Since the end of World War II, Navajo healing traditions have slowly been integrated into the Western medical institutions that serve the Dine. The history of Western medical care on Navajo reservations in the twentieth century, however, demonstrates that the incorporation of indigenous healing practices did not come without struggle. The advent of American mass culture, urbanization, and other forces made it difficult for young Dine to learn and preserve the old ways. At the same time, non-Native medical providers, missionaries, and U. S. government officials sometimes hindered the effort of the Dine to use traditional ceremonies and medical care. Focusing on the post-World War II period, Davies's detailed study begins where Robert Trennert's White Man's Medicine (1998), the only other general history of Western medicine among the Navajo, ends. Chronicling the advent of so-called "western" or "scientific" medicine in the modern era, including the development of indigenous healing traditions and such new institutions as the Native American Church, Davies shows the skill and adaptability of Dine in accepting the services of physicians while keeping the work of traditional healers among their health-care options. Davies also explores contemporaneous Navajo critiques of both "high-tech" and traditional health-care modes, detailing Navajo battles to integrate their healing practices into government and private health-care systems. The will of the Dine people to achieve self-determination in health care--and, indeed, to view health and healing in a broad and interactive context--has been so resolute that both tribal leadership and federal officials have been forced to acknowledge and contend with the Dine insistence on shaping Western medicine to fit their way of life. "The Dine," one of Davies' informants states, "are learning to function in two different worlds," and, in so doing, are intent on seeking the best of both.

"The Gospel According to Acharya S" provides intriguing insight into important, probing questions about God while defining humanity in as enlightened and evolved a manner as possible.

Modern physics tells us that we're dreaming the world into being with every thought." Courageous Dreaming "tells us how to dream our world with power and grace. The ancient shamans of the Americas understood that we're not only creating our experience of the world, but are dreaming up the very nature of reality itself--that is, "life is but a dream." When you don't dream your life, you have to settle for the nightmare being dreamed by others. This book shows how to wake up from the collective nightmare and begin to dream a life of courage and grace, a sacred dream that shamans throughout time have known and served. Alberto Villoldo reveals ancient wisdom teachings that explain how to birth reality from the invisible matrix of creation; and reveals how we can interact with this matrix to dream a life of peace, health, and abundance. He shows us that courage is all that is required to create the joy we desire!

God, Energy & the Field explores the idea that consciousness is the witness which experiences the flow of energy. Consciousness is man's ability to feel, to know and to detect energy. God manifests as creative energy. God is the Supreme Consciousness, the source of the creative field of energy. Creative energy is God's free and undeserved gift to us. There is no other source of energy than Divine Energy. Since Christians believe they owe their existence to this source, this energy is a participation in the life of the God. Christians may think of creation as the continuous bursting forth of Divine Energy. The Big Bang was an explosion of energy: an explosion of God's love given material form.

What is enlightenment? What is it not? This book exposes the myths and defines this misused term once and for all. Which teaching methods will get you there? And which will not? This book explains how the traditional methods work and why the modern, Western approaches are most unlikely to. The clearest book that has ever been written on the subject of enlightenment, it provides a detailed examination of the satsang phenomenon (and its more extreme, neo-Advaita variant), contrasting these approaches with the traditional methods passed down from teacher to disciple for over a thousand years. It indicates what is needed in the way of preparation and path in order to gain enlightenment, given some modern teachers' statements to the effect that there is 'no person' and 'nothing to do'. With a Foreword by Dr. Greg Goode, philosophical counsellor and one of the most knowledgeable people in the world on the subject of non-duality.

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Some of the articles featured in this year's Digest include: 400 Years of Mystery; Francis Bacon and the Electronic Computer; Was Francis Bacon Shakespeare; Demonism in Ceylon; Harnessing Your Brain Power; Color Psychology; Mr. Jefferson; A Royal Opera-Bouffe: Tragedy for Cagliostro; Mystical Thought of Two Presidents; The Alchemy of Creative Attunement; Medicine and the Mushroom; Camel Bells in Cairo; Emerson-Time's Clearer Image; My Name is Ozymandias; Erik Satie: Nonconformist Composer; Beyond the Milky Way; Marco Polo Saw This; Shades of Kubla Khan!; Egypt's Past and Our Present; Present-Day Avatars; Magic Carpets; Devil Dancing in Ceylon; Friesland's Astronomical Machinist; Baruch Spinoza: Dutch Freethinker; The Mystery of Columbus' Beard; Volcanoes and Camellias; Two Buddhas-One Lama; The Legends of Prague; Habib Gorgi: Revolutionary in Art; and many more.

Originally published in 1912 and long considered the most important sourcebook on the Count of Saint-Germain, this volume traces the life and activities of this extraordinary mystic and philosopher who influenced much of 18th century Western Europe's history. Overshadowing all is the figure of Christian Rosenkreutz and the work of the Rosicrucians, alchemists, and Masonry during that significant period.

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"From the beginning, the basic element of the story that I have wanted to write about has been the Meaning of Life. But the story I started to pen has been the story of my life. For as long as I can remember, people have been telling me to write that story down." A contemplative blend of memoir and moral science, "Seeing through Closed Eyes: A Memoir with a Social Conscience" is an honest and provocative testament to the power of spiritual relativity and its ability to help attain meaning in life. Along with the subjects of passion, life, and death, author Angelo La Pietra explores the relationship of the uncharted subconscious and the complacent conscious. "Seeing through Closed Eyes" is based on La Pietra's unconventional life and focuses especially on peculiar dreams that have challenged his understanding of spiritual relativity. The unique personalities in La Pietra's dreams come unsought into his life, imposing their own agendas onto his. As you reflect with him on these visions, you will follow his journey through painful memory, impassioned seeking for meaning, and finally, a growing understanding of what life could be.

The Fifth Gospel presents some compelling new evidence about the life of Jesus which has been derived from a variety of sources in the East which are unknown to most Western scholars. By chance, one of the authors found, in 1965, a reference in Ladakh to the discovery of Buddhist scrolls about Jesus. Since then, the authors have been examining evidence about the survival of Jesus Christ at the time of the crucifixion, and his subsequent travels to the East. The authors' main purpose in writing this book is to inform the West that "we in the East have some source material about the historical Jesus who lived on after the crucifixion.... This book was not written in one day, but is a result of many years' continued search for evidence," and provides research on some very compelling questions, such as: Did God descend on this earth as Jesus? Did Jesus visit India at age 13? Did Jesus survive his crucifixion? Was Jesus saved by his Essene friends, then traveled to the East, visiting many countries, finally settling in Kashmir? Jesus has been mentioned in Oriental manuscripts by many names: Issa, Isa, Issana-deva, Isha Natha, Ishai, Isa Masih, Yusu, Yuzu, Yuzu-Kristo, Yuz-Asaph, and Yusu Masih. In some works, he is mentioned as Eshvara-putram, or the Son of God, and Kanaya-garbum or Born of a Girl. In some ancient manuscripts he is called Metteyya, which is equivalent to Messiah. In some Persian works, he is known as Nasrani or Kristani, which is equivalent to "of Nazareth" or Christian. It is also interesting that the Christians are known in the East as Nasaran and Kira. Jesus is also titled in the East as Ibn-i-Maryam or the Son of Mary. Whether Jesus Christ did or did not die on the cross, or passed away naturally at an older age, like the Buddha, is a vital question in which not only Christians but others are keenly interested. For example, this book presents startling evidence about the tomb of Jesus or Yuzu-Asaph in Kashmir. The research will remain incomplete until this tomb is opened for investigation.

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Magic and Mysticism: An Introduction to Western Esoteric Traditions is a concise overview, from antiquity to the present, of all the major Western religious esoteric movements. Topics covered include alchemy, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Rosicrucianism, Theosophy and many more. Magic and Mysticism is ideal for students of Mysticism and New Religious Movements, as well as for general readers of Metaphysics and Esoterica.

Originally published in 1929 by the Rosicrucian Press, "Here, for the first time, is a simple system whereby anyone may determine the fortunate and unfortunate daily, monthly and yearly periods of his life, thereby knowing when to do and when not to do anything that has an important bearing upon the progress of his career or the attainment of self-mastery. No other reference books, almanacs, or charts are necessary there are no complicated mathematical problems. Here is a fascinating, intriguing, astonishing book that will be a companion for many years." Contents Include: The Problem of Mastership Man a Free Agent Cosmic Rhythm and the Cycles of Life The Periods of Earthly Cycles The Simple Periods of Human Life The Complex Yearly Cycle of Human Life With Description of Cycle No. 2 Periods of the Business Cycle With Description of Cycle No. 3 How to Use the Periods of the Cycles The Periods of the Health Cycle With Description of Cycle No. 4 The Cycles of Disease and Sex The Daily Cycle of Significant Hours How to use the Daily Cycle of Seven Periods Description of Daily Periods The Soul Cycle How to Determine the Periods of the Soul Cycle Description of the Periods of the Soul Cycle The Cycles of Reincarnation

Although originally a companion volume to Complete History of the Rosicrucian Order, this book works well as an independent reference, answering virtually every question one might have about Rosicrucianism. There is no better work available that outlines exactly what this mystical and sometimes secretive organization is truly all about. Important for members and researchers who want to know both fundamental and advanced information that would otherwise not be available. Originally published through the order itself, with answers supplied by the most respected Rosicrucian of his time, H. Spencer Lewis.

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The author, a former high ranking Rosicrucian and prolific author on the subject for many years, reveals the true history of the Rosicrucian order. Many popular accounts put forth the idea that it was started in Germany in the seventeenth century by Christian Rosenkreuz, but Lewis shows how and why the order and its origins goes much further back into the past than this story relates. According to the author, there was simply a revival taking place in the seventeenth century that has continued on until today. Explore some of the world's most ancient mystical secrets, what they really mean, and why they were preserved for centuries by the Rosicrucians.

Some of the topics discussed in these issues include: Ascension of Our Bodies; Hunches and Other Things; The Mystical Life of Jesus; Death, Where Is Thy Sting?; The Soul's Evolution; Alchemy Again; Astrology; Burdened Souls; About Healing; Good Luck Charms and Prayers; The Fear of Death; Developing Your Healing Power; Influence of Color; Forgetting Cosmic Promises; The Temptation to Resign; Soul Mates and Affinities; Visualizing; Healing Treatments; Conscious Transition; Ghosts; You and the Universe; The Curing of Cancer; Mystical Chain-Letters; Cosmic Illumination; The Cause of Disease; Causes of Psychic Inharmony; Our Healing Methods in the Hands of Physicians; Our Shaking Faiths; Female Masonry; Psychic Photographs; Reincarnation and Marriage; More Cosmic Money; Are Wars Inevitable?; Cosmic Ethics and Laws; Past Incarnations; Occult Predictions; and many more.

Some of the topics discussed in these issues include: Attunement Between Individuals; Auras; Biblical Interpretations; Childless Homes; Colors in Dreams; Interpreting the Commandments; Crystal Gazing; Diet; Dreams and Visions; Jesus; Karma; Kundalini; Magnetic Poles of the Earth; Origin of Man; Mind Power; Mystical Experiences; Occult Deceptions; Psychic Development; Reducing Weight; Subjective Consciousness; Transition; Universal Order; Woman's Place in Life; and many more.