Inprint - New Books of interest by Jeanne Spiro

The Book of Ceremonies by Gabriel Horn. (New World Library, $14.95, Paperback.)

The many demands and frustrations of the civilized world seem to conspire against our very nature. Sometimes we need to reconnect to what is really important in life. From a deep place within, where the conscious merges with the subconscious, our souls create a place for ceremony. Ceremonies bring us into contact with the Divine and allow us to participate in and with the universe. They remind us that we can find kinship with the earth and all its beings.

Gabriel Horn weaves a tapestry of stories, poems, prayers, and love songs describing sacred Native American ways of life. He explains what the varied Native traditions and practices can offer all spiritual seekers. The book conveys through narrative and instruction how to prepare for and conduct a variety of ceremonies, including ones for greeting the day, marriage, birth, death, dreams, healing and many others. Horn covers traditions from an array of indigenous cultures.

Coaching the Artist Within: Advice for Writers, Actors,
Visual Artists & Musicians by Eric Maisel. (New World Library, $14.95, Paperback.)

Have you ever wished you had a professional coach who would encourage your creative pursuits, help structure your efforts, and cheer you on? Coaching the Artist Within explains techniques that creativity coaches use to help their clients survive and thrive in the arts.

Designed to help anyone become more creative, the book offers a complete program for developing the habits that make creating an everyday routine. The book’s twelve lessons and numerous exercises are at once inspiring, practical, and fun. It also contains anecdotes about the author’s clients including painters, actors, screenwriters, novelists, dancers, and poets. Coaching the Artist Within will teach you to be your own coach, and help transform your relationship with the creative process.

Voices of the Living Grail by W.B. DeLong. (AuthorHouse, $18.95, Paperback.)

In Voices of the Living Grail, W.B. DeLong weaves a tale of spiritual adventure as he examines what happens when a religious group will use any means possible to destroy its opponents and build a base of power.

Set during the 13th century in a legendary European county ruled by a king who is rumored to be a direct descendant of Jesus, the novel opens with the discovery of a rotting book within the crumbling remains of an ancient abbey. It is the story of Parsus, son of a healer and priestess. Parsus is instructed in the sacred arts and sent forth to gather the children orphaned by the Inquisition. He creates a band of young troubadours to bring a message of universal spirituality to the people. His enemy, the Cardinal sent by Rome to oversee the workings of the Inquisition, believes his mission is to save the souls of these heretics from Satan’s clutches and strives to force them to recant their beliefs. Opposing the Cardinal is a mysterious, ageless teacher who has traveled the world gathering wisdom.

Your Heart Knows the Answer: How to Trust Yourself and Make the Choices That Are Right for You by Gail Harris. (Inner Ocean Publishing, $13.95, Paperback.)

How many times has your heart known something, but you didn’t listen and then suffered the consequences? In a life full of choices about work, love, and home, too often we find ourselves making decisions—or non-decisions—without a lifeline to our inner voice.

Your Heart Knows the Answer is a guide for learning how to get in touch with your true self. By learning to trust yourself, the true radiant you is able to emerge, allowing you to be confident, clear, and at peace with the choices you make in life. It will help you distinguish between voices in your heart and in your head. You will learn to dialogue with your heart on important life issues. It offers supportive ceremonies, affirmations, and prayers to practice self-nurturing. You will discover with great clarity the choices that are right for you.

Embracing Your Power Woman: Coming of Age in the Second Half
of Life by Barbara Wilder. (Wild Ox Press, $19.95, Paperback.)

This course in power is filled with essays, anecdotes, mythology, and spirituality. It is designed to take a woman on a journey to the depths of her psyche to reveal the seed of her original feminine power, to discover her purpose, and return to the world with a new sense of personal direction and freedom.

Designed for baby boomer women to look ahead to the next phase of their lives, Embracing Your Power Woman presents eleven points of power, exploring the mythic roots of women’s wisdom and power and offers concrete ways to question and challenge traditional expectations and outdated roles. It prepares women to take their place as leaders in their communities and on the world stage and helps them realize that there is no “right way” to become successful and secure in the second half of life.

Suing for Peace: A Guide for Resolving Life’s Conflicts
(without Lawyers, Guns or Money) by James P. Kimmel, Jr., J.D. (Hampton Roads, $14.95, Paperback.)

Seeking justice has become a national obsession in the United States. We employ 700,000 lawyers but only 36,000 clergy. We file 36 million lawsuits each year. We confine over two million people in prison. Our justice system costs us over $650 billion annually. We have waged two wars since September 11th in the pursuit of justice.

Society insists that this is the best way, indeed the only way, to resolve conflicts. But as a rising star in the legal profession, James Kimmel made a surprising discovery that shatters our most basic assumptions about the merits of pursuing justice: The more justice we seek, the worse our conflicts become and the less peace and happiness we find. Kimmel came to believe that when you are injured, seeking justice is exactly the wrong thing to do.

Suing for Peace is a guide for resolving life’s conflicts and a powerful argument for reforming the entire justice system. It leads us through the justice teachings of the world’s religions to show us why seeking justice is the cause of human suffering, not the cure. The secret is to stop seeking justice and start suing for peace. This book shows you how to break the justice addiction that fuels anger and suffering and guides you through nine practical steps you can take to resolve conflicts and restore peace and happiness.

Mind-Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Abilities by Russell Targ & Harold E. Puthoff. (Hampton Roads, $16.95, Paperback.)

Remote viewing is a human perceptual ability to access, by mental means alone, information blocked from normal perception by distance, shielding, or time. For more than two decades it was the subject of an intense government effort fueled by Cold War concerns as to whether there was a credible threat to the United States from a known, similar large-scale effort being pursued in the Soviet Union. It led to the training and use of psychic spies by all branches of our country’s defense departments.

Mind-Reach reveals how such a large-scale, multiyear, multimillion-dollar program could get started and survive in the skeptical, if not outright hostile, mix of modern corporate, government, and public sectors of society. It describes what remote viewing is and its characteristic strengths and weaknesses. It tells of the first remote viewers who participated in this program and of its importance in our understanding of human capabilities.