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MARK MATOUSEK & JOAN BORYSENKO, bestselling authors, discuss Matousek’s book, Sex Death Enlightenment: A True Story.
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Sex Death Enlightenment Mark Matousek
“Sex Death Enlightenment is the most gripping and elegantly written memoir I’ve read in ages. It tugged me onward like the best suspense novel, though I couldn’t help lingering time and again to savor its wisdom.” —Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City
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A Kabbalah of Food Rabbi Hanoch Hecht
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“The sunshine of this book is the only known remedy for the moment we’re living in. It makes me happy. Sparrow is a genius.” —Eileen Myles, Evolution
The Priest Who Left His Religion John Shields
The memoir of a former Catholic priest whose career as a union leader, search for spiritual meaning, and assisted suicide became the subject of a profile in the New York Times
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The mandala is an archetypal symbol of wholeness that is replicated on a cosmic scale—not only in manifestations of art, architecture, and religion but also throughout the natural universe. The mandala represents concepts and primal patterns upon which all physical things are created. It is no surprise that we are attracted to mandalas because they illustrate the core of who and what we are. The Mandala Book is a visual symphony of over 500 stunning images from nature and civilization, all related to the mandalic patterns and shapes that are explored in the text. Drawing from mathematics, history, science, and art, Lori Bailey Cunningham takes you on a journey that comprises the infinitely small to the immeasurably grand, from prehistoric petroglyphs to present-day works of art. Magnificently illustrated with mandala images of the awesome, artful flowering of creation (from the tiniest to
This book is about me and you and everything in between…It’s also about shapes and how they describe a very important part of what we are: connected elements evolving from, and revolving around a unifying center— the mandala. Recognition of patterns and shapes can profoundly affect how we see ourselves in relation to each other and the world in which we live, to embrace ideas that unite us, not divide us. In observing connections, we can establish associations that lead to kinship and the possibility of peace. Interspersed with the satisfyingly broad and deep text— and fantastic images—are apt quotes from a wide variety of sources. At the end of the book thirteen beautiful mandalas are included to photocopy and color-in for fun or meditation. From the most fundamental to the most grand, all things are composed of mandalas. Each shares a quality of emptiness and contributes to the creation of one vast, infinite mandala of which our finite minds cannot conceive… Everything is connected; everything changes. Pay attention.
Artful Practice THE POWER OF DAILY PRACTICE How Creative and Performing Artists (and Everyone Else) Can Finally Meet Their Goals by Eric Maisel
$26.00, paper. New World Library. 305 pages, b/w illustrations
Eric Maisel dedicates this book “for everyone who grows a daily practice in the service of the greater good.” Anyone who has ever picked up a creativity or self-help guide has likely been advised to keep to a daily schedule, daily pages, or other everyday ritual. But “just do it” usually just doesn’t work. Longtime creativity coach and therapist Eric Maisel has found an approach that does work: giving clients, and now readers, a clear understanding of what makes them personally blocked or stuck and unable to start or finish. Not enough time, resources, or talent? Fear of success, guilt about being “selfish,” and variations on the theme of “what’s the point?” Maisel has spent thirty years helping people overcome these kinds of blocks with skills including anxiety management, positive self-talk, cognitive behavioral therapy, and even “sleepthinking.” The Power of Daily Practice distills his best coaching into three parts: THE BRIGHT WAY Five Steps to Freeing the Creative Within by Diana Rowan
$23.00, paper. New World Library. 254 pages, b/w illustrations
While creativity may seem like a leisure-time luxury, it is actually the engine of cultural advancement. All human innovations, from cave painting to the internet, have been fueled by someone’s ideas and follow-through. Whether we’re writing a novel or an op-ed for the local paper, crafting on Etsy or designing a building, our own lives are advanced and enhanced when we tap into our unique personal core of creativity. Our creative acts require not just ideas but ingenuity and perseverance, confidence and courage, the ability to dream and to do. The Bright Way helps readers cultivate all of the above. A simple yet profound program of inspiration plus action, designed for a lifetime of use, the Bright Way System empowers readers to access motivation and progress, find joy in skill-build-
♦ The Elements of Practice (Initiation, Regularity, Playfulness, Intensity, Presence, Ceremony, Discipline, Devotion, Seriousness, Honesty, Lightness, etc. ♦ The Varieties of Daily Practice (Creativity, Meaning-Making, Health, Relationship-Building, Activism, Performance, Healing, Warrior, Problem-Solving, “Any Activity Practice,” etc. ♦ Challenges to Daily Practice (Restlessness, Skill Set Issues, Conflict, Mistakes and Messes, Anxiety and Distractibility, Bodily Sensations, Self-Talk, Boredom and Meaninglessness, Chaos and Noise, etc. I think the best way to maintain a daily practice is to make it integral to your life as part of a comprehensive philosophy. It isn’t just something that you do—it is part and parcel of how you live. The tools Maisel offers are a potent alternative to waiting for the spirit to move or the muse to inspire: a sustainable, self-directed path to creative success. For more info, check out kirism.com. Among Eric Maisel’s many other books are Fearless Creating and Coaching the Artist Within. ing, and courageously share their creative works.Grounded in the belief that all people are naturally creative, that they must express their creativity to feel whole, and that everyone can learn how to do this, The Bright Way shows the way. I see the eternal flame inside you: You were born with this bright light. May our journey unveil your true radiance, Blazing your joy from the inside out, Lighting up the lives of all around you, Shining your bright knowledge down through the ages to come. You are stronger than you know: Throw down your shields, and declare yourself boldly. Together let’s illuminate your way Back to your true self, Bright One. Welcome home. Diana Rowan, a professional harpist, founded Bright Knowledge Guild to teach in the digital environment.
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Poetry, Writing & Stories WHEN THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD WAS SUBDUED, OUR SONGS CAME THROUGH A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry edited by Joy Harjo
$25.95, paper. Norton. 458 pages
The first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology… United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into one momentous volume. This landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America, the first poets of this land, whose literary traditions stretch back centuries. Opening with a blessing from Pulitzer Prize winner N. Scott Momaday, the book contains powerful introductions from contributing editors who represent the five geographically organized sections (Northeast and Midwest; Plains and Mountains; Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and Pacific Islands; Southwest and West; and Southeast). Each section begins with a poem from the massive libraries of oral literatures and closes with emerging poets, ranging from Eleazar, a seventeenth-century Native student at Harvard, to Jake Skeets, a young Dinh poet born in 1991, and including renowned writers such as Natalie Diaz, Tommy Pico, Layli Long Soldier, and Ray Young Bear. In When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through, Harjo offers the extraordinary sweep of Native literature. PRAYER FOR WORDS My voice restore for me. Diné Here is the wind bending the reeds westward, The patchwork of morning on gray moraine: Had I words I could tell of origin, Of God’s hands bloody with birth at first light, Of my thin squeals in the heat of his breath, Of the taste of being, the bitterness, And scents of camas root and chokecherries. And, God, if my mute heart expresses me, I am the rolling thunder and the bursts Of torrents upon rock, the whispering Of old leaves, the silence of deep canyons. I am the rattle or mortality. I could tell of the splintered sun. I could Articulate the night sky, had I words. —N. Scott Momaday THE SELECTED POEMS OF TU FU Expanded New Edition translated by David Hinton
$28.50, paper. New Directions. 269 pages
Tu Fu (712-770 C.E.) has for a millennium been widely considered the greatest poet in the Chinese tradition, and David Hinton’s original translation played a key role in developing that reputation in the West. Most of Tu Fu’s best poems were written in the last decade of his life, as an impoverished refugee fleeing the devastation of civil war. In the midst of these challenges, his always personal poems manage to combine a remarkable range of possibilities: elegant simplicity and great complexity, everyday life and grand historical drama, private philosophical depth and social engagement in a world consumed by war. Through it all, Tu Fu’s is a wisdom that can only be called elemental, and his poems sound remarkably contemporary:
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by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
$21.00, paper. Doubleday. 179 pages
From the famed publisher and poet, author of the million-copy-selling collection A Coney Island of the Mind, his literary last will and testament—part autobiography, part summing up, part Beat-inflected torrent of language and feeling, and all magical. In this unapologetically unclassifiable work Lawrence Ferlinghetti lets loose an exhilarating rush of language to craft what might be termed a closing statement about his highly significant and productive 99 years on this planet. The “Little Boy” of the title is Ferlinghetti himself as a child, shuffled from his overbur-
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dened mother to his French aunt to foster childhood with a rich Bronxville family. Service in World War Two (including the D-Day landing), graduate work, and a scholar gypsy’s vagabond life in Paris followed. These biographical reminiscences are interweaved with Allen Ginsberg-esque high energy bursts of raw emotion, rumination, reflection, reminiscence and prognostication on what we may face as a species on Planet Earth in the future. Little Boy is a magical font of literary lore with allusions galore, a final repository of hard-earned and durable wisdom, a compositional high wire act without a net (or all that much punctuation) and just a gas and an inspiration to read. AND what am I to do with the rest of my life or your life as the days rave on, the nights too the long nights as the daze goes on and where are we anyway on the face of existence in the race for existence and which way are we facing with our bullyboy consciousness But is not laughter the sublime expression of consciousness which can go from extreme depression to ecstasy and the final ecstasy nothing but pure silent laughter Oh the sublimity of it and if I weren’t laughing I’d be dying I’d be crying “Little Boy may start off sounding like a conventional memoir, but before long, Ferlinghetti reclaims his beat soul, quickens the pace, dropping punctuation like a used-up booster rocket, and off we go on the last wild, motor-mouth, book-length riff of this poet’s generation. All finger-popping readers will be gleefully swept up in this hip word-flood, this spontaneous stream—no, make that torrent of consciousness. Bravo, maestro!” —Billy Collins
Mary Oliver’s Eye
by Mary Oliver
$27.00, paper. Putnam. 480 pages
Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Devotions is a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years. Carefully curated, these 200 plus poems feature Oliver’s work from her very first book of poetry, No Voyage and Other Poems, published in 1963 at the age of 28, through her most recent collection, Felicity, published in 2015. This timeless volume, arranged by Oliver herself, showcases the beloved poet at her edifying best. Within these pages, she provides us with an extraordinary and invaluable collection of her passionate, perceptive, and much-treasured observations of the A MARY OLIVER COLLECTION (BOXED SET) A Thousand Mornings, Dog Songs, Felicity, and Blue Horses by Mary Oliver
$87.00, paper. Penguin. 432 pages, 4 volumes in a box
Available in one set for the first time, this deluxe box set contains the last four original collections Oliver published, before her death in 2019. Included are A Thousand Mornings, Dog Songs, Felicity, and Blue Horses. Throughout her career, Mary Oliver touched innumerable readers with her brilliantly crafted verse. In this box set, containing her four most recently published collections, she returns to the imagery and subjects that have come to define her life’s work: transporting us to the coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown;
nature of things and of being alive. “In Devotions, one of our most beloved writers offers both the best of her work and a spiritual road map of sorts. Spanning more than 50 years and featuring more than 200 poems, the collection shows Oliver, in the early years, turning away from grief and finding in nature a “vast, incredible gift.” Over time, as she carefully observes and records, Oliver extols the beauty and complexity around her and reminds us of the interconnectedness of living. She also asks important questions, such as “have you ever dared to be happy/ ... have you ever dared to pray,” and “Tell me, what it is you plan to do/ with your one wild and precious life?”… The luminous writing provides respite from our crazy world and demonstrates how mindfulness can define and transform a life, moment by moment, poem by poem.” —The Washington Post
reminding us of what it truly means to belong to the natural world;, celebrating the special bond between human and dog, and expounding on the wild and the quiet within our own hearts. Within every book, Oliver honors life, love, and beauty. This beautifully designed set makes a lovely gift for every occasion, and a wonderful addition to the library of both longtime fans and new readers. People are continuing to discover Mary Oliver! Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?... To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
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$23.50, paper. Sounds True. 256 pages
How do we deal with the heaviness of everyday living? When we are surrounded by uncertainty, distrust, and destruction, how do we sift through the chaos and enjoy being alive? In Every Day Is a Poem, Jacqueline Suskin aims to answer these questions by using poetry as a tool for finding clarity and feeling relief. With provocative questions, writing practices, and mindset exercises, this celebrated poet shows you how to focus your senses, cultivate curiosity, and create your own document of the world’s beauty. Emphasizing that the personal is inextricable from the creative, Suskin offers specific instructions on how make a map of your past and engage with your pain to write a healing poem. Poetry isn’t a magic cure-all that makes adversity vanish, but it does summon the wondrous and sublime out of the shadows. Suskin seeks to remind you how incredible it is to be alive at all, even when it hurts. Most importantly, Every Day Is a Poem reveals that we all have the ability to weave beauty and meaning out of otherwise difficult and overwhelming times. “This is not a book of goopy wackadoo-woo-woo: this is a practical guide for everyone to learn the requisite art of slowing down, becoming more curious in order to ‘nurture transformation and love limitlessly.’ Get out your pickax and get ready to mine the wonders of this life on earth through the power of poetry.” —Derrick C. Brown, author of How The Body Works The Dark “Any moment can become a poem and your poem can open up whole new ways of thinking and feeling and being. Suskin’s tools create a way back into the self for the world-weary reader.” —Beth Pickens, author of Your Art Will Save Your Life PETRA A Novel
by Shaena Lambert
$22.95, paper. Random House. 292 pages
Inspired by Petra Kelly, the original Green Party leader and political activist who fought for the planet in 1980s Germany, Shaena Lambert brings us a captivating new novel about a woman who changed history and transformed environmental politics—and who, like many history-changing women, has been largely erased. January, 1980. At the height of the Cold War, Petra Kelly inspires hundreds of thousands to take to the streets to protest the placement of nuclear missiles on West German soil—including a NATO general named Emil Gerhardt, who shocks the establishment by converting to the cause. Petra and her general not only vault to fame as the stars of the Green Party, but they also fall in love. Then Manfred Schwartz, an ex-lover, urges Petra to draw back the curtain on Emil’s war record, and they enter a world both complicated and threatening. Told by Manfred Schwartz, from his place in a present world even more beset by existential threats, Petra is an exploration of love, jealousy, and the power of social change. A woman capable of founding a new and world-changing politics and taking on two superpowers, Petra still must grapple with her own complex nature and a singular and fatal love. “Petra is a masterpiece—a fierce, humane and powerful novel for our times. Shaena Lambert brings to life the nearly forgotten revolutionary, Petra Kelly, and the circle of activists who transformed environmental and global politics. Petra, the story of generations reckoning with history, sex, the land, guilt, and our troubled future, is at every moment personal and political. What does it mean
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$26.95, cloth. Penguin. 288 pages
Busy minds need a place to rest. Whether you find yourself struggling to sleep, awake in the middle of the night, or even just anxious as you move through the day, in Nothing Much Happens, Kathryn Nicolai offers a healthy way to ease the mind before bed: through the timeless appeal of classic bedtime stories. Already beloved by millions of podcast listeners, the stories in Nothing Much Happens explore and expose small sweet moments of joy and relaxation: Visiting the local cider mill in the autumn. Watching the tree lighting in the park with friends in the winter. Sneaking lilacs from an abandoned farm in the spring. Watching fireflies from the deck in the summer. Closing up the book shop for the night and opening the bakery in the morning. You’ll also find sixteen new stories never before featured on the podcast, along with whimsical illustrations that expose sweet little moments of peace and joy. Using her decades of experience as a meditation and yoga teacher, Kathryn Nicolai creates a world for you to slip into, one rich in sensory experience that quietly teaches mindfulness and self-compassion, soothes frayed nerves, and builds solid habits for nurturing sleep.
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Gilead… and Gilead (The Testaments) THE TESTAMENTS A Novel
by Margaret Atwood
$22.00, paper. McClelland & Stewart. 429 pages
Margaret Atwood’s dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid’s Tale, has become a modern classic—and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel. More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies GILEAD A Novel
by Marilynne Robinson
$18.95, paper. HarperCollins. 247 pages
A hymn of praise and lamentation from a 1950s preacher man. A testament to the sacred bonds between fathers and sons. A psalm of celebration and acceptance of the best and the worst that the world has to offer. This is the story of generations, as told through a family history written by Reverend John Ames, a legacy for the young son he will never see grow up. As John records the tale of the rift between his own father and grandfather, he also struggles with the return to his small town of a friend’s prodigal son in search of forgiveness and redemption.
WHEN LOVE COMES TO LIGHT Bringing Wisdom from the Bhagavad Gita into Modern Life
GET YOUR YOGA ON 30 Days to Build a Practice That Fits Your Body and Your Life
by Richard Freeman & Mary Taylor $25.95, paper. Shambhala. 298 pages
by Kino MacGregor
$33.95, paper. Shambhala. 168 pages, 7x9, colour photos
Yoga is a healthful, stress-busting, powerfully life-changing practice that is truly for everyone! You don’t need to be young, flexible, or athletic to do yoga, and you don’t need to spend hours on the mat. You just need to be yourself and commit to practicing at least five minutes a day. Here, renowned yogi Kino MacGregor presents a basic, self-paced plan to encourage you to try each of the thirty foundational poses included and slowly build a regular yoga practice. Through step-by-step instructions, over two hundred color photographs, and modifications for different body types and abilities, Kino makes yoga possible at whatever level you may be. By challenging yourself for just five minutes a day, you will end up learning a strong, basic yoga sequence that you can grow and adapt for a lifetime of yoga. Readers will also get free access to an online companion course on Omstars (www.omstars.com)!
The Bhagavad Gita is one of the most influential and widely recognized ancient texts in Indian epic literature. Through the telling of the story and traditional philosophical teachings, the text provides deep insight into how to meet life’s inevitable challenges while remaining open, clear, and compassionate. It offers modern day wisdom seekers a framework for understanding our essence—who we are and our core beliefs—revealing the fact that healthy relationships to others and the world are essential to living a full, compassionate, balanced life. Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor, both deeply respected yogic teachers, offer a practical, immediately relevant interpretation that emphasizes self-reflection and waking up in our modern world. Following the traditional sequence of teachings in The Bhagavad Gita, from its opening scene in which Arjuna finds himself hesitating in the middle of the battlefield of dharma and action through the various paths he might choose in the process of awakening, Freeman and Taylor interweave insight into how these classic teachings are relevant for modern readers struggling with what it means to live responsibly in the twenty-first century. With quotes, citations, and a full translation of the original text, they look at the overall arc of the The Bhagavad Gita’s teachings and how that relates to the turmoil that arises, not only for Arjuna, but for any of us in the face of crises of conscience, spirit, and form. Exploring the essential themes such as love, wisdom, and karma, and by offering embodiment exercises to apply the teachings, When Love Comes to Light guides readers in the step-by-step process of waking up their intelligence and finding a path toward
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of these two young women are joined by a third voice: a woman who wields power through the ruthless accumulation and deployment of secrets. As Atwood unfolds The Testaments, she opens up the innermost workings of Gilead as each woman is forced to come to terms with who she is, and how far she will go for what she believes. “A chilling invitation no Atwood fan can resist . . . The Testaments reminds us of the power of truth in the face of evil.” —People “It’s terrifying and exhilarating.” —Judges of the Booker Prize 2019 Also now available is The Handmaid’s Tale & The Testaments Boxed Set. The winner of two major literary awards, Gilead is an exquisitely written work of literary fiction, destined to become a classic, by one of today’s finest writers. “Gilead is a beautiful work—demanding, grave and lucid.... Robinson’s words have a spiritual force that’s very rare in contemporary fiction.” —New York Times Book Review “At a moment in cultural history dominated by the shallow, the superficial, the quick fix, Marilynne Robinson is a miraculous anomaly: a writer who thoughtfully, carefully and tenaciously explores some of the deepest questions confronting the human species.” —Los Angeles Times Book Revew
compassionate action. Since one of the primary teachings of the Gita is the importance of tangible contemplative practices that enable one to embody and thereby fully assimilate the teachings, we also include an appendix of embodiment exercises that reflect essential themes from the Gita, such as impermanence and the nature of change, as well as simple practices to foster stillness and the stability of mind and body. We hope these exercises will not only shed light on the teachings but also be helpful when facing challenges that arise in everyday life, offering practical ways to stay focused, grounded, and in the present moment. THE PRACTICE IS THE PATH Lessons and Reflections on the Transformative Power of Yoga by Tias Little
$22.95, paper. Shambhala. 170 pages
For over 30 years, Tias Little has explored yoga as a spiritual path. In this book he offers key teachings from his journey that will resonate with anyone who has dedicated themself to a mind/body discipline. In short, accessible chapters, Little shares his struggles and joys as a yogi and chronicles the transformation of his understanding and practice along the way. There are many physical and emotional trials that come up in yoga as a spiritual practice: the urge toward perfectionism, the desire to get it all right, the way we push ourselves in the practice, being with “not-knowing,” and the many ways some people use yoga as a sedative. To help the reader embody and experience each theme, Little includes companion practices at the end of each chapter including poses, reflections, meditations, and explorations.
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THE GENIUS OF YOGA How Yogic Meditation Can Unlock Your Innate Brilliance by Alan Finger & Peter Ferko
$22.95, paper. Shambhala. 124 pages
Both mindfulness meditation and yoga practice have reached such a level of popularity that they have revolutionized how we think about tending to the health and well-being of ourselves, our families, our patients, students, and co-workers. But meditation done through a yogic framework goes beyond mindfulness. It not only gives you specific tools for improving health and creating emotional balance, but also offers you an experience beyond the sense-focused mind. It allows you to access atman, your unbound intelligence, or what the authors refer to as your innate “genius.” Accessing atman allows you to go beyond the limits of mindfulness to reach a deep source of creativity and inspiration within you—and connects you to your true purpose and direction in life. Meditation provides a transcendence of ordinary THE INNER PATH YOGA PHILOSOPHY PRACTICE DECK Card Deck & Guidebook by Zamir Dhanji
$44.99, cards. Mystic Yogi. 26 colour cards + 150-page guidebook
Yoga is more and deeper than just the poses—it’s a holistic science for body, mind and spirit. Learn yoga philosophy and practices with this creative tool that transforms your practice both on and off the mat. “Yoga means to move towards an experiential reality where one knows the ultimate nature of the existence.” — Sadhguru The Inner Path Deck helps you on the journey to heal your body, develop your mind, and awaken your spiritual potential. Inspired by the eight limbs of classical yoga, you’ll deepen your practice through carefully curated stunning art images, powerful insights, and guided teachings from different traditions that integrate this wisdom into your daily life.
In the beginning we make elaborate assumptions about the way we should be. The soul is yet to pass through the gates of fire, loneliness, and deep silence that build maturity and wisdom. We have yet to experience loss and suffering and to witness directly the beauty and fallibility of our own small, fragile selves… One of my Zen teachers would always ask, “How wide is your path?” Might we see in time that the path is everywhere? Might the way of our path, like the old Tao, include all things? In this book, we will travel the path together, a path that enables us to see beyond the confines of our own perspective… In the journey that lies ahead, we must leave behind the person we always thought we should be and travel, step by step, to where we are. There is really only one way to do this… The practice is the path. Also by Tias Little is Yoga of the Subtle Body.
Buddhism A BIGGER SKY Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism by Pamela Weiss
$23.95, paper. North Atlantic. 214 pages
Written by the first layperson to receive full Dharma Transmission in the Suzuki Roshi Soto Zen lineage (she’s also a Theravada teacher on the Spirit Rock Teacher Council—and practiced The Diamond Approach for 12 years), A Bigger Sky explores what it means to fill the gaps of a Buddhism created by and for men, to navigate the
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mental activity into the realm of what is spiritually described as connecting with pure consciousness. In colloquial terms it could be called finding your “genius,” the aspect of yourself that is full of intuition and creativity, insight and purpose, and an innate brilliance. Yogis consider it finding the whole of who you are… In this book we look at the important benefits of taking meditation beyond mindfulness. Using contemporary language, we aim to demystify the traditional descriptions and practice of yoga meditation… This book provides background and a starting practice that is suited to anyone, from the curious nonmeditator to the seasoned mindfulness practitioner. “We are evolving toward a greater expression of being human; learning the deeper meditation found in authentic yoga is key.” —Deepak Chopra, author of Meta Human Also by Alan Finger are Chakra Yoga and Tantra of the Yoga Sutras. The 26 art cards and 150 page wisdom booklet come in a beautiful custom box that’s easy to travel with. High quality matte-laminate finishing makes the cards very durable and make the visionary images and colours pop. Wanting to understand how life operates, the earliest shamans, mystics, and yogis began to inquire into the ‘world behind the world’…. While we live, work, play and create in this earthly realm, there is a deeper Reality behind its appearance, beckoning us to walk in harmony with it. The aim of the yogis and mystics has been to lift the veil to this Reality and teach us its principles. Accepting this approach involves making conscious daily choices and developing our awareness so that we can fashion a life that is unlimited in its freedom, yet always abiding in the Way. This is walking the Inner Path. Learn more at mysticyogi.com.
seemingly contradictory domains of secular and spiritual life, and to walk a path through the heart of the world. Reorienting Buddhist practice through a wider, more inclusive feminine lens, Pamela Weiss’s personal and spiritual journey speaks to the bits of brokenness in us all, shining a light on the different pathways we can walk to become whole. Blending memoir, Buddhist practice, and cultural observation, Weiss explores the illness that led her to seek healing and brought her to Buddhism; life at Tassajara Zen Mountain monastery; feelings of helplessness amidst the legacy of intergenerational trauma; her husband’s near-fatal accident; her work translating mindfulness and Buddhist principles to a broad lay audience; and stories of Buddhist women, past and present. Through beautifully crafted prose, Weiss shares what it means to be an ordinary Bodhisattva—describing how the Buddha’s profound vision of freedom can be lived outside of institutions and rule-bound practice, and supporting us in deepening our connection—with ourselves, each other and the planet. A Bigger Sky illuminates how integrating a more feminine approach to Buddhist teachings can be applied in spiritual practice, in community, in day-to-day life.
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come together in new ways and discover responses we have not yet dared to dream. “Employing a treasure-trove of stories, dreams, and myths, Pamela Weiss helps us to imagine what a ‘bigger sky’, no-part-left-out, fierce feminine Buddhism might actually feel like. This is a deeply soulful, engaging, and ultimately joyous book. I read it in one sitting and put it down with a broad smile.”—Jan Willis, author of Dreaming Me: Black, Baptist, and Buddhist REAL CHANGE Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World
by Sharon Salzberg
$33.99, cloth. Picador. 220 pages
In today’s fractured world we’re constantly flooded with breaking news that causes us anger, grief, and pain. People are feeling more stressed out than ever and in the face of this fear and anxiety they can feel so burnt out and overwhelmed that they end up frozen in their tracks and can’t do anything. In Real Change Sharon Salzberg, a leading expert in Loving-kindness and Mindfulness meditation, shares sage advice and indispensible techniques to help free ourselves from these negative feelings and actions. She teaches us that meditation is not a replacement for action, but rather a way to practice generosity with ourselves and summon the courage to break through boundaries, reconnect to a movement that’s bigger than ourselves, and have the energy to stay active. Consulting with veteran activists and social change agents in a variety of fields, Salzberg collects and shares their wisdom and offers the best practical advice to foster transformation in both ourselves and in society. These changemakers have generously allowed me to quote them in my efforts to convey how to navigate these waters of action and awareness in the healthiest ways possible. I want to share their insights and stories. We make this journey together. To help tame our inner landscape or chaos, Salzberg offers savvy mindfulness practices that will help readers cultivate a sense of agency and stay engaged in the longterm struggle for social change. Real Change is the book I’ve been wanting to write for years, to explore the intersection between the activity of working toward change in the world and the clarity and compassion arising from mindfulness and loving-kindness practice. The book is organized to map out the journey we often take toward a more impactful and sustainable expression of our values: expanding our vision; embodying real efforts toward change; working with the anger and grief that accompany a clear-eyed look at pain; supporting ourselves and remembering joy in the midst of challenging realities; looking afresh at who counts, who matters; awakening discernment and insight; coming to balance and knowing peace. Real Change will help guide you with the fundamental principles and mindfulness practices that will lead to the clarity and confidence that lets us lift a foot and take our next step into a better world.
The crises we are facing—irreversible climate change, widespread hatred and violence, the growing assault on the truth—are overwhelming. Too big for any of us to hold alone, they call us to join hands and join hearts, to
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Poems of the Early Buddhists THE FIRST FREE WOMEN Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns by Matty Weingast
$22.95, paper. Shambhala. 137 pages
The Therigatha (“Verses of the Elder Nuns”) is the oldest collection of known writings from Buddhist women. Composed during the life of the Buddha, the collection contains verses by early Buddhist nuns detailing everything from their disenchantment with their prescribed roles in society to their struggles on the path to enlightenment to their spiritual realizations. Among the nuns, a range of voices are represented, including former wives, women who lost children, women who gave up their wealth, and a former prostitute. My sisters, sit like you are dead already. How could this world possibly give you what you’re looking for when it’s so busy falling apart— just like you? Look closely. Don’t move until you see it. In The First Free Women, Matty Weingast revives this SONGS OF THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF BUDDHA Enlightenment Poems from the Theragatha and Therigatha
translated by Andrew Schelling & Anne Waldman $22.95, paper. Shambhala. 150 pages
More than two thousand years ago, the earliest disciples of the Buddha put into verse their experiences on the spiritual journey—from their daily struggles to their spiritual realizations. Over time the verses were collected to form the Theragatha and Therigatha, the “Verses of Elder Monks” and “Verses of Elder Nuns” respectively. I hunted the house builder, life after life scouring this world and others Now I’ve discovered the house is impermanent “You will not build another structure the rafters are broken the roof collapsed This mind has been blown asunder” —Sivaka In Songs of the Sons and Daughters of the Buddha, renowned poets Andrew Schelling and Anne
RELAX AND BE AWARE Mindfulness Meditations for Clarity, Confidence, and Wisdom by Sayadaw U Tejaniya
$23.95, paper. Shambhala. 160 pages
Since mindfulness is known to be so physically, mentally, and spiritually beneficial, why not practice it right now? Why not in every moment? Burmese Buddhist master Sayadaw U Tejaniya writes that we can indeed practice in this way, and the key is consistency. Thirty-one short chapters—“A Month of Daily Life Meditations”—show precisely how to build a regular practice that will deepen over time. With evident compassion and insight, U Tejaniya teaches full-time, daily-life meditation as a process that steadily
ancient collection with a contemporary and radical adaptation. In this poetic re-envisioning that remains true to the original essence of each poem, he infuses each verse with vivid language that is not found in other translations. Simple yet profound, the nuance of language highlights the beauty in each poem and resonates with modern readers exploring the struggles, grief, failures, doubts, and ultimately, moments of profound insight of each woman. Weingast breathes fresh life into this ancient collection of poetry, offering readers a rare glimpse of Buddhism through the spiritual literature and poetry of the first female disciples of the Buddha. Ask yourself what you are really prepared to give up in order to be free. “Like opening a window and letting a clean, fresh wind blow through my being.”—Joanna Macy “Honest. Courageous. Inspiring. These reflections can’t help but touch the hearts of all who read them.” —Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness
Waldman have translated the most poignant poems in these collections, bringing forth the visceral, immediate qualities that are often lost in more scholarly renditions. These selections reveal the fears, loves, mishaps, expectations, and joys of the early monks and nuns, when, struck by wild insight, they cried out the anguish or solace they knew in their lives. Abandoning his house mind just drifting rooting his snout through mud like an impatient hog here comes the fool flickering through yet another womb. “How is it these songs are getting better, stronger, more alive than ever, more necessary than ever... or is it because I just need to hear them more than ever?”— Red Pine “These are earthy, courageous translations of the most ancient Buddhist poems. How honest the struggle of these practitioners with death and lust and selfdoubt (just like us); how beautiful their moments of release.”—Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart
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training with a focus on the states of mind wherever we are… an invitation to well-being and freedom.” —Jack Kornfield “Relax and Be Aware reminds us what is essential to mature mindfulness practice. To be wholly present beyond a meditation cushion or retreat requires intention in each thing we do. It is this persistent effort to cultivate an observing mind that enables us to see things as they are and not as we wish them to be. This powerful way of being nourishes wisdom that liberates us from suffering.” —Sharon Salzberg, author of Real Change Also by U Tejaniya is When Awareness Becomes Natural. THE ART OF SOLITUDE by Stephen Batchelor
$32.50, cloth. Yale. 192 pages
When world renowned Buddhist writer Stephen Batchelor turned sixty, he took a sabbatical from his teaching and turned his attention to solitude, a practice integral to the meditative traditions he has long studied and taught. He aimed to venture more deeply into solitude, discovering its full extent and depth. This beautiful literary collage documents his multifaceted explorations. Spending time in remote places, appreciating and making art, practicing meditation and participating in retreats, drinking peyote and ayahuasca, and training himself to keep an open, questioning mind have all contributed to Batchelor’s ability to be simultaneously alone and at ease. Mixed in with his personal narrative are inspiring stories from solitude’s devoted practitioners, from the Buddha to Montaigne, and from Vermeer to Agnes Martin. While this book recounts—sometimes explicitly, sometimes implicitly—the inner story of my own struggle with Buddhism, and while I continue to draw on sources and themes from that tradition, I do not consider The Art of Solitude to be a Buddhist book. I am not interested in presenting a Buddhist interpretation of solitude. I want to share with you what practitioners of solitude, from varied backgrounds, disciplines, and traditions, have reported back from the coalface of their practice. In a hyperconnected world that is at the same time plagued by social isolation, this book shows how to enjoy the inescapable solitude that is at the heart of human life. “The Art of Solitude is a marvel. Carefully constructed and entirely original, it sings with a haunting melody of wistful contemplation. Reading it is a true joy.” —Mark Epstein, author of Thoughts Without a Thinker Among Stephen Batchelor’s other books are After Buddhism and Confession of a Buddhist Atheist.
develops relaxation, refreshment, and enlightenment. In addition to the guided meditations, the book features a helpful introduction by longtime student and meditation teacher Doug McGill, as well as opening chapters on Buddhist wisdom and energy practices that support continuous daily awareness. The right time to meditate is all day long, from the moment we wake up and open our eyes, until the moment we fall asleep at night. Meditation shouldn’t make the mind or the body tired. If you are practicing correctly with right effort, it will definitely bring peace and joy. U Tejaniya’s teaching emphasizes the application of awareness to every aspect of ordinary daily life, while de-emphasizing the centrality of formal sitting practice. His style is relaxed, funny, and informed by his intimate knowledge of the workaday world. “This is an enormously helpful approach to mindfulness
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Joseph Goldstein on the Dharma THE EXPERIENCE OF INSIGHT A Simple and Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation by Joseph Goldstein
$22.95, paper. Shambhala. 178 pages
Strong, clear and simple, its teachings are often illustrated with stories and anecdotes, First published in 1987, and now with a new preface reflecting on how the conversation around meditation has changed over the last forty years, this book is the perfect companion for experienced and new practitioners alike.
This modern classic of unusually clear, practical instruction for the practice of Buddhist meditation—presented as a thirty-day meditation retreat taught by Joseph Goldstein— includes teachings on sitting and walking meditation, how one relates with the breath, feelings, thought, sense perceptions, consciousness, and everyday activities. Basic Buddhist topics such as the nature of karma, the four noble truths, the factors of enlightenment, dependent origination, and devotion are discussed.
Doing loving-kindness enriches Vipassana because of the spaciousness and lightness it creates in the mind. It strengthens the ability to see without judging, and helps us avoid the very common tendency in spiritual practice to condemn who we are and seek in a grasping way to be someone else.
We dress up corpses as if they were going to a party, never confronting the face of death. The first noble truth of the Buddha’s enlightenment is the truth of suffering. It does no good to pretend that it does not exist. No matter how we obscure it, the body is going to get old and diseased. It is going to die. No matter how many distractions we are entertained with, there will be anger and ill will and frustration and anxiety and tension.... We are on this wheel of pain because we cling to it, and we cling to it out of ignorance.
“The Experience of Insight is arguably one of the best and most easily accessible modern meditation instruction manuals available. Decades after its original publication, Goldstein’s work remains a fresh and alive guidebook for any student of meditation… It is a wise and insightful book on the actual dynamics of meditation practice and the incorporation of the meditative mind into daily life.” —Inquiring Mind Among Joseph Goldstein’s other books are Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening and One Dharma.
CREATING A LIFE OF INTEGRITY In Conversation with Joseph Goldstein
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by Gail Andersen Stark
$25.95, paper. Wisdom. 230 pages
A lovely, practical, intimate, and wise book, Creating a Life of Integrity is our personal trainer for strengthening our integrity muscles. When we don’t speak or act from our own sense of integrity, we feel lousy. Find out how you can live with more integrity— and subsequently more joy—as you follow these lively conversations between Joseph Goldstein, a founder of the modern mindfulness movement, and Gail Stark, a businesswoman and his student. As Joseph and Gail unpack the components of integrity—generosity, virtue, renunciation, wisdom, courage, patience, truthfulness, resoluteness, loving-kindness, and equanimity—we discover each is a step on a path that transports us to an empowered place of clarity, commitment, and, consequently, more joy. As we strengthen and weave these qualities into our daily lives they become our trusted first response in a world that needs our integrity now. In the midst of these challenging and often confusing times, I hope that this engaging book will be an inspiration for many others who would like to actively engage in refining the understanding of integrity and how that can express itself in the busyness and complexity of our lives. This one overarching value can be a healing balm both for ourselves and for the world we all
“Reading this book was like actually being present with Joseph Goldstein, a person of exceptional integrity, as he shares down-toearth yet profound wisdom with the author, Gail Stark. Different parts of my mind and heart were opened to new possibilities because of her unique way of expression. Creating personal integrity is the deepest kind of respect and care we can have for ourselves and others. This book is deeply reaching medicine, leading to inner calm and inviolable peace.” — Kamala Masters, guiding teacher and cofounder, Vipassana Metta Foundation, Maui “This book is unique in both form and substance. It allows us to listen in to conversations between Dharma teacher Joseph Goldstein and student Gail Stark as they explore the promise and pitfalls of the “paramis,” Buddhist trainings of the mind and heart. While many meditation students become focused almost exclusively on what happens on the zafu, the conversation between Joseph and Gail takes mindfulness into the street and into the daily life of a householder. Using their conversational format, the teachings come alive and all of us get to feel their power to affect our lives. In one of their conversations Joseph and Gail even sing together, revealing a deep sharing of the freedom and joy that develop on the path. There is a lot of wisdom in this conversation, and warmth on every page. As this book says, quoting the Dalai Lama, ‘Our part is to bring a cheerful mind and heart to a suffering world.’” — Wes “Scoop” Nisker, author of The Essential Crazy Wisdom
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by Shunryu Suzuki
$23.95, paper. Shambhala. 176 pages
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line of Shunryu Suzuki’s classic. In a single stroke, the simple sentence cuts through the pervasive tendency students have of getting so close to Zen as to completely miss what it’s all about. An instant teaching on the first page. And that’s just the beginning. In the fifty years since its original publication, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind has become one of the great modern Zen classics, much re-read, and often recommended as the best first book to read on Zen. This one book has been read and reread by generations of practitioners, with tattered and mended copies featured in cabins, boardrooms, and by-the-cushions “all over this land.” Shunryu Suzuki (1905-1971—the Soto Zen master who founded the San Francisco Zen Center, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, and Green Gulch Farm) here presents the basics—from the details of posture and breathing in zazen to the perception of nonduality—in a way that is not only remarkably clear, but that also resonates with the joy of insight from the first to the last page. It’s a book to come back to time and time again as an inspiration to practice. Our “original mind” includes everything within itself. It is always rich and sufficient within itself. You should not lose your self-sufficient state of mind. This does not mean a closed mind, but actually an empty mind and a ready mind. If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind there are few.... This is also the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner. Here one begins to understand what Zen is really about. Every page breathes with the joy and simplicity that makes a liberated life possible. We must have a beginner’s mind, free from possessing anything, a mind that knows everything is in flowing change. Nothing exists but momentarily in its present form and color. One thing flows into another and cannot be grasped. Before the rain stops we hear a bird. Even under the heavy snow we see snowdrops and some new growth. In the East I saw rhubarb already. In Japan in the spring we eat cucumbers. Also available by Suzuki Roshi are Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness and Not Always So.
We have to think and observe things without stagnation. We should accept things as they are without difficulty. Our mind should be soft and open enough to understand things as they are… This is mindfulness… Just to see, and to be ready to see things with our whole mind, is zazen practice… It is the readiness of the mind that is wisdom… But we should not become attached to some particular wisdom, such as that which was taught by Buddha. Wisdom is not something to learn. Wisdom is something which will come out of your mindfulness. So the point is to be ready… —Shunryu Suzuki, from Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
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Thich Nhat Hanh & Plum Village HOW TO CONNECT by Thich Nhat Hanh
$13.50, paper. Parallax. 124 pages
The simple, refreshing meditations of Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh give us the tools to restore our inherent connection to nature, each other, our ancestors, and ourselves. With our world experiencing the deep effects of loneliness, environmental detachment, and digital overload, this eighth pocket-sized How To book reminds us of our crucial need to connect to ourselves, our ancestors, and nature. Written with characteristic simplicity and kindness, these wise meditations teach us how to remember, at any time, our fundamental gift of belonging. All EVERYDAY PEACE CARDS 108 Mindfulness Meditations by Thich Nhat Hanh
$24.95, paper. Shambhala. 58 cards with instructions in a box
Inspiring, joyful, and deeply insightful, this deck of cards offers 108 contemplations from one of today’s most important spiritual teachers. Thich Nhat Hanh’s powerful and transformative words of wisdom bring you accessible teachings and daily opportunities to make peace with yourself, those around you, and the earth. Everyday Peace Cards show us that “when we come back to ourselves and stay grounded in the present moment, we can handle even the most challenging of situations and peace becomes possible.” Because you are here, now, you have arrived. You are home. These cards are a reminder that we can practice THE BOOK OF HOUSEHOLDER KOANS Waking Up in the Land of Attachments
Mindfulness Essentials books are illustrated with playful sumi-ink drawings by California artist Jason DeAntonis. Every second has in itself many jewels, and each minute, each second, is itself a jewel. When we look into the jewel of this very second, we see the sky, the earth, the trees, the hills, the river, and the ocean—so beautiful! Let us profit deeply from each moment that is given us to live. Other volumes in this lovely series that introduces everyone to the essentials of mindfulness practice are How to Love, How to Fight, How to See, How to Sit, How to Walk, How to Eat, and How to Relax. peace at any moment in any day. We do this simply by stopping whatever else we are doing, returning to our in-breath and out-breath, and bringing our awareness to the present moment and the conditions for happiness in us and around us. Each card in this collection has a single teaching or practice on each side of the card – 108 mindfulness meditations in all. Consider the reading on the card as your practice for the day. You might find it helpful to display the card in your home or workplace using the enclosed card stand. Or keep the card with you in your bag to use whenever you want a moment of practice… Try to stick with the card you randomly chose for the day, rather than to keep searching for the “right” card. Each one has something in it that may be unexpectedly useful for you that day.
uniqueness of each moment of the situation as a blessing to penetrate and, finally, even appreciate?... What are you waiting for? Plunge in!
by Eve Myonen Marko
$26.50, paper. Monkfish. 266 pages
Zen koans, beginning some 1500 years ago, refer to stories or questions arising in encounters between monks and old Chinese and Japanese masters, and include commentaries designed to help the Zen practitioner awaken. Koans like Hakuin’s What is the sound of one hand clapping? are wellknown, and the word koan has even gone mainstream. Thousands of classic koans emerged from the lives of monks living inside a Chinese or Japanese culture, and the commentaries on those koans contain poetic elements and images that have proved challenging for many Westerners. The Book of Householder Koans is a collection of koans created by 21st century Zen practitioners living a lay life in the West. The koans deal with the challenges of relationships, raising children, work, money, love, loss, old age, and death, and come from practitioners across three continents, and with commentaries by two Western teachers. The collection is based on the premise that our lives as householders contain situations rich with challenge and grit, the equivalents of old Zen masters shouts or blows meant to sweep the ground right from under their students. They become koans, or koan practice, when they jolt us out of our usual way of thinking, when were no longer observers of our lives but plunge in, closing the gap between ourselves and the situation we face.
“Radical, useful, and wild, this rich collection of householder koans opens a treasure house of wisdom for all. What a wonderful adventure in the practical mind and heart of true Zen and true life.” —Joan Halifax, Abbot, Upaya Zen Center “A wonderfully wise, knowing, and light-hearted look at how we can live this one precious unrepeatable human life in beauty.” —Norman Fischer, author of The World Could Be Otherwise “These two extraordinary Zen teachers offer a cutting-edge immersion into the koans of our actual lives, issue by issue, urging us to plunge in, and be intimate with what actually is, in this very moment.” —Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara, author of Most Intimate
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Tibetan Buddhism TARA The Liberating Power of the Female Buddha by Rachel Wooten
$23.50, paper. Sounds True. 274 pages
A practical guide for invoking the power and blessings of Tara, the beloved female Buddhist deity of Tibet “Tara connects you to the archetypal Divine Feminine,” writes Dr. Rachael Wooten, “an energetic force that exists within us and all around us.” While there are many scholarly books on Tara, this practical, psychological guide shows how those of any tradition can directly access her, through clear instruction and authentic Tibetan Buddhist teachings. In her myriad forms, Tara—also known as the female Buddha of Tibet—has the power to protect us from inner and outer negativity, illuminate our self-sabotaging habits, cleanse mental and physical poisons, open us to abundance, give us strength and peace, help us fulfill our life purposes, and more. Here, readers explore each of the 21 manifestations of Tara, engaging with each through traditional meditations, visualizations, praises, mantra chants, and the author’s extensive experience as a depth psychologist. Along with detailed practice instructions, I will share stories from my life and the lives of friends, colleagues, clients, and Tara devotees to illustrate how meditating on Tara helps with our common struggles to attain spiritual and psychological maturity—challenges such a claiming personal authority, spiritual development, shadow work, isolations, shame, self-judgment, fear, and projection. You will learn key principles to empower your meditations. “If ever the voice of wisdom and compassion was needed in the form of an awakened female figure such as Tara,” writes Wooten, “that time is now.” This book illuminates the way to her healing, blessings, and aid. Rachel Wooten is a psychologist and a Zurich-trained Jungian analyst. She has been mentored by spiritual teachers such as her Tibetan root guru Lodro Tulku Rinpoche and Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. SOMATIC DESCENT How to Unlock the Deepest Wisdom of the Body
by Reginald Ray
$23.95, paper. Shambhala. 180 pages
Here’s a powerful meditation practice for connecting with your body’s innate, guiding wisdom. Have you ever had a “gut feeling” about a certain person or situation? Or a sense of intuition about how to respond to a particular challenge in your life? There’s nothing magical or mystical about those kinds of scenarios. In fact, our body contains immense wisdom not directly available to our conscious mind, and it is continually communicating to us in the form of bodily feelings, impressions, sensations, corporeal intuitions, and felt senses. However, because most of us are so cut off from our somatic experience, we are quite unaware of this dimension of our body’s expression. Although this intelligence may feel hidden most of the time, the wisdom of the body can actually be a guide for us in living our lives fully and also in responding compassionately to others. Through a meditation practice called Somatic Descent, Reggie Ray shows us how to connect with our body’s intuitive intelligence. In Somatic Descent we see that the body is always showing us what sort of response, direction, or action may be called for at any given time, and can in fact be relied upon as a primary practical resource for deci-
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The Buddhist on Death Row—Still! THE BUDDHIST ON DEATH ROW How One Man Found Light in the Darkest Place by David Sheff
$36.00, cloth. Simon & Schuster. 248 pp.
Jarvis Jay Masters has become one of America’s most inspiring Buddhist practitioners while locked in a cell on death row. Yet his early life was a horror story whose outline we know too well. Born in Long Beach, California, his house was filled with crack, alcohol, physical abuse, and men who paid his mother for sex. He and his siblings were split up and sent to foster care when he was five, and he progressed quickly to juvenile detention, car theft, armed robbery, and ultimately San Quentin. While in prison, he was set up for the murder of a guard—a conviction which landed him on death row, where he’s been since 1990. At the time of his murder trial, he was held in solitary confinement, torn by rage and anxiety, felled by headaches, seizures, and panic attacks. A criminal investigator repeatedly offered to teach him breathing exercises which he repeatedly refused. Until desperation moved him to ask her how to do “that meditation shit.” With FINDING FREEDOM How Death Row Broke and Opened My Heart by Jarvis Jay Masters
$22.95, paper. Shambhala. 148 pages
In this collection of stories, essays, poems, and letters from death-row inmate Jarvis Jay Masters, he explores the meaning of true freedom on his road to inner peace through Buddhist practice. He reveals the life of a young man surrounded by violence, his entanglement in the criminal justice system, and—following an encounter with Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche—an unfolding commitment to nonviolence and peacemaking. At turns joyful, heartbreaking, frightening, and soaring with profound insight, Masters’s story offers a vision of hope and the possibility of freedom in even the darkest of times. Jarvis Masters has lived on Death Row since 1985. He is still awaiting his appeal. Finding Freedom is his deeply moving memoir written from the netherworld of San Quentin’s death row. Jarvis’s 40 short essays are sometimes sad, raw, funny, poignant, revelatory, frightening, soul-stirring, and uplifting. They trace his spiritual growth in an environment where despair and death are constant companions.
sion-making in our everyday life. The book includes links to online audio recordings of the guided meditations to further aid the reader. Somatic Descent leads us through a progressive journey into full presence and engagement with the wisdom of the body—the wisdom of our body. It leads us back to our three aspects: (1) it opens up an unconditioned, experiential space in our own being to receive and witness all the realities of our life and death, and those of others—the world we have to be in and interact with; (2) it brings us to an intimate, powerfully somatic, felt experience and connection with what this universe is, including all its realms and beings; and (3) it unleashes the natural and spontaneous responsiveness, the unconditional love, that is an integral part of our awakened nature and that, alone, can be of most benefit to this world of ours. What realization could possibly be more complete or more ultimate or more fulfilling than this? Among Reggie Rays’s other books are Touching Enlightenment, The Awakening Body, and The Practice of Pure Awareness.
uncanny clarity, David Sheff describes Masters’s gradu al but profound transformation from a man dedicated to hurting others to one who has prevented violence on the prison yard, counseled high school kids by mail, and helped prisoners—and even guards— find meaning in their lives. Along the way, Masters becomes drawn to the principles that Buddhism espouses—compassion, sacrifice, and living in the moment—and he gains the admiration of Buddhists worldwide, including many of the faith’s most renowned practitioners. And while he is still in San Quentin and still on death row, he is a renowned Buddhist thinker who shows us how to ease our everyday suffering, relish the light that surrounds us, and endure the tragedies that befall us all. Set in a place of unremitting violence, insanity, confusion, and rage, Masters’s story traverses the haunted caverns and tributaries of loneliness, despair, trauma, and other suffering—terrain we all know too well—and arrives at healing, meaning, and wisdom. Again and again, I have felt deeply Masters’s power to inspire. His spiritual practice is outrageously inventive; it’s often hilarious to see how Masters flips a situation, using the tricks of an environment he knows better than any other. It’s fascinating to read a well-written book about prison life—a life that is closed to many of us. The characters are vivid, funny, often terrifying. Masters’s simple and direct style gives the sense that he’s living at the end of the line and doesn’t need to lie to anyone, least of all himself. I began to write stories about my life so I could look into it, understand it more fully. My writing and spiritual practice have become inseparable... If I am executed, there will be some who believe I deserved it. But those who want to try to make sense of it will see, through my writing, a human being who made mistakes. Maybe my writing will at least help them see me as someone who felt, loved, and cared. My writing will hopefully show those people that they could easily have been me. “This is one of my favorite books, which I have often referred to in my teachings.” —Pema Chodron Also by Jarvis Masters is That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row.
LIVING IS DYING How to Prepare for Death, Dying and Beyond by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
$24.95, paper. Shambhala. 242 pp, colour
This insightful collection of teachings about death and dying helps us face life’s greatest mystery with equanimity. Lifetimes of effort go into organizing, designing, and structuring every aspect of our lives, but how many people are willing to contemplate the inevitability of death? Although dying is an essential part of life, it is an uncomfortable topic that most people avoid. With no idea what will happen when we die and a strong desire to sidestep the conversation, we make all kinds of assumptions. Living Is Dying collects teachings about death and the bardos that have been passed down through a long lineage of brilliant Buddhist masters, each of whom went to great lengths to examine the process in minute detail. Re-
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nowned author and teacher Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse responds to the most common questions he’s been asked about death and dying—exploring how one prepares for death, what to say to a loved one who is dying, and prayers and practices to use as a handhold when approaching the unknown territory of death. Whether you are facing death today or decades from now, preparing for it can help to allay your worst fears and help you appreciate what it means to be truly alive. At death, the laws of nature shear away your physical senses and your mind is left naked and entirely alone. As you no longer have eyes made of flesh and blood, everything you perceive is raw and unfiltered… Buddhism tells us that for a spiritual practitioner, the instant of complete nakedness we call the “moment of death” is extremely precious. At death, the forces of nature actually help us to appreciate, recognize and grab hold of the innate nature that has always been within us, our buddha nature—the Buddha. That is why the moment of death is especially precious to a practitioner who is already acquainted with the nature of mind, and why Buddhists develop the skills and abilities we need to make the most of the opportunities that death naturally brings while we are still alive. Among the other books by this author are What Makes You Not a Buddhist and The Guru Drinks Bourbon? RADICALLY HAPPY A User’s Guide to the Mind
by Phakchok Rinpoche & Erric Solomon $25.95, paper. Shambhala. 220 pages, colour illustrations
Get to know your own mind, stop judging, and be attentive— here’s a Buddhist guide to happiness that’s relevant to everyone. Beautifully colourful too! East meets West in a fresh, modern take on a timeless challenge: how to find contentment and meaning in life. A longtime meditator and seasoned Silicon Valley entrepreneur meets a young, insightful, and traditionally educated Tibetan Rinpoche. Together they present a path to radical happiness through accessible meditation and mindfulness techniques. Following three parts, the authors guide readers through Basic Happiness, Interconnected Happiness, and finally Radical Happiness, with each section building on itself to form a complete program. Filled with personal stories, scientific studies, suggested daily plans, and step-by-step exercises, this is the perfect introduction to meditation and Buddhist thought. It’s a thoughtful exploration of modern science and ancient wisdom—there’s no dumbing things down—yet it doesn’t take itself too seriously. But meditators or not, we all need an easy-to-use, pragmatic operator’s manual for the mind. You’ve found it here… Phakchok Rinpoche hails from a long line of meditation masters… His earthy tales of dealing with life’s stuff mix with his remarkably clear and accessible instructions— heart advice for navigating the tricky shoals of our own mind… Erric Solomon speaks in the no-nonsense voice of a techie but with the clarity of the seasoned practitioner, presenting mind-training methods in a way that resonates with our wired world. —from the foreword by Daniel Goleman and Tara Bennett-Goleman
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DREAMS OF LIGHT The Profound Daytime Practice of Lucid Dreaming
Pema Chodron on Courage by Pema Chodron
$22.95, paper. Shambhala. 192 pages
From the beloved author of When Things Fall Apart comes this open-hearted call for human connection, compassion, and learning to love the world just as it is during these most challenging times. In her first new book of spiritual teachings in over seven years, Pema Chödrön offers a combination of wisdom, heartfelt reflections, and the signature mix of humor and insight that have made her a beloved figure to turn to during times of change. In an increasingly polarized world, Pema shows us how to strengthen our abilities to find common ground, even when we disagree, and influence our environment in positive ways. Sharing never-before told personal stories from her remarkable life, simple and powerful everyday practices, and directly relatable advice, Pema encourages us all to become triumphant bodhisattvas—compassionate beings—in times of hardship. There’s more at stake in learning about spirituality THREE STEPS TO COURAGE Working Compasionately New on CD with Difficult Emotions $32.50, 4 CDs. Sounds True. 3.2 hours
In the midst of fear, anger, or sadness it may seem impossible to find our ground. Yet, the feelings we want to avoid the most can open the way to fearlessness, our basic goodness, and true freedom. Beloved Tibetan Buddhist teacher Pema Chodron has a unique gift for helping those of all faiths to work with their most difficult inner and outer challenges. In this supportive series of talks, listeners will join her at her best—showing us the way back to our wisest and most heartful selves. Here, Pema shares three simple, time-honored steps to practice when we are in pain or crisis: Finding the stillness and space within our inner storms so that we can act rather than react Using all of our felt experiences—positive and negative—as a direct path not only to immediate relief, but to real courage, nurtured through compassion Transforming our emotions and welcoming them as friends The feelings that we want to run from offer us the very
$23.00, paper. Riverhead. 336 pages
and meditation than just trying to feel good about yourself or getting better at chilling out. Replacing “us and them” with a feeling of our universal sameness and interconnectedness is becoming a practical requirement for survival… Buddha and many other wise people in this world have given us tools for taking whatever occurs in our lives and using it to cultivate our basic goodness and become more and more able to be there for others. Whatever the future brings—welcome or unwelcome—we can use for our path of awakening. To me, this attitude is the best kind of optimism. Welcoming the Unwelcome includes teachings on the true meaning of karma, recognizing the basic goodness in ourselves and the people we share our lives with—even the most challenging ones, transforming adversity into opportunities for growth, and freeing ourselves from the empty and illusory labels that separate us. Pema also provides step-by-step guides to a basic sitting meditation and a compassion meditation that anyone can use to bring light to the darkness we face, wherever and whatever it may be. fuel we need to grow our strength and self-acceptance.
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THE ART OF HAPPINESS
by Andrew Holecek
$24.99, paper. Sounds True. 332 pages
New in WELCOMING THE Paperback UNWELCOME Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World
by The Dalai Lama, with Howard Cutler
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First published in 1999, and finally available in trade paperback! Nearly every time you see him, he’s laughing, or at least smiling. And he makes everyone else around him feel like smiling. He’s the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, a Nobel Prize winner, and a hugely sought-after speaker and statesman. Why is he so popular? Even after spending only a few minutes in his presence you can’t help feeling happier. If you ask him if he’s happy, even though he’s suffered the loss of his country, the Dalai Lama will give you an unconditional yes. What’s more, he’ll tell you that happiness is the purpose of life, and that
Program Highlights: Session 1: Refraining from Emotional Reactivity ♦ The three steps to courage ♦ Guided Practice: Feeling Our Feeling ♦ Facing debilitating insecurity and feeling with kindness ♦ ”Recognition” and the ability to refrain ♦ Releasing our storylines and softening into experience ♦ Emotions and intimacy Session 2: Emotions as Paths of Awakening ♦ Melting the ice cube: becoming intimate with your experience ♦ The mindful gap, letting go, and clear seeing ♦ Q&A topics: holding space, recognizing wisdom, empathy, and basic goodness Session 3: Transforming Emotions ♦ Working with grief and loneliness ♦ Courage, ignorance, and the “qualities” game ♦ Cultivating spaciousness with tonglen practice ♦ Q&A topics: karmic seeds, shenpa, patience, loneliness, optimism, regret, virtue, and the healing power of love.
the very motion of our life is toward happiness. How to get there has always been the question. He’s tried to answer it before, but he’s never had the help of a psychiatrist to get the message across in a context we can easily understand. The Art of Happiness is the book that started the genre of happiness books, and it remains the cornerstone of the field of positive psychology. Through conversations, stories, and meditations interrelating Buddhism and psychology, the Dalai Lama shows us how to defeat day-today anxiety, insecurity, anger, and discouragement. Together with Dr. Howard Cutler, he explores many facets of everyday life, including relationships, loss, and the pursuit of wealth, to illustrate how to ride through life’s obstacles on a deep and abiding source of inner peace. Based on 2,500 years of Buddhist meditations mixed with a healthy dose of common sense and friendly humour, The Art of Happiness is a book that crosses the boundaries of traditions to help readers with difficulties common to all human beings. This book has touched countless lives and uplifted spirits around the world.
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Most of us are absolutely certain that we’re awake here and now—it’s a given, right? Yet, according to Tibetan dream yoga, ordinary waking life is in fact a delusion, as illusory as our nightly dreams. In his previous book Dream Yoga, Andrew Holecek guided us into Tibet’s nocturnal path of lucid dreaming and other dimensions of sleeping consciousness. Now, with Dreams of Light, he offers us a step-by-step guide to Tibetan dream yoga’s daytime practices. Known in Tibet as the “illusory form” practices, these teachings include insights, meditations, and actions to help us realize the dreamlike nature of our lives. Through an in-depth exploration of the tradition, beginners and seasoned practitioners alike will learn everything they need to enter the unexplored realms of our waking states. If you’ve struggled to awaken in your dreams, these techniques will often spark spontaneous lucidity during sleep. And if you’re already a successful lucid dreamer, they will open you to new depths of experience throughout your day. For those curious about altered states of consciousness, psychedelic therapies, and near-death and out-of-body experiences, Dreams of Light opens a time-honored gateway to kindred—and for many, even more profound—terrains of perception. “Andrew Holecek’s revelations about the illusory, dream-like nature of everyday life—drawing deeply upon the combined wisdom of science, religion, and philosophy—will blow your mind… Holecek is not just a teacher of lucid dreams: the spiritual path that he illuminates changes everything.” —James Kingsland, author of Am I Dreaming? The New Science of Consciousness and How Altered States Reboot the Brain THE LUCID DREAMING WORKBOOK A Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering Your Dream Life by Andrew Holecek
$31.95, pb. New Harbinger. 200 pp, 8x10
Have you ever realized you’re dreaming inside your dream? If so, you’ve experienced a lucid dream. Lucid dreaming, also known as conscious dreaming, is simply knowing that you’re dreaming while being able to remain in the dream without waking. And by learning to stay aware inside your dreams, you can learn more about yourself, the world, and the universe than you ever imagined! In this exciting guide, Andrew Holecek offers a step-by-step approach for developing and honing the skills. This engaging workbook blends ancient wisdom with modern knowledge to teach you the science behind lucid dreaming, the benefits of practicing this visionary art, and a variety of ways to induce these remarkable dreams. Use this wondrous workbook to: ♦ Experience unexplored passions ♦ Discover the richness of your innerworld ♦ Learn from your subconscious ♦ Develop your talents while you sleep ♦ Go beyond the bounds of your waking life With these exercises and meditations, you’ll embark on an incredible journey to explore the deep inner space of your dreaming mind and learn how to take control of your dreams to guide them toward the experiences you want to have. You’ll also learn about the stages of lucid dreaming, how they interconnect, and how the spiritual aspects of dreaming are related to life and death. Lucid dreaming can take you to places you’ve never been before.
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THE I CHING OR BOOK OF CHANGES A Guide to Life’s Turning Points by Brian Browne Walker
by Mimi Kuo-Deemer
For more than a quarter of a century, Brian Browne Walker’s translation of I Ching has been not only the bestselling English rendition of the classic Taoist text, but one of the few directly translated from the original text. The result is a modern classic on its own. For centuries, The I Ching or Book of Changes has been consulted for sage advice at life’s turning points. When its wisdom is sought with sincerity and sensitivity, this Chinese oracle will help to promote success and good fortune and to impart balance and perspective to your life. Its enduring popularity lies in the lessons that it teaches about how to use your positive qualities in order to attain life’s greatest rewards—prosperity, understanding, and peace of mind. Brian Browne Walker’s highly accessible translation of the I Ching, because it is clear and direct, allows you to make the wisdom of the ancient Chinese sages your own. Walker has studied the Chinese language for twelve years, and has studied and practiced Taoist philosophy with a number of teachers in the United States and abroad. This translation’s easy-to-use format and contemporary language has made it one of the standards, delighting new users and long time practitioners as well. Other nimble translations by Brian Browne Walker include Tao te Ching and Hua Hu Ching.
For centuries, Chinese sages, rulers and spiritual seekers have embraced a simple yet powerful principle to enable them to live in harmony with the Source of nature and all life: the art of “self-cultivation” or, xiu yang. Xiu yang works with the idea that we can steadily nurture our capacity to being fully human and fully awake. Like a field that is patiently cultivated to optimally grow the nourishing and healthy crops, we can undertake practices aimed at smoothing out the roughness and irregularities in our bodies, minds and spirits in order to produce a deep, lasting spiritual happiness. Xiu yang promotes the idea that inner balance leads to outer radiance: in order to be in harmony with the world, we must first be in harmony with ourselves. By tending to the field of our own bodies, hearts, minds and relationships, we can start making positive changes within our lives and in the lives of others. In this nurturing lifestyle guide, Mimi Kuo-Deemer champions the contemporary value of adopting this ancient approach. Through a combination of practices
$26.99, paper. Orion. 223 pages, illus.
$19.50, paper. Picador. 144 pages
THE TAO TE CHING The Essential Transltion of the Ancient Chinese Book of the Tao by John Minford
$24.00, paper. Tarcher. 368 pages
Here’s the original mindfulness book, in a landmark new translation by the award-winning translator of the I Ching and The Art of War in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper. The most translated book in the world after the Bible, the Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Tao, is a guide to cultivating a life of serenity and compassion. Through aphorisms and parable, it leads readers toward and evokes the Tao, or the Way: harmony with the life force of the universe. Attributed to Lao-tzu, a Chinese philosopher thought to have been a contemporary of Confucius, it is the essential text of Taoism, one of the three great religions of ancient China. As one of the world’s great works of wisdom literature, it offers a practical model based on modesty and self-restraint for living a balanced existence and for opening your mind, freeing your thoughts, and embodying wisdom. This new translation seeks to understand the Tao Te Ching as a guide to everyday living and encourages a slow, meditative reading experience. The Tao Te Ching’s eightyone brief chapters are accompanied by illuminating commentary, interpretation, poems, and testimonials by the likes of Margaret Mead, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Dr. Wayne Dyer. Specially commissioned calligraphy for more than two hundred Chinese characters illustrates the book’s essential themes.
QIGONG AND THE TAI CHI AXIS Nourishing Practices for Body, Mind, and Spirit
by Mimi Kuo-Deemer
$23.95, paper. Dover. 242 pages, photos
Reduce stress, release pain, and create bodymind harmony with this introduction to qigong and the yin/yang balance of tai chi, the ancient Chinese arts of movement meditation. This accessible book features information about these practices as well as insights into their benefits, providing tools for replenishing inner resources and managing energy levels. It also offers advice on making healthier choices in everyday life that will support the body’s natural capacity for energy, balance, and well-being. Through intentional movements, we begin to feel more present and sensitive to our body’s needs. We pay attention to where we hold stiffness, tightness and tension, and learn to deliberately relax and soften these areas. We also consciously deepen and refine our breathing, which lets the movements become meditative… Breathing practices also begin to circulate qi. When this happens, qigong becomes more than just exercising the muscles and moving the bones. When qi
from meditation and mindfulness to yoga and qigong, Xiu Yang offers a fresh approach to finding balance and bringing peace into your life, home and community. The book is filled with practices and perspectives that will help you “come alive.” Breath helps you remember your innate ability to find true peace and calm abiding in any moment. It wakes you up to your true nature, which is a connection and oneness with all things… By focusing on the breath mindfully our busy mind starts to settle, which helps us feel relaxed and more peaceful. “Exquisite... for anyone interested in building a sustainable life that is imbued with vibrant healthy, mental and emotional clarity, and the most basic human need of all: happiness” —Donna Farhi, author of Yoga Mind, Body, Spirit “A treasure chest for the heart and mind, a potent tonic for body and breath, and a vibrant life essence for the spirit” —Simon Low, Principal, the Yoga Academy Also by Mimi Kuo-Deemer is Qigong and the Tai Chi Axis: Nourishing Practices for Body, Mind, and Spirit. effectively circulates, it means that we open the body to the uninhibited flow of qi. This nourishes our blood and helps us steady our energy levels. When we start to feel the effects of qigong, we begin to know what it is like to be healthy, vibrant, and clear. We can also sense when we feel off-kilter and imbalanced. Once we become aware of this, we have the capacity to change it. Qigong gives us the tools to see, respond and adjust to our experiences so that we can stave off the detrimental effects of fatigue, tension and stress before they become deeper problems. Above all, qigong works to integrate the virtues of trust, integrity, wisdom and compassion into the human body and spirit. It is a practice that people of all ages and levels of experience can embrace and find beneficial. “Mimi Kuo-Deemer takes the reader on a journey through the five elements and seasons of qigong, explaining their connection to health, lifestyle, and state of mind… It is a pleasure to read such a balanced approach. I highly recommend Qigong and the Tai Chi Axis!” — Ken Cohen, author of The Way of Qigong
Put Jade Out of mind, Return to Rock, To the One, Most precious thing of all, Mystery of Mysteries, Gateway to All Marvels, Ancestor of the Myriad Things. “A wonder and a delight. The simplicity and purity of this translation resonate directly with the original. It conveys the innermost essence of Chinese culture, drawing the reader deep into its enchantment and wisdom. Every word is charged with effortless energy—a radiant union of form and spirit.” —Tang Yuen-ha, Chinese opera artist
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BodyMind Healing, Ayurveda, & Chinese Medicine THE HEALING SELF A Revolutionary New Plan to Supercharge Your Immunity and Stay Well for Life by Deepak Chopra & Rudolph Tanzi $23.00, paper. Penguin. 304 pages
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Deepak Chopra, a leader in the field of integrative medicine; and Rudolph Tanzi, the pioneering neuroscientist and discoverer of genes that cause Alzheimer’s Disease… After their collaborations on the successful Super Brain and Super Genes books, they now present a groundbreaking work on the importance of our immune system in relation to our lifelong health. In the face of environmental toxins, potential epidemics, pandemics, superbugs, and the accelerated aging process, the significance of achieving optimum health has never been more crucial—and the burden to achieve it now rests on individuals making the right lifestyle choices every day. That means you. You—not doctors, not pharmaceutical companies—are ultimately responsible for your own health. In The Healing Self they not only push the boundaries of the intellect to bring readers the newest research and insights on the mind-body, mind-gene, and mind-immunity connections, but they offer a cutting-edge, seven-day action plan, which outlines the key tools everyone needs to develop their own effective and personalized path to self-healing. In addition, The Healing Self closely examines how we can best manage chronic stress and inflammation, which are immerging as the primary detriments of well-being. Moreover, Chopra and Tanzi turn their attention to a host of chronic disorders such as hypertension, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and Alzheimer’s Disease, known to take years and sometimes decades to develop before the first symptoms appear. Contemporary medical systems aren’t set to attend to prolonged low-grade chronic inflammation or the everyday infections and stresses that take their toll on the body and can lead to disease, aging, and death. Thus, learning the secrets of self-healing is not only urgent but mandatory for optimum health. The Healing Self then is a call to action, a proven, strategic program that will arm readers with the information they need to protect themselves and achieve lifelong wellness. REGENERATE Unlocking Your Body’s Radical Resilience Through the New Biology
by Sayer Ji
$35.99, cloth. Hay House. 358 pages
Modern medicine and human health are at a critical crossroads, and the truth is that you and not your genes are in the driver’s seat. You are the one who gets to make informed decisions on how you use and nourish the evolutionary miracle that is your body. Combining analysis of cutting-edge scientific findings with our deepest ancestral wisdom and health-promoting practices, Sayer Ji, founder of GreenMedInfo, offers a time-tested program to help prevent and manage the most common health afflictions of our day-cancer, heart disease, neurodegenerative diseases, and metabolic syndrome. Sayer Ji articulates our innate potential for self-regeneration and radical healing. The New Biology explains why biological time is not a downward spiral and how chronic illness is not inevitable when you implement nature’s re-
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Everyday Ayurveda & Chinese Medicine THE EVERYDAY AYURVEDA GUIDE TO SELF-CARE Rhythms, Routines, and Home Remedies for Natural Healing by Kate O’Donnell, Brostrom $39.95, paper. Shambhala. 288 pages, 7x9, colour photos
A holistic guide to self-care based on traditional Ayurvedic wisdom—from the bestselling author of The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook and Everyday Ayurveda Cooking for a Calm, Clear Mind. Learn to befriend your body and discover how best to care for yourself day by day and season by season with Ayurveda, India’s ancient holistic healing system. The Everyday Ayurveda Guide to Self-Care takes the ancient Ayurvedic principles and focuses on how to be an integrated, whole person while balancing the everyday demands of our modern world. EVERYDAY CHINESE MEDICINE Healing Remedies for Immunity, Vitality, and Optimal Health by Mindi Counts & Kristen Sink $39.95, paper. Shambhala. 368 pages, 7x9, colour photos
Achieve vibrant health in every season with the holistic techniques of traditional Chinese medicine. This friendly guide to a 2,000-year-old lineage of healing wisdom integrates both the Five Element theory and the practices of traditional Chinese medicine to uncover what your body needs for balance and optimal health. Everyday Chinese Medicine demystifies, simplifies, and reveals patterns to help you take control of your own well-being from the comfort of your own home and kitchen. Mindi Counts—a holistic medical practitioner, acupuncturist, and herbalist—walks you through the seasons, elements, and organ systems to help you understand your unique constitution and how to achieve energetic and physical balance. With simple recipes,
siliency tools. In his thoughtful exploration of the New Biology, Sayer Ji illuminates: ♦ the fascinating new science of food as information ♦ the truth about cancer and heart disease screening and what real prevention looks like ♦ how to reverse the most common forms of degeneration using food-based approaches ♦ how the body extracts energy from sources other than food, including water and melanin; and ♦ how to make sense of conflicting dietary recommendations and out-of-date food philosophies. Encoded within every tissue of your body is your ability to regenerate. Unlock your radical resiliency through this roadmap for diet, exercise, stress reduction, and the cultivation of the environment in which you choose to live. The best possible outcome I can imagine is that you will learn, as I have, to experience deeper awe and gratitude for what already is: this miracle of our incarnation and the planet that continually nourishes and supports everything in our lives. “Regenerate is a brilliant, enlightening blend of ancient traditions, modern medicine, cutting-edge science, and sacred spirituality, conscientiously woven into an alchemical roadmap of living life in the 21st century. A must-have for curious, soul-seeking readers in the pursuit of a highvibe path!” —Deanna Minich, nutritionist and author of Whole Detox
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Organized into three parts, the book opens with an introduction to Ayurveda, helping you to better understand your doshas and your basic Ayurvedic anatomy. The second section illuminates the art of self-care—exploring the daily routines and seasonal practices that can help prevent imbalance in both mind and body. Part three discusses the medicinal qualities of foods, spices, and herbs to support cleansing, rejuvenation, and management of common imbalances and ailments. From self-massage, oil pulling, and tongue scraping to breathing practices, meditation exercises, and eating with intention—this detailed guide will walk you through every step of important Ayurvedic practices that can be easily integrated into your existing self-care routine. You will also learn how to effectively use herbal routines, recipes, and rituals to achieve exactly what your body needs on a daily basis. self-care practices, and time-tested herbal remedies, Everyday Chinese Medicine is the perfect companion on your path to complete wellness. “Everyday Chinese Medicine awakens the reader’s health awareness with teachings on nutrition, herbs, lifestyle suggestions, and other alternatives that can result in safer, more enduring healing experiences.”—Paul Pitchford, author of Healing with Whole Foods Mindi Counts offers us a timely gift from the ancients; a gift full of practical wisdom and knowledge that is tremendously relevant and important to modern-day health and well-being. She has created a comprehensive path to finding the balance and harmony we need to take more responsibility for our health before we fall into patterns of disease.”—from the foreword by Marlow Brooks, LAc, author of Singing Our Heart’s Song: A Guide to the Five Elements THE WIM HOF METHOD Activate Your Full Human Potential by Wim Hof
$33.99, cloth. Sounds True. 232 pages, b/w illustrations
Here’s the definitive book authored by Wim Hof on his powerful method for realizing our physical and spiritual potential. This method is very simple, very accessible, and endorsed by science. Anybody can do it, and there is no dogma, only acceptance. Only freedom. Wim Hof has a message for each of us: You can literally do the impossible. You can overcome disease, improve your mental health and physical performance, and even control your physiology so you can thrive in any stressful situation. With The Wim Hof Method, this trailblazer of human potential shares a method that anyone can use— young or old, sick or healthy—to supercharge their capacity for strength, vitality, and happiness. Wim has become known as The Iceman for his astounding physical feats, such as spending hours in freezing water and running barefoot marathons over deserts and ice fields. Yet his most remarkable achievement is not any record-breaking performance—it is the creation of a method that thousands of people have used to transform their lives. In his gripping and passionate style, Wim shares his method and his story, including:
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Breath—Wim’s unique practices to change your body chemistry, infuse yourself with energy, and focus your mind Cold—Safe, controlled, shock-free practices for using cold exposure to enhance your cardiovascular system and awaken your body’s untapped strength Mindset—Build your willpower, inner clarity, sensory awareness, and innate joyfulness in the miracle of living Science—How users of this method have redefined what is medically possible in study after study Health—True stories and testimonials from people using the method to overcome disease and chronic illness Performance—Increase your endurance, improve recovery time, up your mental game, and more Wim’s Story—Follow Wim’s inspiring personal journey of discovery, tragedy, and triumph Spiritual Awakening—How breath, cold, and mindset can reveal the beauty of your soul. Wim Hof is a man on a mission: to transform the way we live by reminding us of our true power and purpose. This is how we will change the world, one soul at a time. We alter the collective consciousness by awakening to our own boundless potential. We are limited only by the depth of our imagination and the strength of our conviction. Also by Wim Hof is his 11CD audio set, The Iceman Speaks.
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THE LANGUAGE YOUR BODY SPEAKS Self-Healing with Energy Medicine by Ellen Meredith
$26.95, paper. New World Library. 262 pages, b/w illustrations
Energy healing is based on the premise that energy is our essence, that while our bodies appear solid, they are in fact a constantly swirling set of energetic exchanges. Ellen Meredith’s innovative approach to energy medicine recognizes these exchanges as a language in itself. Speaking that language allows us to hear and understand what the body is telling us so that we can heal ailments and maintain optimal well-being. Though this communication may seem esoteric, it is actually a fundamental human skill, one we had as preverbal infants. The Language Your Body Speaks teaches readers to relearn it through simple experiments, meditations, exercises, and practices. The resulting dialogue amounts to an infallible internal guidance system that empowers anyone to read their physical and emotional symptoms and understand how to heal them. Learning to speak the body’s language creates a potent, personalized path to not only healing but the realization
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AURAS The Anatomy of the Aura: A Start Here Guide
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$23.00, paper. Scribner. isbn 9781501169311 336 pages, b/w illus.
by Eliza Swann
$20.50, paper. Picador. 194 pages, b/w illustrations
Auras: The Anatomy of the Aura is a modern illustrated guide to the ancient practice of aura reading. This is the perfect book to introduce readers to the power and beauty of auras. These layered veils of energy surround all physical things and reflect the state of their internal energy flow. Author and teacher Eliza Swann demystifies the world of auras and brings an ancient tradition into the modern era, teaching readers: ♦ What an aura is from both mystical and scientific perspectives ♦ Techniques for learning to perceive auras ♦ The history of the concept of auras ♦ An in-depth explanation of the layers of the human aura ♦ An extensive glossary of terminology relating to the human aura ♦ How to heal the human aura Black and white illustrations throughout the book help readers visualize the techniques as they read. Packed with information yet always fun and accessible, Auras is a lively beginner’s guide! Learning to perceive auras tunes us in to emotions, dreams, and patterns within ourselves and other beings and offers surprising solutions to problems. By embarking on the journey of energy reading, we can begin to see the relationship between cause and effect. Our thoughts affect our energy fields, which in turn affect our bodies and our health, which in turn affects the health of our communities and our planet.
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THE ENERGY CODES The 7-Step System to Awaken Your Spirit, Heal Your Body, and Live Your Best Life
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Transform your life with this revolutionary and accessible seven-step guide —grounded in energy medicine, neurobiology, and quantum physics—to awaken your true health and potential through energy healing. Some years ago, health pioneer and practitioner Dr. Sue Morter had a transformational experience. While meditating, she spontaneously accessed an energy field—a level of consciousness—previously unknown to her. This dramatic awakening changed her life, freeing her from years of struggle and pain. It also set Dr. Morter on her new life’s mission to deepen her studies of energy healing and medicine in the hopes of recreating this radical, positive transformation for herself and her patients. CHAKRA HEALING THERAPY Awaken Spiritual Energies and Heal Emotional Wounds
by Glen Park
$31.50, paper. Inner Traditions. 360 pages, 8x10, colour illustrations
In this in-depth guide to working with the chakras, author Glen Park draws on her decades of experience as a Chakra Therapist to explain how the chakras can be understood as an embodied map of the psyche, with each chakra representing a different stage of development from infancy and childhood through adulthood, with the Heart Chakra playing a central role in awakening the spiritual potential of the upper chakras. She examines each chakra individually on the physical, psychological, psychic, and spiritual level, as well as through the lens of the solar (masculine) and lunar (feminine) channels. She shows how the connections between the chakras and developmental stages parallel the findings of Western psychology and neuroscience and how our collective expressions of the chakras influence cultural trends in society. The author’s system of Chakra Therapy integrates healing touch with guided chakra visualizations, offer-
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of one’s unique mind, body, and spirit potential. In her foreword to this book, Donna Eden (author of Energy Medicine) says: This book is a breath of fresh air…She offers techniques that help us enter into our own psyches and energies for healing. As Ellen says, `The goal of this work is not to fix your energies but to encounter them and heave a heartfelt, loving, supportive dialogue.`The Language Your Body Speaks teaches you to trust your body and know it as your partner. Weaving insights from ancient cultures, her teachers, and her own council, Ellen invites you to commune with the vast intelligence at work inside you and become emotionally congruent and deeply satisfied… One of the best things about this book is the realization that consciousness is a whole-body phenomenon. When something goes wrong with your body, it is a welcome relief to know you can converse with it and find out why your body did this, what it might mean, and what you can do to heal yourself. It is empowering, It is freeing.
Through years of study, she developed the seven Energy Codes, a life-changing program that has enabled herself and her patients to overcome pain, disease, fatigue, anxiety, and depression, and to awaken creativity. Inspired by the seven Chakras, and bridging ancient healing practices with cutting edge science, The Energy Codes offers a detailed roadmap to help you activate previously untapped energy and neuro-circuitry within the body. Grounded in practical, accessible exercises like simple Yoga sequences, breathwork, and meditations, and complete with dozens of inspiring success stories, The Energy Codes empowers you to tap into the pure energy of your being. Whether this is your first exploration with using energy as medicine or you’re well versed in the subject, the Energy Codes’ revolutionary methods offer unique insights and protocols that will be life-changing for you and for those whose lives you touch.
ing practical exercises to nourish and balance each chakra so it can be integrated and in harmony with the entire chakra system. She explores how to work with the Heart Chakra for deep transformation and self-healing, including healing emotional wounds from childhood and enabling the psychic and spiritual levels of the Throat and Eye Chakras to develop, with the potential of opening to the divine realm of the Crown Chakra. Sharing case studies from her Chakra Therapy practice, she shows how we gain a richer understanding of ourselves both mentally and physically by working with the chakras, opening ourselves to the potential for deep soul growth and transformation. “Chakra Healing Therapy includes beautiful charts and diagrams; solid references related to research, psychology, and transpersonal theories of development; and specific practices for balancing chakras and grounding, many based on the Alexander Technique… This is an excellent reference for therapists and anyone with an interest in enlivening, balancing, and transforming their subtle energy system.” —Bonnie Greenwell, psychotherapist and author of When Spirit Leaps
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THE BLOOM BOOK A Flower Essence Guide to Cosmic Balance by Heidi Smith
$31.50, cloth. Sounds True. 496 pages, 7x10, colour photos
What a gorgeous book of “flower power!” From lavender’s ability to soothe frazzled nerves to rose’s charms in healing the heart, flowers don’t just delight the senses—they have a secret history as doorways to transformation. With The Bloom Book, Heidi Smith offers a holistic and comprehensive guide for working with flower essences—the vibrational signatures of our botanical allies— to bring about healing, awakening, and deep change. Flowers represent a branch of plant medicine that is specifically concerned with our consciousness and evolution. To connect with their essence catalyzes the blossoming of our own healing and spiritual journeys. A psychosomatic therapist, flower essence practitioner, registered herbalist, and long-time student of ancient wisdom traditions, Smith seamlessly integrates the healing power of flower essences with vibrational medicine, and the rise of the divine feminine. The result is NATURAL WOMAN Herbal Remedies for Radiant Health at Every Age and Stage of Life by Leslie Korn
$33.95, paper. Shambhala. 303 pages, 7x9
Plant medicines are a woman’s ally to achieve optimal health; they bring balance and nourishment to daily life and can reduce or eliminate symptoms of physical and emotional distress. They can also provide alternatives to many pharmaceuticals. This go-to herbal sourcebook helps women thrive at every age and stage of their lives, with remedies using common herbs and plants to support a healthy body, mind, and spirit. Organized by disease or discomfort, this book is an essential guide to help women find the herbal support they need. Treatments for sleep disorders, menstrual issues, autoimmune conditions, anxiety, fertility, post-partum recovery, skin ailments, and more, can be found and prepared with ease. Herbal guidance for rites of passage or moments of community are provided, and the inclusion of psychoactive herbs, protocol for end-of life care, and extensive resources round out the coverage—including common discomforts that afTHE REBEL’S APOTHECARY A Practical Guide to the Healing Magic of Cannabis, CBD, and Mushrooms by Jenny Sansouci
$27.00, pb. Random House. 356 pp. illus.
When health coach and wellness blogger Jenny Sansouci learned that her dad was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, her extensive knowledge of the latest alternative therapies was put to the test. Jenny dove into the world of cannabis and mushrooms and their medicinal properties—and she and her dad are now outspoken champions of the healing power of these plants and fungi— not only to tame the side effects of chemotherapy, but to address many everyday wellness concerns. The Rebel’s Apothecary is the result of her heartfelt and rigorous quest—a science-based and supportive guide that will enhance the lives of anyone living with pain, anxiety, depression, a weakened immune system, insomnia, and more. Complete with background information, dosing instructions, and everyday recipes, this is the essential handbook for harnessing the ancient healing powers of cannabis and mushrooms—safely, without confusion, fear, or an unwanted high. I never thought I would put cannabis and mushrooms into my body on a daily basis, but they’ve become a fundamental part of my everyday life. My perception of them has completely changed, as I’ve learned to use them in quite a different way than I did in college—without any intoxicating effects… Once you learn to use them without fear or uncertainty, they may quickly become a
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a cosmic doctrine of healing that empowers readers to align with their highest selves and help to bring about planetary transformation. Highlights include: ♦ An intuitive approach to working with flower essences for balance and optimal health ♦ Detailed instructions for making, selecting, and formulating flower essences ♦ Rituals, recipes, and case studies for protection, grounding, dreamwork, grief, love, and more ♦ Complementary applications of vibrational healing—including breath work, moon cycles, colors, chakras, and sacred symbols ♦ Working with trauma and systemic oppression—how flower essences can support multi-generational, intersectional healing. With gorgeous illustrations by artist Chelsea Granger, The Bloom Book is both an information-rich resource and interactive guidebook. Every chapter contains several creative exercises to engage your right brain (feminine, intuitive, subconscious hemisphere), inspire, and encourage deeper study. fect children. Dr. Leslie Korn brings over 40 years of experience in numerous herbal traditions and healing modalities to Natural Woman, offering timeless wisdom that can be shared with friends and passed down in the family for generations. “Since moving to the jungle of western Mexico as a young woman, Dr. Leslie Korn has spent over four decades studying the use of herbs by indigenous healers. Her new book, Natural Woman, is an accessible and comprehensive resource that shows how herbs support health, heal physical, emotional, and spiritual illness, and add delight and nourishment to our food. The reader-friendly organization of the book allows easy access to specific health conditions and specific herbs. Particularly moving is a chapter on the use of herbs in rituals that mark important life passages. This book is encyclopedic, and Korn peppers her impressive knowledge with stories about her own meaningful encounters with herbs. Natural Woman will provide assistance to women in all phases of life and will create a much-needed link to the healing wisdom found in indigenous cultures.” — Kathryn Ridall, author of Dreaming at the Gates cherished part of your daily life, too. In addition to debunking myths and de-stigmatizing these powerful healing plants and fungi, The Rebel’s Apothecary presents: ♦ Specific protocols and dosage guides for wellness uses (mood, sleep, immunity, focus, energy) and managing common chemotherapy side effects ♦ Everyday wellness routines ♦ Recipes for delicious, easy, health-enhancing cannabis and mushroom infused smoothies, coffee drinks, teas, elixirs, gummies, and broths—including recipes from chefs and wellness experts like Dr. Andrew Weil, Kris Carr, Seamus Mullen, Marco Canora and more ♦ The latest research on CBD, THC, medicinal mushrooms and even psilocybin ♦ Tips for creating a cutting-edge home apothecary of your own. “Delightful, well-informed, and user-friendly… You’ll get a big boost from reading this book!” —Martin Lee, director, Project CBD, author of Smoke Signals “While not a substitute for appropriate medical care, this book provides two of the important ingredients we need when a loved one is diagnosed with cancer or a chronic, debilitating, or painful condition: tools to help mitigate their suffering, and possibly improve their immunity, resilience, and health. Help and hope. That’s what this book is all about—and who doesn’t need that?” —Aviva Romm, MD, author of The Natural Pregnancy Book and The Adrenal Thyroid Revolution
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THE ALCHEMY OF STONES Co-Creating with Crystals, Minerals, and Gemstones for Healing and Transformation
by Robert Simmons
$37.50, paper. Inner Traditions. 496 pages, 7x10, colour photos
The Alchemy of Stones presents an inspired breakthrough in Robert Simmons thirty-five year career of exploring and revealing the spiritual qualities and potentials of minerals, crystals, and gemstones. This holistic, Earth-based framework for understanding stones and their energies initiates readers into an alchemical worldview that leads to spiritual healing, transformation, and transcendence. Engaging readers step by step, Simmons provides guidance on discovering and harnessing the three human powers of intention, attention, and imagination, each a crucial component for meeting and working in harmony with the energies of the Stone Beings. Simmons also introduces us to the Divine Feminine intelligence known as Sophia, or Wisdom. The Stone Beings are her emissaries, and through relating and co-creating with them, the healing and redemption of ourselves and the Earth becomes a reality. Offering an illustrated dictionary of the spiritual qualities of more than 375 different minerals, crystals, and gemstones, Simmons also explores in depth what he calls the Four Cornerstones of the Alchemy of Stones: Moldavite, Phenacite, Azeztulite, and Rosophia. He discusses the stages of alchemical transformation and provides meditative practices with specific stones to go with each stage. He also explores how to work with stone mandalas, crystal body layouts, gemstone elixirs, and Orgonite energy devices and details powerful techniques for working with stones. Woven throughout are Simmons personal stories of the pivotal mystical experiences that triggered his capacity to feel stone energies and led him to develop his relationship with the stones, revealing how this work can open minds and awaken hearts. Lavishly illustrated, The Alchemy of Stones is an invitation to a journey of enlightenment, transformation, and spiritual metamorphosis aligned with the path of our living, conscious Earth. The author of several books, including The Book of Stones and Stones of the New Consciousness, Simmons lives in New Zealand. CRYSTAL BASICS The Energetic, Healing & Spiritual Power of 200 Gemstones by Nicholas Pearson
$37.50, paper. Inner Traditions. 402 pages, colour photos
In this in-depth yet easy-to-follow guide, crystal healing teacher Nicholas Pearson offers a full-color compendium of 200 crystals and gemstones as well as a hands-on practical handbook on crystal healing, perfect for those just beginning their crystal journey as well as long-time stone lovers seeking an all-in-one reference. The handbook of crystal use opens with a thorough explanation of crystal energy, including its interactions with the human energy field, and teaches readers how to extrapolate what a crystal does based on its composition, crystal structure, formation process, and other properties. In the chapters on techniques, Pearson offers guidance on selecting your crystals and gemstones, then step-bystep instructions on how to cleanse, charge, activate, and program them. He explains how to make crystal grids and healing layouts, including templates for both, and also discusses the numerology and geometry of crystal grids. He explores the essentials of crystal elixirs, complete with elixir recipes, and details how to perform crystal medita-
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tions, clear the energy centers and the aura, and practice more advanced techniques, such as engaging with the crystal devas, creating sacred space, and practices for spiritual hygiene and protection. The compendium includes 200 rocks, minerals, gemstones, and crystal formations, organized alphabetically and featuring full-color photographs. Each entry includes geological information and the physical, psychological, and spiritual healing qualities for every stone. Some stones, such as jasper and quartz, have multiple varieties, each given their own entries to provide a thorough reference guide for crystal healers and collectors. ENTANGLED LIFE How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
$37.00, cloth. Random House. 352 pages, colour photos
When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways we think, feel, and behave. In Entangled Life, the brilliant young biologist Merlin Sheldrake shows us the world from a fungal point of view, providing an exhilarating change of perspective. Sheldrake’s vivid exploration takes us from yeast to psychedelics, to the fungi that range for miles underground and are the largest organisms on the planet, to those that link plants together in complex networks known as the Wood Wide Web, to those that infiltrate and manipulate insect bodies with devastating precision—and have done so for millions of years. Fungi throw our concepts of individuality and even intelligence into question. They are metabolic masters, earth makers, and key players in most of life’s processes. They can change our minds, heal our bodies, and even help us remediate environmental disaster. By examining fungi on their own terms, Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms—and our relationships with them—are changing our understanding of how life works. Fungi roll us toward the edge of many questions. This book comes from my experience of peering over some of these edges. My exploration of the fungal world has made me reexamine much of what I knew. Evolution, ecosystems, individuality, intelligence, life—none are quite what I thought they were. My hope is that this book loosens some of your certainties, as fungi have loosened mine. “A dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing book… I ended it wonderstruck at the fungal world—the secrets of which modern science is only now beginning to fathom.” —Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland “True to his name, Merlin takes us on a magical journey deep into the roots of Nature—the mycelial universe that exists under every footstep we take in life. Merlin is an expert storyteller, weaving the tale of our co-evolution with fungi into a scientific adventure. Entangled Life is a mustread for citizen scientists hoping to make a positive difference on this sacred planet we share.” —Paul Stamets, author of Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World “I thought I knew a lot about fungi, but I found much that was new to me, and exciting. Sheldrake is a rare scientist who is not afraid to speculate about the truly profound implications of his work. A very good read.” —Andrew Weil, author of Spontaneous Healing and Healthy Aging
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$34.95, paper. Storey. 260 pp, colour
Author Tammi Sweet combines her expertise in herbal medicine and neurobiology in this in-depth, respectful guide to understanding the science of how and why cannabis medicine is effective. She explains the physiology of the body’s endocannabinoid system and how it is affected by ingesting cannabis, as well as the chemistry of the whole plant. Based on research and her own clinical experiences, Sweet provides instructions for the best preparation techniques and specific dosage recommendations for addressing a wide range of conditions including stress, chronic pain, anxiety, PTSD, insomnia, and more. This book will be extremely valuable to healthcare professionals, practitioners of the healing arts, dispensary workers, and medical cannabis users who want to understand the science of cannabis and its effects on the whole body. Like other master plants such as peyote, psilocybin (both actually not plants but fungi), or ayahuasca, cannaCANNABIS FOR COUPLES Enhance Intimacy and Elevate Your Relationship by John Selby
$18.99, paper. Inner Traditions. 212 pp.
In this friendly guide, psychologist John Selby explores how to use cannabis as a powerful and effective path to strengthen your relationship and nurture your intimate life. Drawing on his own NIH brain research on the emotional impact of psychoactive chemicals, he explains the difference between getting high alone and as a couple and examines from a psychological and neurological perspective what happens when you get high. Revealing seven primary types of inner experience and outer behavior stimulated by THC, the author shares stories from his four decades of practice as a couples therapist, discussing the power of THC and other cannabinoids to help heal emotional wounds and boost intimacy—and how to determine if using cannabis together is right for you and your partner. The author explains how to properly prepare for a cannabis session and how to use breath, meditation, and other focusing techniques to deepen the effects of being high and facilitate bonding. Depending on several variables, pot can make us feel stoned and relatively unconscious or high and acutely
Bodywork & Movement BIRTHING IN GOOD HANDS Holistic Massage for Pregnancy, Labor, and Babies by Christine Sutherland
$19.95, paper. Brush Education. 184 pages, 8x11, b/w photos
Use the healing power of touch for a healthier, happier pregnancy. [Note: special low price of $19.95 (half of regular price!) while supplies last—as Christine donated Banyen a boxful of her book] Pregnancy is an exciting time full of promise, but most women could do without symptoms such as back pain, headaches, nausea, and swollen feet—luckily, many of these conditions can be treated with massage. Touch has
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bis has the ability to change the consciousness of humanity. The term “master plant” comes from shamanic traditions where it is recognized that the spirit of the plant or fungus has the ability to be in direct relationship with us and to change human consciousness. Plants are our elders… When we are chosen and choose a particular plant to work with, we are in an “ally relationship.” We are committing to be schooled and to learn from and with our plant. I will at times refer to the cannabis plant as “she.” First, this is a sign of respect and gratitude. Second, the plants we use for making medicine are female… Working with cannabis, or any plant, as a plant ally is based on relationship, one that develops over time and can’t solely be cultivated with book learning or casual participation. The plant will undoubtedly bring her gifts, and you must bring your whole self, willing to be in a co-creative relationship, not a relationship of dominance and “knowing better.” You will need to surrender your ideas about control, specifically who has it. Don’t worry; we all have control issues of one kind or another, and you will have plenty of opportunities to practice working on yours with cannabis. If you are not used to thinking in this way, think of it as building up a very small muscle. It takes time and use to become strong.
conscious… Can we get high together in ways that actively and predictably enhance our relationship? This book also explores the use of cannabis for sexual pleasure and how the muse of marijuana can serve as an inner therapist to work out relationship issues. Shared laughter and emotional freedom are likewise encouraged. Selby also explores cannabis’s energetic influence on the chakras and how to balance and integrate the seven energy centers together with your partner during a cannabis session. “The guidance is also just as useful for individuals looking for reliable, extensively ‘field-tested’ information.” —Stephen Gray, editor of Cannabis and Spirituality “If you’ve ever imagined a kind older person with decades of personal and professional experience on how to best use cannabis, who would share in depth a multitude of ways to improve your experiences, John Selby is all of the above and a lot more. This book will lead you into more pleasure, more awareness, greater depths, more sensory excitement, more fun, and more wisdom. Spoiler alert: the last few chapters take what you’ve learned from the rest to a whole new level. Consider this book to be a gift to yourself, your partner, and your relationship.” —James Fadiman, author of The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide
the power to heal, calm, and nurture relationships. Christine Sutherland, co-founder of Toronto’s Sutherland-Chan School and Teaching Clinic, teaches the basics of prenatal massage for healthy pregnancies. From the first trimester to postpartum recovery, Christine’s healing methods will help moms-to-be through every stage of pregnancy, including childbirth and breastfeeding. There’s even a chapter on the basics of baby massage, which new parents, grandparents, and siblings can use to relieve common infant conditions and bond with the new child. Hundreds of photos and illustrations clearly illustrate
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HUMANUAL A Manual for Being Human): an epic journey to your expanded self by Stuart Eisendrath
$26.50, paper. Waterside. 260 pages, 8x11, b/w photos
Betsy Polatin is a dancer by training; a student of movement, music, breath, and meditation; as well as an Alexander Technique Practitioner (among the many disciplines that she has mastered). In Humanual, she shows us how to listen to the signals of our bodies, and guides us to shift out of habitual patterns that keep us stuck. Her book is a trustworthy guide to learn to feel at home within yourself. Each of us has an everyday self that we assume our self to be. But what if there is more to us than meets the eye? What if there is an expanded version of our self that includes not only the habitual patterns, the lost parts, and the innate organization but also a connection to the grand, scintillating space of the universe and the possibilities it offers us?
HUMANUAL offers a clear, concise, and rather simple set of explanations and exercises to facilitate understanding and unity of body, mind, and spirit. Many of us have lost our connection to each other, the planet, ourselves, and our bodies, causing distress and discomfort. But in actuality, we have a wealth of resources inside of us that we can learn to enliven and use to our advantage to access health and well-being. Anyone can use the exercises in this book for personal exploration and growth. You will learn:
DYNAMICS OF STILLNESS Develop your senses and reconnect with nature through meditation by Ian Wright
$25.95, paper. Eddison. 160 pages, 7x9, colour photos
This book is the antidote to the information overload of the modern age, helping readers to disengage from chaos and find stillness within. In this practical book, experienced osteopath Ian Wright blends holistic disciplines—including those from Buddhism, Taoism, and Aboriginal traditions—with modern science and fluid dynamics to help readers quiet their minds to self-heal. Through mindfulness and meditation techniques, he guides readers toward a calm, nonreactive “state of neutrality,” while at the same time allowing them to establish a deep connection between their senses and the world. This beautiful book offers something genuinely new and different. The Dynamics of Stillness process takes us step-by-step through a series of practices, which are designed to first bring our nervous system to a state of quiet neutral, an important step which allows us to deepen any meditative practice that follows. From this point, we explore and develop our relationship to our
MOVING FROM THE INSIDE OUT 7 Principles for Ease and Mastery in Movement: A Feldenkrais Approach
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How to become aware of habitual thought and movement patterns that prevent you from embodying your full sense of Self in body, mind, and spirit. How to breathe to full capacity, with maximum efficiency and minimal effort, according to our inherent design, which fully oxygenates your system to feel more awake and alive in the present moment. How to cope with and resolve overwhelming experiences, and handle stress that can hinder enjoyment of a rich, positive experience of life. How to awaken your inherent potential by finding the support from the ground that can lead to full stature and expansion, while noting how trauma and overwhelm can interfere with this process. HUMANUAL will help you learn to use what you already have within you… and expand your full potential! Learn to do whatever you do with just a bit more presence in every minute. By exploring the tangible role of “embodied expansion,” she shows how poorly most of us use our bodies and our being. Here I am referring not only to the physical, anatomical body, but to the living, sensing, and yes, knowing body… Moving the body properly carries multiple opportunities for how we feel, our levels of health and energy, and the equanimity of our emotions. Properly observing ourselves and moving our body efficiently has a bearing on everything we do. Read, experience, and learn what it means to be fully human. —Peter Levine, from the foreword own health and our relationship to the natural rhythms and tides in nature. Everything in nature has a fluid consistency and tides are rhythms within this fluid nature. Our course work allows us to attune our senses to these tides. With each practice, we deepen our connection to the great stillness which is ever present in and around us always. If we can learn to take our awareness back to a place where we feel stillness, which the Taoists would term returning to the source of everything, this place of stillness holds the potential for everything. There is a great dynamic within this stillness, which can be reached once we are in a state of neutral. The course is based on over thirty practices and is about developing a specific skill base, a combination of mindful meditation and sensory development with each technique building on the last.
Some of the keys to this veteran osteopath’s course are: ♦ Quieting the mind, then learning about attention and how to become consciously aware of where we place it and how to place it anywhere ♦ Developing our sensory awareness to ‘sense’ fluid fields both in ourselves and in nature ♦ Detailed practices to deepen our connection to nature, to learn how to feel the great tides within it as well s its alchemical processes ♦ How to meet our health and learn the techniques needed to self-heal. and accessible fundamentals of movement. Lesley McLennan and Julie Peck introduce seven core principles:
by Lesley Mclennan & Julie Peck $28.95, paper. North Atlantic. 224 pages, 65 b/w photos
More often than not, we move through life focused on results or where we’re going, rarely paying attention to how we move until we experience pain or need to learn a new skill or perform at an elite level. But movement isn’t just about getting things done or getting from here to there: at its essence, it’s an integration of thinking, sensing, and feeling with action such that to change one part changes the whole. This book is written for those times when we don’t need quick fixes, bandaids, or shortcuts to solve an immediate problem, but can instead dedicate time and attention to explore, laying the foundation to become experts in our own body and movement patterns for long-lasting positive growth. Moving from the Inside Out shows us how to resolve complex movement issues, balance stability and instability, increase power and precision, and explore our own movement using innate learning strategies. Written for practitioners, movement therapists, and somatic teachers and students, the curious athlete or casual learner will also find much to gain in learning the practical
The dynamic balance between instability and stability How to move with ease and grace The secrets of flexibility and support embedded in every musculo-skeletal system How anxiety and curiosity shape our individual developmental sequence How qualities of movement are clues for your investigation The special role of intra-abdominal pressure in our physical and emotional worlds How moving and learning are entwined “Moving from the Inside Out is an exciting and lucid presentation of the potent ideas behind the practice of the Feldenkrais Method. A central theme of the text is the pivotal role that how we move plays in our overall health. The authors create an inviting, multifaceted narrative, using stories, theory, and movement experiments that quickly engage the reader. Moving From the Inside Out provides a wonderful new introduction to the Feldenkrais Method, and at the same time its themes will be relevant to a wide variety of health professionals.” —Elizabeth Beringer, Feldenkrais Trainer and editor of Embodied Wisdom
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techniques that even beginners can master. Christine also includes real-life stories that showcase how the power of massage helped women through their own pregnancy journeys. If your partner or loved one is expecting, this book is for you. “Christine’s book is an outstanding tool for pregnant women, their support people, and massage therapists alike. The narrative is interesting, and her massage instruction is eloquent and easy to follow.” —Laurel Fowlie, RMT, Instructor and head of Department of Education, Kikkawa College (Toronto) “What a delightful, engaging and inspiring book. Christine’s abiding commitment to social justice and changing the world one massage at a time is as meaningful today as it was 40 years ago.” —Trish Dryden, RMT, Centennial College Christine Sutherland is a licensed massage therapist and massage instructor and the Director of the Canadian Institute of Palliative Massage. She makes Nelson, British Columbia, her home. She’s also written Dying in Good Hands: Palliative Massage and the Power of Touch. BREATH The New Science of a Lost Art
by James Nestor
$37.00, cloth. Penguin. 280 pages
No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you’re not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren’t found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of Sao Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe. Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jumpstart athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is. Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again. By your 10,000th breath, and the close of this book, you and I will know how the air that enters your lungs affects every moment of your life and how to harness it to its full potential until your final breath. “This book is awesome. Most people have no idea how to do breathing exercises and how beneficial they are. Over the last few weeks I’ve been using the methods I learned from his book and I can tell you there are absolutely some real benefits to be had from this.” —Joe Rogan on Instagram “It’s a rare popular-science book that keeps a reader up late, eyes glued to the pages. But Breath is just that fascinating. It will alarm you. It will gross you out. And it will inspire you. Who knew respiration could be so scintillating?” —Spirituality & Health
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Food & Healing
by Daniel Fenster
$22.50, paper. Hay House. 219 pp, photos
Fascia is a single, interconnected web of tissue that runs from the top of your head to the bottoms of your feet. Fascia surrounds every organ, every muscle, every bone, and every nerve fiber. And it has an astonishing range of functions. At Complete Wellness, New York’s #1 pain management clinic, director Dr. Daniel Fenster is using both high-tech and low-tech fascia therapies to change the lives of people for the better. With this book, you’ll learn if you have fascia-related problems--and if so, how serious they are. Fascia doesn’t play a small role in your body. It plays a huge role, and that why it deserves the respect it’s now starting to receive. Thousands of doctors and therapists around the world are now targeting the fascia in order to relieve people’s pain, enhance their performance, and improve their lives… The fascia connects and interacts with every part of your body, never acting in isolation. As a result, when we treat the fascia, we’re also affecting other structures—In particular the muscles. If self-therapy is the right choice for you, Dr. Fenster outlines a simple, effective “Free Your Fascia” Plan, a holistic program including stretching, foam rolling, destressing (meditation), fascia-friendly eating, hydration, and self-massage. Dr. Fenster also offers an insider’s perspective on the most powerful tools in fascial manipulation: medical massage, acupuncture, cryotherapy, and trigger point therapy and trigger point injections. Within these pages, you’ll find a simple guide to what fascia is, how to assess your own fascial health, and how to support your body with nutrition, at-home therapies, and professional aid… Dr. Fenster gives you the knowledge and tools you need to free your fascia—either on your own or with the help of experts—to effect healing on a deeper level than you may have ever experienced. —Liana Werner-Gray, from the foreword STILL RUNNING The Art of Meditation in Motion
MEDICAL MEDIUM: CLEANSE TO HEAL Healing Plans for Sufferers of Anxiety, Depression, Acne, Eczema, Lyme, Gut Problems, Brain Fog, Weight Issues, Migraines, Bloating, Vertigo, Psoriasis, Cysts, Fatigue, PCOS, Fibroids, UTI, Endometriosis & Autoimmune by Anthony William
$45.99, cloth. Hay House. 570 pages, 7x9, colour photos
From the bestselling author of Medical Medium: Celery Juice and Medical Medium: Liver Rescue, here’s everything you need to know about cleansing. If you think you don’t need to do a cleanse—if you’re sure you couldn’t possibly be harboring any toxins in your body—think again. In to-
$22.95, paper. Shambhala. 170 pages
Learn how to bring the power of stillness into your running practice with meditations, guidance, and inspiration from a long-time runner and Zen practitioner. When we see running solely as exercise and focus on improving our times, covering a certain number of miles, or losing weight, we miss the deeper implications of this art. We miss the opportunity to take up running as a practice that bridges the apparent gap between stillness and movement, meditation and activity. Moving away from the limited definition of running as fitness training, Vanessa Zuisei Goddard combines her decade of experience leading running retreats with her two-decade practice of Zen to offer insight, humor, and practical suggestions for grounding your running, or any physical practice, in meditation. Whether you are a new or experienced runner, you will learn how to be more embodied through thirteen running practices to help improve your focus and running form. Using mantras and visualizations, as well as a range of other exercises, Goddard offers ways to practice running as a moving meditation with an eye toward bringing the power of stillness to all the activities in your life. Ultimately, Still Running is a book about freedom, ease, and
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day’s world, there are poisons and pathogens that threaten our health starting before we’re even born, and they continue to hold us back as we encounter them in our everyday life. Cleansing is a vital tool, and Anthony William, the Medical Medium, has placed a vast wealth of insight and information into a one-stop resource for cleansing of all kinds, starting with his acclaimed nine-day 3:6:9 Cleanse and expanding into life-saving protocols for specific health needs—including an anti-bug cleanse, a morning cleanse, and a heavy metal detox. You’ll discover: ♦ How to choose the cleanse that’s right for you ♦ A deep dive into the causes of your symptoms and conditions ♦ Critical cleanse dos and don’ts, including modifications and substitutions
Whole Foods in the Kitchen THE KOSMIC KITCHEN COOKBOOK Everyday Herbalism and Recipes for Radical Wellness by Sarah Kate Benjamin & Summer Singletary
$39.95, paper. Shambhala. 262 pages, 7x9, colour photos, French flaps
Turn your kitchen into a healing sanctuary! This cookbook will help you identify your unique constitution based on the five elements—earth, water, fire, wind, and ether. Use that insight to design an everyday wellness practice with nourishing meals, healing herbs, and self-care rituals. Tapping into these elements is at the heart of all traditional medicines—Ayurveda, Western Herbalism, and Chinese Medicine—and it is the key to discovering your most vibrant self. May herbalism return to being an everyday kitchen practice that connects us back to our bodies and ecosystems. May all who touch this book one day become the collective ancestors who preserve and protect the plants, heal themselves and others, and inspire a sense of awe and magic for the generations to come. Discover the power of herbalism and the elements to feel balanced and well from season-to-season. With simple spices and healing herbs, you’ll feel confident creating remedies that support mental clarity, en-
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WHOLE FOOD COOKING EVERY DAY Transform the Way You Eat with 250 Vegetarian Recipes Free of Gluten, Dairy, and Refined Sugar by Amy Chaplin
$56.00, cloth. Artisan. 400 pages, 8x11, colour photos
This generous cooking book, from Amy Chaplin whose previous book is At Home in the Whole Food Kitchen, is a winner of the James Beard Award for Best Book in Vegetable-Focused Cooking. Eating whole foods can transform a diet, and mastering the art of cooking these foods can be easy with the proper techniques and strategies. In 20 chapters, Chaplin shares ingenious recipes incorporating the foods that are key to a healthy diet: seeds and nuts, fruits and vegetables (land and sea), whole grains, and other plant-based foods. Chaplin offers her secrets for eating healthy every day: mastering some key recipes and reliable techniques and then varying the ingredients based on the occasion, the season, and what you’re craving. Once the reader learns one of Chaplin’s base recipes, whether for gluten-free muffins, millet porridge, or baked marinated tempeh, the ways to adapt
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hanced digestion, a relaxed nervous system, and promote an overall radiance. From cleansing tonics like Roasted Dandelion Chai or Hibiscus Punch with Schisandra Salt to rejuvenating classics like Kitchari with Golden Ghee or Tumeric Congee, you’ll find transformative recipes and uses for adaptogenic herbs to restore and find balance every day. Ideally, we suggest committing to a full lunar cycle and seeing what comes of it. Use our seasonal charts and elemental lists to stock your kitchen with herbs and foods that will harmonize your elemental constitution. Prep all sauces, dressings, and snacks ahead of time to make life easy. Drink tea and cook a recipe each day, choosing foods and flavors that best suit your elements, and engage in rituals that keep you grounded “Every page of this stunningly beautiful book overflows with seasonal wisdom, herbal teachings, and unique recipes for health and well-being. But more than just another book of delicious seasonal recipes, The Kosmic Kitchen is a colorful compendium of sensory delights, a wellness manual, and an herbal cook book all rolled into one. Colorful, flavorful, and fabulous, in every sense this book is certain to be a classic.” —Rosemary Gladstar, author of Medicinal Herbs—A Beginner’s Guide and customize it are endless: change the fruit depending on the season, include nuts or seeds for extra protein, or even change the dressing or flavoring to keep a diet varied. Chaplin encourages readers to seek out local and organic ingredients, stock their pantries with nutrient-rich whole food ingredients, prep ahead of time, and, most important, cook at home. These recipes are also integral to the meal prep plans you’ll find at the back of this book. Prepping meals ahead in batches is an economical solution to our timestarved lifestyles, and a guaranteed way to ensure a steady flow of healthy food options no matter what your daily demands are… Cooking with ingredients straight from nature does much more than just feed us: it connects us to our environment and the seasons; gives us a regular opportunity to be creative with flavors, colors, and textures; helps us fine-tune our intuition; and draws friends and families together. I have been both delighted and honored to have the opportunity to touch people’s lives by rekindling their natural ability to nourish themselves through cooking. I hope this book does just that for you.
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♦ The truth about trendy topics such as intermittent fasting and the microbiome ♦ A guide to supplements you may choose to add to your cleanse ♦ The physical reasons why cleansing can be an emotional experience ♦ More than 75 recipes and sample menus to get you through your Medical Medium cleanse ♦ Spiritual and soul support to remind you that healing is possible. The cleanses in this book speak to what’s truly going wrong inside of our bodies that no trendy lifestyle approach can ever address. Have compassion for yourself and know that your suffering is not your fault. Your struggles are not your fault. You’re accomplishing great things every single hour and day as you work on your healing process with the powerful tools in this book. I believe you can heal. LIFE IN THE FASTING LANE How to Make Intermittent Fasting a Lifestyle—and Reap the Benefits of Weight Loss and Better Health by Jason Fung, Eve Mayer & Megan Ramos
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Fermenting Culture WILDCRAFTED FERMENTATION Exploring, Transforming, and Preserving the Wild Flavors of Your Local Terroir by Pascal Baudar
$39.95, paper. Chelsea Green. 304 pages, 7x10, colour photos
Wild krauts and kimchis, fermented forest brews, seawater brines, plant-based cheeses, and more! One of the most influential tastemakers of our time invites you on an extraordinary culinary journey into the lacto-fermentation universe of common wild edibles. Used for thousands of years by different cultures all around the world, lacto-fermentation is the easiest, safest, and most delicious way to preserve food. And nature provides all the necessary ingredients: plants, salt, and the beneficial lactic acid bacteria found everywhere. In Wildcrafted Fermentation, Pascal Baudar describes in detail how to create rich, flavorful lacto-ferments at
$35.99, cloth. HarperCollins. 268 pages
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Over the last decade, intermittent fasting—restricting calorie intake for a proscribed number of hours for a set number of days—has become increasingly popular. While some in the medical community initially dismissed the idea as a dangerous fad, in recent years researchers have validated the safety of fasting for weight loss, and found compelling evidence that it offers wide-ranging health benefits, including lowering blood pressure; reducing risk factors for diabetes, cancer, and other diseases; promoting longevity; and increasing cognitive function. However, many people aren’t sure how to incorporate fasting into their daily routine. What are best practices? Do you need to fast every day? What do you eat on non-fasting days? How can you fast when your family doesn’t? What if you’re a person who gets hungry after not eating for a few hours? In this essential guide, Dr. Jason Fung, Megan Ramos, and Eve Mayer address common questions and offer practical advice for integrating beneficial periods of food restriction into daily life. They set three initial goals: Start Your Fasting Engine, Find Your Fasting Lane, and Win the Race. Each goal is broken down into ten manageable steps that can be taken at your individual pace. Love breakfast? Then it may take a little while to get used to not eating it. Already skip it? Jump ahead to restricting lunch. Fung, Ramos, and Mayer know every person’s physiological and psychological response to food restriction is different, and they’re here to help you find the tools and strategies that will work best for your life. Combining Mayer’s and Ramos’s years of personal experience with Dr. Fung’s clinical experience and scientific rigor, Life in the Fasting Lane is a unique, accessible, and life-changing guide to developing a sustainable and beneficial fasting routine. Also by Jason Fung is The Diabetes Code. More info: TheFastingMethod.com
$35.95, cloth. Chelsea Green. 128 pages, 8x8, colour photos
DIY SOURDOUGH The Beginner’s Guide to Crafting Starters, Bread, Snacks, and More
by Sandor Ellix Katz
Sandor Katz—an “unlikely rock star of the American food scene”—delivers a mesmerizing treatise on the meaning of fermentation alongside his awe-inspiring photography of this transformative process, teaching us with words and images about ourselves, our culture, and being human. In 2012, Sandor Ellix Katz published The Art of Fermentation, which quickly became the bible for foodies around the world, a runaway bestseller, and a James Beard Book Award winner. Since then his work has gone on to inspire countless professionals and home cooks worldwide, bringing fermentation into the mainstream. In Fermentation as Metaphor, stemming from his personal obsession with all things fermented, Katz meditates on his art and work, drawing connections between microbial communities and aspects of human culture: politics, religion, social and cultural movements,
♦ Simple sourdough recipes for breads, snacks, and more ♦ The secrets to consistent results ♦ Tips and tricks for homemade sourdough, including flour buying, home milling, and sourdough starter ♦ Homemade bread scheduling options, including split-day sourdough recipes for making sourdough an easy part of your weekly routine. DIY Sourdough is your personal guide to getting started with sourdough. It gives you a helping hand to succeed and offers a simple time-saving approach to make nourishing and delicious sourdough that fits into a hectic lifestyle. The Moody family has been making traditional foods, including fine-tuning sourdough recipes and making sourdough with grains, for over a decade. Involved with farming, food, and homesteading, the Moody family of two old-timers and five rambunctious kids farms and homesteads on 35 acres in Kentucky. THE ART OF PLANT-BASED CHEESEMAKING How to Craft Real, Cultured, Non-Dairy Cheese
by John & Jessica Moody
$19.99, paper. New Society. 144 pages, 7x9, colour photos
by Karen McAthy
Your helping hand for adding simple, homemade, whole grain sourdough to your weekly schedule. If your goal is to make simple, nourishing, and delicious whole grain sourdough for your whole family, then DIY Sourdough is your one-stop beginner’s guide. Coverage includes:
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home from the wild and cultivated plants in your local landscape or garden. From sauerkrauts and kimchis to savory pastes, hot sauces, and dehydrated spice blends, Baudar includes more than 100 easy-to-follow, plant-based recipes to inspire even the most jaded palate. Step-by-step photos illustrate foraging, preparation, and fermentation techniques for both wild and cultivated plants that will change your relationship to the edible landscape and give you the confidence to succeed like a pro. So much more than a cookbook, Wildcrafted Fermentation offers a deeply rewarding way to reconnect with nature through the greens, stems, roots, berries, fruits, and seeds of your local terroir. Adventurous and creative, this cookbook will help you rewild your probiotic palate and “create a cuisine unique to you and your environment.” art, music, sexuality, identity, and even our individual thoughts and feelings. He informs his arguments with his vast knowledge of the fermentation process, which he describes as a slow, gentle, steady, yet unstoppable force for change. Throughout this truly one-of-a-kind book, Katz showcases fifty mesmerizing, original images of otherworldly beings from an unseen universe—images of fermented foods and beverages that he has photographed using both a stereoscope and electron microscope—exalting microbial life from the level of “germs” to that of high art. When you see the raw beauty and complexity of microbial structures, they will take you far from absolute boundaries and rigid categories. They force us to reconceptualize. They make us ferment. Fermentation as Metaphor broadens and redefines our relationship with food and fermentation. It’s the perfect gift for serious foodies, fans of fermentation, and non-fiction readers alike.
ter plant-based cheesemaker Karen McAthy, anyone can learn to craft authentic, delicious vegan cheese. Drawing deep from the well of traditional cheesemaking but extending and developing the methods into plant-based ingredients, this new edition of the award-winning The Art of Plant-based Cheesemaking is a lavishly illustrated, practical guide packed with step-by-step recipes and straightforward processes from beginner to advanced. Coverage includes: ♦ Equipment, sanitation, food safety ♦ Non-cultured beginner recipes through to advanced cultured cheeses ♦ How to grow your own plant-based cultures, including rejuvelac, sprouting, fermentation, kefir, and probiotic capsules ♦ Using emulsifiers, starches, and binders ♦ Flavors, aging, rind curing, and working with molds ♦ Troubleshooting tips and tricks ♦ Updated step-by-step guidance and a detailed breakdown of the culturing process. The Art of Plant-based Cheesemaking, 2nd edition makes incredible homemade vegan cheese accessible for beginners, aspiring DIY non-dairy cheesemakers, and serious foodies alike. The texture, the sharpness, the taste; you will be proud to serve up your creations. Simply everything you need to make delicious non-dairy cheese right at home.
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Recovery ADDICTION-FREE NATURALLY Free Yourself from Opioids, Pharmaceuticals, Alcohol, Tobacco, Caffeine, Sugar, and More by Brigitte Mars
$21.50, paper. Inner Traditions. 288 pages, b/w illustrations
Addiction affects more people than any other disease. Breaking a habit can be daunting—it’s hard to know where to begin beyond quitting cold turkey. But just as habits can be acquired, they can be broken. Others have done it, and so can you! In this holistic guide to beating addiction, Brigitte Mars details how to replace negative habits and behaviors with positive healthy ones and safely support your body, mind, and spirit for a successful recovery. The author shares specific herbs, supplements, homeopathic remedies, flower essences, behavioral therapy, and alternative practices, such as meditation and yoga, that can help liberate you from habitual substance use and ease the withdrawal period as well as methods for cleansing the body of toxins and healthy ways to combat depression, anxiety, fatigue, and stress. She looks in depth at individual addictive substances and behaviors, including sugar, caffeine, alcohol, opioids, tobacco, and tranquilizers, offering specific advice and remedies for each. She shows how each technique can be used in conjunction with conventional therapies, such as psychotherapy, methadone, or Alcoholics Anonymous. Drawing on recent research, she also explores the enormous potential of psychedelic therapy for overcoming addiction and, with the spreading legalization of cannabis, she addresses how this plant can be of benefit for recovery, without being misused. Offering advice on designing a personal program to break your addictions, the author also shows how to use natural remedies to maintain your new energy and vitality as you walk the road to recovery. A founding member of the American Herbalists Guild, Mars is author of many books, among them The Natural First Aid Handbook and The Sexual Herbal. TRAUMA AND THE 12 STEPS, REVISED & EXPANDED EDITION An Inclusive Guide to Enhancing Recovery by Jamie Marich
$23.95, paper. North Atlantic. 268 pages
An inclusive, research-based guide to working the 12 steps: a trauma-informed approach for clinicians, sponsors, and those in recovery. Step 1: You admit that you’re powerless over your addiction. Now what? 12-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) have helped countless people on the path to recovery. But many still feel that 12-step programs aren’t for them: that the spiritual emphasis is too narrow, the modality too old-school, the setting too triggering, or the space too exclusive. Some struggle with an addict label that can eclipse the histories, traumas, and experiences that feed into addiction, or dismisses the effects of adverse experiences like trauma in the first place. Advances in addiction medicine, trauma, neuropsychiatry, social theory, and overall strides in inclusivity need to be integrated into modern-day 12-step programs to reflect the latest research and what it means to live with an addiction today. Dr. Jamie Marich, an addiction and trauma clinician in recovery herself, builds necessary bridges between the 12-step’s core foundations and up-to-date developments in trauma-informed care. Foregrounding the intersections
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of addiction, trauma, identity, and systems of oppression, Marich’s approach treats the whole person—not just the addiction—to foster healing, transformation, and growth. Written for clinicians, therapists, sponsors, and those in recovery, Marich provides an extensive toolkit of trauma-informed skills that: ♦ Explains how trauma impacts addiction, recovery, and relapse ♦ Celebrates communities who may feel excluded from the program, like atheists, agnostics, and LGBTQ+ folks ♦ Welcomes outside help from the fields of trauma, dissociation, mindfulness, and addiction research ♦ Explains the differences between being trauma-informed and trauma-sensitive; and ♦ Discusses spiritual abuse as a legitimate form of trauma that can profoundly impede spirituality-based approaches to healing.
Inspiration & Self-Help SPARK CHANGE 108 Provocative Questions for Spiritual Evolution by Jennie Lee
$29.99, cloth. Sounds True. 184 pages
It’s been said that finding the right question is as important as finding its answer. In Spark Change, Jennie Lee shows you how to identify your most important personal questions and explore how they might redefine the trajectory of your life. Quality questions lead to quality answers. Questions promote deeper thought, connection, authenticity, and humility. Here, Lee guides you through 108 inspiring prompts designed to deepen your awareness of your innermost needs and initiate powerful shifts throughout your life. Whether it’s examining the attitudes that hold you back or investigating where you truly want to go in life, these guided inquiries are meant to cultivate gratitude for your gifts, peace with the present moment, and resilience in the face of life’s challenges. For the last two decades, Lee has used conscious inquiry practices to encourage self-reflection in her yoga therapy practice. Inspired by the source teachings of classical yoga as well as Lees own inner journey, these prompts delve into some of the most enduring questions of psychology, self-improvement, and the spiritual path. With Lee’s piercing insight and constant guidance, Spark Change provides 108 prime opportunities to stop, ponder, and listen to the call of your most essential self. “We must stop to ask ourselves the very questions that Jennie Lee offers in this powerful guide to help us along our journey. The questions are insightful, evocative, and carry a depth of raw introspection beyond any standard list of questioning. They also do not leave you hanging. She offers the open hand and loving heart to support you as you take your dive inside. Jennie Lee is one of the most supportive, loving, and knowledgeable guides available to us. This book is a true treasure.” —Emily Francis, author of The Body Heals Itself
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SPIRITUALLY SASSY 8 Radical Steps to Activate Your Innate Superpowers
by Sah D’Simone
$32.50, cloth. Sounds True. 232 pages $32.50, 7 CDs. 6 hours, 38 minutes
Transform your mind, open your heart, and help the world by uncovering and celebrating the authentic you! Wild dance parties, vegan cake, and meaningful spirituality. Stop trying to put yourself into a box of what spirituality should look like—because, honey, being yourself is spiritual. Thus sez Sah D’Simone in Spiritually Sassy, a guide for a generation that celebrates diversity, authenticity, and freedom both in life and on the spiritual path. A queer, brown, flamboyant, immigrant spiritual seeker, Sah is a voice for anyone who wants to grow in creative ways. To be of service and make an impact on the world. To embrace their fierce, funny, and fabulous selves—even the parts they might feel ashamed of or figure just arent spiritual enough. With Spiritually Sassy, Sah distills the art of living well in our modern world into eight radical yet totally attainable steps. By incorporating scientifically backed principles of modern psychology with time-tested Buddhist techniques—and a heavy dose of sassy sauce—Sah will help you unblock your heart, befriend your mind, and live your truth out loud. In other words, he’ll help you find your sass. Highlights include: ♦ Clear out old ways of thinking to make room for a new story that reflects your fabulous heart and quiets your inner critic ♦ Overcome imposter syndrome and know you are worthy of love, abundance, and joy ♦ Get out of your own way in a big way Uncover your true self to become spiritual—and sassyAF ♦ Get real about your dreams and goals, and learn powerful manifestation practices to help make them happen ♦ Embrace your superpowers—the gifts and talents that help you live your purpose ♦ The importance of looking beyond yourself to your community, your tribe, and how you give back ♦ Plus tons of practices for meditation, breath work, mantra, movement, journaling, working with your mind, and more. It is my mission in life to help you find your sass, whatever that means for you, so it can radiate out and touch everything you do. To lean into life requires a quiet courage that lets us find our aliveness. And the reward for leaning into life is that everything hidden becomes sweet and colorful. Or more, we’re finally present enough to receive the sweetness and color that is always there. Consider how a flower opens. It doesn’t prepare for a particular moment but stays true to a life of opening and leaning toward the light. When a flower blossoms, it turns inside out and wears its beauty in the world. In just this way, a soul opens over a lifetime of leaning into life. Despite the hardships we encounter, and in spite of our pain, the heart keeps opening after closing, the way day follows night—until meeting life is our daily experiment in truth. No matter the obstacles, we’re asked to welcome all the teachers we encounter along the way, each shouting and whispering that the secret kingdom is everywhere. As we keep searching, these efforts never go away: the work of presence, the listening for teachers, and the vow to stay close to the fire of our aliveness. I confess, when I began, I wanted to light so many things. Now I’m the one being lighted and there’s nowhere to go. I can see that as being becomes a nest, there’s no reason to fly. —Mark Nepo, from The Book of Soul
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Mark Nepo on Soul & Inner Courage THE BOOK OF SOUL 52 Paths to Living What Matters
us to live in the open by Widening Our Circle, as we Help Each Other Stay Awake.
by Mark Nepo
$25.99, cloth. Picador. 270 pages
In The Book of Soul, Mark Nepo, author of The Book of Awakening and Drinking from the River of Light—wonderful books!—now offers us a powerful guide to inhabiting an authentic and wholehearted life. After we are physically born, we must be spiritually born a second time, a process that takes place through the labor of a lifetime as we develop into more fully realized beings. The Book of Soul delves into the spiritual alchemy of that transformation in all its mystery, difficulty, and inevitability. This dynamic transformation—which we all have to face—connects two of my recent books. By living The One Life We’re Given, we release the wisdom that waits in our heart, and that tender, human process leads us to The Way Under the Way: The Place of True Meeting. When we commit to these holy engagements that join who we are with the world, we discover that the temple is the world. This is the central inquiry of this book: how we inhabit the soul on Earth through a messy human life, living tenderly and authentically enough that we can be who we are everywhere and create a path to what matters. The book is divided into four sections that mark the passages we all face: enduring our Walk in the World, until we discover Our True Inheritance, which allows FINDING INNER COURAGE by Mark Nepo
$27.95, paper. Red Wheel. 304 pages
The word courage comes from the Latin cor (core, heart), Nepo explains in this lovely, heartfelt meditation. “If to find our way to the core is to face the lion, then to stand by our core is to be the lion,” he says. Nepo, a poet, philosopher and teacher, believes there are two paths to manifesting courage: going within and knowing oneself, and turning outward, steadfastly facing life, allowing oneself to be vulnerable to experiences. The cost of not doing so is numbness, or living death, Nepo believes, and he sees courage as an ongoing series of choices. We need to consider the art of softening habitual routines back into meaningful practices. We need to discern when the rigid ones just need to be broken so our heart can once again breathe. For if we can learn the mysterious art of navigating our patterns, those rivers will guide us to our core. In a book filled with verbal images, stories and analogies, including the archetypal tale of Jacob wrestling
Our constant challenge is to accept how life wears away what doesn’t matter until the miracle of life is revealed in everything. Once living this barely in the open, our work is to let the light of Spirit come through, never thinking that we own it, but letting it use us to brighten and warm the hearts of others. This is the purpose of the human journey: to live openly and honestly until we become a source of uncovered light. Then life pours forth to renew us and all we meet. The Book of Soul is a piercing guide, replete with beautiful truths and startling insight, that leads us deeply into the process of transformation. When facing what’s ours to face, we’re surprised to learn, time and again, that under what seems unbearable is the rest of life waiting to be lived… To learn from life and its web of relationship, we are constantly challenged to stay in conversation with the moments of our lives. And so, I invite you to listen and reflect your way through this book, to write your way through the topics and stories by way of a journal. To help with this process, I offer “Questions to Walk With” at the end of each chapter… These sections include prompts to self-reflect in your journal as well as entry points to dialogue with a trusted friend or loved one. with the angel, Nepo also relates his own experiences surviving cancer and overcoming certain fears. Finding Inner Courage is work from the heart that helps us find our own courage and experience how connection to our own core connects us to all of humankind, as well as to nature and spirit itself. If you want to learn about healing, it helps to know of suffering. The strong live in the storm without worshipping the storm. This is what it means to stay in conversation with life. He relates stories of ordinary people, political activists, artists, and spiritual teachers from all traditions— people who are summoning the best of who they are in all kinds of moments, great and small. I invite you to inhale these stories, to let them fill your lungs and circle your heart, to let them empower you to stand more firmly by your core and a little taller in the world. Among Mark Nepo’s many other books are The Book of Awakening and Drinking from the River of Light—all highly recommended.
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Psychology, Therapy & Dreams THE ANXIETY FIRST AID KIT Quick Tools for Extreme, Uncertain Times
by Rick Hanson and Matthew McKay $24.95, paper. New Harbinger. 118 pages
Here’s a quick-relief guide for calming anxiety and stress right now—during the COVID-19 pandemic. If you’re feeling unprecedented levels of stress and anxiety right now, please know that you aren’t alone. In these extreme and uncertain times, it’s natural to be in a constant state of mental and physical strain. Whether you’re dealing with job loss, a sick loved one, or just feeling the weight of the world during your 2 a.m. doomscroll—you need quick tools you can use right now, whenever and wherever you are, to lower stress and soothe anxiety. This emergency kit has you covered. Written by a dream team of mental health experts and grounded in evidence-based therapy, The Anxiety First Aid Kit offers powerful tools for triaging stress and anxiety in the moments when you need it most. You’ll find easy and doable ways to help you press pause on panic, and find your calm spot right away. You’ll discover in-the-moment interventions to help you relax before your anxiety and stress go into overdrive. And finally, you’ll learn how to make healthy and workable lifestyle changes to improve your mental health and increase resilience, so you can effectively deal with stressful situations in the future—no matter what life throws at you. Between pandemic-related economic fears, the frustrations of social distancing, indoor confinement, work and household double duties (now including homeschooling!), and the looming threats of serious illness and climate chaos, is it any wonder you’re feeling completely stressed out and anxious? If you need immediate relief, The Anxiety First Aid Kit has everything you need to manage stress and anxiety—right now. Just like the first aid kit stashed under the bathroom sink, this mental health toolkit can give you a welcome respite from panic and worry about the future so that you can focus on what you can do in the here and now. In this short book, we have compiled forty of the easiest and most effective anxiety-reducing exercises, techniques, and practices from top mental health experts. TRIGGERS How We Can Stop Reacting and Start Healing by David Richo
$22.95, paper. Shambhala. 186 pages
Here psychotherapist David Richo examines the science of triggers and our reactions of fear, anger, and sadness. He helps us understand why our bodies respond before our minds have a chance to make sense of a situation. By looking deeply at the roots of what provokes us—the words, actions, and even sensory elements like smell—we find opportunities to understand the origins of our triggers and train our bodies to remain calm in the face of traumatic experiences. In-the-moment exercises on how to process difficult emotions and physical manifestations are offered throughout the book to cultivate the inner resources necessary to deal with recurring trauma. Triggers thrive on the illusion that we can’t trust ourselves. With inner resources we find out we can trust ourselves indeed—and in deed. Trauma never goes entirely away but it can become what happened rather than what still hurts… Our goal is not to root out all our triggers but to find a trailhead from them into the psychological and spiritual work that
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“When we are triggered,” Richo writes, “we are being bullied by our own unfinished business.” Explore what your body’s knee-jerk reactions to trauma can teach you. Triggers: How We Can Stop Reacting and Start Healing acts as a guide to your body’s powerful responses, helping you to remain calm under pressure and discover the key to emotional healing. “David Richo helps normalize the fact that everyone has triggers—and they can be a gift. Triggers point directly to interrupted spiritual work that can free us from suffering. This book offers creative tools to step aside from reactivity and engage the curiosity that can lead to deeper exploration and truly liberating discoveries.”—Jan Chozen Bays, author of Mindfulness on the Go DON’T TELL ME TO RELAX Emotional Resilience in the Age of Rage, Feels & Freak-Outs
by Ralph La Rosa
$21.95, paper. Shambhala. 214 pages
A handbook for staying grounded, emotionally connected, and empowered regardless of what’s in the headlines and who’s in your face. “How can I practice acceptance when what I see all around me is unacceptable?” “How can I ‘let go’ when the headlines that trigger me are constant?” “How do I get involved without burning myself out?” For empathetic people who don’t want to ignore the challenges of living in a politically divisive time and don’t want to have our minds commandeered by the media, the challenge of living with mindful equanimity is a daily struggle. If distress isn’t at the forefront of our awareness, we are, at the very least, holding a background anxiety that makes us susceptible to emotional reactivity. We know that acting out strong emotions impulsively robs us of our clarity, hinders our relationships, and distorts our ability to respond effectively. Yet, so many approaches to emotional intelligence and mindful coping seem to fall short in the fever-pitch moments. How do we walk through the fire of these times without getting scorched? With his signature warm, funny, street-wise style, author Ralph De La Rosa gives us a handbook for mindful living in contentious times. Full of insights and dozens of practices to address common reactions to our current political climate—from media addiction and rage to dissociation and apathy—Don’t Tell Me to Relax brings the welcome news that our thoughts and emotions are not the enemy. That in fact, when used skillfully, they can become a powerful foundation to support our practice. With a little bit of persistence, the perspectives and practices in this book can become resources available to you whenever you find yourself in emotionally challenging situations. “This book is like a flotation device amidst the churning waters of insanity—not only in the world we live in but inside our bodies and minds as well.” —Will Johnson, author of The Posture of Meditation and Breathing as Spiritual Practice Also by Ralph De La Rosa is The Monkey is the Messenger. POLYVAGAL EXERCISES FOR SAFETY AND CONNECTION 50 Client-Centered Practices by Deb Dana
$25.95, paper. Norton. 328 pages
Deb Dana is the foremost translator of polyvagal theory into clinical practice. Here, in her third book on this groundbreaking theory, she provides therapists with a
HEALING COLLECTIVE TRAUMA A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds by Thomas Hubl
$33.99, cloth. Sounds True. 288 pages
A comprehensive guide to understanding and addressing collective trauma. What can you do when you carry scars not on your body, but within your soul? And what happens when those spiritual wounds exist not just in you, but in everyone in your life? Whether or not we have experienced personal trauma, we are all—in very real ways—impacted by the legacy of familial and cultural suffering. Recent research has shown that trauma affects groups just as acutely as it does individuals; it bridges families, generations, communities, and borders. I believe that unresolved systemic traumas delay the development of the human family, harm the natural world, and inhibit the higher evolution of our species. However, just as trauma can be integrated and healed for a single person, groups large and small can also find recovery. With Healing Collective Trauma, this world-renowned spiritual teacher presents a deeply hopeful road map. Hübl explains the most recent science of trauma and shares the principles of his Collective Trauma IntegraWE ARE ALL IN SHOCK Energy Healing for Traumatic Times by Stephanie Mines
$27.95, paper. New Page. 256 pages
We Are All in Shock provides the tools for reclaiming complete well-being after overwhelming experiences of shock, whether caused by the massive sweep of current events such as the Covid-19 pandemic or a personal catastrophe. Dr. Mines redefines psychological trauma and revolutionizes the concept of self-care by identifying the true cause of anxiety, explaining why it is so prevalent in society today and how by recognizing its effect we can find new stability and healing. Parents, nurses, crisis workers, and body workers, psychotherapists and the everyday reader will benefit from the practices. We Are All in Shock demystifies energy medicine by presenting accessible tools to help diminish and eliminate the nervous system’s habitual responses to over-
grab- bag of polyvagal- informed exercises for their clients, to use both within and between sessions. These exercises offer readily understandable explanations of the ways the autonomic nervous system directs daily living. They use the principles of polyvagal theory to guide clients to safely connect to their autonomic re- sponses and navigate daily experiences in new ways. The exercises are designed to be introduced over time in a variety of clinical sessions with accompanying exercises appropriate for use by clients between sessions to enhance the therapeutic change process. With its invitation into “the practice of home-play, which captures your interest with an open invitation to enter into, and enjoy, gentle practices of autonomic listening and skill building,” this book is essential reading for any therapist who wants to take their polyvagal knowledge to the next level and is looking for easy ways to deliver polyvagal solutions with their clients.
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tion Process (CTIP), a protocol he has facilitated for groups in the US, Germany, Israel, and elsewhere. He examines collective trauma both from the perspective of the latest research and through a spiritual lens informed by 15 years as a meditation teacher. Including contributions from renowned experts from across the field of trauma treatment, as well as meditative practices to support both counselors and clients, Healing Collective Trauma presents a fresh perspective on trauma integration along with practical tools for beginning the journey to wholeness. Such as… ♦ The innumerable ways trauma shapes our world— from identity and health to economy, geopolitics, and the state of the environment ♦ The concept of “trauma loyalty”—unconscious group bonds based in a pain narrative ♦ How the climate crisis is both a manifestation of humanity’s collective trauma and an opportunity to heal ♦ Retrocausality—how the power of presence can reshape the past and make new futures possible. As Thomas declares, Together, I believe we can and must heal the soul wound that marks us all. In so doing, we will awaken to the luminous possibility and profound potential of our true, mutual nature as humankind. whelming traumas. Dr. Mines’ work combines skills from Japanese energy healing arts related to acupressure on the energy meridians of the body with the most contemporary scientific interpretation of how the brain works, to offer a clear understanding of neurological behavior. “Dr. Stephanie Mines offers practical steps people can use to fortify and empower themselves and their loved ones ... It is a book for our times.” —Peter A. Levine, author, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma “We are all in Shock is a landmark book. Reading like a novel but informing like a text, it edifies that psychological shock is a universal malady of modern and technocratic cultures, and teaches us practical ways that shock can be self-managed and treated. It’s a “must read” for anyone who wishes to self-heal or to heal others.” —William Emerson, American Association of Pre- and Perinatal Psychology
“A beautiful example of the notion that ‘sensing, naming, and identifying what is going on inside is the first step to recovery.’ Deb Dana lucidly guides you to travel deep inside of yourself to become aware of how your internal surveillance system—the safety settings of your autonomic nervous system—is the foundation of the way we feel, act, and think. This is a valuable manual to help you address your inner physiology and thereby create the necessary conditions for safety and connection.” —Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score “I have come to the conclusion that human beings are born with an innate capacity to triumph over trauma. I believe not only that trauma is curable, but that the healing process can be a catalyst for profound awakening—a portal opening to emotional and genuine spiritual transformation. I have little doubt that as individuals, families, communities, and even nations, we have the capacity to learn how to heal and prevent much of the damage done by trauma. In so doing, we will significantly increase our ability to achieve both our individual and collective dreams.” —Peter A. Levine, Healing Trauma
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by Jodie Skillicorn
$23.95, paper. North Atlantic. 318 pages
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Here’s an effective, evidence-based guide for preventing, treating, and overcoming depression—without drugs. Antidepressants—the first line in our standard of care for treating depression-—may not be much more effective than placebos, yet 1 in 6 North Americans takes medication to alleviate feeling sad, anxious, stuck, or unable to focus or sleep. More and more, conventional medicine pathologizes how we respond to life’s challenges, like feeling trapped in an unfulfilling job, grieving the death of a loved one, or being anxious about a bad relationship, telling us that they’re symptoms of disease. But what if everything we thought we knew about depression—and how to heal from it—was wrong? Psychiatrist Dr. Jodie Skillicorn presents a new path, debunking the myth of the neurochemical imbalance and exploring the roots of depression, like adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and poorly managed day-to-day stress. In Part 1, Dr. Skillicorn explains what depression is, why we get it, and how we got to where we are now within a pharmaceutical-driven treatment paradigm. Part 2 addresses different aspects of physical and mental health and includes practical, guided Wellness Rx exercises that teach readers to nourish, heal, and restore balance to body and mind. Fully supported and evidence-based, Dr. Skillicorn introduces holistic methods for beating depression, including nutrition, mindfulness, fostering meaningful connections, exercise, sleep, nature, and breathwork—and empowers readers to become agents of their own wholeness and healing. Learning self-care skills empowers you for life and gets to the root of the problem… Neither you nor I are passive players doomed to a lifetime of pills, but active participants in our own healing (or wounding). By collaborating in our healing process, we are removing the sense of powerlessness and helplessness that fuels anxiety and depression, and replacing it with a greater sense of control and self-efficacy, reducing the risk of mental illness. SOMATIC INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS THERAPY Awareness, Breath, Resonance, Movement and Touch in Practice
$20.00, paper. Beacon. 165 pages
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl’s memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of others he treated later in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. Frankl’s theory—known as logotherapy, from the Greek word logos (“meaning”)—holds that our primary drive in life is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but the discovery and pursuit of what we personally find meaningful. The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity—even under the most difficult circumstances—to add a deeper meaning to his life. It may remain brave, dignified and unselfish. At the time of Frankl’s death in 1997, Man’s Search YES TO LIFE In Spite of Everything by Viktor Frankl
$25.95, cloth. Beacon. 127 pages
Eleven months after his liberation from Auschwitz, Viktor E. Frankl held a series of public lectures in Vienna. The psychologist, who was to become world famous, explained his central thoughts on meaning, resilience and the importance of embracing life even in the face of great adversity. Frankl then edited those lectures into a short book, which was published in Austria only in 1946. Published for the very first time in English, Frankl’s words resonate as strongly today as they did then. He offers an insightful exploration of the maxim “Live as if you were living for the second time” and unfolds his basic conviction that every crisis also includes an opportunity. Despite the unspeakable horrors in the camp, Frankl learnt from his fellow inmates that it is always possible to say “yes to life”—a profound and timeless lesson for us all.
for Meaning had sold more than 10 million copies in 24 languages. A reader survey for the Library of Congress that asked readers to name a “book that made a difference in your life” found Man’s Search for Meaning among the ten most influential books in America. It has inspired religious and philosophical thinkers, mental-health professionals, teachers, students, and general readers from all walks of life. It is routinely assigned to college, graduate, and high school students in psychology, philosophy, history, literature, Holocaust studies, religion, and theology. Beacon Press, the original English-language publisher of Man’s Search for Meaning, has issued this new paperback edition with a new Foreword, biographical Afterword, and classroom materials to reach new generations of readers. For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best. So, let us be alert—alert in a twofold sense: Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake. —Postscript 1984, “The Case for a Tragic Optimism” A new introduction by Daniel Goleman (Emotional Intelligence, Focus) explores Frankl’s thought and sets the book in the context of our times: The lesson Frankl drew from this existential fact: our perspective on life’s events—what we make of them—matters as much or more than what actually befalls us. “Fate” is what happens to us beyond our control. But we each are responsible for how we relate to those events… Frankl ended these lectures—and this book—by saying his entire purpose has been that any of us can say “Yes” to life in spite of everything. “This slim, powerful collection from Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist Frankl (Man’s Search for Meaning) attests to life’s meaning, even in desperate circumstances...This lovely work transcends its original context, offering wisdom and guidance.” —Publishers Weekly
by Susan McConnell
$33.95, paper. North Atlantic. 352 pages, b/w illustrations
Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy introduces a new therapeutic modality that blends principles of somatic therapy—like movement, touch, and breathwork—with the traditional tools of the Internal Family Systems framework. Broadening the benefits and applications of the IFS model, author Susan McConnell introduces 5 core practices that mental health professionals can apply to their practice: somatic awareness, conscious breathing, radical resonance, mindful movement, and attuned touch. Clinical applications include the treatment of depression, trauma, anxiety, eating disorders, chronic illness, and attachment disorders. Within the IFS framework, clients will learn to identify their “inner worlds”—the discrete subpersonalities within each of us that hold emotions, perceptions, and belief systems, and that affect our behavior and emotional wellness. Body-based somatic tools are incorporated into therapy as patients learn to recognize different facets of their internal family and reconcile the needs of subpersonalities— like their inner child or internal manager—to bring more harmony to their physical and emotional well-being.
Midlife & Elder Wisdom EVERY BREATH, NEW CHANCES How to Age with Honor and Dignity—A Guide for Men by Lewis Richmond
$22.95, paper. North Atlantic. 256 pages
Tools and anecdotes to reframe aging from the bestselling author of Work as a Spiritual Practice and Aging as a Spiritual Practice. Aging is not just a process, but a journey: a decades-long adventure of new opportunities and surprises. And while loss, tragedy, and decline are inevitably part and parcel of getting older, so too are joys, gifts, and new discoveries. For men in particular, the decline in virility and power that accompanies age is a tough pill to swallow: when these fall away, what remains? And without them, what does it mean to be a man? As life unfolds, a man’s identity is renewed, reviewed, and negotiated: the markers that make him himself at 20 won’t be the same at 35, 50, or 70. This book shows readers how to turn toward these changes, to come into their
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own as older men by reframing the losses of age as strengths and opportunities for growth. Drawing from interviews and personal anecdotes, each chapter includes a contemplative practice called Deep Mind Reflection to help readers navigate aging and topics like divorce and single living; illness, death, and emotions; relating to partners; health, denial, and substance abuse; retirement and encore careers; and reframing a masculine identity once predicated on strength and virility. For every challenge or difficulty men face as they age, there are positive outcomes and fresh possibilities. This book encompasses the totality: fears and aspirations, new careers and next steps, and spiritual preparation for the final decades of life. AGING WITH AGENCY Building Resilience, Confronting Challenges, and Navigating Eldercare by Sandi Peters
$23.95, paper. North Atlantic. 304 pages
As we become healthier as a society, so too are we living longer. But with aging can come new fears, challenges and concerns. Loss of career, loved ones, or our physical and cognitive abilities can leave us feeling isolated and scared. But in Aging with Agency, Sandi Peters shows us that old age
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Dreaming Explorations DREAMING TECHNIQUES Working with Night Dreams, Daydreams, and Liminal Dreams by Serge Kahili King
$19.99, paper. Bear & Company. 224 pp.
Dreams can change our lives in profound and tangible ways. In this guide to mastering the art of dreaming, Serge Kahili King explores techniques to harness the power of dreams for healing, transformation, and changing your experience of reality. Drawing on his analysis of more than 5,000 of his own dreams as well as those of students and clients from his almost 50 years of clinical work, King examines the types of night dreams we have, how to remember them better, how to make use of them to improve our health and well-being, and how to interpret them. He explores how dreams are understood in neuroscience and psychology, in Native American and Aboriginal cultures, in indigenous Senoi dream theory, and in India, Tibet, Hawaii, and Africa as well as ancient Egypt, Greece, and China. He examines the power of liminal dreams—those experienced in the half-awake state before or after sleep—for manifestation and self-unGROWING BIG DREAMS Manifesting Your Heart’s Desires Through Twelve Secrets of the Imagination by Robert Moss
$24.50, paper. New World Library. 325 pages
Robert Moss is a respected author of many books on dreams. Among his earlier titles are Active Dreaming, Dreaming the Soul Back Home, and The Secret History of Dreaming. Imagination is sometimes confused with idle daydreaming, but the two are worlds apart. The imagination is a powerful creative resource for insight and self-actualization, one that can be tapped by anyone with the right attitude and practice. In Growing Big Dreams, Robert Moss shows readers how to harness the power of the creative imagination to manifest the life they truly desire. The process involves setting an intention, visualizing the goal with such intensity that it becomes tangible, and then using the imagination to make the vision take root in the real world. Moss offers a wide array of techniques to access the creative imagination, including lucid dreaming, the yoga of sleep, summoning spirit guides, cultivating psychic states of consciousness, and more. Great artists, mystics, and shamans know that there are places of the imagination that are entirely real. Growing Big Dreams shows everyone how to get there.
need not mean the end of personal growth. In fact, late adulthood can prove to be the most meaningful and transformative period of one’s life. The key, says Peters, is the development of one’s inner life, and with it a shift in one’s relation to the aging process. Minimally theoretical and maximally practical, this book draws on history, philosophy, psychology, gerontology, and spirituality to deepen and expand our understanding of what it means grow old in the twenty-first century. Peters shares time-tested contemplative practices such as meditation, active imagination, dream work, and creative writing designed to enhance one’s inner worlds and enable us to face life’s inevitable changes with equanimity and insight. She offers practical advice on issues such as assisted living and home care, and a refreshingly new perspective on matters of memory and cognitive change. “The way Aging with Agency has woven together theory
derstanding. He offers techniques for enhancing the dream experience for both night dreams and liminal dreams, along with practical methods to induce lucid (conscious) dreaming and to create healing thoughtforms. King then explores daydreams in depth, including fantasy, guided imagery, meditation, visions, and remote viewing and provides techniques for using daydreams for healing, insight, and creativity. He divides daydreaming into two categories, defining “active daydreaming” as the scripted dream in which you envision a goal happening and “passive daydreaming” as allowing ideas and memories to arise spontaneously from the depths of the mind. Reflecting on how dreamlike our daily experience is, King shows that each of us can use dreams as tools for seeing the world differently and influencing the behavior of people, things, and nature. Serge Kahili King is the author of many books on Huna and Hawaiian shamanism, including Urban Shaman and Instant Healing. This book will help you connect with your inner imaginer and become scriptwriter, director, and star of your own life movies, choosing your preferred genre and stepping into a bigger and brave story. Where do you find the material and inspiration for this? Dreams show you the secret wishes of your soul… Your great imaginer is your magical child… What is in your way may be your way… You have treasures in the twilight zone… Your body believes in images… Your story is hunting you… You are magnetic… There is a world of imagination, and it is entirely real… If you can see your destination, you are halfway there… You can grow a dream for someone who needs a dream… You don’t have to drive used karma… The stronger the imagination, the less imaginary the results… You are about to discover that you stand at the center of all times and need not be bound by past or alternate histories, including your résumé life and the demons under your bed.
and practice, personal stories with those of the cultural and theoretical Zeitgeist, inspiring the reader—with practical suggestions—to move inward, to see her and his aging as a tremendous opportunity to deepen and grow, to connect with self and Self, is truly astounding. It is a major contribution to our effort to end the insanity we have in our perceptions of aging, of elders, of the way we care for our elders, and the way we look at life.” —Nader Shabahangi, Elder Ashram, Oakland, California “Grounding her work in Jungian Analytical Psychology, she challenges the reader to maturation, searching for meaning in diminishment, finding hope in loss and grief, and living our personal myths in depth into the dying process.” —Donald Bisson, founder of the Center for Jungian Christian Dialogue “This book is actually more thrilling than its title implies. It presents the possibility of an exploration of vibrant and awakening awareness of the inner life that flourishes even as the body is coming toward the end of its viability.” —Sylvia Boorstein, Buddhist meditation teacher and author of It’s Easier Than You Think
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LIVING BETWEEN WORLDS Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times by James Hollis
$29.99, cloth. Sounds True. 167 pages $38.99, 6 CDs. 6.7 hours, unabridged
How did we get to this crossroads in history? And will we make it through—individually and as a species? We all assumed that learning, rationality, and good intentions would prove enough to bring us to the promised land. But they haven’t and won’t. Yet what we also do not recognize sufficiently is that this human animal is equipped for survival. In time, as we have seen of life’s other insolubles, we grow large enough to contain what threatened to destroy us. Dr. Hollis’s readers know him as a penetrating thinker (and eminent Jungian analyst) who brings profound insight and sophistication to the inner journey. In Living Between Worlds, he broadens his lens to encompass the relationship between our inner struggles and the rapidly shifting realities of modern human existence. You will learn to invoke the tools of depth psychology, classical literature, philosophy, dream work, and myth, to gain access to the resources that supported our ancestors through their darkest hours. Through these paths of inner exploration, you will access your locus of knowing—an inner wellspring of deep resilience beyond the ego, always available to guide you back to the imperatives of your soul. If you do not like how your life is turning out, you may need to see what “ideas” your life is serving, assess whether they are conscious or unconscious, and then try to get better ideas. To that end, I will talk about the cryptic, even unconscious, notions that we serve on a daily basis—the universal themes, motifs, and hidden agendas that are running our lives. Getting some idea about these “ideas” is the only way we can begin to challenge them and regain our soul’s journey. Though many of the challenges of our times are unique, the path through for us personally and collectively will always rely on our measureless capacity for creativity, wisdom, and connection to a reality larger than ourselves. Here you will find no easy answers or pat reassurances. Yet within the pages of Living Between Worlds, you will encounter causes for hope. We can find what supports us when nothing supports us. By bearing the unbearable, we go through the desert to arrive at a nurturing oasis we did not know was there. Among James Hollis’s other books are Living an Examined Life and Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up
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Mythology THE GREEK MYTHS The Complete and Definitive Edition
by Robert Graves
$31.99, paper. Hamish Hamilton. 784 pp.
This is the comprehensive edition of Robert Graves’s classic retelling of the Greek myths. Icarus disobeyed his father’s instructions and began soaring towards the sun, rejoiced by the lift of his great sweeping wings. Presently, when Daedalus looked over his shoulder, he could no longer see Icarus; but scattered
These are the greatest stories ever told— the labours of Hercules, the voyage of the Argonauts, Theseus and the minotaur, Midas and his golden touch, the Trojan War and Odysseus’s journey home —brought together into one epic and unforgettable story. Ideal for the first time reader, it can be read as a single page-turning narrative, while full commentaries as well as a comprehensive index of names make it equally valuable for anyone
Martin Shaw on the Wild Soul COURTING THE WILD TWIN by Martin Shaw
$27.95, cloth. Chelsea Green. 127 pages
An old legend says we each have a wild, curious twin that was thrown out the window the night we were born, taking much of our vitality with them. If there was something we were meant to do with our few, brief years on Earth, we can be sure that the wild twin is holding the key. In Courting the Wild Twin, Martin Shaw invites us to seek out our wild twin—a metaphor for the part of ourselves that we generally shun or ignore to conform to societal norms—to invite them back into our consciousness, for they have something important to tell us. So, for a moment, I ask us to entertain possibilities, that’s all. Put down the podcast or latest gut-churning piece of will-draining bad news, and let’s crouch by the fire in the old way that is forever new. Somebody wants to talk to you. Through the use of scholarship, storytelling, and personal reflection, Shaw unpacks two ancient European fairy tales that concern the mysterious wild twin. By reading these tales and becoming storytellers ourselves, he suggests we can restore our agency and confront modern challenges with purpose, courage, and creativity. CINDERBITER Celtic Poems
versions by Martin Shaw & Tony Hoagland $22.00, paper. Graywolf. 140 pages
Cinderbiter collects tales and poems originally composed and performed centuries ago in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, when notions of history and authorship were indistinguishable from the oral traditions of myth and storytelling. In the spirit of recasting these legends and voices for new audiences, mythologist and storyteller Martin Shaw and poet Tony Hoagland have created extraordinary new versions of these bardic lyrics, folkloric sagas, and heroes’ journeys, as they have never been rendered before. Tony made a typically unusual suggestion: that I allow him to have a go at turning a traditional story I had been working on into a poem with stanzas. He would take my words and give them a new choreography on the page. The story was called “Cinderbiter,” and his suggestion seems a fine idea. He took the rumpus and arranged it into lines. We liked what we saw, and the wider work you have in your hands began… There’s something of an oral liveliness to the way the lines skip and twist in their stanzas. In long, shaggy tales of the unlikely ascensions of previously unknown heroes such as Cinderbiter, in the shrouded origin stories of figures such as Arthur and Merlin, and in anonymous flickering lyrics of elegy,
Courting the Wild Twin is a book of literary activism—an antidote to the shallow thinking that typifies our age. It challenges us to wake up, to revive our “condition of wondering” and examine our broken relationships with the world. We need to think boldly, wildly and in new ways about ourselves, as individuals and as a collective, to confront modern challenges with purpose, courage and creativity. Shaw asks us to recognize mythology as a secret weapon—a radical, beautiful, heart-shuddering agent of deep, lasting change. “This remarkable, powerful, provocative and timely book is about the same size as your smartphone. Carry it in your other pocket, and every time you reach for your phone, take this out instead. Give your imagination, your activism, your poetic/mythic self some soul food. That’s what I did, and it delighted me every time.’—Rob Hopkins, author of From What Is to What If “Martin Shaw turns words into stories and stories into unpredictable excursions in search of the Wild Twin within each and all. He reveals the importance of this often exiled, yet deeply necessary inner otherness, the very part that holds the secret sense of rapport and essential relatedness that entwines human nature with the heart of Mother Nature.” —Michael Meade, author of Awakening the Soul praise, and heartbreak, these poems retain at once the rapturous, supernatural imagination of the deep past layered with an austere, devout allegiance to the Christian faith. Shaw and Hoagland’s collaboration summons the power within this storehouse of the Celtic mind to arrive at this rare book— distinctive, audacious, and tuned to our time and condition with a convincing resonance. Poets are scarecrows of words, fiends of divine encounter. They get thoroughly soaked. There’ll be a love affair somewhere along the way, an encounter with a spirit, maybe even the clash of swords. When they sit at table that evening, and the village crowds in, you can be sure they’ll have a story to tell… Great ones, are you safely gathered in? Let wild fawn Always be at your bow. Let your white-bronze rings and broaches Glow by the yellow candle. Let the women with the dark river hair be your companions. And I, with my few wintered logs, alone and old, on a snowy hill with nothing left but my praise.
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♦ seeking an authoritative and detailed account of the spectacular stories that make up the bedrock of Western literature. The Greek Myths is a classic among classics, a treasure trove of extraordinary tales and a masterful work of literature in its own right.
The Heart of Religion ENLIGHTENED CONTEMPORARIES Francis, Dogen & Rumi—Three Great Mystics of the Thirteenth Century and Why They Matter Today by Steve Kanji Ruhl
$25.50, paper. Monkfish. 166 pges
Enlightened Contemporaries is the first book to compare the lives and teachings of three of the world’s most admired spiritual masters: Francis of Assisi, the Christian saint; Dogen, the great Zen Buddhist teacher; and Rumi, the Islamic Sufi master. They lived during the same turbulent century. They integrated mystical experiences of the sacred into their lives, and they can inspire us to do the same. Enlightened Contemporaries combines robust scholarship with brisk, engaging, lyrical prose. Offering a thorough introduction for the general reader as well as specialists, it will appeal to those who enjoy an interfaith approach to spiritual exploration, one that links Christian, Buddhist, and Islamic mystical teachings within a vibrant historical context and shows how they not only complement each other but remain profoundly relevant in the twenty-first century. Bringing Saint Francis, Dogen, and Rumi vividly to life as complex and compelling human beings, Enlightened Contemporaries lucidly explains their spiritual paths, explores the dynamic age in which these three pioneering teachers struggled and triumphed, and investigates their remarkable poetry. It also deftly examines how Francis, Dogen, and Rumi engaged the world in the context of five shared themes: spiritual love, nature, the body, the role of women, and balancing retreat from society with active involvement. By interweaving the spiritual lives of these Christian, Buddhist, and Muslim teachers, Enlightened Contemporaries will help readers enhance their own lives and find new paths of spiritual understanding. A person who knows mystical experience firsthand, who is tuned to that wavelength, can instantly recognize similar experience described by someone from another era and another culture… “These people are my companions.”
Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new, sweet earth, and the Great Silence alone! — Ohiyesa • Sun and Moon must have intercourse, like that of a man and woman: otherwise the object of our Art cannot be attained. —The Glory of the World • May the Great Mystery make sunrise in your heart. —Sioux Indian • The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe. —Sri Ramana Maharshi
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STAY WOKE a meditation guide for the rest of us
HEART MINDED How to Hold Yourself and Others in Love
by Justin Michael Williams
by Sarah Blondin
$27.50, paper. Sounds True. 304 pages, 7x9, colour illustrations
This is a “woke” guide to establishing a personal meditation practice and changing your life. We are modern people in a high-tech world with first world problems and long to-do lists. And if you grew up in struggle—overcoming homophobia, sexism, trauma, shame, depression, poverty, toxic masculinity, racism, or social injustice—you need a different type of meditation, one that doesn’t pretend the struggle doesn’t exist. Stay Woke introduces Freedom Meditation—a distinct approach that addresses disillusionment, social justice, overwhelm, and shame; strengthens intuition; cuts through self-doubt; and empowers you to make better decisions. Here you will discover: ♦ The five myths that create roadblocks to meditation ♦ Why thoughts influence reality, but don’t create it ♦ How to actually find stillness when your mind is going crazy ♦ What nobody tells you about setting intentions and the scientific process of manifestation ♦ Four hidden habits that sabotage your growth—and how to move past them ♦ Why you must turn toward toxic thoughts rather than just papering over them with positivity ♦ The opportunity and danger of getting creative ideas during meditation ♦ Proven techniques to overcome anxiety, stress, and trouble sleeping ♦ Daily rituals that strengthen and enrich your practice ♦ How to use mindfulness to take action toward the causes you believe in and get sh!t done Whether you’ve tried meditation but it never sticks, or you’ve heard about it but never gave it a shot, Williams will guide you step by step in creating a custom meditation ritual that fits in with your busy, messy life. With free downloadable audio meditations every step of the way, Stay Woke gives people of all genders, identities, colors, religions, ages, and economic backgrounds the tools to stop wasting time, overcome self-doubt, and wake up to the lives we were really born to live. “The world needs all its flowers, and you are one. Whether for personal stress reduction, a greater sense of belonging and being beautiful and okay as you are, or for catalyzing racial, social, and economic justice in our time, this book could be a godsend, a portal into embodied clarity, wakefulness, meaning, and action. Enter. Enter. Enter. And trust in your capacity to flower in your own way for the sake of the world.” —Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Full Catastrophe Living, founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
$27.50, cloth. Sounds True. 156 pages $38.99, 4 CDs. 4 hours, unabridged
Here’s a treasury of meditations for living from your heart—from a top teacher (who lives in British Columbia!) at the #1 online meditation service InsightTimer. In our noisy, noisy world, it can seem nearly impossible to find ways to turn off our busy minds, which so often flood us with worry and unending lists of tasks. So how do you find your way off the negativity treadmill? When you feel overwhelmed and afraid, how can you return to a place of groundedness and connection? When we turn toward our hearts, we arrive like a bolt of lightning in the present moment, and all our arguments against ourselves and life go quiet. No matter where you are, no matter what you are doing, you can touch this place in yourself to feel free and alive. With poetic brilliance and skillful instruction, this renowned teacher brings you a treasury of meditations and spiritual teachings to help you detach from your busy mind and tune into your feeling heart. As the stuTHE POSTURE OF MEDITATION A Practical Manual for Meditators of All Traditions by Stephanie Mines
$21.95, paper. Shambhala. 160 pages
When it comes to meditation practices, the body is as important as the mind—a fact that may come as a surprise to the many people who regard meditation as a strictly mental activity. But, as Will Johnson shows, the physical aspect of the practice is far too often underemphasized. The alert-yet-relaxed sitting posture that is the common denominator of so many meditative techniques is a wonderful aid for clearing the mind and opening the heart, but it also works to activate the natural healing energies of both body and mind. In part one of this book, Johnson offers clear guidance and accessible exercises for working with the posture of meditation. In part two, he shows how continuous exploration of the posture of meditation leads to an ever-unfolding path of awakening. The posture of meditation depends on three primary
Western Spiritual Teachers & Teachings THE CLEAR LIGHT Spiritual Reflections and Meditations by Steve Taylor
$27.50, cloth. New World Library. 120 pp.
Steve Taylor offers short and powerful poetic reflections as a guide to spiritual awakening, and as experiential glimpses of the state of enlightenment itself. As Eckhart Tolle (who’s written a foreword to this book) has written, the poetic form has been “recognized since ancient times as a highly appropriate medium for the expression and transmission of spiritual truth.” Your mind is full of flowing energy, like a river but it gets polluted easily, if you don’t protect it from stress and overstimulation. BRANCHES OF LIGHT
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dents of her popular online trainings can attest, these simple and powerful practices can instantly bring you into a deeper connection with yourself and others. And you can go back to these meditations whenever you feel overwhelmed, disconnected, or afraid. Read Heart Minded from front to back for a full course in living a life guided by the wise heart—or open to any page for a reminder that, beneath your burdens and troubles, you are fundamentally whole and free. I have come to know this as the voice of the heart— not my heart, but the heart of the world—and it’s available to each of us. When I become open enough to receive it, it’s as if a compassionate and loving frequency is working through me and I experience an immediate feeling of healing and release. My wish is to share this resonance with you, so you too might experience this comfort and support. This book includes links to free guided meditations on audio by Sarah. Sarah Blondin’s InsightTimer meditations have received over 7 million plays from over 600k listeners. She is also host of her own podcast Live Awake. attributes: alignment, relaxation, and resilience… Appearing together in harmonious relationship to one another, they generate a powerfully catalytic effect on the process of meditation. “Will Johnson’s much-welcomed second edition to his classic book, The Posture of Meditation, is a poetic and powerful declaration of the centrality of bodily experience in our task of waking up. Going thoroughly through and then beyond the important physicalities of sitting practice, Johnson deftly shows us how sensation and movement can be our primary delivery systems of resilience, quiescence, and profound presence. He calls this somatic dharma, and it is indeed a powerful teaching. He simply and clearly reveals the ways in which our physical aliveness—our being with our ongoing shimmering sensations and amoeba-like movements—carries us into awakened states of mind. This in turn helps us to experience a ‘felt union with all.’ Once again, a classic is born.” —Christine Caldwell, author of Bodyfulness
Then the energy turns toxic and makes you feel sick inside. So be gentle with your mind. Allow it to be filled with space not clogged up with information. Allow it to be soothed with stillness not bombarded with stimuli. And then your mind will serve you with quiet and easy grace and bring you an endless flow of gifts from a place beyond the mind. Taylor ranges widely, through subjects including “Making the Human Race Whole,” “Freedom from the Past,” and “The Reality of Connection,” always in clear and simple language. Best of all, he reminds readers of the choices they always have when life feels chaotic and overwhelming —empathy, acceptance, and love. Soothing but also challenging, Taylor’s words continually affirm the profound bedrock of peace and even joy in the present that is always available. The book’s “Clear Light” reflection says it best: There is nothing that can’t be undone— no past injury
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Reading this book can be a transformational spiritual experience in itself. Also by Steve Taylor are The Leap and The Calm Center.
DEEP HEART Our Portal to Presence
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Tap into your inherent wisdom, love, and wholeness as you journey into the depths of the heart. The great human quest is to discover who we really are—a discovery that changes our lives and the lives of those around us. With The Deep Heart, spiritual teacher and psychotherapist John Prendergast invites us on a pilgrimage within, using the heart as a portal to our deepest psychological and spiritual nature. The deep heart is Prendergast’s term for our heart center—the subtle center of emotional and energetic sensitivity, relational intimacy, profound inner knowing, and unconditional love.
by Jeff Foster
$23.50, paper. Sounds True. 218 pages
Poems for accepting all that you are—including those parts of yourself that you wish you could disown. There was never anything wrong with me, and there is never anything wrong with you. Spiritual teacher Jeff Foster has traveled through his share of darkness— but also knows the light that lies on the other side. In You Were Never Broken, he presents a collection of poetry that embraces the full spectrum of human experience, from the seemingly mundane to moments of transcendent realization. Each verse is an invitation to stop and meditate on a different facet of personal transformation. Amid these verses, Foster provides his signature straight talk and accessible teachings on the value of stillness and silence, the pitfalls of the spiritual path, and what it means to surrender completely to the beauty of the present moment. For him, the winding path to self-acceptance started with nonjudgmental observation of his darkest thoughts—and here he shares his world-renowned expertise on how to begin your own journey. For Foster, every moment contains infinite possibilities. With You Were Never Broken, you’ll discover not just raw and inspirational poetry, but also a guide for completely surrendering to the beauty and possibility of the present moment. Jeff shares the true heart of his inspiring, revelatory path to awakening. In his own words, these are poems to make you stand up and cry, “Yes, I am broken… but I am unbreakable!” Give yourself permission to rest, and be silent, and do nothing. Love this aloneness, friend. Fall into it (Don’t worry. You won’t disappear. I am here to catch you.)
by John Prendergast
$23.50, paper. Sounds True. 188 pages
The heart area is where we feel most deeply touched by kindness, gratitude, and appreciation, yet it is also where we feel most emotionally wounded. Whether we realize it or not, the heart is what we most carefully guard and most want to open. A HEALING SPACE Befriending Ourselves in Difficult Times by Matt Licata
$24.99, paper. Sounds True. 232 pages
With A Healing Space, depth psychotherapist and mindfulness teacher Matt Licata extends an invitation to explore the endless richness of your life—without minimizing or turning away from hardship, nor by seeking the shelter of comfort or certainty. “I do not have any answers for you,” he writes. “Rather, I see my role as helping to illuminate the immensity and even magic of the questions themselves.” In my experience, true healing is not a state where we become liberated from feeling, but freer and flexible to experience it more fully. When we experience our suffering consciously, it reveals sacredness and beauty we might not expect. Healing will always surprise us. On this journey, you’ll learn to use new tools and perspectives to find your own sources of guidance, including: Slowness—in a speed-obsessed world, rediscover the revolutionary power of slowing down, listening, and letting the fullness of each moment unfold Uncertainty—why we often protect ourselves from the unknown at any cost, and how we can gradually learn to open to the gifts of uncertainty
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In The Deep Heart, Prendergast guides readers to safely open their hearts and discover their true nature. Through precise and potent meditative inquiries, insightful stories, and reflections drawn from his intimate work with students and clients, Prendergast explores the convergence of psychological healing and spiritual awakening that happens most clearly and powerfully in the deep heart. These short chapters, accompanied by guided meditations and inquiries, will invite and inspire you to ponder and discover the emotional, energetic, and spiritual depths of your heart. The Deep Heart is a constant reminder to awaken to your true nature of presence and wholeness, to live it in your humanity, and in your heart, and in the way that you relate to all of life. And it is a reminder that each and every one of us has the capacity to be a redemptive presence in the world. We can each be part of what the world is trying to become. —Adyashanti, from the foreword Alchemy—explore the wisdom of transmutation as an inner process of things falling apart and then coming back together in ways that are more integrated and whole Depth Psychology—integrating modern advances in psychotherapy and neuroscience with the timeless power of a soul-based psychology Embodied Spirituality—discover the healing potential of an approach to spirituality that honors the body, emotions, relationships, and the shadow Love—allow yourself to awaken to the revolutionary call to love and participate in the full-spectrum of life, dissolving the “trance of postponement” with the power of an open heart. A Healing Space is not a book to be absorbed and processed in one sitting—instead, you will find yourself returning again and again, whenever your soul calls you to examine, transform, and renew yourself. At times we need to crumble to the ground at the magnificence of it all, awestruck at the bounty that has been laid out before us. To fall apart. To fail. To get back up. To be humbled again. To start over. To be a beginner in the ways of love. To make this journey with our fellow travelers, and the sun, moon, and stars. Also by Matt: The Path is Everywhere.
Also by Jeff Foster are The Deepest Acceptance and The Way of Rest. REICH AND GURDJIEFF Sexuality and the Evolution of Consciousness by David Brahinsky
$27.95, paper. 1. 292 pages
The main subject of this book is the relationship between sexual health and spiritual evolution. Specifically, the book focuses on Wilhelm Reich’s discoveries regarding sexual health and George I. Gurdjieff’s concept of spiritual evolution. The thesis is that spiritual evolution, in Gurdjieff’s sense, is not possible apart from sexual health as Reich determined it. Throughout the book, Brahinsky presents an in-depth discussion on Gurdjieff’s conception of the evolution of consciousness, sex, Reich’s discovery of the prime source biological life energy, the fundamental laws of world creation and world maintenance, the evolution and
involution of consciousness, the food of impressions and the crystallization of the higher-being bodies, and finally, sexuality and evolution. Students of Reich and Gurdjieff will acquire the knowledge they need through this edifying book. “This book is primarily for Gurdjieff Work students, not students of Reich. But it is the ONLY book that overtly makes the important connection between the work of these two (unjustly and ignorantly) maligned towering explorers of the 20th Century. I’m a student of both and I enjoyed it very much. Unfortunately, only people who have done the Reichian (body-based) work will understand what the Gurdjieff Work actually ENTAILS, i.e., that “shocks” are primarily about—in Reichian terms— dissolving energetic blocks, which takes a tremendous amount of courage and a willingness to explore one’s emotions from the inside out--involving the body, where they are stored--not merely contemplate them or have them analyzed by a shrink or dissolved by somebody else with some form of passive body work that is “done” TO you. This book is a great and needed one, which makes
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Eckhart Tolle & Kim Eng GUIDED MEDITATIONS FOR DEEPENING STILLNESS Everyday Practices for New on CD Raising Consciousness by Kim Eng
$39.99, 4 CDs. Sounds True. 4 hours
In her many years teaching around the world with her partner Eckhart Tolle, Kim Eng has led countless guided meditations and inquiry practices for accessing Presence. Guided Meditations for Deepening Stillness collects some of Kim’s most evocative and effective meditation practices, including selections previously available only to retreat participants. When we embody Presence, we discover a stillness at the very core of our being. This stillness ignites the cells of our body and every single one of our senses. Providing both an ideal entry point for beginners and a solid benchmark for returning practitioners, Guided Meditations for Deepening Stillness offers a series of practices for accessing the infinite potential of the present moment. Bringing clarity and a warm sense of humor to her teachings, Eng shares meditations for refining present-moment awareness, exploring the oriESSENTIAL MEDITATIONS New on CD WITH ECKHART TOLLE Guided Sessions and Practical Teachings
by Eckhart Tolle
$90.99, 7 CDs. Sounds True. 7.7 hours
We tend to think of meditation as a formal practice we block time out for each day. But what if every moment of your life was your meditation? For Eckhart Tolle, meditation shouldn’t be approached as a chore or a means to an end. Rather, meditation is something that you live. “The aim of meditation,” states Eckhart, “is that it eventually becomes your normal state of consciousness.” Essential Meditations with Eckhart Tolle points the way toward this quiet, constant state of Presence—where practice gives way to the realization of your innermost identity. This retrospective collection gathers rare talks and classic meditations from Eckhart’s extensive teachings, many of which have only been available to retreat participants. Over the course of eleven sessions, Eckhart leads you in meditations for breaking attachment to the stream of thought, easing suffering, discerning your
SACRED INQUIRY Questions that Can Transform Your Life by Adyashanti
$24.95, paper. Open Gate. 284 pages
Over his years of teaching, Adyashanti has led numerous online courses and retreats that have contributed greatly to people’s spiritual awakening and the embodiment of his teachings in everyday life. As part of these programs, participants emailed questions pertaining to the course subject as well as heartfelt wonderings, issues, or impediments they were facing. Adya received thousands of these questions and subsequently responded in writing to a great many. Our questions—about ourselves and each other, about life and death, and about whether there is something that can rightly be called sacred—belong not only, or even primarily, to each of us. These questions belong to the immensity of life and the consciousness which we are each individual embodiments of. “We have combed through these questions and answers
gins of the pain-body, cultivating equanimity, and much more. Here you will learn: ♦ How to ground yourself in the inner body while seeking Presence ♦ Why the pain-body is so adept at overwhelming consciousness ♦ How to deal with the pain-body when it arises in everyday situations ♦ Recognizing the sources of and solutions to suffering ♦ The stillness and spaciousness that are always available within ♦ How to align your physical form with the flow of consciousness ♦ Practical lessons that show you how to integrate the Deep I into everyday life ♦ How to dissolve any resistance to the form of the present moment ♦ The mental, physical, and energetic advantages of practicing Presence. With Guided Meditations for Deepening Stillness, Kim Eng will show you how to discover Presence through meditation, as well as embody it completely and joyfully, regardless of the circumstances. “formless” self, and embodying Presence in every single moment. Here Eckhart guides to discover: ♦ The power of asking “Who am I?” as an inquiry practice ♦ Why Stillness is much more than quieting the unruly mind ♦ The true source of all creativity ♦ The evocative poetry of Steve Taylor ♦ Why awakening is a process of unlearning your assumptions and biases ♦ The infinite space hidden between your thoughts ♦ Recognizing yourself as embodied Presence rather than an accumulation of narratives ♦ Understanding the movement of chi or prana in the body ♦ The joyous simplicity of present-moment mindfulness ♦ How to rise above the thinking mind rather than sinking below it In Essential Meditations with Eckhart Tolle, you will find not only teachings about transcending the thoughtbased self, but a direct experience of Stillness itself.
“We have combed through these questions and answers and selected ones that would serve others. As is frequently said, one person’s question is often another’s, and if we look closely enough, we can usually find within ourselves some element of what someone else is wrestling with. Keeping this in mind, the hope is that by sharing these Q&As, it will spark something for you and will support your own inquiry—for yourself and for life itself.” One does not need to seek out one’s demons in an endless pursuit of self-improvement. We simply need to face whatever arises with an honest, open, and inquiring mind and heart.
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♦ Transforming Emotions, Feelings of *Unworthiness, and Physical Challenges ♦ Meditation, Inquiry, and Spiritual Practice ♦ The Illusion of Ego and Separation ♦ Awakening to the Nature of Awareness ♦ Levels of Awakening: Head, Heart, Gut, and No-Self ♦ Relating from a New Way of Being ♦ Compassionate Regard for the World ♦ The Enlightened Heart ♦ Enlightened Living
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LOVE UNVEILED Discovering the Essence of the Awakened Heart by A.H. Almaas
$25.95, paper. Shambhala. 272 pages
Love is a universal energy--and a primary force that powers our movement toward spiritual illumination. All the ways we need love are simply reflections of our need for spiritual growth. In The Power of Spiritual Love, A. H. Almaas explores three dimensions of love: appreciative love--the true liking of somebody or something; merging or connecting love--a force that melts away separateness; and passionate, ecstatic love--capable of consuming us from inside. In their own way, each reveals the beauty and exquisiteness of our spiritual heart, which is the heart of the divine. However, the path of spiritual love is not without challenges. Almaas explores the barriers that tend to block our experience of loving awakening and provides experiential exercises throughout the book to help readers along their path. The exercises focus on the obstacles or misunderstandings that commonly arise for each quality or dimension of love. Presented in the form of writing or monologuing prompts, readers can work independently or in small groups to confront the emotional obstacles on their spiritual path. Regardless of where you are on your path, The Power of Spiritual Love will help you explore love in three essential dimensions and gain a deeper connection to yourself. The path of the Diamond Approach sparkles with consciousness and intelligence, but it also shimmers with love and heart. I consider this opportunity to delve into the essence of love in all its qualities and dimensions to be a gift to every human being… May every one of us be penetrated and bathed, awakened and illuminated, by the delicious and ecstatic love of being. “It is indeed a marvel to watch Hameed’s luminous heart continuing to unfold. Love Unveiled is by far his simplest, most joyful, playful, innocent, and transparent work to date, radiating all those qualities of mature love that he so richly describes here.” —Cynthia Bourgeault, author of The Heart of Centering Prayer You become the functioning mind, heart, and body of God. Your eyes see with the purify of perception; your ears hear the celestial hum within all of manifest reality; your nose opens to the sublime scents of existence; your fingers touch the texture of reality; you taste the richness in the diversity of life; you walk with the grace of eternity; you move with the totality of your nature. You are the individual consciousness that enables the universe to know and experience itself in varied ways. Relationships become a playground for encounters that open up the potential for new experience, and our own pleasures as well as difficulties transform into opportunities for deeper contact… The polarity of heaven and earth come together in the heart as the birth of divine eros—a living, breathing, pulsating, exuberant aliveness that develops in us the personal beingness that has the capacity to be everything or nothing at all; we awaken to the whole, wide range of all possibilities. —A.H. Almaas, from The Power of Divine Eros: The Illuminating Force of Love in Everyday Life
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Matt Kahn’s Healing Mantras THE UNIVERSE ALWAYS HAS A PLAN The 10 Golden Rules of Letting Go by Matt Kahn
$23.99, cloth. Hay House. 156 pages
Gifted spiritual teacher and intuitive Matt Kahn, whose first book was Whatever Arises, Love That, here guides readers on their path with 10 Golden Rules to help unlock emotional freedom. In this short yet powerful work, Matt Kahn shows how you can do the most profound spiritual work from the most loving, heart-centered perspective. The Golden Rules of Matt: #1: You’ve Done Nothing Wrong #2: Anyone Who Blames You Isn’t Happy #3: Hardships Can Be Fast-tracked through Thankfulness #4: Feeling Better Helps Everyone Heal #5: Well-being Is a Signal that You Are Ready to Embody Your Potential #6: The Universe Always Has a Plan THE HEALING MANTRA DECK A 52-Card Deck
#7: Everything Changes, But It Can Only Change You for the Better #8: In Order to Be Emotionally Free, It’s Okay to Dislike #9: Projecting Anger Drains You of Energy #10: Love Is Your Liberator Along with each Golden Rule, there’ll be exercises and mantras that I will give to help you explore each attribute of your highest potential in the most practical way. Each chapter will also highlight personal stories of how each Golden Rule has been implemented throughout my life. I will serve as your resident “spiritual myth buster,” helping you see through the façade of superstitious beliefs and limited viewpoints, to lead you into a more heart-centered reality. Matt also shares energetically-encoded mantras and exercises that will enable readers to jumpstart their spiritual growth and access deeper levels of inspiration, ease, freedom, and joy. heart, and soul. In this deck, users will strengthen their connection to the Universe, and a remembrance of their innate wholeness and perfection. Mantras include these and many more.
by Matt Kahn
$28.99, cards. Hay House. 52 colour cards + guidebook in a box
What is a mantra? A mantra is an echo of your highest wisdom, reflecting back in your own voice to help you recall all the things you were born to remember. Together, they’re doses of vibrational medicine delivered into your energy field through the power of your voice. Mantras are the language of unity consciousness; where the one speaking its wisdom and the one receiving its power are seen to be the same. This card deck from gifted healer and intuitive Matt Kahn contains 52 channeled mantras that have been encoded with healing energy, to realign your mind, body,
Dying & Grieving AN ENERGY HEALER’S BOOK OF DYING For Caregivers and Those in Transition by Suzanne Worthley
$18.99, paper. Findhorn. 176 pages, illus.
Written by a highly skilled intuitive energy worker, this compassionate guide reveals what is happening energetically during the transition back to spirit and details how to provide support in any phase of losing a loved one: before death, during the dying process, and afterward. Taking readers step-by-step through the nine energetic levels of dying, author Suzanne Worthley explains what is happening at each level or dimension energetically, what to watch for in each stage, and specific ways in which we can support our loved ones through their transition back to spirit. For each of the nine stages, she describes what the dying person may see and experience, including the stages of transition at which people undergo the familiar elements of near-death experiences, such as entering a tunnel, conducting a life review, or encountering angels, guides, loved ones in spirit, or a bright light. She explores what family members and friends may see and experience, such as spirit energy, and what they can do to offer practical support and emotional solace to their loved one. Examining how life force energy works as well as what Akashic records and soul contracts are, Worthley shares hospice case studies for each level of transition, so caregivers can see how belief systems and energy blocks in specific chakras affect the death process and why it is im-
The light is always within me. I was born of infinite joy. I am worthy of all the pleasure my heart
desires. My intuition flows whenever I am still. Abundance is my birthright, and I receive it now.
Your life’s greatest purpose and its deepest meaning may be revealed to you--one magical, healing mantra at a time. Also by Matt Kahn is the book Whatever Arises, Love That.
portant to clear energy blocks like fear, anger, or guilt during life if possible. She explores the grieving process and offers helpful strategies for moving through it as well as at-a-glance reference tables of the nine stages and related healing strategies designed to be referred to by those holding vigil. Shedding light on one of the great mysteries of existence, An Energy Healers Book of Dying offers a compact yet comforting guide to support you through this emotional, grief-filled, and exhausting time and help you bring solace to your loved one during the transition back to spirit. RADICAL ACTS OF LOVE How We Find Hope at the End of Life by Janie Brown
$32.00, cloth. Doubleday. 304 pages
This deeply moving and ultimately uplifting exploration of our last great challenge is from the director of Callanish, an organization that helps and accompanies people near death. In this profound and moving book, oncology nurse Janie Brown recounts twenty conversations she has had with the dying, including people close to her. Each conversation uncovers a different perspective on, and experience of death, while at the same time exploring its universalities. Offering extremely sensitive and wise insight into our final moments, Brown shows practical ways to facilitate the shift from feeling helpless about death to feeling hopeful; from fear to acceptance; from feeling disconnected and alone, to becoming part of the wider, collective story of our mortality.
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As Janie Brown writes, Most people now under sixty have never seen a person die, and so have become deeply fearful about death, their own and the deaths of their beloved others. They have had no role models to show them how to care for a dying person, and therefore no confidence in being able to do so. My hope is that the baby boomer cohort who pushed for the return of the midwives to de-medicalize birth will also be instrumental in reclaiming the death process. This book is my contribution to the re-empowerment of all of us to take charge of our lives and our deaths, remembering that we know how to die, just as we knew how to come into this world. We also know how to heal, and to settle our lives as best we can, before we die. In my view, this is the greatest gift we could give our loved ones: to be prepared and open and accepting when the time comes for us to leave this world. OPENING TO GRIEF Finding Your Way from Loss to Peace by Claire Willis & Marnie Samuelson $24.95, cloth. Red Wheel. 144 pages
Grief is alive in us more and more, here on Earth these days. We all feel alone, shocked, confused, and heartbroken by the losses we have experienced in recent times. Opening to Grief is a gentle guide to the learnings in this experience. Like a loving friend, the authors move past the prevailing idea that grief moves in stages. Instead they offer a personal path, an invitation to turn toward the emotions and sensations that arise and explore the ways that are most healing for you. “A wise and sensitive book, this guide to working with grief is a treasure.” —Roshi Joan Halifax, author of Being with Dying “A comforting and elegant collection of healing wisdom. The perfect book for our times.” Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness “Opening to Grief invites readers to approach and be with their grief, rather than turn away and try to avoid it. The authors mix reflections with simple yet profound practices anchored in mindfulness. It’s easy-to-read and a wonderful addition to the grief literature.” —Sue Morris, Director of Bereavement Services, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston
Transpersonal Psychology YOUR SYMPHONY OF SELVES Discover and Understand More of Who We Are
by James Fadiman & Jordan Gruber
$24.99, paper. Inner Traditions. 434 pages, b/w illustrations
Offering groundbreaking insight into the dynamic nature of personality, James Fadiman and Jordan Gruber show that each of us is comprised of distinct, autonomous, and inherently valuable selves. They also show that honoring each of these selves is a key to improved ways of living, loving, and working. Explaining that it is normal to have multiple selves, the authors offer insights into why we all are inconsistent at times, allowing us to become more accepting of the different parts of who we and other people are. They explore, through extensive reviews, how the concept of healthy multiple selves has been supported in science, popular culture, spirituality, philosophy, art, literature, and ancient traditions and cite well-known people, including David Bowie and Beyoncé, who describe accessing another self at a pivotal point in their lives to resolve a pressing challenge. Instead of seeing the existence of many selves as a flaw or pathology, the authors reveal that the healthiest people,
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Karla McLaren on Anxiety as Fuel EMBRACING ANXIETY How to Access the Genius Inside This Vital Emotion by Karla McLaren
$23.50, paper. Sounds True. 172 pages
This is an in-depth guide for engaging with anxiety—not as an affliction, but as an essential source of foresight, intuition, and energy for completing your tasks and projects. When we ignore or repress our anxiety, it can overwhelm us. But when we learn to welcome it with skill, we can access its remarkable gifts. Engaged with wisely, anxiety is your task completion ally—it helps you to focus, plan, take action, and fulfill your goals. With Embracing Anxiety, you’ll join this acclaimed educator to explore: ♦ Principles and practices to befriend your anxiety at every level of intensity (before it overwhelms you) PRACTICES FOR EMBRACING ANXIETY Accessing the Wisdom and Energy of This Vital Emotion New on CD
by Karla McLaren
$38.99, 4 CDs. Sounds True. 4.7 hours
Are you struggling with anxiety? If so, you’ve probably tried the usual options— distraction, repression, medication, exercise, or just trying to ignore it. But anxiety, like all of our emotions, evolved to help us. And when we know how to work with it, this powerful emotion gives us focus, foresight, and the motivation to complete our tasks and fulfill our goals. This audio program guides you through the essential practices taught in Karla McLaren’s book Embracing Anxiety:
mentally and emotionally, are those that have naturally learned to appreciate and work in harmony with their own symphony of selves. They identify the Single Self Assumption as the prime reason why the benefits of having multiple selves has been ignored. This assumption holds that we each are or ought to be a single consistent self, yet we all recognize, in reality, that we are different in different situations. Selves have always been here—even in psychology—so we might as well learn to work with them. Offering a pragmatic approach, the authors show how you can prepare for situations by shifting to the appropriate self, rather than being switched or triggered into a sub-optimal part of who you are. They also show how recognizing your selves provides increased access to skills, talent, and creativity; enhanced energy; and improved healing and pain management. Appreciating your diverse selves will give you more empathy toward yourself and others. By harmonizing your symphony of selves, you can learn to be in the right mind at the right time more often. Also by pioneer of transpersonal psychology James Fadiman is The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide. ON THE MYSTERY OF BEING Contemporary Insights on the Convergence of Science and Spirituality edited by Zaya & Maurizio Benazzo
$24.95, paper. New Harbinger. 224 pages
Who are we? What is our place in this vast and ever-evolving universe? Where do science and spirituality meet? If you’ve pondered these questions, you’re not alone. Join some of the most spiritually curious and renowned minds of our time for an exploration into the mystery of
♦ Strategies to engage with anxiety as a source of foresight, conscientiousness, and motivation ♦ Why fear, confusion, and panic are not the same as anxiety, and tools to work with each effectively ♦ How anxiety blends with anger, depression, and other emotions, and how to clarify these compounded states ♦ Using McLarens Conscious Questioning practice to engage with anxiety and garner its insights ♦ How to embrace procrastination and get things done. When you identify, listen to, and act on anxiety skillfully, you support its purpose, and allow it to recede naturally until it is needed again. Also by Karla McLaren are The Art of Empathy and The Language of Emotions. ♦ Strengthening your boundaries to create a safe and calm personal space ♦ Conscious Complaining—a technique to stop repressing anxiety and allow it to self-regulate and reveal the information it carries ♦ Burning old “contracts” to bring your emotions back to their natural balance ♦ Resourcing—rejuvenating yourself with somatic healing practices for comfort and empowerment ♦ Conscious Questioning: a self-inquiry process for accessing the insights and energy of anxiety, and more When you identify, listen to, and act on anxiety skilfully, you support its purpose, and allow it to recede naturally until it is needed again.
being. From founders of the Science and Nonduality (SAND) conference, Maurizio and Zaya Benazzo, On the Mystery of Being brings together an array of visionary spiritual leaders, psychologists, philosophers, scientists, teachers, authors, and healers to celebrate and explore what it means to be human. This beautifully arranged collection of essays and insights highlight topics on the convergence of spirituality and science, weaving scientific theory and spiritual wisdom from some of the most influential thinkers of our time—including Deepak Chopra, Rupert Spira, Jean Houston, A.H. Almaas, Mirabai Starr, Adyashanti, and many more—with pieces that get straight to the heart of the matter. Juicy. At SAND… we navigate that space where something else takes over—call it intuition, deep knowing, trust, surrender—a place from which new discoveries in science and realizations in spirituality become possible… in the beauty of the questions, in the wonder, facing the unknowable on the edge of the known… We invite you to read each piece with an open heart and mind and to notice the invisible thread that weaves them together, remembering that we can never understand, but only surrender to the mystery we call life. As a powerful antidote to our chaotic and materialist modern world, this dazzling volume offers timeless wisdom and new insight into humanity’s age-old questions. On the Mystery of Being also reveals the cutting-edge explorations at the intersection of science and spirituality today. May it encourage your spirit, challenge your mind, and deepen your understanding of our interconnectedness.
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FREEDOM FOR ALL OF US A Monk, a Philosopher, and a Psychiatrist on Finding Inner Peace
by Matthieu Ricard, Christophe André & Alexandre Jollien $25.99, paper. Sounds True. 368 pages
Three luminary teachers unfold a compelling series of dialogues on inner freedom—what it is and how to cultivate it in ourselves and others. We are, nearly all of us, the playthings of our whims, our conditioning, our impulses, our inner conflicts, our wandering thoughts, and our afflictive emotions. This servitude of ours is at the root of much that torments us. How do we free ourselves from the prison of these mental mechanisms, in the face of which we often feel helpless, even resigned? —Matthieu Ricard With their previous book In Search of Wisdom, these three gifted friends—a monk, a philosopher, and a psychiatrist—shed light on our universal quest for meaning, purpose, and understanding. Now, in this new in-depth offering, they invite us to tend to the garden of our true nature: freedom. Turn by turn, each shares his own unique perspective on the various obstacles to inner freedom, the ecology of freedom, the ways to cultivate it, and the harvest that comes out of it. What emerges is a panoramic vision and road map for us to overcome the barriers that hinder our liberation. It is our hope that this book will clarify the means for freeing ourselves from the causes of suffering. Filled with unexpected insights and specific strategies, Freedom for All of Us presents an inspiring guide for breaking free of the unconscious walls that confine us. “It’s rare to find a gathering of such wisdom in a single volume. And it is a delight to be in the company of these three teachers, as if you were sitting with them and listening in. Far-reaching, penetrating, and profound, this is a gem of a book.” —Rick Hanson, author of Neurodharma “Down to earth, with doses of wit and self-deprecating humor, Freedom for All of Us captivates from the outset. This book is for all wish to discover anew joy, happiness, and who they are meant to be.” — Sharon Salzberg, author of Real Change Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk, author of many books, who has served as an interpreter for the Dalai Lama. Christophe André is a psychiatrist specializing in the psychology of emotions. His book is Looking at Mindfulness. Alexandre Jollien is a philosopher/writer who spent 17 years in a home for the physically disabled.
Psychedelics GOOD CHEMISTRY The Science of Connection, from Soul to Psychedelics by Julie Holland
$34.99, cloth. HarperCollins. 320 pages
We are suffering an epidemic of disconnection that antidepressants and social media can’t fix. This state of isolation puts us in fight or flight mode, deranging sleep, metabolism and libido. What’s worse, we’re paranoid of others. This kill-or-be-killed framework is not a way to live. But, when we feel safe and loved, we can rest, digest, and repair. We can heal. And it is only in this state of belonging that we can open up to connection with others. In this powerful book, psychiatrist Julie Holland helps us to understand the science of connection as revealed in human experiences from the spiritual to the psychedelic. The key is oxytocin—a neurotransmitter and hormone produced in our
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bodies that allows us to trust and bond. It fosters attachment between mothers and infants, romantic partners, friends, and even with our pets. There are many ways to reach this state of mental and physical wellbeing that modern medicine has overlooked. The implications for our happiness and health are profound. We are looking for connection in all the wrong places and in the process, we’re losing our connection to ourselves, to one another, and to our communities. The epidemic of loneliness is causing a mental health crisis, driving up rates of addiction and suicide. Opioids, pharmaceuticals and technology all trick our brains into feeling connected though our bodies are not. Good Chemistry shows how to restore real connection to heal us, body and soul. We can find oneness in meditation, in community, or in awe at the beauty around us. Another option: psychedelic medicines that can catalyze a connection with the self, with nature, or the cosmos. Good Chemistry points us on the right path to forging true and deeper attachments with our own souls, to one another, and even to our planet, helping us heal ourselves and our world. Julie Holland is the editor of The Pot Book and Ecstasy: The Complete Guide. She is the medical monitor for several clinical research studies on treating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, one using MDMA-assisted psychotherapy, and another examining the effects of various strains of cannabis. LISTENING TO ECSTACY The Transformative Power Of MDMA
by Charles Wininger
$23.99, paper. Inner Traditions. 256 pages, 20 b/w illustrations
In a world that keeps us separate from each other, MDMA is the chemical of connection. Aptly known in popular culture as Ecstasy (and as Adam in the early days), MDMA helps us rediscover our own true loving nature, often obscured by the traumas of life. Well on its way to becoming a prescription medication due to groundbreaking research on its use to treat PTSD, Ecstasy can offer benefits for all adult life stages, from 20-somethings to seniors. In this memoir and guide to safe use, Charles Wininger, a licensed psychoanalyst and mental health counselor, details the countless ways that Ecstasy has helped him become a better therapist and husband. He recounts his coming of age in the 1960s counterculture, his 50 years of responsible experimentation with mind-altering substances, and his immersion in the new psychedelic renaissance. He explains how he and his wife found Ecstasy to be the key to renewing and enriching their lives as they entered their senior years. It also strengthened the bonds of their marriage. Countering the fearful propaganda that surrounds this drug, Wininger describes what the experience actually feels like and explores the value of Ecstasy and similar substances for helping psychologically healthy individuals live a more optimal life. He provides protocols for the responsible, recreational, and celebrational use of MDMA, including how to perfect the experience, maximize the benefits and minimize the risks, and how it may not be for everyone. He reveals how MDMA has revitalized his marriage, both erotically and emotionally, and describes how pleasure, fun, and joy can be profound bonding and transformative experiences. Revealing MDMA’s versatility when it comes to bringing lasting renewal, pleasure, and inspiration to one’s life, Wininger shows that recognizing the transformative power of happiness-inducing experiences can be the first step on the path to healing. Excellent DIY resources are accessible at Charley’s website: charleywininger.com.
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Stan Grof & Claudio Naranjo THE WAY OF THE PSYCHONAUT VOLUME 1 Encyclopedia for Inner Journeys by Stanislav Grof
$34.95, paper. MAPS. 416 pages, colour & b/w photos
The Way of the Psychonaut is one of the most important books ever written about the human psyche and the spiritual quest. The new understandings were made possible thanks to Albert Hofmann’s discovery of LSD—the microscope and telescope of the human psyche—as well as other psychedelic substances. This comprehensive work is a tour de force through the worlds of psychology and psychotherapy, Holotropic Breathwork, maps of the psyche, birth, sex, and death, psychospiritual rebirth, the roots of trauma, spiritual emergency and transpersonal experiences, karma and reincarnation, higher creativity, great art, and archetypes. The commanding breadth and depth of Grof’s knowledge is astounding, the tone of his writing easy and accessible, and his narratives brightened with amusing anecdotes, intriguing personal accounts, and brilliant case studies. Grof reviews the history of depth psychotherapy, the important revisions that are needed to make it more effective, and why the inner quest is such an essential pursuit. As one of the fathers of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, its most experienced practitioner, and deeply deserving of a Nobel Prize in medicine, in these two volumes Grof has successfully unveiled a new and sweeping paradigm in self-exploration and healing. The vast and practical knowledge in this book is sure to be an invaluable and treasured resource for all serious seekers. With a foreword by Richard Tarnas, the contents of Volume One include: THE WAY OF THE PSYCHONAUT VOLUME 2 Encyclopedia for Inner Journeys by Stanislav Grof
$34.95, paper. MAPS. 354 pages, b/w & colour photos
As one of the fathers of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, its most experienced practitioner, and deeply deserving of a Nobel Prize in medicine, in these two volumes Grof has successfully unveiled a new and sweeping paradigm in self-exploration and healing. The vast and practical knowledge in this book is sure to be an invaluable and treasured resource for all serious seekers. With a foreword by Rick Doblin, the contents of Volume Two include: MY PSYCHEDELIC EXPLORATIONS The Healing Power and Transformational Potential of Psychoactive Substances by Claudio Naranjo
$37.50, paper. Inner Traditions. 448 pages, b/w illustrations
In the time of the psychedelic pioneers, there were psychopharmacologists like Alexander “Sasha Shulgin,” psychonauts like Aldous Huxley, and psychiatrists like Humphrey Osmond. Claudio Naranjo was all three at once. He was the first to study the psychotherapeutic applications of ayahuasca, the first to publish on the effects of ibogaine, and a long-time collaborator with Sasha Shulgin in the research behind Shulgin’s famous books. A Fulbright scholar and Guggenheim fellow, he worked with Leo Zeff on LSD-assisted therapy and Fritz Perls on Gestalt therapy. He was a presenter at the 1967 University of California LSD Conference and, 47 years later, gave the inaugural speech at the First International Conference on Ayahuasca in 2014.
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♦ The History of Psychonautics: Ancient, Aboriginal, and Modern Technologies of the Sacred ♦ The Revision and Re-Enchantment of Psychology: Legacy from a Half Century of Consciousness Research ♦ Maps of the Psyche in Depth Psychology: Toward An Integratoin of Approaches ♦ Architecture of Emotional and Psychosomatic Disorders ♦ Spiritual Emergency: Understanding the Treatment of Crises of Transformation ♦ Holotropic Breathwork: A New Approach to Psychotherapy and Self-Exploration “The Way of the Psychonaut is a treasure trove of insights distilled from Stanislav Grof’s long and distinguished career in psychedelic therapy and Holotropic Breathwork. This is a rich and comprehensive statement from a master clinician who has forever changed our understanding of our mind and the mind of the universe. Essential and wonderful reading.” —Chris Bache, Ph.D., author of LSD and the Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven “Future historians will describe the emergence of psychedelic compounds and plants in the mid-1960s as an event that radically changed psychology, psychiatry, and psychotherapy. It also sent shockwaves through Western culture, transforming lifestyles, worldviews, the arts, theoretical physics, technology, and the computer industry. If you think this is an exaggeration, read The Way of the Psychonaut, Stanislav Grof’s well-crafted and beautifully written account of an era that may save humanity in spite of itself.” —Stanley Krippner, Alan Watts Professor of Psychology, Saybrook University ♦ Self-Exploration and Therapy with Psychedelics: Importance of Set and Setting ♦ Synchronicity: C.G. Jung’s “Acausal Connecting Principle” ♦ Holotropic States of Consciousness and the Understanding of Art ♦ The Promethean Impulse: Higher Creativity ♦ The Archetypes: Guiding Principlies of the Psyche and the Cosmos ♦ Roots of Human Violence and Greed: Consciousness Research and Human Survival ♦ Psyche and Thanatos: Psychospiritaul Dimensions of Death and Dying ♦ The Cosmic Game: Exploration of the Farthest Reaches of Human Consciousness ♦ Epilogue: Psyche and Cosmos by Richard Tarnas Across his career, Dr. Naranjo gathered more clinical experience in individual and group psychedelic treatment than any other psychotherapist to date. In this book, his final work, Dr. Naranjo shares his psychedelic autobiography along with previously unpublished interviews, session accounts, and research papers on the therapeutic effects of psychedelics, including MDMA, ayahuasca, cannabis, iboga, and psilocybin. The book includes Naranjo’s reflections on the spiritual aspects of psychedelics and the healing transformations they bring, his philosophical explorations of how psychedelics act as agents of deeper consciousness, and his recommended techniques for controlled induction of altered states using different visionary substances. Naranjo’s work shows that psychedelics have the strongest potential for transforming and healing people over all therapeutic methods currently in use. Among his other books are The Healing Journey and The Revolution We Expected.
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PSYCHEDELICS AND SPIRITUALITY The Sacred Use of LSDd, Psilocybin, and MDMA for Human Transformation
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edited by Thomas Roberts
$23.99, paper. Inner Traditions. 320 pp.
Modern organized religion is based predominantly on secondary religious experience—we read about others extraordinary spiritual encounters with God but have no direct experience ourselves. Yet there exist powerful sacraments to help us directly experience the sacred, to help us seek out for ourselves the meaning of being human and our place in the universe, and to help us see the sacred in the world that surrounds us. In this classic book, more than 25 spiritual leaders, scientists, and psychedelic visionaries examine how we can return to the primary spiritual encounters at the basis of all religions through the guided use of psychedelics. With contributions by Albert Hofmann, Huston Smith, Stanislav Grof, Charles Tart, Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin, Brother David Steindl-Rast, Myron Stolaroff, and many others, this book explores protocols for ceremonial and spiritual use of psychedelics, including LSD, psilocybin, ayahuasca, and MDMA, and the challenges of transforming entheogenic insights into enduring change. It examines psychoactive sacraments in the Bible, myths surrounding the use of LSD, and the transformative ayahuasca rituals of Santo Daime. The book also includes personal accounts of Walter Pahnkes Good Friday Experiment as well as a 25-year follow-up with its participants. Dispelling fears of inauthentic spirituality, addiction, and ill-prepared encounters with the holy, this book reveals the potential of psychedelics as catalysts for spiritual development, a path through which faith can directly encounter God’s power, and the beginning of a new religious era based on personal spiritual experience. “A major contribution to ensuring the continued expansion of the renaissance in psychedelic research. This book would be an outstanding textbook in all courses of psychedelic psychotherapy, mysticism, and spirituality.” —Rick Doblin, director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies “For those who value profound religious experiences and who wish to become increasingly well informed about how entheogens could become responsibly integrated into meditative practices and the offerings of spiritual retreat centers, there is much to be learned from the well-chosen essays in this book.” —William Richards, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, author of Sacred Knowledge Also by Thomas Roberts are The Psychedelic Future of the Mind and MindApps.
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SHAMAN Invoking Power, Presence and Purpose at the Core of Who You Are
by Ya’Acov Darling Khan $29.99, paper. Hay House. 272 pages, b/w illustrations
Now from Ya’Acov Darling Khan, the co-founder of Movement Medicine and author of Jaguar in the Body, Butterfly in the Heart, this guidebook blends experiences of shamanic teachers with transformational exercises and rituals designed to bring shamanism into the 21st century—and to activate the Inner Shaman in you. A shaman is someone who reminds us of the rhythm of life that is dancing inside us and invites us to follow it, who shows us how we can dream a better world into being. Shamans are no longer only isolated healers in faraway places. Their spirit has returned and is infusing the work of teachers, artists and activists, leaders in business and people throughout all areas of our societies. We all have an inner shaman and this book is for you if you: recognize there’s untapped power inside you that you want to learn how to harness SPIRIT HACKING Shamanic Keys to Reclaim Your Personal Power, Transform Yourself, New in and Light Up the World Paperback
by Shaman Durek
$24.95, paper. Picador. 320 pages
In Spirit Hacking, Shaman Durek, a fifth-generation shaman shares life altering shamanic keys allowing you to tap into your personal power. Through new information you will banish fear and darkness from your life in favour of light, positivity, and strength. Shaman Durek’s bold and sometimes controversial wisdom shakes loose our assumptions about ourselves and the very world around us. He ultimately teaches us how to step fearlessly out of this Blackout (the age of darkness we are currently experiencing) and access a place of fierce empowerment by use of tools and techniques of timeless Shamanic tradition. This transformation is both personal and collective; as individuals step out of darkness and begin to experience the light, we bring our loved ones and communities out of the shadows as well. Shaman Durek inherited a rich legacy of ancient wisdom and now shares this knowledge for a modern EARTH SPIRIT DREAMING Shamanic Ecotherapy Practices by Elizabeth Meacham
$21.50, paper. Inner Traditions. 222 pp.
MAGDALENA: RIVER OF DREAMS A Story of Colombia by Wade Davis
$39.95, cloth. Penguin. 432 pages, colour photos, maps
A captivating new book from Wade Davis—renowned author and photographer, and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence for more than a decade—that brings vividly to life the story of the great Rio Magdalena, illuminating Colombia’s complex past, present, and future in the process. The Magdalena River is the lifeline that runs the length of the nation. For centuries, it allowed Colombians to settle their mountainous, geographically unique region—one of the most challenging on the planet. Colombia’s complicated history reflects the beautiful, wild and impossible geography of its largest river: in places, it is placid and calm; in other moments, tortured and unpredictable. A
Elizabeth Meacham details her field-tested method of shamanic ecotherapy practices to resolve our centuries-long trend toward disconnection from the web of life. Through these practices, you will learn how to reconnect to Earth’s systems and help restore health and balance to people and the planet. Translating transformative ideas from visionary environmental thinkers into engaging shamanic rituals for profound spiritual growth, Meacham offers dozens of practices in three categories: Earth-connecting practices, Spirit-connecting practices, and Dream-connecting practices. Building on one another, the exercises open channels to allow you to directly experience the intelligences of the Earth and Spirit realms, rebirth your inherent shamanic abilities, realign you with the rhythms and flow of life, and reclaim your ancestral power for co-creating a healing dream for our species and all of life on our planetary home. Guiding the reader through a progressively deepen-
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want to feel a deeper connection to your own nature, your ancestors, your community and the intelligence of life itself care about the future of life on our planet and wish to redress the balance between humanity and nature know your purpose is to co-create a world that is built on justice and sustainability. The title of this book is an invocation. And I am drumming and singing it into the eight directions through the roots, trunk and braches of the Tree of Life: ‘Shaman! Hey! You there! Yes, you! I’m calling to you —you inside your skin, inside your bones. To the ancient memories that are alive in your DNA— the Inner Shaman who remembers your unbreakable connection to the magnificent spirit of life and who you truly are. It’s time to awaken. Your body needs you. The Earth needs you. Your heart needs you. Your dreams need you. You are creation itself in the form of a human, and you have so much to give…’ The rich transmission of soul story, movement medicine and ritual practices, and passing on of shamanic power, purpose and resources make this book a living toolkit and guide. More info: darlingkhan.com. context. He works with everyone from celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow and Nina Dobrev to royals such as Princess Marta of Norway and innovative executives such as Bullet-Proof Coffee founder Dave Asprey, who writes, “This guy does next level stuff. I have worked with him and I have no idea how or why he is able to do some of the things I have witnessed. Science is just catching up with biohacking. It’s time to start studying spirit hacking and how Shaman Durek can achieve the tangible results he achieves.” Spirit Hacking shatters readers’ complacency, giving them tools to navigate the tumultuous times in which we find ourselves. “Rarely, if ever, are books by or on shamanism page-turners. This is the first I have seen and it is stunning. Spirit Hacking will surprise you, undo you, and make you laugh. It invites you to a way of seeing the world that is deeply inspired and unique, entirely based on experience. It is authentic, gobbledygook free, astonishingly honest, a verbal mind-blow that is urgently needed at this time. It will flat out change how you see the world.” —Paul Hawken, environmentalist, entrepreneur, author of Drawdown ing journey toward connection with ourselves, each other, and the consciousness of our biosphere, the practices also invite profound mindfulness, as we work to hold a vision of connection with the Earth and Spirit realms, while choosing consciously to focus on joy, beauty, gratitude, love, and healing. It is simply a matter of grounding ourselves more deeply in the touch and sound and pulse of nature. From here our boundaries slowly open, and we begin to engage with a larger life, an older life that is both us and more than us. Earth Spirit Dreaming is deeply needed medicine for our times and a true gift to the world. —from foreword by Christopher Bache, author of LSD and the Mind of the Universe Illuminating a shamanic awakening within Western culture at the dawn of an ecological age, Earth Spirit Dreaming reveals how the birth of a global consciousness of healing depends upon our commitment to individual and collective spiritual evolution. Calling us back to our shamanic heritage of a living nature spirituality, this manual offers much needed guidance on the essential journey back to an intimate love of Earth.
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cultural wellspring of music, poetry and literature, in dark times the Magdalena also served as the nation’s graveyard. As the country enters a momentous period of revitalization, Wade Davis explores the three major sections of the river, alto, medio, and bajo, evoking each singular landscape and the people he meets there in poetic, nuanced writing, accompanied by his own striking photography. Magdalena gives us a rare, kaleidoscopic picture of the past and present of a nation often reduced to unfair clichés of drug cartels and violence. Through many years of uncertainty, the Magdalena never abandoned its people, always returning as a life-giving force, the source of much of Colombia’s wealth—and its dreams. Weaving together memoir, history, and a remarkable tale of a nation rising to bring about transformational change, Wade Davis tells the story of this magnificent river with passion and love,. “[A] deeply inquisitive, dazzlingly fluent scientific, cultural, and spiritual investigation... This far-reaching, centuries-encompassing river biography is shaped by Davis’ love for Colombia... Always with a discerning eye to the symbolic and metaphorical, Davis tells the river’s saga of fecundity and horror through the lives of remarkable individuals past and present... Throughout Davis emphasizes Colombia’s many Indigenous peoples and their abiding belief that protecting the river is a sacred duty. The story of Magdalena... is that of an epic struggle between the sacred and the profane, between worship and preservation and reckless exploitation and wanton abuse.” —Booklist Among Wade Davis’s many other books are One River and The Wayfinders. ANCESTRAL HEALING FOR YOUR SPIRITUAL AND GENETIC FAMILIES by Jeanne Ruland & Shantidevi $19.99, paper. Inner Traditions. 109 pages, colour photos
Knowing your ancestral lineage is not only a matter of curiosity, your life path will unfold with much more ease if you are aware and in harmony with your origins. Exploring the heritage of your bloodline as well as the energy of your spiritual family, which we are often less aware of, opens you up to enormous potential for healing and self-development. This practical guide explains, in a clear and straightforward way, how the energy field of our ancestors influences our personal lives and how we can draw from their strength as well as liberate ourselves from burdens borne over generations. It helps us to lift the veil of forgetting and allow ourselves to fully shine our light, supported by the souls that came before us, by making peace with past hurts and traumas. Drawing on the Huna Hawaiian shamanic tradition as well as other shamanic and energetic practices, the authors show how to connect with our “Aumakua,” our ancestors and higher self, which includes our close relatives, ancestors stretching back thousands of years, and our spiritual ancestors or karmic family. The authors offer practices to reconcile with our parents and spiritual family, uncover suppressed matters and family secrets, clear and charge our personal energy field and our family energy field, and awaken the potential of our bloodline. They explain how to perform an ancestor healing circle, carry out an ancestor release ritual, and offer blessings for children and grandchildren as well as providing meditative journeys to meet our ancestors, our spiritual family, and our spiritual roots in other realms. They also provide short case studies to illustrate how the rituals and exercises have worked for other people. By enacting ancestral healing, we can recognize who we are, where we come from, and truly fulfill our destiny in this life.
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Native American Medicine Ways BECOMING MEDICINE Pathways of Initiation into a Living Spirituality by David Kopacz & Joseph Rael $34.95, paper. Condor & Eagle. 508 pages, b/w illustrations
In a time when many are feeling lost, this collaboration by holistic psychiatrist David Kopacz and Native American visionary Joseph Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow) offers hope. Becoming Medicine takes us on a journey into the heart of the medicine wheel where separation and division are replaced by an experience of spiritual democracy and unity with all people, with nature, and with the cosmos. Following the ancient pathways of initiation of mystics, visionaries, and shamans we learn everyone can find a living spirituality—a connection to the source of all religions. Learning from mystics and visionaries such as Jung, Corbin, Rumi, Whitman, Alice & John Coltrane, and Miles Davis, the book brings together threads of ancient and modern wisdom paths. When we make the secret journey into the heart at the center of the medicine wheel, we are becoming medicine, becoming the healing that our world so desperately needs today. Initiation is the transformational process through which we can all access direct, personal spiritual experience. The book starts with David and Joseph’s own paths, but then branches off into a variety of lives and stories of many mystics, visionaries, shamans, artists, scientists, and musicians. Initiation is a path that begins with separation from ordinary reality, initiation into non-ordinary reality, and then the return back to where one started, however now having been transformed. Visionary and mystical experiences can be healing in and of themselves, but true initiation leads to a new sense of identity and purpose and requires the return to ordinary reality as an agent of transformation. Seeking leads to finding and receiving, which in turn lead to an obligation of giving back. “In this wonderful book, Picuris/Ute medicine man Joseph Rael reveals that each of us is an embodied human being who is in fact a medicine bag, a container in which we carry sacredness. By walking into the center of ourselves, into the center of our hearts, we cease to be ourselves and are instead becoming medicine. It is something that is done every moment. Becoming Medicine means that we are becoming capable of being a place for the Breath-Matter-Movement of the vast spirit to manifest and reside for a moment. This is a fabulous book for our times.” —Hank Wesselman, author of The Re-Enchantment: A Shamanic Path to a Life of Wonder
Wicca & Magick ANGELS & ARCHANGELS A Magician’s Guide by Damien Echols
$32.50, cloth. Sounds True. 267 pp. illus. $38.99, 6 CDs. 6 hours, 19 minutes
Angels and Archangels presents an essential resource for understanding what angels are, how they make themselves available, and magickal practices to invoke their power to transform your life. Angels do not belong to any one single religion, system, or dogma. They are almost pure energy—the very substance the cosmos is made of. They’re also incredibly willing to work with us if asked…
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The ultimate goal of working with angels is to become one ourselves. That’s what people actually are—unconscious angels. For the magician—or anyone seeking to enlist helping forces on the path of awakening—invoking angels and archangels gives you access to incredible potential for manifestation, healing, and spiritual growth. In this lucid and information-packed guide, Damien shares his unique understanding and experience of magickal practices refined in the crucible of his wrongful death row imprisonment. Here you’ll discover: ♦ A clear presentation of angels and archangels as they have been honored in mystical traditions for thousands of years ♦ The names and qualities of individual angels and archangels, as associated with the elements, the Zodiac, the Tree of Life, and the Tarot ♦ Foundational practices and meditations for building your skills with magick ♦ How to call on angels for blessing, protection, invocation, the creation of talismans and sigils, and more ♦ Advanced angel magick rituals, including the Rose Cross, the Celestial, and the Shem Operation ♦ The Holy Guardian Angel—the key contact for stepping into your true nature beyond ego consciousness When working with angels and archangels, I’ve come to realize that they don’t carry out the tasks we charge them with just because we ask them to—they do it because they perceive the divine within us. Angels and Archangels is an essential resource for every magickal library, an invitation by one of the most exciting modern teachers of the art to discover the enormous potential waiting for your call. POSITIVE MAGIC A Toolkit for the Modern Witch
by Marion Weinstein
$27.95, paper. Weiser. 296 pages
Here is a new edition of one of the best-loved introductions to magic that is still used in metaphysical classes around the world. The author makes ancient magic techniques accessible, offering them as practical tools for daily life. Addressing the needs of today’s readers—beginners and adepts alike— the author provides well-researched historical background on astrology, witchcraft, tarot, and the I Ching as well as channeling, spirit contact, and the connections between quantum physics and traditional magic. This book is an excellent toolkit for those beginning their explorations of witchcraft as a spiritual path, as well as for those well on their way. I felt very blessed by Marion, as I read this book. May her blessings extend to you. —Judika Illes, from the foreword “A rare gem. One of the only magical self-help books that is beautiful, moral, and wise. Marion’s methods of working have greatly influenced my life.” —Margot Adler, author of Drawing Down the Moon “Written by one of America’s Witch elders, this revised and expanded edition of this beloved classic can enrich the spiritual practice of longtime practitioners as well as those beginning their explorations of magical realms.” Selena Fox, High Priestess, Circle Sanctuary “Well written and fascinating, Positive Magic is a book you must read and keep by your side. Weinstein explains what you need to know and does it in a way that keeps you all the way through. An intelligent approach to using magic in your life.” —Merlin Stone, author of When God Was a Woman
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Witches Crafting Beauty SEASONS OF MOON AND FLAME The Wild Dreamer’s Epic Journey of Becoming
harmony with the worlds of spirit and nature.
by Danielle Dulsky
$26.00, paper. New World. 350 pages
The yearning to slow down and simplify, return to the earth, and maybe even rewild what has been tamed in ourselves persists even though that dream seems ever more remote in contemporary life. Danielle Dulsky shows that even in our high-tech and high-pressure lives, it is possible. As a young woman, Dulsky found refuge, nurturance, and wisdom in her grandmother’s rustic home. As an adult, after years of seeking elsewhere, Dulsky came to recognize the wise elder, or Crone, in her grandmother and to explore ways of honoring that lineage. She offers fellow seekers a way to manifest their own year of the wild and to tap into often-forgotten wisdom ways. Seasons of Moon and Flame guides readers to live cyclically while working with the archetype of the Sacred Hag, or wild grandmother, who appears in various guises. Lunar phases within lunar seasons are highlighted through rituals and ceremonies. Wonderfully inclusive, with adaptations for families, spiritual groups, and other traditions, this book is a potentially life-changing guide to living mystically, magically, and in empowering WALKING IN BEAUTY Using the Magick of the Pentacle to Bring Harmony to Your Life by Phoenix LeFae
$24.99, paper. Llewellyn. 288 pages
Using the pentacle and its five points as a magickal framework, this inspiring book presents techniques and exercises that help you manifest joy, discover your inner and outer beauty, recognize blessings, and bring balance to your life. Phoenix LeFae presents a revolutionary approach based on the five points of the pentacle—Beauty, Devotion, Desire, Creativity, and Expression. Walking in Beauty awakens you to the magnificence of the world; it is both a meditation tool and a key to greater awareness. Through exercises, rituals, affirma-
Celtic Spirit THE LOST BOOK OF THE GRAIL The Sevenfold Path of the Grail and the Restoration of the Faery Accord by Caitlin & John Matthews
$31.50, paper. Inner Traditions. 342 pp.
Unveiling the long-forgotten prequel to the Grail quest stories, Caitlin and John Matthews examine The Elucidation of the Grail, a forgotten 13th-century French text, and show how it offers the key to understanding the sevenfold path of the Grail and the deeper stories beneath the Christian Grail narrative. Beginning with a new translation of The Elucidation by foremost esotericist Gareth Knight and Caitlin Matthews, the authors provide a complete commentary on the poem, revealing a startling alternative cause of the Wasteland and the Grail quest, one which has a profound resonance with our own times. They examine the forgotten story of the Faery Wars and explain the Faery Accord, an agreement that once existed between humans and the Faery and upon which the spiritual and physical health of the land depends. The offering of the Grail and its regenerative powers by the Maidens of the Wells—Faery women—was part of this Accord. King Amangons and his men violated
The hag teaches us to slow down—to look where we feel both joy and hurt and find, right there, the impenetrable wildness of who are are. We look to the most ancient medicine of our people, to their gods and fairy tales, and we cocreate our stories of becoming out of a bone-deep desire to belong the way those long-gone ancestors of our belonged and a simultaneous knowing that ours is a more wounded, more watered, more fragilely interconnected world. We Witches live close to that knowing. We can feel the future pulsing in our veins as much as we feel the echoes of the past, and we sense both the past and the future being reordered, re-membered, through our everyday movement, by our morning prayers and our evening ceremonies… May we make good art. May we slow down and taste the marrow of the magick we are brewing. “Bold, exquisite, empowering, and healing in its concoction and execution… An exceptional achievement.” —Mat Auryn, author of Psychic Witch Also by Danielle Dulsky: The Holy Wild.
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Here is a fascinating collection of traditional Celtic stories to amaze and entertain you. Animal tricksters, boasters, and heroes all dwell herein, set amidst the dazzling universe of Celtic lore. Now you can use these archetypes of the shamanic tradition help you in your own life today. Using the web link included in the book to play the shamanic drumming soundtrack music and allow yourself to be safely carried on a wave of sound “to experience your own shamanic journey safely, to meet with and learn from the Totem Animals, and to find which of these will become an inner helper for as long s it is needed and made welcome.” In this gentle trance you can find your Totem Animal, and the 20 Totem Animal cards included will help you choose animal helpers for particular situations —for guidance on life issues, for self-empowerment, paths to healing, or simply for fun. By working with Totem Animals today, we are following in the steps of our Celtic ancestors, and in the process learning not only to honour the creatures who share our world, but to see through their eyes into a deeper place where spirit is central and all-important. In the process we learn more about ourselves, our own place in the web of creation, and the constantly changing possibilities which are part of our personal heritage.
Christian & Jewish Spirit tions, and beauty acts you can take out into the world,this marvelous guide shows you how to run the energy of the pentacle through your body and clear any blocks that keep you from living a fully engaged and beautiful life. “Phoenix LeFae has done more than simply write a book. She has gifted us with a jewel. Walking in Beauty is gentle and lovely, but also power-filled and empowering. It leads with the heart into our collective soul.” — Courtney Weber, author of Brigid: History, Mystery, and Magick of the Celtic Goddess Phoenix LeFae is a rootworker and ritualist who has practiced witchcraft for over 25 years. She guides an esoteric Goddess shop called Milk & Honey.
the Accord, through their abuse of the Well Maidens and other evil actions, causing the wasting of the land. The Knights of King Arthur seek to avenge the Well Maidens and rebirth the Grail to restore access to the lost paradisiacal Courts of Joy held in ancestral memory. On their quest, they encounter the Rich Company whose greed keeps the Knights occupied in long wars of attrition, yet their quest to restore the generous hospitality of the Wells—the true Grail, the Faery Grail—continues. In addition to the Faery Accord and Knights quest, the authors examine the Seven Guardians of the Stories, the Rich Fisher, the Courts of Joy and paradise lost, and the otherworldly Land of Women. They show how this lost book of the Grail reveals themes familiar to the modern world and offers hope of healing the rift between the worlds of Faery and human as well as restoration of our natural belonging to the land. CELTIC TOTEM ANIMALS Ancient stories of shamanic helpers and how to access their wisdom by John Matthews
$25.95, paper. Eddison. 160 pages, 2-colour illustrations, cut-out cards
Here is a fascinating collection of traditional Celtic stories to amaze and entertain you. Animal tricksters, boasters, and heroes all dwell herein, set amidst the dazzling universe of Celtic lore. Now you can use these archetypes
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TEACHINGS OF THE CHRISTIAN MYSTICS edited by Andrew Harvey
$14.95, paper. Shambhala. 180 pages
The Christian mystics are the treasure of Western civilization—yet they remain little known among those of us who are potentially their spiritual heirs. Andrew Harvey’s anthology confronts us with the mystics in their own words, to show us how well they serve, even now, as guides for the spiritual life—and to challenge our preconceived ideas about the path of Christianity. The selections here represent all eras of the Christian tradition as well as an amazing range of people who have embodied it, like Francis of Assisi, Meister Eckhart, Julian of Norwich, Teresa of Avila, Thomas Merton, Bede Griffiths, and many others. There are gems from the Bible, “Sayings of the Desert Fathers,” Gregory of Nyssa, Saint Augustine, Saint Symeon the New Theologian, Hildegard of Bingen, Thomas Traherne, William Blake, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Teilhard de Chardin, “The Way of a Pilgrim,” and many more. Andrew Harvey writes in his introduction: The real Second Coming will be the birthing of Christ-consciousness in millions of beings who turn, in the Father-Mother, towards the fire of love and take the supreme risk of incarnating divine love-in-action on Earth. This Second Coming could potentially alter the level of consciousness of the whole of humanity and initiate it into that mystical wisdom that it desperately needs if its problems are going to be solved. ON THOMAS MERTON
by Mary Gordon
$24.95, paper. Shambhala. 160 pages
This is a probing, candid exploration of Thomas Merton’s life and writing from best-selling novelist and memoirist Mary Gordon. Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was a Trappist monk, poet, essayist, activist, and author of some of the most influential spiritual writing of the 20th century. He entered the Trappist monastery of Gethsemani in Kentucky as a young man in his twenties, seemingly abandoning the promising literary career that lay before him. But from the silent cloister
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EYE OF THE HEART A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm by Cynthia Bourgeault
$22.95, paper. Shambhala. 218 pages
Eye of the Heart investigates the imaginal realm—an energetic realm well known to the mystical traditions but often forgotten in our own times. It is invisible to the physical eye, but clearly perceptible through the eye of the heart. The imaginal realm has long been associated with the personal world of dreams, prophecy, and oracles, and it also points toward a higher vision of our human purpose that is both evolutionary and collective. Bourgeault explores both aspects of imaginal reality and shows readers how we can cooperate more fully with its guidance in our lives. Expertly blending her own lived experiences with research on the imaginal realm, Bourgeault explores how her personal relationships have helped to bring these teachings into sharper focus and the role this realm plays in Christian and other mystical traditions. She delves into the connections between our inner consciousness and what happens in the world. Eye of the Heart presents Bourgeault’s spiritual journey with the imaginal realm and encourages readers to attune their hearts for the well-being of the world. Properly understood through its own Western filter, the imaginal realm is collective and evolutionary; its THE WAY OF FORGIVENESS A Story About Letting Go by Stephen Mitchell
$22.99, paper. Picador. 288 pages
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Stephen Mitchell’s gift is to breathe new life into ancient classics, which he’s done with the Tao, the Gita, the Odyssey, Rilke, and many other books. In The Way of Forgiveness, he offers us his riveting novelistic version of the Biblical tale in which Jacob’s favorite son is sold into slavery and eventually becomes viceroy of Egypt. Tolstoy called it the most beautiful story in the world. What’s new here is the lyrical, witty, vivid prose, informed by a wisdom that brings fresh insight to this foundational legend of betrayal and all-embracing forgiveness. Mitchell’s retelling, which reads like a postmodern novel, interweaves the narrative with brief meditations that, with their Zen surprises, expand the narrative and illuminate its main themes. By stepping inside the minds of Joseph and the other characters, Mitchell reanimates one of the central stories of Western culture. The engrossing tale that he has
in which he spent all but the last few weeks of his life, Merton`s influence spread worldwide through his writing, primarily on topics related to the spiritual life—a subject which he demonstrated to be very broad indeed. His life of dialogue led him to explore a range of contemplative practices, particularly Buddhism, and he was one of the pioneers in raising awareness of Buddhist philosophy and practice among Westerners. Mary Gordon, as a Catholic in critical dialogue with her church, came to explore Merton relatively late in her own journey, becoming fascinated with him as a fellow writer. She documents her exploration of Merton through his books—the ups and downs of the experience, areas of disagreement and sympathy, of annoyance and, ultimately, deep connection. It is a profoundly personal view of one of the great spiritual figures of our age, by an interpreter who, while disinclined to go easy on her famous subject, nevertheless reveals a great admiration and fascination
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ultimate purpose is to guide, shape, nourish, and, where necessary, offer course correct ions to our entire planetary and interplanetary unfolding… It is also and primarily supremely the realm of cosmic assistance. It is the “place” from which saints, teachers, masters, and all manner of abler souls reach out across the apparent divide between the worlds to support or where necessary modify earthly outcomes in tandem with willing and attuned hearts here below. “This exquisitely written love story distills the intricacies of the esoteric Western traditions into a transformational elixir—both rigorous and luminous—simultaneously intoxicating and sobering.” —Mirabai Starr, author, Wild Mercy “A brilliant synthesis that both situates the imaginal world and gives it more meaning than it has previously had… [Bourgeault] is a true representative of the Western spiritual tradition.” —from the afterword by A. H. Almaas “Eye of the Heart is an immensely original piece of thinking, feeling, writing. There is nothing like it. It opens new terrain, plants new seeds, starts them on their way toward the light.”—Roger Lipsey, author of Gurdjieff Reconsidered Among Cynthia Bourgeault’s other books are The Wisdom Jesus and The Heart of Centering Prayer created will capture the hearts and minds of modern readers and show them that this ancient story can still challenge, delight, and astonish. In the Joseph story we can see the enlightened mind in action, the mind in harmony with the way things are, after the deadly tricks of the ego have been met with understanding. Joseph realizes that there is a vast, compassionate intelligence always at work beneath the surface of the apparent. —from the foreword “How do you honestly and deeply ‘interpret’ a dream? By dreaming it onwards. How do you honestly and deeply read a story from the Bible? By telling it onwards, again and again, with a reverent imagination. Stephen Mitchell has beautifully reimagined the Biblical story of Joseph with an enhanced retelling in exquisite language and with subtle insight. You won’t find a more moving, inspiring and enlightening book on the Bible.” —Thomas Moore, author of Ageless Soul
with his life and work. JUDAISM FOR FHE WORLD Reflections on God, Life, and Love by Arthur Green
$42.00, cloth. Yale. 408 pages
An internationally recognized scholar and theologian shares a Jewish mysticism for our times. Judaism, one of the world’s great spiritual traditions, is not addressed to Jews alone. In this masterful book, Arthur Green calls out to seekers of all sorts, offering a universal response to the eternal human questions of who we are, why we exist, where we are going, and how to live. Drawing on over half a century as a Jewish seeker and teacher, he shows us a Judaism that cultivates the life of the spirit, that inspires an inward journey leading precisely toward self-transcendence, to an awareness of the universal
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Self in whose presence we exist. As a neo-hasidic seeker, he is both devotional and boldly questioning in his understanding of God and tradition. Engaging with the mystical sources, he translates the insights of the Hasidic masters into a new religious language accessible to all those eager to build an inner life and a human society that treasures the divine spark in each person and throughout Creation. “Arthur Green draws on a lifetime of scholarship, teaching, and activism to offer unparalleled insights and rare depths of soul. Written by a spiritual master, this book constitutes a religious classic that will inform and inspire all who open its pages.” —David Ellenson, Hebrew Union College
Sufism, Islam & Rumi THE STUDY QURAN A New Translation & Commentary by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
$67.99, paper. HarperCollins. 2048 pages
This new and accurate translation of the Quran offers a meticulous analysis of its theological, metaphysical, historical, and geographical teachings and backgrounds, and includes extensive study notes, special introductions by experts in the field, and is edited by a top modern Islamic scholar, respected in both the West and the Islamic world. The Study Quran conveys the enduring spiritual power of the Quran and offers a thorough scholarly understanding of this holy text. With a two-color, two-column layout, it’s beautiful and accessible. With an introduction by general editor, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, here is a nearly 2,000-page, discussion of the entire Quran that provides a comprehensive picture of how this sacred work has been read by Muslims for over 1,400 years. The Quran contains above all a doctrine about the nature of reality on all its levels, from Absolute Reality Itself, that is, the One God, to the reality of creation both macrocosmic and microcosmic… The Quran also deals fully with the nature of human beings. It teaches us who we are, why we were created and placed here on earth, what our goal in life is… The Sacred Text deals with every aspect of human concern, from the deepest intellectual questions and the most lofty spiritual issues to the mundane matters of ordinary life. SWEET LUNACY Divine Intoxication in Sufi Lore
renditions by Vraje Abramaniam $22.50, paper. Hohm. 85 pages
“Divine Intoxication” is a common theme in Middle Eastern poetry. The “wine” on which the seeker becomes “drunk” is nothing less than the nectar of love. Such “inebriation,” however, often produces unconventional behavior, even hints of madness, marking the lover as one apparently lost to the ordinary world. And so, the poetry written by or about these “drunkards” is often saturated with perennial wisdom, with stark reflections of the truth (in vino veritas), and with a variety of prayerful longing that is found throughout all mystical traditions. Sweet Lunacy contains works by some of the most wellknown mystical Sufi poets from the 11th through the 14th century. But the reader will also meet lesser-known authors here whose messages, both unique and fresh, are equally inspiring. The human heart is a candle whose only yearning is to be lit, a gaping wound biding its time by the Friend’s Presence to be filled.
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While the subject matter is rare and refined, the author is clear that every human being nurses within his or her heart a nostalgia, remote and nameless, a longing for something they cannot express. This fine collection is valuable not only for the refinement of poetic content but also for the spiritual guidance of the great mystics whose voices are made available herein. Sweet Lunacy is for lovers, seekers of truth, and connoisseurs of beauty alike. Vraje Abramian, born in Iran and a native speaker of Farsi, has worked to keep his translations as close to the meaning and cultural flavor of the originals as possible. He has researched “Wise Fools” in various cultures/religions in the Near, and Middle East, Central Asia and India. THE BOOK OF RUMI 105 Stories and Fables that Illumine, Delight, and Inform translated by Maryam Mafi
$24.95, paper. Hampton Roads. 188 pp.
Philip Pullman, author of ‘His Dark Materials’ trilogy, has remarked that “after nourishment, shelter, and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” This new collection of Rumi stories fills that need. This fresh prose translation of 105 short teaching stories by Rumi, which form the core of the six-volume Masnavi, explores the hidden spiritual aspects of everyday experience. Rumi transforms the seemingly mundane events of daily life into profound Sufi teaching moments. These stories include well-known and popular tales such as “Angel of Death,” “The Sufi and His Cheating Wife,” “Moses and the Shepherd,” “Chickpeas,” and “The Greek and Chinese Painters” as well as the less commonly quoted parables: “The Basket Weaver,” “The Mud Eater,” and “A Sackful of Pebbles.” Reading one Rumi short story per day could easily become anyone’s ritual. Rumi’s voice alternates between playful and authoritative, whether he is telling stories of ordinary lives or inviting the discerning reader to higher levels of introspection and attainment of transcendent values. Maryam Mafi’s translations delicately reflect the nuances of Rumi’s poetry while retaining the positive tone of all of Rumi’s writings, as well as the sense of suspense and drama that mark the essence of the Masnavi.
by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
$22.95, paper. Golden Sufi. 146 pages
Now in an updated edition, Alchemy of Light explores a simple but revolutionary idea: that the light of our spiritual nature, its energy and divine spark, can be a catalyst for global transformation. “The work of the present time is to welcome the light of the sacred back into the world.” Delving into the inner world of archetypes and drawing on the ancient tradition of alchemy, this reflective guide emphasizes the inner spiritual light of each individual as part of the spiritual light of the world, and as a potent agent for global change. Spiritual seekers—those interested in higher consciousness, spiritual activism, spiritual service, and the connection between spirituality and everyday life—can learn how to recognize their own spiritual light and to work with it in service of life, expanding their spiritual horizon from their own individual journey to encompass the fate of all of life on this planet. Light, my light, the world-filling light, SPIRITUAL POWER How It Works
by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
$23.95, paper. Golden Sufi. 164 pages
How can we use spiritual power to help heal and transform our world? In this new, fully revised edition, Llewellyn VaughanLee, Sufi teacher and author of Catching the Thread, The Darkening of the Light and other books, here takes a radical approach to the problems of our present time, bringing spiritual activism to a whole new level of global involvement. He suggests that only through the activation and use of real spiritual power can we make the transition out of our present era into the future that is awaiting us: that we need spiritual power to purify and awaken the world. There is an ancient tradition of using spiritual power in the world and we need to reclaim this knowledge. Spiritual Power introduces us to this esoteric tradition,
Astrology, Tarot & Oracles PARKERS’ ASTROLOGY The Definitive Guide to Using Astrology in Every Aspect of Your Life
by Julia & Derek Parker
$52.00, cloth. DK. 496 pages, 8x11, charts & colour illustrations
Curious to calculate and interpret your or others’ birth charts? The new edition of this highly praised reference to astrology from world-renowned astrologers Julia and Derek Parker is a thorough, excellent, and accurate textbook-workbook. Explore the world of astrology and learn how to draw and interpret your own charts with this authoritative approach to the practice. Parkers’ Astrology guides you through the techniques, showing you how to use astrology to improve every aspect of your life, from relationships and career to health and finance. Written in an easy-to-understand style, beautifully illustrated, and filled with practical information, it is an unbeatable reference guide for every aspiring astrologer and those with more experience. Informative descriptions of BRANCHES OF LIGHT
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eye-kissing light, heart-sweetening light! Ah, the light dances, my darling, At the centre of my life… —Tagore Sufi teacher Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, whose work integrates depth psychology and dreamwork as well, shows how to recognize and use one’s light to work with the images that define our life, to change the collective dream from the present materialistic nightmare to one of sustainability and global unity. He takes the reader into the archetypal primal powers underlying life, and explores how to work with these energies for global rather than just individual healing and transformation. If we will embrace our responsibility for our part in the world’s recreation, we can be awake at the dawn, at the moment when the world shifts on its axis and a breath from the beyond blows away the debris of the last era. We can be the future welcoming God back into His world. Among his other books are For Love of the Real and Spiritual Ecology: 10 Practices. Visit him at workingwithoneness.org. and shows how we can each make a dynamic contribution to help the world to evolve. It describes the differences between worldly and spiritual power, how we can access the light of the soul of the world, and use it to break through the forces of materialism. It also takes us into the realm of natural magic, showing how we can work with this creative energy that is needed for life’s regeneration. Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee stresses the role of the feminine at this time of transition, how she holds the secrets of life’s oneness and the patterns of relationship that are needed to reconnect us with the sacred. This is practical mysticism on a global level, the simple wisdom that can unite heaven and earth and awaken us to the oneness of life. Without an influx of spiritual power our world will slowly die. Using this real power we can welcome the dawn that is waiting.
the 12 sun signs, explanations of interpretative techniques, guidance on chart interpretations, and updated text on all the latest astrological developments make Parkers’ Astrology the most authoritative guide to astrology. Included are all the tables and references you need to calculate charts—and loads of interpretive lore, in impressive detail. Astrological techniques are many, varied, complex, and always being developed and improved… There is no other discipline that has so vast a depth and breadth of theory and tradition bound up with so many other areas of life and study—including medicine, politics, warfare, magic, weather forecasting, psychology, and, of course, the contentious and fascinating area of what used to be called “prediction.” The latter is now better described as “assessing the possibilities of the future.”… The universe is not only stranger than we think but stranger than we can think… Very good wishes for your adventure into astrology. You will never be bored again! All twelve signs are broken down by elements: earth, air, water, and fire. Earth signs set down roots and are concerned with the material world; air signs are motivated by inspiration, freedom, and ideas; fire signs are about excitement, creation, and change; and water signs are responsive, emotional, and deep. —from Astrology for Real Relationships by J. Lanyadoo
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$25.95, cloth. North Atlantic. 256 pages, b/w illustrations
Reveal the wisdom of the runes—24 Norse symbols, from the ancient word runa, meaning “secret” or “mystery”— to connect with your true self, master the art of being present, and fearlessly welcome your future’s unfolding. Like pulling an angel card, consulting a horoscope, or reading tarot, choosing runes with a question or intention in mind allows us to draw on the divinatory magic of these ancient symbols. We can make space for dialogue with our inner selves, convert intentions into actions, and open ourselves to being more aware and awake than we ever thought possible. This approachable, accessible, and empowering introduction to the runes shows you how. In three practical sections, Rune Reading Your Life provides an introduction to the 24 runic symbols and their history, explains their ancient meanings, and reveals their modern interpretations. It guides readers on a 30-day transformational rune reading practice, showing how to read, interpret, and apply runic wisdom to everyday life. KABBALAH: THE TREE OF LIFE ORACLE Sacred Wisdom to Enrich Your Life by Cherry Gilchrist
$38.95, cards. Eddison. colour cards + 144-page guidebook, boxed
This oracle is based on the ancient Kabbalistic map of creation that dates back at least a thousand years in the Jewish mystery tradition. The Tree of Life is a sacred symbol in many cultures of the world, but here it is used as a path to knowledge linking the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet with the twenty-two paths of the Tree of Life and the astrological houses. Each resulting word forms a rich and powerful wheel symbol that reflects a segment of the tree, depicted on a card in the oracle deck. Follow the reading sheet to lay the cards in the zigzag line of creation, and consult the guidebook to receive guidance on any life issue. Both the oracle and the tree are highly structured, and from this framework of harmony comes wisdom that you will value forever. Cherry Gilchrist has studied meditation, Tarot and Kabbalah since her early twenties. She has also been a lifelong member of the Nine Ladies association, concerned with renewing feminine spirituality. As an author, and lifelong participant in the Western wisdom tradition, she has written definitive books on alchemy, Russian mythology, and divination. TAROT FOR TROUBLED TIMES confront your shadow, heal your self, transform the world by Shaheen Miro & Theresa Reed $24.95, paper. Weiser. 260 pages, b/w illustrations
There is a shadow that darkens each of our inner and outer lives. In Tarot for Troubled Times, Shaheen Miro and Theresa Reed help us find the light in this darkness. Learning to work with the shadow—facing it directly and leaning into it rather than away—is the key to becoming unstuck so we can change negative patterns into positive ones and find healing and empowerment for ourselves and others. Tarot, as the authors show, offers a rich and subtle path for this profound transformation.
YOU WERE BORN FOR THIS Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance by Chani Nicholas
$31.00, cloth. HarperCollins. 287 pages, charts
A beloved Los Angeles astrologer with more than one million fans here shows a new generation how to use astrology as a tool for self-discovery, success, and self-care. Astrologer Chani Nicholas shows you how to bring this life-changing practice into your life and embrace self-empowerment, intentionality, and spirituality. Gone are the days of “on Tuesday you will meet your prince charming” horoscopes. Instead, Nicholas is spearheading a radical new approach to astrology. In her hip, inspirational weekly horoscopes, she doesn’t tell readers what will happen to them. Instead, she encourages her devotees to take control—to conUSE YOUR PLANETS WISELY Master Your Ultimate Cosmic Potential with Psychological Astrology by Jennifer Freed
$28.99, cloth. Sounds True. 274 pages
Transform your life and grow into your highest potential using psychological astrology. Who am I, really? What did I come here to do? Who am I in relationships? A good therapist will help you answer these questions; so will a good astrologer. For the last 25 years, Dr. Jennifer Freed has combined her deep understanding of both these practices to deeply transform people’s lives. Freed introduces you to psychological astrology as a way to dive deep into understanding yourself and others in a profound and life-changing way. If you think of yourself as simply a Virgo or a Pisces or a Capricorn, be prepared to expand your self-knowledge many-fold. The knowledge in this book will give you a far more complete picture of your psychological and emotional blueprint. By understanding your cosmic DNA, nine core strengths, and cosmic committee, you’ll “come to trust
In Tarot for Troubled Times, Miro and Reed show readers how to: ♦ Work with the archetypes of the Major Arcana to befriend our shadows ♦ Discover—through affirmations, tarot prescriptions, and other healing modalities—how to empower ourselves and find our true voices ♦ Take our newly found powers and speak out so that we can become a helpful ally for the light and begin to do our greater work in the world ♦ Calculate our astrological “birth card” so we can understand the unique wisdom hidden in the personal challenges that confront us. Tarot for Troubled Times is not just another book on how to read the tarot—the authors provide specialty readings and suggested practices for issues such as grief, addiction, depression, fear, anger, divorce, illness, abuse, and oppression, and provide practical suggestions for stepping up as an ally or leader so that you can shape social policies. With a selection of mindful, introspective tarot spreads, you’ll learn how the tarot can help you rewrite your healing story and change your life, and help transform the world.
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front themselves, their desires, and their needs—to fulfill their potential using the power of the stars. Written in her lyrical, cool-girl, feminist writing style, You Were Born for This explains how knowing your star signs and what they mean for your individual character can be revelatory. Understanding the astrological chart can help you refine your intentions, identify your strengths, recognize areas for growth, become more connected to your core self, and steer you on your spiritual path. Astrology is a relentless reminder that we are the way we are on purpose. And that who we are has purpose. Has value. Has within it a blessing. The setbacks, difficulties, and challenges we face are all a part of what make us unique. that there is a divine orchestration that guides you, that you have a purpose in the world, and that both your light and your shadows are welcome participants in your psychological and relational lives.” Once any of us delve deeply enough into our own archetypal nature and its connection to universal themes, we become more available to help others find their way. We see how we are alike in ways that have nothing to do with our small ego concerns. We become more accepting of differences between people. Through understanding our planetary placements, we get clear about how we can be useful and meaningful to others around us. We need social and emotional skills to do this well. “Jennifer Freed’s ability to tap into an acute reading of the stars and their accompanying psychological impact is enormously intuitive, revelatory, and deeply helpful. She has honed her craft to a high art form and it is both a pathway and a liberation.” —Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues
UNTOLD TAROT The Lost Art of Reading Ancient Tarots
by Caitlin Matthews
$39.95, paper. Schiffer. 224 pages, colour
Discover forgotten divinatory skills, and learn to read the Tarot with confidence. Not just another Tarot book, Untold Tarot presents historic styles of reading little known in the modern era. It teaches traditional ways of reading used for pre-twentieth-century decks, drawing upon older cartomantic arts such as blending and pairing cards, reading lines, and following “line of sight” to piece together untold stories according to the direction in which the characters are facing. The time to rediscover these lost skills is ripe, and the practical and personal approach presented here empowers you to read in your own fluid style and develop a full palette of skills. The book also includes a selection of card spreads drawn from traditional French and Italian sources, plus methods of reading cards based on the author’s own extensive research. “This is a book which will be read, re-read, and used as a book of study. Untold Tarot is an important contribution to tarot in the 21st century.” —Linda Henery, the Tarot Conservatory Caitlin Matthews is acknowledged as a world authority on Celtic Wisdom, the Western Mysteries, and the ancestral traditions of Britain and Europe. She has written over 80 books.
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THE MAKING MAGICK ORACLE 36 Power Symbols for Manifesting Your Dreams by Priestess Moon
$31.95, cards. Rockpool. 36 colour cards + 96-page guidebook, boxed
Symbols have been used as talismans for thousands of years to attract good luck, prosperity, healing, love, and success, as well as being employed as amulets to repel unwanted influences. Enter the charmed world of magickal symbols! Featuring a dynamic combination of medieval charms,
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THE ANGEL GUIDE ORACLE by Kyle Gray
beings from spiritual texts, this deck is open to interpretation so that it offers a space for everyone to find an angel they relate to.
$25.99, cards. Hay House. 44 colour cards + guidebook, boxed
From Kyle Gray, a bestselling angel author, this oracle deck reminds us—and illustrates how—loving, divine guidance is always available to anyone. The Angel Guide Oracle card deck is a bridge between Heaven and Earth, bringing together 44 guardian angels with powerful, loving and insightful messages that will guide and inspire. Everyone has one or more angels with them at all times; they are always there to offer guidance and support. This oracle deck encourages spiritual seekers to connect with their very own angels. Instead of focusing on named angels or higher
THE HEART PATH ORACLE CARDS Miraculous Messages of Love by Nadine Gordon-Taylor
$37.50, cards. Bear & Company. 53 colour cards + 128 page guidebook
Beautifully illustrated with images of animals, birds, insects, plants, esoteric symbols, and transformative myths from around the world, the 53 full-color cards of The Heart Path Oracle Cards offer a gateway to the invisible—a gateway into the path of the heart. Working with the cards, you step through a portal uniting you with your higher consciousness. Immersing yourself in the vivid art on each card—from deer, bison, bluebirds, and ladybugs to platypus, ferns, ankhs, and the Tree of Life—will help you activate and align with loving energies that resonate and confirm your own soul-self. In the accompanying guidebook, artist Nadine Gordon-Taylor shares the years of research into animal
THE GREEN WITCH ORACLE Discover Real Secrets of Botanical Magick by Cheralyn Darcey
$31.95, cards. Rockpool. 44 colour cards + 144-page guidebook, boxed
Learn and explore the hidden powers of the Green Witch and her sacred herbs, plants, and flowers through folklore, healing properties, garden magick, and hidden messages. Heighten your intuition through 44 cards of botanical magick in the Green Witch Oracle and discover sacred messages of support and guidance to enhance your power, and cast your
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Some messages in this oracle guide the seeker to develop their own interpretations in an intuitive way (‘Blessings and Abundance’, ‘Surrender, and ‘Divine Timing’) while others prompt positive action from the seeker (‘Take a Step Back’, ‘Clear, Cancel and Release’, ‘Expect Miracles’ and ‘No!’). The Angel Guide Oracle can be easily used by complete beginners and will inspire spiritual seekers wherever they are on their journey to tap into their intuition and feel their angels’ presence by their side. The radiant, angelically illuminated artwork is by Jennifer Hawkyard. symbolism and world cultures that laid the foundation for her art. She explores how to use the cards intuitively and explains how the deck was designed to reveal unconscious emotional patterns, shift us from old ways of thinking, and resonate with the vibration of unconditional love. For each card, she offers an explanation of its title and symbolism, a channeled message of love, and an affirmation to implement the message of the card in your life. Cards include Programming Your Highest Intentions, Vision Questing, Karmic Forgiveness, Spiritual DNA, Melody of Thought, and many more. Designed to be felt rather than intellectually experienced, the symbols on the cards are your mentors and offer profound insights to help you along your path. When you choose a card you are intuitively guided to what is most right for you at the moment. Trust that process and know that you are held in the heart of Divine love. own special rituals and spells. These forty-four cards allow you to draw upon both the magickal and medicinal aspects of the garden. Ethnobotanical and plant folklore historical facts are sprinkled throughout the guidebook enclosed, along with gardening advice and spells. Oracle meanings are completely aligned with the doctrine of signatures to enable this deck to be used as a complementary medicine modality tool. Cheralyn Darcey is a naturalist, botanical alchemist, botanical history author, eco-artist, organic gardener, sustainable florist, and the author of several books and oracle decks.
by Collette Baron-Reid
journey forward… What new horizons will be available when you have the tools to co-create a new and aligned life story?
Acclaimed teacher Colette Baron-Reid presents a 49-card deck based on the power of 7 energies. The powerful energy of the number seven is reflected in belief systems and cultures throughout history… and in your own life today. As you will learn in this oracle, the wisdom of the energy of seven can be seen in the way you think, how you make decisions, what you encounter within yourself, and the conditions of your world. Drawing upon the power of seven, this oracle reveals how we as individuals experience our lives, giving us a framework from which to make inspired choices as we co-create our reality.
With guidance from intuitive oracle expert Colette Baron-Reid, you can now awaken to the power of Source within you, becoming a channel for Divine abundance and miracles.
$28.99, cards. Hay House. 49 colour cards + guidebook, boxed
Within this oracle, the concept of the seven energies can be said to apply to the totality of your life’s story: The way you think… How you make your choices… What you encounter within yourself… The conditions of your world as you
Oracle Cards can help you with your smaller, everyday questions as much as they can with the big ones that advance your spiritual and personal growth. While your focus might be on how to evolve spiritually, it’s equally important to be in this world, here and now. Wisdom must also be practical so you can live your life embodying courage and grace. With The Oracle of the 7 Energies, you will gain insight into the energies moving your daily life and material world… as well as those moving in your higher self and the spiritual realms. Among the other decks by Colette Baron-Reid are Spirit Animal Oracle and Wisdom of the Oracle Divination Cards.
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Three New Tarot Decks THE GRAIL TAROT A Templar Vision by John Matthews
$51.99, cards. Schiffer. 78 colour cards + 192-page illustrated book
The Grail legend is one of the most famous mysteries the world has ever known. This 78-card Tarot deck with spectacular Renaissance-style art by Giovanni Caselli relates to the quest for this sacred Christian relic and connects it to our desire to understand the puzzles within our own lives. Characters drawn from over 2,000 years of fascinating Grail history—including the enigmatic Knights Templar, one of the most influential groups of the Middle Ages—take their place in the Major Arcana. The suits are represented by the four Grail Hallows: Stone, Sword, Lance, and Vessel. Discover the symbolism and stories of the Grail as a universal and potent representation of the search for truth, and find how to connect them with your own spiritual quest. THE MUSE TAROT A 78-card deck and guidebook by Chris-Anne
$35.99, cards. Hay House.
Expect magic, exploration, and inspiration—a new deck from the artist/creator of The Light-Seer’s Tarot. Infused with a wildly eclectic spirit, ChrisAnne’s The Muse Tarot will illuminate your path towards inspiration and magic with its bright symbolism and powerful Muse energy. The suits are recast as Emotions (Cups), Inspiration (Wands), Voices (Swords), and Materials (Pentacles) to deliver messages from the source of creation. The detailed guidebook contains card meanings, poetry, and word prompts to offer insight into your readings while stoking the sparks of your creativity. Allure/Arouse/Ignite the Muse within! TAROT OF THE DIVINE A Deck and Guidebook Inspired by Deities, Folklore, and Fairy Tales from Around the World by Yoshi Yoshitani
$25.99, cards. Random House. 78 colour cards + guidebook in a box
The path of enlightenment is unique for each of us, but many of the lessons we learn are shared stories passed among cultures and generations. With rich, vibrant art and a keen understanding of traditional tarot archetypes, illustrator Yoshi Yoshitani infuses Tarot of the Divine with worldly insight and an intriguing selection of fables and folktales from cultures across the globe. The Major Arcana cards are brought to life with characters from beloved stories who embody the fool’s jour-
Metaphysics & Philosophy THE RETURN OF HOLY RUSSIA Apocalyptic History, Mystical Awakening, and the Struggle for the Soul of the World by Gary Lachman
$39.99, cloth. Inner Traditions. 438 pages
At the turn of the 20th century, a period known as the Silver Age, Russia was undergoing a powerful spiritual and cultural rebirth. It was a time of magic and mysticism that saw a vital resurgence of interest in the occult and a creative intensity not seen in the West since the Renaissance. This was the time of the God-Seekers, pilgrims of the soul and explorers of the spirit who sought the salvation of the world through art and ideas. These sages and their visions of Holy Russia are returning to prominence now through
“This deck holds something more. It is a Journey, a Course, a Magical Maze through which one can work a slow steady pathway to the very centre of oneself… and find there what all who tread the paths of self-knowledge desire… the meeting of the higher and lower Selves.” —Dolores Ashcrost-Nowicki “This is a deck to be discovered slowly, taking time to form a relationship with each card. It is not for the faint of heart or those looking for a quick fix for their problems, but a deck to be studied and savored as it reveals its mysteries. One of the greatest joys of this deck is the artwork.” —Brian and Wendy Froud John Matthews has been a practicing shaman for over thirty years and is a leading authority on the Grail and Arthurian legends and the Tarot. The author of a number of successful divinatory systems based on early spiritual beliefs, he has also acted as advisor on several motion pictures, including Jerry Bruckheimer’s King Arthur. Deck creators are forever pushing the limits of tarot’s suits and cards, working within the confines of what makes a deck truly a tarot deck—78 cards, 4 suits, majors and minors, etc.—to shake loose new ways to innovate with these strictly ordered cards. This is a very successful reinterpretation of the traditional suits that stays very true to the source material but truly offers users a new and unique experience. Chris-Anne is the author and designer of this deck, which means she is able to infuse the artwork itself with layered significance that will make a difference to discerning deck buyers with its attention to detail and artistry. This unique deck features images that look to be from high-fashion photo spreads that look to be seen through a kaleidoscope of color and movement. ney, from the Danish fable of the naive Little Mermaid(a character who represents The Fool) to China’s Beauty and the Beast (The Lovers) to the Maori legend of Hinemoa and Tutanekai (The World). The archetypes of the Minor Arcana—focused on suits of cups, coins, swords, and wands—are made richer with diverse cultural fables, ancient mythologies, and spiritual legends like the Crane Wife (Japan), Aladdin (Persia), Jack and the Beanstalk (England), Fenrir (Norway), Oedipus (Greece), the Pandavas (India), and dozens more. As you acquaint yourself with your cards, a 44-page guidebook illuminates how these fables support traditional tarot imagery and themes. With fables from more than forty countries, this spiritual journey is a worldly experience like no other.
Russian president Vladimir Putin, who, inspired by their ideas, envisions a new Eurasian civilization with Russia as its leader. Exploring Russia’s long history of mysticism and apocalyptic thought, Gary Lachman examines Russia’s unique position between East and West and its potential role in the future of the world. Lachman discusses Russia’s original Slavic paganism and its eager adoption of mystical and apocalyptic Eastern Orthodox Christianity. He explores the Silver Age and its occult revival with a look at Rasputin’s prophecies, Blavatsky’s Theosophy, Roerich’s Red Shambhala, and the philosophies of Berdyaev and Solovyov. He looks at Russian
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Rosicrucianism, the Illuminati Scare, Russian Freemasonry, and the rise of other secret societies in Russia. He explores the Russian character as that of the holy fool, as seen in the great Russian literature of the 19th century, especially Dostoyevsky. He also examines the psychic research performed by the Russian government throughout the 20th century and the influence of Evola and the esoteric right on the spiritual and political milieus in Russia. Through in-depth exploration of the philosophies that inspire Putin’s political regime and a look at Russia’s unique cultural identity, Lachman ponders what they will mean for the future of Russia and the world. What drives the Russian soul to pursue the apocalypse? Will these philosophers lead Russia to dominate the world, or will they lead it into a new cultural epoch centered on spiritual power and mystical wisdom? “The Return of Holy Russia is a startlingly brave and thrilling work of historicism and political-mystical philosophy. I found it absolutely enthralling.” —Mitch Horowitz, author of The Miracle Club Among Gary Lachman’s many other books are Dark Star Rising and The Secret Teachers of the Western World. WISDOM OF SOULS Case Studies of Life Between Lives by the Michael Newton Institute $26.99, paper. Llewellyn. 255 pages
Following in the footsteps of Dr. Michael Newton’s bestselling books Journey of Souls and Destiny of Souls, this book shares awe-inspiring stories of healing and wisdom experienced by real people. Discover what it’s like to make an astral journey to the realm of spirit, where guides and higher beings of love and light await to provide instruction and warm encouragement. Compiled by members of the Newton Institute for Life Between Lives Hypnotherapy, these fascinating case studies provide profound spiritual insights and lessons that will help you work through and release past traumas that may be influencing your current life. The stories focus specifically on some of the most common challenges faced by people in the modern world, including: Facing a Health Crisis Anxiety and Depression Healing from Loss Navigating Romantic Relationships Moving from Self Sabotage to Strength Growing Through Family Conflict Nurturing Relationships Balancing Career and Finances Transforming from a Brush with Death Aging and Dying. Life Between Lives sessions offer a way to connect with our real self while immersed in the human experience. The cases have demonstrated how to receive guidance from our higher self, guides, and wise beings, and how to gain a unique perspective on our lives. THE SCHOOL OF LIFE An Emotional Education
introduced by Alain de Botton $22.50, paper. School Of Life. 310 pages, b/w illustrations
Emotional intelligence affects every aspect of the way we live, from romantic to professional relationships, from our inner resilience to our social success. It is arguably the single most important skill for surviving the twenty-first century. But what does it really mean? One decade ago, Alain de Botton founded The School of Life, an institute dedicated to understanding and improving our emotional intelligence. Now he presents the gathered wisdom of those ten years in a wide-ranging and innovative compendium of emotional intelligence which forms an introduction
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to The School of Life. We aren’t ever done with the odd business of becoming that most extraordinary and prized of things, an emotionally mature person—or, to put it a simpler way, an almost grown-up adult. In an ideal society, it would be not only children who were known to need an education. All adults would recognize that they inevitably required continuing education of an emotional kind and would remain active followers of a psychological curriculum. Schools devoted to emotional intelligence would be open for everyone, so that children would feel that they were participating in the early stages of a lifelong process. Using his trademark mixture of analysis and anecdote, philosophical insight and practical wisdom, he considers how we interact with each and with ourselves, and how we can do so better. From the reigning master of popular philosophy, The School of Life: An Emotional Education is an essential look at the skill set that defines our modern lives. We need to be sophisticated enough not to reject a truth because it sounds like something we already know. We need to be mature enough to bend down and pick up governing ideas in their simplest guises. We need to remain open to vast truths that can be stated in the language of a child. The School of Life “can be found online, in stores, and in welcoming spaces around the globe. For more information, see: www.theschooloflife.com.”
Transmissions & Revelations AWAKENING IN THE DREAM Contact with the Divine by David Wilcock
$39.95, cloth. Knopf. 562 pages
A UFO researcher suddenly comes into telepathic contact with the very beings he has been so avidly studying? What happens when tapes of these “readings” begin predicting the future with astonishing precision—and speaking about an incredible upcoming event in which all life in our solar system will undergo a spontaneous transfiguration? David Wilcock is a master at weaving together cutting-edge alternative science, esoteric insider information, and his own personal experiences to reveal stunning truths about humanity, extraterrestrials, and the universe we share. In Awakening in the Dream, David again combines his extensive research, the Law of One series, new insider revelations, and his own connection with the divine to bring humanity closer to full disclosure than ever before—as well as help you activate your full potential on the eve of ascension. A TV personality, filmmaker, lecturer, and consciousness expert, David Wilcock is the perfect person to guide readers through the hidden realities of our world. With its myriad information, anecdotes, “Big Picture” comparative analysis, and trustworthy messages channeled directly from the highest-level angelic sources, Awakening in the Dream promises to be his most astounding book yet. For those of us who “do the homework” and prepare ourselves for this fascinating global transformation, our everyday lives will become indistinguishable from a lucid dream… We may well find ourselves awakening within the dream we once were so convinced was reality. “David Wilcock is a leading thinker who makes a magnificent case...that a Golden Age is indeed within our grasp and can be brought into manifestation if only we choose to make it so.”—Graham Hancock, author of Fingerprints of the Gods
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Transmissions / Higher Frequencies ALCHEMY: A CHANNELED TEXT The Beyond the Known Trilogy #2
by Paul Selig
$22.99, paper. Picador. 304 pages
Renowned channeler Paul Selig shares the wisdom of The Guides: Trust yourselves, please, to embark on this journey with us. Trust yourselves, please, to know each station as it reveals itself to you. And trust us, if you wish, to direct you only in the ways that you require. In Alchemy: A Channeled Text, The Guides offer us a way to engage the transformational process of moving beyond a limited interpretation of the self and into a place of true manifestation. As humanity stands at a crossroads, the voices of The Guides offer insight and a path forward. Paul Selig, the author of Beyond the Known: Realization, ACTIVATING YOUR 5D FREQUENCY A Guidebook for the Journey into Higher Dimensions
by Judith Corvin-Blackburn
$22.50, paper. Bear & Company. 284 pp.
We are in a time of great transition. Higher frequency light is flooding our planet, awakening large numbers to reclaim our original nature as fifth-dimensional humans. As 5D humans, we live from our hearts wisdom, from Unity Consciousness, unconditional love, and unbridled creativity. 5D humans have highly developed inner senses of empathy, telepathy, clairvoyance, and clairsentience—qualities that are opening for many as we go through this dimensional shift. While this journey is exciting, its demands can be overwhelming. In this hands-on guide to activating the 5D potential lying dormant in our DNA, Judith Corvin-Blackburn shows us how to navigate the Ascension process, including how to handle emotions, resistances,
Previous books by David Wilcock include The Source Field Investigations, The Synchronicity Key, and The Ascension Mysteries.
Business & Work WE ARE THE ECONOMY The Buddhist Way of Work, Consumption, and Money by Kai Romhardt, Welter
$22.95, paper. Parallax. 256 pages
This no-nonsense Zen approach to our economic realities can change everything and help us regain our freedom. Is it possible to be personally fulfilled, and also make a difference within our current financial system? If you’re skeptical, business coach and Zen practitioner Kai Romhardt proposes a minimalist, awareness-based strategy that totally reconfigures our core economic relationships: work, consumption, and money. How do we do that? We need to pause, breathe, and get in touch with our true intentions. Too often, we think of the economy as something outside of us, as beyond the scope of our individual choices. We’re unhappy with how things are going, with unthinking growth that polarizes our world and condenses wealth at the top, but we don’t know what to do. Romhardt argues that individuals who wield a sharp Buddhist mindset can,
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is one of the foremost spiritual channels in the world. Alchemy is composed of the pure, unedited words of the Guides as they have been channeled through Paul. Their message is poignant and beautifully written, humming with wisdom and insight for all who are ready and willing to receive their words. You are sung, in every moment, through your true expression. And your expression now, as a result of this endeavour with us, is about to shift in ways that you will know and see in your experience. Be prepared, friends, for a new sky, a new world, a new song—to be sung by your lips, seen with your eyes, and experienced through the senses that have been afforded a higher accord to what has always been true. Among the other books by Paul Selig are The Book of Knowing and Worth and The Book of Freedom.
and fears and welcome our 5D frequencies. Using the 9-dimensional-axis theory first explored by Barbara Hand Clow, the author details what is happening psychologically, emotionally, and socially with the dimensional shift, including revealing the denser, pain-inducing frequency of being a 3D human and the challenges of the 4th dimension. She offers transformative activations and tools to explore and master the psycho-spiritual demands of this transition, including identifying and integrating the shadow self, healing emotional wounds that hold us back, and discovering higher frequencies and the cellular vibration of unconditional love and Oneness. Once we reclaim ourselves as loving, conscious, creator beings and realize we are part of a global 5D team, together we can consciously help co-create a New Earth by anchoring the 5D frequency in both our inner and outer worlds.
in fact, create change through personal decisions: when we can see in to society, and in to our constructs, we become empowered to choose deeply real and purposeful lives. “Written in an engaging and pragmatic voice, this book offers a compassionate, meaningful approach to an area of our lives that has been so often associated with greed, toxicity, unethical practices and a winner vs. loser mindset.” —Lion’s Roar “Kai shows us how the practices of stopping and of deep looking can become powerful instruments to overcome the suffering caused by our current economic thinking and acting.” —from the foreword by Thich Nhat Hanh A SMALL FARM FUTURE Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity, and a Shared Earth by Chris Smaje
$32.95, paper. Chelsea Green. 288 pages
In a time of looming uncertainties, what would a truly resilient society look like? British farmer and social scientist Chris Smaje argues that organizing society around small-scale farming offers the soundest, sanest and most reasonable response to climate change and other crises of civilization—and will yield humanity’s best chance at survival. Drawing on a vast range of sources from across a multitude of disciplines, A Small Farm Future analyses the com-
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The Business of Moving the World FLYING LEAD CHANGE 56 Million Years of Wisdom for Leading and Living
by Kelly Wendorf
$24.99, paper. Sounds True. 272 pages
For leaders at work, at home, and in our communities—In Flying Lead Change, leadership teacher Kelly Wendorf offers a new approach to leading and living inspired by two profound sources of wisdom: original peoples and Equus (the horse), grounded in evidence-based principles of neuroscience. In her groundbreaking EQUUS training program, Wendorf teaches a way of leadership modeled on a 56 million-year-old system of the horse herd—a path that has allowed humans and horses alike to survive the kinds of global and societal threats we now face, such as climate change and mass extinction. Here she takes you step by step through this powerful approach, including: ♦ Listening—the starting point for all leadership, in which we suspend our biases and preferences ♦ Care—explore the ancient, indigenous understanding of care that is reciprocal, empathic, and beneficial to all ♦ Presence—meeting the here and now with vulneraTHE TAO OF INFLUENCE Ancient Wisdom for Modern Leaders and Entrepreneurs by Karen McGregor
$27.95, paper. Mango. 224 pages
This unique leadership book provides practical and tangible actions that lead to high levels of sustainable influence. The book is an easy-to-follow roadmap to creating lasting change in your workplace, community and family, while navigating chaotic and demanding environments. Make an impact and positively influence others to create much needed change. As the “old world” influence of manipulation, hidden agendas, control and greed crumble, people are seeking a replacement. They want to be part of the solution. The Tao of Influence fills the gap between old and new world influence through the teachings and application of the Tao Te Ching, a 4000-year-old wisdom book written by Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu. The greatest power is in understanding the use of power. Karen McGregor is a keynote speaker, TEDx speaker, and a guide to entrepreneurs and professionals seeking to become more influential leaders. In the Tao Te Ching, the Tao represents masculine creation and Te represents feminine nurturing. The Tao of Influence speaks to both the feminine and masculine within,
plex forces that make societal change inevitable; explains how low-carbon, locally self-reliant agrarian communities can empower us to successfully confront these changes head on; and explores the pathways for delivering this vision politically. Challenging both conventional wisdom and utopian blueprints, A Small Farm Future offers rigorous original analysis of wicked problems and hidden opportunities in a way that illuminates the path toward functional local economies, effective self-provisioning, agricultural diversity and a shared earth. “A Small Farm Future is a solid and truly inspiring book. I have dedicated the last 17 years of my life to creating a micro farm, and what I have learned fully confirms what Chris Smaje says: a small, ecologically inspired farm can produce high-quality, local food while also improving soil
bility, openness, and a stable foundation ♦ Safety—how a masterful leader creates a sense of group resilience and strength by leading from behind for the welfare of all ♦ Connection—ways to move away from coercion and force to promote genuine communication and belonging ♦ Peace—creating group harmony right now through the surprising concepts of congruence and tempo ♦ Freedom—returning to our wild nature that is inherently free, unbridled, and unbroken ♦ Joy—moving beyond temporary happiness to a state of wholehearted engagement of life, whatever the circumstances In horsemanship, a flying lead change allows a running horse to respond with breathtaking grace to changing conditions. Collectively, we need a similar physics-defying maneuver. This book is for the called—thought leaders, visionaries, parents, creatives, and all those who sense we are being asked to participate in humanity’s flying change through the way we live, love, and lead.
using words and concepts that are in keeping with the wisdom of the Tao, and that don’t rely on having to force, beat or defeat anything. Each chapter begins with a quote from the Tao Te Ching that connects with that chapter’s theme. Then concludes with reflections and recommended action. Learn how to: ♦ Handle challenges, including difficult people ♦ End the dynamic that heightens power struggles and destroys influence ♦ Create stillness and space to generate more presence and authentic power. “Today, more than ever, the world is yearning for positive influencers. We’ve observed the fall of corrupt companies, institutions, and leaders. While we have lost faith and belief in them, we have not yet replaced them with positive alternatives. Karen McGregor provides these alternatives in The Tao of Influence. This book addresses the deepest yearnings of influencers, including the journey from self-growth to standing for altruistic global needs for change. Her four pillars walk you through the journey to ultimate love. Read it and watch your influence expand to serve the planet.” —Dr. Manon Bolliger, and founder of Bowen College
fertility, storing carbon, conserving water resources and improving biodiversity. Not to mention creating jobs and improving quality of life. A return to Mother Earth is the foundation on which we can build a new paradigm of sustainable and equitable abundance based on biological resources, renewable energies, eco-construction and solidarity – among individuals and cultures, and across generations. Getting out of a virtual and globalized economy to cultivate the land with love and respect is our only hope to pass on a viable planet to our children. This is also the secret to happiness!’ —Charles Hervé-Gruyer, author of Miraculous Abundance; co-founder, Bec Hellouin Farm, France
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Racism & Reconciliation MY GRANDMOTHER’S HANDS Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
$26.95, paper. Central Recovery. 308 pp.
The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society. In this groundbreaking work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in North America from the perspective of body-centered psychology. He argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy, which is deeply embedded in all our bodies. Not hurting is no longer an option. We must face and feel soul-stirring pain. But this pain can be clean or dirty. We have a profound and historic opportunity. As the world watches and holds us accountable, we can choose clean pain… This book can help us make that choice, and to navigate the unknown waters into which we will need to sail. Our collective agony doesn’t just affect African Americans. White Americans suffer their own secondary trauma as well. So do blue Americans—our police. My Grandmother’s Hands is a call to action for all of us to recognize that racism is not about the head, but about the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide. The healing of trauma, and the creating of room for growth in the nervous systems of our children and other human beings, does not only happen in therapists’ offices. Our everyday lives present us with endless opportunities to heal—through the things we say and do, the harmful things we are able to not say and do, and the ways in which we treat ourselves and others. We all have the capacity to heal—and to create room for others to heal. Our relationships, communities, and circumstances all call us into this healing. This book paves the way for a new, body-centered understanding of white supremacy—how it is literally in our blood and our nervous system. It offers a step-by-step solution—a healing process—in addition to incisive social commentary. You have the power to stop intergenerational and historical trauma in its tracks, and to keep it from spreading from your body into others. Above all, you have the power to heal. But first you have to choose to heal. Resmaa Menakem is a therapist with decades of experience, specializing in trauma, body-centered psychotherapy, and violence prevention. He also trained at Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute. AMERICA’S RACIAL KARMA An Invitation to Heal by Larry Ward
$13.50, paper. Parallax. 144 pages
Immediate, illuminating, and hopeful: this is the key set of talks given by leading Zen Buddhist teacher Larry Ward, on breaking America’s cycle of racial trauma. I am a drop in the ocean, but I’m also the ocean. I’m a drop in America, but I’m also America. Every pain, every confusion, every good and every bad and ugly of America is in me. And as I transform myself and heal and take care of myself, I’m very conscious that I’m healing and transforming and taking care of America.
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I say this for American cynics, but this is also true globally. It’s for real. Shot at by the police as an 11-year-old child for playing baseball in the wrong spot, as an adult, Larry Ward experienced the trauma of having his home firebombed by racists. At Plum Village Monastery in France, the home in exile of his teacher, Vietnamese peace activist and Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh, Dr. Ward found a way to heal. In these short reflective essays, he offers his insights on the effects of racial constructs and answers the question: how do we free ourselves from our repeated cycles of anger, denial, bitterness, pain, fear, violence? Larry Ward looks at the causes and conditions that have led us to our current state and finds, hidden in the crisis, a profound opportunity to reinvent what it means to be a human being. This is a deeply heartfelt invitation to transform America’s racial karma. “His teachings are wise, clear, heartfelt, and based on his own authentic transformative experience of being a Black man and one who also holds a high and honored Dharma seat in Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh’s lineage. This jewel of a book is sure to be a classic among those who are serious about awakening.” —Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, author of The Deepest Peace “Rehydrates our weary bodies for the monumental journey ahead: redefining what it means to be human. Welcome medicine for today’s generation of decolonial, spirit-led seekers and activists.” — Katie Loncke, codirector, Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Ecology, Community & Politics PLEASURE ACTIVISM The Politics of Feeling Good
Imagining Our Future New in FROM WHAT IS Paperback TO WHAT IF Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want by Rob Hopkins
$25.95, paper. Chelsea Green. 240 pages
In these times of deep division and deeper despair, if there is a consensus about anything in the world, it is that the future is going to be awful. There is an epidemic of loneliness, an epidemic of anxiety, a mental health crisis of vast proportions, especially among young people. There’s a rise in extremist movements and governments. Catastrophic climate change. Biodiversity loss. Food insecurity. The fracturing of ecosystems and communities beyond, it seems, repair. The future—to say nothing of the present—looks grim. But as Transition movement cofounder Rob Hopkins tells us, there is plenty of evidence that things can change, and cultures can change, rapidly, dramatically, and unexpectedly—for the better. He has seen it happen around the world and in his own town of Totnes, England, where the community is becoming its own housing developer, energy company, enterprise incubaHUMAN PERMACULTURE Principles for Ecological and Social Life Design
by Bernard Alonso & Cecile Guiochon $29.99, paper. New Society. 224 pages, 150 2-colour illustrations
by adrienne maree brown
$27.95, paper. AK Press. 442 pages, a few colour illustrations
How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls “Pleasure Activism,” a politics of healing and happiness that explodes the dour myth that changing the world is just another form of work. Drawing on the black feminist tradition, including Audre Lourde’s invitation to use the erotic as power and Toni Cade Bambara’s exhortation that we make the revolution irresistible, the contributors to this volume take up the challenge to rethink the ground rules of activism. Writers including Cara Page of the Astraea Lesbian Foundation For Justice, Sonya Renee Taylor, founder of This Body Is Not an Apology, and author Alexis Pauline Gumbs cover a wide array of subjects—from sex work to climate change, from race and gender to sex and drugs—they create new narratives about how politics can feel good and how what feels good always has a complex politics of its own. Pleasure activism is about learning what it means to be satisfiable, to generate, from within and from between us, an abundance from which we can all have enough… Pleasure is what our bodies, our human systems, are structured for; it is the aliveness and awakening, the gratitude and humility, the joy and celebration of being miraculous… Do you understand that you, as you are, who you are, is enough? Building on the success of her popular Emergent Strategy, brown explores experimental, expansive, and innovative ways to meet the challenges that face our world today.
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Harness the power of permaculture to change yourself and become a regenerative force for the planet. As climate change, ecological decline, and social breakdown start to bite, people expect that governments will solve our problems. Yet this belief has proven to be false. Rather than looking to others, changes must come from the inside out: transforming the “I” to “we,” changing the world by changing ourselves, and re-establishing our deep connection to nature. Human Permaculture is a powerful, forward-thinking guide that uses permaculture principles of ecological design rooted in people care, Earth care, and fair share for redesigning your life and community to align with the resources available on the planet. Richly illustrated and inspiring, Human Permaculture offers specific actions and tools for adopting an ethical,
CIVILIZED TO DEATH The Price of Progress
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by Christopher Ryan
$23.00, paper. Simon & Schuster. 288 pp
Most of us have a sense that something’s not right— balmy December days, catastrophic fires and floods, a world at constant war, political systems in disarray, pandemic lockdown. Some misinformation is repeated so often it acquires the sheen of obvious truth: Civilization is humankind’s greatest accomplishment. Progress is undeniable. Count your blessings. You’re lucky to be alive here and now. Well, maybe we are and maybe we aren’t. Civilized to Death counters the idea that progress is inherently good, arguing that the “progress” defining our age is analogous to an advancing disease. Prehistoric life, of course, was not without serious dangers and disadvantages. Many babies died in infancy. A broken bone, infected wound, snakebite, or difficult pregnancy could be life-threatening. But ultimately, Ryan argues, were these precivilized dangers really much worse than modern scourges, such as car accidents, social iso-
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tor, and local food network—with cascading benefits to the community that extend far beyond the projects themselves. We do have the capability to effect dramatic change, Hopkins argues, but we’re failing because we’ve largely allowed our most critical tool to languish: human imagination. As defined by social reformer John Dewey, imagination is the ability to look at things as if they could be otherwise. The ability, that is, to ask What if? And if there was ever a time when we needed that ability, it is now. Imagination is central to empathy, to creating better lives, to envisioning and then enacting a positive future. Yet imagination is also demonstrably in decline at precisely the moment when we need it most. In this passionate exploration, Hopkins asks why imagination is in decline, and what we must do to revive and reclaim it. Once we do, there is no end to what we might accomplish. From What Is to What If is a call to action to reclaim and unleash our collective imagination, told through the stories of individuals and communities around the world who are doing it now, as we speak, and witnessing often rapid and dramatic change for the better. regenerative way of life. Coverage includes: ♦ Human permaculture principles ♦ A nine-step ecological and social life design process ♦ Discovering your personal niche ♦ Stimulating the permaculture “edge effect” to work with others in efficient teams ♦ Rediscovering our deep connections to water, soil, forests, and caring for nature. This guide is for everyone who wants to find their own meaning in life, put their talents at the service of the environment, live ethically, and navigate the great transition we face in a future of climate change and energy decline. Bernard Alonso is co-founder of the Collaborative International University of Transition and a human permaculture facilitator, speaker, coach, and project designer. He lives in Quebec, Canada. www.permacultureinternationale.org Cecile Guiochon is a French journalist and holder of a Permaculture Design Certificate. She co-founded KerWatt, which develops citizen projects renewable energy in Brittany, France. www.e-ker.org
lation, worsening natural disasters, and rising deaths by Covid, cancer, suicide, and cardiovascular disease? The lives of our foraging forebears, it turns out, were far from nasty, brutish, and short—despite what we’ve been led to believe. On the contrary, today’s “enlightened” societies have much to learn from our “primitive” ancestors. At a time when our health, our society, and our planet all feel increasingly imperiled, an accurate understanding of our species’ true nature is vital to a clear sense of the ultimate value of civilization—and its costs. “Why hasn’t the brain’s remarkable intelligence produced happier, healthier people, even in ‘civilized’ countries? Christopher Ryan provides the answer in this provocative book. It demonstrates how people are being civilized to death, both literally and metaphorically. It presents a stark picture of how the human experiment may be winding down if not winding up. But it also provides some solutions, brilliant roadmaps that you will find nowhere else, neither in politician’s utopian scenarios or futurists’ speculations.” —Stanley Krippner, co-author of Personal Mythology
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$22.00, paper. McClelland & Stewart. 416 p
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With Sapiens and Homo Deus, historian Harari explored the past, then the future of humankind. In 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, he devotes himself to the present. This a kind of instruction manual for the present day to help readers find their way around the 21st century, to understand it, and to focus on the really important questions of life. Once again, Harari presents this in his distinctive, informal, and entertaining style. Some sections focus on technology, some on politics, some on religion, and some on art. There are chapters that celebrate human wisdom, and others that highlight the crucial role of human stupidity. The topics Harari examines in this way include major challenges such as international terrorism, fake news, and migration, as well as turning to more personal, individual concerns, such as our time for leisure or how much pressure and stress we can take. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century answers the overarching question: What is happening in the world today, what is the deeper meaning of these events, and how can we individually steer our way through them? Few writers of non-fiction have captured the imagination of millions of people in quite the astonishing way Yuval Noah Harari has managed, and in such a short space of time. He has a unique ability to look at where we have come from and where we are going. The “21 Lessons” are: Disillusionment: The End of History Has been Postponed Work: When You Grow Up, You Might Not Have a Job Liberty: Big Data’ s Watching You Equality: Those Who Own the Data Own the Future Community: Humans Have Bodies Civilization: There is Just One Civilization in the World Nationalism: Global Problems Need Global Answers Religion: God Now Serves the Nation Immigration: Some Cultures Might Be Better than Others Terrorism: Don’t Panic War: Never Underestimate Human Stupidity Humility: You Are Not the Center of the World God: Don’t Take the Name of God in Vain Secularism: Acknowledge Your Shadow Ignorance: You Know Less Than You Think Justice: Our Sense of Justice Might Be Out of Date Post-Truth: Some Fake News Lasts Forever Science Fiction: The Future is Not What You See in the Movies Education: Change is the Only Constant Meaning: Life Is Not a Story Meditation: Just Observe BURN Igniting a New Carbon Drawdown Economy to End the Climate Crisis
by Albert Bates & Kathleen Draper
$24.95, paper. Chelsea Green. 288 pages, b/w illustrations
To avert climate catastrophe, we need to radically alter how humans live on Earth. We have to go from spending carbon to banking it. We have to put back the trees, wetlands, and corals. We have to regrow the soil and turn back the desert. We have to reverse the flow of greenhouse gases and send them in exactly the opposite direction: down, not up. We have to flip the carbon cycle and run it backwards. For such a revolutionary transformation we’ll need civilization 2.0. A secret unlocked by the ancients of the Amazon for its ability to transform impoverished trop-
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$27.95, paper. Chelsea Green. 208 pages, b/w illustrations
(With a new epilogue about Bill Gatess global agenda and how we can resist the billionaire’s war on life) Widespread poverty and malnutrition, an alarming refugee crisis, social unrest, and economic polarization have become our lived reality as the top 1% of the world’s seven-billion-plus population pushes the planet—and all its people—to the social and ecological brink. In Oneness vs. the 1%, Vandana Shiva takes on the Billionaires Club of Gates, Buffet, and Zuckerberg, as well as other modern empires whose blindness to the rights of people, and to the destructive impact of their construct of linear progress, have wrought havoc across the world. Their single-minded pursuit of profit has undemocratically enforced uniformity and monocultures, RECLAIMING THE COMMONS Biodiversity, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth by Vandana Shiva
$29.50, paper. Synergetic. 321 pages, colour plates
Reclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth lays out the scientific, legal, political, and cultural struggle to defend the sovereignty of biodiversity and indigenous knowledge. Corporate war on nature and people through patents and corporate Intellectual Property Rights has unleashed an epidemic of biopiracy resulting in important legal battles fighting efforts to patent the rights to many plants, including basmati rice, neem, and wheat. The author presents details of the specific attempts made by corporations to secure these patents and the legal actions taken to fight them. The book goes beyond the legal struggle to position the necessary solutions to corporate control including exploring the
ical soils into terra preta—fertile black earths—points the way. The indigenous custom of converting organic materials into long lasting carbon has enjoyed a reawakening in recent decades as the quest for more sustainable farming methods has grown. Yet the benefits of this carbonized material, now called biochar, extend far beyond the soil. Pyrolyzing carbon has the power to restore a natural balance by unmining the coal and undrilling the oil and gas. Employed to its full potential, it can run the carbon cycle in reverse and remake Earth as a garden planet. Burn looks beyond renewable biomass or carbon capture energy systems to offer a bigger and bolder vision for the next phase of human progress, moving carbon from wasted sources: ♦ into soils and agricultural systems to rebalance the carbon, nitrogen, and related cycles; enhance nutrient density in food; rebuild topsoil; and condition urban and agricultural lands to withstand flooding and drought ♦ to cleanse water by carbon filtration and trophic cascades within the worlds rivers, oceans, and wetlands ♦ to shift urban infrastructures such as buildings, roads, bridges, and ports, incorporating drawdown materials and components, replacing steel, concrete, polymers, and composites with biological carbon ♦ to drive economic reorganization by incentivizing carbon drawdown. Fully developed, this approach costs nothing—to the contrary, it can save companies money or provide new revenue streams. It contains the seeds of a new, circular economy in which energy, natural resources, and human ingenuity enter a virtuous cycle of improvement. Burn of-
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division and separation, monopolies and external control—over finance, food, energy, information, healthcare, and even relationships. Basing her analysis on explosive, little-known facts, Shiva exposes the 1%’s model of philanthro-capitalism, which is about deploying unaccountable money to bypass democratic structures, derail diversity, and impose totalitarian ideas based on One Science, One Agriculture, and One History. She calls for the resurgence of real knowledge, real intelligence, real wealth, real work, real well-being, so that people can reclaim their right to: Live Free. Think Free. Breathe Free. Eat Free. “All of us who care about the future of Planet Earth must be grateful to Vandana Shiva. Her voice is powerful, and she is not afraid to tackle those corporate giants that are polluting, degrading and ultimately destroying the natural world.” —Jane Goodall, UN Messenger of Peace Rights of Nature and proposing a framework for a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth. It is the first detailed legal history of the international and national laws related to biodiversity and Intellectual Property Rights. Reclaiming the Commons details the thirty-year cultural, political, scientific, and legal journey to protect biodiversity and indigenous knowledge from the unethical framework corporations impose on humankind in order to lay claim to life on Earth. Vandana Shiva masterfully articulates the devastation this corporate greed has inflicted not only on agricultural communities but on our planet and our very existence; ultimately posing that the recovery of the commons lies in the collective recognition of common creativity of both nature and people, and the rediscovery of our place within the oneness of nature as beings with a responsibility to protect and honor all life on Earth.
fers bold new solutions to climate change that can begin right now. THE REINDEER CHRONICLES And Other Inspiring Stories of Working with Nature to Heal the Earth by Judith Schwartz
$25.95, paper. Chelsea Green. 256 pages
In a time of uncertainty about our environmental future, here’s an eye-opening global tour of some of the most wounded places on earth, and stories of how a passionate group of eco-restorers is leading the way to their revitalization. Science journalist Judith Schwartz takes us first to Chinas Loess Plateau, where a landmark project has successfully restored a blighted region the size of Belgium, lifting millions of people out of poverty. She journeys on to Norway, where a young indigenous reindeer herder challenges the most powerful orthodoxies of conservation—and his own government. And in the Middle East, she follows the visionary work of an ambitious young American working to re-engineer the desert ecosystem, using plants as his most sophisticated technology. Schwartz explores regenerative solutions across a range of landscapes: deserts, grasslands, tropics, tundra, Mediterranean. She also highlights various human landscapes, the legacy of colonialism and industrial agriculture, and
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by Naomi Klein
$22.00, paper. Penguin. 320 pages
On Fire is a critical book: it captures the burning urgency of this moment, the fiery energy of a rising movement demanding change now. For more than a decade, Naomi Klein has tracked the evolution of the environmental crisis and the staggeringly high stakes of what we choose to do next. From the ghostly Great Barrier Reef, to the annual smoke-choked skies of our Pacific Northwest, to post-hurricane Puerto Rico, to a Vatican attempting an unprecedented “ecological conversion,” Klein delves into topics ranging from the clash between ecological time and our culture of “perpetual now” to how white supremacy and fortressed borders are a form of climate barbarism. She paints a clear picture of interconnected social and ecological breakdowns, and explains that climate change is not only a profound political and economic challenge but a spiritual and imaginative one, too. Collected here for the first time, these prescient dispatches give us an invaluable window into the question—How THE GREEN NEW DEAL Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth
by Jeremy Rifkin
$24.50, paper. Picador. 290 pages
A new vision for the future is quickly gaining momentum. Facing a global emergency, a younger generation is spearheading a huge conversation around a Green New Deal and setting the agenda for bold political movement. Millennials, the largest voting bloc, are now leading on the issue of climate change. While the Green New Deal has become a lightning rod in the political sphere, there is a parallel movement emerging within business that will shake the very foundation of the global economy in coming years. Key sectors of the economy are fast-decoupling from fossil fuels in favor of ever cheaper solar and wind energies and the new business opportunities that accompany them. New studies are sounding the alarm that trillions of dollars in stranded fossil fuel assets could create a carbon bubble likely to burst by 2028, causing the collapse of the fossil fuel civilization. The marketplace is
the endurance of indigenous knowledge. The Reindeer Chronicles demonstrates how solutions to seemingly intractable problems can come from the unlikeliest of places, and how the restoration of local water, carbon, nutrient, and energy cycles can play a dramatic role in stabilizing the global climate. Ultimately, it reveals how much is in our hands if we can find a way to work together and follow natures lead. “If you want practical hope, this is it. If you want a place to dig in and make change, regeneration is the key. These are stories of people who work both intimately and at scale—and with love—to restore life to the land we all walk on, our beautiful home, the earth.” —Vicki Robin, coauthor of Your Money or Your Life “These are times that call for us to reimagine everything. That imaginative capacity depends on the stories, the possibilities, the experiences we have in our memory and our ability to reassemble them in new and unique ways. If you want to be part of that reimagining, you need the beautiful, patient, humbling stories in these pages. Their implications are staggering, and also suggest that sometimes we
on earth did we get here? In this era of rising seas and rising hate, Klein also makes the case for the Green New Deal: a practical framework that offers us a politically viable, just, sustainable path forward for tackling climate collapse and growing economic inequality at the same time. Above all, Klein underscores how we can still rise to the existential challenge of the crisis if we are willing to transform our systems that are producing it, making clear how the battle for a greener world is indistinguishable from the fight for our lives. “Once you have done your homework,” Greta Thunberg says, “you realize that we need new politics. We need a new economics, where everything is based on our rapidly declining and extremely limited carbon budget. But that is not enough. We need a whole new way of thinking… We must stop competing with each other. We need to start cooperating and sharing the remaining resources of this planet in a fair way.” “Naomi Klein is the intellectual godmother of the Green New Deal—which just happens to be the most important idea in the world right now.” —Bill McKibben, author of Falter speaking, and governments will need to adapt if they are to survive and prosper. In The Green New Deal, renowned economic theorist Jeremy Rifkin delivers the political narrative and economic plan for the Green New Deal that we need at this critical moment in history. The concurrence of a stranded fossil fuel assets bubble and a green political vision opens up the possibility of a massive shift to a post-carbon ecological era, in time to prevent a temperature rise that will tip us over the edge into runaway climate change. With twenty-five years of experience implementing Green New Deal-style transitions for both the European Union and the Peoples Republic of China, Rifkin offers his vision for how to transform the global economy and save life on Earth. “In The Green New Deal, Jeremy Rifkin presents a survival imperative for the millions without work and for a planet that needs healing. In this timely book, he defines the urgent steps that will need to be taken to transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy and reclaim public infrastructure.” - Dr. Vandana Shiva, feminist, ecologist, and recipient of the Right Livelihood Award
save the world by doing less rather than more. Do your imagination, your activism, your sense of what’s possible a favor, and swim in this book.”—Rob Hopkins, author of From What Is to What If
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Eco-Philosophy, Deep Ecology EROSION Essays of Undoing
by Terry Tempest Williams
$24.50, paper. Picador. 368 pages
Here be fierce, timely, and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist. Terry Tempest Williams is one of our most impassioned defenders of public lands. A naturalist, fervent activist, and stirring writer, she has spoken to us and for us in books like Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. In these new essays, Williams explores the concept of erosion: of the land, of the self, of belief, of fear. She wrangles with the paradox of desert lands and the truth of erosion: What is weathered, worn, and whittled away through wind, water, and time is as powerful as what remains. Our undoing is also our becoming. She looks at the current state of American politics: the dire social and environmental implications of recent choices to gut Bears Ears National Monument, sacred lands to Native People of the American Southwest, and undermine the Endangered Species Act. She testifies that climate change is not an abstraction, citing the drought outside her door and at times, within herself. Images of extraction and contamination haunt her: oil rigs lighting up the horizon; trucks hauling nuclear waste on dirt roads now crisscrossing the desert like an exposed nervous system. But beautiful moments of relief and refuge, solace and spirituality come in her conversations with Navajo elders, art, and, always, in the land itself. She asks, urgently: “Is Earth not enough? Can the desert be a prayer?”
Early in our evolution, we discovered as Homo Sapiens through need and necessity that our imaginations can summon power. Fire became a dream ignited that enabled us to feed ourselves and gather round to share stories. Stories are power. Power resides in community. When power is denied and oppresses others, we can resist, and when we resist together, something else can occur, something new emerges. This is the essence of erosion and evolution in human time. In geologic time, transformation can be slow and corrosive, or catastrophic and quick. It may be a cataclysmic moment or it may happen incrementally over time. Deep change requires both. And it is not without its ruptures. It can be associated with devastation or determination. It can also be beautiful. Weathering agents are among us. This is a time of exposure… “The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people,” David Orr writes. “But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healer, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.” What are the qualities most needed in this epoch of the Anthropocene? One of the qualities we might seek to cultivate is our capacity to listen… Can you hear the trees speaking? Are we listening? This is the Liturgy of Home. There is only one moment in time When it is essential to awaken That moment is now. —Buddha This does not require belief, it requires engagement. How serious are we? —from Erosion by Terry Tempest Williams
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$27.99, paper. Llewellyn. 352 pages, b/w illustrations
For all the distressing news about climate crisis, there is scarcely any help for how to emotionally and spiritually cope with it. While acknowledging eco-anxiety and ecogrief, you can use this book not only to cope with climate distress, but also to leverage your difficult emotions into potent forces for hope and regeneration. Climate Cure shows you how to revitalize your life and the world from the inside out, encouraging you to embody the phrase “heal yourself, heal the world.” Chinese medicine physician and eco-activist Jack Adam Weber introduces you to the “triangle of resilience relationships” —with yourself (self-healing), the natural world, and your community. He proposes that the breakdown of these relationships is at the root of climate disease and learning how to comprehensively revitalize them is our collective cure. Weber includes uncommon wisdom and heartfelt, self-care exercises designed to help you A WILD LOVE FOR THE WORLD Joanna Macy and the Work of Our Time
work through difficult emotions in order to thrive and become part of the solution. This unique and inspiring book shows you how to take action in the spirit of authenticity and wholeness, interconnection and sustainability. “Climate Cure offers a feast of nutrients for soul enrichment and the energy-dense fuel required for driving the engine of sacred activism while at the same time, mercifully tending our intimacy with Gaia...[Weber] applies the healer’s loving touch to restore wholeness on both the personal and planetary levels. Climate Cure will break you open and then tenderly restore you to your oneness with the Source and the holy Earth.” —Carolyn Baker, author of Collapsing Consciously: Transformative Truths for Turbulent Times “Addresses what climate change and other planet-saving books often fail to address: healing the world begins deep inside us. This guidebook offers sound psychological advice and spiritual inspiration for how to regenerate our planet from the inside out.” —David Richo, author of How to Be an Adult in Relationships of mutual belonging is the medicine for the sickness of the small self and can accompany us through the bardo, through the hard times ahead. —Joanna Macy
edited by Stephanie Kaza
$36.95, paper. Shambhala. 386 pp, photos
Joanna Macy is a brave and beloved scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking, and deep ecology whose decades of writing, teaching, and activism have inspired people around the world. In this collection of writings, leading spiritual teachers, deep ecologists, and diverse writers and activists explore the major facets of Macy’s lifework. Combined with eleven pieces from Macy herself narrating pivotal moments that changed the course of her life, the result is a rich chorus of wisdom and compassion to support the work of our time. Being fully present to fear, to gratitude, to all that is—this is the practice of mutual belonging. As living members of the living body of Earth, we are grounded in that kind of belonging. We will find more ways to remember, celebrate, and affirm this deep knowing: we belong to each other, we belong to Earth. Even when faced with cataclysmic changes, nothing can ever separate us from Earth. We are already home. The practice FACING THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth by Margaret Klein Salamon
$14.99, paper. New Society. 142 pages, b/w illustrations
As the climate crisis accelerates toward the collapse of civilization and the natural world, people everywhere are feeling deep pain about ecological destruction and their role in it. Yet we are often paralyzed by fear. Help is at hand. Facing the Climate Emergency gives people the tools to confront the climate emergency, face their negative emotions, and channel them into protecting humanity and the natural world. Drawing on facts about the climate, tenets of psychological theory, information about the climate emergency movement and elements of memoir, coverage includes: ♦ How to face the climate crisis and accept your fears, anger, grief, guilt, and other emotions ♦ Turning negative feelings into tangible action to respond to the crisis ♦ Rising to heroism, becoming a “climate warrior,” and maximizing your impact by joining the Climate Emergency Movement
Joanna’s innovative efforts at the intersection of systems theory, Buddhist practice, and social and environmental justice have produced important developments in areas ranging from anti-nuclear activism and climate change to grief work and indigenous rights. This is the bardo invitation: to not look away, to not turn aside, but to be fully present to what confronts us. The mirror wisdom is a radical teaching, calling for total attention, for depth of acceptance, a call to “just fall in love with what is.” In this unprecedented collection, some 40 prominent artists, writers, activists, scientists, and religious leaders offer reflections on Macy’s contributions to their personal development and to the growth of their fields. Among Joanna Macy’s books are Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects and Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in without Going Crazy To learn more: www.joannamacy.net. ♦ Support material, including further reading, questions for self-reflection, and exercises to complete with like-minded groups Written for the suffering multitudes struggling to cope and looking for answers, Facing the Climate Emergency provides the motivation, guidance, and support needed to leave “normal” behind and travel the path of the climate warrior, rising to the challenge of our time. “This is the most powerful, honest, and psychologically astute book on climate change I’ve ever read.” —Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute “There’s competition for the most important words that can be spoken today, but Salamon’s directive ‘join the climate emergency movement!’ has now got to be at the top. Salamon’s motivational book, written by someone who has studied the human psyche but has the heart of a compassionate activist, is the leading guide to getting us beyond hopeful complicity and committing to climate action not as a priority but as the priority.” —Gus Speth, co-founder, Natural Resources Defense Council Margaret Salamon is a clinical psychologist turned climate warrior and founder of The Climate Mobilization: www.theclimatemobilization.org
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“In Western Civilization, our elders are books.” —Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild: Essays “As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth.. .the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe. I try to hold both history and the wilderness in mind, that my poems may approach the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.” “Having a place means that you know what a place means...what it means in a storied sense of myth, character and presence but also in an ecological sense...Integrating native consciousness with mythic consciousness.” “All this new stuff goes on top turn it over, turn it over wait and water down from the dark bottom turn it inside out let it spread through Sift down even. Watch it sprout. A mind like compost.”
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“Being fully present to fear, to gratitude, to all that is—this is the practice of mutual belonging. As living members of the living body of Earth, we are grounded in that kind of belonging. Even when faced with cataclysmic changes, nothing can ever separate us from Earth. We are already home.” — Joanna Macy “I am wildly in love with A Wild Love for the World. I can truly say that the stories in this book, and its life-transforming ideas and their practical applicaJoanna Macy tions, have changed me. The personal stories and focus on positive collaborative engagement offer a breath of energizing fresh air as we move forward. Joanna Macy’s life, celebrated here in an engaging, inspiring, and practical compendium of approaches catalyzed by her ‘Work That Reconnects,’ offers each of us a light to cultivate resilience and illuminate the path ahead. Thank you to Stephanie Kaza and all the contributors, and to Joanna, for the love and brilliance that shine so brightly in this life’s work of heart.” —Daniel Siegel, author of Aware and Mind “Serendipitous that this volume by and about one of our most far-seeing, exuberant, and empathic radiators of necessary wisdom is emerging in the midst of a worldwide pandemic. The book will be a talisman for many, a seed bundle, a way through the calamity.” —David Abram, author of The Spell of the Sensuous
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by Gary Snyder
$25.50, paper. Counterpoint. 256 pages
Featuring a new introduction by Robert Hass, the nine captivatingly meditative essays in The Practice of the Wild display the deep understanding and wide erudition of Gary Snyder in the ways of Buddhist belief, wildness, wildlife, and the world. These essays, first published in 1990, stand as the mature centerpiece of Snyder’s work and thought, and this profound collection is widely accepted as one of the central texts on wilderness and the interaction of nature and culture. Instead of vitriolic bashing of our human interaction with nature, Snyder shows that we could live in harmony with our sacred places. I recommend you read the essays one at a time, and take your time with them. They really make you think about how each culture interacts with the region they are in, and how sometimes we do take our relationship to the wild the wrong way. THE GREAT CLOD Notes and Memoirs on Nature and History in East Asia by Gary Snyder
$23.95, paper. Counterpoint. 131 pages
Throughout his remarkable career, Gary Snyder has continued his study of Eastern culture and philosophies. From the Ainu to the Mongols, from Hokkaido to Kyoto, from the landscapes of China to the backcountry of contemporary Japan, from the temples of Daitokoji to the Yellow River Valley, it is clear how this work has influenced his poetry, his stance as an environmental and political activist, and his long practice of Zen. The Great Clod collects eight essays—with titles like “Wild” in China,” “Ink and Charcoal,” “Walls Within Walls,” “Wolf-Hair Brush” and “All He Sees is Blue”— which turn from being memoirs of travel to prolonged considerations of art, culture, natural history and religion. Filled with Snyder’s remarkable insights and briskly beautiful descriptions, this collection adds enormously to the major corpus of his work, certain to delight and instruct his readers now and forever.
Earth Energies & Eco-Design REBUILDING EARTH Designing Ecoconscious Habitats for Humans by Teresa Coady
$25.95, paper. North Atlantic. 298 pages
It is estimated: earth’s population will expand to nine billion people over the next century. This explosion in population is predicted to place further stress on our environment, deplete our natural resources, and lead to increases in anxiety and depression due to overcrowding. In this visionary and uplifting book, Teresa Coady offers readers new hope. Rebuilding Earth is her blueprint for designing and building the cities, buildings, and homes of tomorrow. Using the twelve principles of Conscious Construction—the first being “design for life, not machines”—Coady shows us how we can shift from an outdated Industrial-Age framework to a more humane, Digital-Age framework. This revolutionary approach will enable communities to harness various forms of green energy and reduce the amount of material needed to build infrastructure while contributing to a healthier planet
The wild—often dismissed as savage and chaotic by “civilized” thinkers, is actually impartially, relentlessly, and beautifully formal and free. Its expression—the richness of plant and animal life on the globe including us, the rainstorms, windstorms, and calm spring mornings—is the real world, to which we belong. I am deeply grateful that I have been able to walk this path… and to have been able to speak and write my thoughts to whoever would listen. “A primer, an etiquette, a book of instruction, Gary Snyder’s The Practice of the Wild is an exquisite, far-sighted articulation of what freedom, wildness, goodness, and grace mean, using the lessons of the planet to teach us how to live.” —Gretel Ehrlich “What thoughtful beauty! How skillfully Gary Snyder interfuses the practical knowledge of an animal sense with story, language, and song.” —James Hillman Tsung Ping, an early fifth-century painter whose work does not survive, is described as having done mountain landscapes when ill and no longer able to ramble the hills he loved. He wrote the perfect program for a recluse: “Thus by living leisurely, by controlling the vital breath, by wiping the goblet, by playing the ch’in, by contemplating pictures in silence, by meditating on the four quarters of space, by never resisting the influence of Heaven and by responding to the call of the wilderness where the cliffs and peaks rise to dazzling heights and the cloudy forests are dense and vast, the wise and virtuous men of ancient times found innumerable pleasures which they assimilated by their souls and minds.” “Classical poetry, calligraphy, the best source of temple incense—all figure in the text, which has something of the feel of a valediction. Elegant and thoughtful, with much to read between the lines in commentary on a long life’s work. Students and admirers of Snyder will be enchanted and intrigued.” —Kirkus Reviews Among Gary Snyder’s many books are Mountains and Rivers Without End and The Real Work.
(and society). We can then experience a new sense of purpose, health, and happiness. Meaningful and lasting change, the author tells us, can only come through designing interconnected communities that are vibrant, resilient, and communal. Unlike most predictions of doom and gloom, Coady presents a refreshingly optimistic view of humanity and its future. This book will appeal to those in the construction, design and development finance industries, as well as anyone interested in improving their lives through understanding the connections between the environment and health. “This book extends current ideas about green building to incorporate a much richer and deeper connection to earth systems, wild habitats, and human behavior. Rebuilding Earth is an ambitious book that carries a reminder that our remarkable human resilience and intelligence ‘are strengths to be leveraged’ in reimagining and remaking a better world.” —Foreword Reviews “Her goal is not to deny or reinvent the architectural past, but to implement the essential elements of what makes for greatness in any age. She asks fundamental questions. ‘What kind of world do we want to inhabit and bequeath? What landscape of the imagination do we want to erect around the lives of our children, knowing full well that the shape of these structures will both hone their memories and inspire their aspirations? Rebuilding Earth is a road map of hope.” —Wade Davis, author of One River
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THE HALF-ACRE HOMESTEAD 46 Years of Building and Gardening by Lloyd Kahn & Lesley Creed $29.50, paper. Shelter. 160 pages, 9x9, colour photos
If you’ve read some of the impressive ‘art builder’ books by Lloyd Kahn, such as Builders of the Pacific Coast, Small Homes, and Tiny Homes, you’ll dig this view into the lovely details of the home, studio, workshop, garden, and life that he has built with his partner. This is the story of Lloyd and Lesley building a home and establishing a garden on a small piece of land on the Northern California Coast over a 46-year period. Lloyd, the former shelter editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, has published seven books on owner building, showcasing hundreds of builders, and this is his first book on his own work. Starting with a vacant half-acre piece of land, they built their own home, created a garden with vegetables and fruit, and describe raising chickens, bees, and goats. The book also covers cooking, foraging, fishing, crafts, birds, butterflies, and tools. Their main theme is that this was all done by hand. They have never paid rent nor have they ever had a mortgage. There are over 500 photos illustrating all the above facets of their lives and clear explanations of building skylights, maintaining a septic system, building greenhouses and raised vegetable beds. There is a section on unique kitchen tools, as well as advice on useful tools used in construction. Lloyd’s transparent, seasoned tips on tools and processes—including the making of the book itself—is nourishing and valuable for any of us crafters.
Gardening & Farming THE WELL-GARDENED MIND The Restorative Power of Nature
by Sue Stuart-Smith
$37.00, cloth. Atria Books. 340 pages, b/w photos
A distinguished psychiatrist and avid gardener (co-creator of the wonderful Barn Garden in Hertfordshire) offers an inspiring and consoling work about the healing effects of gardening and its ability to decrease stress and foster mental well-being in our everyday lives. The garden is often seen as a refuge, a place to forget worldly cares, removed from the “real” life that lies outside. But when we get our hands in the earth we connect with the cycle of life in nature through which destruction and decay are followed by regrowth and renewal. Gardening is one of the quintessential nurturing activities and yet we understand so little about it. The Well-Gardened Mind provides a new perspective on the power of gardening to change people’s lives. Here, Sue Stuart-Smith investigates the many ways in which mind and garden can interact and explores how the process of tending a plot can be a way of sustaining an innermost self. A constant process of being weeded, pruned, and fertilized keeps the brain healthy at a cellular level. The activity of the microglia exemplifies one of the fundamental laws that govern life—that health is not a passive process. What is taking place on a microscopic scale also needs to happen on a larger canvas. The mind needs to be gardened too. Our emotional lives are complex and need constant tending and reworking. The form this takes will be different for each one of us, but fundamentally, in order to counteract negative and self-destructive forces, we need to cultivate a caring and creative attitude. Above all, we need to recognize what nourishes us. Stuart-Smith’s own love of gardening developed as she studied to become a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. From
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Are you a beginner beekeeper curious about bees or a practicing beekeeper looking for natural alternatives that work? Then this book is for you! In the second edition of the bestselling beekeeping guide Keeping Bees with a Smile, Fedor Lazutin, one of Europe’s most successful natural beekeepers, shares the bee-friendly approach to apiculture that is fun, healthful, rewarding, and accessible to all. This new edition includes dozens of color photographs, new hive management techniques, and an updated version of “Lazutin hive” plans. Additional coverage includes: ♦ Keeping bees naturally without interfering in their lives ♦ Starting an apiary for free by attracting local bee swarms ♦ Building low-maintenance hives that mimic how bees live in nature ♦ Keeping colonies healthy and strong without any drugs, sugar, or gimmickry ♦ Helping bees to overwinter successfully even in harsh climates ♦ Enhancing local nectar plant resources ♦ Producing truly natural honey without robbing the bees ♦ Reversing the global bee decline... right in your backyard! Keeping Bees with a Smile is an invaluable resource for apiculture beginners and professionals alike, complete with plans for making bee-friendly, well-insulated horizontal hives with extra-deep frames, plus other fascinating beekeeping advice you won’t find anywhere else. SAVING SEEDS A Home Gardener’s Guide to Preserving Plant Biodiversity by Dan Jason
$14.95, paper. Harbour. 96 pages, illus.
Much of our food comes from seeds. But where do our seeds come from? And where are they going? For much of human history, farmers saved their own seed stocks to ensure a good harvest from year to year. In the mid-twentieth century, governments became involved in seed saving, creating massive seed libraries cataloguing thousands of varieties. This biodiversity has come under attack in recent decades, as corporations have replaced heirloom varieties with genetic engineering and costly trademarks. In such an agricultural climate, saving seeds becomes both a practical act of preservation and powerful act of protest.
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$28.95, paper. Chelsea Green. 168 pages, 2-colour illustrations
From the author of Growing Good Food, an illustrated guide to how to grow food in pots, containers, and community plots Victory gardening is back in the headlines as more people resolve to grow food for the good of our country, and for themselves too. The trend toward self-reliance is likely to continue as we enter what’s projected to be a long recession. People are looking for help on how to grow vegetables, fruits, and herbs in their own backyards, community gardens, and in tight urban spaces, too. Tiny Victory Gardens shares information on how to participate in the victory gardening movement, even if you LAWNS INTO MEADOWS Growing a Regenerative Landscape by Owen Wormser
$26.95, paper. Chelsea Green. 168 pages, colour photos
In Lawns Into Meadows, landscape designer Owen Wormser makes a case for the power and generosity of meadows. In a world where lawns have wreaked havoc on our natural ecosystems, meadows offer a compelling solution. They establish wildlife and pollinator habitats. They’re low-maintenance and low-cost. They have a built-in resilience that helps them weather climate extremes, and they can park loads of carbon. They’re also really beautiful, all year long. Wormser describes how to plant an organic meadow that’s right for your site, whether it’s a yard, community garden, or tired city lot. He shares advice on preparing your plot, coming up with the right design, and planting—all without using synthetic chemicals. He passes along tips on building support in neighborNO-TILL INTENSIVE VEGETABLE CULTURE Pesticide-Free Methods for Restoring Soil and Growing Nutrient-Rich, High-Yielding Crops by Bryan O’Hara
$39.95, paper. Chelsea Green. 272 pages, 7x10, colour photos
No-till farming has rapidly grown in popularity among vegetable growers due to its high-quality, high-yield, high-profit results. Renowned organic grower Bryan OHara perfected the technique during the multi-year transition of his Connecticut vegetable farm to a no-till system. His vibrantly healthy, resilient plants are testaments to the value of allowing the inherent biological functions in soil to do their work. In No-Till Intensive Vegetable Culture, O’Hara describes the methods he has developed, which are completely free of herbicides or other pesticides and require only a few acres of land and minimal capital investment. He asserts that this flexible, ecological methodology is as important for soil fertility as it is for his economic success. This comprehensive manual delves into all facets
Over half of Canadian households grow fruits, herbs, vegetables or flowers for personal use, according to Statistics Canada. And each of these home gardens has the potential to preserve vital biodiversity, if only we would let plants go to seed, harvest and preserve them. Saving Seeds is a clear and winsome introduction to the essentials of seed saving, from seed selection criteria to harvest and storage tips. It also addresses the role of seed-saving communities: local swaps, seed companies, friends and
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don’t have a yard. The book, which is grounded in Acadias regenerative farming expertise, includes step-by-step guidance to finding the right containers, prepping your soil, starting your seedlings, growing plants indoors, and harvesting in a way that keeps indoor crops growing year-round. Acadia describes how it’s possible to grow food in a way that’s good for the planet even in pots. She explains how to compost in indoor spaces (worms included). She also profiles 15 to 20 starter plants that are easy to grow indoors. Finally, the book includes recipes for canning, preserving, and drying the food you grow. Acadia has also published Growing Perennial Foods. Mini Victory Gardens is another addition to Chelsea Green’s Citizen Gardening series, which also includes Lawns Into Meadows, by Owen Wormser. hoods where a tidy lawn is the standard. Owen also profiles twenty-one starter grasses and flowers for beginning meadow-makers, and offers guidance on how to grow each one. To illuminate the many joys of meadow-building, Owen draws on his own stories, including how growing up off the grid in northern Maine, with no electricity or plumbing, prepared him for his work. The book, part how-to guide and part memoir, is for environmentalists and climate activists, gardeners and non-gardeners alike. “This book tells us how to grow a meadow, and become a positive force on behalf of the planet. I highly recommend it.” —John Todd, author of Healing Earth “It’s time to rebuild meadows wherever we can, including the deadscape we call lawn. Owen Wormser explains why, and how to do this, with oodles of highly readable, ecologically sound advice.” —Douglas Tallamy, author of Nature’s Best Hope of a dynamic, holistic growing system, including: ♦ No-till bed preparation techniques ♦ Use of fertilizers (including foliar feeds) ♦ Composting (preparation and application) ♦ Culture of indigenous microorganisms to support soil biology ♦ Pest and disease management ♦ Year-round growing ♦ Harvest and storage techniques O’Hara also explores the spiritual dimension of managing a farm ecosystem: observing the natural balance between plants, soil, air, water, and sunlight and the ways in which working to maintain that balance influences practical production decisions. Whether you’re a high-yield producer, a homesteader, or a market gardener, No-Till Intensive Vegetable Culture is the go-to vegetable grower’s manual for the twenty-first century. O’Hara’s advanced yet accessible methodology will both help you respond to natural systems and adapt to meet future challenges.
neighbours and even how the Internet can support this time-honoured practice. In an era of community gardens, farmers markets and renewed interest in heirloom species, Saving Seeds is a timely call to ensure a more secure future for our seeds and ourselves. Dan Jason, founder of Salt Spring Seeds, has also written The Power of Pulses, Some Useful Wild Plants, and Changing the Climate with the Seeds We Sow.
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Regenerating the Earth THE REGENERATIVE GROWER’S GUIDE TO GARDEN AMENDMENTS Using Locally Sourced Materials to Make Mineral and Biological Extracts and Ferments by Nigel Palmer & John Kempf $28.95, paper. Chelsea Green. 168 pages, 2-colour illustrations
Revitalize your garden—and go beyond compost—by making your own biologically diverse inoculants and mineral-rich amendments using leaf mold, weeds, eggshells, bones, and other materials available for little or no cost! In The Regenerative Growers Guide to Garden Amendments, experimental gardener and author Nigel Palmer provides practical, detailed instructions that are accessible to every grower who wants to achieve a truly sustainable garden ecosystem—all while enjoying better results at a fraction of the cost of commercial fertilizer products. These recipes go beyond fertilizer replacement, resulting in greater soil biological activity and mineral availability. They also increase pest and disease resistance, yields, and nutrient density. Recipes include: ♦ Extracting nutrients from plant residues using simple rainwater techniques ♦ Extracting minerals from bones and shells using vinegar SOIL SCIENCE FOR GARDENERS Working with Nature to Build Soil Health
by Robert Pavlis
$18.99, paper. New Society. 208 pages, b/w illustrations
Healthy soil means thriving plants. Yet untangling the soil food web and optimizing your soil health is beyond most gardeners, many of whom lack an in-depth knowledge of the soil ecosystem. Soil Science for Gardeners is an accessible, science-based guide to understanding soil fertility and, in particular, the rhizosphere the thin layer of liquid and soil surrounding plant roots, so vital to plant health. Robert Pavlis, a gardener for over four decades, debunks common soil myths, explores the rhizosphere,
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*Fermenting plant juices and fish *Culturing indigenous microorganisms Inspired by the work of many innovative traditional agricultural pioneers, especially Cho Ju-Young (founder of the Korean Natural Farming method), The Regenerative Growers Guide to Garden Amendments also includes a primer on plant-soil interaction, instructions for conducting a soil test, and guidance on compost, cover cropping, mulching, measuring the quality of fruits and vegetables using a refractometer, and other aspects of sustainable gardening—making it a must-have resource for any serious grower. “Nigel Palmer’s new book is filled with fermentation methods for the garden. It’s an exciting new DIY resource for soil regeneration and plant health.”—Sandor Ellix Katz, author of Wild Fermentation “Easy, affordable, and garden-tested amendment recipes to help grow nutrient-dense food? Yes, please! The Regenerative Grower’s Guide to Garden Amendments made me wonder why I hadn’t started making my own amendments years ago. I was barely past chapter 2 before I started collecting egg and oyster shells to submerge in vinegar; comfrey and nettles were already fermenting by the end of chapter 3. Every gardener needs this knowledge!” —Chris Smith, director, The Utopian Seed Project
and provides a personalized soil fertility improvement program in this three-part popular science guidebook. Coverage includes: ♦ Soil biology and chemistry and how plants and soil interact ♦ Common soil health problems, including analyzing soil’s fertility and plant nutrients ♦ The creation of a personalized plan for improving your soil fertility, including setting priorities and goals in a cost-effective, realistic time frame. ♦ Creating the optimal conditions for nature to do the heavy lifting of building soil fertility Written for the home gardener, market gardener, and micro-farmer, Soil Science for Gardeners is packed with information to help you grow thriving plants.
THINKING LIKE A MOUNTAIN by Robert Bateman
$21.00, paper. Penguin. 128 pages, 6x6, b/w illustrations
Nature has been Robert Bateman’s inspiration ever since he began painting birds from his bedroom window as a young boy. The wildlife he features in his paintings are expressions of his love and respect for the natural world. A passionate environmentalist who has devoted his life to documenting the awesome power of nature, Bateman is deeply worried about the state of our planet and the fate of our natural heritage. Whenever he talks about his paintings, he talks about the environmental messages they convey, and those who have heard him speak have clamoured for a book that encapsulates his philosophy. Thinking Like a Mountain is the result of many years of thinking, talking and writing about the world’s growing environmental crisis. Beautifully designed and illustrated with original drawings, it is a gathering of questions, observations and ideas Robert Bateman has drawn from his own life experiences and gleaned from the writings of some of the visionaries who have influenced him. As Einstein said, “We cannot solve the problems of today with the same thinking that gave us the problems in the first place.” Only a profound shift in philosophy, Bateman believes, can save our species from extinction. … the planet that every astronaut has said was infinitely precious. What is so wonderful about this sphere? It is surely our natural and human heritage in all its complexity. If we begin to think like a mountain, we will keep all that is truly valuable in this world and pass these treasures on to succeeding generations. All we need to do is pay attention and pay the price. I’d say the cost is more than worth it. Thinking Like a Mountain is elegantly printed on 100 per cent ancient-forest-free paper that is 100 per cent post-consumer recycled and has been processed chlorine free. EDIBLE AND MEDICINAL FLORA OF THE WEST COAST British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest by Collin Varner
FARM THE CITY A Toolkit for Setting Up a Successful Urban Farm by Michael Ableman
$19.99, paper. New Society. 108 pages, colour photos
An essential primer from one of North America’s largest urban farms. Urban farming has the power to change diets, economies, and lives. Yet starting an urban farm can seem daunting with skills and knowledge that extend beyond growing to include marketing, sales, employees, community relations, and navigating local regulations. In Farm the City, Michael Ableman, the “Spartacus of Sustainable Food Activism,” offers a guide to setting up and running a successful urban farm, derived from the success of Sole Food Street Farms, one of the largest urban agriculture enterprises in North America. Sole Food Street Farms spans four acres of land in Vancouver, produces 25 tons of food annually, provides meaningful work for dozens of disadvantaged people, and has improved the surrounding community in countless ways. Coverage includes: ♦ Selecting land and choosing the right crops ♦ Growing food in city farms, including plans for planting
and harvesting ♦ Fundraising and marketing strategies, philosophies, and vital information for selling fresh products ♦ Navigating local government and regulations ♦ Engaging the community and building meaningful livelihoods. Farm the City is an invaluable tool kit for entrepreneurs and activists looking to create economic and social value through urban agriculture. For a deeper look at Sole Food’s innovative agricultural work and its social mission, including many stories about the challenges and triumphs of our staff members, check out the book Street Farm: Growing Food, Jobs, and Hope on the Urban Frontier (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2016).
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$22.95, paper. Heritage House. 224 pages, colour photos
A clear, concise guide to more than 130 edible and medicinal plants and fungi that grow wild throughout the west coast of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest states. The coastal Pacific Northwest of North America is home to a multitude of edible and medicinal plant species, marine plants, and edible mushrooms. This compact, full-colour foragers guide offers clear photography, descriptions, safety tips and warnings, and traditional culinary and medicinal uses for every type of wild-growing flora species in the region, including: ♦ Bigleaf Maple—used to make a delicious west-coast maple syrup; ♦ Yellow Morel Mushroom—a favourite of foragers but not to be confused with the false morel, which is poisonous; ♦ Sea Asparagus—perfect in a salad or as an accompaniment to seafood; and ♦ Evening Primrose—an introduced species to the region, used to treat a variety of ailments. Practical, user-friendly, and safe, Edible and Medicinal Flora of the West Coast is an indispensable guide for beginner and experienced foragers alike.
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REWILDING Meditations, Practices, and Skills for Awakening in Nature by Micah Mortali
$23.50, paper. Sounds True. 224 pages, b/w drawings
In Rewilding, Kripalu director Micah Mortali brings together yoga, mindfulness, wilderness training, and ancestral skills to create a unique guide for reigniting your primal energy—your undomesticated true self—and deepening your connection with the living earth. For eons, humans lived intimately with the earth. We were in the wild and of the wild. Today, we live mostly urban lives—and our vital wildness has gone dormant. As a result, we’re more isolated, unhealthy, anxious, and depressed than ever, and our planet has suffered with us. Rewilding invites us to shed the effects of over-civilization and explore an inner wisdom that is primal, ancient, and profound. Whether you live in the middle of a city or alongside the woods, the insights and practices on these pages will bring you home to your wild, wise, and alive self. Highlights include: ♦ Practice-rich content—mindfulness exercises, guided meditations, yoga and pranayama, inward sensing, forest bathing, and much more ♦ The “life-force deficit”—explore how our separation from nature affects us physiologically and spiritually ♦ Ancestral skills—such as tracking, foraging, building fires, and finding shelter
♦ Develop a sense of calm, clarity, connection, and confidence in both your daily life and the great outdoors ♦ What you can learn from nature’s teachers—lessons from mountains, rivers, trees, and our animal kin ♦ Rewild in the wild—guidelines around safety, preparedness, appropriate gear, and packing lists ♦ A mindful rewilding flow—put everything together in an immersive, step-by-step rewilding experience ♦ Understand the relationship between our health and the health of our planet—and how we can begin to heal both. Part celebration of the natural world, part spiritual memoir, and part how-to guide, Rewilding is for anyone who wants to embrace their wild nature and essential place in the living earth. Rewilding can help you to take a deep breath, walk with your feet on the ground, and sit by a fire as you listen to the wind in the trees. It can help you settle back into a wisdom that is older than language and written history, something foundational to who you are. It can help us all remember what we are, where we belong, and how much we have to be grateful for on this precious planet, for the seasons still turn and birds still sing in the trees. Anyone can take a few minutes to breathe, to learn who we share this land with, and to become a part of our forests and wild communities again. We just need to slow down and open our senses to the wonder that is all around us.
by Linda Hogan
$25.95, cloth. Beacon. 112 pages, line drawings
From a celebrated Chickasaw writer, a spiritual meditation, in prose and poetry, on our relationship to the animal world, in an illustrated gift package. Concerned that human lives and the natural world are too often defined by people who are separated from the land and its inhabitants, Indigenous writer and environmentalist Linda Hogan depicts her own intense relationships with animals as an example we all can follow to heal our souls and reconnect with the spirit of the world. From her modest forest home in Colorado, and venturing throughout the region, especially to her beloved Oklahoma, she introduces us to horses, packrats, snakes, mountain lions, elks, wolves, bees, and so many others whose presence has changed her life. In this illuminating collection of essays and poems, lightly sprinkled with elegant drawings, Hogan draws on many Native nations’ ancient stories and spiritual traditions to show us that the soul exists in those delicate places where the natural world extends into human consciousness--in the mist of morning, the grass that grew a little through the night, the first warmth of this morning’s sunlight. Altogether, this beautifully packaged gift is a reverential reminder for all of us to witness and appreciate the radiant lives of animals. UNDERLAND A Deep Time Journey
by Robert Macfarlane
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$22.99, paper. Penguin. 464 pages
FOREST BATHING RETREAT Find Wholeness in the Company of Trees by Hannah Fries
$19.95, paper. Storey. 190 pages, 6x6, colour photos, French flaps
People have been retreating to the woods for quiet, meditation, and inspiration for centuries, and recent research finds that time spent in the forest doesn’t just feel good but is, in fact, good for you. Inspired by the Japanese concept of shinrin-yoku, or forest bathing, poet Hannah Fries invites readers to bask in the company of trees, wherever you can find them. This elegant book, an “invitation to become more permeable to the natural world around you,” is a beautiful invitation into direct experience of the complexity and intelligence of forests. As it turns out, I have spent a lifetime engaging in “forest therapy,” all the while thinking I was just playing in the woods. My mother, endlessly emptying my pockets of stones and seedpods, despairing of my muddy knees and elbows (which I still sport as a grandmother), would be relieved to know that what she called “daydreaming in the woods” is now called “forest bathing” —though I never came home clean!...
How many miles do we walk without our feet ever touching the softness of the forest floor?...Forest bathing is a sensory immersion in green light and birdsong that leaves the bather renewed and clean. —Robin Wall Kimmerer, from the foreword Fries combines her own reflections and guided mindfulness exercises with a curated selection of inspirational writing from poets, naturalists, artists, scientists, and thinkers throughout the centuries and across cultures, including Japanese haiku masters, 19th century European Romantics, American Transcendentalists, and contemporary environmentalists. Accompanied by beautiful forest photography, Forest Bathing Retreat is a distinctive gift that invites frequent revisiting for fresh insights and inspiration. It is an ongoing journey, this reaching out, and out again. And the universe, with all of its patterns and chaos and myriad threads of connection, is both terrifying and wondrous. Take a page from the trees: focus on being both rooted in the earth and searching among the stars.
In Underland, Robert Macfarlane takes us on a journey into the worlds beneath our feet. From the ice-blue depths of Greenland’s glaciers, to the underground networks by which trees communicate, from Bronze Age burial chambers to the rock art of remote Arctic sea-caves, this is a deep-time voyage into the planet’s past and future. Global in its geography, gripping in its voice and haunting in its implications, Underland is a work of huge range and power, and a remarkable new chapter in Macfarlane’s long-term exploration of landscape and the human heart. The way into the underland is through the riven trunk of an old ash tree… Near the ash’s base its trunk splits into a rough rift, just wide enough that a person might slip into the tree’s hollow heart—and there drop into the dark space that opens below. The rift’s edges are smoothed to a shine by those who have gone this way before, passing through the old ash to enter the underland… The way out of the underland is where nine springs flow clear from the bedrock… We make our way to the end of the wood where the springs rise. The springs have organized themselves in a circle around a hollow in the chalk, filling a pool that is perhaps a foot deep and six feet across. The water in the pool is so clear as to be invisible, save for the root-like reflection of the branches above that it carries. “Macfarlane has invented a new kind of book, really a new genre entirely.” —The Irish Times “He is the great nature writer, and nature poet, of this generation.” —Wall Street Journal “Startling and memorable, charting invisible and vanishing worlds. Macfarlane has made himself Orpheus, the poet who ventures down to the darkest depths and returns—frighteningly alone—to sing of what he has seen.” —New Statesman Also by Robert Macfarlane is The Old Ways.
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DEVA Our Relationship with the Subtle World by Jacquelyn Lane
$23.99, paper. Inner Traditions. 316 pages, b/w illustrations
Nature spirits, faeries, gnomes, and their higher angelic counterparts who overlight landscapes, mountains, rivers, and plants have held a fascination for people worldwide for countless generations. The Deva kingdom is essentially the world’s form builders, the symphony at the heart of Creation, yet Deva is so much more than the joyful beings that animate what we call Nature. We each have a very personal and direct relationship with Deva—via our physical, astral, emotional, and mental elementals, but this connection has been forgotten or, at the very least, overlooked. When we partner with Deva in our everyday lives, we can help evolve both our kingdom and aspects of theirs. Exploring the realm of Deva and our relationship with them, Jacquelyn Lane introduces us to the hierarchy of the Deva kingdom, from elementals and nature spirits to higher Deva and the levels in between. She examines the metaphysics that underlie their existence and how the energy of Deva is intrinsic to all that we experience. Deva is a Sanskrit word meaning Being of Light, an appropriate name as Deva sing light out of the primordial darkness to create forms for Being. Sharing her personal experiences with Deva in many lands over four decades, the author investigates our relationship with Deva, in particular via the elementals of our human constitution, and how we can communicate with the Deva of trees and plants as well as the angelic kingdom. Through scientific discoveries and cultural tradi-
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tions, we discover the impact we have on Deva and how we use and even create new forms of Deva via our inventions and collective activity. Jacquelyn also looks at the orchestrating function of higher Deva and the wider implications of our understanding of Deva, including the role of Deva in Pan consciousness--our increasing realization of the intricate matrix of life within and between all the kingdoms on Earth. Offering not only an in-depth introduction to the world of Deva but also a glimpse of their wisdom, humor, and joy, this book reveals how we can begin to hear their complex song, find our own song, and work with the appropriate subtle layers of the Deva kingdom to grow and evolve. FINDING YOUR ELVENHEART Working with the Inner Realm of the Sidhe by Soren Hauge, foreword by David Spangler
$21.50, paper. Inner Traditions. 208 pages, b/w illustrations
Awaken to your closest kin, the Sidhe (pronounced Shee), and let them inspire you to rediscover your gentle, wild, innermost nature, your ElvenHeart. Also known as the Faery People or the Good Neighbors, the Sidhe are not just figments of human imagination. They are reaching out to us, encouraging a reunion with humanity, and inviting us to partner with them in restoring wholeness to the world. As they reveal, serving Gaia or healing the Earth from the present crisis is not a convenience—it is a necessity. Offering an experiential guide to reconnecting with the Sidhe and our inner ElvenHeart, Soren Hauge explores who the Sidhe are, how both humanity and the Sidhe
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emerged from a common ancestor, and how their untamed nature and deep wisdom bears significance for an aspect of our inner being that has gone to sleep. While the Sidhe did not enter the physical dimension as deeply as we did, they are real beings, very close to us, and different from angels, devas, and nature spirits. Soren introduces his own Sidhe contact, Fjeldur, and shares close encounters others have had with these beings in our modern world. He also takes you on a journey of rewilding through four portals—the StoneAnchor, the FlowDancer, the FireDreamer, and the WindSinger—to discover the treasure of your ElvenHeart at the core of your being. In the course of this, Soren offers gifts in the form of simple exercises that help bring you into contact with your magical kin and your inner Sidhe nature. Through this wild quest, the journey of untaming yourself, you will connect with your Sidhe partners, unfold their inner gifts in your own being, and rediscover the forgotten land of innocent wildness and gentle power within you.
Conscious Evolution & Planetary Culture HUMANKIND A Hopeful History
by Rutger Bregman
$38.00, cloth. Little, Brown. 460 pages
From the author of Utopia for Realists comes “the riveting pick-me-up we all need right now” (People), the #1 Dutch bestseller Humankind, which shows how humans thrive in a crisis and that our innate kindness and cooperation have been the greatest factors in our long-term success on the planet. Historian Rutger Bregman provides new perspective on the past 200,000 years of human history, setting out to prove that we are hardwired for kindness, geared toward cooperation rather than competition, and more inclined to trust rather than distrust one another. In fact this instinct has a firm evolutionary basis going back to the beginning of Homo sapiens. From the real-life Lord of the Flies to the solidarity in the aftermath of the Blitz, the hidden flaws in the Stanford prison experiment to the true story of twin brothers on opposite sides who helped Mandela end apartheid, Bregman shows us that believing in human generosity and collaboration isn’t merely optimistic---it’s realistic. Moreover, it has huge implications for how society functions. When we think the worst of people, it brings out the worst in our politics and economics. But if we believe in the reality of humanity’s kindness and altruism, it will form the foundation for achieving true change in society, a case that Bregman makes convincingly with his signature wit, refreshing frankness, and memorable storytelling. So be realistic. Be courageous. Be true to your nature and offer your trust. Do good in broad daylight, and don’t be ashamed of your generosity. You may be dismissed as gullible and naïve at first. But remember, what’s naïve today may be common sense tomorrow. It’s time for a new realism. It’s time for a new view of humankind.
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Humanity’s Corona Moment OUR MOMENT OF CHOICE Evolutionary Visions and Hope for the Future
edited by Robert Atkinson, Kurt Johnson & Deborah Moldow
$36.00, cloth. Beyond Words. 344 pages
This timely anthology is the brainchild of the Evolutionary Leaders, a group born out of the Source of Synergy Foundation from the inspiration of Diane Williams and Deepak Chopra. It is a diverse group of people who have come together to collectively create momentum for a new emerging consciousness. The dedicated vision and work of the Evolutionary Leaders over the years shine forth in this amazing book, their gift to humanity and the planet. Humanity is currently facing a series of interconnected emergencies that threaten our very survival—from climate change and worldwide pandemics to global economic inequality and increasing social tensions. At the same time, a global shift in consciousness is unfolding that is harnessing our collective power to consciously choose a life-affirming future. Our entire species, including your soul and mine, is about to make a decision that will be its most important ever. We are about to answer the question, who am I, and who do I choose to be? This is not just about the improvement of life on Earth, but the evolution of the spirit as well. Time is of the essence. —Neale Donald Walsch Our Moment of Choice is a collection of thought-provoking chapters written by forty-three evolutionary leaders who are offering up creative solutions to the THE CORONA TRANSMISSIONS Alternatives for Engaging with COVID-19 —from the Physical to the Metaphysical edited by Sherri Mitchell & Richard Grossinger
$24.99, paper. Inner Traditions. 384 pp.
The pandemic of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the biggest event of our lifetimes. This global experience has affected human history, ecology, epidemiology, and supply chains with the suddenness of 9/11, yet with a far greater extent, duration, and toll—the end of which is not yet in sight. Exploring a broad spectrum of new perspectives on COVID-19, from the physical to the metaphysical, from ecological to political, from apocalyptic to proto-utopian, and from scientific facts and health tips to imaginings, visionings, poems, and awakenings, this anthology offers an antidote to the barrage of data and speculation from the mainstream. The 35 contributors, including Laura Aversano, Charles Eisenstein, Zoe Brezsny, Meryl Nass, M.D., Bobby Byrd, and Joel and Michelle Levey, address the virus as a fellow being, allowing it to speak to us and through us. They attempt to describe, understand, interpret, and decipher the virus at bio-
Science & Cosmology RECONNECTING TO THE SOURCE The New Science of Spiritual Experience, How It Can Change You, and How It Can Transform the World
by Ervin Laszlo, foreword by Deepak Chopra $25.99, paper. Schiffer. Picador. 244 pages
Reconnecting to the Source is a powerful new book on the science of spiritual experience by Dr. Ervin Laszlo. A wellknown figure in the fields of new science, consciousness, and spirituality, Laszlo has inspired some of today’s most important figures in science and philosophy. In Reconnect-
challenges facing humanity. Each pointedly details their vision for how we can ensure a successful completion to the transformation of consciousness that is already underway. This forward-thinking compilation calls on each of us to be the cocreators of a just, unified, peaceful, and thriving world. The time has come for all humanity to be united in purpose. This is our call to action. This is our collective moment of choice, upon which our future depends. This book is dedicated to revealing the discoveries that have yet to show up in our textbooks and classrooms; they hold the key to awakening our new human story. —Gregg Braden, from the introduction Among the 43 contributors to this book are: Duane Elgin, Larry Dossey, Jean Houston, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Deepak Chopra, J.J. Hurtak, Loch Kelly, Ervin Laszlo, Bruce Lipton, Lynne McTaggart, Karen Newell, James O’Dea, Joan Borysenko, Phil Lane Jr., Elisabet Sahtouris, Jude Currivan, Diane Williams, and David Sloan Wilson. “A beautiful symphonic composition from different eminent authors, who discern the confluence of the great evolutionary flow of human consciousness that is ushering us into the higher realms of global transformation… The multi-perspectival approaches expressed consistently point to the truth of our wholeness that will lead us to a planetary wholesomeness built on the foundation of love, compassion, and selfless service to humanity. A revelatory map that charts the course to our collective awakening.” — Audrey Kitagawa, chair of the Parliament of the World’s Religions logical, serological, epidemiological, social, political,astrological, and ontological levels. The virus is explored in terms of cultural critique, divination, prophecy, warning, elucidation, and opportunity. Medical doctors, herbalists, naturopaths, indigenous healers, and homeopathic physicians tell us about coronavirus history, treatments, and prevention protocols; yoga teachers about cultivating inner balance and harmony; and economists, poets, psychotherapists, and First Nations teachers about the vast effects of the virus and the way forward. They explore how the disease speaks directly and how it meticulously addresses our relationship to Gaia, to its animal, plant, and mineral kingdoms, to each other, and to the economies and dystopia we have created. As a visionary whole, The Corona Transmissions asks you to respond, to engage your wisdom and creative imagination, to resist easy categorization and resolutions, and to participate in a collective dance and chant for healing, peace, equality, and a habitable future. Viruses do not live except by virtue of us carrying them. We are the living ones and our bodies, minds, hearts, and spirits will prevail.
ing to the Source he unpacks the science behind spiritual experience, investigating the ways in which we can access realms of experience beyond the everyday. It is in these moments, when our conscious minds are in contact or perhaps even overridden by our unconscious selves, that we can explore the depths of spiritual meaning. In addition to a foreword by Deepak Chopra, the book includes new contributions from a long list of writers and public figures—including Jane Goodall, Barbara Marx Hubbard,
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Jean Houston, Gregg Braden, Lynne McTaggart, Dean Radin and many more. Each contributor has written about a unique spiritual experience of their own, sharing moments in their lives that are outside of the boundaries of the usual and reflecting on the importance of these moments. The book has four parts: ♦ Quantum Science and the Re-Assessment of the Spiritual Experience ♦ Connecting to the Holotropic Quantum Universe ♦ A Bouquet of Spiritual Experiences ♦ Essential Lessons and Fundamental Tasks This revolutionary and powerful book will challenge you to reconsider the boundaries of our own experience and change how we look at the world around us. It is a unique, never before available resource for people who want to know how they can consciously align with the forces and “attractors” that govern the universe, and that have brought us, living, conscious people on the scene in the great processes of evolution that unfold here on Earth. When we are in touch with ourselves, with our loved ones, and with nature and the world, we are in connection with the Source. —Neale Donald Walsch, from the preface “Gives us a compelling way forward, indeed, the only way forward through the confusion and chaos of the mounting crises of the twenty-first century. Read this gem of a book carefully and share it with your friends. They will thank you and so will your grandchildren.” —Chris Bache, author of LSD and the Mind of the Universe INSIDE OUT: REVEALING THE MYSTERIES OF CREATION And the Wisdom to Live Your Life Consciously Connected
by Karen Elkins
$65.00, cloth. Karen Elkins. 296 pages, 9x12, colour illus. throughout
Powerful! Elegant! Simple! A compelling synthesis of modern science, ancient wisdom and timeless art melded into a revolutionary view of the universe, and our lives! Where do we draw the line between science, spirituality, and nature’s secrets? In a visual journey of natural rhythms, cycles and geometry Karen Elkins’ Inside Out demonstrates how everything from the very large to the very small—from the birth of galaxies to the formation of atoms and cells— emerges from simple, connected and unified patterns of nature. In doing so she reminds us that the key to our healing, and ultimately our survival, lies in our ability to embrace ourselves, and the world, as living, conscious and connected. A visual feast. Karen Elkins’s Inside OUT brings the newest and most intriguing science to a lay audience in a way that combines mystery with understanding. Rarely has science and art been blended in so effective a way. “Whether you’re an artist or an engineer, a home maker or a body worker, this book is about you, your world, and every relationship that you’ll ever experience in life. Inside Out is destined to become a cornerstone for teaching the unified science of the new millennium.” — Gregg Braden, author of The Divine Matrix “Wow, this should come with a warning that opening it might cause lost time, slipped appointments, altered states, experiences of bliss, changes in worldview, and deep gratitude for you and for our participation in creation. This is the secret teaching of all ages for our times. Thank you, bless you.” ~ Foster Gamble, Thrive Movie
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Neurodharma & the Brain NEURODHARMA New Science, Ancient Wisdom, and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness by Rick Hanson
$35.99, cloth. Random House. 318 pages
Throughout history, people have sought the heights of human potential—to become as wise and strong, happy and loving, as any person can ever be. And now recent science is revealing how these remarkable ways of being are based on equally remarkable changes in our own nervous system. In Neurodharma, the follow-up to his classic Buddha’s Brain, Rick Hanson not only explores the new neuroscience of awakening but also offers a bold yet plausible plan for reverse-engineering peak experiences, sense of oneness, and even enlightenment itself. And he does so with his trademark blend of solid science and warm encouragement, guiding you along this high-reaching path with good humor, accessible tools, and personal examples. A groundbreakingly practical book, Neurodharma shares seven practices for strengthening the neural circuitry of profound contentment and inner peace—qualities that offer essential support in everyday life while also supporting the exploration of the most radical reaches of RESILIENT New in How to Grow an Paperback Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness
by Rick Hanson, with Forrest Hanson $22.00, paper. Penguin. 304 pages
Rick Hanson is known for his trademark blend of neuroscience, positive psychology, and contemplative practices. And now he’s showing the way to build the very foundation of well-being: Resilience. Today, people realize that they need to be able to rely on their own inner guidance systems in order to stay happy and calm. Not simply about weathering negative experiences, Resilient’s groundbreaking program shows you how to harness the power of positive experiences in order to build an unshakeable core. In this succinct guide to lasting happiness, Dr. Hanson has distilled 40 years of clinical work and teaching into the tools that actually work. Each of these 12 tools grows a key inner strength for resilience, allowing you to enter a positive cycle in which resilience creates a sense of well-being, which creates even more resilience, and so on. Developed from his incredibly popular online course called The Foundations of Well-Being, this AWARE The Science and Practice of Presence-The Groundbreaking New in Meditation Practice Paperback by Daniel Siegel
$22.95, paper. Penguin. 400 pages
An in-depth look at the science that underlies meditation’s effectiveness, this book teaches readers how to harness the power of the principle “Where attention goes, neural firing flows, and neural connection grows.” Siegel reveals how developing a Wheel of Awareness practice to focus attention, open awareness, and cultivate kind intention can literally help you grow a healthier brain and reduce fear, anxiety, and stress in your life. Whether you have no experience with a reflective practice or are an experienced practitioner, Aware is a hands-on guide that will enable you to become more focused and present, as well as more energized and emotionally resilient in the face of stress and the everyday challenges life throws your way. This brilliant summary of the new sciences of the mind is fascinating, sometimes jaw-dropping, and al-
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human consciousness. Step by step, this book explains how to apply these insights in order to cultivate unshakable presence of mind, a courageous heart, and serenity in a changing world. The breakthroughs of the great teachers are not reserved for the chosen few. Dr. Hanson shows how we can embody them ourselves in daily life to handle stress, heal old pain, feel at ease with others, and rest in the sense of our natural goodness. Neuroscientists are discovering the mechanisms of the brain that underpin the Buddha’s penetrating analysis of the mind. With deep research, stories, guided meditations, examples, and applications, Dr. Hanson offers a fascinating, inspiring vision of who we can be. This book is nothing short of a path to transcendence, a method for liberating the mind and heart, discovering freedom from suffering, and engaging life with a kind heart and inner peace. Hanson guides readers with his usual encouragement, good humor, and personal examples. “Rick Hanson’s brilliance is the capacity to offer practical, powerful, scientifically grounded practices that lead to true happiness and a loving heart. This is an illuminating and transformational book!”—Tara Brach, author of Radical Compassion practical guide is full of concrete suggestions, experiential practices, personal examples, and insights into the brain. It includes effective ways to interact with others and to repair and deepen important relationships. Warm, encouraging, and down-to-earth, Dr. Hanson’s step-by-step approach is grounded in the science of positive neuroplasticity. He explains how to overcome the brain’s negativity bias, release painful thoughts and feelings, and replace them with self-compassion, self-worth, joy, and inner peace. True resilience is much more than enduring terrible conditions. We need resilience every day to raise a family, work at a job, cope with stress, deal with health problems, navigate issues with others, heal from old pain, and simply keep on going. Rick Hanson shows you how to develop twelve vital inner strengths hardwired into your own nervous system. Then no matter what life throws at you, you’ll be able to feel less stressed, pursue opportunities with confidence, and stay calm and centered in the face of whatever comes. Among Rick Hanson’s other books are Hardwiring Happiness and Buddha’s Brain.
TRANSFORMED BY BIRTH Cultivating Openness, Resilience & Strength for the Life-Changing Journey from Pregnancy to Parenthood
by Britta Bushnell
$24.99, paper. Sounds True. 286 pages, b/w ilustrations $45.50, 10 CDs. 11 hours, unabridged
This book is a gift to pregnant people everywhere. As expecting parents, you’re bombarded with more information—and opinions—than ever about the right approach to pregnancy and childbirth. How do you navigate this ocean of information—not only to find the best practical solutions for you personally, but also to embrace this incredible opportunity for emotional and spiritual transformation that comes from bringing a child into this world? With Transformed by Birth, Dr. Britta Bushnell has created the transformative, intelligent, and empowering pregnancy and childbirth guide you’ve been waiting for. This book is for parents. Parents come in many forms and arrive at the point of parenthood down different paths. This book is for those sharing the journey with a partner and/or a co-parent as well as for those going solo by choice or by situation… It is my hope that if you are in a partnership, you’ll read this book together and if you are solo, you’ll share sections of this book with those you consider part of your support team on your journey into parenthood. This book embraces birth as a transforming experience—a rite of passage in which you are initiated by opening to the unbidden, embodying your own wisdom, and gaining freedom from limiting beliefs. Our culture has inundated us with limiting ideals that prevent us from fully engaging in the journey of pregnancy and childbirth—including a need for control and certainty, vilification of pain, and reverence for technology and intellectual knowledge, among others. Dr. Bushnell helps you clear away unwanted beliefs and behaviors so you can open to the meaning and power of this uniquely life-changing experience. Here she offers daily practices, rituals, exercises, and more to help you cultivate resilience, power, and connection during this transformative time. Childbirth is more than just having a baby. Transformed by Birth invites you to discover childbirth as a transformational experience that alters your knowing of who you are and lasts long after pregnancy and birth are over.
ways wonderfully useful. As Ruby Wax, author of Sane New World says, “For me almost every line is an ‘aha’ moment. At long last, someone nails what it is to have a healthy mind, and if you don’t have one, how to get one.” “An illuminating new view of the nature of the mind and the practices of awareness that lead us to profound wellbeing. Siegel’s Wheel of Awareness is an elegant and groundbreaking synthesis of these practices, an accessible tool for inner integration and healing, as well as for realizing the loving awareness that links us to all beings. This brilliant book is poised to transform countless lives.” —Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance “Dan is a brilliant integrator and Aware is a visionary blend of neuroscience, physics, and cutting-edge psychology combined with creative approaches to mindfulness and compassion. The practice of the Wheel brings together many skillful and wise elements of meditation, all rolled into one.” —Jack Kornfield, author of The Wise Heart Among Daniel Siegel’s other books are Mindsight, Mind, and The Yes Brain.
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KINDNESS CARDS FOR KIDS 52 Ways to Make Every Day a Little Better by Nuanprang Snitbhan
$24.95, cards. Shambhala. 52 colour cards
Shine your kind heart into the world! Kindness takes time to blossom, just like a tree takes time to grow from a small seed. This colorful deck shares different ways kids can practice being kind to themselves, their families, their communities, and the earth every single day. Each card offers a simple reflection or activity that helps kids develop their strengths in four key dimensions of kindness: compassion, empathy, courage, and responsibility. Kindness can be challenging, but these cards make it fun; and the more we practice, the better we feel! Building emotional intelligence through kindness, the cards are separated into four different colours, each focused on building a different skill. The red self=compassion cards share thirteen ways kids can be kind to themselves, the yellow empathy cards give them lots of ideas for how to show love and kindness toward their family and friends, the blue courage cards help kids be a good neighbor and friend, and the green responsibility cards teach them to be kind to the environment and our big world.
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♦ The unvarnished realities of the climate emergency, where we are at, and how we got here ♦ Strategies for talking to kids of different ages about the climate crisis, including advice from engaged parents on the ground ♦ How to maintain our own hope and that of our children ♦ A list of practical actions families can take to tackle the climate change crisis ♦ Ideas for helping children follow their passions in pursuit of a livable, just, and sustainable world. A lifeline for parents who are feeling overwhelmed with fear and grief, this book provides both hope and practical ways to engage children in pursuit of a better world that will always be possible. I hope that as the facts become clearer and more evident to you, and your understanding grows, your resolve and your commitment to action will build as well. This should help you develop and hone your own ideas for talking to your children about climate change. GROWING SUSTAINABLE TOGETHER Practical Resources for Raising Kind, Engaged, Resilient Children by Shannon Brescher Shea
$22.95, paper. North Atlantic. 248 pages
THE MONKEY MIND MEDITATION DECK 30 Fun Ways for Kids to Chill Out, Tune In, and Open Up by Carolyn Kanjuro & Alexander Vidal $23.95, cards. Shambhala. 48 colour cards + booklet, in a box
Help your child become more focused, calm, and capable of dealing with overwhelming emotions. The Monkey Mind Meditation Deck explores the playful and powerful qualities of animals and nature to inspire your child to discover the same qualities in themselves and others. Vibrant images from illustrator Alexander Vidal are paired with key phrases and short meditations or activities to help children learn about themselves without judgement. By getting to know the impulses that give rise to their actions, children can become empowered to make choices that truly serve them best. The deck includes a short booklet explaining the various ways to use the cards and additional notes to tailor the meditations and activities to meet the needs of your child. Encourage playful discovery to help your child learn how to be a captain of their own ship, appreciate the present moment, and venture outside their cocoon. Whether your child wants to draw the cards face down for spontaneous inspiration or select one face up to work on a specific theme, the deck offers authentic exploration and a creative way for children to reflect on difficult topics. The cards will help your child cultivate a safe inner space to handle life’s ups and downs, release tension and anxiety, and offer the emotional freedom to explore their unique gifts as they navigate an increasingly complex world. HOW TO TALK TO YOUR KIDS ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE Turning Angst into Action
by Harriet Shugarman
$17.99, paper. New Society. 164 pages
With catastrophic global warming already baked into the climate system, today’s children face a future entirely unlike that of their parents. Yet how can we maintain hope, live our lives, and make a difference in the face of overwhelming evidence of the climate crisis? Help is at hand. Written by Harriet Shugarman, the Climate Mama and trusted advisor to parents, How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change provides tools and strategies for parents to explain the climate emergency to their children and galvanize positive action. Coverage includes:
It can be hard to fit “green living” in with the necessities of modern parenting: you can do 100 things right, but still the trappings of 21st-century life—the waste, the consumerism, the plastic junk—invariably find their way home. So how can you raise kind, balanced, responsible kids, all while doing it sustainably? Drawing from cutting-edge social science research, parent interviews, and experiential wisdom, science writer and parenting blogger Shannon Brescher Shea shows how green living and great parenting go hand in hand to teach kids kindness, compassion, resilience, and grit... all while giving them the lifelong tools they need to be successful, engaged, and independent. Growing Sustainable Together is packed with easy tips, expert parenting advice, and practical hands-on activities for the toddler years up through the early teens. Each chapter includes a “what to know” section that breaks down core sustainability knowledge, like: ♦ Energy efficiency and renewable ♦ How to instill anti-waste and anti-consumerist values ♦ Better transportation options ♦ Understanding how and where we get our food ♦ Developing a lifelong love for environmental activism and volunteering Shea highlights “what next?” action steps; fun, enriching do-it-together activities; recommended books for parent and child; and additional resources for those who want to learn and do more. Growing Sustainable Together concludes with a practical appendix that gives talking points for enrolling teachers, school systems, and fellow parents in eco-friendly activities. “This is an important book, in content and in tone. Too often, sustainability is seen as energy-efficiency, as a technical task with a slightly punitive tone. Shannon Brescher Shea takes an entirely different approach. She shows how family members can grow closer to each other by becoming closer to the Earth. I can imagine thousands of parents, grandparents, and kids following her wise words.” —Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods and Our Wild Calling
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BEING AT YOUR BEST WHEN YOUR KIDS ARE AT THEIR WORST Practical Compassion in Parenting by Kim John Payne
$22.95, paper. Shambhala. 214 pages
When children are at their most difficult and challenging situations arise, how can we react in a way that reflects our family values and expectations? Often, when children push our buttons, we find ourselves reacting in ways that are far from our principles, often further inflaming a situation. When our children are at their worst, they need us to be at our best—or as close to it as we can be. Educator and family counselor Kim John Payne, author of Simplicity Parenting, offers techniques that simply and directly shift these damaging patterns in communication and parental behavior. These grounded, practical strategies will help: ♦ Slow down the interaction ♦ Be more in control of your reactions ♦ Open up a much wider range of helpful responses ♦ Sense what your child’s deeper needs are even though they are misbehaving Payne’s meditative approach can be done anywhere, anytime; it lifts you out of old, unwanted patterns of action-reaction and prepares you so that the voice you speak with is closer to the parent you want to be. He offers techniques that parents of children of all ages can use in the moment to reframe the situation and help you respond effectively, appropriately, and with kindness. Being able to laugh at your mistakes and not try to justify or cover them up is not only a healthy way to live but also very good role modeling for your kids. If your children are going to be at their best, they need to be okay with taking appropriate risks and accepting failure as a possibility. This is the basis of the crucial life skill called “grit.” A remarkable appendix, “Verses to Prepare for the Compassionate Response Practice,” is worth the price of the book. “The key to helping an out-of-control child is a self-regulated adult. This book proves to be a practical guide to carrying out this centered approach, as well as an easy and encouraging reading experience.”—Publishers Weekly Kim John Payne has worked extensively with the Waldorf education movements in the UK and North America.
Relationship & Sex LOVE SKILLS The Keys to Unlocking Lasting, Wholehearted Love by Linda Carroll
$28.50, paper. New World Library. 302 pages, 7x9, b/w illustrations
Linda Carroll’s first book, Love Cycles: The Five Essential Stages of Lasting Love, describes the five stages of intimate relationships in detail, illuminating the behaviors associated with each stage and strategies for successfully navigating them. This companion workbook, Love Skills, is a practical guide to help readers design their own tool kit for creating and maintaining a loving relationship. Exercises, activities, self-assessments, and other concrete tools allow readers to understand where they are in their relationship. Thorny issues are addressed, including the loss of sexual energy, why what once seemed endearing is now annoying, and the many ways that family history and personality type can wreak havoc in relationships. Carroll’s well-researched practices help keep love alive in the midst of seemingly intractable differences, and specific, effective solutions to couples most common struggles provide a clear map for moving forward. Most important,
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Relationship, Passion & Presence PASSION AND PRESENCE A Couple’s Guide to Awakened Intimacy and Mindful Sex
by Maci Daye
$22.95, paper. Shambhala. 256 pages
Most romantic relationships follow a predictable pattern of initial enchantment followed by inevitable disenchantment. But relationships don’t have to stay in disenchantment or end! Passion and Presence offers readers a proven path back to connection and intimacy—often in deeper ways than before. Sex therapist Maci Daye draws on her popular international Passion and Presence workshops to show couples how their erotic difficulties can be a portal to creativity, compassion, and unparalleled growth. Exercises and reflections guide readers down what Daye calls the “naked path” of awakened intimacy. On this path, we courageously examine ourselves, our barriers, and our relationship patterns, ultimately finding fresh ways to heal and connect, and revitalize eros. With gentle clarity, Daye addresses the everyday challenges of “real life” sex, such as sex that has become routine, differences in preferences or desire, power struggles, a history of trauma, changes ranging from LOVE BETWEEN EQUALS relationship as a spiritual path by Polly Young-Eisendrath
$22.95, paper. Shambhala. 240 pages
A committed relationship, as most people see it today, is a relationship of equals who share values and goals, a kind of team united by love, a common purpose and philosophy, and dedication to each other’s growth on many levels, including spiritually. However, we have failed to recognize what a brand-new model this is in the history of the world. We need new guidelines that are rooted in sound understanding of our modern psychology and dilemmas. Young-Eisendrath makes the stand that modern relationships, which demand equality and reciprocity, cannot resort to dominance, control, or trust-breaking. We must learn to ongoingly renegotiate
Carroll’s couple-tested techniques allow readers to deal with conflict without losing connection, and show that conflict, when navigated properly, can lead to renewed closeness and unprecedented connection. “A truly gifted therapist, she gives us exercises and insights that penetrate self-destructive defenses and allow us to be our better selves and ultimately more loving (and loved) partners.” —Pepper Schwartz “In Love Skills Linda Carroll provides the map, compass, and survival kit for anyone journeying through the labyrinth of romantic love. Drawing from a range of therapeutic frameworks and tools, decades of clinical experience, and poignant field research from her own thirty-five-year marriage, Linda has distilled the wisdom of lifetimes into a comprehensive modern-day workbook full of growth-inducing to-do lists, insight-awakening questionnaires and quizzes, thought-provoking exercises, and other indispensable self-help tools for couples looking for clarity in their relationships. Love Skills is one of those rare, powerful books that, when used creatively and consistently, can genuinely help couples overcome common obstacles to loving and sustain a lasting bond.” —Alice Munoz, author of No More Fighting
childbirth to aging, infidelity, communication challenges, and more. Engaging stories depicting couples of diverse ages, backgrounds, genders, and orientations illustrate how the practice of Passion and Presence can help any couple establish a more intimate and wakeful erotic life. “In this comprehensive and practical book, Maci Daye shares hard-earned wisdom from decades of helping couples use their sexual issues as paths to becoming more fully alive, intimate, and erotic. She writes that ‘Great sex is a mind-set, not a skill-set,’ and proves that with a host of engaging case-studies and experiential exercises that will help you find and heal the inner obstacles to great sex.” —Richard Schwartz, creator of the Internal Family Systems model of psychotherapy “There are no handy short cuts around sensual disconnect, no easy way to break out of the familiarity trance and bring mindful aliveness to this moment, this touch, this kiss. But if you want to know what it means to be truly naked, together, I strongly recommend Passion and Presence.” —Cheryl Fraser, author of Buddha’s Bedroom conflicts and needs with our partner, rather than bailing out at the first upset. Drawing from her many years of Buddhist practice and teaching and her work in psychotherapy and couples counseling, Young-Eisendrath shows how mindfulness is the key. Her insights and clinical examples are supported by practical application through the provision of mindfulness-based practices, exercises, and dialogue formats she has effectively used in couples counseling. You may not always like the hard truth in what you read, or you might even disagree at times, but Young-Eisendrath is willing to not only dismantle our idealized projections about love, but also offer a way forward to bring our intimate relationships on the spiritual path.
SEX SHAMANS True Stories of Sacred Sexuality and Awakening edited by KamalaDevi McClure
$24.99, paper. Inner Traditions. 332 pp.
Drawing on traditional and modern practices, a sex shaman uses the power of erotic energy as a healing medicine. They channel divine love and embrace sexuality freely, practicing polyamory, sexual healing, and even sex magic. They teach tantra, trance dance, kundalini yoga, and other techniques for healing shame, guilt, fear, and sexual trauma. Designed to guide the reader on a journey into their own sacred sexual awakening, this book shares true stories from 20 visionary pioneers in the sexual shamanism movement, all of them associated with the International School of Temple Arts (ISTA), a mystery school that works to illuminate the path of sexual shamanism and heal the split between sex and spirit, release the shame surrounding sexual awakening, and inspire more sexual liberation around the world. The teachers reveal intimate details of their life stories and sexual awakening journeys, showing how, by surrendering to the wisdom of the erotic current of the universe, transformation occurs. Each story is accompanied by an in-depth embodiment exercise with step-by-step instructions, including soul gazing, contacting your spirit guides, sexual divination, ener-
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♦ getic sex, self-pleasuring, moon blood rituals, and sacred sexual storytelling. Underlying these exercises is the belief that the body is a temple that opens with pleasurable worship so spirit may dwell more fully within. The 20 contributors include Baba Dez Nichols, Bruce Lyon, Crystal Dawn Morris, Dawn Cherie, Deborah Taj Anapol, Ellie Wilde, Janine Ma-Ree, KamalaDevi McClure, Komala Lyra, Laurie Handlers, Lin Holmquist, Matooka Moonbear, Mia Mor, Ohad Pele Ezrahi, Patrik Olterman, Raffaello Manacorda, Ria Bloom, Sean O’Faolain, Stephanie Phillips, and Stephen SouLove. IGNITING INTIMACY Sex Magick Rituals for Radical Living & Loving by Rowan Bombadil
$32.99, paper. Llewellyn. 274 pages, illus.
Master the art of sex magic to forge radical new relationships with yourself, your beloveds, our planet, and life itself. This groundbreaking book invites you to develop intimacies that are as creative as they are consensual, as playful as they are profound, as transformative as they are ecstatic. It offers fresh and accessible inspiration on topics such as self-love, conscious communication, and sacred sex, and includes practices and rituals for erotic shapeshifting, ecosexuality, ecstatic breathwork, and so much more. Igniting Intimacy is for individuals and partners of all genders, orientations, and bodies who’ve always known there’s something more to sex, love, and being alive. It is an erotic playbook that demonstrates that the only tools you really need to have sex, meet god, and make magic are the ability to breathe and a willing imagination! An essential manual for pleasure pioneers hoping to change themselves, their relationships, and our world one orgasm at a time. This book is for you, whoever you are. The language is inclusive and the content inviting and inspiring. You’ll learn new ways to relate with yourself, beloveds, friends, family, and the world. You’ll get to discover and define your own personal meaning and style of intimacy, not only with people but also with the planet and with divinity. —Barbara Carrellas, author of Urban Tantra, from the foreword Rev. Rowan Bombadil is a UK-based queer sex witch, psychosexual coach, and interfaith minister, dedicated to bridging the binaries between sex and spirit. In their coaching, ceremonies, and workshops, Rowan seeks to facilitate personal and planetary transformation through pleasure. See makinglovewithgod.co.uk.
Men & Women Awake THE NEW ALPHA MALE How to Win the Game When the Rules are Changing by Lance Allred
$29.99, cloth. Sounds True. 192 pages
These days, we hear a lot about toxic masculinity, patriarchy, mansplaining, and male privilege. So how does a man get it right? Men are being asked to adapt to our changing world, yet many still want to play by the old rules, teaches Lance Allred. Now this former NBA star and leadership consultant presents a new game plan for evolving, growing, and succeeding in the modern era: The New Alpha Male. The new alpha rejects entitlement, fear, and cultural illusions in favor of strong guiding principles that honor the virtues of the masculine and the feminine. Allred identifies the Seven Principles of Perseverance as the new playbook for success, offering honest insights and daily practices for each principle: ♦ Accountability—Taking full responsibility for our
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$20.95, paper. Global Book. 232 pages
Charged with drama and beauty, this memorable collection by a master storyteller weaves a magical world of possibility and power from female myths of physical renewal, creation and change. It is an extraordinary immersion into the bodies and voices, mindscapes and landscapes, of the shapeshifting women of our native folklore. Drawing on myth and fairy tales found across Europe from Croatia to Sweden, Ireland to Russia, these stories are about coming to terms with our animal natures, exploring the ways in which we might renegotiate our fractured relationship with the natural world, and uncovering the wildness and wilderness within. She lived fully, my fox, and I envied her with all my F*CK LIKE A GODDESS Heal Yourself. Reclaim Your Voice. Stand in Your Power.
heart. I wanted to dance with her, sister or lover, across the snow-clad vastness of this land. Together, we’d create the Northern Lights. For that is what foxes do—racing over the fells, whipping up the snow with their tails, the friction of it sending up sparks into the midnight sky. This is what makes the aurora’s glow. Revontulet, we call it: foxfire. “A book for all the wild women ... Foxfire, Wolfskin is simply the most perfect thing. I love each and every placement of each word. Love the wildness, the shapeshifting, the fearsomeness of it.” —Jackie Morris, co-author of The Lost Words This deeply evocative and haunting collection, part rally cry, part warning, part manifesto and all parts enchanting, is beautifully illustrated by Helen Nicholson, Foxfire, Wolfskin and Other Stories of Shapeshifting Women is Blackie’s first collection of short stories. She’s also written The Enchanted Life and If Women Rose Rooted. hundreds of her coaching clients over the years.
by Alexandra Roxo
$32.50, cloth. Sounds True. 226 pages
What if your deepest fears and wounds were the KEY to living a turned on, passionate life, sharing your gifts with the world, and having mind-blowing orgasms along the way? And what if you could embrace all of you—all of your messy, wild, raw, sensual self—exactly as you are right now AND still feel good? This is what it means to f*ck like a goddess—literally and metaphorically. To let life make love to you and enjoy every bit, even the parts that hurt, and to find the magic in all of it. And this is your birthright. So why is it so damn hard for women to simply feel comfortable in their own skin, let alone feel strong and secure enough to freely share their gifts with the world? Because each of us has been conditioned, programmed, and literally brainwashed into thinking we are not enough, and it is up to us to rewrite that story. A prominent voice in transformational healing and the divine feminine, Roxo shares tried-and-true methods that have led to both her own healing and that of FIERCE FEMININE RISING Heal from Predatory Relationships and Recenter Your Personal Power
by Anaiya Sophia
$21.50, paper. Inner Traditions. 240 pages, b/w illustrations
After millennia of suppression, the Fierce Feminine, or Dark Mother, is making a dramatic resurgence to express our universal outrage. She is rising collectively now, and many women—and men—are feeling a welling up of sacred rage inside, a calling to set things right in our own lives and seek justice for those who can’t defend themselves. Offering much-needed perspective, advice, and tools for channeling the righteous energy and sacred rage of the Divine Feminine, Anaiya Sophia explains how to distinguish the Fierce Feminine from personal anger and reveals how it is not a feminist movement set to publicly condemn all that is masculine but a collective spiritual uprising for the greater good of humanity. She shares constructive practices drawn from Eastern tradition to help you embody the courage of the Fierce
We are in need of an uprising of bold, wild women who have reclaimed their bodies and stand in their sacred sexuality for them. As women, we need to liberate our voices, step into total security within ourselves, and fully own our raw, sensual power, finally letting go of the shame, guilt, denial, and repression that’s been put upon us. The methods in this book will inspire you, challenge you, bring up your resistance, and unleash your gifts. It won’t always be easy, but if you do the work, you’ll discover what it really feels like to f*ck like a goddess. In her conclusion, `Why I Have Committed to a Life of Surrender,” she writes, “To admit to not knowing, to not have a formula or a plan—that seemed dumb and scary. Yet somewhere deep inside I knew that was the key. That the most glorious moments of love and bliss I have experienced in this life have happened when I let go. When I stopped pushing. When I allowed the fire in me to rise. When I said yes. When I let myself be fucked open by life and the moment, instead of being stuck in my head, thinking about my plans or my looks or my fears.” Feminine to heal from predatory relationships and traumatic experiences, recenter your personal power, and gain control of your sacred rage rather than allowing it to control you. She details sacred sexuality exercises, including those with a yoni egg to clear the womb after lovemaking and dispel any energetic imprint left by an ex-partner. She provides instructions to gain access to the primordial wisdom within the untapped portion of the female brain, embrace your inner Kali, and personally deal with sorrow and anger. Through this passionate step-by-step guide to comfort your spiritual anguish and dispel the helplessness of not knowing what to do, Anaiya Sophia encourages those who feel the call of the Fierce Feminine to embrace their sacred mission and allow it to rebalance the powers that govern the planet as well as harmonize our minds. When we allow the justice of the Fierce Feminine to flow within us, we each become an active participant in the embodiment of change. Includes access to online audio tracks. Also by Sophia is Sacred Sexual Union.
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♦ shortcomings and successes to empower ourselves and inspire others ♦ Integrity—Knowing our core values and being rigorous in honoring who we are in all circumstances ♦ Compassion—The key to understanding ourselves and others with clarity, connection, and respect ♦ Discomfort—Being able to risk failure and endure pain to serve our higher goals and personal growth ♦ Acceptance—Letting go of our sense of what should be so we can act with wisdom and power in the present ♦ Transformation—Finding the courage to discard an old identity and trust in the process of our evolution ♦ Gratitude and Forgiveness—The most powerful acts of healing and love available to us as human beings. The New Alpha Male is a bold, straight-talking guide for men of all ages who want to step up their game and become the sort of empowered, open-hearted leaders our world needs. “I was deeply touched by reading Lance’s life story and how he rose above the challenges of being a male in today’s world as he committed living his life to embracing his heart, passion, his authentic self, staying in his integrity, and honoring the power of perseverance. The New Alpha Male is a treasure!” —Sandra Ingerman, author, The Book of Ceremony THE MAGDALENE MYSTERIES The Left-Hand Path of the Feminine Christ by Seren & Azra Bertrand
$37.50, paper. Bear & Company. 524 pages, 7x10, colour & b/w illustrations
A sacred priestess of the ancient Womb Rites, Mary Magdalene was at the center of a great and enduring Mystery tradition, one that touched on a stream of perennial spiritual wisdom as old as humanity. Worshipped as the human embodiment of the Goddess, the earthly Sophia, her womb was the spiritual luminatrix that anointed and empowered Jesus, transforming him into the Christ. As a priestess of the Goddess, Mary Magdalene knew how to embody the light and the dark, how to harness the magic potency of sacred sexual energy, and how to cleanse, awaken, and resurrect the soul. Yet, even though she sparked the creation of a worldwide religion, her story and teachings have been forgotten. Unveiling the lost left-hand path of the Magdalene, the Feminine Christ, authors Seren and Azra Bertrand explore how this underground stream of knowledge has been carried forward over the millennia through an unbroken lineage of Womb Shamans, Priestesses, Oracles, and Medicine Women. They explain how the Magdalene Mysteries, symbolized by the Rose, have been encoded in Gnostic codices and gospels and in the highest art, literature, and architecture of many ages, including most significantly the Ghent Altarpiece. They examine Mary Magdalene’s connection to moon wisdom, sacred harlot archetypes, and goddesses in many traditions, including Isis, Inanna, Asherah, Lilith, and Jezebel, and look at shamanic, tantric, and Cathar expressions of sacred feminine mysteries as well as the Witch and Templar roots of Robin Hood and Maid Marian. In this revelatory and magical text on the lost feminine mystery traditions of Mary Magdalene and the lineage of Sophia, the authors present encompassing theological, historical, mythological, and archetypal wisdom, with rituals and practices to initiate you into the Womb magic of the ancient priestesses and the path of the wild feminine. Also by the Bertrands: Womb Awakening
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