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In the middle of the turbulent 1960s Malcolm Boyd's Are You Running With Me, Jesus? appeared on the scene and broke the mold from which devotional texts had previously been made. Boyd's prayers engaged traditional Christian themes with a decidedly contemporary voice—honest, direct, insightful—while...

‘Have you ever blamed or criticized God for something bad that happened to you? Do you feel like confronting and taking Him to task for all the rubbish that is happening around?’ ‘Yes, I do feel angry at God sometimes.’ ‘Then why don’t you become an atheist?’ ‘But how will that help?...

Summary of Going Clear by Lawrence Wright | Includes Analysis   Preview: Going Clear by Lawrence Wright is an in-depth examination of the founding, principles, and scandals of Scientology using eyewitness interviews and original document research. The Church of Scientology...

  Comme il n’y a aucune secte particuliére de Religion, qui ne prétende être véritablement fondée sur l’autorité de Dieu & entiérement exempte de toutes les erreurs & impostures qui se trouvent dans les autres, c’est à ceux qui prétendent établir la vérité...

En route to his own spiritual realization, Sri Chinmoy attained mastery over the Kundalini and occult powers. In this book he explains techniques for awakening the Kundalini and the chakras. He warns of the dangers and pitfalls to be avoided, and discusses some of the occult powers that come with...

How were early Christians influenced by contemporary assumptions about ethnic and colour differences? Why were early Christian writers so attracted to the subject of Blacks, Egyptians, and Ethiopians? Looking at the neglected issue of race brings valuable new perspectives to the study of the ancient...

The American Dream has been transplanted around the world. ww musika blithely teeters between the dry, vast landscape of the southwestern United States and the steamy, pungent crowds of Bangkok. The observations in Horse Latitudes reveal the flaws in The Dream and the drive to adapt its desires across...

The fourth in this series, this short devotional includes a description of Maha Lakshmi and her role in Hindu & Jain mythology. As the generous Goddess of Wealth, the personification of beauty and grace, and the consort to Vishnu, She is a popular Goddess even today. It includes a mantra sung to Her,...

Pagan Portals – Nature Mystics traces the lives and work of ten writers who contributed to the cultural environment that allowed Modern Paganism to develop and flourish throughout the twentieth century. John Keats, Mary Webb, Thomas Hardy, Sylvia Townsend Warner, D.H. Lawrence, Elizabeth von Arnim, W.B. Yeats, Mary Butts, J.R.R. Tolkien and E. Nesbit.

Leaves of Morya's Garden I (The Call) is the first book from the Agni Yoga Series which is composed of fourteen books. In them is found a synthesis of ancient Eastern beliefs and modern Western thought and a bridge between the spiritual and the scientific. Unlike previous yogas, Agni Yoga is...

The Washington Monument. The pyramid on the $1 bill. The Skull and Bones Society at Yale University. Common American icons-or secret symbols? From our founding fathers to our most prestigious institutions, this is a nation built on such secret symbols, rites, and rituals. So forget the textbook...

In this book, Guillaume Faye, the firebrand of the French New Right, confronts the phenomenon of mass immigration head-on. Rather than talking about ‘immigration’, Faye insists that we must speak of a massive colonisation settlement of the West by peoples from the Global South. This, together...

El poder secreto de las velas, ofrece los secretos de los iniciados para utilizar las velas con diferentes fines, obteniendo óptimos resultados. A través de sus páginas, usted podrá aprender a fabricar velas caseras y sabrá cuál es la mejor forma de elegirlas si desea comprarlas. Conocerá los...

Starting with the disappearance of a journalist who was exploring New York City’s vampire subculture, Ramsland follows in her footsteps and well beyond to learn about the vampires of the mid-1990s. No longer attached to images from film or fiction, these people are actively involved in live-action...