A fearless, hardworking seeker, veteran actress Samantha Harper Macy (widow of comedic TV and film actor, Bill Macy) has written an open, honest tell-all (and then some) about some of the most interesting men and women that the theatre and big screen had to offer. Racy and juicy, yet tender and sweet. Hedonistic, yet innocent. From rural Mississippi to Broadway to Hollywood, including pivotal moments in U.S. history. What a journey. What an adventure.\nSamantha Harper Macy (ne´ Harriet Lloyd Harper) was raised in the small town of Batesville, Mississippi, where she lived an enchanted childhood isolated from most of the larger world. Her vision of life changed at nineteen, when she was a sophomore present during riots at the University of Mississippi in 1962, sparked after James Meredith became the first black student to enroll there, allowing her to witness firsthand a key moment in civil rights history and the birth pains of momentous change in the Deep South.\nAfter receiving a master of arts in Speech and Theater at the University of Illinois in 1964, she traveled to New York City, arriving in The Big Apple, a virginal young woman of twenty-one. Within seven years, she found herself on the vanguard of the sexual revolution, performing nude in stage and film versions of Oh! Calcutta! She watched the rise of the antiwar/hippie movement sparked by the Vietnam and Cambodia wars, the ravages of the Kent State massacre against unarmed students, and the downfall of Richard Nixon, meeting along her way an eclectic group of artists and innovators who'd influence the rest of her life. Her marriage to actor Bill Macy brought her to Los Angeles and the chance to chase her girlhood dream: to go to Hollywood and kiss all the movie stars.

Naked in Oh! Calcutta! and Other Stories: a memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Macy, Samantha Harper

Arts & Literature

Portal Books

The Way Back

Mildred Ward

It's All in the Name explains the concept of Lexigrams and the uncanny magic they can unfold for self-knowledge. The author begins by introducing simple words and taking the reader on a journey that shows how much we can find the truth we are searching for is contained within the words we use every day. After offering a few rules to guide the Lexigram process (and suggesting times to break those rules), she explains the interconnections among Lexigrams, astrology, and numerology.  Sharita Star goes on to show how many of the Lexigrams that can be derived from names and titles relate to the very astrological and numerical guidance that governs them, providing historical evidence to show how this dynamic works. To do so, she offers references to zodiacal Sun signs and the Chaldean understanding of numerology. Moreover, Sharita provides numerous case studies of well-know individuals, past and present.  It's All in the Name is a valuable tool for exploring the profound inner meanings of names and everyday words and for deepening one's intuitive capacity.

It's All in the Name: The Hidden Power within Words

Reference

Sharita Star

Words, Language & Grammar

A Farmer’s Love is the story of the author's spiritual journey and how his relationship to the Earth evolved from an experience of basic utility to an experience of abiding love. Farmers seldom bare their souls in books, but Walter Moora struggled and wrestled the words in this book from his heart. He offers more than specific descriptions of farming; he tells his life story as a biodynamic farmer and how he learned the lessons of creating healthy ecosystems on the farm through biodynamic preparations and by planting according to the stars. The author learned early in his farming career that working with Nature is infinitely more satisfying and ultimately far more successful than working against Nature with chemicals. His experience of farming biodynamically on four continents taught him to listen to what the land itself asks for. A Farmer’s Love explains how nutrition in the food we eat comes directly from nutrition in the soil in which the plans grow. The book also explains ways the author learned to work with the soil to make it nutrient-rich without the use of synthetic chemicals. It chronicles Walter’s experience of learning both the physical and spiritual aspects of creating a whole, healthy farm ecosystem. Through his life experiences, the author learned to trust his intuition, to take risks around his values, to find his soul’s destiny, and to deal with death and loss by trusting that the very best things can come directly from the very worst things. This story is for those who want to enrich their spiritual connection with the Earth and for budding farmers everywhere who are interested in caring for the Earth in a new way. “Ever wish you could sit down with your favorite biodynamic farmer over a cup of tea and listen to his or her life story? This is your chance! In a refreshingly unguarded, conversational tone, Walter Moora introduces us to the mysteries of biodynamics and shares the intimate details of his lifelong quest for meaning, healing, and right relationship to the land. Enjoy!” ―Robert Karp, Executive Director, Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association “A Farmers Love is not so much about farming as it is a diary of one man’s life experiences, which include his love of farming. A heartwarming story.” ―Frederick Kirschenmann, Ph.D., President of Kirschenmann Family Farms and international leader in sustainable agriculture
 “Walter Moora’s story tells of his lifelong struggle to honor himself, his purpose, those he loves, and the land that holds us all is the overarching metaphor of our times as we work our way back to our place in the web of nature and forward into a new, more evolved way of being.” ―Penny Kelly, author of Robes: A Book of Coming Changes “People everywhere are recognizing that one of the most important actions they can take for the health of their families, the environment and the future is to grow healthy food. In A Farmer’s Love, Walter Moora offers inspiration and practical ideas for starting or deepening your journey for growing delicious, healthy food that will nurture you and a better world.” ―Alisa Gravitz, Executive Director, Green America “Walter Moora...introduced us to biodynamics on his Wisconsin dairy farm several years ago. He balances intelligence and intuition in imparting his considerable knowledge and wisdom, and it is a great pleasure to be able to learn even more from this trusted resource. We’re confident that Walter’s book will do the same for others.” ―Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg, former wine columnists for The Washington Post and coauthors of The Flavor Bible, winner of the 2010 Nautilus Book Award and 2009 James Beard Foundation Book Award

A Farmer's Love: Living Biodynamics and the Meaning of Community

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Moora, Walter

Gardening & Landscape Design

For executives leading their organizations through change and growth Mindshifting provides a powerful tool kit. The book guides you through the seven attentional shifts a leader has to make, providing a logical framework for you to move from managing one's self to leading large organizations. 
<ul><li>Throughout the thought-provoking chapters, you move from doing to leading, from exchanging information to communicating, from relationship building to networking, from self-development to team building, from personal accountability to organizational authority, from task analysis to market analysis, and from self-awareness to interpersonal awareness. </li></ul>
<ul><li>Mindshifting is well structured and easy to read and implement. Utilizing real case studies, the book guides you from theory to practicality, providing valuable and practical insights to everyday challenges. Mindshifting also serves as a self-assessment tool allowing you to create a personal development plan as well as structural goal-setting for your organization. </li></ul>
<ul><li>By focusing on the real-life skills an executive needs in today's world, this book leads you on a journey to reach your full potential.</li></ul>
 We race to keep up with technology and the pace of business as a flood of information challenges our concentration and ability to succeed. You can take back control and become more mindfully intelligent. Focusing attention mindfully is an essential skill for leaders and their teams. It has an immediate impact on performance and accelerates learning. By clarifying our thinking and values we can create extraordinary outcomes. MindShifting shows how and where to focus in order to master critical leadership and professional skills. This easy-to-use guide demonstrates how reflection and mindfulness are invaluable tools to maximize individual and organizational effectiveness. <ul>
<li> Learn to stop, reflect and focus 
</li> <li> Increase your impact and resilience 
</li> <li> Build core leadership skills including strategic and innovative thinking, emotional intelligence, communication, relationship building and team alignment 
</li> <li> Leverage the latest psychological and brain research 
</li> <li> Develop an action plan with short exercises and simple tools 
</li> <li> Get inspired by stories of successful executives who achieved results by overcoming multitasking, overload, stress and uncertainty 
</li> <li> Realize your potential by cultivating the 6 domains of mindful intelligence 
</li> </ul>

MindShifting: Focus for Performance

Business & Money

Ehrlich, Joshua

Management & Leadership

A REFLECTION ON CENTERING PRAYER’S CONCEPTUAL BACKGROUNDInspired by Thomas Keating’s conceptual background for Centering Prayer, this book begins by using the biblical story of Adam and Eve to describe four basic parameters that frame the universal human condition. These parameters or “Fruits of the Fall” are: death/change, sex/desire, good/evil choices and our existential aloneness/incompleteness apart from God. Within the framework of these parameters we experience our basic instinctual needs and their distortions into emotional programs for happiness―which happens when needs are wounded, unmet, or perceived as unmet. Human Ground, Spiritual Ground identifies our basic inborn needs as security/survival/safety; sensation/pleasure; affection/esteem/approval; power/control; and intimacy/belonging. These needs pertain to both our human and spiritual growth. The book describes them in detail, giving examples of their healthy expressions as well as their pathological distortions into self-centered agendas for happiness that form the basis of the false-self system, the key to all of which is our inner motivation. In addition to describing the primary obstacles to human spiritual growth, Human Ground, Spiritual Ground addresses how these unconscious obstacles are overcome through the daily practice of Centering Prayer and the divine action working in us and in our life. The ultimate fruit of this inner purification, healing and transformation process is the shifting of our inner center of identity from human ground into spiritual ground and our life in Christ―which is participation in the divine consciousness.See also Kess Frey's more recent work for Portal Books, Centering Prayer and Rebirth in Christ on the Tree of Life: The Process of Inner Transformation (2013).

Human Ground, Spiritual Ground: Paradise Lost and Found: A Reflection on Centering Prayer's Conceptual Background

Religion & Spirituality

Frey, Kess

Christian Books & Bibles

For millennia, hundreds of books have been written on Plato's dialogues and philosophy. In this book, Carol Dunn makes the case that the major modern scholars interpret Plato with an overwhelming focus on understanding the rational content of the dialogues, but omit or neglect the project of their purpose. Once they have mined the individual dialogues for their meaning, they neglect to share what readers can or should do with the knowledge gained from their investigations. 
 The author makes the case that Plato is engaged not only in thinking but also, and more important, in doing―that what we do with the knowledge is crucial, because it can determine the meaning and purpose of our own life. She saw that he was not merely engaging in rational philosophical discussion, but that the dialogues of Plato, especially up to the Republic, embody the Socratic exhortation for each individual to "take care for the soul." The dialogues therefore embody both a rational philosophy and a system of spiritual/religious principles and doctrines whose purpose is to lay out―in a public forum―the path a true disciple needs to take to have a personal and direct experience of spiritual illumination, or enlightenment.
 This book is not just for scholars of Plato's philosophy, but for anyone who wishes to penetrate an ancient, though largely overlooked, path to initiation.

Plato's Dialogues: Path to Initiation

Politics & Social Sciences

Dunn, Carol

Philosophy

Praise for Colin Greer: “Greer not only portrays the gaps in understanding that needed to be closed between Catholics and Jews, but also surmises on how there are limits for each of us in how far we can step outside of ourselves to make change.” ―Edward K. Kaplan, Kevy and Hortense Kaiserman Professor in the Humanities, Brandies University; author, Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America (Winner of the National Jewish Book Award) “Greer never doesn’t tell us which choice to make. Instead his meditation makes us face our own moral landscape with a bit more humility.” ―Ruth Messinger, President, American Jewish World Service (AJWS)Praise for “Imagining Heschel”:  “Abraham Joshua Heschel was one of the greatest thinkers and teachers of Judaism in the past two thousand years, and this play, ‘Imagining Heschel,’ captures him at the very historic moment when he seeks to shake the Vatican out of its historic role as victimizer of the Jews.” ―Matthew Weiner, Associate Dean of Religious Life, Princeton University “Heschel, in the play, is a fascinating, complex, at times charming, and at other times a self-defeating, somewhat crabby personality who was an enormous force among those who were enormous forces. At many moments I found myself recalling how Kennedy seemed to blow the lid off of the Eisenhower stodginess and how Pope John seemed to do something similar to the Catholic Church.”―Rabbi Michael Lerner, Editor, Tikkun MagazinePraise for “Spinoza’s Solitude”:  “‘Spinoza’s Solitude’ fascinates. In illuminating the inner life, communal ties, and human dimensions of this ‘dangerous’ thinker, Colin Greer’s absorbing play of persons and ideas instructs as it entertains. Spinoza’s shift from theology and exegesis to science and reason underpins Greer’s arresting interrogation of creative genius and its costs.” ―Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University; President, Social Science Research Council

Religious Differences Between Artichokes: Two Plays: Imagining Heschel and Spinoza's Solitude

Literature & Fiction

Greer, Colin

Dramas & Plays

Two Sister's Cafe, by Elena Yates Eulo and Samantha Harper Macy, is a novel abouth the mysterious happenings inside a second-chance Fifties restaurant. This adult faerie tale, set in a small town cafe, celebrates the community, humor, and down home wisdom of rural America while honoring traditions of Western Magic, both ancient and New Age.

The Two Sisters' Cafe

Elena Yates Eulo and Samantha Harper Macy

The Party must fall. Kaiden and his friends have finally unlocked Bernstein's database, giving them evidence of the government's heinous crimes. They now must share that evidence with the world by broadcasting the files to every player in Nova Online. The catch? The broadcast system is locked away in the Warden HQ - one of the most heavily fortified places in the game. The only option is a full-on assault. It is a battle they cannot win alone.

Harbinger Nova Online

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Knight, Alex

Books, Portal

Science Fiction

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