Kali: The Black Goddess of Dakshineswar
Elizabeth U. Harding. A devotee’s guide to the Goddess Kali in her temple in Calcutta, where the saint, Ramakrishna, received enlightenment. The daily ritual of the temple, how worship is handled, life in the temple, and stories of Ramakrishna and god-intoxicated enlightenment are explained in this one-of-a-kind volume! Color frontispiece. Illustrated. 1993. 352 pp. • ISBN 0-89254-025-7 • Paper, $18.95
Kali’s Odiyya—A Shaman’s True Story of Initiation
Amarananda Bhairavan. Shambu (the name by which the author is known in his native land) was 9 and Sandhya was 10 when they were chosen to become servants of the Goddess Kali. Bhairavan writes of his experience of initiation into the world of Kali’s odiyyas: shamans of the goddess. We learn what it means to be a devotee, how Kali followers view sexuality and mores, the day-to-day lifestyle in a holy Indian village, and how the shamanic community takes care of the needs of the people. 2001. 320 pp. • ISBN 0-89254-048-6 • Paper, $19.95
Michael Maier’s Atalanta Fugiens: Sources of an Alchemical Book of Emblems
H. M. E. de Jong. With reproductions of several hard-to-find foldouts of alchemical engravings, this book is a collector’s edition of a classic alchemical study. First published in 1617, Atalanta Fugiens is Michael Maier’s finest work. Each of the 50 emblems of Atalanta Fugiens consists of a motto, a print, and an epigram. De Jong’s translation and commentary on the mottos and epigrams reveals the meaning and importance of the Atalanta Fugiens, the sources Maier used, and the mutual relationships between the emblems. She also includes an additional 30 alchemical engravings that explain her research. Illustrated, with foldouts. 2002. 480 pp. • 6” x 9” • ISBN 0-89254-060-5 • Hardcover, $80.00
Mid-Life Spirituality and Jungian Archetypes
Janice Brewi & Anne Brennan. This book addresses people who are struggling to understand, identify, and grow through a new experience of themselves as they live into, and out of, what must be called the “second half of life.” Brewi and Brennan celebrate the mid-life experience as an essential element in the human journey and a gift to the flowering of the personality. 1999. 288 pp. • ISBN 0-89254-046-X • Paper, $18.95
Mining the Soul: From the Inside Out
Robin Robertson. Life doesn’t happen to you. It happens from the inside out. The major stuff of life is something of the soul; we have to dig to find what the soul is made of—and mine it, as it were, to get the fruits that lie there waiting to be discovered. We can use myth, dreams, divinatory tools, meditation, and chakra work to help us find our truth. By the author of Beginner’s Guide to Jungian Psychology. 2000. • 288 pp. • ISBN 0-89254-055-9 • Paper, $18.95
Modern Buddhist Healing: A Spiritual Strategy for Transforming Pain, Dis-ease, and Death
Charles Atkins. The author describes how he used mantra-powered visualization to conquer cancer, and how readers can use this technique for their own healing. Atkins introduces us to the Buddhist master Nichiren Daishonin (1222-1282) and the healing teachings of the Lotus Sutra. He explains that the mantra Nam-myoho-renge-kyo can “undo” karma that has damaged our health. “Regardless of your religious or spiritual path, this book will shed light on the role of meditation, imagery, and prayer in the healing process”—Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Healing Words. 2002. 192 pp. • 5 3/8” x 8 1/4” • ISBN: 0-89254-062-1 • Paper, $18.95
Modern Mysticism: Jung, Zen and the Still Good Hand of God
Michael Gellert. Basic reading about spiritual experience. “We are invited into a world of fascinating personal encounters with the unconscious…the stable and well-developed ego can use them as catalysts for true transformation.”—Brain Mind, February, 1992. “Explores the role of the unconscious in a variety of experiences ranging from creative inspiration to mystical insight…boldly addresses the interrelation of the human psyche and the spiritual life.”—Quadrant. Illustrated. 1991. Revised edition 1994. 240 pp. • ISBN 0-89254-032-X • Paper, $12.95
Modern Woman in Search of Soul: A Jungian Guide to the Visible and Invisible
June Singer. Singer follows two very different women as they learn to recognize the clues by which the invisible world reveals itself to human understanding—dreams, fantasies, visionary experiences, human interactions, and the depths of solitude. A Jungian guide for modern women who want to integrate the visible and invisible in their lives to recover a sense of wholeness and find creative answers to personal and global problems. A revised edition of Seeing through the Visible World. 1998. 256 pp. • ISBN 0-89254-041-9 • Paper, $18.95
The Moonlit Path: Reflections on the Dark Feminine
Fred Gustafson, editor. Preface by Murray Stein. This anthology covers the global experience of the dark feminine as embodied in the Black Madonna, Kali, Guadalupe, and Lilith, as well as Her yet-to-be consciously imaged embodiment in the land of North America itself. Contributors include: Fred Gustafson; Cedrus N. Monte; Andrew Harvey; Carol B. Donnelly; Meinrad Craighead; Matthew Fox; Jane Kamerling; Sylvia Brinton Perera; Ashok Bedi; Clarissa Pinkola Estes; Annette M. Hulefeld; Toni G. Boehm; China Galland; Edward Bilous; Pierre Teilhard de Chardin; Father Bede Griffiths. 8 color plates. 304 pp. • 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 • ISBN 0-89254-064-8 Paper, $29.95
The Mystic Thesaurus
Willis F. Whitehead. During the 1920s, Willis F. Whitehead, was Supreme Grand Vizier, Ancient Order of Oriental Magic. Here he shares the secrets and tools he worked with in a lifetime of practicing magic. Readers will learn the hidden meaning of the symbolism of the zodiac, the significance of alphabets and tarot cards, the mystery of numbers, and how to make and use a magic mirror to establish contact with astral beings! A primer that any student of the occult will want in their library. 96 pp. • 5-1/2 x 7-12 • ISBN 0-89254-069-9 • Paper, $14.95
Myth of Invariance: The Origin of the Gods, Mathematics and Music from the Rg Veda to Plato
Ernest G. McClain. Plato insisted that music played a superior role in the education of the whole person, and McClain has taken this concept literally in order to break down the mysteries hidden within the philosophy. McClain shows how the unifying symbolism of music and number explain secrets from Babylon, Egypt, Greece and the Bible—secrets hidden for centuries. Illustrated. 1976. First paper edition 1985. 216 pp. • ISBN 0-89254-012-5 • Paper, $8.95
The Not-Yet-Transformed God: Depth Psychology and the Individual Religious Experience
Janet O. Dallett discusses some of C. G. Jung’s most difficult and far-reaching ideas in a personal and conversational voice. Drawing on scientific observation and an understanding of the psyche, she weaves together examples from patients who have been confronted with what Jung calls “today’s religious task,” from dreams, and even includes her own experience with the dark side of the analytic process—being duped by an analyst. 1998. 160 pp. • ISBN 0-89254-042-7 • Paper, $16.95
The Power of Love: To Transform Our Lives and Our World
June Singer. We have an incredible power, given to us at birth, that we must learn how to handle over the course of a lifetime. That power is love. We don’t understand it; we spend a lifetime trying to deal with it. Singer draws on her Jungian background and brings her years of wisdom to the subject, to explain how love is changing the world. First published as Love’s Energies. 2000. • 332 pp. • ISBN: 0-89254-052-4 • Paper, $18.95
Rassa Shastra: Inayat Khan on the Mysteries of Love, Sex, and Marriage
Hazrat Inayat Khan illuminates the Sufi message of love, harmony, and beauty and applies it to the rewards and pitfalls of relationships. Khans says there is a spiritual and sacred purpose to sex and relationships in our lives, and he warns that we run the danger of misusing it if we approach it without understanding its spiritual implications. 2003. • 96 pp. • 5-1/2 x 7-1/2 • ISBN: 0-89254-071-0 • Paper, $14.95
The Redemption of the Feminine Erotic Soul
Rachel Hillel. The author uses women’s dreams to explore the exiled terrain of female passion, both erotic and sensuous, in chapters such as “The Vulva Dream,” “Healing the Wounded Vulva Dream,” “The Holy Communion Dream.” The Sacred Priestess and the ordinary prostitute are themes in Hillel’s search for feminine balance. 1997. 288 pp. • ISBN 0-89254-038-9 • Paper, $16.95
Relationships: Transforming Archetypes
Dr. Marina Valcarenghi proposes a contribution that brings up two important concepts. In both men and women there exists an unconscious counter-sexual part that emerges over the course of life. C. G. Jung called this the anima/animus. Here we look at developing both the anima and animus within ourselves, for this development opens up completely new aspects of the ability to have a fulfilling relationship. 1997. • 288 pp. • ISBN 0-89254-034-6 • Paper, $14.95
Ring of Power: Symbols and Themes, Love vs. Power in Wagner’s Ring Cycle and in Us
Jean Shinoda Bolen’s vivid grasp of the story and the characters in The Ring of Niebelung brings Richard Wagner’s mythic four-opera cycle to life. The Ring Cycle has a hold on our imagination because it is archetypal: the power of myth and the music reverberates in the psyche. Bolen draws attention to the mid-life transformation of man as hero and patriarch, and to the role of the feminine as a catalyst in this process. 1999. • 264 pp. • ISBN 0-89254-043-5 • Paper, $18.95
Solomon and Sheba: Inner Marriage and Individuation
Barbara Black Koltuv. Every man and woman who pursues an intimate relationship acts out the timeless story of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. This book combines biblical symbolism with modern psychology and heals some old memories that we all carry with us. Koltuv is a master storyteller. Solomon & Sheba was used as the basis for an episode of the popular television program, Ancient Mysteries. Illustrated. 1993. • 160 pp. • ISBN 0-89254-024-9 • Paper, $10.95
Sophia: Aspects of the Divine Feminine, Past & Present
Dr. Susanne Schaup. Explore a panoramic view of Sophia, the feminine aspect of God, from the Old Testament throughout Christian history, with a special focus on the Middle ages, the Reformation, the Russian Orthodoxy, the contemporary German Sophiologist Otfried Eberz, and Sophia in Eastern religions. Dr. Susanne Schaup links these historical glimpses with the present, and shows the need for Sophia, Divine Feminine Wisdom, in our own lives. 1997. 264 pp. • ISBN 0-89254-036-2 • Paper, $18.95
Symbols of Revelation
Frederick Carter. This book reveals Frederick Carter’s wholly original interpretation of the dragon as a central force in St. John’s apocalyptic vision in the Book of Revelation. Weaving the biblical story together with zodiacal and astrological references and their ancient meanings, this book reexamines the vision from a new point of view and asks: Was it prophetic, an allegorical teaching, or an account of a mystical experience? 4 line drawings by the author. 96 pp. • 5 x 7 • ISBN 0-89254-068-0 • Paper, $14.95
Transforming Depression: Healing the Soul Through Creativity
David Rosen. Presents an overview of the biological, psychological, sociological and spiritual factor involved in the diagnosis of depression and how these factors are treated; a new therapeutic approach to treating depression, focusing on the symbolic death and rebirth of the ego (ego-cide) as an alternative to suicide; in-depth case studies from Dr. Rosen’s practice; how to recognize crisis points and how creativity can transform depression. The author pays particular attention to the problem of teen suicide. “An intriguing work of Jungian psychology on a rarely broached but essential subject.” —Clarissa Pinkola Estés, author of Women Who Run with the Wolves. Color plates of patient’s transformative paintings. 2002. 304 pp. • 5” x 7 1/4” • ISBN: 0-89254-061-3 • Paper, $19.95
Weaving Woman: Musings and Meditations on the Feminine Mythos
Barbara Black Koltuv. Weaving is a process; woman is the essence of this book. Every woman will experience blood mysteries, dealing with mother, being a daughter, amazon, hetairae, and integrating the shadow, if she is to mature. Share with the author, a Jungian analyst for over 25 years, the experiences you have in common with other women in the process of becoming. Illustrated. 1990. Revised edition 1995. • 143 pp. • ISBN 0-89254-019-2 • Paper, $9.95
With the Adepts: An Adventure among the Rosicrucians
Franz Hartmann. Foreword by R. A. Gilbert. A classic of spiritual fiction, first published in 1910. This delightful and instructive tale skillfully weaves the actual beliefs and practices of the ancient Rosicrucians into a tale that includes magic and an alchemical laboratory, unexpected revelations, recollections of past lives, the Rosicrucian view of women and spirituality, the alchemical laboratory, and the higher life. Includes an Appendix about the establishment of a Rosicrucian institution in Switzerland. 2003. 208 pp. • 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 • ISBN 0-89254-076-1 • Paper $18.95