Spiritual and Self Help

//Spiritual and Self Help
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  • Best-selling novelist Anna Quindlen reflects on what it takes to live each day deeply; not to waste what we have within and around us but to 'get a life' and learn to love the journey, not the destination. Written with insight and understanding, she knows what it means to fully engage our days, not to take what we have for granted but to learn to take notice. "Look at the full moon hanging silver in a black sky on a cold night. And realise that life is glorious...' A pocket sized edition, illustrated with inspirational black and white photos.
  • On the Journey of Life, do you sometimes wish you had a map? Well, there is one: this guide through the twelve gateways of personal growth to the summit of your potential. Dan Millman makes your ascent accessible by bringing enlightenment down to earth-applying spiritual wisdom to the practical realities of everyday life. Explore the challenges and mysteries of body, mind, and emotions. Discover a new approach to success. Change confusion into clarity and knowledge into action. It begins as you turn the first page... Chapters:  1. Discover Your Worth; 2. Reclaim Your Will; 3. Energize Your Body; 4. Manage Your Money; 5. Tame Your Mind; 6. Trust Your Intuition; 7. Accept Your Emotions; 8. Face Your Fears; 9. Illuminate Your Shadow; 10. Embrace Your Sexuality; 11. Awaken Your Heart; 12. Serve Your World. Includes advice on practicing everyday enlightenment in the everyday world.
  • The next self-help book after the Bible.  This famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most entertaining allegories of faith ever written. Set against realistic backdrops of town and country, the powerful drama of the pilgrim's trials and temptations follows him in his harrowing journey to the Celestial City. Along a road filled with monsters and spiritual terrors, Christian confronts such emblematic characters as Worldly Wiseman, Giant Despair, Talkative, Ignorance, and the demons of the Valley of the Shadow of Death. But he is also joined by Hopeful and Faithful. An enormously influential 17th-century classic, universally known for its simplicity, vigor, and beauty of language, The Pilgrim's Progress remains one of the most widely read books in the English language. Colour plate frontispiece by Byam Shaw. Line illustrations by RH. Brock.
  • Michael Balfour investigates strange stories from the country’s moors, forests, rivers, holy wells and lochs - as well as the old legends and dark secrets of palaces, castles and cathedrals. Roaming a land where the past is mirrored in the present, he explores standing stones, mermaid beaches and magic springs; seeks out new theories about Celtic and Pictish stones, carvings and tombs; and finds monsters, ghouls and ancient cures. Not forgotten are the great historical figures who throng the pages, each making a unique contribution to Mysterious Scotland. Lavishly illustrated with colour and black and white photographs.
  • Imagine - you have just finished building your dream home, it has two bedrooms and has been designed just for you. You've endured the traumas of tradesmen who you've had to cajole, bribe and beg in order to get your home finished.  The next thing that happens is that you are suddenly married, and five of your husband's children, two grandchildren, a step-son-in-law and an assortment of animals are living with you. At the end of the year, your cosy two-bedroom dream home has become a six-room mansion.  This is Patsy's entertaining story - all the comical incidents, tradesmen trials, nosy neighbours and extended-family dilemmas from her first year of marriage to Bill, a psychiatrist. Patsy Rowe combined being a best-selling author with coaching in business etiquette, conducting fun nationwide seminars. She passed away in 2016.
  • Book II of The Delfin Knowledge System.  A personal empowerment program that enables study of the divine self that is specifically for those who are consciously on a journey toward enlightenment. One for the serious student of metaphysics.
  • Unexpected, life changing insights from an in-depth study of the lives of the Bible's infamous ladies: Delilah, Jezebel, Rahab, Lot's wife and more.  All were inundated with temptations and the demands of everyday life - just like today.  So what can we learn from them? The author combines contemporary story-telling, a sense of humour, encouragement and a verse-by-verse study of their lives and meaningful life lessons. As Liz herself puts it: For ten years I studied bunches of Biblical role models and finally realised what we had in common: Zilch! Sarah was so faithful, Esther was so courageous, Mary was so innocent. I was so none-of-the-above. Then I happened on  Jezebel...I identified with her pushy personality...her need for control. I sympathised with her angry outbursts and I began to wonder...Could those Bad Girls from the past teach us how to be Good Girls in the present?
  • Comprehensive in coverage and meticulously researched, this book calls on the latest scientific research to challenge our society's largely unquestioning commitment to new technology. While modern technology has many benefits, the authors believe that Western society's reliance on the latest tech as a cure-all for our problems is seriously misplaced - in some cases, dangerously so. Health and environment issues include: The damaging effects on human health of certain microwaves, including those from mobile phones, mobile phone base stations and television transmission towers; the ongoing debate about the effects of human health of aluminium in food and other consumer  products; the growing evidence that the trans-polyunsaturated acids formed in most margarines during manufacture may be worse for your health than butter; and the growing understanding that the amount of natural light entering the eyes can contribute significantly to the body's ability to fight disease.  There is much which is disagreeable and sometimes distressing, but this book is not a downer. At the end of each chapter there's a positive 'What YOU can do' section.

  • A real treasure chest of a book - one to dip into for wisdom from across the ages, from all ages and professions, from literary figures to world leaders.  There really is something for every human condition and for everyone: Mark Twain...I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. Or perhaps Honoré de Balzac: There is no such thing as a great talent without great will-power. And here's John Wesley in a wry moment: Some people have just enough religion to make them uncomfortable. Abraham Lincoln knew what he was talking about when he said: Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. And Abigail Van Buren, famous agony aunt, observed: People who fight fire with fire, usually end up with ashes.
  • From the author of You Can Heal Your Life, Louise Hay expands her philosophies of loving the self through:  learning to listen and trust the inner voice;  loving the child within;  letting our true feelings out;  the responsibility of parenting;  releasing our fear about growing older;  allowing ourselves to receive prosperity; expressing our creativity; accepting change as a natural part of life;  creating a world that is ecologically sound where it's safe to love each other; and much more. There is also a chapter devoted to meditations for personal and planetary healing. This book is for anyone who wants to change their life - and have the life they were meant to lead.
  • Throughout the world there is a New Generation of Witches - people practicing or wishing to practice the Craft on their own, without an in-the-flesh magickal support group.  This volume presents both the science and religion of Witchcraft so you can become an active participant while growing at your own pace. This book is ideal for anyone, regardless of religious background: male or female, young or old, beginners and initiates. The author writes with warmth, humour and personal anecdotes and offers a step-by-step guide with exercises and journalling assignments. It's Witchcraft 101 - just some of the topics covered include: Gods, Goddesses and Human Balance; Magickal Jargon; Special Days of Celebration; What's In A Name? Sacred Space; Stocking Your Magickal Cabinet; Colour, Candles and Sympathetic Magick; Rituals; Drawing Down The Moon ; Gems, Herbs and Healing and so much more.
  • Fifteen years on the city streets -and  Wezzo survived. Will is the story of Wezzo and Geoff, two school friends with the world at their feet, whose choices lead them down vastly different paths. Later, their worlds collide and once again they become uniquely linked. All of us make choices. But what happens when our choices plunge us into despair? What can we do? Who do we turn to? Wezzo's choices leave him homeless on the city streets of Newcastle, Australia, while Geoff's choices trap him in a maze of diabolical white-collar corruption. Yet they'd both started out full of hopes and dreams. Will is about triumph in the midst of tragedy, love lost, purpose found; the strongest of families torn apart then re-created in the most unlikely place. In a world hobbled with epidemic homelessness, Will portrays 'streeties'   as gifted individuals who deserve another chance, rather than as shameful failures. Will contrasts the victims and the victors, the hopeless and the hopeful, a challenge not only to think about destiny - but to resolve it. And the ending...?  It's definitely a surprise...

  • Salt is incorruptible; and it is this quality which has given it a magickal significance for centuries. It has always been used in magick ritual as a repellent of evil forces; people would not enter a new home without first sprinkling salt outside its door, nor allow a new baby to leave home without carrying salt. Salt was often present at the swearing of oaths and sprinkled across gateways and doorsills or added to cleaning water to keep evil away.  This book contains 14 salt magick rites that can allegedly materialise a guardian angel, bring money to you, attract lovers, finding the ideal job and whole range of other blessings. Always remember: do as you will, if you harm none.
  • From time immemorial, priests, saints, occultists and soothsayers have used the ancient art of candle burning in prayer, supplication or to create a reality. It's a cornerstone of practice in Christian faiths and witchcraft and paganism. This book simplifies and demystifies the ancient practice with advice on the best colours to use, the phase of the moon, the appropriate day of the week, incantations and even alternative Bible verses for those uncomfortable with paganism. More importantly, it tells  the practitioner what NOT to do and underlines the rule of, 'Do what thou wilt - with harm to none.'
  • Professor Taylor identifies several categories of  phenomena that woeuld appear to defy scientific understanding and gives his conclusions - from his own research - regarding them.  Psychic healing, clairvoyance, telepathy and precognition are all covered thoroughly.
  • Buckland explores and instructs in various methods of conducting paranormal experiments including astral projections, talking boards, hauntings, numerology, palmistry, scrying, ceremonial magic, tarot, I Ching, ESP and hypnosis, the secrets of black magic and ceremonial magic and much more.  A good basic guide from a responsible writer.
  • An ideal beginner's book for metaphysics students with an informal and lively style that brings the riddles of Life to life and demonstrates how stimulating these riddles are to consider and ponder.  You do not need a philosophy background, either.
  • This second book in the series contains 143 additional quatrains written and deciphered by Nostradamus. He emphasised that humanity could change the future if we knew which time-lines we were travelling on and what the results of that path would be.  Humanity is not powerless - much of the horror seen by Nostradamus can be averted. This volume includes the horoscope of the Anti-Christ; the correlation of 666 (the mark of the Beast) and computers; more about World War III and which countries will be affected; how AIDS was a planned disease by those in power, and when the cure will be found; dangerous new technology capable of controlling the weather and creating earthquakes; which continents will survive the axial shift of the Earth and the melting polar ice-caps; an estimation of the date of the axial shift - and what the world will look like after the war and the shift.