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| Alchemy of Light: Working with the Primal Energies of Life Alchemy of Light is a groundbreaking and unique approach to spiritual life and awakening, which reveals the real power of spiritual consciousness as an agent of global change. It explores how our spiritual light -- the light of our true Self -- is part of the spiritual light of the world, and as such is an essential catalyst to help the world heal and transform. Delving into the inner world of archetypes and drawing on the ancient tradition of alchemy, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee shows how to recognize and use one’s light to work with the images that define our life, to change the collective dream from the present materialistic nightmare to one of sustainability and global unity. He takes the reader into the archetypal primal powers underlying life, and explores how to work with these energies for global rather than just individual healing and transformation. Alchemy of Light is spiritual activism at its deepest and most potent: how through our spiritual practice we can directly help the world to evolve. |
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Awakening the World: A Global Dimension to Spiritual
Practice What is the relationship between our individual spiritual practice
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Earth Dance: Living Systems in Evolution Seeing the marvellous evolution of our planet as an improvisational dance in which humanity plays an exciting role, Elisabet Sahtouris finds solutions to the economic, philosophic, and social issues of our day. From the first chapter: The proposal made in this book is that we see ourselves in the context of our planet's biological evolution, as a still new, experimental species with developmental stages that parallel the stages of our individual development. From this perspective, humanity is now in adolescent crisis and, just because of that, stands on the brink of maturity in a position to achieve true humanity in the full meaning of that word. Like an adolescent in trouble, we have tended to let our focus on the crisis itself or on our frantic search for particular political, economic, scientific, or spiritual solutions depress us and blind us to the larger picture, to avenues of real assistance. If we humbly seek help instead from the nature that spawned us, we will find biological clues to solving all our biggest problems at once. We will see how to make the healthy transition into maturity. |
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| Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing The aboriginal Sng'oi of Malaysia -- pre-industrial, pre-agricultural -- live without cars or cell phones, without clocks or schedules, in a lush, green place where worry and hurry, competition and suspicion are not known. These indigenous people - as do many other aboriginal groups - understand themselves to be part of all things, living and nonliving. From this understanding comes their acute and uncanny sense of the energies, emotions, and intentions of their place and the beings who populate it, and their willingness to follow this intuition and use it to make decisions about their actions each day. Psychologist Robert Wolff, who has spent a lifetime with indigenous people from many parts of the world, lived with the Sng'oi during the years he spent in Malaysia. He learned their language, shared their food, slept in their shelters, and came to love and admire these people who respect silence, trust time to reveal and heal, and live entirely in the present with a sense of joy. Even more, he came to recognize the depth of our alienation from these ways of living. Much more than a collective document of a disappearing people, these stories hold a mirror to our own existence, allowing us to see how far we have wandered from the ways of the Sng'oi. And ultimately they challenge us, in our fragmented world, to rediscover within ourselves the Sng'oi's humanity, trust, and sense of connection to all creation. Robert Wolff was raised among the indigenous peoples of Indonesia. A psychologist and educator who has lived in Suriname, Southeast Asia, and Europe, he has taught at the University of Hawaii and currently lives on the Big Island. |
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| The Mystic Heart Drawing on his extraordinary experience as an interreligius monk and mystic, Brother Wayne Teasdale explores in The Mystic Heart what he calls interspirituality, a genuine and comprehensive spirituality that draws on the mystical core of the world's great religious traditions. After years within the Catholic lay monastic community, Teasdale found himself drawn to the visionary path of Father Bede Griffiths, who initiated him in the way of Sannyasa, the life of renunciation and dedication to the quest for God. From this spiritual vantage, The Mystic Heart shows that what so often forms the basis for conflict can really be a meeting place of understanding. For Teasdale, comparing religious traditions is more than a matter of developing tolerance. In their meeting, he writes, a greater truth can be realized. He explains the power of a universal spirituality and its eight practical elements: solidarity with all life, moral capacity, nonviolence, self-knowledge, selfless service, simplicity of lifestyle, daily practice, and serving as a prophetic witness in the causes of justice, peace, and protecting creation. Through scholarship, stories, and personal practice, Teasdale demonstrates that the final goal of authentic spirituality is realizing our true nature as mystics. |
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| Medicine for the Earth The Next Great Breakthrough in Energy Work: Healing the Earth Itself From cross-cultural legends recounting shamanic cures to the biblical accounts of the parting of the Red Sea and Jesus multiplying the loaves and fishes, many spiritual traditions are rich in stories about seemingly inexplicable transformations of the natural world. The ancient healing art of transmutation, in which toxic substances are neutralized is mentioned in all the world's great spiritual traditions, including the shamanic, yogic, and Taoist texts. And while many have tapped this body of work to heal the self, it has yet to be used to heal our environment. For twenty years, Sandra Ingerman has studied alternative ways to reverse environmental pollution. In this book, Ingerman takes us on a remarkable journey through the history of transmutation, teaching us how we can use this forgotten technique to change ourselves and our environment. She provides us with creative visualizations, ceremonies, rituals, and information on chants derived from ancient healing practices that produce miraculous, scientifically proven results. In one dramatic illustration of what can be accomplished when consciousness and awareness fuel our actions, Ingerman describes her own success in transforming the nature of chemically polluted water. |
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Spiritual Power: How It Works How can we use spiritual power to heal and transform the world? Where
are the sources of this power and how can we learn to work with them? |
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| Working with Oneness We have been given access to the secrets of oneness, but we need to learn how to work with them. Working with Oneness brings mysticism into the center of the marketplace, to the world of business and technology. Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee stresses the need to change from hierarchical, patriarchal power structures to organic patterns that allow for the free flow of energy and ideas. Through these patterns the dynamic energy of oneness can become part of everyday life. This energy has the potential to heal the planet and revolutionize life more than we can imagine. The energy of oneness is already present but waiting to be lived. It needs the participation of individual consciousness to become fully alive and transform life. As we understand how our consciousness affects the whole fabric of life, the potential for real global change comes alive. Working with Oneness is mystical activism at its most potent. |
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| Light of Oneness Humanity is awakening to the consciousness of oneness, the unity and interconnectedness of all of life. Light of Oneness takes us into the mystical dimension of this work, to the real source of our global healing and transformation. It reveals that there are dimensions of light and darkness beyond our present understanding, how we can work with the energies of life in the inner and outer world, and how love is woven into the web of life. It explores the mystical relationship between consciousness and the energy of matter, how this energy can be awakened within the world. Light of Oneness also stresses the role of the feminine, how her natural understanding of life's wholeness and interrelatedness is pivotal to our evolution. Light of Oneness offers an understanding of spiritual work that belongs to the future in which the knowledge of science and the wisdom of the mystic come together. It gives a global perspective to mystical activism that is vital if we are to help the world to awaken. |
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