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"If you were God," asked Alan Watts, "what kind of universe would you create? A perfect one free of suffering and drama? Or one filled with surprise and delight?" With Just So, the celebrated philosopher and self-described "spiritual entertainer" invites us to explore the hidden dimensions that shape both the cosmos and our personal experience of it.

Alan Watts discusses the fundamental attitudes that run through all religions or "ways of liberation," as the Far Eastern disciplines might better be described. By following these practices to the extremes of repentance, rebellion, and resignation, one may be freed from the endless cycles of reincarnation which perpetuate the human condition.

Jim Jones convinced his 1000 followers they would all have to commit suicide since he was going to die. Shoko Asahara convinced his followers to release a weapon of mass destruction, the deadly sarin gas, on a Tokyo subway. These are a few of the doomsday cults examined in this audiobook by best-selling author Alan R. Warren. Its focus is on cults whose destructive behavior was due in large part to their apocalyptic beliefs or doomsday movements. This audiobook examines how a social movement grows into a full religion and when it does not.

Showing how we can avoid the suffering caused by comas, this book reveals the wide variety of conscious states that can arise during comas, both positive and negative, and how accepting the reality of these experiences is crucial not only to the recovery of coma survivors, but also to the field of consciousness and near-death experience (NDE) studies.

Are you sick and tired of missing out in life and seeing everyone around you succeed? While you’re left behind; broke in a job you hate, in a toxic relationship, or trapped in a body you’re unhappy with? Do you finally want to say goodbye to all of your wasted time and see what actually works for you? If so, then it’s not by chance that you’re reading this! You see, manifesting all of your wants and desires doesn’t have to be difficult, even if you feel like you’ve tried every other manifesting book and YouTube video already.

The Magus: Kundalini and the Golden Dawn is the culmination of my spiritual journey through the Western Mystery Tradition after experiencing a full and sustained Kundalini awakening. Once I joined a secret and esoteric school called the Golden Dawn, I was introduced to Ceremonial Magick—a Spiritual Alchemy practice geared towards Chakra tuning and cleansing—whose ultimate purpose is personal transformation and Enlightenment.

Was würde geschehen, wenn wir uns dem Fluss des Lebens hingeben und das, was sich entfaltet, mit Dankbarkeit und einem offenen Herzen annehmen würden, anstatt dagegen anzukämpfen? Würden wir dann erkennen, dass das Leben nur eine Aneinanderreihung zufälliger Ereignisse ist, an denen wir teilhaben? Oder würde uns dieser Fluss zu etwas Größerem bringen? Diese Fragen stellte sich Michael Singer schon als junger Mann. Er begann zu meditieren und beschloss, sich in die Natur zurückzuziehen, um sich auf seine Praktiken zu konzentrieren – doch das Leben hatte größere Pläne für ihn.

The Bible is filled with divine healing! From cover to cover, Scripture reveals many miraculous healings where the sick, terminally ill, and even the dead are restored to wholeness. So how did healing something natural for Jesus and the early church become unfamiliar and controversial? In Authority to Heal, Randy Clark takes you on an interactive journey where he reveals the historical facts behind what happened to the practice of divine healing and shares Biblical truths and surprising testimonies from church history.

Determined to find out what happens when we die, Josh Langley takes listeners on an extraordinary journey to uncover the secrets to the age-old question pondered by all of humanity. Visiting crematoriums, conducting out-of-body experiments and entering conversations with the deceased, you’re invited on this daring and intriguing afterlife investigation for a humorous and compelling ride. Following Langley’s lifelong obsession with the afterlife, his surprising and thought-provoking conclusions will leave you spiralling long after the last word.

Découvrez la voie vers la conscience spirituelle à l'aide du best-seller du New York Times "L'âme délivrée : Un voyage par-delà vous-même" de Michael Singer ! Qui sommes-nous vraiment ? Que pouvons-nous faire chaque jour pour trouver la paix permanente et la liberté intérieure ? Quel effet cela nous ferait-il d'aller au-delà de nos propres limites ? Plus de 5 millions de lecteurs à travers le monde remercient l'auteur d'avoir aidé à trouver des réponses aux principales questions que l'humanité s'est posées au cours des siècles.

Perdurabo—entitled after the magical name Crowley chose when inducted into the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn—traces Crowley’s remarkable journey from his birth as the only son of a wealthy lay preacher to his death in a boarding house as the world’s foremost authority on magick. Along the way, he rebels against his conservative religious upbringing; befriends famous artists, writers, and philosophers (and becomes a poet himself); is attacked for his practice of “the black arts”; and teaches that science and magick can work together.

Ghosts and spectres, the eerie and the occult. Why is contemporary culture so preoccupied by the supernatural, so captivated by the revenants of an earlier age, so haunted? The concept of Hauntology has evolved since first emerging in the 1990s and has now entered the cultural mainstream as a shorthand for our new-found obsession with the recent past. But where does this term come from and what exactly does it mean?

If you enjoy creepy true tales about ghosts, demons, and the paranormal then this book is for you. This is just the book you were looking for, but never found, at Halloween.

Have you ever felt someone's eyes on the back of your head? Or perhaps you may have known who was on the phone, even before you lifted the receiver. Science calls these moments of knowing anomalies. If an anomaly cannot be measured, it does not exist so far as science is concerned. I wonder how science measures a mind.

In Natural Freedom, spiritual activist Alan Clements gives voice to what may very well be this new spirituality. He calls it "natural freedom", the essence of spiritual life common to all people. Not a doctrine but an intuitive process that comes out of your own inquiry and self-honesty, natural freedom is a way of "feeling into" your heart to uncover the truth in your daily life - a truth that will empower you to live with courage, compassion, and radical self-responsibility.

Finally, the truth about vampires.Vampires are the most fearsome and fascinating of all creatures of folklore. For the first time, detailed accounts of the vampire and how its tradition developed in different cultures are gathered in one volume by eminent folklorist Alan Dundes.

This audiobook presents some fascinating accounts and reports of unexplained creatures or entities including large flying man-bats as well as beings that appear to be half man half animal. These strange unidentified "things" lurk in many remote and so far unexplored regions of the planet. Scientists refer to them as "cryptids".

This audiobook covers some interesting "paranormal activity" specifically within East Anglia in southern England. The book gives long to brief accounts and background information relating to some well-known haunting together with some additional information gathered as a result of my own investigations over the years.

This is the official audio recording of the 2006 conference, featuring speeches and special interviews with some of the world's leading authors in the subjects of the metaphysical, historical, paranormal, and unexplained - including Philip Gardiner, Michael Cremo, Crichton Miller, Hamish Miller, Nick Pope, Alan Alford, Dr. Robert Feather, Tim Wallace-Murphy, Dr. John Jay Harper, and special guest Andrew Collins.

A results-based manual for magickal conflict and occult warfare in the modern world, founded on the ancient teachings of Sun Tzu, which utilizes a combination of witchcraft, astral projection, supernatural entities, and chaos magick.