Collection: Spirituality & Religion

Lughnasadh--also known as Lammas--is the beginning of the harvest season, marking the point where the first fruit of the land has ripened. This guide to Lughnasadh shows you how to perform rituals and work magic around the gratitude we feel for plans that have come to fruition and explore themes of fertility, protection, and reflection.

• Rituals
• Recipes
• Lore
• Spells
• Divination
• Crafts
• Correspondences
• Invocations
• Prayers
• Meditations

Llewellyn's Sabbat Essentials explore the old and new ways of celebrating the seasonal rites that are the cornerstones of the witch's year.

A modern, inclusive guide to astrology that uses the zodiac to illuminate your love life as well as your relationships with your family, your friends, and yourself.

When it comes to friendship, family, and romance, we all want the same things: to love and be loved, to communicate, to fight fair, and to feel okay in our own skin. Illuminating and accessible, Astrology for Real Relationships includes a primer on basic zodiac knowledge--including the importance of your Sun, Moon, and the planets in your birth chart--before exploring how self-love and self-care affects all types of relationships. Once your mental health and spiritual and emotional wellness are balanced, you can be empowered in your relationships, including:

- Friends and chosen family The Sun governs your identity and your will. Are you comfortable being yourself? Do your friends see you in the same ways that you see yourself?
- Hanging out and dating The Moon governs your feelings and emotions. Are you honest with yourself about how you feel and what you really need from a partner?
- Long term relationships Mars is the planet of conflict. Do you always seem to be attracted to the wrong people? Are women really from Venus and men from Mars?

Full of real talk about attraction, dating, sex, frenemies, self-love, mental health, and how to deal with family, this book will help you build and maintain strong connections--with your crushes, your spouse, your boss, or your mom--and uncover and empower you to get what you really want in relationships, not what you think you should want.

A delightfully creepy telling of Japanese ghost stories.

Japanese folklore is abundant with tales of ghostly creatures and the supernatural. In Haunted Japan, author Catrien Ross reveals the legends that have been passed down for generations and continue to terrify us today. To research this book on the country's ghosts, demons and paranormal phenomena, Ross collected accounts from across Japan including:

• Sacred Mount Osore, a Japanese gateway to the land of the dead, where people gather to contact those who have passed on
• The Tokyo grave of the samurai Taira no Masakado, where passersby regularly witnessed his ghost until prayers finally laid him to rest
• The mummified remains of the monk Tetsumonkai at the Churenji Temple on Mount Yudono--a place where bizarre happenings are common
• The ruins of Hachioji Castle in Tokyo, which was abandoned for many years because of its many hauntings

The result is an unparalleled insight into the dark corners of the Japanese psyche--a world filled with horrifying creatures including Oni (demons with fierce and ghastly appearances), Yurei (Japanese ghosts who inhabit the world of the living), and Yokai (supernatural monsters). The book also includes several traditional Japanese legends, concluding with two of the most famous ghost stories--that of the wronged wife Oiwa and the tale of the Peony Lantern.

This book is richly illustrated with 32 pages of full-color prints of frightening ghosts and legendary creatures from Japan's shadowy past. Haunted Japan is the ideal book for anyone interested in exploring the darker side of Japanese history.

(A Hardcover complete Spanish 2nd edition)

Since it was originally published in 1975, A Course in Miracles has changed the lives of millions of people around the world. Offering a complete spiritual thought system, the Course provides a path to universal love and peace by undoing fear and guilt through forgiveness. Although written in Christian terminology, the Course expresses a nonsectarian spirituality that transcends denominations and religious beliefs. UN CURSO DE MILAGROS makes these timeless teachings available to all Spanish speakers.

Replaces ISBN 9780960638857

An indispensable resource on crystals for witchcraft practitioners

Crystals have the power to affect the energy in and around a person or situation. Crystals for Witches will teach both beginners and seasoned witches how to use that power and make crystal magic a guiding force in your practice. This crystals book takes you through the process of selecting and incorporating the right crystals for your spells and rituals by helping you:

• Identify crystals and healing stones―Learn how to identify more than 130 crystals, with comprehensive profiles of 30 powerful stones.
• Understand the spirits within―Discover how and why stone spirits are used in witchcraft and how to welcome them into your life.
• Harness their power―Learn how to choose, cleanse, and activate crystals for altars, grids, meditations, spellwork, and beyond.

Enhance your spells and rituals, and uncover new ones, using the guidance in Crystals for Witches.

Maine folklore is rich in tales of humans confronted by strange beasts, both wonderful and terrifying. The Abenaki, or "First People" had their tales of Glooskap and Pamola. Other tales came with European settlers; and others sprang up almost out of nothing around the fires of the logging camps.

Based on meticulous research into these legends and folk tales, this volume is an encyclopedia, a field guide to the creatures that can be found in Maine and beyond. While the tales are whimsical and fun, they can also be considered serious scholarship.

Escape into a fanciful creative world of adorable, kawaii-style cat mash-ups with more than 100 cat-themed drawing projects, doodle prompts, and whimsical exercises.

If you are crazy about cats, looking for new ways to get inspired to draw, or simply want to unwind after a busy day, you have found the right book! Bursting with humor and imagination, 101 Super Cute Cat Things to Draw follows in the successful pawsteps of author Lulu Mayo's 18 existing books, featuring:

• Quirky cats, including dragon cats, unicorn cats, ghost cats, star sign cats, maneki-neko (beckoning cat), cat-themed clothes and accessories, cat foods (tangerine tabby, purrfect peach, sushi cats, gelato gatos, ice cream catwiches), cactus cats, cat home decor, and so much more!
• Step-by-step instructions for drawing and coloring an array of fun feline pictures
• Cat doodling prompts and mindfulness exercises that will inspire and de-stress you
• Hours of silly cat entertainmentfrom cover to cover

So stimulate your curiosity and explore fun and inspiring ways to draw felines with this book! Just grab your pencils, some paper, and a copy of 101 Super Cute Cat Things to Draw to create plenty of giggle-worthy drawings. Lulu Mayo's signature whimsical and humorous style of writing and drawing will offer you the inspiration to doodle all types of cats in fun mash-ups and scenarios.

The books in the 101 Things to Draw series will put a smile on your face with original mash-ups, step-by-step drawing instructions, doodling exercises, and mindfulness activities.

Tap into your "sixth sense" and become a better, more confident tarot reader.

Most all tarot books present card-by-card interpretations as well as an instruction on how to read spreads. This book takes the next logical step inward by presenting the art of reading in a workbook format, and helps you learn to interpret the cards intuitively.

The book falls into two parts. The first part concerns learning about the cards, and includes exercises for each card that teaches you to trust your interpretation of the card. The second part helps you develop that ability, a skill that Reed calls "intuition." All the exercises, stories, card meanings, and techniques really serve one purpose: to go beyond learning Tarot to living it.

It's not enough to memorize the meanings of the cards, and you can't do a reading with a workbook at your side forever. In order to deliver a meaningful, accurate tarot reading, you need to hone your intuition. Without a comfortable connection to your sixth sense, the tarot readings lack finesse and becomes nothing more than cookie-cutter interpretations. When you're fluent in your intuition, you can develop better readings and unique interpretations for each person.

In this book, Reed teaches by example. She presents the basics of intuitive tarot reading--reading without any questions, any backstory, anything to go on. This book is filled with exercises to hone your intuition and sharpen your interpretation skills.

"Here is the definitive handbook for those courageous souls taking on the creative and ethical challenge of writing a spiritual memoir.--Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality & Practice

In Writing the Sacred Journey, readers will discover how to construct a well-crafted spiritual memoir--one that honors the author's interior, sacred story and is at the same time accessible to others. Award-winning writer and teacher Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew provides practical advice on how to overcome writing obstacles as well as guidance for transforming the writing process into a spiritual practice. A writing instructor and spiritual director, Andrew teaches spiritual memoir at Wisdom Ways Center for Spirituality in St. Paul, Minneapolis.

Will W. Adams serves as a psychology professor at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and as an ecopsychologist, psychotherapist, and meditation teacher.

Barbara Ann Brennan continues her ground-breaking exploration of the human energy field, or aura--the source of our experience of health or illness. Drawing on many new developments in her teaching and practice, she shows how we can be empowered as both patients and healers to understand and work with our most fundamental healing power: the light that emerges from the very center of our humanity.

In a unique approach that encourages a cooperative effort among healer, patient, and other health-care providers, Light Emerging explains what the healer perceives visually, audibly, and kinesthetically and how each of us can participate in every stage of the healing process.

Presenting a fascinating range of research, from a paradigm of healing based on the science of holography to insights into the "hara level" and the "core star," Light Emerging is at the leading edge of healing practice in our time.

Del autor bestseller del New York Times Deepak Chopra nos llega una reveladora guía para alcanzar el éxito, la riqueza, la plenitud y la entereza, con recomendaciones prácticas para cultivar el sentido de la abundancia en tiempos de inseguridad y miedo.

"Para obtener la clase de riqueza duradera, la clase que le da a tu vida significado, valor y sustento, basa tu existencia diaria en la generosidad del espíritu." --Deepak Chopra

Muchos de nosotros vivimos y operamos desde una mentalidad de carencia, de escasez y limitación. Nos enfocamos en lo que no tenemos --seguridad económica, confianza, una relación íntima-- y esto nos deja sintiéndonos inseguros e inadecuados. Pensamos, "si tan solo pudiera tener estas cosas, sería feliz". Pero medir la abundancia a través del dinero o de las posesiones materiales nos deja sintiéndonos drenados y espiritualmente vacíos. Estar todo el tiempo buscando más suele significar que nuestro ego maneja nuestros pensamientos, actos y reacciones, lo que nos evita alcanzar algo más grande: una verdadera sensación de paz interior, aceptación y realización.

Sin embargo, hay un camino interno hacia la prosperidad y la riqueza que, una vez trazado y explorado, te da acceso a las riquezas más grandes del universo y a las posibilidades ilimitadas de la vida.

En Abundancia, el autor bestseller internacional Deepak Chopra ilumina este trayecto hacia el éxito y la plenitud, ayudando a los lectores a conectarse con un sentido más profundo de conciencia para convertirse en agentes de cambio de su propia vida. Al mezclar enseñanzas y prácticas espirituales antiguas con la sabiduría que ha recabado a lo largo de cuatro décadas como la figura principal en la medicina de cuerpo y mente, Deepak demuestra cómo podemos trascender los sentimientos autogenerados de limitación y miedo para experimentar la verdadera abundancia en todos los aspectos de la vida. Para ello, nos ofrece un plan de siete pasos, junto con meditaciones y técnicas de mindfulness, que nos ayuda a enfocarnos y dirigir nuestra atención, energía e intuición para poder experimentar estabilidad, afluencia, conciencia, creatividad, amor y un poder real.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

An enlightening guide to success, fulfillment, wholeness, and plenty, offering practical advice on how to cultivate a sense of abundance in times of fear and insecurity, from New York Times bestselling author Deepak Chopra.

"To attain wealth of the lasting kind, the kind that gives your life meaning, value, and sustenance, base your daily existence on the generosity of spirit."--Deepak Chopra

Many of us live and operate from a mind-set of lack, scarcity, and limitation. We focus on what we don't have--financial security, confidence, an intimate relationship--which keeps us feeling insecure and inadequate. We think "if only I could have those things, I could be happy." But measuring wealth by money or material possessions leaves us feeling drained and spiritually empty. Constantly striving for more often means our ego is driving our thoughts, actions, and reactions, which prevents us from reaching something greater: a true sense of inner peace, acceptance, and fulfillment.

Yet, there is an inner path to prosperity and wealth that, once charted and explored, provides access to the great riches of the universe and life's unbounded possibilities.

In Abundance, international bestselling author Deepak Chopra illuminates this road to success and wholeness, helping readers to tap into a deeper sense of awareness to become agents of change in their own lives. Mixing ancient teachings and spiritual practices with the wisdom he's garnered over four decades as the leading figure in mind-body medicine, Deepak demonstrates how to transcend self-generated feelings of limitation and fear in order to experience true abundance in all aspects of life. To do so, he offers a seven-step plan along with meditations and mindfulness techniques to help you focus and direct your attention, energy, and intuition so you can experience stability, affluence, insight, creativity, love, and true power.

The church isn't about programs, buildings, or attendance, but about a community of people embodying God's presence and purpose in the world.

Okay, but . . . then what? To truly embrace this statement leads to radically different ways of doing the daily work of ministry.

Preparing to discard the old ways. Saving Church is a prophetic call for the future that will help you reframe, retrieve, and reclaim the Church's role as a healing force in the world.

The 21st-century Church is in a state of distress. In the pulpit and the pews, people are disquieted, disenchanted, and dispirited. Some are afraid the church they love won't be there for the next generation, while others feel tired and desperate for something more. With skepticism on the rise and church attendance down, churches have a choice: cling to the way things were or stop and ask, "Could God want to do something new in and through us?"

Saving Church is a hopeful, authentic vision for the future of the Church, rooted in the convictions that: 1) The Church is still God's chosen vehicle for accomplishing His purposes. 2) Things aren't going back to the way they were - and they shouldn't.

Combining the expertise and experiences of two giants of missional theology and the Fresh Expressions movement, Saving Church will give you a fresh perspective on what church can be and help you reframe, retrieve, and reclaim the Church's role as a healing, saving force in the world.

Complete translation of two classic introductory works in traditional astrology. Perfect for students and as a reference and companion text for courses, with over 120 illustrations and numerous commentaries by the translator and editor.

Light: Medicine of the Future challenges the modern myth that the sun is dangerous to our well-being and claims that technological advancements, such as most fluorescent lighting, sunglasses, tanning lotions, and our indoor lifestyles, may be more harmful than helpful. Integrating scientific research, clinical experience, and his own insights, Dr. Jacob Liberman has worked effectively with more than 15,000 individuals, from the learning disabled and physically/emotionally traumatized to business executives and Olympic athletes. The book discusses the use of light in the treatment of various cancers, depression, stress, visual problems, PMS, sexual dysfunction, learning disabilities, and the human immune system.

Kim Dawson Hodson is an occupational therapist, mother of six, grandmother of four, widow, author, farmer, and animal lover. She has lived on the Big Island of Hawaii for 32 years and a little farm with miniature goats, chickens, dogs, cats, a rabbit, and two rescue potbellied pigs, and one rescue sheep. She is also back in school, getting her certification as an animal-assisted therapist. She has been on a long journey for the past seven years. This journey has been one of painful loss, almost insurmountable grief, coupled with healing and new self-discovery. The healing began when she started to listen to the subtle "promptings" or "gut feelings." As she began to listen to these, she had a deep realization that they are truly a gift providing her with hope. She has had many adventures--large and small--ranging from life and death to saving an animal who is in trouble to witnessing the amazing birth of an animal on her farm. It's as if these "promptings" are bread crumbs to guide her through this thing called life. As she continued on this journey, she knew that she needed to share her true life miracle stories, so she began to write them down. As she started to write them, she began to learn even more about how to really "look" and "listen" to the "promptings" or "gut feelings." These signs are all around us. She has written this book to bring a message of hope to everyone who reads it, and maybe, just maybe, can learn to hear the "promptings" too.