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Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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Perhaps the first miracle was that she lived. The crowds keep coming. They arrive, all with their reasons, all with their doubts and certainties and everything in between. More and more every day, drawn by rumor and whisper and desperate wish. They come to Shaker Street to see eight-year-old Anabelle Vincent, who lies in a coma-like state--unable to move or speak. They come because a visitor experienced what seemed like a miracle and believed it...
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"The third volume in the series takes up where The Initiate and The Initiate in the New World leave off, providing more insights into the mysterious Adept known as Justin Moreward Haig. At first, we think that "the dark cycle" relates to the group of students left to their own devices when Justin Moreward Haid disappears for a time. The students meet with the astrologer David Anrias, and become aware of the concepts taught by Krishnamurti and the...
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Simon Mollat woke up in the dunes of Arambol Beach, Goa, India with an agonizing hangover. The year was 2000 and the apocalypse was still a figment of collective imagination - the millennium celebration had lasted Simon for four consecutive months. A more enlightened soul would have enjoyed the sunrise, but not Simon. He was being pissed on by a stray dog, and somewhere in the back of his mind Pink Floyd wandered in and around his aching head. Is...
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"Mindy, who has forgotten that dreams can come true, meets Jason, a know-it-all kid who says he came back to Earth to get Mindy's life on track. A thought-provoking and humorous exploration of suburbia, mid-life crisis, despair, hope, and true love against all odds, Ezekiel's Chariot will become a well-worn favorite on your shelf."--
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"Miracles Are Made of This is a contemporary story about wisdom; the one and only ingredient which enables miracles to happen. The central character is female and she has found wisdom. It was there all along, in the one place she had never previously looked - within her. Her success was achieved through a training programme designed for her by wise people. Miracles Are Made of This charts the next phase in her never ending story, which requires her...
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"SOCRATES WITHOUT TEARS is a beautifully written Novella which reveals the exciting discovery of the long lost Dialogues of Socrates by his devoted pupil Aeschines. They give us a totally different picture of Socrates' great wisdom told with amusement and irony. It shows Socrates connection with Eastern Non Dual Thought and portrays the mildly camp atmosphere of the Symposium in graphic form .It will appeal to all seekers after truth in a palatable...
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"Written as a sequel to The Initiate, the Pupil, as Scott called himself, reconnects with his master, Justin Moreward Haig, after not seeing him for many years. Scott is invited to leave London to stay in Boston, where Justin Moreward Haig is teaching about thirty other students. As in The Initiate, Scott related his experiences as if he were keeping a diary, so that this second book is also a teaching story. For example, the master discusses concentration,...
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"A superbly original collection of short stories with an esoteric bias. Each story explores in different situations, often humorous, a paradoxical edge of experience, when the inner and outer life is about to transform; at any stage in life. These stories, light-hearted and profound, were rough hewn by the well known mind-body-spirit author Alan Jacobs, and turned into literary gems by Jane Adams, an artist, poet and author. They express this fertile...
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"The Initiate presents the unfolding story of the fascinating and mysterious personality known as Justin Moreward Haig. The story is of absorbing interest to students of the spiritual path because they learn that Mahatmas and Masters do not live in seclusion, nor are they necessarily well-known teachers and authorities. The spiritual path can be found by people of diverse nationalities and races. Here we learn the veiled history of an Adept who lived...
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"A faint echo of the past, a memory crossing the mists of time, was Bridget's first clue of a life she once lived. The first step of the journey to understand the most pondered enigma of all time, life. Bridget's purpose is to find that spiritual talisman sought by people of all ages, the Philosopher's Stone or Holy Grail. Dependent on her success is her own salvation and that of the world. Using the accumulated wisdom of five millennia of human thought,...
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Hampton Roads Publishing
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (233 pages)
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English
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"Somewhere between New York State and Connecticut lies a crack between our world and a parallel human reality known as Hortishland. Today, emissaries from Hortishland regularly walk unrecognized amongst us, showing us new ways of thinking and living. But it wasn't always that way. Before they could venture into our reality, Hortishlanders had to surmount the challenges of perfecting themselves and restoring their realm. This charming mystical adventure...
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Linda Acaster
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource.
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English
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The Bull At The Gate - Book 2 in the 'Torc of Moonlight' trilogy of occult thrillers set in northern England.". . .a crafted blend of Crime, Thriller and Myth makes the reader question their grasp of reality. . ."Nick has moved to York, a walled mediaeval city of crooked half-timbered houses and tight cobbled streets where historical re-enactment groups of Viking longshipmen thrill the tourists. Yet deep in the crypt of York Minster sit the foundations...
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Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource (144 p.)
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English
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"Not every book will change your life, but any book can. Not every discussion will make a difference, but a conversation can change the world. In this timely retelling of an ancient Buddhist parable, peace activist Satish Kumar has created a small book with a powerful spiritual message about ending violence. It is a tale of a fearsome outcast named Angulimala ("Necklace of Fingers"), who is terrorizing towns and villages in order to gain control...
14) Jumping: A Novel
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Hampton Roads Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (288 pages)
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English
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"Jumping is a work of visionary fiction that begins with a nihilistic act. The main character, a young man, feels life's limits are killing him, drives to a remote area, walks 100 yards, and leaps into a dark and mysterious chasm, known locally as the "Void." Friends and family are stunned. What he meets in the Void is his own larger spiritual history-a cohort of souls he incarnated with, a string of past lives he visits-and he's changed profoundly...
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Pub. Date
2011
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1 online resource (517 p.)
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English
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"Roland Jarrell thinks he knows where his life is headed. Through a series of decisions that are all his own, he finds his simple vision of the world sharply contrasting with reality. A child of the Baby Boom, he comes of age in the '60s and '70s, becoming immersed in the technological revolution of the time. His financial and career success leads to conflicts at home, until eventually his vision comes crashing down. But underneath it all, there's...
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John Hunt Publishing
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (311 pages)
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English
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"Who is the strange woman, and what is it about her that both attracts and worries James? Suddenly in over his head, James is horrified to discover the woman seems to be, quite literally, living in the past! He goes along with her apparent madness until he realises that a spate of other, seemingly impossible, happenings are now occurring around the world, practically each minute. Swept up in her deeds, from the tragic to the heroic, James has to battle...
18) Hellrise
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David Howells
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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The machinery of Time has been repaired. Chief of Intervention Masati has her beloved Moriah back, one of Heaven's most powerful Avenger Class Host. Yet she had strayed, and for that she must remain on Earth to perform penance, and learn a more humble demeanor. Her beloved, Barna, is tasked as her overseer. Their paths will be joined by Anna, who was Moriah's closest friend in Heaven before she strayed, and together they must also protect their human...
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Red Wheel Weiser
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (168 pages)
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English
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"Overworked, overwhelmed, unsatisfied, and at her breaking point, an everywoman drops out of life for a day and meets a mysterious teacher. What she finds is her purpose--and a better way to live. In this entertaining and enlightening novel, chapters alternate between scenes in which our everywoman and her teacher discuss Life, and scenes in which she's living her everyday life (interacting with her husband, children, co-workers, and friends) and...
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Marie Minnich
Pub. Date
2017.
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1 online resource
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English
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A troubled young woman is on a journey of self realization She walks down a street in Santa Monica, California and meets the old gods. One by one, they hold conversations in the local Starbucks that consequently begin to unravel the dilemmas and mysteries of her all too human life. It's a totally modern story that reveals age old archetypes of knowledge and wisdom. --Provided by publisher.
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