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Publishing books on spirituality, the occult, ancient mysteries, new science, psychedelics, holistic health, and natural medicine since 1975.

12/11/2025

The Body-Mind Paradox: An Inverted Foundation?

For millennia, spiritual traditions have taught:
Gnostic: body as prison
Ascetic: flesh must be transcended
Dualistic: spirit vs. matter, mind vs. body

The assumption? Embodiment is the obstacle. Escape is the goal.

But what if this dualism hasn't liberated us—it's fragmented us?
Praxis Sophiana: A Radical Reorientation
In Divine Feminine Gnosis, Lee Irwin presents an alternative epistemology dismantling body-negating metaphysics.

Core framework:
Mind emerges from embodied life—an integrated expression, not imprisoned essence
Body-mind unity structures consciousness itself—the body doesn't house awareness, it creates it
Integration is the vehicle for illumination—awakening occurs through embodiment, not despite it
Eros + Logos = Soul wholeness
🔥 Eros: embodied vitality, life-force
⚡ Logos: cognitive clarity, discernment
✨ Soul: their union
This is hieros gamos, the sacred marriage—not metaphor, but lived phenomenology.

The Inversion
The Sophianic path doesn't ask: "How do I escape my body to reach the divine?"
It asks: "How do I fully inhabit my body as divine ground?"
The Divine Feminine celebrates integration over transcendence. The body isn't the problem—it's the temple requiring consecration.

Implications
This departs from patriarchal paradigms elevating:
Disembodied rationality over felt experience
Ascetic withdrawal over engaged participation
Transcendence as escape over integration as realization
Feminine Wisdom invites full participation with the divine through honoring incarnate life.

The sacred marriage is the synthesis of everything you already are: mind and body, eros and logos, heaven meeting earth in your soul.

The Opening Question
What if spiritual illumination doesn't require leaving the world behind, but fully arriving within it?
What if the body you've been taught to transcend is actually the altar of your awakening?

📖 "Divine Feminine Gnosis: Mysteries of Sophia and the Feminine Spirit" by Lee Irwin

This is the wisdom that integrates. This is Praxis Sophiana.

https://ow.ly/XZBA50Xt4on

12/11/2025

Throw it back with one of the landmark works that helped define Inner Traditions: "The Complete Illustrated K**a Sutra," a richly annotated edition featuring 269 rare images that bring all 64 classic postures to life through exquisite Indian art.

Edited by renowned scholar Lance Dane, this hardcover celebrates the K**a Sutra as a sophisticated guide to the art of living and loving, honoring a tradition that has explored ecstatic union and sensual beauty for nearly 2,000 years.

Tap into a half-century of sacred knowledge and add this enduring classic to your library while it’s 30% off today.

https://www.innertraditions.com/books/the-complete-illustrated-kama-sutra

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12/10/2025

Ready to walk between worlds? The "Celtic Elemental Tarot" weaves dragons, ancient symbols, and the four elements into a vibrant 78-card deck and guidebook by Ayn Cates Sullivan, with art by Belle Crow duCray.

Arriving January 2026 from Inner Traditions. Will you heed the call of Celtic magic?

https://ow.ly/hS6w50XgtW2

12/09/2025

Support author Fer Broca and help his book, "8 Universal Laws," win the Conscious Life Expo Book Awards! Cast your vote now and celebrate spiritual wisdom and conscious living.

👉 Vote here: https://consciouslifeexpo.com/book-awards/

Thank you for being part of this journey!

Fer Broca

12/09/2025

When the "Fama Fraternitatis" circulated through Europe in the early 1600s, it announced something unprecedented: a brotherhood that required no physical meeting place, no centralized authority, no gatekeepers. Knowledge would flow freely to the worthy, transmitted through correspondence, published texts, and shared symbols—an invisible architecture of wisdom accessible to seekers across nations. ✨

This was radical. In an age of censorship, Inquisition, and rigid ecclesiastical control, the Rosicrucians proposed what every underground movement since has rediscovered: a distributed system where information moved horizontally rather than hierarchically, where initiation came through sincere inquiry rather than institutional approval.

Figures like Michael Maier and Robert Fludd participated in this clandestine commons, publishing extensively, corresponding across borders, encoding knowledge in emblems and allegories that could bypass censors while reaching prepared minds. The concept of the "Invisible College" later inspired the Royal Society and influenced Enlightenment ideals of open scientific exchange—proving that ideas born in secrecy could reshape civilization itself.

The Rosicrucians understood what every counterculture eventually learns: true knowledge cannot be monopolized. It flows through networks of dedicated individuals who recognize each other not by credentials but by the quality of their questions and the depth of their commitment to truth. When institutions fail, when orthodoxy calcifies, when power corrupts—the invisible college reconvenes. 🌹

Explore the esoteric origins of decentralized knowledge transmission. Read "The Rosicrucian Counterculture" by Ronnie Pontiac—where Renaissance mysticism prefigures every underground movement since.

https://ow.ly/jbcW50Xr54b

12/08/2025

In 1988, channeler Barbara Marciniak transmitted a message from beings calling themselves "The Pleiadians," and their warning was chilling.

According to the transmission, Earth isn't just physically isolated; it's energetically quarantined. Around 300,000 years ago, they claimed, a faction of "creator gods" raided the planet and restructured human DNA from 12 active strands down to 2. But the genetic sabotage was only phase one.

They allegedly erected a frequency fence: an invisible vibrational barrier designed to keep human consciousness trapped in narrow bands of fear, survival, and chaos. This fence doesn't just limit perception; it may also control what humanity can become.

The theory suggests that your emotions, especially fear, are phenomenologically more than mere stress responses. They are described as an energy harvest. Television, media, and electronics are framed as technologies that might be calibrated to keep you broadcasting at a controlled frequency.

The Pleiadians identified themselves as "The Family of Light," claiming that they are time travelers from our future who have come to help dismantle the fence and reactivate dormant human potential.

As they put it: “The ultimate tyranny in a society is not control by martial law. It is control by the psychological manipulation of consciousness, through which reality is defined so that those who exist within it do not even realize that they are in prison.”

📖 Read "Bringers of the Dawn" by Barbara Marciniak, described as the authoritative classic on the Pleiadians. Startling, intense, intelligent, and controversial, these teachings offer essential reading for anyone questioning his or her existence on this planet and the direction of our collective consciousness.

https://ow.ly/JFNn50Xt4bs

12/05/2025

The quality of your questions determines the quality of your life. Problem-focused thinking imprisons you in loops of worry and helplessness. But there exists a threshold, a pivot point where you shift from victim to co-creator.

Ask not 'Why is this happening to me?' but 'How can I move toward what I desire?'

This subtle linguistic alchemy raises your vibration, aligns you with angelic guidance, and opens doors previously invisible.

Choose one area where you feel confined.
Reframe your question.
Feel the shift.

This transformative practice is foundational to "Ask Your Angel Guides" by Susan Browne, a sacred manual for those ready to reclaim their power and manifest a life that shimmers with purpose, abundance, and joy. Within these pages, discover how to ask powerful questions, work with archangels and dragons, and become a beacon of light in your own becoming.

Available now at Innertraditions.com and everywhere books are sold.

https://www.innertraditions.com/ask-your-angel-guides

12/04/2025

Ballyduff based author and workshop facilitator Susan Browne celebrates the publication of her new book Ask Your Angel Guides, Thursday 4th December. The mind, body, spirit title is now available in bookshops across the county. The launch marks a milestone for the Kerry based writer published by an....

12/03/2025

In Māori culture, manaaki is more than kindness. It is a way of being that honors all life, weaves communities together, and restores what has been broken. It is the spirit that guided Maata Wharehoka's extraordinary life.

At Parihaka, beneath Mount Taranaki, Maata was a healer, artist, and cultural leader who embodied manaaki in everything she touched. She revived sacred Māori practices that colonization nearly erased, and in doing so, offered a blueprint for living with deeper connection, meaning, and care.

Three practices rooted in manaaki that Maata restored:

🕊️ Kahu Whakatere—Death as Sacred Passage Maata transformed dying into a communal ceremony where families weave garments, sing, and surround loved ones with presence. Manaaki teaches us: we can reclaim death as dignified, connected, and beautiful.

🌱 Iritanga—Welcoming Life with Ceremony She revitalized dawn rituals that anchor newborns to land, ancestors, and spirit. The placenta is buried in the earth, rooting the child in belonging. Manaaki teaches us: birth is a sacred doorway, not just a medical event.

🗣️ Te Reo Māori—Language as Living Connection Maata raised her children speaking their ancestral tongue, reclaiming what colonizers tried to silence. Manaaki teaches us: our languages carry the wisdom we need to restore our relationship with ourselves and the earth.

The spirit of manaaki isn't just for Māori—it's for all of us. In a world fractured by disconnection, Maata's life offers a path forward: one where we protect what's sacred, care for each other deeply, and regenerate the practices that root us in belonging.

📖 "The Spirit of Manaaki" by Stephanie Mines invites you into this way of being—a gift for anyone seeking healing, connection, and hope in uncertain times.

What would it look like to live with manaaki in your own life?

https://www.innertraditions.com/the-spirit-of-manaaki

12/02/2025

You think between twelve and fifty thousand thoughts each day. Most repeat without awareness, and many work against you. Every time you say I can’t, it’s impossible, or I always fail, your nervous system records the message as truth.

"Transcend the Chaos" reveals the mechanism beneath this pattern: inner dialogue functions as autosuggestion, a form of self-hypnosis that either strengthens or confines you. Words are never neutral. They are living symbols, vibrations that shape emotion, perception, and direction.

Émile Coué, the early twentieth-century pioneer of autosuggestion, observed that belief repeated often enough overrides logic. The unconscious accepts what the conscious mind rehearses. Advertising, peer influence, and collective opinion gain power only when they are emotionally internalized. The same process governs your self-talk. Declare something impossible, and the mind stops seeking a path forward. Identify as a failure, and behavior unconsciously adjusts to fulfill that prophecy.

Heres a practice to rewrite the code:

Notice your language. When you hear yourself say I can’t do this, pause. Replace it immediately with I can learn this. When you describe something as impossible, shift the frame: This is challenging, and I am finding the way through. The change may seem slight, yet the effect is profound. The brain begins to scan for possibility instead of finality.

Avoid sweeping conclusions. One setback does not define a pattern. Catch the distortions: discounting successes, magnifying obstacles, shrinking your strengths. These habits quietly sculpt a self-image that resists growth.

Speak in the first person. Claim your direction. I will carries energy and conviction. Phrases like we should or you have todiffuse ownership and weaken resolve.

Practice conscious autosuggestion each morning. In the delicate state between sleeping and waking, repeat phrases that uplift and expand: Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better. Coué’s timeless formula endures because it bypasses doubt and plants its roots deep in the subconscious.

Your words are acts of creation. They can summon futures or unravel them. Speak as one aware of their power. In an age defined by artificial intelligence, the mastery of language, especially the language you speak within, is mastery of destiny.

For more practices to harness the power of altered states, master your inner dialogue, and cultivate presence in an unpredictable world, get your copy of "Transcend the Chaos" today

https://ow.ly/8CtI50XpkYq

Angel Millar

12/02/2025

✨ Are you feeling called to bring transformation and higher light into people’s homes? ✨

If your heart is drawn to working with Archangels, Unicorns and Dragons, this may be your next step.

I am offering a high-frequency Angel Feng Shui™ Teacher Training, based on my new book Feng Shui with Archangels, Unicorns and Dragons.
Upon completion, you’ll receive your Angel Feng Shui™ Teacher Certificate, allowing you to lead your own workshops and home consultations.

At the core of this training is the 5D Bagua of Higher Aspirations — a multidimensional update of the traditional bagua. Each of its nine areas opens a deeper pathway of understanding, supporting you and your future students on your fifth-dimensional journey into the Golden Age.

🌟 During this uplifting and practical training, you will:
• Receive structured lesson plans for leading Angel Feng Shui™ workshops
• Learn how to safely open and close your sessions
• Explore the 5D Bagua in depth
• Get step-by-step guidance to draw and interpret the new map
• Connect with your Home Transformation Team
• Meet the Archangels supporting each area of the bagua
• Work with frequency-raising clearing tools
• Understand the Five Elements and their harmony
• Learn how to offer professional home consultations
• Build the confidence to share this light-filled modality
• Receive your official teacher certificate

✨ Requisites:
• A heartfelt desire to raise frequency and work with angels, unicorns and dragons
• A copy of Feng Shui with Archangels, Unicorns and Dragons (I can provide one if needed)
• Completion of a reflective Q&A assignment
• Watching one or more recorded Feng Shui workshops (links provided)

If you feel the call to help others transform their homes into sanctuaries of light, this training is for you. 🕊️💫
Here you will find more details: https://franziskasiragusa.com/event/angel-feng-shui-teacher-training-in-singapore-with-franziska-siragusa/

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