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Healing and Recovery by David R. Hawkins
In this book, you will learn why the body may not respond to traditional medical approaches. Specific instructions and guidelines are provided that can result in complete healing from any disease. The importance of including spiritual practices in one's healing and recovery program is explained, along with how easy it is to incorporate them in the process.
David R. Hawkins is Director of the Institute for Spiritual Research, Inc. He is a widely known authority within the field of consciousness research. He writes and teaches from the unique perspective of an experienced clinician, scientist, and teacher. He has been honored worldwide with many titles. His background is detailed in Who's Who in the World. Dr. Hawkins has lectured widely at universities (Harvard, Oxford, et al) and also to spiritual groups from Westminster Abbey and Notre Dame to Catholic, Protestant, and Buddhist monasteries. His life is devoted to the upliftment of mankind.
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Meditations on Living, Dying, and Loss: The Essential Tibetan Book of the Dead by Graham Coleman
Coleman, one of the editors of a complete translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol) published by Viking in 2006, has selected key passages of this famous work and put each in context for the modern reader. His Holiness the Dalai Lama contributed introductory commentary to this concise volume. Both verse extracts and prose commentary provide a brief but intense introduction to subtle Buddhist concepts of mind, the self, impermanence, karma, and continuity of consciousness after death. The translation is beautifully clear, the content complex; a glossary explains in precise detail terms and concepts used in the text. The idea that death, the intermediate state, and rebirth may mirror the sleep, dreams, and awakening of ordinary life help guide the reader into this challenging set of ideas. Parallels with modern accounts of near-death experiences are also noted. This glimpse into the extraordinary intricacy of Buddhism shows how a major Tibetan text addressed the needs of both the living and the dead. (Dec.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the edition.
Selections from Penguin's authoritative first complete translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead

One of the most inspiration and compelling works in world literature; The Tibetan Book of the Dead presents a visionary exploration of both the after-death state and the inner workings of our perceptual states during life. Meditations on Living, Dying, and Loss offers selected extracts from this influential text, focusing on perspectives and insights that are the most relevant to our modern experience of life, death, and loss. Each chapter is prefaced by the editor of the acclaimed unabridged translation, Graham Coleman. Here, in his accessible and moving essays, he illuminates the text's secrets, revealing the immense creativity that deepening out insight into the relationship between living and dying can bring.
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The Explorer Race Series (Book 13): Each animal brings a wondrous gift to share with humanity - enjoy It! by Robert Shapiro
Robert Shapiro brings us the wisdom and light of the souls of our fellow creatures in this compendium of channeled material from animal souls across the globe. Each animal brings a wondrous gift to share with humanity.
Robert Shapiro is largely known as a professional trance channel with several series of published books such as The Explorer Race Series, Shining the Light series, Shamanic Secrets series, and the Ultimate UFO series. He is a mystical man with shamanic capabilities well and thoroughly infused into him. His work is also regularly published in the monthly Sedona Journal of Emergence.
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Meditation in Action by Chogyam Trungpa
This classic teaching by a Tibetan master continues to inspire both beginners and long-time practitioners of Buddhist meditation. Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche shows that meditation extends beyond the formal practice of sitting to build the foundation for compassion, awareness, and creativity in all aspects of life.

He explores the six activities associated with meditation in action—generosity, discipline, patience, energy, clarity, and wisdom—revealing that through simple, direct experience, one can attain real wisdom: the ability to see clearly into situations and deal with them skillfully, without the self-consciousness connected with ego.
We learn that meditation is based on trying to see what is, rather than trying to achieve a higher state. It's not a retreat from the world but builds a foundation for compassion, awareness, and creativity in all aspects of a person's mind and behavior. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Complete I Ching: The Definitive Translation by Taoist Master Alfred Huang
“A careful comparison of Huang’s translation with the Wilhelm, Legge, and Blofeld versions reveals its superiority in nearly every respect. Readers interested in acquainting themselves with the I Ching for the first time need to look no further; those who have formed a deep personal attachment to a previous translation owe it to themselves to explore this one as well.”
(Intuition )

“What is constant through this translation is both a sense of tradition and an appreciation of modernity. Throughout is a philosophical calmness, a sense of the intellectual mingling with the spirit of things. Most importantly, Huang makes this a useful I Ching, more useful for the current temperament than older, more self-conscious translations.”
(The Book Reader )

“This translation, from a Taoist master, is the most extensive treatment of the subject I have ever encountered. . . . the quality of the work is so exceptional that it is hard to find fault with it. . . . if you wish to learn this system, this book will be an indispensable aid to your education. There is such a wealth of information contained in this book (each page contains the hexagram being discussed and the ideograph of the name, so there is no confusion) that it is hard to overstate the usefulness of this work. . . . This it is of use and benefit for both the novice and the more experienced user.”
(Mike Gleason, Witchgrove )

“Huang succeeds, also, in producing a work that keeps opening up new vistas of understanding and inviting the reader to explore the many layers of discovery offered by the mathematical, visual and literary dimensions of the classic.”
(Reg Little, New Dawn )

“Impressive for its scope and the clarity of its translation, this 10th anniversary edition features a new introduction by Huany on the history and application of the I-Ching, with descriptions of the commentary and divination methods.”
(Book News, Inc., February 2011 )

“. . . this 10th Anniversary Edition of Master Huang’s translation brings new light to understanding and utilizing this ancient wisdom.”
(Light of Consciousness Journal, April 2011 )
A revised edition of the definitive translation of the world’s most important book of divination

• More than 64,000 copies sold of the first edition

• The first English translation from within the tradition by a Chinese Taoist Master

• Includes translations of the Ten Wings--the commentaries by Confucius essential to the I Ching’s insights

• Features elegant French flaps

Translated by the eminent Taoist Master Alfred Huang, The Complete I Ching has been praised by scholars and new students of the I Ching since its first edition. A native Chinese speaker, Master Huang first translated the original ideograms of the I Ching into contemporary Chinese and then into English, bringing forth the intuitive meanings embodied in the images of the I Ching and imbuing his translation with an accuracy and authenticity not possible in other English translations. However, what makes his translation truly definitive is his return to prominence of the Ten Wings, the commentaries by Confucius that are essential to the I Ching’s insights.

This 10th anniversary edition offers a thorough introduction to the history of the I Ching, how to use it, and several new divination methods; in-depth and easy-to-reference translations of each hexagram name, description, and pictogram; and discussions of the interrelations between the hexagrams and the spiritual meaning of their sequence.
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Atlantis and the Cycles of Time: Prophecies, Traditions, and Occult Revelations by Joscelyn Godwin
“Scholarly, meticulously researched, and superbly presented. Joscelyn Godwin has produced a wonderful book that will delight and impress all those who seek ‘Atlantis,’ be it a myth or reality. I urge you to read it!”
(Robert Bauval, author of The Orion Mystery and Egypt Code )

“In this important book Joscelyn Godwin has accomplished the nearly impossible, masterfully summarizing and synthesizing widely disparate approaches to the perennial question of Atlantis. Much more than a catalog of possible Atlantis locations, occult Atlantology is finally accorded the importance it deserves, including a cogent analysis of esoteric cycles of time, the Four World Ages, the Yuga Cycle, and the Precession of the Equinoxes, placing Atlantis in a larger temporal context. This is a must-read for anyone who wishes to truly understand the Atlantis debate.”
(Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D., author of Voyages of the Pyramid Builders and The Parapsychology Revolution )

“As absorbing as it is erudite, both comprehensive and profound, essential as a reference work, and quintessential to grasp the depth and breadth of a grievously misunderstood, perennially fascinating, and perhaps critical subject, Atlantis and the Cycles of Time is a unique work: the ‘compleat’ Atlantis.”
(John Anthony West, author of Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt )

“From the sublime to the ludicrous, from the poetic to the simply mad, Joscelyn Godwin gives us a chart of the many versions of Atlantis (with all their ‘glaring lack of consensus’) that will last us till the lost continent rises again. Truly Godwin is the Master of Atlantis.”
(Peter Lamborn Wilson, coauthor of Atlantis Manifesto and Green Hermeticism: Alchemy & Ecology )

“Godwin pulls together the many disparate topics associated with the myth of Atlantis from a number of sources and presents them in a well-organized, scholarly work. For serious students of history or anthropology only.”
(Susan Flaherty, Library Journal, January 2011 )

“Atlantis and the Cycles of Time is one of the most extensive examinations of the Atlantis story and the themes it embodies ever published. Godwin's knowledge of esotericism, occultism and mysticism is encyclopedic and his ability to elucidate the strangest and most obscure cosmology is breathtaking. From the inners and outs of Blavatsky's Root Races to the quirky views of Germanic Atlantology it is all here in mind blowing detail.”
(Living Traditions Magazine, January 2011 )

“. . . an excellent work that gives us one of the first academic examinations of the theory of Atlantis throughout history. It is objective and critical, but sympathetic, and a truly challenging and stimulating read.”
(Robert Black, New Dawn Magazine, February 2011 )

“. . . reveals a fascinating story of the way in which the Atlantis myth has permeated almost every strand of mystical thinking in the West from the occultists of revolutionary France to the New Agers of Modern California.”
(John Rimmer, Magonia Blog, February 2011 )

“. . . Joscelyn Godwin. . .the eminent scholar of esotericism examines the continuing fascination of this myth and the surprising effect it has had on the Western world’s intellectual history.”
(Modern Mythology & The Eyeless Owl, April 2011 )

“Much has been written about the lost continents of Atlantis and Lemuria from an occult perspective as well from a rationalist view based on geographic and geological data, but these perspectives have not really been synthesized into a coherent whole. Scholar, translator and music professor Dr. Joscelyn Godwin applies his talents to reconciling the two.”
(New Dawn Magazine, May 2011 )
A comprehensive study of the major occult writings on Atlantis

• Fully examines the many occult teachings on Atlantis, including those from G. I. Gurdjieff, Madame Blavatsky, Julius Evola, Edgar Cayce, Fabre d’Olivet, and Dion Fortune

• Shows how these writings correlate with the concept of cyclical history, such as the Mayan calendar and 2012, the Age of Aquarius, and the four Yugas

• By a renowned scholar, author, editor, and translator of more than 30 books

Atlantis has held a perennial place in the collective imagination of humanity from ancient Greece onward. Many of the great minds of the occult and esoteric world wrote at length on their theories of Atlantis--about its high culture, its possible location, its ultimate demise, and their predictions of a return to Atlantean enlightenment or the downfall of modern society.

Beginning with a review of the rationalist writings on Atlantis--those that use geographic and geologic data to validate their theories--renowned scholar Joscelyn Godwin then analyzes and compares writings on Atlantis from many of the great occultists and esotericists of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Fabre d’Olivet, G. I. Gurdjieff, Guido von List, Julius Evola, Edgar Cayce, Dion Fortune, and René Guénon, whose writings often stem from deeper, metaphysical sources, such as sacred texts, prophecy, or paranormal communication. Seeking to unravel and explain the histories and interpretations of Atlantis and its kindred myths of Lemuria and Mu, the author shows how these different views go hand-in-hand with the concept of cyclical history, such as the Vedic system of the four Yugas, the Mayan calendar with its 2012 end-date, the theosophical system of root races, and the precession of the equinoxes. Venturing broader and deeper than any other book on Atlantis, this study also covers reincarnation, human evolution or devolution, the origins of race, and catastrophe theory.
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Discover a Richer Life by Ernest Holmes
An easy-to-read and easy-to-grasp volume that shows the path to health, wealth, and a life of great meaning.

Is something missing in your life? The quality of our life's experience, from health and success to prosperity and happiness, stems directly from our relationship with the Universe and the patterns of thought that it inspires. In this beloved inspirational guidebook, Holmes provides the tools and blueprint for the foundation of a new and more successful life, grounded by and centered on the nature and meaning of reality.

The world is ripe for discovery, and Discover a Richer Life is the map that will guide readers on a great adventure to a vibrant, fully realized life.
Ernest Holmes was an internationally recognized authority on religious psychology and the founder of the Religious Science movement, which has hundreds of centers nationwide and around the world. His inspirational books include the renowned classic The Science of Mind, This Thing Called You, Love and Law, The Art of Life, 365 Science of Mind, The Hidden Power of the Bible, and Creative Mind and Success.

Willis H. Kinnear was renowned for his work as editor of Science of Mind magazine, as well as for his coauthorship of several books with Dr. Holmes.
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Peace in the Present Moment by Eckhart Tolle
With selected quotations from A New Earth and A Thousand Names for Joy, this stunning gift book combines selected wisdom from Eckhart Tolle and Byron Katie with vibrant photos of nature's most colorful gift, the flower.

Conceived by award-winning photographer Michele Penn, this volume contains over forty full-color photos of flowers, linked to the core teachings of Tolle and Katie. Each flower and corresponding quotation provide valuable insight into such key concepts as living in the moment, gratitude, nurturing the soul, and much more. There is also an insightful and witty foreword by Stephen Mitchell.

This is a gift book that will be treasured by those who have been touched by the teachings of both of these authors.
Eckhart Tolle needs no introduction. His bestselling books include A New Earth and The Power of Now.

Byron Katie is a popular teacher and writer. Her books include A Thousand Names for Joy (Harmony, 2008), and Loving What Is (Harmony 2006).

Michele Penn is an award-winning photographer. She lives in Florida.
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The Dalai Lama's Little Book of Wisdom by Dalai Lama
This gem, the sequel to The Dalai Lama's Little Book of Inner Peace, contains the essence of the Dalai Lama's teachings on life and death. Think of this as the essential guide to both living and dying well from one of the most important spiritual teachers of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Among the topics covered are:


• Contentment, Joy and Living Well


• Facing Death and Dying


• Dealing with Anger and Emotion


• Compassion--the Basis for Human Happiness


• Giving and Receiving

This charming packaged is designed for the busy person who is always on the go: a small format, flapped paperback that will easily fit in a purse, backpack, or briefcase.
Tenzin Gyatos, His Holines the XIV Dalai Lama, is the exiled spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. He is widely rrecognized as an advocate of world peace and has received many honors, including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.
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Living in the Spiritual Zone: 10 Steps to Change Your Life and Discover Your Truth by Gary Quinn

You have the potential to create exactly the life you want and experience extraordinary results. By tapping into the spiritual zone, you can become empowered to take charge of your present situations, access your divine universal energy, overcome fear and self-sabotage, create financial freedom and meet your most cherished goals.

In this life-changing book, leading intuitive life coach, Gary Quinn, gives you practical tools, exercises and affirmations to transport yourself to the spiritual zone - a state that enables you to achieve the life you've always dreamed of. Quinn addresses everything from awareness about eating, breathing and exercise to practicing forgiveness and learning to love yourself. Quinn has helped thousands with his 10-step program and now he makes that program available to you. In Living in the Spiritual Zone, Quinn teaches that by accepting truth and offering forgiving, you can align yourself with an amazing power source- the spiritual zone-and create the love and miracles you've always wanted.

"Gary Quinn is a messenger of love and truth. Listen to him and watch your world shift."
Debbie Ford, The New York Times bestselling author, Dark Side of the Light Chasers

"Gary has written a very beautiful book with powerful, life-changing truths."
Lillian Too, bestselling author, The Buddha Book

Wonderfully practical guidance about how to make every day more blissful, peaceful and filled with blessings."
Doreen Virtue, bestselling author, Angel Visions

Gary Quinn is a life coach and author who has helped thousands of people around the world awaken and access their true power within. He is the founder of Our Living Center—Touchstone For Life Coaching Center in Los Angeles, CA.
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The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have by Mark Nepo
The time when we walk in the shadow of death is, ironically, a time when we feel illuminated by life's true meaning. Poet and philosopher Mark Nepo has firsthand experience with this mystery--he had cancer. During his arduous recovery, he sought inspiration and guidance that would reflect his growing appreciation of life. Although this daybook is exactly what Nepo longed for as he struggled with a difficult disease, , it can be appreciated by all readers.

This collection of essays, one for every day from January 1 through December 30, offers a poet's sensibility and sensuality and gives the reader Nepo's well-harvested wisdom. "Water reflects everything it encounters," Nepo writes in a May 5 essay. "This is so commonplace that we think water is blue, when in fact it has no color.... But the water, the glorious water everywhere, has taught me that we are more than what we reflect or love. This is the work of compassion: to embrace everything clearly without imposing who we are and without losing who we are." After each entry, Nepo offers a short list of suggestions or questions to help carry the essay into the day. There are many inspirational daybooks out there. What sets this one apart is the mature poet's voice rising from a seasoned soul. --Gail Hudson

"A year's supply of inspiration every day and the perfect gift for yourself and your friends." -Oprah Winfrey
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