Collection: Spirituality & Religion

The Corpus Hermeticum is a collection of Egyptian-Greek wisdom texts from the 2nd century or earlier. The texts form the basis of Hermeticism, which is a religious, philosophical, and esoteric tradition that held great importance during both the Renaissance and the Reformation periods. The work discusses the divine, the cosmos, the mind, alchemy, astrology, and nature.

The Corpus Hermeticum dwells upon the oneness and goodness of God, urges purification of the soul, and discusses a spiritual rebirth through the enlightenment of the mind. Much of the importance of Hermeticism arises from its connection with the development of science between 1300 to 1600 AD. The prominence that it gave to the idea of influencing or controlling nature led many scientists to look to magic and its allied arts. Sir Isaac Newton placed great faith in the concept of an unadulterated, pure, ancient doctrine, which he studied vigorously to aid his understanding of the physical world.

This case laminate collector's edition includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket.

Deepen your awareness through the Tibetan practice of sleep and dream yoga--both presented here in this "thought-provoking, inspiring, and lucid" guide (Stephen LaBerge, PhD, author of Lucid Dreaming)

It is said that the practice of dream yoga deepens our awareness during all our experience: the dreams of the night; the dream-like experience of the day; and the bardo experiences after death. Indeed, the practice of dream yoga is a powerful tool of awakening, used for hundreds of years by the great masters of the Tibetan traditions.

Unlike in the Western psychological approach to dreams, the ultimate goal of Tibetan dream yoga is the recognition of the nature of mind or enlightenment itself. "If we cannot carry our practice into sleep," Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche states, "if we lose ourselves every night, what chance do we have to be aware when death comes? Look to your experience in dreams to know how you will fare in death. Look to your experience of sleep to discover whether or not you are truly awake."

In this book, the honourable scholar Abdul Fattah Abu Ghuddah has listed a few pertinent but often neglected Islamic manners. The manners of Islam are many and are therefore impossible to be encompassed in a small book as this one. However, the few that are mentioned discusses the essential manners such as the importance of manners, manners of entering and leaving a home, the manners of visiting, the manners of conversation, social manners, communicating with non-Muslims, the manners of eating and drinking, wedding manners, visiting the sick and the manners of travelling and giving condolences.

Many white Americans do not understand or accept the reality of systemic racism. They do not want to admit that their community, their schools, their government, their churches have a history of participation in a system of racial oppression. Frustrating the attempts to make sense of the history of racism is the exasperating argument that "you just don't understand how it was." Justified by Her Children bears witness to the fact that understanding "how it was" can be a precious gift to help us to understand how it is now-at a time when we need that understanding more than ever.

Racism will not be finally eradicated by one large decisive victory. The wall of racism will be undone brick by brick by the brave deeds of little-known men, women, and young people doing the right thing. Justified by Her Children reminds us that the evils of racial segregation masqueraded as the accepted way of doing things-and that confronting evil is often seen as opposing the good order of society. Justified by Her Children is written in the hope that readers will gain a better understanding of "how it was," and from that understanding, know better how to deal with "how it is" today.

Wings of Forgiveness is a book written for anyone who is ready to release their past and find freedom from fear. Kyle has found through his personal psychic practice and work with the angels that when people are experiencing difficulties, there is one topic that helps click everything else into place - forgiveness. Forgiveness is not an easy subject, but it is a necessary focus in spirituality and personal growth. In Wings of Forgiveness, the reader is taken on a journey - not outside of themselves, but within. They are encouraged to see and accept that they are held and cherished by the divine, that there are loving angels by their side, and master souls in heaven that have walked the path before them. In order for forgiveness to take place, the healing must begin inside - then it can start to reflect outwards and into the reader's life. Kyle draws on many spiritual texts, including A Course in Miracles and The Gnostic Gospels, making these sacred concepts more accessible for his 21st Century readers. Together with the angels, he will show you how to call in the power of heaven to help you forgive, release all that no longer serves you and experience joy and peace.

A guidebook for those at midlife struggling to find themselves, applying Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey to the modern reader's quest for wholeness.

Those reaching midlife often discover that they have been bombarded with messages from society telling them who they should be and what their life should look like. While chasing the three-headed monster (achievement, perfection, and the approval of others), author Ben Katt realized that he had lost himself along the way. The Way Home is a book for those struggling to find their way back to themselves, especially at midlife.

Katt distills Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey into an accessible, ten-step program to help readers move beyond their limitations, find fulfillment, and make the greatest possible contribution to their community and world. Anyone - ordinary, extraordinary, or somewhere in between - can embark upon the Hero's Journey, leaving the familiar, falling into the unknown, and ultimately rising to wholeness.

Bringing together personal experience, spiritual wisdom, and well-known mythologies, The Way Home serves as a practical guidebook to inspire and equip people in the second half of life, helping them move from isolation to belonging, from security to surrender, from conformity to wildness. Katt employs a number of tools and rituals to guide readers along the path back to themselves, including solitude, dreamwork, fasting, and meditation.

This book serves as a reminder to those at a transition point in their life that the most important task is to stay connected with their own heart.

In his final work, the great and beloved Native American scholar Vine Deloria Jr. takes us into the realm of the spiritual and reveals through eyewitness accounts the immense power of medicine men. The World We Used To Live In, a fascinating collection of anecdotes from tribes across the country, explores everything from healing miracles and scared rituals to Navajos who could move the sun. In this compelling work, which draws upon a lifetime of scholarship, Deloria shows us how ancient powers fit into our modern understanding of science and the cosmos, and how future generations may draw strength from the old ways.

One thing is guaranteed: You will struggle and face suffering at some point in your life. When you face that struggle, what will you do?

You can give up and give in OR you can persevere forward with HOPE!

Hope is not passive-it's learned and earned. Hope relies on self-agency, goals, and a framework to achieve. Where can you get a framework that:

• Encompasses the current issues in our healthcare system
• Debunks out-of-date and junk science related to your health
• Provides a framework, using modern neuroscience and a fresh perspective, for you to fully heal

ALL of this and more is in Hope Not Nope!

"But wait, I'm not an athlete...is this book for me?"

Everyone has the opportunity to be a lifelong athlete - YOU are a lifelong athlete - the competitive event is quality of life!

A lifelong athlete is defined as someone who is willing to sacrifice, put the work in, and remain disciplined. These values become harder or flat-out lost when healing doesn't occur or people are given out-of-date labels. For example:

"...bone-on-bone in the living human system does not exist.42Teryama et al. showed that in a cadaver's knee, when they applied a static load equivalent to twice the body weight, the joint surfaces remained between .2-.6mm apart...How can our reasoning suggest that your discomfort is due to something that doesn't happen?" p 47 Hope Not Nope

If you've lost your purpose due to suffering or are feeling beat up due to life's obstacles, know there is more to your health than what you've been delivered. If you're ready to reclaim purpose, joy, and discover the best version of yourself - Hope Not Nope has the solution-based framework waiting for you!

Reviews:

"It is rare to hold such a comprehensive, onpoint, and powerful compilation of all that is positive in my hands. I have to go back to The Power Of Positive Thinking, written by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale in 1952, to find its equal." Tim Green, NY Times Best Selling Author, Former Atlanta Falcons Star Defensive End

"Who wants to live a life of unhappiness and suffering? If you answered "not me", then Hope Not Nope is a book for you! Dillon explains complex physiology simply, making the book accessible to people from all walks of life. You will find yourself nodding, laughing, and challenging your own dogma, often within a single chapter. If you are stuck in a rut or have the desire to make each day better than the last, then you will thoroughly enjoy Hope Not Nope!" Dr. Tim Gabbett, Ph.D. Top 25 Most Impactful Sports Scientists of All Time

"Dillon masterfully explains how to channel and direct your suffering experiences into a position of hope." Dr. Craig Lindell, PT, DPT, CSCS. Co-founder of The [P]rehab Guys

"So many former athletes surrender to an identity of being 'broken' or washed up, and their health and self-worth suffer in the process. In this important book, Dillon lays out a clear and actionable path to lead us through some necessary suffering in order to reclaim our physical and mental health." Adam Rogers, Coach of the World's Top CrossFit Athletes at Training Think Tank

"More than ever people need to feel encouraged and empowered in the modern healthcare world. Dr. Caswell highlights the problem in a way that can allow anyone to recognize how the system is failing and then supports the reader with tools and frameworks to enhance their health outcomes and reclaim their birthright of a healthy and athletic body." Marcus Filly, Founder & Owner of Functional Bodybuilding

Are you looking to add more peace and love to you life, and maybe even the world?

To replace self-judgment and worry with freedom, love, joy and ease?

In How to Love Yourself in Less Than a Week and Also for the Rest of Your Life, beloved psychotherapist and success coach Rachel Madorsky, LCSW, teaches with a light-hearted touch how to do just that! Rachel gives you the tools - and the permission - to love yourself fully, which means more love for you, and more love for others.

And that's how you change the world!

"So Pure & Powerful! Brilliant!"

-SARA CONNELL, bestselling author, master coach, founder of Thought Leader Academy

"WOW. Absolute WOW. My heart was singing the entire time, and then I got to chapter 15! This book is revolutionary and the right words to uplift us."

-ANABEL QUINTANILLA, CNCW, board certified holistic health practitioner, founder of Health and Vida

"This is the love letter hour heart needs now."

-JILL BERNARD, author of Small Cute Book of Improv

Working on the cutting edge of both magic and art, Austin Osman Spare developed a unique synthesis of older ritual magic systems with post-modern, erotic, and surrealist themes. His theory of magic eschews complex formula and ritual to favor creativity, spontaneity, and ecstasy, embracing artistic expression and alternative sexualities. Collected here are some of Spare's most important works. Though dense and esoteric, these texts bear repeated study by the serious occultist, for they speak to the human drives that make real magic possible.

"The seidr current is fresh and vibrant, with the strength and solidity of the Norse deities behind it." - Katie Gerrard

Seidr is the intriguing and powerful early Norse system of shamanistic trance practices. In Seidr: The Gate is Open, Katie Gerrard has contributed a major work on the practices of seidr and trance prophecy, providing a practical manual full of dynamic group rituals and techniques based on known Seidr practices. Foremost amongst these techniques is the prophetic rite of the High Seat, where the Volva (seer) sends her consciousness to the underworld realm of Hel to gain answers to the questions posed to her.

Combining more than a decade of research and experimentation, this book is characterised by both its scholarship and its accessibility. Katie Gerrard shares her own experiences on the path of the seer, and also draws inspiration from original sources in the old texts of the Sagas and the Eddas, as well as contemporary researchers and groups working with seidr in Scandinavia, Europe and America. Techniques for achieving trance, levels of trance possession, coming out of trance, the vardlokkurs (chants), necessary equipment, and the requirements for the roles of the different participants are all discussed clearly and concisely, as is the relevance of contacting the ancestors, the dead, and appropriate gods, including the goddesses Freyja and Hel and the Allfather god Odin.

As befits such an inspirational book, the author provides both the relevant background information for the eleven rites contained within, together with explanations of their inclusion and purposes. The rites emanate practical effectiveness, a result of their regular use over many years for successful exploration of the mysteries of trance prophecy, the High Seat rite and Norse witchcraft. "This is a spiritual journey laid bare for an audience who are either already treading a similar path or are looking for guidance in order to follow a well trodden path to a similar end point."

In Seven Crossroads of Night Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold sets forth the foundation for Quimbanda in theory and practice, presenting a blueprint for the themes that generate the variety of ways Quimbanda can be approached.
Quimbanda is a Brazilian cult of sorcery that has been preserved in different modalities - either as a secret cult, a necromantic cult, or as an open, religious tradition. Formed of indigenous, African, and European streams of wisdom and sorcery, this unique cult of Exu and Pomba Gira is safeguarded by these amazing entities in diverse ways across Brazil. Remaining strong in their own power, these unique entities represent the mystery of the crossroad, the voice of the graveyard, and the force of life that generates endurance, direction, and honour through the lessons given from life itself and the ancestors. Though Quimbanda has flourished in the world during the last decade, with the flow and spread of the cult of Exu and Pomba Gira comes questions, misinformation, and confusion along with the fertile ground for its growth. In such a landscape it is good to have waymarks to follow and a map which reveals the lay of the land in the world of these powerful spirits. Frisvold, a resident of Brazil since 2003 who has dedicated the last three decades in study and initiation of cults of sorcery, wisdom, and cunning craft guides us though the intricacies of Quimbanda, offering a simple and effective guide to approaching Exu and Pomba Gira.

Heal and grow with the restorative power of witchcraft

Witchcraft is rooted in wellness and healing, and has the capacity to radically transform your life through self-care. Witchcraft for Healing will bring more spiritual, emotional, and physical healing to your practice.

No other natural healing books weave in magic and self-care quite like Witchcraft for Healing.

Explore the transformative power of the spells, potions, rituals, and remedies found in this essential witchcraft spell book. Discover new applications for ingredients and elements you can easily find or already have on hand such as candles, crystals, herbs, and essential oils.

Whether you're new to witchcraft or are an experienced practitioner, you'll find ways to deepen your craft and reclaim your power through authentic information, practical applications, and empathetic wisdom.

Soothe and support your mind, body, and spirit with Witchcraft for Healing.

This beautifully illustrated collection of Bible stories is the perfect way to introduce babies, toddlers, and young children to the teachings of God.

• Features more than 20 classic Bible stories from the Old Testament and New Testament.
• Simple, engaging retellings help children build faith and learn fundamental lessons from the Scriptures.
• Includes favorite stories such as The Creation, Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark, and Jesus's birth, death, and resurrection.
• Padded board book is durable and easy for little hands to hold.
• Portable size is perfect for bringing to church, Sunday school, or family outings.
• Makes a wonderful gift for Christmas, baptism, or First Communion, and a perfect Easter basket stuffer!

Why should we meditate? How can crystals heal the mind and body? Why is visualization so powerful - and so effective?

Alternative therapies, healing modalities, and spiritual practices are often referred to as 'woo-woo, ' - but many of these approaches are actually supported by compelling scientific evidence.

In this dynamic and thought-provoking book, David R. Hamilton PhD dives deeper into the true nature of consciousness and presents the cutting-edge research behind energy healing, crystals, meditation, and more.

You'll discover:
- The science behind some of today's most popular alternative practices
- How your thoughts, emotions, and beliefs have healing power
- The benefits of nature and a holistic approach to healing
- A fascinating link between consciousness and human connection
- The relationship between suppressed emotions and disease

The ideas behind some of these holistic therapies have been around for millennia - but now we have scientific evidence demonstrating how they can contribute to physical, emotional, and energetic healing too.

It's time to embrace the truth: That woo-woo really does work.

Buddhism & the Twelve Steps Daily Reflections offers teachings for every day of the year to support your recovery. Daily reflection is at the heart of both Buddhist practice and Twelve Step programs. With the Buddhist emphasis on staying in the present moment and the Twelve Step admonition to take things "one day at a time," the importance of not getting lost in the past or future is clear. With guidance on mindfulness meditation and thoughts on working the Steps, Buddhism & the Twelve Steps Daily Reflections provides a wide range of tools for healing and spiritual growth. The book is organized in a "Step of the Month" format making it useful, as well, as a Step study. If you want to focus on a particular Step, you can go to that month and read those pages.The book introduces basics of Buddhism, thoughts on the challenges of recovery, and guidance for a daily mindfulness practice. Each reflection offers a theme to carry into your daily life and inspire your recovery.An excellent reader for a recovery group or individual.