Earth energies Books

Book SynopsisA deep exploration of the regenerative and magical secrets of sacred masculinity hidden in familiar myths both ancient and modern• Reveals the restorative fungi archetype of Osiris, the Orphic mysteries as an underground mycelium linking forests and people, how Dionysus teaches us about invasive species and playful sexuality, and the ecology of Jesus as depicted in his nature-focused parables• Liberates Tristan, Merlin, and the Grail legends from the bounds of Campbell’s hero’s journey and invites the masculine into more nuanced, complex ways of dealing with trauma, growth, and self-knowledgeLong before the sword-wielding heroes of legend readily cut down forests, slaughtered the old deities, and vanquished their enemies, there were playful gods, animal-headed kings, mischievous lovers, trickster harpists, and vegetal magicians with flowering wands. As eco-feminist scholar Sophie Strand discovered, these wilder, more magical modes of the masculine have always been hidden in plain sight. Sharing the culmination of eight years of research into myth, folklore, and the history of religion, Strand leads us back into the forgotten landscapes and hidden secrets of familiar myths, revealing the beautiful range of the divine masculine, including expressions of male friendship, male intimacy, and male creative collaboration. In discussing Dionysus and Osiris, Strand encourages us to think like an ecosystem instead of like an individual. She connects dying, vegetal gods to the virtuous cycle of composting and decay, highlighting the ways in which mushrooms can restore soil and heal polluted landscapes. Exploring esoteric Christianity, the author celebrates the Gnostic Jesus of the Gospel of Thomas, imagining the ecology that the Rabbi Yeshua would have actually been referencing in his nature-focused parables. Strand frees Tristan, Merlin, and the Grail legends from the bounds of Campbell’s hero’s journey and invites the masculine into more nuanced, complex ways of dealing with trauma, growth, and self-knowledge. Strand reseeds our minds with new visions of male identity and shows how each of us, regardless of gender, can develop a matured ecological empathy and witness a blossoming of sacred masculine powers that are soft, curious, connective, and celebratory.Trade Review“If we want to locate the underlying source of our civilization’s headlong rush to destruction, we must dig deeper than capitalism, deeper even than the Western worldview, until we encounter the bedrock of patriarchy. In this exuberant tableau of resurrection, Strand reveals how even our most archetypal myths have been molded and devitalized to fit the patriarchal straitjacket, and Strand lays the groundwork for a regenerated masculinity--one that is liberated to explore life-affirming possibilities grounded in the deep wisdom of long-buried ancient lore.” * Jeremy Lent, author of The Web of Meaning *“Sophie Strand’s beautiful and poetic book is a game changer. With The Flowering Wand as a tool, it is possible to rewrite the mostly traumatizing patriarchal narratives Western males so often base their identity in and reconnect them with the underlying story of a cultural and natural deep history of mutual transformation with other beings beyond all modern binaries.” * Andreas Weber, biologist, philosopher, and author of Enlivenment: Toward a Poetics for the Anthropoc *“Sophie Strand writes with the urgency of a prophet and the musicality of a bard. Weaving myth together with botany, history with theology, her virtuosic linguistic skeins would do her beloved mycorrhizae proud. In The Flowering Wand, the masculine appears as lover, as partner, as inspirer, as friend. This is a book important in its joy, powerful in its love--exuberant in its curiosity. Taking us by the hand, Strand leads us into a garden of delights: tarot cards, ancient scriptures, Shakespearean comedies, sky gods, the Minotaur, the Milky Way. Strand holds the gates of wonder open and love comes flowing out. These are the birth waters breaking. Rejoice! The masculine is reborn.” * Amanda Yates Garcia, author of Initiated: Memoir of a Witch *“A magnificent weave of ecology and myth--it is evident there’s some pretty rich dirt, culturally speaking as well as actual dirt no doubt, under the fingernails that have written this lyrical journey. A book filled with magical insight, revealing Strand’s wondrous curiosity and impressive learnings of the complex relationships between humans and nature.” * Sam Lee, musician and author of The Nightingale *“The wisdom in this book is almost beyond expression. Sophie Strand’s The Flowering Wand reveals the full potency and profligacy of myth.” * Manchán Magan, author of Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape *“Sophie Strand’s work is a must-read for lovers of mythology and the Earth. Her work is poetic yet practical. It’s whimsical and transportive, yet it’s describing the world around you, inviting you back home to the reality of this mystical life and world we inhabit.” * Annabel Gat, author of The Astrology of Love and Sex and The Moon Sign Guide *“The Flowering Wand is a ‘wild thing’ and seeks out other forms of recombination and transformative fusion and gives them life. The surprising conclusion is, we humans have always been more-than-human. Are you wild enough to find out why?” * Glenn Albrecht, Ph.D., philosopher and environmentalist *“Sophie Strand’s new book offers a luminous exploration of the radical mythic underpinning of the masculine narrative. Here the autocratic sky gods and sword-wielding dominators of people and landscapes are replaced by a dynamic ensemble of dancers, lovers, and liberators. Strand reminds us how these actors--from the Minotaur to Merlin--inspire people of all places and genders to break out of the straitjacket of patriarchal control and become more embodied, protean, dramaturgical, and emergent in our lives. Get entangled!” * Charlotte Du Cann, author of After Ithaca: Journeys in Deep Time *“Sophie Strand’s words embody both the chthonic depth of well-myceliated soil and the crystals, sharp with insight, among its hyphae. In The Flowering Wand, Sophie remediates the ground of western culture by rerooting the divine masculine--in all its fertility, magic and imagination-- back into the earth. Through Sophie‘s richly seeded prose and deep scholarship she shows us how reclaiming this fertile, soporific energy--an energy that lives within us all--can help heal our connection with the Animate Everything and nourish the re-flowering of the world.” * Asia Suler, author of Mirrors in the Earth *“Readers will feel the words in this book tendril around their hearts and minds, forming adaptive connections and creating conversations with the ‘Animate Everything’ in the wilds of their everyday worlds. Myths that stay the same don’t survive, Strand tells us; she waves a wand toward the earth and summons up vital wisdom for our time.” * Gavin Van Horn, author of The Way of Coyote *Table of ContentsIntroduction The Sword or the Wand PART 1Back to the Roots1 Sky, Storm, and Spore Where Do Gods Come From? 2 The Hanged Man Is the Rooted One Thinking from the Feet3 Between Naming and the Unknown Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night4 The Minotaur Dances the Masculine Back into the Milky WayMyths Need to Move5 The Moon Belongs to Everyone Lunar Medicine for the Masculine 6 Becoming a HomeThe Empress Card Embraces the Masculine 7 Dionysus Girl-Faced God of the Swarm, the Hive, the Vine, and the Emergent Mind 8 Merlin Makes Kin to Make Kingdoms A Multiplicity of Minds and Myths9 Joseph, Secret Vegetalista of Genesis Plants Use Men to Dream 10 Actaeon Is the King of the Beasts From Curse to Crown11 A New Myth for Narcissus Seeing Ourselves in the Ecosystem 12 Everyone Is OrpheusSinging for Other Species 13 Dionysus as LiberThe Vine Is the Tool of the Oppressed 14 Rewilding the Beloved Dionysus Offers New Modes of Romance 15 Grow Back Your Horns The Devil Card Is Dionysus PART IIHealing the Wound 16 Let Your Wings DryGiving the Star Card to the Masculine 17 Tristan and TransformationEscaping the Trauma of the Hero’s Journey 18 Boy David, Wild David, King David The Land-Based Origin of Biblical Kingship 19 Coppice the Hero’s Journey Creating Narrative Ecosystems 20 Merlin and Vortigern Magical Boyhood Topples Patriarchy21 Parzifal and the Fisher King The Grail Overflows with Stories 22 Sleeping Beauty, Sleeping World The Prince Offers the Masculine a New Quest 23 Melt the Sacred Masculine and the Divine Feminine into Divine Animacy The Sacred Overflows the Human 24 Resurrect the Bridegroom The Song of Songs and Ecology as Courtship 25 OsirisThe Original Green Man 26 What’s the Matter? A Mycelial Interpretation of the Gospel of Mary Magdalene 27 Knock upon Yourself The High Priestess Wakes Up the Masculine28 The Kingdom of Astonishment Gnostic Jesus and the Transformative Power of Awe 29 Healing the Healer Dionysus Rewilds Jesus 30 Making Amends to Attis and AdonisNo Gods Were Killed in the Making of This Myth 31 The Joyful Rescue Tolkien’s Eucatastrophe and the Anthropocene 32 Sharing the Meal Tom Bombadil Offers the Masculine Safe Haven 33 The Gardeners and the SeedsHealing the Easter Wound Conclusion A Cure for Narrative Dysbiosis Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLong before the birth of modern science, the secrets of life were revealed and preserved for future generations among a clan of wisdomkeepers hidden high in the mountains of the Peruvian Andes. Marcela Lobos reveals these ancient secrets and more in her book The Sacred Andean Codes. In an intimate sharing of her apprenticeship with the descendants of that clan—the Q’uero people of today—Lobos reveals how the direct experience of the Munay-Ki initiations can shape our perception of life’s challenges, while leading us into our deepest healing and highest dreams. Whether you’re an artist or an engineer, a homemaker or policy maker, this book is about you, your life, and every relationship that you’ll ever experience. Lobos’ compelling truths of earth wisdom linger in our hearts long after we read the pages of The Sacred Andean Codes, reminding us that we’re always more than the challenges that life brings to our doorstep. — Gregg Braden, New York Times best-selling author of The God Code and The Divine MatrixThe Sacred Andean Codes is a magnificent book. Marcela Lobos gives us a comprehensive understanding of the Munay-Ki initiations. The wisdom of these 10 initiations will connect you with your authentic self and root you in the flow of life. Marcela is the perfect person to transmit these powerful rites to us. She writes and teaches in a masterful way while bringing in deep feminine wisdom. You will learn how to reach your highest spiritual potential—this is a true gift Marcela shares with us in this beautiful book. — Sandra Ingerman, international shamanic teacher and award-winning author of 12 books, including Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self and The Book of CeremonyMost current books about creating a better life focus on speed: life hacks, shortcuts, and mechanistic systems. But true transformation lies beyond such strategies. In The Sacred Andean Codes, Marcela Lobos encourages us to find our inherent wisdom by slowing down. She writes lovingly and clearly about the Munay-Ki (10 shamanic initiations) as a time-honored way to connect with and empower your true self. Her work will help you go beyond self-help to encounter true spiritual awakening. — Susan Piver, New York Times best-selling author of The Buddhist EnneagramMarcela Lobos offers simple, accessible, and inclusive insights to navigate this turbulent period in our planet’s history, so that we may evolve from passive victims to responsible co-creators of the world to come. The Sacred Andean Codes is an important contribution toward healing societal dysfunction and ensuring the healthy development of future generations. This book will inspire your spirit as you comprehend the enormous potential of applying this information in your life. — Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D., author of the best-selling books The Biology of Belief, Spontaneous Evolution, and The Honeymoon EffectIn these changing times, Marcela’s book guides us like a potent ray of light to awaken and expand our consciousness and to transform heavy energies into love. This is precisely what is most important in the dawn of the new day . . . and that we share our real selves—the light that shines from our inner sun. This book is a brilliant guide to conquer our own selves. Thank you, Marcela, for your luminous contribution to life! — Jorge Luis Delgado, author of Andean Awakening: An Inca Guide to Mystical Peru

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Book SynopsisNautilus Award Gold Medal Winner, Ecology & Environment In Matter and Desire, internationally renowned biologist and philosopher Andreas Weber rewrites ecology as a tender practice of forging relationships, of yearning for connections, and of expressing these desires through our bodies. Being alive is an erotic process—constantly transforming the self through contact with others, desiring ever more life. In clever and surprising ways, Weber recognizes that love—the impulse to establish connections, to intermingle, to weave our existence poetically together with that of other beings—is a foundational principle of reality. The fact that we disregard this principle lies at the core of a global crisis of meaning that plays out in the avalanche of species loss and in our belief that the world is a dead mechanism controlled through economic efficiency. Although rooted in scientific observation, Matter and Desire becomes a tender philosophy for the Anthropocene, a “poetic materialism,” that closes the gap between mind and matter. Ultimately, Weber discovers, in order to save life on Earth—and our own meaningful existence as human beings—we must learn to love.Trade Review“The most powerful antidote to our pernicious culture of excessive material consumption is the creation and nurturing of communities, finding happiness in human relationships rather than seeking it in material possessions. At the very heart of community, at all levels of life, we find a fundamental impulse to establish connections. The author of this beautifully written book identifies this yearning for connections with the essence of love. In his philosophical meditations, Andreas Weber deepens the recent scientific advances toward a new systemic understanding of life by investing them with a vital emotional dimension. While the experience of being fully alive is, for him, an erotic experience, it has also been recognized as the very essence of spirituality. An important and inspiring book!”—Fritjof Capra, author of The Web of Life; coauthor of The Systems View of Life“Andreas Weber is an indispensable voice in ecological and philosophical thought. With fearless probity and autobiographical intimacy, Matter and Desire composes the symphonic grand design of desire, relationships, the metaphysics of the body—and much more—as page by page we experience Weber’s elegant subversion of all convenient ways of looking at the natural world. This is a timeless yet urgent, and splendid book.”—Howard Norman, author of I Hate To Leave This Beautiful Place“Andreas Weber offers us the best medicine I know for a culture benumbed by dead-end pursuits. Pulsing with life, his work delivers us from the centuries-long dichotomies between mind and matter that have robbed us of vitality, joy, and true purpose. It brings us home to the fertile reciprocities that link us with all forms and levels of life; in so doing, it reflects and reinforces great spiritual teachings of our planet.”—Joanna Macy, author of Coming Back to Life“A slow tidal wave of change is gathering force and will take us beyond the mechanistic world of Newton toward one of becoming. Andreas Weber’s Matter and Desire is a passionate evocation of intermingled life surging. He writes with the poetry, care, and insight that urges us forward.”—Stuart Kauffman, professor emeritus, biochemistry and biophysics, University of Pennsylvania; and MacArthur Fellow“With a dazzling blend of biological rigor and poetic grace, Andreas Weber explains the principles of erotic connection that lie at the heart of life on Earth. It is a journey that transcends the reductionist taxonomies of modern science and explains the transformational role of desire, interdependence, and meaning in the glorious unfolding of natural ecosystems—and in our own lives. Be prepared for a bracing adventure!”—David Bollier, author of Think Like a Commoner“When Andreas Weber looks on a meadow, he sees ‘part of our body, folded outward, ready to be strolled through.’ The ocean’s tides are ‘the way the Earth perceives the moon,’ and gravitation is ‘the Earth’s tender longing for us.’ With such graceful, lucid lines, Weber invites us to see a world filled with delight and one that yearns, as we do, for contact: the erotics of encounter. Part scientific reflection, part philosophical reverie, part lyrical benediction for the stones and swifts and plants and water ouzels of his beloved Ligurian countryside, Matter and Desire is a deeply felt book from a profoundly humane writer.”—Fred Bahnson, author of Soil and Sacrament; director, Food, Health, and Ecological Well-Being Program, Wake Forest University School of Divinity“Every page of Weber’s deeply illuminating new book is a passionate journey into the experience of being alive and in relationship. As an emergent ‘erotic ecology,’ this book is urgently needed medicine for a planet suffering from a shortage of love.”—David Lukas, author of Language Making Nature“Two hundred years ago, John Keats complained that modern science would ‘unweave a rainbow.’ This visionary and poetic discourse by Andreas Weber achieves the near-miraculous task of reweaving the stunning beauty of the natural world back into the realm of science. Transcending conventional barriers between categories of Western thought, with a style reminiscent of Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Weber explores some profound implications of modern biology and physics, presenting his vision of biology as the erotic science with the recognition that to truly experience love, we need to be fully connected to the creativity of life.”—Jeremy Lent, author of The Patterning Instinct“To read this marvellous book is to enter a secret garden where you’ll discover a natural world far more alive, sentient, and meaningful than science has so far dared suppose. With luminous prose Weber’s ‘erotic ecology’ charts a path into a new scientific understanding in which atoms, organisms, and entire ecosystems overflow with purpose, interiority, and psyche, lighting up your life, helping you experience reality with freshness and depth of vision. A masterpiece.”—Dr. Stephan Harding, author of Animate Earth“A stunning piece of writing, as existential as it is experiential, Matter and Desire delves into the ‘science of the heart’ in compelling prose that frequently dances on the edge of poetry. The book provides vivid depictions of a big love: a near-mystical practice of discovering who we are through the creative energies that surround us and dwell within us. Andreas Weber ably guides his readers on this relational journey, articulating ecological intuitions that may have gone unnoticed yet were always on the tips of our tongues. From the forces of desire within molecules to the mistle thrush’s song vibrating in the evening air, Weber offers a bold and convincing case for the physicality of feeling and the ‘biology of love.’ The result is a profound meditation that bravely explores the subjectivity of a living biosphere and our particular relations within it. If philosophy literally means the love of wisdom, then in Matter and Desire, Weber presents the wisdom of love, a reflective account of his intentional free-fall into the embrace of matter.”—Gavin Van Horn, director, Cultures of Conservation, Center for Humans and Nature“If what Andreas says is anything to go by—that love permeates all things so intrusively that the world can only be conceived in terms of relationship—then holding this book in your hand is an outrageous act of lovemaking, the breadth and depth of which you will never know! This is a gasp of a book.”—Bayo Akomolafe, author of These Wilds Beyond our Fences

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Book SynopsisDid a highly advanced civilization exist in prehistory? Is the Giza Pyramid a remnant of their technology? Then, what was the power source that fueled such a civilization? The technology of harmonic resonance, claims renowned master craftsman and engineer Christopher Dunn. In a brilliant piece of reverse engineering based on twenty years of research, Dunn reveals that the Great Pyramid of Giza was actually a large acoustical device! By its size and dimensions, this crystal edifice created a harmonic resonance with the Earth and converted Earth's vibrational energies to microwave radiation. The author shows how the pyramid's numerous chambers and passageways were positioned with the deliberate precision to maximize its acoustical qualities. This may be the same technology discovered by Nikola Tesla and the solution to our own clean energy needs.Trade Review"Chris Dunn ranks among the top researchers on this subject. His book is extremely well-researched and presented and, although very controversial in content and conclusions, will no doubt become a landmark and classic in the field of pyramid studies." * Robert G. Bauval, coauthor of The Orion Mystery *Table of Contents Dedication List of Illustrations Acknowledgment Introduction Chapter One - A New Paradigm, A New Order Chapter Two - Questions, Discovery, and More Questions Chapter Three - Precision Unparalleled Chapter Four - Advanced Machining in Ancient Egypt Chapter Five - Amazing Discovery at Giza Chapter Six - The Coral Castle Mystery Chapter Seven - Endeavoring to Explain the Enigma Chapter Eight - The Giza Power Plant Chapter Nine - The Mighty Crystal Chapter Ten - An Amazing Maser Chapter Eleven - A Hydrogen Generator Chapter Twelve - Meltdown Chapter Thirteen - Summary Chapter Fourteen - A Glimpse into the Past Chapter Fifteen - Lessons from the Past Appendix A - The Mechanical Methods of the Pyramid Builders Appendix B - Wrought Iron Found in the Great Pyramid Endnotes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisDiscover powerful energetic rites based on Andean shamanic teachings to heal the wounds of your past, further your spiritual evolution and reveal your sacred purpose.Marcela Lobos presents the 10 rites of the Munay-Ki, which are gateways to the evolution of our consciousness. These teachings are based on initiatory practices of the shamans of the Andes and the Amazon, transformed for the modern age. She shares her personal journey and discoveries with the Quero healers, along with stories of how her and her students’ lives were changed, to inspire you on your own spiritual path. ‘Munay’ means ‘universal love’ in the Quechua language, while ‘ki’ is from the Japanese word for energy. Together, these words mean ‘energy of love’. After you go through the rites of the Munay-Ki, you can begin to dream the world into being – the world we want our children’s children to inherit.

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Book SynopsisExplores how the Universe, our planet, ourselves, and everything in existence has inherent meaning and evolutionary purpose• 2023 Nautilus Gold Award• Examines our emergence as self-aware members of a Universe that is itself a unified and innately sentient entity that exists TO evolve• Shares leading-edge scientific breakthroughs and shows how they support traditional visions of Earth as a living being--Gaia• Rewrites evolution as not driven by random occurrences and mutations but by intelligently informed and meaningful information flows and processesExploring our emergence as self-aware members of a planetary home and entire Universe that is a unified and innately sentient entity, Jude Currivan, Ph.D., shows that mind and consciousness are not what we possess but what we and the whole world fundamentally are. She reveals our Universe as “a great thought of cosmic mind,” manifesting as a cosmic hologram of meaningful in-formation that, vitally, exists to evolve. Sharing scientific breakthroughs, the author details the 13.8 billion-year story of our Universe and Gaia, where everything in existence has inherent meaning and evolutionary purpose. Showing how the Universe was born, not in an implicitly chaotic big bang, but as the first moment of a fine-tuned and ongoing “big breath,” she shares the latest evidence for the innate sentience that has guided our universal journey from simplicity to ever-greater complexity, diversity, and self-awareness--from protons to planets, plants, and people. She explains how evolution is not driven by random occurrences and mutations but by profoundly resonant and harmonic interplays of forces and influences, each intelligently informed and guided.In Gaia, the Universe’s evolutionary impulse is embodied in collaborative relationships and dynamic co-evolutionary partnerships on a planetary scale and as a wholistic gaiasphere. She reveals how the conscious evolution of humanity is an integral part of Gaia’s own evolutionary progress and purpose. By perceiving and experiencing our planet as a sentient being and ourselves as Gaians, we open ourselves to a deeply ecological, evolutionary, and, above all, hopeful worldview.Trade Review“The Story of Gaia is destined to become a cornerstone for the cosmology of the new millennium. Currivan invites us on an extraordinary journey that gives our mind the reason to accept what our heart already knows--that we’re born into a universe that supports us and our evolution as an integral part of a larger evolutionary process. I love this book!” * GREGG BRADEN, scientist and New York Times bestselling author of The Divine Matrix *“To read this book is to be enhanced, empowered, and evolved into the receiving of a consciousness that evokes the higher human intelligence yearning to unfold in this time of change, trauma, and the coming of a world that works for all.” * JEAN HOUSTON, Ph.D., scholar, a principal founder of the Human Potential Movement, and coauthor of t *“Jude Currivan is that rarest and most original of evolutionary pioneers--one that fuses together profound mystical revelation and passion with grounded, wide-ranging, precise scientific knowledge. In her latest brilliant and galvanizing masterpiece, The Story of Gaia, she guides us into the depths of the divine intelligence that has shaped the life and evolution of our Earth. Read it as I have done with awe and gratitude again and again, and share it with everyone you know.” * share it with everyone you know.” Andrew Harvey, coauthor of Radical Regeneration and author o *“Weaving an impressive array of sciences, from cosmology to the latest biology of trees, Currivan creates a compelling new history of the Earth as a single conscious entity whose components result from a grand, holistic design. Ultimately, this highly original story of our home planet signals a new way of being for its human inhabitants--a welcome and necessary message of hope in these challenging times. * Lynne McTaggart, author of The Field and The Power of Eight *“Jude Currivan’s encyclopedic knowledge of modern quantum-informed science shimmers with her vast, integrated knowledge. Gaia truly comes to life through her masterpiece. Highly recommended!” * Eben Alexander, M.D., neurosurgeon and author of Proof of Heaven *“The Story of Gaia is an amazing book. It tells who we are--for the future of humanity on the planet and for the future of the planet in the Universe. Perhaps the greatest story ever told--now told with the authority of cutting-edge science.” * Ervin Laszlo, Ph.D., whole systems theorist, philosopher, author, and founder of the Club of Budapes *“A fascinating new perspective on our cosmic and human evolution.” * Riane Eisler, author of The Chalice and the Blade and coauthor of Nurturing Our Humanity *“A breathtaking journey into the ever-increasing intelligence, ingenuity, and creative wisdom of our Universe and the consciousness-actualizing ways in which this becomes manifest and expressed through Gaia and her children and our creative relationships. I highly recommend this masterpiece for discovering the principles, processes, and cosmological architecture that makes life possible and able to thrive.” * Anneloes Smitsman, Ph.D., LLM, futurist, systems scientist, and coauthor of the Future Humans Trilog *“With this book, Currivan takes her place as a leader in a direction that will be necessary if we are to survive the challenges our species faces on our precious planet.” * Larry Dossey, M.D., author of One Mind and Space, Time, and Medicine *“Currivan evokes a deeply empathic sense that all that led to and now exists as life on Earth is intrinsically the result of the universally unifying and cohering presence of love. Ultimately, The Story of Gaia is a vast love story that reminds us that we, too, are an inevitable manifestation of this same eternal presence; it should be a foundational educational text for all students everywhere.” * Marshall Lefferts, author of Cosmometry *“Jude Currivan has written a masterly interdisciplinary odyssey based on a wider range of scientific principles consistent with the emerging consensus on the centrality of mind and consciousness. Within an overarching evolutionary framework, she draws on her extensive and detailed knowledge of cosmology, geology, physics, ecology, biology, and the wisdom traditions to weave a highly accessible narrative about our ‘sentient, dynamic, and co-evolutionary gaiasphere.” * David Lorimer, PGCE, FRSA, program director of Scientific and Medical Network and editor of Paradigm *“Very rarely a book comes along that profoundly transforms the way we look at the world and our place in it. The Story of Gaia does so and takes us on a journey to truly know ourselves as Gaians.” * Diane Marie Williams, founder of the Source of Synergy Foundation *“With its copious and expertly elaborated combinations of scientific, cultural, and consciousness data, the book provides a powerful contribution and, in fact, salvational view of both our current location and our most ambitious and evolutionary potential.” * Kurt Johnson, Ph.D., coauthor of The Coming Interspiritual Age, Fine Lines, and Nabokov’s Blue *“The Story of Gaia provides irrefutable evidence of our deep relationship with each other, the Earth, and the Cosmos. This book is indeed a beautiful expression from Gaia herself--through Jude Currivan, her creation--as she seeks to bring us human children back to our senses.” * Peter Merry, Ph.D., cofounder of Ubiquity University *“The Story of Gaia roots us solidly as Gaian creatures who are coming to understand our spiraling cosmic and earthly journey. With this self-knowledge we cannot help but do better by Gaia and thus for ourselves. The future we dream of is ours to co-create!” * Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D., author of EarthDance and Gaia’s Dance and coauthor of A Walk Throug *“The Story of Gaia is an eloquent affirmation of our need to change our modern perception of being human. Our ancestors knew that we were a part of--not apart from--our living planet, as do Indigenous people today. This marvelous book tells that story and inspires us to change.” * John Perkins, author, activist, and cofounder of the Pachamama Alliance *“The Story of Gaia lays out the scientific fundamentals of our wholeness in a deeply grounded and beautifully told exposé of our inherent unity. It moves from our Universe’s point of origin through every cosmological step to the present, revealing a holarchic complexity that is the scaffolding of our wholeness and laying the groundwork for unity-based decision-making and action-taking.” * unity-based decision-making and action-taking.” Joni Carley, D.Min., United Nations ECOSOC con *“Jude Currivan eloquently describes the known science about the history and development of the Universe and our place in it for the layperson. A must-read for the curious explorer wanting to see the big picture view of how humanity arrived where we are today and, vitally, our co-creative potential for conscious evolution.” * Helané Wahbeh, ND, MCR, director of research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and author of *“Jude Currivan eloquently brings together extensive scientific knowledge, evolutionary biology, cosmic insight, and embodied wisdom with brilliant attunements and insights before each chapter, leading the reader on a unified path toward greater wholeness. This book will wake the innate genius within us as the ‘microcosmic co-creators’ that we are. It’s a labor of love that will change the world.” * Julie Krull, Ph.D., president and founder of Good of the Whole, Inc., author, and host of The Dr. Ju *“The beauty of The Story of Gaia highlights the interdependent nature of all things in a web of wholeness. Jude Currivan writes with a deeply held gratitude, wonderment, reverence--and love--for all that came before, all that is, and all that will be, revealing, as she conveys so brilliantly well, that the Universe, too, has a soul.” * Robert Atkinson, Ph.D., developmental psychologist, author of The Story of Our Time, and coeditor of *“The Story of Gaia lays out the pathway for humanity’s reconnection with our Earth as mother, as Gaia, showing us how aligning with Earth opens up deeper understanding of both unity and diversity.” * Jim Garrison, Ph.D., cofounder and president of Ubiquity University *“A brilliantly epic journey of universal breadth and Earth-based wisdom. A book for the ages. I highly recommend it as a foundational resource to discover our shared destiny.” * Adam C. Hall, author of Divine Genius, The EarthKeeper, and The Little Book of Genius *“The Story of Gaia is our story. Jude Currivan has crafted a captivating narrative that uses cutting-edge modern scientific insights along with ancient wisdom to re-enchant us with the ground of our being: Gaia as a living planet manifesting within consciousness.” * Daniel Christian Wahl, author of Designing Regenerative Cultures *“In The Story of Gaia, Jude Currivan shares with us her aim to serve the voice and wisdom of Gaia. We are invited to recognize with open hearts our citizenship as Gaians.” * Paul J. Mills, director of the Center of Excellence for Research and Training in Integrative Health *“An eloquent and scientific rendering of how planet Earth, our home and the crucible of our human existence, was created and evolved throughout the history of the Universe. Breathtaking in the scope of research and implications for a new understanding of Gaia as a living being, this book unveils the mystery and majesty of our cosmic home in a way that is worthy of Gaia herself.” * Emanuel Kuntzelman, social entrepreneur, cofounder of Greenheart International, cofounder and presid *“Jude’s voice and Gaia’s story mesmerized me as it weaved in and out of this universal web of emergent meaning and purpose--an alluring, deeply compelling, and inspirational call to re-member our true nature.” * Steve Farrell, worldwide coordinating director and cofounder of Humanity’s Team *“An evolutionary way-shower, Currivan is embodying the true art of the shaman, who is a storyteller and creative artist par excellence. Through Gaia’s story, she is helping us to re-create our world as well as ourselves. For this, we should be forever grateful.” * Paul Levy, author of Wetiko *“Jude Currivan has brought together knowledge across an amazing range of specialized subjects to form a coherent whole. This is a remarkable book!” * Rev. Don MacGregor, PGCE, author of Blue Sky God and The Wisdom Series *“Some books speak to you. This one sings. Currivan reminds us to honor and savor the deep heritage of Earth, appreciate its place in the greater universal scheme, and catch a glimpse of what is still seeking to evolve and unfold through our lives. This compelling and sparkling biography of Earth invites us to become Gaians--to carry the whole of planetary life within us as we in turn are carried and held within the wholeness of Gaia’s embrace.” * Michael Lindfield, president, board of directors at Meditation Mount *“This book is essential for anyone wanting to deeply understand the miracle of life on Earth.” * Rev. Deborah Moldow, founder of the Garden of Light and director of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTIONBig Breath 1 Origin 2 Ancestors 3 Heritage 4 Family 5 Parents 6 Birth 7 Expectancy 8 (R)evolution 9 Emergence 10 Learning to Cooperate 11 Learning to Swim 12 Learning to Walk, Burrow, and Fly 13 Raising Children 14 Teenagers 15 Midlife Eden APPENDIXA New IN-SCIght of IN-formational SCIence NotesRecommended ResourcesAcknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisThe first divination tool based on the ancient science and sacred language of geometry. · A 64-card deck with original artwork by nationally recognized visual artist Francene Hart. · Allows readers to balance their energy fields and access higher levels of consciousness. · Comprehensive guide includes spreads, card explanations, and reflective insights from a wide variety of sacred traditions. Sacred geometry is the key that unlocks all of the world's art, science, and architecture. Called the language of light, its images and shapes are embedded in DNA, mandalas, pyramids, crystals, atoms, and hieroglyphs. Anyone who has ever gazed at a spider's web, meditated on a mandala or yantra, visited a pyramid, walked a labyrinth, or peered through a microscope has felt the effects of sacred geometry. Now the SACRED GEOMETRY ORACLE DECK introduces an entirely new way for you to gain access to this wisdom and unlock its power. With splendid use of the full colour spectrum and gentle natural forms, artist Francene Hart has created potent, compelling images accessible to both advanced and novice students of divination. The accompanying text includes a detailed interpretation of each card, sample spreads, and an excellent introduction to the science of sacred geometry. Working with these images balances human energy fields, allowing readers to access higher levels of consciousness, gain insight into life's challenges, and restore their connection to the world. Boxed set: paperback book with 64 card deckTrade Review"The beauty of the words along with the profound visual images make every card truly inspirational." * Laurie Young, author of Earthwalk *"Beautifully incorporates color, images, and shapes, giving the reader a compelling and accessible tool that opens higher levels of consciousness." * CHP, Bodhi Tree Bookstore, Winter 2002/Spring 2003 *"This is the kind of deck to use when you're looking for the bigger picture, or seeking to transmute or transcend a situation." * Yerevan Yacoubian, SageWoman, Autumn 2002 *"The Sacred Geometry Oracle Deck introduces an entirely new way for you to gain access to this wisdom and unlock its power." * The Messenger, September 2002 *"Hart has created an intriguing device for divination and insight that combines geometric shapes with nature themes and images from various spiritual traditions." * Skye Alexander, New Age Retailer, September 2002 *"It's more than just a handsome tarot set: Sacred Geometry Oracle Deck is the first divination tool based on geometry and introduces a new way of gaining access to wisdom through card interpretation. Highly recommended, especially for advanced tarot users who want to explore the powers of other decks." * The Midwest Book Review, June 2002 *"It includes a 64-card deck that incorporates a splendid use of the full color spectrum; gentle, natural forms; and compelling images. The accompanying 128-page book includes a detailed interpretation of each card, illustrations, sample spreads and an excellent introduction to the science of geometry." * Arizona networking News, April/May 2002 *"The cards themselves are beautiful. Some are truly outstanding. Hart has done a terrific job bringing shapes - or sacred geometry - to life (to spirit!). For readings, these cards are deeply intuitive and effective. With these cards we go within, and then in turn - blossom outwardly." * N. Levine, Tarot Insights *Table of ContentsSacred Geometry Oracle Deck Introduction Suggestions for Reading Cards The Cards 1. Circle 2. Mandala 3. Tzolkin 4. Out Beyond Orion 5. Divine Doorway 6. Duality 7. Owl/Raven - Yin/Yang 8. Vesica Piscis 9. Echoes of One 10. Triangle 11. Sri Yantra 12. Expanded Sri Yantra 13. Tetrahedron 14. Himalayan Passage 15. Square 16. Chakana 17. Morning Meeting 18. Hexahedron 19. Antahkarana 20. Medicine Wheel 21. Mayan Dream 22. Dancing Through Eternity 23. Golden Spiral 24. Calm Within 25. DNA 26. Sacred Union 27. High Tide 28. Pentagon 29. Starry Dreams 30. Mountain Messengers 31. Labyrinth 32. Leonardo's Vitruvious Man 33. Seed of Life 34. June Companions 35. Luna and the Volcano 36. Flower of Life 37. The Lesson 38. Dancing Prayer 39. Fruit of Life 40. Crossing Over 41. Metatron's Cube 42. Nucleus 43. Hexagon 44. Transmutation 45. Steam Cave 46. Merkaba 47. Together 48. Offering 49. Heptagon 50. Octahedron 51. Octagon 52. Invoking the Infinite 53. Infinity 54. Nonagon 55. Torus 56. Ka 57. Dodecahedron 58. Icosahedron 59. Earth Grid 60. Invitation 61. Wise Friend 62. Kabalah 63. Tree Vessel 64. Love and Power

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Book SynopsisA bold exploration of the reintegration of rationality and intuition, science and soul, to foster individual and planetary healing During the scientific revolution, science and soul were drastically separated, propelling humanity into four centuries of scientific exploration based solely on empiricism and rationality. But, as scientist and ecologist Stephan Harding, Ph.D., demonstrates in detail, by reintegrating science with profound personal experiences of psyche and soul, we can reclaim our lost sacred wholeness and help heal ourselves and our planet. The book begins with compelling introductions to depth psychology, alchemy, and Gaia theory--the science of seeing the Earth as an intelligent, self-regulating system, a theory pioneered by the author’s mentor James Lovelock. Harding then explores how alchemy, as understood through the depth psychology of C. G. Jung, offers us powerful methods of reuniting rationality and intuition, science and soul. He examines the integration of important alchemical engravings, including those from L’Azoth des Philosophes and the Rosarium Philosophorum, with Gaian science. He shows how the seven key alchemical operations in the Azoth image can help us develop deeply transformative experiences and insights into our interconnectedness with Gaia. He then looks at how the four components of the living Earth--biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere--mesh not only with the four elements of alchemical theory but also with the four functions of consciousness from depth psychology. Woven throughout with the author’s own experiences of Gaia alchemy, the book also offers guided meditations and contemplative exercises to open your receptivity to messages from the biosphere and help you develop your own Gaian alchemical way of life, full of wonder and healing.Trade Review“Few things are more important today than bringing humane values to the science, technology, and information sectors. It requires a person of vision and imagination. I have known Stephan Harding for many years and have seen firsthand how his genius and big heart help science evolve to the next level. This latest book, Gaia Alchemy, is a beautiful blueprint for transforming contemporary knowledge and returning soul to our planet.” * Thomas Moore, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Care of the Soul and Soul Therapy *“In this time of global crises and evolutionary opportunities, it’s vital that we reclaim our innate human ability to learn from our animate Earth using our feeling senses, our imaginations, and our dreams. Western science, in contrast, has specialized in learning about our world, using logic, quantification, and the illusion of separation. Harding shows us how to alchemically unite and integrate these two modes of knowing and why it’s both necessary and rapturous, and he does so with brilliance, imagination, humor, grace, and, above all, heart. Gaia Alchemy is a worldshifting masterwork, an essential read for all twenty-first-century lovers and defenders of life.” * Bill Plotkin, Ph.D., founder of Animas Valley Institute and author of Soulcraft, Wild Mind, and The *“Harding shows how Western empirical science, which is at the root of so much material progress but also the cause of blatant destruction, can find its way back into the heart of subjective living experience. Gaia Alchemy points to a new union of calculating and intuiting mind, of measuring and of contemplating beauty, and does so from a firm foundation in Western culture, not by borrowing from Asian or Indigenous cosmologies. Profound, erudite, timely, and immensely necessary, Gaia Alchemy builds a bridge between the head and the heart. A landmark work for the Anthropocene.” * Andreas Weber, Ph.D., philosopher, biologist, and author of The Biology of Wonder, Enlivenment, and *“Desperate for a way beyond the reductive mindset of contemporary science, a keenly creative biologist excavates the medieval ‘Great Work’ of alchemy, the immediate precursor of modern science. This book is a record of Harding’s deeply personal quest to bring alchemy’s esoteric insights to bear on the catastrophic situation in which our planet now finds itself. * David Abram, Ph.D., author of The Spell of the Sensuous and Becoming Animal *“A brave book that offers a profound celebration of the marriage between science and soul, showing convincingly that there is no conflict between reason and intuition; in fact, they are good companions. A close collaborator of James Lovelock, who proposed Gaia theory, Stephan has been able to develop an original and authentic understanding of relationships between science and psyche. In this compelling book, rooted in rigorous science and poetic imagination, Stephan outlines a new paradigm for a holistic worldview. Read this book and it will inspire you to look at the world and see it whole.” * Satish Kumar, cofounder of Schumacher College and editor emeritus of Resurgence and Ecologist *“A remarkable and lively synthesis of leading-edge science and the deep wisdom of the archetypal psyche. Harding’s bold and engaging vision works its own alchemical transformation on the reader, guiding us from the lead of the dominant mechanistic and disenchanted worldview to the gold of an experiential understanding of Gaia as the ensouled body in which we live and have our being. This book will prove invaluable to those seeking a more integral approach to Earth System Science, to the psychologically minded who long for deeper connections with the living Earth, and to all who are called to participate in the Great Work of our times.” * Sean Kelly, Ph.D., author of Becoming Gaia and Coming Home *“In this bold and extraordinary book Stephan Harding, an eminent ecologist, makes a surprising defense of alchemy as a tool with which to reconnect with the more-than-human world. Pursue the path of alchemy, he says, and we can restore ourselves to ourselves, and, even more importantly, to Gaia, the living soul of the planet. By offering exercises that anyone can try for themselves, Stephan opens doorways so that everyone can experience Gaian consciousness firsthand. At a time when so many are looking to Indigenous cultures for the answers to our ever-mounting ecological ills, it is refreshing to find someone offering homegrown tools, techniques, and methods that stem from the intellectual roots of Western culture. All the tools we need are to be found in the alembic of the unconscious, in the union of opposites between the scientific rational domain of logos and the deep waters of mythos. I can think of no better guide to steer us through this muchneeded process.” * Andy Letcher, Ph.D., senior lecturer at Schumacher College, program lead for the M.A. in Engaged Eco *“Gaia Alchemy arises like a phoenix out of the ashes of our terribly precise but ultimately life-denying sciences of reduction, abstraction, and objectification. Harding’s storied and deeply personal account of his imaginal journey into Gaia alchemy is a timely invitation to each of us to cultivate ways of knowing and being adequate to the great Planet-Being with whom we live.” * Jonathan M. Code, M.Ed., lecturer in sustainable land management at Royal Agricultural University *“Stephan Harding’s teaching is always illuminating. In Gaia Alchemy, he shows how, through the relationship between science, alchemy, and depth psychology, we can reach toward an experience of nondual Gaian soul in our lives.” * Peter Reason, Ph.D., professor emeritus at the University of Bath *“Stephan Harding tells an enthralling new story of Gaia, one where we begin with Gaia rather than ourselves. His unique union of science, myth, and alchemy--invoking both our rational and intuitive ways of thinking and exploring how they may and must come together--brings us into a new vision of a Gaia consciousness. A brilliant book.” * Jules Cashford, Jungian analyst and coauthor of The Myth of the Goddess *“With the emergence of a Gaian science that restores mind to Earth, we have a new lens through which to divine alchemical meaning in geo-ecological processes. This is the dazzling new vista for the healing of both Earth and ourselves that Gaia Alchemy opens up.” * Freya Mathews, adjunct professor of environmental philosophy at La Trobe University and author of Re *Table of ContentsForeword by Stephen Harrod Buhner Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION Science Meets Alchemy 1 First Steps 2 Psyche and Alchemy 3 Descartes’s Sky God 4 Descartes Meets Alchemy 5 The Unus Mundus: Gaia Archetype and Gaia Science 6 Carbon and Gaia’s Temperature Regulation 7 A Gaia Alchemy Meditation: Creating and Using the Gaiascope 8 Gaia and the Tabula Smaragdina 9 The Seven Stars 10 Sir Isaac Newton’s Azoth Mandala 11 Gaia Alchemy on Granite 12 Of Loops and Stars 13 Gaia Alchemy and Deep Time 14 An Alchemical Conversation 15 The Fungus and the Rose Garden 16 Living a Gaian Alchemical Life: The Ecosophical Tree 17 Experiencing Gaia Mercurius Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive guide to connecting with the magic of each of the four elements: Water, Earth, Air, and Fire• Details hands-on techniques, spells, and rituals paired with personal stories from the author’s decades of magical practice • Presents teachings on working with each element in different ways--such as divination, communication, healing, protection, manifestation, and enchantment • Explores elemental altars, scrying and reading the bones, undines and fairies, working with runes and crystals, ancestral healing, weather sensing, fire gazing, candle magic, sex magic, and communicating with the Otherworld A Book of Shadows is a witch’s sacred journal, filled with personal experiences and the intimate working of spells. In this practical guide to elemental witchcraft, Salicrow invites you into her personal Book of Shadows, detailing hands-on techniques, spells, and rituals to work with the magic of the four elements--Water, Earth, Air, and Fire. She presents teachings on each element through the lens of different schools of magic, such as divination, healing, protection, manifestation, and enchantment. Within each of these elemental teachings is a series of progressive lessons, including a personal story from the author’s lifetime of magical practice paired with a technique for you to explore. For the Water witch, she explores scrying, engaging with undines, weather protection, fairy glamour, and healing with kitchen spells. For the Earth witch, she describes reading the bones, animal messengers, listening to plants, crystal grids, and shadow work. For the Air witch, she looks at communicating with sylphs and crows, divination through clouds and wind, sonic magic and healing, spell accelerants, and smudging. For the Fire witch, she examines the Djinn, the magical hearth, fire divination, candle work, and sex magic. For all the elements, she explores how to build elemental altars and customize the ceremonies and rituals. Sharing intimate examples and practices to help you progressively develop the skills of witchcraft, Salicrow invites you to create your own personal Book of Shadows as you forge a magical relationship with the natural world.Trade Review“The Path of Elemental Witchcraft is much more than a book, it is an intimate invitation into the sacred workings of the world. Through personal stories and guided practice you can’t help but be enveloped in the unique vision of Salicrow, whose writing crystallizes the precious usefulness of elemental magic. This Book of Shadows makes a tantalizing subject accessible and beneficial to all.” * Stephanie Rose Bird, author of 365 Days of Hoodoo and Sticks, Stones, Roots, and Bones *“The Path of Elemental Witchcraft is abundantly filled with wisdom, heart, and deep teachings. Salicrow’s writing is authentic, passionate, and inspiring. In this wonder-full book she shares stories of her personal journey that illustrate who and what the elementals are, and she teaches us how to engage and relate with the elementals in safe and respectful ways. Each section is filled with a rich mix of practices, rituals, suggestions, and guidance for deepening our understanding and our relationship with Nature and the visible and invisible worlds around us. Each elemental section explores communication, divination, healing, protection, and magic with the beings of water, fire, air, and earth. Doing the practices will take you deep into your own experience of knowing. This book is a treasure trove that you’ll want to delve into over and over again.” * Kathy Warner, cofounder of Heaven and Earth, LLC *“In The Path of Elemental Witchcraft, Salicrow takes readers into her cave of interconnectedness and sacred communication with a wealth of information and offerings that enable practitioners of any level to develop a richer relationship with the elements and elemental beings from many different origins. Salicrow does not simply tell you how to walk through the shadow, she teaches you how to see within the veil of its profuse darkness.” * Jenn LeBlanc, elemental enchantress *"The Path of Elemental Witchcraft is part memoir and travelogue, part ritual handbook, part metaphysical ethnography of the many types of elemental spirit beings Salicrow meets in the hidden realms. This book strikes me as a generous gift, like a gigantic buffet table onto which Salicrow has piled as many of her observations and insights as the table will hold. Reading The Path of Elemental Witchcraft feels like it might feel sitting with Salicrow over a cup of tea or a bowl of soup.This book is a magnum opus. It is a trip around the worlds." * Sara R. Diamond, FacingNorth.net *Table of ContentsFOREWORD THE ELEMENTS OF MAGICby Anne-Marie Keppel PREFACE WELCOME, SEEKER WATER WITCH COMMUNICATIONUndinesWater AltarsSacred Water from the EarthThe Purple MistConnecting with WilloughbyTransmission through Seclusion DIVINATIONMirrors and TeacupsBath BombsRipples in the WaterMirror, Mirror on the WallMoonlit ReflectionThe Drowning PoolHEALINGHealing in the Soup PotAwakeningWater BlessingSonic WavesHealing Community and Country PROTECTIONReflective MagicAnointed ProtectionHall of MirrorsIrish Piss PotProtective SprayWeather Protection GLAMOUR Fairy GlamourAccentuating the PositiveMisty CamouflageLove Come to MeBecoming the PriestessLaps of ManifestationJump Girl EARTH WITCH COMMUNICATION Gnomes and TrollsEarth AltarsThe Art of ListeningEntering the Fairy WoodThe Troll CaveDevas in the GardenDIVINATION The Wisdom of TreesRoots and BonesWorking with RunesAnimal MessengersEveryday DivinationGEOMANCYConnected LinesStonehengeNeedleBalancing EnergyGreen Heart FarmNagini, the Stone SnakeAttuned to the EarthHEALING Entering the CaveVerdant GnosisThe NestGraveyard DirtThe Wisdom of TreesSlieve GullionPROTECTION Sacred GrovesMagical PermacultureFairy MoundsBoobie-StonesStone GuardiansEarth in My Pocket AIR WITCH COMMUNICATION SylphsAir AltarsTake CautionSpirit Chimes InFae ContactCrow’s Calling DIVINATIONWeather SensingCloud AuguryThe Voice of RemembranceVoices on the WindSmoke on the BreezeThe Way of Birds ASTRAL NAVIGATION The Astral PlaneJourneying through VoiceI Am AwakeStorm WeavingAs the Crow FliesA Voice for the Otherworld HEALINGPurification through SmokeActivating the OlfactoryWhistling and BlowingA Healing VoiceEchoes in the MountainAttuned to Air ENCHANTMENTBubbles to the MoonCatching the WindThe Wyrding WayVoices on the WindEcholocationTime Traveling in the TorFIRE WITCHCOMMUNICATIONSalamandersFire AltarsThe Cleverness of JinnHonoring Fire in the HomeFaces in the FireFire-Breathing Dragons DIVINATION Visions in FlamesAshes to AshesMelted WaxFlaming RunesSamhain FiresCampfire Divination HEALING Light a CandleBonfire of the VanitiesBurning Bridges and Cutting CordsAttuned to FireInternal FlameLocalizing Trauma with Fire TRANSFORMATIONFire ContainmentChange from the HearthCoaxing EmbersPhoenix from the FireBonfire and BeesI Have Walked on Fire, Ho!SEX MAGICSacred SexualitySteamy Offerings Object of DesireAwakening the Snake Fantasy Lover Desired by the Gods AFTERWORD CONTINUING THE JOURNEY INDEX

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Book SynopsisA beautiful new edition of a classic work of landscape history, in which Alfred Watkins introduced the idea of ancient 'ley lines' criss-crossing the English countryside. First published in 1925, The Old Straight Track described the author's theory of 'ley lines', pre-Roman pathways consisting of aligned stone circles and prehistoric mounds, used by our Neolithic ancestors. Watkins's ideas have intrigued and inspired generations of readers – from historians to hill walkers, and from amateur archaeologists to new-age occultists. This edition of The Old Straight Track, with a substantial introduction by Robert Macfarlane, will appeal to all who treasure the history, contours and mystery of Britain's ancient landscapes.Trade ReviewWatkins re-enchanted the English landscape, investing it with fresh depth and detail, prompting new ways of looking and new reasons to walk -- Robert MacfarlaneA remarkable book... Alfred Watkins [was a] visionary who saw beyond the bounds of his time' -- John MichellRobert Macfarlane in his introduction to this new edition [...] is respectful, finding new relevance in Watkin's writing. The result is to fold Watkins, the counter-cultural mystic-modernist, into the cultural landscape, laying the track for others to follow * TLS *A stimulating historical mediation on landscape * Daily Mail *Careful erudite topography in the grand Enlightenment tradition, which nevertheless presents a vision of Herefordshire that is awe-inspired * Spectator *

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Book SynopsisThe role of a visionary is to help dream the future into life. Throughout the ages, shamans have played the role of visionary within their communities. Yet how does one open to visions and allow the messages we need to hear to come through? Exploring how to access your creative potential to shape and hold a strong vision for yourself and others, visionary teacher Carol Day shares hands-on tools and step-by-step shamanic practices to become more visionary and connected to the world around. She explains how to prepare for shamanic visioning and details Earth Whispering practices to expand the senses, set intentions, and connect deeply with intuition and spirit helpers. Detailing the visionary quest, the author offers exercises to open up to different dimensions and initiate a conscious relationship with the elements through the creativity wheel. Introducing animal and archetype support systems, she shares advice on working with guides and soul protectors, such as elemental spirits, birds, trees, and the fae. She presents visionary practices to help you connect, acknowledge, and honor the past, present, and future--each of which is connected with an element, a spirit animal, and a plant spirit. She shares a sacred time-travel journey in the symbolic form of a loop, taking you first through the present, then opening to an exploration of the realm of the past and the ancestors, continuing into the vision of the future ones, and ultimately back to the beginning of time. Taking you through the three pathways of time, this guide presents shamanic tools to help you prepare to receive visions, release the burdens of the past to heal your ancestral line, and bring clarity to your visions of the future.Trade Review“Carol never fails to delight with her creative and visionary approach. This book had me smiling all the way through as she expertly guides us along a fun, empowering, and expansive journey toward wholeness and truth within a carefully crafted structure. Her writing and encouragement reflects the depth of her experience, respect, and love for both the mythical and the human. Carol is listening to a wider calling, and with this book as our guide we can’t help but do the same.” * FAY JOHNSTONE, shamanic herbalist, Reiki teacher, and author of Plant Spirit Reiki and Plants That S *“What do unborn babies dream, floating in their private (yet cosmic) ocean in the womb? Is our umbilical cord a bridge for dreams as well as nourishment? Does our dreaming add to the dreaming of the Earth long before we even see daylight? This new book by Carol Day will help you open doors to the visionary realm, as is your birthright. It will make you an intentional Earth Whisperer, using dreaming as a power tool. You will learn how to continuously place yourself and your relations (plant, animal, mineral, ancestral) in sacred wholeness—the same divine wholeness that dreamed you into being, long before you were even conceived! Treat yourself to this most magical book to become a world-class dreamer!” * IMELDA ALMQVIST, painter, forest witch, and author of North Sea Water in My Veins and Medicine of th *“Shamanic Dreaming is full of practical wisdom to find your sense of belonging through time and your continuing role in the unfolding story of the earth. It is full of fun and imaginative ways to connect deeply with yourself and to co-create a better understanding of your calling and the vision for the earth. All this is guided with the support of deep listening to nature, spirit, and the mythical through all dimensions of time and space. This book will change your life--as it did mine! It will give you a sense of living in deep harmony with yourself and the earth in your own unique way. The deep truth and authenticity of this book is so needed for the creation of a new vision for connected earth community.” * GILLIAN DUNCAN, mindfulness coach and teacher and founder of the Moment Is Now *"The book allows you a hands-on approach and asks you to attune yourself to everything all around you. There are tasks for you to complete throughout, all of which can bring a deeper understanding of your mindset and learning to be present.I recommend quickly browsing the book before you begin, as some tasks require items you might not just have lain around, such as a shamanic drum. If you’ve already got one, great. But just check beforehand, because getting all ready for one of the tasks only to find you’re missing the key ingredient can be a huge disappointment." * Kate Hames, Musing Mystical *Table of ContentsForeword by Sandra Ingerman Preface Introduction Act 1 CallingScene 1 Heeding the Calling Chapter 1 Presence and the Three Pillars Chapter 2Calling Scene 2 Tuning Chapter 3 The Visionary QuestChapter 4 DimensionsChapter 5 Passion, Creativity, and Fire Chapter 6 Guides Scene 3 Nature’s CommunicationsChapter 7 Weather Spirits Chapter 8 Birds Chapter 9 TreesChapter 10 The Fae Scene 4 Animals and Archetypal Support Systems Chapter 11Brain Opening and MappingChapter 12DreamtimeChapter 13Journeying Chapter 14 Archetypes on the Land Scene 5 Reflecting Act 2Loop Scene 1 Prep Aligning with LoopScene 2 Present Lifetime Chapter 1Land and Perspectives on Time Chapter 2 Rose and Soul Chapter 3 Spirit of the Age Chapter 4 Nature’s Eternal KnowingScene 3 Ancestral PathwaysChapter 5 Introduction to Ancestors Chapter 6 Safe Practice Chapter 7 Dreaming with the Ancestors Chapter 8 Ceremonies of Release and Surrender with the Ancestors Scene 4 Future Pathways Chapter 9 Waters of the EarthChapter 10 A Cleaning-Up JobChapter 11Journeying and the Oracle Chapter 12Unity Scene 5 Wishes for the Future Finale Vision Hoop Overview of Exercises Bibliography AcknowledgementsAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisAn inspiring manual for navigating humanity’s collective dark night and enacting personal and planetary transformation• Explores how Sacred Activism--specifically, creative, wise, sacredly inspired action--offers an antidote to the crises facing our world• Reveals how to uncover and sustain joy and how to use it as fuel for continuing Sacred Activism in dangerous times• Includes practical maps of the dark night process and of the four-part path to transfiguration drawn from the secret depths of the mystical traditionsPresenting a manual for navigating humanity’s collective dark night, Andrew Harvey and Carolyn Baker explore potential antidotes, drawn from mystical traditions and Sacred Activism, to help us find inspiration and take action in the face of the daunting challenges to our world. Offering a deep discussion of our global dark night in terms of the Kali Yuga, the authors examine the dangers of a growing constellation of intractable crises--authoritarianism both in America and abroad, climate change, economic inequality, social upheaval, and spiritual malaise. They then explore the antidotes to these crises: Sacred Activism--specifically, creative, wise, sacredly inspired action--and a profound understanding of our evolutionary ordeal and its potentialities. Examining the power of joy to help enact personal and planetary transformation, they explain how joy, or ananda, is a force all mystical traditions recognize as the essence of the Divine. They reveal how to uncover and sustain joy in ourselves and how to use joy as fuel for continuing Sacred Activism in dangerous times. Drawing on the visionary teachings of mystics such as Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Sri Aurobindo, the authors show how the global dark night is part of an evolutionary mutation process and how its very intensity makes it the potential seedbed of a new embodied, divine humanity. They offer practical maps of the crises, of the shadows that this global dark night is casting, and of the four-part path to transfiguration drawn from mystical traditions. Sharing a vision of a new and focused global moment of love in action, the authors reveal that apocalypse is not inevitable--if enough people awaken to the extraordinary possibilities of Sacred Activism.Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Radical Regeneration Quartet PART ONE Savage Grace Living Resiliently in the Dark Night of the Globe Foreword to Part One by Matthew Fox 1 Kali Takes America Reconnecting with the Destroyer/Creator 2 Resisting the Modern Face of Fascism 3 Living Resiliently amid Global Psychosis 4 Regeneration The Legacy of Love in Action 5 Celebrating Reconnection, Resistance, Resilience, and Regeneration Suggested Reading List for Part One PART TWO Return to Joy The Journey beyond HappinessIntroduction to Part Two 6 Joy 133 The Ultimate Nature of Reality 7 The Adversaries of Joy 8 Personal and Collective Shadows Confronting the Crisis Directly9 The Myriad Flames of Joy 10 Dialogue on the Road to JoyConclusion to Part Two Suggested Reading List for Part Two PART THREE Saving Animals from Ourselves A Manifesto for Transforming Our Relationship with the Divine Animal Within Introduction to Part Three 11 Opening to the Initiation 12 A Revolution in Perception What Could More Than Human Consciousness Offer Humans? 13 Preparing the Ground of Initiation 14 The Tortured Human Animal 15 When We Cannot Look, We Cannot Act 16 What Is Being Done for Animals? Suggested Reading List for Part Three PART FOUR Radical Regeneration Birthing the New Human in the Age of Extinction Foreword to Part Four by Paul Levy Introduction to Part Four Covid’s Implacable Errand by Carolyn Baker Prayer to Kali by Andrew Harvey 17 Radically Reframing the Crisis 18 Stage One of the Initiatory Process The Magnificent Vision of Possibility 19 The Descent The Apocalypse and the Antichrist 20 The Quantum Field and the Human Mutation 21 Transmutation The Birth of the Divine Human 22 Nobility of Soul Conclusion to Part Four by Ludwig Max Fischer Suggested Reading List for Part Four Appendix 1 of Part Four: Regarding Shadow HealingAppendix 2 of Part Four: The Death of Certainty in a Torrent of Trauma Afterword Notes About the Authors Index

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Book SynopsisHow to develop the body’s innate intelligence for individual and planetary transformation The inner world of self and body is inextricably linked to the outer world of biosphere and biome. As experienced somatic and energy medicine practitioner Cheryl Pallant reveals in vivid depth, by expanding our sensory perceptions and becoming intimately in touch with the rhythms of the body, we can contribute not only to our own healing and transformation but also that of the planet. In this practical guide, Pallant explains how ecosomatics—embodiment work for personal and planetary health—can help us shift our consciousness through expanded listening with all our senses and embracing the interconnections between our inner and outer worlds. Blending research with personal experience in somatic and contemplative practices, the author explores how a broadened appreciation of conscious and unconscious bodily events and perceptions leads to vitally needed, improved stewardship with ourselves and the planet. She shows how the current health, social, and environmental crises are a chance for an evolution in consciousness, pushing us to heal the divisions within personal identity, between self and others, and with the environment. Throughout the book, the author offers ecosomatic and embodiment exercises to help you expand perception, develop somatic intelligence, let go of limiting beliefs, lessen fear, anxiety, and alienation, and open to levels of awareness that allow you to tune in to a greater vision of what is humanly possible. Revealing how to incorporate embodiment into everyday life, this guide shows how the body is a process that is part of nature, not separate from it, and that by embarking on the transformative inner journey, we can bring healing to the world around us.Trade Review“Reveals how somatic awareness is the way to rise above yet not avoid the challenges of our rapidly changing world. In simple but profound exercises and candid narratives, Cheryl shows readers, including those who may never have explored somatic intelligence, how to elicit that intelligence as a trustworthy guide. Ecosomatics brings you into your center, here and now, dependably in harmony with the natural world, and, best of all, with surprises born from connection and innate intuition.” * Stephanie Mines, Ph.D., author of The Secret of Resilience and founder of the TARA Approach *“An utterly fascinating read; by combining personal experiences and wide-ranging research, Pallant has crafted an engaging text on finding new ways of thinking, being, and connecting. It’s a muchneeded call to leave distractions behind and return to your body, for our own sake and the sake of the planet.” * Olivia Campbell, New York Times bestselling author of Women in White Coats *“With a sensitivity that sings forth, Cheryl Pallant delivers us poetry of the living body. She does this by investigating multiple facets of human nature and its interdependence with all living bodies, most notably the Earth. Dig into this inspiring book and its many pearls of bodily and emotional wisdom and opportunities for healing will unfold, centered in somatics and the ecology of how we choose to relate.” * Martha Eddy, CMA, RSMT, Ed.D, author of Mindful Movement and creator of Dynamic Embodiment™ *“Pallant’s engrossing writing skillfully guides the reader to recognize connections between our physical, energetic, and intuitive selves to awaken a multidimensional sensing that informs how we may choose to interact intentionally with all aspects of life and ‘a world in search of healing.’” * Gina Bondurant, BSN, RN, CHTP, CHTI, president of Healing Beyond Borders *“This passionately articulated book shows us that in turning within we are better able to turn toward this world that desperately needs our compassionate presence. Ecosomatics is a wonderful guide for everyone seeking to heal the split between the personal and the planetary.” * Kirk Warren Brown, Ph.D., faculty member in the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon Universi *“Cheryl offers us a unique window into her world as an energy healer assisting people in becoming incorporated within their own earthy incarnation as a pathway to healing. Her ability to craft a sensual spell with words takes us on a rich journey through these varied perceptual layers of sensing, feeling, and understanding our place on and in the planet. She serves up many proverbial crumbs to find our way back home to a renewed wholeness.” * Jamie McHugh, MA, RSMT, creator of Somatic Expression® *Table of ContentsIntroductionA Shift in Consciousness 1 The Roots of BeliefsThe Value of Being Authentic • It’s a Matter of Perspective • Bias • The Power of Witnessing • Greeting Discomfort • The Safety of Beliefs • How We Continue 2An Integration of Energy HealingA Start of Healing • The Power of Touch • Subtle Energy • Expanded Perceptions as Part of Healing • What Is Healing? • Optimal Health • The Opportunity in Unease and Disease • Embracing the Present 3The Intelligence of Intuitive and Somatic Awareness The Imbalance of Sexism • When a Smile Isn’t Enough • A Dysfunctional Tilt • The Intelligence of Intuition • Integrative Knowing • Somatic Intelligence • Integration through Embodiment • Field Knowing 4The Ecology of the Self The Presence of Beauty • The Fear Paradigm • The Pervasiveness of Love • Maturity of the Heart • Interconnection • Resonance • We Space • Life Task5The Embodiment of Expanded Perceptions Direct Experience • Showing Up Responsively • Wholeness Matters • A Mindful Approach • Imaginal Self • Expanding Consciousness6 A Way Forward Multiple Perspectives • Embodying Growth • Breaking Through7Embodiment PracticesSetting Intentions • Initiating a Practice • Shining a Light for Integration • Transforming Fear and Worry into Love • Embodying through Meditation • Balancing Feminine and Masculine Energies • Healing with Imagery • Developing Intuition • Aligning with Flow through Creative Expression • Establishing a We • Connecting with the Cosmos Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisNature Devotional is a stunning ‘prayer’ book every lover of the natural world will cherish. Beautifully illustrated eco-spiritual meditations, mantras and visual messages of hope, respect and wisdom make this the definitive devotional to uplift anyone who reveres nature’s magic and her teachings. Trade Review"Thoughtful reflections, lovely drawings, and seasonally inspired affirmations." * Library Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Early Spring: Quiet Growth 2. Late Spring: Blossoming 3. Summer: Emergence 4. Early Fall: Reconnection 5. Late Fall: Preparation 6. Winter: Stillness

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Book SynopsisEmbrace the blooming benefits of nature, mindfulness and eco-therapy in this stunning month-by-month nature almanac that will lift your heart, mind, body and self. Strikingly designed, lovingly crafted and filled with nature affirmations, activities and reflections, this gorgeous book will help you connect to the seasons, be empowered by eco-spirituality, and be mindful of nature all year long. Each page shares an eco-insight for nature connection, and the yearlong structure means that activities are tailored for the natural seasonal rhythms which guide us through winter, spring, summer and fall. Pick out the month and rest your mind’s eye on the pages ahead. Discover seasonal affirmations, nature rituals, recipes, eco-reflections and growing tips for nature connection, mindfulness and empowerment in this earthy guide to creating daily eco-aware habits. Standing at 288 pTrade Review"Impressively informative, inspiring, organized and presented, The Leaping Hare Nature Almanac: Your Yearlong Mindful Guide to Reconnecting with Nature is especially recommended to the attention of readers with an interest in: Practical ways to connect with nature, from growing flowers and vegetables to making knotweed preserve; Mindful reflections including tuning into the beauty of birdsong; Star-gazing practices as meditative practices; Nature meditations and visualizations to connect spiritually with the natural world -- and more!" * Midwest Book Review *

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Book SynopsisThe Sustain Yourself Oracle cards and handbook set is the newest oracle deck creation from best-selling Voyager Tarot author, James Wanless.

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Book SynopsisA classic tarot that brings two fundamental spiritualities of NatureWicca and Druidrytogether in the ancient art. Since it''s original publication in 2005, The Druidcraft Tarot has been one of the most popular and most recommended tarots. Blending the ancient traditions of the tarot with the imagery and wisdom of Nature-based spiritualities, The Druidcraft Tarot is a beautifully illustrated deck with a book to guide both beginners and long-standing practioners to a deeper reading. Philip Carr-Gomm is one of the most prominent figures in the Mind, Body and Spirit (MBS) pagan movement, having been the leader of the largest international druid organization for almost thirty years. With his collaborators, Stephanie Carr-Gomm and Will Worthington, he has created a tarot that draws upon tarot''s relationship to both druidry and wicca, drawing upon the primal essence that lies at the heart of each of these systems. With a fully illustrated book explai

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewKim Wilborn has crafted a well-written, easy-to-use guide that introduces you to the Guardians that you can consciously connect with, ones that can provide guidance and inspiration on our soul's journey. She offers solid advice on how you can transform your life and move forward in a new way with the help of these Guardians. --Dr. Steven Farmer, author, psychotherapist, and shamanic practitioner I count myself fortunate to know Kim and have co-created much Magic with her and the nature spirits through the Guardian Gateway Telesummits. I really enjoyed reading The Guardian Gateway, which provides a very grounded yet loving portal into accessing the wisdom of the ethereal and celestial kingdoms. Read this beautiful guide with an open heart and a pen and paper at hand, as you'll want to enjoy the many explorative journeys along the way! --Calista, award-winning author of Unicorn Rising and The Female Archangels, founder of Unicorn Healing® and Angel Healing® Empowering and beautifully written with practical advice, meditations, and visualizations to support you on your spiritual path. Kim's knowledge and loving desire to assist us all in achieving our highest and best in life radiates through each page. The Guardian Gateway welcomes you to a world of support from the hidden realms-beings who are bursting to share their knowledge and support with us if we just open up to listen and acknowledge them. Delightfully uplifting, this book will inspire you to deepen your connection with your Guardians to be the person you came to Earth to be-your true authentic self of radiant light! Enjoy! --Alphedia Arara, author of Messages from Nature's Guardians and Ascending with Unicorns, founder of the Dragon Wisdom School

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Book SynopsisA high-vibration oracle set to help you connect with the wisdom of plant spirits and tend the garden of your soul• Includes 44 full-color cards featuring the author’s vibrant Soulflower paintings along with empowering and insightful messages from the plant spirits • Offers more in-depth guidance from each Soulflower plant spirit in the accompanying guidebook, along with suggestions to help you embody the lessons shared Each flower or plant species has its own plant spirit, or deva, who radiates a unique healing energy and embodies specific soul qualities and universal spiritual truths. These soul energies are also present in each one of us like small seeds, dormant and waiting for the right conditions to sprout and grow. In this high-vibration, full-color deck, artist and plant whisperer Lisa Estabrook presents 44 beautiful and vivid Soulflower oracle cards, along with empowering and insightful messages from each card’s plant spirit, to help you tend the garden of your soul. The cards are designed to help you remember the simple truth that all of Nature is sharing--that we are cyclical beings intimately entwined with the Earth and all of life. Working with the cards will help you connect directly to your own inner wisdom, your intuition, like a mirror reflecting back at you the truth of what’s in your heart. For example, Chamomile reflects the soul quality of stability and its plant spirit reveals how, even on a cloudy day, the sun is still shining--it is just obscured. For Bleeding Heart, the soul quality is independence and its plant spirit helps you to recognize and strengthen the true source of your heart’s power. In the accompanying guidebook Lisa offers ideas on how to use the Soulflower cards for daily self-reflection and personal growth. She includes a longer, deeper message from each Soulflower plant spirit as well as suggestions to help you embody the lessons shared. She shows how working with the cards provides potent plant spirit medicine to help you reconnect to Nature, recognize patterns in your thoughts, words, and actions, and expand your awareness of what is happening around and within you. By working with the Soulflower cards, you can learn from the plant spirits and awaken the seeds of your own inner wisdom and intuition. As your understanding of the flowers and the interconnectivity of all of Nature deepens, so does your understanding of yourself. And understanding yourself is true empowerment.Trade Review"Lisa Estabrook is an artist, mother, way shower, writer, home herbalist and plant whisperer working with the Soulflower plant spirits to remember, embody, heal and restore Divine Feminine consciousness on our beautiful Earth. Her work includes the Soulflower Plant Spirit Oracle and The Daily Practice Journal. Lisa's maintains an informative website at www.mysoulflower.com where she features a growing range of beautiful, intentional, healing tools to inspire and deepen your relationship with your intuition, your heart, and the planet through the power of art and flowers. Unique, inspiring, meditative, thought-provoking, Soulflower Plant Spirit Oracle: 44-Card Deck and Guidebook is a truly extraordinary and unreservedly recommended addition to personal and professional metaphysical and tarot studies collections." * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: My Sacred Why 1. Tending the Garden of Your Soul 2. Starting with the Soil ~ Any Time 3. Planting Seeds ~ Early Spring/New Moon 4. Supporting Growth ~ Spring/Waxing Moon 5. Blooming ~ Summer/Full Moon 6. Garden Clean-Up ~ Autumn/Waxing Moon 7. Rest and Renewal ~ Winter/Dark Moon 8. Plant Spirits 9. Cultivating a Daily Practice ~ Sacred Gardening THE SOULFLOWER PLANT SPIRITSAster • Illumination Bee Balm • Vibrance Black-Eyed Susan • Recognition Bleeding Heart • Independence Borage • Optimism Calendula • Communication Campanula • Alignment Chamomile • Stability Chickweed • Tolerance Columbine • Abundance Crocus • Opening Daffodil • Perception Dandelion • Release Daylily • Centering Echinacea • ConsciousnessEvening Primrose • Rebirth Forget-Me-Not • Awareness Hawthorn • CourageHellebore • EmpowermentHydrangea • Transmutation Iris • Inspiration Lady’s Mantle • NurturanceLady’s Slipper • Connection Lavender • Restoration Milk Thistle • Forgiveness Mugwort • Integration Nasturtium • Vitality Nettle • Transformation Pansy • Resonance Periwinkle • Intertwining Plumbago • UnderstandingPurple Poppy • Evolution Red Clover • Tranquility Rose • Joy Rosemary • Clarity Self-Heal • ResponsibilitySpeedwell • Insight Stargazer Lily • Surrender Sunflower • Confidence Velvetleaf • Self-Love White Pine • Wisdom Wood Betony • Grounding Yarrow • Boundaries Zinnia • Lightheartedness About the Author

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Book Synopsis• Presents four loving, feisty old witches, one for each season, who share earth-honoring wisdom, rituals, and spells to help you embrace your journey through the sacred latter half of life • Filled with magical recipes, inspiring ceremonies, playful activities, and meaningful meditations You are invited into the magical world of four loving, feisty old witches, one for each season, who share earth-honoring wisdom, rituals, and spells to help you embrace your journey through the sacred latter half of life. In the season of Winter, the earthy Root Witch reminds us that bodies are made for pleasure, and that Winter is made for dreaming. She offers spells, rituals, and ceremonies to reframe your perspectives on aging and promote acceptance of your changing appearance. She also shares secret recipes for a healthy, happy body, focusing on preparations that help maintain and restore hair, skin, and bone. In Spring, the airy Winged Witch offers a witchy approach to spring cleaning, both in the traditional sense and in self-understanding and relationships. She shares recipes and rituals for jettisoning the dead past, discovering your own authentic style, adding magic to your clothes, and feathering your nest so it feels like home to your spirit. The fiery Summer Merwitch helps us to be more joyfully creative, with activities and wisdom to help overcome the obstacles that prevent us from fulfilling our creative dreams. She honors the senses, encourages us to embrace our sexuality, and gives us ways to express our fiery anger cleanly and powerfully. The watery Autumn Kitchen Witch shows us how to honor our harvests and our ancestors, how to make peace with death, and how to make every meal a celebration of life, with magical recipes and rituals that bring joy to the soul. The Kitchen Witch also explores several goddesses and wise old women from folklore who can offer templates for a rich and spiritualized maturity. Offering practical and enjoyable ways to make aging an empowering, magical, and transformative adventure, this book of spiritual guidance will help you love yourself through the aging process.Trade Review“What a wise, wonderful, singing, shining book! Its embrace of aging is filled with practical as well as spiritual and emotional advice. And joy. There’s no looking away from the difficulties of aging--just the opposite--but the joy of living and dying well is there on every page. Plus, Ania Aldrich’s gorgeous paintings!” * RACHEL POLLACK, author of A Walk through the Forest of Souls *“What a marvelous book! Witch Wisdom for Magical Aging is sheer wisdom cloaked in love, humor, and glorious sensuality. Cait Johnson has written a book so desperately needed in this world, not only to dispel the myths of growing older but to celebrate its delicious secrets. Think you know what happens as we age? Think again. Read this beauty.” * Alise Marie, author of The Beauty Witch’s Secrets *“How comforting to be taken in hand--and heart--by these four wise witches with their ancient knowledge of the seasons and of our lives. If you have ever felt daunted by the challenges of aging, here you will find courage and inspiration, kindness and good counsel. Practical and lyrical, Cait Johnson’s beautiful book is an invitation both to new adventure and timeless homecoming.” * Elizabeth Cunningham, author of The Maeve Chronicles series *“In Witch Wisdom for Magical Aging, Cait Johnson covers an often-neglected topic, helping women to age in a healthy and magical way. And, since women are all different, she presents many different aspects of aging, using the four elements and their seasons as a backdrop. From practical advice, inspirational wisdom, and rituals and activities, there is something here for everyone, no matter what kind of witch you are. Most of all, Johnson encourages us all to find peace, acceptance, and joy in our older selves.” * Alice Karlsdóttir, author of Norse Goddess Magic *“Old age is lots more than crepey, creepy skin and wrinkles. As Cait Johnson tells us, the usually pejorative words ‘crone’ and ‘hag’ really mean ‘crown’ and ‘holy.’ When we follow the advice of the four witches of the seasons in this book, we can attain our own holy (and practical) wisdom. We can put on our own crowns. The guys say that ‘getting old ain’t for sissies.’ Well, guys, witches are not sissies! We read this book, we grow, we get wiser and more beautiful, we live our holy lives.” * Barbara Ardinger, Ph.D., author of Secret Lives and Finding New Goddesses *“When we women reach a ‘certain age’ there is often no one there to show us the next steps. Older women need an even older woman to illuminate the path ahead--and that is what Cait Johnson has done. Too often we are greeted by images and accounts of goddesses who are described as young, nubile, and objects of desire. It is refreshing to be reminded of the divinity within the hag (from the Greek hagios, ‘holy’). This book would make a perfect gift at a croning rite or for any woman over the age of fifty or so, no matter the occasion. It would also make a delicious gift to yourself, whatever age you might be, with its many hints and advice for self-nurturance.” * Ellen Evert Hopman, author of The Sacred Herbs of Samhain *“I learned so much from this wise, witty book of unexpected delights. Cait Johnson extends a generous invitation to journey from earthy practicalness to sublime mysteries. With loving guidance from the supernatural voices of the four witches who turn the Wheel of the Year, this book inspires us to imagine the dream of our elder selves.” * Starr Goode, author of Sheela na gig *“This sorceress’s brew contains the soulful warmth of a therapist, the thoughtful pedagogy of a beloved teacher, a poet’s sensitivity to language’s intricacies, and a feminist’s clear-eyed truth and rebel yell. Visit and revisit these pages, not just for the wonderful recipes, rituals, and meditations but to spend more quality time in the company of Johnson’s witches who, by book’s end, feel like soul friends. Women of a certain age: feast on this book to feast on your life.” * Lissa Kiernan, author of Two Faint Lines in the Violet *“Cait Johnson’s words are like a broomstick ride into the enchantment of aging and its rich underground cave of Feminine Mysteries. This world needs the full power and presence of the crone with her medicine cabinet of earned wisdom, compassion, and paradoxes. Witch Wisdom for Magical Aging returns the aging woman to her noble throne. I look forward even more to becoming a crone after drinking in the power and insight in this book.” * Maya Luna, creator of Deep Feminine Mystery School *“Witch Wisdom for Magical Aging offers an irreplaceable compendium of lifetested wisdom, straight from the hands of one of today’s most powerful Wise Women. Blessed be you, Cait Johnson, for stirring up such a rare cauldron of delicious, inspiring, and practical delights!” * Annie Finch, author of The Poetry Witch Little Book of Spells *“Witch Wisdom for Magical Aging is a fabulous book that teaches real wisdom through fictional storytellers, adding a bit of whimsy to the mix. It is a perfect guide for those who want to embrace the magic of aging and the power of the Crone. This book is perfect for those new to the craft, as well as the seasoned witch stepping into the next incarnation of their magical self!” * Salicrow, author of The Path of Elemental Witchcraft *Table of ContentsFOREWORD Apprentice Ancestors by Caitlín Matthews INTRODUCTION A Magical Invitation WINTER Root Witch Wisdom from the CaveACCEPTANCE AND AFFECTION FOR YOUR SACRED BODY • DREAMING INTO YOUR WISDOM YEARS • POWER ANIMAL ALLIES FOR CRONES • CONNECTING WITH EARTH IN WINTER • FINAL WORDS FROM THE ROOT WITCH: MAKING PEACE WITH YOURSELF SPRINGWinged Witch Wisdom from the Tree House MAGICAL FEATHERS: DRESSING FOR YOUR SPIRIT • FEATHERING YOUR SOUL NEST • THE ENERGY OF HOME • YOUR SPIRIT FLOCK • CONNECTING WITH AIR IN SPRING FINAL WORDS FROM THE WINGED WITCH: SPRING ALWAYS RETURNS SUMMER Merwitch Wisdom from the Seaside BonfireCRONES CREATE • SENSUAL LOVING AND LIVING • SILVER FOXES: THE LIBERATION OF SEX AFTER FIFTY • THE FIRE OF ANGER AS YOUR ALLY • FREEDOM • THE POWER OF GRANDMOTHERS • CONNECTING WITH FIRE IN SUMMER • FINAL WORD FROM THE MERWITCH: LOVE AUTUMN Kitchen Witch Wisdom from the River CottageARCHETYPES OF THE WILD, WISE OLD WOMAN • HARVEST OF INSPIRATION • LESSONS FROM THE LEAVES: LETTING GO • MAKING PEACE WITH MOTHER DEATH • FOOD AND FEASTS FOR THE SOUL • CONNECTING WITH WATER IN AUTUMN • FINAL WORD FROM THE KITCHEN WITCH: THE FEAST OF LIFE APPENDIX Magical Helpers GratitudeIndex

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Book SynopsisUn mazo vibrante de Tarot con 78 cartas y un manual con flora, fauna y símbolos esotéricos• Incluye una interpretación de los arcanos mayores y menores del Tarot a través de imágenes simbólicas de plantas, aves, insectos, reptiles y piedras preciosas• Explica el significado tradicional del Tarot para cada carta y el significado simbólico de ciertas plantas y animales• Se basa en una investigación extensa del significado esotérico del Tarot y el simbolismo de los nativos americanos, los celtas y la filosofía oriental y occidental Entrelazando la sabiduría del Tarot con el vasto misterio del mundo natural, la artista Jean Marie Herzel ofrece este mazo de 78 cartas a color, pintadas a mano con acuarela, que presenta el lenguaje matizado de las flores e imágenes esotéricas de plantas, aves, insectos, reptiles y gemas preciosas. El simbolismo de cada carta proviene de varias tradiciones del mundo, incluyendo a los nativos americanos, los celtas y la filosofía oriental y occidental.En el libreto acompañante, la descripción comienza con el significado tradicional de esa carta en el Tarot, seguida por una explicación detallada de la simbología de cada planta o animal destacado. El libro detalla la conexión entre la especie y el arquetipo de Tarot presentado, iluminando la importancia de la carta y cómo se relaciona con el mundo, el crecimiento personal y el viaje del alma. Este mazo no solo refleja una visión nueva del mundo que nos rodea, sino que además examina el territorio no explorado dentro de cada persona.Table of ContentsARCANOS MAYORESEl Loco El Mago La Suma Sacerdotisa La EmperatrizEl Emperador El Hierofante Los Amantes El CarruajeLa Fuerza El ErmitañoLa Rueda de la FortunaLa JusticiaEl Colgado La Muerte La TemplanzaEl Diablo La Torre La EstrellaLa LunaEl SolEl Juicio El Mundo ARCANOS MENORESLas copas Los bastos Las espadas Los oros TAROT CLÁSICO - TIRADA DE CARTASIntroducción Tirada de una carta Tirada de tres cartas Tirada de herradura o tirada de siete cartas Tirada de la cruz celta o tirada de diez cartas Nota sobre la autora

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Book SynopsisDowsing simply means searching for something by intuition. It's widely regarded as being a psychic method of looking for water, but it's so much more than that – you can dowse for everything from lost objects to the self-knowledge hidden in your subconscious – and this book will show you exactly how. All of us have intuition but in this modern world we have become disconnected from this ancient power. Uri Geller is famous around the world for his intuitive, paranormal powers, which range from bending spoons to astounding feats of dowsing, such as his location of huge offshore oil field on behalf of Mexico's national oil company (for which he was rewarded with Mexican citizenship). In this amazing book, he guides you step by step through the hidden world of dowsing that he knows so well. Simple exercises in the form of Uri mini-class activities, and fun games such as crystal hide-and-seek, teach the basic skills you need to dowse, whether you use divining rods, a pendulum, a forked twig or just your hands. The book then explains how to use these skills to find everything from lost objects to water, fossils, archaeological remains and even hidden treasure! Most importantly, Uri reveals how dowsing can help you unlock submerged thoughts and knowledge and evaluate vital choices in business, love and family life. Also including real-life case studies of amazing dowsing events, stories of celebrity dowsers through history and background explanation of the science of dowsing, this is a super accessible and fun guide to the most useful of the paranormal skills.

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Book SynopsisDo you feel different from others, your soul knowing that there is more to yourself than your emotions, thoughts, your pain? Ben Wood's spiritual guide is for healing yourself, finding inner freedom by learning to love yourself unconditionally. The inner transformation within this book is for souls who are ready to heal their energy bodies from this lifetime and many past incarnations here on earth. You will be drawn to this book for the next chapter in your life to become free and whole within, the real you shall emerge. Never Come Back to Earth Again examines an energy called 'the pain frequency', explaining this in detail as well as exploring how to move through it and dissolve the heavy energies in your body that hold you back so you can see things in a new light. You'll learn to love yourself unconditionally, accepting yourself for all your beautiful qualities. Dissolving your conditioned character and finding self-realisation. You are ready to heal, balance, and never come back to earth again.

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Book SynopsisLearning about Gaia is learning about ourselves and our relationships with each other. From the stories and myth to modern exploration and activism, we can move from a tenuous relationship to one that is reciprocal and necessary in the increasing proof of climate change. When we save Gaia, we save ourselves.

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