Anam Cara : A Book of Celtic Wisdom by John O'Donohue
    The Gaelic title refers to the "soul-friend," a lovingly stern companion to whom you can, in stringent honesty, unburden your heart as you move toward enlightenment. O'Donohue positions himself to be that soul's companion for readers who yearn for a spirituality that is accepting of bodily wisdom but does not deny the power of the Christian vision. The Celts--well, the Irish, anyway--grappled with that yearning more than a millennium ago. Irish traditional ways were never subjected to the kinds of discouragement--racks, skewers, lions, and the like--practiced on the continent and so were able to wed pagan sensuality to the ethical challenges of the new creed. Reperforming that marriage, O'Donohue is as much at ease with Heidegger as with Yeats, with Rilke as with Jung, as he discourses on solitude, work, love, and death and works snippets of ancient Irish poetry seamlessly into the fabric of his text. Eloquent and learned, O'Donohue is more than just another Paddy-come-lately cashing in on River Danceera Celtophilia. He is the real thing: a poetic priest with the soul of a pagan. Expect demand! (HarperCollins does, to the tune of a 150,000-copy first printing.) Patricia Monaghan

Eternal Echoes 'Exploring Our Yearning to Belong' by John O'Donohue
    John O'Donohue (Anam Cara), a Celtic poet, scholar, and philosopher with an Irish brogue, speaks to the deepest calling of our soul: the longing to belong. "To be human is to belong," he explains. "Belonging is a circle that embraces everything; if we reject it, we damage our nature. The word 'belonging' holds together the two fundamental aspects of life: Being and Longing, the longing of our Being and the being of our Longing." Although this may sound like an elaborate Celtic circle knot, O'Donohue has nevertheless woven a solid and easy-to-grasp book that speaks to the soul's constant yearning. Every passage is a delight for the senses, as O'Donohue shares his lilting poetic language, his Celtic imagery and stories, and his fireside-chat wisdom. This is a broad-reaching yet highly focused book that dares to explore the realm of legitimate angels, the meaning of suffering, and, most poignantly, how life on earth may never quench the soul's thirst for belonging. --Gail Hudson

Doing the Right Thing : Cultivating Your Moral Intelligence
by Aaron Hass, Aaron Haas
Aaron Hass is a professor of psychology, but it's his experience as a clinical psychologist--heading off suicide and gluing marriages back together--that informs "Doing the Right Thing." Resolutely unconcerned with abstract questions, and deliberately setting aside such tough moral
chestnuts as abortion and capital punishment, he offers instead a straightforward guide to two intermingled issues. First, why is it, despite the attractions of selfishness, that we are generally better off when we do what we believe to be right? And second, how, on the most practical level, can we do ourselves and everyone around us the favor of becoming better people? This is refreshing stuff, especially from someone in a profession that has done its best to treat notions like self-restraint, self-sacrifice, and moral character as distasteful jokes.  For Hass, they
are nothing less than keys to a cure. The book's treatment of philosophical issues is light; occasional references to Kant or Aristotle are strictly pro forma, and essential
subjects such as psychological egoism--the popular view that all human action is "really" self-interested--are dismissed with almost flippant ease. But it's worth reading just for the anecdote about what happened when researchers put seminarians under tight deadlines to finish a sermon on the Good Samaritan--and then ensured that, in order to present their work, they would have to pass by a shabbily dressed man who was coughing and groaning as if in pain.

The 12th Planet by Zecharia Sitchin
    The product of thirty years of intensive research, THE 12TH PLANET is the first book in Zecharia Sitchin's prophetic Earth Chronicles series -- a revolutionary body of work that offers indisputable documentary proof of humanity's extraterrestrial forefathers. Travelers from the stars, they arrived eons ago, and planted the genetic seed that would ultimately blossom into a remarkable species...called Man.

The Stairway to Heaven by Zecharia Sitchin
     After years of painstaking research--combining recent archaeological discoveries with ancient texts and artifacts--noted scholar Zecharia Sitchin has identified the legendary Land of the Gods, and provides astounding new revelations about the Great Pyramids, the Sphinx, and other mysterious monuments whose true meanings and purposes have been lost for eons. Illustrated with maps, diagrams and photos.

The Wars of Gods and Men by Zecharia Sitchin
    Sitchin brings myth and reality into synchrony in this exciting and credible history of Old Testament times. You'll never again accept the hogwash that the Giza pyramids were the burial places of (or even built by!) Egyptian pharoahs. And his explanation of the demise of Sumer sheds a bright light on the origins of the Hebrews and other biblical tales. Wide-ranging and meticulously documented, like all the "Earth Chronicles". Sitchin is able to combine brilliant and thoroughly supported scholarship with a story-teller's grace and timing, while resisting the temptation to embellish the truth as he sees it. I recommend you read the "Twelfth Planet" and "Stairway to Heaven" first.

The Lost Realms by Zecharia Sitchin
In the fourth volume of this intriguig study, Sitchin again turns to ancient sources for proof supporting his theories that millennia ago alien visitors shaped our destiny. "Exciting . . . credible . . . most provocative and compelling."--Library Journal. Original.

When Time Began by Zecharia Sitchin
    Why was Stonehenge rebuilt and rearranged between 2100 and 2000 B.C.--and how did its realignment relate to startling occurrences in ancient Sumer during the same period? This is just one of the fascinating puzzles addressed by Sitchin in his latest highly documented, meticulously researched work, making a fascinating case for the involvement of alien intelligence. Original.

Grace and Grit : Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber by Ken Wilber
The compelling story of the five-year journey of Ken Wilber (author of The Spectrum of Consciousness and Up from Eden) and his wife Treya through marriage, illness, and, finally, Treya's death. Ken's brilliant and wide-ranging commentary is combined with Treya's journals to create an inspiring portrait of healing, suffering, wholeness and harmony.

The Eye of Spirit : An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad by Ken Wilber
    Wilber's widely acknowledged "spectrum of consciousness" model is used as a broad framework capable of integrating numerous different and important fields, from art and literary theory to cultural studies, from anthropology to philosophy. Using the spectrum approach, Wilber shows exactly how the essentials of these various fields can be brought together in a coherent, comprehensive, and compelling fashion.