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Bringing the Tarot to Life: Embody the Cards Through Creative Exploration

Scott Martin · Llewellyn Publications
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Raise the curtain on an exciting new approach to tarot. Bringing the Tarot to Life shares ideas for using theater games and acting techniques to develop your own embodied understanding of the cards. With fifty-six creative, right-brained exercises to be practiced alone or with a group,...
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Sacred Relationships: The Practice of Intimate Erotic Love

Anaiya Sophia · Destiny Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A workbook on divine sexual expression, sacred relationship, and uniting the Divine Feminine and Masculine* Explains how to transform your relationship into an initiatory temple of spiritual development and ignite the alchemical process of Sacred Marriage--union with God* Offers female...
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A Life of Meaning: Embracing Reform Judaism's Sacred Path

Dana Evan Kaplan · CCAR Press
Pages: 658
Format: Paperback

Reform Judaism is constantly evolving as we continue to seek a faith that is in harmony with our beliefs and experiences. This volume offers readers a thought-provoking collection of essays by rabbis, cantors, and other scholars who differ, sometimes passionately, over religious practice,...
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Love Thy Neighbor: A Muslim Doctor's Struggle for Home in Rural America

Ayaz Virji M.D. · Convergent Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

A powerful true story about a Muslim doctor's service to a small town and the hope of overcoming our country's climate of hostility and fear.

In 2013, Ayaz Virji left a comfortable job at an East Coast hospital and moved to a town of 1,400 in Minnesota, feeling called to address...
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Evolving God: A Provocative View on the Origins of Religion, Expanded Edition

Barbara J King · University Of Chicago Press
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback


Religion has been a central part of human experience since at least the dawn of recorded history. The gods change, as do the rituals, but the underlying desire remains - a desire to belong to something larger, greater, most lasting than our mortal, finite selves.

But where...
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Midlife Is Not a Crisis: Using Astrology to Thrive in the Second Half of Life

Virginia Bell · Weiser Books
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback

Midlife Is Not a Crisis combines astrology, inspiration, and wisdom about aging to empower people to live more fully in the second half of life. It is based on the generational life cycles we all share at certain ages, from the Saturn Return at 29 and Midlife, which peaks at 42, all the way to the Uranus...
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Saudi, Inc.: The Arabian Kingdom's Pursuit of Profit and Power

ELLEN R WALD · Pegasus Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

A history of the most profitable company in the world, Saudi Aramco, and the story behind the family that ruthlessly maneuvered to control this multi-trillion dollar enterprise.

The Saudi royal family and Aramco leadership are, and almost always have been, motivated by ambitions...

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A Concise History of Sunnis and Shi'is

John McHugo · Georgetown University Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The 1,400-year-old schism between Sunnis and Shi'is is currently reflected in the destructive struggle for hegemony between Saudi Arabia and Iran -- with no apparent end in sight. But how did this conflict begin, and why is it now the focus of so much attention?Charting the history...
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Words at the Threshold: What We Say as We're Nearing Death

Lisa Smartt · New World Library
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

What Our Last Words Reveal About Life, Death, and the AfterlifeA person's end-of-life words often take on an eerie significance, giving tantalizing clues about the ultimate fate of the human soul. Until now, however, no author has systematically studied end-of-life communication by using...
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God in the Qur'an

Jack Miles · Knopf
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of God: A Biography, an erudite, hugely informative portrait of the God of Islam, the world's second largest, fastest-growing, and perhaps most tragically misunderstood religion.

Who is Allah? What makes Him unique? And what does He ask of those...
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Thelema: An Introduction to the Life, Work & Philosophy of Aleister Crowley

COLIN D CAMPBELL · Llewellyn Publications
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

To truly understand the philosophy and practice of Thelema, you need to understand its charismatic founder, Aleister Crowley. Thelema demystifies this enigmatic figure, providing a brief explanation of Crowley's origins and showing how his thought and work became a paradigm-shifting...
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Theology: The Basics

Alister E McGrath · Wiley-Blackwell
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback

This fourth edition of the international bestseller is the ideal introduction for those who are new to Christian theology. In this revised and expanded edition, the author introduces readers to the central ideas and beliefs, the key debates and the leading thinkers of Christianity. Throughout,...
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The Penguin Book of Hell

Scott G. Bruce · Penguin Classics
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

Three thousand years of visions of Hell, from the ancient Near East to modern America

From the Hebrew Bible's shadowy realm of Sheol to twenty-first-century visions of Hell on earth, The Penguin Book of Hell takes us through three thousand years of eternal damnation. Along...
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A Castle in Wartime: One Family, Their Missing Sons, and the Fight to Defeat the Nazis

Catherine Bailey · Viking
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

"I was gripped by A Castle in Wartime--it contained more tension, more plot in fact--than any thriller."--Kate Atkinson, author of Big Sky and Case Histories

An enthralling story of one family's extraordinary courage and resistance amidst the horrors...
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A Psychic's Life: What It's Really Like

Michael D. Bodine · Llewellyn Publications
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Michael Bodine shares his most fascinating stories as a celebrity psychic. Discover how Michael receives information from the other side, and how he deals with the responsibilities that come with psychic knowledge. Find out what makes the energy of Michael's famous Hollywood clients...
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