Best of
Spirituality

1997

The Illuminated Rumi


Rumi - 1997
    Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings...In the mid-thirteenth century, in a dusty marketplace in Konya, Turkey, a city where Muslim, Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist travelers mingled, Jelaluddin Rumi, a popular philosopher and scholar, met Shams of Tabriz, a wandering dervish.  Their meeting forever altered the course of Rumi's life and influenced the mystical evolution of the planet.  The bond they formed was everlasting--a powerful transcendent friendship that would flow through Rumi as some of the world's best-loved ecstatic poetry.Rumi's passionate, playful poems find and celebrate sacred life in everyday existence.  They speak across all traditions, to all peoples, and today his relevance and popularity continue to grow.  In The Illuminated Rumi, Coleman Barks, widely regarded as the world's premier translator of Rumi's writings, presents some of his most brilliant work, including many new translations.  To complement Rumi's universal vision, Michael Green has worked the ancient art of illumination into a new, visually stunning form that joins typography, original art, old masters, photographs, and prints with sacred images from around the world.The Illuminated Rumi is a truly groundbreaking collaboration that interweaves word and image: a magnificent meeting of ancient tradition and modern interpretation that uniquely captures the spiritual wealth of Rumi's teachings.  Coleman Barks's wise and witty commentary, together with Michael Green's art, makes this a classic guide to the life of the soul for a whole new generation of seekers.

No Greater Love


Mother Teresa - 1997
    A collection of inspirational writings includes reflections on love, prayer, giving, service, poverty, forgiveness, and Jesus.

The Dangerous Old Woman


Clarissa Pinkola Estés - 1997
    Estés asks, "Did you know, you were born as the first, and the last and the best and the only one of your kind, and that eccentricity is the first sign of giftedness? These are two of the crone truths I have to offer you." If you have any doubt, come join us at the fireside of The Dangerous Old Woman for the soul-healing wisdom that will ignite your creativity and support your highest calling in life. Three decades in the writing, The Dangerous Old Woman presents part one of Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés' masterwork. In six "inspire 'til you're on fire" sessions, Dr. Estés animates the archetypal patterns of the Wise Woman through her original stories, poetry, and blessings. Old While Young, and Young While Old We are born with two forces that give us every lens we need to see who we really are: the wild and ever-young force of imagination, which contains intuition and instinct, and the wise elder force of knowledge, which holds boundaries and carries the heart of the visionary. Through captivating stories and insights, Dr. Estés illustrates why this twofold way of being "old while young, and young while old" is the secret to holding and replenishing the center, thus living wildly and wisely ensouled amidst life's travails and triumphs. Your Legacy: Wild and Wise, Both "If you are not free to be who you are, you are not free," says Dr. Estés. Begin and deepen the work of bringing your one-of-a-kind legacy into the world following the trail blazed by the Dangerous Old Woman. She who stops at nothing to nourish, protect, and guide us in the offering of all our creative gifts. Stories, Poems, and Blessings Include: "The Angelic Ten": Old Guidance for One's Sanity "Standing in My Danger": The Good Meaning of the Word "Dangerous" "Snow White": When Gifts Have Been Poisoned Grandmother Wisdom: "Los Cinco Espiritus, The Five Women Spirits" "The Vashinger and the Return of the Vampires" "The Ruby Red Fox": About Seduction "Las Tres Osas, the Three Old Re-Weavers of Torn Lives" "The Man Who Hated Trees": Nature, the Unrepentant Mother "The Jealous Girls and the Old Woman Under the Lake" "When a Good Mother Dies": What Gifts Ever Remain "The Precious Museum Tree": The Hidden Life "What Did You Dream? What Did You Dream?"

Conversations with God - Book 2: An uncommon dialogue


Neale Walsch - 1997
    What he did not expect was a response and the result was Conversations with God Book 1. In Book 2, the dialogue expands to deal with the more global topics of geopolitical and metaphysical life on the planet, and the challenges now facing the world. This incredible series contains answers that will change you, your life, and the way you view other beings.

The Wayne Dyer CD Collection


Wayne W. Dyer - 1997
    Wayne Dyer’s incomparable wisdom. It guides us to new levels of self-awareness. Included in this CD Collection are: There Is A Spiritual Solution to Every Problem: On this inspirational and highly informative CD program, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer offers his wit and wisdom, taking you on a sacred journey where the spirit triumphs, teaching you that there is a spiritual solution to every problem. Dr. Wayne Dye’s 10 Secrets to Success and Inner Peace: The ten secrets for success and inner peace presented here apply whether you’re just embarking on your path, are nearing the end of it, or are on the path in any way. Dr. Dyer urges you to read these ten secrets with an open heart. By doing so, you’ll learn to feel the peace of God that truly defines success. Improve Your Life Using the Wisdom of the Ages: On this stirring CD, you will learn from Dr. Dyer how to use and apply ancient wisdom from over 60 of the greatest thinkers and spiritual masters that our world has known, including Jesus, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Thoreau, Gibran, Yogananda, and Descartes, to name a few. Don’t die with your music still in you, Dr. Dyer urges, if you want to achieve greatness. You are born on Earth to do your own unique life’s work. How to Get What You Really, Really, Really Want: Dr. Dyer teaches you how to start getting your heart’s desire by first becoming a self-actualized person; second, being independent of other people’s opinions; third, being detached from outcomes; and fourth, being free of any investment to have power or control over other people. Then, you must banish all doubt from your mind, and know that you can attract what you want into your life.

Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death


Joan Halifax - 1997
    Inspired by traditional Buddhist teachings, her work is a source of wisdom for all those who are charged with a dying person's care, who are facing their own death, or who are wishing to explore and contemplate the transformative power of the dying process. Halifax offers lessons from dying people and caregivers, as well as guided meditations to help readers contemplate death without fear, develop a commitment to helping others, and transform suffering and resistance into courage. She says, "Why wait until we are actually dying to explore what it may mean to die with awareness?" A world-renowned pioneer in care of the dying, Joan Halifax founded the Project on Being with Dying, which helps dying people to face death with courage and trains professional and family caregivers in compassionate and ethical end-of-life care.

The Spirit of Intimacy: Ancient Teachings In The Ways Of Relationships


Sobonfu E. Somé - 1997
    Somé was born in Dano, Burkina Faso, a remote West African village with a population of about two hundred people. Dano has preserved the old ways of African village life, with family structures, spiritual practices, and methods of living that have been in place for more than ten thousand years. In The Spirit of Intimacy, Somé distills the ancient teachings and wisdom of her native village to give insight into the nature of intimate relationships.Somé generously applies the subtle knowledge from her West African culture to this one. Simply and beautifully, she reveals the role of spirit in every marriage, friendship, relationship, and community. She shares ancient ways to make our intimate lives more fulfilling and secure and offers powerful insights into the "illusion of romance," divorce, and loss. Her important and fascinating lessons from the heart include the sacred meaning of pleasure, preparing a ritual space for intimacy, and the connection between sex and spirituality. Her ideas are intuitively persuasive, provocative, and healing—and supported by sound practical advice, along with specific rituals and ceremonies based on those used for thousands of years. With this book, the spiritual insights of indigenous Africa take their place alongside those of native America, ancient Europe, and Asia as important influences on Western readers.

Journey to Self-Realization (Collected Talks and Essays, Vol 3)


Paramahansa Yogananda - 1997
    Is there a discernible scientific path to life's highest fulfilment? Is it possible to speed up human evolution? These are just a few topics covered in this third volume of collected talks and essays.

Silence of the Heart: Dialogues with Robert Adams


Robert Adams - 1997
    Adams, an American student of the great master, Ramana Maharshi, discourses with wisdom and delightful humor as he clarifies for Westerners India's teaching of Ultimate Reality.

Astrology for the Soul


Jan Spiller - 1997
    With insight and depth impossible to gain from the commonly known sun-sign profiles, the enlightening self-portrait offered by the Nodes of the Moon can explain the life lessons you came here to learn and how to achieve the fulfillment and peace you desire. Jan Spiller shows you how to locate the all-important North Node of the Moon in your astrological chart and provides a detailed interpretation of its influence and exclusive exercises to help you learn about:• The SPECIAL TALENT that is waiting for you, a unique gift that could easily be turned into professional success• The SELF-DEFEATING TENDENCIES in your personality that can hold you back and sabotage relationships• The LOVE PARTNER who can be your soul mate—and the partner whose hold over you can lead to heartbreak• The TRAP or temptation from a past life that can lead to disaster if you are not forewarned• The HEALING AFFIRMATIONS designed to help you release your positive energy and strengthen the qualities that can bring you true happinessJan Spiller is nationally recognized as a leader in the astrology field. She is a faculty member of the American Federation of Astrologers and co-author of Spiritual Astrology.

Home by Another Way


Barbara Brown Taylor - 1997
    Her themes arise not only from a particular feast or fast, but out of the perennial questions of faith: doubt, grace, anger, and jubilation. These sermons are simply great stories well told.

Listening for the Heartbeat of God: A Celtic Spirtuality


J. Philip Newell - 1997
    An overview of Celtic spirituality and its implications for us today.

The Dalai Lama’s Book of Wisdom


Dalai Lama XIV - 1997
    In this gift book His Holiness the Dalai Lama imparts his message: the importance of love, compassion and forgiveness.His Holiness the Dalai Lama describes how to bring wisdom and compassion into our busy, stressful everyday lives.A beautiful selection of words from His Holiness that will help you to face difficult emotions such as anger in yourself and in others with genuine acceptance and understanding.The only little gift book based on the words of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, this book should have tremendous appeal especially during the holiday season.

Leap Over a Wall: Earthy Spirituality for Everyday Christians


Eugene H. Peterson - 1997
    Peterson’s vibrant, insightful, and heartfelt exploration of one of the Bible’s most controversial figures: King David. Peterson beautifully elucidates the Old Testament’s rich depictions of David's failures and victories, recapturing their excitement and immediacy to reveal David himself as a crucially human example of how we relate to God. A vision brought to life by one of the world’s most respected and influential theologians, the author of The Pastor, The Jesus Way, Practice Resurrection, and The Message—a bestselling contemporary translation of the Bible—Leap Over a Wall is a unique opportunity to reconnect with David, a man simultaneously admirable, soulful, and dark, and one of the most complex and vital characters of the greatest story ever written.

Adam: God's Beloved


Henri J.M. Nouwen - 1997
    He discovered that by reflecting on the story of this young man, he had found a way to describe his own understanding of the Gospel message. In "Adam," a book completed only weeks before his own death, Nouwen has left a fitting reflection of his own essential message and legacy.

Soul Love: Awakening Your Heart Centers (Soul Life, #1)


Sanaya Roman - 1997
    As you read, you will be taking a wonderful journey of adventure and growth. You will prepare your personality, journey to the soul plane, and receive energy from the Enlightened Ones as you meet and blend with your soul. You will learn how to make your soul a part of your daily life, tapping into its strength, light, love, and other powers to assist you with daily living. You will culminate your journey by creating wheels of love to transform your relationships with friends, family, colleagues, and groups you are a part of. You will join in a call to the Great Ones, to ask for love to be sent to awaken the heart centers of humanity, volunteering, if you choose, to become a shining light for others. You will experience the power of love, the most powerful energy in the universe.

Psalms for Praying: An Invitation to Wholeness


Nan C. Merrill - 1997
    What is needed is not ingenious exegetical rationalization of ancient texts, but the kind of transformation into a work of piety and art that is provided here.Addressed are the needs of a world seeking to counter individual and societal injustices by a global peace born of personal peace through prayer and practice. In short, here is the Book of Psalms recast in the light of the continuing revelation and evolution of the authentic religious spirit of the scriptures.

The Art of Prayer


Kallistos Ware - 1997
    Texts are taken chiefly from the letters of Bishop Theopan the Recluse, along with many other writers.

In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers


Mother Teresa - 1997
    Mother Teresa speaks of the principles that have underlined her ministry for so long - selflessness, forgiveness, compassion, and spiritual strength.

The Compass of Zen


Seung Sahn - 1997
    In his many years of teaching throughout the world, the Korean-born Zen Master Seung Sahn has become known for his ability to cut to the heart of Buddhist teaching in a way that is strikingly clear, yet free of esoteric and academic language. In this book, based largely on his talks, he presents the basic teachings of Buddhism and Zen in a way that is wonderfully accessible for beginners—yet so rich with stories, insights, and personal experiences that long-time meditation students will also find it a source of inspiration and a resource for study.

God Is a Verb


David A. Cooper - 1997
    More recently, Kabbalah nearly disappeared—as most of its practitioners perished in the Holocaust. Now this powerful spiritual tradition, after centuries of secrecy and near-extinction, is explained clearly in this book by one of its most prominent teachers.Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going? How do we get there? These questions have fueled Kabbalists for nearly a millennium. Rabbi David A. Cooper is the first to bring this obscure and difficult tradition to a mainstream audience in a way that gently leads us to the heart of the subject, showing us how to transform profound teachings into a meaningful personal experience—and appreciate fully this great mystical process we know as God.

The Cup of Our Life: A Guide for Spiritual Growth


Joyce Rupp - 1997
    Explores how the cup is a symbol of life, with its emptiness and fullness, its brokenness and flaws, and all of its blessings.

The Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living


Mother Teresa - 1997
    She speaks of men and women who have lived and died uncomplainingly, even in the midst of great poverty and deprivation; of wealthy businessmen whose indifference has been transformed into compassion and charity, and of her encounters with people and governments around the globe. Through all of this, Mother Teresa emphasizes the need for a disciplined, loving family life, for "in the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world." Drawing on more than seventy years of selfless service to the poorest of the poor, she discusses the importance of work and prayer, charity and service, the right to life and, above all, the need to love--unconditionally and absolutely.

When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm


Layne Redmond - 1997
    80 photos & drawings.

The Stream and the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes


Denise Levertov - 1997
    The poet presents a selection of thirty-four of her own poems culled from previously published volumes, tracing her movement from agnosticism to Christian faith and her oscillation from doubt to affirmation along the way.

The Greatness of Saturn: A Therapeutic Myth


Robert E. Svoboda - 1997
    The Greatness of Saturn is such a therapeutic myth, told and retold through many centuries. Taken from the Vedic tradition, it honors the planet Saturn, who personifies time, limitation, loss, and all forms of adversity.No person goes through life without sometime being touched by Saturn. This book presents a classic Saturn story and a clear view of the cosmology from which the story came. As we hear the story and come to understand its context, we experience a deeper understanding of what it means to be human.

The Path to Salvation: A Manual of Spiritual Transformation


Theophan the Recluse - 1997
    Throughout the last two thousand years, Christ has raised up patristic writers who have defended that original model. In modern times, however, this model is being pushed aside, the taste for genuine mystical expression is disappearing, and the initial Christian impetus is being disfigured. That is why the works of St. Theophan the Recluse are so vital for today. He keeps the ancient patristic model sharp and clear, presenting it in modern language. He speaks to contemporary people who have been exposed to new realities, and thus renders inestimable help in linking them to the original Christian impetus and revealing to them the way into the Heavenly Kingdom. The works of St. Theophan changed the spiritual face of Russia in the 19th century. With the publication of his greatest work, THE PATH TO SALVATION, the English-speaking world now has the opportunity to benefit likewise from this powerful inheritance to the people of the modern age. Saint Theophan the Recluse is first and foremost a Church Father for modern times. Deeply aware of the roots of the modern age, he reinterprets ancient patristic wisdom in order to adapt it to the needs of the modern unchurched mind, which has been divorced from the Orthodox philosophy of life and even from the rudimentary principles of practical Christianity. This classic textbook of spiritual life, now being offered in its entirety for the first time in English, seems to have been sent directly to today's readers by the great Russian recluse himself. Every line breathes his profound psychological understanding, his intricate experience in spiritual struggle, and above all his love, compassion and all-consuming desire that every person might be saved. Inspiring the reader with a sober longing for acquiring the Kingdom of Heaven, St. Theophan provides an infallible system for taking the Kingdom by force, in a Christian life of grace and repentance.

The Secret Language of Relationships: Your Complete Personology Guide to Any Relationship with Anyone


Gary Goldschneider - 1997
    The first book presents "personology, " the study of personality types based on the theory that people born on the same day or even during the same week share unique characteristics. More detailed than traditional sun-sign astrology, with its twelve signature personality types, personology divides the year into forty-eight "weeks, " and, thus, describes the specific personality traits for those born during these weeks or periods. The Secret Language of Relationships examines 1,176 combinations - all forty-eight periods combined with one another. The Relationship Location Finder, printed on the book's front and back endpaper, is designed to make finding a particular relationship profile easy: Locate the place where the birthdays of the two people in question intersect to find the page number of the profile. Then learn what the relationship - whether real or theoretical - is all about. Relationships of all stripes are discussed - not just love and marriage - but friendship, career, parent-child, and sibling. Photographs of famous couples - in love and otherwise, more than 2,500 pairings - beautifully illustrate the text.

Angel Therapy/Trade


Doreen Virtue - 1997
    Angel Therapy is a two-part book. The first part is set up in an A-to-Z subject format, with the second part being a step-by step guide on "how to communicate with your angels." In Angel Therapy, you will learn new ways of looking at, and fresh ways of handling issues and common problems such as addictions, breakups, children, sleep, worry, and many more!

Bread of Angels


Barbara Brown Taylor - 1997
    So too is God made known to us in the simple things that sustain our lives. With humor and an eye for human stubbornness, Taylor points to just how much like the people of scripture we can be--stiff-necked and ungrateful in the face of God's bounty. Taylor moves through the span of the Bible in her search for divine love. In the stories of Moses, David, and Daniel she picks up its trace in reversals and surprises. She refreshes our perspective on Pentecost and its aftermath in a sermon sequence on the Book of Acts. And at book's center radiates her stunning parable of the Incarnation, "God's Daring Plan." With characteristic flair, Taylor grounds her exegetical enterprise on jokes and stories packed with truth. As pleasurable as they are profound, her meditations on the life of faith and the cost of discipleship will instruct the preacher and delight the reader.

The Four Noble Truths


Dalai Lama XIV - 1997
    As well as elucidating these teachings, His Holiness the Dalai Lama also explains the relationship between relative and absolute compassion."Whenever I have been given the opportunity to introduce Buddhism I always make it a point to explain Buddhism in terms of two principles. One is the development of a philosophical viewpoint based on the understanding of the interdependent nature of reality. And the second principle is that of non-violence which is the actual action of a Buddhist practitioner and which derives from that view of the interdependent nature of reality." - His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Prayer, the Great Adventure


David Jeremiah - 1997
    David Jeremiah addresses the challenges to prayer that we all face and the answers to prayer we often miss. He gently encourages us to take the first steps toward fostering a rewarding relationship with God. Drawing from his insightful prayer journals, Dr. Jeremiah shares his personal experiences - both blessings and struggles - teaching us how to embark on the most satisfying of trips, the great adventure of prayer.

The Pagan Book of Living and Dying: Practical Rituals, Prayers, Blessings, and Meditations on Crossing Over


Starhawk - 1997
    This is the core of Pagan belief – and the heart of this unique resource guide to de

The Art of Loving God


Francis de Sales - 1997
    Learn to avoid the distractions that trouble and weary your soul, and you'll soon be able to focus your energy simply on loving God!

Manifest Your Destiny


Wayne W. Dyer - 1997
    Wayne Dyer established new ideas that changed peoples' lives. In "Manifest Your Destiny," he explores his most astonishing subject yet: the power of attracting one's needs and desires into one's life."Manifest Your Destiny" is a stunning work that focuses on the ancient principle of manifesting through the timeless art of meditation. With characteristic insight and clarity, Dr. Dyer teaches the process of meditation as a way to streamline our thoughts, desires and goals, and to bring what we most desire into our lives. Whether we realize it or not, we all struggle with built-in societal barriers that obstruct our inner potential. When we fall into a dream state-either in sleep or during a down moment of the day-we conceive of goals and desires that are more spectacular than those we entertain when "awake," yet we always wake thinking, "I can't do that." It is this conditioned response that prevents us from achieving what we want, and it is this response that Dyer teaches us to overcome through his Nine Spiritual Principles of Manifesting. These principles clear away that which constricts us and illuminate a new path to achieving our truest goals."Manifest Your Destiny" is Wayne Dyer's most exciting and accessible work, a remarkable guidebook that shows us how to have what we truly desire.

Your Heart's Desire: Instructions for Creating the Life You Really Want


Sonia Choquette - 1997
    Step by step, with practical advice, specific exercises, and modern-day parables, she teaches readers to make the changes in thought and behavior that will lead them to the attainment of their most heartfelt desires. 256 pp. National publicity. 30,000 print.

The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance


Dorothee Sölle - 1997
    Mysticism, in the sense of a "longing for God," has been present in all times, cultures, and religions. But Soelle believes it has never been more important than in this age of materialism and fundamentalism. The antiauthoritarian mystical element in each religion leads to community of free spirits and resistance to the death-dealing aspects of our contemporary culture. Religion in the third millennium, Soelle argues, either will be mystical or it will be dead. Therefore, Soelle identifies strongly with the hunger of New Age searchers, but laments the religious fast food they devour. Today, a kind of "democratized mysticism" of those without much religious background flourishes. This mystical experience is not drawn so much of the tradition as out of contemporary experiences. In that sense, each of us is a mystic, and Soelle's work seeks to give theological depth, clarity, and direction. This, her magnum opus, conjoins Soelle's deep religious knowledge and wisdom with her passion for social justice into a work destined to be a classic of religious literature.

Children's Past Lives: How Past Life Memories Affect Your Child


Carol Bowman - 1997
    Eadie, Raymond Moody, and Brian Weiss in its power to comfort, uplift, and transform our thinking about life after death

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom


Miguel Ruiz - 1997
    Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, the Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love. The Four Agreements are: Be Impeccable With Your Word, Don't Take Anything Personally, Don't Make Assumptions, Always Do Your Best.

Spiritual Psalter or Reflections on God from the Works of our Holy Father St. Ephraim the Syrian, Arranged in the Manner of the Psalms of David, Together with the Life of St. Ephrem


Ephrem the Syrian - 1997
    

The Gift of Peace


Joseph Bernardin - 1997
    Joseph Cardinal Bernardin's gentle leadership throughout his life of ministerial service had made him an internationally beloved figure, but the words he left behind about his final journey would change the lives of many more people from all faiths, from all backgrounds, and from all over the world.In the last two months of his life, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin made it his ultimate mission to share his personal reflections and insights as a legacy to those he left behind.  The Gift of Peace reveals the Cardinal's spiritual growth amid a string of traumatic events: a false accusation of sexual abuse; reconciliation a year later with his accuser, who had earlier recanted the charges; a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer and surgery; the return of cancer, now in his liver; his decision to discontinue chemotherapy and live his remaining days as fully as possible.  In these pages, Bernardin tells his story openly and honestly, and shares the profound peace he came to at the end of his life.  He accepted his peace as a gift from God, and he in turn now shares that gift with the world.

Inner Life


Hazrat Inayat Khan - 1997
    His teaching was noted for its stirring beauty and power, as well as for its applicability to all people, regardless of religious or philosophical background. This book gathers together three of Inayat Khan's most beloved essays on the spiritual life from among the fourteen volumes of his collected works:    • "The Inner Life": Inayat Kahn's sublime portrait of the person whose life is a radiant reflection of the Divine    • "Sufi Mysticism": in which the author identifies and shatters the common misconceptions about mysticism to reveal its true meaning    • "The Path of Initiation and Discipleship": What it means to set out on the spiritual path and how to find and maintain the right relationship with a teacher

The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith


Marcus J. Borg - 1997
    Marcus J. Borg, author of the bestselling Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, traces his personal spiritual journey to the discovery of an authentic yet fully contemporary understanding of God. In a compelling, readable way, he leads us from the distant, authoritarian God of our childhood to an equally powerful, dynamic adult image of God—"the beyond in our midst," the life spirit that is within us and all around us—that reconciles faith with science, history, critical thinking, and religious pluralism.

Man and Myth


Joseph Campbell - 1997
    Never before on audio and authorized by the Joseph Campbell Foundation, this is the fourth volume in a new 40-hour lecture series on mythology and spirituality.

The Early Sessions: Book 1 of The Seth Material


Jane Roberts - 1997
    Sessions 1-42 : 11/26/1963 - 04/08/1964

Violet Flame to Heal Body, Mind & Soul


Elizabeth Clare Prophet - 1997
    Learn how the violet flame can be used to increase vitality and to assist any healing process of the body, mind, emotions or spirit. Includes inspiring true stories, nine easy steps to begin using the violet flame with affirmations, mantras, and visualizations.

On Being Catholic


Thomas Howard - 1997
    The book's chapters take the form of lay meditations on Catholic teaching and practice, opening up in practical and simple terms the richness at work in virtually every detail of Catholic prayer, piety, liturgy and experience.

Reflections on the Self


Jiddu Krishnamurti - 1997
    Jonas Salk, Aldous Huxley, Van Morrison, Bertrand Russell, Henry Miller, and Bruce Lee -- and his work continues to inspire even a decade after his death. Born of middle-class Brahmin parents in 1895, Krishnamurti was recognized at age fourteen by Theosophists Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater as the anticipated world teacher and proclaimed to be the vehicle for the reincarnation of Christ in the West and of Buddha in the East. In 1929 he repudiated these claims and traveled the world, sharing his philosophical insights and establishing schools and foundations.Because Krishnamurti had no interest in presenting theories, his thought is far removed from academic philosophy in the analytic tradition, yet his insights remain extremely relevant to contemporary philosophical theories and to people who are passionately interested in understanding themselves and the world. Rather than a theorist, Krishnamurti was a seer and a teacher. He saw inherently distorting psychological structures that bring about a division in every person's consciousness between "the observer" and "the observed". This division, he believed, is a potent source of conflict -- both internally for the individual and through the individual externalized for society as a whole. Krishnamurti envisioned a radical transformation in human consciousness and offered a way to transcend these harmful structures.Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self is a collection of Krishnamurti's writings and lectures about the individual inrelation to society. In Reflections, he examines the importance of inquiry, the role of emotions, the relation between experience and the self, the observer/observed distinction, the nature of freedom, and other philosophical ideas."In my own life Krishnamurti influenced me profoundly and helped me personally break through the confines of my own restrictions to my freedom". -- Deepak Chopra, M.D.

Egyptian Yoga Volume 1: The Philosophy of Enlightenment


Muata Ashby - 1997
    Egyptian Yoga is a guide to the practice of the highest spiritual philosophy which leads to absolute freedom from human misery and to immortality. It is well known by scholars that Egyptian philosophy is the basis of Western and Middle Eastern religious philosophies such as Christianity, Islam, Judaism, the Kabala, and Greek philosophy, but what about Indian philosophy, Yoga and Taoism? What were the original teachings? How can they be practiced today? What is the source of pain and suffering in the world and what is the solution? Discover the deepest mysteries of the mind and universe within and outside of your self.

The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness


Stanislav Grof - 1997
    This identity of the human being with the Divine is the ultimate secret that lies at the core of all great spiritual traditions.What moves this book into the status of a classic is that it is in substantial agreement with the world's great wisdom and spiritual traditions. This modern corroboration of the perennial philosophy is a stunning achievement and deserves publication to the widest audiences. -- Ken Wilber, author of Up from Eden: A Transpersonal View of Human Evoution and The Atman Project: A Transpersonal View of Human DevelopmentThe Cosmic Game is the latest and best of Stanislav Grof's extraordinary contributions to our understanding of human consciousness. This book provides a coherent picture of how individual experience fits into universal patterns of consciousness -- Frances Vaughan, author of Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing through Spiritual IllusionsPerhaps the most important of all his works, representing as it does an integration of the most profound of his clients' experiences and demonstrating a remarkable convergence with the deepest spiritual experiences reported across centuries and cultures. This convergence is a finding of the greatest significance. -- Roger Walsh, author of The Spirit of ShamanismGrof is the world's leading authority on the deep exploration of the mind and soul... This is a wonderful gift! -- Charles Tart, author of States of Consciousness and Psi: Scientific Studies of the Psychic RealmStanislav Grof, MD, is a psychiatrist with more than fifty years of experience in research of nonordinary states of consciousness. He has been Principal Investigator in a psychedelic research program at the Psychiatric Research Institute in Prague, Czechoslovakia; Chief of Psychiatric Research at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University; and Scholar-in-Residence at the Esalen Institute. He is currently Professor of Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, conducts professional training programs in holotropic breathwork, and gives lectures and seminars worldwide. He is one of the founders and chief theoreticians of transpersonal psychology and the founding president of the International Transpersonal Association (ITA). In 2007, he was granted the prestigious Vision 97 award from the Vaclav and Dagmar Havel Foundation in Prague. He is the author and editor of many books, including The Adventure of Self-Discovery: Dimensions of Consciousness and New Perspectives in Psychotherapy and Inner Exploration; Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science; Beyond the Brain: Birth, Death, and Transcendence in Psychotherapy; Human Survival and Consciousness Evolution; and Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research; all published by SUNY Press.

Be the Person You Want to Find: Relationship and Self-Discovery


Cheri Huber - 1997
    This guide to self-discovery through intimate relationships offers a spiritual perspective on healing childhood wounds and destructive patterns that are learned early on and later cause relationship dysfunction in adulthood.

The Way Toward Health: A Seth Book


Jane Roberts - 1997
    There are metaphysical psychosomatic reasons that will manifest illness. When those mental thoughts and beliefs are corrected, changed or amended healing can take place. This book is based on the last two years of the authors life and her hospitalization and death.

Life History of Shirdi Sai Baba


Ammula Sambasiva Rao - 1997
    The book delves deep into the details of the life of Shirdi Sai Baba right from his birth till his attainment of Samadhi.The author has expounded Sai Tatwa or Sai philosophy in a simple language, interspersed with engrossing anecdotes in the life of Sai devotees.

The Ra Material: An Ancient Astronaut Speaks (Book One) (Ra Material, Law of One 1)


Donald Tully Elkins - 1997
    The Ra Material is an account not only of the events leading up to this contact, but of over 200 pages of verbatim transcripts of each and every conversation!

The Practice of Magical Evocation


Franz Bardon - 1997
    Detailed descriptions for evocation of beings from the spheres surrounding us. The aspirant learns how everything is possible through the appropriate spiritual laws and powers.Part I: magical aids and their uses: the circle, the mirror, the wand, the sword, the pentacle and the garment; advantages and disadvantages of evocational magic.Part II: explains in detail the hierarchy of the spheres, including the spirits of the four elements, planetary intelligences and communication with spirit beings.Part III: concludes with a complete set of illustrations of the seals of spirit beings.

Enlightenment: The Only Revolution: Discourses on the Great Mystic Ashtavakra


Osho - 1997
    By the end of the dialogue, King Janak isenlightened. Says Osho: "There are no other statements anywhere as pure,transcendental and beyond time and space as these."

Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment


Surya Das - 1997
    In Awakening the Buddha Within, Surya Das shows how we can awaken to who we really are in order to lead a more compassionate, enlightened, and balanced life. It illuminates the guidelines and key principles embodied in the noble Eight-Fold Path and the traditional Three Enlightenment Trainings common to all schools of Buddhism:Wisdom Training: Developing clear vision, insight, and inner understanding--seeing reality and ourselves as we really are.Ethics Training: Cultivating virtue, self-discipline, and compassion in what we say and do.Meditation Training: Practicing mindfulness, concentration, and awareness of the present moment.With lively stories, meditations, and spiritual practices, Awakening the Buddha Within is an invaluable text for the novice and experienced student of Buddhism alike.

Set Your Heart Free (30 Days With A Great Spiritual Teacher)


Francis de Sales - 1997
    Drawn from Francis's immensely popular writings, this prayer resource for individuals or groups emboldens readers to encounter God and pray in their own unique way.Each book in the 30 Days with a Great Spiritual Teacher series provides a month of daily readings from one of Christianity's most beloved spiritual guides. For each day there is a brief and accessible morning meditation drawn from the mystic's writings, a simple mantra for use throughout the day, and a night prayer to focus one's thoughts as the day ends. These easy-to-use books are the perfect prayer companion for busy people who want to root their spiritual practice in the solid ground of these great spiritual teachers.

Spiritual Madness: The Necessity of Meeting God in Darkness


Caroline Myss - 1997
    Caroline Myss uncovers the roots of mystical experience, both ancient and modern.

There Is Nothing Wrong with You: Going Beyond Self-Hate


Cheri Huber - 1997
    It provides examples of some of the forms self-hate takes, including taking blame but not credit, holding grudges, and trying to be perfect, and explores the many facets of self-hate, including its role in addiction, the battering cycle, and the illusion of control. After addressing these factors, it illustrates how a meditation practice can be developed and practiced in efforts to free oneself from self-hating beliefs.

Natural Liberation: Padmasambhava's Teachings on the Six Bardos


Padmasambhava - 1997
    The profound teachings in this book provide the under- standing and instruction necessary to turn every phase of life into an opportunity for uncontrived, natural liberation. Like the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Natural Liberation is a terma, a "hidden treasure" attributed to the eighth-century master Padmasambhava. Gyatrul Rinpoche's lucid commentary accompanies the text, illuminating the path of awakening to the point of full enlightenment. Natural Liberation is an essential contribution to the library of both scholars and practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism.

I Give You Authority


Charles H. Kraft - 1997
    What spiritual authority is and isn't, the legitimate exercise of spiritual authority, conditions for its responsible exercise, and helps for exercising authority in key areas.

I Want to See God


P. Marie-Eugene - 1997
    Marie-Eugene opens up the paths of contemplation and holiness to all, in the midst of ordinary life. This is a classic for all interested in Carmelite spirituality.

Coyote Medicine: Lessons from Native American Healing


Lewis Mehl-Madrona - 1997
    oyote Medicine: Lessons from Native American Healing [Paperback] [Jan 01, 1997] Mehl-Madrona, Lewis

Cultivating Inner Peace: Exploring the Psychology, Wisdom and Poetry of Gandhi, Thoreau, the Buddha, and Others


Paul R. Fleischman - 1997
    The lives of outstanding figures such as the Buddha, Walt Whitman, and Gandhi are used to connect the ideal of inner peace with how real people cultivate peace in their everyday lives. Peacefulness as dynamic, selective, and egoless is shown through the constructive act of choosing different ways of life, such as having a smaller family or a more modest career. A message of hope and inspiration permeates this pragmatic approach and is exemplified by the author's own practice of meditation.

Love Is in the Earth - Mineralogical Pictorial: Treasures of the Earth


Melody - 1997
    Extensive mineralogical pictorial containing color photos of hundreds of minerals with molecular formulae, description and localities found.

Stumbling Toward Enlightenment


Geri Larkin - 1997
    With candor, affection, and earthy wisdom, Larkin shares her experiences as a beginning and continuing Buddhist. This spirituality classic shows any seeker that it's possible to stumble, smile, and stay Zen through it all.

Enthusiasm


Chidvilasananda - 1997
    This refreshing approach to happiness acknowledges the capacity for personal enthusiasm through the experience of God's constant presence in the heart.

Who Is My Self?: A Guide to Buddhist Meditation


Ayya Khema - 1997
    Ayya Khema, author of the best-selling Being Nobody, Going Nowhere, uses one of the earliest Buddhist suttas to guide us along the path of the oldest Buddhist meditative practice for understanding the nature of "self." By following the Buddha's explanation with clear, insightful examples from her years of teaching meditation, she guides us back and forth between the relative understanding and higher realizations of the Buddhist concept of "self." Her thoughtful contemplation of the Buddha's radical understanding of "self" and her practical advice for achieving insight offer the reader a profound understanding of the "self." Both beginning and advanced practitioners will greatly benefit from Ayya Khema's warm and down-to-earth exposition of the Buddha's meditation on "self."

Dreamgates: An Explorer's Guide to the Worlds of Soul, Imagination, and Life Beyond Death


Robert Moss - 1997
    Shamanic practitioner, dream explorer, and author of "Conscious Dreaming" Robert Moss provides exciting, new conscious dreamwork techniques that can launch readers into other worlds and the furthest reaches of their imaginations.

The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace


Sri Chinmoy - 1997
    With The Wings of Joy, he encourages us all to find the peace and light deep within our hearts, so we can deal with life's negative experiences and transform them into positive ones. Filled with parables, anecdotes, stories, and poems proffering fresh insights about yourself and your relationship to the world, Chinmoy provides the tools you need to soar to the heights of human possibility—and find your path to inner peace.

A Heart as Wide as the World: Stories on the Path of Lovingkindness


Sharon Salzberg - 1997
    Many chance moments, both small and profound, serve as the basis for Salzberg's teachings: hearing a market stall hawker calling, "I have what you need!"; noting hotel guests' reactions to a midnight fire alarm; watching her teacher, Dipa Ma, bless a belligerent dog; seeing the Dalai Lama laughing uproariously at his own mistake. Each passing moment, Salzberg shows, can help us down the path toward "a seamlessness of connection and an unbounded heart."

The Meaning of Vocation


Pope John Paul II - 1997
    The question of vocation is close to the heart of Pope John Paul II.In this book we have taken excerpts from the talks and addresses of the Holy Father regarding the meaning of vocation and how a person ought to respond to God's calling, the calling that embraces God's mission for each one of us, and how we ought to strive to carry it out successfully.The Pope's words are a sure way of discovering, in the depths of our heart, just what God wants from us.

Reiki Fire: New Information about the Origins of the Reiki Power: A Complete Manual


Frank Arjava Petter - 1997
    The heart, the body, the mind, and the esoteric background; it is all here. It is an excellent Reiki textbook, fresh and rousing in its spiritual perspective.

Healing Anger: The Power of Patience from a Buddhist Perspective


Dalai Lama XIV - 1997
    This is particularly true in the Buddhist traditions, which unanimously state that compassion and love are the foundation of all paths of practice. To cultivate the potential for compassion and love inherent within us, it is crucial to counteract their opposing forces of anger and hatred. In this book, the Dalai Lama shows how through the practice of patience and tolerance we can overcome the obstacles of anger and hatred. He bases his discussion on A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life, the classic work on the activities of Bodhisattvas—those who aspire to attain full enlightenment in order to benefit all beings.

Sacred Pampering Principles: An African-American Woman's Guide to Self-care and Inner Renewal


Debrena Jackson Gandy - 1997
    With her holistic, self-care approach to filling your life with comfort, joy, and peace, Debrena Jackson Gandy debunks the common belief that doing something for yourself is decadent and selfish. In fact, she says, the joy we gain from nurturing ourselves - whether it's in the form of a luxuriant bath or quiet time alone - is transferred to the people in our lives. When we emerge rejuvenated, others benefit from a more patient mother, a more fulfilled wife, an effective co-worker, a solidly grounded friend. Self-care is empowering, plain and simple. Often, however, today's Black woman gives so much to others that she hardly has time for herself. With her twelve sacred pampering principles for the spirit and twelve for the body. Debrena Jackson Gandy shares her unique, proven method for achieving a balanced, satisfying life.

Space for God: The Study and Practice of Spirituality and Prayer


Don Postema - 1997
    For nearly 25 years, Space for God has helped individual readers and small group participants experience a deeper spiritual life. Using the art of Van Gogh and the writings of John Calvin, Thomas Merton, Henri J. M. Nouwen, C. S. Lewis, and others, author Don Postema offers a series of meditative readings and spiritual exercises that will deepen your faith.

Don't Dread: Overcoming the Spirit of Dread with the Supernatural Power of God


Joyce Meyer - 1997
    It is so subtle that it can sneak into your thoughts without notice, causing undue anxiety that steals your faith. Don't let it rob you of your peace and joy! Learn to stop this silent deceiver today.In this life-changing book, Joyce Meyer reveals the forms dread can take to destroy the abundant life God has provided for you. God's Word gives you the ability to recognize these 'little foxes' and the power to confront them as soon as they appear. Discover how to:Use the power of God to defeat fearSee even ordinary tasks in a spiritual lightDeal with repetitive or long-standing problems in a new wayReplace dread with a joyful expectancy of God's best.You are anointed by God to live each day in the freedom He intended for you. Don't allow dread's unhealthy expectations to defeat your faith. Instead, overcome the spirit of dread with the supernatural power of God!

Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved


Rumi - 1997
    Reprint.

Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying: An Exploration of Consciousness


Dalai Lama XIV - 1997
    For modern science, the transitional states of consciousness lie at the forefront of research in many fields. For a Buddhist practitioner these same states present crucial opportunities to explore and transform consciousness itself. This book is the account of a historic dialogue between leading Western scientists and the Dalai Lama of Tibet. Revolving around three key moments of consciousness--sleep, dreams, and death--the conversations recorded here are both engrossing and highly readable. Whether the topic is lucid dreaming, near-death experiences, or the very structure of consciousness itself, the reader is continually surprised and delighted. Narrated by Francisco Varela, an internationally recognized neuroscientist, the book begins with insightful remarks on the notion of personal identity by noted philosopher Charles Taylor, author of the acclaimed Sources of Self. This sets the stage for Dr. Jerome Engel, Dr. Joyce MacDougal, and others to engage in extraordinary exchanges with the Dalai Lama on topics ranging from the neurology of sleep to the yoga of dreams. Remarkable convergences between the Western scientific tradition and the Buddhist contemplative sciences are revealed. Dr. Jayne Gackenbach's discussion of lucid dreaming, for example, prompts a detailed and fascinating response from the Dalai Lama on the manipulation of dreams by Buddhist meditators. The conversations also reveal provocative divergences of opinion, as when the Dalai Lama expresses skepticism about "Near-Death Experiences" as presented by Joan Halifax. The conversations are engrossing and highly readable. Any reader interested in psychology, neuroscience, Buddhism, or the alternative worlds of dreams will surely enjoy Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying.

Miracle of Love


Paul Ferrini - 1997
    He encourages us to take him down from the pedestal and the cross and see him as an equal brother who found the way out of suffering by opening his heart totally. We too can open our hearts and find peace and happiness.

Jacob's Ladder: Wisdom for the Heart's Ascent


Noah benShea - 1997
    Now, for the first time, the gentle poet has been given the privilege of fatherhood. As the man and the boy seek to understand one another, Jacob answers profound questions about parenthood and intimacy, love and loss, growing older and becoming young at heart. And when Jacob the Baker speaks, we are wise to listen. . . .

Builders Of The Adytum: Tarot


Paul Foster Case - 1997
    Full 78-card tarot deck in black and white based on Paul Foster Case's teachings and his adaptation of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck.

Humility: Wellspring of Virtue


Dietrich von Hildebrand - 1997
    . . and the most sorrowful: it cuts the Christian off from God, estranges him from others, and leaves him lost and unhappy. This book shows readers how to drive pride from the soul and discover the incredible strength and joys of humility today.

Illuminated Prayers


Marianne Williamson - 1997
    Prayer is a powerful force that can lift spirits, guide journeys, and heal the heart. "Illunimanted Prayers" is a small volume of spiritual wisdom to bring the power of prayer into our daily lives. Illustrated in the manner of an illuminated manuscript, "Illuminated Prayers" offers a treasured keepsake of the power and enduring relevance of Williamson's message: Prayerilluminates our souls, and with prayer we can change the world.

The Healing Path of Prayer: A Modern Mystic's Guide to Spiritual Power


Ron Roth - 1997
    Yet for many people, prayer has been reduced to a rote practice that has lost its basic meaning and efficacy.In his long-awaited first book for an ecumenical readership, internationally renowned spiritual healer Ron Roth teaches his unique approach to prayer as energy medicine. The Healing Path of Prayer explains in detail the connection between healing, faith, and prayer. Roth shows you how to find your own path to prayer in a way that connects with God's healing energy. As Roth explains, you can use this energy not only for physical healing but also, perhaps more significantly, for healing emotional and spiritual wounds that may be at the root of physical maladies.The Healing Path of Prayer gives you specific guidance in setting up a daily healing prayer practice. Through a series of simple but effective exercises and rituals, Roth shows you how to celebrate your own sacraments and become a mystic in the course of your everyday life. Each chapter offers a new, higher level of prayer, enabling you to acquire more advanced techniques of focus, intention, and insight. As Roth revitalizes many tired, traditional prayers with his fresh and inspiring reinterpretations from original scripture, he also recounts the dramatic story of when he discovered his healing abilities, as well as true cases of healing in which he has participated. The Healing Path of Prayer is a blueprint for a truly democratic spirituality. Roth's instruction on how to pray and establish a daily practice of meditation will lead readers into a vital path of everyday mysticism and personal power.

Walking Between the Worlds: The Science of Compassion


Gregg Braden - 1997
    Spirituality, Meditation, Guide, Self-Help, Theology, Comparative Religions

The Dao of Zhuangzi: The Harmony of Nature


Tsai Chih Chung - 1997
    Together with the writings of Laozi, the Zhuangzi had an immense impact on Chinese culture that matched that of Confucianism. Over the centuries, this classical Daoism has influenced millions of readers and students of philosophy and literature throughout the world.Tsai Chih Chung first tackled portions of the Zhuangzi in his first book published in the U.S., Zhuangzi Speaks, which sold 20,000 copies for Princeton--an astonishing number for a university press--and was the book that brought C.C. Tsai to the attention of American readers. In The Dao of Zhangzi, Tsai Chih Chung brings humorously to life new portions of the Dao--and extends the reach of his early efforts in profound and entertaining ways.As with the previous works, the book will include an introduction by a scholar that will help to place Daoism and the Zhuangzi in historical and cultural context.

Awakening to Zero Point: The Collective Initiation


Gregg Braden - 1997
    Awakening to Zero Point: The Collective Initiation

A Beginner's Guide to Creating Reality


Ramtha - 1997
    This teaching covers the introduction given to students commencing their study and training at Ramtha s School of Enlightenment. Special Content: Foreword by JZ Knight, Introductory Essay to Ramtha s Teachings by Jaime Leal-Anaya, Diagrams, Workbook, Glossary and detailed Index.

Peshawar Nights: Shiah Islam in Sunni Tradition


Sultanu'l-Wa'izin Shirazi - 1997
    

Little Russian Philokalia


Seraphim Rose - 1997
    Christian spirituality is not a retreat or escape from life. On the contrary, it is a withdrawal from the spirit of a fallen world lying in evil in order to cling to the source of life itself--Christ the true God. Because of the multitude of outstanding spiritual leaders which have existed in Russia, there have been several attempts to compile a collection from the Russian Fathers similar to that of the Greek Philokalia. The teachings of these spiritual Fathers rest in the eternal truths and guiding principles of suffering Christianity, and their counsels are of particular value since--from that fount of eternal wisdom--they offer direction suited to the peculiarities of today's "modern age." Therefore! it is of no small importance to present the Russian Fathers of recent centuries in an anthology of ascetic texts drawn from the original sources. The LITTLE RUSSIAN PHILOKALIA series serves as an intermediary with the great Fathers of the Greek Philokalia. In this respect, the humble advice offered by the holy men of the LITTLE RUSSIAN PHILOKALIA series may render an inestimable service to a true seeker of salvation--a follower of Christ's narrow path of unceasing toil and humility. This, after all, was the primary purpose of the original Philokalia. One of the most beloved Orthodox saints of recent times--St. Seraphim of Sarov (1759-1833)--was a priest, hermit and spiritual guide who, in early 19th century Russia, led many souls along the path of Apostolic Christianity. The first volume of the LITTLE RUSSIAN PHILOKALIA series contains the Life of St. Seraphim, his "Spiritual Instructions to Laymen and Monks," his soul-saving conversation with Nicholas Motovilov "On the Acquisition of the Holy Spirit" (St. Seraphim's patristic teaching--equal to the ancient Church Fathers)--and his "Diveyevo Mystery"--which, until now, has never been revealed in the English language since its disclosure in 1902.

Exploring Vibrational Medicine


Richard Gerber - 1997
    Today his groundbreaking views on alternative healing systems have entered the corridors of our major hospitals and research centers. On Exploring Vibrational Medicine, Dr. Gerber builds on his pioneering work with a wealth of new and rare insights into the most promising energetic healing therapies. Through study after fascinating study, you will hear about new findings on unique frequencies emitted by the human body; compelling evidence that proves we are composed of pure energy; how chakra points and acupuncture meridians draw energy from outside systems; and much more. Complete with guided imagery exercises, Exploring Vibrational Medicine is a revolutionary work about the oldest and newest discovery in medical science--the power of the body to heal itself naturally.

The Uddhava Gita: The Final Teaching of Krishna


Anonymous - 1997
    Although set down in writing centuries apart, the Bhagavad Gita and the Uddhava Gita share Krishna's core advice on developing a more complete personal consciousness. But unlike the urgency of an impending battle that drives Krishna's dialogue in the Bhagavad Gita, this dialogue with his dear old friend Uddhava takes place on the eve of Krishna's departure from the world and is filled with philosophy, poetry and practical advice

Endless Light: The Ancient Path of the Kabbalah to Love, Spiritual Growth, and Personal Power


David Aaron - 1997
    Rich in stories of David Aaron's own personal experiences as a husband, father, teacher, and spiritual mentor, Endless Light offers us a new and deeper awareness of ourselves, our inner conflicts, and the choices we must make to understand and receive life's bounteous gifts. The author also retells the familiar stories of the Torah - the Creation, the Expulsion from Eden, and many others - clarifying their mysterious meanings and deciphering what they teach us about ourselves and how to fulfill our purpose in life. He shares the Kabbalah's wisdom about how to truly love and be loved; he addresses the conflict between the powers of fate and free will. And he describes the steps along the path of life that will lead us to spiritual growth, creativity, freedom, happiness, and inner peace.

Radical Forgiveness: Making Room for the Miracle


Colin C. Tipping - 1997
    This audio version on five CDs will appeal to those who would prefer to listen to a book while driving rather than read one. The 13 Steps Companion CD is included in the pack, making it six CDs in total.

The Contemplative Journey: Volume 2


Thomas Keating - 1997
    A 14th-century author described their profound mystical experience as entering the cloud of unknowing. Yet during the 500 years after this great monastic flowering, this precious tradition--and the direct path to union with God it described--was virtually lost.For decades, Father Thomas Keating, together with other monks, examined this great question: Could anyone enter the cloud of unknowing through a prayer practice specifically created to attain it? Keating reached back in time for clues about the prayer forms of the Christian mystics. He synthesized his work into a Centering Prayer method that has helped thousands of seekers travel the contemplative path to divine union.From infancy, Father Keating teaches, we accumulate emotional layers, or programs, as a result of traumatic experiences. The practice of Centering Prayer engages directly with the unconscious and loosens old traumas that hinder your spiritual development. This form of divine therapy draws from a contemplative method that has brought profound inner transformation into the lives of thousands of practitioners. The Contemplative Journey is Father Thomas Keating's great masterwork: a complete curriculum devoted to a Christian path for achieving the still point of resting in God.Learn More About: The four elements essential to your spiritual healthThree on-the-spot questions to diagnose core troublesHow to overcome deeply ingrained habits with prayerMastering the three essential human relationshipsThe true purpose of marriageHow to use Centering Prayer as a spiritual antibiotic

The Heart of God: Prayers of Rabindranath Tagore


Rabindranath Tagore - 1997
    He was also a distinguished author, educator, social reformer, and philosopher. Today, Tagore along with Mahatma Gandhi is prized as the foremost intellectual and spiritual advocates of India's liberation from imperial rule. This inspiring collection of Tagore's poetry represents his "simple prayers of common life." Each of the seventy-seven prayers is an eloquent affirmation of the divine in the face of both joy and sorrow. Like the Psalms of David, they transcend time and speak directly to the human heart. The spirit of this collection may be best symbolized by a single sentence by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the renowned philosopher and statesman who served as president of India: "Rabindranath Tagore was one of the few representatives of the universal person to whom the future of the world belongs."

The Angelspeake Book of Prayer and Healing


Barbara Mark - 1997
    The authors teach that, with the help of angels, doubt can be replaced with trust and sceptism with understanding.