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In this guide, Erika Buenaflor explores the animal mythologies, spirit journeying techniques, and shape-shifting practices of ancient shamanic traditions and modern-day curanderismo. She examines how indigenous Mesoamerican peoples used animals in their ceremonial healing and divination rites and explains the innate gifts and powers that different animals embody.

Documenting the life of wandering spirits and their impact on vulnerable human targets, Susan Martinez offers a radical departure from the standard psychological explanations for a host of pathological behaviors - including multiple personality, autism, epilepsy, migraines, obsessive compulsive disorder, depression, schizophrenia, anxiety, PTSD, self-destructive urges, and strange outbursts - and reveals that hallucinations are often true impressions of spirit input.

Do you feel exhausted? Experience foggy thinking and mysterious symptoms that come and go - symptoms your doctors can’t figure out and yet they keep prescribing more and more medications? Do you have headaches, congestion, or allergies? Do you suffer from joint pain, sleep challenges, hormone imbalances, skin problems such as eczema and psoriasis, thyroid dysfunction, or any other autoimmune disorder? Holistic healthcare expert Kristin Grayce McGary reveals that the answer to resolving your health challenges may lie in comprehensive gut repair.

When the first Masonic lodges opened in Paris in the early 18th century their membership included traders, merchants, musketeers, clergymen, and women—both white and black. This was not the case in the United States where black Freemasons were not eligible for membership in existing lodges. For this reason the first official charter for an exclusively black lodge—the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts—was granted by the Grand Lodge of England rather than any American chapter.

Als Anne und Richard Birch in der Villa Cascana nahe Sestri di Levante an der italienischen Riviera einkehren, steht ihnen der Sinn nach einigen Tagen Entspannung in mediterranem Ambiente. Doch bereits in der ersten Nacht widerfährt Richard etwas Unerklärliches, das ihm für den Rest der Nacht den Schlaf raubt. Als der ebenfalls in der Villa Cascana lebende Künstler Arthur Inglis am Morgen zudem eine hässliche, graue Raupe in einer Schachtel präsentiert, lässt die nächtliche Erscheinung dem jungen Ehepaar auch am Tage keine Ruhe mehr. Was verschweigen ihre Gastgeber, die Stanleys?

Pater Brown ist zu Besuch in Irland. Er verweilt gerade in einem Nonnenkloster, dessen Äbtissin eine alte Bekannte ist, als er Zeuge einer schrecklichen Tragödie wird. Die junge Schwester Sophia stirbt beim Sturz vom Glockenturm. Die Polizei geht von einem Selbstmord aus, ganz im Gegensatz zu Brown. Bei seinen Nachforschungen kommt der Pater einem Geheimnis auf die Spur, das den Tod der Nonne schnell in einem anderen Licht erscheinen lässt.

For our ancestors, collective intelligence was a normal part of life. We see it today as the mysterious force that enables flocks of birds, swarms of bees, and schools of fish to function together in perfect synchrony, communicating and cooperating at some undetectable level. At its most subtle, it’s an instantaneous knowing, shared by members of a group, of the wisest course of action that will benefit all.

Exploring the diverse and dynamic ancestral veneration rites of the ancient Mesoamericans as well as those practiced in contemporary curanderismo, Erika Buenaflor shows how we can draw from these traditions to reconnect with our ancestors, deepen our healing journeys, and shape our lives. She explains how ancestors contain sacred energy that can continue in their direct physical heirs, be reborn in the landscape at sacred sites, or manifest in other beings that inhabit the same lands.