The drawings categorized in here put things into perspective for ufology.

It allows one to grasp the complexity of the UFO Phenomenon. Most of the famous cases are here. From Kenneth Arnold, Soccoro, Lubbock, Hudson Valley, and other important sightings from hard-to-find resources (UFO journals like Flying Saucer Review, MUFON, IUR, and old magazines, but which still seem credible).

I also recommend Kevin Randle's "Faces of the visitor" and "Sspaceships of the visitors" -- these make a good cross-references.

For a thoughtful overview of ufos, entertaining for the devoted ufologist and educational for the beginner, this is a great guidebook to the forms and patterns (I loved the section on flaps) evidenced by unidentifed aerial phenomena. The drawings are amazing, the text is down-to-earth, and these two well-known authors are very informative. Every school library should pick this one up, every parent should buy it for their kids, everyone would do well to buy this for some good bedside reading. After delightfully digesting this book, you will know that we don't have all the answers - and that all ufos are NOT "flying saucers"!

This book is a real painstaking effort by the author. It takes you step by step through most of Gann's trades which he recommended in "How To Make Profits In Commodities" and shows you the "shadow" behind the trade which you could not have seen on your own. The author also goes on to illustrate the same techniques on more recent charts of the same commodites and prove that it STILL works. The work is also contains about half the book on eclipse methods. One fascinating thing is about the square of nice being used differently from others seems to be teaching it is also of great help because this method seems to work better than the others. This is certainly a great buy.

In a concise and lucid style Mikula explains the hitherto arcane world of W G Gann, and his price/time methods of 'beating' both stock and futures markets through timed entry and exit points which are predictable well into the future. A two volume work of depth and clarity. My copy is well read and makes an ideal gift to fellow traders, regardless of wether they are beginners or self styled masters. The book gives up more on every reading. Simply a superb revelation of Gann's methodology

Greetings,
If you're looking for a written guide to help unlock the magic of the soul within you then Patrick Harbula's book is a must read. Filled with life-enhancing practical wisdom, the kind that only comes from personal experience, Patrick's insights and spiritual exercises are powerful and to the point. It is not enough to read about the spiritual life, it must be experienced, and the bonus CD is a perfect solution.

The Publisher Weekly's reviewer understood this when s/he wrote: "The central concept that the soul has "magic" is fuzzy; the metaphor of magic overly romanticizes the disciplines of meditation, prayer, visualization, (&) affirmation that need to be learned and then done repeatedly and often, even when they don't instantly produce desired results." Absolutely right on. Think of it as spiritual aerobics.

The difficult task for any writer with such a "fuzzy" topic like "Magic of The Soul" is the clumsiness of human language. The word hand, for instance, is familiar enough but it offers no insight into the experience of owning one. The word hand is no help in understanding the feelings involved in holding your child's hand for the first time, or the touch of a lover's caress; it's just a word--hand. How much fuzzier is the word magic? Through meditation I have experienced my soul. In that timeless moment magic takes on a whole new meaning. In my experience the soul doesn't have magic, it is magic.

Being unique we're going to experience our soul differently. Experience is the key. Practice, practice, and more practice reveals perfection everywhere. How's that for fuzzy!

As I read this book cover to cover I realized that Patrick had clearly described twenty years of my inner journey and the universal wisdom that followed on the heels of all those spiritual blisters. I always find it rewarding when a writer can so clearly capture his subject. Patrick you've done an excellent job with a very fuzzy topic. With so many meditation experiences to choose from I feel like a kid in a candy store. Thanks for such great value. The CD is a brilliant.

Blessings, Scott

Find peace within and everywhere you go, you bring a little peace of heaven to earth.

With a wealth of spiritual books out there, Magic of the Soul does a great job bringing spirituality to practical level. It seems a perfect fit with where we are in the world today: looking for answers and knowing we have to go inside ourselves to get them. The author embraces our humanness (emotions, thought, and so on), and his own humanity and path are explored, making it easy to approach. My favorite feature, though, was the CD of meditations that comes with it. It was a great way to practice what this teacher offered!

Having read just about every book on how to putt including Dave Pelz's opus on the technique and physics of the putting stroke, I can truly say this is a fabulous book that anyone who is struggling to become a skilled or just a better putter will benefit from reading. If you are having trouble getting the ball in the hole, if you are suffering from the yips, if you want to have more fun at this game of golf, then you can do no better than to read this book. It is too bad that it has not received the attention it deserves. Someone should find a way to market this book more effectively as it will help most everyone become a better putter and thereby enjoy the game more.
I really have to thank the authors for giving me hope as I was just about to abandon the game that I have played and have enjoyed for so long. BUY THIS BOOK if you are interested in improving this most important aspect of GOLF...you will not be disappointed!!!

If your problem is the mental aspect of putting this book does an excellent job explaining it out for you and offers some great tips. It does not discuss the mechanics of putting. One would need to know that their mechainics are sound first.

"Speaking Wind," the author's given Native American name, paints a visionary picture of our Earth Mother's future, as well as our own in "The Message." Written in the beautiful, flowing syntax of the Native American thought form, this book gives great insights, not only to how the Native American is taught in all phases of life, but also great insight into everyone's journey through life. One might not readily understand why the author speaks in long, discriptive phrases, such as "I held it before my thinking mind..." rather than, "I thought...," but the reader is given a unique opportunity to experience how beautifully thoughts can be expressed with such grace and poetic flair. The book then becomes a multiplexity of receiving a Grand Message in the most exquesite of ways. "The Message" will find its way to those who are READY to find THEIR WAY. It is a book that will then be kept and shared with others that are opening to receive these teachings. "Speaking Wind" clearly weaves a majestic web in which to capture his reader's "thinking mind" and "feeling heart" and make them want for more.

this book starts out slow and the author repeats himself constantly in the story line, however, I found this book to be "a must" for thoughs of us that are not only interested in the past, but of the future of Native American culture and prophecie. this book will enlighten the reader and is not for everybody. However thoughs that are moved by the spirit will find much reward, and many lessons to be shared with others. Ed Monarque (Thunderhorse)

The "new age" has gotten a bad rap over the years, and for good reason: there's been a lot of flaky nonsense out there, and a lot of self-delusion. But as reporter Patrick Miller points out, "Many ideas and practices once deemed New Age have never been more influential than they are today." Miller is referring to things like meditation, yoga, and vegetarian diets, but this remarkable book of 25 interviews and essays--culled from an illustrious decades-long career in the "journalism of consciousness"-- covers a much wider gamut than just individual lifestyle choices. Subjects explored here include paths to creativity; therapy for victims of torture; shamanism (homegrown and indigenous varieties); how to do what you love for a living (an extraordinarily comprehensive and well-researched analysis!); "spiritual machines"; how cults exploit--and provide a channel for--the devotional impulse (a thoughtful and most unusual piece, incorporating interviews with a former Moonie and other cult alumni); the relationship between therapy and ecology, altered states of consciousness (of course); and much more.

"Most forms of journalism have a short shelf life of relevance," Miller notes in his introduction. "My aim . . . for this book was to include only information and insights with 'staying power' for years to come." Miller's interviewees include Dean Ornish, Malidoma Some, Theodore Roszak, Ralph Metzner, and Jacob Needleman among others. The pieces in this book were were all published previously in periodicals such as Yoga Journal, The Sun, Intuition, Gnosis, Mother Jones, and Natural Health.

Miller divides the bulk of this book into two "somewhat arbitrary" (he admits) sections: "Changing the Self" and "Changing the World." The first section contains interviews and essays that pertain primarily to "self-work" and personal transformation, while the second section is more concerned with social activism and cultural transformation. There is a third and final section, entitled "Changing Journalism," containing two essays by Miller about the business of news, and his own evolution from a muckraking political journalist in the late '70s to a respectful and open-minded investigator of matters spiritual and unorthodox. Cover to cover, this book is a compelling and--dare I say it?--enlightening tour-de-force!

NEWS OF A NEW HUMAN NATURE is an interesting collection of interviews and articles conducted and written by D. Patrick Miller. Mr. Miller interviews many people in the forefront of the contemporary spiritual movement that was at one time largely known as the "New Age," the roster includes: Charles Tart, Riane Eisler, Malidoma Some, Sobonfu Some, Helen Palmer, Theodore Roszak, Dan Wakefield, Jacob Needleman, to name a few. Miller examines why most interviewed in NEW OF A NEW HUMAN NATURE will not use the term New Age anymore: because it has been cheapened due to poor media representation. New Agers are often thought of as flaky and trend-obsessed rather than serious spiritual seekers. Miller argues that New Agers should be applauded for at least making spiritual awareness a part of contemporary society. Still, that label is going the way of the Dodo. And those interviewed are anything but flaky; they are individuals committed to aiding in creating a spiritual awakening in this society.

The interview with Malidoma Some, which occurs in chapter 16, is my favorite part of NEWS OF A NEW HUMAN NATURE. Malidoma, a spiritual leader from Burkina Faso (West Africa) and author of the book OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT, makes the wise comment that when we speak of saving the environment it is rather backwards that we see it as being something "outside" of our own survival. As Malidoma points out, human existence is only a small blip on the scale of global existence; by destroying the environment we are destroying ourselves. The planet will gladly rebuild once we are gone . . . it's done it before. Malidoma says that when we talk about saving the planet, we need to keep in mind that we are talking about saving our own "[behinds]." Our survival depends on the planet, not the other way around.

[....]readers should known or probably infer from the esteemed SUNY press W.E.T. series that Deveney cites ALL sources, resultant of some 150 pages of extensive notes which are a worthy and entertaining/informative read in themselves! Also, P.B.R.'s Occult philosophy and practical systems/methodologies are explored in a highly scholarly yet equally accessible manner, and as an appendix are given in their entirety two of PBR's most essential Sexual Magic works, for which I have appropriated the title of this review. Though a scholarly work, as well as an historical one, it is throughout biographically focused on an 19th century Exemplary Mage's Life and Work!

Paschal Beverly Randolph (1825-1875)was one of the first well-known Afro-American Novelists (if not THE FIRST), of whom Frederick Douglas was an admirer, and one of the most famous as well as sincere mediums of the Spiritualist movement, famous for his speeches of whom President Johnson was a fan, and a KEY figure in bridging the gap between that nec-romantic movement flowering dangerously into the European/American Occult Revival of the mid-late 19th century. He grew up an orphan in a murderous section of NYC; had almost no schooling, (yet became a recognized genius by sheer will/determination and self-discipline) who lived in the "(spiritually) Burnt-out" district of upstate NY where he added the abbr. "DR." to his title and sold his Glyphae Battah (Magic Mirrors)and Hashish, love & healing philtres:'snake-oil' basically, and married a part Native-American Indian Woman and tried to raise a family in dire poverty. And this is just the beginning to his life! He was very influential in getting Black soldiers into the US military in the last years of the Civil War(& getting them paid like any good-willing American!)...also, Blavatsky gleaned much from him, I think her writings concerning Randolph evidences, if only his living example of an highly artistic and Original one-man Occult campaign via Randolph's numerous Rosicrucian brotherhoods which The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor would later appropriate nearly ALL of Randolphs ideas to immense practical benefit (see Godwins and Deveneys co-efforts in releasing many key documents in relation to this group), while the Theosophists waged war against that very practicality deeming it black magic basically...later the Surrealists' devoured Randolph's magical works which were circulated widely through the Russian-born Parisian Surrealist Maria de Naglowska efforts...How does a man like this, who entertained at the court of Napoleon and who counted President Lincoln as an acquaintance as well as knew most every influential Occultist/Abolitionist/reformer/Free Love Politician / Spiritualist of his day (Bulwer-Lytton, Hargrave Jennings, Laurence Oliphaunt, Andrew Jackson Davis,et al. ad infinitum)how does such a figure disappear from history? as if suspiciously erased? The question is as tragic as Randolph's life, for it is a pained life full of much suffering, bore throughout with nobility if despairingness at his predicament. He is a beautiful writer--one must allow him that at least---whose sexual magic works serve as a poignant appendix to Deveney's excellent and thorough 600-plus page biography of a life that serves as an intimate magnifying-glass to probe into the goings-ons of an era filled to overflowing with myriad colorful characters and the energy and excitement of endless rounds of ingenious scientific discoveries and religious aspirations/explorations which as the Poet Osip Mandelstam said "if ever there was a golden age surely it was the 19th century!" Wherever you may be John Patrick Deveney, I thank you a thousand times over while reading this and thank you still for giving us this touching biography which served as a means to truly know what it must have been like to have lived in Randolph's day, during an age of 'Romanticism' and later,'Symbolism' in Art, while an Occult revival raged, made up of a noble search for self-knowledge and universal Uptopianist solutions to universal ills, and art finally becoming a RELIGION itself!...Western Esoteric studies should take as an example Deveney's biographical tome, and know the history of the world is in the lives of men and women more than anyplace else, as Jules Michelet pointed out a hundred years ago...I would suggest to anyone interested in gaining a first hand insight into an era & a subject finally lent proper credence to be studied seriously as it should be respected even if despised by "religious realists"...to read this book full of a life lived with such style & grace. Randolph's motto was: "T-R-Y !"...which is what I would say to others here interested in reading a rare work of an even rarer life that hopefully will become part of the American Artistic and Cultural iconography and more widely known literary canon because of Deveney's immense efforts and achievements herein! Bravo Deveney!
---readers should known or probably infer from the esteemed SUNY press W.E.T. series that Deveney cites ALL sources, resultant of some 150 pages of extensive notes which are a worthy and entertaining/informative read in themselves! Also, P.B.R.'s Occult philosophy and practical systems;/methodologies are explored in a highly scholarly yet equally accessible manner; though a scholarly work, as well as an historical one, it is throughout focused on an 19th century Exemplary Mage's Life and Work!

This was a book that you could not put down! I wish I could have the opportunity to meet the "godfather"! The incredible level of detail was astounding. You could truly envision a way of life that was simple, fair, uncomplicated, and fulfilling! A place where this lifestyle existed would be more human than we could possibly imagine. It would benefit a lot of us here on earth to look into a calmer, more humane way of existing. This book made me think and rethink of ways to make the life we have been handed more pleasant. Thank you for enriching my world!

Simone sure knows what she is talking about!!! I have read both of her astrology books, and it is really amazing how helpful they are when it comes to dealing with my dog and cat. At first i was skeptical, but now I'm a believer. My dog is truly a virgo, and my cat is nothing short of a cancer!!!! Simone, is a wonderful writer who just exudes knowledge and confidence. I look forward to reading more by this talented woman in the future.

Historic hauntings and ghost stories from the frontier, from Hispanic and Native American traditions, provide a taste of something different in this ghost account. Fans of ghost stories and ethnic storytelling will relish this set of stories composed by a master storyteller.