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This user’s guide to Buddhist basics takes the most commonly asked questions—beginning with “What is the essence of the Buddha’s teachings?”—and provides simple answers in plain English. Thubten Chodron’s responses to the questions that always seem to arise among people approaching Buddhism make this an exceptionally complete and accessible introduction—as well as a manual for living a more peaceful, mindful, and satisfying Life. Buddhism for Beginners is an ideal first book on the subject for anyone, but it’s also a wonderful resource for seasoned students, since the question-and-answer format makes it easy to find just the topic you’re looking for.

When the Buddha was asked to sum up his teachings in a single word he said "awareness"—experiencing the whole of reality, seeing what is, and being entirely in the present. In this way, the mind is made free. 

In Buddhism Plain and Simple, Zen priest and longtime teacher Steve Hagen presents this heart of Buddhist teaching, pared down to its essence and explained in simple, everyday language. This best-selling beginner's guide to Buddhism text has served international readers at all levels of study and practice since it was originally published over a decade ago. More than 300,000 copies in various formats have sold to date, and now it's available in this brand new, high-quality paperback edition. 

Hand embroidered Shipibo-Conibo cotton cloth features a lovely original intricate design in striking colors inspired by the Shipibo's relationship with their ayahuasca based, jungle cosmology. Created by Shipibo women, each piece takes weeks to create and is an original piece of living art.  These cloths can be used for an overlay on your altar or used as wall hangings. Made in Peru.

The design on this cloth is a song to support physical health, vitality, and energy.

Hand-embroidered Shipibo-Conibo cotton cloth features a lovely original intricate design in striking colors inspired by the Shipibo's relationship with their ayahuasca-based, jungle cosmology. Created by Shipibo women, each piece takes weeks to create and is an original piece of living art.  These cloths can be used for an overlay on your altar or used as wall hangings. Made in Peru.

Bright vibrant colors with a teal blue border. 

The design on this cloth is a song to support learning something new.

The classic Sutras (thought-threads), at least four thousand years old, cover the yogic teachings on ethics, meditation, and physical postures, and provide directions for dealing with situations in daily life.

Imbue your mesa or sacred altar cloth with the duality of spirit. Our colorful hand-woven mestana cloth features the Inkarri motif: Inkarri, cultural hero and founder of the Inkas. The broad black stripes represent life-giving Pachamama and the two sides of the cloth are joined in the middle with alpaca stitched to represent the mayu, or River of the Sky or Milky Way. Finished with a traditional "eye" stitch, which is said to have protective qualities. 

Woven by Q'ero women in the high Andes, this weaving makes a perfect ground cloth for your sacred altar or mesa bundle. 

According to Sandra Ingerman and thousands of years of shamans before her, it is not what we do but who we are and what we are willing to become that affects our happiness, the health of our communities, and ultimately the planet itself.

The Shaman's Toolkit teaches us how to root out the beliefs that are limiting us, how to heal our inner lives and become the people we most want to be, and how to utilize ancient shamanic principles of manifestation to help shape the world we want to live in.

This is shamanism with a kind of social change agenda. It's about having the happiest and most fulfilling life possible and becoming a truly effective world citizen and change maker.

This book was originally published in 2010 as How to Thrive in Changing Times.

Akin to the traditional women's faldas, or skirts, which are woven with patterns of protection, these cloths are considered to be healing cloths. They are used in shamanic healing ceremonies where they are placed upon the patient's body to infuse it with the healing power of the featured icaro or medicine song. Use as a ground or overlay cloth on your altar or mesa or hang as a work of art. Handmade in Peru. 

The design on this cloth is a song to cleanse and heal the body.

Lama Surya Das, the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition, presents the first comprehensive book of Western Buddhism for the modern-day spiritual seeker. Buddhism offers a profound yet practical path to enlightenment. In this loving and generous book, the American-born and Tibetan-trained Lama Surya Das offers at once a definitive and nonsectarian guide to the wisdom found in ancient Tibetan teachings and a tried and true path of spiritual transformation.

These ceramic polychrome vessel with a human face in high relief at the top of the neck. A dark, earthy red, flat base terminates abruptly in a brown ring and then gives way to a creamy color decorated with labyrinthine lines and a projecting human face below a slightly flared, rolled rim.

Shipibo vessels are visually distinctive and instantly recognizable, but they are also the result of a tempering technology that is millennia old and allowed them to create some of the largest, thinnest-walled vessels produced in the New World. For the Shipibo, pottery is distinctly female work.

Made by Shipibo women of the Amazon Jungle Rainforest.

Young Blood, Old Magic: A No-Nonsense Approach to the Ancient Art of Reading Tarot

You do not need to learn the tarot because you already know it. It is from this radical jumping off point that WTF Is Tarot breaks down the ancient art of cartomancy. This fresh, accessible and sometimes cheeky guide sheds a holistic light on how to read tarot, from the foundation of magic itself to understanding those tricky court cards to offering readings to others.

Hand-embroidered Shipibo-Conibo cotton cloth features an original and intricate design in striking colors inspired by the Shipibo's relationship with their ayahuasca-based, jungle cosmology. Hand-woven by Shipibo women in Peru, each piece takes weeks to create and is an original piece of living art. These cloths can be used for an overlay on your altar or used as wall hangings.

The design on this cloth is a song for great well-being.

Hand-embroidered Shipibo-Conibo cotton cloth features an original and intricate design in striking colors inspired by the Shipibo's relationship with their ayahuasca-based, jungle cosmology. Hand-woven by Shipibo women in Peru, each piece takes weeks to create and is an original piece of living art. These cloths can be used for an overlay on your altar or used as wall hangings.

The song on this cloth is a design for eliminating stress. 

Hand embroidered Shipibo-Conibo cotton cloth features a lovely original intricate design in striking colors inspired by the Shipibo's relationship with their ayahuasca based, jungle cosmology. Created by Shipibo women, each piece takes weeks to create and is an original piece of living art.  These cloths can be used for an overlay on your altar or used as wall hangings. Made in Peru.

The design on this cloth is said to bring to support connections and good health among children. 

Destiny Retrieval shows how to reverse destiny loss with shamanic practices like soul clearing, pathfinding, and signpost recognition. In this comprehensive exploration, author David Kowalewski uses cross-cultural research, scientific findings, field-tested protocols, and personal experiences to unpack this ancient practice. Find out how you can be a hero in your own mind--and in your own reality--by embarking on your destiny quest with the help of shamans and their spirit allies. You can learn the costs of a purposeless and meaningless life and discover how shamans can reverse malaise with destiny-retrieval practices from the ancient past.

The RAMA Mission is an incredible journey into the universal laws uniting humanity through love and light. The objective is to prepare the Earth as the home of the new, more evolved person and the return of the Christ Consciousness. This previously recorded workshop is an introduction to the essence and main purpose of the Mission. Step out of the worldly fixation with the physical aspects of the UFO phenomenon, and step into the spiritual evolution of our species evidenced by the widespread inter-dimensional presence of extraterrestrial intelligence in our solar system. Respond to the timely call of a deeper universal voice that speaks of our interconnectedness with the stars.

In this series you will be taught a variety of meditations and practices to help with spiritual development and opening to receive your own guidance in the RAMA Mission.

Honeybees are fascinating creatures. But in today’s rushed world our only thoughts of bees seem to be about what “busy bees” we have to be to stay afloat in this economy. Dancing with a Thousand Bees offers a different perspective. Inspired by the multifaceted approach that bees themselves take to creating, author Karrie Marie Baxley weaves together visual art, poetry, and prose to create her story of a honeybee, a woman, and the magic of nature. When an artist decides to move from the city to the country and take up beekeeping, she has no idea the impact her decision will make on her life. Embarking on a surprising journey of self-discovery, which also awakens her to the mystical world around her, she begins to see just how critical the tiny bee is to life on this planet—and how much we all can learn from one of nature’s greatest feminine masters. 

Touching on themes of environmentalism, feminism, and shamanism, this book is a creative, layered story that educates, inspires, and delights. Addressing fun facts about the honeybee as well as the plight it currently faces, the author recognizes that the first step toward changing our environmental impact is to be awestruck—and she writes accordingly.

In The Key of Earth is a celebration of our planet as a living organism - its pulse, breath, rhythms, and cycles. In this ambient recording, Marjorie de Muynck, sound healer and pioneer of works composed in the key of Ohm, bends and reinvents the boundaries between sound and music through seldom-heard harmonics created with acoustic instruments, all supported by the primordial tone of Ohm, a scientifically calculated frequency that matches the elliptical path of our planet as it orbits the sun. The effect is symphonic and inspirational, evoking the macrocosm and the forces of creation.

Featured instruments include bass, baritone saxophone, Native American flute, Brazilian berimbau, vocals, Ohm Crystal Bowl, and four octaves of Ohm Tuning Forks!

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This simple despacho cloth is hand woven with natural fibers and features traditional Chincheros motifs in its bands. Reversible. The designs are woven to produce an image with positive color and weave effect on one side and opposite color and weave effect of the same image on the reverse. Tasseled on each of the four conrners with sewn on decorative edging on two sides. Use for wrapping your despacho offering and taking it to its offering place. From the Chincheros of the high Andes mountains of Peru.

Hand-embroidered Shipibo-Conibo cotton cloth features a lovely original intricate design in striking colors inspired by the Shipibo's relationship with their ayahuasca-based, jungle cosmology. Created by Shipibo women, each piece takes weeks to create and is an original piece of living art.  These cloths can be used for an overlay on your altar or used as wall hangings. Made in Peru.

Beautiful bright colors, ocean blue border. 

The design on this cloth is representative of a song for increasing mental awareness.