Branches of Light, Spring - Summer - Fall 2019 by Banyen Books & Sound

L O V E Y O U R S E L F. T H E N F O R G E T I T. T H E N L O V E T H E W O R L D

T’S HARD TO KNOW JUST WHEN

BRANCHES

OF LIGHT News & Reviews from

A Division of The Georgetown Group Limited

Banyen Books and Sound

F EED YOUR M IND N OURISH YOUR S OUL

ISSUE 54 Spring-Summer-Fall 2019

Publisher ~ Editor Kolin Lymworth

Interior Design Laura Duncan Good Look Graphics

a poem or a book—or a kind word at a tough time, or a ray of sunlight—might wake us from our troubled snooze. We all love it when a great idea or insight really touches us—and that’s part of what makes books so very useful to the soul. And Banyen offers a LOT of books, thousands of titles on hand and we can readily obtain thousands more. Each one chosen with a hope that it carries some healing insight, medicine, or tools.

laura@goodlookgraphics.com

Cover Design Fiona Gamiet Articulate Design adgamiet@gmail.com

On the Cover Flower Power is Nature’s Glory

The Banyen Folk Purchasing: Marina Gingrich & Anusha Fernando (books +) Karen McMahon & Nick Nolet (music, arts, tools, gifts, gems, beauties +) Receiving & Shipping: Dylan Phillips & Evan Macleod Accounting & Admin: Annie Wang & Jenny Chu Events, Publicity & E-News: Jacob Steele, Carly Laughlin & Viti Spinelli Web-Huntress: Alethea Lymworth In the Store, at Your Service: Cynthia Champagne, Fleur Choy, Lauryn Collins, Michael Galloway, Sky Goodwin, Layla Habib, Terri Lynn Haines, Bokudo Holy, Caroline Janeesha Lightbody, Alethea Lymworth, Leanna Manning, Lisa MacLean, Lencha Nastora, Tom Oakley, Laura Reznek, Levi Shulman & Chloe Traynor

Printed at International Web Express on Electrabrite newsprint with 25% recycled fibre (100% recycled web papers are elusive now)

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for news, for instruction, for illumination, for resources, for enchantment, repair or renewal, how can you know what’s new, potent and relevant for you? Well, we at Banyen offer a few ways to know what’s new and interesting: This journal, Branches of Light by itself offers some 150+ snapshot reviews of the cream of new releases in the various subject fields you see on the right. Also, at banyen.com, click “Our New Reviews” at the top; then click “Filter By” to browse new title reviews by any subject. OR FOLKS WHO READ

HE POET MARY OLIVER, loved by many, just died. The line above is from her book Devotions, which is her chosen “best of” curated just 2 years ago. In general, may the balm of poetry come to your rescue any day of the week; and may the deep music of creative being animate and illuminate you.

BANYEN are a gloriously scruffy, iconoclastic bunch of souls, diversely gifted and inclined. We do our best to bring together books, arts, goods, tools, treats, insights, brilliant talks & events, musics & musical instruments, journals, oracles, runes, Tarot, crystals, stones, herbs, fragrances, smudges, incenses, body care products and cleansers, natural fibre clothing, yoga & meditation supplies, altar offerings, high energy chocolate & superfoods... and more. And top help you find just what’s right for you, for now, at Banyen. We welcome you at the store to just be, at your own pace, to read-study-listen or meet dear friends, or at our events or website. May you be re-sourced...! E AT

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Banyen’s Coming Events, Happenings, Teachings, Gatherings of Great Minds... Natural Body Care Tools Music on CD Art & Creativity Poetry & Stories Yoga & Hindu Traditions Buddhism & Zen Tibetan Buddhism Taoism & Chi Energetics Healing & Medicine Healing Energies & Herbs Bodywork & Movement Food & Healing Inspiration & Self-Help Psychology & Dreams Midlife & Elders Jungian Psyche Meditation Western Teachers & Teachings Dying & Grieving Transpersonal Psychology Entheogens/Psychedelics Shamanism & Ritual Wicca, Magick & Pagan Paths Christian & Jewish Sufism & Rumi Astrology, Tarot & Oracles Philosophy Transmissions & Revelations Business, Work & Money Ecology, Community, Politics Eco-Philosophy Gardening & Permaculture Nature as Teacher & Healer Conscious Evolution ?! Science, Brain/Mind & Gaia Family & Parenting Relationships & Sex Women’s Spirit & Healing Last But Not Least . . . Index of Authors & their titles Our Banyen lotus by a review means that title is our “Editor’s Choice.”

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L O V E Y O U R S E L F. T H E N F O R G E T I T. T H E N L O V E T H E W O R L D

T’S HARD TO KNOW JUST WHEN

BRANCHES

OF LIGHT News & Reviews from

A Division of The Georgetown Group Limited

Banyen Books and Sound

F EED YOUR M IND N OURISH YOUR S OUL

ISSUE 54 Spring-Summer-Fall 2019

Publisher ~ Editor Kolin Lymworth

Interior Design Laura Duncan Good Look Graphics

laura@goodlookgraphics.com

Cover Design Fiona Gamiet Articulate Design adgamiet@gmail.com

On the Cover Flower Power is Nature’s Glory

Printed at International Web Express on Electrabrite newsprint with 25% recycled fibre (100% recycled web papers are elusive now)

Publication Mail Agreement # 40063300 Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: Banyen Books, 3608 West 4th Ave. Vancouver, BC V6R 1P1

To help make BRANCHES OF LIGHT possible, we welcome selected advertising and publisher support. Please direct inquiries to Kolin Lymworth (branches@banyen.com) Fax 604-737-1636 Phone 604-629-2190

B RANCHES

L IGHT

is published each May and November by

Banyen Books and Sound 3608 West 4th Avenue Vancouver, B.C. V6R 1P1 Canada

Books: 604-732-7912 Music, Gifts, Tickets: 604-737-8858 Mail Order: From Vancouver area call 604-732-7912 From outside the Vancouver area: 1-800-663-8442 e-mail: thefolks@banyen.com

Open Monday to Friday 10-9 Saturday 10-8 Sunday 11-7 BRANCHES OF LIGHT F

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Basic Cost + Per Book/Item

Delivery Times: 2-5 business days in B.C., 5-7 days within Canada +3 days to outlying areas (Please contact us for Priority or Xpresspost rates.)

SHIPPING TO THE U.S.A. Regular (insured, 6-9 days): $16 + $2 per book (Please contact us for express rates.)

Canadian ORDERS $89 AND UP (before taxes) GET FREE SHIPPING... A SAVING OF 12% BRANCHES OF LIGHT F

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in this issue... 5

6 8 8 9 9 10 11 13 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 19 19 20 20 21 22 22 23 23 24 24 25 25 26 27 28 29 29 30 30 31 31 32 34 35

Please note: prices are subject to change without notice. We’re at the mercy of unpredictably changing US$ exchange rates Thanks for understanding that prices change.

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UPCOMING BANYEN EVENTS

AMERICA BEFORE

WORLD COULD BE OTHERWISE

RELATIONSHIP WITH MONEY

YOUR TAROT COURT

GRAHAM HANCOCK shares revelations from his new book America Before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization.

NORMAN FISCHER, beloved Buddhist teacher, poet, and author, speaks on imagination and the Bodhisattva path.

KAREN McALLISTER starts you on the path of becoming free from blocks around money.

ETHONY DAWN, author of Your Tarot Court, explores the archetypes, people and personalities of the Tarot.

RADICAL AWAKENING

LIGHT & VIBRATION

CULT DYNAMICS & HEALING

CELLULAR CONSCIOUSNESS

RAMANA, direct disciple of Papaji in the lineage of Ramana Maharshi, presents on radical awakening and the opening of heart consciousness.

SWAMI LALITANANDA, president of Yasodhara Ashram and author of Inner Life of Asanas, speaks at Banyen on light & vibration.

MATTHEW REMSKI speaks on abuse, cult dynamics, and healing in yoga and spiritual communities.

DELLA RESIDE presents Cellular Consciousness Healing for releasing stuck emotions and trauma from your energetic ﬁeld.

ACHIEVER FEVER CURE

LITTLE BOOK OF BEING

IN LOVE WITH THE WORLD

THE ART OF STILLNESS

WED, MAY 1 I 7PM @ CHAN CENTRE

WOUNDS INTO WISDOM HEALING INTERGENERATIONAL JEWISH TRAUMA

UNATTENDED SORROW RECOVERING FROM LOSS AND REVIVING THE HEART

SPIRITUAL REBEL

A POSITIVELY ADDICTIVE GUIDE TO FINDING DEEPER PERSPECTIVE & HIGHER PURPOSE

“Wounds into Wisdom is for anyone “My heart lifted and my spirits “Spiritual Rebel is a fresh and who has suffered trauma, either rejoiced on reading this divinely timely take on religion and directly or in a family whose inspired book. Unattended Sorrow generational trauma is buried. It is going to be so important in the spirituality, particularly appealing helps readers uncover suffering and literature of moving forward after to those who have outgrown more traditional approaches to ‘finding use it to help others—the final stage loss.” —JUDY COLLINS God.’”—DR. STEVEN FARMER of healing...” —GLORIA STEINEM

MONK FISHPUBLISHING.COM

SUN, MAY 5 I 5-6:30PM FREE @ BANYEN

WED, MAY 8 I 6:30-8PM FREE @ BANYEN

SUN, MAY 12 I 11:30AM-1PM FREE @ BANYEN

THE HEART OF THE GODDESS ART, MYTH AND MEDITATIONS OF THE WORLD’S SACRED FEMININE

“What it means to be empowered comes to life in us through our meditations on these sacred cross-cultural images of the Feminine.” —VICKI NOBLE

MONK FISH Book Publishing Company

THU, MAY 16 I 6:30-8PM FREE @ BANYEN

THU, MAY 23 I 6:30-8PM FREE @ BANYEN

SUN, MAY 26 I 11:30AM-1PM FREE @ BANYEN

WED, JUN 5 I 6:30-8PM FREE @ BANYEN

BUDDHA IN GLORY

Center of all centers, core of cores, almond self-enclosed and growing sweet— all this universe, to the furthest stars and beyond them, is your flesh, your fruit.

Now you feel how nothing clings to you; your vast shell reaches into endless space, and there the rich, thick fluids rise and flow.

THU, JUN 13 I 6:30-8PM FREE @ BANYEN

CLAIRE BOOTH, author of The Achiever Fever Cure, shows how you can ﬁnd joy and peace of mind without losing your edge.

FRI, JUN 14 I 6:30-8PM FREE @ BANYEN

DIANA WINSTON, internationally renowned teacher of mindfulness, speaks on The Little Book of Being. Plus a retreat June 15-16.

FRI, JUN 21 & SAT, JUN 22 @ FREDERIC WOOD THEATRE

SAT, JUL 6 I 1-4:30PM @ CENTRE FOR PEACE

MINGYUR RINPOCHE, Buddhist meditation master, presents a talk and workshop on the bardos of living & dying.

PICO IYER, bestselling author and three-time TED Talk speaker, presents on The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere.

NEW EVENTS ARE ADDED ALL THE TIME!

Illuminated in your infinite peace,

a billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your head. But in you is the presence that will be, when all the stars are dead.

—Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell, from The Enlightened Heart BRANCHES OF LIGHT F

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ENERGY HEALING FRI, AUG 9 I 6:30-8PM FREE @ BANYEN

DREAMWORK THEATRE WED, OCT 23 I 6:30-8PM FREE @ BANYEN

DEATH MIDWIFERY

KEITH SHERWOOD, author of Energy Healing for Relationships, explains how to bring your energy ﬁeld back into joyful good health.

DR. ANA MOZOL explores the dreamwork technique of active imagination with the destiny line of the soul.

SARAH KERR, Death Doula & Ritual Healing Practitioner, presents a talk and workshop on death & dying as a sacred rite of passage.

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Watch www.banyen.com for event details

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Visit www.banyen.com to keep current with event details and updates. Join Banyen’s monthly e-mail newsletter Blossoming, and ﬁnd us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Event details may be subject to change.

UPCOMING BANYEN EVENTS

AMERICA BEFORE

WORLD COULD BE OTHERWISE

RELATIONSHIP WITH MONEY

YOUR TAROT COURT

GRAHAM HANCOCK shares revelations from his new book America Before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization.

NORMAN FISCHER, beloved Buddhist teacher, poet, and author, speaks on imagination and the Bodhisattva path.

KAREN McALLISTER starts you on the path of becoming free from blocks around money.

ETHONY DAWN, author of Your Tarot Court, explores the archetypes, people and personalities of the Tarot.

RADICAL AWAKENING

LIGHT & VIBRATION

CULT DYNAMICS & HEALING

CELLULAR CONSCIOUSNESS

RAMANA, direct disciple of Papaji in the lineage of Ramana Maharshi, presents on radical awakening and the opening of heart consciousness.

SWAMI LALITANANDA, president of Yasodhara Ashram and author of Inner Life of Asanas, speaks at Banyen on light & vibration.

MATTHEW REMSKI speaks on abuse, cult dynamics, and healing in yoga and spiritual communities.

DELLA RESIDE presents Cellular Consciousness Healing for releasing stuck emotions and trauma from your energetic ﬁeld.

ACHIEVER FEVER CURE

LITTLE BOOK OF BEING

IN LOVE WITH THE WORLD

THE ART OF STILLNESS

WED, MAY 1 I 7PM @ CHAN CENTRE

WOUNDS INTO WISDOM HEALING INTERGENERATIONAL JEWISH TRAUMA

UNATTENDED SORROW RECOVERING FROM LOSS AND REVIVING THE HEART

SPIRITUAL REBEL

A POSITIVELY ADDICTIVE GUIDE TO FINDING DEEPER PERSPECTIVE & HIGHER PURPOSE

MONK FISHPUBLISHING.COM

SUN, MAY 5 I 5-6:30PM FREE @ BANYEN

WED, MAY 8 I 6:30-8PM FREE @ BANYEN

SUN, MAY 12 I 11:30AM-1PM FREE @ BANYEN

THE HEART OF THE GODDESS ART, MYTH AND MEDITATIONS OF THE WORLD’S SACRED FEMININE

“What it means to be empowered comes to life in us through our meditations on these sacred cross-cultural images of the Feminine.” —VICKI NOBLE

MONK FISH Book Publishing Company

THU, MAY 16 I 6:30-8PM FREE @ BANYEN

THU, MAY 23 I 6:30-8PM FREE @ BANYEN

SUN, MAY 26 I 11:30AM-1PM FREE @ BANYEN

WED, JUN 5 I 6:30-8PM FREE @ BANYEN

BUDDHA IN GLORY

Center of all centers, core of cores, almond self-enclosed and growing sweet— all this universe, to the furthest stars and beyond them, is your flesh, your fruit.

Now you feel how nothing clings to you; your vast shell reaches into endless space, and there the rich, thick fluids rise and flow.

THU, JUN 13 I 6:30-8PM FREE @ BANYEN

CLAIRE BOOTH, author of The Achiever Fever Cure, shows how you can ﬁnd joy and peace of mind without losing your edge.

FRI, JUN 14 I 6:30-8PM FREE @ BANYEN

DIANA WINSTON, internationally renowned teacher of mindfulness, speaks on The Little Book of Being. Plus a retreat June 15-16.

FRI, JUN 21 & SAT, JUN 22 @ FREDERIC WOOD THEATRE

SAT, JUL 6 I 1-4:30PM @ CENTRE FOR PEACE

MINGYUR RINPOCHE, Buddhist meditation master, presents a talk and workshop on the bardos of living & dying.

PICO IYER, bestselling author and three-time TED Talk speaker, presents on The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere.

NEW EVENTS ARE ADDED ALL THE TIME!

Illuminated in your infinite peace,

a billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your head. But in you is the presence that will be, when all the stars are dead.

—Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell, from The Enlightened Heart BRANCHES OF LIGHT F

F SPRING - SUMMER 2019

ENERGY HEALING FRI, AUG 9 I 6:30-8PM FREE @ BANYEN

DREAMWORK THEATRE WED, OCT 23 I 6:30-8PM FREE @ BANYEN

DEATH MIDWIFERY

KEITH SHERWOOD, author of Energy Healing for Relationships, explains how to bring your energy ﬁeld back into joyful good health.

DR. ANA MOZOL explores the dreamwork technique of active imagination with the destiny line of the soul.

SARAH KERR, Death Doula & Ritual Healing Practitioner, presents a talk and workshop on death & dying as a sacred rite of passage.

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Watch www.banyen.com for event details

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SELF CARE – NURTURE – HOME SPA

REJUVENATE – BODY CARE – RESTORE

Body Soaps & Face Masks

Body Care Accessories

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Soap Kelp Fundy Clay & Mint $ 6.95 Soap Forest Charcoal $ 6.95 Soap Kelp Sea Fennel & Bayberry $ 6.95 Soap Lavender $ 7.95 Soap Rose Geranium $ 7.95 Soap Tea Tree Synergy $ 7.95 Himalayan Salt Bar $ 4.95 Soap Sage Blue Heron $ 5.95 Soap Forest Tonic Sasquatch $ 5.95 Mask Clarifying Clay Rose & Camu $ 17.95 Ice Cap Himalayan Mud Mask $ 10.95

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Body Creams, Oils & Salves

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Gardeners Dream Cream Soothing Balm Lavender Cream Rose & Geranium Red Yeti Healing Balm Lotion Kelp Original Face Cream with Neroli & Rose Hand Cream Outdoors Rescue Balm Tridosha Massage Oil Oil Golden Jojoba Oil Sweet Almond Lavender Massage Oil

$ 23.95 $ 22.95 $ 27.95 $ 14.95 $ 19.95 $ 31.95 $ 20.95 $ 11.95 $ 23.95 $ 15.95 $ 8.95 $ 17.95

This is a small sample of the

Natural Body Care products that we car r y. Pleas e vis it us t o see the entire s elec t i on.

Bath Salts & Soaks

Essential Oils & Diffusers

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Himalayan Crystal Salt Lavender $ 19.95 Himalayan Crystal Salt Eucalyptus $ 19.95 Bath Soak Spirit Soul Retrieval $ 11.95 Bath Soak Emotional Body $ 11.95 Bath Soak Chill Black Lava Salt $ 19.95 Bath Soak Float Dead Sea Salt $ 19.95 Bath Soak Dr. Singha’s Mustard Bath $ 8.95 Scrub Activated Charcoal $ 24.95 Bath Salt Scrub Salt-n-Sea $ 15.95

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Nail Dual Foot & Hand Brush Facial Bamboo Charcoal Face Cloth Organic Bamboo Eye Pillow Lavender Bamboo Brush Body Bamboo Charcoal Mitt Agave Soap Sack Jute Brush Spa Foot with Pumice Brush Sisal

$ 16.95 $ 16.95 $ 23.95 $ 21.50 $ 23.95 $ 29.95 $ 15.95 $ 14.95 $ 98.00 $ 19.95 $ 7.95

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$ 5.95 $ 12.95 $ 6.95 $ 12.95 $ 19.95 $ 9.95 $ 4.95 $ 11.95 $ 17.95

SELF CARE – NURTURE – HOME SPA

REJUVENATE – BODY CARE – RESTORE

Body Soaps & Face Masks

Body Care Accessories

883161400038 883161770018 883161500080 9789000141852 9789000154869 9789000154845 9789000154982 9789000193158 9789000193165 9789000200634 9789000158515

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Body Creams, Oils & Salves

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$ 23.95 $ 22.95 $ 27.95 $ 14.95 $ 19.95 $ 31.95 $ 20.95 $ 11.95 $ 23.95 $ 15.95 $ 8.95 $ 17.95

This is a small sample of the

Natural Body Care products that we car r y. Pleas e vis it us t o see the entire s elec t i on.

Bath Salts & Soaks

Essential Oils & Diffusers

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F SPRING - SUMMER 2019

8563500001677 8563500001578 700987765656 700987765618 X5626 X5630 X7817 0701197209688 9789000145713 9789000173952 9789000185238

Redwood Mist White Sage Witch Moon Manifestation Lavender Bulgaria Palo Santo Ecuador Holy Basil Western Red Cedar Essential Oil Diffuser Ionizer Lotus Diffuser Essential Oil Burner Mandala

9789000173969 9789000173976 9789000155095 9789000175307 9789000194391 9789000162239 9789000194407 9789000155088 9789000131426

Nail Dual Foot & Hand Brush Facial Bamboo Charcoal Face Cloth Organic Bamboo Eye Pillow Lavender Bamboo Brush Body Bamboo Charcoal Mitt Agave Soap Sack Jute Brush Spa Foot with Pumice Brush Sisal

$ 16.95 $ 16.95 $ 23.95 $ 21.50 $ 23.95 $ 29.95 $ 15.95 $ 14.95 $ 98.00 $ 19.95 $ 7.95

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$ 5.95 $ 12.95 $ 6.95 $ 12.95 $ 19.95 $ 9.95 $ 4.95 $ 11.95 $ 17.95

Music on CD LOST SOULS

by Loreena McKennitt

$22.95, CD. Quinlan Road. 45 minutes

Lost Souls is Loreena McKennitt’s first album of original material since 2006’s An Ancient Muse. Simply put, this albums feels personal and yet welcoming to all who wish to join her. Lost Souls is sheer beauty and brilliance. Given that these songs were never intended to co-exist as a collection, it is even more astounding that they form such a consistent album. Here McKennitt has rediscovered songs from the past that did not fit on the

MUSIC & ART

contemporary albums of the time. The instrumental performance is inspirational, and McKennitt’s voice has never sounded so good. One hears the emotion in her voice as she sings, especially in songs such as “A Hundred Wishes” and the staggeringly beautiful “Breaking of the Sword”, a song inspired by McKennitt’s participation in the 100th anniversary of Vimy Ridge. Of course no Loreena McKennitt album is complete without instrumentals, and the two included in this album “Sun, Moon and Stars” and “Manx Ayre” are exquisite. Lost Souls is about lost souls, both as songs and as people. Thankfully Ms. McKennitt has brought them all together into one strong, solid album. How can one feel alone with beauty such as this album to draw them together? Perhaps we are not lost, just taking a long time returning home.

Krishna Das Chants PEACE OF MY HEART

steady tempo and without speeding up. This recording, done live in the studio with the great musicians that I regularly play with, is $23.95, 2 CDs. White Swan. 1 hour, 40 minutes the result of her request. “Many times over the years, I’ve been This music can also be used for yoga classes, asked if I could record longer versions of for relaxation, for meditation, for breathwork the chants that I have been doing… I have and body work/spa, and in many other ways. It’s a dear friend who works with children with the sound of the Name resonating in our Conautism and special needs. She teaches them yoga using my CDs. The chanting has a soothing and sciousness that creates new opening and plants seeds for relaxing effect on the kids, cooling them out and also spiritual connection and deepens the connection to the One helping them to connect deeply. But when the chants Heart of All.” —Krishna Das The five extended kirtan pieces on this gentle double alsped up, the kids get anxious and became distracted and disconnected. When she told me this, I offered to bum are: Prema Hare Ram, The Blue Krishna Waltz, Jai Shimake longer versions of the same chants but keeping a va Omkara, Hanuman Bhajan, and Om Sri Matre Namaha. Chants to Calm the Mind and Ease the Heart by Krishna Das

FLOW OF GRACE (REVISED EDITION) Chanting the Hanuman Chalisa by Krishna Das

$29.99, Book+ 2CD set. Mandala. 80 pages, 7x7, colour photos + 2 Music CDs

Flow of Grace has been revised and reissued in a beautiful new edition. “Krishna Das… a pure transmission... Flow of Grace is an extraordinary devotional book touching on various aspects of Hanuman ranging from who he is through why and how to chant the Hanuman Chalisa. Having Hanuman in your life awakens you to loving service as a spiritual path, and this wondrous book provides us with a sweet and compassionate insight into Hanuman.” —Ram Dass, author of Be Here Now Hindus consider Tulsidas one of their greatest poets, and of his works Hanuman Chaliesa is the most famous.

Art & Creativity THE ART OF IS

Improvising as a Way of Life by Stephen Nachmanovitch

$23.50, paper. New World Library. 266 pages, b/w illustrations

Free Play, Stephen Nachmanovitch’s classic on improv and creativity, has been a standard for 25+ years. His second book is The Art of Is: Improvisation as a Way of Life. In this breath-of-freshair thinking about how to cultivate the kind of game-changing creativity everyone seeks, Stephen shows exactly how the passion and immediacy of improvisation can be cultivated and how, in fact, we all improvise all the time whether we are driving or deep in conversation. He explores ideas about being in the moment and reacting to people as they are, finding gold in unexpected distrac-

Forty lyrical verses give praise to Hanuman— the deity known as the pinnacle of bhakti (devotion) and the remover of fears. It is said that just by chanting these powerful Sanskrit words you will gain strength and confidence, and be filled with divine energy. Now with Flow of Grace, Krishna Das offers us the rare opportunity to chant these timeless verses along with him, and to experience the devotional power of Kirtan (sacred chant) at its best. The first CD features K.D. chanting the Hanuman Chalisa (pure music); the second CD includes spoken-word tracks with the accurate pronunciation. Krishna Das, old guru-brother of Ram Dass and also a disciple of Neemkaroli Baba, is one of the great modern “chant-masters.” His newest CD is Peace of My Heart.

tions and roadblocks, and not only accepting but also celebrating imperfections in everyday practices. This creative mindfulness also makes innovation the province not of solitary geniuses but the result of engagement and interaction. He takes the sense of improvising and creating to a scale beyond the individual, aiming to tune readers into their own spontaneity but also to extend it into empathy for and collaboration with others. Improvising rapport in testy times. Buddhism comes into the mix, as he waxes on ancient stories and koans of the Buddhist tradition and relates them to the creative, synergistic act of improvising. He also delves into nature and how exploring the natural world can help us learn to think as nature thinks, asking the question “what is it to behave in a natural, spontaneous way?” Improvising cannot be understood as merely a musical or theatrical technique… We examine many types of moments because the crucial lesson of this book is that artistic power is available to anyone, at any moment. It is not a psychological tool, or an artistic tool. It is a way of being.

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Seven Ways to Spark Your Creative Spirit by Deborah Quibell, Jennifer Selig & Dennis Slattery $33.95, paper. Shambhala. 288 pp 7x9

The authors of Deep Creativity distill the many paths to instilling and nourishing creativity down to “7 Ways to creativity”: The Way of Love, The Way of Nature, The Way of the Muse, The Way of Suffering, The Way of Practice, The Way of the Sacred, and The Way of Art; and invite the reader to explore each for themselves. The authors’ unique stories show how these Ways have informed their own creative process, and they provide reflective and practical exercises on each. Grounded in Jungian psychology, Deep Creativity offers practical guidance for getting in touch with your own unconscious reservoir as well as engaging your everyday world to deepen the source of creative expression. Wherever one is on the creative path—a beginner or established creative—this book offers not only practical workbook-like exercises but is also a contemplation on the creative process itself. The result is a highly resourceful book, which will not only inspire the creative process, but also uniquely contribute to our understanding of creativity as a deeply human and embodied endeavor. “The practices within this book are like portals into which one enters a deeply creative and healing space. The poems, images, stories, and contemplations in Deep Creativity stir even the dimmest embers within the reader, and page by page the creative fire is reignited.” —Kim Krans, creator of The Wild Unknown “Deep Creativity is an appeal, reminder, and summons to engage the autonomous “Other” that resides within each of us, just outside the range of ego intentionality… Through examples and precepts, they lead the reader into a new experience of what is oldest in each of us.” —James Hollis, author of Living an Examined Life

WOMEN OF VISIONARY ART

by David Jay Brown & Rebecca Ann Hill $62.50, cloth. Inner Traditions. 370 pages, 8x11, colour photos

Since early humans first painted from their mystic eye onto cave walls, artists have sought to share their visions with the world. Created in every medium, from oil painting and sculpture to contemporary digital modeling, these visionary works of art give those who experience them a chance to see the unseen, realize wider modes of perception, and discover spiritual and mystical realms. This gorgeous full-colour tribute examines the work and inspirations of eighteen of today’s leading female visionary artists, including Josephine Wall, Allyson Grey, Amanda Sage, Martina Hoffmann, Penny Slinger, and Carolyn Mary Kleefeld, among others. They explore the creative process and the role that dreaming, psychedelic experiences, sexuality, and divine guidance play in the work of these women, alongside full-color examples of their art. They discuss the future of visionary art and reveal how these artists have all been informed and inspired by deep inner experiences and seek to express visions of reality reminiscent of those encountered in shamanic trance, lucid dreams, psychedelic journeys, and spiritually transcendent experiences. Showing how visionary art often contains an abundance of feminine energy, helping us see how we are all connected, the authors explore with each artist what it is about being a woman that has most influenced their artwork. They also examine the connection between visionary art and spirituality and the influence of Nature and sacred geometry. Beautiful.

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Poetry & Stories SONG OF MYSELF

by Walt Whitman edited by Stephen Mitchell $14.95, paper. Shambhala. 108 pages. An undeniable and beloved classic of American poetry, “Song of Myself” was originally published as part of Leaves of Grass, with Whitman expanding, revising, and editing it in subsequent editions for much of his life. Here, Stephen Mitchell has gone back to the first edition, only substituting revisions from later editions that express the original vision and clarity of the piece. Tangling with themes of the self, nature, and one’s place in the universe, Whitman’s labor of language comes again and again to a simple yet astonishing conclusion—“I contain multitudes”—that everything, even the smallest, most seemingly insignificant blade of grass and tiny ant have inside them the infinite universe. This is Whitman at his most wild and raw, as large and lusty as life, fulfilling his promise to all future generations: I too am not a bit tamed… I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

This book is part of the Shambhala Pocket Library, a collection of short, portable teachings from notable figures across religious traditions and classic texts. The books

POETRY & YOGA in this collection distill the wisdom and heart of the work Shambhala Publications has published over 50 years into a compact format that is collectible and reader-friendly.

MOURNING SONGS

Poems of Sorrow & Beauty edited by Grace Schulman

$14.75, paper. New Directions. 96 pages

Who has not suffered grief? In Mourning Songs, the brilliant poet and editor Grace Schulman has gathered together the most moving poems about sorrow by the likes of Elizabeth Bishop, William Carlos Williams, Gwendolyn Brooks, Neruda, Catullus, Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, W. S. Merwin, Lorca, Denise Levertov, Keats, Hart Crane, Michael Palmer, Robert Frost, Hopkins, Hardy, Bei Dao, and Czeslaw Miloszto name only some of the masters in this slim volume. “The poems in this collection,” as Schulman notes in her introduction, “sing of grief as they praise life.” She notes: As any bereaved survivor knows, there is no consolation. ‘Time doesn’t heal grief; it emphasizes it,’ wrote Marianne Moore. The loss of a loved one never leaves us. We don’t want it to. In grief, one remembers the beloved. But running beside it, parallel to it, is the joy of existence, the love that causes pain of loss, the loss that enlarges us with the wonder of existence.

Yoga & the Hindu Traditions

HIPPIE

by Paulo Coelho

$21.00, paper. Dutton. 304 pages

New in Paperback

Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist, etc.) takes us back in time to re-live the dreams of a generation. In his most autobiographical novel to date, Paulo Coelho interweaves adventure, philosophy, and the true stories of his own life. Following the “three days of peace and music” at Woodstock, the 1969 gathering in Bethel, New York, hippie “pads, patchouli and paradises” began to emerge all around the world. In the Dam Square in Amsterdam, long-haired young people wearing vibrant clothes and burning incense were being high, meditating, playing music, and discussing sexual liberation, the expansion of consciousness and the discoveries of inner truth. They were a generation refusing to live the robotic and unquestioning life that their parents had known. It was in that famous square in Amsterdam where Paulo meets Karla. She convinces Paulo to join her on a trip to Nepal, aboard the Magic Bus that travels across Europe and Central Asia to Kathmandu. They embark on a journey in the company of fascinating fellow travelers, each of whom has a story to tell, and each of whom will undergo a transformation, changing their priorities and values, along the way. As they travel together, Paulo and Karla explore their own relationship, an awakening on every level.

Yoga Tools & Teachings

ONE SIMPLE THING

TEACHING YOGA BEYOND THE POSES

A New Look at the Science of Yoga and How It Can Transform Your Life by Eddie Stern $34.00, cloth. North Point. 303 pages

Yoga was created as a science for liberation, but in modern times it is used by many to improve physical and mental health, helping us become more productive at work, more caring in relationships, more responsible contributors to society, and better inhabitants of this planet. If yoga does accomplish all that—as many practitioners report—how exactly does yoga do it? How does yoga work? Believe it or not, the answers lie in how the human body and mind function. Eddie Stern’s One Simple Thing: A New Look at the Science of Yoga and How It Can Transform Your Life explains from both a yogic and a scientific perspective how the human nervous system is wired. It describes the mechanics taking place beneath the surface of our bodies and shows how we can consciously use yogic practices to direct and change our lives in positive ways. Drawing on modern neuroscience, ancient wisdom, and decades of practice and teaching, Eddie Stern reveals how what we do—from diet to chanting, from postures to meditation, from ethical practices to breathing techniques— affects who we become, and how a steady routine of activities and attitudes can transform our bodies, our brain functions, our emotions, and our experience of life.

means to be authentic and how teachers can approach authenticity without feeling overly exposed or turning their yoga classes into a therapy session. The second section of the book contains $23.95, paper. North Atlantic. 54 complete themes in template form, so in224 pages, 7x10, 54 b/w illustrations structors can easily use them in a class. These Experienced yoga instructors Sage Rounthemes are broken down in chapters such as: tree and Alexandra DeSiato give yoga teachyoga philosophy, seasonal themes, meditaers tools to find a genuine voice and tap tions, quotes, and spiritual ideas and stories into innate wisdom; they offer ready-made, from other traditions that translate well to detailed themes to use in classes or home practice; and provide guidance and useful, flexible tem- yoga. Each theme is explored in a way that allows teachplates for building a toolkit of authentic themes for fu- ers to add their own voice, take, and spin. The final section of the book includes gentle advice and prompts ture use. The workbook begins with a section on voice, au- with 54 blank templates, so instructors can create their thenticity, emulation, phrasing, practice, repetition, and own themes. With a unique angle and a practical feel, finding inspiration. While offering guidance for new or this workbook will appeal to yoga teachers, teacher experienced teachers so that they feel confident speak- trainers, and at-home practitioners who are moving to ing from a place of authority and offering their stu- the next level. Also by these authors: Lifelong Yoga. dents memorable themes, the authors explore what it A Practical Workbook for Integrating Themes, Ideas, and Inspiration into Your Class by Sage Rountree & Alexandra Desiato

ASHTANGA YOGA PRACTICE CARDS The Primary Series by Kino MacGregor

$39.95, cards. Shambhala.

Ashtanga Yoga is one of the most popular and rigorous styles of yoga--and now practicing the Primary Series at home could not be easier! This full-colour set of practice cards includes 90 poses (the series plus each pose in Surya Namaskara A and B), each with a photo, instructions, the drishti (point of fo-

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cus), and a list of benefits. A fold-out introduction card explains Ashtanga’s history and tradition; the essential connection of breath, posture, and gaze that is the core of the practice; and how Ashtanga is fundamentally a path of spiritual transformation and development. Whether you’re new to Ashtanga or an experienced practitioner, this card set will be a useful and inspiring support to your practice.

Music on CD LOST SOULS

by Loreena McKennitt

$22.95, CD. Quinlan Road. 45 minutes

MUSIC & ART

Krishna Das Chants PEACE OF MY HEART

FLOW OF GRACE (REVISED EDITION) Chanting the Hanuman Chalisa by Krishna Das

$29.99, Book+ 2CD set. Mandala. 80 pages, 7x7, colour photos + 2 Music CDs

Art & Creativity THE ART OF IS

Improvising as a Way of Life by Stephen Nachmanovitch

$23.50, paper. New World Library. 266 pages, b/w illustrations

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Seven Ways to Spark Your Creative Spirit by Deborah Quibell, Jennifer Selig & Dennis Slattery $33.95, paper. Shambhala. 288 pp 7x9

WOMEN OF VISIONARY ART

by David Jay Brown & Rebecca Ann Hill $62.50, cloth. Inner Traditions. 370 pages, 8x11, colour photos

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Poetry & Stories SONG OF MYSELF

This book is part of the Shambhala Pocket Library, a collection of short, portable teachings from notable figures across religious traditions and classic texts. The books

POETRY & YOGA in this collection distill the wisdom and heart of the work Shambhala Publications has published over 50 years into a compact format that is collectible and reader-friendly.

MOURNING SONGS

Poems of Sorrow & Beauty edited by Grace Schulman

$14.75, paper. New Directions. 96 pages

Yoga & the Hindu Traditions

HIPPIE

by Paulo Coelho

$21.00, paper. Dutton. 304 pages

New in Paperback

Yoga Tools & Teachings

ONE SIMPLE THING

TEACHING YOGA BEYOND THE POSES

A New Look at the Science of Yoga and How It Can Transform Your Life by Eddie Stern $34.00, cloth. North Point. 303 pages

ASHTANGA YOGA PRACTICE CARDS The Primary Series by Kino MacGregor

$39.95, cards. Shambhala.

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BUDDHISM

Buddhism

Insight Meditation Teachings

UNBINDING

MINDFULNESS AND INSIGHT

The Grace Beyond Self by Kathleen Dowling Singh

our own journey of awakening. Part 1, The Development of Mindfulness, offers comprehensive instructions for devel$24.95, paper. Wisdom. 276 pages oping mindfulness based on the Buddha’s With a thorough introduction by Steve teachings on the four foundations of mindArmstrong —Discarding any striving or amfulness, as outlined in the highly regarded bition, the refined guidance Mahasi Sayadaw Discourse on Mindfulness (Satipatthana Sutta). (1904-1982) provides in this book will lead Part 2, Practical Instructions, provides practitioners to systematically and gradually guidance in both the practices preliminary to purify their minds of attachment, aversion, undertaking insight meditation and in develand delusion and to realize the successive oping insight knowledge, ranging from initial stages of enlightenment. practices to advanced levels of practice. MaMindfulness and Insight is an excerpt of two key chapters from the comprehensive, authoritative hasi Sayadaw lays out in plain language what meditators Manual of Insight, which expounds the doctrinal and are likely to experience through their practice and how practical aspects of mindfulness (satipatthana) and the they can come to understand those experiences on a development of insight knowledge (vipassana) up to spectrum of unfolding insights known as the progress and including the attainment of enlightenment (nibba- of insight. This clear articulation sets Mahasi Sayadaw’s na). In Manual of Insight, Mahasi Sayadaw acknowledged teachings apart from those of other modern Buddhist that these two chapters alone offer suitable guidance on teachers. The Mahasi Method by Mahasi Sayadaw

$24.95, paper. Wisdom. 270 pages

A sophisticated unfolding of one of Buddhism’s subtlest foundational teachings—the truth of dependent origination—is here offered in a poetic, warm, and intimate voice. Kathleen offers easeful contemplative exercises accessible to anyone. Drawing gently on the language and teachings of Buddhism, Unbinding invites everyday mystics from all traditions or none to encounter the sacred and experience grace themselves. Singh helps the reader move ever more deeply into living from gratitude, wisdom, and love. If you do not yet have a daily practice, I invite you to consider establishing one. If we long for awareness beyond “self,” a daily meditative practice is essential. We can’t think our way to awakening… I hope you, the reader, will accept each invitation to pause… I hope you’ll follow your own heart’s direction to pause, to savor and cultivate that with which you resonate. It is in the pausing and looking that Unbinding can become more than informational for you. It can become transformational—deepening realization.

“Unbinding shows us the many ways we imprison ourselves, through habits, attachments, cravings, while she gives us the teachings that can free us, open us to awe and gratitude. Here is ancient mystical wisdom told in the language of today. Listen to this heart song that calls us home.” —Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, author of Spiritual Ecology Also by Kathleen Dowling Singh are The Grace in Ageing and The Grace in Dying.

ZEN BEYOND MINDFULNESS

Using Buddhist and Modern Psychology for Transformational Practice by Jules Shuzen Harris $23.95, paper. Shambhala. 176 pages

FROM SUFFERING TO PEACE

The True Promise of Mindfulness by Mark Coleman

$25.00, paper. New World Library. 308 pp

Like yoga and meditation before it, mindfulness seems to be having its moment. It’s a buzzword in everything from medicine, the military, and education to sports, prisons, and therapy. Mark Coleman, who has studMy hope with this book is to provide a comied mindfulness meditation with teachers in prehensive, clear understanding of the depth and Asia, Europe, and the United States for descope of these ancient teachings, as well as to cades, draws on his knowledge to clarify what shed light on their contemporary applications. mindfulness truly means. That requires leaving no stone unturned as we explore Weaving together current neuroscience and practices our mind, body, heart, and world and discover what causbased on teachings cultivated and put to practical use es our pain and stress and what truly supports a life of for millennia, his approach is actually a study of how well-being and peace. to engage with and transform pain in the body, from illnesses and injuries to death; in the heart, as we love A teacher at Spirit Rock, Mark Coleman has guided and recognize our need for others; and in the mind, as students as corporate consultant, counselor, meditation we use our brains to compare, judge, and question and teacher, and wilderness guide.

THE MAGNANIMOUS HEART

Zen teacher Jules Shuzen Harris, the first African American man to receive Dharma transmission in the Soto Zen school, argues that contemporary American Buddhists face two primary challenges: 1. “spiritual bypassing,” which means avoiding or repressing social and psychological problems in favor of “pretend Enlightenment,” and 2. settling for secularized forms of Buddhism or mindfulness that have lost touch with the deeper philosophical and ethical underpinnings of the religion. Drawing on his decades of experience as a Zen practitioner, teacher, and psychotherapist, Harris writes that both of these challenges can be met through the combination of a committed meditation practice, a deep study of Buddhist psychological models, and tools from a psychotherapeutic method known as “Mind-Body Bridging.” Using this unique approach, students can do the real work of awakening without either denying their embodied emotional life or missing out on the rich array of insights offered by Buddhist psychology and the Zen practice tradition. “I can’t think of a more qualified and appropriate person to take on the task of developing a contemporary technique for using mindfulness as a path of self-discovery and peace.” —from the foreword by Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara, author of Most Intimate

as we fail to understand our interconnectedness with the world. While deep, profound, and multilayered, the mindfulness Coleman teaches has proved effective in a wide variety of settings. Ending Suffering, Finding Peace will help readers of all kinds access and benefit from the true promise of mindfulness.

Compassion and Love, Loss and Grief, Joy and Liberation by Narayan Helen Liebenson

Answering these is the purpose of this book.

In writing evocative of Pema Chodron’s, Narayan Liebenson shows us exactly how it is $24.95, paper. Wisdom. 204 pages possible to turn the sting and anguish of loss Here a beloved master teacher (she’s and distress into a path of liberation—the deep taught at the Cambridge Insight Meditation joy, peace, and happiness within our own hearts Center for 30+ years) shows us how to move that exists beyond mere circumstances. She from the constant squeeze of suffering to a teaches how to skillfully respond to painful hudirect experience of enoughness. man emotions, and teaches the art of meditative The magnanimous heart is a heart of balinquiry, questioning wisely—showing us how to ance and buoyancy, of generosity and inclusivlive from a compassionate love that guides our ity. It allows us to approach each moment exactly as it is, lives and warms whatever it shines upon. With metta and in a fresh and alive way free from agendas and shoulds, compassion as companions and allies, we discover how our receiving all that arises. It has the capacity to hold any- own magnanimous hearts can gently allow the inner knots thing and everything, transforming even vulnerability to untie themselves. and grief into workable assets. “Narayan guides the reader on a true vision quest— not for otherworldly experience, but for a new way of Where can the heart’s longing be fulfilled? How can we understanding the great truths of our lives.” —Joseph view life’s pain as a pathway instead of as only an obstacle? Goldstein, author of Mindfulness. Is there a way to understand loss differently than we do?

ROAR

Sulak Sivaraksa and the Path of Socially Engaged Buddhism by Matteo Pistono $21.95, paper. North Atlantic. 264 pages, b/w photos

This is the captivating life story of a renowned Siamese Buddhist activist, critic, and indomitable defender of the disenfranchised, with a foreword by John Ralston Saul. Matteo Pistono’s deft prose weaves together the story of Sulak Sivaraksa’s years of social-justice work and his tireless campaigns to effect change. As a seminal figure in the

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world of socially engaged spirituality, Sulak has given us a blueprint for peaceful, nonviolent activism in the twenty-first century. Sulak is the founder of the International Network of Engaged Buddhists and dozens of other organizations promoting civil justice and human rights. More than forty vintage and historical black-and-white photos illustrate both his life and a turbulent period in Thailand’s history.

“This rare and powerful book conveys the powerful spirit of a true humanitarian and courageous human being, Sulak Sivaraksa. Roar is the roar of a lion of a man, whose vision of human liberation is an example for us all. Written with rugged honesty and utter clarity, this book is a great treasure that teaches us all that compassion in action is the very heart of ethics. Bravo! All who know [Sulak]have been waiting for the full story of his life and work.” —Roshi Joan Halifax, Upaya Zen Center, author of Standing at the Edge

THE WORLD COULD BE OTHERWISE Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path by Norman Fischer $23.95, paper. Shambhala. 206 pages

Here’s an imaginative approach to spiritual practice in difficult times, through the Buddhist teaching of the six paramitas or “perfections”—qualities that lead to kindness, wisdom, and an awakened life. In frightening times, we wish the world could be otherwise. With a touch of imagination, it can be. Imagination helps us see what’s hidden, and it shape-shifts reality’s roiling twisting waves. In this inspiring reframe of a classic Buddhist teaching, Zen teacher Norman Fischer writes that the paramitas, or six perfections—generosity, ethical conduct, patience, joyful effort, meditation, and understanding—can help us reconfigure the world we live in. Ranging from our everyday concerns about relationships, ethics, and consumption to our artistic inspirations and broadest human yearnings, Fischer depicts imaginative spiritual practice as a necessary resource for our troubled times. These six practices define the path of the bodhisattva, the imaginative hero of the Mahayana Buddhist path. To contemplate and practice them is a lifetime’s project—one we will never complete. The more we practice them in this crazy world, the more we will see how our ordinary human life, with all its pressures and difficulties, can also be a heroic and passionate spiritual journey. Understanding and love are possible.

“Coupling these inspiring teachings with grounded daily-life practices, this book is a source of renewal for anyone willing to move beyond their complacency and routine to ponder the wondrous possibilities that abound.” —Rodney Smith, author of Touching the Infinite

THE MOST IMPORTANT POINT

Zen Teachings of Edward Espe Brown by Edward Brown, edited by Danny Parker $24.95, paper. Sounds True. 242 pages

From master baker, cook, and Zen priest Ed Brown (Tassajara Bread Book) comes a collection of crunchy, juicy essays on Zen, food, and the art of savoring living—drawn from his teachings over many years. Brown was one of the first Westerners to be ordained a priest by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi (Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind), who had hoped that Zen might be transformed into a vibrant new form in the West. In The Most Important Point, Brown fulfills Suzuki’s wish with 60 essays that are distinctly Turtle-Island-American yet preserve the roots of traditional Japanese Zen. Notes from/to a life “well cooked.” Drawing from his time in the kitchen and on the cushion, Brown explores a range of topics, from basic sitting practice to making the perfect biscuit and much more. In the words of my teacher, the most important point is to find out what is the most important point.

BUDDHISM

Green Buddhism GREEN BUDDHISM

on how people and communities can draw on Buddhist concepts and practices to live more sustainable lives on our one and only home.

Practice and Compassionate Action in Uncertain Times by Stephanie Kaza $24.95, paper. Shambhala. 252 pages

At a time of growing environmental crisis, a pioneer of Green Buddhist thought offers challenging and illuminating perspectives. With species rapidly disappearing and global temperatures rising, there is more urgency than ever to act on the ecological crises we face. Hundreds of millions of people around the world—including unprecedented numbers of Westerners—now practice Buddhism. Can Buddhists be a critical voice in the green conversation? Leading Buddhist environmentalist Stephanie Kaza has spent her career exploring the intersection of religion and ecology. With so much at stake, she offers guidance

It seems to me that the environmental work of this century will ask much more of us than we can now imagine. I believe it will be helpful to place that work in the context of a steady spiritual practice, knowing the work will go on beyond our own lifetimes.

“Such a blessing to have the essays of pioneering spiritual ecologist Stephanie Kaza in one volume! Her vibrant writing joins scientific savvy, a compassionate heart, and an abiding concern for the planet. Her green Buddhism calls all of us to wakeful activism and greater intimacy with all things.” —Judith Simmer-Brown, author of Dakini’s Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism

ECODHARMA

Buddhist Teachings for the Ecological Crisis by David Loy

Offering a compelling framework and practical spiritual resources, Loy outlines the Ecosattva Path, a path of liberation and salvation for all beings and the world itself.

$24.95, paper. Wisdom. 216 pages

How can we respond urgently and effectively to the ecological crisis—and stay sane doing it? This landmark work is simultaneously a maniWe don’t know if what we do is important, festo, a blueprint, a call to action, and a deep but we do know that it’s important for us to do comfort for troubling times. David R. Loy masit. Have we already passed ecological tipping terfully lays out the principles and perspectives points and civilization as we know it is doomed? of Ecodharma—the Buddhist response to our WE don’t know, and that’s okay. Of course we ecological predicament, a new term for a new hope our efforts will bear fruit, but ultimately development of the Buddhist tradition. they are our openhearted gift to the earth. This book emphasizes the three aspects of Ecodharma: practicing in the natural world; exploring the ecological In this book you’ll discover the powerful ways Budimplications of Buddhist teachings; and embodying that dhism can heal the world we all share. Prepare to be understanding in the eco-activism that is needed today. inspired, motivated, and encouraged. Flavored with wise insights and irreverent humor, The Most Important Point brings together a treasury of teachings to inspire your own discovery. Funny thing—you start sitting, and your life unfolds… without your directing it. That’s the good news, and the bad news: it’s out of your control. And isn’t that great?... “Sitting meditation is to practice being ready for anything.” Being ready for anything is different than gearing yourself up to defend or to attack things as they come toward you. You sit, and you’re ready for anything. Begin right, and you are easy.

“After a lifetime of practice inspired by his teacher, Suzuki Roshi, Ed Brown has discovered that the most important point is love and acceptance. No one expresses this most important point better than Ed. His simple, soulful, honest talks will melt your heart.” —Norman Fischer, author of The World Could Be Otherwise

Tibetan Buddhism WHEN THE CHOCOLATE RUNS OUT Mindfulness and Happiness by Lama Yeshe

$12.95, paper. Wisdom. 164 pages

A portable treasury of gems from a lifetime of Wisdom. To know Lama Yeshe was to know he loved chocolate; it was his favorite metaphor to describe the nature of our attachments. This funny and trenchant little volume answers the question of how we can be happy even after the “chocolate” has run out. By cutting the cords of attachment, we discover the indestructible happiness that has always been—and always will be—available to us. Capturing the remarkable personality of Lama Yeshe, who played an integral role in introducing Tibetan Buddhism to the western world, When the Chocolate Runs Out will delight both readers who knew Lama Yeshe for de-

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cades and those who have never encountered this timelessly inspiring teacher. Treat yourself, your mind, sympathetically, with loving kindness. If you are gentle with yourself you will become gentle with others—so don’t push.

At once lighthearted and profound, this delightful book of wisdom is a perfect companion to How to Be Happy by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Don’t get caught up in your sensory experience. Sense perception is blind; it is not an intelligent or wise mind. Let your mind be totally open and aware, receptive like an ocean.

TIBETAN YOGA

Principles and Practices by Ian Baker

$49.99, cloth. Inner Traditions. 288 pages, 7x9, colour illustrations throughout

Tibetan yoga is the hidden treasure at the heart of the Tibetan Tantric Buddhist tradition: a practice that seeks an expanded experience of the human body and its energetic and cognitive potential. In this pioneering and highly illustrated overview, Ian Baker introduces the core principles and practices of Tibetan yoga alongside historical illustrations of the movements and beautiful, full-color works of Himalayan art, never before published.

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BUDDHISM

Buddhism

Insight Meditation Teachings

UNBINDING

MINDFULNESS AND INSIGHT

The Grace Beyond Self by Kathleen Dowling Singh

$24.95, paper. Wisdom. 270 pages

ZEN BEYOND MINDFULNESS

Using Buddhist and Modern Psychology for Transformational Practice by Jules Shuzen Harris $23.95, paper. Shambhala. 176 pages

FROM SUFFERING TO PEACE

The True Promise of Mindfulness by Mark Coleman

$25.00, paper. New World Library. 308 pp

THE MAGNANIMOUS HEART

Compassion and Love, Loss and Grief, Joy and Liberation by Narayan Helen Liebenson

Answering these is the purpose of this book.

ROAR

Sulak Sivaraksa and the Path of Socially Engaged Buddhism by Matteo Pistono $21.95, paper. North Atlantic. 264 pages, b/w photos

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THE WORLD COULD BE OTHERWISE Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path by Norman Fischer $23.95, paper. Shambhala. 206 pages

THE MOST IMPORTANT POINT

Zen Teachings of Edward Espe Brown by Edward Brown, edited by Danny Parker $24.95, paper. Sounds True. 242 pages

BUDDHISM

Green Buddhism GREEN BUDDHISM

on how people and communities can draw on Buddhist concepts and practices to live more sustainable lives on our one and only home.

Practice and Compassionate Action in Uncertain Times by Stephanie Kaza $24.95, paper. Shambhala. 252 pages

ECODHARMA

Buddhist Teachings for the Ecological Crisis by David Loy

Offering a compelling framework and practical spiritual resources, Loy outlines the Ecosattva Path, a path of liberation and salvation for all beings and the world itself.

$24.95, paper. Wisdom. 216 pages

Tibetan Buddhism WHEN THE CHOCOLATE RUNS OUT Mindfulness and Happiness by Lama Yeshe

$12.95, paper. Wisdom. 164 pages

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TIBETAN YOGA

Principles and Practices by Ian Baker

$49.99, cloth. Inner Traditions. 288 pages, 7x9, colour illustrations throughout

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TIBETAN BUDDHISM

Drawing on Tibetan cultural history and scientific research, the author explores Tibetan yogic practices from historical, anthropological, and biological perspectives, providing a rich background to enable the reader to understand this ancient tradition with both the head and the heart. He provides complete, illustrated instructions for meditations, visualizations, and sequences of practices for the breath and body, as well as esoteric practices including sexual yoga, lucid dream yoga, and yoga enhanced by psychoactive plants. He explains how, while Tibetan yoga absorbed aspects of Indian hatha yoga and Taoist energy cultivation, this ancient practice largely begins where physically-oriented yoga and chi-gong end, by directing prana, or vital energy, toward the awakening of latent human abilities and cognitive states. He shows how Tibetan yoga techniques facilitate transcendence of the self and suffering and ultimately lead to Buddhist enlightenment through transformative processes of body, breath, and consciousness. Richly illustrated with contemporary ethnographic photography of Tibetan yoga practitioners and rare works of Himalayan art, including Tibetan thangka paintings, murals from the Dalai Lamas once-secret meditation chamber in Lhasa, and images of yogic practice from historical practice manuals and medical treatises, this groundbreaking book reveals Tibetan yoga’s ultimate expression of the interconnectedness of all existence.

A Monk’s Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, with Helen Tworkov $36.00, cloth. Dutton. 288 pages

At thirty-six years old, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche was a rising star within his generation of Tibetan masters and the respected abbot of three monasteries. Then one night, telling no one, he slipped out of his monastery in India with the intention of spending the next four years on a wandering retreat, following the ancient practice of holy mendicants. His goal was to throw off his titles and roles, in order to explore the deepest aspects of his being. Yet he immediately discovered that his training had not prepared him to deal with his dirty fellow travelers, or the screeching of the train. He had trouble shedding his monk’s robes and paid for a cheap hostel rather than sleep on the station floor. Soon he became deathly ill from food poisoning—and his journey took a startling turn. His lifelong meditation practice had prepared him to face death, and he now had the opportunity to test the strength of his training. In this powerful and unusually candid account of the inner workings of a Buddhist master, Mingyur Rinpoche shares with us the invaluable lessons he learned from his near-death experience(s). Sharing with the reader meditation practices along the way, he shows us how we can transform our fear of dying into joyful living. Though his story has the feel of a spiritual classic, it is an urgent and timely message for today’s challenging world.

The Dalai Lama in Conversation with Leading Thinkers on Climate Change edited by John Dunne & Daniel Goleman $25.95, paper. Wisdom. 333 pp., b/w photos

Tonglen Meditation for Transforming Pain into Joy by Lama Palden Drolma

sits in us, unprocessed, weighing us down. Love on Every Breath provides a way to transform this pain into love and joy… This meditation can be done “on-the-spot” in daily life as well as on the cushion, and I provide instructions for both. In it, love reveals the innate beauty of our hearts. Healing our own wounding and suffering with love gives us the capacity to be present with and truly love others.

$23.50, paper. New World Library. 215 pp

Many today feel called to action. Others are stymied, grief-stricken, confused about how to proceed. An ancient Tibetan Buddhist meditation, Tonglen addresses this condition. One breathes in the suffering of others and breathes out compassion. But it is a fairly advanced practice. Breathing in the suffering of others and the world can be overwhelming. Lama Palden Drolma, a Western woman trained by Buddhist masters and also schooled in contemporary psychotherapy, here introduces readers to a variation of Tonglen that is no less powerful but more user-friendly. What she calls Love on Every Breath is a direct descendent of Tonglen, dating back centuries. Many of us take in the suffering of others, and it simply

Lama Drolma walks readers step-by-step through the meditation, from beginning issues of sitting with awareness and breath to taking in and extending love. Challenging situations of sadness, anger, and overwhelm are addressed with Onthe-Spot strategies. Love on Every Breath elegantly and practically addresses a contemporary culture rife with anger, fear, and a sense of exclusion. The practices heal both the practitioner and the society in which they live. This is a key core skill for our times.

WISDOM RISING

Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine by Tsultrim Allione

New in Paperback

In Wisdom Rising, one of the first American Buddhist nuns shares from a deep well of personal experience plus decades of practice as one of the core teachers of the mandala of the five dakinis. Dakinis are a type of Buddhist female spirit comprised of five families, each with a set of unique qualities, as well as an encumbered pattern or emotional block that gets in the way of its brilliance: u Buddha dakini (ignorance / the all-encompassing wisdom) u Vajra dakini (anger / the mirror-like wisdom) u Ratna dakini (pride / the wisdom of equanimity) What is happening to our planet? What can we do about it? How do we balance the concerns of people—versus the rights of animals—versus the needs of an ecosystem? What is the most skillful way to enact change? And how do we fight on, even when our efforts seem to bear no fruit? This is quite an unusual forum. Here we have an integrative, collaborative dialogue between science, spiritual traditions, and the humanities. We are going to use these multiple perspectives to address the current environmental crisis… As you will hear from the scientists, there is sad and bad news, and also some very hopeful news. But at the beginning we are going to make the scientific case that, as a species, we are engaged in what amounts to a slow-motion suicide if we continue the way we are now. It’s because of this urgency, and the moral importance of the situation, that we felt that was a compelling topic for a Mind and Life meeting. —Daniel Goleman, moderator

u Padma dakini (craving / the wisdom of discernment) u Karma dakini (envy / the all-accomplishing wisdom) Through the mandala of the five dakinis, we can learn how to embrace the fierce feminine energy of the dakinis, transforming them into wisdom through meditation, sound, visualization, and other practices. Both practical and inspiring, Wisdom Rising offers a powerful gateway of awakening for men and women alike into the deep feminine. “Our most essential work is awakening the sacred feminine. Tsultrim shows us a pathway that transforms emotions into illuminating wisdom, and empowers us to bring healing to our world. These teachings are medicine for our times.” — Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance

With Embracing the Unknown, Pema Chodron delves into the teachings of this extraordinary Buddhist text—not only for what it tells us about the journey of the soul beyond this life, but also as a source of profound wisdom for navigating the uncertainty we face each day in the bardo of this life. Recorded live at Omega Institute, Pema explores the universal mystery of life, death, and rebirth, including: u What is the bardo? How any state between an ending and a beginning gives us an unparalleled opportunity for transformation u What is rebirth?

Pema takes a deeper look at this concept and how it also occurs in our moment-to-moment experience

u Can we let go?

Guidance for honoring the difficult emotions of fear, sadness, and grief with an open and curious heart

u How can we prepare?

Meditation techniques and everyday practices for befriending change, groundlessness, and the unknown.

EMBRACING THE UNKNOWN

Engage with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and His Holiness the Karmapa, as well as leading scientists, academics, ethicists, and activists, who all gathered in Dharamsala, India, for the twenty-third Mind and Life Conference to discuss arguably the most urgent questions facing humankind today:

Life Lessons from the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Pema Chodron. $32.95. Sounds True. 3 CDs, 3 hours, 20 minutes.

What happens when we die? One of the most treasured resources for understanding this essential question is the Tibetan Book of the Dead.

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T H E D A L A I L A M A, T H E T A O & H E A L I N G

Death isn’t just something that happens at the end, teaches Pema. Life is continually arising, dwelling, ceasing, and arising. It’s a cycle that goes on every day, and continues to go on forever. Featuring insightful Q&A sessions with a live audience.

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foundation of all paths of practice. To cultivate the potential for compassion and love inherent within us, it is crucial to counteract their opposing forces of anger and hatred. In Perfecting Patience, the Dalai Lama shows how, through the practice of patience and tolerance, we can overcome the obstacles of anger and hatred. He bases his discussion on A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life, the classic work on the activities of bodhisattvas—those who aspire to attain full enlightenment in order to benefit all beings. This book was previously published under the title Healing Anger.

Buddhist Techniques to Overcome Anger by The Dalai Lama $22.95, paper. Snow Lion. 240 pages

In the days of extremism and severely divisive belief systems, learning patience and compassion practices (from the modern master of patience and compassion) is more valuable than ever. All of the world’s major religions emphasize the importance of love, compassion, and tolerance. This is particularly true in the Buddhist traditions, which unanimously state that compassion and love are the

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and he often takes the opportunity to give teachings on it to audiences throughout the world. In his words, “This text can be like a $24.95, paper. Shambhala. 224 pages key that opens the door to all other major A translation of the ancient classic Stages of Buddhist scriptures.” Topics include the naMeditation, by Kamalashila, with commentary ture of mind, how to develop compassion from everyone’s favorite Buddhist teacher, and loving-kindness, calm abiding wisdom, the Dalai Lama. and how to establish a union of calm abiding The Dalai Lama explains the principles and special insight. of meditation in a practice-oriented format “With characteristic warmth and lucidity, especially suited to Westerners. Based upon the Dalai Lama’s reflections bring alive this the middle section of the Bhavanakrama by classic synopsis of Mahayana Buddhism in a Kamalashila—a translation of which is included—this is the most extensive commentary given by way that will inspire and inform anyone who seeks to the Dalai Lama on this concise but important medita- practice the Dharma today.” —Stephen Batchelor, author of After Buddhism tion handbook. It is a favorite text of the Dalai Lama, The Buddhist Classic on Training the Mind by The Dalai Lama

Taoism & Chi Energy

INNER ALCHEMY

The Urban Monk’s Guide to Happiness, Health & Vitality by Pedram Shojai

LAO TZU: TAO TE CHING

A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way by Ursula Leguin

$23.95, paper. Sounds True. 240 pages, b/w illustrations

$19.95, paper. Shambhala. 208 pages

One of the first ever translations of the Tao Te Ching by a woman—and by Ursula Le Guin, best known for her thought-provoking science fiction novels. She has studied the Tao since her youth over forty years ago—consulting literal translations, working with Chinese scholars, and polishing and whittling this version into its present form. It lets the ancient text speak in a fresh way while remaining faithful to the poetic beauty of the work. It is the most lovable of all the great religious texts, funny, keen, kind, modest, indestructibly outrageous, and inexhaustibly refreshing. Of all the deep springs, this is the purest water. To me, it is also the deepest spring.

Steering clear of traditional patriarchal interpretations and esoteric Taoist insights, she reveals the Tao Te Ching’s immediate relevance and power, its depth and refreshing humour, in a way that shows why it has been so loved over the centuries. Included are Le Guin’s own personal commentary and notes on the text. Brim-fill the bowl, it’ll spill over. Keep sharpening the blade, you’ll soon blunt it. Nobody can protect a house full of gold and jade. Wealth, status, pride, are their own ruin. To do good, work well, and lie low is the way of the blessing.

Pedram Shojai, “The Urban Monk,” presents a comprehensive guide on how Taoist alchemical practices can help you release stress, harness life force energy, and awaken your true self. The path lies in an ancient system of Taoist alchemy, and with Inner Alchemy, qi gong master, physician, and former monk Pedram Shojai presents an in-depth guide. Part 1 lays out Taoist principles and philosophy for understanding the body’s energy matrix and the nature of our current challenges—all in down-to-earth language. Part 2 covers specific exercises and techniques for mastering your energy and awakening your true power—including diet, meditation, exercise, sleep, lifestyle tips, and traditional qi gong sets. Part 3 provides an advanced exploration of traditional Taoism for modern times, along with a 100day practice formula to help you regulate your energy, wake up from the hypnotic daze of daily life, and make the world we live in a better place. The process of turning the material ’lead’ of our human experience into the ’gold’ of awakening is the essence of this ancient science of spirituality. My promise is that if you practice what you learn in this book, your life will change in ways that you have never imagined.

This rendering of the text is a brilliant testament to LeGuin’s deep-seated understanding of Taoist principles and their value for our troubled world today.

“This is a complete download of my lineage. It’s an ancient, time-tested path to master your energy and transform your life.”

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BodyMind Healing

New Books from the Dalai Lama PERFECTING PATIENCE

LOVE ON EVERY BREATH

Prominent scientists featured in this book include Diana Liverman, Gregory Norris, Jonathan Patz, and Elke Weber.

ECOLOGY, ETHICS AND INTERDEPENDENCE

Women Teaching Love

$23.00, paper. Scribner. 368 pages

IN LOVE WITH THE WORLD

THE WHOLE BODY MICROBIOME

How to Harness Microbes—Inside and Out —for Lifelong Health by B. Brett Finlay & Jessica Finlay $26.95, paper. Douglas & Macinyre. 304 pp.

Science has made huge leaps in prolonging life through disease prevention and treatment, but microbiologist Brett Finlay and gerontologist Jessica Finlay offer a different—and truly revolutionary—approach to the quest for the fountain of youth. Microbes are the oldest and smallest forms of life on earth, and encompass bacteria, viruses, protozoa, fungi and other microscopic organisms. While some bacteria and viruses can make us sick, normally we coexist peacefully with microbes. In fact, they are essential to our everyday health. Microbes help break down food in the digestive tract, support immune function and protect us from the pathogens we come into contact with on a daily basis. Our well-being is intimately tied to the microbes that surround us—on our cellphones, kitchen sponges, houseplants, pets and desks. In this groundbreaking volume, the authors present current and emerging research on microbial interventions for the full gamut of age-related conditions, from sun spots and wrinkles to Alzheimers disease, cancer, osteoporosis, menopause, chronic inflammation and more. The good news is that simple changes to nutrition and lifestyle can promote the right kind of microbial exposure, to improve health whether were eighteen or eighty. Incorporating interviews with leading microbiologists, scientific researchers and medical professionals, and with a compelling and proactive approach to cutting-edge science, The Whole-Body Microbiome will appeal to anyone looking to grow old as healthfully and gracefully as possible. Also by these authors: Let Them Eat Dirt.

LET YOUR BODY SPEAK

The Essential Nature of the Organs by Ewald Kliegel

$19.95, paper. Findhorn. 116 pages, colour illustrations

What if our organs had an inherent knowledge of their role in our body, a spiritual aspect to their purpose in life? In Let Your Body Speak, you are invited to change your perspective and experience the mystery of your body in a more intuitive way, open to impressions, aware of the soul speaking. If we can connect with an organ’s essence, a seed in us that we have neglected for far too long begins to regerminate. With its growth a basic knowledge of the spiritual roots of the organs unfolds, a consciousness that teaches us a renewed mindfulness for our body, and through this mindfulness—once it fully blossoms—we find our very own inner life force.

Featuring stunning color illustrations of the energy of human organs and other body parts, this book is perfect for anyone interested in learning about the self-healing properties of the body and the psychic, emotional, and physical elements central to existence. The book provides a deeper understanding of the wider psychological function of each organ, including eyes, hands, hips, knees, shoulders, spine, and teeth, and explains how they act in concert within the body. The illustrations further enhance how to receive the message of each organ on an intuitive level, and a chart of healing crystals corresponding with each organ brings further information on how to interact with the organs energetically.

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TIBETAN BUDDHISM

A Monk’s Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, with Helen Tworkov $36.00, cloth. Dutton. 288 pages

The Dalai Lama in Conversation with Leading Thinkers on Climate Change edited by John Dunne & Daniel Goleman $25.95, paper. Wisdom. 333 pp., b/w photos

Tonglen Meditation for Transforming Pain into Joy by Lama Palden Drolma

$23.50, paper. New World Library. 215 pp

WISDOM RISING

Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine by Tsultrim Allione

New in Paperback

Pema takes a deeper look at this concept and how it also occurs in our moment-to-moment experience

u Can we let go?

Guidance for honoring the difficult emotions of fear, sadness, and grief with an open and curious heart

u How can we prepare?

Meditation techniques and everyday practices for befriending change, groundlessness, and the unknown.

EMBRACING THE UNKNOWN

Life Lessons from the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Pema Chodron. $32.95. Sounds True. 3 CDs, 3 hours, 20 minutes.

What happens when we die? One of the most treasured resources for understanding this essential question is the Tibetan Book of the Dead.

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Buddhist Techniques to Overcome Anger by The Dalai Lama $22.95, paper. Snow Lion. 240 pages

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Taoism & Chi Energy

INNER ALCHEMY

The Urban Monk’s Guide to Happiness, Health & Vitality by Pedram Shojai

LAO TZU: TAO TE CHING

A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way by Ursula Leguin

$23.95, paper. Sounds True. 240 pages, b/w illustrations

$19.95, paper. Shambhala. 208 pages

This rendering of the text is a brilliant testament to LeGuin’s deep-seated understanding of Taoist principles and their value for our troubled world today.

“This is a complete download of my lineage. It’s an ancient, time-tested path to master your energy and transform your life.”

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BodyMind Healing

New Books from the Dalai Lama PERFECTING PATIENCE

LOVE ON EVERY BREATH

Prominent scientists featured in this book include Diana Liverman, Gregory Norris, Jonathan Patz, and Elke Weber.

ECOLOGY, ETHICS AND INTERDEPENDENCE

Women Teaching Love

$23.00, paper. Scribner. 368 pages

IN LOVE WITH THE WORLD

THE WHOLE BODY MICROBIOME

How to Harness Microbes—Inside and Out —for Lifelong Health by B. Brett Finlay & Jessica Finlay $26.95, paper. Douglas & Macinyre. 304 pp.

LET YOUR BODY SPEAK

The Essential Nature of the Organs by Ewald Kliegel

$19.95, paper. Findhorn. 116 pages, colour illustrations

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HEALING ARTS

Healing – Thriving BODY THRIVE

Uplevel Your Body & Your Life with 10 Habits from Ayurveda and Yoga by Cate Stillman

u The immediate advantages of lighter,

earlier dinners $24.95, paper. Sounds True. 264 pages u Why you should listen to your body clock and go to bed before 10 PM The habits you choose over time create your day-to-day thrive. What habits have you been u How to set up a vibrant, energized day choosing? Are they helping you—or holding with an intentional morning routine you back? Evolving your habits doesn’t have to u Coordinating your workout with the intel be a struggle. In Body Thrive, wellness expert ligence of the breath Cate Stillman guides you into 10 critical daily u The satisfaction and abundance of eating routines based on Ayurveda that will rejuven a locally sourced, plant-based diet ate you by aligning your daily schedule with u Techniques for invigorating self-masnatural biorhythms. Rather than presenting a rigid checksage & quiet contemplation list of scheduled tasks, Cate encourages easy and steady u Methods for heeding and maintaining the wisprogress through small actions. dom of your senses Including access to dozens of downloadable worksheets u How to choose ease and spaciousness instead of to help you chart your progress through the habits, Body stress and constriction Thrive provides step-by-step instruction for developing “You only get one body,” writes Cate. “What habits are aligned action in your daily routine. Here you will learn: you going to mold it with?”

THE SCIENCE OF THE SACRED

the connection between traditional medicine and current research around epigenetics and quantum physics, for example, including over 600 citations. Redvers, who has traveled and $25.95, paper. North Atlantic. worked with Indigenous groups around the 220 pages, b/w photos world, shares the knowledge and teachings Fascinating and full of research, this book exof health and wellness that have been passed plains how modern medical science has finally down through the generations, while at the caught up to what traditional healing systems same time tying this knowledge with current have known for centuries. Many traditional scientific advances. Knowing that the science healing techniques and medicines are often asbacks up the traditional practice allows us to sumed to be archaic, outdated, or unscientific have earlier and more specific interventions that intecompared to modern Western medicine. Dr. Nicole Redgrate age-old techniques with the advances in modern vers, a naturopathic physician and Native American from medicine. the Deninu K’ue First Nation, describes modern Western “The depth of the author’s knowledge allows us to see medical practices with comparisons to the evidence-informed approach of Indigenous healing practices and the ways in which these different practices can be rooted traditions from around the world, such as sweat lodges, in the wisdom of the body. A call for the holistic healing that integrates multiple traditions for healing of mind, fermented foods, Ayurvedic doshas, and meditation. Organized around different sciences, such as phys- body, emotion, and spirit.” —Robin Wall Kimmerer, auics, genetics, and microbiology, Dr. Redvers points out thor of Braiding Sweetgrass Bridging Global Indigenous Medicine Systems and Modern Scientific Principles by Nicole Redvers

and the Venus Grid; crystal elixirs, such as Aphrodite Elixir and Yemay Essence; and crystal charm bags for purification and a happy home. With the rebirth of the Goddess now happening after millennia of suppression, Pearson shows how, by working with gemstones and crystals, you can help restore the radiant light and limitless magick of the Divine Feminine and move humanity toward collective growth and healing.

Healing Energies, Healing Herbs STONES OF THE GODDESS

Crystals for the Divine Feminine by Nicholas Pearson

$49.99, paper. Inner Traditions. 470 pages, colour photos

Nicholas Pearson explores more than 100 gemstones and crystals connected with the energies of the Divine Feminine, including old favorites like amazonite, amethyst, geodes, and carnelian (also known as the blood of Isis), alongside newer and more unusual stones such as sakura ishi, yeh ming zhu, and Lemurian seed crystals. He details each stone’s spiritual and healing properties, astrological and elemental correspondences, Goddess archetypes and lore, magickal uses, and the aspects of the Divine Feminine it embodies. With an overview of major Goddesses from around the world, he reveals how Goddess traditions and myths have incorporated stones throughout history. Guiding you through the basics of crystal work, including cleansing and programming, the author offers step-bystep instructions for Goddess-centered magickal rituals, guided meditations to connect with the Divine Feminine, and the use of crystals for spellcasting. He explains how to create crystal grids, including the Triple Goddess Grid

WORKING WITH KUNDALINI An Experiential Guide to the Process of Awakening by Mary Mueller Shutan

In this step-by-step guide to the 3-phase process of Kundalini awakening, Mary Shutan delivers practical information on how to deal with such a spiritual emergence in our modern world. Starting with her own story, she describes the nature of Kundalini energy, the reasons for the energy rising, and the connection to the chakra system. Debunking the myths associated with Kundalini awakening, she explains how the first phase of Kundalini rising involves a surging up of fire—the fire of purification. It releases the past, liberates you from past bondages and beliefs, and disrupts the neuro-endocrine systems of the body. The second phase involves expansive experiences of ecstasy, peace, bliss, and emptiness states as

the upper chakras open, greater perspective on life comes in, and you connect with cosmic consciousness. The third phase, the opening of the spiritual heart, is a shift from upward-flowing energy to a downward flow of grace into the heart center, leading to compassion, re-anchoring in the world, and the embodiment of light. Exploring how Kundalini profoundly rewires the physical body and the mind, the author describes the rerouting of digestive fire during the rising of Kundalini energy. She explores the relationship between Kundalini and food allergies and sensitivities as well as supportive dietary and alternative health modalities, including fasting; paleo, keto, vegetarian, vegan, and mono diets; herbal allies; and mineral supplements. She also explores sexual practices that may help or hinder the process and meditation techniques to facilitate Kundalini awakening during each phase. To all those snake-bitten, I welcome you to a path of immense healing, wholeness, bliss, difficulty, pain, and wonder.

THE BOOK OF PENDULUM HEALING Charting Your Healing Course for Mind, Body & Spirit by Joan Staffen

$24.95, paper. Weiser. 200 pages, b/w charts

The Book of Pendulum Healing, suitable for beginners and adepts alike, offers clear, concise instructions for using ancient dowsing techniques, a modern pendulum, and 30 interrelated intuitive healing charts as a “navigational” spiritual guidance system. The lessons provided are practical - the dowsing process provides concrete, visible-to-the-eye answers and solutions and other easy-to-learn healing techniques such as communication with the angelic realm, affirmative prayer, meditation, and aura clearing are also included. This profound system opens one’s mind to inner intuition and wisdom and addresses many key intellectual, emotional, physical, and spiritual issues. “The reader is gifted with invaluable maps and tools for fully assessing the origins of any healing issue; as well as rich array of viable options for its resolution. This is not a book you will read and then store away on some shelf to gather dust. Rather, The Book of Pendulum Healing will become your new best friend. It is a lifetime user’s manual for how to access a deeper Core of Self; how to actualize human potential by gaining ever greater insight and mastery regarding life’s challenges and inherent blessings.” —Patricia Kaminski, Flower Essence Society

EVOLUTIONARY HERBALISM

Science, Spirituality, and Medicine from the Heart of Nature by Sajah Popham

$36.95, paper. North Atlantic. 424 pages, tables & diagrams

$21.50, paper. Inner Traditions. 208 pages

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Weaving together herbal and medical traditions from around the world into a singular cohesive model, this groundbreaking book guides herbal practitioners to a comprehensive understanding of the practice and philosophy of healing with herbs. Written by one of the most exciting up-and-coming teachers in the field, this book presents a wide-angled and innovative approach to herbalism that truly considers both the plant and the human in a holistic context. Sajah Popham teaches a method of heart-centered contemplation--in which we relate to the plant with our hearts, rather than our heads—that allows practitioners to access and honor the psychological, emotional, and spiritual qualities of a plant in conjunction with its physiological properties, resulting in a transformative level of healing.

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H E R B S, C B D & T H E M E D I C A L M E D I U M

Organized in five parts that lead the reader from the microcosm to the universal, this work—grand in scope and profound in its understanding—encompasses Ayurveda, alchemy, Chinese medicine, astrology, and clinical herbalism to address physical as well as spiritual levels of well-being. Aimed at both the student herbalist and the experienced practitioner, as well as a readers interested more generally in ecology and spirituality, Popham’s teachings, both practical and philosophical in nature, guide readers to a more intimate, synergistic, and intuitive relationship with the plant kingdom and the healing medicine that is found there.

A WOMAN’S GUIDE TO CANNABIS

Using Marijuana to Feel Better, Look Better, Sleep Better—and Get High Like a Lady by Nikki Furrer $24.95, paper. Workman. 218 pages, French flaps, colour illustrations

Women of all ages are using cannabis to feel and look better. For rookies and experienced marijuana users alike, this lively, information-filled book is just the supportive guide you need to find the right medicine and dose to relieve anxiety, depression, and inflammation, and mitigate the onset of dementia and other signs of aging. Plus boost moods, ease aches, even lose weight, and get restful sleep. And a dose just for fun? Millions of women are doing just that. Here’s how to navigate the typical dispensary, with its overwhelming options of concentrates, flowers, edibles, vape pens, patches, oils, and tinctures. Understand the health-giving compounds found in cannabis—THC, CBD, terpenes, and more—and how to use topicals to reduce pain and give your skin a healthy glow. There’s even advice on how not to get high but still reap all the amazing health benefits. Plus some great recipes. Using cannabis makes it easier for me to do the things I need to do to get and stay healthy, because getting high and doing yoga and meditation feels amazing… Even with cannabis medicine, we still have to do everything we can to take care of ourselves… I firmly believe that many people would benefit from a small, daily, preventative dose of cannabis. Just a little bit every day is enough to reduce inflammation, anxiety, depression, stress, and pain, slow the onset of dementia and other signs of aging, and boost our mood.

THE CBD OIL SOLUTION

Treat Chronic Pain, Anxiety, Insomnia, and More--Without the High by Rachna Patel

$21.99, paper. DK. 128 pages, 7x9, colour photos

Get healthy, not high. Discover the calming, pain-relieving effects of CBD oil and try recipes for delicious CBD-infused edibles and DIY selfcare products. CBD oil, or cannabidoil, is a non-psychoactive compound found in cannabis that boasts serious health benefits for your mind and body. It’s been shown to effectively alleviate pain, lessen anxiety, reduce inflammation, and improve overall well-being. Get the facts about CBD oil, and experience the benefits of this healing product with edibles and self-care products you can make yourself and customize to meet your needs. In The CBD Oil Solution, Dr. Rachna Patel shares everything you need to know about CBD, including: u Explanation of CBD oil--what it is, how it works, and how it differs from THC u What ailments can be treated with CBD oil—and how decide if CBD is right for you

Mr. Medical Medium MEDICAL MEDIUM THYROID HEALING

The Truth behind Hashimoto’s, Graves’, Insomnia, Hypothyroidism, Thyroid Nodules & Epstein-Barr by Anthony William

In Medical Medium Thyroid Healing, Anthony William, the Medical Medium, reveals an entirely new take on the epidemic of thyroid illness. Empowering readers to be$36.99, cloth. Hay House. 304 pages 7x9 come their own thyroid experts, he explains Labeling someone with “Hashimoto’s,” in detail what the source problem really is, “hypothyroidism,” or the like doesn’t explain including what’s going on with inflammathe myriad health issues that person may extion, autoimmune disease, and dozens more perience. That’s because there’s a pivotal symptoms and conditions, then offers a lifetruth that goes by unnoticed: A thyroid problem is not the ultimate reason for a person’s illness. A changing toolkit and many new recipes to rescue the problematic thyroid is yet one more symptom of some- thyroid and bring readers back to health and vitality. “Since reading Medical Medium Thyroid Healing, I have thing much larger than this one small gland in the neck. It’s something much more pervasive in the body, some- expanded my approach and treatments of thyroid disease thing invasive, that’s responsible for the laundry list of and am seeing enormous value for patients. The results are rewarding and gratifying.” —Prudence Hall, M.D. symptoms and conditions attributed to thyroid disease.

MEDICAL MEDIUM LIVER RESCUE

Answers to Eczema, Psoriasis, Diabetes, Strep, Acne, Gout, Bloating, Gallstones, Adrenal Stress, Fatigue, Fatty Liver, Weight Issues, SIBO & Autoimmune Disease by Anthony William $45.99, cloth. Hay House. 461 pages, 7x9

In today’s world, we have no idea how many symptoms, conditions, and diseases are rooted in an overloaded liver. It’s not only about liver cancer, cirrhosis, and hepatitis. Nearly every challenge—from pesky general health complaints to digestive issues to emotional struggles to weight gain to high blood pressure to heart problems to brain fog to skin conditions to autoimmune and other chronic illnesses—has an origin in an overloaded liver and can improve when you harness the force of this humble organ.

MEDICAL MEDIUM CELERY JUICE

The Most Powerful Medicine of Our Time Healing Millions Worldwide by Anthony William $25.99, cloth. Hay House. 208 pages, 7x9

In Medical Medium Celery Juice, Anthony William, the originator of the global celery juice movement, introduces you to celery juice’s incredible ability to create sweeping improvements on every level of our health: u Healing the gut and relieving digestive disorders u Balancing blood sugar, blood pressure, weight, and adrenal function u Neutralizing and flushing toxins from the liver and brain u Restoring health in people who suffer from a vast range of chronic and mystery illnesses and u What to consider when purchasing CBD oil, includ-

ing tow to read a product label. Information on proper dosing and use, and more than 40 recipes and remedies—fro drinks and desserts to lotions and lip balms—that can be customized for your needs.

Bodywork & Movement STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION AND ENERGY MEDICINE A Handbook of Advaced Bodywork by Jean Louse Green

$31.50, paper. Inner Traditions, 240 pages 8x10, 51 b/w illustrations

When the body’s structure is optimally aligned, not only does it eliminate pain, reduce inflammation, and stop the degeneration of joints and discs, it also enhances the flow of energy in the body and awakens us to greater mental clarity. In this illustrated guide to Dr. Ida P. Rolf’s Structural Integration process, Jean Louise Green introduces the

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Medical Medium Liver Rescue offers the answers you should have had all along. With his signature compassion, Anthony William, the Medical Medium, shares unparalleled insights into undiscovered functions of our life-saving livers, explains what’s behind dozens of health issues that hold us back, and offers detailed guidance on how to move forward so we can live our best lives. Find out for yourself what liver rescue is all about: being clearer-headed, more peaceful, happier, and better able to adapt to our fast-changing times. Learn how to sleep well, balance blood sugar, lower blood pressure, lose weight, and look and feel younger. A healthy liver is the ultimate de-stressor, anti-aging ally, and safeguard against a threatening world—if we give it the right support. symptoms, among them fatigue, brain fog, acne, eczema, addiction, ADHD, thyroid disorders, diabetes, SIBO, eating disorders, autoimmune disorders, Lyme disease, and eye problems. After showing how celery juice does its anti-inflammatory, alkalizing, life-changing work, he gives you the powerful, definitive guidelines to do your own celery juice cleanse. You’ll get instructions on how to make the juice, how much to drink, when to drink it, and what to expect as your body begins to detox, plus answers to FAQs such as “Is it safe to drink celery juice while pregnant or breastfeeding?”, “Is blending better than juicing?”, and “Can I take my medications with it?” Here is everything you need to know to receive the full gift of what Anthony calls “one of the greatest healing tonics of all time.” principles of Structural Integration and details each of the 10 sessions in the Structural Integration bodywork series, explaining what to expect and how to maximize the benefits. She explores the relationship between the energetics of the body and its alignment, including an advanced scientific understanding of how gravity can become a beneficial force when the body is properly aligned. She illustrates the rotation patterns of the body and explains how they contribute to pain and how correcting them can remove the need for hip and knee replacements. She provides movement exercises and support tools for self-care and maintenance between sessions and explains optimal body mechanics for moving, sitting, and standing as well as how to avoid putting stress and strain back into the body.

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HEALING ARTS

Healing – Thriving BODY THRIVE

Uplevel Your Body & Your Life with 10 Habits from Ayurveda and Yoga by Cate Stillman

u The immediate advantages of lighter,

THE SCIENCE OF THE SACRED

Healing Energies, Healing Herbs STONES OF THE GODDESS

Crystals for the Divine Feminine by Nicholas Pearson

$49.99, paper. Inner Traditions. 470 pages, colour photos

WORKING WITH KUNDALINI An Experiential Guide to the Process of Awakening by Mary Mueller Shutan

THE BOOK OF PENDULUM HEALING Charting Your Healing Course for Mind, Body & Spirit by Joan Staffen

$24.95, paper. Weiser. 200 pages, b/w charts

EVOLUTIONARY HERBALISM

Science, Spirituality, and Medicine from the Heart of Nature by Sajah Popham

$36.95, paper. North Atlantic. 424 pages, tables & diagrams

$21.50, paper. Inner Traditions. 208 pages

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H E R B S, C B D & T H E M E D I C A L M E D I U M

A WOMAN’S GUIDE TO CANNABIS

Using Marijuana to Feel Better, Look Better, Sleep Better—and Get High Like a Lady by Nikki Furrer $24.95, paper. Workman. 218 pages, French flaps, colour illustrations

THE CBD OIL SOLUTION

Treat Chronic Pain, Anxiety, Insomnia, and More--Without the High by Rachna Patel

$21.99, paper. DK. 128 pages, 7x9, colour photos

Mr. Medical Medium MEDICAL MEDIUM THYROID HEALING

The Truth behind Hashimoto’s, Graves’, Insomnia, Hypothyroidism, Thyroid Nodules & Epstein-Barr by Anthony William

MEDICAL MEDIUM LIVER RESCUE

MEDICAL MEDIUM CELERY JUICE

The Most Powerful Medicine of Our Time Healing Millions Worldwide by Anthony William $25.99, cloth. Hay House. 208 pages, 7x9

Bodywork & Movement STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION AND ENERGY MEDICINE A Handbook of Advaced Bodywork by Jean Louse Green

$31.50, paper. Inner Traditions, 240 pages 8x10, 51 b/w illustrations

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BODYWORK & FOOD

Movement Intelligence THE ELUSIVE OBVIOUS

The Convergence of Movement, Neuroplasticity, and Health by Moshe Feldenkrais

$28.95, paper. North Atlantic. 160 pages

A master of movement and the founder of the leading method that bears his name, Moshe Feldenkrais wrote several books about the body and healthy functioning thoughout his life. The Elusive Obvious was his last, and some would say most accessible book. Out of print for many years and still as valid as ever in its insights, this new edition will be treasured by a new generation of somatics practitioners, bodyworkers, dance teachers, and others.

STALKING WILD PSOAS

Embodying Your Core Intelligence by Liz Koch $25.95, paper. North Atlantic. 224 pages, b/w line drawings

Named after the author’s popular exploratory workshop of the same name, Stalking Wild Psoas contains nine short essays to inspire somatic therapists, bodyworkers, and yoga and movement teachers to conceive of the body not as an object to be fixed, but as a self-organizing, self-healing, and bio-intelligent system. Growing out from the embryonic midline, the psoas (pronounced so-as) is the deepest tissue of the physical core influencing multiple layers, systems, and subtle dynamic expressions. Coalescing the central nervous system, kidney adrenals system, and enteric (gut) brain, the psoas literally embodies our deepest urge for survival. Located behind the abdominal muscles, deep within the belly She shows how to incorporate Joseph Heller’s psycho-emotional Hellerwork method in the Structural Integration process and looks at holistic support tools such as electromagnetic resonancing, far-infrared saunas, essential oils, gratitude practices, meditation, chanting, and the Five Tibetans yogic exercises. This energy medicine approach to bodywork provides both practitioners and laypeople with the necessary tools to dramatically increase the efficiency of the body She shows how to incorporate Joseph Heller’s psycho-emotional Hellerwork method in the Structural Integration process and looks at holistic support tools such as electromagnetic resonancing, far-infrared saunas, essential oils, gratitude practices, meditation, chanting, and the Five Tibetans yogic exercises. This energy medicine approach to bodywork provides both practitioners and laypeople with the necessary tools to dramatically increase the efficiency of the body

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core, the psoas is an essential aspect of the sympathetic neuro-core; as an involuntary tissue, the psoas is perceived as both instinctive and emotionally responsive, a messenger of core integrity. When thriving, healthy psoas is a fluid tissue, as demonstrated by the full-body wave of orgasm. Strain on the psoas can disturb digestion, reproductive functioning, and create a host of other ailments. Liz Koch helps us to tune into the core psoas through awareness rather than invasive or manipulative techniques. Weaving new findings in biology, living systems thinking, somatic movement, and storytelling, Liz Koch emboldens us to actively explore our psoas as a vital core messenger of integrity and creative expression. “Liz Koch is a deep-diving ‘somanaut’ with many years of worldwide teaching experience.” —Thomas Myers, author of Anatomy Trains. Also by Liz Koch is Core Awareness.

to make spreadable cream cheese, grated Parmesan, a smoky Cheddar, and even gooey cheese sauces. PLUS, techniques for making rinds, cheese plate pairings, tips on food allergy substitutions, and a recipe to highlight each dairy-free cheese: Stuffed Shishitos, Cucumber Maki, Creamy Zucchini Noodles, Spicy Beet Salad, and more. It’s a whole new way to indulge in the impossible-to-resist pleasures of cheese—vegan style!

THE NOMA GUIDE TO FERMENTATION Foundations of Flavor by Rene Redzepi & David Zilber $54.00, cloth. Artisan. 456 pages, 8x10, colour photos

At Copenhagen’s Noma—four times named the world’s best restaurant—every dish includes some form of fermentation, whether it’s a bright hit of vinegar, a deeply savory miso, an electrifying drop of garum, or the sweet intensity of black garlic. Fermentation is one of the foundations behind Noma’s extraordinary flavor profiles. Now Rene Redzepi, chef and co-owner of Noma, and David Zilber, the chef who runs the restaurant’s acclaimed fermentation lab, share never-before-revealed techniques to creating Noma’s extensive pantry of ferments. And they do so with a book conceived specifically to share their knowledge and techniques with home cooks. With 500 step-by-step photographs, and with every recipe approachably written and meticulously tested, The Noma Guide to Fermentation takes readers far beyond the typical kimchi and sauerkraut to include koji, kombuchas, shoyus, misos, lacto-ferments, vinegars, garums, and black fruits and vegetables. And— perhaps even more important—it shows how to use these game-changing pantry ingredients in 100 original recipes. Fermentation is already building as the most significant new direction in food (and health). The Noma Guide to Fermentation takes it to a whole new level.

sorbets, Greenwood shows food to be a direct, daily way to understand Zen practice—and live life directly and beautifully. With eloquent prose, she takes readers into monasteries and markets, messy kitchens and four a.m. meditation rooms and offers food for thought that nourishes and delights body, mind, and spirit. Original blackand-white drawings enhance the evocative narrative and illustrate the recipes. This book is about balance, about discovering what is just enough—in cooking and in life. It is about the process, poetry, and meaning of food.

It’s a refreshing transmission—and includes a glossary listing of common Japanese ingredients, useful equipment, and popular Japanese cooking techniques.

ONE-HOUR DAIRY FREE CHEESE

Make Kozzarella, Cheddar, Feta, and Brie-Style Cheeses— Using Nuts, Seeds, and Vegetables by Claudia Lucero

JUST ENOUGH

Vegan Recipes and Stories from Japan’s Buddhist Temples by Gesshin Claire Greenwood

$25.00, paper. New World Library. 216 pages

The beneficial effects of Awareness through Movement and Functional Integration, the two main strands of what we now call the Feldenkrais Method, are now known to many around the world: greater health and vitality and freedom from pain and anxiety. The Elusive Obvious: Or Basic Feldenkrais presents a thorough explanation of the Feldenkrais Method in the words of its founder, and, as its title indicates, it throws light on the causes of health problems that are hidden in plain sight. Also by Feldenkrais is his classic, Awareness Through Movement.

$28.95, paper. Workman. 260 pages, colour photos

Ordained as a Buddhist nun in Japan, Greenwood was attracted to Zen’s all-encompassing approach to life and how to live it, the way it did not shy away from the big questions about life’s meaning, and the profoundly simple way it suggests one view the moment, reality, the now. At the monastery, she also discovered a particular affinity for working in the kitchen, especially the practice of using whatever was at hand to create delicious, satisfying meals. The result of her years working in monastery kitchens, this book is based on the philosophy of oryoki, or just enough. From perfect rice, potatoes, and broths; to hearty stews, colorful stir-fry dishes, hot and cold noodles, and delicate

Finally, anyone embracing a dairy-free lifestyle (including vegan, paleo, or allergen-free) can make and enjoy the savory goodness of cheese—in one hour or less. In ingenious, stepby-step recipes, traditional cheesemaker Claudia Lucero shows how to make 25 delicious plant-based cheeses using your choice of seeds, nuts, and vegetables to achieve rich flavor and creamy texture. There’s buttery Golden Swiss made with cauliflower and tahini paste—and a Brie made of cashews (or zucchini and potatoes), with a bit of truffle oil to capture its earthy essence. One-Hour Dairy-Free Cheese also shows how

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NOURISHMENT & INSPIRATION THE CALLING

Cooking & Healing PLANTIFUL PLATE

vides at-a-glance guides to nutritional content. Filled with Christine’s gorgeous photos, it’s truly a feast for the eyes. This book will be in your hands, in your kitchen!

Vegan Recipes from the Yommme Kitchen by Christine Wong $39.95, cloth. Norton. 254 pags, 8x10, colour photos

Yum + Ommm + Me = Yommme! Christine Wong, creator of yommme.com, has made it her mission to help others discover how delicious mindful eating can be. In The Plantiful Plate, she shows how easy it is to prepare hearty, satisfying vegan (and gluten-free) dishes bursting with color and flavor. With a mix-and-match approach, these recipes offer maximum flexibility to account for individual tastes, diets, allergies, and perhaps most importantly, what happens to be in your kitchen that day. In addition to the recipes, she shares her tips for meal planning and shopping at markets to minimize plastic waste, and pro-

Yommme is a name I created to encompass mindful cooking + delicious food + feeling great… This book is a collection of recipes that I use all the time, provided in a format of versatile combinations I like to call “food vinyasas.” They inspire the creation of hundreds of flavorful dishes. My approach centers around eating natural, plant-based foods and using whole ingredients, that is suitable for any lifestyle. The vinyasas are designed to allow for flexility and creativity. This method of cooking helps reduce the fear of cooking, curbs reliance on processed foods by making conscious food choices, and builds the foundation for a lifetime of good eating.

THE KICK DIABETES COOKBOOK An Action Plan and Recipes for Defeating Diabetes by Brenda Davis & Vesanto Melina

blood glucose levels and avoiding foods that send those levels skyrocketing. She clarifies $25.95, paper. Book Publishing. why not all carbohydrates promote diabetes, 192 pages, 8x9, colour photos explains how plant-based protein reduces diCurrent scientific studies show that most abetes risk, and illustrates why a whole-foods, people with type 2 diabetes can reverse the plant-based diet is naturally low in fat and sodisease by eating a plant-based diet and dium. Coauthor Vesanto Melina and recipe making other healthy lifestyle changes. The developer Margie Colclough provide nourKick Diabetes Cookbook provides a blueprint ishing fare, ranging from tempting comfort food to sinfor what to eat to defeat diabetes and then offers 100 ful-tasting treats. Information on composing nutritious quick-and-easy recipes that are delicious and satisfying. meals and cooking beans and grains is included, along Diabetes authority Brenda Davis, RD, outlines an ac- with a sample week’s menu. Each recipe is accompanied tion plan for including more foods that help regulate by a complete nutritional analysis.

KETOTARIAN

The (Mostly Plant-based Plan to Burn Fat, Boost Your Energy, Crush Your Cravings, and Calm Inflammation by Will Cole The ketogenic diet kick-starts your body’s metabolism so it burns fat, instead of sugar, as its primary fuel. But most ketogenic plans are meat- and dairy-heavy, creating a host of other problems, especially for those who prefer plants foods. Dr. Will Cole comes to the rescue with Ketotarian, which has all the fat-burning benefits without the antibiotics and hormones and animal fats that are packed into most keto diets. First developed for individuals suffering from seizures, keto diets have been shown to reduce inflammation and lower the risk of many chronic health problems including Alzheimer’s and some cancers. Adding a plant-based

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twist, Ketotarian includes 75 recipes that are vegetarian, vegan, or pescatarian, offering a range of delicious and healthy choices for achieving weight loss, renewed health, robust energy, and better brain function. Packed with expert tips, tricks, and advice for going—and staying—Ketotarian, including managing macronutrients, balancing electrolytes, and finding your carb sweet spot, this bestof-both-worlds program is a game-changer for anyone who wants to tame inflammation and achieve peak physical and mental performance. Let the Ketotarian revolution begin! “The combination of plants and fasting represents the solution to the health crisis in the Western world. This book teaches that less is more, and we should al follow suit.” —Joel Kahn, author of The Plant-Based Solution

stopped trying to change or fix herself that she was at last able to feel at home in her mind, body, and life. Now, she shares the wisdom of giving up “the Me Project.”

THIS MESSY MAGNIFICENT LIFE New in Paperback

$22.00, paper. Scribner. 202 pages

A 12-Week Science-Based Progrm to Discover, Energize, and Engage Your Soul’s Work by Julia Mossbridge $24.95, paper. New Harbinger. 181 pages

It’s no secret that many working professionals are dissatisfied with their occupations—it’s been estimated more than 75 percent of employees are disengaged or otherwise unhappy in their jobs. According to Julia Mossbridge, this lack of engagement and satisfaction in the workforce is a spiritual problem: we find ourselves in stressful or unfulfilling jobs because we don’t know ourselves well enough to choose wisely, in alignment with our most heartfelt desires. It’s this problem—one of self-knowledge, values, and spiritual attunement—that this book seeks to solve. The Calling offers a twelve-week program for discovering your soul’s work. An intriguing combination of hard-nosed science and wide-open spirituality, this one-of-a-kind guide will show you how to use the scientific method of observation and experimentation on yourself, in order to determine the nature and scope of your true calling, and then put it into action. You’ll also create your own lab notebook of personalized information to help you discover, energize, and engage your soul’s work. “Mossbridge has performed an enormous service, because a characteristic of our age is a widespread experience of ennui, despair, and a sense that what one person does will not matter… She demonstrates why one’s calling is not just a personal, individual concern, but is an issue on which the future of our species likely depends. It is difficult to imagine a more urgent concern, or a more valuable contribution.” —Larry Dossey, author of One Mind

THE MIRACLE CLUB

$25.00, paper. Dutton. 296 pages, 7x9, colour photos

A Field Guide to Mind, Body, and Soul by Geneen Roth

Geneen Roth (author of Women, Food & God) was always told she was too sensitive, too emotional, too curious, too intense, and too big. Yet gaining and losing weight for decades did not improve her self-worth or reduce other people’s criticisms. When her struggle with food ended—and didn’t change anything except the size of her thighs—she kept trying to fix other broken parts of herself with therapy, intensive meditation retreats, and rigorous spiritual practices. Yet it was only when Geneen

At some point (it looks like this is it), therapy meets spirituality and fixing ourselves meets the realization that there is nothing more to fix. There are always going to be challenges in this dimension of body-personality: plane flights will be missed, people will reject me, and whatever thrilled me last year will disappoint me this year. Just when I think I’ve got it all together, an earthquake occurs. Someone dies. I get ill. When I take myself to be the sum of what happened to me as a child or is happening at this very moment, I can never get it right for very long. When I take myself to be the unending always-forgiving space in which the drama is unfolding, I am already always fine.

Roth embraces everyone’s unique and often unsung potential and shows us how to be open, curious, and kind with ourselves; and how to experience the extraordinary right here and now in our bodies.

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How Thoughts Become Reality by Mitch Horowitz

$21.50, paper. Inner Traditions. 182 pages

Following in the footsteps of a group of esoteric seekers from the late-nineteenth century who called themselves the Miracle Club, Mitch Horowitz shows how the spiritual wish fulfillment practices known as the Law of Attraction, Positive Thinking, the Secret, and the Science of Getting Rich actually work. Weaving these ideas together into a concise, clear formula, with real-life examples of success, he shows how we each possess a creative agency to determine and reshape our lives. He shows how thinking in a directed, highly focused, and emotively charged manner expands our capacity to perceive and transform events. Building on Neville Goddard’s view that the human imagination is God the Creator and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s techniques for attaining personal power, he explores the highest uses of mind-power metaphysics and explains what works and what doesn’t, illuminating why and how events bend to our thoughts. He shows readers how to experiment and find out for themselves. Horowitz provides focused exercises and concrete tools for change and looks at ways to get more out of prayer, affirmation, and visualization. He also provides the first serious reconsideration of New Thought philosophy since the death of William James in 1910. He includes crucial insights and effective methods from the movement’s leaders such as Napoleon Hill, Neville Goddard, William James, Andrew Jackson Davis, Wallace D. Wattles, and many others. Defining a miracle as circumstances or events that surpass all conventional or natural expectation, the author invites you to join him in pursuing miracles. “The most honest and insightful book on positive thinking to appear in decades—also the best.” —Richard Smoley, author of The Deal

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BODYWORK & FOOD

Movement Intelligence THE ELUSIVE OBVIOUS

The Convergence of Movement, Neuroplasticity, and Health by Moshe Feldenkrais

$28.95, paper. North Atlantic. 160 pages

STALKING WILD PSOAS

Embodying Your Core Intelligence by Liz Koch $25.95, paper. North Atlantic. 224 pages, b/w line drawings

Food & Healing

THE NOMA GUIDE TO FERMENTATION Foundations of Flavor by Rene Redzepi & David Zilber $54.00, cloth. Artisan. 456 pages, 8x10, colour photos

It’s a refreshing transmission—and includes a glossary listing of common Japanese ingredients, useful equipment, and popular Japanese cooking techniques.

ONE-HOUR DAIRY FREE CHEESE

Make Kozzarella, Cheddar, Feta, and Brie-Style Cheeses— Using Nuts, Seeds, and Vegetables by Claudia Lucero

JUST ENOUGH

Vegan Recipes and Stories from Japan’s Buddhist Temples by Gesshin Claire Greenwood

$25.00, paper. New World Library. 216 pages

$28.95, paper. Workman. 260 pages, colour photos

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NOURISHMENT & INSPIRATION THE CALLING

Cooking & Healing PLANTIFUL PLATE

vides at-a-glance guides to nutritional content. Filled with Christine’s gorgeous photos, it’s truly a feast for the eyes. This book will be in your hands, in your kitchen!

Vegan Recipes from the Yommme Kitchen by Christine Wong $39.95, cloth. Norton. 254 pags, 8x10, colour photos

THE KICK DIABETES COOKBOOK An Action Plan and Recipes for Defeating Diabetes by Brenda Davis & Vesanto Melina

KETOTARIAN

Inspiration & Self-Help

stopped trying to change or fix herself that she was at last able to feel at home in her mind, body, and life. Now, she shares the wisdom of giving up “the Me Project.”

THIS MESSY MAGNIFICENT LIFE New in Paperback

$22.00, paper. Scribner. 202 pages

A 12-Week Science-Based Progrm to Discover, Energize, and Engage Your Soul’s Work by Julia Mossbridge $24.95, paper. New Harbinger. 181 pages

THE MIRACLE CLUB

$25.00, paper. Dutton. 296 pages, 7x9, colour photos

A Field Guide to Mind, Body, and Soul by Geneen Roth

Roth embraces everyone’s unique and often unsung potential and shows us how to be open, curious, and kind with ourselves; and how to experience the extraordinary right here and now in our bodies.

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How Thoughts Become Reality by Mitch Horowitz

$21.50, paper. Inner Traditions. 182 pages

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W I S D O M, D E P R E S S I O N, T R A U M A, D R E A M S

Young Women on Fire UNIVERSE HAS YOUR BACK by Gabrielle Bernstein $22.99, paper. Hay House. 208 pages

New in Paperback

Gabrielle Bernstein offers simple prayers, affirmations, and exercises to support readers in releasing old thought systems and fears, and returning to peace. Through acceptance, surrender, and a commitment to her continually evolving spiritual path, Gabrielle Bernstein has been transforming her fear into faith. Her stories and universal lessons provide a framework for releasing the blocks to what everyone most longs for: happiness, security, and clear direction. These lessons

LOST CONNECTIONS SPIRITUAL REBEL

and clear. Through moving, persuasive stories of working the Change Triangle with her own patients, Hendel teaches us how to apply these principles to our everyday lives.

can help us relinquish the need to control in order to relax into a sense of certainty and freedom--to stop chasing life and truly live. Ride the swell of your energy and true power to find strength when you are down, synchronicity and support when you are lost, safety in the face of uncertainty, and joy in what might otherwise be pain. Bernstein has secrets to reveal, and she is determined to unleash the presence of your power with the comforting knowledge that the Universe has your back. Among her other books are Miracles Now and Judgment Detox.

A Positively Addicted Guide to Finding Deeper Perspective and Higher Purpose by Sarah Bowen

Rather than relying on adherence to a specific belief system, Spiritual Rebel encourages readers to clarify the beliefs that are person$22.75, paper. Monkfish. 244 pages ally meaningful, redefine outdated concepts, A little snarky, a little sweet, Sarah Bowen mix-and-match practices, experience connecproposes a G*d-optional approach to spirtion, and ask curious questions. What if the ituality that is alive, flexible, and positively Force seems more real to you than Jesus? addictive. What if your higher power appears in fluoresBringing together insights from a wide cent orange with a loud thumping beat? Can range of traditions—from Taoism to Jediism Siri help us find something G*d-ish? to Yoga to Science—Spiritual Rebel is a personApproaching spirituality from an edgy, vival approach to finding a deeper perspective and higher id, and interfaith/interspiritual perspective, Sarah Bowlife purpose. Offering three weeks of unconventional en explores the world’s philosophical, scientific, and practices—including forest bathing, yawning, hiking, religious traditions, mining them for juicy tidbits and cat-gazing, mindfulness, and sacred crashing to name just practices. Drawing from wide, weird, and deep, Sarah a few—this book helps not only seekers, but also agnos- Bowen is a bookworm who can’t stop reading, an unretics, atheists, and the spiritual-but-not-religious, curate lenting researcher, and an inspiring spiritual tour guide. meaningful spiritual moments throughout the day, dip- As a result, Spiritual Rebel contains a diverse collection of ping in without having to commit, never having to fear practices and resources to inspire the Force within you, they might be doing it wrong. by whatever name you call it.

THE DAILY FLAME

365 Love Letters from Your Inner Pilot Light by Lissa Rankin $29.95, cloth. Sounds True. 404 pages

If your deepest, cosmic self had a message for you, what would it be? In The Daily Flame, acclaimed physician Lissa Rankin presents 365 love letters from your Inner Pilot Light. As Lissa explains: This book is intended to support the kind of intimacy, comfort, nourishment, and grace that happens when you make contact with the Source of all love that fuels your very existence. Regardless of your spiritual orientation, consider this book a prayer of sorts, one that invites you to gently, quietly reunite with the purest, most loving core of your being, the part that will help you navigate the in-between space in your spiritual life.

Each new message from your Inner Pilot Light will

Psychology & Dreams IT’S NOT ALWAYS DEPRESSION

Working the Change Triangle to Listen to the Body, Discover Core Emotions, and Connect to Your Authentic Self by Hilary Jacobs Hendel $37.00, cloth. Knopf. 298 pages, Fascinating patient stories and dynamic exercises will help you connect to healing emotions, ease anxiety and depression, and discover your authentic self. You will learn to treasure the richness of emotions and what powerful guides they can be, pointing us toward doing what we need to do to heal old wounds and feel more effective and happy in our lives… Once you know your deep feelings, they can guide you to that pot of gold of clarity. — Diana Fosha, from the foreword

In It’s Not Always Depression, psychotherapist Hilary Hendel

bring you inspiration and encouragement for the day ahead. The letters cover a wide range of themes, from abundance and health, to following your dreams, to finding your tribe, and persevering through challenges. Some readings offer practices and reflection questions, while others offer deep wisdom and spiritual insights. You might get a motivating kick in the patooty one day, and an unbridled love letter the next! “What if, amidst the confusion and despondence of our daily lives, our true Self could reveal itself? In this inspiring work, that inner Pilot Light does speak to us and guide us, manifesting its inexhaustible strength, loving patience, and deep wisdom.” —Gabor Maté, author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts presents readers with a unique and pragmatic tool she calls The Change Triangle. The Change Triangle is a map—a guide to carry you from a place of disconnection back to your true self. Working the Change Triangle is the step-by-step process at the heart of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), a therapeutic method that teaches patients to identify the defenses and inhibitory emotions (shame, anxiety, and guilt) that prevent them from being in touch with their core emotions (joy, anger, sadness, fear, and excitement). In allowing ourselves to fully experience core emotions, we move toward an open-hearted state where we are calm, curious, connected, compassionate, confident, courageous,

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Midlife & Eldering AGING FOR BEGINNERS

by Ezra Bayda, with Elizabeth Hamilton $24.95, paper. Wisdom. 204 pages

THE TAO OF TRAUMA

A Practitioner’s Guide For Integrating Five Element Theory and Trauma Treatment by Alaine Duncan, with Kathy Kain $28.95, paper. North Atlantic. 320 pages, b/w illustrations

Experts in Eastern and Western trauma physiology, Alaine Duncan and Kathy Kain combine their expertise to introduce a new map for acupuncturists, medical practitioners, mental health providers, and other body-oriented clinicians to help restore balance in their patients. Using concepts from acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine, alongside Western bio-behavioral science’s description of the threat response, they describe common physical symptoms, emotional presentations, and routes for healing of five survivor “types.” It also includes specific information about using touch with the different survivor types. This ancient/modern integrative lens illuminates the diverse manifestations of traumatic stress in its survivors—chronic pain, autoimmune illness, insomnia, metabolic problems, and mental health disorders—and brings new hope to survivors of trauma and those who treat them. “In bringing together the Five Elements theory from Asian Medicine, along with a somatically based understanding of trauma, this book fulfills an important role in the deep healing of trauma and stress-related disorders. The insights from this clearly written volume are tremendously important for therapists, bodyworkers, acupuncturists, physicians, and other healers. It will also help individuals better understand their perplexing symptoms and find pathways to healing.” —Peter Levine, author of Waking the Tiger and developer of the Somatic Experiencing model of trauma healing

LIMINAL DREAMING

Exploring Consciousness at the Edges of Sleep by Jennifer Dumpert $23.95, paper. North Atlantic. 182 pages

A conciousness hacker and sought-after speaker on dreams and dream technology explains how to use liminal dreaming, the dreams that come between sleep and waking, for self-actualization and consciousness expansion. At the edges of consciousness, between waking and sleeping, there’s a swirling, free associative state of mind that is the domain of liminal dreams. As we sink into slumber, we pass through hypnagogia, the first of the two liminal dream states. In this transitional zone, memories, perceptions, and imaginings arise in a fast moving, hallucinatory, semi-conscious remix. On the other end of the night, as we wake, we experience hypnopompia, the hazy, pleasant, drift that is the other liminal dream state. Readers of Liminal Dreaming will learn step-by-step how to create a dream practice, integrating the deeply unusual half-waking dream states of hypnagogia and hypnopompia into their lives in personally meaningful ways. Working with liminal dreams can improve sleep, mitigate anxiety and depression, help to heal trauma, and aid creativity and problem-solving. Liminal dreaming practice is also far easier to learn than lucid dreaming practice, making it possible for the reader to begin working with these dreams this very night. The author leads workshops at many festivals and conferences, such as Beloved, Lightning in a Bottle, and The Women’s Visionary Congress.

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We’re all beginners when it comes to aging. The fact that we are in new territory can certainly contribute to the difficulties in dealing with getting older. Yet aging can be seen as a new phase of our life: a phase of renewal. Nowhere is this more evident than in our opportunity to devote more time to reflection and inner exploration. The result, regardless of whatever physical limitations we may be experiencing, is the possibility of cultivating and living increasingly from kindness and gratitude, two of the essential qualities of a life of satisfaction and equanimity. For some, old age may be a new stage of life in which our inner life can be experienced as being of equal importance with our outer life. This gives us the possibility of understanding what this life is really about, including our place within it. There’s the possibility that we can understand, on the deepest level, that the gradual breaking down of the body is to be expected as part of the natural order of things… Then, in between the periods of difficulty or pain, we may have increased appreciation for what is actually present and be better able to embrace the everyday treasures of being alive.

With techniques that are both simple and richly unfolded, this book will help readers learn the subtle arts of being with pain; uncover the fears that actually amplify suffering; and tap into the true sources of meaningfulness and joy.

capacity but as becoming who you are destined to be, a real human being. It covers key matters, such as the shock of discovering that you’re getting older; how to keep your youth in a deep way; how spirituality can mature and become more important over time; how to value your life by leaving a conscious legacy for your family and your society; and nurturing friendships and community as you get older. In Moore’s view, aging is the process by which one becomes a more distinctive, complex, fulfilled, loving, and connected person. Using examples from his practice as a psychotherapist and teacher, Moore argues for a new vision of aging: as a dramatic series of initiations, rather than a diminishing experience, one that each of us has the tools—experience, maturity, fulfillment—to live out. Subjects include: why melancholy is a natural part of aging, and how to accept it, rather than confuse it with depression; the vital role of the elder and mentor in the lives of younger people; the many paths of spiritual growth and learning that open later in life; sex and sensuality.

Meditation & Relaxation THE LITTLE BOOK OF BEING

Natural awareness can feel like your mind is completely aware and undistracted without you doing anything in particular to make yourself aware… You feel a sense of contentment not connected to external conditions… Your mind feels at rest.

“Breaking new ground, this wise and elegant book is a wonderful guide to the important next stage of mindfulness practice: natural awareness.” —Loch Kelly, author of Shift into Freedom

$19.50, paper. Sounds True. 232 pages

Do you recall, as a child, being enthralled by a drifting cloud, the babbling of a stream, the wandering of a lady-

Relax and Breathe sion practices and fully updated chapters on the most effective tools for coping with anxiety, fear, and panic. You’ll explore your own 7th Edition stress triggers and symptoms, and learn how by Matha Davis, Elizabeth Eshelman to create a personal action plan for stress & Michael McKay reduction. Each chapter features a differ$36.95, paper. New Harbinger. ent method for relaxation, explains why the 392 pages, 8x10, charts method works, and provides on-the-spot exerThe Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook cises you can do when you feel stressed out. broke new ground when it was first published Written by two psychologists and a social worker, this in 1980, detailing easy, step-by-step techniques for calming the body and mind in an increasingly overstimulated popular workbook answers questions and teaches skills world. And that was then. Now in its seventh edition, this in personal stress reactions, body awareness, breathfully revised and updated workbook—highly regarded ing, progressive relaxation, meditation, visualization, by therapists and their clients—offers the latest stress self-hypnosis, autogenics, brief combination techniques, reduction techniques to combat the effects of stress and biofeedback, refuting irrational ideas, goal setting and integrate healthy relaxation habits into every aspect of time management, assertiveness training, nutrition, exercise, quick relaxers, coping skills training, and “When life. Essential life skills these days. This new edition also includes powerful self-compas- It Doesn’t Come Easy—Getting Unstuck.”

THE RELAXATION AND STRESS REDUCTION WORKBOOK

THE ART OF C G JUNG by C.G. Jung

$112.00, cloth. Norton. 272 pages, 9x12, colour illustrations

The landmark publication of C.G. Jung’s The Red Book spurred enormous interest in Jung—not just as a founding figure in modern psychology, but also as a creative man with tremendous figurative and ornamental flair and a vibrant eye for colour. Expanding beyond that singular achievement, The Art of C. G. Jung presents a comprehensive display of Jung’s creative legacy, exploring through text and image Jung’s encounters with visual art as maker, collector, and viewer. While in his lifetime Jung did not wish to be considered an artist and published his visual work only anonymously, the images reproduced here demonstrate the attainment of fully realized artistic ambitions. From adolescent drawings to elaborate mosaic compositions, early seascapes to richly ornamented illuminated initials, The Art of C.G. Jung beautifully mirrors the intellectual and personal development so renowned in Jung’s writings. Based in Zurich, the Foundation of the Works of C.G. Jung was established to maintain and develop the literary and creative heritage of C.G. Jung and his wife.

AGELESS SOUL

$23.50, paper. St. Martin’s. 304 pages

bug? If so, then you’ve already had a taste of natural awareness. Known and revered in many contemplative traditions, natural awareness transcends even these wondrous childhood moments. It has been described as “a way of knowing and a state of being wherein our focus is on the awareness itself rather than on the things we are aware of. It is generally relaxed, effortless, and spacious.” Created for those new to meditation and long-time meditators alike, The Little Book of Being shows us how to discover this free-flowing and expansive side of mindfulness—with no formal sitting practice required. This concise and friendly guide takes us through 73 “mini-chapters” (little glimpses) that explain natural awareness and help us experience it via simple and enjoyable explorations to bring welcome moments of peace, connection, and spaciousness to our often distracted and stressful lives.

Practices and Guidance for Uncovering Your Natural Awareness by Diana Winston

Jungian Psychology

The Lifelong Journey Toward Meaning and Joy by Thomas Moore

New in Paperback

Thomas Moore (Care of the Soul) is ripening along with the rest of us. His book Ageless Soul offers inspiring guidance for becoming a full person as time goes by. This book provides a comprehensive plan that sees aging not as losing

THE LIFE CHANGING POWER OF SOPHROLOGY

resilience, confidence, and clarity. They utilize relaxation, meditation, and visualization in ways designed to support their personal needs and goals. Sophrology is widely practiced all over Europe in schools, hospitals, maternity clinics, community centers, rehab centres, and is often prescribed by doctors. Many athletes use this technique too.

Breathe and Connect with the Calm and Happy You: A Gentle Method to Overcome Stress by Dominique Antiglio $23.50, paper. New World Library. 230 pages, b/w illustrations

Sophrology was created 60 years ago in Spain by Alfonso Caycedo (1932-2017), a neuro-psychiatrist searching for a gentle practice to ease the physical and mental stresses of daily life for his patients. He sought a simple, easily taught way to develop harmony of body and mind, a way that did not require years of study, radical lifestyle change, or dramatic alterations to diet. Sophrology or dynamic relaxation addresses the inevitable stresses of contemporary life—and the challenges individual to each of us. In 10 to 15 minute practices, readers learn to cultivate

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Sophrology offers the chance for you to pause, to connect with and clear stress today, and to channel your resources for a better tomorrow, true to your own self.

As author Dominique Antiglio writes, one appeal of the practice is that rather than providing cookie cutter solutions, sophrology recognizes that happiness means something different to everyone. Her goal here is to give every reader the sophrology-based tools to find that happiness by and for oneself.

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W I S D O M, D E P R E S S I O N, T R A U M A, D R E A M S

Young Women on Fire UNIVERSE HAS YOUR BACK by Gabrielle Bernstein $22.99, paper. Hay House. 208 pages

New in Paperback

LOST CONNECTIONS SPIRITUAL REBEL

and clear. Through moving, persuasive stories of working the Change Triangle with her own patients, Hendel teaches us how to apply these principles to our everyday lives.

A Positively Addicted Guide to Finding Deeper Perspective and Higher Purpose by Sarah Bowen

THE DAILY FLAME

365 Love Letters from Your Inner Pilot Light by Lissa Rankin $29.95, cloth. Sounds True. 404 pages

Each new message from your Inner Pilot Light will

Psychology & Dreams IT’S NOT ALWAYS DEPRESSION

In It’s Not Always Depression, psychotherapist Hilary Hendel

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M I D L I F E, J U N G & M E D I T A T I O N

Midlife & Eldering AGING FOR BEGINNERS

by Ezra Bayda, with Elizabeth Hamilton $24.95, paper. Wisdom. 204 pages

THE TAO OF TRAUMA

A Practitioner’s Guide For Integrating Five Element Theory and Trauma Treatment by Alaine Duncan, with Kathy Kain $28.95, paper. North Atlantic. 320 pages, b/w illustrations

LIMINAL DREAMING

Exploring Consciousness at the Edges of Sleep by Jennifer Dumpert $23.95, paper. North Atlantic. 182 pages

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Meditation & Relaxation THE LITTLE BOOK OF BEING

“Breaking new ground, this wise and elegant book is a wonderful guide to the important next stage of mindfulness practice: natural awareness.” —Loch Kelly, author of Shift into Freedom

$19.50, paper. Sounds True. 232 pages

Do you recall, as a child, being enthralled by a drifting cloud, the babbling of a stream, the wandering of a lady-

THE RELAXATION AND STRESS REDUCTION WORKBOOK

THE ART OF C G JUNG by C.G. Jung

$112.00, cloth. Norton. 272 pages, 9x12, colour illustrations

AGELESS SOUL

$23.50, paper. St. Martin’s. 304 pages

Practices and Guidance for Uncovering Your Natural Awareness by Diana Winston

Jungian Psychology

The Lifelong Journey Toward Meaning and Joy by Thomas Moore

New in Paperback

THE LIFE CHANGING POWER OF SOPHROLOGY

Breathe and Connect with the Calm and Happy You: A Gentle Method to Overcome Stress by Dominique Antiglio $23.50, paper. New World Library. 230 pages, b/w illustrations

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Sophrology offers the chance for you to pause, to connect with and clear stress today, and to channel your resources for a better tomorrow, true to your own self.

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TEACHINGS & TEACHERS

Western Spiritual Teachers & Teachings

DEATH & THE TRANSPERSONAL

Adyashanti & Dorothy THE MOST IMPORTANT THING

Discovering Truth at the Heart of Life by Adyashanti

BECOME WHAT YOU ARE

$26.50, cloth. Sounds True. 158 pages

by Alan Watts

$14.95, paper. Shambhala. 190 pages, 4x6

Renowned lecturer and author Alan Watts presents his meditations on the dilemma of seeking your true self. In this nimble collection of some of his writings, Alan Watts displays the intelligence, playfulness of thought, and simplicity of language that has made him so perennially popular as an interpreter of Eastern thought for Westerners. Drawing on a variety of religious traditions, he presents the dilemma of seeking your true self—to become what you are. Once called “the godfather of Zen in America”, Watts also covers topics such as the challenge of seeing one’s life just as it is, the Taoist approach to harmonious living, the limits of language in the face of ineffable spiritual truth, and psychological symbolism in Christian thought. Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal. For the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever… You may believe yourself out of harmony with life and its eternal Now; but you cannot be, for you are life and exist Now.

This book is part of the Shambhala Pocket Library series.

GURDJIEFF RECONSIDERED by Roger Lipsey

$33.95, paper. Shambhala. 384 pages

The Greek-Armenian teacher and enlightened provocateur G.I. Gurdjieff (1866-1949) was one of the most original and provocative spiritual teachers of the modern West. Roger Lipsey balances sympathetic interest in Gurdjieff and his “Fourth Way” teachings with a historian’s sense of context and a biographer’s feel for personality and relationships. Using a widerange of published and unpublished sources, Lipsey explores Gurdjieff’s formative travels in Central Asia, his famed teaching institution in France, the development of the Gurdjieff Movements and music, and, above all, Gurdjieff’s fascinating continuous evolution as a teacher. As Cynthia Bourgeault notes in her foreword, “The book is a careful reconstruction of the whole Gurdjieffian teaching, decade by decade, through its various iterations. With a deeply nuanced comprehension, he lets the whole evolution unfold before our eyes, appreciated at its own depth, in its own light.” Published on the 70th anniversary of Gurdjieff’s death, Gurdjieff Reconsidered delves deeply into Gurdjieff’s writings and those of his most important students, including P. D. Ouspensky and Jeanne de Salzmann. Lipsey’s comprehensive approach and unerring sense of the subject make this a must-read for anyone with a serious intention to explore Gurdjieff’s life, teachings, and reputation. “Gurdjieff was in advance of his time. His extremely innovative thinking, his all-embracing spiritual teaching, his music and Movements are pure gold and pure light for our troubled times.”—Basarab Nicolescu, author of From Modernity to Cosmodernity

We all define our lives through the lens of stories. Whether we see ourselves as heroes or victims, good people or bad, everyone lives according to interwoven strands of narrative. “And yet,” teaches Adyashanti, “the truth is bigger than any concept or story.” Drawn from intimate, deep-dive talks, The Most Important Thing presents writings devoted to the search for the ultimate reality of a self that exists beyond the bounds of storytelling. Here you will find vivid anecdotes and teaching stories that illuminate the felt experience of Adyashanti’s teachings—those moments of grace in which every stone, tree, ray of light, and fraught silence reveal that none of us is alone and no one is ever truly isolated from the whole of existence. These selections consider: u Exploration of the true meaning of birth, life, and death

u Why grace can arrive both through strug-

gle and as an unexpected gift u Meditation as the art of “listening with one’s entire being” u Why a good question can be far more powerful than a concrete answer u How the things you choose to serve shape your life u Discovering the wisdom found in surprise, sadness, and uncertainty u Embodying your innate and inextricable connection with the total environment u The nature of ego and the ways it manifests u The moments of grace upon which all great religions pivot I encourage you to have a profound and genuine curiosity, a deep determination to go beyond the world that is created by concepts and ideas (as useful as they can be)… and paying attention to the desire to have a rich and deep experience of being instead of one created by what you believe. This is the real enlightenment impulse.

ENDING THE SEARCH

From Spiritual Ambition to the Heart of Awareness by Dorothy Hunt

$20.95, paper. Sounds True. 258 pages

For anyone feeling confused or stalled in their spiritual path, Ending the Search takes the stress out of spirituality and points us toward the ever-present Heart of Awareness that is at once our deepest nature and the true home we long for. The melting of separation comes through the power of Presence and love in the Now. The past has no hold when we are intensely focused on experience now. If there is something “past” that needs to be seen or healed back into wholeness, it will arise in the resent experience. We do not have to dig up pebbles from the streambed.

Dorothy Hunt shares insights from her personal journey along with poetry, teaching stories, and self-inquiry practices to help us find the true identity of this precious and all-consuming “I.” In his foreword to this book, Adyashanti writes, “It speaks of ending the ego’s search outside of itself and finding in the Heart of Awareness something extraordinary and immediate. Something of great value and meaning beyond mere words. And something immediately available for anyone who is ready to stop right now and see… This is not a book to simply be read; it is a book to be contemplated, practiced, and lived.” For more, visit dorothyhunt.org.

MEDITATIONS

Dying & Grieving

by Jiddu Krishnamurti

$14.95, paper. Shambhala. 160 pages, 4x6

Krishnamurti (1895-1986) went from his origins in a small south Indian village to become one of the great spiritual teachers of our time. He taught that the only way to peace on earth is the transformation of the human psyche—and that there is no path to this transformation, no method for achieving it, no gurus or spiritual authorities who can help. The transformation is a truth each of us must discover within ourselves. This classic collection of brief excerpts from Krishnamurti’s books and talks presents the essence of his teaching on meditation—a state of attention, beyond thought, which brings total freedom from authority and ambition, fears and separateness. The empty mind cannot be purchased at the altar of demand; it comes into being when thought is aware of its own activities—not the thinker being aware of his thought. • Meditation is just to be sensitive—like a newborn blade of grass open to the wind, the rain, the sunlight… just to be sensitive.

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UNATTENDED SORROW

Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart by Stephen Levine $22.95, paper. Monkfish. 206 pages

Renowned grief counselor Stephen Levine tells us that long after an initial loss has passed and the period of grieving has ended an unattended sorrow lingers, accounting for a host of physical, emotional and spiritual maladies. It is not uncommon then for those with unresolved grief to lean toward addictions or dangerous behaviors or other forms of self-destruction. In Unattended Sorrow, Levine addresses the grief from fresh loss but also attends to the pain and troubles caused by the unresolved anguish, sadness and delayed stress than can accumulate over a lifetime. He notes that we may never entirely overcome sorrows but we can confront them with mercy and self-acceptance that smooths the path to healing the heart. By turning toward the pain with loving kindness for myself, I was touching the pain of the whole world and my shattered heart revealed itself as vast enough to hold it… As Stephen writes, “Approaching with mercy and loving kindness that which we have always withdrawn from in fear, judgment, doubt and distrust… there arises the possibility for the healing of a lifetime.”… By breathing loving awareness into the darkest spaces of grief and loss we learn

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Death Wakes Us REIMAGINING DEATH

death itself; her compelling stories, poetry, and guidance come from years of experience as a home funeral/green burial consultant and licensed funeral director dedicated to $28.95, paper. North Atlantic. more natural and healing death practices. 320 pages, colour photos In Reimagining Death she shares with readIt’s here at last—a beautifully helpful book ers her experience caring for her own mothfor all those seeking to reclaim their innate er after death. Through storytelling and reand legal right to care for their own dead, sources Herring also reveals to families the create home funeral vigils, and choose greengifts of partnering with nature, home funeral er after-death care options that are less toxic vigils, sacred care at death, conscious dying and more sustainable for the earth. (through the story of a Death with Dignity More natural after-death care options are transforming the paradigm of the existing funeral in- with accompanying photos of one man’s planned death dustry, helping families and communities recover their and after-death care), bringing laughter and a greater instinctive capacity to care for a loved one after death lightness of being to death, natural burials, and emergand do so in creative, nourishing, and healing ways. In ing eco-conscous dispositions. A valuable resource in reclaiming these practices and creating new, innovative planning for all deaths in all circumstances (with a chapoptions, we are greening the gateway of death and re- ter on what to do when a death occurs outside of the home), this book also guides readers on how to create turning home to ourselves, our bodies, and the earth. Lucinda Herring reminds us of the sacredness of an advance after-death care directive. Stories and Practical Wisdom for Home Funerals and Green Burials by Lucinda Herring

THE FIVE INVITATIONS Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully by Frank Ostaseski

“The Five Invitations”: Don’t wait — Welcome everything, push away nothing — Bring your whole self to the experience — Find a place of rest in the middle of things — Cultivate a don’t know mind.

New in Paperback

$23.50, paper. Picador. isbn 9781250076748 304 pages

Zen Hospice pioneer Frank Ostaseski’s I think of these as five bottomless practices that stirring book, The Five Invitations, is an excan be continually explored and deepened. They hilarating meditation on the meaning of life have little value as theories. To be understood, and how maintaining an ever-present awarethey have to be lived into and realized through ness of death can bring us closer to our truaction. est selves. He dedicates the book to his mentor, Stephen They can be understood as best practices for anyone Levine. coping with loss or navigating any sort of transition or crisis. Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us, in the marrow of every passing moment. She is the secret teacher hiding in plain sight, helping us to discover what matters most.

From his thirty-plus years as a companion to the dying, he has distilled the lessons gleaned into to integrate our wounds and tend the broken heart of the world. —Mirabai Starr, from the foreword

Stephen Levine wrote many books, such as Who Dies? and A Year to Live. With his wife Ondrea, he counseled terminally ill people and their loved ones for than 30 years. There is no magical cure for grief…The hardness in the belly personifies just how much we need to let go, and just how much we long to take a free breath and let life back into the body.

“In this anthology we have gathered together Ram Dass’ ‘classics’ and ‘rarities’, enabling the reader to absorb the deepest essence of meaning that these stories can provide.” Some quotes from the book: To live consciously you must have the courage to go inside yourself to find out who you really are, to understand that behind all of the masks of individual differences you are a being of beauty, of love, of awareness. So if I were giving people one instruction, I would say work on yourself. Have compassion for yourself. Allow yourself to be beautiful and all the rest will follow.

Transpersonal Psychology

Ultimately, you will be able to look at suffering, disease, old age and death and be able to say, ‘Yes, I understand the flow and process and here I am.’ Until you are that clear, that conscious and free, every experience in life is an exercise for getting home, that’s what it’s all about.

CHANGING LENSES

Essential Teaching Stories from Ram Dass by Ram Dass

$17.50, paper. Love Serve Remember Foundation. 180 pages, colour illustrations

The Five Invitations is filled with stories so profound that they function as a compass… I am reminded that death, like love, is intimate, and that intimacy is the condition of the deepest learning. —Rachel Naomi Remen, from the foreword

Ram Dass, elder yogi and author of the epic Be Here Now, has lived a captivating life ripe with experience and deep transmissions from some of the most awake beings of this century. In Changing Lenses, Ram Dass weaves his transformative and sometimes challenging life experiences with timeless teachings to create a tapestry of stories filled with humour, poignancy and profound insight that provide a common ground for so many people to clearly see their own imperfect human tendencies.

ADVICE NOT GIVEN

A Guide to Getting Over Yourself by Mark Epstein $22.00, paper. Penguin. 204 pages

traditions that developed in entirely different times and places and, until recently, had nothing to do with each other, both identify the ego as the limiting factor in our well-being, and both come to the same conclusion: When we give the ego free reign, we suffer; but when it learns to let go, we are free. With great insight, and in a deeply personal style, Epstein offers readers a how-to guide that refuses a quick fix. He brings a Buddhist sensibility to therapy and a therapist’s practicality to Buddhism. Speaking clearly and directly, he offers a rethinking of mindfulness that encourages people to be more watchful of their ego. This book is my attempt to be useful. Its advice can be used by anyone—each in his or her own way. As the Buddha made clear in his own advice on the matter, the Eightfold Path is there to be cultivated… As hesitant as I have been to offer meditation as the solution to anyone’s problems, rethinking the Eightfold Path has allowed a Buddhist perspective to merge with my psychotherapeutic one. The bottom line is this: The ego needs all the help it can get. We can all benefit from getting over ourselves.

TRAUMA AND THE UNBOUND BODY The Healing Power of Fundamental Consciousness by Judith Blackstone

$21.95, paper. Sounds True. 200 pages

In Trauma and the Unbound Body, Judith Blackstone explores how we can resolve the mental, physical, and emotional struggles of trauma through the power of fundamental consciousness. She weaves her 30-plus years of psychotherapy practice to present a simple yet revolutionary approach to healing trauma. (And trauma is subtler and goes deeper than we think.) All of the constrictions in our fascia (the connective tissue surrounding muscles and organs) are moments of our past that we have stopped in their tracks and held in that way, unconsciously. They are frozen moments of our past.

Trauma and the Unbound Body explains how and why the body constricts in response to trauma, causing physical and emotional pain. It guides us through step-by-step processes to unwind those constrictions by attuning to fundamental consciousness, setting the body free of trauma once and for all by uncovering an unbreakable, unified ground of being: u The five main purposes for bodily constriction—

and how to release them to return to wholeness u How to inhabit the body as fundamental conscious-

ness to liberate trauma-based constrictions u The Realization Process—a meditative practice for

embodied spiritual awakening Just as we can open a fist to reveal a hand, our unbound, unconstructed being can emerge from our pain and breathe again.

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New from Buddhist psychiatrist Mark Epstein (Thoughts without a Thinker): Our ego, and its accompanying sense of nagging selfdoubt as we work to be bigger, better, smarter, and more in control, is one affliction we all share. And, while our ego claims to have our best interests at heart, in its never-ending pursuit of attention and power, it sabotages the very goals it sets to achieve. In Advice Not Given, Epstein reveals how Buddhism and Western psychotherapy, two

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TEACHINGS & TEACHERS

Western Spiritual Teachers & Teachings

DEATH & THE TRANSPERSONAL

Adyashanti & Dorothy THE MOST IMPORTANT THING

Discovering Truth at the Heart of Life by Adyashanti

BECOME WHAT YOU ARE

$26.50, cloth. Sounds True. 158 pages

by Alan Watts

$14.95, paper. Shambhala. 190 pages, 4x6

This book is part of the Shambhala Pocket Library series.

GURDJIEFF RECONSIDERED by Roger Lipsey

$33.95, paper. Shambhala. 384 pages

u Why grace can arrive both through strug-

ENDING THE SEARCH

From Spiritual Ambition to the Heart of Awareness by Dorothy Hunt

$20.95, paper. Sounds True. 258 pages

MEDITATIONS

Dying & Grieving

by Jiddu Krishnamurti

$14.95, paper. Shambhala. 160 pages, 4x6

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UNATTENDED SORROW

Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart by Stephen Levine $22.95, paper. Monkfish. 206 pages

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Death Wakes Us REIMAGINING DEATH

THE FIVE INVITATIONS Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully by Frank Ostaseski

New in Paperback

$23.50, paper. Picador. isbn 9781250076748 304 pages

From his thirty-plus years as a companion to the dying, he has distilled the lessons gleaned into to integrate our wounds and tend the broken heart of the world. —Mirabai Starr, from the foreword

Transpersonal Psychology

CHANGING LENSES

Essential Teaching Stories from Ram Dass by Ram Dass

$17.50, paper. Love Serve Remember Foundation. 180 pages, colour illustrations

ADVICE NOT GIVEN

A Guide to Getting Over Yourself by Mark Epstein $22.00, paper. Penguin. 204 pages

TRAUMA AND THE UNBOUND BODY The Healing Power of Fundamental Consciousness by Judith Blackstone

$21.95, paper. Sounds True. 200 pages

and how to release them to return to wholeness u How to inhabit the body as fundamental conscious-

ness to liberate trauma-based constrictions u The Realization Process—a meditative practice for

embodied spiritual awakening Just as we can open a fist to reveal a hand, our unbound, unconstructed being can emerge from our pain and breathe again.

New in Paperback

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EXPANDING CONSCIOUSNESS & SHAMANISM

Entheogens / Psychedelics SEARCHING FOR THE PHILOSOPHERS’ STONE Encounteres with Mystics, Scientists, and Healers by Ralph Metzner $21.50, paper. Inner Traditions. 214 pages, b/w photos

Just as the search for the philosophers stone is the core symbol of the alchemical tradition, Ralph Metzner, psychotherapist and one of the respected elders of psychedelic research, sees it as the central metaphor of his life-long quest to find methods of healing and insight through heightened states of consciousness. Through captivating personal stories Metzner shares his encounters from the 1960s through the 1990s with genius scientists, shamanic healers, mystics, plant spirits, and animal guides that led to the development of his alchemical divination psychological methods, a structured intuitive process of accessing inner sources of healing and insight. He details lessons learned with psychedelic research legends Albert Hofmann, Alexander Shulgin, Terence McKenna, and Dennis McKenna. He reveals his deeply healing encounters with the Kahuna bodywork healer Morrnah

Simeona, the first to introduce the Hawaiian Ho’oponopono healing method to the West, and his experiences with West African trance dancing and the psychoactive plant-drug iboga. Metzner recounts in vivid detail his unwelcome encounter with malignant sorcery during an ayahuasca experience in Ecuador and the lessons it taught him about connections with spirits, both harmful and beneficial. He tells of his involvement in the beginnings of the therapeutic use of MDMA and shows how it is an effective and safe substance to support psychotherapy for healing trauma, PTSD, and interpersonal relationships. In sharing his remarkable encounters, Metzner has once again polished the philosopher’s stone.

Psychedelic Mysteries HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND

What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan New in $24.00, paper. Penguin. Paperback 480 pages, 2 colour diagrams

When author Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions such as depression, addiction and anxiety, he did not intend to write what is undoubtedly his most personal book. But upon discovering how these remarkable substances are improving the lives not only of the mentally ill but also of healthy people coming to grips with the challenges of everyday life, he decided to explore the landscape of the mind in the first person as well as the third. Thus began his adventure into the experience of various altered states of consciousness, along with a dive deep into both the latest brain science and the thriving underground

PSYCHEDELIC MYSTERIES OF THE FEMININE

Creativity, Ecstasy, and Healing edited by Maria Papaspyrouke, David Luke, with a foreword by Allyson Grey $24.99, paper. Inner Traditions. 368 pages, 16 pages of colour

Women have been shamans since time immemorial, not only because women have innate intuitive gifts, but also because the female body is wired to more easily experience altered states, such as during the process of birth. Whether female or male, the altered states produced by psychedelics and ecstatic trance expand our minds to tap into and enhance our feminine states of consciousness as well as reconnect us to the web of life. Contributors to Psychedelic Mysteries of the Feminine are both female and male, including revered scholars, visionary artists, anthropologists, modern shamans, witches, psychotherapists, and policy makers. The book begins with a deep look at the archetypal dimensions of the feminine principle and how entheogens give us open access to these ancient archetypes, including god-

community of psychedelic therapists. An elegant blend of science, memoir, travel writing, history, and medicine, How to Change Your Mind is a triumph of participatory journalism. The true subject of Pollan’s “mental travelogue” is not just psychedelic drugs but also the eternal puzzle of human consciousness and how, in a world that offers us both struggle and beauty, we can do our best to be fully present and find meaning in our lives. “After 50 years underground, psychedelics are back. We are incredibly fortunate to have Michael Pollan be our travel guide for their renaissance. With humility, humor, and deep humanity, he takes us through the history, the characters, and the science of these “mind manifesting” compounds. What he has done previously for gardeners and omnivores, Pollan does brilliantly here for all of us who wonder what it means to be fully human, or even what it means to be.” —Thomas Insel, MD, former director of National Institute of Mental Health

dess consciousness and the dark feminine. Contributors examine the female roots of shamanism, including the role of women in the ancient rites of Dionysus, the Eleusinian Sacrament, and Norse witchcraft. They explore psychedelic and embodied paths to ecstasy, such as trance dance, holotropic breathwork, and the similarities of giving birth and taking mind-altering drugs. Looking at the healing potential of the feminine and altered states, they discuss the power of plant medicines, including ayahuasca, and the recasting of the medicine-woman archetype for the modern world. They explore the feminine in the creative process and discuss feminist psychedelic activism, sounding the call for more female voices in the psychedelic research community. Sharing the power of “femtheogenic” wisdom to help us move beyond a patriarchal society, this book reveals how feminine consciousness, when intermingled with psychedelic knowledge, carries and imparts the essence of inclusivity, interconnectedness, and balance our world needs to heal and consciously evolve.

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Shamanism & Ritual

W I T C H E S, C H R I S T I A N S, M A G I C I A N S & J E W S

Witchcraft & Magick

THE NEPALESE SHAMANIC PATH

TRANSFORMATIVE WITCHCRAFT

$24.99, paper. Inner Traditions. 330 pages, b/w & colour photos

$27.99, paper. Llewellyn. 372 pages, b/w illustrations

Practices for Negotiating the Spirit World by Evelyn Rysdyk, with Bhola Nath Banstola

There are few areas of our world where shamanic traditions have been preserved in their original context and form. In the shadow of the Himalayas Nepalese shamans, known as dhamis or jhankris, are still consulted for healing and divination, as well as for maintaining harmony. After the earthquake in Nepal in 2015, shamanic teacher Evelyn Rysdyk and 27th-generation dhami Bhola Nath Banstola decided it was time to safeguard Nepalese shamanic knowledge for future generations by recording the practices in a book. This comprehensive, experiential guide presents step-bystep instructions for authentic Himalayan shamanic practices, including techniques for physical and spiritual healing, shamanic journeys, and advanced ceremonies, such as the Kalchakra Katne, a shamanic ritual for removing toxic energies from an individual. They include exercises to help you meet the ancestors in your shamanic lineage, techniques to use your voice as a shamanic tool, and practices for negotiating the spirit world safely. They detail shamanic chants and rituals, how to create an altar, and how to use the sacred objects of the dhami/jhankri, including the mala, the magic mirror, the drum, and the Khurpa, the shaman’s magic dagger. Illustrated with photos and Rysdyk’s artwork, the book also explores the different ways Nepalese shamans serve their communities.

Christian & Jewish Spirituality SILENCE, JOY

The Greater Mysteries by Jason Mankey

by Thomas Merton

$15.95, paper. New Directions. 88 pages, French flaps

Witchcraft is about more than seasonal rituals and pentacle necklaces; it’s meant to be a transformative path. The rituals of Witchcraft can be life-changing experiences, but they are also steeped in mystery. Transformative Witchcraft delves into some of the most persistent mysteries of the Craft and provides insightful guidance for raising energy with a Cone of Power; dedications, initiations, and elevations; Drawing Down the Moon; and the Great Rite. Direct experience with the divine and the powerful energies of magick are defining elements of Witchcraft. Filled with powerful personal stories, a fascinating history of modern Wicca and Witchcraft, striking original rituals, and a wealth of tips and techniques, this book provides the beginning or intermediate Witch with the practical and theoretical keys they need to unlock the mysteries of the Craft. “Jason Mankey’s Transformative Witchcraft is that rare work that covers the vital history of Wicca without being dry and thoroughly explains magical practices in ways that are both engaging and capture their core mystery. Digging into far more than the usual basics and not afraid to tackle the deeper work while remaining relatable and easy to read, this book is a unique entry on the subject and should be essential reading.” —Morgan Daimler, author of Traveling the Fairy Path

In this day of mindless distraction, we’re desperate for reasons to put down our phones and reconnect with our spiritual selves. In time for the bicentennial of Thomas Merton’s death in 1968, Silence, Joy is an invitation to slow down, take a breath, make a space for silence, and open up to joy. Poet, monk, spiritual advisor, and social critic, Thomas Merton is a unique—and uniquely beloved— figure of the twentieth century, and this little rosary brings together his best-loved poems and prose. Drawn from classics like New Seeds Of Contemplation and The Way of Chuang Tzu as well as less famous books, the writings in Silence, Joy offer the reader deep, calming stillness, flights of ecstatic praise, steadying words of wisdom, and openhearted laughter. Manna for Merton lovers and a warm embrace for novices, this slim collection is a delightful gift. Be still: There is no longer any need of comment. It was a lucky wind That blew away his halo with his cares, A lucky sea that drowned his reputation.

THE FUTURE OF WISDOM

Toward a Rebirth of Sapiential Christianity by Bruno Barnhart $27.50, paper. Monkfish. 250 pages

Much like Thomas Merton’s writings, this book recalls that a sapiential (wisdom) consciousness is central to the New Testament and remained the primary mode of theo-

GROW A NEW BODY

How Spirit and Power Plant Nutrients Can Transform Your Health by Alberto Villoldo $22.99, paper. Hay House. 240 pages

This new revision of One Spirit Medicine is an accessible guide to an ancient shamanic practice for healing and transformation—but now including cutting-edge science, recipes, and a 7-day Grow a New Body meal plan. Using these principles and practices, you can feel better in a few days, begin to clear your mind and heal your brain in a week, and in six weeks be on your way to growing a new body—one that heals rapidly, retains youthful vitality, and keeps you connected to Spirit and the earth. Drawing on more than 25 years of experience as a medical anthropologist—as well as his own documented journey back from the edge of death— Alberto Villoldo shows how to detoxify brain and gut with superfoods; techniques for working with your luminous energy fields to heal your body; and tools like the medicine wheel to shed disempowering stories from the past and pave the way for rebirth. I believe that nature designed the brain to allow serotonin to be turned into DMT by the pineal gland, granting us access to higher consciousness and direct perception of our interconnectedness with all creation. This is another compelling reason to attend carefully to the health of the gut-brain, where our serotonin is manufactured.

As he says, “The medicine men and women of old were masters of prevention. You do not have to be gravely ill to root out physical, emotional, and spiritual suffering and restore balance to your life.”

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Elemental Magic ELEMENTS OF MAGIC

storytellers. Discover practical techniques for grounding, casting a circle, trance, and visualization as well as guidance for working with breath, raising energy, and charging an intention.

Reclaiming Earth-Air-Fire-Water-Spirit edited by Jane Meredith & Gede Parma

$27.99, paper. Llewellyn. 310 pages

With brilliant contributions from members of the international Reclaiming community—including Suzanne Sterling, Rose May Dance, Gerri Ravyn Stanfield, Willow Kelly, and other elders—this book provides spells, exercises, practices, and perspectives that are taught in Reclaiming’s foundational class, Elements of Magic. Deeply poetic and rich with passion, this book helps you expand your relationship with Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Spirit through personal reflections and handson explorations. There are brilliant contributions by more than a dozen witches, activists, priestesses, and

WE forge a spiritual community that is willing to wrestle with the deep questions together and support one another through the personal changes that result. In that work, we are grounded in our experiential practice of ritual and magic, the applies, ancient psychology that teaches us awareness and offers tools for change. This book is a beautiful introduction to that practice. The many voices lay out the values, the reasoning, and the how-to of numerous exercises and rituals. Together they create a powerful training guide for those who are drawn to ceremony and magic. —from the foreword by Starhawk

CIRCLES OF POWER

An Introduction of Hermetic Magic by John Michael Greer

$38.95, paper. Aeon. 384 pages, b/w diagrams

The ceremonial magic of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn is among the most widely practiced of all magical systems today. Yet very few books on the Golden Dawn tradition pass beyond the basics into the more demanding and powerful magical practices the system has to offer. Circles of Power is the exception. It’s a comprehensive practical manual of Golden Dawn magic that proceeds step by step from basic principles and fundamental rituals to

the heights and depths of magical attainment. Circles of Power provides detailed instructions for such rarely discussed magical techniques as the creation of telesmatic images, the construction and use of flashing tablets, the Golden Dawn method of etheric shapeshifting, and the use of the Formula of the Equinox—one of the two fundamental ritual formulae of the Golden Dawn tradition—as a basis for rituals of evocation, consecration, spiritual development, and more. This new edition has been thoroughly revised by the author.

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logical understanding for more than twelve centuries. It proposes a new birth of this theology and understanding but with a new scope and new power for our time. A Benedictine, Bruno Barnhart was the spiritual director of New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur, California for 50 years. More than any other Christian writer I know, he is the one who has perhaps best integrated the distinctly different Western and Eastern understandings of nonduality… Better than anyone I know, he weaves together a robust sense of incarnational Christianity with a piercingly brilliant grasp of nondual consciousness to blaze the trail toward an authentic Christian nonduality…. For the thirty years that I was privileged to call him my friend and teacher, I knew full well that he was one of Christianity’s best kept and most cherished contemplative secrets. Now, as our planet blazes toward its imminent axial leap, I suspect he will be increasingly discovered and revered. This re-publication of his final masterpiece is a solid step in that direction. —Cynthia Bourgeault, from her foreword

“Barnhart seeks and desires no less than a wholehearted rediscovery and reinvigoration of the mystical wisdom tradition that was once a powerful component of Christian spirituality.” —Library Journal

WHEN OCEANS MERGE

The Contemporary Sufi and Hasidic teachings of Pir Vilayat Khan and Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi by Gregory Blann & Netanel Miles-Yepez $38.95, paper. Monkfish. 400 pages, photos

This is a book about the intersection of Sufi and Hasidic wisdom as gleaned from the lives and teachings of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, the founder of the Jewish Renewal Movement and Pir Vilayat Khan, the head and spiritual director of the Sufi Order of the West. The foreword is by Netanel Miles-Ypez who is one of the founders of the Adam Kadmon Book imprint as well as a Pir and founder of a JewishSufi lineage which was blessed and inspired by Reb Zalman and Pir Vilayat. Reb Zalman and Pir Vilayat knew and held each other in the highest regard while still living. Indeed they were initiated into each others’ spiritual community. More than anything, this book shows how a deep spirituality can be developed that is rooted in religious tradition but transcends it. “For centuries the spiritual cross-pollination between Jewish mystics and Sufi saints has enriched both traditions. When Oceans Merge invites you to learn from two great contemporary mystics, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan and Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, and to awaken to the Perennial Wisdom each of them shares. When Oceans Merge is a powerful antidote to the ignorance and arrogance dominating much religion today.” —Rabbi Rami Shapiro, author of Perennial Wisdom for the Spiritually Independent

WOUNDS INTO WISDOM

Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma by Rabbi Tirzah Firestone $36.00, cloth. Monkfish. 240 pages

Wounds Into Wisdom makes a compelling case that trauma legacies can be transformed and healed. Fusing contemporary neuroscience, psychology, and ancient Jewish wisdom and values, this work provides a roadmap for Jews, and all individuals and groups with trauma history, who wish to seize the power to change their lives. Gripping case studies and interviews with trauma survivors and their descendants—from Berlin to Shanghai, Cairo to Colorado—demonstrate what Viktor Frankl

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EXPANDING CONSCIOUSNESS & SHAMANISM

Entheogens / Psychedelics SEARCHING FOR THE PHILOSOPHERS’ STONE Encounteres with Mystics, Scientists, and Healers by Ralph Metzner $21.50, paper. Inner Traditions. 214 pages, b/w photos

Psychedelic Mysteries HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND

PSYCHEDELIC MYSTERIES OF THE FEMININE

Creativity, Ecstasy, and Healing edited by Maria Papaspyrouke, David Luke, with a foreword by Allyson Grey $24.99, paper. Inner Traditions. 368 pages, 16 pages of colour

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Shamanism & Ritual

W I T C H E S, C H R I S T I A N S, M A G I C I A N S & J E W S

Witchcraft & Magick

THE NEPALESE SHAMANIC PATH

TRANSFORMATIVE WITCHCRAFT

$24.99, paper. Inner Traditions. 330 pages, b/w & colour photos

$27.99, paper. Llewellyn. 372 pages, b/w illustrations

Practices for Negotiating the Spirit World by Evelyn Rysdyk, with Bhola Nath Banstola

Christian & Jewish Spirituality SILENCE, JOY

The Greater Mysteries by Jason Mankey

by Thomas Merton

$15.95, paper. New Directions. 88 pages, French flaps

THE FUTURE OF WISDOM

Toward a Rebirth of Sapiential Christianity by Bruno Barnhart $27.50, paper. Monkfish. 250 pages

Much like Thomas Merton’s writings, this book recalls that a sapiential (wisdom) consciousness is central to the New Testament and remained the primary mode of theo-

GROW A NEW BODY

How Spirit and Power Plant Nutrients Can Transform Your Health by Alberto Villoldo $22.99, paper. Hay House. 240 pages

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Elemental Magic ELEMENTS OF MAGIC

storytellers. Discover practical techniques for grounding, casting a circle, trance, and visualization as well as guidance for working with breath, raising energy, and charging an intention.

Reclaiming Earth-Air-Fire-Water-Spirit edited by Jane Meredith & Gede Parma

$27.99, paper. Llewellyn. 310 pages

CIRCLES OF POWER

An Introduction of Hermetic Magic by John Michael Greer

$38.95, paper. Aeon. 384 pages, b/w diagrams

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WHEN OCEANS MERGE

The Contemporary Sufi and Hasidic teachings of Pir Vilayat Khan and Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi by Gregory Blann & Netanel Miles-Yepez $38.95, paper. Monkfish. 400 pages, photos

WOUNDS INTO WISDOM

Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma by Rabbi Tirzah Firestone $36.00, cloth. Monkfish. 240 pages

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R U M I, A S T R O L O G Y & T H E T A R O T

called, “the uniquely human potential to transform personal tragedy into triumph.” As 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—from the timid young woman who discovers she has been repeating her lost grandmother’s exact words, to the Israeli war hero who has endured decades of terrifying nightmares. From these moving testimonies Firestone distills seven

principles, rich in Jewish wisdom, that show how people can transform the residual effects of their families’ painful pasts. The brave characters in Wounds Into Wisdom remind us of our own human capacity to rise up after devastation and reclaim our innate wisdom and inner freedom. 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.

Sufism & Rumi

RUMI: TALES OF THE SPIRIT

Rumi

A Journey to Healing the Heart by Kamla K. Kapur $22.99, paper. Mandala. 160 pages, b/w illustrations

Rumi: Tales of the Spirit is a sweet, comforting, and, at times, fiery guide to nourishing the spirit. In a hopeful but pragmatic tone, timeless storyteller Rumi and award-winning author Kamla K. Kapur guide us through the trials of life and teach us to embrace suffering, to pray even when it feels hopeless, and ultimately, to surrender to the cosmic will. In twelve powerful tales of wisdom, we learn to trust in ourselves and in the universe, experience joy in “the whole caatastophe,” and find the strength to persevere through life’s struggles. Kapur has been studying Rumi for 20 years. Through her detailed analysis of his life and work and her sage

understanding of the human condition, Kapur brings new life to these centuries-old stories while staying true to their roots in Rumi’s time and place. These retellings convey Rumi’s deep insight into humanity and bring to light the vast and subtle meanings of his stories, which are often lost in translation. Personal, poignant, and woven with fierce passion for life and the divine, Rumi: Tales of the Spirit will leave you with heart-wrenching gratitude for life’s trials and gifts. The story is itself a device to clothe, express, and delineate the inexpressible Invisible… “How long,” Rumi cries to the reader and himself, “will you play at loving the shape of the jug? Leave the shape of the jug, go, go seek the water.”

THE POCKET RUMI

by Jalaluddin Rumi, edited by Kabir Helminski

Here Rumi appears in a lovely Shambhala Pocket edition, edited by Sufi teacher Kabir Helminski, author of The Knowing Heart.

$14.95, paper. Shambhala. 160 pages, 4x6

The renowned Persian Sufi mystic Mevlâna Rumi penetrated to the heart of Reality and reJalâluddin Rumi (1207–1273) is one of the turned with the fragrance and flavor of Truth. Not most widely read poets in the world today. His only is he one of the greatest literary geniuses, compassionate insight into the nature of hubut, perhaps more importantly, he also addresses man existence, his joyful humor, his deep wisthe most important subject that can be addressed: dom, and. Selected his ecstatic songs of divine the human being’s relationship with the Divine, union have endeared him to readers for more with Truth itself. While entertaining, inspiring, than seven hundred years from his most-loved informing, and subtly guiding us, Rumi’s words works, this book contains the very best of Rutouch us at the level where we most need to be touched: mi’s poetry in superb translation. By turns soaring, inthe very depths of our hearts. spiring, lyrical, entertaining, and always full of profound guidance, Rumi’s transcendent words penetrate to the The Pocket Rumi includes jeweler’s-eye selections from very depths of one’s heart, offering eloquent expression the Rubaiyat, Ghazels, and selections from the Mathnafor what lies there. wi. “I know nothing better than gratitude…”

Astrology, Tarot & Oracles THE HANDBOOK OF CHINESE HOROSCOPES 40th Anniversary Edition by Theodora Lau & Laura Lau

$24.95, paper. North Atlantic. 400 pages, b/w illustrations

Skillfully updated for a new generation of seekers of ancient Chinese wisdom, this fortieth anniversary edition showcases Theodora Lau’s poetic elegance together with her daughter Laura Lau’s fresh, contemporary perspective on Chinese horoscopes. Do you know which of the twelve animal signs you are? How does the “animal that hides in your heart” influence your outlook on life and your relationships with others? What happens in your chart when your Eastern moon sign meets your Western sun sign? For forty years, The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes has remained the classic book on the topic, artfully combining the Eastern lunar calendar with

Western solar-based astrology. You’ll discover how the five elements, four seasons, and the ascendant sign based on the hour of your birth can all affect your personality. Look to the future and see how you are likely to fare in the upcoming years. Read about the 144 marriage combinations to better understand the relationships between the twelve lunar signs. Featuring all-new lunar forecasts, this revised edition will delight seasoned astrologers and interested novices alike, just as the classic work as done for decades.

SEVENTY-EIGHT DEGREES OF WISDOM A Tarot Journey to Self-Awareness by Rachel Pollack

$32.95, paper. Weiser. 354 pages, b/w illustrations

This Tarot classic, Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom, is now in a new edition with a new preface that provides fresh insights about Tarot and card interpretations. Described by many as “the Bible of Tarot readers—a classic that will never outgrow its usefulness,” the book has brought awareness of myth and modern psychology to the Tarot’s

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O R A C L E S, E C S T A S Y & R E V E L A T I O N

ancient esoteric symbolism. This book uses the Rider Waite Deck as visual symbols. Readings teach us a general lesson, and a very important one. In a manner no explanation can possibly equal, they demonstrate that no card, no approach to life, is good or bad except in the context of the moment. Finally, giving readings gives each person a chance to renew his or her instinctive feeling for the pictures themselves. All the symbolism, all the archetypes, all the explanations given in this book or any other can only prepare you to look at the pictures and say, “This card tells me...”

Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom draws on mythology and esoteric traditions and delves deeply into the symbolism and ideas of each card. It also gives the cards a modern psychological slant based on the pictures rather than a system of occult symbolism. It provides a concise history of tarot, introduces common spreads, and is a clear and readable book for both the beginning and more advanced student of tarot.

THE CONSIDERATE CAT TAROT & GUIDEBOOK A Deck Inspired by Rescue Cats by The Considerate Cat

$45.95, cards. Madeleine Belanger. 78 colour cards + guidebook

Considerate Cat Tarot is a tarot deck inspired by the stories of rescue cats. Considerate Cat Tarot is a must have for any cat lover or tarot reader. It consists of a 78 card cat themed tarot deck following traditional tarot imagery, plus a basic readers guidebook. The deck contains Major Arcana plus Cups, Wands, Pentacles and Sword Suits. It features real life rescue cats from all over the world. My name is Madeleine. I am an artist/illustrator living in North Vancouver B.C. This past year I kickstarted and published my first art project : Considerate Cat Tarot. I am passionate about animal rescue, story telling and design; all of these things came together to create Considerate Cat Tarot. See consideratecat.com.

ANGELS AND ANCESTORS ORACLE CARDS by Kyle Gray

$24.99, cards. Hay House. colour cards with guidebook in a box

This oracle card deck combines Angelic guidance with Aboriginal, Native American, Celtic, and Earth based spiritualities. Our strongest guides come in the form of Angels and Ancestors, and this card deck will teach you to strengthen your connection with these beings. Angels are divine beings that echo the heart of love. These incredible spirits are pre-human intelligent souls and are here to monitor the wellbeing of all sentient beings. The Ancestors are the souls of departed wisdom keepers from all parts of the world. They are the wise ones, warriors, medicine people, shamanic healers and all those who had knowledge. Like Angels, the Ancestors can be called upon in prayer, meditation, and ceremony to help bring healing, change, and support from the other worlds. With this powerful oracle you are given an opportunity to bridge the gap between this world and the other. The Angels and Ancestors know what you need to know, and through this practice of connection and ceremony, you allow them to bring messages that will help you carve your path and live a life filled with magic.

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Philosophy

New Goddess Oracles THE DIVINE FEMININE ORACLE A 53-Card Deck & Guidebook for Embodying Love by Meggan Watterson

$25.99, cards. Hay House. colour cards + guidebook in a box

The Divine Feminine Oracle is an invitation to reclaim your power. It’s a spiritual tool to hone your intuition. Working with it can be a sacred practice of remembering that you contain your own answers. You can drop into your heart, that cathedral of love inside you, and receive what is needed. In this exquisite oracle deck, Meggan Watterson has gathered together the saints, mystics, gurus, and god-

THE GODDESS POWER ORACLE

desses from the world religions who represent both divine beings and the human women who sought to embody them. Each of these sacred ladies, when called upon, can strengthen your capacity to hear your soul. From the unyielding love of Mary Magdalene to the transformational force of the goddess Kali, you will discover the expansive qualities of the divine feminine within you, so that you can embody with ease and levity the love that you already are. You will meet each of these holy ladies eye to eye so they can remind you of your own light… I want this oracle to be a sacred mirror so you can’t forget just how much divine love you have come from. how to reclaim our true power?

by Colette Baron-Reid

$53.99, cards. Hay House. colour cards + guidebook in a box

Spiritual teacher and author Colette Baron-Reid delivers a gorgeous, deluxe-packaged oracle deck of interactive conversations with Spirit based on the energy of goddesses from ancient traditions around the world. The Goddess is calling you to open up and reconnect with the universe in all her forms. The Feminine aspect of the universe is rising to restore balance in the world. Will you answer the call and receive her guidance? Who could we become if we knew

Striking, elegant interpretations of 52 goddesses from cultures all over the world await you in Goddess Power Oracle. Elen of the Ways call you to your path… Artemis offers to guide your arrow… Cerridwyn urges you to trust in the unlimited potential of your life… Colette Baron-Reid bridges the mundane and the mystical as she guides you on a journey of self-empowerment and fruitful manifestation. This oracle deck is letting you know that it will serve as your sparkling bridge between the seen and unseen worlds… It will guide you to your deepest truth.

THE ART OF LOSING CONTROL

A Philosopher’s Search for Ecstatic Experience by Jules Evans $23.95, paper. Canongate. 266 pages

Humans have always sought ecstatic experiences, moments where they go beyond their ordinary self and feel connected to something greater… Such moments are fundamental to human flourishing, but they can also be dangerous. Beginning around the Enlightenment, western intellectual culture has written off ecstasy as ignorance or delusion. But philosopher Jules Evans argues that this diminishes our reality and denies us the healing, connection and meaning that ecstasy can bring. He sets out to discover how people find ecstasy in a post-religious culture, how it can be good for us, and also harmful. Along the way, he explores the growing science of ecstasy, to help the reader—and himself—learn the art of losing control. Jules’ exploration of ecstasy is an intellectual and emotional odyssey balancing personal experience, interviews and readings from ancient and modern philosophers that will change the way you think about how you feel. From Aristotle and Plato, via the Bishop of London and Sister Bliss, radical jihadis and Silicon Valley transhumanists, The Art of Losing Control is a funny and life-enhancing journey through under-explored terrain. “Fascinating stuff… Evans is a natural storyteller and his honesty about his own experience is refreshing and disarming. A smart book that delivers on entertainment as well. Evans takes his subject matter seriously but delivers his investigations in an endlessly amusing and eye-opening manner.”

Channeling & Revelations

Starchild & Moonchild Tarots

Making the Daring Decision to Be Who You Truly Are by Neale Donald Walsch $22.50, cloth. Picador. 128 pages

THE STARCHILD TAROT

Each deck includes: 79 cards - 3.5”x 5” including the Major Arcana, and Minor Arcana of the four suits (Wands, Crystals (pentacles), Swords, Cups). They are standard oracle card size - bordered images with an array of colourfully rendered images, incorporating a mixture of photographic elements and hand illustrated designs and paintings. In a celestial box. The Guidebook is for readers of all levels, including 5+ Tarot spreads, information on all 79 cards with corresponding images, and daily journal prompts. Tips on cutting & shuffling the cards, how to read reversed meanings, and additional esoteric keys for The Major Arcana are also included.

A Lightworker’s Guide by Danielle Noel

$65.00, cards. Starseed. 79 colour cards + guidebook in a box

Traveling to distant vistas and worlds of the imagination, The Starchild Tarot is a tribute to the medicine and magic that evolves through self-reflection and meditation. Inspired by sacred symbology, The Akasha, and the fabric of our universe, each card functions as a tiny gateway into new worlds and insights for you to explore. This Starchild deck represents the culmination of many years of paintings, illustrations, photography and design, and offers a unique window into the world of the Tarot.

THE MOONCHILD TAROT by Danielle Noel

$65.00, cards. Starseed. 79 colour cards + guidebook

THE ESSENTIAL PATH

The Moonchild Tarot is a new tool of meditation that has been carefully crafted to align with your light. To help you shine, play, or dive deep within the waters of your heart, in seeking out new worlds of magic and medicine. While The Starchild Tarot (also by Danielle Noel) is superconscious, galactic and otherworldly, The Moonchild Tarot is subconscious and grounding, acting as a new conduit of soulful introspection, shifting into realms of shadow work, the Divine Feminine, and the trans-

mutational power of the Moon and triple Goddess. Each deck includes a fully comprehensive guidebook, written by Danielle Noel, contained within its box; 78 card deck-— 3”x 5”—with 2 bonus cards; shimmering card backs; and a two-piece box, printed with a satin, matte finish. It is my hope that with these cards, you may unveil some of your own moments of illumination, in surrendering to your stillness—your vibrance—and the medicine of your soul. May you find magic and adventure as you seek and explore these cycles, and as you connect with the imagery and words throughout this deck, I hope you find a shimmer of what you are looking for. —Danielle

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Our modern era is plagued by increasing alienation. We humans find ourselves divided from each other as never before across political, economic, social, and spiritual lines. As humanity is being torn apart—separating many of us from our friends and loved ones, from our hopes and dreams, from the natural world, and from so much that gives meaning and value to our lives—people are blaming everyone and everything around them for the collective problems that we have created ourselves. We are turning against each other, rather than to each other, just when we need each other the most. Bestselling author of Conversations with God Neale Donald Walsch offers a radical solution to the growing problem of humanity’s alienation. He invites us to question our basic assumptions about ourselves, about each other, about life and how it works, and about God, and to rethink the very definition of humanity. The Essential Path challenges every human to make a Daring Decision—to look at who we are and how we can choose to be, in a planet-altering new way. With insight and spiritual perceptivity, Walsch peers into the heart of a broken, divided society, prompting us to ask the critical questions that have the power to transform our world. Deep inside you know Who You Truly Are. We all do. It’s not a question of discovering it, it’s a question of claiming it. Being it. And that’s actually easier done than said. We’re all just one decision away from The Essential Path. It’s a path that could change a world that deeply yearns for a new direction.

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Sufism & Rumi

RUMI: TALES OF THE SPIRIT

Rumi

A Journey to Healing the Heart by Kamla K. Kapur $22.99, paper. Mandala. 160 pages, b/w illustrations

THE POCKET RUMI

by Jalaluddin Rumi, edited by Kabir Helminski

Here Rumi appears in a lovely Shambhala Pocket edition, edited by Sufi teacher Kabir Helminski, author of The Knowing Heart.

$14.95, paper. Shambhala. 160 pages, 4x6

Astrology, Tarot & Oracles THE HANDBOOK OF CHINESE HOROSCOPES 40th Anniversary Edition by Theodora Lau & Laura Lau

$24.95, paper. North Atlantic. 400 pages, b/w illustrations

SEVENTY-EIGHT DEGREES OF WISDOM A Tarot Journey to Self-Awareness by Rachel Pollack

$32.95, paper. Weiser. 354 pages, b/w illustrations

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O R A C L E S, E C S T A S Y & R E V E L A T I O N

THE CONSIDERATE CAT TAROT & GUIDEBOOK A Deck Inspired by Rescue Cats by The Considerate Cat

$45.95, cards. Madeleine Belanger. 78 colour cards + guidebook

ANGELS AND ANCESTORS ORACLE CARDS by Kyle Gray

$24.99, cards. Hay House. colour cards with guidebook in a box

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Philosophy

New Goddess Oracles THE DIVINE FEMININE ORACLE A 53-Card Deck & Guidebook for Embodying Love by Meggan Watterson

$25.99, cards. Hay House. colour cards + guidebook in a box

THE GODDESS POWER ORACLE

by Colette Baron-Reid

$53.99, cards. Hay House. colour cards + guidebook in a box

THE ART OF LOSING CONTROL

A Philosopher’s Search for Ecstatic Experience by Jules Evans $23.95, paper. Canongate. 266 pages

Channeling & Revelations

Starchild & Moonchild Tarots

Making the Daring Decision to Be Who You Truly Are by Neale Donald Walsch $22.50, cloth. Picador. 128 pages

THE STARCHILD TAROT

A Lightworker’s Guide by Danielle Noel

$65.00, cards. Starseed. 79 colour cards + guidebook in a box

THE MOONCHILD TAROT by Danielle Noel

$65.00, cards. Starseed. 79 colour cards + guidebook

THE ESSENTIAL PATH

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Channelled Wisdom ENERGY SPEAKS

will as to when and how we step onto it.

Messages from Spirit on Living, Loving, and Awakening by Lee Harris

In Energy Speaks, Lee Harris distills these teachings into a concise and practical guide for living more consciously. Above all, he shows us that each one of us is an irreplaceable part of something much greater than ourselves, and that help is always available to us from unexpected sources. Energy Speaks is a wonderful and rare book, rich with experiential exercises, from a visionary whose teachings are spreading around the world.

$22.50, paper. New World Library. 228 pages

For Lee Harris, the spiritual dimension became startlingly real one day when he began communicating with what he soon came to call the Zs, a group of non-physical beings from another plane of reality. They spoke with such intelligence, wisdom, and compassion that he became convinced of their existence. Each page of this book—whether focused on relationships, abundance and manifestation, angels and spirit guides, or any other important life topic—is really a reminder that we do cocreate with the universe. We can either be asleep in that cocreation or be active in it. There is a destiny path at work for us, and we have free

PERSONAL POWER THROUGH AWARENESS

A Guidebook for Sensitive People, Revised Edition by Sanaya Roman $22.50, paper. New World Library. isbn 9781608686070 252 pages

Channel Sanaya Roman presents Personal Power through Awareness, given to her by Orin, a timeless being of love and light. In the tradition of Jane Roberts, Esther Hicks, and Edgar Cayce, this wise and gentle spirit teacher offers an accelerated, step-by-step course in sensing energy. Using these easy-to-follow processes, thousands have learned to create profound changes in their lives and relationships. This classic, first published in 1986, is now revised with two new chapters as well as a powerful process readers can use to clear energy that may be negatively affecting them, plus true stories of people who have successfully used these techniques in real-life situations.

THE SCIENCE OF SELF-EMPOWERMENT

Some of the lessons in this book: u Be aware of the unseen energy you are in and around. u Receive energy and light from your higher self, soul, and divine Self. u Connect with your guides and inner teachers. u Change your inner dialog and raise your vibration. u Your sensitivity is a gift! You can use the information in this book to: u Become aware of the effect other people are having on you. u Stop being affected by other people’s moods or negativity. u Learn when to pay attention to your own needs and when to be selfless. u Stay centered and balanced, and increase the positive energy around you. simple truth is at the heart of the book. The Science of Self-Empowerment reveals that we’re not what we’ve been told, and much more than we’ve ever imagined.

Awakening the New Human Story by Gregg Braden $22.99, paper. Hay House. 320 pages

The heartbreak of this planet is healing. I may not seem so, but it is. So, lead with your heart, both for yourself and for others. Where you share your love with others, you are leading with your heart. And where you lead with your heart, you are demonstrating to others how to open their hearts.

Gregg Braden explains how evolution is not the whole story of humanity—and offers a new understanding of our origins that can help us tap the extraordinary abilities we already have. Is it possible that the advanced awareness achieved by monks, nuns, and mystics—considered rare in the past—is actually meant to be a normal part of our daily lives? Braden explains that recent discoveries ranging from human evolution and genetics to the new science of neuro-cardiology (the bridge between the brain and the heart) have overturned 150 years of thinking when it comes to the way we think of ourselves, our origin, and our capabilities. He begins with the fact that we are even more empowered, and more connected with ourselves and the world than scientists have believed in the past. “How do we awaken the extraordinary abilities that come from such an awesome connection?” “What role does our ancient and mysterious heritage play in our lives today?” Braden crosses boundaries of science and spirituality to answer these questions, revealing a) specific tools, techniques, and practices to awaken our deep intuition on-demand, for self healing; and 2) concrete solutions to the social issues that are destroying our families and dividing us as people. When new discoveries prove that the existing human story is no longer based in fact, it’s time to change the story. This

THE HIGH BEINGS OF HAWAII

Encounters with Mystical Ancestors by Tanis Helliwell $19.95, paper. Wayshower. 170 pages

Hawaii is a magical place and, on a vacation there, the author found herself in foreign territory encountering elemental and ancestral beings from different dimensions. Here she realized her intimate and deep relationship with the land and with the High Beings ensouling this land as her ancestors. These mystical beings wanted Helliwell to tell their story and to emphasize the importance of ancestors in our life today, not only for folks in Hawaii, but for everyone. As she says, “For four years these beings led me on a precious multi-layered journey into my own unconscious before I could write the book they wished.” As with her other books, such as Summer with the Leprechauns, Helliwell’s book is an entertaining, humorous story as well as being an inspiring teaching experience. You receive practical tips from these physical and spiritual ancestors to heal the wounds in your life, in the lives of others and ultimately to help heal our wounded Earth. Walk with the author along this path to develop a deep, intimate relationship with your own ancestors, elementals

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and mystical kin. “Tanis offers our Hawaiian ancestors the opportunity to speak to more people through her experiences with them and does this with humor and honor and captures their essence in her story.” —Kimokeo Kapahulehua Tanis Helliwell has experienced and later worked with elementals, angels, and master teachers on other planes since childhood. She is also author of Hybrids.

Business & Work SEVEN PRACTICES OF A MINDFUL LEADER Lessons from Google and a Zen Monastery Kitchen by Marc Lesser

W O R K, C O M M U N I T Y & T H E F U T U R E

successful corporate sustainability efforts in the world. The new edition also explores why we need to create not only prototypical companies, but also the prototypical economy of the twenty-first century. As our global economy shifts toward sustainability, challenges like building the circular economy and reversing global warming present tremendous opportunities for business and industry. Mid-Course Correction Revisted contains a new foreword by Paul Hawken, new chapters by Ray Anderson Foundation director John Lanier, and interviews with Janine Benyus, Joel Makower, Andrew Winston, Ellen MacArthur and other leaders in green enterprise, the circular economy, and biomimicry. A wide range of business readers—from sustainability professionals to green entrepreneurs to CEOs—will find both wise advice and concrete examples here.

$24.50, paper. New World Library. 210 pages

Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader evolved out of Marc Lesser’s work helping to create Search Inside Yourself, a mindfulness-based emotional intelligence program at Google. It builds on his experiences as a Zen teacher, particularly his time as head cook at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, the first Zen monastery in the western world. What are the Seven Practices? Love the work / Do the work / Don’t be an expert / Connect to your pain / Connect to the pain of others / Depend on others / Keep making it simpler. Aspiring to be a mindful leader and engaging in these seven practices helps calm the nervous ape’s vigilance and fear (its proclivity to scan for threats); it satisfies the imaginative ape, who is always seeking something new and better; and it reassures the empathic ape that we are always connected, beyond anything we can comprehend. Engaging in mindfulness practice calls forth our basic sanity in the midst of a world that often feels chaotic. Mindfulness practice knocks on the door of our inborn openness and trust in a world that can often feel cold and cynical.

This book comes out of a lifetime of integrating mindfulness, business, and leadership. It highlights practices of mindful leadership for leaders (all of us are leaders in one way or another) and anyone wanting to shift consciousness, develop character, and build beauty. “A wonderful book, with a range and depth valuable for both first-time managers and top CEOs.” —Rick Hanson, author of Resilient

MID-COURSE CORRECTION REVISITED

The Story and Legacy of a Radical Industrialist and His Quest for Authentic Change by Ray Anderson & John Lanier

$26.95, paper. Chelsea Green. 288 pages, b/w photos

The original Mid-Course Correction, published 20 years ago, put forth a new vision for what its author, Ray Anderson, called the prototypical company of the 21st century—a restorative company that does no harm to society or the environment. In it Anderson recounts his eureka moment as founder and leader of Interface, Inc., one of the world’s largest carpet and flooring companies, and one that was doing business in all the usual ways. Bit by bit, he began learning how much environmental destruction companies like his had caused, prompting him to make a radical change. Mid-Course Correction not only outlined what eco-centered leadership looks like, it also mapped out a specific set of goals for Anderson’s company to eliminate its environmental footprint. Those goals remain visionary even today, and this second edition delves into how Interface worked toward making them a reality, birthing one of the most innovative and

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THE UNTETHERED SOUL AT WORK Teachings to Transform Your Work Life by Michael A. Singer

$22.95, 2 CDs. Sounds True. 2 hours, 17 minutes

New on CD

Millions know him as the spiritual teacher who wrote the widely popular The Untethered Soul and The Surrender Experiment. But prior to that, Michael Singer was the creator of a leading-edge software program that transformed medical practice management, and the founding CEO of a billion-dollar company. With The Untethered Soul at Work, listeners join Singer for a rare audio presentation on applying the insights in his life-changing books within the context of business and the office. Work isn’t easy—that’s why it’s called work—but we make it much harder if we don’t use our minds the way we’re supposed to.

In this two-part program, Singer first outlines his essential teachings on cultivating a healthy relationship with the mind and aligning ourselves with the flow of life instead of fighting against it. Next, he discusses 10 common workplace challenges we struggle with today, including finding fulfillment, difficult discussions, learning to listen, creativity and problem solving, stress and burnout, and more. Everything that happens at work is a chance for us to offer our full selves—our love, our passion, our creativity—in service of the miraculous moment unfolding before us.

The Untethered Soul at Work will transform the way you think about the concept of work, while opening you to greater joy, connection, and satisfaction in your own chosen field.

Ecology, Community & Politics I’M RIGHT AND YOU’RE AN IDIOT The Toxic State of Public Discourse and How to Clean It Up by James Hoggan

$19.99, paper. New Society. 288 pages

The most pressing problem we face today is not climate change. It is pollution in the public square, where a toxic smog of adversarial rhetoric, propaganda, and polarization stifles discussion and debate, creating resistance to change and thwarting our ability to solve our collective problems. In this second edition of I’m Right and You’re an Idiot, James Hoggan grapples with this critical issue, through interviews with outstanding thinkers and drawing on wisdom from highly regarded public figures. Featuring a new, radically revised

Unraveling FALTER

Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben

$36.50, cloth. Picador. 304 pages

Bill McKibbens groundbreaking book The End of Nature was the first book to alert us to global warming. But the danger is broader than that: even as climate change shrinks the space where our civilization can exist, new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics threaten to bleach away the variety of human experience. Falter tells the story of these converging trends and of the ideological fervor that keeps us from bringing them under control. And then, drawing on McKibben’s experience in building 350.org, the first truly global citizens movement to combat climate

change, it offers some possible ways out of the trap. We’re at a bleak moment in human history—and we’ll either confront that bleakness or watch the civilization our forebears built slip away. “A love letter, a plea, a eulogy, and a prayer. This is Bill McKibben at his glorious best. Do not miss it.”—Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything “Falter is a brilliant, impassioned call to arms to save our climate from those profiting from its destruction before it’s too late. Over and over, McKibben has proven one of the most farsighted and gifted voices of our times, and with Falter he has topped himself, producing a book that honestly, everyone should read.”—Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money

THE UNINHABITABLE EARTH

could become close to uninhabitable, and other parts horrifically inhospitable, as soon as the end of this century. $36.00, cloth. Dutton. 320 pages In his travelogue of our near future, Da“The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comvid Wallace-Wells brings into stark relief the et, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose climate troubles that await—food shortages, about our pending Armageddon.”—Andrew refugee emergencies, and other crises that Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon will reshape the globe. But the world will be It is much worse than you think. If your remade by warming in more profound ways anxiety about global warming is dominatas well, transforming our politics, our culture, ed by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely our relationship to technology, and our sense scratching the surface. In California, wildof history. It will be all-encompassing, shaping fires now rage year-round, destroying thouand distorting nearly every aspect of human sands of homes. Across the US, “500-year” storms pummel communities month after month, and life as it is lived today. Like An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring before it, floods displace tens of millions annually. This is only a preview of the changes to come. And The Uninhabitable Earth is both a meditation on the devthey are coming fast. Without a revolution in how bil- astation we have brought upon ourselves and an impaslions of humans conduct their lives, parts of the Earth sioned call to action. Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells

prologue, afterword, and a new chapter addressing the changes in the public discourse since the 2016 United States election, his comprehensive analysis explores: u How political will is manipulated u How tribalism shuts down open-minded thinking, undermines trust, and helps misinformation thrive u Why facts alone fail and how language is manipulated and dissent silenced u The importance of dialogue, empathy, and pluralistic narrative reframing arguments to create compelling narratives and spur action. Our species’ greatest survival strategy has always been foresight and the ability to leverage intelligence to overcome adversity. For too long now this capacity has been threatened by the sorry state of public discourse. Focusing on proven techniques to foster more powerful and effective communication, I’m Right and You’re an Idiot will appeal to readers looking for deep insights and practical advice in these troubling times.

SLOW DEATH BY RUBBER DUCK FULLY EXPANDED AND UPDATED

How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health by Rick Smith & Bruce Lourie

$27.00, paper. Penguin. 352 pages, images & charts

This landmark book about the toxicity of everyday life has been updated, revised and re-issued for its 10th anniversary, along with the experiments from Smith and Lourie’s second book, Toxin Toxout. It’s amazing how little can change in a decade. In 2009, a book transformed the way we see our frying pans, thermometers and tuna sandwiches. Daily life was bathing us in countless toxins that accumulated in our tissues, were passed on to our children and damaged our health. To ex-

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pose the extent of this toxification, environmentalists Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie offered themselves to science and undertook a series of over a dozen experiments to briefly raise their personal levels of mercury, BPA, Teflon and other pollutants. The ease with which ordinary activities caused dangerous levels to build in their bodies was a wake-up call. Ten years later, there is good news. But not much. Concise, shocking, practical and hopeful, this new combined edition of one of the most important books ever published about green living will put the nasty stuff back where it belongs: on the national agenda and out of our bodies. The book concludes with a road map showing how simple changes in consumer choices can detox our lives and how the average citizen can help twist the arms of elected leaders so they’ll do better in protecting us from these toxins.

A FINER FUTURE

Creating an Economy in Service to Life by L. Hunter Lovins, Stewart Wallis, Anders Wijkman & John Fullerton $31.95, cloth. New Society. 432 pages, b/w photos

Humanity is in a race with catastrophe. Is the future one of global warming, 65 million migrants fleeing failed states, soaring inequality, and grid-locked politics? Or one of empowered entrepreneurs and innovators building a world that works for everyone? While the specter of collapse looms large, A Finer Future demonstrates that humanity has a chance just to thread the needle of sustainability and build a regenerative economy through a powerful

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Channelled Wisdom ENERGY SPEAKS

will as to when and how we step onto it.

Messages from Spirit on Living, Loving, and Awakening by Lee Harris

$22.50, paper. New World Library. 228 pages

PERSONAL POWER THROUGH AWARENESS

A Guidebook for Sensitive People, Revised Edition by Sanaya Roman $22.50, paper. New World Library. isbn 9781608686070 252 pages

THE SCIENCE OF SELF-EMPOWERMENT

Awakening the New Human Story by Gregg Braden $22.99, paper. Hay House. 320 pages

THE HIGH BEINGS OF HAWAII

Encounters with Mystical Ancestors by Tanis Helliwell $19.95, paper. Wayshower. 170 pages

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Business & Work SEVEN PRACTICES OF A MINDFUL LEADER Lessons from Google and a Zen Monastery Kitchen by Marc Lesser

W O R K, C O M M U N I T Y & T H E F U T U R E

$24.50, paper. New World Library. 210 pages

MID-COURSE CORRECTION REVISITED

The Story and Legacy of a Radical Industrialist and His Quest for Authentic Change by Ray Anderson & John Lanier

$26.95, paper. Chelsea Green. 288 pages, b/w photos

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THE UNTETHERED SOUL AT WORK Teachings to Transform Your Work Life by Michael A. Singer

$22.95, 2 CDs. Sounds True. 2 hours, 17 minutes

New on CD

The Untethered Soul at Work will transform the way you think about the concept of work, while opening you to greater joy, connection, and satisfaction in your own chosen field.

Ecology, Community & Politics I’M RIGHT AND YOU’RE AN IDIOT The Toxic State of Public Discourse and How to Clean It Up by James Hoggan

$19.99, paper. New Society. 288 pages

Unraveling FALTER

Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben

$36.50, cloth. Picador. 304 pages

THE UNINHABITABLE EARTH

SLOW DEATH BY RUBBER DUCK FULLY EXPANDED AND UPDATED

How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health by Rick Smith & Bruce Lourie

$27.00, paper. Penguin. 352 pages, images & charts

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A FINER FUTURE

Creating an Economy in Service to Life by L. Hunter Lovins, Stewart Wallis, Anders Wijkman & John Fullerton $31.95, cloth. New Society. 432 pages, b/w photos

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combination of enlightened entrepreneurialism, technology, and innovative policy. The authors—world leaders in business, economics, and sustainability—gather the evidence, outline the principles of a regenerative economy, and detail a policy roadmap to achieving it: Transforming finance and corporations — Reimagining energy, agriculture, and the nature of how we work —Enhancing human well-being —Delivering a world that respects ecosystems and human community. Charting the course to a regenerative economy is the most important work facing humanity and A Finer Future provides the essential blueprint for business leaders, entrepreneurs, environmentalists, politicians, policymakers, and others working to create a world that works for people and the planet.

A POLITICS OF LOVE

ELEGANT SIMPLICITY

A Handbook for a New American Revolution by Marianne Williamson

The Art of Living Well by Satish Kumar

generations have risen up — these activists have both embodied and enacted humanity’s deepest values. Today, a spiritual cancer of fear threatens to undo that progress. Discord and hatred are dissolving our communal bonds and undermining the spirit of social responsibility—the duty we feel toward one another. In this spiritual manifesto, Marianne Williamson offers a tonic for this cultural malignancy. She urges us to imitate the heroes of our past and live out our deepest spiritual commitment: where some have sown hatred, let us now sow love. Williamson argues that we need a new, whole-person politics of love that stems not just from the head but from the heart, not just from intellectual understanding but from a genuine affection for one another. By committing to love, we will make a meaningful contribution to the joyful, fierce and disruptive energies that are rising at this critical point in time. And she’s running for president in 2020!

Eco-Philosophy

$31.00, cloth. HarperCollins. isbn 9780062873934 240 pages

$19.99, paper. New Society. 176 pages

Consume less and celebrate more for inner peace and ecological integrity. That about sums it up! Consumerism drives the pursuit of happiness in much of the world, yet as wealth grows unhappiness abounds, compounded by the grave problems of climate change, pollution, and ecological degradation. We’ve now reached both an environmental and spiritual dead-end that leaves us crying out for alternatives. Elegant Simplicity provides a coherent philosophy of life that weaves together simplicity of material life, thought, and spirit. In it, Satish Kumar, environmental thought leader and former monk, distills five decades of reflection and wisdom into a guide for everyone, covering: u The ecological and spiritual principles of living simply u Shedding both “stuff” and psychological baggage u Opening your mind and heart to the deep value of relationships u Embedding simplicity in all aspects of life including education and work u Merging science and spirituality for a coherent world-view. Elegant Simplicity is a life guide for everyone wanting off the relentless treadmill of competition and consumption and seeking a life that prioritizes the ecological integrity of the Earth, social equity, and personal tranquility and happiness. Satish Kumar was editor of Resurgence magazine for over 40 years. During this time, he founded Schumacher College in Devon, England.

In this stirring call, the activist, spiritual leader, and author of Return to Love confronts the cancerous politics of fear and divisiveness threatening the United States today, urging all spiritually aware Americans to return to—and act out of—our deepest value: love. America’s story is one of great social achievement. From the Abolitionists who fought to outlaw slavery, to the Suffragettes who championed women’s right to vote, to the Civil Rights proponents who battled segregation and institutionalized white supremacy, to the proponents of the women’s movement and gay rights seeking equality for all, citizens for

LEARNING TO DIE

Wisdom in the Age of Climate Crisis by Robert Bringhurst & Jan Zwicky

$19.95, paper. U. of Regina. 105 pages, French flaps

This powerful little book illuminates the truth about where our environmental crisis is taking us. Writing from an island on Canada’s Northwest coast, Robert Bringhurst and Jan Zwicky weigh in on the death of the planet versus the death of the individual. For Zwicky, awareness and humility are the foundation of the equanimity with which Socrates faced his death: he makes a good model when fac-

Wendell Berry THE WORLD-ENDING FIRE The Essential Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry, selected by Paul Kingsnorth

$25.50, paper. Counterpoint. 368 pages

In a time when our relationship to the natural world is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridled consumerism, Wendell Berry speaks out in these prescient essays, drawn from his fifty-year campaign on behalf of our lands and communities. The writings gathered in The World-Ending Fire are the unique product of a life spent farming the fields of rural Kentucky with mules and horses, and of the rich, intimate knowledge of the land cultivated by this work. These are essays written in defiance of the false call to progress and in defense of local landscapes, essays that celebrate our cultural heritage, our history, and our home. With grace and conviction, essayist-novelist-poet and farmer Wendell Berry shows that we simply cannot af-

ford to succumb to the mass-produced madness that drives our global economy—the natural world will not allow it. “No use talking about getting enlightened or saving your soul,” Berry wrote to his friend, the poet Gary Snyder, in 1980, “if you can’t keep the topsoil from washing away.” Yet he also shares with us a vision of consolation and of hope. We may be locked in an uneven struggle, but we can and must begin to treat our land, our neighbors, and ourselves with respect and care. As Berry urges, we must abandon arrogance and stand in awe. Wendell Berry’s formula for a good life and a good community is simple and pleasingly unoriginal. Slow down. Pay attention. Do good work. Love your neighbours. Love your place. Stay in your place. Settle for less, enjoy it more. —P.K.

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NATURE, CULTURE AND THE SACRED

New Agrarian Writings by Wendell Berry

A Woman Listens for Leadership by Nina Simons $19.95, paper. Green Fire. 232 pages

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. “A compelling and honest tapestry of hard-earned personal and collective wisdom, honoring the earth and igniting the revolutionary ways of women.” —Eve Ensler, founder of V-Day and author of The Vagina Monologues. “Nature, Culture and the Sacred is the perfect book for this historical moment. Nina Simons not only knows the rare gifts of leadership women can offer, she also reveals how challenge and adversity brings these gifts forth more brilliantly and powerfully.”— Joanna Macy, author of World As Lover, World As Self An advocate for social and environmental healing, Nina Simons is dedicated to the value of creating truly diverse collaborations and connections among issues, leaders and movements.

present themselves historically and as they might apply to our work today. “The Presence of Nature in the Natural World” is added here as the bookend of this developing New Agrarianism. The smells of soul and soil… Filled with insights and new revelations from a mind thorough in its considerations and careful in its presentations,The Art of Loading Brush is a necessary and timely collection.

$25.50, paper. Counterpoint. 268 pages

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

Wendell Berry’s profound critique of American culture has entered its sixth decade, and in this gathering he reaches with deep devotion toward a long view of Agrarian philosophy. Berry believes that our cultural problems are nearly always aligned with their agricultural problems, and recent events have shone a terrible spotlight on the divides between our urban and rural citizens. Our communities are as endangered as our landscapes. Berry moves deftly between the real and the imagined. The Art of Loading Brush is an energetic mix of essays and stories, including “The Thought of Limits in a Prodigal Age,” which explores Agrarian ideals as they

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The order of loving care is of human making. It varies as it must from place to place, time to time, worker to worker, never definitive or final. It is measurable by the health, the happiness too, of the association of land and people. It is partly an idea (remembering divine or natural order), partly a quest, always and inescapably a practice.

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ing the death of the planet, as well as facing our own mortality. Bringhurst urges readers to tune their minds to the wild. The wild has healed the world before, and it is the only thing that stands any chance of healing the world now though it is unlikely to save Homo sapiens in the process. “Robert Bringhurst and Jan Zwicky are two of the wisest and most learned animals living among us, poet-creatures who regularly calibrate their awareness by immersing themselves in wild nature and listening quietly for what it has to teach. As feelingful animals, they care deeply for other species, and for their fellow humans as a part of—not apart from—the many-voiced earth. In Learning to Die, they offer a kind of piercing wisdom-literature for our time, generous insight for an age of ecological calamity.” —David Abram, author of The Spell of the Sensuous

Gardening & Farming CLIMATE-WISE LANDSCAPING

Regenerating Soil FARMING FOR THE LONG HAUL

Resilience and the Lost Art of Agricultural Inventiveness by Michael Foley

political, and climatic shock waves that the twenty-first century portends. It draws on the $26.95, paper. Chelsea Green. 272 pages innovative work of contemporary farmers, It’s all but certain that the next fifty years but more than that, it shares the experiencwill bring enormous, not to say cataclysmic, es of farming societies around the world that disruptions to our present way of life. World have maintained resilient agricultural systems oil reserves will be exhausted within that time over centuries of often-turbulent change. frame, as will the lithium that powers today’s Indigenous agriculturalists, peasants, and most sophisticated batteries, suggesting that traditional farmers have all created broad transportation is equally imperiled. And strategies for survival through good times there’s another, even more dire limitation and bad, and many of them prospered. They that is looming: at current rates of erosion, also developed particular techniques for managing soil, the world’s topsoil will be gone in sixty years. Fresh wa- water, and other resources sustainably. Some of these ter sources are in jeopardy, too. In short, the large-scale techniques have been taken up by organic agriculture agricultural and food delivery system as we know it has and permaculture, but many more of them are virtually at most a few decades before it exhausts itself and the unknown, even among alternative farmers. This book planet with it. lays out some of these strategies and presents techniques Farming for the Long Haul is about building a viable and tools that might prove most useful to farmers today small farm economy that can withstand the economic, and in the uncertain future.

Practical Actions for a Sustainable Future by Sue Reed & Ginny Stibolt

GARDENING WITH BIOCHAR

Predictions about future effects of climate change range from mild to dire but we’re already seeing warmer winters, hotter summers, and more extreme storms. Proposed solutions often seem expensive and complex, and can leave us as individuals at a loss, wondering what, if anything, can be done. Sue Reed and Ginny Stibolt offer a rallying cry in response— instead of wringing our hands, let’s roll up our sleeves. Based on decades of experience, this book is packed with simple, practical steps anyone can take to beautify any landscape or garden, while helping protect the planet and the species that call it home. Topics include: u Working actively to shrink our carbon footprint through mindful landscaping and gardening u Creating cleaner air and water u Increasing physical comfort during hotter seasons u Supporting birds, butterflies, pollinators, and other wildlife. This book is the ideal tool for homeowners, gardeners, and landscape professionals who want to be part of the solution to climate change.

$28.95, paper. Storey. 126 pages, 7x9, colour photos

$29.99, paper. New Society. 288 pages, 7x9, colour photos

Shit in a Nutshell by Joseph Jenkins

$34.95, paper. Chelsea Green. 300 pages, b/w photos, charts

Supercharge Your Soil with Bioactivated Charcoal by Jeff Cox

Bio-activated charcoal called biochar is the new darling of organic gardeners, embraced for its outstanding abilities to enrich the soil and improve plant growth. Gardening with Biochar is the first comprehensive guide to understanding, making, and using it effectively in the home garden. In this highly accessible handbook, long-time garden writer Jeff Cox explains what biochar is and provides detailed instructions for how it can be made from wood tains a chapter on alternative graywater systems; illustrated, step-by-step instructions for building a simple, low-cost composting toilet for household, camp, or emergency use; current information about community-level composting; and the latest material on composting microbiology. If “shit happens,” then so does humanure... “Finally we have a comprehensive book on recycling human excrement without chemicals, high technology, or pollution. Well-written, practical, and thoroughly researched.” —Whole Earth Review

Nature as Teacher & Healer

THE HUMANURE HANDBOOK

Written in laypeople’s terms by a humanure composting practitioner and organic gardener with 40 years’ experience, this book—of great environmental importance, actually—is for anyone interested in a unique topic that is fundamentally related to every human being on planet Earth. It’s also great fun to read This richly illustrated 4th edition of The Humanure Handbook is completely revised, expanded, and updated, but retains that element of improbable humour that made this book an underground classic. This fascinating, one-of-a-kind book tells you how to safely recycle human manure, and includes colour photos of humanure-compost gardens, listings for international commercial compost toilet sources and manufacturers, and a list of backyard composting bins and compost thermometer sources. This new edition also con-

ENCOUNTERS WITH NATURE SPIRITS

Co-creating with the Elemental Kingdom by R. Ogilvie Crombie $21.50, paper. Inner Traditions. 202 pages, French flaps, b/w illustrations

Have you ever wished for something with your whole heart? As a child, R. Ogilvie Crombie (Roc) made a wish as he dropped a penny into a wishing well - he asked to be able to see fairies and talk to them. In Encounters with Nature Spirits, we follow Roc’s path as, many years later, he meets the faun Kurmos in the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh, discovers the realm of the elementals, and, eventually, meets the great god Pan himself. In his conversations with Pan, elves, and other nature spirits Roc realizes that the elemental realm is vastly more pow-

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or other kinds of plant material, along with specific guidelines for using it to enrich soil, prevent erosion, and enhance plant growth. Now widely available at garden centers, biochar is also being lauded for its ability to sequester carbon in the soil, making it good for the health of the planet, as well as the plants. Biochar is actually used in soil remediation and water cleansing projects around the world… Let me just say that in my 50 years of gardening organically, my discovery of biochar and its benefits is the single most exciting and important development I’ve ever seen. My guess is that after you read this book and start using biochar in your home garden, you’ll agree.

erful than our human kingdom and possesses an ability to create far beyond our human means. Through his experiences Roc becomes closely involved with the Findhorn Community in northeast Scotland where he meets further elementals who give him sound advice as to how the famous Findhorn gardens should be cared for in order to work in harmony with nature. Encounters with Nature Spirits is a reminder to us all of the importance of our relationship with the nature kingdom. Through his example, Roc places emphasis on connecting and working in harmony with nature spirits. True co-creation with nature, working with rather than against the elemental kingdom, can bring about vital positive change in our endangered eco-system.

ENERGY MEDICINE FOR ANIMALS The Bioenergetics of Animal Healing by Diane Budd $21.50, paper. Inner Traditions. 190 pages, colour illustrations

In this book, animal communicator and healer Diane Budd shares her intriguing journey, research, and experience of working with animals energetically. She reveals how to work with the energy fields, auras, and chakras of horses, cats, and dogs as well as what benefits energetic healing work can offer to animals. Sharing many case studies from her healing practice, the author explores what High Sense Perception (HSP) reveals about the relationship between an animal and human and how to make sense of what you are receiving on an intuitive level. Full-color illustrations clearly show the energy field, the energy flow between animals’ chakras, and what happens

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A POLITICS OF LOVE

ELEGANT SIMPLICITY

A Handbook for a New American Revolution by Marianne Williamson

The Art of Living Well by Satish Kumar

Eco-Philosophy

$31.00, cloth. HarperCollins. isbn 9780062873934 240 pages

$19.99, paper. New Society. 176 pages

LEARNING TO DIE

Wisdom in the Age of Climate Crisis by Robert Bringhurst & Jan Zwicky

$19.95, paper. U. of Regina. 105 pages, French flaps

Wendell Berry THE WORLD-ENDING FIRE The Essential Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry, selected by Paul Kingsnorth

$25.50, paper. Counterpoint. 368 pages

THE ART OF LOADING BRUSH

NATURE, CULTURE AND THE SACRED

New Agrarian Writings by Wendell Berry

A Woman Listens for Leadership by Nina Simons $19.95, paper. Green Fire. 232 pages

$25.50, paper. Counterpoint. 268 pages

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Gardening & Farming CLIMATE-WISE LANDSCAPING

Regenerating Soil FARMING FOR THE LONG HAUL

Resilience and the Lost Art of Agricultural Inventiveness by Michael Foley

Practical Actions for a Sustainable Future by Sue Reed & Ginny Stibolt

GARDENING WITH BIOCHAR

$28.95, paper. Storey. 126 pages, 7x9, colour photos

$29.99, paper. New Society. 288 pages, 7x9, colour photos

Shit in a Nutshell by Joseph Jenkins

$34.95, paper. Chelsea Green. 300 pages, b/w photos, charts

Supercharge Your Soil with Bioactivated Charcoal by Jeff Cox

Nature as Teacher & Healer

THE HUMANURE HANDBOOK

ENCOUNTERS WITH NATURE SPIRITS

Co-creating with the Elemental Kingdom by R. Ogilvie Crombie $21.50, paper. Inner Traditions. 202 pages, French flaps, b/w illustrations

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ENERGY MEDICINE FOR ANIMALS The Bioenergetics of Animal Healing by Diane Budd $21.50, paper. Inner Traditions. 190 pages, colour illustrations

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THE SECRET WISDOM OF NATURE

Healing Earth

Trees, Anmals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things: Stories from Science and Observation by Peter Wohlleben $29.95, cloth. Greystone. 260 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 Wisdom 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 communi-

cate across species boundaries? And what happens 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.

HEALING EARTH

An Ecologist’s Journey of Innovation and Environmental Stewardship by John Todd $33.95, paper. North Atlantic. 182 pages, colour photos

A true pioneer and respected elder in ecological recovery and sustainability shares effective solutions he has designed and implemented. Standing out from the sea of despairing messages about environmental threats, John Todd, who has taught, mentored, and inspired such well-known names in the field as Janine Benyus, Bill McKibben, and Paul Hawken, chronicles the different ecological interventions he has created over the course of his career. Each chapter offers a workable engineering solution to an existing environmental problem: healing in the energy fields of a human being and an animal when they connect telepathically. The illustrations also help guide you, step-by-step, through the use of the healing tools and practices described. She shows how zoopharmacognosy—animal self-selection of remedies such as essential oils or herbs—can support emotional release and physical healing, not only for animals but for humans too. She details animal personality types and their soul evolvement levels and explores the influence of an animal’s past life on present-day issues, whether it be a past-life connection with the current owner or an issue the animal needs to work with in this present lifetime. Full of animal communication stories and ground-breaking research on animal energy fields!

Conscious Evolution ?! i-MINDS — 2ND EDITION

How and Why Constant Connectivity is Rewiring Our Brains and What to Do About it by Mari Swingle $19.99, paper. New Society. 272 pages

The way we use i-technology is affecting our health and happiness. While programs, devices, information, and constant connectivity can offer us kinds of ease, liberation, and efficiency, they can also rewire our brains to feel restless, disconnected, unable to sleep, anxious, and depressed, with new illnesses like FOMO (fear of missing out), and electro sensitivities appearing. Engaging and entertaining yet scientifically rigorous, this fully revised and updated second edition of i-Minds comprehensively explores an era of screen-based tech-

the aftermath of mountain-top removal and valley-fill coal mining in Appalachia, using windmills and injections of bacteria to restore the health of a polluted New England pond, working with community members in a South African village to protect an important river. A mix of both success stories and concrete suggestions for solutions to tackle as yet unresolved issues, Todd’s narrative provides an important addition to the conversation about specific ways we can address the planetary crisis. Eighty-five color photos and images illustrate Todd’s concepts. This is a refreshingly hopeful, proactive book and also a personal story that covers a known practitioner’s groundbreaking work. There are literally thousands of ways that stewardship can help heal and transform our wonderful Earth.

nology’s assimilation into our lives, pondering it as both godsend and plague. Addressing theory, popular media, and industry hype, i-Minds demonstrates: How constant connectivity is changing our brains, and the dangers of unchecked connectivity Positive steps to embrace new technologies while protecting our well-being and steering our future in a more human direction. Our brains are speeding up, but not in a good way… Elevated states of arousal are further coupled with a reduced ability to self-stimulate and self-entertain. This includes reduced abilities to observe, integrate information, and to be creative. In essence, we have less ability to sustain focus on the normal, the baseline, including states of observation, contemplation, and transitions from which ideas spark… We now feel agitated when not externally stimulated; we need to be occupied, entertained. We also have greater troubles quieting, including reaching states of repose, satisfaction, and restorative sleep. The implications of this are vast. On a biological as well as a cultural level, such brain state changes affect learning, socialization, recreation, partnering, parenting, and creativity—in essence all factors that make a society and a culture.

i-Minds is a must-read for anyone interested in fostering health and happiness, or who is struggling with the role of screened technology in our lives.

Science, Brain/Mind & Cosmology HARMONIC ORIGINS OF THE WORLD Sacred Number at the Source of Creation by Richard Heath

$23.99, paper. Inner Traditions. 262 pages, b/w illustrations

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underlie the cycles of the solar system and the music of Earth, Richard Heath reveals how Neolithic astronomers discovered these ratios using megalithic monuments like Stonehenge and the Carnac stones, discoveries that informed later myths and stories including the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Resurrection of Osiris, the Rig Veda, the Hebrew Bible, Homer’s epic tales, and the Return of Quetzalcoatl. He explains how this harmonic planetary knowledge formed the basis of the earliest religious systems, in which planets were seen as gods. Revealing the mysteries of the octave and of our musical scales, Heath shows how the orbits of the outer and inner planets gave a structure to time, which our Moon’s orbit could then turn into a harmonic matrix. He explains how planetary time came to function as a finely tuned musical instrument, leading to the rise of intelligent life on our planet. He demonstrates how this harmonic science of numbers can be read in the secret symbolism and sacred geometry of ancient cities such as Teotihuacan and in temples such as the Parthenon, connecting the higher worlds of planetary time and harmonics with physical life on Earth. Recasting our understanding of the solar system, Heath seeks to reawaken humanity’s understanding of how sacred numbers structure reality, offering an opportunity to recover this lost harmonic doctrine and reclaim our intended role in the outer life of our planet.

BECOMING SUPERNATURAL How Common People are Doing the Uncommon by Joe Dispenza

New in Paperback

$25.99, paper. Hay House. 384 pages

The author of Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself and Evolve Your Brain draws on research conducted at his advanced workshops to explore how common people are doing the uncommon to transform their lives. Readers of Becoming Supernatural will learn that we are, quite literally, supernatural by nature if given the proper knowledge and instruction, and when we learn how to apply that information through various meditations, we can experience a greater expression of our creative abilities; that we have the capacity to tune in to frequencies beyond our material world and receive more coherent streams of consciousness and energy; that we can change our brain chemistry to initiate profoundly transcendental experiences; and how, if we do this enough times, we can develop the skill of creating a more efficient, balanced, healthy body, a more unlimited mind, and greater access to the realms of spiritual truth. Topics include: u Demystifying the body’s 7 energy centers and how you can balance them u How to free yourself from the past by reconditioning your body to a new mind u How you can create reality in the generous present moment by changing your energy Using tools and disciplines ranging from cutting-edge physics to practical exercises such as a walking meditation, Dr. Joe offers a program for stepping into the quantum field of infinite possibilities.

ALTERED TRAITS

Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body by Daniel Goleman & Richard Davidson $23.00, paper. Avery. 336 pages

In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an om-

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nipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your relationship to your achievement level. Unveiling cutting-edge research, Goleman and Davidson show us the truth about what meditation can really do for us, as well as exactly how to get the most out of it.

Mother Wisdom THIS IS MOTHERHOOD

through some of the most miraculous and stressful milestones of your life: new beginnings, first times, mental load, and “growing a mother.”

A Motherly Collection of Reflections + Practices by Jill Koziol & Liz Tenety

$28.95, paper. Sounds True. 288 pages, 7x10, colour photos

An altered trait—a new characteristic that arises from a meditation practice— endures apart from meditation itself. Altered traits shape how we behave in our daily lives, not just during or immediately after we meditate.

Beyond the pleasant states mental exercises can produce, the real payoffs are the lasting personality traits that can result. But short daily doses will not get us to the highest level of lasting positive change—even if we continue for years—without specific additions. More than sheer hours, we need smart practice, including crucial ingredients such as targeted feedback from a master teacher and a more spacious, less attached view of the self, all of which are missing in widespread versions of mind training. We aim to shift the conversation with a radical reinterpretation of what the actual benefits of meditation are—and are not—and what the true aim of practice has always been.

Family & Parenting SITTING STILL LIKE A FROG ACTIVITY BOOK 75 Mindfulness Games for Kids by Eline Snel & Marc Boutavant $22.95, paper. Shambhala. 100 pages, 8x11, colour illustrations

Here, from the popular author/teacher who wrote Sitting Still Like a Frog is a new book with 75 fun mindfulness games and activities to teach children ages 5-8 to calm themselves down, focus, be attentive to people around them, and to feel more peaceful. Mindfulness is one of the most effective practices to teach kids to calm themselves in stressful moments, increase focus and attention, ease anxiety, and promote a sense of empathy toward others. Eline Snel’s Sitting Still Like a Frog has helped thousands of children around the world to become more relaxed and attentive, more aware of their bodies and emotions, and more open toward others. This book is packed with entertaining and useful activities that children ages 5-8 can do alone or with a parent, including: Fun yoga exercises —Hands-on activities and projects —Meditation stories —Cut-out posters and cards —Colorful stickers —Mindful games.

YOU, YOUR CHILD AND SCHOOL

There are many ways to get motherhood right.

With This Is Motherhood, the cofounders It’s not your mother’s path or your sister’s path and contributors of the Motherly online or that seemingly-perfect mom from your kid’s community present a collection of essays preschool’s path. It’s yours. You get to define— and practices to celebrate motherhood in all and redefine along the way—your experience of its complexity. Here you’ll find reflections motherhood. on each phase of the wild ride of motherhood, includEach essay in This Is Motherhood is a letter to you, from ing the soaring highs of meeting your new baby, the ground-shaking lows that make you doubt everything one mama to another, to remind you that your feelings you’ve ever known, and all the beauty and pain in be- are normal and you’re not alone. tween. Each chapter closes with practices from MotherMotherhood is an opportunity to nurture—not lose— ly’s team of wellness experts to help you define, clarify, our true self. We hope this book feels like a loving friend process, and celebrate your journey. whispering in your ear: “You’re doing great. It’s going to be This book was created to inspire and guide you okay. You’ve got this. Because you are. And it is.

THE MAMA SUTRA

Cushman’s first pregnancy; her daughter’s tragic stillbirth; the joyful birth of her son; the “home retreat” of early motherhood; the challenges of parenthood; the diagnosis of $22.95, paper. Shambhala. 208 pages her son’s developmental disorder; the meltHere’s a heartfelt memoir of motherhood down of her nuclear family and its reconfiguas a spiritual practice by a longtime yoga ration into a new and joyful form; and more. and dharma teacher. Sutra is the Sanskrit Readers—whether they have shared similar name for a short spiritual teaching in the parenting experiences or not—will recognize yogic and Buddhist tradition, and it comes some aspect of themselves in Cushman’s emofrom the same root as the English word sutions--painful yearning, deep ambivalence, ecture, or stitch. This story of motherhood as a path to awakening, is, says yoga and dharma teacher static joy, bottomless grief, or surrender—in this powerAnne Cushman, “an homage to the long threads that ful story of the rawness and beauty of life. “This is an extraordinary book. I couldn’t put it down. run through all human lives, stitching up what’s shredded and ragged in our hearts.” Like Cushman’s widely The prose is exquisite and real. I’ve never given birth published personal essays, the book offers deep insight or had a child but now the experience is vivid, the deep mystery and enchantment revealed. This is a book of through the intimate details of everyday life. The Mama Sutra spans an eighteen-year journey life—for everyone.” —Natalie Goldberg, author of Writthrough motherhood as a spiritual practice, chronicling ing Down the Bones A Story of Love, Loss, and the Path of Motherhood by Anne Cushman

ucation system, or outside it if you choose to homeschool or un-school. Dispelling many myths and tackling critical schooling options and controversies, You, Your Child, and School is a key book for parents to learn about the kind of education their children really need and what they can do to make sure they get it. “[Robinson] offers an honest view of all the options available, giving adults the tools and insights they need to find schooling that is the best fit for each individual child. For adults who are looking for ways to use schooling to help their children achieve happy, constructive lives.” —Library Journal

Relationships, Communication & Sex

Navigate Your Way to the Best Education by Ken Robinson & Lou Aronica $23.00, paper. Penguin. 292 pages

Here’s an essential book for parents from the author of The Element and Creative Schools. Parents everywhere are deeply concerned about the education of their children, especially now, when education has become a minefield of politics and controversy. One of the world’s most influential educators, Robinson has had countless conversations with parents about the dilemmas they face. As a parent, what should you look for in your children’s education? How can you tell if their school is right for them and what can you do if it isnt? In this important new book, he offers clear principles and practical advice on how to support your child through the K-12 ed-

SAY WHAT YOU MEAN

A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication by Oren Sofer $22.95, paper. Shambhala. 272 pages

Find your voice, speak your truth, listen deeply—a guide to more meaningful and mindful conversations. We spend so much of our lives talking to each other, but how much are we simply running on automatic—relying on old habits and hoping for the best? Are we able to truly hear others and speak our mind in a clear and kind way, without needing to get defensive or go on the attack? In this groundbreaking synthesis of mindfulness, somatics, and Nonviolent Communication, Oren Jay Sofer offers simple yet powerful practices to develop healthy, effective, and

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satisfying ways of communicating. The techniques in Say What You Mean will help you to: Feel confident during conversation — Stay focused on what really matters in an interaction —Listen for the authentic concerns behind what others say —Reduce anxiety before and during difficult conversations —Find nourishment in day-to-day interactions. “This tremendous book addresses one of the biggest challenges in any relationship: how to combine heart with strength, compassion with assertiveness. Written with great warmth and clarity, it brings together well-researched principles, effective tools and suggestions, powerful experiential practices, and many examples. It is down-to-earth and completely accessible while also being so deep, even profound. If I had just one book to recommend about interpersonal communication, it would be this one.” —Rick Hanson, author of Resilient

BUDDHA’S BEDROOM

The Mindful Loving Path to Sexual Passion & Lifelong Intimacy by Cheryl Fraser $24.95, paper. New Harbinger. 195 pages

This playful and sexually savvy guide presents enlivening mindfulness exercises, techniques from couples and sex therapy, and the wisdom of Buddhist teachings to help you spark the passion and thrill you’ve been seeking in your relationship.

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THE SECRET WISDOM OF NATURE

Healing Earth

Trees, Anmals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things: Stories from Science and Observation by Peter Wohlleben $29.95, cloth. Greystone. 260 pages

Also by Wohlleben is The Inner Life of Animals.

HEALING EARTH

An Ecologist’s Journey of Innovation and Environmental Stewardship by John Todd $33.95, paper. North Atlantic. 182 pages, colour photos

Conscious Evolution ?! i-MINDS — 2ND EDITION

How and Why Constant Connectivity is Rewiring Our Brains and What to Do About it by Mari Swingle $19.99, paper. New Society. 272 pages

i-Minds is a must-read for anyone interested in fostering health and happiness, or who is struggling with the role of screened technology in our lives.

Science, Brain/Mind & Cosmology HARMONIC ORIGINS OF THE WORLD Sacred Number at the Source of Creation by Richard Heath

$23.99, paper. Inner Traditions. 262 pages, b/w illustrations

Exploring the simple mathematical relationships that

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BECOMING SUPERNATURAL How Common People are Doing the Uncommon by Joe Dispenza

New in Paperback

$25.99, paper. Hay House. 384 pages

ALTERED TRAITS

Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body by Daniel Goleman & Richard Davidson $23.00, paper. Avery. 336 pages

In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an om-

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Mother Wisdom THIS IS MOTHERHOOD

through some of the most miraculous and stressful milestones of your life: new beginnings, first times, mental load, and “growing a mother.”

A Motherly Collection of Reflections + Practices by Jill Koziol & Liz Tenety

$28.95, paper. Sounds True. 288 pages, 7x10, colour photos

Family & Parenting SITTING STILL LIKE A FROG ACTIVITY BOOK 75 Mindfulness Games for Kids by Eline Snel & Marc Boutavant $22.95, paper. Shambhala. 100 pages, 8x11, colour illustrations

YOU, YOUR CHILD AND SCHOOL

There are many ways to get motherhood right.

THE MAMA SUTRA

Relationships, Communication & Sex

Navigate Your Way to the Best Education by Ken Robinson & Lou Aronica $23.00, paper. Penguin. 292 pages

SAY WHAT YOU MEAN

A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication by Oren Sofer $22.95, paper. Shambhala. 272 pages

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BUDDHA’S BEDROOM

The Mindful Loving Path to Sexual Passion & Lifelong Intimacy by Cheryl Fraser $24.95, paper. New Harbinger. 195 pages

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Connection & Attachment THE POWER OF ATTACHMENT

How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships by Diane Poole Heller $20.95, paper. Sounds True. 204 pages

From our earliest years, we develop an attachment style that follows us through life, replaying in our daily emotional landscape, our relationships, and how we feel about ourselves. And in the wake of a traumatic event—such as a car accident, severe illness, loss of a loved one, or experience of abuse—that attachment style can deeply influence what happens next. In The Power of Attachment, Diane Poole Heller, a pioneer in attachment theory and trauma resolution, shows how overwhelming experiences can disrupt our most important connections with parts of ourselves within, with the physical world around us, and with others. The good news is that we can restore and reconnect at all

levels, regardless of our past. Here, you’ll learn key insights and practices to help you: Restore the broken connections caused by trauma / Get embodied and grounded in your body / Integrate the parts of yourself that feel wounded and fragmented / Emerge from grief, fear, and powerlessness to regain strength, joy, and resiliency / Reclaim access to your inner resources and spiritual nature. We are “wired” to heal. Even if our childhood is less than ideal, our secure attachment system is biologically programmed in us, and our job is to simply find out what’s interfering with it, and learn what we can do to make those secure tendencies more dominant. With expertise from research, clinical work, and training programs, this friendly book invites you to begin that journey back to wholeness.

DEEP HUMAN CONNECTION Why We Need It More than Anything Else by Stephen Cope

recognizing and understanding the nature of these connections, we can more skillfully shape who we become. The six mechanisms of transformation, then, as I have described them, are: Containment, Twinship, Adversity, Mirroring, Mystic resonance, and Conscious partnership.

New in Paperback

$22.99, paper. Hay House. 346 pages

As Scholar-in-Residence for 25+ years at the Kripalu Center, Stephen Cope has spent decades investigating—and writing about—the integration of body, mind, and spirit and the rich complexity of our relationships with others, and with ourselves. A central truth that arises from his work is this: human beings are universally wired for one thing—vital connection with one another. Deep Human Connection [in hardcover the book was titled Soul Friends] blends science, scholarship, and storytelling, drawing on his own life as well as the histories of famous figures—from Eleanor Roosevelt to Charles Darwin to Queen Victoria—whose formative relationships shed light on the nature of friendship itself.

Most of us will have many friends throughout our lifetimes—friends of all shapes, sizes, and callings. Many of these are wonderful, meaningful friendships. Some are difficult. But some magic few of these are connections that have gone right to our soul. These five or seven or ten friendships have been powerful keys to determining who we have become and who we will become.

There are six forms of human connection that we must have in order to grow, to thrive, to develop, and to live fully. Much of our spiritual, psychological, and even physical growth takes place in the context of, and as a result of, these special relationships. And I believe that through

“For centuries, writers interested in the soul have reflected on friendship as the foundation of all love. Stephen Cope’s contribution is penetrating, subtle, and beautiful… A very special book.” —Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul

The beginning of a relationship is always thrilling—butterflies in the stomach; that sense that someone really gets you; that love drunk, walking on air feeling. But as time goes by, you may find yourself too busy, tired, or just unmotivated to devote quality time and attention to the connection you need. So, how do you uncover the passion and thrill you’re longing for, and how can you make it last (a little longer)? In Buddha’s Bedroom, you’ll discover how the essential Buddhist teachings of mindfulness and awakening can be applied to your love life—showing that true passion absolutely is sustainable, if you’re willing to shift your perspective. By exploring desires and expectations, and learning to see your partner as they really are, without the need for them to change, you’ll foster a deep and mindfully loving connection. Foreword by Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman, in which they write, It takes courage to surrender barriers to closeness and reveal our innermost vulnerability. With humor, relaxed ease, and playfulness, Cheryl teaches us ways to merge with sexual pleasure as a path to wonder, intimacy, openness, and awakening. In her words, ‘Mindful loving is about compassion and awareness, whether you are making love with your partner or making love with the world.’

Integrating practice, meditation, study, and life experience, Cope brings a fresh eye to the idea of connectivity and the human spirit. He’s unsparingly honest and irresistibly readable.

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Saying Yes to a Relationship of Depth, True Connection, and Enduring Love by Stan Tatkin

niques for preventing problems before they occur u Understand how to work with the psychological and biological influences in your relationship—neuroscience, arousal regulation, attachment theory, family history, and social-emotional intelligence u Numerous case studies with helpful examples of healthy and unhealthy interactions, sample dialogues, and reflections u Dozens of exercises—the newlywed game, reading facial expressions, and many more fun and serious practices to develop intimacy and security u Handling conflict—how to broker win-win outcomes u Build a loving relationship that helps you thrive and grow as both individuals and a couple.

CONCEIVING WITH LOVE

A Whole-Body Approach to Creating Intimacy, Reigniting Passion, and Increasing Fertility by Denise Wiesner $24.95, paper. Shambhala. 304 pages

Supportive, practical advice for couples who are trying to conceive to help them regain--or retain--the intimacy in their sexual and emotional relationship at a time when that solid connection is most necessary. The stress of trying to conceive can wreak havoc with a couple’s intimate relationship; the stress, shame, and blame they often feel can have a harmful effect and reduce their chances of conceiving. In Conceiving with Love, Traditional Chinese Medicine specialist Denise Wiesner gives couples the tools they need to repair their sexual relationship, rebuild their self-confidence, and reclaim the intimacy that sparked their desire to have a child in the first place. Wiesner’s integrative East-meets-West approach, developed over twenty years of practice, has helped thousands of couples reconnect—and conceive. Wiesner includes advice from leading experts in Western reproductive medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine; sensual practices from yoga, qigong, and Tantra; and answers questions couples have about sex, intimacy, and fertility-—naturally occurring or medically assisted. “Conceiving with Love is a much-needed antidote to the desperation so many women feel when facing a diagnosis of infertility. This is the book I’d recommend to everyone who wants to increase her fertility.” —Christiane Northrup author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom

Women’s Spirituality & Healing

$20.95, paper. Sounds True. 214 pages

Here’s an indispensable guide for any couple ready to set the foundation for a loving and lasting union. Committing fully to a loving partnership—a “we”—can be one of the most beautiful and fulfilling experiences you’ll ever have. Yet as anyone in a long-term relationship will tell you, it can also be one of the most challenging. All successful long-term relationships are secure relationships. You and your partner take care of each other in a way that ensures you both feel safe, protected, accepted, and secure at all times.

In We Do, therapist Stan Tatkin provides a groundbreaking guide for couples. You’ll figure out whether you and your partner are right for each other in the long term, and if so, give your relationship a strong foundation so you can enjoy a secure and lasting love. Highlights: u Create a shared vision for your relationship, the key to a strong foundation u It’s all about prevention—learn tools and tech-

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THE APOLOGY by Eve Ensler

$32.00, cloth. Bloomsbury. 208 pages

From Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues comes a life-changing examination of abuse and atonement. Like millions of women, Eve Ensler has been waiting much of her lifetime for an apology. Sexually and physically abused by her father, Eve has struggled her whole life from this betrayal, longing for an honest reckoning from a man who is long dead. After years of work as an anti-violence activist, she decided she would wait no longer; an apology could be imagined, by her, for her, to her. The Apology, written by Eve from her father’s point of view in the words she longed to hear, attempts to transform the abuse she suffered with unflinching truthfulness, compassion, and an expansive vision for the future. Through The Apology Eve has set out to provide a new

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way for herself and a possible road for others, so that survivors of abuse may finally envision how to be free. She grapples with questions she has sought answers to since she first realized the impact of her father’s abuse on her life: How do we offer a doorway rather than a locked cell? How do we move from humiliation to revelation, from curtailing behavior to changing it, from condemning perpetrators to calling them to reckoning? What will it take for abusers to genuinely apologize? Remarkable and original, The Apology is an acutely transformational look at how, from the wounds of sexual abuse, we can begin to re-emerge and heal. “The Apology is a brave step toward radical healing for all those who accept the invitation to confront the trauma of sexual abuse and find the apology they might never hear. Ensler’s book can also be seen as an invitation to men and a roadmap for the apologies that need to be made.” — Tony Porter, A Call to Men

HEALING JOURNEYS WITH THE BLACK MADONNA

Chants, Music, and Sacred Practices of the Great Goddess by Alessandra Belloni

$29.99, paper. Bear & Company. 416 pages, colour & b/w photos

The mysteries of the Black Madonna can be traced back to the ancient devotion to Isis, the Earth Goddess, and the African Mother, to the era when God was not only female but also black. As Alessandra Belloni reveals, the shamanic healing traditions of the Black Madonna are still alive and powerful today. Sharing her more than 35 years of research and fieldwork, Belloni takes you on a pilgrimage of empowerment and initiation with the Black Madonna. She explains how her love for Italian folk music led her to learn the ancient tammorriata musical tradition of the Earth Goddess Cybele and the Moon Goddess Diana and discover the still-living cult of the Black Madonna in remote villages of Southern Italy. She vividly describes the sensual shamanic drumming and ecstatic trance dance rituals she experienced there, including the erotic spider dance of the tarantella, which has been used for centuries in the Mediterranean for healing. Sharing chants, rhythms, and sacred songs, she details how she uses these therapeutic musical and trance practices to heal women and men from abuse, trauma, depression, and addiction and shows how these practices can be used for self-healing and transformation, including her personal story of using the tarantella to overcome cervical cancer. Belloni shows how the Black Madonna is the womb of the earth, the dark side of the moon, and the Universal Mother to all. Truly alive for all to call upon, She embraces and gives everyone access to Her divine strength and unconditional love. Includes access to 12 audio tracks.

WILD MERCY

u Taking refuge in contemplative practice with St.

Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics by Mirabai Starr

Teresa of Avila and the Shekinah u Longing, embodiment, and union as the heart of

$20.95, paper. Sounds True. 235 pages

Our world has suffered the abuses of an unbalanced masculine rule for thousands of years—but the feminine is rising. Seeds of feminine wisdom that have been quietly germinating underground are now breaking through the surface. Women everywhere are rising to the collective call to step up and repair our broken Earth. And we are activating a paradigm shift such as the world has never seen.

With Wild Mercy, Mirabai shares the subversive wisdom and fierce compassion of the feminine mystic across cultural boundaries and throughout history. From saints and sages, to goddesses and archetypal energies, to contemporary teachers and seekers—you’ll meet women who blazed a path that will illuminate your own. Each chapter explores a different facet of feminine mysticism through a tapestry of teachings, reflections, and stories, along with a practice for integrating the chapter’s themes into your own life. As you journey through these pages, you’ll explore:

feminine spiritual practice with the Hindu poet Mirabai and Mary Magdalene u Your relationship with the Earth, motherhood in all its forms, and a loving call to action alongside Gaia and Ix Chel u Community and the web of life with Indra, the Beguines, and female prophets throughout history u Wild, playful, and compassionate mercy with Tara and Kuan Yin u Finding joy in creativity and the arts with Saraswati and Chiyo-ni u More inspiration from archetypal goddesses and amazing women past and present—Julian of Norwich, the Sufi saint Rabia, Pachamama, Sophia, Old Spider Woman, Hildegard of Bingen, Demeter, Kali, and more. It is my hope that you, like I, will find yourself shining from the luminous mirror of these wisdom beings… That you will forge living relationships with them as our ancestors and guides, draw on their power, embody their essential qualities.

Both men and women can drink here, for Wild Mercy will open the more enduring qualities we need to begin to repair the world. Juicy. Poetic. Real. Let this book open you to the mystery of what it means to be fully alive and know love.

Prayer to the Shekinah from Wild Mercy O Shekinah, yours is the feminine face of the Holy, the luminous moon who lights up the night as we travel from captivity to liberation, the pillar of fire who guides our way home, the cloud hovering over the mountain peaks, living sign that the drought is over. You are the indwelling presence of the Divine. Whenever we gather to praise the One you are here in our midst. When we cry out for justice you make our hearts tender. When we stand with those on the margins you make our legs strong. When we create works of art and parent our children and harvest our gardens you guide and sustain us. You are the Sabbath Bride, the Beloved, returned from exile. You restore balance in our relationships and wholeness to our fragmented souls. You infuse our lovemaking with honey. You fill the cup of our hearts, which tremble with longing, with the wine of your answering love. You are the song of our homecoming. You are the Sabbath Queen, the Great Mother, who sits at the heart of the table tearing off hunks of the secret bread that contains the exact flavor each of us loves best.

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You feed us all, the proud and the repentant, the believer and the skeptic, from your own hands. Your unconditional forgiveness dissolves otherness. O Shekinah, we are the vessel for your inflowing. Your radiance requires the clay of our embodiment. Your flame burns at the core of the earth. Your warmth penetrates the seedbed and animates the seedlings. You bless the head of every animal and kiss the tear-streaked face of humanity. You are the vision that builds community, and you are our refuge when the fabric of community unravels. Be with us now as we navigate the landscape of mystery where your most cherished attributes — wild mercy and boundless compassion, righteousness and wisdom — seem to be cast aside and trampled by imperious world powers and we are paralyzed by helplessness. Help us. May we remember you and lift you up. May we recognize your face and celebrate your beauty in everything and everyone, everywhere, always. AMEN.

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Connection & Attachment THE POWER OF ATTACHMENT

How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships by Diane Poole Heller $20.95, paper. Sounds True. 204 pages

DEEP HUMAN CONNECTION Why We Need It More than Anything Else by Stephen Cope

New in Paperback

$22.99, paper. Hay House. 346 pages

Integrating practice, meditation, study, and life experience, Cope brings a fresh eye to the idea of connectivity and the human spirit. He’s unsparingly honest and irresistibly readable.

WE DO

Saying Yes to a Relationship of Depth, True Connection, and Enduring Love by Stan Tatkin

CONCEIVING WITH LOVE

A Whole-Body Approach to Creating Intimacy, Reigniting Passion, and Increasing Fertility by Denise Wiesner $24.95, paper. Shambhala. 304 pages

Women’s Spirituality & Healing

$20.95, paper. Sounds True. 214 pages

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THE APOLOGY by Eve Ensler

$32.00, cloth. Bloomsbury. 208 pages

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HEALING JOURNEYS WITH THE BLACK MADONNA

Chants, Music, and Sacred Practices of the Great Goddess by Alessandra Belloni

$29.99, paper. Bear & Company. 416 pages, colour & b/w photos

WILD MERCY

u Taking refuge in contemplative practice with St.

Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics by Mirabai Starr

Teresa of Avila and the Shekinah u Longing, embodiment, and union as the heart of

$20.95, paper. Sounds True. 235 pages

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LAST BUT NOT LEAST

Spring Sparkles — MORE NEW BOOKS — The Wild, the Weird & the Wonderful SPROUT LANDS

Tending the Endless Gift of Trees by William Bryant Logan $36.95, cloth. Norton. 330 pages.

Once, farmers knew how to make a living hedge and fed their flocks on tree-branch hay. Rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster abundance: both of edible nuts, and of straight, strong, flexible rods for bridges, walls, and baskets. Townspeople cut their beeches to make charcoal to fuel ironworks. Shipwrights shaped oaks to make hulls. No place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they would sprout again. Pruning the trees didn’t destroy them. Rather, it created the healthiest, most sustainable and most diverse woodlands that we have ever known. In this journey from the English fens to Spain, Japan, and California, William Bryant Logan rediscovers what was once an everyday ecology. He offers us both practical knowledge about how to live with trees to mutual benefit and hope that humans may again learn what the persistence and generosity of trees can teach. “William Bryant Logan’s vision of a world in which humans and trees work together to mutual benefit—a world that has existed in the past and can exist again in the future—is cause for deep joy, for celebration and hope.” — Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees “Infused with intimately detailed attention to science and culture, this deeply nourishing book invites us to reclaim reciprocity with the living world. Logan reminds us of our capacity for ‘a life where head, heart, and hand’— and tree—work together.” —Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass

THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS OF LOVE

Buddhist Wisdom for Modern Relationships by Susan Piver $19.95, paper. Lionheart. 174 pages.

Piver applies classic Buddhist wisdom to modern romance, including her own long-term relationship. The Four Nobel Truths of Love will challenge the expectations you have about dating, sex, and romance, liberating you from the habits, traumas, and expectations that have been holding back your relationships. This mindful approach toward love will help you open your heart fearlessly, deepen communication with your partner, increase your compassion and resilience, and lead you toward a path of true happiness. “Clear and heart-warming, this book is a guide to living relationships completely, with all their pleasures and otherwise. A wonderful read.” —Sharon Salzberg, author of Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

CHOOSING TO DIE: A PERSONAL STORY

Elective Death by Volunarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED) in the Face of Degenerative Disease by Phillis Shacter $19.95, paper. 162 pages

Phyllis Shacter courageously shares the first personal story ever written about Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED). This memoir and guidebook follows the journey she took with her husband, Alan. Alan decided to VSED – so he didn’t have to live into the late stages of Alzheimer’s disease. This is their love story, their

partnership, the brave territory they traversed, including how they prepared themselves with proper medical and legal guidance when electing to VSED. Choosing to Die is filled with emotional depth and sensitivity as well as practical information outlining the process from beginning to end. Phyllis shares every detail, including what Alan experienced during the nine-and-a-half days it took for him to die, and how the experience transformed Phyllis. This book provides a deeper understanding of end of life choices, and for those diagnosed with a degenerative disease.

31-DAY FOOD REVOLUTION Heal Your Body, Feel Great, and Transform Your World by Ocean Robbins

$36.50, cloth. Grand Central. 362 pages.

“I’ve been watching the work that Ocean Robbins and his father, John, have been doing with Food Revolution Network for many years now, and I’m proud of what they’ve accomplished. The more people who hear this message and move toward diets marked by compassion and respect for life and the earth, the better off our world will be. The book that you hold in your hands is lighting the way for the future of your health and that of the planet.” —Paul McCartney “In this accessible and timely book, Ocean Robbins provides the knowledge and guidance to help each of us become a creator of a new food future. One that protects our health and that of our families, revitalizes our farm communities, stops the suffering of countless animals, and affirms that healthy food will lead to a healthy planet. Get this critical roadmap for yourself, and share it with everyone you know. It opens a path to freedom from the toxic industrial food model-and a grounded hope that will empower you for life.” —Andrew Kimbrell, Executive Director, Center for Food Safety

THE SKILLFUL FORAGER

The Essential Techniques for Responsible Foraging and Making the Most of Your Wild Edibles by Leda Meredith

$33.95, paper. Shambhala. 284 pages, colour photos

The Skillful Forager is the ultimate forager’s guide to working with any wild plant in the field, kitchen, or pantry. From harvesting skills that will allow you to gather from the same plant again and again to highlighting how to get the most out of each and every type of wild edible, Leda Meredith explores the most effective ways to harvest, preserve, and prepare all of your foraged foods. Featuring detailed identification information for over forty wild edibles commonly found across North America, the plant profiles in this book focus on sustainable harvesting techniques that can be applied to hundreds of other plants. This indispensable reference also provides simple recipes that can help you make the most of your harvest each season. Identification is the first task of the forager, but what comes next? It turns out, almost everything. How does

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one select the best berries, the tenderest greens, the freshest mushrooms, and gather them in an ecologically responsible manner? What is the most practical way to clean, crack, or pit them? How can they be stored? The Skillful Forager answers just these questions, laying out the basic skills that she has perfected through decades of gathering wild plants and using them in the kitchen.

INDEX OF AUTHORS & THEIR TITLES

Adyashanti

Dass, Ram

Horowitz, Mitch

Noel, Danielle

Starr, Mirabai

The Most Important Thing. . . . . . 20

Changing Lenses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

The Miracle Club. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

The Moonchild Tarot . . . . . . . . . . 25

Wild Mercy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Allione, Tsultrim

Davis, Martha

Hunt, Dorothy

Ostaseski, Frank

Wisdom Rising. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook . . . . . . . . 19

Ending the Search. . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

The Five Invitations. . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Papaspyrou, Maria

Mid-Course Correction Revisited. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Davis, Brenda

Jenkins, Joseph The Humanure Handbook, 4th Ed .29

Psychedelic Mysteries of the Feminine. . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Stillman, Cate

Antiglio, Dominique

Dispenza, Joe

Patel, Rachna

The Life Changing Power of Sophrology. . . . . . . . . 19

Becoming Supernatural . . . . . . . . 30

Swingle, Mari

Baker, Ian

Love On Every Breath. . . . . . . . . . 12

Anderson, Ray

Tibetan Yoga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Barnhart, Bruno

BRIEF ANSWERS TO THE BIG QUESTIONS

The Future of Wisdom . . . . . . . . . 23

$34.00, cloth. Bantam. 230 pages

The Goddess Power Oracle. . . . . . 25

by Stephen Hawking

The most renowned scientist since Einstein, known both for his groundbreaking work in cosmology and for his mischievous sense of humor, leaves us with his final thoughts on the biggest questions facing humankind. Will humanity survive? Should we colonize space? Does God exist? These are just a few of the questions Hawking addresses. His last words: “Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up. Unleash your imagination. Shape the future.”

A MONK’S GUIDE TO A CLEAN HOUSE AND MIND by Shoukei Matsumoto

$10.95, paper. Penguin. 128 pages.

Cleanliness is next to enlightenment. In this Japanese bestseller a Buddhist monk explains the traditional meditative techniques that will help cleanse not only your house - but your soul. Live clean. Feel calm. Be happy. We remove dust to sweep away our worldly cares. We live simply and take time to contemplate the self, mindfully living each moment. The book draws on ancient traditions to show how a few simple changes to your daily habits - from your early morning routine (wash your face first thing) to preparing food, from respecting the objects around you to working together as a team - will turn your home into a peaceful, ordered refuge from today’s busy world. “Surprisingly calming… a most unusual self-help book.” —Daily Mail

THE OVERSTORY: A NOVEL

by Richard Powers $24.95, paper. Norton. 502 pages

“This book is beyond special… It’s a kind of breakthrough in the ways we think about and understand the world around us, at a moment when that is desperately needed.” —Bill McKibben “Gorgeously written, and brimming with amazing information… Something genuinely new, in the way it decenters the human as the source of all meaning and value. Here, it is the trees.” —Michael Pollan “The best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period.” —Ann Patchett

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The Kick Diabetes Cookbook. . . . 17

The Art of C G Jung . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Drolma, Lama Palden Dumpert, Jennifer Liminal Dreaming. . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Duncan, Alaine The Tao of Trauma. . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Dunne, John

Aging for Beginners . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Ecology, Ethics and Interdependence. . . . . . . . 12

Belloni, Alessandra

Ensler, Eve

Healing Journeys with the Black Madonna. . . . . . 33

The Apology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Bernstein, Gabrielle

Advice Not Given. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Universe Has Your Back . . . . . . . . 18

Berry, Wendell • The Art of Loading Brush . . . . . 28 • The World-Ending Fire. . . . . . . . 28

Blackstone, Judith Trauma and the Unbound Body. . 21

Blann, Gregory When Oceans Merge. . . . . . . . . . . 23

Bowen, Sarah Spiritual Rebel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Braden, Gregg The Science of Self-Empowerment . . . . . . . . . . 26

Bringhurst, Robert Learning to Die. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Brown, Edward The Most Important Point . . . . . . 11

Brown, David Jay Women of Visionary Art . . . . . . . . . 8

Budd, Diane Energy Medicine For Animals . . . 29

Chodron, Pema

Jung, C.G.

Epstein, Mark Evans, Jules The Art of Losing Control . . . . . . 25

Feldenkrais, Moshe The Elusive Obvious . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Finlay, B. Brett The Whole Body Microbiome. . . 13

Firestone, Rabbi Tirzah

Kapur, Kamla K. Rumi: Tales Of The Spirit. . . . . . . 24 Green Buddhism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Kliegel, Ewald Let Your Body Speak. . . . . . . . . . . 13

Koch, Liz Stalking Wild Psoas. . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Koziol Jill This Is Motherhood. . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Krishnamurti, Jiddu Meditations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Kumar, Satish Elegant Simplicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Lau, Theodora The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Leguin, Ursula Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching. . . . . . . . . 13

Lesser, Marc Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader. . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Fischer, Norman

Levine, Stephen

Foley, Michael Farming for the Long Haul. . . . . 29

Fraser, Cheryl Buddha’s Bedroom. . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Furrer, Nikki A Woman’s Guide to Cannabis. . . 15

Goleman, Daniel Altered Traits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Gray, Kyle Angels and Ancestors Oracle Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Pearson, Nicholas Stones of the Goddess. . . . . . . . . . 14

Kaza, Stephanie

Wounds Into Wisdom . . . . . . . . . . 23 The World Could Be Otherwise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

The CBD Oil Solution. . . . . . . . . . 15

Unattended Sorrow. . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Liebenson, Narayan Helen The Magnanimous Heart. . . . . . . 10

Lipsey, Roger Gurdjieff Reconsidered. . . . . . . . . 20

Lovins L. Hunter A Finer Future. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Loy, David

Pistono, Matteo

Ashtanga Yoga Practice Cards. . . . . 9

Coelho, Paulo

Structural Integration and Energy Medicine . . . . . . . . 15

Mankey, Jason

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

Cole, Will

Greenwood, Gesshin Claire

McKennitt, Loreena

Transformative Witchcraft. . . . . . . 23

Ketotarian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Just Enough. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Lost Souls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Coleman, Mark

Greer, John Michael

McKibben, Bill

From Suffering to Peace. . . . . . . . 10

Circles of Power. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Falter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Considerate, Cat

Harris, Lee

Meredith, Jane

The Considerate Cat Tarot & Guidebook. . . . . . . . . . 24

Energy Speaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Elements of Magic. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Harris, Jules Shuzen

Merton, Thomas

Cope, Stephen

Zen Beyond Mindfulness . . . . . . . 10

Silence, Joy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Deep Human Connection. . . . . . . 32

Heath, Richard

Metzner, Ralph

Cox, Jeff Gardening with Biochar. . . . . . . . 29

Harmonic Origins of the World. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Searching for the Philosophers’ Stone . . . . . . . . . 22

Crombie,R. Ogilvie

Heller, Diane Poole

Mingyur Rinpoche, Yongey

Encounters with Nature Spirits. . . 29

The Power of Attachment. . . . . . . 32

In Love with the World. . . . . . . . . 12

Cushman, Anne

Helliwell, Tanis

Moore, Thomas

The Mama Sutra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

The High Beings of Hawaii. . . . . . 26

Ageless Soul. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Dalai Lama

Hendel, Hilary Jacobs

Mossbridge, Julia

• The Perfecting Patience. . . . . . . 13

It’s Not Always Depression . . . . . . 18

• The Stages of Meditation. . . . . . 13

Tatkin, Stan We Do. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Healing Earth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Villoldo, Alberto

Pollan, Michael

Grow a New Body. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

How to Change Your Mind. . . . . . 22

Wallace-Wells, David

Popham, Sajah

The Uninhabitable Earth. . . . . . . 27

Evolutionary Herbalism . . . . . . . . 14

Walsch, Neale Donald

Quibell, Deborah

The Essential Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Deep Creativity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Rankin, Lissa The Daily Flame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Redvers, Nicole

Watterson, Meggan The Divine Feminine Oracle . . . . 25

Watts, Alan

The Science of the Sacred. . . . . . 14

Become What You Are. . . . . . . . . . 20

Redzepi, Rene

Whitman, Walt

The Noma Guide to Fermentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Song of Myself. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Reed, Sue

Wiesner, Denise

Climate-Wise Landscaping . . . . . . 29

Conceiving With Love. . . . . . . . . . 32

Robinson, Ken

William, Anthony

You, Your Child and School . . . . . 31

Medical Medium Liver Rescue. . . 15

Roman, Sanaya

William, Anthony

Personal Power Through Awareness. . . . . . . . . 26

Roth, Geneen This Messy Magnificent Life. . . . . 17

Rountree, Sage

Rumi, Jalaluddin

Green, Jean Louise

i-Minds — 2nd Edition . . . . . . . . . 30

Todd, John

Lucero, Claudia

Embracing the Unknown. . . . . . . 12

Body Thrive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Pollack, Rachel

Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses. . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

MacGregor, Kino

One Simple Thing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Roar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Ecodharma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 One-Hour Dairy Free Cheese. . . . 16

Stern, Eddie

The Pocket Rumi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Rysdyk, Evelyn

• Medical Medium Celery Juice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 • Medical Medium Thyroid Healing . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Williamson, Marianne A Politics of Love. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Winston, Diana The Little Book of Being. . . . . . . . 19

The Nepalese Shamanic Path. . . . 22

Wohlleben, Peter

Sayadaw, Mahasi

The Secret Wisdom of Nature . . . 30

Mindfulness and Insight. . . . . . . . 10

Wong, Christine

Schulman, Grace

Plantiful Plate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Mourning Songs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Shojai, Pedram Inner Alchemy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Shutan, Mary Mueller

Yeshe, Lama When the Chocolate Runs Out. . . 11

Powers, Richard

Working with Kundalini . . . . . . . . 14

The Overstory: A Novel. . . . . . . . . 34

Simons, Nina

Logan, William

Nature, Culture and the Sacred. . 28

Sprout Lands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Singer, Michael A. The Untethered Soul at Work . . . 27

Singh, Kathleen Dowling

Piver, Susan The Four Noble Truths of Love. . 34

Unbinding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Shacter, Phyllis

Smith, Rick

Choosing to Die. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Slow Death by Rubber Duck. . . . . 27

Robbins, Ocean

Snel, Eline

The 31-Day Food Revolution . . . . 34

The Calling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Sitting Still Like a Frog Activity Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Meredith, Leda

Herring, Lucinda

Nachmanovitch, Stephen

Sofer, Oren

Das, Krishna

Reimagining Death. . . . . . . . . . . . 21

The Art of Is. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Say What You Mean. . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Matsumoto

• Peace of My Heart. . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Hoggan, James

Noel, Danielle

Staffen, Joan

A Monk’s Guide to a

• Flow of Grace (Revised Edition). 8

I’m Right and You’re an Idiot. . . . 27

The Starchild Tarot. . . . . . . . . . . . 25

The Book of Pendulum Healing. 14

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The Skillful Forager. . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Clean House and Mind. . . . . . . 34

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INDEX OF AUTHORS & THEIR TITLES

Adyashanti

Dass, Ram

Horowitz, Mitch

Noel, Danielle

Starr, Mirabai

The Most Important Thing. . . . . . 20

Changing Lenses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

The Miracle Club. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

The Moonchild Tarot . . . . . . . . . . 25

Wild Mercy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Allione, Tsultrim

Davis, Martha

Hunt, Dorothy

Ostaseski, Frank

Wisdom Rising. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook . . . . . . . . 19

Ending the Search. . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

The Five Invitations. . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Papaspyrou, Maria

Mid-Course Correction Revisited. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Davis, Brenda

Jenkins, Joseph The Humanure Handbook, 4th Ed .29

Psychedelic Mysteries of the Feminine. . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Stillman, Cate

Antiglio, Dominique

Dispenza, Joe

Patel, Rachna

The Life Changing Power of Sophrology. . . . . . . . . 19

Becoming Supernatural . . . . . . . . 30

Swingle, Mari

Baker, Ian

Love On Every Breath. . . . . . . . . . 12

Anderson, Ray

Tibetan Yoga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Barnhart, Bruno

BRIEF ANSWERS TO THE BIG QUESTIONS

The Future of Wisdom . . . . . . . . . 23

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The Goddess Power Oracle. . . . . . 25

by Stephen Hawking

A MONK’S GUIDE TO A CLEAN HOUSE AND MIND by Shoukei Matsumoto

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THE OVERSTORY: A NOVEL

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F SPRING - SUMMER 2019

Baron-Reid, Colette Bayda, Ezra

The Kick Diabetes Cookbook. . . . 17

The Art of C G Jung . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Drolma, Lama Palden Dumpert, Jennifer Liminal Dreaming. . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Duncan, Alaine The Tao of Trauma. . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Dunne, John

Aging for Beginners . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Ecology, Ethics and Interdependence. . . . . . . . 12

Belloni, Alessandra

Ensler, Eve

Healing Journeys with the Black Madonna. . . . . . 33

The Apology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Bernstein, Gabrielle

Advice Not Given. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Universe Has Your Back . . . . . . . . 18

Berry, Wendell • The Art of Loading Brush . . . . . 28 • The World-Ending Fire. . . . . . . . 28

Blackstone, Judith Trauma and the Unbound Body. . 21

Blann, Gregory When Oceans Merge. . . . . . . . . . . 23

Bowen, Sarah Spiritual Rebel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Braden, Gregg The Science of Self-Empowerment . . . . . . . . . . 26

Bringhurst, Robert Learning to Die. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Brown, Edward The Most Important Point . . . . . . 11

Brown, David Jay Women of Visionary Art . . . . . . . . . 8

Budd, Diane Energy Medicine For Animals . . . 29

Chodron, Pema

Jung, C.G.

Epstein, Mark Evans, Jules The Art of Losing Control . . . . . . 25

Feldenkrais, Moshe The Elusive Obvious . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Finlay, B. Brett The Whole Body Microbiome. . . 13

Firestone, Rabbi Tirzah

Kapur, Kamla K. Rumi: Tales Of The Spirit. . . . . . . 24 Green Buddhism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Kliegel, Ewald Let Your Body Speak. . . . . . . . . . . 13

Koch, Liz Stalking Wild Psoas. . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Koziol Jill This Is Motherhood. . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Krishnamurti, Jiddu Meditations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Kumar, Satish Elegant Simplicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Lau, Theodora The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Leguin, Ursula Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching. . . . . . . . . 13

Lesser, Marc Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader. . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Fischer, Norman

Levine, Stephen

Foley, Michael Farming for the Long Haul. . . . . 29

Fraser, Cheryl Buddha’s Bedroom. . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Furrer, Nikki A Woman’s Guide to Cannabis. . . 15

Goleman, Daniel Altered Traits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Gray, Kyle Angels and Ancestors Oracle Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Pearson, Nicholas Stones of the Goddess. . . . . . . . . . 14

Kaza, Stephanie

Wounds Into Wisdom . . . . . . . . . . 23 The World Could Be Otherwise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

The CBD Oil Solution. . . . . . . . . . 15

Unattended Sorrow. . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Liebenson, Narayan Helen The Magnanimous Heart. . . . . . . 10

Lipsey, Roger Gurdjieff Reconsidered. . . . . . . . . 20

Lovins L. Hunter A Finer Future. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Loy, David

Pistono, Matteo

Ashtanga Yoga Practice Cards. . . . . 9

Coelho, Paulo

Structural Integration and Energy Medicine . . . . . . . . 15

Mankey, Jason

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

Cole, Will

Greenwood, Gesshin Claire

McKennitt, Loreena

Transformative Witchcraft. . . . . . . 23

Ketotarian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Just Enough. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Lost Souls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Coleman, Mark

Greer, John Michael

McKibben, Bill

From Suffering to Peace. . . . . . . . 10

Circles of Power. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Falter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Considerate, Cat

Harris, Lee

Meredith, Jane

The Considerate Cat Tarot & Guidebook. . . . . . . . . . 24

Energy Speaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Elements of Magic. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Harris, Jules Shuzen

Merton, Thomas

Cope, Stephen

Zen Beyond Mindfulness . . . . . . . 10

Silence, Joy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Deep Human Connection. . . . . . . 32

Heath, Richard

Metzner, Ralph

Cox, Jeff Gardening with Biochar. . . . . . . . 29

Harmonic Origins of the World. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Searching for the Philosophers’ Stone . . . . . . . . . 22

Crombie,R. Ogilvie

Heller, Diane Poole

Mingyur Rinpoche, Yongey

Encounters with Nature Spirits. . . 29

The Power of Attachment. . . . . . . 32

In Love with the World. . . . . . . . . 12

Cushman, Anne

Helliwell, Tanis

Moore, Thomas

The Mama Sutra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

The High Beings of Hawaii. . . . . . 26

Ageless Soul. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Dalai Lama

Hendel, Hilary Jacobs

Mossbridge, Julia

• The Perfecting Patience. . . . . . . 13

It’s Not Always Depression . . . . . . 18

• The Stages of Meditation. . . . . . 13

Tatkin, Stan We Do. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Healing Earth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Villoldo, Alberto

Pollan, Michael

Grow a New Body. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

How to Change Your Mind. . . . . . 22

Wallace-Wells, David

Popham, Sajah

The Uninhabitable Earth. . . . . . . 27

Evolutionary Herbalism . . . . . . . . 14

Walsch, Neale Donald

Quibell, Deborah

The Essential Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Deep Creativity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Rankin, Lissa The Daily Flame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Redvers, Nicole

Watterson, Meggan The Divine Feminine Oracle . . . . 25

Watts, Alan

The Science of the Sacred. . . . . . 14

Become What You Are. . . . . . . . . . 20

Redzepi, Rene

Whitman, Walt

The Noma Guide to Fermentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Song of Myself. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Reed, Sue

Wiesner, Denise

Climate-Wise Landscaping . . . . . . 29

Conceiving With Love. . . . . . . . . . 32

Robinson, Ken

William, Anthony

You, Your Child and School . . . . . 31

Medical Medium Liver Rescue. . . 15

Roman, Sanaya

William, Anthony

Personal Power Through Awareness. . . . . . . . . 26

Roth, Geneen This Messy Magnificent Life. . . . . 17

Rountree, Sage

Rumi, Jalaluddin

Green, Jean Louise

i-Minds — 2nd Edition . . . . . . . . . 30

Todd, John

Lucero, Claudia

Embracing the Unknown. . . . . . . 12

Body Thrive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Pollack, Rachel

Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses. . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

MacGregor, Kino

One Simple Thing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Roar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Ecodharma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 One-Hour Dairy Free Cheese. . . . 16

Stern, Eddie

The Pocket Rumi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Rysdyk, Evelyn

• Medical Medium Celery Juice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 • Medical Medium Thyroid Healing . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Williamson, Marianne A Politics of Love. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Winston, Diana The Little Book of Being. . . . . . . . 19

The Nepalese Shamanic Path. . . . 22

Wohlleben, Peter

Sayadaw, Mahasi

The Secret Wisdom of Nature . . . 30

Mindfulness and Insight. . . . . . . . 10

Wong, Christine

Schulman, Grace

Plantiful Plate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Mourning Songs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Shojai, Pedram Inner Alchemy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Shutan, Mary Mueller

Yeshe, Lama When the Chocolate Runs Out. . . 11

Powers, Richard

Working with Kundalini . . . . . . . . 14

The Overstory: A Novel. . . . . . . . . 34

Simons, Nina

Logan, William

Nature, Culture and the Sacred. . 28

Sprout Lands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Singer, Michael A. The Untethered Soul at Work . . . 27

Singh, Kathleen Dowling

Piver, Susan The Four Noble Truths of Love. . 34

Unbinding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Shacter, Phyllis

Smith, Rick

Choosing to Die. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Slow Death by Rubber Duck. . . . . 27

Robbins, Ocean

Snel, Eline

The 31-Day Food Revolution . . . . 34

The Calling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Sitting Still Like a Frog Activity Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Meredith, Leda

Herring, Lucinda

Nachmanovitch, Stephen

Sofer, Oren

Das, Krishna

Reimagining Death. . . . . . . . . . . . 21

The Art of Is. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Say What You Mean. . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Matsumoto

• Peace of My Heart. . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Hoggan, James

Noel, Danielle

Staffen, Joan

A Monk’s Guide to a

• Flow of Grace (Revised Edition). 8

I’m Right and You’re an Idiot. . . . 27

The Starchild Tarot. . . . . . . . . . . . 25

The Book of Pendulum Healing. 14

BRANCHES OF LIGHT F

F SPRING - SUMMER 2019

The Skillful Forager. . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Clean House and Mind. . . . . . . 34

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