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5/5/2000 ICE: The Ultimate Disaster On May 5 in the year 2000 the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn will be aligned with the Earth and her Moon. On that day the ice buildup at the South Pole will upset the Earth’s axis--sending trillions of tons of ice and water sweeping over the surface of our planet. Not since the days of Noah has Humankind been faced with this ultimate catastrophe. Astonishing Evidence Points to Worldwide Disaster in Our Lifetime! The number of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and freakish climate changes are increasing as we inexorably move closer to 5/5/2000. Bits of vanished civilizations preserved in museums, evidence of entire forests fossilized instantly, and animals quick-frozen and preserved for millennia prove that a sudden, momentous change in the Earth’s surface occurred in the past. An extensive study of the Great Pyramid reveals a mathematical message of warning built into the structure of a similar catastrophe millennia ago. The 3-mile-high ice mass at the South Pole continues to grow more unstable, and in January 2000 a massive solar storm will crash into Earth’s magnetic field.Richard W. Noone has spent the last twenty years researching his theories. He received the Georgia Grand Master’s Award for his discovery of Masonic Influence in Ancient Egypt and his work has been featured on major national media including Oprah, Donahue, CNN, Sightings, and the top-rated TV show Millennium.
A Coyote in the Garden When An Painter writes about the natural world, the results can startle and enlighten us like a frieze of lightning followed by soft thunder. As Pulitzer Prize winner N. Scott Momaday observes in his Foreward to the volume, An Painter’s training as a professional photographer has proven invaluable to her as a poet. For one thing, the 130 short poems in this volume are intensely visual. For another, each of them produces an epiphany: a shower of light in the mind of its reader. Most of Painter’s favorite subjects emerge from the American Southwest where she lives. They include a variety of birds (especially hawks, turkey vultures, and crows) as well as wild and domestic cats, tortoises, squirrels, rabbits, cockroaches, and, of course, the inimitable coyote who steals her heart.
A Cultural History of TIBET The civilization of the Tibetan people is disappearing before or very eyes, and apart from a few gentle protests here and there, the rest of the world lets it go without comment and without regret. Many civilizations have declined and disintegrated in the past, but it is rare that one has the opportunity of being an informed witness of such events. This revised edition of the classic work on the rapidly vanishing civilization of Tibet traces the evolution of Tibetan culture from its origins to Tibet’s fall to the Chinese Communists in 1959 and the subsequent relocation of Tibetan culture and many Tibetan people.
A Dickens Glossary for American Readers Meant for American readers of Charles Dickens, this book contains over 2800 entries. It includes hundreds of quotations and explanations of words and phrases that are not found in any other book on Dickens. In addition to words and phrases whose meanings have changed through time or been lost because of changing technologies, the entries include many Briticisms, explanations for which are never to be found in material published in Britain. Because of the longer quotations and the extended explanations, the book makes for pleasant browsing. It belongs in the library of every American reader of Dickens and in the library of every American school where Dickens is taught. Paperback, 458 pages.
A Magical Universe “Exploring the cutting edge of human consciousness” the title includes. Interviews by various authors, you will find our Faustin interviewing the Shulgins on page 39, offer insights into the mind expanding/mind boggling future. Timothy Leary, Jaron Lanier, Jerry Garcia, Robin Williams, Jacques Vallee, Terences McKenna, Andrew Weil, Jean Huston to name a few, speak through these pages.
A New Age: Problems & Potential An Interview with Kenneth R. Pelletier Though few realize it, we live in a new age. We have outgrown the theoretical substructure of modern science and its technological cornucopia. Yet even among scientists there is little grasp of the revolutionary implications of Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, the breakdown of the neo-Darwinist paradigm, and recent perceptions of the nature of human consciousness. The edifice of classical determinism still stands, but it is disintegrating before our eyes. In this interview, Kenneth Pelletier, one of the leaders in consciousness research in the United States, talks about the new understanding necessary to cope with the demands of this extraordinary era and take advantage of its manifold promises. Among the subjects discussed by Dr. Pelletier are contemporary doubts about Freud and psychoanalysis, the brain/mind question, and the growth of the astonishing new field of research called psychoimmunology.Kenneth R. Pelletier, author of “Mind as Healer, Mind as Slayer”, is assistant clinical professor at the University of California School of Medicine in San Francisco and director of the California Health and Medicine Foundation. His latest book, “Healthy People in Unhealthy Places”, was published in 1984.
ADHD and the Nature of Self-Control This far-reaching work from renowned scientist-practioner Russell A. Barkley provides a radical shift of perspective on ADHD, arguing that the disorder is fundamentally a developmental problem of self-control, and that a deficit in attention is a secondary, and not universal, characteristic. The volume synthesizes neuropsychological research and theory on the executive functions, illuminating how normally functioning individuals are able to bring behavior under the control of time and orient their actions toward the future. Meticulously applying this model to an examination of the cognitive and social impairments manifested by ADHD, Barkley offers compelling new directions for thinking about and treating this disorder. Russell A. Barkley, PhD, is Director of Psychology and Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. In 1978, he founded the Neuropsychology Service at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Milwaukee Children’s Hospital and served as its until 1985. Since then, he has established the clinics for both child and adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, where he continues to conduct ongoing research. The author of numerous widely acclaimed books and video programs, Dr. Barkley is editor of the newsletter “The ADHD Report”.
Amazing Dope Tales
An Anthropologist on Mars To these seven paradoxical tales of neurological disorder and creativity, Oliver Sacks bring the profound compassion and ceaseless curiosity that made Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat international bestsellers. He transports us into the uncanny worlds of his subjects, including an artist who loses his ability to see (or even imagine) color; a surgeon who performs delicate operations in spite of the compulsive ties and outbursts of Tourete’s syndrome; and an autistic professor who holds a Ph.D. in animal science but is so bewildered by the complexity of human emotion that she feels “like an anthropologist on Mars.” Through these extraordinary people, Sacks explores what it is to feel, to sense, to remember--to be, ultimately, a coherent self in the world.
Ancient Inventions We in the twentieth century tend to assume that our era has a monopoly on the inventions of clever machines, labor-saving devices, feats of engineering, and advanced technology. But as the authors of this fascinating and eye-opening book reveal, some of humankind’s most important and most amazing inventions actually date back thousands of years. Historian and archaeologist team Peter James and Nick Thorpe have pooled their expertise in amassing this compendium of human ingenuity through the ages. Together they conclusively prove that our ancestors, however long ago they lived and whatever part of the globe they occupied, were brilliant problem-solvers. Written with the pure joy of discovery, Ancient Inventions reveals that: Medieval Baghdad had an efficient postal service, banks, and a paper mill; the ancient Greek’s used an early form of computer; Plastic surgery was being performed in India by the first century B.C.; the Egyptians knew about effective contraceptives and more. This is a Great Book!
Better Sex Through Chemistry Ward Dean, M.D., Gerontologist says of this book, "The only medically sound, comprehensive guide to improving your sex life with drugs and nutrients. Anybody who has sex, or hopes to, should own a copy." This book gives detailed information on the new "prosexual" drugs and nutrients. Included are substances that can enhance: sex drive, firmness and duration of erection, vaginal lubrication, skin sensitivity, intensity of orgasm, frequency of orgasm, enjoyment of sex, stamina, length of sex, and even intimacy and emotional connection.
Breaking Through Breaking Through depicts one man’s experience of this ancient imagery. Piero Tallini, a cinematographer, is irresistibly drawn to the Paleolithic culture of southern Spain. While exploring the rugged hills in search of a suitable location for the film he wants to make, he finds himself establishing contact with the first human beings to know the world through interiority and language. Guided by powerful presences, he enters the primordial orbit of cave-consciousness and experiences what the cave ancestors experienced. Breaking Through is a philosophical novel that bears witness to the drama of reality in a way that transcends both philosophy and fiction.
Casual Day Has Gone Too Far Who is the maniacal mastermind behind the plot to enforce corporate dress codes? That would be Catbert the evil HR director, one of Dilbert’s corporate nemeses. “It’s simple,” decrees Catbert. “Fridays are casual”, but you can always wear jeans because jeans look good and feel good and you already own several pairs.” Dilbert knows the conflicting feelings of comfort and embarrassment that result from arriving on a Friday dressed in an outfit matching a co-worker’s. Casual Day Has Gone Too Far once again attacks the issues that touch cubicle-dwellers everywhere, and is sure to continue the Dilbert-mania of worker bees and managers alike.
Chocolate or Morphine. Everything you need to know about mind-altering drugs.
Cosmic Trigger Volume I: Final Secret of the Illuminati Cosmic Trigger deals with a process of deliberately induced brain change... This is called Initiation or vision quest in many traditional societies and...a dangerous variety of self-psychotherapy in modern terminology. I do not recommend it for everybody... The main thing I learned is that reality is always plural and mutable.
Creative Thinking In Creative Thinking, John G. Bennett elucidates the conditions necessary for creative insight, emphasizing the pattern of effort and non-effort that is effective. This book is not to be read passively; it involves the reader, inviting us to work with the techniques suggested. Relevant to artists, musicians, and problem-solvers, as well as to anyone who wishes to bring creative force into one’s life, Creative Thinking offers a doorway to one’s own visions of reality, to new solutions to problems, and to a fresh and keener mind. At its core is the secret of how to astonish oneself.
Darwinism, A Time for Funerals. An Interview with Norman Macbeth Interviewed in Towards magazine in 1982, Norman Macbeth reviews the problems of Darwinism and is frank about the need for realistic reappraisal of Darwinian influence. Yet, feeling “Darwinism is bred into the bone,” he fears there might have to be “a period of ten, fifteen, twenty, even more years of despair” before new ideas will find a good reception. In the course of the conversation, Macbeth reveals why traditional views of Darwinism have long been dated, a situation familiar to almost everyone in the field of evolution, but relatively unknown to the public at large.
Dharma Gaia: Harvest of Essays/Buddhism/Ecology. A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and Ecology. The Earth, our Mother, is telling us to behave. All around, signs of nature’s limitations abound. Moreover, the environmental crisis currently underway, involves all of humanity, making national boundaries of secondary importance. If we develop good and considerate qualities within our own minds, our activities will naturally cease to threaten the continued survival of life on Earth.
Dreams That Can Change Your Life This highly entertaining and practical book offers a deep source of guidance to help you make decisions during times of crisis or critical change. It teaches you to use your dreams as a window onto your hidden needs and unconscious feelings. By using this previously unexplored wisdom you enhance your ability to understand and resolve life’s major challenges. During moments of heightened pressures--leaving home, forming or ending a relationship, facing illness, changing jobs, dealing with accidents and losses--our dreams can offer a rich resource for problem solving.
Drugs and the Brain We administer drugs to ease pain, to raise or depress the spirit, stimulate or dull the intellect, conjure visions, and restore sanity... Many of us seek the effects of drugs such as aspirin and antidepressants on the regular basis, but have no idea what they do to our brains in order to bring about such dramatic changes in how we feel, and in some cases, how we think. In this compelling account of drug and brain research, Solomon H. Snyder tells us what scientists have discovered so far about the mechanisms by which drugs that treat anxiety and schizophrenia. We learn how this fascinating, sometimes controversial area of research has shed much light on mental disorders and other elusive brain processes we are sill trying to understand.“Snyder had produced a masterly work which explains clearly how drugs affect brain function.” - Nature
Drumming at the Edge of Music (Magic)
TOLERANCE: Dutch Hashcoffeeshop Tour Here is the map and now all you hace to do is travel the territory....fun, fun, fun. At last an alternative place to gather for the secret society of clandestine puffers.
East & West: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science East & West: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science provides a classic overview of probably the most dramatic change to have come in Western civilization in the past three hundred years. With the inexorable shift of scientific paradigm from determinism to uncertainty, modern society is provided with frontiers which, in the past, would have been unimaginable. To understand the ramifications of this phenomenon is not easy; however, such understanding is necessary if the concerned individual is to realize the potential of the 21st century. East & West traces the fundamentals of this phenomenon and deftly reveals the principles and tenets involved. Its message is for layman and professional alike. Its appeal is universal.Stanislav Grof is a psychiatrist and therapist with an extensive background in consciousness research. He is the author of “The Human Encounter with Death”, “LSD Psychotherapy”, “Realms of the Human Unconscious” and numerous scientific and clinical papers. Active in international programs, Dr. Grof also conducts workshops and training seminars at Esalen Institute and other organizations in the United States and abroad.
Echinacea... The Immune Herb! The favored herb of Native American Indians, European Medical Doctors and American Herbalists to prevent and help heal Colds, Flu, Respiratory Ailments, Urinary Tract Infections and many other infections. This book gives up-to-date, practical information about how to use this remarkable healing plant for everyday health problems. Echinacea is commonly available at natural food stores throughout the country. Easy to grow; makes a beautiful and useful garden plant. Christopher Hobbs is a fourth generation herbalist and botanist with over 20 years experience with herbs.
Einstein’s Dreams There is a place where time stands still. Raindrops hang motionless in air. Pendulums of clocks float mid-swing... As a traveler approaches this place from any direction, he moves more and more slowly. It is 1905 in Berne, Switzerland. A young patent clerk has been dreaming marvelous deams about the nature of time. He is Albert Einstein and he has almost finished his special theory of relativity. What were his dreams like those last pivotal few months? Here, in this extraordinary and highly acclaimed work by physicist Alan Lightman, thirty fables conjure up as many theoretical realms of time, dreamt in as many nights. In one world time is circular, its people fated to repeat triumph and trial over and over again... in another, men and women try to capture time--which appears as a nightingale--in a bell jar... in yet another, there is no time, only frozen moments. All are visions that gently probe the essence of time, the adventure of creativity, the glory of possibility, and the beauty of... Einstein’s Dreams. Alan Lightman was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1948 and was educated at Princeton and at the California Institute of Technology. He has written for Granta, Harper’s, The New Yorker, and New York Review of Books. His previous books include “Time Travel”, “Papa Joe’s Pipe”, “A Modern-Day Yankee in a Connecticut Court”, “Origins”, “Ancient Light”, “Great Ideas in Physics”, and “Time for the Stars”. He teaches Physics and writing at M.I.T.
Erotic Irony
Evolutionary Mind Trialogues are a unique form of intellectual performance in which three people, optimally very different, discuss (or debate) a set topic for a fixed period of time. Sheldrake, McKenna and Abraham have been in trialogue as friends since 1982, in public since 1989, and in print together since 1992, in Trialogues at the Edge of the West, available in French, German, Portuguese and Dutch, as well as English. The Evolutionary Mind, Trialogues at the Edge of the Unthinkable is their second set of trialogues to be published, and cover new topics: grassroots sciences, visual math, biography , homing pigeons, the world wide web, psychic pets, fractals, the structure of time, the celestial sphere, the millennium and the holistic vision.
Exo-Psychology A Manual on the use of the Human Nervous System according to the Instructions of the Manufactures. Life on the Planet Earth, through the instrumentality of the human nervous system, has begun to migrate from the Womb Planet, to establish colonies in space, from whence it can more accessibly contact and communicate with Life in the Galaxy. Rocket ships have attained the escape velocity necessary to ascend beyond the gravitational pull of the womb-planet. Radio-telescope “dishes” now look out to the stars, ready to receive electromagnetic messages from intelligent neighbors. Electronic signals are now transmitting through interstellar space the message of human readiness to exchange and communicate. In our minds, our neurons, in our cells, we know that we, who are about to leave this small satellite of a peripheral star, are neither alone nor unique. Within the lifetime of many who read these lines, it will happen: Our pioneer families will leave the solar system; interstellar messages will be received, contact will be made. The galactic discussion will begin. It is about time to prepare for life in space. It is about time to develop a philosophy, a psychology, the language, the confident wisdom to enable us to listen, understand, and respond intelligently to our interstellar neighbors. The most important and least boring challenge facing humanity is to prepare ourselves neurologically to meet the Einsteinian “relatives” with whom we share the galaxy. The highest priorities--intellectual, social, economic--should be assigned to extraterrestrial communication and migration.
Extraterrestrial Archaeology Robot mining vehicles that move about the Moon. NASA photographs of pyramids & domed cities on the Moon. The latest on the discovery of water and ice on the Moon, and more...!
Financial Success/Power of Creative Thought
First Steps An Introduction to Spiritual Practice Are you unclear about how to walk your spiritual path? Here at last in First Steps we have a helpful and friendly introduction to spiritual practice that makes sense whatever your cultural, intellectual or religious background. William Bloom’s premise is that at the core of all the different spiritual traditions, ancient and modern, there is basic agreement about the nature of spiritual practice. William Bloom’s work integrates the wisdom of the spiritual traditions with a modern approach to personal and social transformation.
Geek Love
Genesis Revisited. Is Modern Science catching up with ancient knowledge ?
Ghost Sightings : Is there Life after Death? There are more things in heaven and earth... Ghost stories are as old as the question “What happens when we die? From meetings with dead relatives to visions of Roman soldiers, there are too many stories for ghosts to be dismissed as superstitious nonsense. So what are they? There are stories of animal ghosts, even ghosts of vehicles such as phantom ships and coaches. Could it be that they are recordings of the past, somehow preserved to be played in the present? This remarkable book examines the evidence and the theories. What is the truth behind “poltergeists” or noisy ghosts, spirits that hurl glasses and move furniture? What earned Borley Rectory the title “the most haunted house in England”? Consider for yourself the question “Do the dead live among us?”
Gossips, Gorgons & Crones The Fates of the Earth Gossips, Gorgons & Crones is the first comprehensive analysis of nuclear-age culture and the accompanying return of female Powers. Based in feminist, pre-patriarchal, and Native American philosophies, this book provides a biting critique of patriarchal practices, myths, and values, including family values. Jane Caputi explores radically new interpretations of the significance of nuclear technology and the relationship of sexual abuse to scientific knowledge. She offers a vision of the future as “female”, one in which patriarchal customs will disappear and a “new world Chaos” will emerge, where everything is equally sacred. Caputi entreats us not to attempt to control nature, but to align ourselves with the true Fates--the goals or purposes--of the Earth. This is a brilliant new work sourced in the author’s research from popular culture.
Grandmother of Time
Growing Wild Mushrooms Growing Wild Mushrooms continues to be the most complete beginner’s guide to growing mushrooms in print. Step-by-step instructions, with drawings and photographs (16 in full color), introduce the novice to the full range of growing methods: from sterile culture procedures (the basis of all tissue culture cloning techniques to indoor bottle gardens to indoor/outdoor compost gardens. This newly revised edition includes an expanded compost section on producing small quantities of precisely mixed compost indoors and an updated taxonomy of selected psilocybin-containing mushrooms.
Half Asleep In Frog Pajamas When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you--an ambitious, although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker--are convinced you’re facing the Weekend from Hell. Before the market reopens on Monday, you’re going to have to scramble and scheme to cover your butt, but there’s no way you can anticipate the baffling disappearance of a 300-pound psychic, the fall from grace of a born-again monkey, or the intrusion in your life of a tattooed stranger intent on blowing your mind and most of your fuses. Over these fateful three days, you will be forced to confront everything from mysterious African rituals to legendary amphibians, from tarot-card bombshells to street violence, from your own sexuality to outer space. This is, after all, a Tom Robbins novel--and the author has never been in finer form.
Hands of Life. From The Operating Room To Your Home, An Energy Healer Reveals The Secrets Of Using Your Body’s Own Energy Medicine For Healing, Recovery, And Transformation.
Hemp & the Marijuana Conspiracy: THE EMPEROR WEARS NO CLOTHES The authoritative historical record of the Cannabis plant, marijuana prohibition, and how hemp can still save the world. Pay attention and pay for the book and help Jack do his work.
Hidden Journey At the age of 25, Andrew Harvey abandoned a brilliant career at Oxford to return to his native India. A rationalist atheist, he raised every possible argument against the existence of another reality and watched each dissolve in the face of extraordinary mystical experiences following his unexpected encounter with Mother Meera, an eighteen-year old Indian woman, the embodiment of the Divine Mother. Hidden Journey, the meticulous account of Harvey’s struggle and transformation, is destined to be a classic of spiritual autobiography.
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Humanity’s Extraterrestrial Origins This book provides humankind with a new awareness that encapsulates and integrates many of the universal teachings for many people of all walks of life, from many dimensions of Truth! Read the contents and have this amazing perception begin to alter you DNA! Arthur and Lynette Horn present their hypotheses on all life form’s extraterrestrial or interplanetary connectedness, which they feel deeply concerns people of the Earth who want to continue to consciously expand and to evolve spiritually as a whole specie. Credibly researched and well-documented information on human evolution. A must read for all who are interested in learning about our extraterrestrial origins, which Dr. Horn’s book offers to all readers; targeting both scientists and the critical masses.
Icelandic Music Ancient and Punk Ancient pagan traditions collide with the nihilistic Rock 'n' Roll of the '80's: Icelandic epic songs predate 13th century European Catholic music mandates allowing residual pagan tradition to share the same century with Iceland's first Rock 'n' Roll revolution. Essays document the vanishing of the folk music tradition in a period of dramatic social, economic and political changes. The artistically rendered small edition will be interesting to those who want to study the factors of endangered folk traditions.
Inanna. Queen of Heaven and Earth. Her stories and Hymns from Sumer.
Info-Psychology A Manual on the use of the Human Nervous System according to the Instructions of the Manufacturers The Info-Worlds which our species will discover, create, explore and inhabit in the immediate future are not to be reached from Canaveral launching pads alone, but throughout computer personal screens. To explain these new ripples my current publisher/editors Dr. Christopher S. Hyatt and Nicholas Tharcher have allowed me to rewrite the first 16 pages of this revised edition. This new beginning permitted me to start shifting the emphasis from “EXO’ to “INFO”. From Space Habitats to Information Habitats.
Intoxication Ph.D. Siegel's research shows the pursuit of intoxication is inevitable, and dramatically reveals that people can be taught to use powerful drugs safely and nonaddictively. Siegel believes we must, as a society, commit to the discovery and manufacture of completely safe non-addictive intoxicants, such as those found in nature. Examples are numerous of animals that use drugs naturally and somehow never develop devastating addictions their human cousins seem prone to. A must for everyone.
It’s Obvious You Won’t Survive By Your Wits Alone: A Dilbert Book Dilbert is the Everyman in the down-sized, techno-centered workplace of the nineties. He’s the corporately innocent engineer who experiences the absurdities and oddities of office life from his (sometimes shrinking) cubicle. Complemented by his sarcastic and power-hungry dog, Dobgert (aspiring Supreme Ruler of the Earth whose secret to happiness is “High expectations and your own bag of chips”), Dilbert provides humor on one of life’s most insidious subjects: work. It’s Obvious You Won’t Survive by Your Wits Alone features nearly two years of Dilbert comic strips (including color Sunday cartoons!) that have never appeared in book form. Dilbert, created by Scott Adams, appears in more than 550 newspapers worldwide and is the Internet’s number one comic strip. “The Dilbert Zone” is featured on United Media’s World Wide Web site, which generates more than three million hits every week.
Jung On Alchemy The ancient practice of alchemy, which thrived in Europe especially during the Renaissance, dealt with the phenomenon of transformation--not only of materials (ore into gold) but also of the human spirit (self into Other). Through their work in the material realm, alchemists discovered personal rebirth as well as linking between outer and inner dimensions. Nathan Schwartz-Salant is a Jungian analyst in private practice.
Karakoram Highway the high road to China John King grew up in the United States (last known address, San Francisco). In 1984 he quit his job and left for Asia and has been unable to settle down ever since. He has spent thirteen months in China at various times-as an English teacher (at the Chinese Academy of Science in Chengdu), photographer, and traveller - and five months in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. In past incarnations he has been a college physics teacher, an environmental consultant and a newspaper proofreader. He now splits his time among Hong Kong, England, and the United States as a freelance writer and photographer. “The Most thoroughly researched practical guide available.” - The Bookseller.
Kids Called Crazy When Ron Jones when to teach summer school at the teen ward of a mental hospital, he had no idea what he was getting into. This was a first. Five kids called “disadvantaged” were being paid to go to school with five kids called “crazy”. The summer brought roller skates and broken glass, a spaceship filled with surprises, unforgettable lessons in love and friendship, a bitterly tragic suicide--and a new understanding of kids called crazy. “Like a children’s version of ‘One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest’, it is alternately tragic, moving and funny.” - Publishers Weekly
KOMBUCHA How to and What it’s All About You have heard the claims that drinking Kombucha can help arthritis, retard wrinkles and grey hair, increase energy, detoxify the body, help skin conditions (such as psoriasis), and stimulate the immune system. Here is the first definitive book written in the U.S. on the subject including up-to-date information never before published on its properties and possible effects. Included are: How to know if drinking the tea is right for you; How to brew a successful batch every time; The facts about contamination and how to recognize and avoid it; What’s in the tea and how these ingredients affect the body; and No testimonials--just the facts!
L’Absinthe Crystal clear in the bottle, potent emerald green in the glass, and 144 proof--Absinthe is as illicit as it is intoxicating. It’s also among history’s most notorious liquors--romanticized and maligned in equal measure. Here for the first time is an illustrated exploration of absinthe’s legendary allure. Sipped by Oscar Wilde, Baudelaire, van Gogh, Manet. Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, and many others prominent artists and writers, absinthe was first used in ancient Greece for its healing powers. In the nineteenth-century France, it became a symbol of decadence and soon a scapegoat for the social and political ills of the period, leading to its ultimate prohibition. From wild stories about its celebrated users to compelling insights into its influence on art, this lavishly illustrated book features over 60 color and 100 black-and-white reproductions of paintings and other absinthe-related art, including posters for and against the controversial spirit. For all those interested in art, literature, liquor, or decadence, Absinthe is history in a bottle.
Lord of Four Quarters
Love in the Time of Cholera Gorgeous writing of a mature artist.
Lovers in Evolution
Loving a Woman in Two Worlds
Macrocosm USA... Possibilities for a New Progressive Era... The Macrocosm USA handbook is an interdisciplinary text containing more than 200 articles and over 5000 listings of progressive organizations, periodicals, media outlets, businesses, publishers and reference designed for all people and all seasons--Macrocosm USA attempts to broaden and galvanize a new agenda from seemingly disparate issues into one comprehensible whole, a macrocosmic context not readily available from the local newsstand. Macrocosm USA seeks to revolutionize research, journalism, networking, grassroots activism, career choice, politics, and, foremost, the way in which we teach the social sciences. Not only does it concisely identify today’s most critical problems, but it also suggests hundreds of solutions from some of the greatest thinkers of our time. You may not agree with all that is contained within, but you are guaranteed to be stirred to action. Urgent, timely, and visionary!
Malcolm X Talks to Young People
Marihuana Reconsidered Marijuana Reconsidered first published in 1971 and updated in 1977 was a Harvard University Press best seller much praised by reviewers. Noted psychiatrist Dr. Lester Grinspoon methodically reviews the scientific, medical, and popular literature on the effects of marijuana. Today, as the issue of legalizing marijuana for medical use is being reconsidered, this book continues to offer what has been widely acclaimed as the most comprehensive assessment of marijuana. Today, as the issue of legalizing marijuana for medical use is being reconsidered, this book continues to offer what has been widely acclaimed as the most comprehensive assessment of marijuana and its place in society.Lester Grinspoon, M.D. teaches at Harvard Medical School. He has published more than 140 articles and has written or edited eleven other books. He has been studying cannabis since 1967 and is considered one of the foremost authorities on marijuana.
Marijuana Chemistry Genetics, Processing & Potency Marijuana Chemistry explains the psychoactive constituents of cannabis, and the effect of growth conditions, harvesting and processing, and method of ingestion on potency. This new edition of the widely respected classic features 64 pages of updates based on current research and black market studies. A comprehensive resource, Marijuana Chemistry covers such topics as marijuana constituents and their effects, variations in THC and CBD content, growth conditions and potency, variation in content of noncannabinoids, harvesting and preparation of marijuana and hashish, extraction of THC and preparation of hash oil, isomerization, testing for THC and CBD content and much more. Included are 24 photographs; many drawings, charts, and diagrams; as well as numerous tables, a glossary and bibliography.
MARIJUANA... The Cultivator’s Handbook Bill Drake’s classic bestselling Cultivator’s Handbook of Marijuana now totally revised and expanded containing the most up-to-date information on the art and process of growing the finest marijuana for both the outdoor and indoor cultivator. Contains a new section on the cultivation of psychoactive tobacco and over 100 photographs, drawings, charts and maps. “The Best book on the subject” - Whole Earth Catalog
Mars... The Living Planet This highly readable “science story” examine the evidence for and against life on Mars today--specifically, microbial life, as sought by the biology experiments of the 1976 Viking Mission to Mars. The announcement by NASA of the discovery of possible fossilized bacteria in a Martian meteorite put the issue back on the front pages of international newspapers in August 1996. The arrival of the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft in 1997 and return of new images to Earth will raise the perennial question once again: Is there life on other worlds?
Masks of the Illuminati One fateful evening in a suitably dark, beer-soaked Swiss rathskeller, a wild and obscure Irishman named James Joyce would become the drinking partner of an unknown physics professor called Albert Einstein. And on that momentous night, Sir John Babcock, a terror-stricken young Englishman, would rush through the tavern door bringing a mystery that the two most brilliant minds of the century could solve...or perhaps bringing only a figment of his imagination born of the paranoia of our times. An outrageous raunchy ride through the twists and turns of mind and space, “Masks of the Illuminati” runs amok with all our fondest conspiracy theories to show us the truth behind the laughter... and the laughter in the truth.
MELATONIN Breakthrough Discoveries That Can Help You: Combat aging; Boost Your Immune System; Reduce your risk of Cancer and Heart Disease and get a better nights sleep. This nationally acclaimed book reveals cutting-edge research on melatonin--a natural hormone and antioxidant that helps determine how well we sleep, how fast we age, and how effectively we fight off disease and toxins. It provides vital information on how to protect and enhance your body’s natural production of this life-giving hormone, and how best to benefit from taking melatonin supplements. You’ll learn how melatonin enhances sleep as effectively as prescription drugs--without side effects. Has the potential to lower blood pressure and cholesterol and may help prevent heart disease, some cancers, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, diabetes, and cataracts. It may improve existing treatments for cancer and AIDS. Reduces the symptoms of jet lag. Protects against radiation from x-rays. May reduce the free radical damage that underlies aging and more. Plus the most complete guide available anywhere to nonprescription melatonin supplements, including whether you should take melatonin, what dosages are safe, exactly when and how to take the, what issues to discuss with your doctor, and answers to the most often asked questions.
Mermaids. Nymphs of the Sea. An Art Book
Metaman-- The Merging of Humans and Machines into a Global Superoganism In this visionary book, Gregory Stock gives us a new way of understanding our world and our future. He develops the provocative thesis that human society has become an immense living being---a global superorganism in which we humans, knitted together by our modern technology and communication, are like the cells in an animal’s body. Drawing on impressive research, Stock shows this newly formed superorganism to be more than metaphor; it is an actual living creature, which he has named, “Metaman,” meaning “beyond and transcending humans”.
Mother Meera ANSWERS Mother Meera was born in 1960 in a village in South India. She soon showed herself to be an unusual child: by the age of three she would report “going to various lights.” The state of samadhi was constant for her. Under the auspices of her uncle Mr. Reddy, she lived for some time at the Aurobindo ashram where her extraordinary presence attracted considerable attention. She now lives in Germany where thousands of devotees from all over the world come to receive her darshan, her silent bestowal of grace and light. A radically direct new path to the Divine, a path that uses the transformative power of Divine LIght itself, is presented here by Mother Meera, one of several Incarnations of the Divine Mother on Earth today. Because the world is in crisis, Mother Meera, one of the most widely respected of these Avatars, offers this powerful new path. Working harmonically with any other way to the Divine, this path is one in which the Light itself works to effect the transformation and to change us, gently and protectively, from within.
Neruda and Vallejo Selected Poems Edited by Robert Bly Among the finest poets of the century, certainly among the most important ever to have written in the Spanish language, Pablo Neruda and Cesar Vallejo are presented here in a notable bilingual selection from their work. These are the “grave and beautiful poems” of Vallejo which Robert Mazzocco has discussed in The New York Review of Books. And the selections from Neruda’s writing are, according to Richard Howard in Poetry, “the best translations of Neruda we have, the closest to something that is not a translation at all, simply magnificent poetry.” Robert Bly, poet, editor, and translator, received the National Book Award for poetry in 1968.
Neuropolitique Timothy Leary, Ph.D has been a world-renowned psychologist, a defrocked Harvard professor, a relentless champion of brain change, a reputed drug guru, a stand-up philosopher, and a prisoner of the Nixon administration. He has been called, “the most dangerous man on the planet”. While in prison, at times in solitary confinement, he wrote the first version of this book. (“I must confess that at that time I was alienated, a bit daft and given to occasional fits of irritation. So color the first version of this book indigo--as in Jail House Blues.”) Now revised and updated, Neuropolitique presents some of Dr. Leary’s best ideas, his reflections on the past and his hope for the future. Robert Anton Wilson and George Koopman are also included in this publication.
New Horizons... Explorations in Science with a foreward by Colin Wilson. Explore the outer reaches of science with one of the greatest thinkers of our age. In these essays P.D. Ouspensky explains the necessity of thinking about the world in six dimensions--three dimensions of space, and three dimensions of time. He also delves into the unseen world of the fourth dimension of perception, experiements in altering his own state of consciousness, and introduces a radical method for studying one’s own dreams. When you enter the world of New Horizons, life will never look quite the same again. “Amazing and sigularly enticing. A great achievement, a work of genius which will be one of the foundations for that future philosophy which will more accurately interpret the nature of man.” - Saturday Review “The book is a sort of compendium upon a variety of subjects vaaguely floating about in the minds of most intelligent people. Interesting, illuminative and suggestive.” - The New York Times Book Review
Not in Our Backyard: The People and Events That Shaped America's Modern Environmental Movement A great book, used as a text in many history of ecology programs across the nation. Powerful and funny. The associated interview is available as A872-94, and appears in Magical Blend magazine, Fall 1994.
One Hundred Years of Solitude The exuberant classic--to be passed down through generations.
One River... Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest In 1941, Professor Richard Evans Schultes took a leave from Harvard and disappeared into the Amazon, where he spend the next twelve years mapping uncharted rivers and living among dozens of Indian tribes. In the 1970’s, he sent two prize students, Tim Plowman and Wade Davis, to follow in his footsteps and unveil the botanical secrets of coca, the notorious source of cocaine, a sacred plant known to the Inca as the Divine Leaf of Immortality. A stunning account of adventure and discovery, betrayal and destruction, One River is a story of two generations of explorers drawn together by the transcendent knowledge of Indian peoples, the visionary realms of the shaman, and the extraordinary plants that sustain all life in a forest that once stood immense and inviolable. The paperback version in $16.00 and hardcover version is $27.50.
Powers & Prospects
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Study of Shamanism & Alternate Modes of Healing On Saturday, August 30, 1986, one hundred and twenty anthropologists, artists and art historians, educators, ethnologists, historians of religion, musicians, philosophers, physicians, physicists, psychologists psychotherapists, and practitioners representing various branches of the healing profession came to the Third International Conference on the Study of Shamanism and Alternate Modes of Healing at the St. Sabina Center, San Rafael, California to compare notes and try to find common denominators. For three days, they discussed techniques and methods from a variety of traditions, but, most of all, they looked at the viability of traditional elements as well as the developments in Western science and attempted to integrate the different concepts of healing.
Reimagination of the World “New Age” is a term often used as a way of talking about the future—as a vision of a new world still to be born. David Spangler and William Irwin Thompson believe that for this reason alone the entire twentieth century deserves to be called the “New Age”. In Reimagination of the World, they dialogue on the New Age movement, the popular culture of the 1970’s and 1980’s, ecological concerns, and the evolution of human scientific intelligence. With wit and insight, they offer a unique perspective on a period of rapid change in consciousness and planetary responsibility, as well as a vision of new artists, new scientists, and emerging communities.William Irwin Thompson is a cultural historian, director of the Lindisfarne Association, and the author of many books, including “The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light” and “At the Edge of History”, which was nominated for a National Book Award. David Spangler was formerly codirector of the Findhorn Foundation; he is a Lindisfarne Fellow and the author of “Revelation: Birth of a New Age“ and “Emergence: The Rebirth of the Sacred” .
Rekindling the Spirit in Work The purpose of this book is to light the fire of spirit in work. When we discover our true Self, our Essence, we can identify with who we really are. Work then becomes the natural expression of our Essence and a joyful experience. Many of us have never known what it means to work with spirit. We commonly believe that work is an unrewarding obligation that we must accept in order to earn our living. Rekindling the Spirit in Work opens us to new approaches to gaining information about work through coming to understand the meaning of signs and symbols in our daily lives.
Sacred Mirrors
Sacred Architecture For much of our history all architecture-not only religious monuments and buildings-created the physical context of the sacred. Sacred Architecture is a re-discovery of our collective heritage, showing us how to understand the symbols of change provided by the buildings and monuments of our ancestor. The language of the sacred can be seen in buildings as diverse as the Parthenon, Hopi initiation lodges, Stonehenge, the Temple at Luxor, the cathedrals and the Palladian memory theatre, in which astronomical, mythical, geometric and structural patterns have been incorporated. A.T. Mann explains how such sacred images are not merely stylistic ornaments, but also depict cosmic principles which still have relevance in architecture today. From the early astrological and mythical influences which determined the location, form and function of early monuments, the book travels through history up to the present time, showing how the reflection of the images of earth and heaven in architecture has all but disappeared.
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