Harness the power of meditation for a happier, healthier life. Appropriate for practitioners of all skill levels, this new addition to Llewellyn's Complete Book Series features thirty-five fundamental meditation techniques from traditions around the world. It presents each with its historical background, cultural context, potential benefits, and clear instructions for practicing at home.Shai Tubali teaches well-known methods, like classical Zen meditation, and more obscure ones, such as Sufi Whirling. You will learn to align your mind and body, open your heart to love and compassion, use the hidden powers of sound, and more. This comprehensive and easy-to-understand guide introduces the magic of meditation in a way that is experiential, practical, and deeply researched, empowering you to journey farther into the world of meditation than ever before.

This book explores dialogue as a transformative form of philosophical practice by unveiling the method behind the unique dialogue developed by mystic and thinker Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986). While Krishnamurti himself generally rejected the cultivation of systems and techniques, Shai Tubali argues that there are easily identifiable patterns through which Krishnamurti strove to realize his dialogical aims. For this reason, he refers to this method, whose existence has evaded Krishnamurti’s followers and scholars alike, as the Krishnamurti dialogue. He suggests that these discursive patterns serve to broaden our understanding of the possibilities of philosophical and religious dialogues and further illuminate established forms of dynamic discourse, such as the Socratic method.    Inspired by Pierre Hadot’s revolutionary reading of the classical Greco-Roman texts, the author centers his attention on Plato’s Socratic dialogues and the guru–disciple conversations in the Hindu Upanishads, which fall within the scope of what may be termed ‘the transformative dialogue’: dialogues that have been written with the intention of bringing about a transformation in the mind of the interlocutor and reader and reorienting their way of life. This text appeals to students as well as researchers and suggests that the Krishnamurti dialogue is not only a continuation and development of the transformative dialogue, but that it also amalgamates ingredients of classical Western philosophy and South Asian mysticism. Moreover, this type of dialogue encourages readers to revisit the lost practice of transformative philosophy, in that it reveals new pathways of philosophical and religious inquiry that bear thought-provoking practical implications. 

This innovative book presents the ultimate seven chakra system an easy-to-use, step-by-step practice that shows you how to integrate energy work into your daily lifestyle. Assigning one chakra to each day of the week, 7 Day Chakras makes it simple to focus your intentions, awaken your energy centers, and achieve your goals. Join Shai Tubali on a rich, multicolored journey into the wisdom of the chakras. This path focuses on them separately and together, improving their radiance and flow. Providing meditations, insights, affirmations, and visualizations, Shai helps you fully awaken your body, mind, and spirit every week. You'll learn to heal yourself, pay better attention to neglected areas, and create a sacred and fulfilling life.

A Book of the Year finalist and one of the most comprehensive books ever written about the chakras and their role in human life, The Seven Wisdoms of Life is grounded not in esoteric theory but rather in the down-to-earth way we can consciously use the teachings of the chakras in order to become fully balanced and fulfilled human beings. The central idea of the seven wisdoms is that the chakras hold within themselves the seven lessons of life as a whole. Instead of trying to guess what our core understandings in life are, we can see it all reflected in the chakras, which are basically the seven layers of our psyche. With his exciting and accurate ways of observation, Shai Tubali leads the reader through each chakra's teaching and life-journey: a detailed description of the basic psychological themes and psychological reactions of imbalance; precise and practical solutions for various imbalances; the major lesson needed to be learned for each chakra; types of trauma related to the chakra (and how to heal); the personality-type of each chakra and famous people who embody it; type of happiness, meaning and purpose of each chakra; ages of development; collective imprints in each chakra; psychosomatic disturbances; recommended practices to heal and balance the chakra; questionnaires that enable readers to determine their chakra personality type and their current imbalances and understanding.

Over the last two decades, philosophers have been increasingly inclined to consider science fiction films as philosophical exercises that center on the nature of human consciousness and existence. Albert Camus' philosophy of the absurd, however, has almost never been employed as a constructive perspective that can reveal unexplored aspects of these films. This is surprising, since science fiction films seem to be packed with visions and dialogues that echo the Sisyphean universe. Cosmos and Camus endeavors to set foot in this uncharted terrain. Its first part introduces the main components of Camus' absurdity so that it can be easily applied to the analysis of the films later. Equipped with these Camusean essentials, the book delves into an indepth analysis of two first-encounter films (Contact and Arrival) and two A.I. films (A.I. and Her). These analyses yield more than an insightful reflection of the absurd contents in science fiction film. Indeed, imaginative collisions with nonhumans seem to tell us a lot about the nature of the absurd in the human condition, as well as raising the question of whether absurdity is exclusively a human matter. Ultimately, the interpretation of the films illuminates the films themselves just as much as it illuminates, challenges, and expands Camus' concept of absurdity.

An invitation to discover and develop your heart powers and tap into heart energy The heart is more often associated with vulnerability than hidden powers. We generally feel the need to protect our heart, building high walls after experiences of emotional pain and hurt. This response is unconscious, and since the modern world teaches us to rely on the brain to guide our life and actions, many of us find it hard to connect to the power and skills within our own hearts. Addressing the fears and feelings of insecurity that can arise and prevent us from opening up to the treasures we hold within, Shai Tubali reveals that the heart, often perceived as our most vulnerable and fragile place, is in fact the source of our greatest potential. Providing practical advice, exercises, meditations, and visualizations proven through his own heart-work practice, he shows how to tap into the heart's energy field and easily activate its seven secret powers: wisdom, vulnerability, forgiveness, ability to love, infinite energy, transformation, and self-acceptance. Calling for a change from one-sided mind perception and behavior, Tubali urges us to get in touch with our core and surrender completely to our heart energy, leaving all misconceptions behind and tearing down protective walls to discover our full potential. Unlocking the seven heart powers will lead to a deep sense of peace, balance, and fulfilment and enable you to approach life from a place of trust and love.

Indestructible You is a practical guidebook for making yourself so strong inside that life's relentless ups and downs cannot shake you and cannot break you. It will help you uncover the powerful, driving force of your true self, and let go of everything that holds you back. The book is based exercises and practices developed by Shai Tubali through his research and work guiding several hundred individuals through psycho-transformational processes. In essence: Life is like an eternal seesaw. At every given moment you're either up - getting what you want and feeling powerful, or down - finding yourself rejected, weakened and frustrated. We are forever hoping to bend the laws of this 'unfair game' so that we stay on the up-side of life. But this unrealistic insistence is why we suffer. Indestructible You reveals the way to step down from the eternal seesaw and build an unbreakable self, a self that remains fearless and strong no matter what life throws at you.

The genius philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) was far ahead of his time when he envisioned the challenges and pitfalls of the growing secular world. This world, he claimed, had 'killed God, ' and by doing so, had created a terrible vacuum of meaninglessness and nihilism. Hence, as Nietzsche stated, mankind must now take on the duty and responsibility of filling the world with a new inner meaning and new ethical content out of his new love of life. Nietzsche referred to the one who would be able to withstand such an awesome task as the Ubermensch (super-man), a new type of man who would result from a true evolutionary leap. 'The Mystical Enlightenment of Friedrich Nietzsche' is Shai Tubali's attempt at continuing and expanding Nietzsche's enormous endeavor so that mankind can acquire the tools necessary to form the long-expected 'super-man' from within. Shai delves into the exciting result of the creation of the 'super-man, ' which is an authentic spiritual world that flourishes and thrives precisely because the God of religions perished; it is a world where Darwin merges with the Buddha, mystical enlightenment blends with evolution, and a great union between genuine spirituality and genuine secularity occurs. This book is suitable for both advanced readers of Nietzsche and for those who have never encountered his teachings. Shai Tubali is a spiritual teacher from a Yogic tradition and a free thinker who lives and teaches in Germany. He has been lecturing for the past thirteen years in Israel and Germany while developing methods of psychological and spiritual transformation. He has written fifteen books on spiritual transformation and practical philosophy in the Hebrew language, and he is the author of 'TheSeven Wisdoms of Life' and 'The Missing Revolution' which also appeared in English.

If we could take the most intense and penetrating look into our psyche and strip away the layers, what would we find at our very core? Could we find the key to psychic heath that unlocks our full creativity and potential? Working with hundreds of people around the world, therapist and author Shai Tubali came to realize that it was power that drove the human psyche: the primal urge for power, the loss of power, and the entangled and confused desires to regain power in our lives. Tubali created 'psycho-transformative processes' to enable the men and women he worked with to uncover these hardest, hidden and most denied parts of the self, and then guided them to transform these parts into a source of true, revitalizing inner power. The Journey to Inner Power sets the reader on this challenging new path to self-knowledge and self-liberation.