Collection: Spirituality & Religion

It has never been more important to read Revelation well.

Whether you love it, hate it, or avoid it like the plague, the last book of the Bible's influence permeates our cultural, political, and religious landscapes. From the so-bad-they're...still bad actually...Left Behind series, to conspiracy theories about microchips and barcodes, to all-too-real political discourse and actions, John's visions in Revelation reach far beyond anything their ancient author could have imagined.

But what did John imagine? Who was he writing for and why? And what's the deal with all the hideous horned beasts?

Join New Testament scholar Robyn Whitaker as she uncovers the real-world contexts behind this ancient apocalyptic text. A world occupied by an oppressive empire, a marginalized people, and a God committed to justice. Where a beast overthrown was a declaration of authority and a falling star was a statement of evil's demise. Where symbols gave voice to resistance and visions provided a glimpse of hope. A world utterly and entirely ancient.

Only when we understand Revelation's ancient contexts can we begin to find meaning from it for our own.

Learn to read Revelation well with The Bible for Normal People-bringing the best in biblical scholarship to everyone.

"A great reference for keeping the family healthy using herbal medicine." --Cultivate to Plate

Are you seeking safe and natural ways to help bolster your family's health and wellness? Dr. JJ Pursell is here to help with herbal recipes focused on whole-family health.

Medicinal Herbs for Family Health and Wellness focuses on natural treatments for women, men, babies, kids, and the elderly. It covers everything from asthma, allergies, and heart health, to pregnancy, lactation, cradle cap, and colic. The 123 recipes include capsules, salves, teas, tinctures and more that are safe and easy to create at home. You will also learn how to build a home apothecary and find value in a primer focused on the most powerful herbs. There is nothing more important than safety when it comes to family, and the trusted advice found in Medicinal Herbs for Family Health and Wellness will provide the assurance you need.

Learn how to read tarot cards and use them as a tool for personal growth with this easy-to-follow and enchantingly illustrated guide.

Tarot reading is an ancient and powerful divination method that can also be harnessed to explore and deepen your emotional and spiritual life. In Tarot Magic, you'll explore:

• The meanings of the Major and Minor Arcana
• Methods for understanding the significance of each card in the deck
• Essential tarot spreads and when to use them
• The ways tarot can help you navigate your life

Discover the origins of tarot, the Major and Minor Arcana, and how to interpret each card. This guide is filled with beautiful illustrations to guide you on your journey to learning tarot in a fun, accessible way.

The Mystical Handbook series from Wellfleet takes you on a magical journey through the wonderful world of spellcraft and spellcasting. Explore a new practice with each volume and learn how to incorporate spells, rituals, blessings, and cleansings into your daily routine. These portable companions feature beautiful foil-detail covers and color-saturated interiors on a premium paper blend.

Other books in the series include: Wicca Magic, Animal Magic, Witchcraft, Moon Magic, Love Spells, Fairy Magic, Goddess Magic, Knot Magic, Superstitions, House Magic, and Herbal Magic.

A shaman can serve as a healer, storyteller, and a keeper of wisdom--but most of all, teaches Sandra Ingerman, "Shamans radiate a light that uplifts everybody. In our culture, we tend to focus on methods and forget that the greatest way we can offer healing to the world is to become a vessel of love." With Walking in Light, this renowned teacher offers a complete guide for living in a shamanic way--empowered by purpose, focus, and a deep connection to the spiritual dimensions.

"Shamanism remains so relevant because it continues to evolve to meet the needs of the times and culture," teaches Sandra. Here you are invited to participate in the modern evolution of this ancient and powerful form of spirituality, featuring:

- Foundational practices--lucid instruction on the shamanic journey, ceremonies, and other techniques for accessing the hidden realms of spirit
- Compassionate spirits, allies, and ancestors--how to contact and build a relationship with your power animals and spiritual helpers
- Healing from a shamanic perspective--practices that can integrate with and enhance any healing modality
- Guidance for deepening your connection with the environment and the rhythms of the natural world
- Ways to cultivate a rich inner landscape that empowers your intentions and actions in every aspect of your life, and much more

Walking in Light is a comprehensive resource filled with practical techniques, indigenous wisdom, and invaluable guidance for both new and experienced shamanic practitioners. Most importantly, Sandra Ingerman illuminates the meaning behind the practices--revealing our universe as a place where spirit is the ultimate reality, where our intentions shape our world, and where unseen allies support us on every step of our journey.

From the author of the Modern Witchcraft series comes a new book on romantic spells to bring you love, companionship, and passion, with straightforward, accessible spell instructions.

The Modern Witchcraft Book of Love Spells is a comprehensive collection that will help you get the love you want--from manifesting a mate, to blessing and helping new love, to helping you reconnect with a partner and stoking the flame to add fire to your romance.

This book will guide you toward your romantic desires to find love--with the help of a little magic!

An enneagram introduction that invites you to enter into the experience of the 9 enneagram types, using engaging story integrated with compelling visuals. Stimulating in presentation and accurate in content, you'll learn the core qualities of each type, how they react when in conflict situations or when stressed, their basic communication styles and more. Compelling metaphors and charming illustrations illuminate each type's transformational journey and include three deeply developmental activities for each type.

For readers who also enjoy conceptual frameworks, the book appendix offers all you need to know with both clarity and precision: confusions between types, centers of intelligence, type, wings and arrows, fixations and holy ideas, passions and virtues, instincts and the 27 subtypes, and levels of self-mastery by type.

"What is this frequency in which we are suspended? It's as if there's a plant medicine without the plant. It's as if there's a current of medicine holding us and coordinating every single moment... and all we need to do is show up and surrender. It's like the medicine frequency of a rising and remembering humanity."

In the latest book by Rhiannon Heins, one of Australia's most sought-after energy healers and teachers, she reveals an ancient energetic frequency that is rising and returning-a frequency that can be tapped into intuitively, without complicated processes or hours-long plant medicine journeys.

In this book, "The Intuitive Rebirth," you'll discover what this ancient energy is, where it's coming from, and what it means for anyone ready to embark on their own intuitive rebirth journey today.

This journey is a shamanic rewiring-one of repatterning, forgetting, remembering, and returning home to your absolute soul truth. Over 15 lessons, the channeled medicine frequency of Awen will guide you to reveal and activate more of your profound potential, your orgasmic pleasure, and your primal joy. In Part Two, Rhiannon will guide you through the process of integrating the lessons from Part One. Finally, in Part Three, you'll discover the upgrades available to you right now. By the end, you will possess the codes for complete mastery of your life.

About the Author

Rhiannon is an intuitive channel, a #1 bestselling author, and an energy worker. She dedicates her life to her soul's work, and at every stage of her journey, there has been a desire to initiate as many gifted lightworkers as possible into their roles on Earth at this time.

For the past ten years, Rhiannon has been working and lecturing as an intuitive body-worker, psychic channel, remedial massage therapist, teaching yoga, meditation, and breathwork, and facilitating yoga teacher trainings internationally. Now, using her channeled Intuitive Rebirth energy work method, Rhiannon is empowering healers to step into their power as authentic, transformational energy workers.

Blaise Pascal set out to produce a monumental work of Christian apologetics but his untimely death meant that only his fragmentary notes--his thoughts--would be passed on to future generations. The 'random' notes of most people would not be worth preserving; not so with Blaise Pascal. Not only do his 'thoughts' continue to provoke new insights into the Christian religion, but they were praised as among the finest in French literature. This edition comes with an index for tracking down concepts and tracing Pascal's sophisticated reasoning throughout the volume.

This affordable, authoritative edition of the Shiva Samhita contains a new introduction, the original Sanskrit, a new English translation, nine full-page photographs, and an index. It includes beautiful teachings found nowhere else. This is the first edition of this classic Yoga text to meet both high academic and literary standards, the first to be based on a truly critical study of the Sanskrit manuscripts. It's for people who practice Yoga, and for anyone with an interest in health and fitness, philosophy, religion, spirituality, mysticism, or meditation.

From the Introduction
Composed over five centuries ago, the Shiva Samhita is one of the most celebrated root texts of Hatha Yoga. It includes beautiful teachings found nowhere else. This edition contains the original Sanskrit, properly edited and printed for the first time, and a new, accurate translation thereof. It also features photographs of the asanas and mudras described therein.

Excerpt
The Lord said, "There is one eternal true knowledge, without beginning or end. No other real entity exists. The diversity which is found in this world appears through the imposition of the senses on knowledge and for no other reason.

Affectionate toward his devotees, the Lord, having cast aside opinions born of the ignorance of sophists, shall now pronounce a Yoga teaching that bestows liberation on the selves of all beings, so that beings whose minds are set on no other destiny may have knowledge of their selves.

Some praise truth and others asceticism and purity. Some praise patience and others equanimity and honesty.

Some praise charity and others ancestor worship. Some praise action and some absolute indifference.

Some wise men praise the rites of the householder and some say that rites such as the fire sacrifice are the best.

Some praise Mantra Yoga and pilgrimage. In this way, many means to liberation are taught.

Voltaire called him the "man who never dies and knows everything." The Count Saint Germain turned base metals into gold, removed the flaws from diamonds and discovered the elixir of youth. In the eighteenth century, this "Wonderman of Europe" was the confidant of kings and a friend to the poor.

Today the master Saint Germain shows that miracles are nothing more than the natural outgrowth of the practice of spiritual alchemy. In this greatest of all self-help books, he describes the principles of alchemy and how you can use them in your own life to bring about spiritual, mental, emotional and physical transformation.

Getting Good at Getting Older is a bedside companion, a portable best friend, and a baedeker of essential resources for anyone smart enough to age mindfully rather than just let it happen to them. - Letty Cottin Pogrebin, founding editor of Ms. magazine and author of Getting Over Getting Older

We transformed society in the 60's and 70's, through the civil rights movement, the evolution of feminism, and the sexual revolution. We raised our voices, refused to sit down, and in the process, changed the way the world saw young people.

We aren't young anymore. But we are still revolutionary. We are confronting and challenging assumptions about aging, by living longer, being more active than our parents and grandparents, and simply doing things differently. And in the process, we are changing the way the world sees older people.

Getting Good at Getting Older is a tour for all of us of a certain age through the resources and skills we need to navigate the years between maturity and old age. It brings humor, warmth, and more than 4,000 years of Jewish experience to the question of how to shape this new stage of life.

A guiding light amid the world's chaos and a manual for rejecting materialism, in the form of writings by Japanese Buddhist monks

These simple, inspiring writings by three medieval Buddhist monks offer peace and wisdom amid the world's uncertainties, and are an invitation to relinquish earthly desires and instead taste life in the moment.

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives--and upended them. Now Penguin brings you a new set of the acclaimed Great Ideas, a curated library of selections from the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

"Amphibious Soul is an important book. . . . This book isn't about learning how to be wild but rather a guide to recognizing and reconnecting with the wild in and around us. It is a book that will inspire hope."--Jane Goodall

A passionate love story about nature that inspires readers to reclaim their inner wildness--the debut adult nonfiction book from the naturalist, filmmaker, creator, and star of the Oscar-winning documentary My Octopus Teacher

An adventure story, love story, travelogue, naturalist memoir, and spiritual guide, Craig Foster's Amphibious Soul is a scientist and adventurer's perspective on "rewilding"--developing a deep connection to our animal selves that can reinvigorate our lives. Told in Craig's warm and passionate voice, this extraordinary book will change not only the way we interact with the natural world, but the way we fundamentally see ourselves.

A decade ago, living in a city and feeling exhausted and empty, Craig decided to return to his birthplace--the Cape of Good Hope--and dive into the great African Sea forest each day. His daily oceanic adventures not only helped him "rewild", but helped him come to see his own "amphibious soul" as a powerful metaphor for the human condition. We homo sapiens are by nature wild animals attempting to exist in a docile world. So how can we reclaim our wildness in a world that wants us to stay so tamed?

An extraordinary literary work, Amphibious Soul is a riveting narrative filled with meticulous descriptions of an adventure in the natural world that speaks to readers on an intimate level, challenging us to consider our personal relationship to nature, and inspiring us to realign our daily practices to help save the global ecosystem. Whether we live close to nature or in an urban jungle, Craig shows us how to nurture our individual wildness, tap into our empathy, and deepen our love for all living things. He teaches us to track the wild around us, and by doing so become present in the moment and revel in being wondrously alive.

Featuring breathtaking original photos and QR codes that access mini-videos of never-seen-before animal interactions, Amphibious Soul is a remarkable experience that will transform us and ultimately our world.

Here's the promise of this book in 28 words...

• You're going to learn how to ask God questions.
• You're going to get answers.
• And then you're going to use those answers to recode your life for success.

GOD TALKS is a simple process that will show you how to instantly break through any obstacle and create abundance in your life. By the time you are done, you'll feel more energetic, more vibrant, and more alive. Your relationships will be better, stronger, and more meaningful. You will be more focused and fearless.

And you're going to reconnect with an old Friend. You may have met him before.

His name is God.

Growing up, I knew two things to be true:

My dad was a drunk.

Being an Indian was complicated.

When I joined the Navy, these two ideas were cemented when my fellow sailors, after finding out that I was an American Indian, would ask me if I drank a lot or if I still lived in a TeePee. They were asking questions because that's what they knew and I couldn't blame them. I could only answer "no" to both. These questions, posed by my curious new friends, made me wish that I knew more about my background, about me.

Dad tried to teach us the language, the culture, what it meant to be Ojibwe. But no one wants to learn from a drunken Indian, least of all, me. Then, in the winter of 1980, my dad nearly died. When he awoke, everything changed. This is his story.

Warrior Spirit Rising is the inspiring true account of Gene Goodsky, as told through the eyes of his oldest daughter, Dianna. Gene was raised in the North Woods of Minnesota, on the tribal lands of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa. Surviving years of cultural genocide, racism, and the Vietnam War left him broken-battling severe PTSD and alcohol abuse.

In this stunning tale of Native American perseverance, Good Sky unravels the history of her father, her family, and her people, and the near-death experience that would change their lives forever. With both wit and honesty, she explores the devastating loss of heritage that has impacted generations of Native Americans, and how the powerful choice to forgive can leave a legacy.

The Muqaddimah (ألمقدمة), often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406), this monumental work established the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including the philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and economics.

The first complete English translation, by the eminent Islamicist and interpreter of Arabic literature Franz Rosenthal, was published in three volumes in 1958 as part of the Bollingen Series and received immediate acclaim in the United States and abroad.