Imagine seizing each day not as a series of random events, but as deliberate acts of mastery.Picture yourself ascending with purpose, each overcome challenge forges a stronger path towards your ultimate ambition. This book reveals the strategic mindset that transforms daily efforts into monumental achievements – a blueprint for dominance in the world you are destined to shape. This is not about a brief triumph; it's about building a legacy. It's about understanding the profound con...

T is for Tarot is the twentieth book in an epic series of twenty-six horror anthologies. Between these pages you will find a collection of thirteen unsettling tales from some of the most talented independent horror authors writing today. From modern day to historic settings, from carnival fortune tellers to powerful mystics, T is for Tarot will draw you in with the power of the cards and show you that your destiny cannot be outrun.

Great literature is more often praised for compelling depictions of conflict and tragedy than for moving portrayals of happiness and well-being. This collection of verse brings together poems of felicity, capturing what it means to be well in the fullest sense. Presented in 14 thematic sections, these works offer inspiring readings on wisdom, self-love, ecstasy, growth, righteousness, love and lust, inspiration, oneness with nature, hope, irreverence, awe, the delights of the senses, grati...

This work is not only a general inquiry into ecstatic states of consciousness and an historical outline of the ecstatic poetic tradition but also an intensive study of five representative poets--Rumi, Wordsworth, Whitman, Dickinson, and Tagore. In a refreshingly original, wide-ranging engagement with concepts in psychology, religion, philosophy, aesthetics, sociology and history, this book demonstrates that the poetics and aesthetics of ecstasy represent an ancient, ubiquitous theory of po...

In much of the critical discourse of the seventies, eighties, and nineties, scholars employed suspicion in order to reveal a given text’s complicity with various undesirable ideologies and/or psychopathologies. Construed as such, interpretive practice was often intended to demystify texts and authors by demonstrating in them the presence of false consciousness, bourgeois values, patriarchy, orientalism, heterosexism, imperialist attitudes, and/or various neuroses, complexes, and lacks. Whi...

Imagine seizing each day not as a series of random events, but as deliberate acts of mastery.Picture yourself ascending with purpose, each overcome challenge forges a stronger path towards your ultimate ambition. This book reveals the strategic mindset that transforms daily efforts into monumental achievements – a blueprint for dominance in the world you are destined to shape. This is not about a brief triumph; it's about building a legacy. It's about understanding the profound con...

Written in the style of a Shakespearean tragedy/comedy, The Tragedy of Saint John retells the story from The Acts of John, an apocryphal sequel to the Biblical Book of Acts. The last of the twelve apostles returns to Ephesus one last time hoping to become a martyr before he dies of old age. Here, he encounters vexatious bedbugs, a scheming necrophile, and a man who made himself a eunuch for the sake of the kingdom of heaven (per Matthew 19:12). Will John get the glorious death he seeks, or...

The landmark bestseller that changed the way we think about love: "Every line is packed with common sense, compassion, and realism" ( Fortune ).The Art of Loving is a rich and detailed guide to love—an achievement reached through maturity, practice, concentration, and courage. In the decades since the book's release, its words and lessons continue to resonate. Erich Fromm, a celebrated psychoanalyst and social psy...

A guide to well-being from the renowned social psychologist and New York Times –bestselling author of The Art of Loving and Escape from Freedom .Though laptops, smartphones, and TVs have in many ways made life more convenient, they have also disconnected us from the real world. Days are spent going from screen to machine, machine to s...

In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience, this time to the complex and fascinating subject of womanhood. Inspired by her own reflections on more than fifty years of life as a young girl, a woman, a wife, and a mother, She Walks in Beauty draws on poetry's eloquent wisdom to ponder the many joys and challenges of being a woman. Kennedy has divided the collection ...

The renowned psychoanalyst and New York Times –bestselling author of The Art of Loving unites philosophy from the East and West.In 1957, social philosopher and psychoanalyst Erich Fromm invited Daisetz T. Suzuki, the most famous Zen Buddhist master in the Western world, to a seminar at his new home in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Their discussion was one of the highlights of Fromm's lif...

"[When we read and write poetry,] it is as if a long-settled cloud in our mind suddenly dissipates, and we are divine once again." -- from the IntroductionPoetry is the language of devotion in prayer, chant, and song. Reading and writing poetry creates clarity, deepens and expands spiritual inquiry, and cultivates wisdom, compassion, self-confidence, patience, and love. In author Robert McDowell's words, poetry makes you into a tuning fork of the Divine.But...