Mind, body, spirit Books

Book SynopsisPeter Ralston responds to 150 questions about consciousness from a global spectrum of people striving to grasp the nature of their own selvesThis illuminating collection of 150 questions and responses between Peter Ralston and a global spectrum of seekers provides a rare and nuanced look at the nature of consciousness and the path to understanding our true selves. Ralston is the author of the groundbreaking trilogy on the existential foundations of the human condition—The Book of Not Knowing, Pursuing Consciousness, and The Genius of Being. Here he has selected inquiries from more than two decades of question-and-answer exchanges with students as they work their way through his communications.    The mosaic of viewpoints from an astonishing diversity of real people at all levels of consciousness work yields a narrative that is intricate, wide-ranging, intimate, and emotionally honest. These dialogues expand our understanding of consciousness, test our assumptions, and interrogate the very process of inquiry.

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Book SynopsisLearn the ancient art of reading runes to jumpstart your journey to self-discovery and fulfillment with this fun, accessible guide featuring removable rune cards and a 30-day practice plan. A beginner-friendly introduction to the 24 Norse runes—from their ancient meanings and modern interpretations to their history and divinatory powers. Discover the wisdom of the runes—24 Norse symbols—to connect with your true self, master the art of being present, and fearlessly welcome your future’s unfolding. Like pulling an angel card, consulting a horoscope, or reading tarot, choosing runes with a question or intention in mind allows us to draw on the divinatory magic of these ancient symbols. We can make space for dialogue with our inner selves, convert intentions into actions, and open ourselves to being more aware and awake than we ever thought possible.   This approachable, accessible, and empowering introduction to the runes shows you how. In 3 practical sections, Rune Reading Your Life provides an introduction to the 24 runic symbols and their history, explains their ancient meanings, and reveals their modern interpretations. It guides you on a 30-day transformational rune reading practice, showing you how to interpret and apply runic wisdom to everyday life. Also included are removable rune cards that readers can use to begin their practice immediately.

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Book SynopsisA transformative collection of essays on the power of walking to connect with ourselves, each other, and nature itself.In 2010, Jonathon Stalls and his blue heeler husky mix began their 242-day walk across the United States, relying on each other and the kindness of strangers along the way. In this collection of essays, Stalls explores walking as waking up: how a cross-country journey through the family farms of West Virginia, the deep freedom of Nevada’s High desert, and everywhere in between unlocked connections to his deepest aches and dreams—and opened new avenues for renewal, connection, and change.While most of us won’t walk or roll across the country, the deep wisdom and insights that Stalls receives from the people, land, and animals he meets on his pilgrimage have profound impacts for each of us. He shares how walking deepened his relationship to himself as a gay man, offering deep and clarifying emotional medicine. He confronts the systemic racism, classism, and ableism that shape and reshape the communities he walks through. And he invites readers to become awakened activists, to begin healing our culture’s profound separation from the natural world.WALK is for those who crave to feel and embody, not just know and study, their way through complex themes that live in each chapter: vulnerability, human dignity, presence, mystery, and resistance. With dedicated practices—like connecting to Earth stewardship, moving into vulnerability, and walking and rolling with intention—Stalls’ WALK is an urgent and glorious call to slow down, look around, and engage with the world in front of us. It awakens us to what we miss when we’re driving by, flying over, and rushing past what surrounds us. It’s an invitation to move, to connect, to participate deeply in the world—and to dissolve the barriers that disconnect us from each other and the living Earth.

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Book SynopsisHappiness Comes in Waves provides life lessons filled with inspiring stories and quotations from ocean advocates—illustrated with gorgeous photographs of the ocean, shorelines, and beaches.Rise like a wave and live a life full of happiness! Above all, the ocean teaches us this: we are all connected. Everything we do echoes into the universe and even the smallest changes can build into positive life momentum. Life is like the sea—it moves us, shapes us, supports us, and awakens us to new shores. And ultimately, life teaches us to be like water ourselves—strong yet calm, steady yet yielding, subtle yet beautiful.Each chapter is dedicated to a theme of life lessons to inspire you to live your most fulfilling life. With chapters on being free, courageous, purposeful, peaceful, and harmonious, you’ll have words of wisdom to carry with you everywhere you go. Learn to move like the ocean with uplifting sand stories from beaches around the world meant to motivate you for your next great adventure. Splash your way through each page as you learn about sand textures from Dune Jewelry's one-of-a kind Sand Bank. This amazing nightstand book also includes an index, so you’ll be able to identify where each featured sand texture comes from.Happiness Comes in Waves is an ideal gift book for water lovers and aspiring entrepreneurs alike who want to brave new shores with a life full of intention and courage.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Be Unstoppable Chapter 2: Be Abundant Chapter 3: Be Light Chapter 4: Be Inspiring Chapter 5: Be Authentic Chapter 6: Be Adventurous Chapter 7: Be Creative Chapter 8: Be Soulful Chapter 9: Be Love Chapter 10: Be Grounded Save a Wave Sand Bank Women Featured References Acknowledgments About the Author

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Book SynopsisThe journey to self-love is not always easy - but it's always worthwhile! Filled with insightful questions and relatable illustrations, this guided journal invites you to write about who you are, who you want to be, how you want to live, and how you can fulfill your dreams. On every page, readers will find both tips and prompts to help: practice self-acceptance gain mindful self-awareness discover your best self create healthy relationships be a good friend break out of unhealthy spirals and habits use your self-knowledge wisely Being yourself is your super-power - use this journal to explore and embrace all the unique aspects of your personality!

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Book SynopsisDeep within the heart of every soul is the desire to experience and communicate directly with Spirit. The divine presence is not the exclusive property of great saints, sages or holy men. Everyone is worthy to receive the blessings of Spirit. In this profound, practical, transformational book, you will learn proven techniques to open your heart, mind and spirit to the riches of inner divine contact. You will open the pipeline to the divine and begin the flow of inner guidance, love, healing, wisdom and inspiration from your centre of being. You will awaken the still, small voice within, go directly to Spirit without a middleman, and experience higher consciousness. AWAKEN YOUR DIVINE INTUITION, along with the included link to an online meditation, will help you:Tap into your ''in-house counsellor," your inner guidance and inner genius.Receive unique signals that identify specific aspects of inner divinity.Get divine messages and inner guidance and test whether they are real.Awaken your clairvoyant, clairaudient and clairsentient gifts.Experience radiant light, supernal love and spiritual grace.Heal ego blockages that have inhibited your intuition.Experience the divine presence anytime you want.Never be alone again.

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Book SynopsisThis is a book about healing your whole self; a book about becoming conscious and discovering the eternal and unbreakable you. The authors take readers on a journey of discovery; a journey in which each reader will discover tools for their wholeness and personal power. The authors focus on seven topics:Understanding healingAsking the right questions about who you areUnderstanding the power of the mindDrawing on inner resourcesTaking actionEmbracing your whole lifeReinforcing your wholenessFilled with anecdotes and offering practical exercises, the authors show the ways in which we can heal and grow. It is a book that shows readers, regardless of circumstances, how to live light-filled, powerful, and joyous lives.

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Book SynopsisIn this pocket reference, crystal healing teacher Nicholas Pearson offers a quick-start guide for working with crystals as well as a full-colour A-to-Z compendium of the physical, psychological, and spiritual healing properties of 450 crystals, rocks, minerals, and fossils. Covering the basics of crystal healing, the author explores why crystals work, how to select stones, safe and effective cleansing methods, and hands-on techniques and practices to harness the power of rocks and gems to transform your life. He also looks at how to charge crystals and program them for specific purposes, and he examines crystal correspondences with planetary, astrological, and elemental energies. In the A-to-Z encyclopedia, Pearson looks at 450 crystals, including familiar ones like agate, calcite, rose quartz, and hematite as well as rarer and more unusual crystals, such as phenakite, cavansite, and yooperlite--some of which have never before appeared in print. Each entry features a beautiful colour photo of the stone and defines its physical, emotional, and metaphysical healing properties and its corresponding chakra, element, planet, and zodiac sign. The author also looks at the geological nature of each stone, such as its hardness and crystal structure, enabling you to explore the connections between mineral science and the metaphysics of crystal healing. Providing easy-to-follow crystal healing guidance alongside an easy-to-reference stone encyclopedia, this pocket guide will help you deepen your relationship with the mineral kingdom and enhance your crystal healing practice.Trade Review“From the opening paragraph of the introduction to the very final pages this book is exciting, delightful, and informative. Nicholas Pearson has a special way of sharing his knowledge about crystals that could make anyone fall in love with their beauty, their mythology and lore, and the magic that they create when we work in harmony with them. His adept guidance leads us through foundational knowledge of how and why crystals work, and he goes on to share an in-depth look at a truly amazing array of stones. What most pocket guides lack in depth, this guide expertly captures within its pages. This pocket book may be small, but it’s substantial in the vast number of stones described, including not only common minerals but also more unique stones I’ve yet to see described elsewhere. Touching on the most important qualities of each stone, helpful correspondences, and geological information for each, this guide is a treasure that will have a place on my favorites list for many years to come.” * Ashley Leavy, author of Cosmic Crystals *“The perfect pocket guide for your spiritual rock-sleuthing pleasure. Pearson does it again! Crystal Basics Pocket Encyclopedia is the quintessential rock guidebook—excellent for beginners and experts alike. Nicholas takes you through everything you need to have a full understanding of the stone kingdom: how gems and minerals form, the various geometric systems, what they are made of and how they receive their colors, rock correspondences to other metaphysical information, and their healing and spiritual properties. As a Spiritualist and rock-hound myself, I found the easy-to-understand, simple languaging of a very complex topic refreshing. This level of understanding is vital for deepening your sacred self-awareness—understanding the formation and physical composition of gems and minerals allows you to fully access their spiritual gifts for you. The more you understand stones, the more profoundly you witness the cosmic awakening within yourself and the quantum universe. This is the crystal guide for your carry-all.” * Tracee Dunblazier, spiritual empath, shaman, and author of Transformative Grief and Your Crystal All *“Nicholas Pearson’s star has truly risen. The reader can sense that everything in this book is there for a reason. Passionate, knowledgeable crystal writing at its very best.” * Michael Eastwood, author of the Crystal Oversoul Cards *“Crystal guru Nicholas Pearson has created a fabulous-at-a-glance book that touches on every aspect of your crystal needs. Crystal Basics Pocket Encyclopedia expertly dives into the physical, psychological, and spiritual healing properties of an abundance of gemstones. This book is a masterful guide to enhance your relationship with crystals and begin utilizing them as spiritual healing tools for your evolutionary journey.” * Tammy Billups, author of Soul Healing with Our Animal Companions *“Nicholas Pearson has created a thorough masterpiece on crystal magic with Crystal Basics Pocket Encyclopedia! This expansive guide is the perfect reference manual for the modern crystal enthusiast, providing not only a concise overview on how to work with crystals but also providing detailed descriptions on the various correspondences of more than 400 crystals. I will be using this in my personal practice for years to come!” * Michael Herkes, author of The GLAM Witch, Witchcraft for Daily Self-Care, and Love Spells for the Mo *“Nicholas Pearson has masterfully created a crystal and stone encyclopedia that every healer and magician should own. This book not only teaches us what each shape, color, and chemical composition means but also shows us how to use them spiritually, psychologically, and physiologically. This is one of the most thorough books I’ve seen on crystal energy and healing.” * Chris Allaun, author of Otherworld: Ecstatic Witchcraft for the Spirits of the Land *"A beautifully illustrated book jam-packed with information about a myriad of stones. The author has certainly done his homework! Really helpful, and worth the price of the book, especially if you're a neophyte gemstone collector is the glossary section on the scams and misrepresentations. The book...gives helpful tips, advising you on selection, cleansing, displaying, charging, programming, etc. There's a part on dispelling myths. And the glossary has a quick reference table, a part on artificial gems and mistaken identities. Highly recommended on quality of information alone." * Judy Blackstone, FacingNorth.net *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction The Beauty and Power of Crystals 1 Crystals and Energy 2 Crystal Correspondences 3 Getting Started 4 Working with Crystals 5 Encyclopedia of Crystals

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Book SynopsisWhy are we here? What does it mean to love? How do we overcome suffering? Why do we feel so alone? Is happiness truly possible? For thousands of years, humanity has turned to the same sacred texts to explore these universal questions — from the Bible and the Tao Te Ching, to the poetry of Rumi and Sappho, to modern-day mystics. What if you could take all of the wisdom contained within these collective pages and, using the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence, receive the answers? Thanks to OpenAI, a nonprofit research lab cofounded by Elon Musk and other tech luminaries, this is now possible. OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial intelligence serves the betterment of humanity — and What Makes Us Human? offers an innovative exploration of AI’s potential in this realm. To create this first-of-its-kind book, international bestselling poet Iain S. Thomas and prodigious researcher and innovator Jasmine Wang collaborated with OpenAI’s GPT-3, an advanced artificial intelligence. Wang and Thomas prompted GPT-3 with thousands of humanity’s greatest texts, and then asked GPT-3 our most pressing questions. Contained in this book are the conversations and exchanges that followed. A bold, daring experiment, What Makes Us Human? is a contemporary exploration of spirituality that will inspire a new understanding of what makes us humans, humans.

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Book SynopsisTeachings and Meditations to "Shift" into the Freedom of Awakening It is possible to access the same sense of well-being, clarity, inner freedom, and loving connection realized by the world’s meditation masters. We can do this by shifting our awareness in the midst of our daily lives. Shift into Freedom is an unabridged audiobook presentation of innovative teacher Loch Kelly’s training manual for actively participating in the evolution of your own consciousness. Synthesizing insights from neuroscience and psychology with wisdom from the world’s contemplative traditions, Shift into Freedom offers an accessible and remarkably powerful series of meditations that lead us to a little-known natural capacity called "awake awareness." Through an unfolding process of "small glimpses, many times," these exercises shift us from a thought-based knowing to an awareness-based way of operating in the world. With continued practice, we learn to "unhook" from our customary home in our ego-based identity—and then sustain an embodied presence and relatedness known as "open-hearted awareness." Loch Kelly teaches that this is "the meeting place of awakening and growing up, where we have the capacity to handle a fully emotional, intimate life and act with authenticity and compassion." "The goal of these meditations is not to transcend the human condition," explains Loch Kelly, "but to discover how to live a fully intimate human life." Shift into Freedom gives you the tools to navigate your life with clarity and unconditional love.

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Book SynopsisDiscover the deep purpose hidden at the very core of your being To know your true calling—your dharma, as the yogis say—is perhaps the greatest desire within each of us. And yet, few can say we know our purpose with absolute certainty. Fortunately, there is a time-tested guide—an ancient map—for discovering and fulfilling your unique calling. In The Great Work of Your Life, Stephen Cope walks you through each step of the journey. Cope teaches that the secrets to unlocking the mystery of your dharma can be found in the spiritual classic, the Bhagavad Gita—a timeless tale about the path to dharma, told through an instructive dialogue between the fabled archer Arjuna and his divine mentor, Krishna. In The Great Work of Your Life, Cope uses Arjuna’s journey as a framework for each of us to discover our own dharma, masterfully weaving together stories of both well-known and ordinary Western lives. Throughout the book, Cope explores the "Four Pillars of Dharma," or the stages we move through as we fulfill our own true callings. Each pillar is illustrated with riveting true stories, including: Jane Goodall’s ability to follow her heart without question • The little-known tale of Walt Whitman’s dharma discovery in the second half of life • How living your purpose can be like training for the Olympics in the story of Susan B. Anthony • Ludwig van Beethoven’s triumphs over childhood abuse, depression, and going deaf • Gandhi’s transformation from tongue-tied youth to leader of the Indian independence movement • Understanding how divine guidance works with the life of Harriet Tubman • Additional insights and tales from the lives of both famous luminaries and everyday people "We feel the happiest and most fulfilled when we bring highly concentrated effort to our true calling," teaches Cope. Moving and inspiring, The Great Work of Your Life is a call to action and step-by-step guide for each of us to discover and embrace our dharma.

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Book SynopsisIn the summer of 2006, Aaravindha Himadra traveled deep into the interior of the Himalayan Mountains to a secret valley where he lived among the Amartya Masters—the reclusive keepers of an ancient lineage of spiritual mysticism. To answer their invitation, he endured a daunting trek across rugged, remote mountains, where he eventually came to their protected valley home, a place where our world’s most profound spiritual truths still exist in wholeness. Immortal Self is a riveting account of Aaravindha’s remarkable journey and his visit to this sacred land. Divulged here for the first time are the teachings of a legendary and secluded spiritual tradition—truths that transcend the illusion of our accepted reality and offer a beacon of hope for all seekers. Here is a transformative story that will invite you to challenge your preconceptions, open your heart, and receive the wisdom that your soul has always known: "When the last obstruction to the truth of our existence falls, but one power remains—the power of Supreme Love."

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Book SynopsisEmbracing the Life of Growth and Transformation "Each of us carries some wisdom waiting to be discovered at the center of our experience, and everything we meet, if faced and held, reveals a part of that wisdom," teaches Mark Nepo. Flames That Light the Heart brings you into the company of the beloved poet and author for a rich conversation on the life of transformation and the heartwork that is required to be a spirit in the world. Teachings and Practices for Making Sense of Our Experience How do we listen to life and not to what life does to us when suffering and loss meet us at every turn? How do we make sense of our experience? "My offering here is to explore these challenges and introduce you to your own wisdom and gifts, to help you personalize the ways you can nourish the spark of life we each carry inside," explains Mark Nepo. In 10 audio sessions, he explores the passages that open us, as well as the skills and ways of being that help us meet the difficulties that life brings us. Join him in this intimate conversation on our shared "growing pains of transformation" and the art of living "as an awakened part in an awakened whole." Highlights: • What it means to be transformed by what we go through • Being true to your own nature • The wisdom of a broken heart • Changing our relationship with fear • The practice of loving what you do • Obstacles as teachers • The peace that abides in every moment • More than five hours of insightful teachings, moving poetry, and practical guidance

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Book SynopsisEnlightenment—is it a myth or is it real? Across time and culture, inner explorers have discovered that the liberated state is a natural experience, as real as the sensations you are having right now. Few teachers achieve clarity with the application of scientific inquiry to these states of consciousness like Shinzen Young. Now in paperback, The Science of Enlightenment makes Young’s essential insights available to readers everywhere. The Science of Enlightenment merges scientific precision, Young’s grasp of the source-language teachings of many spiritual traditions, and his rare gift for sparking insight upon insight through original analogies and illustrations. The result: an uncommonly lucid "Aha, now I get it!" guide to mindfulness meditation—how it works and how to use it to enhance our cognitive capacities, compassion, and experience of happiness independent of conditions. For meditators of all levels and lineages, this multifaceted wisdom gem will be sure to surprise, provoke, illuminate, and inspire.

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Book SynopsisNew York Times bestselling author Damien Echols presents an unabridged audiobook of the spiritual practices that helped him survive and transcend his ordeal on death row. At age 18, Damien Echols was sentenced to death for a crime he didn’t commit. "I spent my years in prison training to be a true magician," he recalls. "I used magick—the practice of reshaping reality through our intention and will—to stave off incredible pain, despair, and isolation. But the most amazing feat of all that practice and study was to manifest my freedom." With High Magick, this bestselling author shares his first audiobook on these powerful spiritual techniques. Though modern culture has consigned "magic" to fiction, stage illusions, or superstitions about witchcraft, the magick Damien learned is an ancient Western tradition equal to the Eastern practices of Buddhism, Taoism, and yoga in its wisdom and transformative power. Here he brings you an engaging and highly accessible guide on how to bring magick into your own life, including: • What is High Magick? Damien clears away the stigma and reveals the history and core teachings of this extraordinary art • The Four-Fold Breath—a foundational meditation practice to train your mind and body to channel subtle energies • The Middle Pillar—how to bring divine energy into the central channel of your body for empowerment and healing • The Qabalistic Cross—a centering technique to help you stay balanced and protected regardless of circumstances • The Lesser Rituals of the Pentagram—powerful ceremonies for banishing negative energies and invoking energy to manifest your goals • Working with angelic beings and thoughtforms • Guidance for overcoming your doubts, enhancing your visualization skills, creating talismans, practicing magick ethically, and much more "Magick is a journey," writes Damien. "It’s a continuously unfolding path that has no end. You can study and practice magick for the rest of your life and you will still never learn everything that it has to teach you." If you’re ready to discover your untapped potential for co-creating your reality with the energy of the divine, then join this extraordinary teacher to begin your training in High Magick. Read by the author. Foreword by Eddie Vedder.

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Book SynopsisRe-enchant your life with this book of rituals, ceremonies, and practices for personal growth—anchored in the hidden power of everyday things. "We all have a deep capacity to make magic . . . . . . and to do it as easily as we breathe or open our eyes. This is not a matter of belief. You can discover your own capacity for magic in your own direct experience." —Briana Saussy When you think of magic, do you imagine something supernatural, extraordinary, or beyond your everyday reality? Many of us are drawn to magic because we think there’s something "out there" that can bring enchantment and wonder back into our lives. Yet there’s a secret to real magic: the extraordinary is much closer than you may think. With Making Magic, expert teacher Briana Saussy invites you to discover a practice of magic that will bring a new depth and power to each moment, act, and choice of your life. Through teaching stories, wisdom from a wide variety of world traditions, and no-nonsense practices you can easily weave into your daily routine, Briana will help you reconnect with the wild and creative force of magic that is always around and within you, waiting for you to remember. As you explore this path of transformation, you’ll discover resources of magic that permeate your life, including: • Doors and thresholds—ways we "cross between worlds" • Communication—creating magic with your voice, body, intentions, and relationships • Holy helpers—ancestors, angels, saints, and spirit beings who guide and support you • Water and washing—access the revitalizing energy of water when you drink or bathe • Textiles and threads—how to loosen, mend, or bind up supportive energies • Candles and fire—elemental power to bring light to darkness and burn away what no longer serves you • Kitchen magic—using food to nourish your whole self and reconnect you with nature • Talismans—infuse your beloved objects with sacred purpose and supportive power "Magic is the most real part of any `real life’—the spark illuminating the authentic core of every experience," writes Briana Saussy. If you are ready to enter a world that is ripe with possibility and rediscover the electric wildness of your life, here is an essential resource for Making Magic as only you can.

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Book SynopsisA collection of writings on the many lessons we can learn from cats—life, love, our spiritual nature, and more Charles Dickens once said, “What greater gift than the love of a cat?” And cat lovers everywhere would agree—too often cats are seen as mysterious, independent, or aloof, yet they bring a wealth of love and wisdom to those who welcome them into their homes and hearts. In The Karma of Cats, spiritual teachers, writers, and animal experts share stories and reflections on lessons learned from their feline friends. This collection of touching odes to our beloved kitty companions will at times make you laugh out loud and at others bring tears to your eyes. Join authors such as Alice Walker, Andrew Harvey, Sandra Ingerman, Joan Ranquet, and others to explore themes of love and loss, radical respect, fierce leadership, honoring your true self, and more. The Karma of Cats provides a beautiful compilation for anyone who loves cats and appreciates the unique ways they embody the core spiritual values we try to live by.

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Book SynopsisScience has spent centuries trying to define the laws of the universe. But in this modern era of breakthroughs and quantum physics, what have we finally learned? “It turns out that the laws of the universe are just waiting for us to break them,” explains Richard Bartlett. With The Matrix Energetics Experience, this extraordinary teacher invites you to learn the art of rewriting any rule of your reality—about your health, your happiness, or even your understanding of what is physically possible. What is Matrix Energetics? Born from a set of potent energetic treatments that Bartlett discovered in his chiropractic practice, Matrix Energetics has evolved into a “technology of consciousness” for insight, healing, spiritual growth—and living a life unbound by the limits we have been trained to believe in. As quantum physics implies, we live in a universe made of consciousness and light, where what we think of as “real” can shift as quickly as our minds let it. Now Richard Bartlett takes you on a freewheeling, playful, and possibility-expanding journey that will shatter your preconceptions about the seemingly “solid” universe we live in—and how unlimited your potential to change it truly is.

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Book SynopsisA simple, no-nonsense guide to change your life and take hold of your dreams “I have a confession,” writes author Justin Michael Williams. “This is not really a meditation book.” Yes, Williams is going to teach you everything you need to know about meditation—but if you came looking for a typical book on mindfulness, you’re in the wrong place. Stay Woke is FOR THE PEOPLE. All people, of all backgrounds deserve to have access to the information they need to change their lives. And if you grew up in struggle—overcoming homophobia, anxiety, sexism, depression, poverty, toxic masculinity, racism, or trauma—you need a different type of meditation . . . one that doesn’t pretend the struggle doesn’t exist. Now, Williams introduces Freedom Meditation—a distinct approach that addresses disillusionment, social justice, overwhelm, and shame; strengthens intuition; cuts through self-sabotaging programming; and empowers you to make better decisions. Whether you’ve tried meditation but it never sticks, or you’ve heard about it but never gave it a shot, this 10-step guide will cut through the noise and teach you how to create a daily meditation ritual that fits in with your messy, modern life. Stay Woke is a book that breaks barriers and encourages people of all identities, colors, shapes, ages, and economic backgrounds to claim their innate and limitless potential.

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Book SynopsisA simple, no-nonsense guide to change your life and take hold of your dreams “I have a confession,” writes author Justin Michael Williams. “This is not really a meditation book.” Yes, Williams is going to teach you everything you need to know about meditation—but if you came looking for a typical book on mindfulness, you’re in the wrong place. Stay Woke is FOR THE PEOPLE. All people, of all backgrounds deserve to have access to the information they need to change their lives. And if you grew up in struggle—overcoming homophobia, anxiety, sexism, depression, poverty, toxic masculinity, racism, or trauma—you need a different type of meditation . . . one that doesn’t pretend the struggle doesn’t exist. Now, Williams introduces Freedom Meditation—a distinct approach that addresses disillusionment, social justice, overwhelm, and shame; strengthens intuition; cuts through self-sabotaging programming; and empowers you to make better decisions. Whether you’ve tried meditation but it never sticks, or you’ve heard about it but never gave it a shot, this 10-step guide will cut through the noise and teach you how to create a daily meditation ritual that fits in with your messy, modern life. Stay Woke is a book that breaks barriers and encourages people of all identities, colors, shapes, ages, and economic backgrounds to claim their innate and limitless potential.

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Book SynopsisLearn how you can accept yourself and grow into your highest potential using psychological astrology “Who am I, really? What did I come here to do? Who am I in relationships?” A good therapist will help you answer these questions; so will a good astrologer. Dr. Jennifer Freed has a deep understanding of both these areas of practice, and she has incredible success in combining them in her work with individuals and groups for the last 25 years. In Use Your Planets Wisely, Dr. Freed introduces you to psychological astrology as a way to dive deep into understanding yourself and others in a profound and life-changing way. If you think of yourself as simply a Virgo or a Pisces or a Capricorn, be prepared to expand your self-knowledge many-fold. “Your birth chart reveals at least ten times more about you than you might have thought,” says Dr. Freed. “The knowledge in this book will give you a far more complete picture of your psychological and emotional blueprint.” By understanding your cosmic DNA, nine core strengths, and cosmic committee, you’ll come to trust that there is a divine orchestration that guides you, that you have a purpose in the world, and that both your light and your shadows are welcome participants in your psychological and relational lives. Use Your Planets Wisely is for everyone who would like to better know themselves, have better relationships, and enjoy greater happiness and fulfillment in community.

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of love as the most powerful force to transform all areas of your life There are four simple words that point the way toward freedom and fulfillment: “whatever arises, love that.” Now available in paperback, Whatever Arises, Love That provides a series of deeply healing insights and practices to ignite the spark of your highest potential. Kahn illuminates concepts such as surrendering on the spiritual journey, untangling the energetic roots of the ego, reclaiming the joy of your true innocent nature, and reuniting the heart and mind as a doorway to spiritual evolution. As Matt often says, “The deepest invitation in any moment is to heal the root of human suffering and celebrate the Spirit in all by opening your heart to its absolute potential. In a universe of endless questions, love is the only answer.” Whatever Arises, Love That is a new blueprint for exploring spiritual evolution in the most heart-centered way.

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Book SynopsisAt no time in the last 75 years have college students faced greater challenges as they struggle to prepare themselves for the future — pandemic-induced social isolation, drastically limited economic prospects with the likelihood of long-term scarring effects, and a dangerously divided nation rife with systemic racism. Given these unprecedented challenges, The College Mindfulness Workbook arrives at a particularly important time. The College Mindfulness Workbook invites students to explore an exciting and engaging set of activities designed to introduce the principles of mindfulness – the ability to be fully present in the current moment without judgment — and incorporate these mindfulness principles into their academic and personal lives.Each chapter includes exercises, prompts, and readings that help students develop skills like time management, collaboration and personal reflection through a mindfulness lens. Each exercise has been tested and honed over time by the authors in their own college classrooms, where they have witnessed the power of these techniques to increase students' success, mental health, and overall well-being. These exercises have been used in many courses, including English, First-Year Experience, and Nursing, but could fit seamlessly into any curriculum and yield profound results.This workbook provides skills that will enable students not only to thrive in college, but also to prepare themselves to become active and productive citizens who are ready to meet whatever challenges lie ahead.Table of Contents Introduction: Mindfulness & You Testimonials 1 Beginning 1. Introduction & Self Assessment 2. Live with Intention 3. Engage Your Senses 4. Classroom Centering Poses 5. Color This Page: Anything is Possible 6. Mindfulness Reading: "Prairie Spring" by Willa Cather 7. Quotation to Contemplate 2 Creating Space and Time 1. Introduction & Self Assessment 2. Study Space 3. How I Spend My Time 4. Move 5. Mindful Moment 6. Mindfulness Reading: From The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating Elizabeth Tova Bailey 7. Meditation for a Calmer Atmosphere 3 Constructing Relationships 1. Introduction & Self Assessment 2. Your Professor's Goals for You 3. Mindfulness at Work 4. Teamwork Centering Pose 5. Tessellation 6. Mindfulness Reading: From Fun Home by Alison Bechdel 7. Meditation for Community 4 Cultivating Gratitude 1. Introduction & Self Assessment 2. Drink Gratitude 3. Grateful for Learning 4. Express Your Gratitude 5. Color This Page: Tree of Gratitude 6. Mindfulness Reading: From The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho 7. Quotation to Contemplate 5 Communicating 1. Introduction & Self Assessment 2. Be Mindful of Others 3. Email Mindfully 4. Smile 5. Interpret Teacher Feedback 6. Mindfulness Reading: "Kriah" by Darla Himeles 7. Quotation to Contemplate 6 Paying Attention 1. Introduction & Self Assessment 2. Mindful Paragraph/ Problem Solving 3. Emotion Search 4. Color Your Feelings 5. Draw 6. Mindfulness Reading: From The Odyssey by Homer 7. Class Meditation for Focus 7 Exploring Your Personality 1. Introduction & Self Assessment 2. Who are you? 3. Help Your Chickens to Hatch 4. Human Nature Walk 5. Color Your Personality 6. Mindfulness Reading: From Sherlock Holmes, A Case of Identity by Arthur Conan Doyle 7. Quotation to Contemplate 8 Embracing Diversity 1. Introduction & Self Assessment 2. Make a List 3. Create an Identity Portrait 4. Innovate 5. Where will you go? 6. Quotation to Contemplate 7. Meditation for Acceptance 9 Building Emotional Intelligence 1. Introduction & Self Assessment 2. Emotional Wellbeing Shopping List 3. Thought and Feeling Check-in 4. Facial Expression Challenge 5. The Weather in My Brain 6. Mindfulness Reading: From Walden by Henry David Thoreau 7. Quotation to Contemplate 10 Persisting 1. Introduction & Self Assessment 2. My Support System 3. Make a List 4. Mountain Pose 5. Containment Box 6. Mindfulness Reading: From "What Suffering Does" by David Brooks 7. Quotation to Contemplate 11 Being Well 1. Introduction & Self Assessment 2. Body/Mind Harmony\ 3. Brain Dump 4. Theme song to your life 5. Fill in the Mandala 6. Mindfulness Reading: "Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver| 7. Quotation to Contemplate 12 Cultivating a Healthy Mindset 1. Introduction & Self Assessment 2. Drift Away 3. Create an Affirmation 4. Change the Message 5. Mindset 6. Mindfulness Reading: From "Ah, But the Breezes" by Noelle Oxenhandler 7. Quotation to Contemplate 13 Using Technology Mindfully 1. Introduction & Self Assessment\ 2. Screen Time-out 3. Make a List 4. Well-being App 5. Positive Meme 6. Mindfulness Reading: Haiku by Barry George 7. Meditation Before Using Social Media 14 Looking Ahead 1. Introduction & Self Assessment 2. Path to Possibilities 3. Teach 4. Network 5. Diploma Mandala 6. Color This Page: Dreams 7. Quotation to Contemplate 15 Reflecting 1. Introduction & Self Assessment 2. Note to Self 3. Make a List 4. Mirror, Mirror 5. Transformation 6. Mindfulness Reading: From "Why You Should Make Time for Reflecting (Even if You Hate Doing It)" by Jennifer Porter 7. Quotation to Contemplate

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Book SynopsisLearn to mobilize latent energy in your body and direct it to energize and awaken your higher brain • Provides a simplified step-by-step guided process to the higher-brain activation techniques of Source Code Meditation • Explains how to shift energy out of the lower “survive” brain into the higher “thrive” brain to bring confidence, clarity, and empowerment for transformative change in all areas of life • Reveals how the “brain first” techniques of SCM tune the brain to receive meditation, enabling access to deep flow states, transcendent states of consciousness, and higher brain potential The human brain is like a flowing river of potential. Until now, that river has been blocked, barricaded, and diverted by the primitive lower brain. The lower brain hijacks our ability to experience deeper flow and higher transcendent states of consciousness. It also guards against the full expression of the passionate human heart. Source Code Meditation (SCM), with its nine summits of transformation, effortlessly re-routes that lower brain diversion, allowing you to activate latent energy in your body, awaken your higher brain, enlighten your mind, and set your heart on fire to create a new world. With traditional meditation techniques, it often takes decades of practice for hours each day to confer significant changes in the mind and the higher brain. Few of us make it to these rarified states of mind, due to the amount of time and the intensity of focus needed. With “brain first” SCM techniques, you mobilize latent energy in the body and direct it to energize and awaken the higher brain before meditation begins. With the higher brain prepped and tuned, meditation is efficiently received, leading to quantum breakthroughs in higher consciousness without years of practice as well as access to deep flow states, transcendent states of consciousness, and higher brain potential. Providing a simplified step-by-step guided process to SCM, Dr. Michael Cotton explains how to shift energy out of the lower “survive” brain into the higher “thrive” brain to bring confidence, clarity, and empowerment for transformative change in all areas of life. Distilled from the world’s most comprehensive philosophy, Integral Metatheory, SCM offers not only a way to create the brain state necessary to change the mind, but the crystal clarity needed to use these advanced meditative states to actualize your potential and live your destiny to the fullest.Trade Review“What a blessing it has been to have experienced Dr. Michael Cotton’s work through Higher Brain Living and Source Code Meditation. These methods for energizing the higher brain structures and getting out of lower brain stress and overwhelm have changed my inner and outer experiences of life dramatically. My interest in these methods has been for spiritual development. I don’t know of anything else on the planet that can create such momentum, peace, presence, intuition, and shifting into more expansive levels of being. Source Code Meditation takes us to new levels of expression in purpose, meaning, connection, love, bliss, and freedom!” * REV. DR. RACHEL WETZSTEON, minister, REV with Rachel podcast host *“Dr. Michael Cotton is a visionary genius who has conceived, authored, and administers this life-changing process. Although it’s complicated and based on undisputable scientific research, Dr. Cotton simplifies the concepts so as to be accessible to students of any level. What he teaches works. He is changing my life and many others. He is at the cutting edge of something huge, and early participants will be foundational as this explodes worldwide.” * DAN HOSTETLER, executive director of Above and Beyond Family Recovery Center *“I have waited all my life for a program that pulls together centuries of random hints that there is more to this life that is yet to be discovered. It was never OK that I seemed to only have access to 10% of my brain. Through this Source Code Meditation program I am experiencing exponential growth in my creativity as a musician and dancer as well as feeling more and more connected to my social circles and the world as a whole.” * CHRISTINE SOTMARY, MS, LAc, NC, CPC, director of Gonna’ Dance Forever Acupuncture *“For many years I suffered through debilitating depression and anxiety even though I took prescription medication and received counseling. I was apathetic about life and did just enough to get by. Today I surprise myself because I look out the window and marvel at how beautiful everything is. People, friends and strangers alike, simply appear as beautiful. I feel wonder and awe and gratitude on a daily basis, no special effort or occasion required. Life still has its challenges, but I am able to purposefully navigate through with greater ease anchored in the knowing of who I am. Source Code Meditation has given me a practice I look forward to and can use at any time, even standing in line at the grocery store. I am no longer running from the past. I am living fully in the present, drawn by a sparkling future. I’m happy to be alive and living my life.” * BARBARA BROUWER, MSOM, LAc, LMT, RScP *“As a scientist (quantum physicist) and seeker, I’ve been looking for something that really works for decades, something that can leverage both science and spirituality, that offers the real possibility of creating massive personal and social change, the possibility of a heaven on earth, and not a spiritual bypass. I found it. My experiences of this technology have been deeply profound and even miraculous – and yet I can understand the experiences scientifically. As a provider of this work, my own clients report similar profound and real change in their lives. The creator of this work, Dr. Michael Cotton, is a genius and a masterful teacher of this revolutionary work. Real evolutionary change doesn’t get any easier than this.” * STEVEN GIRON, Ph.D., certified master facilitator of Higher Brain Living *“I have been on a spiritual path most of my life. I have done many different modalities and techniques to advance and heal. Source Code Meditation takes growth and healing to a whole new level. I look and feel about life in a more peaceful and blissful way. Shifts in my consciousness happen quickly and completely. I generally handle life situations better than I ever have. I love that I can witness my life more clearly and therefore avoid the need to react to situations. I will continue this program long after it is complete. I highly recommend it to anyone ready to experience Heaven on Earth.” * CATHI HAMPSON, certified hypnotherapist, Zenith Energy Master *Table of ContentsPrelude - Miracle in Mexico Preface - Midway between the Gods and the Beasts Introduction My Story The Great Search and Discovery The Future of Yoga, Meditation and the Human Potential Movement Do We Really Believe Transformation Is Possible? Now That the Time Is Right PART I - The Base The Source Code Meditation Base Your Stone Age Brain Is Eating You Alive Why ‘Self-Help’ Seldom Helps Why Health and Wellness Care Rarely Lead to Health and Wellness The Solution Activation Energy for Your Higher Brain The Science of the Energy of Transformation and its Pathways Higher Brain Mechanisms and the Energy of Transformation The Source Code Meditation Base - Creating the Biological Thrive State Let’s Get Started The SCM Base Source Code Meditation - The Brain First Revolution The Angel Lobes - An Emerging New Brain The Higher Brain and the Emotions That Drive Change The Higher Brain and Higher Order Thoughts The Higher Brain and Spiritual Experience Acquired Savant Syndrome: Undeniable Evidence for Transformative Brain Potential Your New Brain’s Architecture Has Arrived but The Silent Area Is about to Roar! A 21st-Century Renaissance Hacking Meditation Learn the SCM Technique The 9 Summits of Transformation - Brief Summary Integral Metatheory - Your 21st-Century Reality Map A Brief Introduction The Four Dimensions Mind and Brain, Two Irreducible Perspectives of One Holism Lower Brain Feedback in Four Dimensions of Life Enlightenment States Soul Awakening Transcendent Awakening Unitary Awakening Hacking Enlightenment with SCM and the 9 Summits Vertical Transformations of Your Brain, Consciousness, Culture How We Grow The Proposed Dominant Brain Structures/Physiology What’s Wrong with Where We Are? Are We Running out of Time? Shadow Elements and Lower Brain Loops EPOCH 5 and its ‘Cultural Creatives’ - Poised to Transform the World EPOCH 6 The Rise of the New Human A Science Fiction Story? EPOCH 6 Emergence Signs That You Are Moving into EPOCH 6 Hacking Evolution The Thrive DNA of the New Human Sacred ‘WE’ Space Red Velvet Cake (Context as Causative Agent) EPOCH 6 Ascension Hallmarks of Moving into EPOCH 6 Ascension PART II - Source Code Meditation & The 9 Summits of Transformation The 9 Summits of Transformation SUMMIT 1: Soul Awakening SUMMIT 2: Transcendent Awakening SUMMIT 3: Unitary Awakening SUMMIT 4: Your Authentic Self and Your Soul’s Purpose SUMMIT 5: Look Up - Promoting the Vertical Trajectory of the Authentic Self SUMMIT 6: Look Down - Reclaiming the Spiral of Development SUMMIT 7: Illuminate, Liberate and Trans-Mutate the Shadow into High Brain Fuel SUMMIT 8: Your Life Codes SUMMIT 9: Unitary Evolutionary Enlightenment The SalutoGenic Thrivestyle of an Architect of EPOCH 6 Spiral back up to Summit 1 Bibliography List of Illustrations Index Acknowledgments About the Author

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Book SynopsisA beginner's guide to Ayurveda, the ancient system of self-healing.Originating in India more than 5,000 years ago, Ayurveda is one of the world's oldest healing systems. These ancient principles teach you that everyone is unique and there is no "one size fits all" solution - each individual is made up of a unique combination of three main doshas, or energies, which give them their unique physiology and psychology.The preventative and long-lasting health benefits of Ayurvedic self-healing include improved gut health, sleep, diet, stress management and many more.This little book is the perfect introduction to Ayurveda - with guidance for improving both your physical and mental health, as well as simple exercises to help introduce this ancient wisdom into your daily life.Contents:Chapter 1: Dosha Chapter 2: Change Chapter 3: Cleanse Chapter 4: Nourish, Move, Glow Chapter 5: Breathe, Meditate, Rest

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Book SynopsisWorld travelers and armchair tourists who want to explore the mythology and archaeology of the ruins, sanctuaries, mountains, lost cities, and temples of ancient civilizations will find this guide ideal. Detailed here are the monuments and sites where ancient peoples once gathered to perform sacred rituals and ceremonies to worship various gods and to achieve spiritual enlightenment. Important archaeological, historical, and geological destinations worldwide are profiled, from the Great Pyramid in Egypt and the Forbidden City in China to the Temples of Angkor in Cambodia and Mount Shasta in California. Sites are described in historical and cultural context, and practical contemporary travel information is provided, including detailed maps, drawings, photographs, and travel directions. This replaces 1888729023.Trade Review"Should you be inspired to make a pilgrimage of your own, you might want to pick up a copy of Brad Olsen's guide . . . of the world's sacred places. Olsen's marvelous drawings and mysterious maps enhance a package that is as bizarre as it is wonderfully accessible." -- San Francisco Examiner

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