The Temples of Light is a spiritual journey through thirteen of Egypt’s sacred temples. Each sacred site is a portal to ancient wisdom that can assist the modern-day pilgrim with everyday issues and struggles—love, life-purpose, money, and ...
Linda Star Wolf shows how to spiritually journey in the same way shamans do—entraining themselves to the rhythms of drums or rattles using the breath. Much like traveling to sacred places or ingesting entheogens, this practice can be used to e...
The true teachings of Jesus, as preserved by his family and disciples, are generally thought to have died out when the Church of Paul branded these groups as heretics. But despite ongoing persecution, this hidden Jewish strain of Christianity wa...
Using recent findings within cosmology, coupled with his broad understanding of the Mayan Calendar, biologist Carl Johan Calleman offers a revolutionary and fully developed alternative to Darwin’s theory of biological evolution—and t...
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| Lost Technologies Renews Sense of Mystery |
 By Chanc VanWinkle, Project Editor
For me, it’s easy to get caught up in the daily machinations of life and forget that there’s more to our reality than the workweek, to-do lists, and errands. I’m not talking about the spiritual aspect of life, but mystery that exists right here in the physical plane, as part of our human history. Recently, Chris Dunn reminded me of this aspect when I read his book Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt. Dunn, a manufacturing engineer with fifty years experience, discusses the remarkable and nearly otherworldly precision achieved by the Egyptians in cutting the granite blocks used in the pyramid casing stones at Giza. He also visits the Serapeum, a subterranean maze of tunnels and vaults that was the part of the temple of the Apis Bull. Within the alcoves and crypts lining the tunnels are huge granite boxes that served as sarcophagi for the bulls that were sacrificed and dedicated to the god Apis. |
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| Coming Attractions: New Book by Stephen Buhner |
By Jon Graham, Acquisitions EditorIn between delivering a keynote address at the International Herbal Symposium in Massachusetts and giving a workshop at Rosemary Gladstar’s Sage Mountain, herbalist and author Stephen Buhner paid a visit to Inner Traditions, Bear and Company with his partner Julie Macintyre earlier this summer. Being a former neighbor (he lived in nearby Braintree before relocating to wilder terrain in New Mexico) at one time we were able to see other on occasion, so it was a great pleasure to have an opportunity to spend time with him again. Stephen has published three of his books with us and the final manuscript for a fourth book is imminent. I am eagerly anticipating reading the finished manuscript as what I’ve seen thus far includes some of Stephen’s most passionate and brilliant (as in incandescent) writing to date. Appropriately, as the subject of this book is writing, more specifically, how to write non-fiction books in a way that is as creative and powerfully inspiring as the greatest works of literature. As Stephen says: “this book has been primarily written for people who are called to the craft, for those who have felt the luminous power of language, who have fallen in love with it, and who are compelled by some deep part of themselves to take on this lineage as their own.” |
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| Birth without Violence and The Art of Giving Birth by Frédérick Leboyer |
Staff Pick by Mindy Branstetter
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| The New Rules of Posture by Mary Bond |
Staff Pick by Erica Robinson, Special Projects
 I always thought I had great posture and never understood why my back would ache after washing dishes or doing other simple tasks. After working on this book, I learned the very subtle ways our movements and standing habits affect us and was able to alleviate most of my back issues by myself. Filled with helpful tips and simple exercises for chronic and occasional back-pain sufferers alike, I highly recommend this book! |
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| The Secrets of Masonic Washington by James Wasserman |
Staff Pick by Jeanie Levitan, Managing Editor
 This book is a winner. With incredibly diverse and vivid photographs, Jim Wasserman helps us to see our nation’s capitol in a new light. His artist’s eye captures views that both zero in on the familiar in an unfamiliar way (see the bas-relief pictured on pages 112 [top] and 113) as well as single out the richness of the details nested in rooms so abundant in symbolism that the eye cannot possibly absorb it all in its totality (see the Library of Congress Reading Room pictured on pages 9 and 22-23, and the Great Hall on pages 95-99). |
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