In The Heron Dance Book of Love and Gratitude , RoderickMacIver uses text and pictures to encourage readers to discoverthat “all-transcendent meaning” in their daily lives. This wise andcomforting book celebrates the open heart and the beauty andmystery that surround us through a wide array of voices andperspectives. MacIver weaves inspirational poetry and prose withhis shimmering nature watercolors to create a book that helpsreaders discover—and honor—love and gratitude. These quotes from men and women span time and geography, but sharea sense of hard-won wisdom. Henry Miller finds unexpected late-lifesolace in embracing the simple quality of trust. Gabriel GarcíaMárquez muses, “If I knew that this would be the last time you passthrough this door, I’d embrace you, kiss you, and call you back forone more.” Helen Keller says, “God is in me as the sun is in thecolor and fragrance of a flower.” This book is equally rewardingwhen sampled or read cover to cover as a respite from the pressure

In Handbook to theAfterlife, two seasoned experts with decades of experienceworking with channeled material describe the stages that spirits gothrough, focusing on the details that these accounts have incommon. Just as life itself has different stages of growth anddevelopment, so most accounts of the afterlife are consistent withthe authors’ view that dying and rebirth are also continuousprocesses. Beginning with the moment of death itself, progressing throughdifferent transitional stages, and ending with the return ofspirits to the physical plane, authors Pamela Heath and Jon Klimodefine the purposes and pitfalls of each stage. They look at thekinds of adjustment problems that occur in each phase, and howspirits can be helped to move forward. Questions of pain andemotional state at the time of death, karma, and reincarnation aresensitively addressed. The book includes practical techniques foropening up communication with those who have passed on to the otherside. While of interest to anyone seeking a g

“There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.”--William Shakespeare, Hamlet B fell twenty-five feet from his nest into the life ofChris Chester. The encounter was providential for both ofthem. B and Chester spent hours together playing games like bottle-capfetch or hide-and-seek. They learned “words” in each other’svocabularies. B developed a fetish for nostrils and a dislike ofthe color yellow. He grew anxious if Chester came home late fromwork. At bedtime he would rub his sleepy eyes on Chester’s thumband settle to sleep in his palm. Chester ended up turning part ofhis house into an aviary and adjusting his social life to meet B’sdemands. This was a small price to pay, though, for the trust andcomfort of a twenty-five-gram friend who brought joy and wonderback into his life.

The Passionate Mind Revisited takes readers on aliberating inner journey into the workings of their mind that cantransform the way people look at themselves and the world. Thisexpanded inquiry reflects the authors’ own and the world’sevolution since The Passionate Mind came out in 1974.The original book focusing on the individual is now extended tosocial and philosophical spheres and global challenges, exploringhow the world’s life-threatening dramas are largely a function ofpeople’s genetic and cultural conditioning, worldviews, beliefs,and values. Kramer and Alstad assert that humanity is on an evolutionarycusp requiring further awareness and conscious social evolution.Worldviews can create rigid beliefs and narrow identities that aredestructive in a world of global impact. While acknowledging thefallibility of any mental construction, the book offers anevolutionary worldview deemed more likely than traditionalworldviews or scientific materialism. In exploring what it is to be a human so

Most of us believe that our happiness depends on the outside world - and that by solving our problems, improving our relationships, or achieving success, we will find contentment. In You Can Be Happy No Matter What , Dr. Richard Carlson shows that happiness has nothing to do with forces beyond our control. His simple and practical guide teaches 5 principles -

A sister is a friend for life, and a friend can be a sister. Sisterhood is one of the most liked topics for the 3.5 million Happiness Is . . . fans on social media and this cute-ascan- be book captures 200 beautiful moments of sisterhood among friends and friendship between sisters. From sharing clothes and hosting parties to making pinky promises and staying close when you're far apart, this book says "I love you" in 200 different ways. Featuring the iconic illustration and charming captions of the beloved Happiness Is . . . brand, it's the perfect way to honor sisters by birth and sisters of the heart.

Book De*ion The Beginner Books -- "Their cartoon format and irreverent witmake difficult ideas accessible and entertaining." -- Newsday Everything you need to know about neurosis, libido, ego, and id-- but somehow it slipped your mind. Freud for Beginners is a perfect introduction to the life andthought of the man whose discovery of psychoanalysis revolutionizedour attitudes towards mental illness, religion, sex, and culture.This documentary cartoon book plunges us into the world oflate-nineteenth-century Vienna in which Freud grew up. We explorehis early background in science, his work as a therapist, hisencounter with cocaine, and his theories on the unconscious,dreams, the Oedipus Complex, and sexuality. We meet his family, his friend and enemies, and his patients --The Rat Man, Anna O., Little Hans -- and we get an insider's viewas the psychoanalytic movement is launched. The zany art andprobing text do an extraordinary job of simplifying Freud withouttrivializing him.

Marc David eloquently describes the importance of addressingthe emotional and spiritual aspects of our lives in order to trulynourish ourselves. --Dean Ornish, M.D. Combining the principles ofnutritional awareness, personal growth, and body psychology, Nourishing Wisdom provides practical methods for redefiningthe role food plays in our lives. Line drawings.

The modern world is largely focused on the physical—on theappetites and senses, on doing and having—which can blind us to thespiritual realm. In Natural Chi Movement, Tienko Ting articulates atheory of life that unites the physical and spiritual worlds. Hesuggests there is nothing to learn or master; each of us—and everyliving thing—is a product of the merging of physical and spiritualenergy, already endowed with the capacity to thrive and heal.Activation of our chi is the component to wellness that most of ushave been missing. It is the essence of the practice of Natural ChiMovement. Natural Chi Movement guides modern seekers in embracing theirspiritual nature and accessing the boundless potential of energy.Doing so, says Ting, can also help address global problems fromhealth care to ecology. Featuring 23 illustrations, the book drawson Chinese history, philosophy, and medicine, as well as from theauthor’s own work with spiritual energy. Natural Chi Movement is anexploration into the n