Other Practices category: 2998 books
by Robert Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
"Learn to heal the planet and the planet will heal you ... The purpose of this book is to allow you to understand the sacred nature of your own physical body and some of the magnificent gifts it offers you. When you work with your physical body in these new ways, you will discover not only its sacredness,...
by William D. Westervelt
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
This literary treasure provides one of the earliest glimpses into precolonial Hawaaiin culture.
This book, one of six written by Dr. Westervelt, is a fascinating compilation of Hawaiian legends and historical tales. The origins of the Hawaiian people, the demi-god Maui's search for immortality...
The Canon
An Exposition of the Pagan Mystery Perpetuated in the Cabala As the Rule of All Arts
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999
The Canon is the numerical interpretation of the Cosmic law and, since man is a microcosm of the universe, it is also the law of human nature. The history of all civilizations is the history of their interpretation of the Canon. Codified by ancient philosophers and guarded by priests in the temples,...
Other Backward Classes in India
A Case Study of Assam
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
The present book is an outcome of the in-depth study of the backward communities and backward classes in India through the primary and secondary sources. The authors of the book have made an attempt to go through the genesis of the emergence of backward classes in India and also have discussed various...
The Predicament of Belief
Science, Philosophy, and Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Does it make sense - can it make sense - for someone who appreciates the explanatory power of modern science to continue believing in a traditional religious account of the ultimate nature and purpose of our universe? This book is intended for those who care about that question and are dissatisfied...
The Aesthetics of Atheism
Theology and Imagination in Contemporary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
To really understand God, you have to understand atheism.
Atheism and Christianity are often placed at polar opposite ends of a spectrum, forever in stark conflict with each other. In The Aesthetics of Atheism, Kutter Callaway and Barry Taylor propose a radical alternative: atheism and theism...
God? : A Debate between a Christian and an Atheist
A Debate between a Christian and an Atheist
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2003
The question of whether or not God exists is profoundly fascinating and important. Now two articulate spokesmen--one a Christian the other an atheist--duel over God's existence in an illuminating battle of ideas. In God? A Debate between a Christian and an Atheist William Lane Craig and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong...
The Necessity of God
Ontological Claims Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Every person acquires a worldview, a picture of reality. Within that picture, the existence of some things will be taken wholly for granted as the background to, and support of, everything else. Their existence will rarely be questioned. The cosmos or universe, the gods, God, Brahman, Heaven, the...
by Richard Swinburne
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 1998
Why does a loving God allow humans to suffer so much? This is one of the most difficult problems of religious belief. Richard Swinburne gives a careful, clear examination of this problem, and offers an answer: it is because God wants more for us than just pleasure or freedom from suffering. Swinburne...
Freemasonry
Encyclical Letter Humanus Genus
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
The race of man, after its miserable fall from God, the Creator and the Giver of heavenly gifts, “through the envy of the devil,” separated into two diverse and opposite parts, of which the one steadfastly contends for truth and virtue, the other of those things which are contrary to virtue and...
by Lyn Partridge-Webber, Wellington Witch
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
The evening started much the same as any other Monday at circle, with a meditation. As soon as I closed my eyes, I became aware of my Native American guide, he was surrounded by many other Native Americans. One stepped forward as if acting as a spokesperson, he told me he was Sitting Bull, a name...
The Secret Life of Lady Liberty
Goddess in the New World
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
The goddess origins of the Statue of Liberty and her connections with the founding and the future of America
• Examines Lady Liberty’s ties to Native American spiritual traditions, the Earth Mother, Roman goddesses, Black Madonnas, and Mary Magdalene
• Reveals the sharp contrast...
Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest
The None Zone
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2004
When asked their religious identification, more people answer 'none' in the Pacific Northwest than in any other region of the United States. But this does not mean that the region's religious institutions are without power or that Northwesterners who do attend no place of worship are without spiritual...
by Ochnavi Atatoj
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
This has to be not big material, and the idea is very young for me, but it seems so philosophically profound in my opinion that I just can’t wait more before its publication. And why should I invent religious fables now? For one thing I have invented a pair of religions under my traditional pseudonym...