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With essays on "cosmic consciousness" (including Alan Watts' account of his own ventures into this inward realm); the paradoxes of self-consciousness; LSD and consciousness; and the false opposition of spirit and matter, This Is It: And Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience is a truly mind-opening audiobook collection. 

Breath—it marks the beginning and end of life, it is the one thing shared by all human beings, and yet it is one of the most overlooked aspects of the human experience. What we take for granted actually forms the basis of our shared reality. Each breath we take signals triumph over death, our defiant presence in the world, our dedication to persisting. Global Peace Ambassador and New York Times bestselling author Prem Rawat asks us to pause and take a moment to revel in our breath, to wake up to this miracle of shared human experience

Those moments in your life when there was openness, a spacious quality to your existence - those are the moments that truly make life remarkable. Creating those moments is the focus of this program by Ram Dass, a spiritual teacher who has studied and practiced meditation for many years.

Learn to quiet your mind and calm your body, ease physical discomfort and strengthen your immune system, and discover new powers of concentration. Acclaimed author Daniel Goleman teaches you to attain these benefits in four distinctly different ways.

Anyone can answer everyday life questions by acknowledging and trusting in what has been called their inner voice, the voice of their guardian angel, or God. Going beyond the central messages in the enormously popular Conversations With God and The Messenger, Dr. Doreen Virtue, a best-selling author with over a half-million copies of her books in print, shows that we are all equally gifted in our ability and potential to communicate with God and the angels.

For decades Meditation: The First and Last Freedom has been the essential guide to meditation and Osho meditation techniques. Developed specifically for a contemporary audience, this foundational guide shows that meditation need not be a specific “spiritual discipline” that is set apart from the real world. Rather, in essence, it is simply the art of becoming aware of what is going on inside and around us and developing the capacity to respond creatively to whatever comes our way. 

Combining cutting-edge research with broad anecdotal evidence from her work as a clinical psychologist to illustrate just how invaluable spirituality is to a child's mental and physical health, Miller translates these findings into practical advice for parents, giving them concrete ways to develop and encourage their children's - as well as their own - well-being. In this provocative, conversation-starting book, Dr. Miller presents us with a pioneering new way to think about parenting our modern youth.

Explore the last frontier, your inner space! Lucid dreaming - the ability to be "awake" when you dream - is a breakthrough that has been hailed as the first major advance in dream research since Freud. This audio piece by Stephen LaBerge, the most prominent researcher in the field, will teach you this exciting skill, so that you can overcome fears and nightmare anxieties, learn to apply insights gained in your dreams to your waking life, and more.

Using the concept of Light as a tool for personal and spiritual growth, bestselling author and entrepreneur Jessica Zweig challenges listeners to hit the proverbial “light switch" and illuminate their own lives. Rooted in the Pleiadian teachings of Light as “Information,” “Truth,” and “Love,” Jessica’s philosophy teaches readers to name, claim, and reframe their inner darkness in order to unlock their infinite potential and remember who they truly are.

Every night you receive messages from the deepest recesses of your subconscious mind: you dream. But often these messages are cloaked in mysterious symbols and imagery. Only by learning to understand and interpret them can you take full advantage of the knowledge and power hidden within your dreams. This classic work of dream interpretation takes you through the classic Jungian approach to dreaming philosophy and psychology.

Meditation offers many benefits, including increased self-discipline and concentration, new spiritual insights, and compassion for other living beings. But there are so many forms of meditation, choosing one can be stressful! Examine 5 different meditations - Mantra, Vipassana, Loving Kindness, Karma Yoga, and Kabbalah - and decide which works best for you.

Chakras: An Introduction to Using the Chakras for Emotional, Physical, and Spiritual Wellbeing is a simple, modern guide to chakras, offering insight into how they function and how to access their healing energies in your own life. These seemingly mystical energy meridians are key centers of energy in our bodies; tapping into their power can promote health and happiness, physically, mentally, and spiritually.

This simple, straightforward, powerful guide can help you reap the profound rewards of this ancient discipline. Outlining an easy-to-follow and no-nonsense approach that enables you to bring meditation effortlessly into your life, no matter how great the demands on your time, How to Meditate is an unrivaled source of inspiration and practical instruction for anyone seeking inner peace, relief from stress, and increased self-knowledge. It offers a sympathetic initiation into the benefits of meditation and a description of the four distinctly different techniques. 

Everyday Osho features 365 short meditations that offer insights into living fully in the here and now. Each brief text is thoughtful and inspiring and the perfect length for starting a daily meditation practice. With topics that range from gratitude to nature to philosophy to love, Everyday Osho contains a full year of meditation and inspiration.

Energy Healing is a practical guide to the unique and powerful art of restoring energy through the body to promote physical health, healing, and wellness. Designed for absolute beginners, the audiobook provides an overview of the history and benefits of energy healing and various methods including muscle testing, EFT (emotional freedom techniques), and shielding. Listeners will learn how to tune in to their own bodies and begin their own energy healing practice.

If prayer is like talking to God, meditation is a way of listening to the divine within. World-famous psychic Edgar Cayce offers a complete step-by-step explanation of his unique approach to meditation.

The West has taken to meditation with great enthusiasm. We contemplate. We concentrate. We embrace mindfulness techniques and a multitude of mantras. We have undertaken to “do” meditation. The Aspects of Meditation series is comprised of brief, precious texts in which Osho shows us the core of meditation is not about sitting silently or chanting a mantra. It is, instead, a question of understanding the subtle workings of the mind. In book one, Osho reintroduces us to our body, focusing on the “root” of the human, the soul.

Citing case studies and transcripts from her angel therapy sessions, Dr. Virtue shows that when the problems we face are too complex to be solved by counselors, friends, or even Dear Abby, there is another way, a divine way, to discover answers.

Dr. W. Brugh Joy has created this guide to teach listeners a technique to feel the body-energy fields that radiate outward from specific points in the body's Chakra system, and to teach a systematic method to use those energies as a powerful source of healing.

What makes a successful business? How can we work most effectively as a team? What are the keys to being a great leader? Best-selling authors Daniel Goleman and Peter Senge address these questions in Working with Presence. From the importance of harmonized thinking to the role that tacit knowledge plays in every organization, they discuss how companies can transform themselves into learning organizations.