The Other Within
The Genius of Deformity in Myth, Culture, and Psyche
Written by Daniel Deardorff
Price: $16.95
North Atlantic Books
Daniel Deardorff knows otherness firsthand. This highly regarded “singer” in the old sense of that word—musician, storyteller, maker of ritual—had polio as an infant and has used a wheelchair most of his life, giving him a lived perspective that deeply informs his views on this subject. In The Other Within, Deardorff...
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Love and the Soul
Creating a Future for Earth
Written by Robert Sardello
Price: $15.95
North Atlantic Books
With economies in peril, war in the Middle East, genocides, global warming, and a host of other grim phenomena, the world has never seemed so besieged. The solution, says Robert Sardello, lies with the individual. In this timely, thoughtful book, he explains how the soul can engage with the outer world...
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Meister Eckhart on Divine Knowledge
Written by C.F. Kelley
Price: $19.95
Frog Books
Of all Christian mystical teachings, those of the Dominican theologian Meister Eckhart (c. 1260—c. 1328) are increasingly recognized as the most compatible with the non-dualistic traditions of Buddhism and Hinduism. Based on the author’s three decades of formal study and spiritual practice, this book offers a clear path to understanding the...
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Origins of the Tarot
Cosmic Evolution and the Principles of Immortality
Written by Dai Leon
Price: $22.95
Frog Books
Conventional wisdom traces tarot cards to medieval Italy, but their roots go much further back in time and draw on a startling variety of cultures and spiritual traditions. Combining pioneering scholarship with practical spiritual instruction, this ambitious book is the first to unveil the full range of the ancient streams of...
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The Road to Eleusis
Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries
Written by R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann and Carl A. P. Ruck, Preface by Huston Smith
Price: $18.95
North Atlantic Books
The secretive Mysteries conducted at Eleusis in Greece for nearly two millennia have long puzzled scholars with strange accounts of initiates experiencing otherworldly journeys. In this groundbreaking work, three experts—a mycologist, a chemist, and a historian—argue persuasively that the sacred potion given to participants in the course of the ritual contained...
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Creating Peace by Being Peace
The Essene Sevenfold Path
Written by Gabriel Cousens MD
Price: $15.95
North Atlantic Books
Representing a synthesis of the author’s decades of multidisciplinary work in meditation, psychiatry, psychotherapy, and spirituality, Creating Peace by Being Peace guides readers in creating peace on seven levels of engagement, from the body to the ecology to God. Author Gabriel Cousens addresses the increasingly urgent need to transform humankind with...
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A Mystical Haggadah
Passover Meditations, Teachings, and Tales
Written by Eliahu Klein
Price: $16.95
North Atlantic Books
In a generation that has seen an explosion in popularity of books about mystical and meditative traditions, very little has been published about the rich and fascinating mystical traditions of the Jewish holy days. Passover, the first religious holiday of the Jewish people, particularly rewards a re-viewing from a mystical perspective...
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The Eye of the Prophet
Written by Kahlil Gibran
Price: $12.95
North Atlantic Books
The Eye of the Prophet is a luminous collection of Gibran's writings translated from Arabic into French and now into English. Here the author is the poetic, philosophical moralist, grounded in Islam, Buddhism, and Christianity, seeking the best in people, refusing to separate humankind from the natural world. Ordinary work and...
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The Modern Christian Mystic
Finding the Unitive Presence of God
Written by Albert LaChance
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North Atlantic Books
In this new work, Albert LaChance presents a complete reframing of Christianity as an experiential rather than dogmatic approach to the presence of Christ. It emphasizes the idea of Christ as the source and sustainer of the cosmos, the Earth, the life community, and global culture. As such, it takes a...
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Orthodox Chinese Buddhism
A Contemporary Chan Master's Answers to Common Questions
Written by Master Sheng Yen, Translated by Otto Chang and Douglas Gildow
Price: $16.95
North Atlantic Books
As a well-known scholar and meditation master—His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama called him “extremely modest, a true spiritual practitioner of deep and broad learning”—Sheng Yen is uniquely qualified to guide Western seekers into the world of contemporary Chinese Buddhism. Written while the author was secluded in solitary retreat in southern...
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The Twelve Gates
A Spiritual Passage Through the Egyptian Books of the Dead
Written by John Rush
Price: $26.95
Frog Books
In The Twelve Gates, clinical anthropologist John Rush embarks on a spellbinding journey through death rituals in various cultures, centering on the ancient Egyptian philosophy of death and resurrection. The first part of the book provides an overview of different rituals, encouraging readers to confront their feelings about death and to...
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Buddha Takes No Prisoners
A Meditator's Survival Guide
Written by Patrick Ophuls, Foreword by Jack Kornfield
Price: $17.95
North Atlantic Books
This insightful, easy-to-read handbook offers a non-traditional perspective on meditation. Written primarily for American insight meditation students, it delivers the Buddha's essential teachings clearly, straightforwardly, and without spiritual jargon, and helps make sense of practices often laden with traditional terminology. Practical explanations of the meditation process, its benefits and applicability to...
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Five Elements, Six Conditions
A Taoist Approach to Emotional Healing, Psychology, and Internal Alchemy
Written by Gilles Marin
Price: $21.95
North Atlantic Books
Taoism and the use of the five elemental forces of nature for healing, says Gilles Marin, are esoteric, understandable only through daily experience with a knowledgeable mentor. Marin’s 25 years of clinical practice teaching the ancient Taoist method of Chi Nei Tsang, which uses hands-on techniques and Taoist meditations to help...
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The Ultimate Medicine
Dialogues with a Realized Master
Written by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, Edited by Robert Powell, Foreword by Peter Madill
Price: $15.95
North Atlantic Books
The Ultimate Medicine is not for those who like their spirituality watered down, but for serious students searching for awareness. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897-1981) lived and taught in a small apartment in the slums of Bombay. A realized master of the Tantric Nath lineage, he supported himself and his family by...
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Faces of Your Soul
Rituals in Art, Maskmaking, and Guided Imagery with Ancestors, Spirit Guides, and Totem Animals
Written by Elise Ching and Kaleo Ching
Price: $21.95
North Atlantic Books
In Faces of Your Soul, Elise Dirlam Ching and Kaleo Ching combine art and archetypes, meditation and acupressure, guided imagery, journaling, and many different creative processes in a collage of healing knowledge and wisdom. The authors start by stressing the balance of complementary opposites—left brain/right brain, challenge/comfort, practicality/the sacred—as crucial to...
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Persephone Unveiled
Seeing the Goddess and Freeing Your Soul
Written by Charles Stein
Price: $17.95
North Atlantic Books
Persephone Unveiled reveals the goddess in all her guises, as the daughter of Demeter; the Queen of the Underworld; the archetypal female healer; and as a central figure in the Eleusinian Mysteries, where celebrants experienced sacred visions through secret rituals fueled by an LSD-like substance. The author examines the known details...
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Stealing Benefacio's Roses
A Mayan Epic
Written by Martin Prechtel
Price: $18.95
North Atlantic Books
Following the acclaimed Secrets of The Talking Jaguar and Long Life, Honey in the Heart, this is an expansive, lyrical novel in the tradition of indigenous oral storytelling. Based on the author's many years of living in a Guatemalan village, Stealing Benefacio's Roses interweaves dramatic recountings of village life and the...
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The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun
A Mayan Tale of Ecstasy, Time, and Finding One's True Form
Written by Martin Prechtel, Illustrated by Martin Prechtel
Price: $13.95
North Atlantic Books
Author and illustrator Martín Prechtel is internationally known for his explorations of ancient folklore and uncovering the lessons therein for modern readers. In The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun, he revives a hitherto unknown Guatemalan Tzutujil Mayan tale of the beginnings of the world with a poetic retelling of...
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Kabbalah of Creation
The Mysticism of Isaac Luria, Founder of Modern Kabbalah
Edited by Eliahu Klein, Translated by Eliahu Klein
Price: $18.95
North Atlantic Books
Kabbalah of Creation is a new translation of the early Kabbalah of Rabbi Isaac Luria, founder of the most influential Jewish mystical school of the last 400 years. Living in relative obscurity in Northern Galilee, Luria experienced a powerful epiphany that influenced his lyrical, influential text. Poetically and meditatively described, the...
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Getting the Buddha Mind
On the Practice of Chan Retreat
Written by Master Sheng-Yen
Price: $14.95
North Atlantic Books
Chan—or in Japanese, Zen—involves studying, practicing, acting, and being, but beyond words and ideas, the true Chan cannot be described, only learned. Under the guidance of authentic teachers like Chan Master Sheng Yen, many students in the West have learned how to follow the path. Collected from a series of talks...
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The Real Is Unknowable, The Knowable Is Unreal
Written by Robert Powell
Price: $12.95
North Atlantic Books
Wisdom is to reject conventional wisdom about almost everything.
Thus begins Robert Powell's inquiry into the nature of Totality and the unreality of all else. This small but profound book is divided into three parts. In the first, Reflections, Robert Powell comments on some of humankind's most timeless puzzles and questions: Does...
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Long Life, Honey in the Heart
Written by Martin Prechtel
Price: $16.95
North Atlantic Books
Martín Prechtel continues the narrative of his unique life in Santiago, Atitlan in Long Life, Honey in the Heart, an eloquent memoir replete with the subtle intelligence and sophistication of Mayan culture. Set against the dramatic backdrop of Guatemala's political upheaval in the 1980s, this heady mix of magic, humor, and...
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Travels with the Evil Inclination
A Rabble-Rousing Renegade Rabbi's Story
Written by Gershon Winkler
Price: $15.95
North Atlantic Books
According to Jewish theology, the "Evil Inclination," or yetzer ha-ra, is the small inner voice that tempts us into doing wrong. In a tone at once witty and heartfelt, Rabbi Gershon Winkler, a.k.a. the “stand-up theologian,” tells stories of his own struggles with that voice as he passes from yeshiva boy...
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You Are the Weaver of Your World
Buddhism and the Psychology of Being
Written by Robert Hartzema
Price: $14.95
North Atlantic Books
In nine accessible chapters, You Are the Weaver of Your World examines the forces that stunt spiritual growth and offers strategies for countering them. Based on the author’s 15 years of operating a Tibetan Buddhist center, readers learn how to release "the two spirals"—childhood hopes and fears—and embrace their own power...
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Christian Zen
The Essential Teachings of Jesus Christ
Compiled by Robert Powell
Price: $12.95
North Atlantic Books
Jesus’ remarkable and rather puzzling statements from the Gospel of Thomas, considered “secret sayings,” have suffered centuries of misinterpretation, reinforcing a skewed view of both Christianity and Jesus himself. In Christian Zen, noted scholar Robert Powell deciphers their true meaning and shows how they mirror Zen philosophy. His commentaries explain that...
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