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Reveals how our survival depends on embracing complexity consciousness and relating to nature and all life as sacred

In "The Prophet's Way, " Thom Hartmann shares his intense spiritual journey, a story that melds recent discoveries in science with ancient truths. Through insightful and engaging vignettes Hartmann teaches that accepting the challenge to have faith means living in the moment, where the material and spiritual worlds meet. He offers readers a powerful example of how we can create our future by reconnecting to the sacred heartbeat of the world.

Simon G. Powell suggests that evolution is not just about the survival of the fittest but rather the survival of the clever and sensible. He sees Nature as a system of self-organizing intelligence whose agenda is not merely the replication of genetic matter.

In "Radical Knowing, " a professor of consciousness studies makes a provocative claim: We are not who we think we are. Instead, we are what we feel.

Revealing the intimate connections between mind and matter, Francoise Tibika explains that conscious communication exists all the way down to the very molecules of which weand the universeare made.

As in the Heart, So in the Earth" is a strong indictment of a civilization that, while seeking domination over the earth, mutilates, tortures, and desacralizes it. For Pierre Rabhi ecology is inseparable from spirituality. A reconciliation with Mother Earth must be accompanied by relearning our ancestors' reverence for the soil.

Into territory where expression is like chaos theory, where oddly symmetrical order manifests out of the seemingly anarchic swirl of images and events, the author ventures with the mind-set of a naturalist. What emerges is an objective landscape that embodies the Other and that represents a conscious state in which the barriers between self and not-self dissolve.

This first comprehensive guide to oneirogens--naturally occurring substances that induce and enhance dreaming--details the properties and actions of these dream allies, establishing ethnobotanical profiles for 35 oneirogens, explaining the historical use of each, its method of action, and what light it sheds on the scientific mechanism of dreaming.

Visionary plants have long served indigenous peoples and their shamans as enhancers of perception, thinking, and healing. Twenty-three leading ethnobotanists, anthropologists, medical researchers, and cultural and religious figures explore the relevance of plant-induced visions to humanity's environmental crisis. They reveal how psychoactive plants allow nature's "voice" to speak to humans and what this communication means for our future.

With a masterful synthesis of recent discoveries in physics, biology, and psychology, Pearce reveals the extraordinary relationship of mind and reality and nature's blueprint for a self-transcending humanity.

Essays from more than 30 eminent women including writers Alice Walker and Eve Ensler, who are reinventing leadership by emphasizing collaboration, inner awareness, and relational intelligence.

This book examines ancient and modern uses of psychedelic drugs, calling for the safe and legal availability of entheogens for spiritual seekers. Includes contributions by Albert Hofmann, Terence McKenna, Rick Strassman, R. Gordon Wasson, and Jack Kornfield.

In this book Joseph Chilton Pearce describes his experience of "shaktipat, " received from his spiritual teacher, Swami Muktananda. "Shaktipat" is the moment enlightenment is conferred upon a student by his master's touch. Pearce experienced a dramatic shift of mind and realized that the challenge faced by modern humanity is to passionately gather the scattered fragments of our lives and channel them into the creative realm.

Within each human soul, meaning flickers as a spark waiting to be ignited. We are each responsible for taking the material of our own life and shaping it into something unique, beautiful, and meaningful. This process, which Sherwin calls "soulcrafting, " can turn your life into a work of art.

While bodies usually heal rapidly from an illness, injury, or wound, minds and hearts often suffer for years with debilitating symptoms of distress or upset. Hartmann discovers that a simple and effective bilateral therapy for healing can be just a short walk away.

Robert Tindall shares his journey through the inner and outer landscape of the churches of ayahuasca and with indigenous shamans in the Amazon. He explains the three pillars of Amazonian shamanism: healing through purging, the ritual use of ayahuasca, and communing with the innate intelligence of plant teachers.

Radical Nature" explores how mind and matter are related and proposes a radical and surprising answer: that matter itself tingles with consciousness at the deepest level. It is there in the cells of every living creature, even in molecules and atoms.

This book reveals water to be a conscious organism that is self-creating and self-organizing. Examining new discoveries in quantum biology, it shows how water binds all of life into one vast network of energy, allowing instant communication and coherence.

In this companion work to "The Mystery of Manna, " Dan Merkur elucidates a body of Jewish and Christian writings especially devoted to this tradition of visionary mysticism. He discusses the specific teachings of Philo of Alexandria, Rabbi Moses Maimonides, and St. Bernard of Clairvaux that refer to special meditations designed to be performed while partaking of the "psychedelic sacrament." Sheds new light on the use of psychedelics in the Wes...