New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, blue cloth, 378pp. In this sequel to Julius LeVallon, Blackwood explores the natural and supernatural aspects of dual personality. A young man with a dual personality becomes a patient at a Spiritual Clinique where he is under the.....
Sounds True, 2015. Hardcover. When her granddaughter was accepted to Naropa University, the celebrated author Pema Chödrön promised that she'd speak at the commencement ceremony. Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better contains the wisdom shared on that day. What do we do when life doesn't go the way we hoped? begins.....
Harmony, 2020. Hardcover. The definitive book of meditation that will help you achieve new dimensions of stress-free livingFor the past thirty years, Deepak Chopra has been at the forefront of the meditation revolution in the West. Total Meditation offers a complete exploration and reinterpretation of the physical, mental, emotional, relational.....
Eureka, MT: Spirit Fire Publications, 1998. Illustrated by Martine Baker. Spiral bound. Quarto, 8-1/2 x 11", stiff pictorial wrappers, spiral bound, 108pp, fully illus. The Rainbow Generation of Healing System is, in the author's preface, "a divinely designed tool for assisting one's conscious effort to raise vibratory rates in the.....
Pantheon Books, 2019. Hardcover. We all have fears, but if we can't face the small ones how will we face the big ones? Kai is afraid to fly a little blue kite. But Kai is also very, very brave, and overcoming this small fear will lead him on a great.....
Sorin Books, 2014. Paperback. This volume presents a series of prayers unlike any of the beautiful, formal, orthodox prayers of the Catholic tradition or the warm, extemporized prayers heard from pulpits and dinner tables. Doyle's often-dazzling, always-poignant prayers include eye-opening hymns to shoes and faith and family.
Loyola Press, 2013. Paperback. In this spirited collection of essays, Brian Doyle employs his wit, wisdom, and gusto for life as he shares with readers his thoughts on Jesus, the Mass, Birds, Bees, and so much more. What would be a good alternative name for Jesus? What does a honeybee.....
Saint Mary's Press, 2016. Paperback. 25 practical passionate perceptive professors share what they are really trying to teach their students. Two professors asked fellow faculty members at the University of Portland, a Holy Cross institution in the Pacific Northwest, what it is they really teach. The answer is revealed in.....
Loyola Press, 2013. Paperback. Best-selling and award-winning essayist Brian Doyle knows that the heartbeat of Catholicism is found not in papal decrees and pageantry, but in the parish halls, potluck dinners, and the believing community. In this spirited collection of more than 40 essays, Doyle employs his trademark wit, candor.....
Little Brown and Company, 2019. Hardcover. #1 SEATTLE TIMES BESTSELLER A playful and moving book of essays by a "born storyteller" (Seattle Times) who invites us into the miraculous and transcendent moments of the everyday When Brian Doyle passed away at the age of sixty after a bout with brain.....
Penguin Books, 2019. Paperback. "A sharp and unconventional book -- a swirl of memoir, travelogue and biography of some of history's champion day-dreamers." --Maureen Corrigan, "Fresh Air" A spirited inquiry into the lost value of leisure and daydream The Art of the Wasted Day is a picaresque travelogue of leisure.....
New Harbinger Publications, 2009. Paperback. If you change your brain, you can change your life. Great teachers like the Buddha, Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, and Gandhi were all born with brains built essentially like anyone else's--and then they changed their brains in ways that changed the world. Science is now revealing.....
Simon & Schuster/ Ted, 2014. Hardcover. A follow up to Pico Iyer's essay "The Joy of Quiet," The Art of Stillness considers the unexpected adventure of staying put and reveals a counterintuitive truth: The more ways we have to connect, the more we seem desperate to unplug. Why might a......
Dial Press, 2020. Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A renowned psychic medium teaches us how to recognize and interpret the life-changing messages from loved ones and spirit guides on the Other Side. "A collection of incredible stories . . . that speak to the universe's endless capacity for magical.....
Milkweed Editions, 2014. Paperback. A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Bestseller Named a "Best Essay Collection of the Decade" by Literary HubAs a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.....
W. W. Norton & Company, 2019. Hardcover. Believers is a scientist's answer to attacks on faith by some well-meaning scientists and philosophers. It is a firm rebuke of the "Four Horsemen"--Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens--known for writing about religion as something irrational and ultimately harmful. Anthropologist.....
Avery Publishing Group, 2016. Hardcover. An instant New York Times bestseller Two spiritual giants. Five days. One timeless question. Nobel Peace Prize Laureates His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have survived more than fifty years of exile and the soul-crushing violence of oppression. Despite their hardships--or, as.....
Riverhead Books, 2021. Hardcover. "Anne Lamott is my Oprah." -Chicago TribuneFrom the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow comes an inspiring guide to restoring hope and joy in our lives.In Dusk, Night, Dawn, Anne Lamott explores the tough questions that many of us grapple with. How can we recapture the.....
Melbourne: Tushita Publications, 2005. Hardcover. 5-3/4 x 8-7/8", teal cloth, coral endpapers, dedication, outline, glossary, bibliography, index, 4 color plates, 20 black & white illustrations. Line illustrations by Andy Weber, photographs of author and paintings by Monty Coles, Photograph of His Holiness the Dalai Lama by Don Farber."Meditations on the.....
Broadway Books, 2017. Paperback. A rigorous, skeptical, deeply reported look at the new science behind the mind's surprising ability to heal the body. Have you ever felt a surge of adrenaline after narrowly avoiding an accident? Salivated at the sight (or thought) of a sour lemon? Felt turned on just.....
Spring Valley, NY: Mercury Press, 1994. Second Printing with revisions. Softcover. Octavo, 268pp, notes, biblio, index, folding chart laid in. Second Printing. Compiled, edited, with a concluding chapter by Florin Lowndes. George and Gisela O'Neil led work at the New York branch of the Anthroposophical Society in America for 14.....
Vintage, 2020. Paperback. "River of Fire is Sister Helen's story leading up to her acclaimed book Dead Man Walking--it is thought-provoking, informative, and inspiring. Read it and it will set your heart ablaze!"--Mark Shriver, author of Pilgrimage: My Search for the Real Pope Francis The nation's foremost leader in efforts.....
(San Francisco): Kagyu Droden Kunchab Dharma Center, 1977. Pamphlet. Octavo, 5-1/2 x 8-3/8", gilt decorated white glossy wrappers, 32pp, illus. A Tantric Invocation program. Kalu Rinpoche established Kagyu Droden Kunchab, a Kaguy Dharma Center "For the All-Pervasive Benefit of Beings" in San Francisco in 1974. Pamphlet includes an essay on.....
HarperOne, 2018. Paperback. In this "rich, fascinating portrait of extraordinary sensory awareness" (Kirkus), acclaimed neurologist Joel Salinas, M.D., tells his amazing true story of living and practicing medicine with mirror-touch synesthesia, a rare neurological trait that allows him to literally feel the emotional and physical experiences of other people. From.....
Bantam, 2010. Paperback. From a pioneer in the field of mental health comes a groundbreaking book on the healing power of "mindsight," the potent skill that allows you to make positive changes in your brain-and in your life. Foreword by Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence - Is there a......
