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Engage intuition and reason to stimulate empathy and meaningful action for planetary healing• Includes 36 full-color cards featuring sacred icon-style paintings of threatened and endangered species and instructions for using this deck in a group setting• Portrays the unique charism of each species, the challenges it faces, and how it affects the greater biological community and human health• Teaches Visio Divina, or sacred seeing, an ancient form of prayer and meditation that evokes intuitive knowing and inspires meaningful actionExploring the richness and necessity of biodiversity, this deck of 36 full-color cards features the work of world-renowned artist Angela Manno and reveals how the loss of biodiversity is leading to the warming of our planet. She presents each threatened species in a traditionally religious form—the icon—to illustrate its true significance. Rich with insights from geologian Thomas Berry and other ecological elders, the guidebook reveals the preciousness of each organism, specific challenges to its existence, and its effect on the greater biological community and human health. Uniquely supported by QR codes leading to the websites of conservation organizations working to protect each species and its habitat, this deck inspires contemplation, empathy, and meaningful action to enact personal and planetary healing.

Dreams of destiny across cultures and history• Explores visions and dreams that foretell love encounters, highlighting the way these experiences draw people together• Presents hundreds of romantic and other precognitive dreams from legendary, historical, and modern sources, compiled for the first time in one place• Documents numerous dream-related folklore practices from different cultures, including charms and spells to induce prophetic dreams of a future loverDéja revé, meaning “already dreamed,” is a widespread phenomenon related to, though distinct from, the more popularly known déja vu. More than just a familiar sense, moments of déja revé are tied directly to specific dreams, often inspiring profound life changes for the dreamer. In this book, Daniel Bourke compiles the most comprehensive record of this mysterious phenomenon to date, presenting hundreds of romantic and other precognitive dreams from legendary, historical, and modern sources, collected for the first time in one place. Highlighting in particular the experience of dreams that foretell love encounters, Bourke explores the way these dreams and visions draw people together. Illustrating just how extensive and deeply human this phenomenon is, Bourke delves into folk practices from different cultures, including charms and spells to induce prophetic dreams of a future lover, such as placing cards or herbs under a pillow, looking into a candlelit mirror, or praying to the moon. Dreamers can learn the exact name of their future lover or spouse, though they may not encounter them until years after the dream. Showing how déja revé spurs people to real world action, Bourke features stories of saints, shamans, religious figures such as the Buddha, and other visionary mystics as well as mentions of déja revé in the memoirs of authors, politicians, and ballet dancers. These dreams can be astonishingly literal or deeply veiled in symbolism but are commonly specific and highly memorable—one of the hallmarks of the déja revé experience.

Learn foundational methods of divination from the Father of Cartomancy• Provides the first English edition of Etteilla’s seminal text, an Etteilla deck, and a tutorial on how to make your own deck• Offers eight main spreads along with variations, devised by Etteilla, and accompanying commentary and case studies• Shares how Etteilla’s 1770 method set the standard for most European cartomantic divination, influencing the development of both cartomancy and tarotEtteilla is the pseudonym of Jean Baptiste Alliette, known to divination devotees as the Father of Cartomancy. His 1770 manual, revised in 1773 under the title La Seule Maniere de Tirer Les Cartes, was the first book on how to divine from playing cards, and it remains the basis for many cartomantic decks and tarots today. Now, for the first time, Etteilla’s manual is available in English. This deck and guidebook gives readers a set of Petit Etteilla cards and a fully annotated translation of his text. The book explores how Etteilla’s deck and interpretive methods serve as the foundation for decks to follow, including the Lenormand and Rider-Waite-Smith decks. Readers will learn each card’s meaning (both upright and reversed) and the significance of each card’s placement in a spread. In Etteilla's system, each card’s meaning and associated words are printed on the card, allowing readers the freedom to use intuition instead of memorizing the meaning of each card. The result is an innovative system that offers a highly personalized method for readings. Readers will also learn how to make their own decks to further personalize their connection with Etteilla's method. This book offers eight spreads devised by Etteilla, with variations of each, along with commentary, case studies, and practices to enrich your understanding.

Profound insights on the connections between music, nature, and spirituality• Shares lessons on music and life purpose the author has received from nature since childhood, including through her work in wolf conservation• Shows how connecting with nature can help you discover your true calling, release your hidden talents, and lead to spiritual growth• Explores how music and the harmonies of nature offer powerful means for fostering communication between soulsInternationally acclaimed piano virtuoso and founder of the Wolf Conservation Center, Hélene Grimaud shares her musical life’s journey and inspiring insights on the connections between music, nature, and spirituality. In this book, Hélene offers the lessons she has learned about music and her life purpose from having direct contact with nature since childhood. She shares her concept of parent prodigies, such as her own, who can recognize the innate power and talents in their children and help guide them to self-realization, often by facilitating encounters with nature. And she shows that connecting with nature spirits can help reveal your true calling. She reveals how her work protecting wolves teaches her about being human, and how it connects her to our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Hélene also explores how people create art to communicate the full spectrum of emotions. Self-knowledge and the understanding of any vocation is a vehicle for profound spiritual growth. From Lie Yukou’s True Classic of Perfect Emptiness and the compositions of Hildegard von Bingen, to the poetry of Novalis and Rimbaud, she details classics of spirituality, works of rebel poets, and the wisdom of shamans that serve as guides on her journey. These works and teachings reveal the connections between music and nature, including how music and the harmonies of nature offer powerful means for fostering the communication of souls. Invoking the Wild Soul of Music reveals paths to rebirth, spiritual growth, and the re-enchantment of life. This memoir shows how to honor the call of the wild even in the heart of civilized modernity.

Reveals the origins, uses, and medicinal properties of over 100 plant foods• Offers entries of 106 plant foods, including their origins, histories, and religious significance as well as culinary and medicinal uses• Covers an extensive range of fruits, vegetables, grains, pulses, nuts and seeds, herbs and spices as well as “specialty” foods like chocolate, pasta, sugar, coffee, and tea• Provides nutritional and healing properties, based on the latest scientific findings on nutriceuticals and phytochemicals, to present each food as a medicineThe last major study of plant foods, Origin of Cultivated Plants, was first published in 1885. Since then scientists, historians, and anthropologists have learned so much more. The Genealogy of Plant Foods fills the knowledge gap for readers today who seek to learn about the plant foods upon which we depend. Drawing on peer-reviewed medical and scientific journals, Nathaniel Altman offers accounts of the genealogy, histories, and nutritional and medicinal properties of 106 plant foods—foods that physically and spiritually sustain us. He includes fruits, vegetables, grains, pulses, nuts and seeds, herbs, and spices as well as “specialty” foods like chocolate, pasta, sugar, coffee, and tea. Readers will learn the genealogical story of these plant foods, along with the ways our ancestors prepared, ate, and used them as medicine. Learn how the avocado, yam, lentil, and other foods detailed in this book migrated from their places of origin to where they can be found today, along with their mythological powers, spiritual significance, and the ancient and modern festivals held in their honor. The author discusses each plant’s nutritional and healing properties, based on the latest scientific findings on nutraceuticals and phytochemicals, to present each food as a medicine. Readers will learn the effects each food has on preventing chronic health conditions and how they can use the medicinal properties of these foods for their own personal wellness.

How modern physics confirms the energetic power Aikido• Draws on quantum mechanics and physics, like wave–particle duality and the unified field theory, to define the energetics of Aikido• Explores concepts of Aikido such as musubi (to tie together), connection, and reconciliation to re-link the individual with the universal• Provides lessons for everyday life to enhance personal and professional relationships and diffuse threatening situationsAikido is a martial art that offers a philosophy of harmonizing energy. The techniques of Aikido focus on aligning oneself with the world in total harmony and this begins by winning over the discord in our own minds.Richard applies the insights of quantum mechanics to explore key concepts of Aikido such as musubi (to tie together), connection, unification, and reconciliation to re-link the individual with the universal. As quantum physics and Aikido reveal, the dualism of two conflicting opposites is an illusion. It is the unified field of the two that creates life and from which reality emanates. The essential teaching of Quantum Aikido is to live as an expression of the single source of yin and yang rather than in polarity, or bouncing between the two. Embodying this teaching transforms one’s experience of life from being a struggle to a dance. These lessons can be applied in everyday life to enhance personal and professional relationships and diffuse threatening situations. The author’s creative, flow-oriented approach shows how to negotiate challenges by absorbing and using the energy of any given situation to create innovative solutions. This state of being exercises whole-brain thinking and self-reflexivity to help readers develop the measured temperament of a warrior. Readers will learn how to tap energetic sources so that each moment is an opportunity to resolve problems with spontaneous creativity.Learn to become spontaneous and free with the energetics of Quantum Aikido. By offering ways to unify our being and live in acceptance and harmony, this book opens doorways to transformation and positive change.

The first English translation of Taoist occultist Matgioi’s seminal work• Shares a deep understanding of the I Ching’s cosmological foundation• Offers the meanings of the straight and broken lines of the 64 hexagrams• Explains how the symbol of the yin-yang represents the individual’s destiny, including his emanation from, and reintegration into, PerfectionFirst published in French in 1905, and now translated into English for the first time, Matgioi’s book became the metaphysical core of the Traditionalist movement established by French occultist René Guénon, Julius Evola, and Ananda Coomaraswamy. Translator Joscelyn Godwin tells how Matgioi was initiated into a Taoist secret society and was given rare access to the perennial wisdom of that tradition. His work reveals the great antiquity of Emperor Fohi, who set down the cosmogonic principles upon which the I Ching is based and lived more than 2,000 years before Moses. Matgioi regarded Fohi as representing a school of sages unbound to any century since their wisdom is as old as humanity itself. The I Ching crystallizes a first and truest insight into the nature of reality from which the ancients derived a practical philosophy. Chinese traditionalists regard the I Ching as the first monument of consciousnes, and Matgioi explores it and equally important treatises by Fohi’s successors. In this book, readers will discover the divine nature of Chinese script, the relationship of logos and symbol, and the multiple shapes of the universe. Matgioi also explains how the yin-yang symbolizes one’s destiny and emanation from, and reintegration into, Perfection. This key work echoes Emperor Fohi’s belief that the solutions to all questions can be found by bringing them back to their sources.

Guía para aprender a leer tu horóscopo• Explica de manera clara y accesible los términos y conceptos astrológicos clave, desde los 4 elementos hasta los 12 signos zodiacales y las casas• Detalla cómo leer una carta astral paso a paso utilizando los métodos de la astrología psicológica, lo que te permite identificar rápidamente los rasgos de la personalidad• Incluye ejemplos de cartas e interpretaciones para guiarte en tus primeros pasos en la astrologíaAprender a interpretar una carta astral (para comprender los patrones y las interacciones de los planetas en el momento de nuestro nacimiento) puede parecer abrumador, sobre todo cuando se estudia la astrología a través de los sistemas tradicionales. Alison Chester-Lambert, astróloga profesional y astropsicóloga, propone una manera más accesible de aprender astrología al descomponer las complejidades de una carta astral en fragmentos fáciles de entender y revelar cómo se descifran rápidamente los puntos fuertes, las debilidades, los retos y las oportunidades de una persona mediante la astrología psicológica. La observación del equilibrio Masculino-Femenino de los signos de una carta puede revelar mucho sobre una persona. Centrándose en los signos y las casas, Alison explica cómo interpretar el signo ascendente en una carta astral, así como el significado de cada casa y el elemento que la rige. Además, dado que cada uno de los cuatro elementos (Fuego, Tierra, Aire y Agua) rige signos específicos, podemos obtener información sobre los rasgos de la personalidad individual basándonos en los elementos presentes en una carta astral. Las palabras clave de la personalidad de cada elemento ayudan a arrojar luz sobre la motivación que hay detrás de las acciones y elecciones de cada uno de nosotros. La astrología psicológica no solo revela la estructura espiritual del cosmos, sino también los entresijos del comportamiento humano, por lo que esta guía te permitirá empezar a leer cartas desde el primer día.

Raise your vibration to channel consciousness from a higher order• Teaches how to activate and channel Pleiadian wisdom directly through our sacred heart space to liberate the soul• Introduces sun and earth symbols designed by the Pleiadians to activate the pineal gland and connect to their higher order• Offers tools for growth, affirmations, and several high frequency number series that readers can meditate upon to realign consciousness for a positive futureAS THE EARTH PROCEEDS on its ascension course, the Pleiadians—beings of a higher level of consciousness—guide humanity to move more gracefully through the shifting time-space continuum. Supported by Pleiadian channel Pavlina Klemm, the celestial intermediaries teach us how to activate and channel their wisdom directly through our sacred heart space. They share their sun and earth symbols, so we may activate our pineal gland and connect with the higher order. As the guides bring us closer to the wisdom of the inner earth, the cosmic children, the light beings of each color frequency, and archangels, they also protect us from detrimental influences by increasing our light and consciousness. With the 21st cosmic key, the Pleiadians offer the most important frequency for the liberation of the human soul as we enter the next Golden Age. Inviting us to increase our vibration and resilience, they share exercises, affirmations, and several high frequency number series to meditate upon, so we can realign our consciousness for a positive future. As a direct transmission of energy and healing love, this Pleiadian wisdom guides us toward living through our sacred heart.

Seven mysteries for an embodied experience of transcendence• Draws on Gnosticism and Hermeticism to explore seven esoteric mysteries of feminine wisdom that are supported by practices• Offers a wisdom teaching on integral spirituality and pansentience, encounters with spiritual entities, dreams, and reincarnation• Explores the masculine principle of logos and how to integrate it with feminine eros in sacred marriage—Hieros Gamos—to achieve wholeness and mystical insightSince the dawn of Christianity, the Sophia tradition has been suppressed and shrouded in secrecy. Drawing on Gnosticism and Hermeticism, this book presents divine feminine principles and teachings that are at the heart of the Sophia tradition and how they can be applied to enrich spiritual knowledge and practice. Author Lee Irwin writes from a masculine perspective that honors and celebrates feminine insights, relations, and shared attitudes toward the sacred. The mysteries he shares are grouped in two sections: the lesser mysteries of body, mind, and soul and the greater mysteries of salvation, sacred union, the world soul, and reincarnation. The lesser mysteries encourage greater personal awareness through the healing of old wounds and empowerment through responsibility. Irwin explores sacred sexuality and incarnation as a praxis that emphasizes the celebration of the body as temple. Through the greater mysteries readers learn how to develop transpersonal awareness, raise consciousness, and become receptive to gnosis through dreams and encounters with spiritual entities. Irwin then describes the masculine principle of logos and how to integrate it with feminine eros through alchemical union—Hieros Gamos—to achieve wholeness and mystical insight. Feminine wisdom is a process—a way and not a destination. Divine Feminine Gnosis offers readers on any spiritual path an approach to living that is aimed toward heart-centered wisdom and an embodied experience of the transcendent.

Maori elder Maata Wharehoka’s teachings on birth, death, climate, and healing• Reveals how Maata integrated her own experiences of trauma and colonialism with traditional Maori wisdom to develop modern teachings• Shares Maori practices around birth, death, and healing, and Maata’s ritual of Kahu Whakatere to embrace bereavement, transition, and loss• Tells the story of Parihaka, the birthplace of nonviolent protest, and how its teachings speak to humanity todayEntering the Maori worldview is like stepping into a verdant landscape where humans and plants, animals, the land, rain, and mountains are united. This may sound like a step into a distant past, but it is the model of living that matriarch Maata Wharehoka has been sustaining her entire life in Aotearoa, New Zealand. The Maori word manaaki means to protect, to show respect, and to take care. This is the essence of Maata Wharehoka’s wisdom. Transmitting Maata’s wisdom to the world is the task Stephanie Mines set for herself as she shares in this book Maata’s pioneering efforts in healthcare, parenting, and social justice as well as her interpretations of traditional Maori teachings. Stephanie reveals how Maata used her experiences of trauma and colonialism, along with generational Indigenous wisdom, to develop teachings for our times. Readers will learn Maata’s Maori practices around healing, death and dying, and relationship to elders as well as her views on the sanctity of birthing, parenting, kuiatanga (the way of the kuia, or women elders), inclusive healthcare, and the Earth. Maata’s practice of Kahu Whakatere—a ritual to embrace bereavement, transition, and loss—shows how death can be a peacemaker and unifier. And lastly Stephanie lets us see and understand the Maori view of the climate crisis and how to address it with nature-informed consciousness. With reflective exercises that share the hard-won wisdom of an elder, this book allows Maata’s spirit of manaaki—protection, respect, and care—to reach beyond Aotearoa to the world.

A cultural exploration of the esoteric movement and its historical impact and legacy• Examines the Rosicrucian involvement of figures like Rene Descartes, Robert Fludd, John Dee, Elias Ashmole, and the alchemist pirate Prince Rupert of the Rhine• Traces the saga of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, and his countercultural successors Frederick and Elizabeth, who triggered the Thirty Years’ War• Shows how Rosicrucianism inspired the English Revolution and explores the Rosicrucianism of John Winthrop the Younger, Connecticut’s founderSince the appearance of Rosicrucian manuscripts in 17th-century Germany, historians have questioned the authorship, intent, and significance of this esoteric movement. In this book, Ronnie Pontiac shows how Rosicrucianism’s underground influence in the early-modern period continues to the present, providing the important historical context of this invisible society. Pontiac looks at the esoteric culture around Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II and his court, including figures like John Dee, Tycho Brahe, and Rabbi Loew, the legendary creator of the Golem of Prague. Despite occultists’ fascination with Rudolf ’s successors, Frederick and Elizabeth, at the start of the Thirty Years’ War—and Rosicrucian efforts to make Frederick the first Protestant Holy Roman Emperor—the esoteric renaissance in Bohemia was short-lived. However, this wasn’t the end of Rosicrucianism. Pontiac explores the movement’s impact on Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution as well as individuals such as Robert Fludd, René Descartes, Elias Ashmole, Moritz the Learned, Paracelsus, and William Shakespeare. He then details the movement’s arrival in the New World, including the Rosicrucian activities of Connecticut’s alchemist governor, John Winthrop the Younger. Looking to the present, Pontiac shows how both pop culture and the modern psychedelic counterculture are informed by Rosicrucian ideas, showing the enduring legacy of this esoteric movement.

A memoir of magic, rock and roll, and becoming who you are• Traces the author’s journey from bassist and founding member of Blondie to writer on consciousness and the esoteric tradition• Explores his involvement in Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way, Crowley’s Thelema, and his relationship with the bestselling author Colin Wilson• Reveals how an early love of comic books, science fiction, and fantasy led him to the esoteric traditionNot many members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame are also recognized authorities on the Western inner tradition. Gary Lachman is. In 1978, Blondie released the top-ten hit “(I am Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear.” Gary Lachman (then Gary Valentine) had written the song for his girlfriend after the series of shared dreams and telepathic experiences they had. Thus started his lifelong obsession with the potentials of consciousness. In this memoir, Lachman recounts how he went from being a successful rock and roller to a writer on consciousness and the Western inner tradition. He shares encounters with rockers such as the Ramones, New York Dolls, Patti Smith, the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, and Iggy Pop and also his time with Timothy Leary, William Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg. Living with Blondie’s Debbie Harry and Chris Stein on New York’s Bowery, a block from CBGB, the birthplace of punk rock, Lachman discovered occultism via a follower of Aleister Crowley. Post rock and roll, Lachman’s occult studies brought him to the Golden Dawn, Manly P. Hall, Gnosticism, and a stint in Crowley’s O.T.O. He details his time in the Fourth Way, including a visit to the site of Gurdjieff ’s Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in France, and his years studying philosophy and literature and working as a science writer while managing a famous metaphysical bookshop at the height of the New Age movement. Excursions to Stonehenge, Avebury, and Glastonbury in search of ley lines and pilgrimages to Colin Wilson’s home in Cornwall are a few of the highlights of this introspective, often humorous account of a nascent writer’s struggle from rock and roll to individuation.

Learn how to develop your psi abilities and multi-dimensional consciousness• Explores how to connect with your higher Self and enter a state of multi-dimensional consciousness that will activate your psychic powers• Shows how to attune your mind to the magic of the Earth’s soul to enact protection and open your path to helpful synchronicities• Reveals how the higher Self uses its faster-than-light energy to send precognitive dreams, perform self-defense, and alter spacetime eventsInspired by the traditional keepers of secret mind powers, such as the wandering ascetics, Hardy, a seer and scientist, presents a higher Self that is hyperdimensional, endowed with psychic abilities, and who can effect change in the material world.Through her own real-life experiences, Hardy shows the potentials of a mind harmonized with one’s higher Self. The Self can then intervene spontaneously to protect us from danger, scare off an aggressor, or even land them a hard punching blow. The Self creates synchronicities and provides instant help and guidance. Pursuing a harmonization with one’s Self is like an inner initiation triggering the emergence of psychic powers, or siddhis, as the yogis of India attest it. Drawing upon research on nonlocal consciousness, Hardy shows that the Self belongs to a hyperdimension and uses faster-than-light energy. It can see beyond spacetime, zoom in on the scale of atoms, and travel out-of-body. This is how harmonized souls create hyperdimensional fields of shared consciousness, notably in sacred places. The hyperdimension of consciousness is sometimes visible through the strange phenomenon of immaterial Superposed Landscapes, which she describes. Hardy also shares how animal allies have appeared to assist her on spiritual endeavors and recounts some of her own psi feats, like making herself invisible.Presenting factual proofs of a higher Self whose psychic energy can effect change in the material world, this book reveals the spiritual and psi capacities that one gains through pursuing a spiritual path.

Reconnect with yourself, your body, and your femininity in your bed• Explains the energetic, emotional, and physical power of having your own sacred space to sleep • Offers 64 step-by-step rituals for women to reclaim the power of intuition, renew energy, and connect with the intelligence of their hearts • Presents the act of sleeping as a spiritual retreat to find answers to your most intimate and complex questions The demands of daily life drain our energy and ability to set meaningful intentions. The crucial act of sleeping has become an automatic routine: at the end of the day you fall exhausted into bed, without giving it any thought. Our cultural programming makes us feel that sharing a bed is not only desirable but normal. It is a sign of love and care for partners, children, and others. Breaking free of this routine and claiming a night for yourself is a sublime act to recover your energy and power, to reconnect with yourself, and to re-inhabit your body without the influence of external vibrations. In this book, Cynthia offers women of all ages and relationship statuses practical and accessible rituals for sleeping alone. Discover the biology of your sleeping body and learn sacred mantras to enhance lucid dreaming and calm your mind. Reclaim the privacy that sleep allows to rediscover your intuition and foster a holistic renewal of the self. The author shows how to take ownership of your nightly rest and transform it into a sacred retreat that accelerates your spiritual evolution. She shares that, when women sleep alone, “the electromagnetic field of the heart’s intelligence expands, energy centers balance, and your visions become clear and beautiful, reinforcing the power of your feminine intuition.” This book describes how the world of dreams will unfold to reveal that you are the most important person in your life’s journey: a woman, a goddess, the sovereign of your bed and your life.

A tarot deck grounded in Celtic mythology and Arthurian legend• Presents the Major Arcana cards as allies, challenges, virtues, and cosmic forces, while the elemental Minor Arcana offers court cards featuring characters of Arthurian and Grail lore• Shows you how to combine this deck with others for more complex readings and nuanced interpretations• Presents four sample spreads and, for each card, offers divinatory meanings, challenges, and three Grail questions; along with tree lore, animal totems, gemstones, and flower essences depending on the elementWeaving wisdom from the Otherworlds, this tarot draws you into the evocative world of Arthurian legend and Celtic mythology. With hand-drawn artwork and poetic language, 78 colorful cards help you develop intuitive awareness and multilayered insight for your life.Expanding on the traditional tarot, the Major Arcana divides into allies, challenges, virtues, and cosmic forces while the Minor Arcana follows the elements earth, air, water, and fire. You will meet Grail champions, including the Heroine Dindraine, as well as Lancelot, Guinevere, King Arthur, Galahad, and other characters of Grail lore. Wisdom codes interwoven in the deck—such as bird, animal, and insect totems and astrological influences—add different levels of awareness. The guidebook offers creative spreads and, for each card, divinatory meanings, challenges, and three Grail questions. A unique deck, the Celtic Elemental Tarot encourages you toward a deeper understanding of yourself and the challenges, as well as the opportunities, you face in life.