Collection: Spirituality & Religion

The FIRST MICRODOSING GUIDEBOOK & JOURNAL by an award-winning mindfulness author and teacher that supports the entire process of preparation, actively microdosing, and integration through the lens of mindfulness. This book is for those who have never microdosed and seasoned microdosers alike; for those microdosing on their own and those microdosing with a microdosing coach. It can be used by coaches, guides, and facilitators to better support their clients, programs, or retreats. There are illustrations by a Mexican mural artist for adult coloring, journaling, and contemplation. Reference charts are included to help guide your decisions so you feel educated, safe, and empowered in your mindful microdosing process at every step. Mindful Microdosing: A Guidebook and Journal offers an essential tool whether ingesting psychedelics on a micro or macro level. It cultivates a spaciousness of mind and expansiveness of heart that comes from the author's years of mindfulness practice. Here mindfulness meets microdosing to offer you a unique experience and unfolding process.

Create the life you desire with the 369 manifestation method!

The 369 method is a repeated meditation that draws on the positive energy of the universe to help you achieve everything you want. This journal guides you through your own 369 manifestation journey, teaching you how to tune into your deepest aspirations. Once you've identified your core desires, you'll use this method to build strong intentions and an optimistic mindset so you can make them a reality.

• Discover the Law of Attraction--Learn how the 369 manifestation method puts purposeful and powerful energy into the world and opens you up to receive it back in return.
• Space for daily manifesting--Sit with this journal every day for 12 weeks, using the blank lines to record your chosen affirmation three times in the morning, six times in the afternoon, and nine times in the evening.
• Check in with yourself--Reflect on your progress each week and each month as you create clear goals, achieve an elevated emotional state, and develop a more focused mind.

Harness the power of magnetic attraction and realize your dreams with this manifestation journal for beginners.

"Visionary and spiritual lightbearer Melony McGant has woven together a wonderful collection of beautiful and thought-provoking stories by people from all walks of life, each highlighting the inherent power of Good to enrich and sustain our lives. Treat this book as you would a trusted friend or mentor ... as a source and a resource; filled with words of wisdom, inspiration and solace." -- Lewis Nash, GRAMMY Award WinningrAmerican Jazz Drummer, Bob and Gretchen Ravenscroft Professor of Practice in Jazz, Arizona State University School of Music

GOOD IS POWERFUL BEYOND MEASURE written and collected by Rev. Melony McGant with a Foreword by Ben Vereen and a Special Tribute Section to Betty J. Tilman. Edited by Andrea Christofferson and Shannon Wong. The book is a collective visioning, community and bridgebuilding project with a goal to share a light on the goodness of humanity and nurture the concept of Compassion, Cooperation and Legacy.



GOOD IS POWERUL BEYOND MEASURE is a tribute to the humanitarian work of Ms. Betty J. Tilman, as well as a wonderful collection of Sacred Re-Memberings; where people of all nationalities on four continents. who speak from their hearts. They have many titles ranging from actor, ambassador, artist, attorney, business owner, chef, civil servant, educator, filmmaker, grandfather, grandmother, healer, mentee and mentor to minister, musician, peace officer, performer, photographer, publisher, psychologist, social worker, spiritual leader, student and writer. Their messages are united in healing, hope and light. In poetry and prose, more than 100 people share diverse perspectives highlighting their life lessons and personal truths.

In Section One we ask that you join us in celebration and read the beautiful selections of those who use their writing to represent the multitudes of us who have been positively impacted by Creative Icon and Tony Award Winner, Ben Vereen and the Grammy Award Winning musical Acapella group and artivists, Sweet Honey In The Rock!

In Section Two, enjoy the candid photo collage pages assembled by celebrity photographer Andrew Zaeh. Read about a life-changing moment for him.

In Section Three, are Sacred ReMemberings. Move through the alphabet from A to Z. Many of these stories are very personal. Our authors share their musings and poetry from the depth of their hearts. From thoughts on Asian and Black Lives Matter, life in the time of Covid, to taking wrong turns, embracing faith, discovering and living goodness and honoring those who have left this earth realm, our co-authors share the importance of ancestry, compassion, legacy, nature and Love.

In Section Four of GOOD IS POWERFUL BEYOND MEASURE: An Anthology of Hope!, we honor life and legacy of Ms. Betty J. Tilman!

Believe. Breathe Deeply. Open Your Hearts. ReMember. Forgive. Laugh. Cry. Live. Love. Believe. Breathe Deeply.

Adentrarse en las "Cartas de San Ignacio de Antioquía" es emprender un viaje a través del tiempo y la fe en los albores del cristianismo. San Ignacio, obispo y mártir, nos legó con sus palabras un valioso tesoro de enseñanzas y convicciones que resuenan a lo largo de los siglos.

Estas cartas, escritas mientras enfrentaba su martirio, son ventanas a la antigüedad cristiana. Nos transportan a una época en la que la Iglesia, nacida de la semilla del Evangelio, comenzaba a echar raíces y a expandirse. A través de sus epístolas, San Ignacio nos brinda un atisbo de la vida, la doctrina y la organización de la Iglesia primitiva.

La pluma de San Ignacio se convierte en un instrumento que nos permite vislumbrar la pasión y la devoción que animaban a los primeros cristianos. Al leer sus cartas, se percibe la urgencia y la convicción con las que instaba a la unidad, a la obediencia y al amor fraterno entre los creyentes. Sus palabras también resplandecen por la valentía con la que enfrentaba el martirio, considerándolo como el medio para alcanzar la plena unión con Cristo.

Estas cartas no solo son un testimonio histórico, sino también una fuente de inspiración para los creyentes de hoy. Nos invitan a reflexionar sobre nuestra propia fe, a vivirla con un espíritu ardiente y a recordar que somos parte de una tradición que se remonta a los primeros seguidores de Jesucristo.

En esta obra, nos adentraremos en el corazón y la mente de San Ignacio de Antioquía, permitiéndonos absorber la esencia misma de su fe y su sacrificio. Es una oportunidad de conectarnos con una figura clave en la historia del cristianismo y de sumergirnos en un legado que sigue vibrando en la Iglesia hasta el día de hoy.

Prepara tu corazón y tu mente para este viaje a través de las "Cartas de San Ignacio de Antioquía", donde la antigüedad se encuentra con la eternidad.

Islam has been one of the most powerful religious, social and political forces in history. Over the last 1400 years, from origins in Arabia, a succession of Muslim polities and later empires expanded to control territories and peoples that ultimately stretched from southern France to East Africa and South East Asia.
Yet many of the contributions of Muslim thinkers, scientists and theologians, not to mention rulers, statesmen and soldiers, have been occluded. This book rescues from oblivion and neglect some of these personalities and institutions while offering the reader a new narrative of this lost Islamic history. The Umayyads, Abbasids, and Ottomans feature in the story, as do Muslim Spain, the savannah kingdoms of West Africa and the Mughal Empire, along with the later European colonization of Muslim lands and the development of modern nation-states in the Muslim world. Throughout, the impact of Islamic belief on scientific advancement, social structures, and cultural development is given due prominence, and the text is complemented by portraits of key personalities, inventions and little known historical nuggets. The history of Islam and of the world's Muslims brings together diverse peoples, geographies and states, all interwoven into one narrative that begins with Muhammad and continues to this day.

"Spiritually, We is a must-read for anyone who feels lonely and disconnected."
--Dr. Nicole LePera, #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Do the Work

"We need each other," says internationally bestselling author Sah D'Simone. That's the unapologetically loving message at the heart of Spiritually, We, a moving manifesto for an increasingly "me, me, me" moment.

In this bold call to action, Sah maps how contemporary spirituality has become an increasingly self-centered project, only exacerbating the loneliness that plagues modern life. Brilliantly illuminating not only why connection is a fundamental piece of a deep spiritual practice, but how to connect with others authentically, Spiritually, We is the essential field guide to deepening friendships, building community, and ultimately healing not only yourself but the whole damn world.

Drawing on the insights and tools he has developed as both teacher and student--as well as the expertise of researchers, journalists, and healers across diverse fields--Sah holds nothing back as he invites us to release an "us vs them" mindset, cultivate radical compassion, and creatively transform our struggles into opportunities for awakening.

Full of Sah's trademark candor and sass, Spiritually, We is the wake-up call for our times, a deeply felt and necessary reminder that you aren't alone, that you aren't meant to be alone, and that it is side by side with others where true wisdom flourishes.

An incisive look into the early Buddhist teachings on emptiness, and a manual for bringing those teachings into our everyday lives.

Before the growth of the Mahayana and the Perfection of Wisdom, the Buddha gave his own teachings, to his attendant Ananda, on the importance of emptiness (Pali sunnata, Sanskrit sunyata) in formal meditation and everyday practice. In this volume, renowned scholar-monk Bhikkhu Analayo explores these teachings and shows us how to integrate them into our lives.

Bhikkhu Analayo draws from instructions found in the Greater and the Smaller Discourses on Emptiness (the Mahasunnatasutta and the Culasunnatasutta). In each chapter, he provides a translation of a pertinent excerpt from the discourses, follows this with clear and precise explanations of the text, and concludes by offering instructions for practice.

Step by step, beginning with daily life and concluding with Nirvana, Bhikkhu Analayo unpacks the Buddha's teachings on the foundational teaching of emptiness.

Learn how to process your own grief--as well as family, community, and global grief--with this fierce and openhearted guide to healing in an unjust world.

In unsettling and uncertain times, the individual and collective heartbreak that lives in our bodies and communities can feel insurmountable. Many of us have been conditioned by the dominant culture to not name, focus on, or wade through the difficulties of our lives. But in order to heal, we must make space for grief and prioritize our wholeness, our humanity, and our inherent divinity.

In Finding Refuge, social justice activist, social worker, and yoga teacher Michelle Cassandra Johnson offers those who feel brokenhearted, helpless, confused, powerless, and desperate the tools they need to be present with their grief while also remaining openhearted. Through powerful personal narrative and meditation and journaling practices at the end of each chapter that explore being present with your heart, Michelle empowers us to see that each of us has a role to play in building enough momentum to take intentional action and shift what is unsettled and unjust in the world. Finding Refuge is an invitation to pick up the shattered parts of yourself and remember your strength, wholeness, and sacredness through this practice of presence and attending to your grief.

Leave embellishment by the wayside and let these ghastly and sometimes dreadful stories of the historic streets of Charleston tell themselves!

Combing through the oft-forgotten enclaves of the Holy City, where true life is stranger than fiction, authors Ed Macy and Geordie Buxton bring readers face to face with a group of orphans who haunt a College of Charleston dorm, a Citadel cadet who haunts a local hotel and the specter of William Drayton at Drayton Hall Plantation - just to name a few. Based on historic events and specific details that are often lost in most ghost stories, this collection of haunting tales sparks curiosity about what figure might still be lurking in the alleyways of Charleston's storied streets.

Reading a translation of any book is just not the same as reading it in its original language and is adequately stated in the phrase "lost in the translation." Whenever a text is translated from one language to another it loses some of its flavor and substance. The problem is compounded by the fact that a language is tied to the culture that uses that language. When the text is read by a culture different from the one it is written in, it loses its cultural context. A Biblical example of this can be found in the Hebrew word tsur which is translated as a rock - "He only is my rock and my salvation, he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved" (Psalm 62:2, KJV). What is a rock and how does it apply to God? To us it may mean solid, heavy or hard but the cultural meaning of the word tsur is a high place in the rocks where one runs to for refuge and defense, a place of salvation. "The Living Words" is an in-depth study into the Ancient Hebrew vocabulary and culture of the Bible replacing the flavor and substance that has been removed from us.

Night of Beginnings is a groundbreaking new haggadah for the Passover seder from acclaimed poet, translator, and liturgist Marcia Falk, beautifully designed and illustrated with original color drawings by the author.

Unlike both traditional and new haggadahs, which do not contain a full recounting of the biblical story, Night of Beginnings presents the Exodus narrative in its entirety, providing a direct connection to the ancient origins of the holiday. This retelling highlights the actions of its female characters, including Moshe's sister, Miriam; Pharaoh's daughter, who adopts the baby Moshe; and the midwives Shifrah and Pu'ah, who save the Hebrew male infants. Falk's revolutionary new blessings, in Hebrew and English, replace the traditional, patriarchal seder blessings, and her kavanot--meditative directions for prayer--introduce a genre new to the seder ritual. Poems, psalms, and songs are arranged to give structural coherence to the haggadah. A new commentary raises interpretive questions and invites us to bring personal reflections into the discussion.

Like the author's widely acclaimed previous prayer books, The Book of Blessings and The Days Between, Falk's poetic blessings for the seder envision the divine as a Greater Whole of which we are an inseparable part. The inclusive language of Falk's blessings makes room for women to find and use their voices more full-throatedly than they were able to do with the male-centered prayers inherited from the early rabbis. Men, too, will encounter here a spiritually moving and thought-provoking experience.

A complete workout for the mind, body, and soul with classic, authentic yoga from the country of its origin.

Authentic, restorative, and holistic, How to Fall in Love with Yoga is a stroll through the world of yoga, where Sarvesh Shashi, the author, encourages readers to experience the different facets of the practice. Through four key goals and accompanying poses and flows, the author does a deep dive into the basics of the practice. It is contemplative and inclusive, peppered, on occasion, with personal notes and experiences.

How to Fall in Love with Yoga is as much about the body as it is about the spirit and as much about fitness as it is about mindfulness.

Dive into this calming yoga book to discover:

-A step-by-step yoga in classic DK style.
-Complex poses are made simple in an illustrative style.
-Features benefits and notes from Sarvesh Shashi for beginners.
-Detailed meditative techniques at the end of each chapter to bring focus to mindfulness.
-Keynotes from Sarvesh Shashi, who shares his experiences and knowledge, help readers understand the key philosophy of yoga.

Not bound by age, school, or style, it will reach into the heart of yoga, cutting through all the noise to share with the reader what is true to the authentic and original form of the practice. The book will contain a youthful flavor as it walks the yogi - for there is a yogi within all of us - through different postures while providing the reader with context, additional information, and useful tips.

The poses and goals are practical and aim to build a love for the practice. It is why each section ends with meditation to help the practitioner relax and focus at the end of their goal.

More Meaningful Ritual, More Powerful Magic

Many books tell you how to cast a Wiccan circle. Deborah Lipp's seminal work tells you why. Fully revised and expanded with fresh insights and updated language, this new edition is a vital addition to your bookshelf.

A High Priestess with decades years of experience, Lipp looks at every ritual step through an elemental lens, revealing the process (Earth), mythology (Water), mysticism (Fire), and theology (Air) behind it. In addition to sharing modern information on gender and polarity, she provides all-new sections on the history of elemental associations and how and when to raise and release the cone of power.

The Elements of Ritual teaches you what each ritual step means, why it's there, what it accomplishes, and how it's performed. This edition adds alternate orders and new options for the traditional steps, empowering you to create your own rituals. Packed with how-to and how-not-to instruction for practitioners who want to go beyond the basics, this guide deepens your understanding of Wicca's most enduring rite.

Practical, sophisticated, and highly relevant over twenty years later, The Elements of Ritual helps your creative and magical abilities flourish.

Includes a new foreword by Thorn Mooney, author of The Witch's Path

Beautiful edition with a new introduction to the intriguing and unique history of Korea, its mythology and its people.

Korea's myths and folklore are rooted in the ancient history of a land inhabited since Neolithic times. The earliest years are subject to myth with some references to the Gojoseon Kingdom being found in the northern region of Korea and Southern province of China in the 2300s BCE. Records become more reliable from the middle of the first millennium BCE before a 700-year stretch which is referred to as The Three Kingdom period before the ultimate domination of one of those Kingdoms, Silla, roughly at the time of the Viking Age in Europe and Scandinavia. Before long, though, the Mongol invasions of Korea in the 1200s overwhelmed the local rulers. Over 200 years later the Joseon Dynasty swept to power, heralding a golden era of independence, scientific and social development, and the creation of the Korean alphabet. This beautiful new book explores the ancient history of Korea through curated extracts form classic historical texts complemented by insightful new introductions from Stella Xu.

Flame Tree Collector's Editions present the foundations of speculative fiction, authors, myths and tales without which the imaginative literature of the twentieth century would not exist, bringing the best, most influential and most fascinating works into a striking and collectable library. Each book features a new introduction, and lists of Ancient Kings & Leaders or a Glossary of Terms.

Based on firsthand practical experiences of communicating with natural spirits through meditation, this eye-opening guide to healing the earth teaches how to work with elemental beings by describing each in detail while defining their roles within the web of life. As a result of tuning in to plants, trees, and animals, and illustrating the disrupted flow of energies within the landscape, the true impact of human culture upon the harmony of the natural world is evocatively revealed. Insight into related topics, such as how the long-suppressed Goddess culture embraces these energies to make strides toward healing the earth, can set anyone with earth and landscape concerns--gardeners, growers, designers, and builders--one step closer toward becoming environmental warriors.

I will always remember, as a child, hearing my mom tell Bible stories. She made the men and women on the pages of God's Word come alive, and I would listen with fascination as she described battles, evil kings, dangerous journeys, and breathtaking miracles. I knew that these stories were not like any other because they came from the pages of God's Book: they were absolutely true.

Through those stories, my mom planted in my heart an enduring love for the Bible. She made me feel like I knew Esther, that I could sit down and talk to David, and that Jesus was as close to me as the bear I held in my arms under the covers. Today, as a grown woman, I look forward to the day that I will be able to meet the Bible heroes and heroines who have taught me invaluable life lessons and who have helped me to understand God's plan for His people from the beginning.

The lessons that you will find in this book involve Old Testament women whose true stories are often untold. I hope you will be encouraged and that your faith will grow as you see the quality of strength radiate through the lives of these remarkable women. Some of their names you will recognize and others may be completely unfamiliar to you, but I believe that studying the unique characteristics of each of these women can help you on your journey to becoming a stronger Christian serving in God's kingdom.

Our God values, loves, and cares for women. Throughout the Bible, we find many examples of how women involved themselves in the Lord's work, how they demonstrated their faith through obedience to God, how they influenced others as a result of their godly choices, and how God used them to accomplish His Will. They weren't inhibited by what they couldn't do; instead they changed lives because of what they could do.

Today, God needs women to do the same!

Whether it's teaching the Bible to a small child or to a room full of women, whether it's lifting some one up in prayer or sharing the Gospel in a personal Bible study, whether it's writing a note of encouragement or curriculum for Bible classes, the opportunities for women to work in the church are abundant and meaningful. The church needs Christian women who are teachers, speakers, writers, organizers, visionaries, and missionaries who can lead other women and children in their walks with God and take the message of the Gospel to the world. When we recognize the important roles we have and humbly follow the guidelines found in the New Testament, we empower ourselves and our daughters to use the talents we've been given in harmony with God's perfect plan for the organization and sustainment of His church.

The purpose of Trailblazers is to motivate women to become stronger for the cause of Christ. The Bible tells us that we must be prepared not only to fight for our faith, but also to defend it. This study will help women find the strength to do both.