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The Second Half of Life: Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom
: :Cultural anthropologist and award-winning author Angeles Arrien presents The Second Half of Life--a collection of teachings, reflections, and stories from around the world to open us to the challenges and deeper mysteries of 'the great crossing' at midlife. Working with the images, poetry, metaphors, and other forms of symbolic language from diverse cultures, Arrien introduces us to the 'Eight Gates of Initiation.' By mastering their lessons and gifts, we harvest the meaning and purpose of our life, and come into our spiritual maturity. This popular ...
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The Tarot Handbook: practical applications of ancient visual symbols
: :In this updated edition of The Tarot Handbook, Angeles Arrien takes tarot beyond the limits of the fortune-telling realm and shows us how this time-honored application is both a visual and symbolic map of consciousness and a source of ancient wisdom.
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The Four-Fold Way: Walking the Paths of the Warrior, Teacher, Healer, and Visionary
: :A leading expert on native spirituality and shamanism reveals the four archetypal principles of the Native American medicine wheel and how they can lead us to a higher spirituality and a better world.
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Signs of Life
: :'The soul never thinks without an image,' claimed Aristotle. Indeed, as Angeles Arrien displays in this reissued edition of Signs of Life, shapes have significant psychological and mythological meanings embedded in our minds. Understanding the messages they convey and our attraction to them opens up a door to the secret workings of our inner selves and to a fuller appreciation of the art itself. As in her widely popular The Tarot Handbook, Arrien applies her background as a cultural anthropologist to the import human beings ...
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Maps to Ecstasy: The Healing Power of Movement
: :In this revised editon, Roth expands on the themes that have guided her: waysof transforming daily life into sacred art. 20,000 first print.
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Gathering Medicine: Stories, Songs, and Methods for Soul Retrieval
: :Gathering Medicine Angeles Arrien What lessons can the modern seeker of truth gain from the shamans’ way? Join this respected anthropologist and folklorist as she bridges the past with the present to find powerful methods for gaining clarity and direction in your life – methods based on the shamanic tradition. The shamans’ way, offers Angeles Arrien, is to 'gather medicine' by reconnecting with yourself on the deepest internal level. This 'soul work' utilizes imagery, reflective questioning, dream work, and storytelling to help you integrate inner ...
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The Nine Muses: A Mythological Path to Creativity
: :A self-help book based on the stories of the nine Muses from Greek mythology, by a renowned teacher and anthropologist.The author of the classic The Tarot Handbook, which has sold more than 200,000 copies, Angeles Arrien now provides a magical and practical guide, using as a creative road map the myths of the most famous literary songstresses and sources of creative inspiration--the nine daughters of Zeus.In The Nine Muses, Arrien illustrates how we can inspire ourselves and see clearly the muses that abound in our ...
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Susan Seddon Boulet: A Retrospective
: :Susan Seddon Boulet lived life in search of the magnificent. As a child growing up on a Brazilian farm, she developed a deep affection for animals and loved making colorful sketches of them. From these formative experiences, she found her destiny, one that deeply affected people all over the world. This beautiful, moving retrospective by Michael Babcock recounts Susan Boulet's artistic development and celebrates her extraordinary personal journey. It includes more than two hundred reproductions of her unique and wondrous paintings, some never before published, ...
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Mystical Path, Practical Feet 2009 Wall Calendar
: :The word ecology comes from the Greek word oikos, which means, 'house.' In the 21st century, it is the essential task of human beings to attend to and care for not only our outer house, the Earth, but also the inner house of our selves, the limitless wilderness within. Cultivating and attending equally to both houses, our internal and external homes, is metaphorically referred to as 'walking the mystical path with practical feet.' The Mystical Path,Practical Feet 2009 wall calendar features quotes from Angeles Arrien's ...
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Meditations on Everything Under the Sun
: :This ground-breaking work by one of the country's foremost meditation teachers is as wholistic an approach to a healthy psyche as Andrew Weil's guide is to physical health. It weaves together three consciousness disciplines and includes 160 meditations on virtually every issue people face in contemporary life; plus dozens designed for enhancing collaboration in groups. Designed for both professionals and general readers, using this book enables everyone to put their best foot forward. Margo Adair's previous book Working Inside Out (Wingbow Press, 1985) sold over ...
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Diesel vehicles have nearly a 50-percent market share in Europe, thanks to tax incentives and diesel-friendly legislation across the EU. Diesels are so passé there that you can buy a BMW 730d and no one will think it odd that your luxury car burns oil. Pull up in a diesel 7-Series in America and people would leer at you like you've alighted from an amphibious vehicle reeking of saltwater and dead trout.