"The Spirit of Place". Each season of the year brings its own teachings and gifts and by forging a partnership of mind, heart, spirit, and body, the seeker may receive those gifts and awaken to a spirit of place that is indigenous to the land and accessible to all. Arranged to follow the four seasons of the year, The Spirit of Place offers an annual cycle of ideas and ceremonies for integrating all aspects of awareness. Visualizations and prayers focus the mind; acknowledging totems and allies strengthens the will; meditations centers the spirit; and heightened intuition opens the heart to change and acceptance. The practices suggested here, brought into daily application, align the reader in a deeper relationship with life's sacred matrix of plants, animals, and minerals sharing our world. A resource guide, with its extensive descriptions of birds, stones, animals, herbs, and trees, offers unique and practical information and advice for strengthening alliances with nature's totems. Respectful of Native American ways, the author draws on those and other earth-oriented traditions to create an eclectic yet truly authentic spiritual practice that relies on a direct experience of the interrelatedness of all life.

"Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah" is a book to challenge and perhaps change your life. At the very least, it will give you pause to take a closer look around at the world in which you live. This book has an almost magical ability to be a different story to not only each individual, but for you personally each time it's picked up; depending on where you are on your path, it is either a simple read about two barn-storming vagabonds who meet in the fields of midwest America because each is doing what he really wants to do, or it can be a very different perspective from a 'spiritually advanced' soul, and many possibilities between.

"Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit" The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search of truth. He answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking for serious pupils, only to find himself alone in an abandoned office with a full-grown gorilla who is nibbling delicately on a slender branch. "You are the teacher?" he asks incredulously. "I am the teacher," the gorilla replies. Ishmael is a creature of immense wisdom and he has a story to tell, one that no other human being has ever heard. It is a story that extends backward and forward over the lifespan of the earth from the birth of time to a future there is still time to save. Like all great teachers, Ishmael refuses to make the lesson easy; he demands the final illumination to come from within ourselves. Is it man's destiny to rule the world? Or is a higher destiny possible for him -- one more wonderful than he has ever imagined?

"The Story of B" combines Daniel Quinn's provocative and visionary ideas with a masterfully plotted story of adventure and suspense in this stunning, resonant novel that is sure to stay with readers long after they have finished the last page. Father Jared Osborne--bound by a centuries-old mandate held by his order to know before all others that the Antichrist is among us--is sent to Europe on a mission to find a peripatetic preacher whose radical message is attracting a growing circle of followers. The target of Osborne's investigation is an American known only as B. He isn't teaching New Age platitudes or building a fanatical following; instead, he is quietly uncovering the hidden history of our planet, redefining the fall of man, and retracing a path of human spirituality that extends millions of years into the past. From the beginning, Fr. Osborne is stunned, outraged, and awed by the simplicity and profundity of B's teachings. Is B merely a heretic--or is he the Antichrist sent to seduce humanity not with wickedness, but with ideas more alluring than those of traditional religion? With surprising twists and fascinating characters, The Story of B answers this question as it sends readers on an intellectual journey that will forever change the way they view spirituality, human history, and, indeed, the state of our present world.

"My Ishmael". Winner of the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship, Daniel Quinn's Ishmael is an underground bestseller and a testament for a burgeoning spiritual movement. Now Quinn presents an extraordinary sequel, a companion novel so startlingly original that even Ishmael's most faithful readers will not predict its outcome.... When Ishmael places an advertisement for pupils with "an earnest desire to save the world," he does not expect a child to answer him. But twelve-year-old Julie Gerchak is undaunted by Ishmael's reluctance to teach someone so young, and convinces him to take her on as his next student. Ishmael knows he can't apply the same strategies with Julie that he used with his first pupil, Alan Lomax--nor can he hope for the same outcome. But young Julie proves that she is ready to forge her own spiritual path--and arrive at her own destination. And when the time comes to choose a pupil to carry out his greatest mission yet, Ishmael makes a daring decision--a choice that just might change the world.

"Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure" In Beyond Civilization, Daniel Quinn thinks the unthinkable. We all know there's no one right way to build a bicycle, no one right way to design an automobile, no one right way to make a pair of shoes, but we're convinced that there must be only one right way to live -- and the one we have is it, no matter what. Beyond Civilization makes practical sense of the vision of Daniel Quinn's best-selling novel Ishmael. Examining ancient civilizations such as the Maya and the Olmec, as well as modern-day microcosms of alternative living like circus societies, Quinn guides us on a quest for a new model for society, one that is forward-thinking and encourages diversity instead of suppressing it. Beyond Civilization is not about a "New World Order" but a "New Personal World Order" that would allow people to assert control over their own destiny and grant them the freedom to create their own way of life right now -- not in some distant utopian future.

"The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment" within a chapter of reading this book, readers are already holding the world in a different container--more conscious of how thoughts and emotions get in the way of their ability to live in genuine peace and happiness. Like Richard Bach's Illusions, this book means different things to different people at various times.

Books by Tom Brown, Jr.

Tom Brown pays attention; he sees, feels, senses, smells, and hears both spirit and the natural world around him. He teaches us how to do the same and encourages us to find our link with the spiritual world along the way. These books are rewarding on several levels.

"The Tracker" is the introduction to Tom Brown and Grandfather. The story begins with the chance meeting between an ancient Apache and a New Jersey boy. It tells of an incredible apprenticeship in the Wild, learning all that is hidden from modern man... "The first track is the end of a string. At the far end, a being is moving; a mystery, dropping a hint about itself every so many feet, telling you more about itself until you can almost see it, even before you come to it."

"Awakening Spirits" shares the unique meditation exercises used by students of Tom Brown, Jr.'s personal Tracker classes. Now all of us can learn these spiritual lessons of life through the earth around us - and deep within us. AWAKENING SPIRITS includes advanced methods of relaxation, insight, healing, and communication with nature and spirits.

"This book may challenge the very core of your belief systems and shake up your personal philosophy, but that is not my intent. What I set forth in this book is meant to enhance and magnify your beliefs. Simply, the techniques and skills can be easily integrated into all philosophies, religions, and belief systems." --TOM BROWN, Jr.

"Grandfather". Going much deeper than nostalgia for a lost way of life, this work exhorts readers to eschew materialism and waste, and return to a simpler but more satisfying relationship with the fragile Earth. Grandfather is filled with visions and mystical phenomena as it relates the old man's search for the universal and sublime truths that will enable humankind to find harmony with nature.

Books by Joseph Campbell

Wow. Joseph Campbell's lifelong study of Mythology provides a host of information and thought provoking adventures for all spiritual paths, as well as giving us insight and reference to the rich heritage humans have in the natural world. Things he addresses include topics such as: creation stories, the importance of accepting death as rebirth, the rite of passage, the roll of Shamans, the decline of ritual in today's society, the roll of sacrifice in myth, finding your own Sacred Places, images of women (goddess, virgin, Mother Earth), and the concepts of God, religion and eternity.

1. The Hero's Adventure. Long before medieval knights charged off to slay dragons, tales of heroic adventures were an integral part of all world cultures. Campbell challenges everyone to see the presence of a heroic journey in his or her life.

2. The Message of the Myth. Campbell compares the creation story in Genesis with creation stories from around the world. Because the world changes, religion has to be transformed and new mythologies created. People today are stuck with myths that don't fit their needs.

3. The First Storytellers. Campbell discusses the importance of accepting death as rebirth as in the myth of the buffalo and the story of Christ, the rite of passage in primitave societies, the roll of mystical Shamans, and the decline of ritual in today's society.

4. Sacrifice and Bliss. Campbell discusses the roll of sacrifice in myth, which symbolizes the necessity for rebirth. He stresses the need for every one of us to find our sacred place in the midst of today's fast-paced, technological world.

5. Love and the Goddess. Campbell talks about romantic love, beginning with the 12th century troubadours, and addresses questions about the images of women - ag goddess, virgin, Mother Earth.

6. Masks of Eternity. Campbell provides challenging insights into the concepts of God, religion and eternity, as revealed in Christian teachings and the beliefs of Buddhists, Navajo Indians, Schopenhauer, Jung and others.