“What diminishes one of us diminishes us all, while what enhances one of us enhances us all.”  This philosophy for engaging with each other to create a new and higher vision for humanity’s future lays the cornerstone for Sacred Economics, which explores the history, evolution and dysfunctional state of our global economy from a new perspective. By encouraging us to stop viewing our world through a monetary framework, Sacred Economics invites us to honor reality rather than exploit it as a means for short-term financial profiteering.  Sacred Economics doesn’t blame capitalism for the problems we’re facing; it explains why we’ve outgrown the aggressive growth engine that drives our global economy. As a maturing species, we’re in need of new social systems that better reflect our modern life situation. By deconstructing our shared (and often unexamined) beliefs about how our economy works, Sacred Economics creates an opening through which to reimagine and redefine human society.   Sacred Economics is written from a non-denominational, spiritually driven perspective and attempts to explain why humans feel drawn to creative exchange, and how – in the interest of becoming the best we can collectively be – we might consciously direct our attention toward the purposeful design of a more compassionate, cooperative and abundantly flowing economic system. It encourages us to move beyond our present systems gridlock by emulating the successes of nature, thereby opening a channel for tapping the myriad possibilities within the infinitely creative, eternal flow that is life.

Sacred Economics: The Currency of Life

Politics & Social Sciences

Workman, Eileen

Philosophy

Muse Harbor Publishing

Jim Brumm’s Long-Term Thinking for a Short-Sighted World focuses on the problems we face today that share a common, rarely discussed theme: a lack of long-term thinking. The book explores examples—past and present—of humanity pursuing short-term gains at the expense of our long-term well being. Topics include energy, debt, consumerism, agriculture and our skewed perceptions of time. “In today’s world we are grappling at every turn with an increasing energy shortage, food production systems that struggle to feed increasing millions, environmental problems that threaten our survival, a debt crisis that is crippling individuals and governments, and so much more. All of these problems come with their own unique challenges and examined on their own they may seem completely different from each other, but they share one common, rarely discussed hidden thread that runs through the center of each and binds them together: a lack of long-term thinking. We’re very bad long-term thinkers.” Jim delivers a message of hope, helping to answer the question, “How can I live my life in a way that brings satisfaction, balance, happiness, and a sense of value? In other words, how can I be part of the solution?” He suggests positive ways to improve our ability to embrace a larger vision of our place in the world. Conversational, provocative, witty and often laugh-aloud funny, Long-Term Thinking for a Short-Sighted World will inspire readers who are seeking ways to realign priorities and re-examine what brings true, long-term happiness and sustainability.

Long-Term Thinking for a Short-Sighted World: Restoring happiness, balance, and sanity to our lives and our planet

Brumm, Jim

Would it surprise you to learn our emotional distress is primarily self-inflicted? What would you give to be free of frustration and hurt? Awakening Into Perfect Peace explains how to bring an end to psychological suffering. Drawing on his expertise as a communications coach and his studies in nondual traditions, author Ralph Huber reveals that suffering occurs when we’re imagining we’re separate from life, or else telling ourselves a story that says life should be different than it is. Only when our hearts accept all of life can we experience the perfect peace that is our True Nature. In simple and compassionate language, Huber invites us to relax and release the hurtful beliefs that cause our suffering by showing us how to lovingly reconnect with life.

Awakening Into Perfect Peace

Self-Help

Huber Ph.D, Ralph

Spiritual

“Picarella’s wry observations on fatherhood and American life are spot-on. Consider his light and heartfelt essays to be a user’s manual for dads.” — CHRIS ERSKINE, Los Angeles Times “While today’s digitized and distracted families are generally depicted as wise-cracking and argumentative, Michael Picarella’s column steadily reinforces the notion that families remain nurturing, character-building institutions built on love and caring, with a little zaniness around every corner.” — JIM SCHOCK, author of The Bridge: A Celebration, former ABC-TV Bureau Chief, West Coast “I really enjoy Michael’s writing! His witty stories of his family life are not only charming, but very relatable.” — LACEY CHABERT, actress, Mean Girls, Party of Five, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, The Wild Thornberrys Michael Picarella shares 70 collected stories and a fistful of family bits from his Southern California-based columns, Family Men Don’t Wear Name Brands in The Acorn Newspapers and Picarella Family Report in The Signal. Picarella is a father, husband, columnist, filmmaker and cherry pie lover. He lives in L.A. with his wife, son and super beagle.

Everything Ever After: (Confessions of A Family Man)

Parenting & Relationships

Picarella, Michael

Family Relationships

April, Maybe June (Bliss Sisters Magical Adventures)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Collins, Shalanna

Fantasy

“Leslie Ann Moore’s A Tangle of Fates is an exciting start to a new, lushly written and deeply imagined fantasy trilogy." — STEVEN BARNES, author of Lion's Blood “Rich in world-building and lush in its storytelling." — GARY PHILLIPS, author of Black Pulp “Moore kicks off this series with a hot blend of future weapons tech, Zorro, and strong female leads. Add in a touch of the mystical...and sit back and enjoy!" — SHERWOOD SMITH, Nebula award-nominated author of Inda and A Stranger To Command “Leslie Ann Moore’s A Tangle of Fates presents us with a lushly realized, scientifically plausible universe as marvelous and full of adventure as any high fantasy. While its mix of priestly characters, archaeology, and questions about the cycles of human history are reminiscent of both the Indiana Jones franchise and Walter M. Miller Jr.’s great novel A Canticle for Leibowitz, Moore’s Tangle is also something unique and new. Highly recommended." — HOWARD HENDRIX, author of Spears of God and The Labyrinth Key “A Tangle of Fates mixes planetary romance with a fairy-tale subtext, and serves it up with an intriguing background of reimagined technology and religion. The result is delicious!" — EMMA BULL, author of War for the Oaks What if Snow White had been a revolutionary... instead of a pawn? Nuetierra. An alien world where twin moons light the night and massive air-breathing jellyfish float through the violet skies trolling for prey. Where giant creatures roam the ancient ruins of a devastated planet, seeking human blood. Nue Bayona. A gaslamp, steam-powered city caught between the iron fist of a despot and the bloody fist of a terrorist... Four hundred years have passed since a great war toppled the fusion-powered civilization created by refugees fleeing a dying planet. Since its fall, Old Earth’s descendants have gradually rebuilt a new society on the bones of the old. Deanna Hernaan, daughter of Eduard, the former Alcalde of Nue Bayona, spends much of her time caring for her troubled sister, Ceilia. Six years ago, her stepmother Lourdessa led a brutal political coup against their father. With the consent of the city’s elite, Lourdessa rules through patronage and oppression while Deanna’s father languishes in prison. The common citizens chafe beneath Lourdessa’s yoke and yearn for their lost democracy. Many in Nue Bayona support a resistance movement led by the mysterious rebel leader known only as Faustin, despite the man’s indiscriminant bloodshed and violent tactics. Threatened by Deanna’s popularity with the common people, Lourdessa jealously arranges for her assassination. But the attempt fails and Deanna escapes from the city. Cast adrift in a hostile wilderness and near death, she is rescued by a band of diminutive hunters, members of a mysterious race she knows only from history books—the Tiqui. Recovering in their distant village, Deanna meets a remarkable woman—the Tiqui chieftess Yellow Bird. The woman possesses the shamanic gift of foresight. Her visions have revealed that a young woman of the tall folk would one day come, a woman whose fate is inextricably linked to that of the Tiqui. When Deanna’s safe haven is destroyed in a night of horrific violence, she must make a choice: leave the Tiqui for a life of exile, or dare to embrace her destiny by embarking on the road to revolution. Dangerous and uncertain, disaster or salvation waits at its end—for both the Tiqui and tall folk alike. A Tangle of Fates is the first book in the Vox Machina Trilogy

Tangle Of Fates

Moore, Leslie Ann

Science Fiction

"Stephen Hawking Smoked My Socks is a brave and beautiful work, in the tradition of Paton's Cry the Beloved Country or Biko's I Write What I like. This is South African intelligentsia once again aligning world opinion with a very reasonable version of Truth." -- Ian Campbell-Gillies Basically, I remained fascinated with your thesis from page one to the end of Stephen hawking Smoked My Socks. I expect you and I might well have different perspectives on some specific points - which two people wouldn't? - but the whole notion of faith as you discuss it is, in my view, completely true... Now though I've read the book and, as a practicing Christian, simply cannot see what all the fuss was about. I hope your valid comments re religions and religious faith/belief will not be allowed to detract from the very real accurate message you're conveying re science. In my view (and I may be quoted on this) you've very carefully and accurately exposed possibly the biggest flaw in modern science - a flaw which extends well beyond the bounds of astrophysics and, indeed, physics! -- theoretical physicist Dr Jeremy Dunning-Davies, University of Wales, Cardiff. Socks is filled with lavish helpings of ideas and food for thought. This is the only book that I have ever read where, after finishing, I immediately started to reread it. It is a feast. Ratcliffe's book brings to fruition decades of study of the human lot as exemplified by the manner in which scientists make progress in the face of stultifying beliefs that slow progress because of our innate need to follow the leader. It is a beautifully constructed symphony of words that mixes poetic sentences with profound insights contrasting the nature of science and belief. - Dr Gerrit Verschuur, professor of astronomy, University of Memphis

Stephen Hawking Smoked My Socks: How beliefs contaminate our opinions: an astrophysicist's perspective

Science & Math

Ratcliffe, Hilton

Astronomy & Space Science

“Barbara Marx Hubbard has given us a deeply personal, prophetic interpretation of the New Testament. This book radiates the cosmic spirit of evolution. In it we find both comfort and challenge for our own journey.” — DAVID RICHO, author of The Power of Grace “In The Evolutionary Testament of Co-Creation, visionary futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard elaborates an evolutionary perspective on Christ consciousness, seeing in Christ an archetype for humanity’s current journey from egocentric, to ego freedom. This book will resonate with followers of her ideas—and may also build a bridge between the New Age spirituality movement and Christian fundamentalists with its inspired interpretations of scriptural passages.” — DANIEL PINCHBECK, author of Breaking Open The Head: A Psychedelic Journey Into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism, and co-founder of the Evolver Network _______________________________ Barbara Marx Hubbard’s extraordinary book offers an evolutionary, future-oriented perspective on the Gospels of Jesus Christ. Barbara reveals that many of the miracles Jesus performed are actually similar to those acts that we currently aspire to achieve today, but so often without consciousness of Christ love. This book builds on the great themes in the New Testament, such as Jesus’ statement: “You will do the works that I do, and greater works will you do in the fullness of time…” and St. Paul: “Behold I show you a mystery, we shall not all sleep, we shall all be changed…” These statements are coming true. The Promise is being kept. We are all being changed. We do have the power of what we called gods. We can destroy the world and we also can restore the Earth, evolve ourselves and all of society. This is the last trump, and the trumpet is sounding for our generation. The Evolutionary Testament of Co-Creation invites us to form Evolutionary Bible Study Groups to join together to consider and deepen the guidance for the meaning of our new Christ like powers to be used for a positive future for all Earth life.

The Evolutionary Testament of Co-Creation: The Promise Will Be Kept

Religion & Spirituality

Hubbard, Barbara Marx

Christian Books & Bibles

“The Evolutionary Testament of Co-Creation: The Promise Will Be Kept offers an exciting means for experiencing Jesus in the 21st century. Rev. Jerry Farrell and Carolyn Anderson’s outstanding supplementary workbook,Keeping The Promise, will guide your efforts to fulfill God’s promise in your own life.” — BARBARA MARX HUBBARD, author of The Evolutionary Testament of Co-Creation: The Promise Will Be Kept _________________________ This beautifully crafted guidebook encourages readers of Barbara Marx Hubbard’s groundbreaking material to expand and deep- en their exploration of the original source text through a comprehensive, self-guided seven-week study program. The study program, which can be pursued alone or in a group setting, explains how to form a local study group (or evolutionary pod) of interested individuals. It also contains in-depth information about how to establish sacred space for meetings, how to communicate with greater integrity within a group setting, and how to perform sacred ceremonies and rituals that can support more intimate spiritual communion. Each weekly study chapter has been formed around a unique intention, or theme, and includes a personal message from Barbara Marx Hubbard. The guidebook authors then draw upon select passages from the source text and invite the participants to connect more deeply with the chosen material by posing a set of questions that have been specifically designed to encourage greater self-reflection and promote spiritual self-transformation. The guidebook also offers a more extended study course for those groups and individuals who, after completing the seven-week course, wish to continue on their journey of self-transformation.

Keeping The Promise: A Guide For Awakening Your Full Potential Self

Anderson, Carolyn

Farrell, Rev. Jerry

words on torn paper: Specificity

words on torn paper: Specificity began as an act of desperation, expressed by a simple idea: “words on torn paper: just that, once a day.” Feeling stagnant in all the ways that matter, writer and photographer Ian Wood clung to the hope that all it takes to push back against the dark and render a momentary decrease in local entropy is “...one thing, just one small thing, that has never existed before.” He resolved to create that one small thing, every day, for as long as it felt necessary to do so.
This book is the result of that effort: 90 images, each one planned, constructed, and photographed over the course of a single day, and accompanied by a descriptive object card listing all of the materials used to create each image — including the interior state of the photographer.
Funny, dark, and poignant, words on torn paper: Specificity describes a state of mind familiar to anyone engaged in creative work, and offers a portrait of a man creating because he must, without knowing what it's all for, what any of it means, or whether there's any point to it other than the doing of the thing itself.

Arts & Photography

Wood, Professor of Early Medieval History Ian

Individual Artists

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