Spiritualism Books

Book SynopsisIn 1958, a successful businessman named Robert Mornroe began to have experiences that drastically altered his life. Unpredictably, and without his willing it, Monroe found himself leaving his physical body to travel via a second body to locales far removed from the physical and spiritual realities of his life. He was inhabiting a place unbounded by life or death.Monroe recorded these experiences in two bestselling, landmark books, Journeys Out of the Body and Far Journeys. Ultimate Journey, his final and career-defining work, takes us further than we thought possible—and reveals to us what it all means. Ultimate Journey charts that area which lies over the edge, beyond the limits of the physical world. It presents us with a map of the interstate—the route that opens to us when we leave our physical lives, with their entry and exit ramps, their singposts and their hazards. It also tells us how Monroe found the route and travelled it, and uncovered the reason and the purpose of this pioneering expedition. It is a journey that reveals basic truths about the meaning and purpose of life—and of what lies beyond.

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Book SynopsisFor 27 years, George Anderson, widely considered the world's greatest living medium, has listened to those on the other side, gaining a unique awareness of what those souls want his millions of believers to know, to understand, and to accept. Now Anderson shares this wisdom-and offers an incomparable perspective on the questions faced in day-to-day life.

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Book SynopsisGet back into the spirit of appreciating your life. Share in Sylvia Browne’s extraordinary lessons of wisdom and comfort from The Other Side.... Keeping life in perspective is difficult for everyone. For many, holidays, birthdays, and anniversaries become overwhelming events; not to mention job changes, family crises, and personal issues. We become preoccupied with things we cannot change and lose sight of what really matters. Now renowned psychic and #1 New York Times bestselling author Sylvia Browne helps us celebrate and appreciate life by reminding us of the countless blessings we received before coming into this world. With chapters on forgiveness, past lives, contacting The Other Side, and discovering life’s purpose, Sylvia Browne tells uplifting stories of people she has helped to find their way. Sylvia Browne believes that, if we can remember why we are here and what we are supposed to be doing here, our lives will ult

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Book SynopsisThe insights found in The Celestine Prophecy and The Tenth Insight have touched the lives of many millons of people; they are not theoretical. When we become aware of how they work, coincidences and serendipitous encounters increase for us. As our level of consciousness expands, our vision of the world is transformed, and we get a glimpse into the heart of creation. And as we learn how thought and visualization precede reality, we can begin to harness them to benefit our own future and the future of the earth. The perfect companion volume for The Tenth Insight, this hands-on guide was written to help individuals and groups implement the ideas found in that book. It provides detailed explanations and exercises on Tenth Insight topics: previous lifetimes, soul groups, birth visions, the use of dreams and prayers, the afterlife, and the World Vision. It helps us experience firsthand how our own lives fit into the eternal cycles...teaches us hTrade ReviewPraise for The Tenth Insight: In another spellbinding adventure tale, a worthy sequel to his Celestine masterpiece, James Redfield packs thrills, suspense and spiritual wisdom into a book you cannot put down. You must read The Tenth Insight! * Brian Weiss, MD, author *

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Book SynopsisIn Hidden Circles in the Web, scholar and Feminist Wiccan practitioner Constance Wise explores the growing and mysterious Pagan tradition of Feminist Wicca through the lens of process thought.Trade ReviewCreatively, Constance Wise discovers unexpected cogency in extraordinary religious practices. She uses process philosophy and personal narrative to unfold the richness implicit in an emerging form of American religious naturalism. -- William Dean, professor emeritus, Iliff School of TheologyProcess thought has played a role in the development of Christian feminist theology. Alongside those feminists who have undertaken to revise Christian teaching and reform Christian practice so as to end the exclusion of women, there are others who believe they can work to overcome the myriad tentacles of patriarchy more effectively from outside the deeply patriarchal Abrahamic traditions. Constance Wise has found her home in feminist Wicca. Now, like Carol Christ, Wise finds in the conceptuality developed in the process tradition a fruitful way of articulating the insights and experience of Wicca. -- John B.Cobb, Jr., CLAREMONT SCHOOL OF THEOLOGYAn intriguing synthesis of Goddess spirituality and process thought. -- Carol P. Christ, author of She Who ChangesTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: Finding What is Hidden Chapter 2 Discovering the Hidden in Two Circles Chapter 3 History and Anthropology: Resisting Historical and Gender Essentialism Chapter 4 Epistemology and Ethics: Occult Knowledge and Moral Decisions Chapter 5 Cosmology and Thealogy: The Web, the Goddess, and Magic

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Book SynopsisAs one of the fastest growing Pagan traditions, Feminist Wicca appeals to many through its emphasis on the deep interconnectedness of life and its focus on the woman''s religious experience. In Hidden Circles in the Web, scholar and practitioner Constance Wise explores Feminist Wicca through the lens of process thought, developing a new theaology of feminist spirituality that can enrich and deepen the religious practice. Although the twentieth-century philosophy of process thought is often portrayed as a complex and inaccessible system, Wise explains its concepts in simple language and illustrates her points with accessible examples from life. Wise invites readers into the hidden wisdom of Feminist Wicca and process thought, proposing statements of Feminist Wiccan beliefs and practices in six areas: history, anthropology, epistemology, ethics, cosmology, and theaology. While the focus of the book is on Feminist Wicca, her insights into process thought apply to an array of traditions and will interest a range of practitioners and scholars across the religious spectrum.Trade ReviewCreatively, Constance Wise discovers unexpected cogency in extraordinary religious practices. She uses process philosophy and personal narrative to unfold the richness implicit in an emerging form of American religious naturalism. -- William Dean, professor emeritus, Iliff School of TheologyProcess thought has played a role in the development of Christian feminist theology. Alongside those feminists who have undertaken to revise Christian teaching and reform Christian practice so as to end the exclusion of women, there are others who believe they can work to overcome the myriad tentacles of patriarchy more effectively from outside the deeply patriarchal Abrahamic traditions. Constance Wise has found her home in feminist Wicca. Now, like Carol Christ, Wise finds in the conceptuality developed in the process tradition a fruitful way of articulating the insights and experience of Wicca. -- John B.Cobb, Jr., CLAREMONT SCHOOL OF THEOLOGYAn intriguing synthesis of Goddess spirituality and process thought. -- Carol P. Christ, author of She Who ChangesTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: Finding What is Hidden Chapter 2 Discovering the Hidden in Two Circles Chapter 3 History and Anthropology: Resisting Historical and Gender Essentialism Chapter 4 Epistemology and Ethics: Occult Knowledge and Moral Decisions Chapter 5 Cosmology and Thealogy: The Web, the Goddess, and Magic

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Book SynopsisFollowing Jesus to Burning Man: Recovering the Church''s Vocation places the author, a Pentecostal/evangelical minister, in a thoroughly pagan context in the Nevada desert where he discovered the presence of God in a way that transformed his understanding of ministry in the twenty-first century context. This book is about our culture''s recovery and transformation by means of the church''s Spirit-empowered application of Kingdom politics. More specifically, this book is an exhortation for the church in North America to be E-P-I-C: by (1) discovering and Experiencing the presence of Jesus Christ in every corner of the postmodern culture; (2) by Participating in missional ministry with him, wherever he is present; (3) by reading the cultural Images, signs and symbols and effectively incarnating the gospel, especially in the culture''s most hurting places; and (4) by practicing the politics of re-form, re-connection, and re-creation, a Spirit empowered, covenant Community can transform ouTrade ReviewBurning Man is a pagan-type camp meeting full of signs that point to our culture's spiritual exile. But what participants in Burning Man don't know, and what the church has yet to learn, is that Jesus is already there at 'Buring Man.' Hence the significance of [McRoberts'] title: Following Jesus to Burning Man: Recovering the Church's Vocation. Long before we ever arrive anywhere, Jesus is already there and up to something. Just as the 'gospel' was first proclaimed in Galilee, the place of Gentiles, the light is meant to shine in darkness. Read this book and find out how. -- Leonard SweetTable of ContentsChapter 1 Foreword: Jesus is Already There, at "Burning Man" Chapter 2 Acknowledgements Part 3 Introduction: An E-P-I-C Recovery! Chapter 4 1. Following Jesus to Burning Man Chapter 5 2. "A Glutton and a Drunkard" Chapter 6 3. William Wilberforce and "Vital Christianity" Chapter 7 4. Journeying to Burning Man: Recovering the Church's Vocation Chapter 8 5. "Jesus at the Java Stop": A Grassroots Application of Kingdom Politics Chapter 9 Appendix 1: Discipleship: Interactive Everything! Chapter 10 Appendix 2: Web Sites Chapter 11 Bibliography

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Book SynopsisEverything is Useful encourages readers to transform obstacles and challenges into opportunities for success and growth. It draws on the spiritual wisdom of the past as a means of living effectively in the present.

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Book SynopsisA multicultural philosophy of art applied to common American and European experience and discussed in relation to Taoist, Buddhist, Hindu, Native American, and African traditionsThe Art of Living: Aesthetics of the Ordinary in World Spiritual Traditions is the first truly multi-cultural philosophy of art. It develops a new theory of what art is, and discusses it in relation to Zen Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism, as well as Native American, African, and African-American traditions.

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Book SynopsisBecause every single one of us will die, most of us would like to know whatif anythingawaits us afterward, not to mention the fate of lost loved ones. Given the nearly universal vested interest in deciding this question in favor of an afterlife, it is no surprise that the vast majority of books on the topic affirm the reality of life after death without a backward glance. But the evidence of our senses and the ever-gaining strength of scientific evidence strongly suggest otherwise. In The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life after Death, Michael Martin and Keith Augustine collect a series of contributions that redress this imbalance in the literature by providing a strong, comprehensive, and up-to-date casebook of the chief arguments against an afterlife. Divided into four separate sections, this collection opens with a broad overview of the issues, as contributors consider the strongest evidence of whether or not we survive deathin particular the biological basis of all mental states and their grounding in brain activity that ceases to function at death. Next, contributors consider a host of conceptual and empirical difficulties that confront the various ways of surviving deathfrom bodiless minds to bodily resurrection to any form of posthumous survival. Then essayists turn to internal inconsistencies between traditional theological conceptions of an afterlifeheaven, hell, karmic rebirthand widely held ethical principles central to the belief systems supporting those notions. In the final section, authors offer critical evaluations of the main types of evidence for an afterlife. Fully interdisciplinary, The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life after Death brings together a variety of fields of research to make that case, including cognitive neuroscience, philosophy of mind, personal identity, philosophy of religion, moral philosophy, psychical research, and anomalistic psychology. As the definitive casebook of arguments against life after death, this collection is required reading for any instructor, researcher, and student of philosophy, religious studies, or theology. It is sure to raise provocative issues new to readers, regardless of background, from those who believe fervently in the reality of an afterlife to those who do not or are undecided on the matter.Trade ReviewThis is a hugely needed book. It addresses profound questions that are too seldom answered from a naturalistic point of view and answers them authoritatively yet surprisingly accessibly. In view of its scope and comprehensiveness - and especially because critical books on the afterlife have been so rare - the release of The Myth of an Afterlife is a noteworthy publishing event. * Free Inquiry *The book is impressively clear, thorough and detailed. It is also forcefully argued. . . .[T]his is an important book, and can be read with profit by believers, if only to remind themselves how formidable the arguments against survival of consciousness can seem to be. It will reinforce the atheistic convictions of its natural audience, and will doubtless encourage young Americans, especially, to disregard the God-talk they hear spouted all around them. * Journal of the Society for Psychical Research *Martin and Augustine deserve credit for assembling this wide-ranging group of papers in opposition to belief in an afterlife. For those who agree with them, the collection offers a virtual armory of ready-made weapons. For others, it comprises an impressive assemblage of obstacles that must be overcome or circumvented. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Ultimately, the value of The Myth of an Afterlife lies in its comprehensiveness. It recognizes that '…a volume that focuses on arguments against an afterlife is essential for revealing the full force of the case against life after death,' and in this capacity, it delivers. For the novice, it serves as an advanced but approachable introduction to the facets and literature of the survivalist-mortalist debate across a wide variety of disciplines, with especially helpful introductions and overviews provided by the editors. For the more advanced scholar, it serves as a reference work, providing convenient summaries and surveys of the literature and studies in addition to the proffered arguments. Lastly, for any intellectually honest survivalist, it is a catalog of the myriad challenges against his or her view that must be neutralized in order to render the view defensible. * Metapsychology Online *[P]hilosophers Keith Augustine and the late Michael Martin took it upon themselves to assemble a team of 29 valiant contributors to attack the afterlife ‘myth.’ The result is an impressive volume composed of 30 essays, spanning 675 pages and organized in 4 parts…. The Myth of an Afterlife, rather, stays focused on its main mission of dismantling the survival hypothesis, regardless of why humans tend to accept it. Its rigor, relentless argumentation, and careful attention to the evidence and possible objections make it a major and unique contribution to a topic long neglected by scientists. Its main virtue, in fact, is simply to take the idea of the afterlife and its consequences seriously, and see where this leads. Given the current success of neuroscience in establishing the neural basis of consciousness and thought, is it still honest to claim that we simply don’t know ‘what comes after’? If so, then, one might wonder what exactly the cognitive and brain sciences have been discovering and teaching us all along about the nature of the mind. * Skeptic Magazine *As the editors point out, there are plenty of books arguing the case for an afterlife but few that examine the case against. This collection of thirty articles in over 650 pages does just that…. [The articles] hammer home the conclusion that there is absolutely no evidence from neurology that mental functions have any independence from the physical brain, and indeed such an idea when critically examined makes no sense. * Magonia Review of Books *The Myth of the Afterlife is a massive tome explicitly making the case against life after death with 30 chapters in four parts: empirical arguments for annihilation, conceptual and empirical difficulties for survival, problematic models of the afterlife, and dubious evidence for survival. . . .[T]he volume…provide[s] readers with a sophisticated analysis of many arguments related to survival. * Network Review *Understandings from this text, particularly on cognition, could…further the critical examination of thought processes that accompany discourse on mortality. * Mortality *What all these papers show is how quickly a range of insurmountable problems arise as soon as implications are drawn out from the unconsidered and cosseted beliefs of those devoted to rebirth and survival. As long as people pick and mix their ideas without acknowledging the logical relations between them, they will wallow in delusions. The arguments in this excellent book should sway the open-minded. It is also bulky enough for self-defence. * The Skeptic (UK) *Table of ContentsForeword by Steve Stewart-Williams Preface 1. Introduction Keith Augustine PART 1 EMPIRICAL ARGUMENTS FOR ANNIHILATION Introduction to Part 1 2. Dead as a Doornail: Souls, Brains, and Survival Matt McCormick 3. Explaining Personality: Soul Theory versus Behavior Genetics Jean Mercer 4. Dissolution into Death: The Mind’s Last Symptoms Indicate Annihilation David Weisman 5. The Argument from Brain Damage Vindicated Rocco J. Gennaro and Yonatan I. Fishman 6. No Mental Life after Brain Death: The Argument from the Neural Localization of Mental Functions Gualtiero Piccinini and Sonya Bahar 7. The Neural Substrate of Emotions and Emotional Processing Carlos J. Álvarez 8. Brain, Language, and Survival after Death Terence Hines 9. The Brain that Doesn’t Know Itself: Persons Oblivious to their Neurological Deficits Jamie Horder 10. The Dualist’s Dilemma: The High Cost of Reconciling Neuroscience with a Soul Keith Augustine and Yonatan I. Fishman PART 2 CONCEPTUAL & EMPIRICAL DIFFICULTIES FOR SURVIVAL Introduction to Part 2 11. Why Survival is Metaphysically Impossible Raymond D. Bradley 12. Conceptual Problems Confronting a Totally Disembodied Afterlife Theodore M. Drange 13. What Could Pair a Nonphysical Soul to a Physical Body? Jaegwon Kim 14. Nonphysical Souls Would Violate Physical Laws David L. Wilson 15. There is No Trace of Any Soul Linked to the Body David Papineau 16. Since Physical Formulas are Not Violated, No Soul Controls the Body Leonard Angel 17. The Implausibility of Astral Bodies and Astral Worlds Susan Blackmore 18. The Pluralizability Objection to a New-Body Afterlife Theodore M. Drange 19. Life After Death and the Devastation of the Grave Eric T. Olson PART 3 PROBLEMATIC MODELS OF THE AFTERLIFE Introduction to Part 3 20. Problems with Heaven Michael Martin 21. Can God Condemn One to an Afterlife in Hell? Raymond D. Bradley 22. Objections to Karma and Rebirth: An Introduction Ingrid Hansen Smythe PART 4 DUBIOUS EVIDENCE FOR SURVIVAL Introduction to Part 4 23. Giving Up the Ghost to Psychology Rense Lange and James Houran 24. Out-of-Body Experiences are not Evidence for Survival Susan Blackmore 25. Near-Death Experiences are Hallucinations Keith Augustine 26. A Critique of Ian Stevenson’s Rebirth Research Champe Ransom 27. Is There Adequate Empirical Evidence for Reincarnation? An Analysis of Ian Stevenson’s Work Leonard Angel 28. Conjecturing Up Spirits in the Improvisations of Mediums Claus Flodin Larsen 29. Madness in the Method: Fatal Flaws in Recent Mediumship Experiments Christian Battista, Nicolas Gauvrit, and Etienne LeBel 30. Is There Life After Death? A Review of the Supporting Evidence David Lester Index About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisThe founder of Utne Reader chronicles his adventures on the frontlines of American culture—from the Vietnam era to the age of Trump—as a spiritual seeker, antiwar activist, and minor media celebrity. “Fascinating . . . a remarkable piece of social history.”—Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?Far Out Man is the story of a life-long seeker who was occasionally a finder as well. In 1984, Eric Utne founded Utne Reader, a digest of new ideas and fresh perspectives percolating in the arts, culture, politics, business, and spirituality. With the tag line “The Best of the Alternative Press,” the magazine was twice a finalist for a National Magazine Award and grew to more than 300,000 paid circulation. In the nineties, the magazine promoted the Neighborhood Salon Association to revive the endangered art of conversation and start a revolution in

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Book SynopsisThis book contains the lectures of a Great Master, offering the highest spiritual growth and understanding. Macdonald-Bayne himself describes how he became aware of sublime power, a conciousness far above his own. For the many people called to hear his lectures, it was an experience never to be forgotten.

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Book SynopsisReminds us that we set out long ago upon an absolutely safe path of experience, unfolding spiritual gifts through the lessons of everyday life. This book tells how the reality of the whole of life is Light, love; and it is only our dimmed awareness that conceives of the world and ourselves as heavy and physical.Table of ContentsPreface The kingdom of earth and the kingdom of heaven Co-creators Spirit is life God is Mother as well as Father Remembrance Creating beautiful life Hearing the voice within Master of matter The road to joy The power of love Beautiful road home Epilogue: the Golden City

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