Nature Religion

Leaving home, especially a faith home, can be a challenging journey. In these essays, many drawn from his weekly columns in the Asheville (NC) Citizen-Times, former minister and chaplain Chris Highland continues his explorations of the wilderness between faith and humanism. A secular freethinker who is not anti-religious, Highland reveals his respect for "respectable religion" while calling out the good actions of believers as well as the nonsense and dangerous elements of Christian Nationalism and superstition. Married to a minister himself, with many "friends in faith," Highland ...

A fresh look at the wheel of the year, drawing on the power of intuition to create rituals and celebrations in harmony with your own traditions, your locale, and the climate of where you live. Year of the Witch will help listeners create their own intuitive practices in harmony with the climate, culture, and local spirits where they live. It's of interest to witches coming off the Wiccan path and looking for a more personal approach to celebrating the rhythms of nature.

Let your journey toward empowerment and transformation begin….. Unlock the full power of the moon and tap into your inner witch with this practical and inspiring guide: Witchcraft for beginners: Modern Witchcraft Spells and Rituals for Moon Magic. Discover the secrets of the 8 lunar phases and how to harness their energy for powerful spells and rituals to enhance your life. From simple moon spells to special occasion spells, let this enchanting guide take you on a beginner's journey to explore the different types of moon magic, develop rituals, and manifest your dream life. What's inside ...

World-renowned Shamanic Breathwork founder and teacher, Linda Star Wolf, carries on the lineage handed down by the master shamanic healers before her with a mission to help the world experience shamanic death and re-birth, healing, and transformation. The result? Living from your heart and experiencing the bigger love life has to offer.

In Wild Men, Wild Alaska professional hunting and fishing guide and outfitter Rocky McElveen tells the stories of his own adventures as well as those of some of his well-known clients. The book takes listeners directly into the Alaskan bush, and shares the intense challenges of a majestic wilderness that pushes a man to his limits.

Every one of us experiences periods of pain and loss in our life—dark nights of the soul. This is a groundless territory where one feels directionless and devoid of tools, with no sense of how to take the next step. In ancient times, elders guided their communities through life's initiations and challenges, paths we must all take to transform and grow. In Walking through Darkness, legendary shamanic experts Sandra Ingerman and Llyn Roberts help us forge a pathway through the dark—as we embrace nature as our guide and healer.

This audiobook by best-selling author John Eckhardt contains Scripture verses related to the topics of worship, holiness, and the glory of God as well as insight from the author himself. It is an excellent and handy reference tool for those who want to have a greater understanding of these important subjects in Scripture and to incorporate God’s Word into their prayers.

In Movement There Is Peace is a powerful tale of travel, adventure, and unexpected faith. It begins with a doctor who walks away from her practice in order to cure her own paralyzing anxiety. Once free, she discovers that leaving is really only fleeing if there's no new direction. Could this be the reason for her husband's sudden inspiration?

For a generation whose eyes are constantly trained on screens, encountering nature at all is increasingly difficult, much less seeing what it reveals about God. How can parents help children reengage with God's world that is full of amazement, creativity, and love? Eryn Lynum is a certified master naturalist, Bible teacher, and mom of four who wants to help families encounter and understand the connection between God and creation. She shares her own story of putting her kids in front of nature, and invites other parents to consider a similar journey.

An accessible and compelling story of a scientist's discovery of plant communication and how it influenced her research and changed her life.

Nature helps us reset and ground us into a state of relaxation! The author has created each track with over two hours each in this book (a total of 22 hours!) in mind to ensure you have an entire experience of relaxation. If you use this book as a sleep aid, remember to use the sleep timer for your convenience built into the audible app. The 11 soundtracks have a gentle fade in and out to help to customize the volume 10 seconds after you start the sound.

‘The Spirit of Power’ is the 92nd philosophy book written in free verse poetry by Ronnie Lee. The content of this book shows how power relates to individuals, groups, states and nations in the globalism of the World. These power relations are shown in the philosophy of power that analyzes the technicalities of how people generate and use power in their own existential lives. The good and evil that power influences show the truths of the societies of the Empire. The book shows universal laws that maintain the rules of power that show ‘the nature of the will’.

Elemental Magick offers listeners insight into the inner teachings of the elements. Author D. J. Conway explains in depth the forces behind the elements and how they provide a framework for literally everything in the universe. She also explains the all-important and powerful element of spirit that belongs to each of the other elements and how these intimate connections allow the magickal energy to flow in a continuous circle of existence.

Using her expertise in ancient Israelite society and economy as well as in biblical theology, Richter walks listeners through passages familiar and not-so-familiar, showing how significant environmental theology is in the Bible's witness. She then calls Christians to apply that message to today's environmental concerns. Richter is a master Bible scholar. Each chapter in this timely book draws out a biblical mandate about care for the land, for domestic and wild animals, for people at the margins, and more. She is also a master storyteller.

Leave the pressures and demands of your daily life behind as you focus on the Zen within your soul. Zen and the Love of Nature takes you on a captivating journey from a single lotus flower to a rippling brook to the grandeur of Mount Fuji, giving a Zen perspective on the joy and beauty of our natural world.

When we turn our attention to the subject of elemental Intelligences or Nature-Spirits, we are confronted by this immediate difficulty, that we are led at the very beginning beyond and behind the world which we know through the channels of the senses. Sense perception does not help us at all in our study of that mysterious realm of life which constitutes the invisible background of physical manifestation. Madame Blavatsky warned us long ago that to describe Nature-Spirits or Elementals as having definite and corporeal form was likely to lead into great error.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) philosophy, the elements Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water are the foundation of how nature grows and evolves. They are believed to help us understand everything from illness and healing to the fundamental processes of child development - and they continue to inform Chinese medicine practice today. But as Ayurvedic nutritionist, reiki master, and Tournesol founder Carey Davidson demonstrates in this book, each of the five elements can also be seen as a personality archetype - and inside all of us is a unique blend of these archetypes....

Janet Messineo knew from the get-go that she wanted to become a great fisherman. She knew she was as capable as any man of catching and landing a huge fish. It took years - and many terrifying nights along on the beach in complete darkness, in search of a huge creature to pull out of the sea - for her to prove to herself and to the male-dominated fishing community that she could make her dream real. Casting into the Light is a book about following one’s dreams and about the quiet reckoning with self in the long hours of darkness at the water’s edge.

The Warrior Heart Practice is a powerful new method to reconnect with our sense of authenticity and inner-knowing and realign with our true nature. Author of the best-selling book Warrior Goddess Training, HeatherAsh Amara has trained extensively in the Toltec tradition under the tutelage of don Miguel Ruiz, author of The Four Agreements. The Warrior Heart Practice is a revolutionary system based on the four chambered structure of the human heart.

In her late-twenties, feeling utterly overwhelmed by the pace of modern city life, Rosie Steer found solace in the traditions she had been brought up with, influenced by her Scottish roots, that celebrated nature and observed the small steady shifts in the seasons. The Celtic Wheel of the year is an ancient seasonal cycle that aligns with solar events – the solstices and equinoxes – and their rough midpoints. For each mini-season, Rosie shares nature notes for what we can look out for.