The Power of Friendship: Mark Nepo

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.

Tenderness is pleasurable. So why does it feel like something to avoid, something to cringe from, something to quickly get through? When you are tender with yourself, or someone is tender with you, it is vulnerable. So why not be vulnerable? We all have our stories. Radical Self Tenderness takes self care to the next level. We cultivate within us a vibration of love that heals, What if taking care of you is part of taking care of the world? If you live tenderly on the inside could it contribute to more tenderness in your life and in those whose lives you touch? Can you be tender with what causes you to feel pain? Can you see how self acceptance contributes to peace? What if we were meant to love ourselves? What would that make possible?

The thing worth keeping alive for the rest of time, is friendship itself. For being seen and heard empowers us to stand by our core. When standing by our core, we have the strength to be fully who we are. When fully who we are, we become humble instruments for each other’s inevitable transformation. At our best, we serve as inadvertent catalysts for each other’s eventual illumination. Coming together like this is intrinsic to our nature and helping each other transform is one of the deep purposes of friendship.

Tenderness is pleasurable. So why does it feel like something to avoid, something to cringe from, something to quickly get through? When you are tender with yourself, or someone is tender with you, it is vulnerable. So why not be vulnerable? We all have our stories. Radical Self Tenderness takes self care to the next level. We cultivate within us a vibration of love that heals, What if taking care of you is part of taking care of the world? If you live tenderly on the inside could it contribute to more tenderness in your life and in those whose lives you touch? Can you be tender with what causes you to feel pain? Can you see how self acceptance contributes to peace? What if we were meant to love ourselves? What would that make possible?