Neuroscientist and bestselling author Sam Harris offers a guide to meditation as a rational practice grounded in scientific understanding, addressing the growing number of Americans seeking spirituality beyond traditional religious frameworks.

Waking Up speaks to those who maintain skepticism toward organized religion yet recognize that history's great contemplatives—Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Rumi, and others—likely possessed genuine insights rather than mere delusion or deception. Harris argues that the experiences of these spiritual figures contain important truths about reality that extend beyond what conventional science and secular culture typically acknowledge.

Part personal journey and part scientific exploration, the book uniquely bridges contemplative wisdom with modern research into consciousness and spirituality. Harris's distinctive background as scientist, philosopher, and noted skeptic positions him to navigate this intersection in ways that honor both rigorous inquiry and the profound experiences reported by contemplatives throughout history.

The work demonstrates that spiritual practice, particularly meditation, can be approached rationally and empirically while still accessing the transformative insights that have drawn seekers across cultures and centuries. This synthesis offers a path for those seeking deeper understanding without abandoning intellectual honesty or scientific rigor.

This comprehensive guide explores how psychedelics and plant medicines can facilitate the cultivation of new beliefs, unlock dormant potentials, and catalyze both personal and societal transformation. The book offers practical frameworks for safely and meaningfully engaging with these powerful substances to heal trauma, deepen self-connection, and strengthen our bonds with nature and the spiritual realm.

Author Tricia Eastman draws extensively from her two decades of experience with indigenous wisdom keepers, particularly through iboga ceremonies with the Bwiti people of Gabon, Africa, and apprenticeships with the Kogi Kággaba of Colombia. Her work presents what she terms "seeding consciousness"—an inner alchemical process of transformation through psychedelic initiation and ancestral wisdom.

The book examines how colonization and contemporary culture have severed our connections to spiritual foundations, while ancient teachings emphasize the fundamental interconnectedness of existence and natural forces. Eastman provides readers with practical exercises for cultivating their own consciousness, managing altered states and ego dissolution experiences, engaging with shadow work, and reintegrating fragmented aspects of the psyche.

Central to the work is guidance on approaching these transformative plants and substances with appropriate reverence, ensuring respectful engagement with ancient traditions while honoring the indigenous wisdom keepers who have preserved these practices across generations. The book ultimately presents a vision for preparing the mind as fertile ground for mystical experience, offering a psychedelic pathway that serves both individual awakening and broader social transformation.

This work delves into the philosophy of Henri Bergson, examining his influential theories about consciousness and how it relates to the material world. The book received the 2012 Godbey Authors' Award from the Godbey Lecture Series at Southern Methodist University's Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences.

Living Consciousness investigates the profound yet often overlooked contributions of French philosopher Henri Bergson (1859–1941). Through a thorough and approachable examination of Bergson's philosophy, G. William Barnard demonstrates how Bergson's insights about consciousness—particularly how it connects to the physical realm—continue to offer valuable perspectives for modern disciplines including quantum physics, process philosophy, philosophy of mind, depth psychology, transpersonal studies, and religious scholarship.

Bergson conceived of consciousness as a continuously flowing, fundamentally temporal aspect of reality itself. This understanding presents a compelling counterpoint to mechanistic and reductionist approaches to consciousness and existence. Barnard weaves throughout his analysis various "ruminations"—neo-Bergsonian explorations of crucial questions including: How can we live with authentic awareness and connection to our deeper selves? Can we make a philosophically rigorous argument that consciousness might not only survive bodily death but is likely to do so?

An innovative study examining how spiritual practices affect brain function and overall well-being, written by researcher and psychologist Dr. Lisa Miller. Drawing from both personal experience and scientific investigation, this work demonstrates that humans possess an innate capacity for spiritual awareness that strengthens mental resilience when cultivated.

Through meditation, time in nature, prayer, or sacred reading, we can access heightened states of awareness that transform how we perceive ourselves and our surroundings. Dr. Miller combines neurological research—including MRI studies and genetic analysis—with practical guidance for developing these capacities across different life stages and circumstances.

The book reveals three key findings: spiritually aware individuals make more creative and ethical decisions; regular spiritual practice builds mental strength and protects against depression and addiction; and challenging life experiences can become doorways to deeper fulfillment rather than just obstacles to endure.

Blending scientific discovery with accessible application, this work offers concrete methods for developing your natural spiritual abilities while building a more meaningful and resilient life.

In this mind—and life—altering volume, Jungian expert and renowned author Robert A. Johnson describes how we all have shadows—the unlit, undesirable, part of our ego that is hidden deep within us that merely—and often painfully—turns up in unexpected places. As we leave these shadows dormant, we veer further away from our true selves. But when we begin to explore and embrace these shadows, we begin to find balance and finally heal the parts of ourselves we thought were broken.

Johnson illuminates that by accepting and honoring the shadow within us, we can:

·      Live beyond judgement and shame through healthy emotional regulation

·      Strengthen our relationships and develop healthier behavioral and communication patterns

·      Stop comparing ourselves to others and learn to live with authentic gratitude for what we have and who we are

·      Move beyond self-sabotaging to radically improve our self-esteem and self-worth

Both radical and piercing yet compassionate and gentle, Owning Your Shadow allows us to clasp the painful parts of ourselves—our anger, jealousy, addictions, fears—and use them to discover our most authentic selves. A must-read for anyone who struggles with a lack of self-confidence, trouble setting boundaries, anxiety in relationships, doomscrolling, or simply finding the happiness they know they deserve.

Indeed, the light at the end of the tunnel begins when we choose to venture into the darkness first.

Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom, and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery and spiritual healing, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, moving millions across the globe and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations. Helping them find inner peace, strength, gratitude, and a deeper, divine connection with themselves and the world around them.

This story, dazzling in its powerful simplicity and soul-stirring wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried near the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself a king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No one knows what the treasure is, or if Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles in his path. But what starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns into a discovery that the most valuable treasures are those found within.

Lush, evocative, and deeply humane, the story of Santiago is an eternal testament to the transforming power of our dreams and the importance of listening to our hearts. No matter where you are in life’s journey, allow this profound fable to awaken you to the beauty of the present and the hope of the future, and what it truly means to be human and at peace.

Year after year, across generations, Paulo Coelho's profound and enduring work remains fresh and vital for readers today. These pages, featuring new illustrations, and giftable, high-quality paper, beam with the message that if we trust in ourselves and our inner strength and wisdom, we can navigate all of life’s complexities with grace and resilience. Discover your dreams and your truth with The Alchemist.

Most people don't realize how much unresolved emotional pain they carry around. They don't know why they always feel depressed, anxious, victimized, or disappointed. They wonder why they keep making the same self-sabotaging impulsive decisions.

These patterns often stem from their lost inner child, which carries a false narrative that has been on repeat since childhood. The hurt emotions resulting from childhood experiences of abuse, neglect, or trauma show up in adulthood as explosive anger, isolation, bad relationship choices, negative self-talk, feelings of being overwhelmed, being a people pleaser, and keeping others at arm's length.

In Healing Your Lost Inner Child, Psychotherapist and Reiki master Robert Jackman takes you on a personal journey to explore unresolved wounds from your early life using the HEAL process for healing and embracing an authentic life. Through stories and exercises, this easy-to-read book will encourage you to learn how to stop giving in to your wounded inner child's emotional pain frozen inside a snow globe within you. Each chapter gently takes you closer to this original wounding so you can acknowledge and finally heal your pain. Move from being an impulsive reactor to an authentic, conscious creator in your life.

The book provides information and simple practices for accessing our heart’s intuitive guidance to connect with our highest choices for better outcomes. Our choices are especially important through these changing times because they constantly create or disrupt our peace, happiness and self-security.

Our thoughts and feelings influence the chemistry that regulates much of our health — how we feel, for better or worse. Our thoughts, feelings, emotions and attitudes are just frequencies that we can learn to change — once we put our heart into our intention.

Heart Intelligence provides practices to replace fear with the attitude of intelligent concern (managed concern) which leaves us in charge and more attuned to intuitive direction. We learn the benefits of practicing simple coherence techniques a few times a day for boosting resilience and emotional balance; making appropriate choices; and clearing our mind from anxiety or overwhelm when needed.

It is through deepening our heart intelligence, coherence and connection that humanity will be able to shift from separation to cooperation resulting in higher solutions to our personal and global problems

No one raves about boring movies, bland customer service experiences, or sleep-inducing classes. The world is rapidly transforming into an experience economy as people increasingly crave extraordinary experiences.

Experience designers, marketers, entertainment producers, and retailers have long sought to fill this craving. Now, there’s a scientific formula to consistently create extraordinary experiences. The data shows that those who use this formula increase the impact of experiences tenfold.

Creating the extraordinary used to be extraordinarily hard. Immersion offers a framework for transforming nearly any situation from ordinary to extraordinary. Based on twenty years of neuroscience research from his lab and innumerable client applications, Dr. Paul J. Zak explains why brains crave the extraordinary. Clear instructions and examples show readers exactly how to create amazing experiences for customers, prospects, employees, audiences, and learners.

You can guess if your experience will be extraordinary—or you can apply the insights fromImmersionto ensure it is.

It all begins with an idea.

It all begins with an idea.

It all begins with an idea.

It all begins with an idea.

It all begins with an idea.