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Drawing on the expertise of twenty-four renowned practitioners, this book features contemporary folk traditions from all over North America. Diverse as the landscapes they thrive on, these authentic practices will expand your worldview and inspire you to enrich your own spirituality. Explore the history, tools, and spiritual beliefs of many different paths of folk magic from Mexico, the United States, and Canada. You'll tour the continent's rich and varied cultures region by region, taking an insider's look at more than twenty traditions, including:
Appalachian Mountain Magic - Brujeria
Curanderismo - Detroit Hoodoo
Florida Swamp Magic - Irish American Folk Magic
Italian American Magic - Melungeon Folk Magic
New England Cunning Craft - New Orleans Voodoo
Ozark Folk Magic - Pennsylvania Powwow & Braucherei
Slavic American Folk Magic - Southern Conjure Stephanie Rose Bird - H. Byron Ballard - Starr Casas - Ixtoii Paloma Cervantes - Kenya T. Coviak - J. Allen Cross - Alexander Cummins - Morgan Daimler - Mario Esteban Del ngel Guevara - Lilith Dorsey - Morrigane Feu - Via Hedera - Cory Thomas Hutcheson - Melissa A. Ivanco-Murray - E. F. E. Lacharity - Dee Norman - Aaron Oberon - Robert Phoenix - Jake Richards - Sandra Santiago - Robert L. Schreiwer - Eliseo "Cheo" Torres - Benebell Wen - Brandon Weston About the Author
In Old World Witchcraft, noted author Raven Grimassi covers totally new territory in his work and in the world of popular witchcraft books published in the last few decades. This book is actually about "an enchanted worldview," one that has not necessarily been inherited from the beliefs and practices of any particular region and one which is available to us today.
The "Old World" in the title is actually about a magical view of the Plant Kingdom and the spirits attached to it. While Grimassi's previous books discuss the cultural expressions and commonality of witchcraft beliefs and practices in general, this book penetrates much deeper.
• Details the spiritual, healing, and energetic qualities of stones such as Moldavite, Nuummite, Circle Stones, Nirvana Quartz from the Himalayas, and high-vibrational Natrolite from the emerald mines of Russia
• Features color photos of exceptional examples of each of the stones
• Includes practices for deepening one’s awareness of the stones’ gifts--from expanding consciousness, to healing, to awakening the Light Body, to fulfilling one’s personal and collective destiny
In Stones of the New Consciousness Robert Simmons examines the 62 most important stones to help accelerate and enhance conscious evolution and spiritual awakening. Each entry is illustrated with color photos of exceptional examples. The stones include Moldavite, the extraterrestrial amorphous crystal; Nuummite, the oldest gemstone on Earth; and Circle Stones, the highly energetic Flint found in crop circle formations. Other featured rarities include Nirvana Quartz from the Himalayas and high-vibrational Natrolite from the emerald mines of Russia.
Simmons begins with a new approach to meditation with stones and to the possibility of conscious relationship with the spiritual beings who express themselves in our world as crystals and minerals. He includes historical and mythological references for each stone, positing that the fabled Stone of the Holy Grail and the Philosopher’s Stone of the alchemists may have physical counterparts among the minerals discussed. Simmons presents practices for deepening one’s awareness of the stones’ gifts--from expanding one’s consciousness, to healing, to awakening the Light Body, to fulfilling one’s personal and collective destiny. While emphasizing direct contact with stones, the book also explores crystal energy tools, energy environments, and applications such as stone elixirs and essences that can aid anyone on a spiritual path.
Learn to interpret the messages the animal world has for you!
A bird knocks insistently on your window, your cat brings you a lizard, you find yourself face to face with a spider or you dream of an elephant ... what if each animal had a message for you? Animals have always been a source of fascination for humans - we love to watch them, learn about them and keep them as pets. But what if animals could actually communicate with us? In this complete guide, you'll find everything you need to know about the symbolism and signs of more than 150 animals, whether they appear to you in a dream or 'happen' to cross your path. You'll learn their individual characteristics as well as the elements and seasons they're associated with. You'll also discover what these encounters mean for different aspects of your life including love, career, family and health. Messages from the animal world are always filled with compassion but animals aren't there to flatter your ego. Rather, they aim to help you advance in consciousness in your life's journey. Sometimes you'll receive an encouraging sign that confirms you're on the right path or guidance to help you move forward. Other times, an animal will deliver a deeper lesson for you to explore, because that's how we learn. More than anything, their messages can open avenues of questioning and help to make your way forward clearer. The animals wish you well; they want you to hear their messages. Let them become your guides!
Explores the wealth of evidence for the reality of the biofield
• Describes how energy therapies are now gaining acceptance due to irrefutable proof of their effectiveness for clinical conditions from PTSD to phantom limb pain
• Examines the power of group energetics and team chemistry in sports and in society
• Explains how megalithic sacred sites are aligned with Earth’s subtle energies and explores the energetics of crop circles and global consciousness
Examining the wealth of evidence supporting the reality of the human biofield, Eric Leskowitz, M.D., explores the role of life energy in healing therapies and outlines its many manifestations at the individual, group, and global levels. He shows how energy therapies have been taboo in the West and reveals irrefutable evidence for their clinical benefits. He also describes the obstacles he faced in his own attempts to bring these holistic approaches into the world of academic medicine.
The author’s detailed exploration of phantom limb pain shows that this phenomenon is not a psychosomatic creation of the brain but is a tangible energetic structure: the human biofield in action. He explores group energetics and team chemistry, revealing how group situations—a concert, a meditation retreat, a sporting event—create their own energetic power. He shows how Stonehenge and other megaliths were built in alignment with Earth’s own energy meridians, and he proposes that the mysterious phenomenon of crop circles may be emerging in harmony with Earth’s subtle energies.
Blending hard science with ancient healing wisdom, the author reveals how we can all thrive together by remembering our shared energetic roots and our undeniable interconnectedness through the global web of life energy and consciousness itself.
Explores the powers and wisdom of sacred White Spirit Animals
• Looks in-depth at the lessons of the major White Spirit Animals: the White Bear, White Lion, White Elephant, White Wolf, and White Buffalo
• Explains how to use shamanic dreaming and trans-species telepathy to communicate with these great spiritual teachers
• Reveals how White Spirit Animals are calling humanity to restore balance, respect, reverence, and honor to protect our animal kin, ourselves, and the earth
Beautiful rarities of nature, all-white animals are held sacred by many indigenous cultures and offer deep wisdom to all who will listen. In addition to the White Buffalo, there are other revered white animals, such as the White Wolf, White Lion, White Elephant, and White Bear. Each of these White Spirit Animals belongs to a species at the apex of their ecosystem, meaning the environment in which they live will unravel without them. Speaking through ancient and modern prophecy and the many humans who communicate with them, these White Spirit Animals are urgently calling to humanity to restore balance and protect our animal kin, ourselves, and the earth.
Combining sacred elder lore, science, and her own telepathic dreams, Zohara Hieronimus looks at the special role played by White Spirit Animals in spiritual traditions and prophecy around the globe, where they are seen as guardians of animal wisdom, each with a special purpose and gift. She reveals how they have collaborated with humanity since the last ice age, inspiring spiritual practices and conferring shamanistic powers, and are considered the stewards of the great spiritual transformations that occur during transitional times. Sharing the waking vision of White Spirit Animals that called her to write this book, and their message of CPR for the earth--conservation, preservation, and restoration--she explains how to use shamanic dreaming and trans-species telepathy to communicate with these great spiritual teachers. Exploring each one of the major White Spirit Animals--White Buffalo, White Lion, White Elephant, White Wolf, and White Spirit Bear--and the cultures in which they are honored, the author shows, for example, how the White Buffalo is called a harbinger of peace and abundance by many Native American tribes and the White Bear, the great earth healer, teaches us about nurturance and patience.
As a bridge between the spiritual and physical worlds, between humans and animals, White Spirit Animals are calling us to open our hearts to the wild, to the sacredness of the wind, the water, the earth, and dream a new world into being to heal our own personal and collective wounds and restore the earth to balance.
Awaken the Elemental Magic Within Deeply poetic and rich with passion, this book helps you expand your relationship with earth, air, fire, water, and spirit through personal reflections and hands-on explorations. With brilliant contributions from members of the international Reclaiming community, this empowering book provides spells, exercises, practices, and perspectives that are taught in Reclaiming’s foundational class, Elements of Magic. Discover techniques for grounding, casting a circle, trance, and visualization, as well as guidance for working with breath, raising energy, and charging an intention. If you long to experience the ecstatic practice of magic, Elements of Magic is for you. Foreword by Starhawk Praise: “Gede Parma and Jane Meredith have excelled themselves in putting together one of the most comprehensive compilations of practices found in the Reclaiming Tradition.”―Janet Farrar and Gavin Bone, teachers and authors of The Inner Mysteries and Lifting the Veil ” Elements of Magic is a soulful and grounded offering that honors the past while inviting the future.”―Ivo Dominguez Jr., author and elder in the Assembly of the Sacred Wheel “In this approachable, engaging guide, Jane Meredith and Gede Parma seamlessly weave together an introduction to Reclaiming and a course in the foundations of natural magic.”―Thorn Mooney, Gardnerian priestess and author of Traditional Wicca “Reclaiming has so much to offer with its insights into community work, activist magic, and bringing healing to this planet … This book is like a dandelion seed-head, spreading wild wisdom and ecstatic practice.”―Tony Rella, author of Circling the Star ” Elements of Magic will be a valuable resource for those who seek a spiritual connection to our world, whatever their tradition.”―Diana L. Paxson, author of Trance-Portation
The hydra rears its many heads in a flurry of teeth and poisonous fumes. The cyborg lays waste to humanity with a ruthless, expressionless stare.
From ancient mythology to modern science fiction, we have had to confront the monsters that lurk in the depths of our collective imagination. They embody our anxieties and our irrational terrors, giving form to what we don't wish to know or understand. For millennia, monsters have helped us to manage the extraordinary complexity of our minds and to deal with the challenges of being human.In Enchanted Creatures, Natalie Lawrence delves into 15,000 years of imaginary beasts and uncovers the other-worldly natural history that has evolved with our deepest fears and fascinations. Join Lawrence on a tour of prehistoric cave monsters, serpentine hybrids, deep-sea leviathans and fire-breathing Kaiju. Discover how this monstrous menagerie has shaped our minds, our societies and how we see our place in nature.
A practical, userfriendly workbook that leads readers on a journey of self-healing and transformation through the exploration of the chakras. The unique approach of this book incorporates a variety of therapies, including: visualization, sound, color, aromatherapy, reflexology, crystals and gemstones, yoga, and other physical exercise. Illustrated with reading list.
Who are you? When you start to explore this question, you find out how elusive it really is. Are you a physical body? A collection of experiences and memories? A partner to relationships? Each time you consider aspects of yourself, you realize that there is much more to you than any of these can define.
In this book, spiritual teacher Michael Singer explores the question of who we are and arrives at the conclusion that our identity is to be found in our consciousness, the fact of our ability to observe ourselves and the world around us. By tapping into traditions of meditation and mindfulness, Singer shows how the development of consciousness can enable us all to dwell in the present moment and let go of painful thoughts and memories that keep us from achieving happiness and self-realization. Divided into five parts, the book offers a frank and friendly discussion of consciousness and how we can develop it.
In part one, he examines the notion of self and the inner dialogue that all of us live with. Part two examines the experience of energy as it flows through us and works to show readers how to open their hearts to the energy of experience that permeates their lives. Ways to overcome tendencies to close down to the rest of the world are the subject of part three. Enlightenment and the embrace of universal consciousness are the subject of part four. And finally, in part five, Singer returns to daily life and the pursuit of "unconditional happiness." Throughout, the book maintains a light and engaging tone, free from heavy dogma and prescriptive religious references. The easy exercises that figure in each chapter help readers experience the ideas that Singer presents.
Learn how to energize and enhance your well-being on every level—physical, emotional, and spiritual—through hands-on exercises and guided meditations that provide direct experience with sound. As a therapeutic and transformative branch of energy medicine, sound healing offers powerful tools to tune up your health and wellness.
Presenting a clear and solid foundation of core concepts, Sound Healing for Beginners shows how to apply innovative sound techniques to your daily life in order to balance your energy and manifest personal improvement. With chapters covering focused listening, the energetics of breathwork, activating your unique resonances and energy centers through vocal toning, using sound as a creative force for manifestation, and more, this accessible guide will help you harmonize your life with the remarkable benefits of sound healing.
Protect Your Lightintroduces a modern, comprehensive, step-by-step system of clearing, shielding, and strengthening your energy. It's the first book to address energy attack on social media, empowering readers with practical methods for protecting their energy online.
Energy protection is the art of being energetically authentic. It is about managing your energy interactions with the surrounding world to ensure that your thoughts, emotions, and behaviour are aligned with your purpose and authenticity, rather than being influenced by external energy sources. Essentially, energy protection ensures that what's ours is ours and what's theirs is theirs. Protect Your Lightempowers readers with a toolkit of tried-and-tested energy protection processes for identifying and clearing energy attachments from their energy field, along with shielding processes that repel and transmute energy attacks, while also strengthening the natural energetic defenses.
In this book, you'll get the chance to:
- Turn on your inner vision to scan for different types of energy attack
- Cleanse your aura of negative energy attachments that restrict your wellbeing
- Learn rituals and meditations to shield your aura from unwanted people and energy
- Equip yourself with brand-new, revolutionary processes to protecting yourself online
By the end of the book, you'll have filled your spiritual toolkit with powerful energy clearing and shielding processes, and utilised a proven 7-step system to protecting your energy from toxic people and vibrations.
The first volume in Joseph Campbell’s monumental four-volume The Masks of God series, originally published in 1959 and now revised with up-to-date science and new illustrations in this Collected Works of Joseph Campbell paperback edition In this first volume of The Masks of God, the world’s preeminent mythologist explores and illuminates the wellsprings of myth. Showing his exemplary combination of scholarly depth and popular enthusiasm, Joseph Campbell looks at the expressions of religious awe in early humans and their echoes in the rites of surviving primal tribes. Campbell shows how myth has informed our understanding of the world, seen and unseen, throughout time. As he explores and shares archetypal mythic images and practices, he also points to how these concepts inform our personal lives. Upon completing The Masks of God, Campbell found that his work affirmed “the unity of the race of man, not only in its biology, but also in its spiritual history.” He likened this unity to a symphony in which various parts create a “great movement.” Perhaps more than ever before, Campbell’s insight is not only illuminating but also inspiring.
Linda Kohanov is beloved for her groundbreaking articulation of "the way of the horse," an experiential wisdom known to riders for centuries but little studied or adapted to off-horse use. Now Kohanov takes those horse-inspired insights on exceptional communication and leadership into the realms of our workplaces and relationships. Here we explore the benefits of "nonpredatory power" in developing assertiveness, fostering creativity, dealing with conflict, and heightening mind-body awareness.
In the first part of this far-reaching book, Kohanov profiles cultural innovators who employed extraordinary nonverbal leadership skills to change history, usually on horseback: Winston Churchill, George Washington, Alexander the Great, and the Buddha, among others. She also draws on the behavior of mature horse herds, as well as the herding cultures of Africa and Mongolia, to debunk theories of dominance hierarchies, challenge ingrained notions of "survival of the fittest," and demonstrate the power of a consensual leadership in which governing roles are fluid.
Kohanov adapts these lessons into twelve powerful guiding principles we can all incorporate into our work and personal lives. Eloquent and provocative, this is horse sense for everyone who seeks to thrive in the herds we all run in -- our communities, careers, families, and friendships.
Certain dreams stick with you, whether you were lost within a labyrinth or flying through the sky. Brought to you by best-selling dream interpreter Pamela Ball, The Pocket Book of Dreams features an A-Z list of dream interpretations. These allow you to decode an array of dreams and find valuable messages from within your subconscious. Perfect for keeping by your bedside, this handy pocket book includes advice on how to stop recurring nightmares, incubate wonderous dreams and create a perfect night's sleep. Harness the power of your dreams and discover a world of delights with this brilliant book.
Tap into Long-Forgotten Memories from the Earliest Times in Your Soul History
Sharing some of her most exciting client regression sessions, Shelley A. Kaehr invites you to explore past life experiences from ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire, Lemuria, Atlantis, planets beyond Earth, and more. In addition to fascinating case studies, Shelley helps you uncover your soul's earliest experiences and clear out unwanted influences from these times so you can move forward into your brightest future.
This book includes more than fifty engaging activities to help you remember and make sense of your soul history. You can create a self-discovery journal, complete a past life regression, identify your purpose, and heal trauma from previous incarnations. By pinpointing where your soul existed in the past, you can find meaningful answers to questions about your present while getting to know your true self better than ever before.
Bestselling astrology author Marion Williamson reveals the secrets of your Moon sign and how to harness its strengths in this beautifully illustrated, full-colour hardback. You may be familiar with your Sun sign - the part of your birthchart that affects your ego and the face your show to the outside world. However, your Moon signs reflects your private, intuitive self and inner desires. This insightful book gives you the tools to understand what your Moon sign means about you, including your moods, longings, fears and the motivations that guide you. If you want to know yourself well, or are compelled to understand the people around you, the Moon offers a swell of dynamic psychological insight that unlocks the door to the authentic person within.Includes: • Sun and moon combinations • What you're attracted to in others • Your fears and emotional responses • What you keep secret Offering uncanny insight into your inner world, this book serves a wonderful tool for self-reflection, personal growth, and harnessing the energies of the moon signs to create a fulfilling life aligned with the universe's rhythms.
Have you ever had that one number that seems to pop up everywhere? That number may be the key to unlocking your destiny! The Magic of Numbers is an easy-to-use book that shows readers how to use their date of birth to calculate this Destiny Number, and how it affects the path of our lives in more ways than we might realize. Next, it reveals how our names resonate with a power that influences both our personalities and how people respond to us. Change your name and you can change not only how others perceive you, as many celebrities have discovered, but it can change your fame and fortune too. This then leads to the dynamics of relationships, where you can find out how your Destiny and Name Numbers can harmonize with your partner. The answers to some of life's biggest questions are in the numbers, and you can learn their magic to change your life.
Wake Up in Your Dreams and Live a Happier, More Lucid Life
A lucid dream is a dream in which you become aware that you're dreaming. It's a powerful opportunity to solve problems, create new possibilities, take charge of your own healing, and explore the depths of reality. This book provides a range of practical techniques and activities to help you bring the creativity and super-conscious awareness of lucid dreaming into your life.
Join international expert Clare R. Johnson as she shares the most up-to-date lucid dreaming techniques on how to get and stay lucid, guide dreams, resolve nightmares, deepen creativity, and integrate dream wisdom into everyday life. Drawing on cutting-edge science and psychology, this book is packed with inspiring stories of life-changing lucid dreams and fascinating insights into topics such as the ethics of dream sex, how to interact with lucid dream figures, and the nature of consciousness.
Whether you're a person who barely remembers your dreams or a lifelong lucid dreamer, this in-depth guide is the perfect next step as you cultivate the power of lucid dreaming.
If you've ever felt immediately comfortable—or uncomfortable—around someone you've just met, you've probably sensed a person's aura. Now you can learn to actually see the aura—the energy field that surrounds the human body. Popular author Ted Andrews presents simple and effective techniques for not only seeing auras, but also deciphering what the aura reveals about a person's physical, emotional, and spiritual self. Discover how to:
- See the colours of the aura and interpret their meanings
- Make simple tools to measure the aura
- Cleanse, strengthen, and protect your own aura
- Increase your sensitivity and intuition
- Boost your energy and improve your health
Diana Cooper shares an uplifting vision of better times to come in this inspirational guide to the Golden Future. We all know how turbulent life has been recently. How long will the world carry on like this? Will things ever improve? Best-selling spiritual teacher, author, and card deck creator Diana Cooper believes a better future is on its way. In this uplifting spiritual guide, she describes how an entirely new age-the Golden Future-is being birthed. Current times are challenging but we are moving towards a new fifth-dimensional Golden Age that will be a time of peace and happiness, when the world as we know it will have changed beyond recognition for the better.In this book, Diana Cooper tells the spiritual history from the fall of Atlantis to the current period and the time frame to 2032. This vital spiritual guide is split into four enlightening parts, covering-The Golden Future of EarthThe transformation-life in the new Golden AgePreparing for the Fifth DimensionHigher ascension tools to propel you into the Golden FutureAs Diana shares the journey to the new Golden Age, she explains the reason why there are eight billion people on the planet and the cosmic happenings in 2032 that will change the world. Amidst the turbulence of modern-day life, allow The Golden Future to inspire and guide you along this collective transformational journey toward a better future and a new age.
A witch-friendly guide to working magic with gemstones and crystals.
The energy contained within stones is a mysterious and invisible power as old as the earth itself. It is also an energy that, when properly harnessed, can enable a person to create powerful magic and reconnect with energies that animate the natural world.
Gemstone and Crystal Magic is a practical and comprehensive guide to the magical world of crystals and gemstones, including both precious and semiprecious stones. Written by a modern witch with firsthand knowledge of the occult properties of stones, this book is filled with numerous spells and rituals, folklore, and magical correspondences. It also explores gemstone curses and cures, and the many ways in which gemstones can be utilised as amulets for magical workings, as oracles for revealing the future, and as tools for healing one’s body, mind, and spirit.
With the aid of this book, you will learn how to properly cleanse and charge stones, and also how to make homemade gemstone elixirs. Additionally, you will discover the secrets of using stones to increase your wealth, facilitate clairvoyant abilities, invoke deities, ward off bad luck and evil influences, draw love into your life, and so much more.
Simple, Encouraging Practices to Help You Navigate the Spirals of Grief
To be human is to experience grief, and the road to recovery has many twists and turns. This collection of hands-on activities offers support as you remain present to your grief and move toward a state of well-being. Explore the emotions, thoughts, symptoms, and spiritual energy of loss as you learn how to identify the pathways for healing. To enhance your understanding, each chapter incorporates a common set of practices:
- Chakras
- Affirmations
- Journaling
- Meditations
- Movement
- Essential Oils
- Rituals
Wherever you are with your bereavement, this guide is designed to help you navigate your ups and downs throughout the recovery process.