More than an academic study of the rock band U2 and its fan community, Myth, Fan Culture, and the Popular Appeal of Liminality in the Music of U2: A Love Story is a meditation on the complex character of love. U2: A Love Story explores the band’s popular appeal through...

This story pulls you from the current time frame into a world of past lives and the discovery that the mythological personae of Poseidon, Medusa, Zeus, and others were those of people alive today.  The plot of The Pegasus Doctrine revolves around an archaeological dig where that document was discovered...

An epic novel of love and adventure, The Paragon tells the story of Yeshua, the Nazarene's journey to the East during the years missing from Biblical accounts. Where others have suggested such a journey, The Paragon puts flesh to the word. Interwoven are the ideas from other traditions Yeshua encounters...

While Mahabharata's Bhagvad-Gita is taken as a philosophical guide, Ramayana's Sundara Kãnda is sought for spiritual solace; many believe that reading it or hearing it recited would remove all hurdles and usher in good tidings! Miracles apart, it's in the nature of this great epic to inculcate fortitude and generate...

What is the meaning of Shiva dancing on a dwarf named Avidya? Why does Vishnu sleep upon an endless snake? To what did the Buddha awaken? What do we mean by soul? The practice of Yoga has become quite common and popular in the West; however, the stories of Yoga...

Goddesses for Every Day is a "book of days" with a different archetype, and her myth, for every day of the year. 366 goddesses range across time and cultures, informing us of a rich mythological legacy and containing powerful daily inspiration. The book has won three national awards. “Rich in...

Time Enough for Love follows Lazarus Long through a vast and magnificent timescape of centuries and worlds. Heinlein's longest and most ambitious work, it is the story of a man so in love with Life that he refused to stop living it; and so in love with Time that he...

Draws a distinction between hero and savior. Traces the concept of the hero from pre-history to modern day.

Well-known psychologist and author Houston begins this highly adventurous book with a poetic retelling of the Egyptian myth of nature goddess Isis and her brother and husband, Osiris, the legendary ruler and god of the underworld. She then chronicles the cult of worship of Isis and Osiris, a chief religion...

In his now classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig brings us a literary chautauqua, a novel that is meant to both entertain and edify. It scores high on both counts. Phaedrus, our narrator, takes a present-tense cross-country motorcycle trip with his son during which the maintenance...

  Authors: Timothy Freke & Peter Gandy"Drawing on modern scholarship, the authors of the international bestseller The Jesus Mysteries decode the secret teachings of the original Christians for the first time in almost two millennia and theorize about who the original Christians really were and what they actually taught. In...

We live in a world devoid of transcendent meaning, and in that abyss we desperately seek a purpose for & the foundations of Life. Many embrace a rigid fundamentalist dogma, whether religious or ideological; others seek the illusory comfort of vague New Age nostrums; still others opt for the pursuit...

This book deals with the use and identification, and understanding of archetypes in each individuals life so that they may fulfil their potential. Myss is an intuitive healer with a Ph.D. in theology who has written "Anatomy of the Spirit"and other texts on healing. With "Sacred Contracts" she takes this...

A scholarly research, beautifully written, into a band of young monks fifty years ago who resolved to go for enlightenment in the way the Buddha intended. Perfectly illustrates Campbell's point about true mystics being at odds with the orthodoxy and a very interesting book. 

This book was written by an anthropology professor about the Passion story from the perspective of Mary Magdalen ... as a Priestess in the temple of Astarte.  It is AMAZING.  And it was dedicated to J.C. (the more contemporary one), for pity's sakes.  Amazing, beautiful, lyrical and all about re-writing...

From Publishers Weekly Fiction gets educational and sometimes breathtakingly pedanticin George Hamner's novel cum meditation on the nature of the universe, Quarternion Organon. After two middle-agers get downsized, they embark on a search for life's meaning with the help of a bizarre bunch of self-helpers in a plot that's barely...

Robert A. Johnson, noted lecturer and Jungian analyst, updates his classic exploration of the meaning of being a man, and adds insight for both sexes into the feminine side of a man's personality.

"Trickster Makes This World" brings to life the playful and disruptive side of the human imagination as it is embodied in the trickster mythology. Most at home on the road or at the twilight edge of town, tricksters are consummate boundary-crossers, slipping through keyholes, breaching walls subverting defence systems. Always...

The foremost study on shamanism.

A quote on the back cover describes it: "If Joseph Cambell, the Dalai Lama and Bill Moyers were to have collaborated on a book about journeys.. I suspect it would look very much like The Art of Pilgrimmage." --Austin Amercian Statesman. Phil Cousineau was influenced by Joseph Cambell and wrote...

In this imaginative work of fiction the gods of yore from multiple cultures, no longer worshipped, are living incognito in the contemporary world, interacting with "normal" people. Forgotten but not gone, internecine struggles between various factions reveal plans that could be disasterous for mortal kind.

In-depth exploration of the mythology of the mount. Any climbing buff or Campbell fan will appreciate the book's helpful information. Color photos are beautiful.

Margaret Visser spent a lot of time at Sant’ Agnese fuori le Mura in Rome, studying every detail of this small building. I have learned a lot about the symbolism of church architecture and design from this book, a bestseller in Canada A “delightful” tour of Rome’s St. Agnes Outside...