The Healing Power of Prayer

Hans-Werner Schroeder

Softbound

$11.95

My experience of reading The Healing Power of Prayer is that it is, in itself, a taste of the grace of wholeness that awaits us if we but ask. Schroeder's little book is so awake with a warm wisdom that it becomes a portal into the world of Love, into the universe of Hope, and shows us how to walk there upon the foundation of Faith.

None of which is as easy to do as it is to percieve as possibility. Schroeder so gently but clearly makes plain the reason so few of us experience the healing that can come through prayer: we don't feel ourselves worthy to ask, we don't feel worthy to stand alongside Love. And yet, because he allows Love to answer, through his book, and with Schroeder as companion and guide, allowing blessing to be given us becomes a gift in the face of which we can bow our heads.

May this little book touch many hearts.

Making Friends with Cancer

Dawn Nelson

Includes a dialogue with Dr. Bernie Siegel

Softbound

$12.95

Sometimes it becomes imperative for our survival to find new ways to perceive and interpret life’s challenges, to let go of old or habitual patterns in order to make informed decisions and conscious commitments in the present. There is no right or wrong answer. Each of us must navigate her or his own way through the formidable waters of something as alarming as a cancer diagnosis, whether that diagnosis is our own or has become the plight of someone we love. We have the power to choose our own response in any situation. The choices we make may not be the popular choices or the most agreed upon choices, but they must be the choices that are authentic for us. They must be the choices that empower rather than subdue us, and they must be choices for which we are willing to take responsibility.

Perhaps we should not be so much concerned with the length of our life as with its quality. The worst diagnosis of all could be an unlived life. The important query is not how long my lifetime will be in years or what I will die of. The significant questions are:

Am I still growing? • Am I learning? • Am I loving well? • Am I helping others? • Am I making healthy, conscious choices? • Am I contributing in some way to making the world a safer, saner place for all of us? • Am I awake? • Am I present? • Am I saying yes to life now?

This book will speak to any open minded reader who has cancer, fears getting cancer or who loves someone who has cancer. Beyond that, it will speak to anyone who seeks to live in harmony with the way things actually are rather than in habitual resistance to the way things appear to be. You make friends with cancer not by hating it or fighting with it but by acknowledging it as a teacher, accepting what it has to teach you, and continuing on your Journey, one step at a time.

A Thought Is Just a Thought
The Story of Living with OCD

Leslie Talley

Afterword by Michael A Jenike, MD

Softbound

$10.00

Powerfully illustrated, A Thought Is Just a Thought is the compelling and sympathetic story of Jenny, who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It describes Jenny’s visits with her mother to a doctor. He notices that Jenny is afraid to stop tapping the wall with her fingers for fear that her sister won’t come home, and that she is afraid to walk on the white squares of the kitchen’s black and white, tiled floor.

The kind Dr. Mike helps Jenny overcome her fears by showing her how to rethink the bad thoughts, and eventually she stops dwelling on the thought and its irrational consequences, realizing that, after all, a thought is just a thought.

A Thought Is Just a Thought is the first book for children and parents that confronts OCD, a surprisingly common childhood illness. It is an excellent resource for parents and for doctors who wish better understand how to help children deal with this debilitating psychological illness.

Theatre of the Imagination
Volume 1

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D.

6 audio CDs - approximately 7 hours

$69.95

I have learned more about the language of the soul and the language of the world's great stories from Theatre of the Imagination than from any other single source. Reviewing them for our bookshop was one of the great joys of my life - really!

Clarissa Pinkola Estés is one of the world's greatest story tellers, and also one of the great seers into the human heart. Raised in a remarkable extended family that gave her two world traditions (and their stories!) - Mestizo and traditional Hungarian - and the stories and understanding that make her a true contadora, a keeper of the old tales.

In each of these six lectures, Dr. Estés treats us to a captivating, luscious telling of a rich, traditional story and then invites us through poetry, conversation and clear seeing into the heart of the tale, into it's message for the human soul and the healing that is particularly its own. This is a journey which I urge you not to miss - a journey which will take you to the interior of your own heart and lead you out again to a deeper compassion and understanding others.

Highlights from this first volume, tape by tape:

• Tape One: "La Calavera" (Godmother Death) - The cycles of Life and Death - Our Mother Tongue - The language of symbols - "A Newspaper Interview" poem - The images of the moon landing - Aesculapius - The Aztec Goddess Txati - The symbolic 13 - much more
• Tape Two: The Lost Mother Moon - On the longing to return to the home within - the importance of community - Healing the homesickness of the soul - nostalgia - "Information-gorge Syndrome" - Wounds and the "violet light" - "The Rose Tree" story - "Abre la Puerta" chant-poem - much more
• Tape Three: Vasalisa and the Baba Yaga - On intuition, consciousness, and the loss of innocence - Claiming your strength - The meaning of "blessing" - Schmertzenreich (richness of sorrow) and tikkun olam (repair of the world) - "How to Silence a Woman: Retrieving Her Voice" poem - much more
• Tape Four: Bluebeard and the Forbidden Key - Naiveté and the predator in the psyche - Waking the 1000 eyes of intuition - Reclaiming your true life - "The Initiate" story - How to stop the destructive inner critic - much more
• Tape Five: The Ugly Duckling - On the gifted child - The "triumph of exile" - The Mistaken Zygote Syndrome" - Hephaestus and the 12 Women Made of Silver and Gold - The meaning of self-identiy - Finding where you really belong - Active imagination - "The Tenth Father" poem - much more
• Tape Six: The Joyous Body - La Mariposa/The Butterfly Woman - The female body of God - Sappho's poetry constructed - Procrustes' Bed - The negative shadow - Reclaiming the bodies we were born with - "Old Big Mother" poem - much more

Theatre of the Imagination
Volume 2

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D.

6 audio CDs - approximately 7 hours

$69.95

Volume 2 continues and concludes the lecture series begun in Volume 1. What an adventure!

Highlights from Volume 2, tape by tape:

• Tape Seven: "Las Tres Osas Viejas" (The Three Old Ones) - Agelessness - the "aerial view" of the elder - "Crossing the crone line" - "The Grandmother Blessing" poem - The alchemical conjunctio (melding of opposites) - "The Three Old Women Bears" story - much more
• Tape Eight: The Fisherman's Wife - On fatherhood and "positive patriarchy" - Repairing the inner feminine in men - "Boy Who Married an Eagle" story - The "Silver Fish in the Pink Polka-dot Dress" story - "Drain Pipe" story - King Lear - much more
• Tape Nine: Skeleton Woman - Eros and Death - Facing the cycles of change in relationships - on staying in love - "Sedna and the Dog-Man" story - "The Wedding Night" poem - much more
• Tape Ten: The Crescent Moon Bear - On anger and the God of Love - Transforming relationships through forgiveness - Four vital steps to forgiveness - Pandora's Box - Watching Yourself exercise - Biographical Desconso exercise - "Balaam Chilam" poem - much more
• Tape Eleven: Sealskin/Soulskin - La Placita/the home place - On the marriage of the sacred and secular - The homecoming - "What have you done with your soul skin? - Overcoming loneliness - The power of the divine child - Soul as the individual mysterium - much more
• Tape Twelve: Wolfen - On courage and the sacred center of the psyche - Receiving the "pleasure of lushness" - "If You're Lucky" poem - The meaning of sweet - "Five Olde Praying Women" poem - "The Creation" poem - much more

Theatre of the Imagination
Volumes 1 & 2

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D.

12 audio CDs - approximately 14 hours

Very special price - save $29.95 compared to purchasing separately!

$109.95

A Beginner's Guide to Humor and Healing
Dr. Bernie Siegel's Prescription for the Healing Power of Laughter and Love

Bernie Siegel, MD

Audio CD, 74 minutes

$15.95

I laughed so much as I listened to this CD -- and at the end realized how much better I felt than when I began. Days later, I still feel better and have discovered that Dr. Siegel gave me some powerful tools I can use whenever I want to center myself and get back to the business of being glad to be alive.

Although it is no longer breaking news that laughter and love can heal all manner of illness in all manner of ways, I think that in most of our hearts it is still breaking news that we, ourselves, can be so healed. And that is why I am so pleased to have found this recording, made at the 5th Annual Conference of the HUMOR Project. This recording is a direct example of the healing power of laughter and love -- in fact, if you don't feel better after listening to it than you did before you started, I will be astonished and amazed. What I believe will happen is that you will feel so much better that you will be astonished and amazed instead.

Dr. Siegel tells, jokes, fairy tales and many, many true stories throughout his lecture. Each one will make you laugh and open your heart to even more of the wonder of our world and your own very specific life. I guarantee it - you can return this CD for an immediate refund if it doesn't.

Treat yourself to some of the best medicine the world has to offer - recommended without reservation!!

This Is for Everyone
Universal Principles of Healing Prayer and the Jewish Mystics

Douglas Goldhamer, DD
Melinda Stengel, LCSW

$14.95

I am more excited about This Is for Everyone than I have been about any book in a long, long time. It is not only a very well-written, hands-on, experientially based guide to healing prayer, it is also one of the only instances where I have witnessed true ecumenicalism - that behind all the varieties of religious practice and experience lies the same spiritual reality - in practice. This Is for Everyone is itself a healing prayer - a loving balm to soothe and heal our separation from each other.
Rabbi Douglas Goldhamer is as universal a soul as you are apt to find - deeply committed to his own Jewish religion, yet even more committed to God and to all people. He has nearly 20 years experience with healing prayer and working with people from many different faiths. Melinda Stengel is a Catholic social worker who came to Rabbi Douglas to learn from him when she was faced with a deep life crisis and then stayed on to help with his work. Together they have written a book can place the power of healing prayer in the hands of anyone wanting to use it.
Each section of their tutorial is divided into three sections: Universal Principle, Liberating Concept, How to Do it - an approach which is empowering, unifying and healing. Please read this book - you'll love it!

A Beginner's Guide to Forgiveness
How to Free Your Heart and Awaken Compassion

Jack Kornfield

Audio CD, 74 minutes

$15.95

I believe that the most profoundly healing thing anyone can do - whether they want to heal themselves or to heal others or to heal our Earth - is to truly forgive. Anytime anyone can really forgive a wrong - including forgiving ourselves for wrongs committed - it shifts everything for everyone and gives us all fresher air to breath.

What is marvelous about Jack Kornfield's teaching on this CD is that in addition to discussing the nature of forgiveness and its many gifts, he also teaches a practice that, if done over time, opens the human heart and enables us to really forgive. The 'forgiveness meditation' which he teaches comes from his training as a Buddhist monk in Cambodia - it is simply amazing and is something I wish I could share with everyone, so powerful is its capacity to move us closer to being able to completely forgive even devastating wrongs. I can't think of anything the world needs more, than that we all come to be able to do this.

Through stories, teachings and guided meditation, Kornfield opens the way for us to understand

• how forgiveness and compassion are possible in situations of suffering
• how forgiveness can be coupled with strength and self-protection
• the practices that lead to forgiveness of yourself and others

This teaching is a gift toward freedom and love - enjoy!

Forgiveness
The Greatest Healer of All

Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D.

$12.95

Forgiveness is simple, peaceful and ultimately deeply penetrating. As with all of Jampolsky's work, the outer simplicity is the result, not of superficiality, but of the depth of work the author himself has done within the subject area. This is one of those little books to which we can turn again - to find a friend, to find guidance, to locate the path out of the daily hell of unforgiveness. Powerful, direct, healing. Unhesitatingly recommended.

Healing the Cause
A Path of Forgiveness

Michael Dawson

Softbound

$18.95

I feel that this is a very important book on the gentle art of forgiveness. Michael Dawson's inspiration for writing this book comes from his study and teaching of A Course in Miracles - in fact, Healing the Cause can be read fruitfully as an introduction to A Course in Miracles, especially with regard to its teachings on sickness, healing, forgiveness and prayer.

I have long appreciated the many real gifts offered by A Course in Miracles and am very happy to have found Dawson's wonderful book. From the perspective of the Course, the cause of all disease lies in the mind and not the body. Disease is a shadow on the body of the guilt in our mind. As we practice forgiveness, the truth of who we really are will dawn upon our mind and we will discover our true home, and our true health, which we have never lost.

I especially like that Healing the Cause offers clear descriptions of the steps toward forgiveness, for being able to forgive is not something that I have ever experienced comes naturally - it is always, in my observation and experience, a learned skill. And once learned, what joy is possible! Michael Dawson's book is valuable in that the teaching is clear and from a very warm heart.

You Can Heal Your Life

Louise L. Hay

$12.95

This book is the single most effective healing tool we have found to date. Louise Hay has brought to it over thirty years experience in metaphysical healing, and her insight into the causes of illness and the solutions she offers are unparalled. She works through love, self-acceptance, understanding the inner causes of your illness, and developing a program of healing that is tailored to your individual needs. Nancy tested Hay's methods on a chronic problem she had experienced for years. She found that Hay pinpointed the inner causes with extraordinary (if somewhat uncomfortable) accuracy, and that by simple working with the indicated affirmation, this years' old problem first came under control and is now in the process of receding. We know of many others who have experienced the same results. It may be of interest to some of you to know that Rudolf Steiner also gave affirmations for various conditions - he called them prayers, but their structure and form were identical to those developed by Louise Hay.

Heal Your Body
The Mental Causes for Physical Illness and the Metaphysical Way to Overcome Them

Louise L. Hay

$6.95

This is a little book, designed to fit easily into a purse, large pocket, binder, or briefcase. In it, Hay has simply listed hundreds of dis-eases, her experience of their causes, and affirmations that are effective in healing them. This is the book to pull out when you feel that headache coming on. It is also an easy reference for long term, serious illnesses, such as multiple sclerosis and cancer. We know many people who have made very effective use these love-filled pathways to healing, ourselves among them. Those interested in the nature of the human being from the viewpoint of Anthroposophy can obtain an extremely sensitive gestalt of the spiritual physiology of the human organism by reading through this remarkable book.