Conscious Relationships

Shared Heart: Relationship Initiations... and Celebrations
by Joyce and Barry Vissell,
with a foreward by Ram Dass.
-A Hippie Classic'

If you are fortunate or lucky enough to have a partner willing to take the time to actually do the techniques in this book, you will find ultimate joy. This is a classic and really important work for any relationship based on honesty, sensuality and living in spirit. This book encourages growth and the need for constant 'refreshing' of your shared energies instead of just 'getting by.' Both of you need to do the exercises seperatly and together--or it will be just one more "wish we had a relationship like that' book collecting dust on your shelves.

The stories and exercises are truly beautiful-- they will take all the sef-honesty you have and bring up everything or most everything that you have buried in order not to experience a total, open and loving relationship with you and your ppartner.

Ecstasy Is a New Frequency
by Chris Griscom.

CHRIS GRISOM EXPLAINS THE DIFFERENT BODIES THAT MAKE UP OUR EXPERIENCE.

THE PHYSICAL BODY,WHAT OUR SOUL SELECTS AS THE VEHICLE IN WHICH TO HAVE OUR INTERACTIONS,

THE MENTAL BODY, WHICH CONTROLS THE PHYSICAL BODY AND CAN ACT AS A TREMONDOUS BLOCK OR BRIDGE DEPENDING ON HOW IT IS USED TO FURTHER SPRIRITUAL PROGRESS,

THE SPRIRITUAL BODY,THE UNMANIFEST PART OF OURSELVES WHAT WE RECOGNIZE IN OTHERS, LIKE WHEN WE FIRST MEET SOMEONE AND KNOW WE KNOW THEM, AND

THE EMOTIONAL BODY, THE STICKY AND MOST EARTH BOUND PART OF HUMANS. THE EMOTIONAL BODY KNOWS NO SENSE OF TIME OF SPACE IT IS COMPLETELY SELF SEFFECIENT AND CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED BY THE SPIRITUAL BODY,

AND SO IT IS UP TO US TO BECOME AWARE ENOUGH TO QUICKEN OUR FREQUENCY SO THAT THE EMOTIONAL BODY CAN LIGHTEN AND RELEASE THE INFINITE AMOUNT OF PAIN AND ANGER AND EXPERIENCE THAT IS HELD THERE, TO COME INTO THE LIGHT. THERE IS SO MUCH IN THIS BOOK, COSMIC ORGASM, ASTRAL ENERGETICS,THE UNENDING PULSATION OF LIFE AND DEATH, AND THAT AS WE PROCEED THAT TOO WILL BECOME UNNECESSARY FOR OUR GROWTH. A STUNNING AND YES VERY CHALLENGING BOOK, VERY VERY VERY MUCH WORTH THE EFFORT.

The Healing of Emotion: Awakening the Fearless Self
by Chris Griscom
A warm dunk for your whole being in the cosmic pool. Chris Griscom writes with experience and solidarity that few can claim. The more i read other authors the more i feel how practical the applications are that she speaks of.Many authors get caught up in simply writing about the endless mysteries of the universe,some give notions of what needs to be done about it,but few offer such potent "exersizes in conciousness" as she. There is a whole chapter in this book of them. Working with light, the emotional body, your inner child, the benefits of spinning. All of this is based on working with color as energy, feeding whatever speck of the hologram that comes up at you with the "fuel"it needs. This is a truly fulfilling thing to do for your soul daily.

In this book she writes about sexuality between parents and children, the extreme entrapment of the emotional body that cant let go. How we stay too long and become addicted to our parents then to our lovers then to our children in our futile search to not bend, our fear of letting go. As Chris says fear is the only disease on this planet.If you want to read an author who will offer you an explanation and a tool to use to help let go of your density and bring in the light,she is the one.Highly recommended for those who dont just want to read about the coming Age Of Light but want to be active members.

Conscious Breathing and Oming

The Breathing Book
by Donna Farhi.
An introduction to breathwork-especially important sections for the shared breath for couples, minding the breath and cultivating mindfulness.

Concious Breathing
by Gay Hendricks.
"In your lifetime you will breathe in and out more than a hundred million times.... What if you made a tiny improvement in something you did that many times?" So queries Hendricks, a professor of counseling at the University of Colorado and author of Conscious Loving, at the start of this quietly assured guide. His guided breathing exercises, most done lying down and in combination with gentle movements, are designed to free the movement of the diaphragm, increase oxygenation and relax the body. Benefits can include stress reduction, pain management, improved health and spiritual growth. In his discussion of the anatomy of breathing

"Ultimately," Hendricks asserts, "breathing can be a path to that most essential of human experiences: learning to love." Thereafter, his amply illustrated book provides basic and advanced breath-work lessons and a 10-minute daily breathing program. Calling himself his "own best client," Hendricks builds a convincing case for his addition to alternative-healing therapies.
I suggest this book as a step to higher breathing techniques you will find in certain Yoga techniques and therapies. A good place to start learning about the importance of breath and breathing and how it affects every aspect of your life including your sexuality, sensuality and overall health.

Science of Breath
by Swami Rama
-Highly Recommended-
People laughed at the image of pretzel-legged yogis focusing on the tip of their noses- until Swami Rama walked into a laboratory and showed scientists what a yogi with control over his respiration can actually do. Before astonished researchers, he demonstrated perfect control over his heart rate and brain waves- control physiologists hadnt believed humans could possibly achieve.

For thousands of years, yogic adepts have claimed that breath is the essential link between body and mind, energizing a subtle body which connects the physical and mental aspects of our being. In this landmark book, Swami Rama and two noted American physicians explore the science of breath as the missing key to both physical health and the attainment of higher states of consciousness. Basic yogic breathing techniques are explained so that we can immediately begin working with this powerful ancient science.

Path of Fire and Light,
Vol. 1: Advanced Practices of Yoga
by Swami Rama

Visitors to 60s & Further can I please advise you to make sure
you are first very well established in the first 2 levels of Yoga before you embark on any Pranayama (breath-control).
-LionHeart-

First be steeped in Yama(abstinences - alcohol, drugs, sex, meat, etc) and Niyama(observances - love, kindness, non-harm, patience, etc) before moving on to asanas(postures) and especially pranayama. Every swami will tell you that if you are not living a committed Spiritual life in every respect, then practicing the 4th level of Yoga - breathing exercises, especially the advanced ones, can potentially be harmful. You should really only practice techniques like this within the framework of a spiritual society and Guru-disciple relationship. Breathing techniques force prana up the subtle spine, thus awakening higher and higher chakra's. This process should occur naturally and gradually as part of a disciplined spiritual life - it should not be forced.

AUM: a Meditation in Sound (Audio CD)
by Swami Rama
Recorded in an ancient shiva temple on the banks of the Ganges in Northern India, Swami Rama chants AUM as the temple bells sympathetically resonate and the entire temple vibrates and reverberates with this cosmic sound, radiating peace and harmony throughout the universe.

Sensual Scents and Aromas

Botanica Erotica: Arousing Body, Mind, and Spirit
by Diane De Luca.
In this stunningly beautiful book, veteran herbalist Diana DeLuca shows us how to use safe and available herbs in ways that enhance and increase sensuality. . . . Much more than simply being a compendium of herbal aphrodisiacs, Botanica Erotica is dedicated to exploring the realm of the erotic by using your entire being.
"Botanica Erotica blends real herbalism with a joyful affirmation of sensuality, one that can come only when real experience blends with the consciousness of a green wise woman.  A compendium of herbal aphrodisiacs. Herbs to help enhance and increase your sensuality and your partners. This is a beautiful book!!!

Essence of Love: Fragrance, Aphrodisiacs, and Aromatherapy for Lovers
by Maggie Tisserand.
Smell is one of the lover's most important senses, and this interesting book shows how to use perfumes and aromatic oils to engender and enhance a romantic mood and subsequent loveplay. It includes an erotic history of smell; unusual tips for scenting rooms, gift boxes, and personal items; instructions in the art of massage; ways to achieve sexual fulfillment; and a number of recipes for scented lotions. One small warning: although many of the recipes belong to traditional aromatherapy--meant to soothe the skin, relieve stress, and refresh the mind--a few make claims for positive medical effects, such as those intended to cure cystitis or genital lesions. To the author's credit, she does state that aromatic remedies should not replace a visit to the doctor but can be used in conjunction with professional medical care.
How to use perfumes and aromatic oils to enhance your sensual and sexual life. A wonderful section on the erotic history of smell.

The Fragrant Mind: Aromatherapy for Personality, Mind, Mood, and Emotion
by Valerie Ann Worwood
There are lots of chapters, including 8, which has wonderfully sensitive and understanding text, plus oils and formulas, for an A-Z of "emotional problems" from abuse, addictions, aggression, amnesia, anxiety, apathy ..... and that's just the A's! And it's all so thorough - Under addictions there's drug alcohol and nicotine addiction, each with suggested oils and recipes to use. But, hey, this book is about positive mind frame, so is equally thorough in it's advice for alertness, assertiveness, concentration, confidence, contentment, creativity, focus, happiness, joy, memory enhancement, peace, performance, positivity, restfulness, self-awareness, self-esteen, self image.

Scents and Scentuality: Essential oils and Aromatherapy for Romance, Love, and Sex
by Valerie Ann Wormwood.
"A wondeful study in romantic and sexual aromatherapy. How essential oils work to affect our emotions and hormonal release. Wow! The author examines the powerful sense of smell and shows how pure essential oils of nature can enhance the pleasures of daily life, with emphasis on the romantic side of life. The chapters discuss questions like What are essential oils? How to use them, The scentuous woman, The scentuous man and Synergistic blends of oils, among others. The text includes many tables of oils suitable to various body types and hair colours as well as tables recommending the right oils for a variety of conditions including tension, stress, anxiety and depression. This is quite an authoritative book on essential oils and their applications with a beautifully illustrated text. An extensive bibliography and index round off this valuable contribution to the literature on the therapeutic uses of fragrance. Definitely a must for aromatherapists and for practitioners of alternative medicine."

The Art of Sensual Aromatherapy: A Lover's Guide to Using Aromatic Oils and Essences
by Nitya Lacroix, Sakina Bowhay
Sensual Aromatherapy shows you how to combine aromatic essential oils with massage, allowing you to enhance your relationship sexually, emotionally, and spiritually. Explore a holistic approach to sensual aromatherapy; follow specially created massage programs; discover self–massage; follow aromatherapy recipes devised to create sexual openness; find out which oils have aphrodisiac qualities; and learn how to create a sensual ambience by evoking all the senses.
As alternative medicine becomes increasingly accepted, many therapies are now being recommended by physicians to be used in conjunction with orthodox medicine.

Nature's Aphrodisiacs
by Nancy L. Nickell
Nancy Nickell is an educational writer, lecturer, research, and textbook author in the subjects of food, nutrition, and alternative therapies, In Nature's Aphrodisiacs, Nickell's surveys and carefully examines the latest research on natural aphrodisiacs for initiating, restoring, or augmenting human sexuality for men and women. There have been folk lore and folk medicine with respect to substances found in nature and thought to enhanced human sexuality. Nickell's explores the question as to whether or not there are scientific explanations or verifications for everything from oysters to powdered rhinoceros horn. Nature's Aphrodisiacs clearly separates fact from fiction, and superstition from science, as the non-specialist general reader is capably informed as to what genuine aphrodisiacs really are, and what they can do when properly administered. Very highly recommended for personal, academic, and community library human sexuality reading lists and reference collections.

Sexual Magick

Sex, Drugs and Magick
by Robert Anton Wilson.
R. A. Wilson's early book on secret orders of the old and drugs of today. Mystics and psychedelics, cops and addicts. Promiscuity and frigidity. All of these are taken into account, which is definately a scholarly look into the world of drugs and whether or not they are dangerous as well as the uses for them and their user intentions.

Each chapter looks in depth into a different drug, there are 5 main drugs: LSD, Cocaine, Alcohol, Marijuana, and Heroin. After each chapter there is a story that gives a personal account of someone RAW met whom had troubles with dugs, either of addiction or some other problem that drugs helped or caused damage. Overall its an objective look into drugs, although Wilson gives some hints that he is pro-drugs (by the fact that he himslef clearly states his use of drugs). However, like Leary and Crowley, the use of drugs should be used moderately, intelligently and with a guide.

The reason this book did not get 5 stars is because A) there are so many mispellings in this book that New Falcon should look it over again, or whoever edits this book should be replaced. B) R. A. Wilson, although it is quite clear in how intelligent he is, and his comprehension level is amazing, yet he takes a complex subject like the works of Aleister Crowley and explains the message behind the veil (perhaps it can be argued of what Crowley is really saying, but this is what I gatehred in the reading). Robert A. Wilson shows Crowleys work in a new light, certainly, but it was too explanatory and made Crowleys work too obvious to enjoy the mystery behind the works of the great Magician. Nonetheless, however, I feel its a good companion to the rest of Wilson's work, and by right it fits in niceley.

Wilson has done a great job researching his material showing both the cons and pros of drugs which would make one not only more aware of the drug they choose (if they choose, as well as drugs in themselves), but also being aware of the circumstances surrounding them as well as consequences. Recommended with this book is Timothy Leary's book "The Delicious Grace of Moving One's Hand."

This classic explains how drugs have been used through the ages as paths to mystical experience. The pros and cons of drug use with the help of Tim Leary and Aliester Crowley. A must read for Higher Awareness.

"This book takes a rather interesting point of view that will not sit well with those who do not think... To do the quality and type of work pointed out here is well beyond the capabilities of the average. An intelligent reviewer might find themselves practicing sex, pranyama and the ingestion of THC while keeping strict and accurate journals that may be peer reviewed." (Amazon Review)

Fragrant Magic: Modern Spells and Rituals to Evoke the Protective Powers of Perfume Magic
by Eason Cassandra
No review yet--but it looks fascinating.

Modern Sex Magick
by Donald Kraig
This book is great for anyone starting out in Magick. Even if you're not aspiring to be a sex magickian, the information is useful and Kraig points out that even the non-sexual practicioner would benefit greatly just from the experience of experimenting with it. Be forewarned that some of the historical data Kraig suggests is questionable, and there are some assertions made about the OTO which I am uncertain about the accuracy of. But it is definitely refreshing to see an author writing so extensively about sex magick who is somewhat familiar with systems such as the Golden Dawn and OTO. He also is very clear about the differences between Tantra and Sex Magick, which puts Kraig miles ahead of many current writer's on the subject.

Sex Magic, Tantra & Tarot: The Way of the Secret Lover
by Christopher S. Hyatt, Lon Milo Duquette
First of all this book is simple to understand and the directions are quite clear. This is a book that can change you for the better if you work it. Its a way of using the tarot in a special reading "not an ordinary divination" to know of yourself on a more deeper level. It will prepare you for Kundalini and the knowledge and conversation of you Holy Gaurdian Angel. Even if you like I have had in the past and still have the knowledge and conversation this book can help you on a more deeper level. It uses the systems of Tantra, Sex Magick and Ceremonial Magick to achieve this. It also has a chapter on how the Tarot and the Tree of Life and Qabalah are all put together. This book is great for those who wish to have this High Magickal experience, it should not be passed by. The book is 191 pages but dont let that fool you as there is a wealth of information here.

Secrets Of Western Sex Magic
by Frater U.:D.:

This book is German Occult Sex Magic at its finest and most practical.
It is about magic, about using your sexual energy, releasing it, and bringing about changes.

Finally, a book on sex magick clearly written for both men and women, removing the patriarchal bias common to most texts of this genre. 'Secrets of Western Sex Magic' is aimed at consensual adults of any sexual preference or orientation, be they gay, straight, or bisexual. Even going so far as to state that `there is no such thing as total heterosexuality, as there is no such thing as total homosexuality' (pg 162); while in principle I agree, I am certain this will be a point of contention amongst many readers. He suggests that the practitioner aim for the more balanced androgyne, as he says: `Without making needless distinctions, traditional attachments and moral codes are set aside in favor of `Do what thou Wilt'. For the sex mystic, sexuality is a holy expression of one's highest destiny anyway' (pg xii).

Frater U.: D.: does an excellent job laying the ground work and getting, or informing the magician the `right' state or frame of mind, noting that `...it is not necessary to become a perfected, fear-free being to practice sex magic. It is only necessary to face up one's own fears and inhibitions with brutal frankness. If magic shall actually lead to freedom, than it must be transpersonal freedom, optimum in breadth of choice, and not some predefined norm which once more degrades humanity and wants to impose some new straightjacket' (pg 16).

U.: D.: refers to western magick as `applied mythology', referencing many ideas found within chaos magick, noting that `it does not matter which of the models you choose so long as it convinces <I>you personally</I>.' Recommending that one should `become familiar with as many models as possible, because each system has its limits and flexibility is needed for magic' (pg 83), instead taking magickal theories and ideas as `mythical truths' rather than restrictive objective absolutes. Though he cautions that one `should not overdo the individuality of our own correspondences. It is useful to follow traditional correspondences for metals, numbers, colors, gems an deities because they have a certain consistency.' While commenting on the power of `traditional' symbols, because `to use them is to tune into the traditional `current' of these magical symbols, making it easier to work with other magicians from a common basis' (pg 80).

The Wiccan Credo is a Wiccan poem.
Some Wiccans believe that it was written circa 1910 CE by Adriana Porter.
Others suggest that it was created during the very early years of Gardnerian Witchcraft, during the 1940s and 1950s.
1 It includes the text of the main Wiccan rule of behavior, the Wiccan Rede, and a reference to the Threefold Law. 

The third last stanza refers to the Threefold Law. It states, in part:

"Mind the Threefold Law you should,
Three times bad and three times good."

The end of the Credo contains one version of the Wiccan Rede. It reads:

"Eight words the Wiccan Rede fulfill:
An' it harm none,
Do what ye will.
Blessed Be to thee."

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