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From the acclaimed author of In Praise of Paths comes a humorous and modest Walden for modern times.
As nature becomes ever more precious, we all want to spend more time appreciating it. But time is often hard to come by. And how do we appreciate nature without disruption? In this sensitively-written book, Torbjørn Ekelund, an acclaimed Norwegian nature writer, shares a creative and non-intrusive method for immersing oneself...
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Was America truly unknown to the outside world until Christopher Columbus "discovered" it in 1492? Could a people gifted enough to raise the Great Pyramid more than 4,000 years ago have lacked the skills necessary to build a ship capable of crossing the Atlantic? Did the Phoenicians, who circumnavigated the African continent in 600 bc, never consider sailing farther? Were the Vikings, the most fearless warriors and seafarers of all time, terrified...
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When my dear wife was diagnosed with cancer and had to have an operation, I was very worried. I lost my mother to this disease when she was the same age as my wife. Sometimes the wheel of life is traumatically cyclical. I had a very symbolic dream, and whether that fear was real or not, I took that dream very seriously. I had to unravel the dream and felt that I had to connect the tomb of the Apostle with my vineyards with a libation sacrifice. Leaving...
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Grief was gnawing at me, trapping my body in a cycle of pain with no offer of relief, making me restless and not letting me go. I desired liberosis, to care less about things. I desperately sought inner and outer liberation. I was having sleepless nights. My soul knew the solution, but my body was not listening until the moment came when I just longed to leave. I wished to free myself from this situation, wipe it from my being, and surround myself...
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The true story of the life journey of a combat fighter pilot and astronaut. An adventure that illuminates a path toward understanding the meaning of life and our place in the universe.Humanity faces an unprecedented crisis that threatens all life on Earth. Desert Storm fighter pilot and NASA astronaut Ron Garan addresses this head-on in Floating in Darkness: A Journey of Evolution, the follow-up to his critically acclaimed first book, The Orbital...
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It is a different kind of adventure story. It deals with the realization of a dream, which became an inner adventure. Luís and Helga, an ordinary Brazilian couple embark on this frenzy trip of partnership which bumped into them out of the blue.
Including a passage sharing a house with Bhagavan Das in Mill Valley, CA, an icon from the beatnik era, who inspired Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg and Ram Das among many, Luís unfold a collection of encounters...
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On November 20, 1952, George Adamski first made contact with extraterrestrials-including a long-haired youth from Venus named Orthon-in the California desert.or so he claimed. He offered photographic proof. He wrote books about his encounters, including the sensational bestseller Flying Saucers Have Landed. He never stopped advocating the truth of his claims even as he came under extraordinary ridicule. And in the process, however inadvertently, Adamski...
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Nuestras historias tienen vida propia y, como toda forma de vida, quieren ser expresadas.
Criados en nuestros corazones, guardados en sus recuerdos acogedores y seguros, un día quieren ver la luz del día y compartir nuestras largas noches, cuando el sueño se prolonga y se aleja, y les encanta la compañía de una taza de café...
Eduardo Zotz nació en el sur de Brasil, viajero por pasión, ha pasado la mayor parte de su vida en Latinoamérica,...
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Story telling is a wondrous Art, it brings Magic into our lives, trapped in our daily concerns, we forget to look at a world hidden from our eyes, a world born of our Creator's imagination, with fantastic beings who share the Earthly realms with us, worlds accessible when we drink Yagé, places where we are free from the burdens of our heavy bodies, where we can move freely, with the power of our will.
Yagé is a world in itself, and an endless path...
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This special three-book bundle tells the story of the mystery of Oak Island, Nova Scotia, where in 1795 three boys discovered the top of an ancient shaft. Two hundred years of courage, back-breaking effort, ingenuity, and engineering skills have failed to retrieve what is concealed there. Theories of what the treasure could be include Captain Kidd's bloodstained pirate gold, an army payroll left by the French or British military engineers, priceless...
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Courage. When that word is uttered, more often than not it's in connection with heroic deeds involving someone running into a burning building to rescue someone or stepping into the line of fire to protect a buddy. And while such selfless acts certainly reflect great courage, there is another level of courage that lies beneath the surface waiting to emerge. Though not as extreme, it's a critical element necessary for successful living. In his book...
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The epic Gower Peninsula Series continues with "Nan's Nan, and the Pirates of Port Eynon". Book number three of this award-winning series.
Kingsley, Gay, and Melody meet a very mysterious mare that protects them in a storm and leads them to an ancient chest of artifacts that has been buried for centuries beneath the sand dunes near Pennard Castle. Opening the lid of the chest reveals a number of rare artifacts from the time of the Celtic Clans in...
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As Bob and Mildred Lee, they amazed audiences with their death-defying motorcycle act. In reality they were Bob and Mildred Restall, parents of three, who balanced their glamorous show-business career with a happy, stable home life. In October 1959,the Restalls embarked on the ultimate family adventure, as Bob led his family to the east coast of Canada to dig for the famous treasure of Oak Island. For nearly six years they lived without telephone,...
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After reading the foreword, I'm sure your head is filled with questions. You might wonder how and why I came to the conclusion of walking 5 million steps. How my idea materialized and why I decided to implement it, right? Let me take you back in time. I was in India in September 2016 and there were a lot of ups and down going on my life. Each minute, I felt as though I was on a rollercoaster. Sometimes there was happiness but most of the times, it...
16) En el Infinito
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INFINITO es un concepto difícil, nuestras mentes humanas apenas pueden captarlo, y experimentarlo con la ayuda del Espíritu de una planta, va más allá de las palabras. Este libro trata de vislumbres de ello, y la vida en esta Realidad no es otra cosa que una escuela, que nos prepara para enfrentarnos a esos reinos interminables dentro de nosotros, e incluso breves atisbos de lo insondable nos ayudan a prepararnos para el momento en que estaremos...
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INFINITY
"Endless" is a hard concept, our human minds can barely grasp it, and experiencing it with the help of a plant Spirits, goes beyond words.
This book deals with glimpses of it, and Life in this Realm is nothing other than a School, preparing us to face those endless Realms inside us, and even short glimpses of the unfathomable help us to prepare ourselves for the time when we will be awake!
18) As if Smiling
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This book is an autobiographical spiritual adventure story, a coming of age of a little girl from the Alberta prairies desperately longing, to be once more anchored in the divine, and finding the path to freedom through a beloved guru, Swami Kriyananda. She is initiated into the kriya yoga of Yogananda, handed down from Krishna through Masters that have come in the line of Jesus. The little stories of her life embroider this tapestry of unfolding...
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"In this exquisitely written journal-turned-journey of self-discovery, international bestselling author Paolo Cognetti examines our universal desire for connection through a voyage in the Himalayas. Why climb a mountain without ever reaching the summit? In 2017, Paolo Cognetti returned to Nepal, not to conquer the mountains but to journey through the high valleys of the Dolpo with a copy of Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard in hand. Drawing on...
20) Cave Days
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After his parents’ divorce, a young man's life falls apart. In his disengagement from society, he seeks solace living in the wild, hunting and fishing for his food and taking shelter in a cave.
After barely, surviving falling from a rock face and being, swept out to see, his life is miraculously, saved by a wild horse, and a journey of healing begins.
He develops a relationship with a wild horse family and in particular, a young stallion who is...
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