Philosophy & Religion Books

A celebration of spring, renewal and new beginnings!Ostara – also known as the spring equinox – marks the end of a journey, renewal, and new beginnings. It's an opportunity to step fearlessly onto a new path. A time of second chances and restoring hope,...

Because life is full of little gifts, enjoy this boxed set highlighting the gifts found in flowers, dreams and the magic of spells. Fantastic value at almost 50 per cent off the RRP of the books if purchased separately. These books are the gifts that...

Over the millennia Gods and Goddesses have taken on many forms, have given great gifts and unleashed furious punishments on those who worshipped and angered them.   This book introduces the main gods and goddesses of the past; their myths, rituals...

Delve into the ancient and venerable Craft of the Wise and learn the basics of witchcraft, both modern and traditional.   It’s an exciting journey, filled with insights into the Old Ways of traditional wise women (and people of any gender), ways to...

Today’s modern chakra practitioners focus on the seven major chakras, which they visualize as part of the subtle energy field, or aura, that swirls around us in rainbow colours, each chakra relating to a certain key part of the body. With modern-day...

Illuminating Wisdom brings art and wisdom together in a beautiful celebration of some of the world’s most inspiring philosophical, spiritual and literary quotes. Approximately 80 quotes have been drawn from some of the great wisdom and literary...

Discover the ancient divination system used by witches and gypsies, perhaps older than the Tarot and much simpler to learn and use. This book gives a basic understanding of the traditional systems, then goes on to instruct the reader on how to make their...

Many of us now feel an authentic, autonomous impulse to understand and experience all expressions of existence, be they seen or unseen, human or non-human. Wild Spirituality accompanies the reader through this process of re-awakening, encouraging us to...

What We’re Afraid to Ask is a must-read for survivors of childhood abuse who struggle to reconcile their faith with their past. Board, Fleetwood, and Jones demonstrate how Christianity offers reasonable, honest, and encouraging answers to difficult...

There is still a place in the jungles of Thailand, where you can leave it all behind... A cult classic and bestseller in the 1990s, What the Buddha Never Taught is a humorous “behind the robes” account of life inside one of the strictest jungle...

Ancient man was seen to barter for the use of magic from the gods, and during the witch trials magic was seen as the work of the Devil. Later, the notion of manifestation gave power back to the witch, with intent developing into modern day practice. This...

Prayerful, bible-based reflections on God's fathomless love and mercy, to be pondered and prayed over as helps to plumb the depths of the mystery of the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Phelim McGowan was born in Glasgow, studied theology in Dublin and now...

This collection of essays marks 150 years of study and reflection since the Dominican Priory in Tallaght was founded. There, indeed, friarse together with sisters, laity, and contemplative nuns, members of the family that is the Order of Preachers,...

Jessica’s spiritual journey has led her down a long path of magic and self-awareness. Wiccans and Pagans have rapidly increased in numbers since she found her way and many new practitioners are as young and inexperienced as she once was. This book...

The Church’s Twenty-One ecumenical councils have been crucial to its understanding of its biblical heritage. They have taken place less frequently in recent centuries, only three since 1517: Trent (1545-1563), Vatican I (1869—1870), and Vatican II...

How Atheists rely on urban myths about religion to buttress their case against God. God, and the whole business of being dependent upon him, is being downgraded, downsized, downplayed, and most of all, just plain dismissed in the modern, cultured,...

In this book, using Eric Fromm’s distinction between Humanistic and Authoritarian Religions whose implications for Christianity the author explored at some length in his recently published The Two Faces of Christianity, he identifies what he believes to...

What are the sources of true Christianity? Tradition or Scripture? Experience? How far should our interpretation accommodate modern knowledge? Some take refuge in fundamentalism, others in emotion, many are leaving the Church. But there are others,...

THE LAST FOUR world-leaders (Masters) of the Dominican Order T served throughout the excitements and hesitations of the forty years from the opening of the Second Vatican Council to the start of the twenty-first century. Timothy Radcliffe's writings are...

Reconnecting with the Spirit World within and without in ways understood by our ancestors.This is a sound introduction to simple magical practices that have become increasingly popular as new generations rediscover the truth of the Old Ways. You will be...

The meaning and mystery of life is ultimately found in personal relationship, sometimes with another and, for those who search, sometimes with God. In Taking Heart the experiences of four people who are spiritually searching and looking for a direct...

Spirituality Rekindled: The Quest for Serenity and Self-Fulfillment explores the attainment of serenity and self-fulfillment through a rational spirituality, which author Nassir H. Sabah posits is a quality of being predicated on a sense of connection to...

The reader is shown how to meet the Green Man

All you need to know about palmistry.

A potent strand of mysticism runs through a substantial part of British folk music. Songs from the Magical Tradition presents an anthology of songs, with extensive notes on their historical context, imagery, and possible origins. No firm conclusions are...

Our God is a God of faith, and it takes faith to please Him. It is easy to have faith in the little things, and many Christians exercise their faith by what they can see, hear and or feel; but omit to realise that God revealed Himself through Jesus, and...

Concisely written and richly illustrated this is the most accessible and informative book on the occult history and graphic origins of the signs, symbols, scripts and ciphers of Western Occultism.The occult art of magical writing begins in pre-history...

Sigils are symbolic icons designed for a specific magical purpose. The Christian church acknowledged the sigil as an occult device originating in astrology. Traditionally, Sigils are line diagrams representing the signature of a planetary, angelic or...

Shouldering the Lamb offers eleven meditations revolving around the ancient figure of the shepherd carrying a lamb across his shoulders. Viewing this image from many angles enables Archbishop Richard Clarke to reflect on how any carrying of another in...

Introducing a gentle but powerful and enduring spiritual pathway reconnecting humanity with Great Nature and affirming all aspects of life.

Richard Harries was serving as a soldier in Germany when he suddenly had an overwhelming sense that God was calling him to be ordained. He had virtually no religious background, but like Martin Luther, he could do no other. The Shaping of a Soul is the...

Despite modern Paganism being one of the fastest growing new religious movements in Britain and the USA, there is no up-to-date straightforward and informed introduction to modern Paganism from a Christian perspective. The Shaken Path addresses that gap.

In the turbulent 4th Century, Emperor Constantine adopted Christianity as the faith of the Empire. The Secular Gospel of Sophia examines what was lost as a result. Sophia is an accidental traveller and keen observer on the road to Nicaea and of the...

Intended as an aid to understanding the Scripture readings at Mass. The editorial team includes Wilfrid Harrington and Brendan McConvery. It appears four times a year.

Zarathushtra's Gathas & the Old Avestan canon are the central texts of Zoroastrianism, one of the oldest continuously practiced religions in the world that has had a vast influence on the development of many other religions, philosophies, global ethics...

Claire shows us the techniques which place the emphasis upon invoking the quality and energy of the different runes for magical purposes by making their shapes with our bodies, accompanied by chanting. She has been studying and working with the Runic...

You might think, what possible relevance can the runes, a system in use in the Dark Ages, have for the modern pagan as he sits trawling his smartphone for information online to help him with day-to-day situations? Surely the use of those funny little...

Harry Clarke's Geneva Window of 1929 with the lines from Yeats' play, The Countess Cathleen, evokes a sense of the wonder and beauty of redemptive love, with all its latent power to transform. Does love of this kind make a difference as to how we should...

The classic Christological formulations of the 4th and 5th Centuries are basically meaningless today. Questioning the Incarnation offers a new approach to Christology based on modern biblical, scientific and philosophical studies. Whilst using different...

In 'Qi Gong: Learning the Way', both the theory and practice of this remarkable treasure of Chinese culture are presented. Simon Bastian, a member of the British Taoist Association and an experienced instructor, provides an introduction to this ancient...

Praying with the psalms is a privileged way of becoming attuned to God's presence in today's world and in the life of the person at prayer. They enable us to bring our sense of puzzlement or of frustration into the presence God. They express trust; they...

In some religious traditions the contemplative life is seen to demand an almost complete turning away from the world. But, within the Dominican tradition, the preacher of the living Word is someone possessed not only by a vision of God but also by a...

Practically Pagan - An Alternative Guide to Gardening takes the spooky out of alternative and keeps the magic. Elen Sentier brings together, and expands on, recent scientific discoveries, and shows how close they are to the old ways that were labelled as...

The Persuasion of Love examines the implications of believing that ‘the meaning of the universe is love’. It is axiomatic that the Christian faith is about the love of God, but John Blakely seeks to delve behind this easy assertion by proposing that all...

The idea that anyone might try to take out a patent on life or on THE any component of life, fills most people with horror. Yet such developments are now facing the world, as transnational corporations extend the control which, over the past fifty years,...

Stories for the Songs of the Year is a collection of new children's stories which celebrate the festivals and seasons. The tales follow the adventures of Attila and Meg, a know-it-all rabbit and a cat with half a tail, who generally cause chaos and...

A unique perspective on working with Baba Yaga, Slavic Earth Goddess of mystery, intrigue and ambiguity, through apprenticing into her magic. In this introductory work Baba Yaga is re-defined outside of the dogmatic portrayals and becomes one of the most...

A lifelong student and teacher of Scripture responds to the Year of Mercy and to the document by Pope Francis, The Face of Mercy, by looking closely at the theme of mercy in the Bible. He sketches the graciousness of God, our loving Parent, so full of...