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Aleister Crowley and Dion Fortune 1001031   $ 36.00
Product Image "Aleister Crowley and Dion Fortune: The Logos of the Aeon and the Shakti of the Age": Aleister Crowley and Dion Fortune were two of the most controversial and influential magicians of their day. Crowley was regarded by many as a creature of the night whose soul was admittedly streaked with brilliance; Fortune was seen as one of the Shining Ones, who nevertheless wrestled with her own darkness. Between them they produced some of the best books on occultism ever written, and their influence upon contemporary magicians has been profound, though often unrecognized. Written by an occult scholar, this unusual and provocative book draws upon unpublished material to reveal little-known aspects of Crowley and Fortune's relationship, their influence upon the Wiccan movement, goddess traditions and sacred sexuality, earth magic, modern magick, and many surprising aspects of our present culture.
Alan Richardson
Autobiography of a Yogi (52 Cards) 1003002   $ 47.00
Product Image Now, for the first time, Paramhansa Yogananda's thrilling autobiography comes to new life in this beautiful full-colour card deck and booklet set. Each of the 52 cards feature an inspiring quotation taken from the text of the original 1946 First Edition - the preferred edition for both enthusiasts and collectors. The flip-side of each card features photographs from the book and also includes previously unreleased and rare photographs of Yogananda. For the first time, these famous images and quotations will be portable, ensuring their use by the great Master's followers in their homes, altars, journals, cars and purses. The enclosed booklet will include a history of the book, additional information about the quotations and photographs, plus a user's guide for the card deck.
 Paramhansa Yogananda
City of Secrets 8090098   $ 32.00
Product Image City of Secrets: One Woman's True life Journey to the Heart of the Grail Legend: A captivating tale of author and playwright Patrice Chaplan's early years spent in a mysterious town in Spain and the secrets she uncovers as she returns later throughout the course of her life. Her story follows the intriguing villagers of Girona, many of whom, she discovers, belong to a secret society formed to protect the legacy of Abbe Saniere of Rennes le - Chateau fame. The mysteries surrounding him are at the very heart of the modern Grail phenomenon. Along the way she tells of her love affair with the town's favorite son and how their lives become dangerously entangled in the secrets buried in this beautiful, ancient city.
 Patrice Chaplin
Cynical Idealist: A Spiritual Biography of John Lennon 1001036   $ 31.00
Product Image In "The Cynical Idealist: A Spiritual Biography of John Lennon", author Gary Tillery brings readers the first spiritual and intellectual biography of this seminal musical and cultural figure. Much has been said about John Lennon the Beatle - his rock star evolution and tragic fate. More than a mundane, temporal biography covering Lennon's life, music, and death, "The Cynical Idealist" is a soulful portrait of John Lennon’s very being, illuminating the spiritual transformation of a man who influenced the world in a way few others had during the course of the twentieth century. The world could not ignore something extraordinary in Lennon. What was it that set Lennon apart from his fellow bandmates, causing the media to label him the "intellectual" of the group? At just 23 years old, at the height of Beatlemania, the brash and young Lennon was on top of the world, even declaring the band's popularity had eclipsed that of Jesus Christ. Despite his fame, internally, Lennon was experiencing a dark night of the soul. The turning point came for Lennon, locked in a bathroom during the winter of 1966. As he knelt at the pinnacle of his self-alienation, held hostage by his own existential and emotional breakdown, Lennon pleaded with God to show him the way. Lennon's unrequited appeal proved to be the catalyst for his emergence as an iconoclast, albeit, altruistic leader. Tillery walks us through Lennon's personal spiritual journey; his experimentation with drugs; his encounters with the Maharishi; his undertaking of primal scream therapy; and his relationship with Yoko Ono. John Lennon's spiritual death and rebirth crystallized a global anthem of planetary peace and love that transcends labels, dogma, and social expectations, offering the gift of hope for the coming generation. Praised and ridiculed in equal measure, investigated by the FBI, hounded by the media and ultimately assassinated, Britain's "Man of the Decade" ignited a revolution of our consciousness. This extraordinary figure deserves an extraordinary book and, in "The Cynical Idealist", Tillery provides readers with a new and fascinating framework for assessing Lennon's life and works.
Gary Tillery
Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla 8090142   $ 45.00
Product Image This book is a readable compendium of patents, diagrams, photos and explanations of the many incredible inventions of the originator of the modern era of electrification. In Tesla's own words, are such topics as wireless transmission of power, death rays, and radio-controlled airships. In addition rare material on German bases in Antarctica and South America, and a secret city built at a remote jungle site in South America by one of Tesla's students, Guglielmo Marconi. Marconi's secret group claims to have built flying saucers in the 1940s and to have gone to Mars in the early 1950s! Incredible photos of these Tesla craft are included. The Ancient Atlantean system of broadcasting energy through a grid system of obelisks and pyramids is discussed and a fascinating concept comes out of one chapter that the Egyptian engineers had to wear a protective metal head-shields while in these power-plants, hence the Egyptian Pharoahís head covering as well as the Face on Mars! * His plan to transmit free electricity into the atmosphere * How electrical devices would merely have small antennas on them * Why unlimited power could be utilized anywhere on earth * How his inventions could utilize this free energy in the atmosphere * How anti-gravity airships could draw power from the towers he was building * How radio and radar technology can be used as death-ray weapons in Star Wars. * Includes an appendix of Supreme Court documents on dismantling of his free-energy towers * Tesla's Death Rays, Ozone generators, and more
Nikola Tesla
How My death Saved My Life 5060003   $ 27.00
Product Image How My Death Saved My Life: And Other Stories On My Journey To Wholeness: How My Death Saved My Life is the remarkable story of author Denise Linn. In this triumphant autobiography, Denise speaks with a compassionate yet fiery conviction, born of deep pain, as she describes overcoming the horror of an abusive childhood and the terror of being stricken down by an unknown gunman. From the mundane to the mystical, follow Denise,s inner and outer journeys as she grows up in various homes from abandoned army barracks, to the slums of Chicago, to an Ohio farming community. Travel with her as she is fired on by a plane in Yugoslavia, is tear gassed during antiwar riots, explores the sexual revolution in the 60s, lives in a Buddhist monastery, and travels to native cultures to become one of the world's most sought-after speakers and a best-selling author. Thousands of people worldwide have attended her lectures . . . and now, for the first time, they can read the story behind this internationally renowned woman.
Denise Linn
If I Can Forgive So Can You 9030271   $ 30.00
Product Image If I Can Forgive So Can You: My Story Of How I Overcame My Past And Healed My Life: If I Can Forgive, So Can You is the remarkable autobiography of author Denise Linn. In this triumphant memoir, Denise speaks with a compassionate yet fiery conviction born of deep pain, as she describes overcoming an abusive childhood and the terror of being struck down by a gunman’s bullet. With deep insight, she shares her consequent revelations beyond death’s door. From the mundane to the mystical, follow Denise’s inner and outer journeys as she grows up in disparate places—from an abandoned Army barracks, to the slums of Chicago, to an Ohio farming community, to a Midwestern historical house. Travel with her as she’s fired upon by a plane in Yugoslavia, is teargassed during antiwar riots, delves into the political and sexual revolution of the '60s, lives in a Buddhist monastery, and explores native cultures to become one of the world’s most sought after speakers and a best-selling author. Thousands of people worldwide have attended her lectures . . . and now, for the first time, they and you can read the fascinating story behind this internationally renowned woman
 Denise Linn
In the Hands of the Ancestors 5120002   $ 32.00
Product Image When Trevor Campbell gave up his successful career as a top school principal, he was in desperate need of a break. He was burnt out and emotionally drained. The last few years of his career had been an emotional rollercoaster ride - not only had he had to deal with the frustration of an inflexible and conservative education system but the great tragedy of the murder of one of his pupils, Teresa Cormack. He planned his change of direction carefully; his goal was to become a fine-line pencil artist. The move would lessen the stress, feed his creativity and slow the frenetic pace of his life. He would have time to reflect, assess his beliefs and plan a future that moved at a slower speed. But what he didn't plan on were the two major health crises that were headed his way! Trevor's ailing heart was to bring about a new beginning. During emergency surgery Trevor wandered to the 'other side' before skilled medical intervention clawed him back to life. This crossing of the line between life and death was to have a profound effect on Trevor's life. Strange things started to occur - things that he could not force into the 'logical explanation' category. Though Trevor had previously experienced 'moments' that he had relegated to the 'coincidence' basket, the vivid clarity of his new insights astounded him. This is the story of Trevor's amazing spiritual journey. It is a journey of hope, a journey of enlightenment, of peace and healing. It tells of Trevor's love of the bush and his connection with the land. It is a story that reveals the amazing truths of his ancestors. It is the sensitive telling in words and drawings of a journey home.
 trevor Campbell
In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories, and Prayers 1005062   $ 28.00
Product Image "In the Heart of the World" is a powerful portrait of one of the most beloved women of all time, told in her own words through a fascinating blend of daily life experiences, prayers, and spiritual wisdom. Follow Mother Teresa to the streets of Calcutta, Australia, and New York and listen as she offers pearls of spiritual truth as relevant today as when she first began her mission sixty-five years ago. With the turn of each page, you will be drawn into the life of Mother Teresa, a life best characterized by Mother Teresa herself: 'Love has a hem to her garment / That reaches the very dust / It sweeps the stains / From the streets and lanes, / And because it can, it must.' With humour, compassion, and lyrical clarity, Mother Teresa illuminates the sacred in the intimate everyday tasks of living. "In the Heart of the World" bears indisputable testimony to the influence of a soul wholly dedicated - with a heart of love - to a life of service. Through this book, Mother Teresa will inspire you to reach out with love and compassion to others, and to work together for world peace.
Mother Teresa
Life among the Dead 9090010   $ 28.00
Product Image This is Lisa Williams's memoir of her life as a psychic. She has gone on to become one of the most well known psychics in the world, and has her own television show. Lisa's story is very interesting - she started out as quite a skeptic herself and it was only over a number of years and with the help of some supportive people that she learnt to really gradually accept her gift. Lisa shares memories of her earliest psychic experiences first discovered her psychic abilities at the age of 4 years old and recalls in pretty astonishing detail many of the amazingly accurate communications she has shared with believers and skeptics alike. This is an entertaining, fascinating and memorable account of the life of a person with an extraordinary gift - the ability to see, hear and speak with the dead and she is a very popular personality and appears every Saturday night on the W channel.
Lisa Williams
Losing my Virginity - Richard Branson - The Autobiography 9090037   $ 35.00
Product Image Compelling. Brilliant. Revealing. Funny. Inspirational. Extraordinary. Sir Richard Branson's amazing memoir is now updated to include the effect on the Virgin Group of 11 September, his views on the war in Iraq, the rise of Virgin Blue and the flotation of Virgin Mobile. Discover how Virgin is moving into the US domestic flight market and why he set up the charitable body Virgin Unite. As ever, his thirst for challenge is unquenched. Sir Richard reveals the thrills of the world record attempt with the Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer and taking Virgin to the final frontier as Virgin Galactic are poised for a new era of commercial space travel. Revealing Sir Richard's unique story, his personal philosophy on life, the Virgin brand and business, LOSING MY VIRGINITY is an autobiography without equal.
 Richard Branston
Mister God This is Anna 9080030   $ 19.00
Product Image Mister God This Is Anna: The True story of a Very Special Friendship: From the moment Anna and Fynn locked eyes, their times together were filled with delight and discovery. In her completely frank and honest way, Anna had an astonishing ability to ask--and answer--life's largest questions, and to feel the purpose of being. You see, Anna had a very special friendship with Mister God. "Extraordinarily moving!"--"Publishers Weekly".
Fynn
Monk in the World - Cultivating A Spiritual Life 9030205   $ 27.00
Product Image When Brother Wayne Teasdale took the naked plunge into the sacred Kavery River of India and renounced his possessions and former identity to become a Catholic monk, he expected to remain in the nirvanic atmosphere of the Shantivanam monastery. But hours later his teacher turned to him and said that his mission was not to remain in retreat, but rather to go home to America. "Without a doubt there is great value in spirituality that emphasizes and supports withdrawal from society," writes Teasdale. "But in our time, we require a spirituality of intense involvement and radical engagement with the world." By this he means taking on daily tasks, such as "earning a living, paying bills, saving money, getting along with others, being entertained, enjoying a healthy recreation, and learning how to interact with difficult people." At the same time, the monk must not succumb to "greed, indifference, insensitivity, noise, confusion, pettiness, unease, tension, irreverence." Of course, readers quickly catch on that he's describing the collective mission of humankind. A Monk in the World is the book that contemporary seekers yearn for--solid advice on how to live with spiritual values in a modern world. Teasdale covers the nuts and bolts: how to introduce periods of silence and solitude into daily life, cultivate spiritual friendships, create a spiritual workplace, and how to understand and respond to the world's suffering. Such guidance shows Teasdale at his best, a man committed to building a global "interspiritual" movement where we all become monks in the world, collectively doing the right thing while honoring the many and diverse paths to Go
 Wayne Teasdale
My Stroke of Insight 9060021   $ 26.00
Product Image On the morning of December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke when a blood vessel exploded in the left side of her brain. A neuroanatomist by profession, she observed her own mind completely deteriorate to the point that she lost the ability to walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life, all within the space of four hours. As the damaged left side of her brain - the rational, logical, detail and time-oriented side - swung in and out of function, Taylor alternated between two distinct and opposite realities: the euphoric Nirvana of the intuitive and emotional right brain, in which she felt a sense of complete well-being and peace; and the logical left brain, that realized Jill was having a stroke and enabled her to seek help before she was lost completely. In "My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey", Taylor brings to light a new perspective on the brain and its capacity for recovery that she gained through the intimate experience of awakening her own injured mind. The journey to recovery took eight years for Jill to feel completely healed.
 Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.
Neither Wolf Nor Dog 9070057   $ 33.00
Product Image Acclaimed author Kent Nerburn creates an incisive character study of a Native American elder, against the unflinching backdrop of contemporary reservation life and the majestic spaces of the western Dakotas. Nerburn draws us deep into the world of this elder, identified only as Dan, as we journey to where the vast Dakota skies overtake us and the whisperings of the wind speak of ancestral voices. As this spellbinding story unfolds, Dan speaks eloquently on the power of silence, the difference between land and property, white people's urge to claim an Indian heritage, and the selling of sacred ceremonies. This is a story of fathers and sons, of the struggle for redemption after the loss of innocence, of distinct cultures on a common land. An unlikely cross between Jack Kerouac and Black Elk Speaks,"Neither Wolf nor Dog" is full of humor, pathos, and insight. It takes us past the myths and stereotypes to the heart of the Native American experience and in doing so reveals America in a way few of us ever see. After reading this book, you will never look at America or the American Indian in the same way again.
Kent Nerburn
Priest and the Medium 9110034   $ 26.00
Product Image Psychic medium B. Anne Gehman gave her first spirit readings to her teddy bears at age five. Raised in the Mennonite tradition, she left home at age 14 to finish her schooling. A life-changing near-death experience led Anne to develop her natural gifts, including an uncanny ability to predict future events. She has gained international attention for her help in solving crimes, locating oil and missing persons, healing illnesses, and connecting family members with their loved ones in spirit. She has worked with top government agencies and officials, police departments, judges, and corporate CEOs. While remarkable for her spiritual gifts and experiences, Anne's life is all the more fascinating due to an unusual twist: she is married to Wayne Knoll, Ph.D., a former Jesuit priest. A brilliant student devoted to his faith, Wayne also left home at 14 to join a Roman Catholic seminary. Even while pursuing his life's dream as a professor of literature at Georgetown University, Wayne felt an emptiness that only a woman could fill. After more than a decade of religious training, he made the wrenching decision to leave the priesthood, not knowing if he would find the love he sought. "The Priest and the Medium "shares the remarkable story of two soul mates on parallel paths with divergent beliefs, yet united in their love for God and each other.
 Suzanne Giesemann
Red Haired Girl from the Bog 9030213   $ 28.00
Product Image The Red-Haired Girl from the Bog: The Landscape of Celtic Myth and Spirit : Ireland: land of rambles, burning peat, dark beer, misdirection, lilting speech, enchanting melodies, green hills, ruddy faces, and goddesses. Goddesses? In Ireland? Like many Irish Americans before her, Pat Monaghan traveled to Ireland for the first time as an adult, seeking her roots. What she found was much more than her physical ancestors. She found spiritual forebears in the legends and landmarks of spirited women: witches, hags, wanton girls, mothers. This book is the story of her journeys, and the story of the journeys the legends have made through time.
 Patricia Monaghan
Return to the Garden: A Journey of Discovery 3050006   $ 32.00
Product Image The bestselling author of Creative Visualization and Living in the Light reveals the most private and initimate details of her extraordinary life and shares experiences and feeling that connect at a profound level with readers everywhere. Line drawings.
 Shakti Gawain
She who Dreams 9030267   $ 27.00
Product Image Wanda Burch dreamt that she would die at a certain age; her dreams foretold her diagnosis of cancer, and then guided her toward treatment and wellness. She took advantage of all the usual medical resources available to her, but believes she is alive because of her intimate engagement with the dreamworld. She Who Dreams takes the reader into that healing dreamworld, opening a path to self-diagnosis and physical and psychic health. Through powerful prose and practical exercises, this book describes in compelling detail a life lived and deepened, and a death postponed. In the process it shows that wisdom lives within everyone, and that anyone can tap into that wisdom through dreamwork.
Wanda Easter Burch
Spell of Mor[heus 8110053   $ 28.00
Product Image The Spell of Morpheus – a story of women and drugs in one New Zealand town – was adapted by author Julia Sutherland from her psychology thesis while she was a PhD student at Otago University. She describes the novel as "a journey in and out of a fairytale", and she based the book around the extended interviews that she made with 10 women from the Methadone Clinic. The subtext of the novel is concerned with the incongruities of current drug legislation, and the morality and hypocrisy of what’s legal and what’s not. Southerton is a thinly disguised Dunedin in The Spell of Morpheus. Based on author Julia Sutherland’s PhD thesis about the drug scene,especially as it affects mothers and their parenting, and interviews with women recruited from the Methadone Clinic, the book aims to explore and make sense of the drug culture as a mythical world. Otago Daily Times Excerpt... 1. •The pathway of drug research has often been trod but usually within a research paradigm which disregards the value of the subjective world of the imagination as being a great cultural treasure house from where all search for the truth and the telling of research stories begin. Objective truth rules in the university setting and it might be seen that the ultimate aim is the perpetuating and recycling of the right kind of truth, which is an impossible dream when truth is illusory and partial and often baffling to reason’s searching eyes. 2. • This research adventure has been a personal and mythical journey into the subjective realm. The quest has been to find and express truth which is multi-faceted and open to multiple interpretation... Within a mythological world the concept of drug addiction takes on a different meaning when couched in language from the world of myth and dream, image, symbol and archetype. Drug addiction in these terms becomes enchantment or possession by women who fall under the spell of Morpheus, the spirit or god of dreams, from the tasting of forbidden fruit. This results in the rest of society branding or stigmatizing them as the evil ones. The challenge has been to not only explore and make sense of the drug culture as a mythical world, but also to bring a light of understanding of both the women, who are branded as the addicted, and also the people who do the branding and who serve the punishments to the transgressors of society’s moral laws
 Julia Sutherland
Taking with Nature 9030251   $ 33.00
Product Image After reading this book, you will never again wonder if nature can speak. It can and it does, and this unique book may well expand your awareness of the special bond between humanity and the environment. In a profound spiritual journey, Michael Roads explores the nature of energy, the foundations of personal power, and the frontiers of reality. Through a dazzling series of visions, Michael goes beyond communicating with nature and becomes blackberry, dog, and crystal.
Michael Roads
Thinking in Pictures 4030004   $ 34.00
Product Image Thinking in Pictures and Other Reports from My Life with Autism:The captivating subject of Oliver Sack's "Anthropologist on Mars," here is Temple Grandin's personal account of living with autism extraordinary gift of animal empathy has transformed her world and ours. Temple Grandin is renowned throughout the world as a designer of livestock holding equipment. Her unique empathy for animals has her to create systems which are humane and cruel free, setting the highest standards for the industry the treatment and handling of animals. She also happens to be autistic. Here, in Temple Grandin's own words, is the story what it is like to live with autism. Temple is among the few people who have broken through many the neurological impairments associated with autism. Throughout her life, she has developed unique coping strategies, including her famous "squeeze machine, " modeled after seeing the calming effect squeeze chutes on cattle. She describes her pain isolation growing up "different" and her discovery visual symbols to interpret the "ways of the natives" "Thinking In Pictures" also gives information from the frontlines of autism, including treatme medication, and diagnosis, as well as Temple's insight into genius, savants, sensory phenomena, etc. Ultimately, it is Temple's unique ability describe the way her visual mind works and how she first made the connection between her impairment and animal temperament that is the basis of extraordinary gift and phenomenal success.
Temple Grandin
Unravelled Life as a Mother 4110013   $ 28.00
Product Image Review: Enter Maria Housden's book, Unraveled: The True Story of a Woman Who Dared to Become a Different Kind of Mother, Housden's story of how she came to leave her husband -- and her three children in his custody -- to pursue a bohemian life of writing, art, and travel. Told in a back and forth narrative that covers "10 days and 10 years," the book's first half begins with Housden arriving alone for a ten day private retreat. She has come there with her marriage in disarray and still grief-stricken over the loss of her three-year old daughter, Hannah, to cancer several years earlier. The real story of Unraveled starts with this death
 Maria Housden
Vantastic - A Kiwi Caravan Story 5090062   $ 38.00
Product Image 'Vantastic' takes a lively look at one of New Zealand's most popular traditional holiday pursuits - caravanning. Packed with never-before-published photographs, interviews and memorabilia, it captures the wonderful feeling freedom and security unique to the 'home on wheels' in the period when Kiwis were in love with their freewheeling slice of home at the beach. Beautifully designed by leading designer Neil Pardington, it will stir the memories of anyone who has ever hitched up a van to the back of the car or smelt sausages cooking in the warm air of a beach campsite. And with those campsites on expensive coastal real estate rapidly becoming an endangered species, it is a timely reminder of a way of life that is disappearing fast. Documenting the post-war rise of caravanning in the 40's through to the peak years of the 70's and 80's, and today, where caravan ownership is currently around 5000, Vantastic creates a vivid anecdotal portrait of the kiwi holiday industry of the times. Core buyers are expected to be in the 30-60 age group - those who own and owned caravans and the adults who were children then - appealing to a similar nostalgic vein as that tapped into by the successful Gone Surfing.
 Chris Hunter
Way of the Explorer 9100001   $ 46.00
Product Image Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds: In February 1971, as Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell hurtled earthward through space, he was engulfed by a profound sense of universal connectedness. He intuitively sensed that his presence and that of the planet in the window were all part of a deliberate, universal process and that the glittering cosmos itself was in some way conscious. The experience was so overwhelming Mitchell knew his life would never be the same. For the next 35 years he embarked on another journey, an inward exploration of the ineffable mystery of human consciousness and being. Mitchell left NASA to form the Institute of Noetic Sciences. The Institute allowed him to initiate research in areas of study previously neglected by mainstream science and where he constructed a theory that could not only explain the mysteries consciousness, but the psychic event — what spiritualists call a “miracle,” and scientists dismiss altogether. Mitchell also created a new dyadic model of reality, revealing a self-aware universe not predetermined by the laws of physics, nor preordained by deities, nor infinitely malleable. While human actions are generally subject to the laws of physics, these laws are also influenced by the mind. "The Way of the Explorer" traces two remarkable journeys — one through space and one through the mind.Together they fundamentally alter how we understand the miracle and mystery of being, and ultimately reveal mankind’s role in its own destiny.
Dr Edgar Mitchell
Why I am a Muslim 4050014   $ 38.00
Product Image REVIEW: "Out of all the cultures in the world... true Islamic values, as embodied in the Quran and the life of the Prophet Muhammad, most closely resemble American values. So asserts Hasan, who has devoted much of her adult life she is not yet 30 to combating anti Muslim prejudice. As in her first book, American Muslims, she passionately argues against stereotypes and in favor of an Islam that sounds a lot like Reform Judaism or liberal Christianity. This is the Islam she knew growing up in Pueblo, Colo.—an American girl who looked Chicana and attended a Catholic school. Hasan's version of Islam would have appealed to America's founders with its advocacy of human equality, religious tolerance, property rights and self-improvement. It harmonizes just as well with 21st-century America's spiritual inclinations: it is nonjudgmental, inclusive, open-minded, diverse, experiential, emotional and even feminist. "The Prophet Muhammad is personally responsible for the greatest advancement of women's rights in a single time period," she writes, noting that no Islamic justification exists for abuses such as female genital mutilation or stoning adulteresses; these stem from ancient patriarchal traditions that pre-date Islam. Not all American Muslims welcome Hasan's interpretation of their faith or appreciate her enthusiasm for America (she recounts several experiences with such antagonists and suggests that they move to an Islamic country). Unfazed, she counters: I'll make my own tradition—one that embodies my own American Muslim ethnic culture.
 Hasan Asma
Wolf at Twilight 1001050   $ 28.00
Product Image A note is left on a car windshield, an old dog dies, and the author finds himself back on the Lakota reservation where he traveled more than a decade before with the tribal elder, Dan. In this fictionalized account of actual events, Nerburn brings the land of the northern high plains alive and reveals the Native American way of teaching and learning with a depth that few outsiders ever experience. "The Wolf at Twilight" is at once a mystery, a glimpse into history, and a spiritual journey. It will change forever the way you look at our country, our past, and the land on which we live. "The best storytellers make you feel that they are speaking directly to you, and the best-told stories resonate in the heart and soul forever. A story about the triumph of love and the spirit of a people over unspeakable degradation and torture, "The Wolf at Twilight" will be permanently etched in your consciousness."
 Kent Nerburn
Woman on the Mountain 9090021   $ 33.00
Product Image This inspirational book tells of one woman's journey through life to a place of contentment and satisfaction. Her journey has been no smooth, planned passage, but rather a stumble over setbacks, propelled by almost accidental decisions. After the ups and downs of relationships, single parenting, and an unlikely variety of jobs, in her fifties she found herself living in the bush, far from any town, and alone. A writer with insufficient income, a grandma with unwelcome arthritis, she was unsure if she could manage the hard work and mechanical demands of a totally self-sufficient lifestyle, but she gave it a go - and found it full of funny incidents and great rewards. With only the wildlife as her neighbours, she learnt to live in tune with nature on her wildlife refuge, helping to repair past damage and trying to do no more. 'Civilised conservation', she calls it, 'having your cake and eating it too - before the wallabies do.' Living alone taught her most about herself, as it released her from the dramas and distractions of a relationship, and dependence on men - except for the secret knowledge of machines that she feels they are born with! It also gave her the determination to be less selfish with her time, and to do her best to call a halt to the destruction of our environment so that we all learn to live more sustainably and leave a better world for our grandchildren.
 Sharyn Munro
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Medwyn Goodall
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Paulo Coelho
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Richard Webster
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Sonia Choquette
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Stuart Wilde
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Sylvia Brown CDs
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Ted Andrews
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Tom Kenyon
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Wayne Dyer
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White Eagle
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Zecharia Sitchin
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