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Shunryu Suzuki’s extraordinary gift for presenting traditional Zen teachings using ordinary language is well known to the countless readers of Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind. In Zen Is Right Here, his teachings are brought to life through stories told by his students....

Riane Eisler reads this new, accessible adaptation of her ground-breaking classic The Chalice and the Blade, in which she combined original theory with noted scholarship to tell a new story of our cultural origins.

Bring Norse mythology, Viking proverbs, and rune-lore straight to your speaker and headphones. This edition unites the Old Norse Hávamál, the classic 1908 Olive Bray translation, and a completely new modern-English translation in one volume.

John Dee was one of the greatest scientific minds of his time, but also one of the most controversial. He was a learned man in fields as varied as mathematics and astronomy, centuries before they became formalized fields of study, but he is remembered for performing magic and alchemy....

The connection of Zennism with tea is proverbial. We have already remarked that the tea-ceremony was a development of the Zen ritual. The name of Laotse, the founder of Taoism, is also intimately associated with the history of tea.

Written after his wife’s tragic death as a way of surviving the “mad midnight moments,” A Grief Observed is C. S. Lewis’ honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This work contains his concise, genuine reflections on that period...

The teachings of Shunryu Suzuki have served for innumerable people as the gateway to Zen practice and meditation. In Zen Is Right Now, devoted student and biographer David Chadwick sheds new light on Suzuki’s presence and teachings through selected quotes from his lectures....

"One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young...

In Behold a Pale Horse, William Cooper reveals classified information kept in secret government files since the 1940s. In this eye-opening work — read by the author — Cooper explores the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the war on drugs, the Secret Government, and UFOs. His lucid...

Audie Award Winner, Personal Development, 2013 Author Benjamin Hoff shows that the philosophy of Winnie-the-Pooh is amazingly consistent with the principles of Taoism and demonstrates how you can use these principles in your daily life. Is there such thing as a Western Taoist? Benjamin Hoff says...

Everybody has wondered what lies beyond this life, but few have investigated this with as much sensitivity and rigor as Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. This first-ever recording of Dr. Kübler-Ross on audio—the pioneer who defined the five steps of grief—tells us what she discovered about the...

A publishing phenomenon in Spain: a moving, lyrical, far-ranging meditation on the deep joys of confronting oneself through silence by a Spanish priest and Zen disciple....

The Sound of One Monkey invites you into a surprising journey—a path of paradox, presence, and playful insight. At the heart of these 33 Zen stories are two travelers: a young monk and a mischievous monkey who talks too much. One seeks clarity. The other insists it already knows.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The End of Faith, a thought-provoking, “brilliant and witty” (Oliver Sacks) look at the notion of free will—and the implications that it is an illusion. A belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to...

A raw, heart-wrenching essay about navigating motherhood and poverty, and the hope and resolve needed to find a way forward, by the New York Times bestselling author of Maid and Class. Raising a seven-year-old daughter and caring for a newborn, single mother Stephanie Land tries her best to...

Reason and imagination and all mental chatter died down... I forgot my name, my humanness, my thingness, all that could be called me or mine. Past and future dropped away... Lighter than air, clearer than glass, altogether released from myself, I was nowhere around....

Listen in as Wisecrack breaks down the philosophy behind popular video game franchises like Fallout, Halo, and Final Fantasy, and more in this curated collection, available for the first time in audio....

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A “bracing” (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present” (The New York Times) “Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled...

In Praise of Shadows is an eloquent tribute to the austere beauty of traditional Japanese aesthetics....

World-renowned best-selling author Carlos Castaneda's selection of his writings on the shamans of ancient Mexico. Originally drawn to Yaqui Indian spiritual leader don Juan Matus for his knowledge of mind-altering plants, best-selling author Carlos Castaneda soon immersed himself in the...