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Essential Oils for Soothing Anxiety: Remedies and Rituals to Feel Calm and Refreshed
by Christina AnthisFeel calm in an instant with essential oils If you're searching for serenity now, essential oils provide a simple, all-natural way to feel calm and relaxed fast. Essential Oils for Soothing Anxiety is the only complete guide that delivers quick and easy remedies, rituals, and recipes to help address a wide range of symptoms—including stress, tension, headaches, and insomnia. From Grapefruit Lavender Body Butter Bars to Good Vibrations Mood Booster Body Spray, this comprehensive essential oils book gives you the tools you need to make soothing self-care products. Along the way, discover how to increase your focus through breathing, relax your mind and body to release tension, add essential oils to a massage, and so much more. Take a deep, cleansing breath and let the restorative healing begin. Essential Oils for Soothing Anxiety includes: Calming remedies—Get in-depth profiles on the 10 best essential oils for creating peace and calm, including bergamot, cedarwood, and lavender. Soothing rituals—Learn how to de-stress in an instant through meditation, massage, breathing exercises, and other self-care techniques. Refreshing recipes—Explore step-by-step recipes for powerful personal-care elixirs like aromatherapy bath salts and moisturizing body creams. Find relief in a flash naturally with Essential Oils for Soothing Anxiety.
Essential Oils for the Whole Body: The Dynamics of Topical Application and Absorption
by Heather Dawn GodfreyA practical guide to the topical application of essential oils for physical and emotional health and healing • Provides in-depth profiles of 15 essential oils that form a safe and effective &“tool kit&” for treating a broad range of ailments and conditions • Examines the body&’s many absorption pathways and how applying essential oils in different ways has specific influences on the body&’s systems • Offers guidelines for safe application, including recommendations for children and the elderly, along with easy-to-use charts to select the appropriate oil for each situation Well known for their aromatherapy applications, essential oils also have outstanding healing abilities when absorbed through the skin. Applied topically they work well for wound healing, arthritis, inflammation, and skin conditions. Because all of the cells in the body are interconnected, they also affect underlying organs, systems, and soft tissues, influencing hormone release, gently relieving pain and stress, and offering antimicrobial protection against pathogens, viruses, and bacteria. Focusing on 15 essential oils that form a safe and effective &“tool kit&” for treating a broad range of ailments and conditions, from acne, anxiety, and asthma to psoriasis, shingles, and painful periods, Heather Dawn Godfrey explores how these essential oils complement and support each other&’s healing properties and can be blended together to offer dynamic, customizable treatments for each unique individual. She examines the body&’s many absorption pathways, explaining how even the internal organs have odor receptors and how applying essential oils in different ways has specific influences on the body&’s systems. Offering guidelines for safe application, including recommendations for children and the elderly, the author provides easy-to-reference charts and tables to select the appropriate oil or oils for each situation, and she explains which essential oils should be avoided during pregnancy and by those with specific conditions such as cancer. Presenting scientific profiles for the 15 main essential oils discussed, Godfrey also explores complementary therapies that increase the effectiveness of essential oils, including Ayurveda and Chinese medicine, and she details the colors, chakras, gemstones, and crystals that correspond with each oil. She provides recipes for proper dilution and the best carrier mediums, including creams, compresses, lotions, and ointments. Written for both healthcare professionals and for self-care, this hands-on guide will allow you to effectively treat acute and chronic conditions as well as incorporate essential oils into daily life for physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
Essential Oils (Fully Revised and Updated 3rd Edition): A Comprehensive Handbook for Aromatic Therapy
by Jennifer Peace Peace RhindRevised and significantly expanded, the latest edition of this handbook provides full information on the use of essential oils in the field of contemporary aromatherapy and aromatic therapy, based on the most up-to-date research evidence behind their therapeutic applications.The third edition features a fully updated and expanded contents including detailed Aromatic Profiles of over 250 essential oils, absolutes and resinoids, a new chapter on the latest research in pharmacognosy to foster an understanding of how essential oils work, and a new chapter on formulating essential oils, based on theory and evidence and containing practical suggestions. The author provides a detailed account of how essential oils are created, how and where aromatherapy is used, and the underlying pharmacology and chemistry. This will be an indispensable text for all students and practitioners of aromatherapy and related disciplines, as well as anyone interested in the use of essential oils for health and well-being.
The Essential Oils Hormone Solution: Reclaim Your Energy and Focus and Lose Weight Naturally
by Dr Mariza SnyderHave your hormones been hijacked? Do you feel energy-depleted and irritable, unable to sleep, stay focused, or lose weight? You may have attributed these symptoms to the natural hormonal fluctuations that occur with age. But behind the scenes, there are a host of pesky culprits wreaking havoc on your hormonal health: chronic stress, air pollution, chemical-laden foods and cleaning supplies, and the synthetic estrogens in personal care products. Women of all ages are left vulnerable to the consequences, suffering from unnecessary hormonal imbalance and frustrating symptoms that are often dismissed by their doctors. Dr. Mariza Snyder is here to help put you back in control of your health. In The Essential Oils Hormone Solution, you will learn how to heal hormonal chaos and revitalize the body from the inside out with the support of high-quality essential oils. You’ll learn how essential oils work on a cellular level to mitigate the toxic loads we carry, and how to use essential oils to reduce cravings, get deep, restful sleep, ease stress, improve mood, banish the worst symptoms of PMS, regain focus and concentration, boost libido, and increase energy. Featuring a 14-day plan to jumpstart your hormonal health, with over 100 essential oil blends, daily self-care rituals, and delicious, easy-to-prepare recipes, you’ll discover how to reset your body and pave the way for improved hormonal health, without taking hormones.
Essential Oils in Spiritual Practice: Working with the Chakras, Divine Archetypes, and the Five Great Elements
by Candice Covington Sheila PatelUsing essential oils to influence your energetic make-up and karmic patterns • Details how to identify which tattvas--the Five Great Elements--are dominant in your energetic make-up • Explores the energetic signatures of the essential oils associated with each tattva and chakra, including their archetypes, sacred geometry, sacred sounds, and colors • Explains how to identify your personal vibrational signature, purify your energy body, impart vibrational properties to jewelry, and work with yantras and mantras The tattvas, the Five Great Elements--earth, water, fire, air/wind, and ether/space--create and sustain not only the universe but also all of its inhabitants. Each of us has a unique combination of these elemental energies behind our personal characteristics--everything from the color of our eyes to our behaviors and emotional temperament. What tattvas are dominant in your make-up can also be influenced by your surroundings and by karma. Essential oils, in addition to working biologically and chemically, also work at the energetic level, making them ideal for working with the tattvas. Teaching you how to use essential oils to affect the very fabric of your being, Candice Covington details how the Tattvas Method of essential oils allow you to access the deepest, most hidden aspects of Self, those beyond the reach of the mind, the very energetic causation patterns that set all behaviors and thoughts into motion. She reveals how the tattvas are the energy that animate each chakra and how we can use their archetypal energy to shape our inner life and align with our greater soul purpose. The author provides energetic profiles of each tattva, chakra, and essential oil, explains their relationships to one another, and details how to identify what tattva or chakra is dominant at any given time. Exploring the energetic signatures of the tattvic essential oils, she details their elemental make-up, animal and deity archetypes, sacred geometry symbols, sacred syllables, and colors. She reveals how to discover the energy patterns responsible for directing unhealthy life patterns and explains how to identify your personal vibrational signature, purify your energy body, and craft your own unique ritual practice with essential oils. Showing how essential oils are powerful vibrational tools for effecting change, the author reveals how they allow each of us to deliberately steer our own destiny, fulfill our personal dharma, and be all that our souls intended us to be.
Essential Oils in the Bath: Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-160 (Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin)
by Colleen K. DodtSince 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.
The Essential Oils Menopause Solution: Alleviate Your Symptoms and Reclaim Your Energy, Sleep, Sex Drive, and Metabolism
by Mariza SnyderAlleviate the symptoms of perimenopause and menopause with simple and safe DIY diffusions, tonics, and tinctures made with essential oils, from &“a true innovator and thought leader in the field of women&’s hormone health&” (JJ Virgin, New York Times bestselling author of The Virgin Diet).What if menopause didn&’t have to be a struggle? Your body is always changing—necessarily and beautifully—throughout life. During menopause, however, declining ovarian function and fluctuating hormones often clash with environmental toxins, stress, and digestive distress, leading to the symptoms we have been told we should expect: hot flashes, weight gain, brain fog, low libido, and irritability. But as women&’s hormonal health expert and bestselling author Dr. Mariza Snyder explains, you can and deserve to experience a good night&’s sleep, clear thinking, stable moods, an energized metabolism, and pain-free sex. The solution is not to medicate the changes, but instead get to the root cause of what&’s really going on in the body. In The Essential Oils Menopause Solution, Dr. Mariza offers a cutting-edge, comprehensive plan to do just that, including:• a clear explanation of what&’s happening in your body before, during, and after &“the change,&” and how certain lifestyle triggers exacerbate hormonal imbalance.• the latest science behind the benefits of essential oils as safe, effective solutions for perimenopause and menopause symptoms. • more than 75 recipes and protocols designed to provide solutions for deep, restful sleep, anxiousness, mood swings, fatigue, hot flashes, low libido, brain fog, vaginal dryness, digestive distress, and much more.• a proven 21-day hormone-balancing program complete with meal plans, exercise recommendations, supplementation, and herbal therapies designed to reverse the myriad of symptoms affecting millions of women today.• easy self-care rituals to support every system of your body—from digestion and vaginal health to mitochondrial and liver function—throughout the perimenopausal and menopausal transition.You always deserve a body that works for you, and if you are feeling less than your best, you deserve solutions that promote actual healing. In as little as twenty-one days, The Essential Oils Menopause Solution will help you reclaim vibrant, optimal, and long-lasting health.
Essential Oils Natural Remedies: The Complete A-Z Reference of Essential Oils for Health and Healing
by Althea PressEssential Oils Natural Remedies offers practical, factual, in-depth information on using essential oils to treat over 170 common maladies. From allergies to wasp stings, you'll find the treatment information you need when you need it.
Essential Oils to Boost the Brain and Heal the Body: 5 Steps to Calm Anxiety, Sleep Better, and Reduce Inflammation to Regain Control of Your Health
by Jodi Cohen&“A powerful new cutting-edge and evidence-based approach to help you safely improve digestion, energy, and focus and reverse chronic inflammation, chronic stress, and mood disorders.&”—Terry Wahls, MD, author of The Wahls Protocol&“A book you will learn from and refer back to for years to come.&”—Alan Christianson, New York Times bestselling author of The Thyroid Reset DietJust as your cell phone or laptop slows down and drains the battery when too many tabs are left open, your brain fatigues when poorly functioning systems or ailments drain its energy. Complaints of brain fog, fatigue, and ADD/ADHD are on the rise and growing every year. All of these factors can block the brain's ability to detoxify and heal. If toxins are not eliminated, they recirculate in the brain, leading to inflammation, which further compromises your brain. What's more, formal diagnoses of brain-related health challenges like Alzheimer&’s, Parkinson&’s, and ALS are increasing exponentially. Here's the good news: Plant-based essential oils are a powerful self-care tool for transforming your life and healing on many levels, even when prescription drugs have failed. In Jodi Cohen&’s five-step protocol, the body's natural systems are jump-started with essential oil recipe blends that can: • Alleviate stress, anxiety, and depression• Improve sleep • Calm pain and inflammation • Increase energy, sharpen focus, and improve memory• Improve digestion and promote weight loss• Strengthen your immune system Armed with Cohen&’s five steps, you&’ll be able to start your own essential oils regimen immediately and be on your way to a healthier body and brain!
The Essential Over 35 Pregnancy Guide
by Ellen LavinThe good news about having a baby when you're over 35 Age 35-plus can be a great time to have a baby, and the chances for getting pregnant and carrying to term are good. Every day in the United States, more than a thousand women over the age of 35 give birth to healthy babies. Ellen Lavin, a marriage, family and child counselor specializing in pregnancy issues, and the 44-year-old mother of a three-year-old son, provides the answers every later-in-life mother is looking for, from pre conception thoughts to childbirth. Get the most up-to-date information about: Specific steps to take in preparing yourself for a healthy pregnancy How to improve your chances of getting pregnant The biology of conceiving after 40 The common-sense, positive reality about delivering a healthy baby at 35 and over Prenatal tests: the benefits and risks, including a thorough look at amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling Myths vs. reality about health risks during pregnancy Causes and likelihood of miscarriage Getting past your fears and embracing your pregnancy When to consider infertility treatment and what to expect and much more Including: Month-by-month pregnancy progress, with particular attention to the concerns of women having a baby later in life.
Essential Pain Pharmacology: The Prescriber's Guide
by Marco Pappagallo Howard S. SmithEssential Pain Pharmacology: The Prescriber's Guide expertly reviews the most important medications used to relieve pain, now considered by many physicians as the fifth vital sign. The catalogue of analgesics has expanded rapidly, and this text presents the most up-to-date, comprehensive array of agents available for prescribing. Each clear and concise drug entry covers the range of indications, advantages and disadvantages, and tips for appropriate dosing and avoiding adverse effects. A separate section covers nutraceuticals, a class of drug increasingly used to manage chronic pain, yet little discussed in medical literature. The detailed description of each medication enables the user to make quick and informed decisions, confident that they are best serving the needs of their patients. Practical 'pearls' for each entry provide a quick go-to reference for the key information to consider before prescribing. This concise user-friendly reference is a must-have on the shelf of every physician.
The Essential Pocket Guide for Clinical Nutrition
by Mary Width Tonia ReinhardIn today’s fast-paced healthcare world, it’s crucial to have the information you need when you need it. The Essential Pocket Guide for Clinical Nutrition, Fourth Edition is a quick reference guide for dietitians, students, interns, and other health professionals actively engaged in clinical nutrition. The easily readable format incorporates tables and boxes for immediate access to evidence-based information on nutritional assessment, nutrition support, life-stage nutrition, and nutrition considerations for specific diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and gastrointestinal diseases. All-inclusive resources and relevant appendices such as laboratory assessment and food-drug interactions, save the clinician from carrying around separate resources. There is no comparable pocket guide on the market that includes this comprehensive coverage of clinical nutrition.
Essential Pregnancy Q&A: Expert Answers and Advice for Every Stage of Your Pregnancy and Postpartum Journey
by Bryn Huntpalmer Courtney Butts Lindsey Meehleis Emiliano ChaviraQuick answers to your pregnancy questions—from the experts Pregnancy is a fascinating time, bringing plenty of change—and often, plenty of questions. Now the answers are in your hands. The Essential Pregnancy Q&A provides concise, reliable answers to over 250 common queries about pregnancy, labor, and postpartum—to put your mind at ease through every trimester and beyond. Four pregnancy and postpartum experts address a wide range of subjects, including physical and emotional symptoms, food and nutrition, labor and childbirth, and taking care of yourself and baby after birth. A comprehensive table of contents lets you skip right to the answers you need—whenever you need them. The Essential Pregnancy Q&A includes: Ask the experts—You're in good hands with a team assembled by an experienced pregnancy podcaster and blogger, including midwife Lindsey Meehleis, OBGYN Dr. Emiliano Chavira, and perinatal mental health expert and doula Courtney Butts. 250+ answers—Get guidance for pressing questions like "When does nausea typically ease up?" "What are labor contractions and how will I know it's the real deal?" and "How often do newborns eat?" At-a-glance—The clear, user-friendly layout includes overviews of what to expect in each trimester, questions with answers sorted by topic, and a medication safety chart. The answers to your pregnancy questions are at your fingertips with the Essential Pregnancy Q&A.
Essential Psychic Healing: A Complete Guide to Healing Yourself, Healing Others, and Healing the Earth
by Diane SteinAuthor and healer Diane Stein brings to the layperson psychic healing techniques once assumed to be too esoteric to use without highly specialized knowledge, years of training, and a paranormal gift. ESSENTIAL PSYCHIC HEALING helps us tap into the potent healing power of our own psychic energies. For the beginner, Diane offers theory and instruction in basic meditation, visualization, kundalini energy, chakras, and auras. Those at the intermediate level will learn to utilize spirit guides and angels, and how to use healing crystals, hands-on healing methods, emotional release work, and remote healing. An advanced program discusses healing karma and past lives, soul retrieval, releasing entities, spirit attachments, and understanding and aiding the death process. Whether you are new to or well acquainted with these principles, ESSENTIAL PSYCHIC HEALING is an indispensable primer.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Essential Psychology: A Concise Introduction
by Philip Banyard Dr Belinda Winder Mark N. Davies Dr Christine NormanFor students studying psychology for the first time Essential Psychology: A Concise Introduction represents a fresh alternative to the range of expensive, US-oriented titles on the market that are full of topics you need but also many you don't need on your course. <P><P> This UK team-authored textbook is written by psychologists who specialize in each of the subject areas covered in their research and teaching. Spanning 18 chapters, but concentrating on the six fundamental topic areas taught at introductory level - Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Biological Psychology Social Psychology, Developmental Psychology and The Psychology of Individual Differences.<P> This textbook has everything students need to know inside, is stylish and colourful, and has an abundance of learning features to make the start of the student journey an enjoyable and successful one too. A range of reflective devices encourage critical thinking about these topics to provide a handy companion as students progress.<P> Visit the companion website at www.sagepub.co.uk/banyard
Essential Readings in Biosemiotics
by Donald FavareauSynthesizing the findings from a wide range of disciplines - from biology and anthropology to philosophy and linguistics - the emerging field of Biosemiotics explores the highly complex phenomenon of sign processing in living systems. Seeking to advance a naturalistic understanding of the evolution and development of sign-dependent life processes, contemporary biosemiotic theory offers important new conceptual tools for the scientific understanding of mind and meaning, for the development of artificial intelligence, and for the ongoing research into the rich diversity of non-verbal human, animal and biological communication processes. Donald Favareau's Essential Readings in Biosemiotics has been designed as a single-source overview of the major works informing this new interdiscipline, and provides scholarly historical and analytical commentary on each of the texts presented. The first of its kind, this book constitutes a valuable resource to both bioscientists and to semioticians interested in this emerging new discipline, and can function as a primary textbook for students in biosemiotics, as well. Moreover, because of its inherently interdisciplinary nature and its focus on the 'big questions' of cognition, meaning and evolutionary biology, this volume should be of interest to anyone working in the fields of cognitive science, theoretical biology, philosophy of mind, evolutionary psychology, communication studies or the history and philosophy of science.
Essential Reiki: A Complete Guide to an Ancient Healing Art
by Diane SteinReiki is an ancient and profoundly simple system of "laying on of hands" healing derived from Tibetan Buddhism. In the West, Reiki has been kept highly secret for many years. ESSENTIAL REIKI presents full information on all three degrees of this healing system, most of it in print for the first time. Teaching from the perspective that Reiki healing belongs to all people, Diane Stein breaks new ground in her classic guide to this ancient practice. While no book can replace the directly received Reiki "attunements," ESSENTIAL REIKI provides everything else that the healer, practitioner, and teacher of this system needs.From the Hardcover edition.
Essential Reiki Teaching Manual: A Companion Guide for Reiki Healers
by Diane SteinReiki master and best-selling author Diane Stein has been a dedicated hands-on healer since 1988. Stein believes strongly that this powerful healing art, once a closely guarded secret tradition, should be accessible and available to all. Since she began teaching in 1990, Stein has initiated thousands of students in all three levels of Reiki healing. Through these efforts she developed a comprehensive teaching method that encompasses the fundamentals of this ancient system. The ESSENTIAL REIKI TEACHING MANUAL equips the Reiki initiate with the practical tools needed for launching a Reiki healing practice, leading a Reiki workshop, and becoming a more effective Reiki practitioner. This hands-on instructional guide together with the digitally re-mastered DIANE STEIN'S ESSENTIAL REIKI WORKSHOP DVD is the next best thing to a personal teaching session with Diane Stein herself.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Essential Resources for Mindfulness Teachers
by Rebecca S. CraneEssential Resources for Mindfulness Teachers offers the reader a wealth of knowledge about the explicit and implicit aspects of mindfulness-based teaching. The book focuses on how to develop the craft of teaching mindfulness-based courses and is divided into three parts. Part I addresses the explicit elements of mindfulness-based courses, such as how to offer meditation practices and inquiry. Part II investigates the subtle but powerful implicit qualities needed within the teacher to convey the essence of mindfulness. Part III is a series of chapters on the underpinnings, considerations, and theories surrounding the teaching of mindfulness-based courses, and includes a new framework for reflective practice – the Mindfulness-Based Interventions: Teaching and Learning Companion (the TLC). The book is a core companion text for both trainees and established mindfulness-based teachers, and is a resource you will return to again and again.
Essential Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens: CBT and Mindfulness Tools to Soothe Stress and Cultivate Calm
by Carla Cirilli AndrewsPractical exercises to help teens manage stress and stay positive Having the right tools can help you stay calm and collected even when you get overwhelmed, whether it's dealing with the stress of school, family, friends, jobs, or more. The Essential Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens is filled with therapy-based strategies, like embracing gratitude, using self-care, and working with mantras, that will help you bounce back from anxious feelings, communicate about your stress effectively, and tackle everyday challenges. This stress reduction workbook for teens gives you: The facts about stress—Learn how stress affects your brain and body as you explore questions, quizzes, activities, and writing prompts that will help you think about stress in a healthier way. A chance to get to know yourself—Practice techniques like mindfulness and visualization to help you face your fears and build self-confidence, making it easier to be resilient and release negative thoughts. Real-life scenarios—Read examples of stressful situations you might encounter, and practice using the skills you've learned to come up with effective solutions. Discover a stress reduction workbook for teens that gives you the tools to stay positive and confident.
The Essential Tantra: A Modern Guide to Sacred Sexuality
by Kenneth Ray StubbsThree books earlier published combined into one with some additional information provided by the author from more recent study. Openly describes and discusses erotic massage and the role of spirituality in our sexual lives. Though the massage techniques might be used by anyone to improve sexual experiences, the spiritual aspects require a more advanced understanding of spirituality.
The Essential Tantra
by Kenneth Ray Stubbs Kyle SpencerFor the first time, Kenneth Ray Stubbs brings together the books of his beloved "Secret Garden Trilogy"--Tantric Massage, Sensual Ceremony, and Sacred Orgasms--into one complete volume. In this three-in-one book, couples will find the broadest range of creative ideas and resources available in any Tantric guide.
The Essential Teachings of Sasang Medicine: An Annotated Translation of Lee Je-ma's Dongeui Susei Bowon
by Gary WagmanSasang Medicine, the only complete Korean medical system and philosophy, is made accessible in English for the first time through this annotated translation of Lee Je-ma's foundational text, the Dongeui Susei Bowon. Including a philosophical exploration of human emotions and constitutions, and comprehensive explanation of the Four Constitutions and their effects on health, the Dongeui Susei Bowon offers a unique approach to any health concern. It also includes examples of specific cases and how to apply over one hundred herbal formulae for effective treatment according to the energetic requirements of each Sasang constitution. Rigorous translation, explanatory introduction explaining the relationship to and differences from Chinese medicine, detailed footnotes, and commentary by a practicing doctor of Korean medicine fully elucidates Lee Je-ma's text for a thorough understanding of Sasang Medicine.
Essential Transcendentalists
by Geldard Richard G.An anthology of core writings by the New England Transcendentalists, providing a unique overview of these landmark figures as spiritual thinkers. Interest abounds in the work of the Transcendentalists, such as Emerson, Thoreau, and Bronson Alcott. Each year, tens of thousands of readers rediscover Transcendental thought in books and articles, and in visits to historic sites, such as Walden Pond. But few appreciate the truly mystical and contemplative qualities of the Transcendentalists, and the spiritual movements and figures they have since inspired. As Richard G. Geldard-one of today's leading scholars of Emerson-illustrates in The Essential Transcendentalists, Transcendentalism adds up to a school of practical spiritual philosophy that aims to guide the individual toward inner development, much like that of Stoicism in Western antiquity. This current of New England mysticism has influenced modern-day luminaries as diverse as essayist Annie Dillard and Ernest Holmes, founder of the worldwide Religious Science movement. Through revealing commentary, historical overview, and selections from classic works, The Essential Transcendentalists provides a distinctive and heretofore neglected examination of the spiritual breadth and depth of Yankee mysticism.
Essential Transcendentalists
by Richard G. GeldardInterest abounds in the work of the Transcendentalists, such as Emerson, Thoreau, and Bronson Alcott. Each year, tens of thousands of readers rediscover Transcendental thought in books and articles, and in visits to historic sites, such as Walden Pond. But few appreciate the truly mystical and contemplative qualities of the Transcendentalists, and the spiritual movements and figures they have since inspired. As Richard G. Geldard-one of today's leading scholars of Emerson-illustrates in The Essential Transcendentalists, Transcendentalism adds up to a school of practical spiritual philosophy that aims to guide the individual toward inner development, much like that of Stoicism in Western antiquity. This current of New England mysticism has influenced modern-day luminaries as diverse as essayist Annie Dillard and Ernest Holmes, founder of the worldwide Religious Science movement. Through revealing commentary, historical overview, and selections from classic works, The Essential Transcendentalists provides a distinctive and heretofore neglected examination of the spiritual breadth and depth of "Yankee mysticism."