Lure ancient spirits to bargain for their power. Secrets of Pact Magic is a complete guide for the use of pact magic in your d20 System game, as inspired by medieval Goetian magic. A pact mage summons an ancient spirit to bargain for the brief use of its terrible power. Over one hundred spirits, including elemental and epic spirits, wait to be bound. Each spirit receives a two-page layout with geometric seal, legend, ritual, granted abilities, side-effects, tactical bonuses, and more. A spellcaster can swap spells for a spirit. Included are new races and base classes such as the pact warrior, occult priest, and unbound witch. In addition to feats, spells, prestige classes, creatures, and magic items, thirteen organizations are keyed to constellations of spirits. Game masters can send players to the Apocryphal Desert, the Ravaged Sea, and the Outer Darkness. Includes tools to quickly generate NPCs and design new spirits. Requires the use of the Dungeons &amp; Dragons Player's Handbook, v3.5, published by Wizards of the Coast, Inc.

Secrets of Pact Magic

Dario Nardi

Radiance House

Inside your brain are many keys to what make you and others tick. Imagine peering into the minds of your clients, friends, and loved-ones. Now you can! Award-winning UCLA professor and author Dario Nardi brings to life a feast of useful insights drawn from his brain research lab. He will lead you on a journey of self-discovery, chapter by chapter, that is grounded in first-hand scientific knowledge of the brain. This is a practical guide. Learn how to target "in flow" and "low-threshold" activities that engage people creatively and improve their work-flow and learning. Identify people's struggles and stress areas, including "high-threshold" activities for which a person may avoid or do poorly. You will also enjoy a bird's eye view that summarizes many key aspects of the brain all in one place, in everyday language with case studies, work spaces, and visual maps. New to personality type? This book introduces the basics of the 16 Myers-Briggs types, four temperaments, and eight Jungian cognitive processes. Worksheets guide readers to locate their best-fit personality type code. Fans of Carl Jung's work and the Myers-Briggs personality types will be pleased to learn there is strong neurological validity in the brain for eight distinct cognitive processes and sixteen types. Amaze people with cool insights and implications for how people operate! You may even learn which part of your head to point to and say, "This is where I'm thinking right now."

Neuroscience of Personality: Brain Savvy Insights for All Types of People

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Nardi, Dario

Psychology & Counseling

The theme of Interaction Essentials, 3 Strategies to Remove Communication Barriers is self-leadership and conscious communication—skills needed in the workplace as well as in life. People recognize that we are all different, yet they often forget to honor those differences in themselves and others. They need useful, easy to remember frameworks for describing those differences. This book provides such a framework and helps the reader learn more about themselves and others as well as things to do to make a difference in their interactions with others. The book is based on a very powerful personality style model, Berens Interaction Styles, with relevance for business and anyone who wants better communication and more effective relationships. Berens Interaction Styles has a solid theoretical and action research background and has been used in organizations around the world with thousands. The book begins with an overview of the importance of interacting and relationships to individual well being, personal life, and workplace functioning. It also includes an overview of the three strategies, Know Yourself, Make Space, and Shift. In the chapters covering the First Strategy the reader is taken through a self-discovery process to better know himself or herself using the Berens Interaction Styles model. Data points are collected to help narrow down the selection of a ‘best-fit style.’ The reader is truly engaged in the process and can freely select among descriptions written in the first person based on interviews with people of each style. These and the other typology descriptions in the book have been used around the world for over 10 years. In the chapters covering the Second Strategy the reader explores how to make space for herself or himself as well as others. In these chapters, the book covers self-leadership, stress and recognizing the patterns in others. It also covers ways to accommodate the styles of others through actions. The chapters on the Third Strategy focus on how to actively shift verbal and non-verbal communications to build rapport. The Stages of an Interaction are explored through the lens of each Interaction Style so the reader can readily see what to change in their communications in order to relate better with styles different than their own. The last two chapters focus on putting the three essentials into action in the workplace and with family and friends. Topics covered include decision-making, management, conflict, teamwork, parenting, and life decisions. Appendix A is a Self-Discovery tracking sheet that can be used by the reader to aid the self-discovery process. Appendix B includes first person and third person type descriptions from the popular workbook, Sixteen Personality Types; Descriptions for Self-Discovery by Linda Berens and Dario Nardi to aid in the self-discovery process. Appendix C provides the historical basis for the model and relationships to other models of personality type.

Interaction Essentials: 3 Proven Strategies to Remove Communication Barriers

Self-Help

Berens, Linda

Communication & Social Skills

Susan Gerke and Linda Berens have created a remarkable product to assist the ever-growing need to manage remote working environments. The Quick Guide to Interaction Styles and Working Remotely 2.0 helps people in organizations work together more effectively when they aren't located in the same office. Whether you are a leader trying to measure the performance of remote workers or a team member trying to figure out how to get teammates to help you complete a project, this quick guide is full of tips and approaches for working remotely. Successful remote leaders and workers have learned that building relationships and understanding the styles of those they work with are keys to working remotely. This booklet can be used to help you understand others better and then use that understanding to build good working relationships, effectively empower people, set clear objectives, and give useful feedback and evaluations in a way that is useful for others. The Quick Guide to Interaction Styles and Working Remotely 2.0 includes new content, tools, and tips for telecommuting and working from home.

Quick Guide to Interaction Styles and Working Remotely 2.0: Strategies for Leading and Working in Virtual Teams

Linda V. Berens

Susan K. Gerke

Business & Money

What is consciousness, and how can we awaken? Inside, you will find a powerful compass, along with daily body-mind practices, to part the curtains around the theater of the world. Come unfold your potential! In 1932, renowned analyst Dr. Carl G. Jung gave four talks on the psychology of kundalini yoga. You may know Dr. Jung for his work with archetypes, ego, functions of personality, the shadow self, and other aspects of psyche. This book adds to those. It is a tour of his words and wisdom on the chakras, reorganized and couched in more everyday language and plentiful graphics for the benefit of all. What s inside? • Dr. Jung s insights on the ego, consciousness, and the unconscious • An introduction to kundalini yoga • The chakras, in Jung's own words • Over fifty exercises for health, happiness, and holiness • Science! Today's knowledge of the brain and larger nervous system illuminates the fact of body-mind connections • Advice tailored to each of the Jungian functions of personality: Sensing, iNtuiting, Thinking, and Feeling • Making use of what Jung called the Transcendent function • How entheogens like ayahuasca can greatly aid awakening You get a fresh look at growth. Jung's views contrast with most views of development today, which either reduce human beings to biological machines or seek to prop up the ego. Here, you will find ways to get energized, remove blinders, and let go of unpleasant tensions, false identifications, and excessive cares. Includes cutting-edge material (neuroscience insights, personality-specific advice) not in print anywhere else. Beyond Jung, this book highlights unique benefits of taking up yoga practice and the deep value of a traditional Eastern approach for ego diffusion.

Jung on Yoga: Insights and Activities to Awaken with the Chakras

Exercise & Fitness

Every day, more people around the world are hearing about ayahuasca and awakening to transform their lives. What about you? Are you drinking ayahuasca, or thinking of drinking? Your first ceremony may be confusing, exciting, nauseating, surprising, scary, boring, or joyous. Whatever it is, every time will differ as part of a larger ongoing process. The plants, or La Medicina, are therapeutic and can stimulate an intense psychological and life-shifting spiritual journey for most people. In this practical guide, you will find must-know key details about ayahuasca. The arc of responsible use covers preparation, ceremony, and integration. You'll find best-practices and insights on archetypes, relationships, energy work, sexuality, related healing approaches, the community, and what it takes to serve medicine. There is also a glossary, list of books and films to explore, and handy before/after checklists when drinking ayahuasca. This guide is by and for non-indigenous persons and modern challenges. It is the perfect companion for those who have taken one journey or twenty with ayahuasca and wish to make the most of their experiences.

Facets of Ayahuasca: A Guide to Journeys of Healing, Insight, and Growth

Religion & Spirituality

Johnston, Charles

Gentile, Jason

Garand, Winter

New Age & Spirituality

What if you could read the minds of your friends, family or coworkers? Imagine peering into your own brain in real time to learn how it truly works. Today we can! 
 In this tour, you will delight in colorful images of the brain, its many facets and functions, and explore the promise of neuroscience to help us understand ourselves and others. 
 We all have questions: Does psychotherapy help? Can we objectively assess skills? Where are emotions? Do your genes, upbringing or adult endeavors shape you more? What's your executive style? How can we best break or build habits? 
 Today, we can observe the brain's magic unfolding live and we are learning more everyday. Time-tested EEG technology uses harmless sensors to rapidly and accurately measure people's brainwaves as they try various tasks. Afterward, intense computer analysis reveals what engages us most and which brain regions and networks we tap from years of habits and preferences. 
 Award-winning UCLA professor and author Dario Nardi brings to life insights from his lab and face-to-face work with hundreds of people around the world, including fans of Carl Jung and the Myers-Briggs personality type patterns. 
 This full-color book is printed with high-quality glossy pages for maximum durability and a great look.

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