War, poverty, environmental disasters, and more have brought the planet to a tipping point. In our personal lives, many of us carry deep-seated fear, resentment, anger, and even hatred for others and ourselves.

Since ancient times, Toltec shamans have taught that the root of all this discord can be found in the human mind and what they called its addiction to suffering. They have also taught that the time will come when we must choose to either break free from this addiction or pay the ultimate price.

According to Toltec Shaman don Jose Ruiz, that time is now, and the change that is needed can only come from within.

In The Shaman's Path to Freedom, Ruiz will teach you how to find and claim your own personal freedom, one based on unconditional love for yourself and others, and in doing so break your mind's addiction to suffering. By walking this path, you can live a life of peace and harmony within yourself, which is the most important thing you can do to bring about the change that is needed in the world.

Filled with Toltec practices for establishing personal freedom, The Shaman's Path to Freedom is don Jose Ruiz's most personal and radical book yet, guaranteed to thrill both new readers and longtime fans.

Celtic shamanism is a spiritual tradition whose origins predate the arrival of Christianity in northern Europe. According to this ancient tradition, the root of a person's physical, spiritual, and emotional health comes from the balancing the body's three energy centers called the three cauldrons, the Cauldron of Warming, the Cauldron of Motion, and the Cauldron of Wisdom. The Celts believed a person must activate, nurture, and maintain all three cauldrons to live a whole, connected, meaningful life.

Now, Rhonda McCrimmon--a beloved shamanic teacher-- takes readers on a spiritual journey from the lowest of the three energetic cauldrons to the highest, sharing practices to cultivate each cauldron's unique potential.

• The Cauldron of Warming, the wellspring of our innate knowledge, can be drained by past traumas, leaving us anxious and fearful. McCrimmon teaches you how to replenish this cauldron and restore your birthright of inner peace and security.
• The Cauldron of Motion is on its side at birth but fills as we experience deep grief or joy. It is the source of our capacity to love and nurture. Learn how to balance this cauldron, establish healthy boundaries, and protect yourself from emotional drain.
• The Cauldron of Wisdom is upside down at birth. When it is righted, we receive one of the most sublime gifts of Celtic spirituality--a profoundly felt connection with nature.

• Activate and balance your inner cauldrons.
• Dispel fear by tapping into your innate wisdom.
• Work through past traumas, foster love, and nurture emotional resilience.
• Manifest creative potential through rituals and meditations.

In My Good Friend the Rattlesnake, Ruiz, now a bestselling author and spiritual teacher, reveals the dramatic twists and turns he experienced on his own path to personal freedom and inner transformation.

Through this series of deeply intimate stories, Ruiz explains how he overcame his addiction to suffering and embraced a life of love, clarity, and self-awareness. In one example, he recounts his unexpected journey with temporary blindness, which paradoxically allowed him to see what truly mattered. In another, he celebrates individuality in spiritual practice, challenging the idea that it must look or sound a particular way to be authentic.

Throughout, Ruiz incorporates the teachings of his father, don Miguel Ruiz (author of The Four Agreements). The lessons he shares are practical, profound, and accessible, making this book an essential companion for anyone seeking spiritual growth and emotional healing.

Honest, vulnerable, and rich with exercises and meditations, My Good Friend the Rattlesnake redefines what it means to heal, grow, and live authentically.

Outside Mexico City lies the ancient pyramid complex of Teotihuacan, which, according to the oral tradition of the Ruiz family, is the spiritual center for the Toltec people. For over twenty years, don Miguel Ruiz Jr. has been traveling to Teotihuacan to teach others about the powerful mysteries found there.

In The Mastery of Life, Ruiz explains how the sacred pyramids and plazas of Teotihuacan act as symbolic stops on the transformative path of Toltec Warriors--those who apply the teachings of the Toltecs in their own lives to win the inner war against the forces of domestication, fear, and self-judgment. At the same time, he guides you on your own inner journey, helping you to experience firsthand the transformative power of the Toltec teachings without ever leaving the comfort of your own home. Each chapter contains practical exercises and reflections designed to help you find peace and personal freedom in your own life, right now.

Your journey awaits.

Fear--the most destructive force in the world.
For most of us in the modern world, fear has become so normal that we don't even realize we're afraid. Instead of living in a state of internal peace, we are constantly telling ourselves elaborate stories that lead to mental anguish. These stories foster the beliefs that we are not enough, that bad things are going to happen to us, or that the people we love don't or won't love us back. Because we have been telling ourselves stories like these for so long, we don't realize that they are stories; we mistake them for facts.

According to bestselling author and Toltec teacher don Miguel Ruiz Jr., these stories have one thing in common: they have all been poisoned by the arrow of fear.

In this book, Ruiz will teach you how to cultivate awareness of your fears and the stories that are fueled by them, how to make peace with the unknown, and how to counter fear with faith and unconditional love. Whether you are a longtime student or new to Toltec teachings, his expert wisdom will guide you along the path to achieving freedom from fear.

The Shaman's Book of Extraordinary Practices is a treasure chest of time-tested shamanic practices to help you achieve radical personal transformation. Building on his decades of experience as a shamanic practitioner and spiritual teacher, author José Luis Stevens offers fifty-eight simple but extraordinarily effective practices to bring about spiritual growth.

The practices in this book are organized into six categories:

• Preparatory--Establish a foundation of essential basic skills
• Energetic--Unblock and redirect stuck energy
• Relational--Deepen your relationships with others, nature, and yourself
• Physical--Use your body as a portal to the divine
• Creative--Harness the power of the imagination for spiritual growth
• Perceptual--Learn to perceive things in fresh new ways

Start Here!

This is what Karen Curry Parker tells all students new to Human Design, especially when they may be overwhelmed by all the rich and complex information outlined in an individual's Human Design chart.

While Parker's bestselling book Understanding Human Design gives the reader all the information they need to absorb and integrate the beauty and nuance of the system in depth, The Human Design Workbook offers the space for beginners to enter into this fascinating system through the most accessible means available to them: their own chart.

Through clear explanations of each aspect of Human Design as well as a series of powerful journal prompts and exercises, Parker will lead you through the clear path to understanding not only your own personal chart, but also how your chart can open up whole new paths of understanding into your innate creative potential and authentic life purpose.

Read this book, dive into the rich world of Human Design, and uncover the means to live into the destiny you were meant for from the moment you were born.

In this book, you will enter the world of what author and licensed medical herbalist Wendy Dooner calls Plant Spirit Herbalism--a rich, colorful landscape populated by benevolent plant spirits. Each chapter focuses on a specific herb, exploring its history, healing properties, and role as a spiritual ally. Every herb discussed grows in the world around you, from the humble dandelion to the stately rose.

Dooner's unique combination of scientific rigor and intuitive insight provides a holistic approach to working with herbs that honors both their capacity for physical healing and their power for spiritual transformation. With her expert guidance, you will:

• Create herbal preparations, including tinctures and flower essences
• Develop a personal connection to plant spirits, accessing their unseen healing properties
• Deepen your relationship with specific herbs through rituals and practical medicine-making
• Undertake plant spirit journeys to deepen your relationship with specific herbs

Just as caterpillars transform into butterflies, humans are born with an innate need to evolve. Each of us arrives on Earth with a unique astrological imprint--a cosmic map that guides our soul's journey through this lifetime.

In Soul Growth Astrology: A Workbook for Realizing Your Heart's True Desires, bestselling author and expert astrologer Molly McCord will teach you how an advanced understanding of your astrological chart can support your personal growth and transformation.

Featuring clear and concise language, real-life examples, and reflective exercises, this workbook is an invitation to embark on a voyage of self-discovery beyond your Sun sign and discover how understanding the energies of other signs in your chart can deepen your self-awareness and align you with your soul's true purpose.

With McCord's help, you can demystify the intricate layers of your astrological blueprint and uncover your deepest desires for this lifetime. Readers are invited to dive into this exploration with an open heart and a willingness to evolve.

Your soul growth journey awaits...

Shakespeare's plays and poems remain as beloved in the twenty-first century as they were in the sixteenth. For all the years between us, the world he inhabited was much like our own--afflicted by political turmoil, divisiveness, war, extreme weather, recurrent plagues, the fouling of natural resources on which everyone relied, and discrimination against people who were different. The bard's remedy for these troubles was to offer respite and inspiration to his audience through his writing.

In this book, author Kim Bradley teases out the inspirational messages in Shakespeare's works. Every chapter is a journey through one of his most notable plays, each with actionable life lessons to be learned from his writing. Explore the power of acts of service with Twelfth Night, or the joy of forgiveness with The Tempest. From the importance of hospitality to the benefits of communing with nature, Shakespeare's wise instruction can help you master the art of living.

Yes, there is sickness, death, conflict, and division in today's world, Bradley writes. More important, however, there are sunrises, starry skies, friendships, and love. Shakespeare invites us to enjoy the latter while remembering the former and shows how balancing an appreciation for both is key to living the good life.

This is a book about prayer--but not the kind of prayer that you are probably familiar with. It is a book about prayer that will teach you how to get in touch with the universe and communicate with Spirit.

It is a book that will initiate you into a new way of being, one that will incorporate the wisdom of the ages. Jos Luis Stevens will lead you on a spiritual path that covers the entire range of human experience, from gratitude, worship, and celebration to grief, guilt, affliction, supplication, and suffering. This incredibly potent spiritual practice is one of humankind's most ancient and enduring activities and is as prevalent today as it was thousands of years ago.

Building on his decades of training and teaching in the shamanic tradition, Stevens offers a complete guide to this universal, transformative practice in How to Pray the Shaman's Way. This book is not only an in-depth exploration of prayer as an innate human phenomenon but also a practical guide for initiating or deepening your own rich prayer practice. Packed with inspired prayers that can be adapted for many different traditions, this book is a deep dive into the world of personal transformation, healing, and spiritual guidance.

In his bestselling book No Self, No Problem: How Neuropsychology Is Catching Up to Buddhism, Professor Chris Niebauer explored the incredible link between Eastern philosophy and recent findings in neuropsychology, which is now confirming a fundamental tenet of Buddhism: anatta, or the doctrine of no self.

We are just beginning to understand these parallels and what they mean for the human experience.

Now, Niebauer takes a deeper dive, offering exercises and practices you can do right now to experience the state of no self and its benefits. These include being more present, finding inner peace, and seeing the world through the eyes of what Niebauer calls clear consciousness. Read this book, do the practices, and begin to disidentify with the false sense of self that is the root cause of almost all the anxiety, depression, and fear we experience as human beings.

In The Witch's Book of Numbers, author Rebecca Scolnick reveals how you too can apply the incredible power of numerology to amplify your magic using only pen, paper, and a simple calculator (no complex mathematics required)! In these pages, you will learn:

• How to find your Significant Six--the six important numbers that reveal powerful clues to your unique path in this lifetime.
• How to use the ancient Magic Square technique.
• How to use the power of numerology to amplify and enhance your spellwork.

Whether you're a beginner witch or have years of experience, The Witch's Book of Numbers will deftly guide you through the history and relevance of numerology for today's practitioner, offering exercises, spellwork, correspondences, and activities all designed to help boost your practice and enrich and empower your journey as a witch.

In Earth Witch: Finding Magic in the Land, animist, witch, and herbalist Britton Boyd invites you to seek out the deep and mysterious connections with the earth that lie at the ancestral roots of witchcraft. She describes the path of the earth witch not as a linear journey of upward growth, but rather as a cyclical one that ebbs and flows with the forces of nature that reflect the world around us--a path utterly different from the spiritual materialism that has crept into the witchcraft often found in today's capitalist culture.

Drawing on her own experience hiking the entirety of the Pacific Crest Trail, a 2660-mile trek that stretches from Mexico to the Canadian border, Boyd reminds readers that witchcraft has always been based in the energy of the land, and that you can find all you need to practice this magic right beneath your feet.

This book provides those new to witchcraft with foundational practices on which to build an organic spirituality rooted in the natural world, and challenges seasoned witches to renew the ancient relationship with the earth that lies at the heart of their craft. Packed with stories, spells, and rituals, Boyd encourages all of us to live in service to the planet we call home.

Will you heed the call?

In Awakening Astrology, professional astrologer and intuitive business coach Molly McCord offers a clear, accessible guide for those seeking an introduction to astrology that is simultaneously easy to grasp yet still full of powerful information. Every natal astrology chart has wisdom to offer, but the array of planets, houses, and signs can be bewildering and often overwhelming. Awakening Astrology cuts through this confusion by taking a deeper look at just the five key planets--Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, and Mars--that are most fundamentally connected to your core personality energies.

With the information in these pages, you can unlock a deeper and more meaningful relationship to your true self, as well as a more profound understanding of your personal needs, mental processes, and any ongoing areas of self-development. Even those who already possess experience with astrology will benefit from this profound look at these five planets and their potential for expansion of self-awareness.

These five planetary energies influence us every day of our lives--in our productivity, how we present ourselves to the world, interact with others, think and communicate, share and connect. Now, with McCord's guidance, you can tap into the incredible potential of astrology to inform your journey towards a life of purpose and authenticity.

Shamanism teaches us that the intelligence of nature is all around us, waiting for us to reach out with open hearts and listen to its guidance. When we turn our attention to the incredible community of animal life and the teachings they have to share, we open ourselves to a vibrant, interconnected world full of spiritual truths and transformational insights.

Through myth, tradition, science, and story--combined with the power of personal observation--we can see how animals offer profound life lessons every day:

• Ants readily demonstrate the power of teamwork.
• Bears show us how to protect what's most important to us.
• Eagles embody the value of clear vision.

In the first section of this book, Ruiz explains how power animals represent a path to our own personal power and provides a foundational understanding of the animal world based on the symbol of the medicine wheel and its association with the elements of earth, air, fire, and water.

The second section contains a power animal compendium covering over 200 animals. Each entry includes exercises, prayers, and chants for use in communicating and collaborating with these powerful allies on your own personal journey toward awareness and healing.

The result is both a reference guide to the wisdom of the animal world and a road map for activating this wisdom within yourself.

Marie Mbouni grew up in Cameroon, Africa, and always felt a calling to be a healer. My journey, writes Marie, began with Western medicine, and I built a career many would be proud of--but inside, I felt dead. My quest for self-discovery saved me. I embraced a new calling as a shaman and energy healer.

After working with hundreds of clients, Mbouni noticed a strong pattern emerging. Nearly everyone had been wounded by experiencing one or more of five emotional traumas: abandonment, betrayal, separation, denial, and judgment. Although we receive these wounds as children, writes Mbouni, they continue to play out in our adult lives, causing us to unconsciously seek out endless variations on the original painful experience.

While we cannot time travel to the past and change things, we can heal the past by responding to our present situation in new ways. In Healing the Five Wounds of the Heart, the author gives you the tools to do precisely that. By bringing our awareness, imagination, creativity, and courage to these practices, we can heal our heart wounds and achieve wholeness, ease, and good health.

If we don't exercise our creativity regularly, our lives can feel dull, stagnant, and rote. Many people live this way and believe this is just the way life is, without realizing that developing a regular creative practice can be the cure to what ails them.

Nordby knows this all too well. By the time he reached his midthirties, he was running a successful mortgage company and lived in a big house with fancy cars. But he felt like he was dying inside. Starting and maintaining a creative practice is what saved his life. Now, in this powerful book, he explains how he traded in his stagnant way of life for one full of meaning and purpose, and offers specific steps to help you build your own creative practice.

The Creative Cure is a call for a revolution, fostering change where all change must begin: within. This internal change will allow you to express your own creative gifts, cultivate happiness, and experience the unique feeling of fulfillment that only a creative practice can offer. Packed with powerful, transformative exercises, this book is the medicine you need to find and reinvigorate your creative soul.

Grind culture refers to the false belief that to be considered valuable or worthy in our society, one must be productive. Lurking in the shadow of capitalism, grind culture is accepted as normal, even necessary, and most people aren't even aware of the harmful ways it impacts us.

Now, in The Grind Culture Detox, author Heather Archer exposes grind culture in all its complexity. Beginning with the history of grind culture in the United States, Archer explains how the poisonous legacies of stolen labor (chattel slavery) and stolen land (manifest destiny) have led to the exhausting workforce culture we have today.

While facing that history is an important first step, Archer goes further by offering a blueprint for how we can radically reorient our lives and fundamentally change our relationship with work and production forever. Utilizing nontraditional approaches such as somatics, sound healing, herbalism, and more, The Grind Culture Detox is an invitation to experience an inner revolution--one where you recognize yourself as a sacred being and acknowledge you are worth far more than what you produce.

No religion or spiritual movement is more known for its association with meditation than Buddhism. Yet, in the Western world there has been very little comprehensive instruction available on this integral practice in book form--until now.

In How to Meditate Like a Buddhist, best-selling author and certified meditation instructor Cynthia Kane demystifies this ancient practice and gently teaches you everything you need to know about building a meditation practice that works for you, including detailed guidance on posture, breathing, mindset, overcoming common obstacles, and more.
Informed by her own journey and professional training, Kane has distilled the fundamentals of Buddhist meditation into a clear, instructive guide. With her expertise and encouragement, you will learn how to establish a foundational meditation practice that can help you:
- Release stress, anxiety, and overwhelm
- Change your relationship to unhelpful thoughts and emotions
- Rediscover the quiet stillness that lies inside you
- Experience greater peace, tranquility, and connection with yourself and others

If you are ready to learn how to meditate like a Buddhist, this compact yet powerful book is the perfect place to start.