Collection: Spirituality & Religion

This complete translation of the original collection of sermons, dialogues, and anecdotes of Huang Po, the illustrious Chinese master of the Tang Dynasty, allows the Western reader to gain an understanding of Zen from the original source, one of the key works in its teachings; it also offers deep and often startling insights into the rich treasures of Eastern thought. Nowhere is the use of paradox in Zen illustrated better than in the teaching of Huang Po, who shows how the experience of intuitive knowledge that reveals to a man what he is cannot be communicated by words. With the help of these paradoxes, beautifully and simply presented in this collection, Huang Po could set his disciples on the right path. It is in this fashion that the Zen master leads his listener into truth, often by a single phrase designed to destroy his particular demon of ignorance.

Gilgamesh, the King of Uruk, and his friend Enkidu are the only heroes from ancient Babylonian stories that have survived. They are the main characters in an old poem from around 3000 years ago. In the poem, they go on adventures together, like defeating a powerful bull and killing a scary monster. But when Enkidu dies, Gilgamesh is very sad and afraid of dying himself. This makes him go on a journey to find a way to live forever. "The Epic of Gilgamesh" is a story that teaches us about right and wrong, sad things, and exciting adventures. It's an important piece of literature that explores the idea of people wanting to live forever.

Did you ever wish you knew the future? Check this out! Jesus shared the future with John and told him to write it all down so that we could know it too. From prison to Heaven to the future and back again, this is John's journey and what he saw and heard along the way. What's going to happen? What should we do? How will it all end? Get ready for this completely wild and totally true story straight from the Bible!

The influence of the Seven Wandering Stars or Deathless Powers - the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn - has shaped the development of magick for many thousands of years. Their influence can be seen permeating many of the modern Western Esoteric Traditions, which are the inheritors of the wisdom & knowledge passed down through the ages. From Ancient Sumeria, to the Greeks, Romans, early Qabalists, Medieval & Renaissance Grimoire Magickians through to the Victorian Occult Societies, the influence of the planets is clearly present in the symbolism of their ceremonies, practices & beliefs.

In this practical sourcebook, the authors bring together old & new techniques which they hope will inspire others to explore the multi-faceted world of planetary magick. There are simple planetary contemplations, hymns & meditation journeys, ideal for the novice who wants to explore the symbolism of the planets & in doing so learn to focus the different planetary energies.

Information is provided on the many spiritual beings associated with the planets - The Gods & Goddesses who give their names to the planets, the Olympic Spirits, Archangels, Orders of Angels, Planetary Intelligences & Planetary Spirits. Essential techniques for creating planetary sigils using the magick number squares, calculating planetary hours, making & consecrating amulets & talismans are given with practical examples.

Drawing from their experience & knowledge gained working in a number of Western Esoteric Traditions, the authors also present original planetary techniques & ceremonies, including the Ritual of the Heptagram, Planetary Pyramids, Planetary Magick Circles & Angle Webs. The rich symbolism & influence of the magick of the Wandering Stars underlies the spiritual & magickal heritage of Western Esotericism. Through exploring & working with the Deathless Powers, the reader can come to a greater understanding of the transformative powers they offer every true seeker of the Mysteries.

We perform ceremonies to mark important events and celebrate holidays--yet our modern approach to ceremony only scratches the surface of its true potential. With The Book of Ceremony, shamanic teacher Sandra Ingerman presents a rich and practical resource for creating ceremonies filled with joy, purpose, and magic. "We are hungry to connect with more than what we experience with our ordinary senses in the material world," writes Sandra. "By performing ceremonies, you will find yourself stepping into a beautiful and creative power you might never have imagined."

Weaving shamanic teachings together with stories, examples, and guiding insights, The Book of Ceremony explores:

- The elements of a powerful ceremony--including setting strong intentions, choosing your space, preparing ceremonial items, and dealing gracefully with the unexpected
- Stepping into the sacred--key practices for leaving behind your everyday concerns and creating a space where magic can happen
- Guidance for working alone, in community, and across distances with virtual ceremonies
- Invoking spiritual allies--the power of working with the elements, the natural world, ancestor spirits, and the creative energy of the divine
- Sacred transitions--including ceremonies for weddings, births, rites of passage to adulthood, funerals, honorable closure, and new beginnings
- Ceremonies for energetic balance--healing and blessing, resolving sacred contracts, getting rid of limiting beliefs, creating Prayer Trees, and more
- Life as a ceremony--how to infuse your entire life with ceremonial practice, from planting a garden to revitalizing your home or office to helping heal our planet

The Book of Ceremony is more than a "how-to" guide--it will inspire you to create original ceremonies tailored to your own needs and the needs of your community. When you invoke the sacred power of ceremony, you tap into one of the oldest and most effective tools for transforming both yourself and the world. As Sandra writes, "If you perform one powerful and successful ceremony for yourself, the principle of oneness ensures that all of life heals and evolves."

Have you ever felt like your day-to-day life is one big 'to-do' list? There's the daily juggle of work, an energy-sapping commute, the demands of family life or running a busy household. And then there are life's crucial turning points: relaunching a career, moving house, finding love. Between all that noise, it can be hard to make and maintain friendships.

The Little Book of Friendship offers guidance for when the scales of life are tipped and a moment of companionship is needed. Packed full of wise words from some of the world's best-known figures - from ancient philosophers and celebrated writers to modern-day figures - this book will help you to prioritize your friendships and truly value your loved ones, even when times are tough.

'No road is too long in the company of a good friend.'
- Japanese proverb 'Friendship is essentially a partnership.'
- Aristotle"

Ladies! Tap into the wisdom of your womanhood and learn through real stories, helpful visualizations, and creative exercises how the sacred pelvic bowl supports and informs your ability to be creative, self-heal, and feel empowered in your life.

Wild Feminine: Finding Power, Spirit, & Joy in the Female Body offers a unique, holistic approach to reclaiming the power, spirit, and joy of the female body and the understanding of its connection to creative energy flow. By restoring the physical and energetic balance in the pelvic bowl, women can learn to care for themselves in a nourishing and respectful manner, heal spiritual fractures, and renew their relationship with the sacred feminine.

In today's age of women needing to reclaim their feminine power and bodily autonomy, Tami Kent--founder of Holistic Pelvic Care(TM) and a women's health and physical therapist--provides a framework for healing the body and navigating the realms of the feminine spirit. Through pelvic bodywork, healing stories, visualizations, rituals, and creative exercises, women can explore the deep and natural wisdom inherent in the female body.

Wild Feminine reveals the amazing potential of the female body: the potential to create, to heal, and to transform energy at the core of all womanhood and radically shift your relationship with your body and spirit. Wild Feminine gives you the tools to awaken and retrieve your ancient wild self, restore your joy and creative energy, and reconnect to your sacred center.

Protected By The Light is the most comprehensive guide to diagnosing, treating and preventing psychic attacks. Dr. Goldberg uses the latest research on energy fields, auric bodies, chakras, white magic, black magic, possession and demonology-as well as case histories from his hypnotherapy practice-to explore and explain the phenomenon of psychic attacks. This book includes more than 55 exercises to help the reader strengthen their aura and learn to protect themself and their loved ones against all forms of psychic attack. Psychic protection of this type brings with it a personal empowerment like no other.

The Tarot Companion: A Portable Guide to Reading the Cards for Yourself and Others is the quick-reference handbook you need to understand the art of reading tarot.

Tarot-reading is one of the oldest esoteric practices. Lore has it that the art of reading tarot cards has existed for over 600 years. Yet tarot is more popular than ever in our modern society because the cards speak to our most instinctual and primal selves through their stories, meanings, and symbols.

In The Tarot Companion, best-selling tarot author Liz Dean reveals the messages and mystery of the cards from the Major to Minor Arcana, as well as how to cleanse and shuffle your deck. This beautiful and accessible little volume lets you quickly and accurately use the cards to reveal an inner truth, gain insight into a pressing question, or divine what may unfold in your life.

Voodoo Hoodoo is the unique variety of Creole Voodoo found in New Orleans. The Voodoo Hoodoo Spellbook is a rich compendium of more than 300 authentic Voodoo and Hoodoo recipes, rituals, and spells for love, justice, gambling luck, prosperity, health, and success.

Cultural psychologist and root worker Denise Alvarado, who grew up in New Orleans, draws from a lifetime of recipes and spells learned from family, friends, and local practitioners. She traces the history of the African-based folk magic brought by slaves to New Orleans, and shows how it evolved over time to include influences from Native American spirituality, Catholicism, and Pentecostalism. She shares her research into folklore collections and 19th and 20th century formularies along with her own magical arts.

The Voodoo Hoodoo Spellbook includes more than 100 spells for Banishing, Binding, Fertility, Luck, Protection, Money, and more. Alvarado introduces readers to the Pantheon of Voodoo Spirits, the Seven African Powers, and other important Loas, Prayers, Novenas, and Psalms, and much, much more, including:
* Oils and Potions: Attraction Love Oil, Dream Potion, Gambler's Luck Oil, Blessing Oil
* Hoodoo Powders and Gris Gris: Algier's Fast Luck Powder, Controlling Powder, Money Drawing Powder
* Talismans and Candle Magic
* Curses and Hexes

Your body is a receiving station for secret messages from Spirit.Stop thinking about it, and start listening to it! All your history and negative programming is lodged in the cells of your body. Using this 28-day jump-start health program--based on Denise's original Soul Coaching(R) Program--you'll unweave hidden blockages within your DNA to initiate your natural life-force energy and your body's spiritual radiance!This four-week program will help you: - Activate powerful cellular rebalancing of your body- Realize why you were born with your specific body- Align your body with your life purpose- Uncover the spiritual lessons you're receiving from your body in this lifetime- Learn the mystical correlation between your body and your life- Understand how clutter-clearing can heal health challenges By utilizing the energy of nature--Air, Water, Fire, and Earth--this program allows you to clear away old limitations so that you can truly begin to claim your luminous, vital, glorious body.

With over 250 spells and rituals to enhance all aspects of life, this beautiful hardback with gilded page edges will empower its readers with magical instruction.

These awe-inspiring traditional and modern spells will clearly show readers how to bring more magic into their lives. From attracting love to finding success in business and careers, every aspect of modern living is touched upon and ancient ideas about magic are used to manifest positive change. This essential reference guide is sure to become a handy Book of Shadows for every practicing witch.

Includes:
- A section on tools and techniques
- Correspondences for different spells
- Spellwork for manifesting wishes

Featuring decorative color touches and beautiful patterned endpapers, this spell-binding book provides a wonderful introduction into modern witchcraft.

ABOUT THE SERIES: The Mystic Archives are beautiful hardcover guides which reveal the hidden mysteries of esoteric arts, presented with foil-embossing, Wibalin binding, patterned endpapers and gilded page edges.

Rise Sister Rise is a call to arms for our sacred feminine to rise up, tell the truth, and lead. From Rebecca Campbell, a writer, mystic, devotional creative, and visionary who supports hundreds of thousands of people to connect with their soul and weave the sacred back into their everyday life.

It is for those who agreed at soul level to be here at this stage in history to lead this global shift that the mystics of all of the ages have predicted: the return of the mother and the rise of the feminine.

Rebecca says: Rise for you, rise for me, when you rise first you rise for She.

Many of us have spent much of our working lives "making it" in a man's world, leaning on patriarchal methods of survival in order to succeed, dulling down our intuition, and ignoring the fierce power of the feminine. We have ignored the cycles of the feminine in order to survive in a patriarchal linear system--but now the world has changed.

Here Are Some of the Chapters in Rise, Sister Rise

Part I - Rebecca's Story
- The Unbinding
- The Wise Women
- Work Baby
- Shakti Rising
- Returning to Avalon
- Tools for Your Rising

Part II - Birthing A New Age
- We Were Made for These Times
- Shakti Always Rises
- The Holy Grail is Within You

Part III - Remembering Our Cyclic Nature
- You Are Spirit Earthed
- You'll Find Your True Nature in Nature
- When Whispers Turn into Shouts

Part IV - Unbinding the Wise, Wild Woman
- The Suppression of the Female Voice
- The Mystic Always Rises
- Finding Mary
- The Return of the Magdalenes

Part V - Redefining Sisterhood
- The Reunion
- The Ones Who Came Before Us
- When Women Circle
- Your Constellation of Sisters
- Calling in Your Sisters

Part VI - Doing the Work
- What Is Rising in You?
- Rising Feminine Archetypes
- New World Rising Birthed by You
- Let the Universe Use You
- Be a Clear Channel
- A Prayer for Times of Remembering
- It's Not Your Job to Save the World
- Keep on Rising

"I'm a super-fan of Rebecca Campbell . . . Rebecca guides her reader to step into their authentic power so that they can live and lead at their highest potential."
--Gabrielle Bernstein, New York Times bestselling author of Miracles Now

Rise Sister Rise is a transmission that calls the innate divine feminine wisdom to rise. It is about healing the insecurities, the fears, and the inherited patterns that stop people from trusting the Shakti (power) and wisdom (intuition) that effortlessly flows through them.

It's about recognizing all of the ways we have been keeping ourselves contained and restrained in effort to dim to fit into a certain archetype. It's about co-creating a whole new archetype--someone who does not keep themself small in order to make others feel more comfortable.

Full of activations, spiritual tools, calls to action, contemplative questions, rituals, and confrontational exercises, this inspirational book teaches that it is safe to let Shakti rise, safe to trust your intuition, and safe to take leaps of faith--because in healing ourselves we are healing the world.

"You have an ancient wisdom within you that is waiting for you to remember, hear, and heed it. These Rise Sister Rise calls to action have been carefully designed to assist you in reclaiming your voice, unbinding your power, unlocking your wisdom, unleashing your true nature, and aligning yourselves with the sacred flow of all of Life."

Rise Sister Rise.

Love, Rebecca x

The cutting edge of neurolinguistics meets the spiritual wisdom of the ages in a handbook of key words that literally rewire our brains.

New discoveries in biology and the neurosciences are revealing how the structure of language-the words we think and speak-can actually change the way the neurons in our brains and hearts connect. But our ancestors understood this connection intuitively, thousands of years ago. They created specific word-patterns to provide comfort, healing, strength, and inner power in difficult times, and they encoded these powerful words in prayers, chants, mantras, hymns, and sacred writings to preserve them for future generations. Now beloved teacher and thought leader Gregg Braden cracks the code and puts these powerful words in your hands.

Perfect as a pocket guide, a reference for spiritual study, or a gift to someone you love, this elegant, compact book contains Wisdom Codes that cut to the core of life's greatest tests, most challenging demands, and hardest lessons. You'll find chapters devoted to healing from loss and grief, facing your unspoken fears, finding certainty in the face of uncertain choices, and finding forgiveness, as well as ancient parables that offer a "fast track" to unraveling life's deepest mysteries.

Each Wisdom Code-distilled from a quote, a scripture passage, or a parable-is accompanied by a brief discussion of what the code means, why it's important, and how to apply it in your life.

A fun alphabet primer celebrating the month-long Muslim observance of fasting and spiritual awareness.

Ramadan is a month-long observance when Muslims all over the world spend more time with each other, emphasize charitable works, fast, pray, and break their daily fast each night together. It's a time meant to focus on things such as sharing, empathy, compassion, generosity, and selflessness. These ideals are wonderfully illustrated here in Greg Paprocki's inimitable style for each of the 26 letters of the alphabet.

Create your own cat masterpiece using colorful stickers!

This brightly-colored book includes 12 geometric designs of everyone's favorite feline. Perfect for cat lovers and stickering enthusiasts alike, Sticker Mosaics: Cats is a unique concept among "paint-by-sticker" books across the industry. No artistic experience or ability is required to create these masterpieces!