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You’ve seen them in movies and on TV, but cults are more prevalent than you think - and they’re armed with strategies that can brainwash and persuade even the most unlikely of candidates. But how do individuals get involved with cults in the first place, and what steps can be taken to “deprogram” and heal those who have been drawn into these damaging groups? These questions and more are addressed in Cults Inside Out, written by leading cult expert Rick Alan Ross.

This book features a collection of 101 Zen Kōans. Each is designed to challenge our preconceived notions and encourage us to think deeply about the nature of reality. From the ancient masters of Zen to modern-day philosophers, this book offers a wealth of wisdom to help us cultivate mindfulness and inner peace.

Author Kathleen DuVal argues that it was Indians rather than European would-be colonizers who were more often able to determine the form and content of the relations between the two groups. Along the banks of the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers, far from Paris, Madrid, and London, European colonialism met neither accommodation nor resistance but incorporation. Placing Indians at the center of the story, DuVal shows both their diversity and our contemporary tendency to exaggerate the influence of Europeans in places far from their centers of power.

We live in a matrix of misperception. Things are not what they seem to be. We live with a false sense of self and a false worldview. Our life doesn’t come from our body, it comes from life itself. Bodies don’t create life, bodies are created by life itself. Everyone’s life is the life of life itself. Life creates a world in order to have adventures within it. Life creates bodies so it can live through them and have adventures. Awareness itself is life’s self-place and eternal being. This is true perception. This is living as life’s self-knowing.

"As we are, so we do; as we do, so it is done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes." (Ralph Waldo Emerson). We are the Builders of Our Fortunes: Success through Self-Reliance is the first-ever collection of Emerson's essential writings on success. Each section highlights "Emerson's Keys to Success" for study and inspiration.

Listening to great writing is a pleasure unto itself. Sometimes the opening paragraph of a work, or even the first sentence, makes it obvious that you are in the hands of a master, and once venturing a few furtive steps onto the path of prose, no matter what forest it enters, valley it descends, or mountain it scales, you will walk the entire distance.

My comprehensive guide is an exploration of Stoicism in clear and common language suitable for nonacademic audiences, while also providing a practical guide for living your best life. In it, you’ll learn how to prioritize the things you can control. You’ll learn how to acknowledge insult, injury, and your own past mistakes without letting them dictate your actions. The guide will help you approach life with confidence and achieve a sense of tranquility in what can often be a hectic and disorienting world.

Ghost stories from the golden age. Six great writers weave their spell in creepy, insidious style.

What if you discover that there is a magical world inside you and you can dive into it? This book is for you if you are a human and if you want to become enlightened and experience the real magic. If you are a butterfly or a flower then you don’t need this book, you are already enlightened. In this book, you will find the holy grail of enlightenment and it will blow your mind how easy it is!

There are two sides of life: life's creativity and life's eternal being. Life's creativity is experienced as world, body, and mind. Life's eternal being is experienced as awareness itself. Your true life and self is your awareness, and your awareness is unchanging and unchangeable. As our awareness, we are all one and the same. Awareness is the place of oneness. Everyone's unchanging awareness is life's eternal being. Awareness itself is the place of safety, peace, and freedom. Everything else is a passing experience within life's creativity.

A dedicated toymaker, unable to find his wife, summons a desperate private investigator to his compound in the far north to help with the search. It doesn't take long for the investigator to learn that these aren't normal people, and this isn't a normal case.

If we respond to suffering with love and acceptance instead of hate and bitterness, we will turn it to our benefit. Wilde teaches us the alchemy by which anguish can be transmuted into empathy and art. Today, with depression and despair afflicting so many - particularly creative and sensitive people - Wilde's reflections are more vital than ever.

Written from prison, Out of the Depths is a journey through sorrow, suffering, and despair, ultimately leading to a new vision of hope, love, and beauty. In exquisite yet gut-wrenching prose, Oscar Wilde processes his dramatic fall and public humiliation, and elucidates what he's learned from his descent into the shadow side of life. He also gives a unique, nonreligious interpretation of Jesus Christ and reflects profoundly on the relationship between art and sorrow.

Is your mind going in all directions? Would you like to feel happier and more relaxed? Do you need help learning to meditate? Meditation Guide for Beginners includes nine guided meditations that will help you: Improve your physical, mental, and emotional health. Achieve your desired fitness goal by programming the subconscious mind. Attain your greatest dream using visual imagery.

This audiobook details the journey of one man who treasures much in this world at the beginning. And by the conclusion of this story, he discovers the only truth that there is to know in all of our lives. He does not even grasp the Holy Bible’s content toward the end of the story. His mere understandings are only that of a very superficial level.

More classic ghost stories from the golden age of spookiness. Eight stories by eight great writers, curated for your hair-raising pleasure. Edith Wharton, Ambrose Bierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Company weave marvelous spells that whisk you into times and places you never thought you'd experience. Frightful and delightful.

It's Halloween, and excitement is brewing in Braxton to carve jack-o'-lanterns, go on haunted hayrides, and race through the spooky corn maze at the Fall Festival. Despite the former occupant's warnings, Kellan renovates and moves into a mysterious old house. When a ruthless ghost promises retribution, our fearless professor turns to the eccentric town historian and an eerie psychic to communicate with the apparition.

A human life has the potential to be a great adventure. It is an adventure of learning, creating, and experiencing. Our intelligence and imagination dance together to create the story of our experiences. The blossoming of our mind is our awakening to our true self-place and our true life. Our true self-place is only found in that which experiences our experiences: awareness itself. We discover that everyone has the same self-place and is the same life. We discover the oneness of life and life’s eternal being.

A collection of spine-tingling tales to make you sleep with the light on. From the mysterious white dog that appears each day at the edge of the forest, to the mountain pass that locals refuse to cross even though it would save hours. Stare into the campfire and let these spooky tales make quivering shapes appear.

What makes a person liberal or conservative? Why does the Democratic Party scare off so many possible supporters? When does our "injustice trigger" get pulled, and how can fairness overcome our human need to look for a zero-sum outcome to our political battles? Daniel Meegan suggests that American liberals are just missing the point. If progressives want to win the vote, they need to change strategy completely and champion government benefits for everyone, not just those of lower income. Fairness, he writes, should be selfishly enjoyed by everyone.