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Everybody has one. It's called a "haunt detector". It's the little alarm that goes off in our heads whenever we detect that something mysterious or supernatural has occurred. You could be sitting around relaxing, and for no special reason you start thinking about someone. Then the phone rings; you pick it up, and amazingly, it's that person! Many of us have experienced this phenomenon.What is it? Anthony DeStefano answers this compelling question in his fascinating new book, The Invisible World.

Observing an encounter between Catholic and Buddhist monks in 1996 at the Abbey of Gethsemani, near where he grew up in rural Kentucky, Fenton Johnson found himself unable to make the sign of the cross. His distance from his childhood faith had become so great - he considered himself a rational, skeptical man - that he could not participate in this most basic ritual. Impelled by this troubling experience, Johnson began a search for the meaning of the spiritual life.

At a time when people’s curiosity about the afterlife is stronger than ever, Pastor Frank Santora tackles this issue head-on, delivering cultural, scientific, philosophical, and biblical evidence to unveil the truth about the mysteries of the afterlife.

In this invaluable contribution to the continuing debate about religious belief, David Adams Richards offers an exhilaratingly fresh perspective and a voice more impassioned, heartfelt, and sometimes furious, than anything written about God by an atheist. David Adams Richards, one of Canada’s most beloved and celebrated authors, has been wrestling with questions of morality, faith, and religion ever since he was a child.

In October 2007, a new phenomenon appeared in the sky, was named the Comet Holmes, and is being claimed and acclaimed by the Hopi Nation as the Blue Star of their prophecy. The Blue Star is the harbinger. Between now and somewhere in 2013-2014, when the Red Star appears, great shifts in human consciousness will continue. With the fulfillment of the Mayan Long Count calendar in 2012 and the appearance of the Red Star, many are predicting that human consciousness will rise to the next level.

Suicide rates among Army soldiers increased 80 percent between 2004 and 2008, according to a recent report published in Injury Prevention. In the last several years, the number of soldiers returning from the Middle East with mental and physical wounds has continued to climb. According to Dr. Simon Rego, a supervising psychologist at Montefiore Medical Center, "Unlike any other time in history, U.S. military suicide rates now appear to have surpassed those among comparable civilian populations. It is therefore critical that we address this emerging public-health problem."

Is it possible to be grounded AND have a rich interior life? Is it possible to get through the day with poise when everything hits the fan? Is it possible to have a spiritual life and not be a wing-nut? For Jen Weigel, the answer to all three questions is a resounding YES. This is an honest, amusing teaching memoir rooted in Weigel's everyday experience as a mother, television personality, and performance artist. Weigel provides 13 common-sense rules for developing a sane and satisfying interior life.

Tackling a vast and often misconstrued topic, The Weiser Field Guide to Ascension delivers the layman's guide to historical, biblical, and the highly topical implications surrounding the earth shift and changes of 2012, the End Times and our role in all of these. What will happen to my loved ones? Will I have the same memories in the Next Dimension? How can I prepare for the Great Shift? Garrison addresses these natural human concerns with humor and practical suggestions for making the most out of the coming earth changes and our shift into a universal consciousness.

A self-published sensation, this is a practical, accessible handbook for the beginner with cross-appeal to seasoned practitioners of many ritual traditions of magic including Wiccan, Neopagan, Druid, Tameran (Egyptian/Isis), and Western Mystery. Dominguez covers grounding, centering, symbols, timing, inner preparations, protection, meditations for maintaining sacred space, The Circle, The Quarters, energy work, and many other cross-practice connection including Qabala and chakras.

The prolific writings of Kahlil Gibran, author of The Prophet, continue to inspire a devoted international following and have transformed modern Arabic literature. In this volume of early writings, Gibran’s simple yet lyrical style crosses from prose to poetry and yields insight into his dedication and inner vision of beauty, including the tale of a strange hermit in “The Tempest”, the discovery of love lost to war in “The Mermaids”, and the long voyage of sea and soul in the prose poem “Between Night and Morn”.

A recent Newsweek poll reports that 76 percent of Americans believe in heaven. Yet even avid believers have difficulty conjuring up more than vague images of halos, harps, and wispy angels in flowing robes. Anthony DeStefano knew there had to be a more complete, meaningful, and comforting vision of what heaven is like, and A Travel Guide to Heaven is the entertaining and enlightening result. Using the Bible as his guide, he notes that heaven is not only a spiritual place, but also a physical place.

Good Book is what happens when a regular guy actually reads the book on which his religion, his culture, and his world are based. Along the way, he grapples with the most profound theological questions: Does God prefer obedience or good deeds? And the most unexpected ones: Why are so many women in the Bible prostitutes? Why does God love bald men so much? Is Samson really that stupid? Good Book is an irreverent, enthralling journey through the world's most important work of literature.

The Koran, the sacred text at the heart of the second-largest religion in the world, is regarded by Muslims as the exact word of God as revealed to the prophet Muhammad. Representing the ultimate authority on almost every issue related to Muslim life, the Koran’s lessons and parables offer the faithful moral and spiritual guidance.

In "A occhi aperti", Mariana Caplan intende tracciare una via per chi si accosta alla ricerca spirituale: quella che porta alla scoperta del discernimento. L'agile e accurato manuale non guida infatti all'illuminazione. Al contrario, in contrasto alla "spiritualità fast food", intende accompagnare il lettore lungo il sentiero della ricerca spirituale partendo dalla sua natura affascinante, ma soprattutto complessa e accidentata. Soltanto conoscendo le buche, le deviazioni, le scorciatoie e i valichi del percorso è infatti possibile discernere, affrontare in modo produttivo un viaggio.

La mindfulness offre una opportunità, quella di essere consapevoli, cioè di essere davvero presenti nella propria vita, momento dopo momento, staccandoci da abitudini nocive e dipendenze mortificanti. Possiamo iniziare a vivere con maggior equilibrio psico-fisico sempficemente disciplinando con gentilezza la nostra attenzione, recuperando il tempo di guardare veramente alle cose per quel che sono, e non per quello che si è abituati a pensare, a temere o a sperare che siano.

La pratica della meditazione è stata coltivata in numerose tradizioni filosofiche e spirituali. Ma che cosa significa meditare? Quali benefici si hanno? Che cosa accade nel nostro cervello e nella nostra mente quando meditiamo? Nel descrivere le pratiche della meditazione secondo una prospettiva che tiene conto della loro complessità nei livelli storico-culturale, filosofico, religioso e neuropsicologico, il libro fornisce una utile guida per intraprendere un percorso di sviluppo psicologico e spirituale basato sulla mindfulness.

Nella tradizione orientale la religione ha un marcato carattere di praticità che in Occidente non si èmai sviluppato in modo organico. In particolare, i percorsi sviluppatisi a partire dal Buddha sibasano sulla comprensione che tutti siamo alla ricerca – della felicità, di un significato, della quietementale... e quant'altro implica riconnettersi con il proprio essere – e quella ricerca è dovuta a unanon conoscenza di se stessi, a un mancato sviluppo di una qualità che ogni essere umano possiede,in forma di seme: la consapevolezza.

Una obra para conocer la vida y las enseñanzas de Osho, el conocido místico contemporáneo, uno de los maestros espirituales mas controvertidos e inusuales del del siglo XX.

En la mayoría de las tradiciones espirituales las meditaciones deconstructivas del "yo" y las experiencias de no-dualidad están consideradas la cumbre de la práctica contemplativa. Por ello, han permanecido semi-ocultas durante siglos. La llegada del budismo y el hinduismo a Occidente durante el siglo XX generó un interés mundial sin precedentes por la práctica de la meditación. El fenómeno mindfulness es un magnífico ejemplo. Sin embargo, las prácticas deconstructivas siguen siendo desconocidas del gran público y apenas han empezado a estudiarse por la ciencia y la psicología.

Este libro es una síntesis perfecta de una metodología que está revolucionando el mundo de las organizaciones y las relaciones humanas: la Indagación Apreciativa (IA); un método basado en la nueva psicología positiva, la biomímesis, el pensamiento de diseño y la construcción social de la realidad. Escrito conjuntamente por el creador del método, David Cooperrider, y por su principal abanderada en el mundo de habla hispana, Miriam Subirana, Indagación Apreciativa trata de la forma en cómo promover el cambio a nivel personal, familiar, social, institucional o empresarial.