Jim shares how his patients have better health and wellness since he began providing holistic and integrative health care and included spirituality in his medical practice.

The late Christina Grof describes her own struggle to overcome alcoholism and suggests that the impulse that leads to addictive behavior stems from our yearning for spiritual union. Crises of spiritual opening, she says, may often look like episodes of acute psychosis and are often difficult and even painful. Unlike psychosis, however, such crises can [...]

We all limit ourselves by attachment to old attitudes and outworn ideas. James Fadiman, PhD, author of Be All That You Are and many other books, offers several techniques to help us recognize and discard such attitudes and set goals for the changes we desire. A distinguished humanistic psychologist, Dr. Fadiman is past-president of the Association for Transpersonal [...]

Daniel shares the maps of experience and the stages of insight of Buddhist meditation and practices that enable one to live in the now with more meaning and purpose.

The late Ralph Metzner, PhD, was well known as a consciousness explorer. Here he stresses the importance of metaphor in guiding and understanding human development, focussing on the metaphors of transformation from a caterpillar to a butterfly, of the journey, and of death and rebirth. Dr. Metzner is author of Opening to Inner Light and Maps of Consciousness and [...]

Channeling is one of several approaches to intuition. William Kautz, ScD, is founder of the Center for Applied Intuition and co-author, with Kevin Ryerson, of Channeling: The Intuitive Connection. Although he “plays the game” and treats channeled “entities” as if they were real, he is more concerned with the quality of their information. He says this [...]

Irving Finkel shares the magical literature found in ancient Mesopotamia on tablets of clay with cuneiform writing in 2,500 B.C. that brings to life how the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians operated with primarily benevolent forces to nullify evil, drive out demons and ghosts, and navigate witches and wizards.