By Lawrence Wright

The foundation For the recent HBO Documentary. a countrywide e-book Award and nationwide publication Critics Circle Award Finalist.
 
Scientology offers itself as a systematic method of religious enlightenment, yet its practices have lengthy been shrouded in secret. Now Lawrence Wright—armed together with his investigative skills, years of archival study, and greater than 200 own interviews with present and previous Scientologists—uncovers the interior workings of the church. We meet founder L. Ron Hubbard, the hugely resourceful yet mentally afflicted science-fiction author, and his tricky, pushed successor, David Miscavige. We cross inside of their really good cosmology and language. We find out about the church’s felony assaults at the IRS, its vindictive remedy of critics, and its out of the ordinary wealth. We see the church courtroom celebrities corresponding to Tom Cruise whereas consigning its clergy to tough exertions below billion-year contracts. via all of it, Wright asks what essentially contains a faith, and if Scientology in reality benefits this Constitutionally-protected label. Brilliantly researched, compellingly written, Going Clear pulls again the curtain on essentially the most secretive businesses at paintings today.

A New York Times Notable Book
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A GoodReads Reader's selection

By Ellen Dugan

Every Witch wishes a bit nook of the area to have a tendency. Deepen your connection to the earth and watch your magickal abilities blossom. Ellen Dugan offers various how one can honor and paintings with the plant state during this fascinating hands-on consultant to eco-friendly magick and spirituality. Designed to reinforce any culture or type of the Craft, this useful natural reference presents the actual description, folklore, magickal traits, and spellwork correspondences for a wealth of vegetation, timber, and herbs, and lines forty-seven botanical drawings.

• Conjuring a backyard with Heart
• Green Witchery within the City
• Wildflowers and Witchery
• Magick of the Hedgerows
• The Magick and Folklore of Trees
• Gothic Herbs and Forbidden Plants
• Herbs and vegetation of the Sabbats
• Herbs of the Stars
• Magickal Herbalism

"The conversational tone of Garden Witch's Herbal is a clean switch from different garden-variety horticulture books and makes Dugan's natural interesting in addition to informative."
―New Age Retailer

By Idries Shah

During this perfect creation to Sufi knowledge, Shah illustrates how conventional Sufi ideas can unravel our social, mental, and non secular difficulties, drawing on vintage texts, the Eastem parables of Jesus, and encounters with modern academics, scholars, and reporters.

In "God's Mechanics", Brother man tells the tales of these who determine with the clinical frame of mind so known as techies whereas training faith. a whole fledged techie himself, he relates a few vintage philosophical reflections, his interviews with dozens of fellow techies, and his personal own tackle his Catholic ideals to supply, like a suite of labored out pattern difficulties, the challenging info at the demanding situations and joys of embracing a lifetime of religion as a techie. And he additionally supplies a roadmap of the traps which could befall an unwary techie believer. With energetic prose and wry humor, Brother man indicates how he not just believes in God yet provides faith an venerated position along technological know-how in his life.This booklet deals an interesting examine how and why scientists and people with technological leanings can carry profound, unprovable non secular ideals whereas operating in hugely empirical fields. via his personal event and interviews with different scientists and engineers who profess religion, Brother man explores how spiritual ideals and practices make feel to people who are deeply rooted on the earth of expertise.

During this publication, Joan Borysenko tells you ways a magical second can strike whenever you're totally found in the instant: while taking a look at a gorgeous complete moon, a sundown, strolling in nature, or having a look into the eyes of a kid. while you're totally found in the instant, you may be packed with a feeling of awe, and wonder, and consider totally hooked up with the universe.

An excerpt from the booklet: "Just as many rivers bring about the ocean, there are various paths to God. all the seven basic strength facilities of the human physique, the chakras, corresponds to a particular path." during this ebook, these paths are defined, whole with non secular routines, giving the reader a feeling of the main fruitful path for his or her trip.

You will examine that you simply do not have to visit Nepal or cross climb a mountain to have a paranormal second, yet in studying tips to be totally found in your way of life, you'll find that mystical moments are available within the mundane, the normal, or additionally within the extraordinary.

By Michael Stone

There's extra to the culture of yoga than firming and strengthening. on the root, there's a gigantic and interesting philosophy that teaches the ethics of nonviolence, persistence, honesty, and appreciate. Michael Stone presents an in-depth clarification of historic Indian yogic philosophy in addition to teachings on how you can deliver our knowing of yoga thought to deeper degrees via our perform at the mat—and via our relations with others.

To examine extra concerning the writer, Michael Stone, stopover at his website:  www.centreofgravity.org

By Georg Feuerstein

Publish yr note: initially released in 2006
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This booklet lines the shadowy culture of "holy madness/crazy wisdom" from the Holy Fools of early Christianity, throughout the nice adepts of India and Tibet, as much as the debatable specialists of this present day. In our day, while even the Dalai Lama has warned Western seekers to settle on their lecturers conscientiously, Feuerstein presents an clever and cautionary guidebook to the guru-disciple courting, plus a entire research of the rules of actual spirituality.

By Og Mandino

A hit publication that either motivates and entertains, this is often the gripping tale of an international battle II bombardier who's granted a really distinct gift--the reward of success--which he now stocks with us all.

By Richard Bach

As soon as in a new release a ebook, a imaginative and prescient, a author, catch the imagination  and feelings of hundreds of thousands. Jonathan  Livingston Seagull used to be this kind of publication. Richard Bach's targeted imaginative and prescient back shines forth, touching with magic the drama of lifestyles in all its unlimited horizons. once more Richard Bach has written a masterpiece that will help you contact that a part of your home  that is the sky.

By Miles Olson