Gu Cheng Li Sha Library

By Monica Crosson, Najah Lightfoot, Autumn Damiana, Natalie Zaman

Modern Witches at the course of Wisdom

Discover daily insights and well timed essays on witchy existence, Craft necessities, matters within the Pagan neighborhood, and magical transformation. Llewellyn’s 2016 Witches’ Companion gains the most cutting edge Wiccan/Pagan thinkers operating today:

Tess Whitehurst • Kristoffer Hughes • Melanie Marquis • Michael Furie • Susan Pesznecker • Boudica • Ember supply • Elizabeth Barrette • and plenty of more 

Includes greater than dozen provocative and functional articles

• Transitioning to a Pagan Lifestyle
• Lessons in Kindness from the Grasshopper and the Ant
• Pagan commonplace Time
• Witchy methods of Eating
• Banishing and Polarization
• Magick Spells for Kids
• Recognizing and fighting the Evil Eye
• A advisor to Smudging
• Creating your personal Magical Moniker

Includes a sixteen-month calendar and lunar info for spellwork and rituals

By Gillian Kemp

Full of sensible suggestion, gypsy folklore, and either historical and smooth divinations, this lavishly illustrated primer finds the long run to all those that think and indicates how you can hire crystal balls, tea leaves, and cards to foretell the longer term. complete colour.

By Merete Demant Jakobsen

Shamanism has regularly been of significant curiosity to anthropologists. extra lately it's been "discovered" through westerners, specially New Age fans. This publication breaks new flooring byexamining pristine shamanism in Greenland, between humans contacted past due via Western missionaries and settlers. at the foundation of fabric simply on hand in Danish, and awarded herein English for the 1st time, the writer questions Mircea Eliade's famous definition of the shaman because the grasp of ecstasy and means that his function should be visible as that of a grasp of spirits.

The ambivalent nature of the shaman and the spirit international within the tricky Arctic atmosphere is then contrasted with the extra benign angle to shamanism within the New Age flow. After featuring descriptions in their agencies and bills by means of individuals, the writer significantly analyses the function of neo-shamanic classes and concludes that it really is uncertain to contemplate what isoffered as shamanism.

By Bhante Henepola Gunaratana

Use the original Buddhist perform of meditation on notion, as taught by means of the best-selling writer of Mindfulness in undeniable English, to profit how moving your point of view can remodel psychological and actual health.

Perception -- one of many uncomplicated elements of the physique and brain -- could be either a resource of soreness and soreness, in addition to a resource of happiness and overall healthiness. The Buddhist culture teaches that notion will be proficient and finally purified during the perform of meditation. once we know how conception affects our lives, we will use it, simply as we do the other item of meditation, to beat damaging methods of considering and appearing and to improve fit states of brain in its place. In Meditation on Perception Bhante G brings us, for the 1st time in English, an illuminating advent to the original Buddhist perform of meditation on notion as taught within the well known Girimananda Sutta.
the 10 therapeutic practices that contain meditation on belief make up a finished procedure of meditation, combining features of either tranquility and perception meditation. Tranquility meditation is used to calm and middle the brain, and perception meditation is used to appreciate extra in actual fact how we in most cases understand ourselves and the realm round us. Alternating among those practices, meditators domesticate purified conception as defined through the Buddha. due to those efforts, we growth at the course that results in freedom, as soon as and for all, from disease, confusion, and other kinds of actual and psychological agony.
Meditation on Perception offers us the keys to maneuver past usual, superficial conception into an enlightened viewpoint, free of confusion and disappointment.

By Anodea Judith

As portals among the actual and religious planes, the chakras provide unheard of possibilities for development, therapeutic, and transformation. Anodea Judith’s vintage advent to the chakra procedure, which has offered over 200,000 copies, has been thoroughly up-to-date and increased. It comprises revised chapters on relationships, evolution, and therapeutic, and a brand new part on elevating young children with fit chakras.

Wheels of lifestyles takes you on a strong trip via gradually transcendent degrees of attention. View this old metaphysical method throughout the gentle of recent metaphors, starting from quantum physics to baby improvement. the best way to discover and stability your individual chakras utilizing poetic meditations and easy yoga movements―along with gaining non secular knowledge, you’ll adventure higher future health, extra power, more desirable creativity, and the power to appear your dreams.

Praise:
“Wheels of Life is the main major and influential ebook at the chakras ever written.”
― John buddy, founding father of Anusara Yoga

The brain of Mahamudra is the 3rd quantity within the Tibetan Classics sequence, which goals to make on hand obtainable paperback variations of key Tibetan Buddhist works drawn from knowledge courses' Library of Tibetan Classics.

Enjoy six key texts at the cornerstone meditation perform of the Kagyu institution of Tibetan Buddhism via a few of its such a lot celebrated forebearers.

The brain of Mahamudra highlights mahamudra, the valuable meditation perform of the Kagyu college of Tibetan Buddhism. The six texts variety in date from the 12th to the 17th century and comprise such celebrated authors as Lama Shang and the 3rd Karmapa. Mahamudra is basically an easy, direct approach for having a look past our techniques to the very nature of awake event. Mahamudra actually capability "the nice seal" and masters of this custom have defined it to intend that every little thing is sealed with buddhahood, and there's no liberation to be attained except what's already current. Mahamudra, it truly is stated, isn't really attained no longer since it is just too tough, yet since it is just too effortless; no longer since it is simply too a long way, yet since it is simply too shut; and never since it is hidden yet since it is just too obvious. as a result of its universality and directness, mahamudra meditation is especially suited for the trendy West. Eminent student Peter Alan Roberts attracts on his thirty-plus years of expertise of translating for Tibetan lamas to light up those benchmark translations.

By Nina Lesowitz

By Alexandra Chauran

Answers At Your Fingertips

Get solutions on your questions about relationships, tuition, and profession. converse along with your own spirit courses. touch household who've handed to the opposite part. even if you need to divine the longer term or simply rejoice, Spirit forums for Beginners is a useful source, with:

 • Step-by-step directions for utilizing the board
 • thoughts for self-protection
 • the right way to assist you steer clear of being tricked
 • The debatable background of spirit boards
 • Dozens of precise spirit-board stories

While spirit forums have occasionally bought a adverse recognition, they seem to be a completely secure method to speak while used appropriately. Sharing dozens of heartwarming stories and creepy encounters, foolish video games and life-changing occurrences, writer Alexandra Chauran presents every little thing you must be aware of to take advantage of from your spirit board experience.

By Christopher Penczak

Today's city witch must know the way to speak with the electrical gods of town, locate the high-rise temples of energy, and discover the mystical symbols in daily graffiti.

This re-creation of City Magick, with a brand new foreword through Judika Illes, writer of Pure Magic (offers a contemporary examine an earth-based faith that has taken root within the concrete jungle. Christopher Penczak indicates the right way to create and dwell a paranormal lifestyles within the urban. learn the way to:

• Interpret the symbols of graffiti with a mystical eye
• Perform rituals at nightclubs
• Use daily goods at your residence or place of work to create magickal incense, oils, talismans, and charms
• Create robust sigils utilizing road indicators, graffiti, and town maps
• Discover metropolitan spirits and totems together with spiders, cockroaches, crows, pigeons, and doves.

For the city witch, this can be the last word e-book on making excessive magic one of the skyscrapers and the streets.

By Raymond Buckland

Here's the main entire self-study direction in smooth Wicca on hand, written through the person that first went public with "The outdated Religion" within the usa. For staff or solitary use, it comprises rituals; routines for constructing psychic skills; info on all significant "sects" of the Craft; sections on instruments, ideals, desires, meditations, divination, natural lore, therapeutic, ritual garments; and lots more and plenty, a lot more.

Even those that have practiced Wicca for years locate invaluable info in Buckland's whole e-book of Witchcraft, and lots of covens are utilizing it as their textbook. Profusely illustrated and entire of tune and chants.