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  The Seat of the Soul

  by Gary Zukav

  A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: This hardcover edition of The Seat of the Soul celebrates its tenth anniversary. The Seat of the Soul became a national bestseller when it was first published, but more people are buying it now than ever before. Why is this? It is because a new species is being born. The Seat of the Soul is about this birth. This new species longs for harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence... (more)
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  The Path To Tranquility: Daily Meditations By The Dalai Lama

  by Bstan-?dzin-rgya-mtsho

  The Dalai Lama serves as a living symbol of holiness and selfless triumph over tribulation for people of all religious traditions-as well as those with no religious affiliation at all. This collection of daily quotations drawn from His Holiness's own writings, teachings, and interviews offers words of guidance, compassion, and peace that are as down to earth as they are rich in spirit. Suffused with endearing... (more)
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  How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter (Vintage)

  by Sherwin B. Nuland

  Attempting to demythologize the process of dying, Nuland explores how we shall die, each of us in a way that will be unique. Through particular stories of dying--of patients, and of his own family--he examines the seven most common roads to death: old age, cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer's, accidents, heart disease, and strokes, revealing the facets of death's multiplicity. "It's impossible to read How We Die without... (more)
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  The Only Dance There Is

  by Ram Dass

  This book is based on talks by Ram Dass at the Menninger Foundation in 1970 and at the Spring Grove Hospital in Maryland in 1972. The text grew out of the interaction between Ram Dass and the spiritual seekers in attendance at these talks. The result of this unique exchange is a useful guide for understanding the nature of consciousness--useful both to other spiritual seekers and to formally trained psychologists.... (more)
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  Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying

  by Ram Dass

  More than thirty years ago, an entire generation sought a new way of life, looking for fulfillment and meaning in a way no one had before. Leaving his teaching job at Harvard, Ram Dass embodied the role of spiritual seeker, showing others how to find peace within themselves in one of the greatest spiritual classics of the twentieth century, Be Here Now . Now, as many of that generation enter the autumn of their... (more)
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  Think on These Things

  by J. Krishnamurti

  ‘The material contained in this volume was originally presented in the form of talks to students, teachers and parents in India, but its keen penetration and lucid simplicity will be deeply meaningful to thoughtful people everywhere, of all ages, and in every walk of life. Krishnamurti examines with characteristic objectivity and insight the expressions of what we are pleased to call our culture, our education,... (more)
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  The Cloud of Unknowing: and The Book of Privy Counseling (Image Book Original)

  An authority on fourteenth-century spirituality provides an accessible introduction to the original Middle English text, detailing its history and impact and including a copy of the medieval author's other work, The Book of Privy Counseling. Reprint.
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  Mad Bear: Spirit, Healing, and the Sacred in the Life of a Native American Medicine Man

  by Doug Boyd

  Mad Bear was a member of the Bear Clan of the Tuscarora Nation of the Six-Nation Iroquois Confederacy of the United States and Canada. A Native American rights-activist, he was also a medicine man and a leader with great power and influence both among his own people and cross culturally. In this personal and captivating narrative, Doug Boyd recreates Mad Bear's tales of magic, his healing powers, and Native... (more)
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  The Eagle and the Rose: A Remarkable True Story

  by Rosemary Altea

  The Eagle and the Rose is the riveting true story of Rosemary Altea, an internationally renowned psychic medium and healer. It is also an unforgettable guidebook to the world of the spirit. With astonishingly accurate clairvoyance and a miraculous capacity to contact the departed, the author sows us that everyday life is not the only plan of existence. With the help of her spirit guide, Grey Eagle, she reveals... (more)
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  The Way of a Pilgrim and the Pilgrim Continues His Way: A New Translation

  This classic work of Russian spirituality tells of an anonymous peasant's quest for the secret of prayer. The Pilgrim searches high and low to know what St. Paul meant when he said that Christians should pray always. Each new stop becomes a home for a moment for this happy wanderer who has only a knapsack and a few crusts of bread, but who finds goodness and plenty wherever he goes.
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  Sacred World: The Shambhala Way to Gentleness, Bravery, and Power

  by Jeremy W. Hayward

  This book-in a shortened and revised second edition-is a practical companion to Chögyam Trungpa's Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, offering step-by-step instruction in Shambhala warriorship. Combining Buddhist mindfulness practice and pre-Buddhist shamanic teachings, Shambhala warriorship training teaches ways to call on powerful, natural energies for personal and collective transformation. It shows us... (more)
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  Black Elk speaks : being the life story of a holy man of the Oglala Sioux

  by John Gneisenau Neihardt, Black Elk

  Black Elk Speaks is the story of the Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during the momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century. Black Elk met the distinguished poet, writer, and critic John G. Neihardt (1881-1973) in 1930 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and chose Neihardt to tell his story. Neihardt understood and conveyed Black Elk’s experiences in this... (more)
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  The way of a pilgrim ; and, A pilgrim continues his way

  This classic of world spiritual literature is the firsthand account of a pilgrim's journey as he endeavors to live out Saint Paul's instruction to "pray without ceasing." The narrator, an unnamed nineteenth-century peasant, sets out on his pilgrimage with nothing but a Bible, a rosary, and some dried bread. As he walks, he recites the Jesus prayer ("Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me")—a prayer that is said to... (more)
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  by Margaret Silf

  This comprehensive guide opens a world of imaginative yet simple ways to approach individual prayer. Breaking through boundaries and stereotypes Silf shows prayer as a journey into reflective living. She invites readers to experience prayer as a natural, organic process and offers a powerful vision of what personal prayer can be.
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  Rolling Thunder

  by Doug Boyd

  To the victor in the skies... Jet aviation began as a dynamic, if underutilized, part of a desperate race between Hitler's scientists and the Allies.  Today it is an indispensable component of warfare: space-age machines, incredibly skilled pilots, and weaponry that thinks for itself.  Today's top guns strap themselves into electronic crammed cockpits, hurtle billion-dollar aircraft against concussive G-forces,... (more)
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  The Stormy Search for the Self

  by Stanislav Grof, Christina Grof

  Increasing numbers of people are experiencing "spiritual emergency"--a crisis that occurs when the process of growth and change becomes chaotic and overwhelming. Here, the pioneers of the field of spiritual emergency validate that such episodes have profoundly healing potential.
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  The Lady in Blue

  by Javier Sierra

  An elaborately woven novel of intrigue about one of America's most curious and enduring legends -- the enigma of the Lady in Blue In Los Angeles, Jennifer Narody has been having a series of disturbingdreams involving eerie images of a lady dressed in blue. What she doesn't know is that this same spirit appeared to leaders of the Jumano Native American tribe in New Mexico 362 years earlier, and was linked to a... (more)
• El Libro De La Relajacion Y El Sosiego/ the Book of Relaxation And Tranquility (Aprender a Vivir / Learning to Live)Ramiro Calle

  

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  El Libro De La Relajacion Y El Sosiego/ the Book of Relaxation And Tranquility (Aprender a Vivir / Learning to Live)

  by Ramiro Calle

• Buddha's Path of VirtueDhammapada

  

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  Buddha's Path of Virtue

  by Dhammapada

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  The Cross and the Grail: Esoteric Christianity for the 21st Century

  by Robert S. Ellwood

  Many Christians today yearn for a deeper, more inward practice of their faith. Author Robert Ellwood examines ways of making Christian belief vital and responsive to contemporary life by incorporating meditation and other practices drawn from the ancient wisdom traditions.