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  Creating Circles & Ceremonies

  Rituals for All Seasons And Reasons

  by Oberon Zell-Ravenheart

  Creating Circles and Ceremonies is the accumulation of decades of circles, ceremonies, rituals, Mystery plays, initiations, rites of passage, and other magickal workings co-created by the Zell-Ravenhearts, today’s foremost Wizard/Witch couple. For more than 30 years, Oberon and Morning Glory have traveled widely throughout the worldwide magickal community—participating in gatherings, conducting workshops, and... (more)
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  Wild Side Sex: The Book of Kink Educational, Sensual, And Entertaining Essays

  by Midori

  Tired of standing on the sexual sidelines? Wonder what it's like to be a real kink adventurer? Let world famous Midori lead you into the thick of it. This new collection of smoldering wisdom and and frank essays explores the Wild Side of Sex, including these burning subjects: * Is Your Prospect a Proper Pervert’ * Fetishism: Sex, Romance, and Ritual * The Heart of Erotic Humiliation * Finding the Power Femme This... (more)
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  Sacred Ceremony: How to Create Ceremonies for Healing, Transitions, and Celebrations

  by Steven Farmer

  Throughout history, people have attempted to contact the divine through ceremony. From weddings to sweat lodges, funerals to religious fasting, every culture has appealed to the gods for their blessings of important human passages. At this stage in our evolution, many find they no longer need to have priests or shamans to honor the holiness of their lives. In Sacred Ceremony: Honoring the Holiness in Everyday... (more)
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  The Death of Gods in Ancient Egypt

  by Jane Sellers

  Originally published by Penguin Ltd., this revised edition features unusual Egyptian artwork, striking pictures of eclipse phenomena, and numerous sky-charts and computer printouts. These are used to support the author's contention that the origins of Egypt's key religious myths are revealed by computer correlations of observable precessional changes with a dramatic eighty-year period of predicted total eclipses.... (more)
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  The Japanese Tea Ceremony Gift Set: Explore the Mysteries and Traditions of the Ancient Japanese Tea Ceremony

  by Anthony Mann-Tu Lee

  Tea making in Japan has a mystique that is a world apart from the hurried drink that is enjoyed in the West. Sado - the Way of Tea - is a highly stylized ritual that was formally established in the late sixteenth century by the master Sen-Rikyu. While the fundamentals of the ceremony were laid down by the Samurai, the esthetic comes from the austerity and grace of Zen Buddhism. The Japanese Tea Ceremony Gift Set... (more)
• Midnight Song: Quest for the Vanished OnesJamie Sams

  

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  Midnight Song: Quest for the Vanished Ones

  by Jamie Sams

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  Meeting God: Elements of Hindu Devotion

  by Stephen P. Huyler

  This volume seeks to enable western readers to witness the devotional practices of the Hindu people. It features photographs documenting the spirituality of common men and women in India, accompanied by definitions, descriptions and stories of Hindu individuals at worship.
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  White Bead Ceremony (The Greyfeather Series)

  by Sherrin Watkins

  Mary Greyfeather experiences the traditional Shawnee ceremony by which children are given a tribal name.
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  Journey to the Fifth World: Coming Full Circle in Healing and Transformation

  by Michele Ama Wehali

  We are in the midst of great upheaval as we are shifting from one Age to another as we near the year 2012. Find out how these challenging times are part of the evolutionary impetus for change that is being brought on by this shift, as prophesied by the Maya and many other cultures thousands of years ago. Humanity is being required to find answers and solutions for the great problems facing us all, from a much... (more)
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  Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods

  by Shawn Wilson

  Describing a research paradigm shared by indigenous scholars in Canada and Australia, this study demonstrates how this standard can be put into practice. Portraying indigenous researchers as knowledge seekers who work to progress indigenous ways of being, knowing, and doing in a constantly evolving context, this examination shows how relationships both shape indigenous reality and are vital to reality itself.... (more)
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  DAW Books: Book 688

  The Year's Best Horror Stories: XIV

  by Karl Edward Wagner

  Of clanking chains, eerie howls, and things that go bump in the night ...Karl Edward Wagner, a master at unearthing the most haunting tales of terror created by his fellow practitioners in the dark art of freezing your blood, has, with this new collection of THE YEAR'S BEST HORROR STORIES, come up with a truly unforgettable gallery of ghoulish delights.From a man dangerously bespelled by the... (more)
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  Dreamwatcher

  by Sylvia Shults

  It all started when they moved. . .Ryan Alldred knew that moving several states away from where he'd grown up would be hard. He had no idea. He didn't know about the ghosts. He didn't know about the bloody dreams that would terrorize his twin sister Stephanie. And he didn't know about the butcher knife. . .But he's going to find out.
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  In The Spirit of We'Moon Celebrating 30 Years - An Anthology of We'Moon Art and Writing

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  Dancing In Your Bubble: Ancient teachings, Modern Healing

  by Teri J. Dluznieski M.ed.

  Dancing in Your Bubble gives you the benefits of a retreat experience on your own time and space. This book draws on Teri's experiences from working with many clients and students. With this book, you can benefit from the experiences of a healing retreat program. These simple tools will help with every day life. Empower Yourself. Step beyond ideas of powerlessness and sinfulness. Step into your own power and... (more)
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  The Chrysopoeia Revelation

  by Stan Ellis

  As escalating aggression and chaotic global changes converge, threatening to crush our dreams and collapse the foundation of reality is a perceptual shift or evolution of consciousness emerging to unveil knowledge of the absolute truth of humanity's destiny. Stemming from authentic science, The Chrysopoeia Revelation unfolds an answer that includes how humanity will evolve higher consciousness and mortal being. At... (more)
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  Memoirs of a Geisha

  by Arthur Golden

  In this literary tour de force, novelist Arthur Golden enters a remote and shimmeringly exotic world. For the protagonist of this peerlessly observant first novel is Sayuri, one of Japan's most celebrated geisha, a woman who is both performer and courtesan, slave and goddess. We follow Sayuri from her childhood in an impoverished fishing village, where in 1929, she is sold to a representative of a... (more)
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  The Giver Trilogy: Book 1

  The Giver

  by Lois Lowry

  Jonas' world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear or pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the Community. When Jonas turns twelve, he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain and pleasure of life. Now, it is time for Jonas to receive the truth. There is no turning back.
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  Earth's Children: Book 5

  The Shelters of Stone

  by Jean M. Auel

  The Shelters of Stone opens as Ayla and Jondalar, along with their animal friends, Wolf, Whinney, and Racer, complete their epic journey across Europe and are greeted by Jondalar’s people: the Zelandonii. The people of the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii fascinate Ayla. Their clothes, customs, artifacts, even their homes—formed in great cliffs of vertical limestone—are a source of wonder to her. And in the woman... (more)
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  On Glory Roads: A Pilgrim's Book About Pilgrimage

  by Eleanor C. Munro

  Convinced that going on pilgrimage is a universally shared ritual almost as old as humankind, art critic Munro herself goes on pilgrimages to India, Indonesia, Jerusalem and Santiago de Compostella in northwestern Spain, the centers of four of the world's major religions, describing the myths on which they were founded and the rites, arts and monuments they have generated. Writing for a small, highly educated... (more)
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  Grandmothers Counsel the World: Women Elders Offer Their Vision for Our Planet

  by Carol Schaefer

  We are thirteen indigenous grandmothers. . . . We are deeply concerned with the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth, the atrocities of war, the global scourge of poverty, the prevailing culture of materialism, the epidemics that threaten the health of the Earth’s peoples, and with the destruction of indigenous ways of life. We, the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, believe that... (more)