Evolver Editions imprint: 24 books
Sacred Economics
Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme—but in the...
What Comes After Money?
Essays from Reality Sandwich on Transforming Currency and Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Most people believe that money is organic and inevitable; we forget that money is just a tool created to perform certain functions. But just as computer programmers drop out-of date tools and pick up better ones as soon as they become available, we might switch from bank-financed currency to a more...
by Ellen Pearlman
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
In America in the late 1950s and early 60s, the world—and life itself—became a legitimate artist’s tool, aligning with Zen Buddhism’s emphasis on “enlightenment at any moment” and living in the now. Simultaneously and independently, parallel movements were occurring in Japan, as artists...
The Four Global Truths
Awakening to the Peril and Promise of Our Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
With the planet increasingly threatened with catastrophe and perhaps even collapse, many seekers are looking to past, proven models to create meaningful change in their lives. One such model is Buddhism’s Four Noble Truths: the reality of suffering, the root cause of suffering, the end of suffering,...
Manifesto for the Noosphere
The Next Stage in the Evolution of Human Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
The noosphere, identified in the early twentieth century as intrinsic to the next stage of human and terrestrial evolution, is defined as the Earth’s “mental sphere” or stratum of human thought. Manifesto for the Noosphere, the final work by renowned* *author José Argüelles, predicts that...
The Electric Jesus
The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
When Jonathan Talat Phillips experiences a devastating loss as a countercultural media activist, he unwittingly starts on a mystical journey marked by underground ayahuasca ceremonies, kundalini awakenings, prankster spirit guides, extraterrestrial encounters at the Burning Man festival, and miraculous...
Star Sister
How I Changed My Name, Grew Wings , and Learned to Trust Intuition
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Intuition was something that Laura Chamorro knew not to ignore. So when it told her to change her name to Stella Osorojos, she listened—and that’s when things started to get strange.
Following the I Ching, kabbalah teachers, channeled masters from Earth and beyond, and her own premonitions...
by Patrick Harpur
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
In The Secret Tradition of the Soul, author Patrick Harpur argues that answers to life’s most difficult questions—the meaning of life, the nature of self, and the existence of an afterlife—can be met by a visionary tradition that runs through Western culture, from Greek philosophy and Renaissance...
Empowering Public Wisdom
A Practical Vision of Citizen-Led Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Lifelong activist Tom Atlee proposes innovative ways to distill the wisdom of ordinary people in order to better guide public policy. In Empowering Public Wisdom, Atlee recognizes currently popular forms of progressive democracy advocates, such as citizen participation and voter education, but suggests...
The Media Ecosystem
What Ecology Can Teach Us about Responsible Media Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
In The Media Ecosystem, Antonio Lopez draws together the seemingly disparate realms of ecology and media studies to present a fresh and provocative interpretation of the current state of the mass media—and its potential future. Lopez explores the connections between media and the environment, arguing...
Manifesting Minds
A Review of Psychedelics in Science, Medicine, Sex, and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Featuring essays and interviews with Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley, Ram Dass, Albert Hofmann, Alexander (Sasha) Shulgin, Daniel Pinchbeck, Tim Robbins, Arne Naess, and electronic musician Simon Posford, as well as groundbreaking research and personal accounts, this one-of-a-kind anthology is a "best...
Exploring the Edge Realms of Consciousness
Liminal Zones, Psychic Science, and the Hidden Dimensions of the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
A diverse group of authors journey into the fringes of human consciousness, tackling psychic and paranormal phenomena, lucid dreaming, synchronistic encounters, and more. Collected from the online magazine Reality Sandwich, these essays explore regions of the mind often traversed by shamans, mystics,...
The Ascent of Humanity
Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. In this limited hardcover edition of Eisenstein's landmark book, he argues that our disconnection from one another and the natural world has...
Awaken Your Genius
A Seven-Step Path to Freeing Your Creativity and Manifesting Your Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Do you have a nagging suspicion that you're not living up to your creative potential? Do you feel hindered by the deeply embedded programming of social conformity and core limiting beliefs? Most of all, are you ready to shed those shackles and unleash the raging genius deep inside? In Awaken Your...
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