“Zen in the Vernacular: Things As It Is” by Peter Coyote

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Buddha’s core teachings explained in accessible, everyday language • Shows how Zen offers a creative problem-solving mechanism and moral guide ideal for the stresses and problems of daily life • Shares the author’s secular, vernacular interpretations of the Four Noble Truths, the Three Treasures, the Eightfold Path, and other fundamental Buddhist ideas During the nearly 3,000 years since the Buddha lived, his teachings have spread widely around the globe. In each culture where Buddhism was introduced, the Buddha’s teachings have been pruned and modified to harmonize with local customs, laws, and cultures. We can refer to these modifications as "gift wrapping", translating the gifts of Buddha’s teachings in ways sensible to particular cultures ...>>

“Everyday Clairvoyant: Extraordinary Answers to Finding Love, Destiny and Balance in Your Life” by Cyndi Dale

"Professional clairvoyant and best-selling author Cyndi Dale has provided intuitive consulting and healing to more than 30,000 individuals, helping them lead more happy, successful, and fulfilling lives. Now she shares true personal stories and practical advice on how intuition can help you with everything from everyday concerns to major life decisions. Presented in an easy-to-follow Q&A format, the wisdom and guidance within these pages is organized into three categories: relationships, work or destiny, and health. Heartwarming, humorous, and surprisingly down to earth, Everyday Clairvoyant also offers tips and techniques for developing your own intuition, while offering insight on questions like the following: How will I know when I've met my true love? Do our children ...>>

“Dewitched: What You Need To Know About The Dangers Of Witchcraft & Wicca” by Tim Baker

"Wicca is the fastest-growing religion on today's college campuses, and is even featured on the covers of popular teen magazines. Christian teens need to know what to believe when it comes to witchcraft. Dewitched equips teens to carry on intelligent conversation with someone from a Wiccan background, know how to defend their faith to a Wiccan, and notice signs of Wicca or witchcraft in their culture. Dewitched is the must-have resource for any teen, youth pastor, or parent who wants good solid information and advice from a Christian perspective about this popular but dangerous religion." #comedy...>>

“Gothic Things: Dark Enchantment and Anthropocene Anxiety” by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

"Offering an innovative approach to the Gothic, Gothic Things: Dark Enchantment and Anthro­pocene Anxiety breaks ground with a new materialist analysis of the genre, highlighting the ways that, since its origins in the eighteenth century, the Gothic has been intensely focused on "ominous matter" and "thing power". In chapters attending to gothic bodies, spaces, books, and other objects, Gothic Things argues that the Gothic has always been about what happens when objects assume mysterious animacy or potency and when human beings are reduced to the status of just one thing among many—more powerful—others. In exploring how the Gothic insistently decenters the human, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock reveals human beings to be enmeshed in networks of human ...>>

“Wheels within Wheels: Chakras and Western Esotericism” by Phil Hine

"Wheels within Wheels examines the passage of chakras into Western Esotericism. Beginning with an overview of how chakras were conceptualized in early tantric traditions, Phil Hine traces how chakras captured the imagination of both Indian and European Theosophists in the late 19th century. He explores their appearance in the early Western Esoteric imagination, from the Christian mysticism of James M. Pryse to the practical exercises of Aleister Crowley. He examines the influence of Sir John Woodroffe’s The Serpent Power and the writings of Charles Webster Leadbeater, and how chakras were psychologized in the work of Jung, to their role in contemporary therapy culture. "Spinning radiant circles of infinite hue, each containing secret mantras to ...>>