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1 2 >>>     sort list by title | author The Poems of Jesus Christ In The Poems of Jesus Christ Willis Barnstone unveils the essential poetry of the Gospels by taking the direct speech of Jesus from Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John, and lineating and titling Jesus's words as individual poems. Jesus’s poems are wisdom... The Poetry of Kabbalah Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition This groundbreaking collection presents for the first time in English a substantial body of poetry that emerges directly from the sublime and often startling world of Jewish mysticism. Carlos Aldama's Life in Batá Cuba, Diaspora, and the Drum Umi Vaughan, Carlos Aldama This book recounts the life story of Carlos Aldama, one of the masters of the batá drum, and through that story traces the history of batá culture as it traveled from Africa to Cuba and then to the United States. Mushrooms, Myth & Mithras The Drug Cult that Civilized Europe Carl Ruck, Mark Alwin Hoffman, José Alfredo González Celdrán A fascinating tour of the mushroom-centered mystery religions which have profoundly influenced Western civilization The Secret History of the World Mark Booth They say that history is written by the victors. But what if history--or what we come to know as history--has been written by the wrong people? What if everything we've been told is only part of the story? What if it's the wrong part? The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell Aldous Huxley Half an hour after swallowing the drug I became aware of a slow dance of golden lights . . . Among the most profound explorations of the effects of mind-expanding drugs ever written, here are two complete classic books—The Doors of Perception... Happiness Essential Mindfulness Practices Thich Nhat Hanh Encouraging readers to be intelligent and skillful in their practice, this new collection by Thich Nhat Hanh outlines the essential steps by which we can all obtain real and lasting happiness. Each day, we perform the tasks of everyday life without... God Is Not Great How Religion Poisons Everything Christopher Hitchens In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris's recent bestseller, The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he... The Portable Atheist Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great, a provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages--with never-before-published pieces by Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali... No Time to Lose A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva Pema Chodron Over the years, Pema Chödrön's books have offered readers an exciting new way of living: developing fearlessness, generosity, and compassion in all aspects of their lives. In this new book, now in paperback, she invites readers to venture further... Buddha Karen Armstrong With such bestsellers as A History of God and Islam, Karen Armstrong has consistently delivered “penetrating, readable, and prescient” (The New York Times) works that have lucidly engaged a wide range of religions and religious issues. Tales for Transformation Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In 1768, at the age of nineteen, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe began to study hermetic literature. This exploration had a huge impact on the early aesthetic education of Europe's great man of letters, the last renaissance titan. In the years that... Ploughing the Clouds The Search for Irish Soma Peter Lamborn Wilson In Ploughing the Clouds, Peter Lamborn Wilson suggests that the ancient Celts of Ireland may have possessed a "Soma" ceremony similar to one described in the Rig Veda, one of the oldest scriptures in the world. Written in India in 1500 BC, the Rig... Sacred Drift Essays on the Margins of Islam Peter Lamborn Wilson Peter Lamborn Wilson proposes a set of heresies, a culture of resistance, that dispels the false image of Islam as monolithic, puritan, and two-dimensional. Here is the story of the African-American noble Drew Ali, the founder of "Black Islam" in... 1 2 >>>