Spiritual Essays

The Conflict with Satan is a dramatic, large-print modern translation of the First and Second Books of Adam and Eve, also known as the Books of the Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan. These vivid apocryphal writings expand the story of Eden with supernatural detail, emotional intensity, and apocalyptic vision. This edition also includes a newly modernized version of the Latin Life of Adam and Eve—commonly called the Apocalypse of Moses—which offers a different Eden source tradition preserved in ancient Latin manuscripts. Together, these texts reveal what early Jewish and Christian ...

C.S. Lewis’s Classic Work that Is Number 7 on National Review’s List of “100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century” In The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis sets out to persuade his audience of the importance and relevance of universal values such as courage and honor in contemporary...

The brilliant English author G.K. Chesterton weaves Our Lady in and out of his fiction: characters are praying the rosary, going to church, fighting over the place of the Mother of God in society. He talks about her in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction as casually as if he thought about her all the time, even writing a book of Marian poetry. As he says, you cannot chip away at a statue of Mother and Child and leave only the Child; it is impossible to think of Jesus without thinking of His Mother. Chesterton seems to have pondered conversion for at least fourteen years, from 1908 and the ...

This inspiring audiobook contains six revolutionary essays exploring the relationship between spiritual experience and ordinary life—and the need for them to coexist within each of us. With essays on “cosmic consciousness” (including Alan Watts’ account of his own ventures into this...

One of America’s most trusted theologians offers spiritual inspiration for every week of the year. This program is read by the author. A Beautiful Year: 52 Meditations on Faith, Wisdom, and Perseverance offers an essay for every week in the seasons of the Christian year: From Advent and...

In this time between worlds and time between stories, we stand poised between a potential dystopia and an unimaginably beautiful future. Only a new Story of Value as a context for our diversity can change the vector of history towards a possible utopia. Movies are often the channel through which the voice of culture discloses itself. Hidden in the public texts of culture is a movement towards a new human and a new humanity. Understanding the hidden text of She—woven into the fabric of our public stories—is a key part of this new Story of Value.

1. The Nondual Practice Myth 2. A Cult of One 3. The Power of Language 4. Warpath: Achilles’ Heel 5. Negative Progress 6. The Illusion of Disorder 7. Who cares about truth? 8. Love & Happiness 9. The First Veil 10. Zen and the Art of Self-Mutilation 11. Dropping Baggage 12. The Spiritual Trilemma 13. The Artifice Guy 14. People I Trust to Lie 15. The Open Road 16. The Razor’s Edge 17. A Major Bummer 18. The Rightness of Wrongness 19. Nonduality 101 20. Zombie Apocalypse 21. Game of Lies 22. The Prime Noodlebaker 23. What I Understand 24. The Parable of the Strata 25. The Greatest Wonder...

New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans inspired a generation reckoning with their evangelical upbringing and what faith is meant to be (or not be). This book offers a collection of her most impactful essays that still speak prophetically and profoundly today. The audiobook, read by...

This is a collection of 26 essays on a variety of theosophical, spiritual and esoteric subjects by some of the most notable and prominent names in the history of theosophy. Compiled specifically with the student in mind.

Winner of the René Wellek Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, The Millions, and The Sydney Morning Herald A profound, original, and accessible book that offers a new secular vision of how we can lead our lives. Ranging from fundamental existential questions to the most pressing...

A playful and moving book of essays by a "born storyteller" (Seattle Times) who invites us into the miraculous and transcendent moments of the everyday When Brian Doyle passed away at the age of sixty after a bout with brain cancer, he left behind a cult-like following of devoted readers who...

Oracles of the Ordinary is a roaming collection of literary prose written from the raw edge of the present moment — where the sacred isn’t hiding in temples but flashing alive inside ordinary life. Discovered within the pages of a strange, weathered manuscript — and accompanied by the notes of an editor slowly drawn into its gravity — the book moves through a shifting landscape where memory, myth, and reality begin to blur. Part road journal, part mystical field notes, these pieces wander through neon-lit bars, desert highways, tide pools, late-night kitchens, long wandering ...

1. To See or Not to See 1 2. To See or Not to See 2 3. To See or Not to See 3 4. Eternally Yours 5. False Knowledge 6. War Party 7. Vanilla Sky 8. Mayan Palace Motel 9. Razor Redux 10. Working Class Gita 11. Senseless Awareness 12. 13th Floor Redux 13. Trust Factor 14. Purple Rose 15. Killing Buddha 16. A Tricky Ascent 17. B.Y.O.G. 18. Unio Mystica 19. On Wisdom 20. Heaven & Reincarnation 21. Twenty-One Words 22. An Eyelid’s Thickness 23. Now, Voyager 24. Not-Two vs All-Is-One 25. Simulation Games 26. Krishna the Terrible 27. This Is Not a Simulation 28. Setting Free the Angel 29. ...

Jedvaita subscriber content is now available in ebooks containing 33 Jed McKenna essays each. 1. Your Creative Output 2. Hellivator 3. Unringing the Bell 4. Game of Veils 5. On Adulthood 6. A Closer of Doors 7. Guilty Until Proven Innocent 8. To Seek and Find 9. The Truth of You 10. On Writing II 11. Dustbunny Overkill 12. The Fable of the Search 13. Hopeless Optimism 14. The Lesser Evil 15. Spiritual Bypassing 16. Practical Wishcraft 17. Zerothink 18. The Hole Problem 19. The Power of Focus 20. Truth vs Reality 21. The Whole Truth 22. The Ignoble Eightfold Path 23. Dark Asylum 24. In ...

✨ The journey continues—rawer, and more intimate. 📚 Following the themes explored in the Standard Edition, this Special Edition expands the original reflections with new chapters and a deeper emotional current. For readers who resonated with the original reflections on fear, pain, consumerism, addiction, confidence, purpose, and happiness, this special version offers new meditations on distractions, stress, nonconformism, early rising, the art of letting go and the sacred nature of sex— all presented in the same poetic, minimalist style that touched so many. 🕯 Blending ancient ...

An Epic Memoir of an Intrepid Solo Adventurer, a Woman Who Lived by the Philosophy "Go Simple, Go Solo, Go Now" In a memoir remarkable for its quiet confidence and acute natural observation, the author of Paddling Hawaii and Paddling My Own Canoe begins with her decision, at age 60, to undertake...

Jedvaita subscriber content is now available in ebooks containing 33 Jed McKenna essays each. 1. The Power to Change 2. The Good News Grift 3. Pattern Follows Function 4. The Fates’ Lieutenant 5. The Enemy Within 6. Spiritual Diplomacy 7. The Prism of Self 8. The Road Ahead 9. The Bomb 10. The Way That You Unfold 11. A Very Persistent Illusion 12. On The Dreamstate 13. The Nondual Trinity 14. The Initial Nondual Insight 15. The Power of Not-Ego 16. A Thing Apart 17. On Miracles 18. The Matrix Revisited 19. Reasonable Doubt 20. Mindless Beliefism 21. The Name of the Game 22. The New ...

In Over Here Growing a Soul: The Works of Mr. Joe, Joseph Santiago gathers a body of writing that is intimate, searching, and vividly alive to the textures of ordinary life. These pieces move through memory, place, longing, mortality, imagination, desire, and becoming, always returning to the deeper question of how a person makes meaning that can endure beyond the moment. Thoughtful, strange, playful, and emotionally resonant, this collection invites readers into a world where even the smallest experience can open into philosophy, tenderness, wonder, and hard-won insight. Across essays, ...

The Orthodox Christian tradition is one of the oldest and most contemplative streams of the Christian faith, yet it remains little known to many in the Western world. This anthology gathers five essays from distinguished twentieth-century writers who gave their lives to understanding, living, and articulating that tradition — each approaching it from a different angle, each illuminating a different facet of its inexhaustible depth. Each essay stands on its own as a work of theological depth and pastoral warmth, yet together they form a coherent meditation on the inner life of the Church: ...

Join Rachel Anne Ridge, author of the beloved memoir Flash, in a journey back to the pasture. As she adopts a second rescue donkey as a little brother for Flash - a miniature named Henry - she finds that walking with donkeys has surprising lessons to teach us about prayer, renewing our faith, and connecting to God in fresh ways.