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The Great Spiritual Migration: How the World’s Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian

The Christian story, from Genesis until now, is fundamentally about people on the move-outgrowing old, broken religious systems and embracing new, more redemptive ways of life. It’s time to move again. Brian McLaren, a leading voice in contemporary religion, argues that-notwithstanding the dire headlines about the demise of faith and drop in church attendance-Christian faith is not dying. Rather, it is embarking on a once-in-an-era spiritual shift. For millions, the journey has already begun. Drawing from his work as global activist, pastor, and public theologian, McLaren challenges listeners to stop worrying, waiting, and indulging in nostalgia, and instead, to embrace the powerful new understandings that are reshaping the church. In The Great Spiritual Migration, he explores three profound shifts that define the change: Spiritually, growing numbers of Christians are moving away from defining themselves by lists of beliefs and toward a way of life defined by love Theologically, believers are increasingly rejecting the image of God as a violent Supreme Being and embracing the image of God as the renewing Spirit at work in our world for the common good Missionally, the faithful are identifying less with organized religion and more with organizing religion-spiritual activists dedicated to healing the planet, building peace, overcoming poverty and injustice, and collaborating with other faiths to ensure a better future for all of us With his trademark brilliance and compassion, McLaren invites listeners to seize the moment and set out on the most significant spiritual pilgrimage of our time: to help Christianity become more Christian.�

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I Need Your Love – Is That True?: How to Stop Seeking Love, Approval, and Appreciation and Start Finding Them Instead

In Loving What Is, bestselling author Byron Katie introduced thousands of people to her simple and profound method of finding happiness through questioning the mind. Now, I Need Your Love—Is That True? examines a universal, age-old source of anxiety: our relationships with others. In this groundbreaking book, Katie helps you question everything you have been taught to do to gain love and approval. In doing this, you discover how to find genuine love and connection.

The usual advice offered in self-help books and reinforced by our culture advocates a stressful, all-consuming quest for love and approval. We are advised to learn self-marketing and manipulative skills—how to attract, impress, seduce, and often pretend to be something we aren’t. This approach doesn’t work. It leaves millions of walking wounded—those who, having failed to find love or appreciation, blame themselves and conclude that they are unworthy of love.

I Need Your Love—Is That True? helps you illuminate every area in your life where you seem to lack what you long for most—the love of your spouse, the respect of your child, a lover’s tenderness, or the esteem of your boss. Through its penetrating inquiry, you will quickly discover the falseness of the accepted ways of seeking love and approval, and also of the mythology that equates love with need. Using the method in this book, you will inquire into painful beliefs that you’ve based your whole life on—and be delighted to see them evaporate. Katie shows you how unraveling the knots in the search for love, approval, and appreciation brings real love and puts you in charge of your own happiness.

“Everyone agrees that love is wonderful, except when it’s terrible. People spend their whole lives tantalized by love—seeking it, trying to hold on to it, or trying to get over it. Not far behind love, as major preoccupations, come approval and appreciation. From childhood on, most people spend much of their energy in a relentless pursuit of these things, trying out different methods to be noticed, to please, to impress, and to win other people’s love, thinking that’s just the way life is. This effort can become so constant and unquestioned that we barely notice it anymore.

This book takes a close look at what works and what doesn’t in the quest for love and approval. It will help you find a way to be happier in love and more effective in all your relationships. What you learn here will bring fulfillment to all kinds of relationships, including romantic love, dating, marriage, work, and friendship.” —Byron Katie

From the Hardcover edition.

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The Holistic Self: A Proven 3 Phase Process For Women Seeking Empowerment And Harmony

The Holistic Self is an inspirational story of a woman, who despite the constraints of growing up in an Asian culture, managed to put herself through university in the USA and secure senior roles with major multinationals – before suddenly giving it all away. She experienced a spiritual phenomenon one night that would totally change the trajectory of her life-path. Her journey took her from Asia to Ireland in response to a mystical calling, and then unexpectedly onwards to Australia. She translated those events into a proven three stage program to help people find self-acceptance, empowerment and a love of their authentic self. If you have ever felt disempowered, anxious, or simply a ‘mis-fit’ – the insights and methods described in this book will inspire you to take control of situations that you may previously have found challenging, uncomfortable or even scary. The author’s research in such areas as sociology, psychology, spirituality, astrology, and various self-help areas is distilled into easily understood methods and templates. ‘EQ’ skill building, an innovative concept called “The Ulysses Paradox” and other methods collectively acts as a guide for your journey into self-discovery.

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Seeking Heaven: Sound Journeys into the Beyond

The #1 best seller Proof of Heaven has already touched millions of lives, turning skeptics into believers in the existence of a universal dimension characterized by peace, acceptance and unconditional love that is accessible to all of us.

In the closing pages of Proof of Heaven, Dr. Alexander writes that he uses meditation audio programs to achieve the altered state of mind that enables him to return to the idyllic realm he describes in the book, and suggests that readers and listeners can use similar audio programs to alter their consciousness and achieve comparable results.

 

In SEEKING HEAVEN, Dr. Alexander presents four thirty-minute audio meditations produced specifically to support and enhance the experience of readers and listeners of Proof of Heaven who want to access the brain state of blissful higher consciousness and that he attained during his Near Death Experience. Working closely with meditation audio specialist Sacred Acoustics to develop four guided meditations that combine digital harmonic frequencies, sacred instruments, sounds from nature and the human voice to help listeners recreate the four stages of his miraculous spiritual journey: “Everything is a Vibration,” “Thinning the Veil,” “Shift Your Perspective,”  and “Connecting with Source.”