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The World's Great Wisdom
(January 2014)
Timeless Teachings from Religions and Philosophies
Roger Walsh - Editor
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Surveying spiritual and philosophical traditions, this volume revives the search for wisdom for modern times.
What is wisdom and how is it cultivated? These are among the most important questions we can ask, but questions that have been routinely ignored in modern times. In the twentieth century, the search for wisdom was replaced by a search for knowledge as science and technology promised answers to life’s ills. However, ...(Read More) |
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The Dream on the Rock
(December 2013)
Visions of Prehistory
Fulvio Gosso - Author
Peter Webster - Author
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Examines the relationship between rock art, shamanism, and the origins of human existence.
The Dream on the Rock takes an interdisciplinary approach to contextualizing and historicizing the phenomenon of shamanism from the Neolithic Age until the beginning of the Iron Age. Fulvio Gosso and Peter Webster argue that rock art and other ancient materials provide a glimpse of the fundamental role played by nonordinary states of ...(Read More) |
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Pathways to Wholeness
(October 2013)
Archetypal Astrology and the Transpersonal Journey
Renn Butler - Author
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Explains how to use archetypal psychology as a guide to the transpersonal journey.
The exploration of the psyche in non-ordinary states of consciousness provides access to powerful transformative experiences that can lead us towards a more complete experience of being human (the realization of a deeper identity) while also yielding extraordinary insights into the ultimate nature of reality.
In this book, Renn Butler explains...(Read More) |
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Improvisation, Creativity, and Consciousness
(June 2013)
Jazz as Integral Template for Music, Education, and Society
Edward W. Sarath - Author
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Using insights from Integral Theory, describes how the improvisational methods of jazz can inform education and other fields.
Jazz, America’s original art form, can be a catalyst for creative and spiritual development. With its unique emphasis on improvisation, jazz offers new paradigms for educational and societal change. In this provocative book, musician and educator Edward W. Sarath illuminates how jazz offers a continu...(Read More) |
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Integral Recovery
(May 2013)
A Revolutionary Approach to the Treatment of Alcoholism and Addiction
John Dupuy - Author
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Brings Integral Theory to addiction treatment, offering a more holistic vision of recovery and powerful practices for achieving it.
This book is for everyone who is suffering from the disease of addiction or who cares about someone who is: for addicts, their families and friends, and their health care providers. It is for those who are currently in recovery and looking for a way to shift their recovery into a higher gear—fr...(Read More) |
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The Rebirth of the Hero
(March 2013)
Mythology as a Guide to Spiritual Transformation
Keiron Le Grice - Author
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Examines the hero archetype in mythology and popular film, and its significant role in both individual and cultural spiritual transformation.
In The Rebirth of the Hero, Keiron Le Grice draws on the ideas and life experiences of C. G. Jung, Joseph Campbell, and Friedrich Nietzsche to explore the spiritual journey of the modern self, from existential crisis and the “awakening of the self” to the dramatic encoun...(Read More) |
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Figuring Religions
(March 2013)
Comparing Ideas, Images, and Activities
Shubha Pathak - Editor
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Offers new ways of comparing features of the world’s religions.
Figuring Religions offers new ways of comparing prominent features of the world’s religions. Comparison has been at the heart of religious studies as a modern academic discipline, but comparison can be problematic. Scholars of religion have been faulted for ignoring or reinterpreting differences to create a universal paradigm. In reaction, many...(Read More) |
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Trine Erotic
(February 2013)
Alice Andrews - Author
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The first novel to fully explore evolutionary psychology, Trine Erotic explores what it means to love and write in a memetic, Darwinian world.
The first novel to fully explore evolutionary psychology, Trine Erotic explores why we write: to seduce (as mating strategy), to process, to heal ourselves and ultimately readers, to find meaning. Questions of love that preoccupy us (passionate love versus companionate love...(Read More) |
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The Psychedelic Renaissance
(September 2012)
Reassessing the Role of Psychedelic Drugs in 21st Century Psychiatry and Society
Ben Sessa - Author
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Makes the case for the reevaluation of psychedelics and their clinical potential for treating a range of conditions, from post-traumatic stress disorder and depression to autism and cluster headaches.
Psychedelics were inextricably associated with the hippie counterculture of the 1960s and, more recently, with the rave music scene, and were once believed to hold great promise for treating a number of medical conditions as well as...(Read More) |
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