Detective Selene Prince meets and quickly falls in love with the man of her dreams. But Ashen Marrok didn’t happen in her life by coincidence. He was sent to protect her. Selene has dark forces hunting her because of secrets she knows nothing about. Her life is turned upside down when she is faced with learning about her clandestine past, which includes her becoming heir to a throne of magical beasts. Ashen must fight to protect her and her identity when she gets caught up in a dangerous fight with the vampires that hunt her.
MOON GODDESS COURSE Awaken the Female Energy! An Eight-part Course By The Abbotts This newly created Moon Goddess course echoes the knowledge of the ancient priestesses who worked with nature, energies and the moon itself to heal, inspire, gain knowledge and transform the powerful female energy for good! You will learn many esoteric skills, heal, astrologically chart your coming years, understand your feminine nature and work with the tides and moon phases for power and success! An easy to understand and learn course for an individual or a group. Plus channelled messages for women and myths of the moon. A must-read book for every woman! Illustrated and in 14 pt for easy reading. A Beacon of Light Book
"Leonard S. Marcus... has masterfully written about a fascinating woman who in her short life changed literature for the very young. I was throroughly enchanted."--Eric Carle Nearly fifty years after her sudden death at the age of forty-two, Margaret Wise Brown remains a legend and an enigma. Author of Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny, and dozens of other children's classics, Brown all but invented the picture book as we know it today. Combining poetic instinct with a profound empathy for small children, she understood a child's need for security, love, and a sense of being at home in the world. Yet, these were comforts that had eluded her. Her sparkling presence and her unparalleled success as a legendary children's book author masked an insecurity that left her restless and vulnerable. In this authoritative and moving biography, Leonard S. Marcus, who had access to never-before-published letters and family papers, portrays Brown's complex character and her tragic, seesaw life. Colorful, thoughtful, and insightful, Margaret Wise Brown is both a portrayal of a woman whose stories still speak to millions and a portrait of New York in the 1930s and 1940s, when the literary world blossomed and made history.
Everyone wants to live a happier and healthier life ... but how do you get there? Awaken and Journey to Your True Self is a book for anyone who wants to improve their life. By sharing examples from his own life, author Dr. Merlin Pickston provides a blueprint that will help you find your own path of self-improvement. As you work your way through the examples, activities, exercises, and meditations, you’ll find yourself ready to: • make changes to mind, body, and spirit to rediscover your true self; • cope with the highs and lows that come with life; • appreciate life in a greater way than ever before; The author also highlights seven pillars of personal change, which will help you make permanent changes to accomplish your goals. While these changes won’t happen overnight, you can make immediate breakthroughs that will propel you forward with the guidance in this book. Filled with practical examples, you’ll refer to this guide time and again as you begin a spiritual awakening that leads to your true self. “The book is written in a way that makes the topics easy to understand and relate to. This helped me connect with the messages of the subjects at a deep level and motivated me to do the work required to release tensions and negativity from my life and to begin to become the best version of myself.” —Enrica Borghi
Harness the power of the magical, mystical, glorious Moon with more than 100 spells, chants, and rituals, along with Esbat celebrations for the Full Moon. The Moon is one of our most prominent and ancient symbols. It has shaped how we understand and track time, its movement controls the tides, and its rise into the sky signals the coming of night. The distinct phases of the lunar cycle have associations with different states of being. These states mirror a kind of spiritual quest which, like our search for ourselves, never ends. When we observe the Moon, we see reflections of the grand pattern of life that is birth, death, and rebirth. With this invaluable handbook filled with enchantingly beautiful illustrations, follow the Moon as she traverses each sign of the zodiac and discover how each astrological phase affects magic—and how your personal Moon sign affects your magical work. The discussions include the influence of the seldom-discussed energies of the Blue Moon, the Black Moon, and lunar eclipses. Each Moon phase is explored individually to cover the phase’s main themes along with Moon rituals, intention setting, and practical ways to celebrate and manifest health, wealth, and confidence. With specific suggestions for each phase, you’ll discover a variety of tools for harnessing moon magic, including: Traditional lunar herbs such as lavender, angelica, mugwort, and sage to magnify and support your intentions Crystals and gemstones to raise your personal vibration and enhance your intuitive powers Essential oils and candles to match your mood or intention and add vibrational power to your spells and rituals You’ll soon be using spells during each moon phase for things like: Conquering change (New Moon) Living joyfully (Waxing Moon) Romantic love (Full Moon) Banishing bad (Waning Moon) Open your arms to Mother Moon, and allow her to take you into hers, with Moon Magic. The Mystical Handbook series from Wellfleet takes you on a magical journey through the wonderful world of spellcraft and spellcasting. Explore a new practice with each volume and learn how to incorporate spells, rituals, blessings, and cleansings into your daily routine. These portable companions feature beautiful foil-detail covers and color-saturated interiors on a premium paper blend. Other books in the series include: Moon Magic Journal, Witchraft, Love Spells, Knot Magic, Superstitions, House Magic, Herbal Magic, Book of Shadows, and Goddess Magic.
Awakening: An Introduction to the History of Eastern Thought provides the reader with a thorough and valuable overview of the historical development of the major Eastern religious and philosophical traditions, primarily in India, China, and Japan. The book is written in an engaging style that contains a variety of anecdotes, analogies, definitions, and supporting quotes from primary and secondary sources. Awakening helps the reader to recognize the interrelationships that exist among the various traditions, to appreciate the relevance of these traditions to the concerns of modern times, and to understand the major issues of interpretation regarding these traditions. The primary focus of Awakening is Hinduism and Buddhism, and they serve as the broad umbrellas that include a number of specific schools, each of which is treated individually. Other schools–such as Confucianism, Daoism, and Shinto–are included at the appropriate place. Awakening is for all students and interested readers, whether new to the study of Eastern thought or not. New to the Seventh Edition: - A new Introduction - A clearer definition and explanation of "Yoga" (throughout Part 1) - A rewrite of the Aryan Migration section in Chapter 1, bringing it in line with current research - An added sub-chapter to Chapter 6, dealing with Kundalini Yoga - Further clarification of the meaning of Anatman in Chapter 10 - Emphasis on the contribution of Daoism to Chan Buddhism - Clearer presentation of the Life of Buddha (Legend vs. Reality) - Updated Study Questions - Two new videos added to the companion website Key Features: - An historical overview that attempts to show the development of Eastern philosophies, both within the individual traditions as well as within a broad but loosely unified system of thought - Abundantly uses stories in chapter overviews to engage student readers and to better explain Eastern thought - No background in Asian studies, philosophy, or religious studies is presumed, allowing any student to greatly benefit from reading this book - A functional, visually attractive web site www.patrickbresnan.com with author-produced videos on the content of the book, scores of pictures, and a comprehensive section on meditation
Discovering our meaning and purpose--our reason for being--can seem like an impossible task, especially given the tumultuous times in which we find ourselves. Through challenging povocations, uplifting narratives, and profound insights, this book emboldens readers to experience their lives, not as spectators, but as reflective, courageous and purposeful participants. We can turn toward the problems, look them in the eye, and begin the work of setting things right--we can begin the process of awakening. Organized as a five-part journey, it explores, both cognitively and experientially, what it might mean to assume the rightful authorship of your life. By breaking out of the dominant narrative of how life should be lived, and by becoming more aware of the world around us, we can gain the tools essential for becoming open-minded, embodied, introspective and soulful human beings.
We all are well aware that birth and death are an undeniable truth, which you can also understand as two sides of a coin. Surely death is certain after birth and after leaving that body, the soul enters into another body and takes birth again, which is predetermined, this is also the rule of law and once the soul leaves the body, it never enters that body again. It enters another body only, that's why it is always said that the one who has left cannot come back. However, birth and death are the play of God, as we all are aware that nothing can happen outside the will of God. I want to let you know through this book that the breathings which we inhale and exhale every moment is a great achievement and miracle for us, but we are not conscious and aware of our breath, we always ignore our this little yet important thing. Because our mind is always busy with the materiality of the outside world, so we have less awareness of our breath. Our breath always serves us inside our body between our birth and death, and always gives us the feeling that I am a body and this body is mine. Every moment in our life, the movement of our breath keeps on changing, but do you know that through our breath, we can go inside our own mind and experience each and every negative and positive disorders of the mind with depth, and can destroy those negative disorders automatically from within. By the constant practice of meditation, being alert and aware of your breath, enter into the depths of your body and know yourself that who am I, what is my work on this earth, am I a guest on this earth for a few years, or am I the permanent owner. If you are excited to know all these questions, then you have to learn the art of meditation and be aware of your breath. If you become aware, then you can feel that wonderful power and connect with universe (God) through your inner energy. By the way, neither I nor anybody has seen God. But the real witness that is with us is our breath, which we feel every moment, but still, we ignore it by not giving importance to it. To know the secret of this breath, we must take millions of births again and again on this earth. But still, we are not able to know our own existence due to the influence of this delusion. Whatever is the subject in this book, some are my own experiences which I have learned, understood, and known, some from others, understood and researched lot. Through this book, I have tried to make you a little aware and tried to explain that what is the importance of our own breath? What is meditation? Why is this meditation needed in our daily life? Meditation is an art that helps to be alert and aware of our breath and through this art, if we practice continuously then we can know ourselves like who I am, where I came from, and what my purpose of being in this life is and how am I related to God. After all, this should be the only aim of all of us and this is possible only through meditation. Our elders always used to say that we should wake up in the morning and firstly thank God, if we remember we have been taught from childhood to start our day by thanking God in the morning. This is a good thing and also a habit. But till today we have neither seen nor tried to know God, yet we thank him because we have full faith in him. But our breath that stays with us from birth till death and breath is our life, can't we wake up in the morning and thank our breath? You can and this is what you have to do. This is what you have to know. The one on whom we have been fully believing till now, through our breath, by going into meditation, we have to search within ourselves with the spirit of witnessing and get a real darshan. When we will see him inside through our breath every day, automatically welfare will start happening in our life. To understand all these topics, one must read this book. And understand all the methods of meditation, one has to discover oneself from oneself and one has to understand and know the truth of life. Otherwise life is wasted and death occurs……………..
We are conditioned to believe what is visible is more important than the invisible, we couldn't be more deceived; the visible world is less than one percent of our reality. In everyday life, there are creatures we cannot see, demons hiding all around us, in an invisible realm. Humanity lies at the center of an interdimensional conflict as old as time. On one side stand the demons of the great void, corrupting, harvesting, and feeding on human souls. Arrayed against the darkness are the illumine races, beings of light residing in the eleventh dimension. Everyone on earth has a stake in this war. Knowingly or not, no one stays neutral. Humanity's every act shifts the balance in this unending struggle, pushing further into the light—or pulling back into the darkness. In the midst of a messy divorce, Deidre Kollister discovers her sacred role in this hidden, vicious conflict. A sonic warrior of light, Deidre is one of twelve souls who agreed on a perilous mission before birth: to prevent the upcoming soul harvest, a terrible event set to begin with an ancient celestial sign. Twelve extraordinary people stand against a legion of interdimensional demons. The odds are stacked against Deidre and her new allies. If they succeed, the world may finally find peace. If they fail, the ancient war will end with a demonic feeding frenzy and humanity's eternal enslavement.
