A new, easy to grasp map of human consciousness. a leading model of human evolution called "spiral dynamics" Ken Wilber is among the most widely read and influential American
philosophers of our time, credited with creating a genuine world philosophy. The
eight volumes of his recently published Collected Works include seventeen of his
books as well as essays and other writings. How do we reconcile our need to express our emotions with our desire to
protect others? Far too often we find ourselves trapped in this dilemma of
expression versus repression. We fear that by expressing our true feelings, we
will hurt and alienate those close to us. But by repressing our emotions—even in
the benevolent guise of “self-control”—we only risk hurting
ourselves. Since the day Brian McCarthy and his wife, Karen, chose a vegan diet for
their family ten years ago, Chef McCarthy has created over 400 simple vegan
recipes with easy-to-find ingredients for traditional favorites like biscuits,
corn bread, stews, pastas, pizzas, cakes, pies, and even eggnog. All the recipes
come from the McCarthy home kitchen and have passed the test of many family
meals. For individuals or families who are concerned about animals, the
environment, or their health, mealtimes just got a whole lot easier.
A simple yet comprehensive guide to the types of psychologies
and therapies available from Eastern and Western sources. Each chapter includes
a specific exercise designed to help the reader understand the nature and
practice of the specific therapies. Wilber presents an easy-to-use map of human
consciousness against which the various therapies are introduced and explained.
This edition includes a new preface.
Ken Wilber is the author of over twenty books. He is the founder of Integral
Institute, a think-tank for studying integral theory and practice, with outreach
through local and online communities such as Integral Naked, Integral Education
Network, Integral Training, and Integral Spiritual Center.
Integral Spirituality is being widely called the most important
book on spirituality in our time. Applying his highly acclaimed integral
approach, Ken Wilber formulates a theory of spirituality that honors the truths
of modernity and postmodernity—including the revolutions in science and
culture—while incorporating the essential insights of the great religions. He
shows how spirituality today combines the enlightenment of the East, which
excels at cultivating higher states of consciousness, with the enlightenment of
the West, which offers developmental and psychodynamic psychology. Each
contributes key components to a more integral spirituality.On the basis of this
integral framework, a radically new role for the world’s religions is proposed.
Because these religions have such a tremendous influence on the worldview of the
majority of the earth’s population, they are in a privileged position to address
some of the biggest conflicts we face. By adopting a more integral view, the
great religions can act as facilitators of human development: from magic to
mythic to rational to pluralistic to integral—and to a global society that
honors and includes all the stations of life along the way.
Ken Wilber is the author of over twenty books. He is the founder of Integral
Institute, a think-tank for studying integral theory and practice, with outreach
through local and online communities such as Integral Naked, Integral Education
Network, Integral Training, and Integral Spiritual Center.
The goal of an "integral psychology" is to honor and embrace
every legitimate aspect of human consciousness under one roof. This book
presents one of the first truly integrative models of consciousness, psychology,
and therapy. Drawing on hundreds of sources—Eastern and Western, ancient and
modern—Wilber creates a psychological model that includes waves of development,
streams of development, states of consciousness, and the self, and follows the
course of each from subconscious to self-conscious to superconscious. Included
in the book are charts correlating over a hundred psychological and spiritual
schools from around the world, including Kabbalah, Vedanta, Plotinus, Teresa of
Ávila, Aurobindo, Theosophy, and modern theorists such as Jean Piaget, Erik
Erikson, Jane Loevinger, Lawrence Kohlberg, Carol Gilligan, Erich Neumann, and
Jean Gebser. Integral Psychology is Wilber's most ambitious psychological
system to date and is already being called a landmark study in human
development.
In this dense text, philosopher Wilber (The Eye of the Spirit) aims to
reconstruct a place for spiritual consciousness in Western developmental
psychology. Describing prevailing psychological theories as inhabiting a
"flatland" where only "the world of matter and energy, empirically investigated
by human senses and their tools is real," Wilber surveys their history. He looks
both at the early modern era, when scientific materialists banished the
philosophical investigation of an individual's interior life from science, and
at the work of 200 ancient, medieval and modern philosophers, for whom spiritual
concerns were paramount. They all helped shape the history of modern
developmental psychology, he argues. Wilber aims to produce a two-volume
textbook from his research; this effort is a condensed outline of the ideas he
plans to detail. But even this shorter text contains 20 pages of charts, 68
pages of endnotes and a lengthy explanation of his four-quadrant model (designed
to integrate consciousness, spirit and therapy with the psychological
development of the individual in relationship to the material world)--all of
which makes for some hefty reading. Additionally, because he's writing for a
scholarly audience, Wilber employs terminology that may be challenging for the
lay reader, although he does manage, occasionally, to clarify complex themes
with simple analogies. Mixing scientific inquiry with spiritual concerns, this
book should speak most clearly to those looking for a basis in Western science
to validate their spiritual quest. Illustrations. (Apr.) Copyright 2000 Cahners
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Ken Wilber is the author of over twenty books. He is the founder of Integral
Institute, a think-tank for studying integral theory and practice, with outreach
through local and online communities such as Integral Naked, Integral Education
Network, Integral Training, and Integral Spiritual Center.
A Theory of Everything is a concise, comprehensive
overview of Ken Wilber's revolutionary thought and its application in today's
world. In clear, nontechnical language, Wilber presents leading-edge models that
integrate the realms of body, mind, soul, and spirit. Wilber then demonstrate
how these theories can be applied to real-world problems in the fields of
business, politics, medicine, and education. He also presents daily practices
that readers can take up in order to apply this integrative vision to their own,
everyday lives.
Ken Wilber is the author of over twenty books. He is the founder of Integral
Institute, a think-tank for studying integral theory and practice, with outreach
through local and online communities such as Integral Naked, Integral Education
Network, Integral Training, and Integral Spiritual Center.
Osho, one of the most provocative and inspiring spiritual
teachers of our time, provides here a practical and comprehensive approach to
dealing with this conflict effectively. Incorporating new,
never-before-published material, Emotional Wellness leads us to
understand the roots of our emotions, to react to situations in a way that can
teach us more about ourselves and others, and to respond to life’s inevitable
ups and downs with far greater confidence and equilibrium.
Discover:
• The impact that fear, anger, and jealousy have on our
lives
• How emotions like guilt, insecurity, and fear are used to manipulate
us
• How to break out of unhealthy responses to strong emotions
• How to
transform destructive emotions into creative energy
• The role of society and
culture on our individual emotional styles
Osho’s unique insight into the
human mind and heart goes far beyond conventional psychology. He teaches us to
experience our emotions fully and to deal with them creatively in order to
achieve a richer, fuller life.Osho, known for his revolutionary contribution to the science of inner
transformation, continues to inspire millions of people worldwide in their
search for a new approach to individual spirituality that is self-directed and
responsive to the everyday challenges of contemporary life. The Sunday Times
of London named him one of the “1,000 Makers of the Twentieth Century,” and
novelist Tom Robbins called him “the most dangerous man since Jesus Christ.” For
more information about Osho and his work, please visit www.osho.com.
In this new approach to understanding the impact of grief,
Susan Berger goes beyond the commonly held theory of stages of grief with a new
typology for self-awareness and self-transformation.
Susan Berger offers
practical advice for healing from a major loss in this presentation of five
basic styles of grieving. Going beyond Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s system describing
the stages of grief, Berger presents a new model: types of grievers. These five
types describe how people fall into behavior patterns in their response to a
loss–and how by identifying their patterns, they can find their way to healing
and self-transformation. The five types are the Nomad, the Memorialist, the
Normalizer, the Activist, and the Seeker.
Using research from her work
with the bereaved for the past twenty-five years, Berger examines how a person’s
worldview is changed after a major loss: their sense of mortality, their values
and priorities, and how they fit into society. She has found that adults who
lost a family member in childhood often experience long-term obstacles as a
result. By identifying their grieving type, readers whose lives are shaped by
loss find ways of understanding the impact of the loss and living more fully.
Also of interest to professionals working with bereaved clients, the five types
provide a useful model for evaluating clients’ perspectives on their own
experiences.Susan A. Berger, EdD, LICSW, has extensive experience counseling individuals
who are confronting loss and other life changes. She has twenty-five years’
experience in health and mental health fields as a researcher, practitioner,
administrator, and consultant. She also trains professionals in using her unique
approach to helping the bereaved. She lectures widely and has held faculty
appointments at three colleges, teaching courses in human behavior and
psychology.
Every day modern medicine announces the arrival of yet another
“wonder drug” or “miracle procedure” to a world increasingly wary of expensive
high-tech cures. Drugs, transplants, and surgery don’t work for 90 percent of
our aches and pains and, while we are grateful for life-saving developments, we
know that most come with risks that we ignore at our peril.
Long hailed
as one of the founding fathers of mind-body medicine, Larry Dossey directs our
attention to simple sources of healing that have been available for
centuries—treasures often hidden in plain sight—from the power of optimism and
of tears to speed recovery to the surprising usefulness of dirt and bugs in
curing disease and infection to the benefits of doing nothing.
Exploring
the medical research that validates these simple remedies, Dossey encourages us
to align ourselves with the wisdom of nature and allow true healing to take
place. The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things can transform
our view of what health is all about, whether our concern is cancer or the
common cold.
Holistic physician Dossey examines the potential power of 14
readily accessible sources of well-being, providing a strong case for utilizing
such remedies before more extreme measures. His expansive discourse on optimism,
forgetting, music, miracles, plants, risk taking and other "simple" things makes
clear that, while these are hardly "simple" when fully appreciated, often they
are undervalued or completely ignored by the mainstream medical community, which
turns to high-tech procedures and worst-case scenarios as a first resort.
According to Dossey (Reinventing Medicine), a nearly single-minded clinical
focus has obscured patients' interpretation of their own experiences, leaving
out important clues about how people heal. He provides numerous examples of
those who have discovered "spontaneous healing," which most physicians discount
or downplay because they defy explanation. Despite the title, this is not a
step-by-step guide to accessing the healing power of home remedies. Instead,
Dossey takes readers on a poetic, well-researched journey into the many
paradoxes that are inherent in the human condition and how they relate to
healing the body, mind and soul. (Feb.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business
Information.Larry Dossey, M.D., is a former internist and chief of staff of Medical City
Dallas Hospital and the former cochair of the Panel on Mind/Body Interventions,
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes
of Health. He is the executive editor of Explore: The Journal of Science and
Healing and the author of nine other books on the role of consciousness and
spirituality in healing, including the New York Times bestseller
Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine.
Dr. Dossey lives in Santa Fe with his wife, author Barbara Montgomery
Dossey.
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The impossible people who make life’s journey so difficult are
everywhere—at the office, in restaurants, on airplanes, living next door,
members of your own family. They’re . . .
• your “nothing is ever good
enough” boss
• the “no price is ever low enough” client
• the
next-door neighbor who redefines the meaning of paranoia
• the maître d’
who looks through you as if you don’t exist
• the father-in-law who you
know is always thinking about how much better a life his Janey or Joey would
have if only married to someone other than you
Ron Shapiro and Mark
Jankowski give you a simple and highly effective 4-point plan for dealing with
all of them and more—N.I.C.E. Their system shows you how to neutralize your
emotions so you don’t just react but act purposefully and wisely. It enables you
to identify the type of bully, tyrant, or impossible person you’re facing—the
situationally difficult (something has happened that turns an otherwise
reasonable person into a temporary terror); the strategically difficult (she has
empirical evidence that being difficult is a strategy that gets results); or
simply difficult (being difficult is his 24/7 M.O.). Then you’ll learn how to
shape the outcome by controlling the encounter and, finally, how to get
“unstuck” by exploring your options.
Using colorful stories from all
walks of life— “He called me the scum of the earth and it went downhill from
there,” “First, lock all your vendors in a small room,” and “The boss from
hell”—theauthors bring their lessons to life, from business life to family
life.Following up on The Power of Nice, agent-attorney Shapiro and
fellow negotiator Jankowski reiterate that book's tenets: Neutralize your
emotions and stay rational; Identify the type of difficult person; Control the
encounter; and Explore options. Using examples from their own lives as well as
pop culture, they offer anecdotes and tips for analysis. The "situationally
difficult" person may be temporarily overreacting, so empathy can be a sure road
to cordial defusion. The "strategically difficult" are calculating
(passive-aggressive, take it or leave it, etc.), but can be countered if you
pleasantly, even humorously make them aware you're onto their game. The "simply
difficult," using power as an imperative (irrational, bullying, duplicitous,
etc.) are the toughest, but those facing them must recognize their own
power-including the option to just walk away, a decision that must be approached
carefully. While the title may be the best thing about the book, its tips on
steering toward win-win situations are more than plausible. (June) Copyright
2005 Reed Business Information.
Ronald M. Shapiro was called “one of baseball’s most respected
agent-attorneys” by USA Today. He has advised an array of corporate and
political leaders, helped settle a major symphony orchestra strike, diffused
racial tension in a metropolitan police department, and found solutions to major
league baseball’s owner-player and umpire conflicts.
Mark A. Jankowski
has lectured on negotiation and dispute resolution at Johns Hopkins University
and the Wharton School. He has worked with some of America’s leading businesses,
including GenRe (a Berkshire Hathaway company), Gillette, MBNA America, and
Black & Decker.
Ron Shapiro and Mark Jankowski are the coauthors of
The Power of Nice: How to Negotiate So Everyone Wins—Especially
You, and founders of the Shapiro Negotiations Institute.
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In her first collection of suppertime
solutions, the author of the bestselling cookbook classic, Vegetarian Cooking
for Everyone, solves the perennial question of what to cook for dinner, with
more than 100 inspiring recipes to enjoy every night of the week.
What’s
for supper? For vegetarians and health-conscious nonvegetarians, the quest for
recipes that don’t call for meat often can seem daunting. Focusing on recipes
for a relaxing evening, Deborah Madison has created an innovative array of main
dishes for casual dining. Unfussy but creative, the recipes in Vegetarian
Suppers from Deborah Madison’s Kitchen will bring joy to your table in the
form of simple, wholesome, and delicious main dish meals.
These are
recipes to savor throughout the week—quick weekday meals as well as more
leisurely weekend or company fare—and throughout the year. The emphasis ison
freshness and seasonality in recipes for savory pies and gratins, vegetable
stews and braises, pasta and vegetable dishes, crepes and fritters, delicious
new ways to use tofu and tempeh, egg dishes that make a supper, hearty
cool-weather as well as light warm-weather meals, and a delightful assortment of
sandwich suppers.
Recipes include such imaginative and irresistible
dishes as Masa Crêpes with Chard, Chiles, and Cilantro; Spicy Tofu with Thai
Basil and Coconut Rice Cakes; Lemony Risotto Croquettes with Slivered Snow Peas,
Asparagus, and Leeks; and Gnocchi with Winter Squash and Seared Radicchio.
Vegan variations are given throughout, so whether you are a committed
vegetarian or a “vegophile” like Deborah Madison herself, you’ll find recipes in
this wonderful new collection you will want to cook again and again.Celebrated vegetarian chef Madison's latest warmly written gem offers
everything from quickie suppers to subtle, sophisticated dinner-party dishes
while encouraging local, seasonal eating and unfussy kitchen artisanship. Her
earthy, vigorous Pasta and Chickpeas with Plenty of Parsley and Garlic comes
together in a flash, and is enlivened by the addition of Beluga lentils, a
suggestion she makes in her "Variations" column. (It will also convince anyone
that whole wheat pasta can be delicious.) The Onion and Rosemary Tart with
Fromage Blanc is rich, creamy and gorgeously smooth, with a crisp and flavorful
shell. And the Brussels Sprout and Mushroom Ragout with Herb Dumplings employs
fresh tarragon to brilliant effect (it flavors both the ragout and the
dumplings) to make a kind of sophisticated comfort food that's only slightly too
heavy on the sprouts. And if Winter Squash Lasagna with Sage, Walnuts and Black
Kale seems too ambitious for a Tuesday night, there's always Wine-Braised
Lentils Over Toast or even a Fried-Egg Sandwich. Madison's recipes do call for
good kitchen gear (Dutch ovens, double-boilers, numerous gratin pans and
casseroles) and some hard-to-find ingredients (fromage blanc, blanched nettles,
Thai basil), but they're flexible enough to allow for substitutions. Though not
as broad as Madison's James Beard-winning Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone nor as
detailed as her classic The Greens Cookbook, this volume is a wonderful addition
to any vegetarian or "vegophile" kitchen. (On sale Mar. 29) Copyright 2005 Reed
Business Information.
Deborah Madison’s Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone and The Savory
Way, each earned the IACP’s Julia Child Cookbook of the Year award.
Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone also received a James Beard Award, as did
Local Flavors, her most recent book. She is also the author of the James
Beard Award nominee This Can’t Be Tofu! and The Greens Cookbook,
which is now a classic. She lives in Galisteo, New Mexico.
Over 400 recipes from the kitchen of Chef
Brian P. McCarthy! Now that you've become a vegan, you're learning lots of ways
to prepare tofu, but you or someone you love is really starting to miss macaroni
and cheese, turkey dinners, pumpkin pie and birthday cake. Maybe you and your
family feel self-conscious (and hungry) at holidays, picnics, and parties. Or
maybe just one person in the family is vegan, but you need to create meals that
everyone will eat.
Serious in intent and plain in presentation, this is a subdued cookbook for
vegans (no meat, fish or dairy) who cook three meals a day and need a reliable
cache of ideas. Oregon professional chef McCarthy spent 10 years amassing these
recipes to sate his own family's desire for "real food" as they were settling
into the vegan way of life. The result is this comprehensive selection that
spans all parts of the meal. There are vegan versions of familiar family dishes,
such as macaroni and cheese, vegetable quiche pie, lasagna florentine and French
toast, which feature such traditional substitutes as egg replacer powder,
varieties of tofu and vegan cheese. Some recipes flash with originality (e.g.,
Moroccan Red Lentil Soup), but others (e.g., Acorn Squash with Molasses) are
reliable standbys with no vegan-offending ingredients in their original
incarnation. A glossary and list of items in "A Well-Stocked Vegan Pantry" are
serviceable, but lack the explanations and idiosyncrasies that make cookbooks
and their writers memorable. By emphasizing the everyday aspect of preparing
food, McCarthy concentrates on large-scale coverage rather than culinary
openness and creates a book that speaks to the converted or nearly converted
vegan. (Nov.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
My First Farm: Let's Get Working! helps kids develop
first language skills by introducing them to the animals and machines on a farm.
Each tabbed section focuses on a different category of farm life, from baby
animals to tractors.
DK Publishing is world renowned for its distinctive, highly visual books
that inform, inspire, and entertain readers of all ages.
In this groundbreaking book, Ken Wilber uses his widely
acknowledged "spectrum of consciousness" model to completely rewrite our
approach to such important fields as psychology, spirituality, anthropology,
cultural studies, art and literary theory, ecology, feminism, and planetary
transformation. What would each of those fields look like if we wholeheartedly
accepted the existence of not just body and mind but also soul and spirit? In a
stunning display of integrative embrace, Wilber weaves these various fragments
together into a coherent and compelling vision for the modern and postmodern
world.
Wilber (Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, Shambhala, 1995) takes on a tremendous
task: attempting to derive from the tenets of the world's wisdom traditions,
both religious and nonreligious, and from many academic fields one unifying
vision of the modern and postmodern world. He calls his approach the "spectrum
of consciousness," i.e., reducing aphorisms from various sources until they
"agree" with each other, and using these as building blocks for his conclusions.
Unfortunately, the long and difficult road Wilber takes us along leads to no
grand religious or philosophical epiphany. The conclusions are a wash of poetic
statements about an "ever-present awareness" or "a pure and simple witness,"
beliefs that are popular with New Age philosophies that require little of the
deep discussions that preceded. Of interest mainly to theology students.-Glenn
Masuchika, Chaminade Univ. Lib., Honolulu
Ken Wilber is the author of over twenty books. He is the founder of Integral
Institute, a think-tank for studying integral theory and practice, with outreach
through local and online communities such as Integral Naked, Integral Education
Network, Integral Training, and Integral Spiritual Center.
The 12-Second Sequence™ is fitness superstar Jorge Cruise’s
newest revolutionary method of resistance training that burns fat, shrinks your
waistline, and gets you into the best shape of your life—and all it takes is two
twenty-minute workouts each week. Based on the latest groundbreaking research in
exercise physiology, the 12-Second Sequence™ proves that the key to success is
not in exercising more, but in exercising smarter.
By following
Jorge’s plan, you’ll train your body to burn hundreds of calories on its own
every week—all the time, even when you are not working out. Body fat
melts away, lean muscle develops, and you’ll look and feel better than you ever
thought possible.
Why you need The 12-Second Sequence™:
• You’ll
follow a simple eight-week plan that reconfigures your body to burn 20 percent
more calories—every day
• You’ll learn how to eat to accelerate
results
• You’ll minimize your efforts and maximize your
benefits
• You’ll be inspired by the success stories of other 12-Second
stars
• You’ll target belly fat (the worst kind!), so you’ll start
looking great almost immediately
• You’ll find a special bonus workout
routine: the no-gym, no-fuss, do-it-anywhere way to keep on track wherever your
busy schedule takes you
You can do this. Say good-bye to wasting time in
the gym doing endless repetitions or spending hours on the treadmill. If you’ve
got a few minutes to spare each week, you’ve got what it takes to start feeling
healthier andstronger while looking absolutely amazing—for life. Get started
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Jorge Cruise is recognized as America’s leading wellness
expert for busy people. He is the author of two New York Times bestsellers, 8 Minutes in the Morning® and The 3-Hour Diet™. Jorge
Cruise coaches clients daily at 12second.com and each Sunday his USA
WEEKEND Magazine column is read by more than fifty million people in six
hundred newspapers nationwide. He has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show,
CNN, Good Morning America, Today, Dateline NBC, The
View, The Tyra Banks Show, and VH1. Jorge lives in San Diego with his
wife and two sons.
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When it comes to food, nature provides a wealth of delicious
choices. But each one also supplies unique health benefits. From apples to
yogurt, this comprehensive encyclopedia of power foods from top nutritionist
David Grotto proves that what tastes good can also be good for you—and tells you
why. Did you know...
• A handful of tart cherries before bed can help you
sleep better
• Hot peppers may fight skin cancer
• Potatoes may reduce
the risk of stroke
• Grape juice may be as heart-healthy as red wine
•
Honey can help wounds heal faster
In working with thousands of clients
over many years and searching for the most nutritious and tasty foods, David
Grotto made a simple but profound discovery: telling people what they couldn’t
eat was far less effective than telling them what they could. So began his list
of power foods, rich in nutrients, loaded with disease-fighting antioxidants and
important omega fats—and surprisingly more familiar than you might expect.
More than a reference book, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life will
make a significant impact on your health by guiding you to gradually add these
foods to your diet. Plus, each entry includes a history of the food’s origin,
therapeutic benefits along with scientific research, tips for use and
preparation, and an appetizing recipe from a leading chef or nutritionist.
Prepare to awaken your tastebuds, lose excess weight, and feel the healing
begin.David Grotto, RD, LDN, is the national media spokesperson for the American
Dietetic Association, and president and founder of Nutrition Housecall, LLC, a
nutrition consulting firm that offers personalized at-home and group dietary
guidance. Formerly the director of nutrition education at the Block Center for
Integrative Cancer Care in Evanston, Illinois, he continues his private
practice. Grotto lives in Elmhurst, Illinois.
The groundbreaking book that breaks the silence of the male
code.
Why do men fall out of love? It’s rarely a simple issue of
attraction, sex, or money trouble. In this provocative no-holds-barred guide,
Michael French brings unparalleled insight into the male psyche and reveals why
so many men feel trapped, unhappy, or unfulfilled, and what women can do about
it.
Based on interviews with men from all ages and walks of life this
grippingly honest book illustrates why, when it comes to relationships, so many
men feel “outgunned and outmatched” by women. Discover:
• The 4
relationship busters that lead couples to flounder and sink–the loss of intimacy
/ the quest for validation / the perfection impulse / the fading of
attraction–and strategies for dealing with them head-on
• Six key reasons why
men fall out of love–from issues of identity, power, and fear to stereotypes
about who they really are and what they want
• The truth about men and
(mis)communication–and ways for them to open up
• Three questions a woman
needs to ask a man before she becomes emotionally involved
• The Relationship
Audit–how couples can figure out what is driving them apart and find ways to
mend their relationship
By finally bringing men’s true feelings to the
surface, Michael French offers a dramatic new approach to understanding men and
their hidden emotions. This guide illuminates the deeper reasons why men fall
out of love and, more important, shows how relationships can be
healed.
“An impressive, insightful, and completely accessible view deep
into the heart’s ofmen and their struggle with love.”
–Joel D. Block, Ph.D.,
author of Naked Intimacy
“Read this brilliant book and untie the
knot of life– why does love fade?”
–Susan Braudy, former editor of Ms.
Magazine
For modern spiritual seekers and yoga students alike, here is
an irreverent yet profound guide to the most sophisticated teachings of the yoga
wisdom tradition–now brought to contemporary life by a celebrated author,
psychotherapist, and leading American yoga instructor.
While many
Westerners still think of yoga as an invigorating series of postures and
breathing exercises, these physical practices are only part of a vast and
ancient spiritual science. For more than three millennia, yoga sages
systematically explored the essential questions of our human existence: What are
the root causes of suffering, and how can we achieve freedom and happiness? What
would it be like to function at the maximum potential of our minds, bodies, and
spirits? What is an optimal human life?
Nowhere have their discoveries
been more brilliantly distilled than in a short–but famously difficult–treatise
called the Yogasutra. This revered text lays out the entire path of inner
development in remarkable detail–ranging from practices that build character and
mental power to the highest reaches of spiritual realization.
Now
Stephen Cope unlocks the teachings of the Yogasutra by showing them at work in
the lives of a group of friends and fellow yoga students who are confronting the
full modern catastrophe of careers, relationships, and dysfunctional family
dynamics. Interweaving their daily dilemmas with insights from modern
psychology, neuroscience, religion, and philosophy, he shows the astonishing
relevance and practicality of this timeless psychology of
awakening.
Leavened with wit and passion, The Wisdom of Yoga is a superb
companion and guide foranyone seeking enhanced creativity, better relationships,
and a more ethical and graceful way of living in the world.Psychotherapist and longtime resident teacher at the Kripalu Center for Yoga
and Health in Lenox, Mass., Cope applies the compassionate insights made in his
book, Yoga and the Quest for the True Self, to this guide to the Yogasutra.
Attributed to Patanjali, a second-century sage, the Yogasutra barely mentions
the physical postures now identified as yoga. But the 196 trenchant entries,
scholars say, contain the body of wisdom gleaned by those who sought, through
direct experience, the inner workings of body, mind and spirit. This wisdom
tradition (raja yoga), Cope says, is as effective today in diagnosing and
healing "ordinary unhappiness" as it was centuries ago. Drawing parallels
between ancient yogis and Buddhists and Western theologians, philosophers and
poets, Cope argues that the yogis uncovered the roots of fear, illusion and
self-deception. He focuses on the eight limbs of yoga (ethical behaviors,
disciplines, postures, breathing practices, sense withdrawal, concentration,
meditation and enlightenment) to demonstrate their effects in the lives of
modern practitioners. Readers will readily identify with at least one of the
challenges discussed -be they failed relationships, dysfunctional families,
unrealized ambitions and compulsive behaviors. Beginners will find it helpful to
read the Yogasutra, provided in an appendix, before diving into the personal
stories and Cope's sympathetic commentaries. (June) Copyright 2006 Reed Business
Information.
Stephen Cope is a psychotherapist, senior Kripalu yoga teacher, and author
of Yoga and the Quest for the True Self. He is currently Senior Scholar in
Residence at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, Massachusetts.
Are you plagued by fears, phobias, or panic attacks? Do you toss and turn at
night with a knot in your stomach, worrying about your job, your family, work,
your health, or relationships? Do you suffer from crippling shyness, obsessive
doubts, or feelings of insecurity?
What you may not realize is that these
fears are almost never based on reality. Anxiety is one of the world’s oldest
cons. When you’re anxious, you’re actually fooling yourself. You are telling
yourself things that simply aren’t true. See if you can recognize yourself in
any of these distortions:
All-or-Nothing Thinking: “My mind will go blank
when I give my presentation at work, and everyone will think I’m an
idiot.”
Fortune Telling: “I just know I’ll freeze up and blow it when I take
my test.”
Mind Reading: “Everyone at this party can see how nervous I
am.”
Magnification: “Flying is so dangerous. I think this plane is going to
crash!”
Should Statements: “I shouldn’t be so anxious and insecure. Other
people don’t feel this way.”
Emotional Reasoning: “I feel like I’m on the
verge of cracking up!”
Self-Blame: “What’s wrong with me? I’m such a
loser!”
Mental Filter: “Why can’t I get anything done? My life seems like one
long procrastination.”
Now imagine what it be like to live a life that’s free
of worries and self-doubt; to go to sleep at night feeling peaceful and relaxed;
to overcome your shyness and have fun with other people;to give dynamic
presentations without worrying yourself sick ahead of time; to enjoy greater
creativity, productivity and self-confidence.
Does that sound impossible? The
truth is you can defeat your fears. In When Panic Attacks, Dr.
Burns takes you by the hand and shows you how to overcome every conceivable kind
of anxiety. In fact, you will learn how to use more than forty simple, effective
techniques, and the moment you put the lie to the distorted thoughts that plague
you, your fears will immediately disappear. Dr. Burns also shares the latest
research on the drugs commonly prescribed for anxiety and depression and
explains why they may sometimes do more harm than good.
This is not pop
psychology but proven, fast-acting techniques that have been shown to be more
effective than medications. When Panic Attacks is an indispensable
handbook for anyone who’s worried sick and sick of worrying.While everyone has the occasional attack of nerves, the National Institute
of Mental Health estimates that 19 million adults suffer from anxiety disorders,
i.e., anxiety or panic that is so severe or unrelenting that it interferes with
normal life. While psychiatrists often prescribe antidepressants, some of which
seem to have antianxiety effects, Burns (psychiatry & behavioral sciences,
Stanford Univ. Sch. of Medicine; Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy) recommends
cognitive-behavioral therapy, a type of talk therapy in which patients are
taught to recognize and deliberately change their negative patterns of thought
and action. Although there are many other acceptable titles that can help people
do this on their own-including Edmund J. Bourne's The Anxiety & Phobia
Workbook and Judith Bemis and Amr Barrada's Embracing the Fear: Learning To
Manage Anxiety and Panic Attacks-Burns's book has several features to recommend
it. Besides being well written and accessible, with lots of patient narratives
to spark interest, it lays out exactly what readers need to do to feel better.
In addition, Burns's earlier title on depression, Feeling Good, is much beloved
by the self-help crowd, so there will be some demand for this new one. For most
public libraries.-Mary Ann Hughes, Neill P.L., Pullman, WA Copyright 2006 Reed
Business Information.
david d. burns, m.d. is an adjunct clinical professor of psychiatry and
behavioral sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine and has served
as Visiting Scholar at Harvard Medical School. He conducts lectures and
workshops throughout the United States and Canada for healthcare professionals
and for the general public and has received numerous media and research awards.
His bestselling book, Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, has sold more
than four million copies worldwide and is the book most often recommended by
American and Canadian mental health professionals to patients suffering from
anxiety and depression.
You are cordially invited to attend...
The Sweet Potato
Queens are bona fide experts at planning a marvelous marriage (and ending
one—flip this book right on over if you're looking for advice on dumping a
deadweight hubby!), so who better to provide this handy wedding planner? And
even if you're not planning your own nuptials, surely you have dreamt about your
perfect day, regardless of whether you've met Mr. Right yet! In this essential
manual, you'll learn:
• How to plan a truly regal wedding
• What
to wear (and what not to wear) to your own wedding, or to anyone else's
•
How to organize the sassiest games and sauciest entertainment for the
occasion
• How to plan and prepare the greasiest, tastiest wedding
vittles for your big-ass guests
You are hereby summoned to appear
. . .
The Sweet Potato Queens know a thing or two about ending a marriage
(and beginning one—flip this book on over if you’re planning on attaching
yourself to the ol' ball and chain!), so who better to provide this crucial
divorce guide? Besides, whether you’re getting your own personal divorce or not,
chances are you’ll be calling Mr. Right Mr. I-Don’t-Think-So sometime in the
future! In this practical handbook, you'll learn:
• How to survive even
the nastiest divorce while maintaining your queenly composure
• Why it’s
appropriate—and necessary!—to throw divorce showers and send out divorce
announcements
• Why love is even better the second, third, or fourth
time aroundWith the fifth raucous outing in her indefatigable series, Browne and her
fallen Southern belles make the leap from trade paperback original to hardcover.
This hilarious reference is a one-stop relationship shopper's dream: start from
the front and it's a wedding planner; flip the book over and it's a divorce
guide. Boasting "around thirteen marriages and eight divorces-so far-not to
mention more than 300 combined years of valuable experience," Browne and her
fellow Queens offer sage advice, dire warnings and sidesplitting anecdotes for
women who could use "some sympathy, some understanding, some refreshments and a
little fucking help around here." Between offering tips on how to save money on
weddings and avoid manslaughter charges during divorces, Browne also teaches her
own language course in Southern-speak, which she dubs "Y'allbonics," and shares
recipes encouraging "balloonia" over bulimia. As funny as Browne can be, her
powerful underlying message has always been preaching empowerment to women who
feel they have no options ("Quit investing your life in a relationship that's
bringing you only minimal returns. Don't be skeert of going for more"). No
wonder, according to www.SweetPotatoQueens.com, there are nearly 4,800 worldwide
chapters devoted to Browne's fun-loving and life-affirming teachings. (Jan.)
Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
All hail the Sweet Potato Queens -- Mississippi’s very own faction of
margarita guzzling, tiara wearing, divas of the Deep South, and Jill Conner
Browne is the Boss Queen of the queens. With fan favorites like The Sweet
Potato Queen’s Book of Love and The Sweet Potato Queen’s Book of
Love, Browne dishes up delirious romantic advice and delicious recipes for
the growing-ranks of Sweet Potato Queens across the country!
Look at what's happened to the usual how-are-you exchange. It
used to go like this: "How are you?" "Fine." Now it often goes like this: "How
are you?" "Busy." Or "Too busy." Or simply "Crazy."
Without intending for
it to happen or knowing how, when, or why it got started, many people now find
that they live in a rush they never wanted. If you feel busier than you've ever
been and wonder how this happened and how you can keep up the pace much longer,
you are hardly alone.
Crazy? Maybe not. Dysfunctional? Yes, indeed. We
all have more to do than ever before -- and less time to do it. In this highly
listenable audiobook, the foremost expert on ADD, Ned Hallowell, explores the
society-wide phenomenon of culturally induced ADD.
Being busy may very
well keep you from doing what matters most, or it may lead you to do things you
deem unwise (like getting angry, for example). Being busy is a problem for
almost all of us. This audiobook is about both the opportunity and the problem
-- where this peculiar life comes from and how to turn it to your advantage.
Offering solutions to this difficult, complex problem that might work for you,
most importantly, Crazybusy may prompt you to create solutions of your
own.
Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., was an instructor at Harvard Medical
School for twenty years and is now director of the Hallowell Center for
Cognitive and Emotional Health in Sudbury, Massachusetts. He is the co-author of
Delivered from Distraction and the author of The Childhood Roots of Adult
Happiness and Worry, among other titles. He lives in Arlington,
Massachusetts, with his wife and three children. He welcomes hearing from
readers and can be reached through his website,
www.DrHallowell.com.
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In our current era of holy terror, passionate faith has come to seem like a
present danger. Writers such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher
Hitchens have been happy to throw the baby out with the bathwater and declare
that the danger is in religion itself. God, Hitchens writes, is not
great.
But man, according to George E. Vaillant, M.D., is great.
In Spiritual Evolution, Dr. Vaillant lays out a brilliant defense not of
organized religion but of man’s inherent spirituality. Our spirituality, he
shows, resides in our uniquely human brain design and in our innate capacity for
emotions like love, hope, joy, forgiveness, and compassion, which are selected
for by evolution and located in a different part of the brain than dogmatic
religious belief. Evolution has made us spiritual creatures over time, he
argues, and we are destined to become even more so. Spiritual Evolution makes the scientific case for spirituality as a positive force in human
evolution, and he predicts for our species an even more loving
future.
Vaillant traces this positive force in three different kinds of
“evolution”: the natural selection of genes over millennia, of course, but also
the cultural evolution within recorded history of ideas about the value of human
life, and the development of spirituality within the lifetime of each
individual. For thirty-five years, Dr. Vaillant directed Harvard’s famous
longitudinal study of adult development, which has followed hundreds of men over
seven decades of life. The study has yielded important insights into human
spirituality, and Dr. Vaillant has drawn on these and on a range of
psychologicalresearch, behavioral studies, and neuroscience, and on history,
anecdote, and quotation to produce a book that is at once a work of scientific
argument and a lyrical meditation on what it means to be human.
Spiritual Evolution is a life’s work, and it will restore our
belief in faith as an essential human striving.George E. Vaillant, M.D., is a psychoanalyst and a research psychiatrist,
one of the pioneers in the study of adult development. He is a professor at
Harvard University and directed Harvard’s Study of Adult Development for
thirty-five years. He is the author of Aging Well and The Natural
History of Alcoholism, and his 1977 book, Adaptation to Life, is a
classic text in the study of adult development. He lives in Boston; East
Thetford, Vermont; and Victoria, Australia.
“Success is the point where your most authentic talents,
passion, values, and experiences intersect with the chance to contribute to some
greater good.”
--Bill Strickland
According to MacArthur Fellowship
“genius” award winner Bill Strickland, a successful life is not something you
simply pursue, it is something that you create, moment by moment. It is a
realization Strickland first came to when, as a poor kid growing up in a rough
neighborhood of Pittsburgh, he encountered a high school ceramics teacher who
took him under his wing and went on to transform his life.
Over the past
thirty years, Bill Strickland has been transforming the lives of thousands of
people through the creation of Manchester Bidwell, a jobs training center and
community arts program. Working with corporations, community leaders, and
schools, he and his staff strive to give disadvantaged kids and adults the
opportunities and tools they need to envision and built a better, brighter
future.
Strickland believes that every one of us has the potential for
remarkable achievement. Every one of us can accomplish the impossible in our
lives if given the right inspiration and motivation to do so. We all make
ourselves “poor” in one way or another when we accept that we are not smart
enough, experienced enough, or talented enough to accomplish something. Bill
Strickland works with the least advantaged among us, and if he can help them
achieve the impossible in their lives, think what each of us can
do.
Among Bill Strickland’s beliefs:
People are born into this
world as assets, not liabilities. It’s all in the way wetreat people (and
ourselves) that determines a person’s outcome
The sand in the hourglass
flows only one way. Stop going through the motions of living--savor each and
every day. Life is here and now, not something waiting for you in the
future.
You don’t have to travel far to change the life you’re living.
Bill grew up in the Pittsburgh ghetto, four blocks from where he came to build
one of the foremost job training centers in the world. He now speaks before CEOs
and political leaders, church congregations and civic leaders. You only need to
change your thinking to remake your world.
Through lessons from his own
life experiences, and those of countless others who have overcome their
circumstances and turned their lives around, Make the Impossible Possible shows how all of us can build on our passions and strengths, dream bigger and
set the bar higher, achieve meaningful success and help mentor and inspire the
lives of others.BILL STRICKLAND is president and CEO of Manchester Craftsmen Guild and
Bidwell Training Center. Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild today offers programs in
ceramics, photography, digital arts and painting to over 500 kids a year, as
well as 3,400 additional students in the Pittsburgh inner-city school district.
Ninety percent of the students receive high school diplomas of which 85% go on
enroll in college or secondary education. Bidwell Training Center trains more
than 600 adults each semester for professional careers like the culinary arts,
pharmacology, and horticultural technology. Through partnerships with major
corporations in the area, Bidwell Training Center has helped 73% of its
graduates land meaningful full-time employment. Manchester Bidwell is now a
breathtaking facility that includes a 350-seat jazz auditorium, a
40,000-square-foot greenhouse covering half a city block, a state-of-the-art
chemistry lab, a full-scale ceramics department, and a culinary institute. He
has received a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant, lectured at Harvard Graduate
School of Education, and served on the board of the National Endowment for the
Arts. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
If the thought of bacteria conjures images of germs that should
be avoided at all costs—and certainly not ingested—think again! Some friendly
bacteria, called probiotics, are not only beneficial to your health, they’re
essential. Now an internationally recognized scientist at a top U.S. medical
school—one of the leading researchers in the field—sheds light on the
extraordinary benefits of these natural health superstars.
Thanks to an
explosion of research in recent years, one thing is clear: probiotics, the
healthy bacteria that inhabit the digestive tract, are the body’s silent
partners for good health, optimizing the power of the immune system to fight
disease and the “bad” germs we fear. But how do they work? And in the face of
factors like stress and poor diet, which decrease their numbers, how do you keep
your supply well stocked?
Here is an up-to-the-minute, highly accessible
guide to probiotics and the foods and supplements that contain and support
them—many of which may be in your diet already. Discover:
The key role of
probiotics and prebiotics in restoring healthy balance to our bodies, improving
immune system functioning, and curbing inflammation
How to use probiotic
foods and supplements to prevent and relieve allergies, inflammatory bowel
disease, irritable bowel syndrome, yeast infections, and the negative side
effects of antibiotic use
New evidence that probiotics may help fight
asthma, cardiovascular disease, breast and colon cancer, autoimmune diseases,
chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia—and even obesity
Natural sources of
prebiotics, the nutrients that helpmake the digestive tract more hospitable for
probiotic bacteria
The Probiotics Revolution also includes a step-by-step
plan for incorporating the many food sources of probiotics and prebiotics into
your diet, a complete buyer’s guide to probiotic supplements, and how to
introduce probiotics to your family and children.Gary B. Huffnagle, Ph.D., is Professor of Internal Medicine, Microbiology,
and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical Center. His research on
probiotics has appeared in leading scientific journals and has been featured in
Newsweek, Forbes, and on BBC News.
Sarah Wernick is the
coauthor of several bestselling health books, including Strong Women Stay
Young. 
Are you ready to change your life?
Gulp! It’s one
of those moments at the crossroads of life that call for you to step out of your
comfort zone. Whether it’s taking a new business opportunity or leaving a bad
relationship, you know in your heart that it’s time to take on your fears and
insecurities and make the decision that can lead to the life you’ve always
wanted. But how do you overcome the endless second-guessing that leaves you
forever on the precipice of change?
In this practical, effective everyday
guide designed to inspire real people to make real changes in their lives,
Gabriella Goddard, a top executive coach and motivational expert, shows you how
to access the energy, self-confidence, and courage you need to turn your Gulp!
moments into opportunities for success.
Recognize the pivot points in
your life—and learn to make the choices that really work for you
Understand
fear triggers—and adopt the strategies that disarm them
Use your imagination
to shatter the status quo—and do things you never thought possible
Cultivate
the calm, well-being, and energy to overcome any challenge
Turn off the
naysayers, doubters, and those who hold you back
Stop making excuses for
inaction—starting NOW!
In one week’s time you can begin the journey
you’ve waited your whole life to take. It’s your moment, your life, and this is
the book that will help you take that first big step…Gulp!According to motivational coach Goddard, challenges are
opportunities that can help us move forward, grow, and make quantum shifts in
life. Drawing on the martial arts, Goddard maintains that one must be able to
align body, mind, and soul in order to move through fearful situations
successfully. She posits a seven-day plan to help the reader disarm fear
triggers and cultivate the calm to overcome any challenge. The book is geared
more toward those interested in making life changes (e.g., starting a new
business, confronting a long-standing marital problem) than in overcoming
clinical phobias. While it doesn't deliver a quick fix, its content is useful.
Recommended for larger libraries.-Deborah Bigelow - Library Journal
Gabriella Goddard, the founder of Goddard International Ltd, has helped
thousands of people to face their fears and step up to the challenges in their
life. After 15 years working in international markets, she made a Gulp! Decision
and retrained in leadership coaching. She now runs an executive coach and
personal development business. Goddard’s work has been covered by most major
British media. She lives in London.
Tassajara, the California spa/retreat center, has long been
renowned for its gourmet vegetarian cuisine. In this comprehensive book, one of
Tassajara’s most well-known and beloved cooks, Edward Espe Brown, presents
hundreds of recipes using fresh, whole foods; detailed notes on preparing
seasonal ingredients; and, perhaps most important, inspiration for cooking with
joyful intention and attention. Presented with humor and warmth, this book is
full of wonderful insights into living a life that celebrates simple food.
Edward Espe Brown began cooking and practicing Zen in 1965. He was the first
head resident cook at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center from 1967 to 1970. He later
worked at the celebrated Greens Restaurant in San Francisco, serving as busboy,
waiter, floor manager, wine buyer, cashier, host, and manager. Ordained a priest
by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, he has taught meditation retreats and vegetarian
cooking classes throughout North America and Europe. He is the author of several
cookbooks and the editor of Not Always So, a book of lectures by Shunryu
Suzuki Roshi. He is the subject of the critically acclaimed 2007 film How to
Cook Your Life.
The five tibetan rites of rejuvenation have long been practiced
by monks to slow aging, calm the mind, and strengthen the body. In The
10-Minute Rejuvenation Plan, Carolinda Witt simplifies these ancient rites
and combines them with breathing, yoga, and exercise philosophies to create
T5T—an accessible, modern adaptation that can be done by anyone, at any skill
level, in just ten minutes a day.
T5T emphasizes the importance of the
mind/body connection; the physical movement of each rite is a metaphor for the
desired mental state. To help practitioners align the two, each posture is
represented by one of the five elements:
Energy: The spin posture
replenishes and energizes the mind and body.
Air: The leg raise posture
promotes clear, focused thinking.
Water: The kneeling back bend posture
unlocks the power of the subconscious mind.
Earth: The tabletop posture
creates stability and balance.
Fire: The pendulum posture focuses on finding
the motivation, courage, and energy to follow one’s intuition.
Quick and
effective, T5T brings renewed energy, vitality, and strength to those who follow
the program, making The 10-Minute Rejuvenation Plan a virtual fountain of
youth.Carolinda Witt developed T5T over a period of four years and has since
taught more than seven hundred students and twenty-five teachers. She lives in
Sydney, Australia.
The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The
Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary
power. The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social
compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly
leader of the God's Gardeners—a religion devoted to the melding of science and
religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life—has long
predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has
occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Ren, a young
trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, a
God's Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where many of the treatments
are edible.Have others survived? Ren's bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, her
eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the murderous Painballers,
survivors of the mutual-elimination Painball prison? Not to mention the shadowy,
corrupt policing force of the ruling powers . . .Meanwhile, gene-spliced life
forms are proliferating: the lion/lamb blends, the Mo'hair sheep with human
hair, the pigs with human brain tissue. As Adam One and his intrepid hemp-clad
band make their way through this strange new world, Ren and Toby will have to
decide on their next move. They can't stay locked away . . .By turns dark,
tender, violent, thoughtful, and uneasily hilarious, The Year of the
Flood is Atwood at her most brilliant and inventive.Atwood is funny and clever, such a good writer and real thinker that there's
hardly any point saying that not everything in the novel works. Why should it? A
high level of creativity has to let in some chaos…The flaws in The Year of
the Flood are part of the pleasure, as they are with human beings, that
species so threatened by its own impending suicide and held up here for us to
look at, mourn over, laugh at and hope for. Atwood knows how to show us
ourselves, but the mirror she holds up to life does more than reflect—it's like
one of those mirrors made with mercury that gives us both a deepening and a
distorting effect, allowing both the depths of human nature and its potential
mutations. We don't know how we will evolve, or if we will evolve at all. The
Year of the Flood isn't prophecy, but it is eerily possible.-The New York
Times Book Review - Jeanette Winterson
Accomplished in equal measure as a poet, novelist, and essayist, Margaret
Atwood is as much a dazzling storyteller as she is a committed feminist. Her
novels and stories educate as much as they entertain, but without ever veering
into dogmatism.
Beautifully illustrated with black and white and color drawings
from the journals of students in their acclaimed workshops, Visual Journaling
makes this enjoyable tool for personal exploration accessible for everyone.
Eleven easy-to-learn keys can help you unlock your imagination and
creative potential.
This groundbreaking book identifies ten ways we are smart, with practical
exercises to help you.
This step-by-step guide to Insight Meditation is truly practical and
direct. This new edition includes the complete text of its best selling
predecessor and a new chapter on loving-kindness, an especially important
subject in today's fractious world.
A first-person account of Native American healing rituals.
Examinations and accounts of experimentation with subtle energies. In
addition to the scientifically accepted forces of electricity, magnetism, and
gravity, there are, according to the author, "psychoenergetic" forces, those
that interact with the mind as well as the body. His research deals with the
energies behind extraordinary phenomena like non-physical healing, levitation,
telekinesis, superstrength, and many others in which the mind is always an
important factor. He touches on pyramid power, dowsing, feng shui, and the use
of magnets for healing. These, and many more sources may have a single energy in
common; the same way different physical elements all have electrons in common.
Leave skepticism behind, and be fascinated by his examples and observations that
may someday prove to be of practical value, and no more "strange" than bread
mold being used to cure disease.
Serge King, a Hawaiian shaman, believes that the world around us contains
forces that can be used for the benefit of humanity. This book gives an overview
of these forces and details experiments King and others performed confirming the
work of previous researchers and gives directions for readers to experiment for
themselves.
Putting soul back into the process of healing, this book paves the way
for a truly holistic medicine.
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