Healing Books
 | My Name
is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization
by Chellis Glendinning
What is the relationship between addiction and the
ecological
crisis? How can we use the lessons of individual recovery to address
the collective drive to heal our society and our environment? Chellis
Glendinning goes to the heart of Western civilization in search of the
root of our present crises.
Paperback. 240 pages. $23.00
|  | The Continuum Concept: In Search
of Happiness Lost
by Jean Liedloff
A must read for every parent, parent-to-be, and
for each of us for the starved child within.
Jean Liedloff, an American writer spend two and a half years
deep
in the Amazon living with Old Way Yequana Indians. The experience
demolished her Western perconceptions of how we should live and led her
to a radically different view of what human nature really is. She
offers a new understanding of how we have lost much of our natural
well-being and shows us practical ways to regain it for our children
and for ourselves.
"If the world could be saved by a book, this just might be
the book." - John Holt
"Basic things about human nature that we forget or
ignore at our peril." - Professor Robert Aldrich M.D.
"Deserves to be read by Western parents, child
psychologists, and
other social engineers concerned with restoring self-reliance and
well-being. There are remarkable insights here." - The New York Times
Book Review
Paperback. 172 pages. $16.50 |  | The Scars of Evolution: What Our
Bodies Tell Us About Human Orgins
by Elaine Morgan
Long, long ago, something happened to our ape
ancestors that did
not happen to the forebearers of gorillas and chimpanzees, something
that made them walk on two legs, lose their fur, sweat, develop larger
brains, and learn to speak. This book offers a pioneering look at the
perplexing phenomenon, arguing that all the facts about our mysterious
origins are right in front of us - in the form of fundamental flaws in
the human design.
The scars of human evolution are visible in many
forms, from our
propensity to suffer from lower back pain, to obesity, varicose veins,
acne, and even infact death syndrome. They are all, essentially, the
result of some catalysmic event that happened aeons in our past.
Theories about why we differ so greatly from our closest relatives in
the animal kingdom, especially in regard to these many incongruous
flaws in our physiological makeup, abound within the scientific
community. But these theories cannot explain our unique features: they
leave too many questions unanswered. In this fascinating work, Morgan
shows just where our earliest ancestors came from, pointing out the
evolutionary path that seperated us from the rest of the animals. While
carefully considering all of our uniquely human traits - our relative
hairlessness, our ability to control our breathing, our inability to
maintain proper salt levels - she comes the closest yet to solving one
of the enduring riddles of our orgins.
Lively, controversial, and presented with a
brilliant logic, The Scars of Evolution will
change the way you think about the world - and our place in it.
"An exceptionally well-written book. Morgan seems
to have
succeeded where the professionals have failed. She has made a genuine
contribution to evolutionary history...and she has presented it in a
form which is accessible to the interested lay reader." - British
Science Journal
Paperback, 196 pages. $14.00 |  |
Caring for the Dead: Your Final Act of Love
by Lisa Carlson
A complete and compassionate guide to demystifying
the funeral
industry and giving us back control of burial and preparation. Gives
guidelines for conducting your own burial and for arranging an
economical commercial burial. Along with personal stories it shows how
to do a free funeral, how to set up a family cemetery, what is and is
not legally required in all 50 states, and everything else you need to
know for legal, emotional and physical preparation. Doubles as an
expose of the funeral industry.
"Lisa Carlson has assembled with compassion the
most comprehensive
book ever produced on this suject. It's of interest to every living
soul so that their final arrangements - and those of their loved ones -
will be conducted with dignity and affordability. Bravo, Lisa, for a
book that has been so needed for such a long time." - John F. Wasik, Consumers
Digest magazine.
Paperback, 640 pages. $30.00 |  | Radical Honesty: How to
Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth
by Brad Blanton
At once shocking, entertaining and profound - Radical
Honesty is a revolutionary book that takes a fresh look at
how we live, love, and attempt to heal ourselves in modern society.
The first edition of Radical Honesty
became a nationwide
bestseller in 1995 because it was not a kinder, gentler self-help book.
It was a shocker. In it Dr. Brad Blanton, a psychotherapist and expert
on stress management, explodes the myths, superstitions, an lies by
which we all live. This newly revised edition is even worse! He shows
us how stress comes not from the environment, but from the self-built
jail of the min. What keeps us in our self-buil jails is lying. "We all
lie like hell," Dr. Blanton says. "It wears us out... it is the
major source
of all human stress. It kills us." Not telling our friends, lovers,
spouses, or bosses about what we do, feel, or think keeps us locked in
that mind jail. The way out is to get good at telling the truth, and
Dr. Blanton provides the tools we can use to escape the jail of the
mind. This book is the cake with the file in it.
In Radical Honesty, Dr.
Blanton coaches us on how to have
lives that work, how to have relationships that are alive and
passionate, and how to create intimacy where none exists. As we have
been taught by the philosophical and spiritual sources of our culture
for thousands of years, from Plato to Nietzsche, from the Bible to
Emerson, the truth shall set you free."Dr.
Blanton advocates
a take-no-prisoners approach to honesty that would send Miss Manners
shrieking from the room." - Elizabeth Hickey, The Washington
Times
"A model for transcending our lies and defenses
and how to work
toward a realm of complete openess and honesty with ourselves as well
as others." - Nautral Health
Paperback, 286 pages. $15.00 |  |
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
by Alan Watts
Perhaps the most famous of all Alan Watt's works
this book delves
into the cause and cure of the illusion that the self is a seperate
ego, housed in a bag of skin, which "confronts" a universe of physical
objects that are alien and stupid. According to Dr. Watts, this
illusion underlies the misuse of technology for a violent and hostile
subjugation of man's natural environment, leading to its eventual
destruction.
To find the ugently needed answer to this problem
of personal
identity, the author modernizes and restates the ancient hindu
philosophy of Vedanta and brings out the full force of its startling
and psychologically subversive way of realizing that the self is in
fact the root and ground of the universe.
With his customary lucidity and wit, Alan Watts
presents this "lowdown" on the nature of the self in the form of The
Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
- a manual of initiation into the central mystery of existence which
any father might slip to his son, or mother to her daughter, upon the
threshold of adult life.
Paperback, 163 pages. $10.00
|  | Healing Wise
by Susun Weed
A rare and deep sharing of the Earth-self-Balance
healing way,
along with an intimate approach to relationship with several Plants,
which she considers People, and their Healers.
Healing Wise sets forth the foundations of the Wise Woman
Tradition, contrasting them with the Heroic and Scientific views of
healing. "Weeds draw us into ancient wisdom in a clear and refreshing
way," says herbalist Rosemary Gladstar.
Seven herbs -- burdock, chickweed, dandelion,
nettle, oatstraw,
seaweed, and violet -- are explored in depth. Each monograph includes
the "voice" of the herb, a weed walk to encounter the herb in its
environment, detailed instructions for harvesting and preparation,
properties and uses for every part of the herb, pertinent facts, fun
folklore, and recipes for gourmet foodstuffs, wines, beers, cosmetics,
and more.
"Especially important is her discernment between
the gentle Wise
Woman Way and other "alternative" healing paths. . . . I wish every
healer would incorporate this approach," says Vicki Noble (Motherpeace
Tarot).
"One of the most powerful spokepersons of the herbal
movement,
Susun Weed introduces a marvelous sense of vitality and originality to
herbalism. A poet, artist and visionary, Weed draws us into ancient
wisdom in a way that is clear and refreshing. I recommend Healing
Wise highly - there is good medicine in these teachings." -
Rosemary Gladstar, Founder California School of Herbal Studies
"Healing Wise is filled with
the wisdom of our Earth
Mother who is the caretaker of all beings. To everyone concerned with
personal and planetary health, this book speaks as a vital messenger
and a call to wholeness from the Mother Earth." - Ywylah Nitshce,
Yehwehnode Two Wolves, Seneca Elder, Wolf Clan
Paperback, 295 pages. $13.00 |  | Legacy of the Heart: The
Spiritual Advantages of a Painful Childhood
by Wayne Muller
In this inspiring book, Wayne Muller draws on
eighteen years of
work with adult children of troubled families to show how hard-won
wisdom born of hurt can become a powerful source of strength and peace.
He teaches us how to recognize and transform the damaging effects of
childhood wounds and rediscover our natural vitality, creativity and
joy.
"Wayne Muller draws the lineage of many rich,
spiritual teachings
through his fine heart to offer healing to those in need." Stephanie
Levine, author Gradual Awakening
"Like a lullaby, this gentle book soothes the
spirit, reaching out
by the inner child and reassuring the wounded adult... Buoyed by words
from the Old and New Testaments, Buddhist and Sufi wisdom, the text
speaks to the heart." - Publishers Weekly
"Wayne Muller guides us in an alchemical process
whereby, through
gaining spiritual perspective, we transmute our psychologial sufferings
into grace." - Ram Dass
Paperback, 204 pages. $12.00 |
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