Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi

Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi
Author: Sophia Rose Arjana
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1786077728

From jewellery to meditation pillows to tourist retreats, religious traditions – especially those of the East – are being commodified as never before. Imitated and rebranded as ‘New Age’ or ‘spiritual’, they are marketed to secular Westerners as an answer to suffering in the modern world, the ‘mystical’ and ‘exotic’ East promising a path to enlightenment and inner peace. In Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi, Sophia Rose Arjana examines the appropriation and sale of Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam in the West today, the role of mysticism and Orientalism in the religious marketplace, and how the commodification of religion impacts people’s lives.

The Marketplace (Book One of the Marketplace Series)

The Marketplace (Book One of the Marketplace Series)
Author: Laura Antoniou
Publisher: Circlet Press
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2010-06-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1885865562

First time in ebook form! A modern classic of BDSM-themed fiction. Follow the trials and tribulations of four aspiring slaves as they undergo training hoping to be accepted into The Marketplace. Under the firm hand of Grendel, the sharp eye of Alexandra, and the painful leather strap in the hands of Chris, these men and women will find some of their hardest challenges are within themselves.

Healing Collective Trauma

Healing Collective Trauma
Author: Thomas Hübl
Publisher: Sounds True
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2020-11-17
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1683647386

A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding and Healing Shared Trauma What can you do when you carry scars not on your body, but within your soul? And what happens when those spiritual wounds exist not just in you, but in everyone in your family, community, and even beyond? Spiritual teacher Thomas Hübl has spent years investigating why it is that old and seemingly disconnected traumas can seed their way through communities and across generations. His work culminates in Healing Collective Trauma, a new perspective on trauma that addresses both its visible effects and its most hidden roots. Thomas combines deep knowledge of mystical traditions with the latest scientific research. “In this way,” writes Thomas, “we are weaving a double helix between ancient wisdom and contemporary understanding.” Thomas details the Collective Trauma Integration Process, a group-based modality for evoking and eventually dissolving stuck traumatic energies. Providing structured practices for both students and group facilitators, Healing Collective Trauma is intended to build a practical tool kit for integration. Here, you will learn: • The innumerable ways trauma shapes our world—from identity and health to economy, geopolitics, and the state of the environment • The concept of “trauma loyalty”—unconscious group bonds based in a pain narrative • How the climate crisis is both a manifestation of humanity’s collective trauma and an opportunity to heal • “Retrocausality”—how the power of presence can reshape the past and make new futures possible Including essays contributed by experts such as Dr. Gabor Maté, Dr. Otto Scharmer, Dr. Christina Bethell, and Ken Wilber, Healing Collective Trauma offers not just an advanced look at community trauma but also a hopeful glimpse of the future. As Thomas declares, “Together, I believe we can and must heal the ‘soul wound’ that marks us all. In so doing, we will awaken to the luminous possibility and profound potential of our true, mutual nature as humankind.”

Mystics, Masters, Saints, and Sages

Mystics, Masters, Saints, and Sages
Author: Robert Ullman
Publisher: Conari Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2001-10-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781573245074

Organized chronologically, starting with Buddha and ending with contemporary seekers, this book focuses on the moment of enlightenment in the lives of saints and masters that led to their witnessing divine reality.

The Abundance Paradigm

The Abundance Paradigm
Author: Joe Vitale
Publisher: Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2022-01-25
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1722526742

A paradigm is more than a feeling or a belief. It is an entire way of being a fundamental universal conviction that reverberates out into the universe In The Abundance Paradigm, Joe Vitale, one of the pioneers of Internet marketing and one of the stars of the hit movie The Secret, shows you how to make the profound shift from a paradigm of scarcity in which you have "not enough" of the things you want and need to a paradigm of abundance in which you have more than enough of everything, at all times. When you make this shift, you move beyond the Law of Attraction to the little-known Law of Creation and step into a world where you will: Align with the universe automatically instead of working to make it happen Manifest your desires spontaneously instead of thinking about it Get what you want immediately instead of waiting for it to show up Vitale offers Step by step techniques that will facilitate a complete paradigm shift to enable ideas to flow into your mind freely and openly Dissolve the limitation compromising your growth Erase toxicity from your relationships Clear your consciousness of negative judgement of yourself and others Protect your paradigm from harmful outside influences and interference

Ask the Psychic Medium

Ask the Psychic Medium
Author: Bonnie Page
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2019-01-09
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1982218908

DO YOU WONDER WHAT YOUR LOVED ONES ARE DOING ON THE OTHER SIDE? DO YOU WANT TO BE IN TOUCH WITH THE SPIRIT WORLD? DO YOU KNOW HOW TO RECOGNIZE THE SIGNS THAT YOUR LOVED ONES ARE TRYINGTO SEND? As a respected author and newspaper columnist, Bonnie has been asked many questions from people looking for assurance that their loved ones on the other side are safe and happy, and what Heaven is like. This book is a compilation of questions, answers, and stories about your loved ones.

Working with Oneness

Working with Oneness
Author: Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Publisher: The Golden Sufi Center
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2002-05-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1890350052

Humanity has been given access to the secrets of oneness, but we need to learn how to work with them. Working with Oneness brings mysticism into the center of the marketplace, into the world of business and technology, and shows how we can work with it in everyday life. The dynamic energy of oneness has the potential to heal the planet and revolutionize life more than we can imagine, but it requires our individual participation and awareness to become fully alive. The energy of oneness is already present but waiting to be lived, and Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee provides a blueprint for working consciously with this energy. As we understand how our consciousness affects the whole fabric of life, the potential for real global change comes alive. Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee stresses the need to change from hierarchical, patriarchal power structures to organic patterns that allow for the free flow of energy and ideas. Through these patterns the dynamic energy of oneness can become part of everyday life. Working with Oneness includes a number of additional important topics, including: the changing energy structure of the planet and how to work with it; the power of individual consciousness; the danger of the desire for spiritual security; the return of joy to everyday life; the awakening of the heart of the world; a new understanding of magic; the use of the imagination; and mystical participation in life with the energy of oneness. Working with Oneness offers guidance on how to work with the energy of oneness, to learn how to participate in life free of the patterns of the past, so that the divine can come alive in every moment of every day. Working with Oneness is mystical activism at its most potent. “There is a growing and eager audience waiting for a vision of unity consciousness... Working with Oneness offers a salutary antidote to worn-out antagonisms. It challenges readers to join other kindred souls in a mystical activism that can bring new hope to humanity.” —Spirituality & Health “A book filled with wonder and the kind of insights that can leap out to your heart and gladden you for having read them. It's words are simple and straightforward—always a blessing—but its message it the most vital and important for the time in which we live. I recommend it.” —David Spangler, author, Blessings: the Art and the Practice