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We hear the voices of the early Church Fathers even today. Their teachings, their guidance, their insights, and their sacrifice shaped the Catholic Church. They defined the canon of Scripture. They developed our creeds and forms of worship. They defined Christianity's distinctive moral sense. But who were they? What can we learn from their ancient teachings? What can the Fathers teach the twenty-first century—about holiness, culture, faith, and the Gospel.

Sharing profound experiences from his long career as well as his first years growing up on a remote Seminole reservation in the Everglades, renowned herbalist Matthew Wood interweaves practical herbalism and the spiritual potency of Nature to deeply explore the plant teachers, animal medicines, and foundational principles of shamanism as a spiritual path. Wood describes a universal “language of the shamans,” based on direct, sometimes supernatural experiences as well as case studies from his practice.

Exploring sexual customs, beliefs, practices, and identities from a wide variety of perspectives, Dr. Miller shares his fascinating interviews with 20 experts ranging from clinical psychologists and researchers to sex workers and polyamory educators. We learn from sex therapists, relationship experts, and tantric sex teachers, such as Dr. Lonnie Barbach, Dr. Stella Resnick, Katherine Rowland, and Diana Richardson, about the importance of communication, how to keep sensuality alive, and how to generate fulfilling and sustainable intimacy in relationships.

Explaining how Morrison sought to use his role as a rock singer to express the power of inner experience, Wyld shows how praxis was at the heart of Morrison’s approach, revealed in his journey through the arduous ordeals of shamanic initiation. He was a shaman, mystic, and sage—and an essential part of a great spiritual awakening to which he gave himself over fully.

Entheogens offer the ability for people to have mystical experiences that show them while in ceremony their true identity, their energetic form, their purpose work, their lessons here on Earth, guidance with current situations in their life, connection with loved ones on the other side of the veil of forgetfulness, spiritual awakening, and so much more. Entheogens are non-addictive psychoactive substances that help us remember our true identity before we stepped into our human form. We need to step deeper into our true energetic signature. It is a state of beingness.

Angeles Arrien invites us to "walk the mystical path with practical feet" through the archetype of the Teacher. The Way of the Teacher is to be open to any endeavor's outcome and not to fixate upon results. Openness and nonattachment help us recover our human resources of wisdom and objectivity. We express the Way of the Teacher through our effective communication skills in all relationships.

Who am I? I, who speak with so much authority and make such all-inclusive claims? Who am I that I can instruct you and can promise rewards only God can give? Listen!

Fully updated and revised for today's practitioners, this lost underground classic is packed with more than thirty-five lessons and wisdom for both seekers and teachers. Miles Batty presents information on the history and tools of the Craft, spellcasting, ritual procedures, the Wheel of the Year, the principles of Wiccan belief, the four cornerstones of magick, and more. You'll start with the fundamentals and progress through many facets of witchcraft, from divination to ritual construction and etiquette.

Axial Age refers to the era (800-200 BCE) when five Eurasian civilizations experienced an unprecedented period of development in philosophy, religion, and art. In this compelling audio course, Professor Matthew Dillon argues that the schools of thought that emerged in this period are integral to how we think about the big questions of existence today.

Inayat's Song is the story of a young man who struggled with the great questions of existence. Who is God? And who am I? And what is our relationship? Inayat Khan's first-person narrative is read by award-winning actor Tom Alter. Inayat Khan was a gold medal-winning musician, a child prodigy from a musical family, including the renowned musician and music educator, Maulbakhsh Shole Khan. Along with his music education, he showed an aptitude for mystical training and was taken as a pupil of Sufi Master Abu Hashim Madani of Hyderabad.

In "The Banner of Shamballa", the enlightened sage Valiant Thor (also known as "The Stranger at the Pentagon"), talks about what he considers to be one of the most valuable and informative topics that a metaphysical teacher can give to a Western audience. He discusses the coming of Maitreya, the great teacher, who, according to ancient prophecies, will guide mankind from our current darkness into the light.