THE I CHING BOOK OF CHANGES --Wilhelm/Baynes
More than just a translation, Richard Wilhelm's I Ching is a profound introduction to the Chinese world-view. The I Ching (Yi Jing) is recognized by both Confucians and Taoists as a foundational work, and Wilhelm shows why. He separates his work into three books. The first book is about the hexagrams--the meanings of the lines and Wilhelm's extensive comments. The second presents two early commentaries that interpret the wisdom of the divinatory text, also with Wilhelm's helpful notes. And the third book takes us back to the hexagrams for more detailed commentary from both ancient Chinese thinkers and Wilhelm. Wilhelm is able to offer such enormous assistance because he spent the better part of a decade in China studying under classically trained scholars. His love for the work is thus as broad as his understanding.
The I Ching was originally used for divination, kind of like palm reading or interpreting the stars. It differs from simple prognostication, however, in that it demands us, as diviners, to cultivate an understanding of the world and ourselves. Without this understanding, the text is useless, hence the value of the commentaries, particularly Wilhelm's. This version is not without its biases, of course-- it is a European's understanding of the I Ching, through a late-Qing dynasty Confucian perspective, translated into English by a Jungian psychoanalyst. Nonetheless, it succeeds like no other.
The I Ching, or Book of Changes, a common source for both Confucianist and Taoist philosophy, is one of the first efforts of the human mind to place itself within the universe. It has exerted a living influence in China for 3,000 years, and interest in it has been rapidly spreading in the West.
806 pages $29.95
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ILLUSIONS - THE ADVENTURES OF A RELUCTANT MESSIAH - Richard Bach
More insight from the author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull. A great way of looking at life….and so easy to read.
192 pages $6.99
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THE IMPERSONAL LIFE - Anonymous
For those who have reached that point of awareness where religion and science can no longer supply the answers. Self-realization and God-realization is possible when you read this little book at the right moments. Just open it and read anywhere and be open to yourself.
167 pages $10.95
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IN TUNE WITH THE INFINITE - Ralph Waldo Trine
Over 2 million copies of this famous book have been sold. He writes: "There is a golden thread that runs through every religion in the world. There is a golden thread that runs through the lives and the teachings of the prophets, seers, sages and saviors in the world's history, through the lives of all men and women of truly great and lasting power." In this book, he sets out to find and follow that thread. An excellent book for the orthodox thinker on the Path, but who needs to go slowly and gently into awareness.
208 pages $12.00
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THE IRON CURTAIN OVER AMERICA --John Beaty
The Iron Curtain over America by John Beaty. Originally published in 1951, scholar and WWII intelligence officer Beaty's classic diagnoses America's condition in mid-century and finds our land threatened by the cancerous growth of Communist and Zionist subversion and control. The extraordinarily well-informed and courageous Beaty was one of the first Americans to breach the Iron Curtain of silence guarding the Holocaust hoax and the Middle East mess, and to call (in vain) for Americans to clean out the Augean stables of New York, Washington, and Hollywood. A revisionist classic.
267 pages $10.00
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ISIS UNVEILED --Blavatsky (2 volumes)
Isis is a wonderful book that makes anyone, entering the 21st century, think of our real human being condition and the destiny of the human race. Written so many decades ago, it retains the Blavatsky's wisdom and, if not so unveiled as the title states, opens a new vision to our past and, surely, our bright future.
1471 pages $29.95
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