“Tending Brigid’s Flame: Awaken to the Celtic Goddess of Hearth, Temple, and Forge” by Lunaea Weatherstone

"Brigid is worshiped worldwide as a source of inspiration, protection, and blessing. In Tending Brigid's Flame, Lunaea Weatherstone presents the beloved Celtic goddess as a true soul-friend for women today, exploring her legends and lore, attributes and allies, holidays, symbols, and sacred places. Filled with rituals, exercises, and meditations, Tending Brigid's Flame shows how to welcome Brigid into your home and make sacred all the activities of everyday life, from food magic to faery traditions, and from scrying to personal healing. Using the symbolism of fires that burn in hearth, temple, and forge, this breathtaking book sends you on a journey through the transformative power of one of the world's most revered goddesses."...>>

“An Introduction to Tantra and Sacred Sexuality” by Michael Mirdad

"Sex still sells! But why? Because it’s a subject that is repressed, ignored, abused, and even un-used—all by a race of people who are trying to understand their sexuality and how to use this most sacred encounter as a means of deepening intimacy and connection. In fact, a lack of healthy sexual knowledge and expression may very well be the primary issue behind failed relationships. A new book by world-renowned spiritual teacher, healer, and author Michael Mirdad, An Introduction to Tantra and Sacred Sexuality, reassures readers that despite the rising number of relationship breakups and increase in issues around intimacy, there are ways to solve these dilemmas and return sexuality to its rightful place...>>

“Xenolinguistics: Psychedelics, Language, and the Evolution of Consciousness” by Diana Reed Slattery

"Are language and consciousness co-evolving? Can psychedelic experience cast light on this topic? In the Western world, we stand at the dawn of the psychedelic age with advances in neuroscience; a proliferation of new psychoactive substances, both legal and illegal; the anthropology of ayahuasca use; and new discoveries in ethnobotany. From scientific papers to the individual trip reports on the Vaults of Erowid and the life work of Terence McKenna, Alexander and Ann Shulgin, and Stanislav Grof, we are converging on new knowledge of the mind and how to shift its functioning for therapeutic, spiritual, problem-solving, artistic and/or recreational purposes. In our culture, pychonautics, the practices of individuals and small groups using techniques such...>>

“Alchemy and Finnegans Wake” by Barbara DiBernard

"In the first full-length study of Joyce’s direct and indirect use of alchemical allusions, DiBernard shows how an awareness of the alchemical metaphor guides a reader through the richness of Finnegans Wake. For example, the alchemical transmutation of lead into gold parallels the transmutation of the dross and commotion of ordinary life into a work of art. This study shows how the themes of Joyce’s novel―death and rebirth, the conflict between physical and spiritual, incest, colors, forgery, and the reconciliation of opposites―relate to the alchemical process. The author then presents a theory, based on alchemical metaphor, on the much debated subject of Joyce’s view of the artist."...>>

“Blasphemers and Blackguards: The Irish Hellfire Clubs” by David Ryan

"Prostitutes, pimps, cutpurses, murderers and bawdy houses…. What were the hellfire clubs of 18th-century Ireland? Were they really élite groups who engaged in obscene orgies, devil worship and the ritual murder of servants? These questions have intrigued virtually everyone who has visited the supposed hellfire club meeting place in the Dublin Mountains, or heard the lurid stories that are associated with it. Cutting through this veil of myth and legend, Blasphemers & Blackguards: The Irish Hellfire Clubs reveals the truth about these mysterious societies."...>>