“Crystal Power: 12 Essential Crystals for Health & Healing” by Kac Young

"Elevate Your Crystal Healing to the Next Level with Groundbreaking, Never-Before-Seen Techniques Heal more deeply and restore your spirit with this innovative guide to enhancing your crystal practice. Featuring a brand-new approach to wellness, Crystal Power shows you how to pair the twelve best healing crystals with a variety of spiritual tools and techniques. Every stone receives a thorough breakdown of its purposes, along with practical tips for using it with chakras, essential oils, astrological signs, goddess energy, and much more. Esteemed author and healer Kac Young, PhD, provides expert advice for working with these crystals to help improve all aspects of your health. Integrate the stones with archetypes to heal emotional wounds. Combine them with...>>

“Essential Oils for Beginners: A Guide to What They Are & How to Use Them” by Kac Young

"This approachable guide shares the secrets to improving your health and wellness through the use of twenty essential oils specifically chosen for their versatility and practicality. Kac Young shows you how these oils can be made into cleaning products, massage oils, aromatics, aphrodisiacs, magical formulas, and more. Explore the many ways essential oils can be used for personal empowerment and well-being, such as peppermint for pain relief and rosemary for weight loss. Designed to help you enjoy essential oils throughout your life, this impressive book provides profiles for each oil, application and safety guidelines, diffusing and pairing insights, recipes, and more. A must-have resource for your bookshelf, Essential Oils for Beginners enhances spirituality, happiness, beauty,...>>

“Essential Oils for Beginners: The Guide to Get Started with Essential Oils and Aromatherapy” by Althea Press

"What are essential oils? Which ones should you keep in your personal apothecary? And most importantly, how can you use them to heal and enhance well-being? Essential Oils for Beginners is the definitive handbook for learning all of this and more as you discover the power of essential oils. Learn how to expertly blend essential oils and create your own aromatherapy mixes to soothe your body, mind, and home. With 85 remedies that address everything from uplifting your mood to treating an upset stomach to cosmetic uses for your hair and skin, you’ll have all of the guidance you need to devote yourself to natural healing and health. Essential Oils for Beginners includes: ...>>

“The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture” edited by Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal

"A pioneering, richly interdisciplinary volume, this is the first work in any language on a subject that has long attracted interest in the West and is now of consuming interest in Russia itself. The cultural ferment unleashed by the collapse of the Soviet Union reawakened interest in the study of Russian religion and spirituality. This book provides a comprehensive account of the influence of occult beliefs and doctrines on intellectual and cultural life in twentieth-century Russia. Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal's introduction delineates the characteristics of occult cosmology which distinguish it from mysticism and theology, and situates Russian occultism in historical and pan-European contexts. Contributors explore the varieties of occult thinking characteristic of prerevolutionary Russia, including Kabbala,...>>

“Magic in the Cloister: Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe” by Sophie Page

"During the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries a group of monks with occult interests donated what became a remarkable collection of more than thirty magic texts to the library of the Benedictine abbey of St. Augustine's in Canterbury. The monks collected texts that provided positive justifications for the practice of magic and books in which works of magic were copied side by side with works of more licit genres. In Magic in the Cloister, Sophie Page uses this collection to explore the gradual shift toward more positive attitudes to magical texts and ideas in medieval Europe. She examines what attracted monks to magic texts, works, and how they combined magic with their intellectual...>>