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...

Available December 16, 2008

Creating Peace by Being Peace

The Essene Sevenfold Path

Written by Gabriel Cousens MD
Price: $17.95
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...

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...

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...

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...

Magic of the Ordinary

Recovering the Shamanic in Judaism

Written by Gershon Winkler, Foreword by David Carson and Gabriel Cousens
Price: $15.95
North Atlantic Books

A spiritual crisis sent Orthodox rabbi Gershon Winkler to remote regions of the Southwest, where he studied with Native American healers. From them he began to recover the long-lost wisdom of what he calls “Aboriginal Judaism”: the religion’s tribal roots. This book tracks his personal journey and draws from a dazzling...