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Quiet Mind, Fearless Heartby Brian Luke Seaward
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2010; US$ 14.95"Reading Quiet Mind, Fearless Heart is like eavesdropping on a conversation between Lao Tzu and Joseph Campbell--a pure pleasure to read!" --Deepak Chopra, M.D., coauthor of The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga and author of The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire "Quiet Mind, Fearless Heart is an enchanting piece of wisdom that combines ancient insights with practical solutions to the stress epidemic that permeates our culture. Brian Luke Seaward is a master teacher, skillful guide, and true healer." --Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Healing Words and Reinventing Medicine "The perfect antidote for these acceleratingly stressful post-9/11 times with fearmongers accosting us everywhere, Quiet Mind, Fearless Heart artfully and wisely blends stress... more...
The Isaiah Effectby Gregg Braden
Crown Publishing Group 2009; US$ 9.99Seventeen hundred years ago, key elements of our ancient heritage were lost, relegated to the esoteric traditions of mystery schools and sacred orders. Among the most empowering of the forgotten elements are references to a science with the power to bring everlasting healing to our bodies and initiate an unprecedented era of peace and cooperation between governments and nations. In his groundbreaking new book, The Isaiah Effect , Gregg Braden turns to the Isaiah Scroll, perhaps the most important of the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in 1946, to offer insight into a powerful form of ancient prayer. In The Isaiah Effect , Braden, author of Awakening to Zero Point and Walking Between the Worlds , combines research in... more...
The Sophia Teachingsby Robert Powell
Lantern Books 2001; US$ 7.95In The Sophia Teachings , Robert Powell uncovers a secret stream of wisdom flowing through the heart of Christianity: the feminine principle known in Greek as 'Sophia,' or Holy Wisdom herself. This sacred embodiment-named in the Old Testament at the first living being made by God-has comforted and guided seekers of truth in every age and culture, including our own. more...
Finding the Center Withinby Thomas Bien; Beverly Bien
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2004; US$ 14.95"Finding the Center Within is a practical manual on the practice of mindfulness, which can help many people to embody their Buddha nature and become radiant and peaceful beings. It provides easy steps for practicing mindfulness in day-to-day living." -Thich Nhat Hanh, author of Peace Is Every Step, The Miracle of Mindfulness, and Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames All of us want to live a calmer, more peaceful existence. Thomas and Beverly Bien teach that if we find the center within through ongoing mindfulness, we will have the capacity to live deeply and fully-with boundless peace and happiness-in any external circumstance. We can learn to be calm in the midst of the storm. Finding the Center Within offers a step-by-step program for breaking... more...
Deeply Into the Boneby Ronald L. Grimes
University of California Press 2000; US$ 15.95Over the past two decades, North Americans have become increasingly interested in understanding and reclaiming the rites that mark significant life passages. In the absence of meaningful rites of passage, we speed through the dangerous intersections of life and often come to regret missing an opportunity to contemplate a child's birth, mark the arrival of maturity, or meditate on the loss of a loved one. more...
Emotional Experience and Religious Understandingby Mark Wynn
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 32.00Wynn argues that the landscape of philosophical theology looks rather different from the perspective of a re-conceived theory of emotion. He uses this perspective to forge a distinctive approach to a range of established topics in philosophy of religion, and to examine the connection of 'feeling' to doctrine and tradition. more...
Myth and the Christian Nationby Burton L. Mack
Equinox Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 85.50This is a book on a social theory of religion and culture. A survey of the meanings of the term religion from Columbus to Jonathan Z. Smith sets the pace. Examples are taken from ethnography, the ancient Near East, the Greco-Roman age, and Christendom in order to develop the concepts of imagined world, social formation, mythic grammar, and cultural mentality. What has been learned from the study of other peoples and their religions about the function of myths and rituals is then applied to an analysis of the Christian myth-ritual system and its social logic. The odd combinations of mythic world and ritual presence, monotheism and sovereignty, righteousness and power, all peculiar to Christianity,... more...
Natural Symbolsby Mary Douglas
Routledge 1996; US$ 38.95This classic text represents a work of anthropology in the widest sense, exploring themes such as the social meaning of natural symbols and the image of the body in society. With a new, and highly topical introduction. more...
Religious Function of the Psycheby Lionel Corbett
Routledge 1996; US$ 42.50The book offers an alternative approach to spirituality that can be applied in psychotherapeutic and everyday life. It also serves as an introduction to Jung and religion. more...
Para/Inquiryby Victor E. Taylor
Routledge 1999; US$ 35.95Focusing on cultural studies, religion and literature, Victor E. Taylor, co-author of the bestselling Imagologies , provides us with a fresh look at the history and main themes of postmodernism - both its style and content. more...