. . . in five hours, not five years
Anthony Dugdale -
Publisher's Description:
Love him or hate him, we are all intrigued by Sigmund Freud. His brainchild, psychoanalysis, is expensive and time-consuming, but readers of this indispensable alternative can save a fortune over conventional analysis. Discover through 28 cheat-proof questionnaires how to analyse your dreams, measure the strength of your ego, and decide whether you have an oral or anal personality, an Oedipus or Electra complex. Find out why some people become gynecologists and others executioners; why Freudians think ballet dancers and those who watch them are perverts, except in name; why people campaign to save the whale, dye their hair, enjoy hurting themselves, shift blame onto other people, choose unexpected partners, become vegetarians, wear flashy ties, suck their thumb, choose bread-making as a hobby, or believe in magic. If you’ve ever reflected on the influence of your childhood, wondered what your dreams might mean, or are on a quest for self-knowledge, lie down on the couch in the pages of Your Freudian Psychoanalysis . . .in five hours, not five years and you will emerge with a whole new understanding of yourself.
Animism, Mind, and the Self in Nature
Emma Restall Orr -
Publisher's Description:
Over the past few hundred years, animism has been dismissed as a primitive, naive and irrational perspective, irrelevant within the civilised West. In The Wakeful World, Emma Restall Orr argues that this is based on the misrepresentation, drawn in crayon, that each tree and stone has its own Christian-like immortal soul. Taking the reader on a philosophical adventure, Restall Orr explores the heritage of Western thought with precision, enthusiasm and sensitivity, considering how soul, spirit, mind and consciousness have been understood through millennia. Challenging the prevailing worldviews of materialism and dualism, she presents animism as a radically different, yet mature and coherent philosophy. Providing deep green ethics with a wholly rational metaphysical foundation, The Wakeful World is a compelling view of the nature of existence and the experience of reality, giving solid ground for the now necessary journey to a sustainable world.
About the Author:
Emma Restall Orr (aka Bobcat) is one of the most well-known Druids worldwide. She worked for the Order of Bards Ovates and Druids, was Joint Chief of the British Druid Order for nearly ten years, and in 2002 created the international Druid Network. She is a practising priest and teacher, celebrated for her uncompromising views on ethics, environmentalism and personal responsibility. She regularly lectures at universities and within the Pagan community, and works as a media spokesperson for Druidry. Listen to Emma's answers to BBC's The Big Questions
A Book of Appalachian Conjure and Southern Root Work
Orion Foxwood
Publisher's Description:
Learn the ways of magic and healing from the living, oral tradition of Appalachian Conjure in The Candle and the Crossroads. Orion Foxwood offers a primer on the real magic and techniques of Southern root magic, knowledge he learned first-hand growing up in rural Appalachia.
Foxwood explains magical techniques including:
Spirit Sight
Working by the Signs (the ability to synchronize work such as farming, fertility of humans and animals, orcharding)
Conjuring
Faith Healing
Settling the Light (candle magic)
Doctoring the Root (the ability to use herbs, roots, stones, or animal parts--bones, claws, fur, etc. for magic or the clearing, cleansing, and blessing of the spirit of a person, also known as his or her root)
Praying or Dreaming True (Blessings of spirit/God to a person, place, or thing as well as prophetic or predictive dreaming)
Glennyce S. Eckersley -
Publisher's Description:
Glennyce S. Eckersley is one of Britain's best selling authors in the world of spirituality. Well known and widely translated her books such as An Angel At My Shoulder relate factual accounts from around the world.
Now however, she turns her attention to fiction and this new collection of short stories illustrates her gift as a story teller. Warm and uplifting these stories range from tales of amazing synchronicity to gripping ghost stories.
Containing heart warming elements you will find a story collection to touch the heart.This book will open the door to new insights into the world of spiritual fiction.
Editor's Notes:
As usual, Glennyce, who has been a contributing author for The Messenger for several years now, has written a delightful and heartfelt book. This collection of stories is insightful and inspirational. Expect a tear or two and many smiles.
A 90 Day/Prayer Partner Experience
August Gold and Joel Fotinos -
Publisher's Description:
Master a uniquely powerful spiritual practice that maximizes your prayers! Multiply Your Blessings helps you to do what the greatest spiritual masters throughout history have urged us to do: pray with one another and reap the rewards. In these pages, Gold and Fotinos, co-founders of the Sacred Center New York, show how to strengthen your faith, and open up your heart and mind to be more receptive to God's answers to your prayers.
Both practical and inspiring, Multiply Your Blessings explains how the authors developed their 90-day practice, how it works, and how anyone can benefit from finding a spiritual peer. Multiply Your Blessings includes:
the basics of Prayer Partnering
how to find a compatible partner
how to keep your partner motivated
daily meditations, devotions, and weekly exercises
an interactive workbook and guide to help start the process
personal stories of people from all walks of life and faiths
A Guide to Healing
Saleire -
Publisher's Description:
We all have the potential to be a healer. A person who has reverence for all living things has an even greater potential. Humanitarians who wish to alleviate other people’s suffering know that time on earth is only fleeting and to make it a meaningful life, they must share love, joy, hope and peace with their fellow human beings. This book will guide you through the process of healing, yourself and others.
About the Author:
Saleire is a qualified (SNU) healer, channel, inspirational artist and published writer. If you ask her what she would most like to share with her readers, she will say, the journey, because that is all there is. By the journey, she means the path to awareness that has taken her from conventional religion to spirituality, or as she puts it, from fear to freedom. She would love you to join her on this delightful path to the world of Spirit. When reading her books you will find a kindly soul, an un-ending quest to find the truth and a love of spirit that is contagious. Her words are from the heart and written for you, not as an authority, but as a friend. She wishes you Love and Light on your journey.
A Novel
Tracey L. Thompson
Publisher's Description:
Most of her life Jenny has felt she's not good enough, not attractive enough, because she's fat. Then one day she stumbles through a portal between a world that values thinness and one that values roundness. Sometimes falling can wake you up.
About the Author:
Biography
Tracey L. Thompson was born and raised in Southern California, and now resides in Northern Virginia with her husband Guy, son Hayden, a dog and two cats. She is a wife, and the mother of five children, and has two granddaughters. After overcoming domestic violence, divorce, single motherhood, and low self-esteem, she went on to earn a master's degree in Psychology with a Specialization in Marriage & Family Therapy, and now has written a novel that sheds light on the issue of weight discrimination in a fun and fanciful way. Her interests include spending time with her family, spiritual pursuits, drumming, playing Dungeons & Dragons, reading, writing, knitting, scrapbooking, movies, and music.
Finding our Place in our Own History
Nimue Brown
Publisher's Description:
Ancestors are part of our shared humanity, we all have them. Ancestry in the guise of race, has been used as a tool to divide. Even so, it might yet help us move in greater harmony.
Are we playing out the motifs of our family history, or making our own lives? Are we held back by the past, or empowered by it? And why does any of this matter?
Druidry and the Ancestors will take you on a journey into how you imagine yourself, and how you can take control of your identity and future.
Druid, author, bard and dreamer. Nimue Brown is OBOD trained, a founding member of Bards of The Lost Forest and Druid Network member.
About the Author:
Nimue Brown has been an active Pagan for years, having volunteered for the Pagan Federation and the Druid Network. She has run moots, a folk club, workshops, open rituals, and meditation groups, teaches privately and was a founding member of Druid Gorsedd Bards of the Lost Forest. OBOD trained, her other main influences are Emma Restall Orr, Brendan Myers and Glennie Kindred. Nimue blogs at www.druidlife.wordpress.com and wrote www.hopelessmaine.com a webcomic illustrated by her husband, artist Tom Brown, soon to be published as a graphic novel. She lives on a narrowboat in her native Gloucestershire, UK, with her family, exploring a green and creative lifestyle.
The Beginning of the Black Light
Nikki Mackay -
Publisher's Description:
Catherine has a special gift; it’s a blessing and a curse. She is haunted by demons, ghosts from her family’s past and from Glasgow’s disturbing history.
A 19th century murder, 21st century prostitution ring and 20th century drowning. Meet Pat Jones, a restless murdered soul who tells the tale of stolen love, betrayal, murder and prostitution. It all becomes very personal for Catherine Fleming a young psychic who quickly becomes embroiled in a murky Glasgow underworld she had never imagined in her worst nightmares. The more she tries to ignore the voices, the more she is drawn into the realm of the dead and the world of human trafficking.
Can she discover the secret buried deep within her family's history and the secrets hidden in a city linking the past with the present?
It began with Pat Jones and a river... where will it end?
About the Author:
Nikki Mackay is a family constellator and an experienced historical medium.
How to leave your baggage and pain to become a happy, whole, perfect human being with unlimited potential.
Meg Blackburn Losey, PhD -
Publisher's Description:
Master healer and metaphysical teacher Meg Losey experienced her own life crisis in which she lost everything--her house, her business, and her relationship and was forced to learn how to accept this devastating situation.
In The Art of Living Out Loud, Losey describes how she learned to live an authentic life, from this traumatic experience. She guides readers through the process of coming clean with ourselves, accepting who we are, discovering our purpose and developing the courage to embody it.
Losey shows how to find one's power from the inside out, dropping pretenses and perceptions of control, shedding fears, and embracing who we are. We can literally create a perfect life right here on earth. "I learned that creating the kind of experience that I wanted in life was as easy as believing it, and that worrying was nothing more than fear of 'what ifs' that didn't even exist."
About the Author:
Meg Blackburn Losey, PhD, is the author of several books including The Secret History of Consciousness, Touching the Light, and the international bestseller The Children of Now. She is the creator/channeler of The Living Light Cards. Dr. Meg is a Master Healer, speaker, and teacher and an ordained minister in both Spiritual Science and Metaphysics. She is a PhD of Holistic Life Coaching and holds a Doctoral Degree in Metaphysics. She lives in eastern Washington. Visit her at: www.spiritlite.com.
Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma
- Paul J. Newell
Publisher's Description:
From business meetings to social events to first dates to job interviews, we all encounter new people every day. Our ability to read body cues and convey the right first impression drives the success and quality of our personal and professional lives. Body language expert Patti Wood, a sought-after consultant and speaker to Fortune 500 companies, helps businesses and individuals stand out, create profitable relationships, and thrive in competitive circumstances. Now she brings that knowledge to our daily lives, offering practical and proven guidance on accurately interpreting body cues and creating impressions both in person and digitally. In Snap, you’ll learn how to:
* Use your voice and body language to convey confidence and charisma, authenticity and authority
* Immediately discern people’s hidden agendas
* Make the best impressions via email, phone, video conferencing, and social networks
* Convey and interpret signals of likability, power, credibility, and attractiveness
* Use nonverbal tools to spot true integrity or recognize charming frauds
* Attract the best matches in business and romantic partners
* Recognize how you really look to others