Mark J Plotkin
'In a captivating plea for more effective management of the rain forest's botanical, medicinal, and cultural resources, the chief ethnobotanist at Conservation International vividly recalls his apprenticeships to the tribal shamanic healers of the northeast Amazon. ``There exists no shortage of `wonder drugs' waiting to be found in the rain forests,'' says Plotkin, yet ``we know little or nothing about the chemical composition of 98.6% of the Brazilian flora''--and this despite the fact that, even now, the value of medicines derived from tropical plants is more than $6 billion a year. Inspired by a 1974 Harvard night-school lecture by famed ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes, Plotkin first traveled to the rain forest in 1979. There, he was shocked to discover that local Indians' priceless botanical knowledge, developed over thousands of years, was threatened with eradication because no younger tribal members would volunteer as apprentice healers. Plotkin presented himself as an unlikely student to the Tirio and Wayana shamans, offering in exchange to write down what he was taught, thereby preserving the shamanic lore. When not following his elderly instructors through the forest, collecting plant samples and scribbling notes on native cures for arthritis, skin funguses, colds, and other ailments, Plotkin benefited personally from a successful shamanic healing; learned a secret formula for curare poison; and otherwise became deeply enmeshed in tribal life. In the States, he contractually assigned a percentage of any future profits from development of his research to the tribes that had disclosed the plants' healing powers, as well as to the countries in which the plants grow. Meanwhile, his book of botanical lore, presented as promised to the tribes, has helped restore a self- respect battered during years of interaction with the West. ``Every time a shaman dies, it is as if a library burned down,'' Plotkin reminds us. No one could convey the potential tragedy of this statement more convincingly than this author, who has done something to remedy it.' - Kirkus Reviews.
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John Heider
How to be the very best kind of leader? In the fifth century B.C., the Chinese sage Lao Tzu set down the laws of effective leadership that he had discovered after years of meditation and careful observation. He called his invaluable teaching Tao Te Ching, which translates as 'The Book of How Things Happen', and addressed it to the wisest, most powerful leaders of his day. Knowing how things happen gives the leader more power and ability than all the degrees and titles the world can offer. This program - featuring comments and anecdotes by bestselling author Dr. Denis Waitley - will help you learn how things happen. The principles within this program are for anyone who aspires to leadership, whether in business, politics, government, school, church or family. Through a combination of excerpts from the Tao Te Ching, juxtaposed with contemporary examples that illuminate the quotations, The Tao of Leadership instructs listeners in the art of governing through the skillful management of human resources.
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Joe Dominguez
"The foolish person wants more money, and more of the things money can buy," Dominguez says. "The wise person wants enough money, and more of the things money can't buy: health, happiness, love, and peace of mind." Now the personal money management course that brings this wisdom to consciousness is open to every listener, with Transforming Your Relationship with Money. Are you making a living? Or as Joe Dominguez puts it, are you making a dying? Dominguez was a Wall Street analyst who walked away from a high-powered financial career in 1969, retiring at age 30. Afterwards he lived comfortably on about $7,000 per year, while donating a small fortune to various charities. Transforming Your Relationship with Money is his life's work - a revolutionary guide that will help you find peace with the concept of money, stop consuming things you don't really need, and start contributing to the goals and ideals you believe in. Joe Dominguez achieved financial independence not through a get-rich-quick scheme, but through a path of inquiry that led him to question the very nature of our relationship with money. On this live audio seminar, he illuminates the equation between money and our most precious resource - our life energy - so that a powerful new definition of money emerges. In nine simple steps he teaches you how to consciously track, evaluate, and direct the flow of money - without compromising your principles or most cherished dreams.
5 hours ... 4 Cassettes
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Warren Farrell
Since 1989, thousands of men and women have attended Warren Farrell’s workshops to build better, more loving relationships through insightful "role reversal" exercises. Through these powerful techniques you will learn how a woman feels to be judged by her appearance, why men feel they have to “earn” a woman’s affection, the two keys to building intimacy (and why men and women are both responsible for the intimacy gap), three exercises for enhancing the emotional bonds between partners, and much more. This interactive workshop format proves that it is possible to build a better relationship.
180 mins. ... 2 Cassettes
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John Edward
On this fascinating audio program, the incomparable John Edward shows you how to use tools such as meditation and visualization to contact your angels and guides. First, John explains the difference between angels and guides. An angel, he says, is an energy that has never had a physical incarnation, but who can assist, protect, nurture, and inspire the human condition. A guide may have a physical body at one time, and works with you when you choose to incarnate into the physical. This energy stays with you throughout your life to help you in every way.
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Sylvia Browne
In Visits from the Afterlife, Browne journeys even deeper into The Other Side, detailing stirring true encounters, describing visitations with ghosts, in-transition spirits, and other troubled souls seeking peace and closure. She travels to locations as diverse as haunted homes and ships possessed by otherworldly forces. Through these spiritual visits, she explains the reasons behind many of the world's most bizarre and mysterious hauntings, and she shares her own personal, face-to-face experiences with these inexplicable phenomena. From surprising revelations about the spirit world to moving reunions with those who have moved on, Visits from the Afterlife once again illustrates spirits' profound and eternal influence on our earthly lives.
4 Cassettes
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Ram Dass
On this heart opening tape Ram Dass leads the listener on a guided imagery journey to the source of peacefulness and joyfulness. Five different meditations are included.
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Stephen Wolinsky
"I must succeed in everything I do." "I must be loved." "I must be in control." "I feel inadequate." From our earliest years, teaches Wolinsky, the nervous system creates a false self that can trap us in a specific constellation of fears, frustrations, and psychological patterns. In this trance of the false self, we lose contact with the greater dimensions of who we really are - what the spiritual traditions of the world have called "the One Substance," "God," or "the Void of Undifferentiated Consciousness." Awakening from the trance of the self, says Wolinsky, begins by extending your awareness to every level of who you are: your biological instincts, your thoughts and feelings, the archetypal dimension, and - ultimately - who you are beyond those thoughts, emotions, memories, associations, and perceptions. But, how do you begin this journey? In 1977, as a young psychotherapist Wolinsky left his practice to answer these questions. His search would lead him beyond the roots of modern psychology and the contemplative traditions of the world to India's legendary sage Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. On Waking from the Trance, you are invited to learn what evolved from Wolinsky's quest: a revolutionary new understanding of the nature of consciousness that can help us to see beyond the inner structures that limit our awareness - and experience the many dimensions of who we are more fully. "The only way to find out who you are," taught Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, "is to find out first who you are not." Waking from the Trance offers you an opportunity to begin that life-changing investigation. Here is a full nine-hour program of compelling instruction and exercises to help you identify the "frames" that organize your most basic experiences ... open your awareness to each of your dimensional levels ... and discover who you truly are.
9 hours ... 6 Cassettes
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Mark Epstein
Sigmund Freud once said that the best outcome that psychotherapy can offer is a return to "common unhappiness." But what about those of us with higher aspirations? Where do we find the tools we need to heal - and then go further - to create a life of uncommon and authentic happiness? The answer, teaches Mark Epstein, may lie in the insights of one of the world's greatest psychologists - the Buddha. On What the Buddha Felt, you will learn about: "Bare attention," a powerful inner resource for facing fear, sadness, anger, and other difficult emotions; Buddhism's six realms of suffering (and the six antidotes); and Looking, Smiling, Embracing, and Orgasm - a tantric map to spiritual evolution. Why do so many of us feel a pervasive sense of dissatisfaction in our lives? Do our problems lie in the traumas of the past? Or is the solution right in front of us, in the scope of our immediate awareness? What the Buddha Felt unravels these crucial questions - and invites each of us to discover the possibility of a happiness beyond our everyday minds.
John Gray
Consciously or unconsciously, everyone is trying to enrich and improve their relationships in some way. Enriching our relationships is an art and a science. For this enrichment to happen, even before we can find and accept love, we have to love ourselves. Through his experience in working with others to heal their pain, Dr. Gray has found patterns and messages that many of us received while growing up. These messages can keep us from loving ourselves, and from loving and receiving love from others. By exploring how these messages became ingrained in us while we were young and how we are using them today, we can change old patterns and thoughts about ourselves and others as well as create long-lasting, fulfilling relationships. John Gray tells us that "Loving yourself in the presence of others means being able to express your inner gifts and talents without fear. When you don't love yourself and mask your real self, the cycle works in the opposite direction, decreasing love and true self expression."
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Osho
“Yoga means the meeting of the two into one. In Christianity mystics have called it Unio Mystica: the mysterious union.” In these discourses, Osho paints a totally different picture of Yoga than we know in the West. According to Osho, Yoga-the Science of the Soul- is not about twisting the body into strange-looking positions. It’s about man’s effort to move from his circumference to his centre, to travel from his body inwards to his soul. “Yoga says the body is your temple, and your senses are the only doors and windows through which you will reach God-so don’t deaden them. Make them more alive.” “One of those rare humans expressing himself with joy.” Paul Reps, author of Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
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Tracey Rich & Ganga White
From two of the world's most revered yoga teachers comes this CD of twelve simple yet effective Yoga poses that take only a few minutes each to practice. Tracey Rich gives detailed verbal instructions for each posture, from instructions developed by Rich and Ganga White at the White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara, California. You can use these moves individually at various times during your day to release tension and tightness, increase mobility, and keep your body balanced, or practice the entire sequence together for a complete Yoga session.
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Richard Freeman
On The Yoga Matrix, renowned instructor Richard Freeman immerses us in the rich teachings and sutras that inform the many schools of yoga, and reveals how the body can serve as the ultimate laboratory, temple, and place of pilgrimage for spiritual inquiry. Looking back 5,000 years, Freeman uncovers the living roots of yoga philosophy, and observes how they have grown into many schools, techniques, and philosophies that are united by a vast, interpenetrating "matrix" which holds the key to understanding yoga’s full depth and greater purpose. Freeman first traveled to India in 1968, where he began a lifetime of study with the living masters of yoga and its mysteries. Now he teaches these authentic lessons and their original subtleties, with the questions and concerns of the serious Western student in mind. From profound concepts at the center of this ancient cosmic philosophy, to the cherished teaching stories and chants that enrich its daily practice, here is a complete audio curriculum with the power to catalyze your daily yoga practice. Includes: Asanas - "containers" for meditation practice; Nadis - the body’s "rivers of energy;" Five Element Theory - its application to yoga; The Sankhya System - from solid earth to transparent mind; Yamas and Niyamas - yoga’s core moral precepts; More than eight hours of chants, divine lore, and advanced yoga teachings.
8.5 hours. ... 6 Cassettes
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Sudhir Jonathan Foust, Swami Srinivasananda & Yogiraj Alan Finger On this 3 CD set Sudhir Jonathan Foust, the one-time president of the preeminent Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, guides the listener to attune himself to the ever-present flow of life force through the whole being. Swami Srinivasananda travels to the stillness that lies behind the activity of the mind; and second-generation master Yogiraj Alan Finger teaches awareness of breathing patterns, visualization and sensation of chakras, and the release of old emotional patterns.
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Beryl Bender Birch, Cyndi Lee & Gael Chiarella
On this 3 CD set the author of Power Yoga and founder of The Hard and The Soft Astanga Yoga Institute, Beryl Bender Birch here guides the listener through her favourite meditation programs for everyday mindfulness and connecting you with the present moment where the true joys of life are lived. OM Yoga founder and television yoga pundit Cyndi Lee offers meditations for finding balance and joy amid life's challenges. Gael Chiarella, founder of Yokibics, leads the listener through what she calls 'feeling centres,' to help reveal and transform built up emotional blocks.
Georg Feuerstein
The original purpose of Yoga - as a path to inner freedom and enlightenment - is embodied by only a few students in the West. Yoga Wisdom introduces this growing market to the endangered mental and spiritual disciplines of this ancient philosophy for living. From Yoga’s origins and how it evolved into many schools, to the moral and esoteric principles that unite them all, here is the perfect primer on Yoga and its authentic practice.
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Oriah Mountain Dreamer
On Your Heart's Prayer, Oriah challenges us to find our heart's longing - a deep purpose encompassing not just daily life, but our ultimate destinies. Drawing on her training in shamanic medicine, she details the way to narrow the gap between how we want to live and how we're actually living. Blending ruthless honesty, humour and insight, Oriah offers a completely new program for uncovering our deepest desires.
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Alan Watts, read by Ralph Blum
Zen Buddhism is a way and view of life not easily defined. It has to be suggested by saying what it is not - in the same way that a sculptor reveals an image to us by the act of removing pieces from a block of stone. Zen Practice, Zen Art is a refreshingly clear yet remarkably detailed explanation of this most tantalizing aspect of Asian culture. Includes the history of Zen, its influence on the arts, Za-Zen study, and the role Westerners are playing in the preservation of Zen as a living philosophy. Remainder mark.
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