The Active Connection Between the Living and the Dead
In these lectures Steiner deals with the experiences of the human soul during and after death. On the basis of precise clairvoyant observations, he describes the events experienced during the millennium of the soul's journey within the vast realms of soul and spirit between death and rebirth. Steiner describes the states of consciousness ......
Drawing on myth, folklore, poetry, and the tales of Celtic gods and heroes, this little book is an invitation to readers to explore the spiritual tradition of the Celtic peoples--a tradition rooted in hospitality and one that is of growing importance in these increasingly fractured and troubled times.
The Cloud of Unknowing was the work of an unknown 14th-century English writer with a powerful message of God's unconditional love in the face of despair. Johnston's theological treatment of this and other works by the same writer makes a conscious comparison with Oriental ways of contemplation.
Who were the three wise men and what was 'the Star of the Magi' that led them to Bethlehem? Using the dialogue form, Christian Hermetic Astrology explores these questions and the basis for the inauguration of 'Star Wisdom'. Set in the Temple of the Sun, where Hermes, the Egyptian sage, gathers with his three pupils, Tat, Asclepius, and King Ammon, ......
The soul's immortality and its repeated earthly births are not new ideas in Western thought. They are implicit in the Pythagorean and Platonic traditions, as well as in some branches of esoteric Judaism and Cabbala. But it was not until the early years of this century that the West was given a detailed, modern, evolutionary philosophy of human ......
Infertility and Motherhood in the Gambia, West Africa
In The Gambia, Senegal, and Guinea-Bissau, childless women, or kanele?, join voluntary organizations to collectively cope with their infertility struggles. These often-interethnic associations (kanele? kafo) use rituals, public performances, and communal and social services to increase their members' chances of bearing children who survive to ......
Infertility and Motherhood in the Gambia, West Africa
In The Gambia, Senegal, and Guinea-Bissau, childless women, or kanele?, join voluntary organizations to collectively cope with their infertility struggles. These often-interethnic associations (kanele? kafo) use rituals, public performances, and communal and social services to increase their members' chances of bearing children who survive to ......
Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afro-Mexicans
Tracing the histories of Afro-Mexican religious brotherhoods organized in seventeenth-century New Spain Celebrating the African contribution to Mexican culture, this book shows how religious brotherhoods in New Spain both preserved a distinctive African identity and helped facilitate Afro-Mexican integration into colonial society. Called ......
