Following Our Bliss: How the Spiritual Ideals of the Sixties Shape Our Lives Today by Don Lattin
From Amazon book description:
The sixties brought an explosion of religious and spiritual exploration, unprecedented in its scope, fervor, and sheer creativity. Lattin reveals how and why New Age beliefs, feminist spirituality, Eastern religions, Tai Chi and yoga, spiritual healing, and other alternative practices have taken such firm root in American culture.
Lattin not only explores dramatic changes in the core American communities of faith -- Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish -- he also tells the stories of what has happened to the likes of the Moonies, the Hare Krishnas, communes and ashrams, and to the children born into various spiritual communities. He shows how religious trends today, including the booming Christian rock movement, Buddhist punks, and contemporary Catholics wrestling with sexual ethics and church authority, have their roots in debates begun in the sixties.
Busted: Stone Cowboys, Narco-Lords and Washington's War on Drugs, by Mike Gray (Editor)
Spanning three decades, Busted tells readers why, charting the violence, chaos, and corruption that the War on Drugs has spawned. It includes frontline reporting from all over the world, literary journalism, public records, and provocative commentary from the left and right.
Read Gray's other book on the subject: Drug Crazy: How We Got into This Mess and How We Can Get Out.
War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, by Chris Hedges
From Library Journal
This moving book examines the continuing appeal of war to the human psyche. Veteran New York Times correspondent Hedges argues that, to many people, war provides a purpose for living; it seems to allow the individual to rise above regular life and perhaps participate in a noble cause. Having identified this myth, Hedges then explodes it by showing the brutality of modern war, using examples taken from his own experiences as a war correspondent in Latin America, the Middle East, and the Balkans
Corporateering: How Corporate Power Steals Your Personal Freedom - And What You Can Do About It by Jamie Court, Michael Moore
From Publisher's Weekly: The book explores the impact of [corporate] power on America's judicial system, education system and the public spaces that define community.
War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You To Know by William Rivers Pitt, Scott Ritter (Contributor)
In this shocking expose, William Rivers Pitt and former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter dismantle the myths surrounding Iraq's present weapons capabilities to uncover the neo-conservative forces behind the White House's push for war on Iraq. Click here to read an interview about the book with the author.
The Tallahassee Project: 100 Nonviolent Women Prisoners of the War on Drugs, by John Beresford Ph.D. (Editor), Karen Hoffman (Introduction)
In their own words, more than 100 women, most of them first-time nonviolent offenders, tell their side of a story not often covered in the media - the unfair incarceration of drug offenders. The Tallahassee Project gathers personal statements and photographs of these victims of a drug war condemned by every civilized nation - except the United States.
Click here for more informatin about Karen Horning (previously published in Pray for Peace Notebook).
Open Conspiracy
H.G. Wells on World Revolution, by H. G. Wells, W. Warren Wagar (Editor)
Amazon Book Description
H.G. Wells was acclaimed during his lifetime as one of the most original and creative thinkers of the 20th century, and retains to this day a position of considerable importance in the history of ideas. In 1928 when he wrote this cry for a new age of worldwide knowledge networking, there was no Internet. Yet Wells was already convinced that if only thinking people across the planet could somehow pull together and pool their expertise, energy, and insights into sort of "cerebrum for humanity," then the world would be a saner, safer, better, fairer place. Anyone aware of how the Internet already reflects both the vices and the virtues of society and wonders how a world-renowned visionary like H.G. Wells envisaged knowledge networking as working in practice will enjoy this book. It is a hymn to the practical possibilities of world group action.
About the Author
W. WARREN WAGAR is the Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at Binghamton University, and a Vice President of the H.G. Wells Society. He is the author of several books on Wells.
Sacred Geometry Oracle Deck
by Francene Hart
Amazon description: The first divination tool based on the ancient science and sacred language of geometry.
* A 64-card deck with original artwork by Francene Hart.
* Allows readers to balance their energy fields and access higher levels of consciousness.
* Comprehensive guide includes spreads, card explanations, and reflective insights from a wide variety of sacred traditions.
Sacred geometry is the key that unlocks all of the world's art, science, and architecture. Called the language of light, its images and shapes are embedded in DNA, mandalas, pyramids, crystals, atoms, and hieroglyphs. Anyone who has ever gazed at a spider's web, meditated on a mandala or yantra, visited a pyramid, walked a labyrinth, or peered through a microscope has felt the effects of sacred geometry. Now the Sacred Geometry Oracle Deck introduces an entirely new way for you to gain access to this wisdom and unlock its power.
It's a Free Country: Personal Freedom in America After September 11, by Danny Goldberg (Editor), Victor Goldberg (Editor), Robert Greenwald (Editor)
Wild Acoustic Chamber Orchestra - W.A.C.O. Catalog at True Classics CDs or purchase their first CD Sylvania through Amazon.com. Visit the W.A.C.O. website.
Alan Watts Collection
This Is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience
Tao : The Watercourse Way
Behold the Spirit; A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion
Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown; A Mountain Journal
The Wisdom of Insecurity
Books about George W. Bush
Stupid White Men ... and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! by Michael Moore.
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The Immaculate Deception: The Bush Crime Family Exposed by Russell S. Bowen
Ishmael, by David QuinnThe New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military - Industrial Psychosis, by Helen Caldicott. Order it from Amazon now and they will send it as soon as it's published.
The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder, by Mark Crispin Miller
My First Presidentiary
The Dirty Truth: The Oil and Chemical Dependency of George W. Bush
The Betrayal of America: How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose Our President by Vincent Bugliosi
Click here for more books, links and jokes about George W. Bush
Other Titles at Pray for Peace News
Green Gold the Tree of Life: Marijuana in Magic & Religion, by Chris Bennet. Amazon customer review: "A very valueable resource for anyone interested in the scholarly side of psychedelic history and the anthropological effects."
Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It: A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs, by James P. Gray
"Am I a Hindu?"
The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder, by Mark Crispin Miller
Writings of Peter McWilliams
The Poisonwood Bible and Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
The Betrayal of America: How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose Our President by Vincent Bugliosi
Freddie McGregor: Signature link here to listen to clips at Amazon.com
Hath... The Lion Prevailed...? by John Moodie
Reggae Report Review: This unique book of 38 pages will assist any one, at any level, to understand the Rastafari religion. It begins, as we did, with Adam and Eve. Using biblical quotations throughout, author John Moodie, or Prince Michael as he is spiritually Known, provides an understanding of the linage of Haile Selassie 1 from the very begining.
Songs of Freedom box set, link here to hear clips of this Bob Marley classic.
Waiting to Inhale, The Politics of Medical Marijuana, by Alan W. Bock.
Drug Warriors and their Prey, by Richard Lawrence Miller.
When AA Doesn't Work for You by Dr. Albert Ellis, Ph.D. and Emmett Velten, Ph.D. Applies the powerful insights of rational-emotive therapy to recovery from problem drinking.
My First Presidentiary a parody
The Dirty Truth: The Oil and Chemical Dependency of George W. Bush a serious book
Sex, Drugs & Democracy a documentary about life in Amsterdam. Read a review of this movie - click here.
Sadhus Shavite and other mystics of India - photos from Kumba Mela.
Weave a Garment of Brightness, A Gathering of Prayers from Around the World, by Wayne Lee Jones.
A story speaks more than mere words. Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell woke us up to the power of metaphor, myth and story. Humanist Rollo May wrote The Cry for Myth, which explains how metaphor escapes us. Psychiatrist Lionel Corbett's book, The Religious Function of the Psyche, explains how metaphor can heal, using Jungian Depth Psychology.
The Last Energy War: The Battle over Utility Deregulation, by Harvey Wasserman.
Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time, by Paul Rogat Loeb. These are indeed cynical times. But to hide behind the smugness of cynicism is a kind of self-imposed death sentence, explains writer and social commentator Paul Loeb. In fact, now is the ideal time for gathering all our strengths and wisdom as spiritual beings and applying ourselves to shaping a better world.
There's a Hole in My Sidewalk by Portia Nelson
This classic, wise little book is a collection of thought provoking and inspiring writings, including the poem that begins, "I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in . . . " Filled with practical wisdom and insight.
Who Owns the Sun? People, Politics, and the Struggle for a Solar Economy by Daniel M. Berman, John T. O'Connor. From Kirkus Reviews , November 1, 1996: "An impassioned, well-defended argument for solar power in the place of our current fossil-fuel-based economy. Two decades ago, environmentalists Berman and O'Connor write, Jimmy Carter installed a solar water heater on the White House roof, donned a cardigan, and announced that the ongoing energy crisis was 'the moral equivalent of war.' One of Ronald Reagan's first acts as president, however, was to order the heater removed.
Medicine of the Cherokee: The Way of Right Relationship
by J. T. Garrett, Michael Tlanusta Garrett
Midwest Book Review
The Way Of Right Relationship is the story of the physical, mental, spiritual, and natural aspects of humans as told through many generations of elder teaches of Native American medicine. With stories that tell about the "four directions" and the "universal circle", these ancient Cherokee teachings also offer wisdom on circle gatherings, herbs, healing, and ways to reduce stress and find harmony and balance in all our relationships. The way of our modern world can separate us from nature and make us prone to disease, signs of being on the wrong path.
Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness
by Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, Jean Houston
Book Description
Three of the most original thinkers of our time explore issues that call into question our current views of reality, morality, and the nature of life. *A wide-ranging investigation of the ecology of inner and outer space, the role of chaos theory in the dynamics of human creation, and the rediscovery of traditional wisdom.
In this book of "trialogues," the late psychedelic visionary and shamanologist Terence McKenna, acclaimed biologist and originator of the morphogenetic fields theory Rupert Sheldrake, and mathematician and chaos theory scientist Ralph Abraham explore the relationships between chaos and creativity and their connection to cosmic consciousness. Their observations call into question our current views of reality, morality, and the nature of life in the universe. The authors challenge the reader to the deepest levels of thought with wide-ranging investigations of the ecology of inner and outer space, the role of chaos in the dynamics of human creation, and the resacralization of the world. Among the provocative questions the authors raise are: Is Armageddon a self-fulfilling prophecy? Are we humans the imaginers or the imagined? Are the eternal laws of nature still evolving? What is the connection between physical light and the light of consciousness?
Part ceremony, part old-fashioned intellectual discussion, these trialogues are an invitation to a new understanding of what Jean Houston calls "the dreamscapes of our everyday waking life."
About the Author Rupert Sheldrake, the author of several books, including Seven Experiments That Could Change the World, A New Science of Life, and The Rebirth of Nature, lives in England. The late Terence McKenna was the author of Food of the Gods and The Archaic Revival. Ralph Abraham is the author of Dynamics: The Geometry of Behavior; he lives in California.
Crying for a Dream: The World Through Native American Eyes
by Richard Erdoes
Book Description
A powerful collection of text and full-color photographs that offers an intimate glimpse of Native American life.
* Includes rare photos and firsthand accounts of the sun dance, sacred pipe, yuwipi, and vision quest ceremonies.
* By internationally recognized ethnographer Richard Erdoes, author of Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions and Gift of Power.
How do you go about knowing a people? In this phenomenal combination of landscape, ceremony, individual portrait, and prose, Richard Erdoes brings forth the lesser seen world of the Native American experience and vision. With the aid of firsthand accounts collected during three decades of personal interactions with indigenous tribes, Erdoes chronicles the traditional rites, individual lives, and historical persecution of North America's indigenous peoples.
The images and words of Crying for a Dream represent Erdoes' finest work. His focus on the natural and sacred world of North America's indigenous peoples includes elements of the Sioux ceremonial cycle and portraits of native peoples from the plains, mesas, and deserts. The sun dance, sacred pipe, yuwipi, and vision quest are described by the author and his subjects and are illustrated with more than 70 photographs.
Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing and Hallucinogenic Powers
by Richard Evans Schultes, Albert Hofmann, Christian Ratsch
Shaman's Drum Review
This superbly illustrated, encyclopedic volume provides a much needed, well-balanced scientific perspective on the use of hallucinogenic plants. Richard Evans Schultes, the worlds most eminent ethnobotanist, and Albert Hofmann, the former research director at Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, emphasize the need for continued education about both the potential benefits and the inherent dangers involved in the use of hallucinogens.
Three scientific titans join forces to completely revise the classic text on the ritual uses of psychoactive plants. They provide a fascinating testimony of these "plants of the gods," tracing their uses throughout the world and their significance in shaping culture and history. In the traditions of every culture, plants have been highly valued for their nourishing, healing, and transformative properties. The most powerful of those plants, which are known to transport the human mind into other dimensions of consciousness, have always been regarded as sacred. The authors detail the uses of hallucinogens in sacred shamanic rites while providing lucid explanations of the biochemistry of these plants and the cultural prayers, songs, and dances associated with them. The text is lavishly illustrated with 400 rare photographs of plants, people, ceremonies, and art related to the ritual use of the world's sacred psychoactive flora.
The Psychedelic Sacrament: Manna, Meditation, and Mystical Experience
by Daniel Merkur, Dan Merkur
Book Description
Reveals the secret teachings from the Judeo-Christian traditions that promote the use of psychedelic substances to enhance religious transcendence. * Explains how special meditations were designed to be performed while partaking of the "psychedelic sacrament". * By the author of The Mystery of Manna, Powers Which We Do Not Know, Gnosis, and The Ecstatic Imagination.
In The Mystery of Manna, religious historian Dan Merkur provided compelling evidence that the miraculous bread that God fed the Israelites in the wilderness was psychedelic, made from bread containing ergot--the psychoactive fungus containing the same chemicals from which LSD is made. Many religious authorities over the centuries have secretly known the identity and experience of manna and have left a rich record of their involvement with this sacred substance.
In The Psychedelic Sacrament, a 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." These meditations combine the revelatory power of psychedelics with the rational exercise of the mind, enabling the seeker to achieve a qualitatively enhanced state of religious transcendence. The Psychedelic Sacrament sheds new light on the use of psychedelics in the Western mystery tradition and deepens our understanding of the human desire for divine union.
Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey
by Alex Grey, Ken Wilber, Carlo McCormick
New York Times Review:
Mr. Grey's paintings, as detailed and anatomically accurate as medical illustrations, present man as an archetypal being struggling toward cosmic unity...Grey's vision of a flawed but perfectable mankind stands as an antidote to the cynicism and spiritual malaise prevalent in much contemporary art.
Call of the Great Spirit: The Shamanic Life and Teachings of Medicine Grizzly Bear
by Bobby Lake-Thom
Book Description
A traditional Native American healer from the Karuk tribe shares his personal story of reconnection to the Great Spirit in contemporary America.
* By Bobby Lake-Thom, author of the bestseller Native Healer.
* Provides Native American shamanic perspective on disease and healing.
* Explores indigenous social identity in a spiritual and political context.
* Reveals authentic indigenous traditions and ceremonies from numerous tribes.
This redemption story of Native American healer Bobby Lake-Thom invites the reader to enter a world of authentic indigenous traditions and ceremonies. Bobby, also known as Medicine Grizzly Bear, didn't recognize his shamanic calling at first. He didn't know that his vivid dreams, psychic abilities, and visitations by wild animals and ghostly figures were calls from the Great Spirit.
In the age-old shamanic tradition, it took a near-death experience for the message to get through to him. Though still a young man, he was wracked with debilitating arthritis. Unable to handle the physical and psychic pain, he set out into the wilderness determined to kill himself with an overdose of drugs and alcohol. But before downing the substances, he approximated a Native American ceremony as best he could, sending a heartfelt prayer for assistance to the Great Spirit. He woke up--alive--the next morning and received a message from Eagle, telling him to seek help from Wahsek, a medicine man in the northern mountains. And so Bobby's apprenticeship began. Forbidden to reveal Wahsek's secrets until 10 years after his death, Bobby is now free to share this fascinating story with the world.
About the Author Bobby Lake-Thom (Medicine Grizzly Bear) is a traditional native healer and spiritual teacher trained by 16 medicine men and women from different tribes. He lectures, conducts workshops, and has doctored hundreds of people from all walks of life. He has also served as Professor for Native American Studies at Humbolt State University and as an Indian affairs specialist for numerous Indian tribes and organizations in the United States. He lives in California.
The Toltec Path of Recapitulation: Healing Your Past to Free Your Soul
by Victor Sanchez
Book Description
A ten-step technique, based on the teachings of the Toltecs, that allows the reader to heal from traumatic life events and emerge with new energy and direction. * Introduces the practice of Recapitulation, a method used by the indigenous people of Mexico to restore balance to the psyche. * Ideal for people suffering the effects of childhood trauma, broken relationships, abuse, depression, anxiety, and other psychological stresses. * Written by Victor Sanchez, author of The Teachings of Don Carlos.
What if it were possible to revisit the traumatic or difficult events of our past and emerge renewed, re-energized, and healed from the damage left within us by these events? The practice of Recapitulation can do just this through a series of energetic exercises that can ultimately free us from the repetitive emotional conflicts and persistent negative patterns that often result from trauma.
Victor Sanchez shares with the reader both the philosophy and practical applications of this ancient Toltec technique. Anyone who has lived through a long, difficult experience--perhaps a serious illness, broken relationship, sexual abuse, or a childhood spent in a divisive family environment--can benefit from this process. Recapitulation makes it possible to actually relive and resolve the events that have caused emotional distress. In this clear and straightforward workbook, the author guides readers through the ten steps of Recapitulation and invites them to experience the powerful and positive new energy that results from healing the wounds of the past. The Toltec Path of Recapitulation offers an ancient ritual of renewal for the contemporary world.
About the Author Victor Sanchez has dedicated his life to the preservation of the traditions of the indigenous peoples of Mexico with whom he has lived for 15 years. He is the author of The Teachings of Don Carlos and Toltecs of the New Millenium and conducts workshops worldwide. He lives in central Mexico.
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