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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Alternative belief systems
A Wolf Song is a healing story about a multidimensional, dual-life
journey of tragedy, gratitude and forgiveness. Its key
characters-Hanna and Margaret; their "spirit" wolves, Nano and
Nala; family members; and teacher Trudy Goodenough-meet every ten
years under Trudy's guidance and the wolves' whims. The story
begins at childbirth; the girls meet nearing their tenth birthday
and discover their wolf spirits under a jump rope. Each chapter
contains a verse which reveals the lessons of each chapter. Ordered
to meet every ten years by the wolves, Hanna and Margaret meet at
twenty in Wales and in New York City at thirty. Nano and Nala are
not necessarily balanced. Their karmic rites spill over into the
young women's lives. One of the wolf spirits wreaks havoc at a
public event, and a battle between light and darkness ensues. "Lisa
Osina's book brings you into an enduring balance between the
physical world and the world of spirit." Lynn Andrews, shaman and
author of Medicine Woman and 27 other spiritual and
self-empowerment books.
"Santo Daime: A New World Religion" deals with a young, exotic and
controversial religious movement. Emerging in the Brazilian Amazon
in the 1930s, Santo Daime has since spread to many of the world's
major cities. Santo Daime is a mixture of indigenous, popular
Catholic, Afro-Brazilian, esoteric, Spiritist, and new age beliefs
and activities. Ritual practice is centred on the consumption of a
psychotropic beverage called 'Daime' which members believe enhances
their interaction with the supernatural world. Because Daime is
treated as an illegal narcotic in many parts of the world, outside
of its Brazilian homeland most Santo Daime rituals are practised
clandestinely. This book unites extensive fieldwork experience with
an established theoretical background and makes a significant
contribution to understanding the contemporary interface of
religion and late-modern society. Individualization and religious
subjectivism, pluralization and religious hybridism, transformation
and detraditionalization, globalization and religious identity, and
commoditization and religious consumption are among the many issues
engaged by this book. "Santo Daime: A New World Religion" is an
accessible and multi-disciplinary book suitable for undergraduate
students and researchers working in Religious Studies, Sociology of
Religion, Anthropology, Cultural Studies and Latin American
Studies.
Shawn wrote this book based upon his life experiences as a
struggling business owner trying to remain spiritually grounded in
2013. His personal relations with an angel appearing as his
ex-girlfriend had a profound impact on his life. He felt driven to
share this unique story with the world. He lives eight months out
of the year in Homer Glen, Illinois. The extended winter months, he
lives at different locations in Hawaii. His personal life is always
an adventure. He enjoys spending time with the angels, while doing
his best to stay on a clairvoyant path. Dream and reality merge,
and "Dreamality" forms while experiencing God's pace in his
life.
'It is a Lord of the Flies parable with Bhagwan as lord. The book
is a fascinating social history, with many celebrities, from Diana
Ross to Prince Charles. - Helen Rumbelow, The Times This is the
story of a Englishman who gave up a job in journalism to spend
fourteen years with the controversial Indian mystic Osho, also
known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and frequently referred to as 'the
sex guru'. His guru was always controversial with his teachings on
sex and spirituality, rumours of orgies and because he owned
ninety-three Rolls Royces. Early in 1976, Subhuti travelled to
India to meet Rajneesh in his ashram in Pune, became initiated as
his disciple and immediately began to have mystical experiences,
which he attributed to the powerful energy field surrounding the
guru. He stayed for six months, participating in the ashram's
notorious Encounter Group and other therapies designed to release
suppressed emotions and awaken sexual energy Subhuti would stay to
live and work on his master's ashrams for fourteen years, first as
his press officer in Pune, India, then as editor of the community's
weekly newspaper when Bhagwan and his followers shifted to Oregon,
USA, and built a whole new town on the massive Big Muddy Ranch.
There Subhuti was a first-hand witness to the scandals and
hullabaloo that accompanied the guru, including tales of broken
bones in no-holds-barred therapy groups and Tantra groups that
encouraged total sexual freedom, and the increasing hostility with
the locals which would lead to Bhagwan's attempt to flee America,
his arrest and imprisonment. . He was on the Oregon Ranch when
Rajneesh's secretary, Ma Anand Sheela, plotted against rival
cliques within the ashram as well as a range of murderous crimes
against state and federal officials which feature in hit Netflix
series Wild Wild Country. Yet, amidst it all, Subhuti could see the
profound revolution in spirituality that Bhagwan was creating,
leaving a lasting impact on our ideas about society, religion,
meditation and personal transformation. According to the author's
understanding, it was the controversy itself, plus Bhagwan's
refusal to tread the path of a spiritual saint, that became the
stepping stone to a new vision of what it means to be a spiritual
seeker.
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