Transformational Teaching

Deepen your practice with this audio journey into the source-language teachings of yoga Yoga practitioners know there’s more to the path than asana, or physical postures—but how do we access the deeper wisdom of yogic philosophy? More than 2,000 years ago, the legendary master Patanjali...

In a world where stress is unavoidable—where political turmoil, pandemic fallout, and personal challenges touch everyone—this book offers guidance for cutting through the emotional static that can hold teachers back. A specialist in pedagogical strategies with extensive classroom experience, Elizabeth A. Norell explains how an educator's presence, or authenticity, can be critical to creating transformational spaces for students.

An exploration of the 114 Sayings, many of which appear in the Gospels, revealing timeless transformational instructions for the seeking soul. Unearthed at Nag Hammadi in 1945, these sayings or logions retained from the holy man of Nazareth without narrative, contain a power that suggests a preservation through an ancient oral tradition predating the four canonical gospels. First published in English in 1959, some scholars have suggested that this is the mysterious "Q source" from which the gospel writers drew, as two thirds of these sayings can be found in some form in the New Testament ...

Imagine a roomful of kids on Sunday absolutely enraptured by dynamic Bible teaching. Here and there a mouth hangs open as the kids engage the story of Boaz and Ruth with the kind of enthusiasm usually reserved for their new Xbox 360. Isn’t that what you want as a Sunday school teacher? You...

Discover the Hidden Wisdom of Christianity's Most Suppressed Tradition In the hidden chambers beneath Alexandria and the secret gatherings of early Christian mystics, a profound understanding flourished one that viewed transformation not as distant promise but as present possibility. The Gnostic Alchemists unveils this lost tradition where spiritual metamorphosis was understood as both inner laboratory work and cosmic participation. What You'll Discover: • The Sacred Science of Consciousness How early Christian practitioners developed sophisticated maps for navigating psychological and ...

The parables of Jesus are not ancient stories about other people in other times. They are precise psychological maps disguised as simple tales, instruments designed to shatter our habitual ways of seeing and awaken us to the possibility of radical transformation. In this expanded third edition of his widely praised work, Theodore J. Nottingham brings decades of study in both Fourth Way psychology and Orthodox Christian mysticism to illuminate these timeless teachings. Moving beyond the distortions of rationalistic interpretation and fundamentalist rigidity, he reveals the parables as they ...

From the author: "The Christian way is a way of metamorphosis that leads from egoism to Love." In this important work, the reader will find a treasure trove of ancient spiritual wisdom from the Christian East. Still little known to the Western world, the first thousand years of Christianity taught transformational, psychotherapeutic theology which has been virtually lost to our part of the world. The author’s exceptional breadth of knowledge and scholarship in the field of Eastern Orthodox spirituality offers the reader direct contact with the spiritual Masters who were the Grace-filled ...

From the Introduction: The human potential is so much more than we can imagine. Our culture tells us that it is about climbing the ladder, financial success, developing our careers, using our various gifts to contribute to the gross national product. Yet for several millennia the true potential for we children of the universe -- made of the dust of stars and connected with all that exists -- has included so much more... Once we recognize this amazing potential, let us not keep it on a theoretical level. Each day, each moment is an opportunity to break through and experience this truth of ...