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1. A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle (read by author)With his bestselling spiritual guide "The Power of Now", Eckhart Tolle inspired millions of readers to discover the freedom and joy of a life lived "in the now." In "A New Earth", tolle expands on these powerful ideas to show how transcending our ego-based state of consciousness is not only essential to personal happiness, but also the key to ending conflict ans suffering throughout the world. Tolle describes how our attachment to the ego creates the dysfunction that leads to anger, jealousy, and unhappiness, and shows readers how to awaken to a new state of consciousness and follow the path to a truly fulfilling existence. |
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1. A Thousand Names for Joy by Byron Katie with Stephen MitchellThis unusual collaboration brings together the Way (the Tao) and the Work, Katie's form of self-inquiry and path to joy. Katie is the author of Loving What Is, and Mitchell, the noted translator of the Tao, is her husband. In each chapter of this new book, Mitchell has presented Katie with a passage from the Tao and noted down her exposition on the theme. Katie's own "awakening" came in 1986, after 10 years of depression. One morning she felt a sense of freedom from her overwhelming distress, a feeling she calls "a falling-away of the self." This freedom, she claims, is available to anyone who practices the Work, which consists of asking oneself four questions intended to turn around fixed ideas and dismantle painful, knotted thoughts about the past. Four dialogues Katie has conducted with seekers illustrate the Work in action. Her belief that reality is good and can only be grasped if we live in the present moment resonates with many traditional spiritual teachings, and in this genuine and fresh spiritual manifesto, Katie's engaging personality springs from the page. |
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1. Enlightened Sex by David DeidaWith Enlightened Sex, listeners will learn how to open as love and see the light, literally, through the skillful dance of masculine-feminine ravishment. In this program, David Deida explores: · How to choose and sustain the right partner for deepening the spiritual practice of sex · How to arouse unbearable pleasure to heal past wounds · Mastering the subtleties of sexual anatomy, breath, and touch · Easing beyond fear into ecstatic surrender |
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1. Entering the Castle: Exploring your Mystical Experience of God by Carolyn MyssENTERING THE CASTLE by Caroline Myss is a powerful 8-CD program that will give you a deeply personal, revelatory experience of your soul. What is required is that you “enter your castle” and explore with great intent the contents of your seven mansions and their many rooms. You’ll be introduced to a new spiritual renaissance as Caroline explains the nature of mysticism and its experiences; what it means to be called into mystical service; how to discover your unique gifts, become a channel for grace, and conduct healing at a distance—and more. With this richly meaningful and unique audio experience, you’ll learn to express your highest potential with grace, and explore a spiritual life that is as deeply directed within as it is toward the world. |
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1. Living Everyday Zen by Charlotte Joko BeckWhat is the beginning and end of our practice? Simply, to create a little shift from the spinning world we've got in our heads to right-here-now." So begins Charlotte Joko Beck on Living Everyday Zen, the first audio program from this cherished voice in American Zen. Living Everyday Zen collects essential insights from Charlotte Joko Beck's half-century of teaching into three vivid CDs. Here, this legendary Zen teacher and bestselling author talks to people from every spiritual tradition on the topics of: * Zen: to clearly see you are life itself and not separated from life * Wearing out your "if onlies" to discover for yourself that fulfillment is only in the moment * Meditation: awareness of what is--directly perceived * Closing the gap between the "I" and the "That," and more "We enter a discipline like Zen practice so that we can learn to live in a sane way," explains Charlotte Joko Beck. "Ultimately the result of Zen practice is working better in the office, raising our kids better, and having better relationships." With Living Everyday Zen, she offers the timeless wisdom of this venerable tradition in an accessible, down-to-earth style that will help students new and old lead lives of benefit to all. |
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1. Shaking by Bradford KeeneyBook Description Can euphoric movement and unbridled sound be the next revolution in healing? This is the premise behind Shaking, a new audio learning program from pioneering psychotherapist, world explorer, and author Bradford Keeney. Drawing from his popular international workshops, Keeney presents a high-energy, interactive course filled with original, spontaneous drumming compositions, guided practices, and shamanic insights. With his infectious lead, listeners will have a firsthand experience of a healing art rooted in the 30,000-year-old culture of Africa's Kalahari Bushmen, and learn a nearly forgotten method for "tuning the mind, body, and spirit toward spirited ecstasy." |
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1. The Age of Miracles by Marianne WilliamsonThe need for change as we get older—an emotional pressure for one phase of our lives to transition into another—is a human phenomenon, neither male nor female. There simply comes a time in our lives—not fundamentally different from the way puberty separates childhood from adulthood—when it’s time for one part of ourselves to die and for something new to be born. The purpose of this book by best-selling author and lecturer Marianne Williamson is to psychologically and spiritually reframe this transition so that it leads to a wonderful sense of joy and awakening. In our ability to rethink our lives lies our greatest power to change them. What we have called “middle age” need not be seen as a turning point toward death. It can be viewed as a magical turning point toward life as we’ve never known it, if we allow ourselves the power of an independent imagination—thought-forms that don’t flow in a perfunctory manner from ancient assumptions merely handed down to us, but rather flower into new archetypal images of a humanity just getting started at 45 or 50. What we’ve learned by that time, from both our failures as well as our successes, tends to have humbled us into purity. When we were young, we had energy but we were clueless about what to do with it. Today, we have less energy, perhaps, but we have far more understanding of what each breath of life is for. And now at last, we have a destiny to fulfill—not a destiny of a life that’s simply over, but rather a destiny of a life that is finally truly lived. Midlife is not a crisis; it’s a time of rebirth. It’s not a time to accept your death; it’s a time to accept your life—and to finally, truly live it, as you and you alone know deep in your heart it was meant to be lived. |
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1. The Art of Presence by Eckhart TolleIs it possible that the simple act of being is not actually that simple? That to really be here now requires practice, like any other skill worth learning? On "The Art of Presence", Eckhart Tolle invites you to a six-session audio retreat to teach you how to deepen the moment-to-moment realization of your essential nature--the unified consciousness that lives all things. What is your realationship to the present moment? |
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1. The Secret by Rhonda ByrneSupporters will hail this New Age self-help book on the law of attraction as a groundbreaking and life-changing work, finding validation in its thesis that one's positive thoughts are powerful magnets that attract wealth, health, happiness... and did we mention wealth? Detractors will be appalled by this as well as when the book argues that fleeting negative thoughts are powerful enough to create terminal illness, poverty and even widespread disasters. The audio version of this controversial book, read by Byrne and contributing authors such as John Gray and Neale Donald Walsch, is uneven at best. The cheesy, obvious sound effects will not do much to add intellectual respectability to a work that has been widely denounced as pseudoscience. Mostly, this audio is hampered by its confusing and disjointed organization—techniques that worked reasonably well in the print version and the movie, such as cutting every few seconds from one enthusiastic expert to another, make for a choppy and somewhat bewildering listening experience. The gentle cadences of Rhonda Byrne's breathy, Aussie-infused voice are certainly the best part of the audio, but her material is scarce and provides mostly connective tissue between the testimonials. |
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1. The Third Jesus by Deepak ChopraWho is Jesus Christ? In The Third Jesus, bestselling author and spiritual leader Deepak Chopra provides an answer to this question that is both a challenge to current systems of belief and a fresh perspective on what Jesus can teach us all, regardless of our religious background. There is not one Jesus, Chopra explains, but three. First, there is the historical Jesus, the man who lived more than two thousand years ago and whose teachings are the foundation of Christian theology and thought. Next there is Jesus the Son of God, who has come to embody an institutional religion with specific dogma, a priesthood, and devout believers. And finally, there is the third Jesus, the cosmic Christ, the spiritual guide whose teaching embraces all humanity, not just the church built in his name. He speaks to the individual who wants to find God as a personal experience. When we take Jesus literally, we are faced with the impossible. How can we truly “love thy neighbor as thyself”? But when we see the exhortations of Jesus as invitations to join him on a higher spiritual plane, his words suddenly make sense. In this way Jesus can be seen for the universal teacher he truly is–someone whose teachings can embrace and be embraced by all of us. |
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1. To Bless the Space Between Us by John O'DonohueWhen we stand before crucial thresholds in our lives," asks poet and philosopher John O'Donohue, "where can we turn for guidance and protection?" On To Bless the Space Between Us, he shares words of wisdom and encouragement to help us traverse such crossings. Covering seven universal levels--Beginnings, Desires, Thresholds, Homecomings, States of the Heart, Callings, and Beyond Endings--O'Donohue delivers with uncommon clarity and lyrical beauty a series of invocations and blessings for everyday grace and contemplation. To illuminate "pathways of presence through the geography of new worlds," he calls forth the omnipresent aid of the divine that will lead us beyond our limitations. For it is "when we are true to the call of experience," O'Donohue assures, that "we are true to God." In the tradition of his classic Anam Cara (Harper, 1998), To Bless the Space Between Us is presented with an earthy eloquence and incomparable resonance by this master of Celtic consciousness--offering listeners an atmospheric and thought provoking collection that rekindles the passionate heart. Music by acclaimed Irish harpist Áine Minogue. |