Life-Constellation of Vital Phenomena...
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This would make a great discussion book. It was well written, the characters were provocative, but it was difficult to read because of the subject matter.
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... if you have a heart-condition! This book is a must-read, however, for those of us who seek to survive the shock of Solar Cycle 24 both psychologically and physically. It is an excellent way to open your third eye to the truth of the ages: Solar Pole Shifts of the Earth Happen!

Indeed our cosmos is a celestial clock that is solar-powered by stars that serve as the full-spectrum "grow-lights" for planets that are greenhouse-like gardens. In short, our Sun regulates our lifecycle and we are about to enter into the fifth solar age that will invoke a pruning of the planet by fire and ice triggered by coronal mass ejection (CME) in Solar Cycle 24.

That is, what is not known by the average city-dwellers is that undersea volcanoes beneath the polar ice caps serve as the crucibles for the creation of amino acids that produce life on ocean floors, then upon the surface. This much is a fact; Life emerges from the salty-sea and is in fact flowing through our bloodstreams now! In other words, we are about to witness the extinction but also recreation of a whole new species of mankind: Shamans of the 21st Century. This is what we who survive the cleansing and purification of our air and water in era-2012 will become as we rebuild our world on the larger vision that all species are co-equal with the Sun of God and Gaia. In the often overlooked words of Chief Seattle in 1854: "What we do to the earth, we do to ourselves."

Dr. John Jay Harper is the author of&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Tranceformers-Shamans-of-the-21st-Century/dp/0977790401/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Tranceformers: Shamans of the 21st Century</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Science-of-Soul-The-End-Time-Solar-Cycle-of-Chaos-in-2012-A-D/dp/B000NJL520/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Science of Soul: The End-Time Solar Cycle of Chaos in 2012 A.D.</a>
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Excellent really brilliant.
It is a delight to travel into the Complexity of Life at the hands of Sole and Goodwin.  Here it is: Life's chaos, order and disorder, fractals, nonlinearity and definetively... Emergence and Complexity.
The Richness, diversity and baroque of life is everywhere in this brilliant work... from evolution and extintion, brain dynamics, ant societies...to Genetic  Networks, Cell diferentiation and Development, Physiology and Life on the edge of Catastrophe.
The Richness of Complexity in living systems in this work is a pleasure to be read...
  ...a waterfall of best drops of science... cristalline waters of knowledge!  It's a fusion of Kaufmann's "At home in the Universe", Goodwin's "How the leopard changed it 's spots", Waldrops and Gleick's "Complexity" and "Chaos" and  Hollands "Hidden order".  Best compliments to the autors.
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There are few in the field of astrology who have mastered the art of connecting the head and heart like Steven Forrest. His first book, "The Inner Sky," is one of the few staples on my bookshelf, like an old friend you're eternally close to, no matter how far or wide you've strayed. Steve speaks in a language that's inviting to all, not just a few peers trained in the same grammar and syntax. He's a poet who makes you think you're reading a great novel while he's really serving you up the tools you need to understand a birth chart in a holistic, integrated way.

"Yesterday's Sky" cranks it all up several notches by putting the "Evolutionary" into astrology. It may have been a blessing in disguise that editorial concerns kept him from including the nodes of the moon and their implications on past lives in "The Inner Sky," because 25 years later he comes out swinging hard and unequivocally. His quiver loaded with deep insights from thousands of hours of studying and learning from his clients and students (as well as a mind-boggling reservoir of examples, from literature to history to religion to music), Steve shoots straight to the heart of reincarnation.

While being very respectful of anyone who may have doubts about the existence of past lives, Yesterday's Sky is far beyond needing to prove a point. In this show-don't-tell tour the force, Steven Forrest first throws out the vast net of information -- sign by sign, house by house, planet by planet -- then pulls it all together through the soul gates of the moon's nodes in a cosmic jujitsu that seems miraculous yet is firmly rooted in the integration of all the available tools and symbols. While not beginner's material, this is a great treat for anyone with some basic knowledge of astrology. Don't miss the finale when 5 charts get conducted into their respective past life symphonies.
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A worthwhile primer on the dynamics involved in invocative and evocative operations...

This source suggests a pattern for action about individuation, integration, and exorcism.

As a strong and succinct seed for the ole magician it allots space for growth yet informs decisions. The flexible concepts within this book offer attractive hints about magick and (voluntary personality) evolution.

I reverberate a preliminary mnemonic and quasi-scientific representation of the contents of 'this' system:

Invocation, theurgy, prayer, angelic presence, crystal gazing or self-regulated centripetal magnetism center the physiology and pupil for centrifugal expansion, evocation, and exorcism.

Crystal gazing, building concentration and grounding the attention, creates a technique for entraining integrity and consistency of consciousness. This technique, especially when combined with the invocation of angelic vibrations, enflames or stimulates the whole nervous system and amplifies cross-hemispheric synchronization thus inviting and cultivating the generation of equilibrious biomagnetism. Therein the secure and synchronistic magnetic force acts as self-defense or immunity against involuntary fluctuation (potential energy destabilization).

Evocation or exorcism employs this stable magnetic vortex as a centering-force while a responsible and self-regulated system operates the (self-determinate) act of intentionally casting-off stress or obsolete bioelectrical tension. The vibration-patterns evoked essentially signify inherited or species specific bioelectrical inhibitions; unconscious resistences to the evolution of the autonomic nervous network; unconscious resistences to transformation and higher energization of the psychophysiological system. These obsolete vibration-patterns reside unmanifest in the sphere of sensation, subconscious, or bloodstream of self-aware existences.

The magician, or self-regulated self-determinate system, voluntarily expedites the elimination of inhibition by sheer force plus imagination; conjuring a symbolic and correspondent representation of the pattern, attracting that pattern to the surface where perception and its magnetism explode or collapse the vestige then banish or order the dysfunction to serve as fuel to further consistency and equilibrium. Subsequent exorcism metabolizes vestiges, eventually eliminating inhibition from the microcosm and engendering a rise in the intelligence quotient and overall vitality slash well being of the sentient system; a noble endeavor for the individual in favor of macrocosmic preservation.

Thanks be

770 Indeed!

Fraternally,

S.L. Of Ptah
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The Lost Book of Nostradamus is a great book to understand the way an astrologist knows the future from the past.  As the planets were lined up for a certain occasion and the Zodiac figures positions in the sky only show more how life is a cycle.  Funny this last time I caught the death of the King that lost his head in 1793 and then there was President Kennedy shot in the head 1993.  Cycles repeat and if the great minds of Nostradamus were more interested in finding the cycles instead of proving how they claim to know the astrologer Nostradamus and what Nostradamus is saying, they would have realized Earth was not physically over but the way of life known at this time was ending while the next life cycle begins.  That what cycles do.  How will we begin this cycle is up to mankind?  Even the Bible states: "watch the sun, moon and stars and the planets for signs."  How many things are actually cycling in your life today?
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An amazingly comprehensive compilation of facts and concepts!  It is fascinating to learn how intricate and interrelated the entire universe is from the subatomic and cellular level through our own world as we experience it and up through the stellar neighborhood. It is amazing that our bodies operate at such high levels of efficiency, effectiveness and maintenance for even one day! Wow!
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Dr. Dacher has given us an elegantly written treasure map to the most valuable riches in life -- happiness, love, wholeness, health and joy, among them.  It is complete with tips and tools and time-tested ways in which to use them. It also offers a unique perspective on health and wellness, looking not at the typical medical office remedies for symptoms, but delving into a more profound source for healing that is contained within each one of us.

This book invites the reader in a beautiful way to begin and continue meditation practice. For busy people, there are suggestions for incorporating short meditations or simple breath work throughout the day. And the included CD can help pace you in a 20-minute session, or in a longer "loving-kindness" form of meditation, until both are familiar enough to do without the CD.

The work is based on a successful 10-week program led by the author. Readers here are invited to chose their own speed and discover which techniques are most useful for them. Everything is written clearly in terms a Western audience can easily understand.

Aware-Awake-Alive is divided into four sections: the Vision, the Path, the Fruition and the Integration. The Vision presents the prospect of "human flourishing," an optimal state of health and well-being that is known to many healing traditions around the world, but remains largely undeveloped in the our modern Western culture. The Path explores time-tested, step-by-step practices drawn both from ancient wisdom and contemporary knowledge. These are offered in progression, for both sitting sessions and practices to carry into daily life that together place you on "the path" to a larger life and health.  The Fruition describes the qualities that arise along this path--serenity and peace, profound wisdom, enduring happiness, selfless love and compassion, and boundless freedom.  The Integration discusses the value of these approaches in addressing some of today's epidemics, such as heart disease, chronic conditions, PTSD, ADHD, depression, and addiction disorders.

For those who have never meditated or have done so only sporadically, you may find inspiration to make a commitment for your life.  For those who already practice some form of meditation or contemplative prayer, you may enjoy reading this book for its deeper insights and encouragement to continue practice.

Aware-Awake-Alive at once demystifies the practices of inner development and meditation while indeed opening the path to the deeper mysteries in our soul.  This is a keeper.
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This is my new guide for life...Good bye, Cancer!! Hello, life! It should be read for everybody, sick or health people.
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If you believe that life is a roadmap to discovery - and you are interested in a more detailed map, you might find Jan Spiller's book of interest.  As in many complex issues, there are no hard and fast answers on how to lead your life - but the descriptions of those in your "node" will likely resonate with you, and bring some perspective, which always does wonders.  I find some of the affirmations a bit hokey - but the goal and result seems to be heightened compassion - for yourself, and for those around you.  We may think it is impossible to categorize and generalize people into astrological signs, and in this book "nodes" - but surprise, surprise - for those you know well - the descriptions seem tailor made, for those you don't - a "what-if its true" scenario - that only broadens awareness and again compassion for how each human tries to cope.
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This beautifully written, concise, and illuminating book by Cynthia Sue Larson is a fascinating combination of being both mystical and down to earth at the same time. It's a very important work, interwoven with many personal experiences and scientific references that deeply explore and bring awareness to the subject of how outside influences affect our concept of reality. Want to have your own reality transformed and have a good time while doing so? Read this book! You will not be disappointed.
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If you're at all interested in the nature of our existence--past, present, and future--the nature of nature, and the essence of Reality itself, you can find no better book.  _SES_ is a stunning masterpiece, extremely readable (compelling, even), and I recommend it to anyone living this Divine dream we call life.
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As a psychotherapist, I have found this book innordinately useful in helping people find their "direction of greatest growth" in life. We are not all interchangable widgets, "blank slates" (only the LEFT brain is blank at birth; the right brain comes fully programmed by past life experience--which, however, remains mostly unconscious). It's my conviction, as a practitioner of "Sacred Psychology," that the astrological birthchart is the closest we will get to a map of our Soul's intentions for this incarnation... and to the extent that we learn from it, heed it--and in particular the "North Node of the Moon"--from which Goldschneidder draws all the wisdom in this book--the more productive, fulfilling, satisfying and psychologically and spiritually HEALTHY our lives will be!

Incidentally, I knew Gary Goldschneidder personally years ago, when we lived in Nevada City, CA. He was my piano teacher at the time (a concert-level pianist himself), and at the time I knew nothing of his interest in astrology; I only noticed that every time he met someone new, he would inquire their birthday (presumably gathering data for his companion volume, THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF BIRTHDAYS). It was many years later, as I was perusing the astrology shelves at a local bookstore, that I discovered these masterful volumes on astrology--a great service to the world, to anyone heeding Socrates' advice: "Know thyself, and to thine own self be true...."
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This much awaited republication of the classic text on Chiron by Zane Stein includes the material from the author's historic lecture to the Guild in 1979 as well as his pamphlet `Interpreting Chiron'.  One of the great gifts which this world renowned astrologer and author offers us, is his vast research on the workings of Chiron in our daily lives. From his speedy production of an ephemeris upon the discovery of this celestial body in 1977, to the endless surveys on the impact of Chiron on birth charts  by transit, progression and solar arc direction as well as natally, Zane built up an unprecedented body of knowledge. Generously sharing this with us throughout his book, Zane also continues to do so online through his facebook and webpages.

Divided into two parts, the first part of this book offers us an interpretation of Chiron by House, Aspect and Sign including a useful section on keywords and rulerships.  Part two focuses on the Essence and Application including the Chiron Return, the issue of what healing means, and the application of Chiron in our life, as well as an ephemeris of Chiron at the back. However, describing the content in this brief summary does not do justice to the astrological, philosophical and spiritual depths the author takes us to in this incredibly comprehensive book. No stone is left unturned as we voyage through the authors rich Chironian offerings including the concept of time. The author describes `Chiros' as time outside the time of Saturn and Uranus ruling `the concept of NOW' and reminding us that we live in the present rather than getting caught up in the past or future. Deeply relevant to the current collective transformation we are undergoing, I leave you with a quote from this wonderful book `can the freeing of Prometheus by Chiron represent the releasing of humanity's true destiny, after we perceive the true reality via Chiron and thus perceive how we are all one?'

I highly recommend this deeply insightful book for all astrologers at any level of learning and experience as well as non-astrologers who are interested in self-development. This is a classic astrology book which reminds us of the wealth of information this celestial body can offer us particularly at this time of individual and collective transformation.
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All things are connected... The Tao has awareness of nature and is nature, yet our words are not it...they are just pointers. An excerpt from page 110: What people love about life is its miraculous beauty; what they hate about death is the loss and decay around it. Yet losing is not losing, and decay turns into beauty, as beauty turns back into decay. We are breathed in, breathed out. Therefore all you need is to understand the one breath that makes up the world.

Stephen Mitchell also provides commentary for each chapter to clarify and explore the words further for the reader. Well done Stephen!
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A vivid, rigorous, yet accessible scientific support for what we know intuitively is true-- that there is a force for order and creation in the universe, and that humans are by nature in tune with it. The implications are wide-ranging and profound, yet applicable on a day to day basis; there is more to the universe than the simple winding down of entropy, and disorder and chaos are not necessarily the enemy
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The dynamic nature of the world is manifested in us and around us. The dependency of the network of life on continuous flow as portrayed in this book provides a fascinating and intriguing look at the patterns that evolve from complex interdependence. A must read for allocators of any type.