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An anthology with contributions from nineteen writers, The Goddess
in America is a book that identifies the enduring experience of
Goddess Spirituality through a four-part discussion focused on the
Native Goddess, the Migrant Goddess, the Goddess in relation to
other aspects of American culture (Feminism, Christianity,
Witchcraft etc.) and the Goddess in contemporary America.
In this extraordinary book, shamanic dream teacher Robert Moss teaches us how to become shamans of our own souls and healers of our own lives.
The essence of the shaman's power to travel and to heal is the ability to dream strong. In our everyday modern lives, we stand at the edge of such power when we dream and remember to do something with our dreams. If you want to be a shaman, start at the breakfast table, by sharing dreams the right way with your family and friends.
The greatest contribution of the ancient shamans to our medicine and healing today is the understanding that in the course of any life we are liable to suffer "soul loss" -- the loss of parts of our vital energy and identity -- and that in order to be whole and well, we must find the means of soul recovery. Robert Moss teaches us that our dreams give us maps we can use to travel to where energy that was lost or stolen can be found and brought home. He shows us how to recover our animal spirits and ride the windhorse of spirit to places of healing and adventure in the larger reality. We discover how the ancestors come seeking us through dreams and how, through conscious engagement, we can heal ancestral wounds and open the way for "cultural" soul recovery.
On our roads of soul, we have a remarkable ally, if we will only accept it. Sufis call it the soul of the soul. It is the Greater or Higher Self. Moss encourages us to open our hearts to receive its guidance.
Dreamers are time travelers, and you'll discover here how the depth of healing and guidance becomes available when you operate in that knowledge. You'll learn how to enter past lives and future lives, and the life experiences of parallel selves, and how to bring back lessons and gifts. You'll learn that you can connect with earlier versions of yourself "in their own Now time," to provide the support and mentoring they desperately need.
"It's not just about keeping soul in the body. It's about "growing" soul, becoming more than we ever were, embodying more of the Greater Self," writes Moss. With fierce joy, he incites us to take the creator's leap and bring something new into our world.
Featuring mantras, exercises, and rituals, The Goddess Resolution
shows you how to triumph over any negative influence in your life
with the help of powerful goddesses from around the world. You'll
be introduced to Eingana, Lilith, Pandora, Sedna, Hekate, Oya, and
nearly a dozen more incredible deities whose stories will inspire
you. Each one empowers you to create and navigate your unique path
to emotional well-being.Author Kate Osborne shares affirmations,
meditations, ceremonies, mirror and labyrinth work, and more, all
of them designed to help you engage with the goddesses mythology.
Free yourself from emotional bondage with the story of
Hine-Nui-Te-Po, seek redemption with Skadi's tale, and nurture your
creations with Gaia. Whenever life throws a curve ball, these
goddesses' stories will uplift and encourage you.
Many people search to find a good - and true - ghost story in San
Diego. It might surprise you to find that some tales you thought
were true, may be created from misconceptions, distortions, and
even made-up historic events. Find the scoop here as some of the
"truths" of San Diego's most famous haunts are debunked and stories
set straight via historical research. Just how haunted is the
Whaley House? Was "Yankee Jim" really hung on the property, or can
this and other Whaley tales be demystified? Is there still a
ghostly gunslinger's poker game going on at the Horton Grand Hotel
- were the players real or not? The ghost story surrounding Albert
Robinson and his burial and then subsequent haunting of Julian
Hotel is disturbing - but is it true? The reality and history of
many haunted places can be far more titillating without the smoke
and mirrors, exaggerations, and fabrications. So pull back the
curtain to find out what's behind San Diego's ghostly origins.
This is a much needed textbook on fixed stars and their
relationship to the natal planets. Bernadette Brady (Brady's Book
of Fixed Stars, Samuel Weiser, 1998) has a mission - and that
mission is to draw astrologers closer to the foundations of their
art, bringing the glory and magnitude of the fixed stars into every
day astrology, where she firmly believes they belong. With our
light-polluted skies and busy lives, it is easy to practise a form
of astrology where we never actually look out at the stars or
planets - and in doing so the author shows that we lose vital
astrological information about our natal relationship to the
heavens. This book offers rare material on the detailed
interpretations of an individual's natal heliacal rising and
setting stars; these stars yield insight into the nature of one's
soul and spiritual path. Additionally, the author gives a
comprehensive listing of the meaning of every star when combined
with all the planets and nodal axis, for natal as well as
predictive use. Tables are provided to help the reader find their
own key stars for their time of birth allowing them to work with,
and embrace, the sky using the methods that were first employed at
the dawn of astrology.
John Dee was one of the most influential philosophers of the Elizabethan Age. A close confidant of Queen Elizabeth, he helped to introduce mathematics to England, promoted the idea of maths as the basis of science, anticipated the invention of the telescope, charted the New World, and created one of the most magnificent libraries in Europe. At the height of his fame, Dee was poised to become one of the greats of the Renaissance. Yet he died in poverty and obscurity – his crime was to dabble in magic. Based on Dee’s secret diaries which record in fine detail his experiments with the occult, Woolley’s best selling book is a rich brew of Elizabethan court intrigue, science, intellectual exploration, discovery and misfortune. And it tells the story of one man’s epic but very personal struggle to come to terms with the fundamental dichotomy of the scientific age at the point it arose: the choice between ancient wisdom and modern science as the path to truth.
Rosemary is for remembrance; sage is for wisdom. The symbolism of
plants - whether in the ancient Greek doctrine of signatures or the
Victorian secret language of flowers - has fascinated us for
centuries. Contemporary herbalist Maia Toll adds her distinctive
spin to this tradition with profiles of the mysterious
personalities of 36 herbs, fruits, and flowers. Combining a passion
for plants with imagery reminiscent of tarot, enticing text offers
reflections and rituals to tap into each plant's power for healing,
self-reflection, and everyday guidance. Smaller versions of the
illustrations are featured on 36 cards to help guide your thoughts
and meditations.
Gypsies reading the ley lines that crisscross England; Taoist
priests interperting feng shui charts; Midwestern rainmakers
dowsing the parched fields of the American prairie -- what do they
all have in common? Each of these activities uses the world energy
grid to advance health, knowledge and personal fortune. Though it
goes by different names, almost every culture has developed an
instinctive method of using the energy grid that surrounds and
underlies the earth.
What kind of energy does the grid emanate? Where is it to be
found? How does it affect daily life? Can we harness it? Our
planet's grid of energy is thoroughly examined in this new book by
the author of Harmonic 33, Bruce Cathie. Chapters include
information on:
-- UFO navigation and mysterious aerials
-- Nikola Tesla's inventions
-- Pythagoras and the Grid
-- Atomic detonations and energy vortexes
-- Native American power spots and the Australian Stonehenge
Do you believe in magic? Even if you don't, you probably 'think
magically' sometimes. We touch wood to stop bad things happening,
or take a lucky object to a job interview or exam in an irrational
attempt to influence the outcome. Spellbound: Magic, Ritual &
Witchcraft was the first exhibition to examine how magical thinking
has been practised over the centuries. With exquisitely engraved
rings to bind a lover, enchanted animal hearts pierced with nails,
mummified cats concealed in walls and many other intriguing
objects, the exhibition catalogue shows that the use of magic is
driven by our strongest emotions: the need to be loved, our fear of
evil and the desire to protect our homes. Authors explore the
practice of magic in the medieval universe, the early modern
community and the modern home. While belief in magic and rituals
can be comforting, it also led to the persecution of women as
witches. This book examines both the idea of the witch and the
reality of how women were accused of witchcraft. Even today, our
tendency to think magically has not changed as much as we might
think. Some of the chapters discuss contemporary ideas about
magical thinking and the artworks produced especially for the
exhibition to make connections between the ideas and experience of
magic in the past and in the present. Contents: Introduction -
Sophie Page and Marina Wallace; Love in a Time of Demons: Magic and
the Medieval Cosmos - Sophie Page; Musica Universalis - Harmonia
Mundi and Hayden - Chisholm's Medieval Jukebox - Marina Wallace;
Concealed and Revealed: Magic and Mystery in the Home - Owen Davies
and Ceri Houlbrook; The Fear and Loathing of Witches - Malcolm
Gaskill; Modern Rituals and Magical Thinking - Ceri Houlbrook;
Installations by Contemporary Artists - Marina Wallace
LIMITED EDITION HARDBACKS TO COMMEMORATE THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF
RUDOLF STEINER'S BIRTH Rudolf Steiner Press is proud to publish a
new series of re-edited, re-typeset and re-designed editions of the
classic, authorised translations of Rudolf Steiner's four
fundamental works. Each volume of this series is printed in a
limited edition of 1,000 copies and sewn-bound in high-quality
cloth, finished with coloured end-papers and a marker ribbon. Given
his energetic involvement in practical initiatives and extensive
lecturing, Rudolf Steiner had little time to write books. Of those
he did write - belonging almost entirely to the earlier years of
his work - four titles form an indispensable introduction to his
later teaching: Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, Theosophy, The
Philosophy of Freedom and Occult Science. The anthroposophy of
Rudolf Steiner is not a theoretical system, but the results of
research based on direct observation. As Steiner's research was so
vast and conducted over such a long period of time, no single book
can be said to contain the whole of his spiritual teaching.
However, of all his books Occult Science comes closest. Steiner
even referred to it as 'an epitome of anthroposophical spiritual
science'. The book sets out, in systematic order, the fundamental
facts concerning the nature and constitution of the human being
and, in chronological order, the history of the universe and man.
Whereas the findings of natural science are derived from
observations made through the senses, the findings of spiritual
science, or anthroposophy, are 'occult' inasmuch as they derive
from direct observation of realities which are hidden to everyday
perception. And yet these elements of humanity and the universe
form the foundation of the sense world. A substantial part of
Occult Science is taken up with a description of the preliminary
training which is necessary to make such spiritual observations.
Although Occult Science is not all-inclusive, it is indispensable
to serious students who seek to master Rudolf Steiner's
extraordinary philosophy.
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Esoterism and Symbol
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R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz; Translated by A. Vandenbroeck, G. Vandenbroeck
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This is an initiation into the tone, structure, and mentality of
Egyptian knowledge, the basis of all Western theology and science.
It is a redefinition of those concepts which are basic to the
pharaonic transmission--the glory of ancient Egypt. The author
explores the "process of becoming" as related to consciousness and
revealed in nature; the kinship between man and the mineral, plant
and animal kingdoms; the stages of awareness leading to "Cosmic
Consciousness"; and the mystery of the formation of substance into
matter.
From "Aarab Zereq" to "Zos Kia Cultus," this is the most
up-to-date, comprehensive guide to the history, philosophies, and
personalities of Western occultism. Written by an occult scholar
and practitioner with the assistance of hundreds of experts in the
field, this volume presents the latest in scholarly research and
points out errors in previous writings-revealing truths much more
interesting and dramatic than the fictional histories that obscured
them. The New Encyclopedia of the Occult is an invaluable reference
guide to magic, alchemy, astrology, divination, Tarot, palmistry,
and geomancy; magical orders such as the Golden Dawn and
Rosicrucians; important occultists; and religions and spiritual
traditions associated with occultism such as Wicca, Thelema,
Theosophy, and the modern Pagan movement.
"This is an important source for libraries to have in their
collections to assist anyone seeking information about the many
aspects of occult traditions." --Booklist
"Greer delivers a well researched, informative, and unbiased
encyclopedia... Highly recommended for all public libraries and
where interest merits." --Library Journal
COVR Award Winner
In this guide to consciously exploring the shamanic journey of
pregnancy and parenthood, Anna Cariad-Barrett offers techniques and
ceremonies to honor the transformation of becoming a parent and
engage the sacred wisdom-keeper within. She provides tools and
meditations to create personal shamanic medicine to support you and
your family on this journey as well as connect with the wisdom of
nature, expand your intuition, and explore altered states of
consciousness. Restoring honour to the shadow side of parenthood,
the author discusses the shamanic perspective on miscarriage,
fertility, sexuality, postpartum stress and depression, blended
families, and adoption as a form of birthing through the heart. She
explains how to heal any deep psychic wounds from your birth family
and transform negative beliefs you may hold about parenthood. She
provides chapters on each trimester of pregnancy, offering specific
teachings and techniques appropriate to each stage as well as
conception, birth, and the postpartum period.
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