My interest in life after death and consciousness began early. I was raised in a family that practiced Spiritualist communications via seances and homemade Ouija boards. As a child, I sat under the dining room table while my relatives talked. I heard stories of Aunt Arzelia, who was a medium. She trained at Camp Chesterfield in Indiana. My great-grandfather created a homemade Ouija board on an oilcloth. I have always loved talking with folks across the veil, finding out about the mansions in the other life, and sending messages to loved ones and guides. From an early age, I began to study Dion Fortune, the Golden Dawn, and other topics.
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Imagining the World into Existence: An Ancient Egyptian Manual of Consciousness
I read this book several times when it first came out. I attended Jean’s mystery school based on this seminal work. It became a part of nearly every bibliography of every book I authored because of her radical way of accessing one’s consciousness.
She emphasized creativity and boundless potentiality. Because of her work, my interest in metaphysical work grew. Her deep dive into ancient histories fueled my work in Egyptian symbols. As a result, I traveled with Jean on my first tour of Egypt.
In this book, the written version of the innovative and ground-breaking workshops and programs of lecturer, scholar, philosopher, and pioneer of human development Dr. Jean Houston, readers learn how to gain access to hidden images, ideas, and sensory-based memories, and are introduced to a comprehensive theory and program for conscious creativity.
Dr. Houston explains the theories that helped form the foundation of the human potential movement while she teaches readers to draw on their inner resources and employ strategies that have been used successfully by writers and artists, teachers and therapists, actors and athletes, scientists and business executives. This original…
It is a pivotal book, and I have used it for nearly everything I’ve written. It is very well thought out, researched, translated, and contains a lot of material that other early researchers of Egyptian spirituality overlooked. When I was downsizing my library, I found I had two copies of this book and I kept them both. One I had heavily underlined, and the other pristine version I kept as clean as possible.
Many of the myths that were told in other tomes were told here in clear, concise language. In every class I teach, I recommend this book to those who ask, “Where can I find more about what the Egyptians actually thought about God… the afterlife…, and the role of man in the sciences?” Here it is.
Osiris, Horus, Isis, Thoth, Anubis - the many strange and compelling figures of the Egyptian gods and goddesses seem to possess endless fascination. The renowned Egyptologist Erik Hornung here studies the ancient Egyptians' conceptions of god, basing his account on a thorough reappraisal of the primary sources. His book, now available in English for the first time, is the most extensive exploration yet undertaken of the nature of Egyptian religion.
Hornung examines the characteristics, spheres of action, and significance of Egyptian gods and goddesses, analyzing the complex and changing iconography used to represent them, and disentangling the many seemingly contradictory…
This book follows the journey of a writer in search of wisdom as he narrates encounters with 12 distinguished American men over 80, including Paul Volcker, the former head of the Federal Reserve, and Denton Cooley, the world’s most famous heart surgeon.
In these and other intimate conversations, the book…
I read this book almost 40 years ago, and it made me want to write about angels as a form of consciousness. When I think of all the creation mythology of world religions, I realize that every religion tells us we began in God's mind as God's consciousness and that God told his angels, “Look, we have made man. We have made him one of us.”
Thompson raises so many questions, and rather than answering them, he continues to raise more questions. This book is a classic among those like me who study symbology, creativity, the power of the mind, and the power of sexuality in the making of the soul.
It is not so much full of answers as it is filled with amazing questions that unfold one after the other. Besides that, he clearly loves Osiris and the goddess and the deities of ancient Egypt.
In this book, William Irwin Thompson explores the nature of myth. Acknowledging the persuasive power of myth to create and inform culture, he weaves the human ability to create life with and communicate through symbols with myths based on male and female forms of power.
I love, love, love this compact, illustrated compendium for its exploration of sacred texts from various world religions. This book became my first go to book for creating texts adaptable for sermons and lectures on spirituality and consciousness.
I relish the many perspectives on the universal themes of the nature of the Supreme Being, what constitutes the good life, why love and service matter, what the role of fate and free will is in our lives, and how consciousness survives death.
I recommend it to every one of my metaphysical students preparing for ordination as a priestess in the Kemetic religion or as a Spiritualist minister.
The wisdom expressed by the world's sacred writings is one of humanity's greatest treasures. Generations of men and women have sought answers to the mysteries of life in these ancient texts. This work is an inspiring collection of readings from sacred literature exploring the perspectives of the world's religions on universal themes. It both celebrates spiritual diversity and demonstrates the common understanding that links all people engaged in the spiritual quest.
Gifts from a Challenging Childhood
by
Jan Bergstrom,
Learn to understand and work with your childhood wounds. Do you feel like old wounds or trauma from your childhood keep showing up today? Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed with what to do about it and where to start? If so, this book will help you travel down a path…
The study of angels became a natural outgrowth for me out of my study of Egypt. In the end, it is important to understand the consciousness of the metaphysical mind of the ancients as well as the moderns. This book offered me both.
I celebrate the way this book bridges the concepts of science and spirit. Quantum physics and quantum mechanics as ways I understand now as the building blocks of matter, mind, and creative imagination. I liked the way it challenged a materialistic and mechanical view of the world. To me, physics is applied magic. It had me thinking deeply about the nature of reality, consciousness, and the intersection of science and spirituality.
Although I adore both authors separately, this book went over the top in becoming a dialog between two seminal thinkers and philosophers.
"Matthew Fox might well be the most creative, the most comprehensive, surely the most challenging religious-spiritual teacher in America."—Thomas Berry
"Rupert Sheldrake continues to chart a new course in our understanding of the non-local mind that connects all of us."—Deepak Chopra
Many people believe in angels, but few can define these enigmatic spirits. Now visionary theologian Matthew Fox and acclaimed biologist Rupert Sheldrake—pioneers in modern religious thinking and scientific theory—launch a groundbreaking exploration into the ancient concept of the angel and restore dignity, meaning, and joy to our time-honored belief in these heavenly beings.
This book is a concept rooted in the power of thought and imagination to shape our reality. It suggests that our perceptions, beliefs, and creative ideas can influence and create the world we live in. The ancient Egyptians used this idea for more than 3,000 years to create radical magic-making and consciousness exploration through their Books of the Afterlife.
Imagining the World emphasizes the importance of using Heka, or words of power that link thought vibration to the outcomes in this life and in the afterlife.
