Russell Brand
David Suzuki & Tara Cullis THE SACRED BALANCE (25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION) Rediscovering Our Place in Nature by David Suzuki
$24.95, paper. Greystone. 336 pages
With a new foreword from Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass—and an afterword from Bill McKibben—this 25th anniversary edition of a beloved bestseller invites readers to see ourselves as part of nature. The world is changing at a relentless pace. How can we slow down and act from a place of respect for all living things? The Sacred Balance shows us how. In this extensively updated new edition, David Suzuki reflects on the increasingly radical changes in science and nature—from the climate crisis to peak oil and the rise in clean energy—and examines what they mean for humankind. He also reflects on what we have learned by listening to Indigenous leaders, whose knowledge of the natural world is profound, and whose peoples are on the frontlines of protecting land and water around the world. Drawing on his own experiences and those of others who have put their beliefs into action, The Sacred Balance combines science, philosophy, spirituality, and Indigenous knowledge to offer concrete suggestions for creating an ecologically sustainable future WHAT YOU WON’T DO FOR LOVE A Conversation
The exquisite balance of these elements creates and maintains the web of life on Earth. We too are part of that web; like all living things, we are the sacred elements. We are made from and sustained by earth and air, fire and water. We are part of the totality of biological diversity that maintains the planet’s life support systems. We are held together by love. And we express and celebrate our understanding of our place on Earth through the mysteries of the spirit. What You Won’t Do for Love transforms real-life conversations between David, Tara, Miriam, and her husband Sturla into a charmingly novel and poetic work. Over one idyllic day in British Columbia, Miriam and Sturla take in a lifetime of David and Tara’s adventures, inspiration, and love, and in turn reflect on their own relationships to each other and the planet. Revealing David Suzuki and Tara Cullis in an affable, conversational, and often comedic light, What You Won’t Do For Love asks if we can love our planet the same way we love one another. “This crystalline gem… is enhanced by interludes of evocative poetry and serene nature photography.” —Booklist “Warm, wise, and overflowing with generosity, this is a love story so epic it embraces all of creation. Yet another reminder of how blessed we are to be in the struggle with elders like David and Tara.” —Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis
by David Suzuki & Tara Cullis
$20.95, paper. Coach House. 152 pages
What if we could love the planet as much as we love one another? What You Won’t Do for Love is an inspiring conversation about love and the environment. When artist Miriam Fernandes approaches the legendary eco-pioneer David Suzuki to create a theatre piece about climate change, she expects to write about David’s perspective as a scientist. Instead, she discovers the boundless vision and efforts of Tara Cullis, a literature scholar, climate organizer, and David’s life partner. Miriam realizes that David and Tara’s decades-long love for each other, and for family and friends, has only clarified and strengthened their resolve to fight for the planet.
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by rediscovering and addressing humanity’s basic needs. Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute, The Sacred Balance begins with the recognition that we are creatures of the earth, and as such, we are utterly dependent on its gifts of air, water, soil and the energy of the sun. These elements are not just external factors; we take them into our bodies, where they are incorporated into our very essence. “What replenishes the air, water and soil and captures sunlight to vitalize the biosphere is the diverse web of all beings. All species are our evolutionary relatives. This web of life unites all living things.” The book is woven around seven elements—earth, air, fire, water, biodiversity, love, and spirituality—which all human beings need—not only to exist at all but to also lead full, rich lives.
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by Ben Rawlence
$39.99, cloth. St. Martin’s. 304 pages, b/w illus.
In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing account of the “lung” at the top of the world. For the last fifty years, the trees of the boreal forest have been moving north. Ben Rawlence’s The Treeline takes us along this critical frontier of our warming planet from Norway to Siberia, Alaska to Greenland, Canada to Sweden to meet the scientists, residents and trees confronting huge geological changes. Only the hardest species survive at these latitudes including the ice-loving Dahurian larch of Siberia, the antiseptic Spruce that purifies our atmosphere, the Downy birch conquering Scandinavia, the healing Balsam poplar that Native Americans use as a cure-all and the noble Scots Pine that lives longer when surrounded by its family. More than the Amazon rain forest, the boreal is truly the lung of the world. Covering one fifth of the globe, and containing one third of all the trees on earth, the boreal is the second largest biome, or living system, after the ocean. Planetary systems—cycles of water and oxygen, atmospheric circulation, the albedo effect, ocean currents and polar winds—are shaped and directed by the position of the treeline and the functioning of the forest… This is the place to look for a glimpse of what, after the great transformation currently unfolding on earth, will remain. Thousands or perhaps millions of years from now, when the planet cools again, the species that creep out to repopulate the earth could well be those that are endemic to the boreal. They are uniquely adapted to climate change… When humans are only fossils, it is these hardy northern species that will still be standing tall. It is a journey of wonder and awe at the incredible creativity and resilience of these species and the mysterious workings of the forest upon which we rely for the air we breathe. Blending reportage with the latest science, The Treeline is a story of what might soon be the last forest left and what that means for the future of all life on earth. “The very treeline is on the move: a devastating image. This book is an evocative, wise and unflinching exploration of what it will mean for humanity.” —Jay Griffiths, author of A Sideways Look at Time
Deep Ecology EMBRACE FEARLESSLY THE BURNING WORLD Essays by Barry Lopez
$37.00, cloth. Random House. 320 pages
A lyrical final work of nonfiction from the author of Arctic Dreams and Horizon, whose writing, fieldwork, and mentorship inspired generations of writers and activists. An ardent steward of the land, fearless traveler, and unrivaled observer of nature and culture, Barry Lopez died after a long illness in 2020. The previous summer, wildfire had consumed much of what was dear to him in his home place and the community around it—a tragic reminder of the climate change of which he’d long warned. At once a cri de coeur and a memoir of both pain and wonder, this remarkable collection of essays unspools memories both personal and political, among them tender, sometimes painful stories of his childhood, reports from expeditions to study animals and sea life, recollections of travels to Antarctica and other extraordinary plac-
ACTIVE HOPE New in How to Face the Paperback Mess We’re in with Unexpected Resilience & Creative Power
by Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone
$25.50, paper. New World Library. 272 pages
The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Climate change, political polarization, economic upheaval, and mass extinction together create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions. Active Hope shows us how to strengthen our capacity to face this crisis so that we can respond with unexpected resilience and creative power. Drawing on decades of teaching an empowerment approach known as the Work That Reconnects, the authors guide us through a transformational process informed by mythic journeys, modern psychology, spirituality, and holistic science. We provide tools that support us in having the empowering conversations our times call for... Scattered throughout the book are “Try This” boxes inviting you to experience practices we find valuable both for personal use and in groups. We face the facts of a planet and economies in crisis, and we acknowledge that individuals can’t necessarily create their desired outcomes, but rather than allowing these two realities to shut us down, we choose active hope. This hope is something we do rather than something we have. Rather than acting only when we deduce we may succeed, we focus on our intention and let that be our guide. On this path we discover new strengths, open to a network of allies, and experience a deepening of aliveness. Because we are actively giving—and receiving—hope, we can face global crises without despair and play a personal role in the collective “Great Turning” toward a life-sustaining society. The spiral of the Work That Reconnects is some-
es, and meditations on finding oneself amid vast, dramatic landscapes. He reflects on those who taught him, including Indigenous elders and scientific mentors who sharpened his eye for the natural world. We witness poignant returns from his travels to the sanctuary of his Oregon backyard. And in prose of searing candor, he reckons with the cycle of life, including his own, and with the dangers the earth and its creatures are facing. With an introduction by Rebecca Solnit that speaks to Lopez’s keen attention to the world, including its spiritual dimensions, Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World opens our minds and souls to the importance of being wholly present for the beauty and complexity of life. The commitment in these circumstances, I believe, is actually to something larger than the self. You get in the right frame of mind to drop through that narrow hole in the ice by recalling the love you bear your friends, and that they bear you, by stimulating the professional need to make thorough, accurate notes; and by appreciating an opportunity to give curiosity its full rein. You can’t do this every day but you can once in a while. You can enter that place inside yourself where you privately meet your fears and say, “Yes. I know. But please, come with me. What we’re about to see is greater than the thing you’re running from.” Successfully locating the proper frame of mind and then acting is not, I think, about refusing to accommodate fear. It’s about the cultivation of love. “Lopez did not take the task of writing lightly… Sentences shimmer and punch… In one of the 27 essays that are collected here, he tries to pin down the point of it all:
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thing we can come back to again and again as a source of strength and fresh insights. It reminds us that we are larger, stronger, deeper, and more creative than we have been brought up to believe. It maps out an empowerment process that journeys through four successive movements, or stations, described as Coming from Gratitude, Honoring Our Pain for the World, Seeing with New Eyes, and Going Forth... The spiral offers a transformational journey that deepens our capacity to act for the sake of life on Earth. “It’s hard to think of a more important task than to empower us ordinary folk with tools that allow us to engage with the monumental challenges that confront us — tools that nourish our creativity and bolster our confidence and resilience. If you want to serve the living Earth but don’t know how, if you feel overwhelmed by the magnitude of the task ahead, if you want to find the part that only you can play in the ‘great work,’ please read this book.” —John Seed, founder of the Rainforest Information Centre “We belong to the Earth, and our precious living world is in crisis. More than any book I’ve read, Active Hope shows us the true dimensions of this crisis, and the way our heart and actions can be part of the Great Turning toward healing. Please read this book and share it with others —for your own awakening, for our children, and for our future.” —Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance Joanna Macy is a scholar of Buddhism and lifelong eco-activist. Among her works are Coming Back to Life and World as Lover, World as Self. Chris Johnstone is a doctor and specialist in the psychology of addiction and resilience. For more resources: ActiveHope.info.
‘The central project of my adult life as a writer,’ he says, ‘is to know and love what we have been given, and to urge others to do the same.’… He loved this world, and did his best, and pointed us the way.” —The New York Times MIRRORS IN THE EARTH Reflections on Self-Healing from the Living World by Asia Suler
$25.95, paper. North Atlantic. 294 pages
“When healing is needed at the deepest level, nature will always call us back home--not only to the oak woods or water-filled coves, but to the homes within ourselves.” In a series of 12 lyrical nature essays, herbalist, writer, and Earth intuitive Asia Suler illuminates the healing power of the living Earth—and gives us permission to nurture self-compassion and empathy as forces for personal and ecological healing. In a time of unprecedented ecological devastation, it’s easy to feel hopeless and disconnected. It’s easier still to mask our inherent goodness--to imagine that our unique and precious gifts simply aren’t enough, or forget the power of our inborn empathy. For those of us who are highly sensitive, innately attuned to the workings and whispers of the natural world, it can be hard to embody the belief that we’re enough as we are--and that can heal the Earth. Here, Suler reveals the opposite: our goodness, our empathy, our intuitive connections, and our capacity for self-compassion are more than personal traits or antidotes to despair: they are, in fact, our most potent vehicles for
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Combining poetic nature writing with exercises and reflection prompts at the end of each essay, Mirrors in the Earth coaxes us to come as we are: to discover and tend the inherent brilliance and medicine that lives in each of us. From the manatee-calm springs of wild Florida to the flower-dotted coves of the world’s most biodiverse mountains, Mirrors in the Earth is an invitation and encounter with the benevolence of the living world--and a nature therapy session for the soul. “I am in awe of how one small book can hold so much wisdom. This book offers readers a pathway back to self-acceptance, interconnection, and belonging and empowers one along the way to make a stand for the Earth.” —Rosemary Gladstar, herbalist and author of Medicinal Herbs SWEET IN TOOTH AND CLAW Stories of Generosity and Cooperation in the Natural World
by Kristin Ohlson
$39.50, cloth. Patagonia. 392 pages, colour photos
What if Nature is more cooperative, and less competitive, than we think? A follow-up to Kristin Ohlson’s previous book, The Soil Will Save Us, Sweet in Tooth and Claw extends the concept of cooperation in nature to the life-affirming connections among microbes, plants, fungi, insects, birds, and animals—including humans—in ecosystems around the globe. For centuries, people have debated whether nature is mostly competitive— as Darwin theorized and the poet Tennyson described as “red in tooth and claw”—or innately cooperative, as many ancient and indigenous peoples believed. In the last 100 or so years, a growing gang of scientists have studied the mutually beneficial interactions that are believed to benefit every species on earth. This book is full of stories of generosity—not competition—in nature. It is a testament to the importance of a healthy biodiversity—and a beautiful book published by Patagonia, a uniquely generous organization. It seems to me that the best and highest use of science these days is to figure out how nature works… and then to help humans change our behavior so that we can roll back the damage we’ve already done and avoid further damage. Ohlson tells stories of trees and mushrooms, beavers and bees. There are chapters on a wide variety of ecosystems and portraits of the people who learn from them: forests (the work of Suzanne Simard); scientists who study the interaction of bees and flowers in the Rocky Mountains; the discovery of bacteria and protozoa in the mid1600s by Dutch scientist Antoni von Leeuwenhoek; ranchers, government agency personnel, and scientists working together to restore wetlands from deserts in northeastern Nevada; and more. It is a rich and fascinating book full of amazing stories, sure to change your perspective on the natural world. Parts of this book look at the cooperation and mutually beneficial connections that hold together the creatures and ecosystems in and around us. I find that to be thrilling science. But for me, the most thrilling
by Charles Durrett
$47.95, cloth. Wiley. 432 pages, 9x11, b/w illus.
Explore a groundbreaking and holistic new approach to designing community-first neighborhoods In Cohousing Communities: Designing for High-Functioning Neighborhoods, distinguished architect and affordable housing advocate Charles Durrett delivers a complete, start-to-finish guide for designing anything where the emphasis lies with the community. This book describes the consequential role that architecture and a healthy design process can play in the success of neighborhoods, churches, towns, and more. It’s an inspiring collection of ideas that prioritize high-functioning neighborhoods. In the book, the author draws on the success of hundreds of community-first projects to show readers how to design a project that addresses both timeless and modern challenges—from aging to climate change and racism—in its architecture and urban design. He compiles facts and concepts that are essential to the design of a high-functioning community, where people can participate in a way that reflects their values, improves their social connections, and retain their autonomy and privacy. Readers will also find: ♦ Ideas for town planning, street planning, and other town altering improvements ♦ Discussions of how developers can make better multifamily housing ♦ Explorations of how planners and politicians can make high-functioning neighborhoods a cornerstone of their community ♦ In-depth treatments of families who want to confirm that they’re choosing the right neighborhood Perfect for architects, university students and professors who strive to see new ways to create neighborhoods, Cohousing Communities: Designing for High-Functioning Neighborhoods will also appeal to universities planning new neighborhoods for retired alumni or new housing for students and faculty. Also available by Charles Durrett is Creating Cohousing (2011). ROLLING HOMES Shelter on Wheels by Lloyd Khan
$46.95, paper. Shelter. 256 pages, 8x10, photos
This is the latest addition to The Shelter Library of Building Books, which started with Shelter in 1973 and includes Home Work, Builders of the Pacific Coast, Tiny Homes, and more. Lloyd Kahn is the master crafter. If there’s not a nomadic revolution going on these days, there’s certainly a nomadic movement. In the last few years, either for reasons of practicality (high costs of rent or mortgages), change in lifestyle, or the search for adventure, people are customizing all sorts of vehicles for travel. This book focuses on DIY vehicles, with most of the 50 or so shown here fitted out for the road by their owners, similar to the way that Shelter’s books on building feature hand-built homes. There are vans, sedans, trucks, busses, and trailers with a wide array of designs and styles. A number of the units are 4-wheel drive for off-road travel.
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Gardening & Farming PLANT SCIENCE FOR GARDENERS Essentials for Growing Better Plants by Robert Pavlis
$22.99, paper. New Society. 224 pages, b/w illus.
A little plant science grows a long way. Plant Science for Gardeners empowers growers to analyze common problems, find solutions, and make better decisions in the garden for optimal plant health and productivity. Most gardeners learn by accumulating rules – water once a week, never dry out snowdrop bulbs, prune lilacs after flowering, plant garlic in October—the list is endless. Rules take years to learn and yet leave you floundering when the unexpected strikes and plants look unhealthy, produce poorly, or die. There is a better way. By understanding the basic biology of how plants grow, you can become a thinking gardener with the confidence to problem solve for optimized plant health and productivity. Learn the science and ditch the rules! Coverage includes: ♦ The biology of roots, stems, leaves, and flowers ♦ Understanding how plants function as whole organisms ♦ The role of nutrients and inputs ♦ Vegetables, flowers, grasses, and trees and shrubs ♦ Propagation and genetics ♦ Sidebars that explode common gardening myths ♦ Tips for evaluating plant problems and finding solutions. Whether you’re a home gardener, micro-farmer, market gardener, or homesteader, this entertaining and accessible guide shortens the learning curve and gives you the knowledge to succeed no matter where you live. LAWNS INTO MEADOWS Growing a Regenerative Landscape by Owen Wormser
$34.99, paper. Chelsea Green. 168 pages, colour photos
Landscape designer Owen Wormser explains how to replace the deadscape we call lawn with low-maintenance, eco-friendly meadows. This award-winning, how-to book on growing your own wildflowers and native grasses is also about sustainability, regeneration, and beauty. In a world where lawns have wreaked havoc on our natural ecosystems, meadows offer a compelling solution. It is garden landscaping that is beautiful, all year round.
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Meadows establish wildlife and pollinator habitats, are low-maintenance and low-cost, have a built-in resilience that helps them weather climate extremes, and can draw down and store far more carbon dioxide than any manicured lawn. Wormser describes how to plant an organic meadow garden or traditional meadow, that’s right for your site. His book includes guidance on: ♦ Preparing your plot ♦ Designing your meadow ♦ Planting without using synthetic chemicals ♦ Growing 21 starter native grasses and wildflowers, including butterfly weed, smooth blue aster, purple coneflower, wild bergamot, blue grama grass, switchgrass and many more. He also includes tips on building support in neighborhoods where a tidy lawn is the standard, and how to become a meadow activist. To illuminate the many joys of meadow-building, Wormser draws on his own stories, including how growing up off the grid in northern Maine, with no electricity or plumbing, prepared him for his work. This second edition includes a collection of before and after photos of meadows taken by the author. GROWING BEANS A Diet for Healthly People and Planet by Susan Young
$19.95, paper. Permanent. 160 pp, colour photos
Growing your own beans builds healthy soil in your garden and provides you with a nutrient rich diet. Beans can play a role in reducing the risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer; they are good sources of protein, fibre, folate, iron and potassium, and they can reduce our carbon footprint and food miles! Susan Young brings together 10 years of experimenting with multiple varieties of beans (Phaseolus) and takes us on a culinary journey around the world, revealing a range of colourful and historic beans, from the pink Fagiolo di Lamon of Italy to the black and white Bosnian Pole bean. She explains which varieties are best for eating fresh off the plant (green) and which for drying for later use, providing harvests for storing all through winter. Beans offer year-round meals, and dried beans can be the star of the show with their diversity of flavours and textures. Susan shares six must-grow beans, as well as a multitude of European varieties along with their backgrounds. She includes a basic guide to drying your beans and guidelines for cooking them. Learn how to sow, grow and harvest your beans, how to build supports for climbing and bush varieties, and keep your plants and soil healthy.
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What Your Food Ate WHAT YOUR FOOD ATE How to Heal the Land and Reclaim Our Health
by David Montgomery & Anne Biklé $40.00, cloth. Norton. 380 pages
The roots of good health start on farms. The health of the soil ripples through to that of crops, livestock, and ultimately us. The long-running partnerships through which crops and soil life nourish one another suffuse plant and animal foods in the human diet with an array of compounds and nutrients our bodies need to protect us from pathogens and chronic ailments. Unfortunately, conventional agricultural practices unravel these vital partnerships and thereby undercut our well-being. Can farmers and ranchers produce enough nutrient-dense food to feed us all? Can we have quality and quantity? With their trademark thoroughness and knack for integrating information across numerous scientific fields, Montgomery and Biklé chart the way forward. Navigating discoveries and epiphanies about the world beneath our feet, they reveal why regenerative farming practices hold the key to healing sick soil and untapped potential for improving human health. Humanity’s hallmark endeavors of agriculture and medicine emerged from our understanding of the natural world—and still depend on it. Montgomery and Biklé eloquently update this fundamental reality and show us why what’s good for the land is good for us, too. What Your Food Ate is a must-read for farmers, eaters,
Nature as Teacher & Healer AN IMMENSE WORLD How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
$38.00, cloth. Knopf. 450 pp, b/w & colour photos
Every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world. Pulitzer Prize–winning science journalist Ed Yong takes us on “a thrilling tour of nonhuman perception” (The New York Times), allowing us to experience the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that other animals perceive. The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. In An Immense World, Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses to encounter beetles that are drawn to fires, turtles that can track the Earth’s magnetic fields, fish that fill rivers with electrical messages, and even humans who wield sonar like bats. We discover that a crocodile’s scaly face is as sensitive as a lover’s fingertips, that the eyes of a giant squid evolved to see sparkling whales, that plants thrum with the inaudible songs of courting bugs, and that even simple scallops have complex vision. We learn what bees see in flowers, what songbirds hear in their tunes, and what dogs smell on the street. We listen to stories of pivotal discoveries in the field, while looking ahead at the many mysteries that remain unsolved. Funny, rigorous, and suffused with the joy of discovery, An Immense World takes us on what Marcel Proust called “the only true voyage… not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes… to see the hundred universes that each of them sees.” At journey’s end, we’ll see how animals unify the information from their senses, how humans are polluting and distorting that information, and where our
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chefs, doctors, and anyone concerned with reversing the modern epidemic of chronic diseases and mitigating climate change. What happens on farmland will shape biodiversity and the future of nature, including humanity. In the broadest view, a philosophy of cultivating and caring for life is the foundation for a soil ethic. Soil not only feeds us today but will feed our children’s children, and this calls for some reverence. Grounding farming in a mindset based on cultivating beneficial life below ground would take care of our tiniest brethren, the herds of soil-dwelling microbes that have long proved essential to the well-being of all plants... We still have time to choose the regenerative path for our soils, our planet, and ourselves. We just can’t afford to wait much longer. “Will surely become a classic—a biological Rosetta Stone that intimately and elegantly shows how the health of soil, plants, animals and human beings are inseparable. It is an exquisitely crafted narrative of ecological literacy that upends more than a century of industrial hegemony that fostered the misguided dominance of chemical farms, ultra-processed food, and the global rise of metabolic disease. What Your Food Ate clearly delineates how to restore and regenerate the life of people, food, and land, wisdom needed by all.” —Paul Hawken, author of Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation
responsibilities to nature now lie. “An Immense World is an expansive, constantly revelatory exploration of the biosphere’s sensorium, from the rigidly pheromonic behavioral programming of ants to the constant subsonic conversations of elephants. Ed Yong is my favorite contemporary science writer.” —William Gibson, author of Agency DEER MAN Seven Years Living in the Wild by Geoffroy Delorme
$32.95, cloth. Greystone. 230 pages, b/w photos
In this sensuous and moving memoir, a young man forms a powerful connection with deer while living alone in the woods for seven years. Geoffroy Delorme never di fit in the human world. As a boy, he dreamed of transforming into a fox so he could escape into the forest. As he got older, he regularly disappeared into the woods, drawn to the rhythms of animal life. One night, an encounter with a deer changed his life: from then on, he knew he wanted to live among them. He went on to spend seven years in the forest (in northern France) with almost no human contact, minimal supplies, and no tent or sleeping bag, slowly gaining the deer’s trust and becoming a part of their lives. Deer Man is the astonishing story of Delorme’s immersion in the forest. He learns to blend in with the deer and, slowly, they accept him into their world. He witnesses their births and deaths, courtship and battles, ostracism and friendship over the cycles of their lives. Among the deer, he experiences the beauty, pain, fear, and joy of a life lived as a part of nature, but also witnesses the suffering caused by human encroachment. Eventually, Delorme meets a woman walking through the trees. He knows he can stay in the forest and die with his friends—or he can leave, and tell their story to a human world that surely needs to hear it.
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Deer Man shows how far one human is willing to go to understand an animal, Deer Man asks us to never take for granted the flora and fauna of our world, and to work for their protection in whatever ways we can. “Deer Man is an absolutely enchanting book. With the eye of a scientist and the heart of a lover, Geoffroy Delorme takes us to another world that exists beside our own: not only the forest of northern France, but the umwelt of the roe deer who live here—who became, during his seven years among them, his chosen family and closest friends. Few other humans have achieved this level of intimacy with wild creatures. I am recommending this book to everyone I know.” —Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus THE BOOK OF NATURE CONNECTION 70 Sensory Activities for All Ages
by Jacob Rodenburg
$24.99, paper. New Society. 128 pages, 7x9, colour photos
Unplug from technology and “plug in” to nature through the wonder of your senses. The Book of Nature Connection is packed with fun activities for using all our senses to engage with nature in a deep and nourishing way. From “extenda-ears” and acorn whistles to bird calls, camouflage games, and scent scavenger hunts, enjoy over 70 diverse, engaging, sensory activities for all ages that promote mindfulness and nature connection. With activities grouped by the main senses—hearing, sight, smell, touch, and taste—plus sensory walks and group games, The Book of Nature Connection is both a powerful learning tool kit and the cure for sensory anesthesia brought on by screen time and lives lived indoors. Whisper in birds, be dazzled by nature’s kaleidoscope of colors, taste the freshness of each season, learn to savor the scented world of evergreens, hug a tree and feel the bark against your cheek. Spending time in nature with all senses tuned and primed helps us feel like we belong to the natural world—and in belonging, we come to feel more connected, nourished, and alive. Ideal for educators, camp and youth leaders, caregivers and parents, and anyone looking to reconnect and become a nature sommelier! “This is a wonderful resource for those who love to wander and learn from nature and for those who are novices at exploring the natural world! Jacob has revisioned some tried and true immersion experiences with a new twist. Flip to any page, read, and go outside for a new and refreshing way to experience wonder.” —Jennifer Seydel, executive director, Green Schools Network DEVAS & NATURE SPIRITS And How to Communicate with Them by Kathleen Pepper
$20.95, paper. Polair Publishing. 108 pages, 8x7, colour illustrations
All about the hidden world behind nature. Kathleen Pepper is the author of Hand in Hand with Angels and although this book touches on angels, its main focus is the lesser beings who are behind all life—and how to see and communicate with them. There are chapters on the angels of creation, gardens dedicated to the secret kingdom, angels and spirits of earth, air, fire and water, as well as ether; on angels and spiritual initiation, and a section full of photos of nature through which you can train yourself to see the life beyond earthly form. Although this is partly a workbook, Kathleen’s own communications with angels and nature spirits render it a rich treasure of special knowledge. Through its title and subject this is also a book about developing your own clairvoyance in its various modes. There’s also a useful glossary of terms and reference to
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The Mother Tree Network FINDING THE New in MOTHER TREE Paperback Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard
$23.00, paper. Penguin. 348 pages, b/w photos
Dr. Suzanne Simard, professor of forest ecology at UBC, was born and raised in a logging family in the rainforests of British Columbia and has forged a lifelong relationship of love and respect with the trees. This relationship was the driving force behind her decision to dedicate her life to better understanding the forest and the network that connects the plant life within. With humour, emotion, and the narrative drive of a storyteller, Dr. Simard takes readers on an intimate journey of scientific discovery. Linking her research to her personal experiences, she recounts her life’s work uncovering the “Wood Wide Web,” the underground mycelium network that connects all the trees and plants within a forest. It is a network that allows them to share not only nutrients, but information, all of which originates from the hubs called Mother Trees. The old trees nurture the young ones and provide them food and water just as we do with our own children. It is enough to make one pause, take a deep breath, and contemplate the social nature of the forest and how this is critical for evolution... THE SECRET NETWORK OF NATURE Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things—Stories from Science and Observation by Peter Wohlleben
$22.95, paper. Greystone. 272 pages
Here’s the final book in The Mysteries of Nature trilogy by the bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben. In The Secret Network of Nature, master forester and storyteller Peter Wohlleben takes readers on a thought-provoking exploration of the vast natural systems that make life on Earth possible. In this tour of an almost unfathomable world, Wohlleben describes the fascinating interplay between animals and plants and answers such questions as: How do they influence each other? Do lifeforms communicate across species boundaries? And what happens
spiritual teachers and their wisdom, and some useful and beautiful meditations you can follow safely without any prior knowledge—also hints for artists. Kathleen Pepper is a practising angelologist, essential oils practitioner, crystal seller and meditation and yoga teacher. She has been deeply committed to healing in the White Eagle Lodge, London, and has given talks and courses on a variety of subjects at the College of Psychic Studies.
Conscious Evolution & Planetary Culture THE STORY OF GAIA The Big Breath and the Evolutionary Journey of Our Conscious Planet by Jude Currivan
$24.99, paper. Inner Traditions. 352 pages
Exploring our emergence as self-aware members of a planetary home and entire Universe that is a unified and innately sentient entity, Jude Currivan shows that mind and consciousness are not what we possess but what we
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When Mother Trees—the majestic hubs at the center of forest communication, protection, and sentience—die, they pass their wisdom to their kind, generation after generation, sharing the knowledge of what helps and what harms, who is friend or foe, and how to adapt and survive in an ever-changing landscape. It’s what all parents do… After a lifetime as a forest detective, my perception of the woods has been turned upside down. With each new revelation, I am more deeply embedded in the forest. The scientific evidence is impossible to ignore: the forest is wired for wisdom, sentience, and healing. Readers journey with Dr. Simard into this massive experiment, from dramatic encounters with wildlife to the groundbreaking “Aha” moments in a lab, from learning how to utilize this network to promote plant growth to what this network can teach us about climate change. “Suzanne Simard’s Finding the Mother Tree carries the stories of trees, fungi, soil and bears—and of a human being listening in on the conversation. The interplay of personal narrative, scientific insights, and the amazing revelations about the life of the forest make a compelling story... I have great admiration for her science and her storytelling alike. These are stories that the world needs to hear.” —Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass when this finely tuned system gets out of sync? By introducing us to the latest scientific discoveries and recounting his own insights from decades of observing nature, one of the world’s most famous foresters shows us how to recapture our sense of awe so we can see the world around us with completely new eyes. In nature, everything is also connected by a network so intricate that we will probably never grasp it in its entirety. And that is a good thing, because it means that plants and animals will always amaze us. It’s important for us to realize that even small interventions can have huge consequences, and we’d do better to keep our hands of everything in nature that we do not absolutely have to touch. Also by Wohlleben is The Inner Life of Animals.
and the whole world fundamentally are. She reveals our Universe as “a great thought of cosmic mind,” manifesting as a cosmic hologram of meaningful in-formation that vitally, exists to evolve. Sharing leading-edge scientific breakthroughs, and showing how they support traditional visions of Earth as a living being--Gaia, the author details the 13.8 billion-year story of our Universe and Gaia, where everything in existence has inherent meaning and evolutionary purpose. Showing how the Universe was born, not in an implicitly chaotic big bang, but as the first moment of a fine-tuned and ongoing “big breath,” she shares the latest evidence for the innate sentience that has guided our universal journey from simplicity to ever-greater complexity, diversity, and self-awareness-from protons to planets, plants, and people. She explains how evolution is not driven by random occurrences and mutations but by profoundly resonant and harmonic interplays of forces and influences, each intelligently informed and guided. Currivan shows how, in Gaia, the Universe’s evolutionary
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impulse is embodied in collaborative relationships and dynamic co-evolutionary partnerships on a planetary scale and as a wholistic gaiasphere. She reveals how the conscious evolution of humanity is an integral part of Gaia’s own evolutionary progress and purpose. And, as she explains in vivid and moving detail, by perceiving and experiencing our planet as a sentient being and ourselves as Gaians, we open ourselves to a deeply ecological, evolutionary, and, above all, hopeful worldview. Also by Jude Currivan is The Cosmic Hologram. RADICAL REGENERATION Sacred Activism and the Renewal of the World by Andrew Harvey & Carolyn Baker
$37.50, paper. Inner Traditions. 576 pages
Presenting a manual for navigating humanity’s collective dark night, Andrew Harvey and Carolyn Baker explore potential antidotes, drawn from mystical tradition and Sacred Activism, to help us find inspiration and take action in the face of the daunting challenges to our world. Offering a deep discussion of our global dark night in terms of the Kali Yuga, the authors examine the dangers of a growing constellation of intractable crises—authoritarianism both in America and abroad, climate change, economic inequality, social upheaval, and spiritual malaise. They then explore the antidotes to these crises: Sacred Activism—specifically, creative, wise, sacredly inspired action—and a profound understanding of our evolutionary ordeal and its potentialities. Examining the power of joy to help enact personal and planetary transformation, they explain how joy, or ananda, is a force all mystical traditions recognize as the essence of the divine. They reveal how to uncover and sustain joy in ourselves and how to use joy as fuel for continuing Sacred Activism in dangerous times. Drawing on the visionary teachings of mystics such as Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Sri Aurobindo, the authors show how the global dark night is part of an evolutionary mutation process and how its very intensity makes it the potential seedbed of a new embodied, divine humanity. They offer practical maps of the crises themselves, of the shadows that this global dark night is casting, and of the four-part path to transfiguration drawn from mystical traditions. Sharing a vision of a new and focused global moment of love in action, the authors reveal that apocalypse is not inevitable—if enough people awaken to the extraordinary possibilities of Sacred Activism.
Science, Brain/Mind & Cosmology WAYS OF BEING Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle
$40.00, cloth. Farrar, Straus. 384 pages, b/w illus.
Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle’s Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence—plant, animal, human, artificial—and how they transform our understanding of humans’ place in the cosmos. What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique to humans or shared with other beings— beings of flesh, wood, stone, and silicon? The last few years have seen rapid advances in “artificial” intelligence. But rather than a friend or companion, AI increasingly appears to be something stranger than we ever imagined, an alien invention that threatens to decenter and supplant us.
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At the same time, we’re only just becoming aware of the other intelligences that have been with us all along, even if we’ve failed to recognize or acknowledge them. These others—the animals, plants, and natural systems that surround us—are slowly revealing their complexity, agency, and knowledge, just as the technologies we’ve built to sustain ourselves are threatening to cause their extinction and ours. What can we learn from them, and how can we change ourselves, our technologies, our societies, and our politics to live better and more equitably with one another and the nonhuman world? The artist and maverick thinker James Bridle draws on biology and physics, computation, literature, art, and philosophy to answer these unsettling questions—with illustrations! Startling and bold, Ways of Being explores the fascinating, strange, and multitudinous forms of knowing, doing, and being that make up the world, and that are essential for our survival. “In making clear the patience, imagination and humility required to better know and protect other forms of intelligence on Earth, [Bridle] has made an admirable contribution to the dawning interspecies age.” —The Economist “There’s a new breed of thinkers—people who’ve grown up through the collapse of an old order and are looking at the first shoots of a very different future. James Bridle is right at the front of this thinking. His writing weaves cultural threads that aren’t usually seen together, and the resulting tapestry is iridescently original, deeply disorientating and yet somehow radically hopeful. The only futures that are viable will probably feel like that. This is a pretty amazing book, worth reading and rereading.” —Brian Eno THE WEB OF MEANING Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find our Place in the Universe by Jeremy Lent
$24.99, paper. New Society. 529 pages
As our civilization careens toward climate breakdown, ecological destruction, and gaping inequality, people are losing their existential moorings. Our dominant worldview of disconnection, which tells us we are split between mind and body, separate from each other, and at odds with the natural world, has been invalidated by modern science. Award-winning author Jeremy Lent (The Patterning Instinct) investigates humanity’s age-old questions—Who am I? Why am I? How should I live?—from a fresh perspective, weaving together findings from modern systems thinking, evolutionary biology, and cognitive neuroscience with insights from Buddhism, Taoism, and Indigenous wisdom. The result is a breathtaking accomplishment: a rich, coherent worldview based on a deep recognition of connectedness within ourselves, between each other, and with the entire natural world. The Web of Meaning offers a compelling foundation for a new philosophical framework that could enable humanity to thrive sustainably on a flourishing Earth. It’s a book for everyone looking for deep and coherent answers to the crisis of civilization. The way in which each of us chooses to engage with the world, no matter how insignificant it might seem... matters. With each of the choices we make, the words we speak, the actions we take, we are playing a role in either inhibiting or catalyzing the great transition our society needs if we are to bequeath a flourishing world to future generations... With every strand we weave in the web of meaning, we become intertwined in Gaia’s future—an intimately embedded node within Indra’s Net, reflecting infinitely out into the mystery... I invite you to take a few moments to pause. Sit down, take a few breaths and reflect on this question: What is the sacred and precious strand that you will weave?
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$23.99, paper. Hay House. 304 pages
The author of My Stroke of Insight here blends neuroanatomy with psychology to reveal who’s who inside of you—and gives you the tools to choose who and how to be in every moment. For half a century we have been trained to believe that our right brain hemisphere is our emotional brain, while our left brain houses our rational thinking. Now neuroscience shows it’s not that simple: in fact, our emotional limbic tissue is evenly divided between our two hemispheres. So each hemisphere has both an emotional brain and a thinking brain. In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor presents these four distinct modules of brain cells as four characters that make up who we are: Character 1, Left Thinking; Character 2, Left Emotion; Character 3, Right Emotion; and Character 4, Right Thinking. Everything we think, feel, or do is dependent upon brain cells to perform that function. Since each of the Four Characters stems from specific groups of cells that feel unique inside of our body, they each display particular skills, feel specific emotions, or think distinctive thoughts. Whole Brain Living shows us how to get acquainted with our own Four Characters, observe how they show up in our daily life, and learn to identify and relate to them in others as well. And she introduces a practice called the Brain Huddle–a tool for bringing our Four Characters into conversation with one another so we can tap their respective strengths and choose which one to embody in any situation. Life is tough with its highs and lows, and none of us came into this world with a manual for how to get it all right. But what I have learned is that we do have the power to pause, sidestep our habituated patterns, and make better choices. We have the power to choose moment by moment who and how we want to be in the world...We have much more power over what is going on inside of our heads than we have even been taught... You are the life-force power of the universe and your human brain is amazing far beyond your wildest imagination. This book will clarify for you exactly what that means. The more we become familiar with each of the characters in ourselves and others, the more power and choice we gain over our thoughts, our feelings, our relationships, and our lives. And when our Four Characters work together and balance one another as a whole brain, we gain a radical new road map to deep inner peace.
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Cosmogenesis COSMOGENESIS An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe by Brian Thomas Swimme
$35.00, cloth. Counterpoint. 336 pages
The understanding that the universe has been expanding since its fiery beginning 14 billion years ago and has developed into stars, galaxies, life, and human consciousness is one of the most significant in human history. It is taught throughout the world and has become our common creation story for nearly every culture. In terms of the universe’s development, we humans are not only economic, religious, or political beings. At the most fundamental level, we are cosmological beings. Cosmogenesis is one of the greatest discoveries in human history, and it continues to have a profound impact on humanity. And yet most science books do not explore the effects it has had on our individual minds. In Cosmogenesis, Brian Thomas Swimme narrates the same cosmological events that we agree are fact but offers a feature unlike all other writings on this topic. He tells the story of the universe while simultaneously telling the story of the storyteller. Swimme describes how the impact of this new story deconstructed his mind then reassembled it, offering us a glimpse into how cosmogenesis has transformed our understanding of both the universe and the evolution of human consciousness DREAMTIMES AND THOUGHTFORMS Cosmogenesis from the Big Bang to Octopus & Crow Intelligence to UFOs by Richard Grossinger
$21.50, paper. Inner Traditions. 170 pages
From the origins of the cosmos to the microbiome, COVID-19 pandemic, UFOs, and the shapeshifting of octopuses and language of crows, Richard Grossinger traverses the mysteries and enigmas that define our universe and personal reality. Beginning his narrative with the Big Bang, origin of the Milky Way, and birth of our solar system, Grossinger offers a chronology of Earth’s geological, climatological, biological, and sociological evolution, leading to the current environmental and psychospiritual crisis. He explores the origin of cell life, RNA-DNA, and larger biomes, detailing in particular the remarkable intelligence of crows and octopuses. He uses the Australian Aborigine Dreamtime to understand landscapes as thoughtforms. Examining the scientific dilemmas and paradoxes of consciousness, time, and quantum entanglement, Grossinger carries these into the range of issues around reincarnation, past-life memories, messages from the afterlife, and ghosts. Sharing exercises from his personal practice, Grossinger makes a distinction between the Buddhist description of reality and how Buddhist
Family & Parenting FAULT LINES Fractured Families and How to Mend Them
by Karl Pillemer
$24.00, paper. Random House. 288 pages
Estrangement from a family member is one of the most painful life experiences. It is devastating not only to the individuals directly involved--collateral damage can extend upward, downward, and across generations, More than 65 million Americans suffer such rifts, yet little guidance exists on how to cope with and overcome them. In this book, Karl Pillemer combines the advice of people who have successfully reconciled with powerful insights from social science research. The result is a unique guide to mending
itself. “Cosmogenesis is not only an engaging memoir of a visionary cosmologist, but an autobiographical coming of age story of the cosmos itself.” ––Sean Kelly, author of Becoming Gaia: On the Threshold of Planetary Initiation “In this book, without warning, a star-inspired mathematician summons us, squabbling bipeds of an over-heating planet, to see ourselves as the evolving universe itself. The grandeur of that calling would seem ludicrously beyond our capacity were it not for the trust our guide elicits. Perhaps what moves us most is the wild generosity he helps us to see at work in the cosmos.” ––Joanna Macy, author of World as Lover, World as Self “Cosmogenesis is the most clearly and convincingly told story of the origin of the universe I have ever read. But that’s not all that makes this an essential read. If humanity is to escape the stranglehold of the lonely, kingof-the-mountain materialism that licenses planetary destruction, it will be when we tell a new story about who we are and how we come to be in the universe expanding around and within us. Cosmogenesis is a powerful telling of that story.” ––Kathleen Dean Moore, author of Great Tide Rising Among the other books by Brian Swimme are Journey of the Universe and The Universe Story. practitioners create an operating manual for the universe and an assured path of salvation. The author then examines UFOs and their connections to elementals, fairies, and cryptids in terms of psychoids, Jung’s term for transconscious processes that enter our world as autonomous entities. Taking the reader on a journey through the seen and unseen universe, from the Big Bang to the imaginal landscape of Dreamtime, Grossinger shows that matter is infused with spirit from its very beginning. It is as if we exist at the surface of our own dimensional depth while the paradigm (or bubble) that holds us is dissolving, and a greater sun is rising from the dark ages of camouflage civilization to reveal an amphitheater in which a gladiatorial sideshow has been taking place… Dreamings billow and wither in the various winds, as the filigree of each reality flutters against the veil of all realities. At grand central, world lines cross and we see the unseen, hear the unheard, feel a hand or wing or antennae through the veil. “Richard Grossinger’s great gift is his ability to explicitly state what many of us merely feel. This is a magnificent talent and also a rare blessing for humanity.” — Larry Dossey, author of One Mind
fractured families. Fault Lines shares: ♦ findings from Dr. Pillemer’s ten-year groundbreaking Cornell Reconciliation Project, based on the first national survey on estrangement; ♦ rich, in-depth interviews with hundreds of people who have experienced it; ♦ and insights from leading family researchers and therapists. He assures people who are estranged, and those who care about them, that they are not alone and that fissures can be bridged Through the wisdom of people who have “been there,” Fault Lines shows how healing is possible through clear
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steps that people can use right away in their own families. It addresses such questions as: How do rifts begin? What makes estrangement so painful? Why is it so often triggered by a single event? Are you ready to reconcile? How can you overcome past hurts to build a new future with a relative? Tackling a subject that is achingly familiar to almost everyone, especially in an era when powerful outside forces such as technology and mobility are lessening family cohesion, Dr. Pillemer combines dramatic stories, science-based guidance, and practical repair tools to help people find the path to reconciliation. “Chronic, seemingly intractable estrangement blights many families in our stressed and fragmented culture. In this thoughtful, compassionate book Karl Pillemer shows that it need not be permanent and his perceptive, gentle guidance lights the way to reconciliation.” —Gabor Maté, author, In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction DECODING YOUR EMOTIONAL BLUEPRINT A Powerful Guide to Transformation Through Disentangling Multigenerational Patterns by Judy Wilkins-Smith
$26.99, paper. Sounds True. 241 pages
Everyone knows we inherit our physical DNA, but few people realize we also inherit our emotional DNA—an ancestral blueprint of thoughts, feelings, and actions handed down to us through multiple generations of repeated family patterns. In Decoding Your Emotional Blueprint, transformational coach Judy Wilkins-Smith shares the good news that no matter what blueprint you’ve been given, you have the power to change your life. Wilkins-Smith adeptly guides readers through both the art and science of creating lasting transformation by working with systemic dynamics and constellations. As she explains, all of the different systems we belong to—our families, organizations, careers, religions, clubs, cultures—subtly determine how we think, feel, choose, and act. When we illuminate our invisible allegiances to these systems, we’re able to make new choices and watch a world of possibilities open before us. One of the basic tenets of all systemic work is that evolution lies in observation, acknowledgment, and giving each member in a system their place. There is no judgment of people or events. Whatever is there is there. Whatever happened, happened. It might not be pleasant or kind or healthy. It may well be horrific. But every event serves a purpose and give information. It all belongs, and when we can acknowledge that has happened as it is, without wishing for it to be different, then we can learn from it, choose something different, and evolve. Decoding Your Emotional Blueprint brings you a wealth of hands-on strategies and practices so you can learn to detect hidden and multigenerational patterns, recognize their purpose, and then transform old cycles to create an extraordinary life. Throughout the book, you’ll: ♦ Learn to make the invisible visible by decoding your use of language and your body’s messages ♦ Identify the gifts that are often hidden within the pain and messiness of a family or other system ♦ Understand the physical, emotional, and neurological changes that happen through systemic work ♦ Break free from the immensely powerful meta patterns that keep you in a systemic trance—including gender, war, natural disasters, and religion ♦ Explore the ways your unconscious patterning impacts every area of life—relationships, money, health, and more. Includes inspiring stories of real transformation, fascinating explanations of the science behind this work, and practical tools and exercises.
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by Kim John Payne & Luis Fernando Llosa $23.95, paper. Shambhala. 280 pages
The tween and teen years are rife with intense social challenges in school, friendships, sports, and other activities where instances of teasing, bullying, social exclusion and marginalization are unfortunately all too common. Social media has only made this behavior easier and more insidious. But when kids ages 9 and up can be coached by a parent to respond effectively, manage their emotions in social situations, and recognize their own self-worth, they can reclaim a sense of their own power and develop skills like resilience, social and emotional intelligence and compassion for life. Kim John Payne, a leading education consultant and parenting expert, and Luis Fernando Llosa, a writer and longtime sports coach, offer guidance and practical advice to parents, along with ten inspirational stories in the voice of young adults who have navigated bullying, teasing and social exclusion—and triumphed. The Emotionally Resilient Child gives tweens and teens the tools to address the problem themselves and develop mastery over the situation— rather than having parents step in and try to “fix” things. This book also gives parents vital proactive strategies to help build strong family relationships, trust and connection, so that kids can be better prepared for the inevitable social challenges life brings. “The power of Emotionally Resilient Tweens and Teens is that it at once validates what kids are experiencing, then empowers them to change the things that aren’t working for them. Brilliantly laid out, this book shows tweens and teens that if they’re being excluded or teased, they’re not alone; it then emboldens them with specific responses and strategies to impact their social dynamics. Payne and Llosa guide parents to be both a safe haven and a launching pad, so kids feel connected and confident to venture out to navigate the world. The authors guide parents and kids by example, providing many stories of how tweens and teens have experienced and ultimately freed themselves from bullying.” —Tina Payne Bryson, co-author of The Whole-Brain Child
Relationships, Eros & Sex BECOMING THE ONE Heal Your Past, Transform Your Relationship Patterns, and Come Home to Yourself by Sheleana Aiyana
$39.95, cloth. Chronicle. 295 pages
Romantic relationships have the ability to infuse our lives with the magic of intimacy and connection. But for many of us, that magic is fleeting—our relationships don’t last, or if they do, they fail to make us happy. We find ourselves chasing unavailable love, sublimating our needs in service to others, or trying to save our partners from themselves, all the while abandoning the one who needs us most— ourselves. If you find yourself struggling to let go after a relationship ends, or you keep hitting the same wall in dating and relationships with emotionally unavailable people, this is not a sign that you are broken. It is a sign that somewhere along the way, you learned to sacrifice yourself in order to be loved. In Becoming the One, spiritual leader and visionary founder of the Rising Woman community Sheleana Aiyana offers a roadmap for transforming your relationship patterns to end the cycle of self-abandonment and move into the light of self-discovery. Sheleana’s revolutionary lessons, based on wisdom from the traumas of her past and years of guiding thousands of women around the world in her internationally acclaimed
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your true relationship can begin. This book is an invitation, the same invitation that I and other Relational Life therapists offer our clients every day. It’s an invitation to truly master a sophisticated skill set, a technology. It’s demanding, I won’t lie, but once you learn it, it has the power to catapult you and your partner into a level of closeness, trust, solidity, and joy that leaves the norms of our culture in the dust.
by Terrence Real
$35.99, cloth. Random House. 335 pages
Stop working on yourself as an individual and start working on your relationship as a couple, with the help of the renowned family therapist and author of The New Rules of Marriage. “A beautiful and important book, particularly for the moment we are in.” —Bruce Springsteen, from the foreword Not much is harder than figuring out how to love your partner in all their messy humanness—and there’s also not much that’s more important. At a time when toxic individualism is rending our society at every level, marriage counselor Terrence Real sees how it poisons intimate relationships in his therapy practice, where he works with couples on the brink of disaster. The good news: Warmer, closer, more passionate relationships are possible if you have the right tools. In Us, Real brilliantly observes how our winner-takesall culture infiltrates families with devastating results: repetitive fights that go nowhere, or a distant relationship in which partners end up living “alone together.” With deft insight, humor, and charm, Real guides you to transform your relationship into one that’s based on compassion, collaboration, and closeness. Us shares the stories of couples whose relationships have been saved by these skills and pans out to the culture that reinforces our dysfunction. If you and your partner are backed into separate corners of “you” and “me,” this book will show the way back to “us.” With Us, THE LOVE PRESCRIPTION Seven Days to More Intimacy, Connection, and Joy by John & Julie Gottman
$20.00, paper. Penguin. 208 pages
What makes love last? Why does one couple stay together forever, while another falls apart? And most importantly, is there a scientific formula for love? Drs. John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman are the world’s leading relationship scientists. For the past forty years, they have been studying love. They’ve gathered data on over three thousand couples, looking at everything from their body language to the way they converse to their stress hormone levels. Their goal: to identify the building blocks of love. The Love Prescription distills their life’s work into a bite-size, seven-day action plan with easy, immediately
“Becoming the One” program of spiritual and therapeutic healing practices, teach you to embody the qualities you are seeking in others so that you can become “the one” for yourself. You’ll learn how to trust your body, make peace with your past, and clear the path for healthy, conscious love. Becoming the One is about: Deepening your relationship to self. Integrating your past by doing the inner work. Understanding and healing your relationship patterns. Learning how to show up authentically in a relationship. Helping you clarify your desires, your core values, and your boundaries. Doing the foundational work to prepare you for a conscious relationship. Remembering your oneness with all living beings in this great universe. Reaching a place of self-acceptance and compassion
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“This is a stunning book. With page-turning flair and brilliant insights, Terry Real exposes the hyper-individualism that ruins relationships—and shows us many effective ways to move from ‘me’ to ‘we.’ A masterpiece from a master psychotherapist.”—Rick Hanson, author of Resilient “This is a wonderful, wise, and witty book, consistent with cutting edge science and filled with soul and practical advice that can inspire us to discover who we can become together.” —Daniel Siegel, author of IntraConnected “In his previous books, Terry Real awakened us to the fact that most men are not relational. In Us, he not only elaborates on that thesis but, with the writing of a good novelist, brings his approach to transforming men and couples to life. Share this book with your partner and then talk about what it brings up. It may be one of the most painful but also important conversations of your life.” —Richard Schwartz, author of No Bad Parts and developer of the Internal Family Systems model of psychotherapy
actionable steps. There will be no grand gestures and no big, hard conversations. There’s nothing to buy or do to prepare. Anyone can do this, from any starting point. There is a formula for a good relationship, and this book will show you how a few small changes can fundamentally transform your relationship for the better. “The astute guidance is straightforward without being obvious, and the authors excel at distilling sharp lessons from client stories. Couples should consider making this enlightening guide required reading.” —Publishers Weekly Among the Gottmans’ other books are Eight Dates: Essential Conversations… and Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.
for all of your past selves. “Becoming the One is an extraordinary gift that illuminates the path to wholehearted self-acceptance so that we can participate fully in the flow of human connection. The personal stories that the author shares about her own life are unforgettable and alone worth the price of admission. Sheleana Aiyana is a wise woman, a compassionate and clear-eyed guide, a visionary, and a teacher in the true sense of the word. I’d follow her up any mountain.” —Harriet Lerner, author of Why Won’t You Apologize? GENDER EQUITY & RECONCILIATION Thirty Years of Healing the Most Ancient Wound in the Human Family
by William Keepin & Cynthia Brix $52.95, paper. Hohm. 500 pages
Gender equity is woefully overdue—we cannot wait any longer. Yet gender equity will wait, just as it has for thousands of years, until women and men and people of all genders co-create it together. One-sided solutions are not
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enough, and shame and blame will get us nowhere. The new pathway to healing and creating right relations between the genders can only be forged by courageously confronting gender injustice from all sides, and moving through the ensuing ‘collective alchemy’ to transform gender injustice from the inside out. Inspired by the principles of Truth and Reconciliation developed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in South Africa, the Gender Equity and Reconciliation international (GERI) process has been implemented over three decades for thousands of people on six continents. Guided by the twin powers of truth and love, and supported by skillful facilitation, the GERI process—as demonstrated in this book—creates safe forums to empower the unraveling of gender and sexual conditioning with alchemical depth and acumen, and initiate a whole new culture of gender relations and beloved community. With contributions from dozens of GERI participants, twelve distinguished world leaders in related fields, and special inserts from such notable persons as Stanislav Grof, Tenzin Palmo, and Peter Rutter, this book is an invaluable resource for laypersons and professionals, politicians and psychotherapists, educators and religious leaders, who are eager to discover proven pathways to transform gender-based conflicts and address the needs of young and old in their homes, therapy practices, organizations, and congregations across the globe. “With a boldly audacious goal to address the deepest, most insidious and universal trauma that pervades our human species, it shares stories and methods that have proven effective in creating transformations rippling in societies around the globe. The book speaks to all levels of the traumas we carry as a result of thousands of years of gender bias and violence—a root cause of all the issues we face—from the individual to the organizational, and from the societal to the archetypal.” — Nina Simons, Co-founder of Bioneers, author of Nature, Culture, and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership
Women’s & Men’s HAGITUDE Reimagining the Second Half of Life by Sharon Blackie
$26.50, paper. New World Library. 308 pages, illus.
For any woman over fifty who has ever asked “What now? Who do I want to be?” comes a life-changing book showing how your next phase of life may be your most dynamic yet. As mythologist and psychologist Sharon Blackie (author of the much-loved If Women Rose Rooted) describes it, “midlife is the threshold to decades of opportunity and profound transformation, a time to learn, flourish, and claim the desires and identities that are often limited during earlier life stages. This is a time for gaining new perspectives, challenging and evolving our belief systems, exploring our calling, uncovering meaning, and ultimately finding healing for our accumulated wounds.” Western folklore and mythology are rife with brilliantly creative, fulfilled, feisty, and furious role models for aging women, despite our culture’s focus on youthfulness. Blackie explores these archetypes in Hagitude, deftly weaving together feminine wisdom, myth, psychology, and memoir. She explores the many ways women can thrive during what is so often portrayed as a time of decline. Readers will discover the promise of adventure and influence in their postmenopausal years and learn to embody their own unique “hag attitude.” The key question at the heart of this book: how an exploration of these wonderfully vivid and diverse archetypal characters in our fairy tales and myths might help us to recreate a map of what it is to become a good elder… How can we build on those old tales and combine them with the richness of our own experi-
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by Nina Simons
$22.50, paper. Green Fire. 320 pages
In this book—at the intersection of gender, racial justice, leadership, and the sacred—Bioneers co-founder Nina Simons offers inspiration for anyone who aspires to grow into their own unique form of leadership with resilience and joy. Informed by her extensive experience with multicultural women’s leadership development, Simons replaces the old patriarchal leadership paradigm with a more feminine-inflected style that illustrates the interconnected nature of the issues we face today. Sharing moving stories of women around the world joining together to reconnect people, nature and the land—both practically and spiritually—Nature, Culture and the Sacred is necessary reading for anyone who wants to learn from and be inspired by women who are leading the way towards transformational change by cultivating vibrant movements for social and environmental justice. As nature so clearly shows us, any healthy system requires diversity to survive trauma and thrive, and so learning how to relate and collaborate across difference has emerged as a high priority. I’ve understood even more deeply the need to cultivate the conditions for connective tissue and alliances to form among people, organizations and movements who share a common purpose, but who are still functioning in separate spheres of influence… Please know that this book is offered with love and unerring faith in the power of women, girls, and the sacred feminine in us all to change the world. “A compelling and honest tapestry of hard-earned personal and collective wisdom, honoring the earth and igniting the revolutionary ways of women.” —Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues. CASSANDRA SPEAKS When Women are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes by Elizabeth Lesser
$21.99, paper. HarperCollins. 304 pp.
Elizabeth Lesser believes that if women’s voices had been equally heard and respected throughout history, humankind would have followed different hero myths and guiding stories— stories that value caretaking, champion compassion, and elevate communication over vengeance and violence. Cassandra Speaks is about the stories we tell and how those stories become the culture. It’s about the stories we still blindly cling to, and the ones that cling to us: the origin tales, the guiding myths, the religious parables, the literature and films and fairy talespassed down through
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the centuries about women and men, power and war, sex and love, and the values we live by. Stories written mostly by men with lessons and laws for all of humanity. We have outgrown so many of them, and still they endure. This book is about what happens when women are the storytellers too—when we speak from our authentic voices, when we flex our values, when we become protagonists in the tales we tell about what it means to be human. The author of Broken Open and Marrow, Lesser is a beloved spiritual writer, as well as a leading feminist thinker. In this book she gives equal voice to the cool water of her meditative self and the fire of her feminist self. With her trademark gifts of both humor and insight, she offers a vision that transcends the either/or ideologies on both sides of the gender debate. Brilliantly structured into three distinct parts, Part One explores how history is carried forward through the stories a culture tells and values, and what we can do to balance the scales. Part Two looks at women and power and expands what it means to be courageous, daring, and strong. And Part Three offers A Toolbox for Inner Strength. Lesser argues that change in the culture starts with inner change, and that no one—woman or man—is immune to the corrupting influence of power. She provides inner tools to help us be both strong-willed and kind-hearted. FROM THE CORE A New Masculine Paradigm for Leading with Love, Living Your Truth, and Healing the World by John Wineland
$24.99, paper. Sounds True. 198 pages
Men today face a crisis of identity. While we can see how the old paradigm of patriarchal dominance needs to go… We need a generation of conscious men who can provide guidance and direction in their communities, just as we need to support and encourage women to do the same. With From the Core, Wineland sets out a clear roadmap for men who want to live, love, and lead from the most profound places within them. The techniques in From the Core will help you adapt to a changing world while staying in touch with your masculine essence. If you’re willing to spend at least 30 minutes a day in practice, you can transform your entire approach to love, success, and relationships. Here you’ll learn how to: ♦ Get strong—go beyond building your muscles to strengthening your nervous system, awareness, and ability to conduct energy ♦ Become masterful in the art of sexual and energetic polarity ♦ Align with the Sacred Feminine—operate in harmony and trust with the feminine forces within you and in others ♦ Take responsibility for the life you’ve created, the legacy of manhood, and your personal role in healing our damaged world ♦ Prioritize depth over comfort—becoming highly attuned to the truth of your heart and the power of your intention ♦ Use the Eleven Precepts of Conscious Warriorhood as your life’s compass. Despite all of the flak men have received, I see brothers every day who are hungrier than ever to step into their lives more powerfully, nobly honor and protect their feminine partners, and be a source of healing and liberation in their communities. From the Core is an inspirational guide and a call to action for men who feel ready to embody conscious awareness, unflinching accountability, and true leadership. “From the Core is for every struggling, determined, distracted, beautifully powerful man that you know—which is to say, all of them. This is urgent. Clearly. John’s insight supports men to grow into the active healers and heart-centered leaders that the world needs.” —Danielle LaPorte, author of How to Be Loving
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