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Luminous Emptiness: A Guide to the Tibetan Book of the Dead

5 reviews
Francesca Fremantle

Shambhala, 2003

Unpacking Sacred Allegory
This is a book about a very precious book, a guidebook to a guidebook if you will. I feel a deep sense of gratitude to Padmasambhava and Karma Lingpa for giving The Tibetan Book of the Dead to the world, and to Chogyam Trungpa and Francesca Fremantle for opening it up to the average English-speaker. Luminous Emptiness is a great help in digesting Padmasambhava's precious teaching on the ...

A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry

15 reviews

Harvest Books, 1998

An anthology of epiphanies
To call this excellent collection of poems an "international" anthology is a bit presumptuous. The bulk of the poems were written by poets whose native language is American (88), Chinese (53), Polish (35) or French (16). The selection, however, aptly reflects the geographical stations in the life of the Nobel Prize winner of 1980, Czeslaw Milosz. Born in 1911, he lived in Poland until 1951 when ...

Luminous Web: Essays on Science and Religion

6 reviews
Barbara Brown Taylor

Cowley Publications, 2000

Profoundly rewarding reading.
In The Luminous Web, Barbara Taylor describes her own journey as an Episcopal priest (holding the Harry R. Butman Chair in Religion and Philosophy at Piedmont College in Demorest, Georgia) trying to learn what the insights of quantum physics, the new biology, and chaos theory can teach the Christian believer. In explaining why the church should care about the new discovers and insights into the ...

Luminous Landscapes: Quilted Visions in Paint and Thread

7 reviews
Gloria Loughman

C&T Publishing, 2007

A luminous book
This book is one of the best I've seen. There are some well written and well-organised sections dealing with the principles of composition, colour and stitching techniques. Gloria usually starts her landscapes with a painted background, so she gives a short well-illustrated section on fabric painting. Most of that stuff is available elsewhere, but it is assembled and illustrated particularly ...

Luminous Essence: A Healer's Personal Story of Body, Light and Energy

2 reviews
Daniel Santos

Quest Books, 1997

Luminous Essence: New Light on the Healing Body an Alternati
I found this gem at a booksale and was overjoyed to be finding something about the "luminous essence" --meaning our lightbody and how it relates to alternative healing. While I believe some of the best parts in the book are his relaying information from his teachers, he has provided us with valuable information--particularly pertinent to energy therapists. This book provided a bridge for me from ...

Luminous Mind: Fundamentals of Spiritual Practice

3 reviews
Kyabje Kalu

Wisdom Publications, 1996

The ESSENTIAL Kalu Rinpoche teachings!
There are now several books out there which present the teachings of His Eminence Kalu Rinpoche, and many of them are quite good. However, when people ask me to recommend one book, this is the one I tell them to get. This book is very well-organized, and provides a wealth of information about Tibetan Buddhism in general, and Kalu Rinpoche's lineages (Shangpa Kagyu and Karma Kagyu) in ...

Luminous Mountains: The Sierra Nevada of California

2 reviews
Tim Palmer

Heyday Books/Yosemite Association, 2008

The Sierra Nevada captured in mind and heart
This book is the product of two passions: Tim Palmer the hiker and environmentalist palpably loves the Sierras while Tim Palmer the artist is drawn to the effects of light on this sacred place. The text makes clear a lifelong curiosity about and education in the many intersecting elements of these mountains. The pictures make clear a sympathy of eye and heart. Award winning author and ...

The Luminous Brush: Painting With Egg Tempera

6 reviews
Altoon Sultan

Watson-Guptill Publications, 1999

The Only Current 'How-To' for Egg Tempera Painting
While I own and have read Daniel V. Thompson, Jr.'s book The Practice of Tempera Painting I'm glad I have Sultan's book as well. I don't know how hatching and cross-hatching can be construed as "uninspired" since this is the traditional method egg tempera artists employ to create paintings. Neither is Sultan's book a "dumbed-down" instruction manual of Thompson's book. The Luminous Brush is a ...

Luminous Debris: Reflecting on Vestige in Provence and Languedoc

2 reviews
Gustaf Sobin

University of California Press, 2000

A brilliant book: History that reads like poetry...
Gustav Sobin's book is a fascinating archaeological and anthropological exploration of the tantalizing remnants of human history in Southern France... This book reads like poetry, and yet it is guaranteed to fill its readers with the wonders of human life, history, and the passing of time... The author's deep understanding of past events lends authority and credibility to the magnificence of his ...

Luminous Mind: Meditation And Mind Fitness

2 reviews
Joel Levey, Michelle Levey

Conari Press, 2006

Luminous Mind: Meditation And Mind Fitness
I have read a lot of books on meditation. In fact, I have a shelf full of titles looking at or teaching meditation for relaxation, awareness, contemplation, and spiritual enlightenment from various religious, spiritual, scientific, health, and interfaith perspectives. Really, I should have saved all my money and just bought Luminous Mind: Meditation and Mind Fitness. If you are interested in ...

From Luminous Hot Stars to Starburst Galaxies (Cambridge Astrophysics)
Peter S. Conti, Paul Crowther, ...

Cambridge University Press, 2008

Before exploding as supernovae, luminous hot stars live out their lives of a few million years with prodigious outputs of radiation and stellar winds, dramatically affecting both their evolution and environments. This book offers a detailed introduction to the astrophysics of these massive stars and how they contribute to the evolution of galaxies and starburst phenomena. HII galaxies, their connection to starburst galaxies, and the contribution ...

Luminous

4 reviews
Greg Egan

Gollancz, 1999

Gets the neurons firing double time
This is an excellent collection of hard sci-fi shorts. The stories start on a groudwork of scientific/mathematical speculations and soar from there, exploring a diverse range of themes. Egan can truly envelope you in another world, and show the consequences of the story's central idea. Anyone with an innate curiousity for science/mathematics and a love of sci fi should definately check these ...

Luminous Fish: Tales of Science and Love (Sciencewriters)

4 reviews
Lynn Margulis

Chelsea Green Publishing, 2007

A strong literary debut for Lynn Margulis
A suite of connected short stories concluding with a memoir of a youthful encounter with J. Robert Oppenheimer, Luminous Fish is the first work of literary fiction published by world-class microbiologist Lynn Margulis. Revolving around the work and love lives of practicing scientists, it's delivered with a punch. Margulis has an accomplished style: these fictions are immediately enjoyable and ...

Mandala: Luminous Symbols for Healing, 10th Anniversary Edition with a New CD of Meditations and Exercises

7 reviews
Judith Cornell

Quest Books, 2006

Incredibly AWE inspiring!
Mandala: Luminous Symbols for Healing, by Judith Cornell, is absolutely the most incredibly beautiful book I've ever held in my hands. Holding and looking at it, even before reading, is like a sacred experience. Is it the beauty of the lay-out and illustrations? The very real spiritual impact of the mandalas presented, both historical and contemporary? A moment of healing even in the ...

The Luminous Dusk: Finding God in the Deep, Still Places

2 reviews
Dale C., Jr. Allison

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2006

Whole book is a paradoxical challenge to action and yet to stillness
"When Jack's mother threw her son's beans out the window, her intent was not to induce the adventure that followed." This is one of the best sentences in this whole, rich book. It also happens to be the first line of chapter 1, which more accurately is chapter 2, the introduction being a substantial essay itself. And there's no mistaking that this is a book of essays, loosely connected, ...

Wrightsville Beach: The Luminous Island
Ray McAllister

John F Blair Pub, 2007

Soon after crossing the drawbridge from the mainland, you'll reach a fork in the road and face your first decision at Wrightsville Beach. Bearing left will take you to the famous Johnnie Mercer's Fishing Pier and near the site where a giant sperm whale named Trouble once washed ashore and refused to leave. Bearing right will take you to the classic downtown and points south, including the Coast Guard station and the site of the late, great ...

The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite
Beatrice Colin

John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2008

The History of Luminous Motion

14 reviews
Scott Bradfield

Picador USA, 1996

What a great surprise..
I accidentally found this book while browsing the stacks of a local bookstore and was really surprised that I hadn't heard of the book or the author. Not many writers have the ability to startle me with such a wonderful writing style coupled with a zesty storyline. This is one of those books whose words are placed together with great feeling and care, resulting in a sharp, clear and ...

Ten Luminous Emanations I
Yehuda Ashlag

Research Centre of Kabbalah, 1994

Before our universe came into existence there existed an infinite endless realm of total fulfillment and perfection. Suddenly it all seemed to vanish and the Big Bang was born leaving behind a finite realm of existence where chaos suffering and pain would apparently be the rule. The most profound mystic of the 20th century Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag reveals the process of creation leading up to the Big Bang origins of our universe.

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