Gateways Books Tapes: 21 books

The memoir of the first scientist to collect and publish information on mind altering drugs, longevity, meditation techniques, and ecological living.

An invaluable tool for beginning students as well as advanced artists, this practical handbook focuses on methods of drawing using the human figure as form. Loaded with practical illustrations, this handy reference covers a variety of methods for charcoal use, including charcoal selection, smudging techniques, and proper grip styles.

Beautifully illustrated with instructional images, this guidebook enables artists of all levels to create their own unique clay sculptures. Topics covered include step-by-step procedures on how to pick an armature, clay application, tips on which tools to use, and suggestions for casting completed sculptures.

A fanciful place from which to start explorations of artistic value, this illustrated guidebook offers simple, understandable instructions to improve all drawing styles, helping bring emotion to the artwork and pushing artists beyond their limits. Offering more than 70 examples and exercises along...

With over 120,000 copies sold, this unique contemporary work brings the timeless Tibetan Bardo teaching into current American culture and language, with 49 days of readings for someone who has died or who is preparing for the dying experience. This book has been and still remains an important tool...

This summary of de Ropp's lifetime of spiritual research dwells on cosmology, gnosticism, and "new age" fast paths, and includes recommendations for spiritual seekers.

Explores the human psyche and the specific techniques through which one can achieve the highest possible levels of consciousness.

Seeking to draw parallels between the one and the whole, this work is as much a study of individual character as a critique of society and its institutions. Viewed through the lens of the enneagram, a personality system that divides people into nine character types, this analysis aligns each of the...

Both traditional and innovative spiritual seekers can find something of use in this training program that contains more than 100 metaphysical exercises. The powerful series of awareness exercises are for individual personal use in everyday situations and are based on a highly successful training program...

Artistic students of all types will find value in this in-depth guide to creating a solid, still life composition. Utilizing a variety of drapery methods and objects found in everyday life, the sequential path to expressive displays are broken down for easy understanding.

Collected lectures on shamanism, multi-dimensional reality, time travel, voyaging beyond the ordinary, and exploration of expanded consciousness spaces.

First published more than 20 years ago and now with a new introduction by the author, this classic work presents the methods and conclusions of more than 25 years of experimentation with the isolation-tank meditative experience. Drawing on the personal testimony of many who tried it, including Burgess...

Covering all types of environments, this inspirational handbook is an invaluable tool for landscape artists of all levels. With helpful hints and illustrative images, this compendium will strengthen both the emotional and physical abilities behind drawing beautiful, appealing, and deeply satisfying landscapes.

An excellent manual for the use of serious spiritual seekers, this book demonstrates how to effortlessly fold spirituality into life. Included are 121 exercises that can be done effortlessly and without being noticed anywhere, anytime. The focus of the book is not about having a peak experience, although...