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Rituals for Life, Love & Loss
Dorothy McRae-McMahon
$24.95, weight 140 grams, PB
Rituals for Life, Love and Loss provides spiritual rituals and meditations for the modern world, for times of celebration and grief. Dorothy McRae-McMahon, who is internationally renowned for her work with ritual, has created meaningful ceremonies for all people, regardless of their faith.
From naming a child and blessing a home to the sadness of ending a marriage and a simple funeral, Rituals for Life, Love and Loss give us the words and symbols we need to make the everyday sacred.

1001 Symbols
Jack Tressider
$24.95, weight 440 grams, PB

The illustrated key to the world of symbols, fully indexed and cross-referenced. Organised thematically to show how different cultures have used different symbols to convey the same message. Draws on research by specialists in different fields to provide a rich resource for students of art, architecture, folk customs, rituals, religions, magic and mysticism

How to write for the New Age Market
Richard Webster
$32.95, weight 250 grams, PB

Publish your New Age Book. Just how do you break into this growing market, and how can you make a comfortable living as a New Age Writer? This best-selling author of more than 25 books generously shares his tricks of the trade, with information that is relevant for any genre, but also focussed on the New Age market.

Gypsy Fortunes
Lady Lorelei
$32.00, weight 400 grams, HC

Includes deck of 36 Cartomancy Cards, as well as the accompanying text. Use the Magic of Romany Cards to foretell the future. Discover secrets passed down from generation to generation by the Romany, the original soothsayers. Learn how to do simple or expanded readings.

Timeless Traditions
Lisl M Spangenberg

$46.00, weight 750 grams, PB,
This volume is an indispensible, comprehensive guide
to the wedding traditions of the major faiths and more than
one hundred countries and peoples, spanning the cultures and
regions of past and present.   Timeless Traditions on each step along the path to marriage, from pre-wedding to cermonial rituals and from celebratory to post-wedding traditions.

Your Mythic Journey,
Sam Keen & Anne Valley-Fox
$24.50, weight 200 grams, PB
We all tell stories about who we are, where we come from, and where we are going. These personal myths in turn shape who we become and what we believe - as individuals, families,and nations. This book offers readers the tools to detect the story line in their own lives and to write and tell it to others, opening up a hidden world of self-discovery and meaning.
   
This text will be of specific interest to those who attended 'The Journey' workshop with David Oldfield.

it takes two
Dr Judy Ford
$20.00, weight 320 grams, PB
Dr Ford gives us an amazing insight into the problems underlying reproductive difficulty. It is a guide for all those who wish, not only to avoid problems, but to optimize the health of their baby. Above all, it explains the way to reproduce naturally. Regular workshops are conducted by Dr Ford, and individual counselling is also available.

 




Magickal Weddings


Sacred Threshold





Timeless Traditions


Mythic Journey





Australian Bush Ballads
Axiom Publishing
$15.00, weight 230 grams, PB
All the old favourites and a few more, from the likes of Henry Lawson, C.J. Dennis, Mary Hannay Foot, Banjo Paterson and others. A useful reference text when you simply want to refresh your memory of the old ballads, or if you are searching for that something special with which to acknowledge another Australian character.

Magickal Weddings
Joy Ferguson
$25.00, weight 240 grams, PB

A handbook to help you bring romantic handfasting traditions from antiquity into modern-day ceremonies. Is is also a practical wedding planning guide, to help any couple plan their handfasting. It discusses the history of handfasting, appropriate timing, appropriate rituals and tools, establishing your 'sacred space' and ways of including others in the ceremony. A useful guide for a couple planning their ceremony, and reference text for the celebrant.

Sacred Threshold
Gertrude Nelson & Christopher Witt
$20.00, weight 350 grams, PB

Perfect for couples of all religious backgrounds, Sacred Threshold gives general principles for creating a wedding with religious spirit, and offers guidance on choosing the right place, participants, symbols, prayers, format, readings, and music. A detailed guide for the spiritual wedding.

The Seven Sacred Rites of Menopause
Kristi Meisenbach Boylan
$22.95, weight TBA, PB
, Available Nov 2003.
Menopause is much more than just a list of physical ailments, menopause is a spiritual journey. Kristi Meinsebach Boylan outlines the seven rituals that menopausal women move through on their voyage to the wise-woman years. Learn why these seven ceremonial milestones should be viewed as celebrations, not as symptoms of illness or disease.

The Seven Sacred Rites of Menarche
Kristi Meisenbach Boylan
$22.95, weight TBA, PB
, Available Nov 2003.
A beautifully written, insightful book about effect on a young girl's spiritual journey from maindenhood to motherhood. Author Kristi Meiisenbach Boylan outlines the seven rituals, or stepping stones, that a young girl faces during her voyage through adolescence.

The Prophet Collection
Kahlil Gibran

$15.00, weight 270 grams, HC
A valuable celebrant's resource, containing readings for use in weddings, namings and funerals, and for other times when inspiration is required.

Life Coaching
Eileen Mulligan
$25.00, weight 250 grams, PB
Change your life in 7 days. Discover how these powerful coaching techniques will help you reassess your life, redivine success and set new goals.

Foods that Combat Cancer
Marge Robinson-Greenwood
$18.95, PB weight TBA
Discover which foods contain which cancer fighting nutrients in the first anti-cancer diet book to include a nutrition counter. Covers over 2000 brand name and basic foods.


Abbreviations:

HC        Hard Cover
PB         Paper Back
RRP      Recommended Retail Price
S           Spiral Bound
SH        Second Hand

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