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SILENT VIOLENCE
Excerpts From a Diary Covering A Period of 50 Years
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ISBN: 9781577331216
ISBN 10: 1577331214
Excerpts From a Diary Covering A Period of 50 Years
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SONGS OF MY FAMILIES
A Thirty-Seven Year Odyssey from Korea to America and Back
ISBN: 9781590563205
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A Thirty-Seven Year Odyssey from Korea to America and Back
In 1971, Lee Myonghi, aged five, was taken from her family and placed in a Korean orphanage. Six months later, she was flown to the United States, where she and two other Korean girls were adopted by a Minnesota couple. They renamed her Kelly Jean. Eleven years later, Kelly found herself at the doorstep of a Minnesota agency, although this time as a teen mother giving her own child up for adoption. Kelly later married and had two more children. Then, in 2007, Kelly's husband found her original, Korean family and so began a journey that reunited Kelly with the family whom she thought had abandoned her and brought her face to face with the daughter she herself had lost twenty-five years before.
Told with refreshing honesty, SONGS OF MY FAMILIES is the moving story of two generations of women forced to make agonising choices as they coped with harsh economic realities and personal crises. It is, also, an affirmation of the strength of family, the importance of one's cultural heritage and the enduring power of love.
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Told with refreshing honesty, SONGS OF MY FAMILIES is the moving story of two generations of women forced to make agonising choices as they coped with harsh economic realities and personal crises. It is, also, an affirmation of the strength of family, the importance of one's cultural heritage and the enduring power of love.
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SPIRITUAL JOURNEY OF ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY
The Creator of El Topo
ISBN: 9781594771736
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The Creator of El Topo
In 1970, John Lennon introduced to the world Alejandro Jodorowsky and the film El Topo that he wrote, starred in and directed. The film and its author instantly became a counterculture icon. The New York Times said it “demands to be seen,” and Newsweek called it “An Extraordinary Movie!” But that was only the beginning of the story and the controversy of El Topo and the journey of its brilliant creator. His spiritual quest began with the Japanese master Ejo Takata, the man who introduced him to the practice of meditation, Zen Buddhism and the wisdom of the koans. Yet in this autobiographical account of his spiritual journey, Jodorowsky reveals that it was a small group of wisewomen, far removed from the world of Buddhism, who initiated him and taught him how to put the wisdom he had learned from his master into practice.
At the direction of Takata, Jodorowsky became a student of the surrealist painter Leonora Carrington, thus beginning a journey in which vital spiritual lessons were transmitted to him by various women who were masters of their particular crafts. These women included Doña Magdalena, who taught him “initiatic” or spiritual massage; the powerful Mexican actress known as La Tigresa (the “tigress”); and Reyna D'Assia, daughter of the famed spiritual teacher G. I. Gurdjieff. Other important wisewomen on Jodorowsky's spiritual path include María Sabina, the priestess of the sacred mushrooms; the healer Pachita; and the Chilean singer Violeta Parra. The teachings of these women enabled him to discard the emotional armour that was hindering his advancement on the path of spiritual awareness and enlightenment.
· Reveals Jodorowsky turning the same unsparing spiritual vision seen in El Topo to his own spiritual quest
· Shows how the author's spiritual insight and progress was catalysed repeatedly by wisewomen shamans and healers
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At the direction of Takata, Jodorowsky became a student of the surrealist painter Leonora Carrington, thus beginning a journey in which vital spiritual lessons were transmitted to him by various women who were masters of their particular crafts. These women included Doña Magdalena, who taught him “initiatic” or spiritual massage; the powerful Mexican actress known as La Tigresa (the “tigress”); and Reyna D'Assia, daughter of the famed spiritual teacher G. I. Gurdjieff. Other important wisewomen on Jodorowsky's spiritual path include María Sabina, the priestess of the sacred mushrooms; the healer Pachita; and the Chilean singer Violeta Parra. The teachings of these women enabled him to discard the emotional armour that was hindering his advancement on the path of spiritual awareness and enlightenment.
· Reveals Jodorowsky turning the same unsparing spiritual vision seen in El Topo to his own spiritual quest
· Shows how the author's spiritual insight and progress was catalysed repeatedly by wisewomen shamans and healers
ISBN: 9781594771736
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STARS WHEN THE SUN SHINES
A Memoir
ISBN: 9781578634736
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A Memoir
From Zen cherry blossoms to the Noh stage. From Hawaiian breathing lessons to an Okinawan rodeo. From Balinese wise men to the Egyptian pyramids. It all started in small town Minnesota and it ended much later than the doctors said it would. In his early 20s, Wayne Stier was diagnosed with cancer and a less than 50 percent chance of living more than 5 years. He and his wife Mars responded by seizing the day and moving to Japan.
This extraordinary memoir is full of memorable lines and lessons. Some funny. “Rule of slapstick—stand up quick and pretend it didn’t happen.” Some koan-like: “A dog’s bark is a dot pointing out the silence.” Stier’s writing will change the way you look at the world. His writing is an act of discovery and rediscovery, from the landlocked plains of the Midwest to the slope of an active volcano. In Japan, Wayne became a Kyogen actor and the second foreigner ever to perform on the Noh stage. On the Big Island of Hawaii he built his home and art studio, with living trees forming the corner posts, and wrote the myth of his own life.
In Bali, an old man told Wayne to look at the sky—filled with shining stars even when the sun is shining. Stars when the Sun Shines is about looking at the world through continuously new eyes. It’s bound to change the way the reader looks at the world as well. Stier’s writing burns through illusions to conclusions about a life so full he forgot he was dying, until he did, in Hawaii, on May 30, 2009, weeks after his 62nd birthday.
For readers who gravitate to Eat, Pray, Love because of its spiritual odyssey or The Last Lecture because of its message to live in the moment in spite of impending finality, they will have an interest in Stars When the Sun Shines because it offers a combination of both.
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This extraordinary memoir is full of memorable lines and lessons. Some funny. “Rule of slapstick—stand up quick and pretend it didn’t happen.” Some koan-like: “A dog’s bark is a dot pointing out the silence.” Stier’s writing will change the way you look at the world. His writing is an act of discovery and rediscovery, from the landlocked plains of the Midwest to the slope of an active volcano. In Japan, Wayne became a Kyogen actor and the second foreigner ever to perform on the Noh stage. On the Big Island of Hawaii he built his home and art studio, with living trees forming the corner posts, and wrote the myth of his own life.
In Bali, an old man told Wayne to look at the sky—filled with shining stars even when the sun is shining. Stars when the Sun Shines is about looking at the world through continuously new eyes. It’s bound to change the way the reader looks at the world as well. Stier’s writing burns through illusions to conclusions about a life so full he forgot he was dying, until he did, in Hawaii, on May 30, 2009, weeks after his 62nd birthday.
For readers who gravitate to Eat, Pray, Love because of its spiritual odyssey or The Last Lecture because of its message to live in the moment in spite of impending finality, they will have an interest in Stars When the Sun Shines because it offers a combination of both.
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STILL POINT OF THE TURNING WORLD
The Life of Gia-Fu Feng
ISBN: 9781602372962
ISBN 10: 1602372969
The Life of Gia-Fu Feng
Born to a wealthy, traditional family in Shanghai, Gia-fu lived through tumultuous periods of exponential change in China. After leaving his homeland for graduate studies in the States, he found himself stranded on the other side of the world with the home he knew crumbling before the world's eyes.
Landing in the mid-1950s at San Francisco's American Academy of Asian Studies, Gia-fu unexpectedly found a niche, a place from which to explore who he was. Within a decade, his path took him to Esalen in Big Sur and the human potential movement of the 1960s. Gia-fu went on to found Stillpoint, a Taoist community of families living simply and honestly with each other in nature.
Teacher, translator and Tai Ji master, Gia Fu-Feng is remembered for his colourful life in which he learned and taught alongside some of the twentieth century's greatest writers and thinkers, including Jack Kerouac and Alan Watts. Through his life and work, he sought to bring the ancient wisdom of the Tao into the modern world. His translation of the Tao Te Ching has sold over 1,250,000 copes and is widely considered to be one of the most readable and influential translations of our time.
STILL POINT represents thirteen years of research by dedicated author, Carol Ann Wilson, sister to Gia-fu's heir. Using Gia-fu's biographical notes and numerous outside sources, Wilson has given us the extraordinary story of a rogue Taoist sage.
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ISBN: 9781602372962
ISBN 10: 1602372969
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STORY BEHIND THE STORY
My life of Service Through Writing
ISBN: 9781565891944
ISBN 10: 1565891945
My life of Service Through Writing
In this book you'll step behind the scenes and explore the inspirations that led Swami Kriyananda to write all of his books (now numbering more than 80) from his first book YOURS-THE UNIVERSE! printed on a mimeograph machine to his most recent book CONVERSATIONS WITH YOGANANDA a world-wide bestseller printed on three continents. Paramahansa Yogananda started Swami Kriyananda on the path of writing when he told his young disciple: Your work is writing editing and teaching. Swami Kriyananda explains that he has always seen Yogananda's teachings as the hub of a wheel from which spokes reach out in all directions to provide valuable insights for all aspects of life. As Kriyananda says I set out to write books that would demonstrate how life lived at every level could be given deeper meaning: how one could succeed at anything he wanted and attain any goal he set for himself. The simple rules of life Yogananda gave to the world can help everyone to achieve the universal goal of all life: happiness.
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ISBN: 9781565891944
ISBN 10: 1565891945
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STORY OF EDGAR CAYCE
There is a River...
ISBN: 9780876043752
ISBN 10: 0876043759
There is a River...
The complete biography of Edgar Cayce covers not only his fascinating life and the phenomenal information that came through his psychic readings, but it, also, provides hope to anyone suffering from illness or despair of heart and spirit. The myriad of topics covered include holistic, healthy remedies for both common and rare illnesses; spiritual growth subjects such as meditation, prayer and reincarnation and world events both past, present and future. The book, also, contains the famous "philosophy section," which covers our origin, purpose and destiny in the Earth.
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ISBN: 9780876043752
ISBN 10: 0876043759
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STRANGE ENCOUNTERS HB
Adventures of a Renegade Naturalist
ISBN: 9781585422630
ISBN 10: 1585422630
Adventures of a Renegade Naturalist
An internationally renowned scientist Daniel B. Botkin has lived the kind of life that other people only dream about. He has studied whales and elephants tramped over high mountain passes and through rainforests worked with NASA and walked in the footsteps of Henry David Thoreau and Lewis and Clark. STRANGE ENCOUNTERS is Botkin's warm witty account of his adventures spanning thirty years and dozens of countries infused with insights and observations on how people and the institutions they build interact with the natural world. In this delightful narrative Botkin does for the science of the natural world what Oliver Sacks has done for the science of human behaviour: he enlightens while he entertains. Whether he is rebuilding an old mill in New Hampshire and ruminating on notions of progress researching the most weight-efficient food for space travel or working in a radioactive forest on an early Cold War research project Botkin's exploits illuminate the complex and evolving relationship between humans and their environment. STRANGE ENCOUNTERS is the most personal and accessible work in Daniel Botkin's long career as a writer. His most influential book Discordant Harmonies: A New Ecology for the Twenty-first Century helped change the way citizens governments and corporations view environmental issues bringing the concept of sustainability to centre stage.
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SWAMI KRIYANANDA
As We have Known Him
ISBN: 9781565892200
ISBN 10: 1565892208
As We have Known Him
Through the eyes of dozens of people who've known him, get to know one of the most remarkable spiritual teachers of our time, Swami Kriyananda, a direct disciple of the great Master, Paramhansa Yogananda. Yogananda started a spiritual revolution in America and throughout the world. Swami Kriyananda has dedicated his life to helping to manifest many of the seed ideas that Yogananda gave to the world during his lifetime.
In this extraordinary book, you will read dozens of stories, written by people who have known Swami Kriyananda. You will find humour, compassion, miracles, inspiration and friendship coming through these stories. They give you a picture of a man who has much to teach all of us, how to care about others and help them in the most beautiful ways, how to live a life dedicated to service of God, how to follow the highest principles of dharma in all circumstances.
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In this extraordinary book, you will read dozens of stories, written by people who have known Swami Kriyananda. You will find humour, compassion, miracles, inspiration and friendship coming through these stories. They give you a picture of a man who has much to teach all of us, how to care about others and help them in the most beautiful ways, how to live a life dedicated to service of God, how to follow the highest principles of dharma in all circumstances.
ISBN: 9781565892200
ISBN 10: 1565892208
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TAKING WOODSTOCK
A True Story of a Riot, a Concert and a Life
ISBN: 9780757002939
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A True Story of a Riot, a Concert and a Life
Before there was a Woodstock Concert, there was Elliot Tiber working to make a go of his parents' hotel, the El Monaco. It wasn't easy. The Jewish clientele who had returned to the Catskills year after year had discovered Florida, and the hotel business was dying. To save his family's livelihood, Elliot put on plays, musicals and local festivals. In the process, Elliot became the area's official issuer of event permits - not that anybody else wanted that position. Elliot even worked weekends as an interior design artist in New York City, all in the hopes of helping his family.
In the summer of 1969, Elliot Tiber's life changed in a way he never could have foreseen. Greenwich Village had become the mecca for gays in America. There, Elliot had socialised with the likes of Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Andy Warhol and a talented young photographer named Robert Mapplethorpe and yet had managed to keep his gay life a secret from his family. Then on Friday, June 27, Elliot walked into the Stonewall Inn - and witnessed the riot that would galvanise the gay movement in the United States. And on July 17, when Elliot read that the Woodstock Concert promoters had lost their license to stage the show in Wallkill, he called to offer his help in finding a new venue. In the days that followed, Elliot found himself swept up in a vortex that would change his life forever.
The events that unfolded during that hot New York summer have come to be recognised as major turning points in our cultural history. Few, however, have enjoyed Elliot Tiber's unique view of those events. TAKING WOODSTOCK is the funny, touching and true story of the man who enabled Woodstock to take place.
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TAKING WOODSTOCK
A True Story of a Riot, a Concert and a Life
ISBN: 9780757003332
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A True Story of a Riot, a Concert and a Life
Before there was a Woodstock Concert, there was Elliot Tiber working to make a go of his parents' hotel, the El Monaco. It wasn't easy and in the process, Elliot became the area's official issuer of event permits - not that anybody else wanted that position. Then, in the summer of 1969, Elliot Tiber's life changed in a way he never could have foreseen. Greenwich Village had become the mecca for gays in America. There, Elliot had socialised with the likes of Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Andy Warhol and a talented young photographer named Robert Mapplethorpe and yet had managed to keep his gay life a secret from his family. Then on Friday, June 27, Elliot walked into the Stonewall Inn - and witnessed the riot that would galvanise the gay movement in the United States. And on July 17, when Elliot read that the Woodstock Concert promoters had lost their license to stage the show in Wallkill, he called to offer his help in finding a new venue. In the days that followed, Elliot found himself swept up in a vortex that would change his life forever.
The events that unfolded during that hot New York summer have come to be recognised as major turning points in our cultural history. Few, however, have enjoyed Elliot Tiber's unique view of those events. TAKING WOODSTOCK is the funny, touching and true story of the man who enabled Woodstock to take place.
TAKING WOODSTOCK is now a Major Motion Picture, directed by Ang Lee, and a competition entry for this years Palme d' Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The film will be on general release from November 13th 2009.
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The events that unfolded during that hot New York summer have come to be recognised as major turning points in our cultural history. Few, however, have enjoyed Elliot Tiber's unique view of those events. TAKING WOODSTOCK is the funny, touching and true story of the man who enabled Woodstock to take place.
TAKING WOODSTOCK is now a Major Motion Picture, directed by Ang Lee, and a competition entry for this years Palme d' Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The film will be on general release from November 13th 2009.
ISBN: 9780757003332
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TAO OF WILLIE
A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart
ISBN: 9781592402878
ISBN 10: 1592402879
A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart
Born in small-town Texas during the Great Depression, Willie Nelson was raised to believe in helping his neighbours and living without pretence. After many hardscrabble years as a poorly paid songwriter (often watching his work become a gold mine for other performers), Willie finally found his own voice - the gentle but unmistakably honest sound that has made him an American icon. Now the master of harmonisation has created a guide to finding harmony in everyday life. Featuring vignettes from each chapter of his seventy-plus years (along with plenty of his favourite jokes), THE TAO OF WILLIE captures his views on money, love, war, religion, cowboys and other essential Willie topics.
Loosely based on the principles of the Chinese philosophy of the Tao Te Ching, which Willie has admired and followed for much of his adult life, this inspiring and entertaining collection of “Willie wisdom” takes us from his roadhouse days, when he united redneck rockers with strait-laced country music fans, to the mega-sized benefit concerts and environmentalism that define his boundless heart. In the spirit of his fellow Texan Harvey Penick's LITTLE RED BOOK, Willie's timeless insights sparkle with clarity: It's like having a one-on-one conversation with the sage himself.
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Loosely based on the principles of the Chinese philosophy of the Tao Te Ching, which Willie has admired and followed for much of his adult life, this inspiring and entertaining collection of “Willie wisdom” takes us from his roadhouse days, when he united redneck rockers with strait-laced country music fans, to the mega-sized benefit concerts and environmentalism that define his boundless heart. In the spirit of his fellow Texan Harvey Penick's LITTLE RED BOOK, Willie's timeless insights sparkle with clarity: It's like having a one-on-one conversation with the sage himself.
ISBN: 9781592402878
ISBN 10: 1592402879
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THAT WAS ERNEST STORY OF ERNEST HOLMES
The Story of Ernest Holmes and the Religious Science Movement
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ISBN: 9780875167121
ISBN 10: 0875167128
The Story of Ernest Holmes and the Religious Science Movement
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THREE QUOTES FROM A PLUMBER
How a Second Opinion Changed the Life of a Woman With a Brain Tumour
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How a Second Opinion Changed the Life of a Woman With a Brain Tumour
This story explores the challenges Sally faced with the medical profession and alternative therapies and details the way she managed a lifethreatening illness in the context of family life with courage and the unwavering support of those around her.
After twelve months of repeated MRI scans and unenviable waiting, Sally decided it was time to make something happen. In May 2008, she met Dr Charlie Teo, an internationally renowned neurosurgeon, who challenged her to seek a second opinion and created hope through minimally invasive surgery that has allowed her to get on with living, not just surviving.
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After twelve months of repeated MRI scans and unenviable waiting, Sally decided it was time to make something happen. In May 2008, she met Dr Charlie Teo, an internationally renowned neurosurgeon, who challenged her to seek a second opinion and created hope through minimally invasive surgery that has allowed her to get on with living, not just surviving.
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TORMENTED MASTER
The Life and Spiritual Quest of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav
ISBN: 9781879045118
ISBN 10: 1879045117
The Life and Spiritual Quest of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav
In this major biography, Dr. Arthur Green—teacher, scholar, and spiritual seeker—explores the great personal conflicts and inner torments that lay at the source of Nahman's teachings. He reveals Nahman to have been marked at an early age by an exaggerated sense of sin and morbidity that later characterized his life and thought. While subject to rapid mood swings and even paranoia, Nahman is a model of spiritual and personal struggle who speaks to all generations. Green's analysis of this troubled personality provides an important key to Nahman's famous tales, making his teachings accessible for people of all faiths, all backgrounds.
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TREEDOM HB
The Road to Freedom
ISBN: 9780978508463
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The Road to Freedom
As if looking into long forgotten memories of another life, emotionally charged photography and prose explore an outsider's feeling of loneliness and coming to terms with one's purpose in a trip through the life of leading Japanese tree house creator, Takashi Kobayashi.
Takashi Kobayashi, a popular tree house creator, featured in the New York Times and on many television programmes and in many newspapers and magazines, examines being an outcast in a rigid society of rules and conformity and finding salvation in the trees. The author's photography and writings, accompanied by the poetry of William Blake, adorn this alternative to your average tree house book. This title takes things one step further by describing how tree house living is a lifestyle and philosophy, not simply a means of making coffee table books. The accompanying DVD documentary is based on a trip he made to Oregon City and features a 2006 tree house making film in Okinawa and Hokkaido, Japan.
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Takashi Kobayashi, a popular tree house creator, featured in the New York Times and on many television programmes and in many newspapers and magazines, examines being an outcast in a rigid society of rules and conformity and finding salvation in the trees. The author's photography and writings, accompanied by the poetry of William Blake, adorn this alternative to your average tree house book. This title takes things one step further by describing how tree house living is a lifestyle and philosophy, not simply a means of making coffee table books. The accompanying DVD documentary is based on a trip he made to Oregon City and features a 2006 tree house making film in Okinawa and Hokkaido, Japan.
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UNLIKELY PROPHET
A Metaphysical Memoir by the Legendary Writer of Superman and Batman
ISBN: 9781594771088
ISBN 10: 1594771081
A Metaphysical Memoir by the Legendary Writer of Superman and Batman
Writer Alvin Schwartz received a great deal of attention from fans when he began talking publicly about his seventeen-year stint writing Superman and Batman comics. One of the individuals who contacted him was no ordinary fan but a seven-foot Buddhist monk named Thongden a tulpa or individual who was thought into being by a Tibetan mystic. Thongden put Alvin Schwartz on the path without form an amazing journey he took in the company of Hawaiian kahunas quantum physicists and superheroes. Superman as it turns out is also a tulpa a being created by thought that takes on a life of its own and in Mr. Schwartz's words is an archetype expressing the sense of nonlocality that is always present in the back of our minds - that capacity to be everywhere instantly. Superman is one of the specific forms that embodies our reality when we're at our highest point when we're truly impermeable indestructible totally concentrated and living entirely in the now a condition each of us actually attains from time to time. Alvin Schwartz's story is a personal journey through a lifelong remembrance of synchrony inspiration accident and magic. As it unfolds it puts into vivid clarity the saving grace that inhabits every moment of our lives. The author travels as a stranger in a strange land whose greatest oddity is that this land is our own.
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ISBN: 9781594771088
ISBN 10: 1594771081
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WAY HOME
Chronicles of an Inner Journey
ISBN: 9781899171606
ISBN 10: 1899171606
Chronicles of an Inner Journey
Dorothy Lewis is a healer who has helped hundreds of people by means of radionics colour healing and visualisation. She has followed this path from the age of fifty onwards. At a time of life when many women having fulfilled the duties of motherhood and a career are settling down to a quiet routine of coffee mornings gardening and whist drives Dorothy chose to make an intuitive leap into something new. As a result the second part of her life has been even more eventful than the first and she has become increasingly aware that she is following a spiritual path along with countless other travellers. THE WAY HOME chronicles these years. Besides being the story of the developments of a healer whose understanding of the process of healing are ever deepening it is also a very personal story of challenging circumstances. Through joy or difficulty on the path Dorothy has drawn sustenance from her encounters with other travellers and from the knowledge that numberless others are going through the same learning experiences. We are all inevitably on our way home.
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ISBN: 9781899171606
ISBN 10: 1899171606
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WHERE THE SPIRIT SPEAKS TO ITS OWN
The Passion of Spiritual Awakening
ISBN: 9781899324163
ISBN 10: 189932416X
The Passion of Spiritual Awakening
This collection of poetic and mystical writings by Barry Long reveals the source of his inspiration as a spiritual master which as for any true mystic is total devotion to the divine. Everything in the book is the outpouring of a mystic voice arising from this passion. Every poem is an expression of the same inspiration whether he writes out of love for a woman or the passion that brings the mystic to a personal encounter with the impersonal the absolute or God. The book is also the story of an ordinary man transfixed by extraordinary moments of truth. The course of Barry Long's spiritual awakening was punctuated by the impulse to express in song and verse what was happening. These original writings are in the book in chronological order accompanied by the authors more recent biographical commentary. Early on his inner voice spoke through the ordinary form of popular songs: later as a kind of rhetorical monologue in verse. The words capture the power and immediacy of real spiritual insight. Barry Long was born in 1926 in Australia. He has been speaking as a spiritual teacher to audiences around the world for 40 years and has been published in many languages.
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ISBN: 9781899324163
ISBN 10: 189932416X
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