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When we lose a loved one, the experience is simultaneously mythical and personal. Grubbs anchors the mythical aspect of loss in the story of Gilgamesh and the loss of his beloved Enkidu, which sets him on a quest for Enkidu and the meaning of life. The personal aspect arises in the particular path we take in recovery from loss. Both realms blend in the dream space where we often encounter our lost beloved. Detailing the grieving process and th...

The profound insights of Jung and the equally profound teachings of the Peoples of Turtle Island have a common root below ground."Jung and the Native American Moon Cycles describes the life of C. G. Jung as seen through the lens of the Moon Cycles, a Native American teaching about the arche-typal influences and forces that affect us at different times in our lives. Through this lens we see how the rhythm of Jung's life coincided with the great...

A.E. Waite recommended this to the young Aleister Crowley in 1896 as the book he should read to understand the nature of the Interior Church. This new issues of the third and best edition includes two introductions Waite wrote for the 1903 and 1909 editions.

Known for "Atlanta Fugiens and "Themis Aurea, which continue to inspire alchemical students today. Maier's other works are virtually unknown. This book brings them to light and reveals Maier as a spiritual alchemist of the highest caliber.

The resurgent interest in the wisdom of the Goddess and ancient matriarchal religions makes "Sophia" a timely read! Schaup explains that the Divine Feminine has been with us all along, hidden in ancient Christian scripture, and has taken many different forms and names in Eastern and Western culture. She is Sophia, or Divine Wisdom. Dr. Schaup heralds a paradigm shift in our concept of God with this provocative chronicle of the manifestation of...

In ancient Pompeii, just before the fateful eruption of Vesuvius, a proud Roman tribune, Ombricius, is attending a friend's wedding celebration. No sooner does he finish telling another wedding guest about his doubt that he will ever find a woman who will stir his soul, a patrician woman, Hedonia Metella, passes by and drops a flower at his feet and engages him with a provocative look. He is intrigued, but soon afterward he sees Alcyone, the P...

In this engaging and wise little book, Gellert takes us on a moving journey from magic and the paranormal, to mysticism and the highest religious experience He draws upon both a scientifically acute mind and a compassionate heart to show how somehow we are able to experience all these "more than human" events.

C. G. JUNG has been called an atheist, a modern Gnostic/heretical theologian, and a critical philosopher. He viewed himself as an empirical psychologist, but he was born to a Christian minister's family and raised in close proximity to the church. His childhood memories were of his early perceptions of God. One of the more appealing aspects of C. G. Jung's work is his exploration of the religious instinct -- the images that rise up from the de...

Do you think that life happens to you from the outside in? Think again! Robertson says we are born as complex repositories of memories and behaviors. We learn some things by rote, but other parts of ourselves -- the important things we know in our inner soul before we "know" them in our conscious mind -- are waiting to have various "triggers" release them from the silence. Dreams give us a peek at this process. Robertson examines the inner wor...

In simple everyday language and with unique clarity and a refreshing sense of humor, James Robbins confidently guides readers through the sometimes bewildering crossroads of Eastern and Western spirituality, psychology, philosophy, and science in search of new paths to self improvement. A careful and detailed work of scholarship, Build a Better Buddha communicates traditional and non-traditional spiritual teachings in simple everyday language....

Eros and Chaos is a provocative book. In linking Chaos with Eros, the author radically challenges the reigning paradigm that couples chaos with order. Drawing upon ancient mythologies that unite Eros and Chaos, Goodchild explores love's relation with its shadows within the personal, collective, archetypal, and cosmic domains. "Like a wind crashing down among oak trees, love shattered my mind", said the sixth-century poet, Sappho, and H. D., a ...

. . . Deathing offers much comfort and reassurance, in its relief of the helplessness of those who are dying, and in its insistence on death as a joyful birth into a new life".--Patty Campbell, Wilson Library Bulletin.