Collection: Spirituality & Religion

"The Book of Secrets is the finest and most profound of Deepak Chopra's books to date. Want the answers to the secrets of life? Let me recommend that you start right here." --Ken Wilber, author of A Brief History of Everything

We all want to know how to find a soul mate, what career would be most fulfilling, how to live a life with meaning, and how to teach our children well. We are looking for a personal breakthrough, a turning point, a revelation that brings with it new meaning. The Book of Secrets--a crystalline distillation of insights and wisdom accumulated over the lifetime of one of the great spiritual thinkers of our time--provides an exquisite new tool for achieving just that.

Every life is a book of secrets, ready to be opened. The secret of perfect love is found there, along with the secrets of healing, compassion, faith, and the most elusive one of all: who we really are. We are still mysteries to ourselves, despite the proximity of these answers, and what we most long to know remains lodged deep inside.

Because answers to the questions at the center of life are counterintuitive, they are often hidden from view, sequestered from our everyday gaze. In his ongoing quest to elevate our experience, bestselling author Deepak Chopra has isolated fifteen secrets that drive the narrative of this inspiring book--and of our lives. From "The World Is in You" and "What You Seek, You Already Are" to "Evil Is Not Your Enemy" and "You Are Truly Free When You Are Not a Person," The Book of Secrets is rich with insights. It is a priceless treasure that can transport us beyond change to transformation, and from there to a sacred place where we can savor the nectar of enlightenment.

Based on Dharma talks by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and insights from participants in retreats for healing the inner child, this book is an exciting contribution to the growing trend of using Buddhist practices to encourage mental health and wellness. Reconciliation focuses on the theme of mindful awareness of our emotions and healing our relationships, as well as meditations and exercises to acknowledge and transform the hurt that many of us experienced as children. The book shows how anger, sadness, and fear can become joy and tranquility by learning to breathe with, explore, meditate, and speak about our strong emotions. Reconciliation offers specific practices designed to bring healing and release for people suffering from childhood trauma. The book is written for a wide audience and accessible to people of all backgrounds and spiritual traditions.

"A treasure trove of practical magic for both novices and more experienced practitioners...beautifully crafted spells that invoke the alchemy of possibility."--PanGaia

A leaf from an oak tree...a wildflower...water from a sparkling stream...dirt from a cool dark cave--these are the age-old tools of natural magic. Born of the earth, possessing inherent power, they await only our touch and intention to bring their magical qualities to life.

The four elements are powerful magical tools. Using their energies, we can transform ourselves, our lives, and our world. This much-loved, classic guide offers more than seventy-five spells, rites, and simple rituals you can perform using the marvelous powers of the natural world.

Scott Cunningham was a greatly respected teacher and one of the most influential members of the modern Craft movement. A practitioner of elemental magic for twenty years, he wrote more than fifty books, including the seminal Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner.

Now-for the first time--a light, engaging modern Hebrew text written specifically for 6th-7th graders who have completed a prayer program and are ready for a change of pace. In just 96 pages, four trendy kids party in Tel Aviv, shop in a shuk, ride a camel, swim in the Dead Sea, and celebrate a bat mitzvah in Jerusalem--all in Hebrew!

Each of the 15 six-page chapters opens with a simple Hebrew dialogue followed by the coolest activities we've ever done, including "Pass the Pencil," "Triple Riddle," "Jet Set" and "Tricky Travel." Students learn 195 vocabulary words and practice basic grammar--including the present tense, masculine and feminine nouns in the singular and plural--through the activities. No formal grammar rules necessary!

With an open, uncluttered, dynamic design and jazzy full color illustrations, Let's Talk! invites even the busiest bar and bat mitzvah student to learn modern Hebrew quickly and easily. It's a blast!

Special feature: Includes a photograph of Israel in each chapter which is a great conversation starter.

From the bestselling author of Practical Magic comes an essential guide to cultivating magical self-sufficiency and enchanted resilience through spell work, gardening, herbal remedies, and more.

Whether we live on a farm or in a high rise, we can always create a life that is entwined with the natural world. A homestead is not a log cabin or a hermitage out in the woods -- it is a way of being, a life lived with the intention of returning to our roots and tapping into the essential elements of fire, water, air, and earth. And a homesteading witch isn't just a person who lives atop a beautiful mountain, but anyone who understands that by harnessing and honoring these elements you can create whatever it is that you need.

The Witchy Homestead is your guide to finding, creating, and living this essential magic -- it is a comforting companion as you build a wellspring of magical self-sufficiency, and a seasoned teacher as you cultivate enchanted resilience. Through this book, author Nikki Van De Car will offer magically-tinged suggestions for growing or finding your own food regardless of where you live, engaging in natural healing practices, connecting to the ancient magic of the world around you, and for protecting all that you have created.

In her illuminating and highly intelligent new book, Suzanne Eder skillfully explains that we awaken to the deeper truth of who we are by following the lead of our personal, heartfelt desires. In contrast with many spiritual teachings that promote the diminishment of personal desire, What You Want Wants You clearly and boldly asserts that genuine desire is the very impulse of Life itself, guiding us unerringly back to One Source and to our greatest levels of contribution and fulfillment.

Unique in its breadth and depth, this remarkable new book equips the reader with a robust understanding of energy dynamics and manifestation and their importance in the awakening process. It offers rich insights that make the difference between understanding helpful concepts and actually living them. What You Want Wants You is a must-read for thoughtful, open-hearted students and teachers of energy, spirituality, and consciousness who are committed to ever-deepening levels of understanding and experience.

"Suzanne Eder possesses a rare combination of spiritual insight and logical pragmatism. What You Want Wants You will delight readers who enjoy exploring the mysteries of the world in practical ways. Suzanne allows us to test her beliefs in real-world settings, while offering her own inspiring perspective on each person's spiritual journey."

-Martha Beck, author of The Way of Integrity

"The depth of Suzanne Eder's wisdom is astounding and inviting, and you can access it here in this brilliant yet easy to understand book. Discover the real power you were always meant to experience."

-Thomas M. Sterner, author of The Practicing Mind

"This is the book and spiritual guidance we've been waiting for! Suzanne Eder unpacks how to manifest our deepest desires and she does it with laser-sharp intelligence, reverberating spiritual insight, and practical applications. Anyone who has been around the spiritual block will eat this up like pancakes! I could feel this book changing me as I read it. I could feel love elevating my brainwaves. What You Want Wants You is an absolute breakthrough."

-Tama Kieves, author of Inspired & Unstoppable

"In Suzanne Eder's new book, you will discover how to cultivate a manifesting consciousness as you reflect and open yourself up to unlimited possibilities, empowering you to pave the way to create the life you deserve and love. What You Want Wants You is a must read."

-Anita Moorjani, author of Sensitive Is the New Strong



Like an imperceptible virus, children's ministries across the nation have been infected with a crisis of leadership. While on the surface they can sustain the status quo, their true potential and effectiveness is being invisibly undermined by shortcomings in leadership, vision, training, wellness, and spiritual maturity. Complicated by burnout, waning volunteer commitment, and troubling cultural shifts, the task before these leaders has never been more perilous. Yet despite these mounting challenges, the war for the hearts and minds of the next generation demands that we level up in our leadership. Inspired by her unwavering commitment to excellence in children's ministry, Esther Moreno invites leaders to soberly assess the impact their leadership has on the health and vitality of their own ministry spaces. Leveraging her own 20+ year journey in children's ministry, Esther goes beyond the superficial symptoms to offer root cause remedies for the common leadership deficits preventing children's ministry leaders from becoming everything God has called them to be.

Imagine being able to ask the sleeping Edgar a question on almost any topic? Thumbing through his "famous black book" is like stepping back into Cayce's time to gain wisdom straight

from the source of universal consciousness that he was known to access. For decades, the Cayce "readings" have stood the test of time, research, and extensive study. Most of the readings dealt with physical health, but countless other topics were explored and included in this volume: dreams, intuition, ancient civilizations, meditation, karma and grace, reincarnation, and much more.

Welcome to the first comprehensive encyclopedia of the human energetic anatomy. Here is a reference that no personal or professional health care library should be without--an in-depth, illustrated guide to the invisible energies of spirit, psyche, and consciousness that influence every aspect of our well-being.

Whether you are looking for the complementary medicine to enhance your own healing practice, seeking perennial wisdom about your body's energetic nature from world traditions, or exploring the quantum edge of intention-based care, The Subtle Body is an indispensable companion for exploring virtually any facet of holistic healing.

Created for healing professionals and patients alike, this volume provides a lexicon of terms, illustrations, and detailed entries about our energetic biology and how it relates to our physical being. This invaluable information will help you enhance any form of health care, giving you the knowledge you need to develop an integrated approach for your clients' well-being or your own.

Compiled by energetic healer and scholar Cyndi Dale, The Subtle Body examines:

Energy-based therapy principles from the world's healing traditions, including Ayurveda, Qigong, Reiki, Quabalah, and many more
- The science of subtle anatomy--the ancient models and the newest research on the unseen fields that determine our physical condition
- True integrative care--how combining Eastern energetic modalities with Western scientific rigor yields optimum results
- The meridians, fields, and chakras--detailed information and diagrams about the role of these energetic structures in our overall health
- The role of intention in healing--how the beliefs of a healer, patient, and everyone involved affect the outcome of a treatment
What is it that distinguishes good healers from great ones? Today it is clear that the most successful healing occurs when we take into account every level of our physical and energetic selves. With The Subtle Body, you now have an unprecedented resource for understanding the physical, energetic, and spiritual elements of human health, providing an informed, complete approach to healing.

The Subtle Body has received the following awards:

2010 Gold Nautilus Award--Health/Healing/Energy Medicine
- 2010 Silver Living Now Award--Health/Wellness
- 2010 Bronze IPPY--New Age (Mind-Body-Spirit)

A Masterful Author and Jungian Analyst Examines the Qualities That Bring Meaning to Our Human Journey.

What is it that brings meaning to your life? Our culture tells us to seek wealth, power, prestige, or even enrollment in someone else's idea of a worthy cause--yet where do we turn when these paths fail to fulfill our need for purpose? "When the old stories and beliefs that once defined us have played out and grown exhausted," teaches Dr. James Hollis, "our task is to access our inner compass, the promptings of the psyche that help us find our way through the complex thickets of choice."

A Life of Meaning is Hollis's profound exploration of the nature of meaning and how we can orient toward it or away from it with the choices we make. Hollis offers an examination of myth, literature, historical figures, and the wisdom of depth psychology that provides penetrating insight into the search for purpose. Join him to explore:

- How even cherished narratives splinter and lose potency over time
- Why dreams are windows into your internalized patterns and base assumptions
- How to excavate and understand your earliest, most foundational beliefs
- The power of fear and how it shapes unconscious reactions
- Recognizing and rising to the occasion of a "summons of the soul"
- How to anchor yourself during times of uncertainty and change
- Why it's important to be aware of and closely examine your shadow
- How to reckon with old feelings of shame, betrayal, resentment, and regret

We all have to discover our own sense of meaning. No one else can do it for us. In A Life of Meaning, Hollis offers no easy answers or feel-good certainties--instead, he shares his most valuable questions and reflections to help you find the courage, persistence, and inspiration to navigate your own odyssey. "It's humbling work, this process of getting our lives back," he teaches. "Yet I submit to you that's worth the price of the ticket, for in the journey our lives become ever more luminous."

A revised edition of the definitive translation of the world's most important book of divination

- The first English translation from within the tradition by a Chinese Taoist Master

- Includes translations of the Ten Wings--the commentaries by Confucius essential to the I Ching's insights

Translated by the eminent Taoist Master Alfred Huang, The Complete I Ching has been praised by scholars and new students of the I Ching since its first edition. A native Chinese speaker, Master Huang first translated the original ideograms of the I Ching into contemporary Chinese and then into English, bringing forth the intuitive meanings embodied in the images of the I Ching and imbuing his translation with an accuracy and authenticity not possible in other English translations. However, what makes his translation truly definitive is his return to prominence of the Ten Wings, the commentaries by Confucius that are essential to the I Ching's insights.

This 10th anniversary edition offers a thorough introduction to the history of the I Ching, how to use it, and several new divination methods; in-depth and easy-to-reference translations of each hexagram name, description, and pictogram; and discussions of the interrelations between the hexagrams and the spiritual meaning of their sequence.

To Hear the Forest Sing is a collection of essays by the founder of the spoken word website Listen Well. Margaret Dulaney has been accumulating a life's worth of spiritual musings for the past two decades. In 2010 she founded the spoken word website Listen Well, which offers one recorded essay a month to a growing number of followers. Listeners tune in for ten quiet minutes as she explores sacred and secular themes through story and metaphor.

This book takes readers on a fascinating journey to the very heart of Tantra: its key teachings, foundational lineages, and transformative practices. Since the West's discovery of Tantra 100 years ago, there has been considerable fascination, speculation, and more than a little misinformation about this spiritual movement. Now, for the first time in the English language, Tantra Illuminated presents an accessible introduction to this sacred tradition that began 1,500 years ago, in the far north of India. The book uses translations from primary Sanskrit sources, offers a profound look at spiritual practice, and reveals Tantra's rich history and powerful teachings.

- A daybook containing information about rituals and celebrations that have for centuries been associated with the changing seasons of the year.

- Includes charts of equinoxes and solstices, movable holy days, and monthly lunar phases through 2033

- First edition sold more than 30,000 copies

Pagan rites and festivals are at the root of many traditional holidays in the Western world. Embracing a sensitivity we have lost, the Pagan traditions emphasize mystical spirituality, reverence for the feminine principle, and the links between people and the earth. This unique daybook contains a treasury of information about rituals and celebrations that have for centuries been associated with the changing seasons of the year. Included are the observances of the ancient Greek, Roman, Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, and Norse traditions, as well as Wiccan traditions and the worship of the Goddess.

In The Pagan Book of Days the author provides details on auspicious and inauspicious days, holy days of ancient gods and goddesses, and the eight stations of the year (the solstices, equinoxes, and cross-quarter days). He also includes lunar and solar charts indicating dates of major Pagan celebrations from the year 2011 through 2033. Illustrations throughout depict images from the classical and northern European traditions. The Pagan Book of Days is an enlightening way to incorporate these ancient cultural and spiritual practices and awarenesses into your daily life.