Encore: Shavasti #2 / Generational Imprints

A series of mystifying moments occasioned by words that lit up before her eyes had longtime psychologist and teacher Christina Donnell profoundly engaged. As her sensory impressions of this “living language” deepened within her, she noticed her thoughts giving way to direct perception and her inner sensations yielding to a feeling of universal perception, transporting her to a level of awareness far beyond normal. No longer was there a self separate from other; infinity and eternity had become physical realities; and more.

Our personal transformation serves the collective healing, This is a journey of self-empowerment around the Medicine Wheel of Earth Wisdom - to ignite your spirit fire, awaken new levels of consciousness, and inspire you to meet the outer challenges through deep inner work. It opens aspects of your innate Earth Wisdom, including your creative, sensory, emotional, and intuitive intelligences, the wisdom of your body-mind and heart-knowing. Illustrated with heartful stories and inspiring images, this is a great read that's full of engaging humour, lyrical story-telling and practices for the next step of human evolution.

This is a clarion call to the aging to awaken before they die, embark on the adventure of self-discovery, become warriors on the spiritual path to embrace and ensure safe passage with the ultimate triumph of conscious living and dying. The privilege of aging is to experience with engagement this precious, painful life and to achieve vitality, satisfaction, joy in life we are fortunate to still have. Learn the art of resting, happiness, letting go, facing death to live in its light with greater intensity, enthusiasm, passion, and anchoring in a spirituality that transcends death.

Embody the powerful, passionate, fiery energy that is the authentic expression of you. Love beyond external circumstances, live fully in the present moment, and fully embody the spark that is you, letting it shine the way for generations to come. Life is inviting us to stop focusing on everything that is going on outside of us, to stop believing the fear narrative, and to let go of all the things that distract us from cultivating the resilience, joy, and grit it takes to live a bold, beautiful, and deeply meaningful life. We can let go of the focus on the outer world dictating our sense of well-being. The point of power is in the present moment. You get to choose what you want to focus on. This is an inside job and the time to begin is now. It is time to become fierce.

Learn how this presence of love can become your constant companion on one of the greatest of all life journeys, whether you are dying, taking care of the dying, or want to prepare for your death whenever that may come. Drawing on her experiences of her mother’s last precious weeks on Earth and other client death journeys, Don teaches that we all knew how to die once and that we can once again enter into this sacred knowing. You will encounter humor, sadness, joy, grief, angel prayers, and words of wisdom from beyond death. The life-death journey calls each one of us, and this book answers that call.

We know that exercising regularly will bring numerous benefits, from improved health and wellness to enhanced creativity, but most do not know that training the mind will bring a host of benefits too. Mind Training presents a way of life that promotes a process of conscious living. Having an awareness of the ‘whys’ behind some of our behaviors will reduce many of the self-destructive patterns that all of us are subject to in certain areas of our lives. Understanding some of our brain chemistry mechanisms allows us to take some manual control to increase our successes and overall feelings of well-being. Discovering some of the automatic mind mechanisms makes it possible to offset the ability for others to exploit them.

Manifestation has been widely dismissed as self-involved, materialistic phooey. Now, James R. Doty, MD—a Stanford neurosurgeon, New York Times bestselling author, and Dalai Lama collaborator—reveals that manifestation is rooted in science. Throughout his latest book, Mind Magic (Avery; on sale: May 7, 2024), Dr. Doty unveils his six-part plan for harnessing your mind’s power to change your brain structure and reclaim your agency. He grounds you in practices for neurological transformation by strategically targeting your attention, desires, obstacles, intention, passion, and expectations, so you can consciously create the life you want. In addition to his medical expertise, Dr. Doty has the lived experience of using manifestation to revamp his reality. After he went from rags to riches back to rags, Dr. Doty overhauled his thinking to focus on being spiritually and morally centered. In turn, the riches stayed for the long haul.

Many women have trouble with the image of the Virgin Mary, a young woman whose most esteemed quality has been celibacy. Yet, as Marguerite Mary Rigoglioso, Ph.D., reveals in inspiring depth, Mary was not just a docile maiden chosen by God to be the mother of Jesus. She was a great spiritual master in her own right: a sought-after healer and holy priestess who continued her public work long after Jesus’s resurrection. Revealing the secret life of Mother Mary as a deeply revered community leader, miracle-worker, and advanced spiritual practitioner, Rigoglioso shows how nurturing a relationship with the world’s most famous holy woman can provide healing, empowerment, and the development of your own womb powers.

The experience of two worlds makes you present in both but bound to neither. A portal is a point of possibility, a step into a thousand journeys. Freddy Silva takes you on a magical tour around the world to places on the land where the laws of physics behave differently and the perception of overlapping realities is both apparent and immediate. Experience Cadair Idris in Wales, Tintagel in England, the west coast of Scotland, Kura Tawhiti in New Zealand, Tsé Bit’a’í in New Mexico, the plateau of Giza, and power places high in the Andes. Learn the meaning and origins of the green man, serpents, dragons, and the Shining Ones, and identify the markers for the earth’s telluric currents to find your own places of power. PORTALS is your opening in space and time to multiple levels of reality.

Discover the seven most universal categories of spiritual experience. Ranging from the most common to the most esoteric and exulted, these experiences have been recorded consistently throughout human history and around the world. The book provides a simple and clear overview of the seven categories of experience with clear examples of what they might feel like experientially, how to recognize them, and how to make sense of them and the lessons they offer.