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God's Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America

Louis S. Warren · Basic Books
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

In 1890, on Indian reservations across the West, followers of a new religion danced in circles until they collapsed into trances. In an attempt to suppress this new faith, the US Army killed over two hundred Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek. Louis Warren's God's Red Son offers a startling...
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A Call From Heaven: Personal Accounts of Deathbed Visits, Angelic Visions, and Crossings to the Other Side

JOSIE VARGA · New Page Books
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

What happens when we die? Do we really die alone? What if death is not the end but a new beginning?As the dying prepare to leave this world, they often begin to get a glimpse of what lies beyond through deathbed visits from deceased loved ones, strangers, and angelic or divine figures....
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Ancient Gods: Lost Histories, Hidden Truths, and the Conspiracy of Silence

Jim Willis · Visible Ink Pr
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

Where do we come from? What are the origins of modern civilization? Do the world's pyramids, the Nazca Lines, Easter Island statues, and other enigmatic structures, archaeological wonders, and geographic anomalies contain evidence of ancient gods?Sifting through the historical and archaeological...
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The Ghost Studies: New Perspectives on the Origins of Paranormal Experiences

Brandon Massullo · New Page Books
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

You've just laid down for the night when suddenly doors slam and the curtains shift. The lights begin to flicker and a white mist forms in front of you. You shut your eyes and keep muttering, "ghosts aren't real." But then you open your eyes and realize that "harmless"...
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Essential Oils in Spiritual Practice: Working with the Chakras, Divine Archetypes, and the Five Great Elements

Candice Covington · Healing Arts Press
Pages: 226
Format: Paperback

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Buddhist Economics: An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science

Clair Brown · Bloomsbury
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

In the tradition of E. F. Schumacher's Small Is Beautiful, renowned economist Clair Brown argues persuasively for a new economics built upon equality, sustainability, and right living."Buddhist Economics will give guidance to all those who seek peace, fairness, and environmental...
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God in Captivity: The Rise of Faith-Based Prison Ministries in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Tanya Erzen · Beacon
Pages: 248
Format: Print book

An eye-opening account of how and why evangelical Christian ministries are flourishing in prisons across the United StatesThroughout the United States, faith-based prison ministries are flourishing amid an increasingly punitive system of mass incarceration. These predominantly evangelical...
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The Great Shift: Encountering God in Biblical Times

James Kugel · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A world-renowned scholar brings a lifetime of study to reveal how a pivotal transformation in spiritual experience during the Biblical Era made us who we are today Why does the Bible depict a world in which humans, with surprising regularity, encounter the divine - wrestling an angel, addressing...
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Ordinary Goodness: The Surprisingly Effortless Path to Creating a Life of Meaning and Beauty

Edward Viljoen · Penguin Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

A call to action to live a life full of goodness and purpose from one of TarcherPerigee's most talented spiritual voicesHuman beings often struggle to find a life filled with passion, happiness...and just plain goodness. This struggle drives many to depression, addictive tendencies,...
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Soul Story: Evolution and the Purpose of Life

Tim Freke · Watkins Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

The grand religious stories that gave meaning to life and death in the past have crumbled under sceptical scrutiny. The dominant mainstream philosophy is now scientific objectivism, which describes a universe that exists for no reason and a life that ends in oblivion. Pioneering philosopher...
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The World is Your Oracle: Divinatory Practices for Tapping Your Inner Wisdom and Getting the Answers You Need

Nancy Vedder-Shults · Fair Winds Press
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Everyone has burning questions. Everyone wants to find answers. And everyone needs to know their own truth.The World is Your Oracle will enable readers to craft their own questions, delve into their inner wisdom, and find the answers they need. This innovative divination book presents multicultural...
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The Mind of God: Neuroscience, Faith, and a Search for the Soul

JAY LOMBARD · Harmony
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Deepak Chopra, Rudy Tanzi, and Andrew Newberg. A renowned behavioral neurologist provides insights to some of the most curious spiritual questions we all face. Is there a God?It's a question billions of people have asked since the dawn of time. You would think by now we'd...
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Day of the Dead: 20 Creative Projects to Make For Your Party or Celebration

SUSIE HODGE · Barron's Educational Series
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback

Celebrate The Day of the Dead with 20 Fun Projects!The growing popularity of Dia de los Muertos - The Day of the Dead - can be seen in the increased number of festivals, music concerts, art fairs, altar nights, arts-and-crafts events, costume contests, and candlelit processions (including...
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Being Hindu: Understanding a Peaceful Path in a Violent World

Hindol Sengupta · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover

There are more than one billion Hindus in the world, but for those who don't practice the faith, very little seems to be understood about it. Followers have not only built and sustained the world's largest democracy but have also sustained one of the greatest philosophical streams...
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Embodied Enlightenment: Living Your Awakening in Every Moment

Amoda Maa · Reveal Press
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback

In Embodied Enlightenment, contemporary spiritual teacher Amoda Maa Jeevan dispels the outdated view of a transcendent enlightenment and instead presents a new, feminine expression of awakened consciousness for all - one that is felt and known through what our everyday lives are made of: our emotions,...
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