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Lotus Press (WI) Hidden Forces of Life Selections from the Works
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University of Utah Press,U.S. An 1860 English-Hopi Vocabulary Written in the
Book SynopsisIn 1859 Brigham Young sent two Mormon missionaries to live among the Hopi, ""reduce their dialect to a written language,"" and then teach it to the Hopi so that they would be able to read the Book of Mormon in their own tongue. Young also instructed the men to teach the Hopi the Deseret alphabet, a phonemic system that he was promoting in place of the traditional Latin alphabet. While the Deseret alphabet faded out of use in just over twenty years, the manuscript penned by one of the missionaries has remained in existence. For decades it sat unidentified in the archives of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints - a mystery document having no title, author, or date. But authors Beesley and Elzinga have now traced the manuscript's origin to the missioaries of 1859-1860 and decoded its Hopi-English vocabularly written in the short-lived Deseret alphabet. The resulting book offers a fascinating mix of linguistics, Mormon history, and Native American studies.The volume reproduces all 48 vocabularly entries of the original manuscript, presenting the Deseret and the modern English and Hopi translations. It explains the history of the Deseret alphabet as well as that of the Mormon missions to the Hopi, while fleshing out the background of the two missionaries, Marion Jackson Shelton, who wrote the manuscript, and his companion, Thales Hastings Haskell. The book will be of interest to linguists, historians, ethnographers, and others who are curious about the unique combination of topics this work connects.Trade ReviewUseful and interesting to all those interested in Hopi language, Hopi culture, and Hopi history."" - Peter Whiteley, American Museum of Natural History
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Self-Realization Fellowship,U.S. Divine Romance Collected Talks and Essays on
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Taylor & Francis The Way of Power A Practical Guide to the Tantric Mysticism of Tibet Routledge Revivals
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Quest for Harmony
Book Synopsis Quest for Harmony provides a basic understanding of the cultures and spiritual teachings of four Native American nations--Lenape (Delaware), Ani''-Yun''-wiya (Cherokee), Lakota (Sioux), and Dine (Navajo). The text is always sympathetic, respectful, and, when possible, presented in the voices of Native Americans. Each nation is described in terms of its name, traditional location(s), present population, language, and traditional social organization. At least one story of origin is provided for each nation, followed by a survey of its history from earliest documented times until recent times. At the heart of each chapter, the spiritual worldview and rituals of the nation being discussed are introduced, with sections on cosmology, gods and spirits, rituals, and other issues particular to that nation. Critical issues common to Native Americans such as the pannational spiritual movements and the environment are also covered. Quest for Harmony makes clear that not onlTrade Review Finally I have found a book that combines many of the aspects I like to see included in readings for a course in Native American religions. . . . This publication combines historical overview and geographical diversity in its presentation of four Native American traditions. It includes the importance of the land, less well-known events and episodes in North American history, stereotyping, and contemporary problems and accomplishments. --Anine Singh-de Grood, Department of Religious Studies, Oklahoma State University
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Quest for Harmony
Book SynopsisProvides a basic introduction to the cultures and spiritual teachings of four Native American nations: Delaware, Cherokee, Sioux, Navajo; and also discusses such critical issues as the pan-national spiritual movements and the environment.Trade ReviewFinally I have found a book that combines many of the aspects I like to see included in readings for a course in Native American religions. . . . This publication combines historical overview and geographical diversity in its presentation of four Native American traditions. It includes the importance of the land, less well-known events and episodes in North American history, stereotyping, and contemporary problems and accomplishments. --Anine Singh-de Grood, Department of Religious Studies, Oklahoma State University
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Bhaktivedanta Book Trust Coming Back
Book SynopsisReprint. A comprehensive explanation of reincarnation from a Vedic perspective. This book covers many aspects of the subject of reincarnation, with quotes and thoughts from famous scholars and teachers throughout time alongside some first-hand accounts.
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Bhaktivedanta Book Trust Sri Caitanya Caritamrita
Book SynopsisIn the early sixteenth century the West was on one course, the East on another. In India, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was directing people inward, toward a scientific understanding of the highest knowledge of man's spiritual nature. Sri Chaitanya-charitamrita is the main work on the life and teachings of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, the incarnation of Krishna who appeared in India five hundred years ago. Lord Chaitanya introduced the chanting of the holy names of God as the prescribed method of God-realization for our time. He began what is today called the Hare Krishna movement, since the movement's founder, Srila Prabhupada, comes in the Chaitanya line of spiritual masters. Lord Chaitanya transformed the face of India in four respects: philosophically, by encountering, defeating and converting the greatest philosophers and thinkers of His day; religiously, by organizing the largest, most widespread theistic movement in India's history; socially, by His strong challenges to the religious inequi
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Bhaktivedanta Book Trust Nectar of Instruction
Book SynopsisThe Nectar of Instruction is a guidebook on spiritual teachings by Srila Rupa Goswami, translated by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. It covers choosing a guru, practicing yoga, and spiritual living, offering enlightenment for seekers.
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform The Babaji Affair
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Mandrake of Oxford Tantra for Westerners: A Practical Guide to the
Book SynopsisWhile Tantra has mystical, philosophical, and religious aspects it is, above all, a technique of action -- a system of physical, mental, and spiritual discipline incorporating meditation, yoga, and sacramental worship in the widest sense of the phrase. Tantra for Westerners is a complete theoretical and practical guide to the Way of Action, covering concepts of pleasure and pain, power and passivity, esoteric physiology, Tantra and Qabalism, right-hand and left-hand Tantra, tantric rituals for westerners, and the arousal of kundalini -- the serpent power.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Relational Religion: Fires as Confidants in Parsi
Book SynopsisHakon Naasen Tandberg explores how, when, and why humans relate to the non-human world. Based on two ethnographic fieldworks among the Parsis in Mumbai, the research focuses on the role of temple fires in the lives of present-day Parsi Zoroastrians in India as an empirical case. Through four ethnographic portraits, the reader will get a deeper look into the lives of four Parsi individuals, and how their individual biographies, personalities, and interhuman relationships, along with religious identities and roles, shape -- and to a certain extent are shaped by -- their personal relationships with non-human entities. The book combines affordance theory, exchange theory, and social support to analyse such relationships, and offers suggestive evidence that relationships with non-human entities -- in this case the Zoroastrian temple fires -- can be experienced as no less real, important, or meaningful than those with other human beings. The book also provides evidence not only that non-human entities such as the temple fires must be considered relational entities analogous to humans, but also that the kind of support provided by the fires and their availability in providing it is experienced as comparable -- and in some cases, superior -- to support received from human peers. The findings demonstrate that future approaches to religion as a social phenomenon will benefit from moving beyond mere interaction to exploring how and when engagement with religious entities can lead to long-term and emotionally satisfying personal relationships, thus paving the way for a more nuanced and relevant theory of religion as something interwoven into people's everyday lives.
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Motilal Banarsidass, A Comparative Study of Religions
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Motilal Banarsidass, The Ascent, The
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Motilal Banarsidass, The Mystery of Art
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Motilal Banarsidass, Life Surrendered in God: Philosophy and Practices
Book SynopsisKriyas and yoga contribute to wellness and spiritual growth. The book offers lifestyle guidelines, meditation techniques, and guru lineage info in the appendix.
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Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Indian Religious Historiography
Book SynopsisIn the present volume which deals with the studies on the religious systems of ancient India the term historiography has been used to denote the history of researches on various systems both in its heuristic and interpretative aspects.
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Orient Paperbacks Indian Religious Thoughts
Book SynopsisFeatures essays that trace the evolution and development of the pluralistic Indian religious tradition.
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Sri Satguru Publications Mahayanasutralankara of Asanga: Study in
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Sri Satguru Publications AbhisamayalankaraPrajnaparamitaUpadesaSastra
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Sandeep Prakashan Mind and Mental States in the Dhammapada and the
Book SynopsisThe Bhagavadgita talks of a Sthitadhir and focuses on Moksa or liberation. Similarly, Buddhism talks of Nirvana through the development of mind and pure consciousness. The book addresses the question of how the mind works in relation to different types of consiousness and personality in achieving Nirvana or Moksa.
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Sandeep Prakashan The Indonesian Brahmandapurna: Translated from
Book SynopsisPreface, pronunciation guide, Balinese letters chart. Introduction on Indonesia-India cultural links, impact of Sanskrit literature, Kawi text of Brahmandapurana with English translation covering creation, lineage, continents, and more. Original Kawi text inspired by Sanskrit sources.
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Pilgrims Publishing Diary of a Tantric Priestess
Book SynopsisA present-day tantric shares her experiences and insights on Tantra, exploring its application in the modern world. Through her story, Claire Marie Bailey explains how practicing Tantra has positively impacted her life, inspiring readers to delve deeper into this mystical art.
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Pilgrims Publishing The Sadhs
Book SynopsisRare antique book from 1935 by Bharatiya Vidya Prakashan, 130 pgs, 5.00*7.25 size, English. Readable condition, hardcover with loose binding, pin holes. Can rebind in leather for $25.
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New Age Books The Mystique of Om
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Wisdom Tree Kurukshetra: Timeless Sanctity
Book SynopsisKurukshetraa city where history blends the legend...a city of myths, great battles, and even greater empires...a city that lent canvas to the epic Mahabharata and bore the song celestial, the Bhagavad Gita...a city that eulogises the glory of the primordial river, Saraswati... ...a city no spiritual seeker would pass up on. Tracing the inviolable sanctity of this timeless city, Kurukshetra: Timeless Sanctity explores Kurukshetra as a metaphor, a leitmotif of Indian spirituality and mysticism, and as a confluence of profound streams of faiths as divergent yet concurrent as Buddhism, Sufism and Hinduism, while recounting its story through the lives of warriors and kings, prophets and poets, saints, savants and freedom fighters who have shaped its history.
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Sri Sathya Sai Towers Pvt Ltd Source of the Dream
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Aravali Books International Gods of High Hills
Book SynopsisWith reference to Mandi in Himachal Pradesh.
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Winsome Books India Sacred Tales of India
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Oxford University Press Rastafari
Book SynopsisRastafari. The word immediately conjures a host of strong, disparate images. To some, the Rastafarian Movement, which emerged from the ghettos of Jamaica in the 1930s, is embodied by a dreadlocked youth in a haze of marijuana smoke. To others, it represents an authentic, organic expression of working-class culture, a vibrant movement that has expanded to North America, the British Isles, and Africa. Ennis Barrington Edmonds moves beyond simple stereotypes to provide a compelling portrait of the Rastafarian phenomenon and chronicle how a once-obscure group, much maligned and persecuted as an internal threat to Jamaican society, became an international cultural force. He focuses in particular on the internal development of Rastafarianism as a social movement to track the process of this strikingly successful integration. He also demonstrates how African and Afro-Christian religions, Ethiopianism, and Garveyism were all fused into the Rastafari posture of resistance, organised as it is arTrade ReviewEnnis Edmonds provides a lucid and thought-provoking argument for how Rastafari has become established as a mainstay in Jamaican culture. Modifying Weberian notions of routinization and charisma, Edmonds demonstrates how Rastafari symbols have permeated Jamaican society, ensuring the continued existence of the movement despite its minimal formal structure. Rastafari is important not only to scholars of Caribbean religions, but to anyone interested in how new religions find a stable place in society. * Richard C. Salter, Department of Religious Studies, Hobart and William Smith Colleges *
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Oxford University Press Mystics and Messiahs
Book SynopsisAre religious fringe movements a recent phenomenon in American history? Are widespread fears of mass suicides, sexual abuse, and brainwashing in cults justified? Do marginalized religious groups play any positive role in American spiritual life? Do the panics over such groups follow any discernible pattern? Phillip Jenkins gives fascinating--and surprising--answers to these and many other questions in Mystics and Messiahs, the first full account of cults and anti-cult scares in American history. Jenkins shows that, contrary to popular belief, cults were by no means an invention of the 1960s. In fact, most of the frightening images and stereotypes surrounding fringe religious movements are traceable to the mid-nineteenth century when Mormons, Freemasons, and even Catholics were vehemently denounced for supposed ritualistic violence, fraud, and sexual depravity. As Charles Ferguson observed in 1928, America has always been the sanctuary of amazing cults. But America has also been the homTrade ReviewFor an understanding of cults in America, this is a vital guide ... Rich in anecdotes, this sober and instructive book succeeds in being entertaining as well. * Jeff Guinn, The Wall Street Journal *
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Oxford University Press The Mandaeans
Book SynopsisThe Mandaeans are a Gnostic sect that arose in the middle east around the same time as Christianity. What little study of the religion there has been has focused on the ancient Mandaeans and their relation to early Christianity. Buckley examines the lives and religion of contemporary Mandaeans, who live mainly in Iran and Iraq but also in New York and San Diego. She provides a comprehensive introduction to the religion and shows how its ancient texts inform the living religion, and vice versa.Trade ReviewLandmark contribution to the field. * History of Relgions *
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Oxford University Press, USA The Ramayana Revisited
Book SynopsisFourteen leading Ramayana scholars examine the epic in its myriad contexts throughout South and Southeast Asia. They explore the role the narrative plays in societies as varied as India, Indonesia, Thailand, and Cambodia. This volume will be useful for courses in the history of religions, Hinduism, Asian studies, and anthropology.
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Oxford University Press Americas God From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln
Book SynopsisReligious life in early America is often equated with the fire-and-brimstone Puritanism best embodied by the theology of Cotton Mather. Yet, by the nineteenth century, American theology had shifted dramatically away from the severe European traditions directly descended from the Protestant Reformation, of which Puritanism was in the United States the most influential. In its place arose a singularly American set of beliefs. In America''s God, Mark Noll has written a biography of this new American ethos. In the 125 years preceding the outbreak of the Civil War, theology played an extraordinarily important role in American public and private life. Its evolution had a profound impact on America''s self-definition. The changes taking place in American theology during this period were marked by heightened spiritual inwardness, a new confidence in individual reason, and an attentiveness to the economic and market realities of Western life. Vividly set in the social and political events of the age, America''s God is replete with the figures who made up the early American intellectual landscape, from theologians such as Jonathan Edwards, Nathaniel W. Taylor, William Ellery Channing, and Charles Hodge and religiously inspired writers such as Harriet Beecher Stowe and Catherine Stowe to dominant political leaders of the day like Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln. The contributions of these thinkers combined with the religious revival of the 1740s, colonial warfare with France, the consuming struggle for independence, and the rise of evangelical Protestantism to form a common intellectual coinage based on a rising republicanism and commonsense principles. As this Christian republicanism affirmed itself, it imbued in dedicated Christians a conviction that the Bible supported their beliefs over those of all others. Tragically, this sense of religious purpose set the stage for the Civil War, as the conviction of Christians both North and South that God was on their side served to deepen a schism that would soon rend the young nation asunder. Mark Noll has given us the definitive history of Christian theology in America from the time of Jonathan Edwards to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. It is a story of a flexible and creative theological energy that over time forged a guiding national ideology the legacies of which remain with us to this day.Trade Review"Essential reading for anyone interested in American history, politics and religion."--Themelios"For academics-historians, theologians, and anyone else interested in the history of poltical thought, religion, philosophy, or theology-this book is essential reading"-- The Cresset Epiphany/Lent"America's God deserves to be hailed as the most comprehensive treatment of early American religious thought. But it is far more than that, since Mr. Noll is tracking here not only the rise and fall of American theology but also the genesis of American civilization...Mr. Noll laments the passing of Christian republicanism and in the end suggests that a dose of Jonathan Edwards ('the last of the Puritans and the first of the evangelicals') may be just what contemporary America needs. You do not have to agree with that assessment to appreciate this fine book, which brings some of the nation's greatest thinkers very much alive."--Wall Street Journal"Noll belongs to a talented group of historians who have transformed our understanding of American evangelicalism... Among Noll's many great strengths (all on display in this immense work) is his comparative method, based on wide learning in Protestant sources worldwide."--Times Literary Supplement"Magisterial"The Weekly Standard"Carefully documented and including an excellent bibliography, this insightful volume makes a useful contribution to the study of religion in America"--Library Journal"Mark Noll's America's God delineates the Americanization of an Old World Protestantism with a breadth, learning, and sophistication unmatched by any other historian. Noll uncovers hidden, obscure figures even as he breathes new life into seemingly familiar names. Those who think intellectual history is dead or irrelevant will be jolted by the wondrous vigor of this exceptional, synoptic book. There's nothing else like it."--Jon Butler, author of Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People"Noll has an astounding command of the vast literature...this is almost certainly the most significant work of American historical scholarship this year."--Atlantic Monthly"America's God is a richly rewarding work. Awesomely researched and beautifully written, Mark Noll's magisterial study embeds American religious thought from the late Colonial era through the Civil War in its cultural and political context. Not only historians of religion, but everyone interested in the ideas and beliefs that shaped America's past--and still remain potent today--will profit from this insightful interpretive study."--Paul S. Boyer, Editor-in-Chief, The Oxford Companion to United States History"Noll's book is the most comprehensive study of religious ideas in America that we have, and a work that makes the most sustained case for the impact of the spiritual on American public life. The book is original and well argued; and the research is impeccable. Some will not agree with Noll's arguments but everyone interested in religious thought will have to consider them."--Bruce Kuklick, author of A History of Philosophy in America: 1720-2000"Those who might consider America's God an old-fashioned work about a bygone era and might therefore pass Noll by will do so at their peril...Argue over interfaith services after 9/11, prayers by football teams at public schools, in 'creationism' versus 'evolutionism,' Focus on the Family; 'the virtues,' the American moral condition, 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance, the political power of the Religious Right--engage in any or all of these debates, and you will be contending in the shadow of the achievements of Noll's cast of characters."-- Books & Culture"This 'social history of theology' in America, from the colonial era through the Civil War, promises to reshape the way we think about American religion, and, indeed, American history...Noll's trademark clarity--both in analysis and in prose--is in evidence here...Equally obvious is Noll's erudite mastery of everything from Puritan ecclesiology to Scottish moral philosophy. This is, finally, the magisterial work that has long been expected from one of our leading historians."--Publishers Weekly"A broadly based and solid account of the surprising evolution of Christian theology in America during the golden age of Protestant evangelicalism. Mark Noll's magnum opus is a notable achievement of Christian and historical scholarship."--Daniel Walker Howe, Rhodes Professor of American History, Oxford University"The wonderfully prolific Noll-as fine a historian as America now boasts-offers a rich and learned and deeply thoughtful magnum opus that is destined to shape discussions of the history of American religion and politics for a long time. Everyone who pretends to an interest in American history and American politics, to say nothing of American religion, must read this book."--The New Republic
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Oxford University Press Rastafari
Book SynopsisOnce an obscure group of outcasts from the ghettoes of West Kingston, Jamaica, the Rastafarians have transformed themselves into a vibrant movement, firmly grounded in Jamaican society and beyond. In Rastafari, Ennis Barrington Edmonds provides a compelling portrait of the Rastafarian phenomenon and chronicles how this group, much maligned and persecuted, became a dominant cultural force in the world today. Edmonds charts the evolution of the relationship between Rastafari and the wider Jamaican society, from confrontation and repression to grudging tolerance and eventually to cultural integration. Edmonds focuses in particular on the internal development of Rastafarianism as a social movement, with its network of houses (small, informal groups that form around leading Rastas) and mansions (larger, more communal associations), to track the process of this strikingly successful integration. He further demonstrates how Rastafarian artistic creativity, especially in fashioning the music aTable of ContentsAPPENDIX: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE ON RASTAFARI
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Tsj Publications O My Beloved
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iUniverse Where the Trees Grow Thick A Search for the Yamato Spirit
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Orion Publishing Co Return to Tibet
Book SynopsisHeinrich Harrer returns to Tibet - thirty years after the visit described in his bestselling SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET.SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET told of an idyllic life on the ''rooftop of the world'', before Harrer was forced to flee from the invading Chinese armies.Thirty years later, he returns to describe how the Chinese have attempted to destroy this ancient civilisation. Meeting old Tibetan acquaintances, including the Dalai Lama now living in exile in northern India, Harrer examines the current thaw in Peking''s relations with this isolated and mysterious country.In its vivid evocation of Tibet, past and present, Return to Tibet provides a fascinating insight into the durability of this profoundly spiritual culture.Trade ReviewHis vivid comparative reporting, the clear accounts of a number of important interviews and contemporary themes and his deeply felt sense of human tragedy give this book an importance for the general reader far greater than other tourist travelogues of the last few years - Times Literary Supplement
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AuthorHouse Disturbing Delights Waves of the Great Goddess with Quantum Kamakala
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AuthorHouse Disturbing Delights Waves of the Great Goddess with Quantum Kamakala
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William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Santeria
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George Ronald Publisher Ltd The Life of Laura Barney
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Self-Realization Fellowship How You Can Talk With God Japanese
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Self-Realization Fellowship How You Can Talk With God Chinese Simplified
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Self-Realization Fellowship Autobiography of a Yogi Farsi
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Self-Realization Fellowship Joogin omaelämäkerta Autobiography of a Yogi Finnish
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Self-Realization Fellowship How You Can Talk With God Lithuanian
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Anthroposophic Press Inc Life Between Death and Rebirth
Book SynopsisIn these lectures Steiner deals with the experiences of the human soul during and after death. On the basis of precise clairvoyant observations, he describes the events experienced during the millennium of the soul''s journey within the vast realms of soul and spirit between death and rebirth. Steiner describes the states of consciousness experienced by our deceased loved ones and how we-by considering their new consciousness-can communicate with them and even help them. Reading these descriptions, it becomes clear that excarnated souls need the spiritual support of those presently incarnated, and that those still on earth, in turn, derive enlightenment and support from their former earthly companions.
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