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(ISBN:1556432011) (For this item please quote stock ID 8619) ISBN: 1556432011

Ripinsky-Naxon explores the core and essence of shamanism by looking at its ritual, mythology, symbolism, and the dynamics of its cultural process. In dealing with the basic elements of shamanism, the author discusses the shamanistic experience and enlightenment, the inner personal crisis, and the many aspects entailed in the role of the shaman. Michael Ripinsky-Naxon is Director of the Central American Institute of Prehistoric and Traditional Cultures in Belize and executive board member of the American Foundation for Cultural Studies. He was formerly the Director of Prehistoric Studies at the Mediterranean Research Center, Greece. (ISBN:0791413861) (For this item please quote stock ID 18866) ISBN: 0791413861

A fierce attack on globalism – and a manifesto for change – by one of the world’s leading scientific writers. Recent scientific discoveries indicate that all of life – from the most primitive cells, up to human societies, corporations and nation-states, even the global economy – is organised along the same basic patterns and principles: those of the network. However, the new global economy differs in important aspects from the networks of life: whereas everything in a living network has a function, globalism ignores all that cannot give it an immediate profit, creating great armies of the excluded. The global financial network also relies on advanced information technologies – it is shaped by machines, and the resulting economic, social and cultural environment is not life-enhancing but life-degrading, in both a social and an ecological sense. Capra demonstrates conclusively how tightly humans are connected with the fabric of life and makes it clear that it is imperative to organise the world according to a different set of values and beliefs, not only for the wellbeing of human organisations, but for the survival and sustainability of humanity as a whole. (ISBN:0006551580) (For this item please quote stock ID 21828) ISBN: 0006551580

In The Study of Palmistry, the distinguished cheironomer Comte C. de Saint-Germain demonstrates clearly, for the benefit of every avid palmist, how to recognize and interpret the signs and emblems indelibly etched on our palms. With over 1,200 diagrams, charts and illustrations - plus a comprehensive dictionary of palmistic terms - a means to uncovering the secrets of our destinies now lies within our grasp. (For this item please quote stock ID 14507) ISBN: 9789812180773

An interpretation of dreams & how they affect our lives. (For this item please quote stock ID 15563) ISBN: 9781856460231

During his lifelong experience of studying the existing systems of dialectics the author, a renowned Tibetan revolutionary and philosopher, managed to demonstrate new elements, using logical formulas, laws of periodicity and illustrations thereof. Studying astronomical topics from a dialectical point of view, he comes to a natural conclusion: liquid exists on all celestial bodies in the universe, the Moon included. Though water on the Moon?s surface has dried up, there are definitely underground seas or rivers and perhaps ice or snow, deep in the mountains and valleys at its two poles where sunlight cannot reach. Contents: Editor?s Note; Author?s Note; Several Notes Regarding the Basic Theories in New Investigations into Dialectics; Letters to the Author; Liquid Water Does Exist on the Moon; The Profound Mysteries of the World?New Investigation into Natural Dialectics; The Structure of Celestial Bodies & the Laws Governing Their Movement; A Preliminary Investigation into the Structures of Stars & Their Evolutionary Laws; Laws Regarding the Turning & Transformation; Preliminary Investigation Into the Rotational Speed of Stars & Related Dialectical Laws; The Present Conditions, Origins & Developmental Trends of the Sun, Mars, Earth & Moon; The Structure of the Universe & Its Levels; Conclusion; How Do I Argue that Liquid Water Exists on the Moon & On Other Planets; Phuntsok Wanggyal?A Brief Biography. (For this item please quote stock ID 17756) ISBN: 9787119013497

(For this item please quote stock ID 24409) ISBN: 9787544302319

Shows that, far from being empty phrases or meaningless actions, many things that we commonly say & do are full of significance. (For this item please quote stock ID 4663) ISBN: 9781871948981