The Game of Life and How to Play It
Timeless wisdom... entertaining style... easy-to-grasp explanations of success principles. In her classic book, THE GAME OF LIFE AND HOW TO PLAY IT, Florence Scovel Shinn established herself as the leading prosperity writer of her era whose down-to-earth, practical, and helpful suggestions appealed to readers and seekers from all walks of life. Years after their initial publications, her books continue to reign as some of today's most prominent prosperity resources that help you win the game of life through positive attitudes and affirmations. Generations after the original release date, new readers are still connecting with THE GAME OF LIFE like never before as they yearn to understand the spiritual guidelines that will give them the framework to build a life of wealth and happiness. DeVorss Publications is proud to be a long-standing publisher of this classic book, providing inspiration for prosperity readers around the world.
Words from the Water's Edge
Words from the Water's Edge: The Mystical Writings of Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, is a comprehensive anthology of a Sufi teacher's writings, talks, and previously un-published pieces. Here, spiritual teachings about Sufism, Oneness, and Spiritual Ecology interweave with personal passages describing Vaughan-Lee's experiences as a young seeker driven by longing, through decades of being a Sufi spiritual teacher in a tumultuous modern world, to an aging mystic reflecting from where the two seas meet-- the place of no place where the inner and outer come together. The author's story is braided throughout chapters exploring the mystical relationship of lover and beloved, the power of love, how love nourishes both the soul and the outer world, and the spiritual roots of our ecological crisis. Again and again, Words from the Water's Edge points readers to the Original Instructions available to humanity that guide life aligned with a sacred cosmos. While sharing decades of visions, sorrows, and ecstasy, this remarkable book never leaves the mystical landscape of Vaughan-Lee's own heart, where love and life reveal their many secrets and nature is the first book of revelation.
Heart of a Stranger
From the first Asian American to be ordained as a rabbi, a stirring account of one woman's journey from feeling like an outsider to becoming one of the most admired religious leaders in the world Angela Buchdahl was born in Korea and grew up in Tacoma, Washington, the daughter of a Korean Buddhist mother and Jewish American father. Profoundly spiritual from a young age, she felt a connection to God when only a child and felt the first stirrings to become a rabbi at age sixteen. Despite the naysayers and periods of self-doubt--would a mixed-race woman ever be seen as authentically Jewish and entitled to lead a congregation--she stayed the course, which took her first to Yale, then to rabbinical school, cantorial school, and finally to the pulpit of one of the largest, most influential congregations in the world. Today, Angela Buchdahl is revered by Jews and non-Jews alike for her invigorating, joyful approach to worship, and her belief in the power of faith, gratitude, and responsibility for each other, regardless of religion. She does not shy away from challenging topics, be it racism within the Jewish community to sexism she confronted when she aspired to the top job. Buchdahl has also been a sought-after leader and voice through some of the most challenging moments in recent history, from the murder of George Floyd to the hostage standoff in Colleyville, Texas to the horrors of October 7th. Buchdahl's consistent message is that it is up to us to strive for a world of more humanity, especially in today's challenging times. Angela Buchdahl has gone from outsider to officiant, from feeling estranged to feeling embraced--and she's emerged with a deep feeling of being bound to a larger whole and mission. Here, she has written a book that is both a memoir and a spiritual guide for everyday living, which is exactly what so many of us crave right now.
From Optimism to Hope
A newly designed edition of this collection of Jonathan Sacks' favourite "Thoughts for the Day". Rabbi Jonathan Sacks was a regular voice frequently heard on the UK's most popular morning BBC radio news show. He regularly presented a "Thought for the Day" in which he addressed a current issue with characteristic brevity and clarity. His clear, calm voice brought hope and encouragement to all of us struggling to come to terms with modern, turbulent times. From Optimism to Hope is a carefully selected collection of his favourite pieces from between 1995 and 2004, ranging in topics as wide-ranging as parenting, forgiveness, staying young and the Turner Prize. The result is a book that still resonates today, and appeals to everyone, from people with religious beliefs as well as those with little or none.
Being Ourself
Being Ourself is an accessible, original, and straightforward book which invites readers to recognize that we are all indivisible aspects of a single, yet infinitely diverse reality. The book provides the word Ourself to refer to this absolute whole because of the word's inherently inclusive nature. Being Ourself takes readers beyond oneness and interconnectedness, and directly into the experience of living consciously as part of the source and substance of reality itself.
The Path of the Blue Raven
The Path of The Blue Raven is the story of a struggling man who all his life has wrestled with questions, searched for meaning and discovered it in unexpected places. Although representing the beginning of a new adventure in one man's life, this book is not just his story for it also offers a beautiful and breath-taking collection of real-life stories of others who walked a similar path and have found great healing and blessing through nature based spirituality. To many cultures, the raven was and is a symbol of initiation into a new path. In sharing his own journey, the author introduces readers to a world of like-minded people who have stepped off the mainstream path onto the path of personal magic. As the ex-Catholic monk Thomas Moore says, 'The soul has an absolute, unforgiving need for regular excursions into enchantment. It requires them like the body needs food and the mind needs thought.' This book offers pilgrims (of any path) a way back to the rich and deep inner magic of childhood dreams.
Housekeeping for the Soul
The ultimate guide to a better quality of life through a deep cleansing of the soul.
The Guild of Light
In the eighth of the series, The Guild of Light: The Art of Unity, Aria's journey takes a profound turn as she steps into her role as a master of co-creation within the ever-expanding Guild of Windkeepers. Guided by the enigmatic artist and mystical mentor, Mr. Koold, Aria is introduced to the boundless potential of art as a universal language of unity. Mr. Koold, who carries the mysterious wisdom of his Plutonian heritage, teaches Aria to use art not only as an expression but as a powerful tool for connection across dimensions, realms, and worlds.Together, they establish the New Creative Network, a cosmic web where artists, thinkers, and dreamers from across the universe can share their visions, harmonizing their intentions in a movement of love and understanding. Aria and Mr. Koold open Resonance Hubs, centers where others can gather to learn, co-create, and experience the energy of Agape firsthand. As they move forward, they discover that the Network has a life of its own, resonating with souls who feel the call to unity, drawing them into the transformative dance of co-creation.With each new connection, Aria realizes that art, in its highest form, can be a powerful bridge - a language that transcends words and reaches directly into the hearts of others. Through the Guild of Windkeepers, she issues an open invitation for all who yearn to create with purpose, to join in a shared legacy that reaches beyond time and space. The Guild of Light: The Art of Unity is a celebration of the transformative power of art, an inspiring tale of interconnectedness, and a reminder that, at the heart of creation, lies the unbreakable bond of unity and love.
The Guild of Light
In the eighth of the series, The Guild of Light: The Art of Unity, Aria's journey takes a profound turn as she steps into her role as a master of co-creation within the ever-expanding Guild of Windkeepers. Guided by the enigmatic artist and mystical mentor, Mr. Koold, Aria is introduced to the boundless potential of art as a universal language of unity. Mr. Koold, who carries the mysterious wisdom of his Plutonian heritage, teaches Aria to use art not only as an expression but as a powerful tool for connection across dimensions, realms, and worlds.Together, they establish the New Creative Network, a cosmic web where artists, thinkers, and dreamers from across the universe can share their visions, harmonizing their intentions in a movement of love and understanding. Aria and Mr. Koold open Resonance Hubs, centers where others can gather to learn, co-create, and experience the energy of Agape firsthand. As they move forward, they discover that the Network has a life of its own, resonating with souls who feel the call to unity, drawing them into the transformative dance of co-creation.With each new connection, Aria realizes that art, in its highest form, can be a powerful bridge - a language that transcends words and reaches directly into the hearts of others. Through the Guild of Windkeepers, she issues an open invitation for all who yearn to create with purpose, to join in a shared legacy that reaches beyond time and space. The Guild of Light: The Art of Unity is a celebration of the transformative power of art, an inspiring tale of interconnectedness, and a reminder that, at the heart of creation, lies the unbreakable bond of unity and love.
The Gates of Love
Some claim that if the tariqa were a path of Truth, people would not leave it. But then, what about Islam? From the moment some people left it: is it the Truth or not the Truth? And what about the messenger of Allah ﷺ? From the moment some broke their commitment to him, is it the Truth or not the Truth? Just the day the Qibla was changed, how many people abandoned their religion? And the day he ﷺ returned to the Most Merciful, how many abandoned Islam?So from the moment Islam emerged in this way, we are but a tiny point imitating and replicating this evolution in the 21st century. The issue does not lie in Islam; the issue lies in the intellect that has failed to understand Islam. As for Islam, it remains Islam.May Allah guide us. As for tassawuf, it remains tassawuf, the Path of Allah remains the Path of Allah and the Light of Allah remains the Light of Allah.
What If You Obeyed?
31 Commands to SIMPLY OBEY from the Living Word to bring about life changeWhat if some of the struggles you're going through are simply because you're not being obedient to the Word of God?As I was walking through marriage, raising my children, homeschooling, and working our family businesses...I desperately needed God's help. I dove into the Word of God, being determined to see miracles in my life like the ones that we read about in the Bible.Moving forward, I started hearing the words "It's simple obedience, Jackie, it's simple obedience." And then "Tell them it's simple obedience, it's not that complicated." God was saying, just obey, religion has complicated walking with Me. I started paying more attention to the simple commands in the Bible. I began obeying the Word, not just knowing it, or thinking it sounded nice, but actually obeying it. Doing this changed my life!Come along with me on this journey of obedience and watch your life shift to the abundant life that Jesus died for.
Bringing God Back to Earth
Religion is an essential part of our humanity. We all follow some form of religion, in the original meaning of the word. But organised religion establishes definitions, boundaries and hierarchies which the founders would be amazed by. This is perhaps more true of Christianity than most other religions, due to the short life of Jesus, his sudden death, the lack of any contemporary records. His teaching about the kingdom of God is great; it could see us through our time on earth. But his followers watered it down and soon lost it altogether. It became a kingdom in heaven for the few, rather than one here and now for everyone. The Church, or Churches, that resulted became increasingly irrelevant, even a hindrance, to seeing it realised. Many will always find security and truth in the traditions that developed, and good for them. But for those who can't, for those who have given up on religion or never thought it worth considering, the original teachings are worth another look. If we could recover them and live by them, we could change ourselves and the world for the better. We could bring God back to earth.
A New and Living Way
In A New and Living Way: Christ in the Letter to the Hebrews, Kevin B. McCruden invites readers into a rich theological and pastoral reflection on one of the most distinctive portrayals of Jesus in the New Testament. With scholarly insight and accessible prose, McCruden explores how the Letter to the Hebrews presents Jesus as the eternal high priest--one who is both exalted in divine glory and deeply in solidarity with human suffering.Drawing on contemporary biblical scholarship and ancient literary context, McCruden illuminates Hebrews' dynamic balance between Christ's divinity and humanity. He shows how the letter's priestly Christology was shaped to encourage a marginalized community struggling to remain faithful, and how its message continues to speak powerfully to the needs of Christian readers today.This volume bridges academic rigor with pastoral sensitivity. It is ideal for students, ministers, and all who seek a deeper understanding of the theological beauty and enduring relevance of Hebrews."A clear, nontechnical, and eloquent introduction to the Christology of the Epistle to the Hebrews. Because Christology is so prominent in the argument of Hebrews as a whole, McCruden's discussion also functions as an engaging and brief guide to the book overall. He does a masterful job situating key aspects of Hebrews in their ancient context, and his interpretation of the author's Christological ideas is sensitive to the needs and concerns of modern readers."--Eric F. Mason, PhD, author of 'You Are a Priest Forever': Second Temple Jewish Messianism and the Priestly Christology of the Epistle to the Hebrews"Kevin McCruden here offers a brief introduction to important interpretive questions in and surrounding the Epistle to the Hebrews. He particularly attends to the significance of Jesus's humanity and heavenly exaltation for Hebrews' high-priestly Christology. This clearly written and approachable book will prove useful for anyone interested in exploring the distinctive Christological claims of Hebrews."--David M. Moffitt, PhD, University of St Andrews"This book provides an introduction to the Christology of Hebrews that distills recent decades of scholarship on Hebrews that is accessible and engaging. McCruden's path through theological issues is attentive to the complexities of the biblical text yet simple in its explanations. I highly recommend it for those who need an introduction to or an update on the Epistle to the Hebrews."--Madison N. Pierce, PhD, Western Theological SeminaryKevin B. McCruden is professor of religious studies and Flannery Chair in Catholic Theology at Gonzaga University. His research interests span multiple areas of New Testament criticism, especially the epistolary literature of the New Testament, including the Letter to the Hebrews and the Letters of Paul. He is the author and/or coeditor of five books.+
The Posture
It is true that we can and should desire spiritual gifts-even the prophetic-as the Scriptures declare. However, before we pursue the gifts of the Spirit, we must understand the laws that govern the realm of gifts. Spiritual gifts do not operate by emotion, ambition, or entitlement-they are governed by spiritual principles, divine order, and eternal purpose.Understanding what God has made available-and what is not meant for us-is essential. This wisdom protects us from deception and positions us to receive what the Lord has truly offered us through His Son, Jesus Christ.We do not chase gifts blindly. We pursue with revelation, with humility, and with alignment. For only then can we truly receive, carry, and manifest the prophetic with purity, integrity, and supernatural power.
Hat Tip
Hat Tip: 7 Powerful Habits for Building a Fulfilling, Interconnected, Resilient Life is an inspiring exploration of gratitude's transformative power. Through heartfelt storytelling and timeless wisdom, the author reveals how gratitude can reshape your perspective, enhance self-esteem, enrich your relationships, help you foster a sense of abundance even in the most trying times, and guide you toward a life of resilience, fulfillment, and faith.Drawing from decades of personal experience and spiritual reflection, Badger delves into seven life-changing habits that cultivate gratitude as a guiding force. From keeping a gratitude journal to fostering realistic expectations and practicing joyful generosity, each habit is designed to help readers navigate life's challenges with optimism and grace. This book isn't just about saying "thank you"-it's about living a life of gratitude that turns struggles into stepping-stones and setbacks into opportunities.Rooted in biblical teachings, psychology, and the author's faith journey, Hat Tip explores how gratitude strengthens mental, emotional, and physical well-being while sharing practical tools and insights crafted to empower readers to embrace gratitude not just as a fleeting emotion but as a mindset that leads to lasting transformation.Discover the secrets of: Building Resilience: Learn how gratitude can help you overcome adversity and find strength in faith.Fostering Deeper Connections: Transform relationships with loved ones and your community through authentic appreciation.Enhancing Leadership and Creativity: Explore how gratitude fuels innovative thinking and compassionate leadership.Balancing Ambition and Contentment: Align your goals with gratitude to create a life of purpose and joy.Perfect for readers seeking spiritual growth, personal development, or a renewed sense of purpose. Are you ready to embrace the power of gratitude and tip your hat to a brighter, more fulfilling future?
Aspire to Inspire 2026 12 X 12 Wall Calendar
DREAM BIG DREAMS - Begin each day with a dose of motivation and empowerment with the Aspire to Inspire 2026 Wall Calendar. Featuring a fresh, modern design, this calendar celebrates quotes from thinkers, leaders, and visionaries who dared greatly, reminding you to do the same. Each quote comes with a subtle yet powerful challenge to inspire you to reach higher, dream bigger, and stay focused on your goals. Let these words of encouragement fuel your passion for the year ahead.
Pathways 2026 7 X 7 Mini Wall Calendar
JOURNEYS AND JUNCTIONS - Stroll through 12 months of scenic pathways, from quaint bridges to lush forests. Embrace the serenity and beauty of nature's pathways, guiding you through every twist and turn.
A Daily Gift of Kindness
Kindness is the focus of the stories in this, the third book of the Daily Gift Book Series. The first focused on gratitude, and the second was hope.In a world filled with trials, confusion, instability, and divisiveness, we all need all three, especially a little kindness, to calm the storms of life.Many voices have come together to address the need for kindness. Some will define it, and some will provide it. We hope you will relate to these stories and share a little kindness with others in your life.Kindness is Free Sprinkle it Everywhere!
Living in the Presence of God
In a world of hardship, cruelty, crime, injustice, poverty, suffering, hopelessness, despair, death, and grief, people of faith who cultivate a lively relationship with God can enjoy empowerment toward true success. Cultivating a strong relationship with God is possible because God Himself makes such a life freely available. Anyone who trusts God's beautiful gift of Jesus can receive all that He wants for us, including love, joy, peace, strength, hope, and the gracious realization of all of God's eternal blessings. Roger H. Grummer, a pastor emeritus who has served congregations in North Carolina, Louisiana, and Texas, provides a scriptural foundation to walk closer with the Lord in this book. He answers questions such as: - How can you bolster your faith and better serve God? - How can you become more aware of the Bible's lessons? - What does it mean to live in the presence of God? - How do you make a prayer of supplication? Steeped with wisdom from the Bible, this book reveals examples and principles that will help you improve your relationship with God, maintain earthly relationships, and share His word with others.
Echoes Of Devotion
This book is inspired by the devotional legacy of the Mahārāshtrian saints and their timeless compositions. It seeks to offer readers a window into the lives of these revered spiritual figures, sharing the wisdom and guidance that have profoundly influenced the author's own journey. Through these pages, the author hopes to deepen readers' understanding of Maharashtra's saintly tradition and inspire them to embrace its enduring lessons of devotion, humility, and inner fulfillment.
105 Esoteric Traditions of the World Book III
Across deserts, forests, mountains, and hidden cities, there are spiritual lineages that survived by vanishing. They were driven underground by conquest, scattered through diaspora, or disguised in song, story, and symbol. They endure in exile - not as museum relics, but as living fires guarded by a few.In this third volume of the seven-part initiatory series 105 Esoteric Traditions of the World, Laing Z. Matthews brings 15 such lineages into view. These are not tourist curiosities or academic abstractions. They are transmissions - intact or fragmentary - that carry precise spiritual technologies: ways of breathing, dreaming, praying, chanting, divining, and aligning the human soul with the greater cosmos.Each chapter follows a unique nine-part structure: Opening Image - an immersive, sensory doorway into the tradition.Core Teaching - the living heart of the lineage, expressed with clarity.Spiritual Condition - the ailment this teaching was designed to heal.Inner Technology - specific methods and disciplines, described in detail.Symbol - a central image or pattern that holds the tradition's essence.Key Danger - the threats of erasure, distortion, or misuse.Survival in Exile - how the lineage endured displacement.A Practice - a simple, respectful way for the reader to taste its rhythm.Closing Image - a lingering emblem to carry forward.From the peyote altars of the Native American Church to the whispering smoke of Romani dream interpreters... from Siberian dreamwalkers who ride the reindeer-soul between worlds, to Dagara diviners who speak with the five elements... from Tibetan Kalachakra adepts who turn the Wheel of Time within their breath, to Essene mystics of Qumran who received the Holy Spirit with every inhalation - these are portraits of endurance, devotion, and hidden light.Matthews writes with the precision of a scholar and the intimacy of a witness. The prose is spare and luminous, honoring both the secrecy and the survival of each tradition. This is not a "world religions" survey, nor a New Age sampler. It is a work for seekers, keepers, and those who feel the absence of sacred knowledge as a wound.In this volume, you will encounter: Native American Church - Peyote as sacrament, altar as living fire.Romani Divination - Reading the world's hidden language.Siberian Dreamwalking - Soul retrieval in the geography of the unseen.Dagara Diviners - Speaking with Earth, Fire, Water, Mineral, Nature.Kalachakra - The Wheel of Time in tantric Buddhism.Forest Theravāda - Awakening stripped to silence and breath.Essene Breath Teachings - Qumran's Holy Spirit in the lungs.The Golden Dawn - Ritual magic as disciplined self-transmutation.Assyrian Christian Mysticism - The Light kept alive in exile....and more, each a distinct threshold into a surviving current of wisdom.Transmission in Exile reminds us that wisdom does not vanish when the temple falls - it moves into kitchens, caravans, forests, and hidden rooms. It travels in breath, in song, in the memory of symbols no empire can erase.Whether you are a practitioner seeking resonance, a reader of sacred ethnography, or someone who knows they have forgotten something essential, this book is an invitation to remember - not with the mind alone, but with the whole being.
105 Esoteric Traditions of the World - Book II
Not all sacred knowledge is safe.Some teachings have been silenced, outlawed, or forced into disguise-not because they are false, but because they overturn the structures of control. Dangerous Teachings gathers fifteen lineages whose survival has depended on secrecy, exile, and the courage of those willing to carry wisdom that could not be spoken aloud.Across continents and centuries, these traditions have been branded as heresy, magic, or madness. Yet within them lie precise spiritual technologies-ways of seeing, healing, and awakening that confront the deepest fears of empire, orthodoxy, and conformity. This is not sensationalism. It is the reality of what happens when the sacred refuses to bow to power.In these pages, you will meet visionaries, ascetics, and mystics who kept the thread alive under threat of prison, exile, or death: Native American Church peyote roadmen keeping the night fire through prohibition.Romani dream-readers decoding fate under centuries of persecution.Siberian dreamwalkers retrieving lost souls when the state outlawed shamanism.Dagara diviners in West Africa speaking with elements and ancestors against the tide of colonial erasure.Kalachakra adepts preserving the "Wheel of Time" tantra through the destruction of Tibet.Forest Theravāda monks disappearing into wilderness to escape religious bureaucracy.Essene breath mystics whose desert rites survived in fragments.Golden Dawn adepts using ritual as a science of transformation, not spectacle.Assyrian Christian mystics guarding the Aramaic breath of Christ through genocide.Each chapter follows the same initiatory pattern: the core teaching of the tradition, the spiritual condition it addresses, its inner technology of practice, its symbol or image, and the key danger it faces-whether distortion, commodification, or outright destruction. Every section closes with a living practice the reader can try, and an image or parable to seal the teaching in memory.Dangerous Teachings is not a handbook for dabblers. It is a map for those who understand that real wisdom demands responsibility-and sometimes, risk. This is not the marketplace version of spirituality, stripped of its teeth. It is the unsoftened, unlicensed transmission of currents that have survived precisely because they refused to be made safe.Volume II continues the work begun in Guardians of the First Flame, shifting from primordial traditions to those forced underground by direct suppression. Together, the seven volumes of Esoteric Traditions of the World form an ark of memory-rescuing not just facts, but the living essence of ways of knowing that might otherwise vanish.If you read this book, you step into that ark. You take on a share of the responsibility to remember. And perhaps, if the time comes, to pass the fire on.
105 Esoteric Traditions of the World Book IV
Esoteric Traditions of the World - Volume IV: Future Seeds of Sealed WisdomThe sacred is not dying. It is mutating.For centuries, the world's esoteric traditions have survived exile, suppression, and obscurity. From the temples of Egypt to the mountain hermitages of Tibet, from the vine medicine songs of the Amazon to the internal alchemy of China, these living currents have persisted-guarded by small circles of initiates, passed in whispers, kept alive through disciplined practice.In the first three volumes of Esoteric Traditions of the World, Laing Z. Matthews charted 105 sacred paths-mapping their origins, tracing their survival, and revealing the symbolic architectures that hold their power.Now, in Volume IV, we arrive at a new threshold.The 21st century's acceleration-technological, cultural, ecological-presses these traditions as never before. Some shatter into performance and marketing. Others adapt with startling resilience, forming unexpected hybrids that merge root and ray, serpent and dove: Amazonian ayahuasca interfacing with artificial intelligence.Sacred geometry animating living code.Taoist microcosmic orbit meeting Tibetan rainbow body logic.Dreaming networks cohering fields of awareness without physical presence.This book serves both as a witness-documenting endangered forms before they vanish-and as a manual for those called to carry the seed forward. It offers three survival criteria-Rootedness, Resonance, and Ritual Integrity-as a lens for discerning which new forms hold the fire and which are empty shells.You will also meet the modern warriors of awareness: practitioners training quietly in energy passes, recapitulation, and stalking; dreamers who gather for coherence rather than ego; hybrids who navigate ancient maps with contemporary tools. These are the perceptual renegades who move between worlds without leaving footprints.Inside you'll find: Profiles of living hybrid traditions that adapt without betrayal.Warnings against commodification, mimicry, and shallow repackaging.Criteria for recognizing what will survive the century's trials.Visionary reflections and practical rituals for shifting your own assemblage point.A closing invocation for those who will guard and plant the future's sacred seeds.Neither utopia nor apocalypse, this is initiation-a purifying passage where only what has passed through fire, body, and silence will enter the next world intact.For the scholar, this is a field record of rare and endangered lineages. For the practitioner, it is a set of keys for meeting the sacred where it now lives. For the carrier of the seed, it is a reminder: You are not here to worship the ashes. You are here to light the next fire.
