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Kategorier: Ande, kropp och själ Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Mystik, magi och det ockulta Shamanism, hednisk religion och druidism
In search of something to restore his spiritual connection to life after his release from captivity as a political prisoner in Brazil, Alex Polari de Alverga had a transformative encounter with Padrinho Sebastiao Mota de Mela, one of the two revered founders of Santo Daime. A potent synthesis of Christianity and…
Kategorier: Feminism och feministisk teori Genusvetenskap Genusvetenskap: kvinnor och flickor Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala grupper
Many today find themselves being called toward greater leadership on behalf of the Earth, toward leadership sourced from their inner authority and inspired by what they love and are dedicated to protect, transform and strengthen. Those successfully heeding this call have embraced the qualities previously relegated to…
· Recasts psychology as a vehicle not for mental health but for higher consciousness
· Shows that we have consciousness for a reason; it is humanity’s unique contribution to the cosmos
· Integrates the work of Freud, Jung, Gurdjieff, Tony Robbins, Rudolf Steiner, the Dalai Lama as well as ESP, the Kabbalah,…
Kategorier: Andlighet och religiös erfarenhet Andra världsreligioner Aspekter av religion Filosofi och religion Östasiatiska religioner Religion och tro
Explains the phenomenon of shaktipat, the spiritual transmission of power from a teacher to a devotee• Shows how technology has eroded personal power and how insight and awareness can play a higher role in our lives• Reveals how insight is the vehicle for profound self-transformationShakti is the creative…
Kategorier: Ande, kropp och själ Ande, kropp och själ: tänkande och praktik Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling
• Refutes the orthodox view of evolution as a mindless process driven by chance
• Explains why context is more important than mutation in evolutionary innovation
• Shows how, by recognizing Nature’s innovative and creative powers, we can overcome our social and environmental challenges with a new green science of…
Kategorier: Ande, kropp och själ Ande, kropp och själ: tänkande och praktik Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling
• With contributions by Albert Hofmann, R. Gordon Wasson, Jack Kornfield, Terence McKenna, the Shulgins, Rick Strassman, and others
• Explores the importance of academic and religious freedom in the study of psychedelics and the mind
• Exposes the need for an organized spiritual context for entheogen use in order to…
Kategorier: Ande, kropp och själ Ande, kropp och själ: tänkande och praktik Andlighet och religiös erfarenhet Aspekter av religion Filosofi och religion Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Mysticism Mystik, magi och det ockulta Psykologi Psykologi: medvetandet Religion och tro Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Shamanism, hednisk religion och druidism
· Shows how peyote and other visionary plants do not distort
reality but gloriously unveil it, pulling the mind out of its cosmic
slumber and revealing our unity with all life
· Explains the necessity when working with peyote to remain the
master of one’s mind and consciously work on…
This groundbreaking survey, written in 1860, is a radically open-minded look at the use of drugs across the world and throughout the ages. Early users of tobacco in Russia would have their noses cut off and repeat offenders their heads. Pope Innocent XII excommunicated any who used it in St. Peters. Marijuana users in…
In 1967, in response to theatrical censorship rules that put him on the political “black list” in Mexico City and caused his plays and his pantomime classes at the School of Fine Arts to be cancelled, Alejandro Jodorowsky decided to pursue a new form of artistic expression to earn his living: comics. Working with his…
Kategorier: Ande, kropp och själ Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Klärvoajans och prekognition Parapsykologi och psykiska fenomen Spådomskonst
Contemporary science holds that the brain rules the body and generates all our feelings and perceptions. Michael Jawer and Dr. Marc Micozzi disagree. They contend that it is our feelings that underlie our conscious selves and determine what we think and how we conduct our lives.
The less consciousness we have of our…
• Explains how the Bhagavad Gita provides complete guidelines for the
spiritual use of entheogens – from prior mental preparations to the
integration of profound visionary insights into everyday
consciousness
• Examines Chapter XI of the Gita in detail to illuminate Arjuna’s
hallucinogenic…
Compelling evidence that the most important assumptions on which Darwinism rests are wrong.
The controversial best-seller that sent Oxford University and Nature magazine into a frenzy. SHATTERING THE MYTHS OF DARWINISM exposes the gaping holes in an ideology that has reigned unchallenged over the scientific world for…
Instruments of modern physics can measure the energies of the electromagnetic spectrum, but these energies only account for roughly 4 percent of the total identifiable mass-energy of the universe. What makes up the remaining 96%?
In this scientifically-based yet accessible analysis, Yury Kronn, Ph.D., explores the…
Richard Hawley’s many years as headmaster of a boys’ school have convinced him that boys do indeed have a unique, intrinsic and inalienable free-spirit nature. He sees deep flaws in the way we – as parents, educators and community members – alter or suppress that true nature in order to turn…
Kategorier: Ande, kropp och själ Ande, kropp och själ: tänkande och praktik Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling
Are rocks conscious? Do animals or plants have souls? Can trees feel pleasure or pain? Where in the great unfolding of life did consciousness first appear? How we answer such questions can dramatically affect the way we live our lives, how we treat the world of nature and even how we relate to our own bodies.
In this…
Translated from the original Sanskrit by the noted Victorian Orientalist, Sir Richard Burton, these ancient Indian folk tales influenced such later works as 1001 Arabian Nights and Boccaccio’s Decameron. As revealing today as they were in their own time, these stories will entertain and delight modern readers…
From the origins of the cosmos to the microbiome, COVID-19 pandemic, UFOs, and the shapeshifting of octopuses and language of crows, Richard Grossinger traverses the mysteries and enigmas that define our universe and personal reality.
Beginning his narrative with the Big Bang, origin of the Milky Way, and birth of our…
Kategorier: Ande, kropp och själ Ande, kropp och själ: tänkande och praktik Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling
· Outlines a future that embraces psychedelics as tools for cognitive
development, personal growth, business and an experience-based
religious reformation
· Presents research on the use of psychedelics to enhance
problem-solving, increase motivation, boost the immune system
and deepen ethical…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
Long before the beginnings of civilisation, humans have been sacrificed and their flesh used to produce sacred foods and oils for use in religious rites. Originating with the sacred harvest of hallucinogenic mushrooms from the corpses of shamans and other holy men, these acts of ritual cannibalism and visionary…
Kategorier: Folkliga föreställningar och kontroversiell kunskap Folktro, myter och legender Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
Extending deep into the caverns of humanity’s oldest memories, beyond 60,000 years of history and into the Dreamtime, this collection of Australian Aboriginal myths has been passed down through the generations by tribal storytellers. The myths were compiled at the turn of the century by K. Langloh Parker, one of…
We live in a world where nothing lasts. Everything we love–the relationships, places, and things we most count on, even our own bodies–will change or be lost. But, as psychologist Matthew McKay shows, the certainty of change and loss can actually support rather than diminish love. For at the heart of pain…
Kategorier: Alternativa terapier, healing och hälsa Ande, kropp och själ Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling
Iboga, spiritual ally of African shamans since antiquity, yields ibogaine, a powerful psychotropic substance. It is used mainly in Gabon and Cameroon in a secret, initiatory tradition called bwiti-nganza, in which physical and psychological illnesses can be rooted out and cured. Intense psychological conditioning that…
Kategorier: Ande, kropp och själ Andlighet och religiös erfarenhet Aspekter av religion Filosofi och religion Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Mysticism Mystik, magi och det ockulta Religion och tro
· Shows how the heart is connected to our prefrontal cortex and
offers a balancing counterweight to the calculating intellect of the
lower brain
· Explains how we are stuck in reactive behaviour loops resulting
from the loss of the nurturing culture of our ancestors
· Reveals how the Heart-Mind Matrix…
Long out of print, this is a landmark study on narcotic and psychedelic substances by a world-renowned pharmacologist and toxicologist • The first book to bring non-judgmental scientific insights to the use of drugs around the world• Provides detailed information on all major drugs of the time, including…
The inspiring story of one man’s exploration of indigenous healing in a culture fighting to preserve its spiritual health. • A firsthand account of a little-known healing tradition. • A dramatic story of self-transformation by a well-respected Harvard-educated anthropologist. In the late 1970s Richard…
• Twenty-four women martial artists discuss the physical and spiritual challenges of martial arts training and how it helps bring meaning and purpose to their lives• Women aged 12 to 83 are interviewed on the importance and meaning of martial arts in their lives. • Explores in-depth why many women are…
Kategorier: Alternativa terapier, healing och hälsa Ande, kropp och själ Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling
· Includes interviews with practising San Pedro shamans on their
rituals, cactus preparations and teachings on how San Pedro heals
the mind and body
· Contains accounts from people who have been healed by San
Pedro
· Includes chapters by Eve Bruce and David Luke on San Pedro’s
effects on…
Kategorier: Ande, kropp och själ Ande, kropp och själ: tänkande och praktik Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling
Rupert Sheldrake’s theory of morphic resonance challenges the fundamental assumptions of modern science. An accomplished biologist, Sheldrake proposes that all natural systems from crystals to human society inherit a collective memory that influences their form and behaviour. Rather than being ruled by fixed…
Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Biografier: filosofi och samhällsvetenskap Psykologi Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
One of the most influential and controversial people of the 20th century, Timothy Leary inspired profound feelings–both pro and con–from everyone with whom he came into contact. He was extravagant, grandiose, enthusiastic, erratic, and an unrelenting proponent of expanding consciousness and challenging…
Kategorier: Kulturvetenskap Kulturvetenskap och medievetenskap Populärkultur Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
In ”Opium Culture,” Peter Lee presents a fascinating narrative that covers every aspect of the art and craft of opium use. The text is studded with gems of long forgotten opium arcana, dispelling many of the persistent myths about opium and its users, and includes information on the suppression of opium by…
Kategorier: Medicin och omvårdnad
· Details the author’s training and life as a curandero using
ayahuasca medicine, San Pedro cactus, tobacco purges, psychedelic
mushrooms and other visionary plants
· Offers first-hand accounts of miraculous healing where ayahuasca
revealed the cause of the illness, including how the author healed
…
An exploration of how LSD influences imagination and the creative process. • Based on the results of one of the longest clinical studies of LSD that took place between 1954 and 1962, before LSD was illegal. • Includes personal reports, artwork, and poetry from the original sessions as testimony of the impact…
Kategorier: Antologier Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc.
This definitive volume is the first modern translation of Vatsyayana’s Kama Sutra to include two essential commentaries: the Jayamangala of Yashodhara and the modern Hindi commentary by Devadatta Shastri. Alain Danilou spent four years comparing versions of the Kama Sutra in Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali, and English,…
”As in the Heart, So in the Earth” is a strong indictment of a civilization that, while seeking domination over the earth, mutilates, tortures, and desacralizes it. For Pierre Rabhi ecology is inseparable from spirituality. A reconciliation with Mother Earth must be accompanied by relearning our…
In RADICAL KNOWING Christian de Quincey makes a provocative claim: We are not who we think we are. Instead, we are what we feel. Giving disciplined attention to feelings reveals the most fundamental fact of life and reality: We are our relationships.
Most of us think we are individuals first and foremost who then come…
Kategorier: Ande, kropp och själ Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Mystik, magi och det ockulta Shamanism, hednisk religion och druidism
Salvia divinorum, which recently entered the visionary pharmacopoeia of the modern world, has been used for centuries in the shamanic practices of the Mazatec Indians of Oaxaca, Mexico, for healing and divination. A member of the Mint family, Salvia divinorum—“diviner’s sage”—offers a new doorway to the…