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Reuben Amber

Color Therapy

Ruben Amber's "Color Therapy" explains that color is a vibration that is constantly affecting us in our daily lives. This book enumerates the myriad ways we can choose to consciously use color to influence our body, mind and soul to promote balanced health and well-being.

PART 1 on the theory and philosophy of Chromotherapy begins with an historical survey of mythology from different parts of the world, drawing on Ayurvedic lore.

The views of modern physics, radionics and researchers including Burr, De La Warr, Reich and Steiner are presented.

PART 2 gives specific applications of color in our environment, with our food, clothing and light sensitizing us to the healing power or the destructive effects of a guided use of color therapy.

A unique feature is the inclusion of an extensive repertory listing the relationship of color, taste, polarity, organs, elements and diseases to foster a holistic use of these techniques. This book is valuable not only for healing already existing imbalances, but ideally, to help us become more aware of how color can create a positive balance within ourselves and impact our environment.

Topics include:

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Books by Reuben Amber
- Color Therapy
- Pulse Diagnosis

Reuben Amber and Babey-Brooke

Pulse Diagnosis

Reuban Amber - Pulse Diagnosis explores the most significant diagnostic technique available to the medical profession - the pulse. This unprecedented text presents a detailed examination of the possible interpretations of this simple indication of the presence of life, from the point of view of four major medical traditions. Included are the historical background, detailed analysis and descriptions of the diagnostic uses of the pulse in Iran, China, India, and the West.

Chinese Healing Precepts
Ayurvedic Philosophy & The Pulse
Technique Of Taking the Pulse
Dreams & The Pulse
The Pregnancy Pulse
The Pulse & Organ Relationships
Arabian Medicine & The Pulse
Diseases & The Pulse
Seasons & The Pulse
The Death Pulse
Pulse Diagnosis is an unparalleled synthesis bridging the gap between contemporary scientific models and the Holistic approach integrating body, mind and spirit in the diagnosis. Dr. Amber offers a treasury of profound insights for all people in the healing professions.

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Books by Reuben Amber

John Guffy

Calvert History

By John Guffey & Rebecca Adamson

1967 Wayne Silby & John Guffey meet at University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. During college they discussed creating an investment company.

1970 Wayne & John graduated from University of Pennsylvania. Wayne goes to Georgetown University Law School while John goes into the US Army

1972 John does post graduate work at Penn State University.

1975 Wayne graduates from Georgetown Law school and starts Bankers Trend, a firm to broker guaranteed portion of SBA loans between banks and institutional investors.

Wayne & John reconnect and begin discussions on starting a mutual fund.

1976 John takes a job with the Department of Labor (DOL) and moves to DC to work with Wayne on creating a mutual fund. They create a partnership, Government Securities Management Co.(GSMC), to act as advisor to the fund.

Wayne & John decide to start a money market fund using variable rate SBA loans as part of its portfolio to get a higher yield than other money market funds. The fund was named the First Variable Rate Fund for Government Investors (FVRF). This is first use of variable rate securities in a money market fund. They hire the first employee, Pam Van Arsdale. She goes on to become one of the first female mutual fund managers.

Wayne sublets office space from a law firm at 1700 Pennsylvania Ave. He continues work on Bankers Trend. In the evenings after work at DOL, John joins Wayne at the office. Both work on registration materials for the new fund with the SEC and the states. Family money provides the initial $100,000 needed to launch the fund.

On December 7, 1976, First Variable Rate Fund for Government Investors (FVRF) is declared available for sale by the SEC and states. The Bank of New York acts as its first custodian and transfer agent. A small NY accounting firm acts as auditor. It ends the year with $102,000 in net assets.

The first shareholders’ meeting of FVRF takes place at Wayne’s parent’s home in Mason City, IA. in December 1976. All shareholders are represented in person or by proxy. Wayne presides and acts as secretary. He recorded, “The shareholders voted to get the show on the road.” Several years later we had to hire the most prestigious law firm in Maryland to opine that this constituted authorization to issue shares and conduct business.

1977 Fund sales are slow despite having the highest yield of any money fund. Wayne manages portfolio and tries to market the fund. John continues at DOL and helps on the fund in the evenings handling accounting and administration. The fund ends the year with $6.9 million in assets, which is still too small to be viable. John goes part time at DOL to give more time to the effort.

1978 The Fund gets some favorable media and sales pick up. They do the first mutual fund interest rate ad in contravention of SEC rules. The SEC takes notice. Wayne Bardsley joins firm as general counsel to deal with SEC issues. SEC changes its rule to allow interest rate ads.

By April the Fund reaches a viable asset level. John leaves DOL to work full time on the fund. The firm hires staff to support the marketing and admin work. GSMC Advisor buys 1715 18th St., NW, DC for company offices (currently Wayne’s home). The fund ends year with $46.1 million in assets.

1979 After achieving the top money fund performance in 1977 & 1978, sales of the fund take off. Wayne and John are unhappy with Bank of NY's service. This is due to errors and many shareholder complaints. They decide to take the transfer agency(TA) in house and move the custody to Riggs Bank in DC. They hire Bill Holloran to write a new TA system. Transition does not go smoothly. Many mistakes were made on shareholder accounts. By end of the year the accounts were straigtened out. Significant new staff were hired to run TA operation. Ernst & Young was hired as auditor. Fund ended the year with $179 million in assets.

With an influx of new college grads as employees, Calvert institutes a casual dress code for employees. This practice very different from the required business attire of the time. This has since been adopted by most companies as business casual.

1980 The firm out grows space at 1700 Pennsylvania and 1715 18th Street. GSMC Advisor purchases Calvert Street building, a former Indian restaurant, for the new offices. FVRF sales remained strong as short-term interest rates went to double digits. Stan Sorrel was hired from Rigs Bank to help with marketing and operations. FVRF reaches $1 billion in net assets. A large gathering was held to celebrate this milestone.

A change in bank regulation that would allow banks to pay unregulated rates on money market accounts was expected. They began making plans to add more funds to meet this new competition and to diversify their offerings. FVRF did not lend itself as a firm name for other funds. The management team chose Calvert for Calvert Street and its connection to the founding family of Maryland (after considering others such as Potomac, Washington, etc.)

In addition to a new company name, they felt the need for a distinctive logo. Wayne suggested the use of the I Ching, an ancient Chinese divination tool in which 3 coins are thrown to indicate broken or unbroken lines to receive guidance for the future. The then 6 senior managers of Calvert (John, Wayne, Wayne Bardsley, Bill Holloran, Stan Sorrell, and Ron Wolfsheimer) met on the roof deck of 1715. Each manager in turn threw the coins. Each got a straight line forming the first hexagram of the I Ching: one of the most powerful symbols in the I Ching canon. This symbolized the creative/dynamic nature of the group. The six lines continue to be Calvert’s logo.

1981 The first funds under the Calvert name were created. Calvert Tax Free Reserves Money Market Portfolio(CTFR-M) and Limited Term Portfolio((CTFR-L)). Dave Rochat, formerly head of fixed income at Donaldson, Lufkin, and Jenrette(DLJ), joined Calvert to manage the new funds. He had retired from DLJ to get out of the Wall Street grind and spend more time with family. He purchased a small farm and moved to Vermont. He opened a Calvert office over a funeral home in Chelsea, VT and supervised the management of the fund from there. The Money Market Portfolio was the top performing municipal money market fund for several years. The Limited Term Portfolio was the first short term municipal bond fund and a solid alternative to a money market fund with a higher yield and slightly higher risk. The new funds were successful, and grew rapidly - ending the year with $32 million in net assets.

At this point, Catherine Bardsley joins the legal department.

In 1981 an accounting clerk embezzled $1 million from the company by wiring it to a Swiss bank account. Fortunately through the bank connections of Riggs Bank, Calvert was able to retrieve all but $50,000. The woman and her boy friend fled to Brazil. She was never prosecuted. This created some adverse publicity, and caused Calvert to re-evaluate and strengthen our controls and procedures. several trustees with extensive investment experience were also added.

Again the company outgrew its quarters on Calvert St., and 18th St., and 1700 Pa. 1700 Pa. was reduced to a walk-in office for shareholders to make purchases. After a search of the DC area, the preference was to stay in DC, but nothing suitable was found. The decision was made to consolidate the offices in the Air Rights Building in downtown Bethesda. This would remain its headquarters for the next 35 years. Bethesda was chosen over other suburban locations due to the impending arrival of Metro.

1982 FVRF and the tax free funds continued to be top performing funds in their categories.

In 1980 or 1981 Wayne Silby attended a seminar focused on the Buddhist concept of right livelihood - a way of thinking that all aspects of one’s life reflect the person’s values and beliefs. Through this group Wayne met several others exploring social investing. These included persons such as; Robert Zevin at U.S. Trust in Boston, Terry Mollner, Grace LeClair, Sydney Morris, and Marc Sarkady. Many of uthem were in college in the 60’s and were influenced by the social movements roiling the country in that period: civil rights, feminism, environmentalism, anti-war, & fear of nuclear war. They felt that others of thier generation would want to invest with their values, and thus created the Calvert Social Investment Fund (SRI) - with a balanced portfolio and a money market portfolio. This is the first SRI money market fund. Most of our mangers were opposed and the investment community was skeptical. While not the first social fund. It was the first to include a comprehensive set of modern value screens. The first set of screens was based on the work of Robert Zevin, with input from Wayne, Terry Mollner, Marc Sarkady, Catherine Barsdsley and Grace LeClair. US Trust was hired as the fund’s sub-advisor. U.

S.Trust provided both social research and stock picking. Calvert managed the money market portfolio.

The first trustees of the fund were Terry Mollner, Rev. Sydney Morris, Richard Baird, Wayne, and John. Terry pushes the board to allow community investments at below market rates. They agreed they would look into implementing those rates when the (CSIF-Balanced)) fund reached $100 million in assets. U.S. Trust agrees that they will implement this as part of their management of the fund.

An Advisory Council, made of forward thinking experts in the fields of interest to investing, was created to advise the Board. This advisory council served to advise sub-advisor and The CSIF Fund board on social considerations affecting the fund’s screens. Marc Sarkady was the first Chair of the Advisory Council. It's members varied over the years, but included: Randal Robinson, Robert Rodale, Amory Lovins, Hunter Lovins, Hazel Henderson, Jessica Lipnak, Jeff Stamps, Julian Bond, James Heard, Randy Barber, Robert Browne, William Bynum, Fred Davie, Marion Wright Edelman, Michael Fischer, Sophia Bracey Harris, Erica Hunt, Rustum Roy, Byron Rushing, Gail Snowdon, Tom Stonebeck, Andrea Carmen, Gary Browse, Eric Utne, and Tim Smith, who became chair in 1990.

Growth was slow in the early years as most in the financial industry were not supportive. Many believed that limiting the universe of investments violated the fiduciary rule. The SEC also raised this issue, but Catherine Bardsley went around with them many times with many tweaks to the description of the screens before convincing them that disclosure allowed investors to make an informed decision about this. Grace LeClerc was hired to head the marketing efforts for the fund. The fund received much negative feedback from the investment community and conservative comments. While the industry was skeptical, the press loved the idea, and the fund received many favorable articles which boosted sales.

Calvert is one of the founding members of the Social Investment Forum, a trade association for SRI 1 investors, now the U S Sustainable Investment Forum or USSIF.

The company also expanded its portfolio of funds by adding non-SRI equity and income funds. To reduce the expense of creating staff to manage these new funds, we made the decision to use sub-advisors for these funds. The new funds struggled with performance issues. The equity fund struggled through several sub-advisors until it was merged into the Social Equity Fund(now Calvert Equity). The management of the Income Fund was brought in house in the mid-90’s, and continues as the Calvert Income Fund.

This became the basic structure for Calvert equity funds going forward. Calvert would provide the social research and screening with outside sub-advisors doing the stock selection.

1983 The Calvert Tax Free Reserves Long Term Portfolio was created. It continues today as the Calvert Responsible Municipal Fund.

As expected, the Federal Reserve allowed the banks to offer money market accounts with no limit on the interest rate paid. The banks began offering high temporary teaser rates to lure back deposits from money market funds. Of course the banks also had the advantage of $100,000 FDIC insurance. As most of Calvert assets were in money market funds, this was a significant threat to our existence. We responded by teaming up with a group of smaller banks to offer a brokered deposit product (T-bill Extra). T-bill Extra paid an interest rate tied to the weekly treasury bill auction and allowed an investor to get insurance on up to $500,000 of deposits. It also allowed the small banks to compete for deposits with the large banks and not have to pay high rates to its current local depositors. Within 3 months of it grew to over $100 million. The product was successful in reversing the asset drain from our money market funds, and gave the company about 10 years to grow its longer-term fund products.

After several situations threatening the life of the company and the stresses of managing through them, and changes in their personal lives, Wayne and John decide to sell the company. Their auditor connected them with one of their other local clients, The Acacia Mutual Life Insurance Company. Acacia was a Washington(DC) institution with a hundred-year history. It sold life insurance through agents in offices around the country. The sale was completed in January 1984, with a 3 year earn out. The company had an ESOP so most of the employees received a significant payment in addition to Wayne and John. Acacia decides to leave the Calvert fund boards in place, with the addition of several trustees of their choosing for the major Calvert boards. They are less interested in the social fund allowing the original board to chart an innovative course in the SRI field.

1984 CSIF board votes to divest South Africa holdings at Council urging. This is the first mutual fund to do so.

From 1984 Calvert changes from a no-load fund group to a load fund group to encourage sales through the Acacia network and broker-dealers. The company continued to grow.

1984 Calvert creates Money Management Plus Funds as money market funds to serve the broker/advisor market.

1985 Calvert Securities, a discount broker, is formed to service Calvert clients. It never achieves profitable scale. It became the Advisers Group to offer brokerage services to Acacia agents and financial planners. It is now Ameritas Securites, servicing Ameritas agents and clients.

Bill Holoran leaves the company to become head of IT for Dreyfus Mutual funds.

Washington Area Growth Fund was created to invest in local companies managed by the Acacia equities group. It continued until 1991 and was liquidated after a major economic downturn in the Washington area devastated performance.

As the earn out ends, Wayne decides to leave the company to travel and pursue other business interests. Wayne stays president of CSIF and joins the Acacia Mutual board. John becomes sole CEO of Calvert.

1986 Calvert partners with Ariel Investments to form the Calvert Ariel Fund, the first mutual fund managed by a minority owned firm. John Rogers is the CEO of Ariel.

Stan Sorrell leaves Calvert to be Acacia’s operations head and later to form the Acacia Savings Bank.

CSIF files first shareholder proposal in the mutual fund industry on a social issue with Angelica Corp. on worker safety.

CSIF Managed Growth Portfolio reaches $100 million in assets. The board begins to explore how to implement its community investment mandate. U. S. Trust takes the lead on this effort.

1987 CSIF Bond and Equity funds are introduced, both managed by U. S. Trust.

Acacia wants the company to be managed in a more traditional way. They did not like the more casual style that was part of Calvert culture, which included a casual dress code. They were also concerned about CSIF’s shareholder activism and sponsoring shareholder resolutions. As a result, Wayne and Catherine Bardsley left the company. After a conflict with the Acacia CEO, John also decides to leave. however remains on the mutual fund boards. Catherine Bardsley is retained as the counsel for the CSIF fund. Acacia appoints Stan Sorrell the president of Calvert (replacing John).

1988 U. S. Trust(UST) makes 2 small investments in low-income housing projects. Both run into trouble. UST decides it is too costly to provide these type of investments for the fee they receives. Calvert Research also feels this type of investing is outside their expertise and too costly. The Board decides to implement a trial program and makes several small investments in community loan funds. They decide to call this the High Social Impact portfolio(HSII). Impact investing is now the accepted term for community development and other investments made with a primary social purpose as well as a financial goal.

1989 CSIF board creates Calvert Social Investment Foundation (CSIF-Foundation) to study the effect of military spending on the US economy.

The Calvert Ariel Appreciation Fund is created to follow on the success of the Calvert Ariel Growth Fund, also managed by Ariel Investments.

Building on its success and reputation in managing tax free funds, Calvert creates the Calvert Tax Free Reserves California Money Market Portfolio.

Calvert is a founding member of CERES, a coalition of environmental investors promoting standards for corporate environmental reporting.

1989 John and Wayne recruit Rebecca Adamson, who created the first micro loan fund in the US, to join the CSIF board to create the high impact program. Rebecca and Terry Mollner are co-chairs of the HSII Committee. Rebecca does the vetting with Steve Sheath and Reed Montague for the committee. Joy Jones joins the CSIF board making it the most diverse in the mutual fund industry.

1990 Calvert Foundation issues its study on the effects of military spending on the US economy. The release generates several media articles. The Soviet Union collapses, and the US reduces military expenditures. The Foundation goes dormant for several years until the board decides to create a loan fund to invest in community development organizations.

Tuck Nason, new Acacia CEO, joins the CSIF Board.

Calvert hires Jon Lickerman to form a social research group reducing its dependence on U. S. Trust.

CSIF shareholders meeting in DC overwhelmingly approves investing up to 1% of assets in the high impact program. Several shareholders push for more with general agreement by others present.

Calvert files a shareholder proposal requesting the board do more to prevent spills from the pipeline at the ARCO annual meeting in response to the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Wayne Silby speaks at the meeting. ARCO is the major operator of the Alaska oil pipeline. CSIF becomes the first mutual fund to use the tools of shareholder ownership to promote Environment Social and Governance(ESG) practices in corporate America. It further promotes shareholder activism, including engagement with companies about their polices, and when necessary to get their attention by filing shareholder proposals.

1991 Due to Dave Rochat’s work in Vermont, Calvert creates a Vermont Tax Free Fund.

Calvert also creates a NJ Tax Free Money Market fund

1992 Calvert creates Calvert World Values fund, the first SRI international fund. Initial board members include Wayne, John, Stan, Terry Mollner, Rustum Roy, Tessa Tennant, a pioneer social investor in the UK, and Mohammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank and Nobel Laurette.

1992-3 Under Dave Rochat’s leadership, Calvert has one of the best performing municipal bond management groups in the industry. After years of strong municipal performance, Calvert creates an intermediate tax-free fund and single state municipal bond funds for Maryland, Virginia, Arizona, Florida, California, Michigan, New York, and Pennsylvania(later dropped due to weak sales).

1993 First exchange traded fund (ETF) on the S&P 500 was created and traded on the New York Stock Exchange.

1994 In a dispute about how to market the Ariel Funds. Calvert and Ariel agree to go their separate ways.

Calvert replaces U. S. Trust as sub-advisor to CSIF Equity portfolio due to poor performance.

The Calvert Capital Accumulation, now Calvert Mid-Cap Fund, was created under the World Values Board.

Calvert creates the Calvert Strategic Growth Fund, one of the first mutual funds to use hedge fund strategies including futures, options, shorting, etc. The fund posts disappointing returns for several years and is discontinued.

1995 Calvert replaces U. S. Trust as sub-advisor to the Managed Growth or Balanced portfolio. Brown Capital and NCM Investments, both minority firms, take over equity portion of Balanced portfolio. Bond portion is managed in house. Calvert Social Research provides the ESG research.

Calvert creates the Calvert New Africa Fund, the first Africa centric mutual fund. The fund is sub-advised by NCM Capital Management.

1995 After a study of legal structures and a survey of fund shareholders, the Foundation board makes the decision to become a community loan fund to be offered to retail investors. This becomes the first national security in impact investing available to the general public. Rebecca Adamson makes contact with Ford, Mott, and MacArthur Foundations to provide initial funding and subordinate debt to launch the fund. Calvert legal registers the Community Notes in all states for sale. Notes would be sold to individual investors willing to accept a below market interest rate to support community impact. Loans would then be made to community development organizations that would not qualify for funds from the capital markets and at below market rates.

Kathy Keeley is hired by Terry and John to run the Calvert Foundation and begin receiving the HSII investments. Calvert Trustees restructure the Foundation Board: Rick, Sydney and Joy step off the Foundation Board for more independence for the Foundation from CSIF. Terry, Wayne, John and Rebecca become the Calvert Foundation board so the HSII investments are done separately from the Calvert Board.

1996 Kathy Keeley does not work out and she is replaced by Shari Berenbach

1996 The CSIF Board decides to designate a small portion of the fund’s portfolio to social venture capital, thinking this as a way of supporting more directly companies creating the positive social impact the fund wants to encourage. Calvert management feels it does not have the expertise to manage this type of security. The Board decides to take on the responsibility to manage this portion of the fund under Wayne’s leadership. They name the program Special Equities. This one of the first mutual funds to do venture investing.

Jon Lickerman leaves Calvert to become a parent. Julie Gorte becomes head of Social Research.

1996 CSIF board makes decision to transfer high impact investments to the foundation. All existing HSII investments in CSIF are transferred over to the Calvert Foundation (Rebecca does the due diligence). CSIF makes an investment in Community Notes issued by the Foundation. The CSIF Board then reviews the Foundation’s performance on a quarterly basis (SEC grants exemption to allow this). Calvert funds continue this program to this day.

Greg Habeeb is hired to manage taxable fixed income funds. Greg employs a high trading volume and risky style. This creates both high returns and eventually leads to big losses.

After several years of poor sales Acacia decides to replace Stan as CEO.

1997 Barbara Krumsiek becomes Calvert CEO. Barbara comes from Alliance Capital where she headed pension sales for their mutual funds. Barbara revamps marketing and sales, replacing most of the personnel in these departments. Sales effort becomes more professional and focused.

Calvert New Visions Small Cap Fund is formed (now called Calvert Small Cap Fund).

1998 Calvert creates an ESG index fund, Calvert Social Managed Index, not the first social index but a fund more representative of the market than the Domini Social Index.

1998 Calvert Foundation creates the Calvert Donor Advised Fund with assets invested in Calvert social funds, the first ESG donor advised fund.

1999 Ameritas Life Insurance Co., a mutual life insurance company based in Lincoln, NE, merges with/buys Acacia.

Calvert (with Rebecca Adamson’s help) creates the first mutual fund indigenous rights screen, later adopted by other ESG investment managers.

Calvert with Rebecca Adamson, continues to promote the IP Screen, placing it into the Socrates data base sold to MSCI. IP Brokers training is accredited and offered to certified brokers.

2000 Calvert creates the Calvert Social Index, an unmanaged index consisting of a screened version of the Russell 1000. Vanguard licenses the Calvert Social Index for its first ESG fund. After one year in a dispute over fees for using the index, Vanguard drops the Calvert index for the FUTSI (For Good sustainable index).

Dave Rochat steps back from daily fund management except for the Vermont Tax Free Fund. Reno Martini assumes management of other tax free portfolios.

2000 Joe Keefe hired as a consultant on marketing and social issues. He works closely with Julie Gorte.

Barbara’s method of new product development is to see what is selling in the market and create a copycat product in that category. She creates the Calvert Technology Fund at the height of the dot com bubble. Within a year the bubble bursts and the fund is closed.

2001 New Africa Fund merged into World Values Fund after several years of poor performance and the discovery that an NCM employee had an interest in a portfolio investment that defaulted.

2001 Calvert merges Bridgeway Social Fund into Calvert Social Equity Fund. Bridgeway, headed by John Montgomery, becomes sub-advisor to the fund. Miles Harper joins the CSIF board from the Bridgeway Fund board.

Calvert signs UN Global Compact.

2002 Greg Habeeb buys a large bond issued by Lumberman’s Mutual that goes bankrupt causing a large loss in Calvert Income Fund. This causes a shake up in the investment department with Reno Martini let go. This starts a decline in the performance of the tax free funds.

2004 Joe Keefe and Julie Gorte create the Calvert Womens Principles in consultation with the UN. They were later turned over to the UN to become the UN Women’s Empowerment Principles.

2005 Joe Keefe leaves to head Pax World funds (now Impax).

Calvert creates first ESG asset allocation funds.

Tuck Nason retires as Acacia CEO and leaves the CSIF Board.

Dave Rochat retires from the Calvert board.

2005 The Advisory Council was ended in a move to reduce fund expenses and the burden of preparing for meetings on social research. Julie Gorte leaves to join Pax World.

2006 Under Greg Habeeb’s management Calvert Income is the top performing bond fund for several years. Sales of this fund take off. Assets grow to over $6 billion becoming Calvert’s largest fund.

2006 Bennet Freeman hired to head Social Research and Corporate Engagement. He does much to professionalize the department and increase Calvert’s profile in the field of corporate activism.

2006 Greg Habeeb makes a large investment in Dulles Greenway bonds in the Calvert Income Fund and the Social Bond Fund.

2007 Calvert creates Alternative Energy Fund to invest in companies that produce clean energy and conserve energy.

2008 Calvert creates Global Water Fund to invest in companies and new technologies that conserve this vital resource.

ETF’s offer several advantages over traditional mutual funds for taxable investors: tax advantages, lower fees, and ability to trade. CSIF trustees encourage Barbara to create Calvert ETF’s. She feels they are a fad and only suitable for institutional traders. ETF’s now outsell traditional funds.

2009 In response to the Great Recession the Federal Reserve reduces rates to almost 0. This leaves no margin for fees on money market funds. After several years of low rates which last until 2021, Calvert leaves the money market business on which it was founded.

2010 Due to losses on privately placed investments that were impacted by the recession, the Calvert Tax Free Reserves Limited Portfolio was liquidated. This had been a ground breaking and very successful fund until its recent troubles.

2010 Calvert Foundation spins off the donor advised fund into an independent 501C-3, named Impact Assets. It now has assets over $3 billion.

2011 Calvert creates the Emerging Markets Fund, first ESG emerging markets fund.

2013 Calvert creates the Green Bond Fund, first green bond fund.

2013 As a result of the recession, traffic on the Dulles Greenway is greatly reduced resulting of a default on the bonds. In looking into this it was determined that the bonds had been greatly over valued for several years. This resulted in an SEC action and Ameritas paying tens of millions to reimburse shareholder losses. Greg Habeeb is let go.

2015 After the Toll Roads debacle costing Calvert/Ameritas millions to clean up, Ameritas decides to change Calvert CEO. They choose John Struer formerly of Affiliated Managers Group.

2015 Jen Pryce becomes executive director of the foundation and takes it to new level, now over $660 million in assets.

2016 John Struer becomes Calvert CEO. Struer states a goal to make Calvert the premier environmental fund group. Ron Wolfsheimer, Calvert’s long time accounting head, and Bill Tartikoff, Calvert General Counsel, are let go also as a result of Toll Road issue and John’s restructuring.

Struer makes all Calvert funds ESG. Up until this time most of the Calvert funds were not ESG. He oversees the writing of the Calvert Principles replacing the social funds screens.

2016 Indian tribes in South Dakota begin protesting the building of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). The pipeline threatens to pollute the tribes’ water supply. Rebecca Adamson and First Peoples Worldwide is asked to coordinate investor/shareholder efforts to oppose the pipeline by instituting shareholder actions with the companies building the pipeline and the banks funding the effort. Calvert sends representatives to South Dakota to investigate and lend support to the shareholder effort. Calvert joins in shareholder engagement on this issue.

2017. Ameritas sells Calvert to Eaton Vance, a large mutual fund advisor based in Boston. Struer does a major reduction in force at Calvert, reducing staff from about 150 to 40 by outsourcing many functions performed by Calvert staff. Calvert moves to Connecticut Ave. in the District. Calvert back office functions and fixed income management are assumed by Eaton Vance in Boston. Calvert office does social research/shareholder activism and marketing. Most Calvert equity funds are managed by EV affiliates with exception of the International Fund(formerly World Values), and the Emerging Markets Fund. Funds are sold through the Eaton Vance wholesaler network with support by Calvert ESG specialists.

Calvert funds’ several boards are reorganized and combined. Wayne Silby, Rebecca Adamson, Terry Mollner, Sydney Morris and several long time Acacia appointed board members retire. Surviving board members are: John Guffey, Richard Baird, Joy Jones, Tony Williams, Alice Bullock, Cari Dominguez, and Miles Harper.

John Struer makes major changes to fund line up. He converts the Alternative Energy and the Water funds to custom Calvert index funds. He creates a series of ESG index funds in the major asset categories. With the Eaton Vance and later Morgan Stanley sales force Calvert assets reach new highs, over $30 billion. He ends the special equities program.

March 1, 2021 Morgan Stanley(MS) buys Eaton Vance(EV). MS makes significant changes in EV management ranks as many EV managers exercise their stock options and retire.

2022 Morgan Stanly creates Calvert ETF’s and Calvert European funds with a new Morgan Stanley appointed board.

2023 Ted Eliopolis becomes Calvert transition CEO. He makes minor changes in Calvert staffing. John Struer becomes chair of the Calvert Research board. Calvert moves to new offices in DC on M St., NW.

John Guffey and Richard Baird retire from Calvert board. Eddie Ramos and Karen Fang join the board as replacements.

2024 John Struer leaves Calvert/Morgan Stanley. Von Hughes becomes Calvert CEO.

Note 1: SRI, socially responsible investing, and ESG, environment, social and governance, are used interchangeably in this article. The term for using environmental and social values as well as accepted good governance practices in the investment process has changed several times over recent years, from SRI to responsible investing to ethical investing to sustainable investing to impact investing finally ESG. Social investing by religious investors has a long history dating to colonial times with Quakers avoiding investing in the slave trade. Later the sin screens of alcohol, tobacco and gambling were adopted by religious investors. Several mutual funds were created in the 1920’s to appeal to this group. This remained social investing until the late 1960’s when Pax World Fund added anti-weapons maker screens. Calvert in 1982 introduced the first comprehensive set of issues for review in the investment process and including shareholder activism. There is no set definition of the values espoused by ESG investors and a wide variety of approaches: progressive, Catholic, Islamic, conservative, women focused, etc.

Mantak Chia

Mantak Chia and Michael Winn

Awaken Healing Energy Through the Tao

Mantak Chia - Awaken Healing Energy Through the Tao explores Taoist Esoteric Yoga. This is an ancient, powerful system of physical, psychological and spiritual development encompassing meditative and internal energy practices.

This unique and comprehensive book reveals the Taoist secret of circulating Chi, the generative life force, through the acupuncture meridians of the body. This comprehensive list includes:

Opening the Energy Channels
Proper Wiring of the Etheric Body
Acupuncture and the Microcosmic Orbit
Taoist Yoga and Kundalini
How to Prevent Side Effects
MD's Observations on the Microcosmic Orbit
Commonly Asked Questions

Mantak Chia - Awaken Healing Energy Through the Tao explores is written in clear, easy-to-understand language and illustrated with many detailed diagrams that aid the development of a powerful energetic flow, for psychological and spiritual health and balance.

"A treasure of ancient profound knowledge of subtle energy patterns in the human body. These simple exercises which balance, harmonize and focus energies, can be of great benefit to anyone seeking a state of physical and emotional well-being. To those who, due to an imbalance of energies, fill the growing ranks of 'Kundalini Casualties' of various meditative practices, this approach offers hope for relief " -Mirtala Bentov

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Books by Mantak Chia:

Taoist Secrets of Love

Mantak Chia - Taoist Secrets of Love reveals for the first time to the general public, the ancient sexual secrets of the Taoist sages.

These secrets enable men to conserve and transform sexual energy through its circulation in the Microcosmic Orbit, invigorating and rejuvenating the body's vital functions. Hidden for centuries, these esoteric techniques and principles make the process of linking sexual energy and transcendent states of consciousness accessible to the reader.

Taoist Secrets of Love - Cultivating Male Sexual Energy- Mantak Chia with Michael Winn

This revolutionary and definitive book teaches:

Higher Taoist practices for alchemical transmutation of body, mind and spirit.
The secret of achieving and maintaining full sexual potency.
The Taoist "valley orgasm"-Pathway to higher bliss.
How to conserve and store sperm in the body.
The exchange and balancing of male and female energies, within the body and with one's partner.

How this practice can fuel higher achievement in career and sports.
"Taoist Secrets of Love is not just another flowery philosophical treatise on the ecstasies of oriental love. It is a pragmatic handbook that distills the secret teachings on sex of four living Taoist masters sought out by Mantak Chia during fifteen years of travel and study in the Far East. The Taoist practice of chi cultivation focuses on integrating the divine or subtle energies into the human body, with the goal of achieving a dynamic balance of opposing energies called Yin and Yang. The Tao is the indescribable sum and absolute source of these energies, which manifest in ever changing form. The Taoists, being practical, proposed that a man can begin with the most accessible energy at hand, the sexual attraction between men and women, and use that force as a springboard to more subtle realms."

-Michael Winn

Michael Winn has 30 years' experience in martial, and spiritual arts, & teaches internationally. He is Dean and founder of Healing Tao University, and president of the nonprofit Dao Alchemy Research Institute. He has authored ten Tao home study video-audio courses. Winn lives in Asheville, N.C. and has a private "qigong therapy" practice. For fuller biography, get his free 130-page eBook, Way of the Inner Smile.

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Ronald Davison

Synastry

Ronald Davison - Synastry explores how Astrology can be used as a valuable tool in the understanding of human relationships. This internationally acclaimed book lays the foundation for a comprehensive study by giving a basic view of the principles of chart comparison and interpretation, showing how to apply this information. The author has discovered "The Relationship Horoscope," an entirely new way of charting, in a single horoscope, the relationship between two people. He introduces new methods of determining the quality of that relationship. Essential energy patterns, and needs are first determined within the natal chart, and then various methods of comparing horoscopes are fully explained. Twenty horoscopes further illustrate; how to utilize this rich source of information. Whether you are a professional Astrologer or simply learning more about your own innate potential, this book offers information, and guidance that will enrich your insight into relationships and increase self-knowledge.
RONALD DAVISON was England's foremost Astrologer, president of the Astrological Lodge since 1952 and editor of the internationally recognized journal Astrology.

Topics include:

Ronald Davison - Synastry- Understanding Human Relations Through Astrology

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Greg Goddard D.D.S.

TMJ – The Jaw Connection

GREG GODDARD D.D.S. – TMJ: THE JAW CONNECTION THE OVERLOOKED DIAGNOSIS

TMJ, The Jaw Connection is a Self-Care Guide to Diagnosing and Managing this Hidden Ailment is A comprehensive guide empowering TMJ sufferers to uncover and treat this prevalent, often misdiagnosed ailment that plagues an estimated fifty million Americans.

Many of us have TMJ (Temporomandibular Joint) disorders without knowing it. Several seemingly unrelated conditions may indicate a jaw dysfunction. For instance; Do you suffer from one or more of the following?:

Jaw fatigue upon awakening from sleep
Unexplained headaches
Unexplained pain in or above the ears
Clicking or popping of the jaw
Grinding or clenching of teeth
Ringing or hissing in the ears
Deviation of jaw movement (when opening the mouth)
Excessive wearing down of the teeth.
Unexplained dizziness

These, and other signs should alert you that you may be pursuing a cure for a misdiagnosed condition that could be costing unnecessary time and expense as well as unwarranted medical tests and/or dental work.

The author, DR. GREG GODDARD, combines his extensive personal clinical experience with adjunctive therapies to help readers arrive at a treatment fitting their own circumstances. The role of muscles, joints, stress, tension, accidents, nutrition, dentistry and posture are among some of the topics explored.

"lt is estimated that 28 percent of the U.S. population has TMJ." -Public Citizen Health Letter

"This is an excellent comprehensive guide to TMJ. I highly recommend it to patients."
-C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D.

Greg Goddard, D.D.S., is associate clinical professor in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at UCSF school of Dentistry and a faculty member at the UCSF Center for Orofacial Pain. He also works half time at the Native American Health Center in San Francisco, and Oakland where he was the Dental Director for 30 years. He is a member of the Academy of Orofacial Pain and a Diplomate of The American Board of Orofacial Pain. Dr Goddard is certified for Dental acupuncture by state of California. email: [email protected]

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Dr. Michael Gauquelin

Cosmic Influences on Human Behavior

DR. MICHAEL GAUGUELIN – COSMIC

INFLUENCES ON HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Cosmic Influences on Human Behavior is a work which offers scientific support for Astrology. The Planetary Factors in Personality Astrological theory implies a relation between vocation and birth horoscopes Dr. Gauquelin discovered in studying the birth of 25,000 European professionals listed in Who's Who, that certain planets were found more frequently at the rising or culminating positions in the horoscope.

For example, Mars ascended or culminated (in the case of athletes) with the probability against chance distribution ranging from; 1 in 50,000, to 1 in 1,000,000.

"Cosmic Influences on Human Behavior" - has been internationally recognized as the most important scientific support that Astrology has ever received. Dr. Gauquelin has validated the existence of a correlation between the state of the solar system and human experience. Hans Eysenck, a scientist at the London University Institute of Psychiatry, has praised Dr. Gauquelin's research. Whatever you think about Astrology, this book is a new and important view for skeptics, scientists and astrologers. DR. MICHEL GAUQUELIN was a leading international researcher, psychologist and statistician. Since 1969, he has been the director of the Laboratory for the Study of the Relationship Between Cosmic and Psycho-Physiological Rhythms in Paris, France.

"Emotionally, I would prefer Gauquelin's results do not hold, but rationally, I must accept that they do." -Hans Eysenck, London University of Psychiatry

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Elisabeth Haich

Bio

ELISABETH HAICH – BIO

This is a short bio of Elisabeth Haich, one of the more prolific authors in the Aurora Press family.

ELISABETH HAICH (March 20, 1897 - July 1, 1994) was the second of four children born into an upper middle-class family in Budapest, Hungary. Even as a young child, her unique gifts were expressed as a pianist, painter and sculptress. Her sculptures are exhibited in Hungary, as monuments and in plazas.

She was married, and had one son who later joined her in teaching Yoga in Switzerland. In close connection with Selvarajan Yesudian, she began giving Yoga lectures in 1939.

At the end of World War II, she was forced to leave Hungary. She resettled in Switzerland. She lived there with Selvarajan Yesudian until the end of her life. In cooperation with Yesudian, she founded the oldest and largest Yoga school in Europe.

In 1953 Elisabeth Haich wrote her best-known book, Initiation which has been translated into seventeen languages with millions of copies sold worldwide.

Her other books include The Day with Yoga, Self-Healing, Yoga & Destiny, Sexual Energy and Yoga and Wisdom of the Tarot, all published by Aurora Press in English after the publisher, Barbara Somerfield visited with Elisabeth Haich and Selvarajan Yesudian in Switzerland in 1973. She lectured, and counseled seekers until the end of her life,.

Books by Elisabeth Haich:

"IN THE LAST GREAT EPOCH in human history, people in the West forgot completely that it isn't enough to know the secrets of physics, mathematics, and chemistry, and that on the contrary the very first object of man's study, research and understanding should be man himself, the discoverer of all these secrets. While his attention was directed to things outside himself, he neglected to look inside and ask the question, who am I? This omission had serious consequences - while technological developments became ever more perfect, man himself became more and more imperfect. At the very time that engineering and technology were enhancing man's personal comfort, his soul was sinking deeper and deeper into dissatisfaction and misery. A person who has lost himself is plagued by burning unrest, and the result of inner dissatisfaction, tragedy within the man, is always war, destruction, cosmic catastrophe. Humanity plunges into misery for the same reason that people seek happiness outside themselves. This, instead of in the one and only place where it can be found, within! But the sufferings that often seem to grow and compound themselves finally force us to turn our attention away from things and toward the person who is suffering-ourselves! Sooner or later, we must learn that the true reason for our sufferings our abysmal lack of self-understanding and self-control. Man simply does not know his own soul and the principles and forces at work deep within it. He does not know the source of his thoughts, or the tree of his wishes. Chained dawn by this ignorance of his own being, he cannot control either himself or his destiny. In the same blind way in which he follows his animal instincts and urges, fate buffets him to and fro like a rudderless ship in a storm. On the other hand, when one has learned recognize the various levels at which life goes on within his self and learn to control himself, he is also able to control his fate. The power which guides our fate did not create man for misery, but for happiness. Only blindness pushes him into suffering."

—ELISABETH HAICH
From Self Healing, Yoga & Destiny

Elisabeth Haich & Selvarajan Yesudian

Self Healing, Yoga & Destiny

ELISABETH HAICH & SELVARAJAN YESUDIAN – SELF HEALING, YOGA & DESTINY

Self-Healing, Yoga and Destiny is a book designed to reconnect you with the Divine. The concepts in this book explain the attitudes necessary for the path back to oneself. Based on many years personal experience, the authors create an understanding of how to realize the essential source of life.

Through her best-selling books, such as Initiation, Elisabeth Haich has become world famous for her profound understanding of the human soul. The Yoga schools she set up with Selvarajan Yesudian, have become internationally renowned.

Learn Elisabeth Haich & Yesudian's personal views on:

Love
Accidents
Suffering
Karma
Destiny
Black & White Magic
Illness
Self Healing & Transformation
A wealth of insightful information is contained in this book to help you gain an expanded view of your life and consciousness.

"When we look about us in our daily living, we see how greatly people suffer in the chains they have forged for

-ELISABETH HAICH & SELVARAJAN YESUDIAN are themselves, even when they are filled with longing for freedom. Is there any way for man to be free? To be free is to be free from the deceptive magic of the material world."

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Elisabeth Haich

Initiation

ELISABETH HAICH – INITIATION

Initiation is an illuminating autobiography that connects the twentieth century European life of internationally beloved teacher Elisabeth Haich.

Written at the request of her advanced students, it explores her lucid memories of initiation into the hidden mystical teachings of the priesthood in ancient Egypt. A compelling story within a story emerges detailing the life experiences that catalyzed her spiritual path. In an earlier life in ancient Egypt, a young woman is prepared for initiation into the esoteric secrets of the priesthood of the High Priest Ptahhotep. He instructs her step-by-step, consistent with her development, in the universal truths of life. Throughout this extraordinary book, Elisabeth Haich reveals her in-depth insights into the subtle workings of karma, reincarnation, the interconnectedness of individual daily life choices and spiritual development. Elisabeth Haich shares usually hidden truths that only a few rare individuals in any generation, seek, find and communicate to others, enabling the reader to awaken within the essential understanding necessary to enlighten any life no matter what events manifest. In twentieth-century Europe, from childhood to adulthood, through war and remarkable meetings, she demonstrates the power of turning the searchlight of one's consciousness inward and using every life event towards expanding consciousness. Initiation is a timeless classic communicated in modern terms inspiring generations of spiritual seekers globally. Whether read as an autobiographical novel unveiling mystical truths or as a unique glimpse into Elisabeth Haich's exceptional journey to initiation, the personal impact on the reader is profound. To read Initiation is to be part of the initiation itself.

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The Day with Yoga

The Day with Yoga: Inspirational Words to Guide Daily Life

Through her best-selling books Elisabeth Haich is internationally famous for her ability to assist others on their paths of spiritual unfoldment: a unique creative energy is available each day of the week. Nature, all living creatures, plants, and human beings are deeply influenced by these subtle variations. We all bathe, float and are affected by the power operating that day. Each day is related to a specific planetary energy: Sunday - The Sun; Monday - The Moon; Tuesday - Mars; Wednesday - Mercury; Thursday - Jupiter; Friday - Venus; and Saturday - Saturn. "The Day with Yoga" is Elisabeth Haich's personal collection of meditation quotes. Each has been carefully selected to inspire and attune us to the vibration of the day, and to release a deeper level of harmony and inner peace into our lives.

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Sexual Energy and Yoga

ELISABETH HAICH – SEXUAL ENERGY WITH YOGA

Sexual Energy and Yoga. The purpose of this book is to introduce the concept of transmuting the physical, emotional, mental and psychic energies people normally disperse in sexual activity. This process assists in uniting with the higher Self or God.
Topics include:

The Creative Primal Serpent
Sexual Energy in Its False & True Light
The Magical Powers of Suggestion
Hypnosis
Mediumship
The Urge for Unity & Its Corruptions
The Sun Creator & Destroyer of Life
The Magic Flower "The Transformation of sexual energy into spiritual, divine, creative power, is the resurrection from death to eternal life."

Description by Elisabeth Haich of her painting on the cover

If we cultivate spiritual awareness and attain the universal consciousness, we will acquire mastery over the 7 natural forces which, when harnessed to pull in one direction, can carry us to the goal with incredible swiftness. The picture symbolizes this state. The figure representing the spirit is standing in the triumphal chariot. One hand is radiating the power which directs the natural forces. In the left hand is held a prayer wheel such as is used in Tibet, and which symbolizes unity with the Divine. The horses race with this figure to the goal where we achieve the perfection which Christ intimated to us in the words: "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect."

—ELISABETH HAICH

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The Wisdom of the Tarot

ELISABETH HAICH – WISDOM OF THE TAROT

Elizabeth Haich, Wisdom of the Tarot relates the path to higher consciousness through the color, shape, and symbolic forms on the twenty-two Tarot cards.

with each level encountered on the journey towards the light, detailed study and meditation of each card may release internally all that is involved. These cards may be used in conjunction with the text or separately for meditation. When studied individually, a card can reveal the necessary steps that need to be taken to actualize one's potential.

Tarot cards, or symbolic representations of the truth, have always been used to help man relate not only with the mind, but internally, through the feelings invoked by the colors and forms. The nature of these cards is that they can produce a strong awakening of one's unconscious forces. They are like a spiritual mirror in which we can recognize and examine ourselves. We can then understand, that the reasons for our fate, lie within ourselves, and changes by the mere fact that we begin to react differently to everything that happens to us. These cards with the text are a valuable key to understand our present state, our past and in a deeper sense, how we create our future. Included in the book are 22 pages of five-color tarot illustrations.

"Elisabeth Haich has produced a masterly work of initiation into the secrets of life. Out of a deep understanding of being and her own intimate experience of union with her genius, she has illustrated the process by which man becomes man by his insight into the pictures of the twenty-two rungs of the ladder of divine ascent, on which each rung is an experience for the next rung in accordance with the individual's plan of life." -Dr. Ewalt Kliemke

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Doris Hebel

Celestial Psychology

CELESTIAL PSYCHOLOGY – DORIS HEBEL

"Celestial Psychology, An Astrological Guide to Growth and Transformation"

is an innovative investigation of planetary energies Saturn through Pluto and their meaning and effect in one's personal life and on human consciousness.

Celestial Psychology transcends conventional Astrological interpretation and delineation. It encompasses both exoteric and esoteric levels of planetary manifestation, in human behavior and experience creating an in-depth blend of Astrology and Psychology.

Doris Hebel, a leading Astrological consultant and lecturer, has a unique eclectic approach which synthesizes the philosophies of classical Astrology with contemporary innovative modern systems. Her focus encourages a deepened understanding of how to use Astrology in the process of discovering inner blocks and potential, and what paths we can take to best actualize our lives.

Included are numerous mental, emotional, physical and spiritual remedial techniques and suggestions, designed to assist the reader in living with the implications and complexes inherent in specific planetary combinations. significant and valuable resource book for students and professional Astrologers needing insight into the practice of Astrology for increased personal awareness and growth.

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"This exciting system of psychotherapy is a skillfully blended eclectic combination of well-known psychological theories; standard psychiatric techniques; ancient metaphysical and religious ideologies and/or practices; Holistic healing concepts and state-of-the-art energy medicine modalities. Celestial Psychology® is founded on the conviction that human beings are capable of change beyond their wildest dreams, and that the most profound vehicle for change is consciousness-raising to a quantum worldview.

Celestial Psychology® (CP) is an integrated blend of standard, well-known psychotherapeutic theories; psychiatric, nutritional, and energy medicine interventions; a variety of state-of-the-art consciousness-raising techniques, including but not limited to utilization of affirmations, visualizations, guided meditations, energetic and evolutionary activations, and journal writing. CP is founded on the basic principle that human beings are capable of changing for the better and evolving into higher beings. The theoretical distinction for CP is the incorporation of the contemporary Egoic Mind Paradigm (EMP), energy-medicine and an evolutionary perspective." Contemporary Lectures

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"Celestial Psychology, An Astrological Guide to Growth and Transformation"
is an innovative investigation of planetary energies Saturn through Pluto and their meaning and effect in one's personal life and on human consciousness.

Doris Hebel, a leading Astrological consultant and lecturer, has a unique eclectic approach which synthesizes the philosophies of classical Astrology with contemporary innovative modern systems.

Her focus encourages a deepened understanding of how to use Astrology in the process of discovering inner blocks and potential, and what paths we can take to best actualize our lives.

Included are numerous mental, emotional, physical and spiritual remedial techniques and suggestions,

designed to assist the reader in living with the implications and complexes inherent in specific planetary combinations. significant and valuable resource book for students and professional Astrologers needing insight into the practice of Astrology for increased personal awareness and growth.

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Abraham Joshua Heschel

Bio

ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL BIO

My father was a unique combination of a Hasidic voice of compassion and mercy, always seeing the goodness in other people, and a prophetic voice of justice, denouncing hypocrisy, self-centeredness, and indifference. My father wasn't interested in assigning blame or claiming victimhood, but as the Bible does, he showed us a vision of who we might become. His was a voice of inspiration, not argumentation, rooted in Jewish religious thought. What he once wrote of East European Jews applies to him as well; "Jewishness was not in the fruit but in the sap that stirred through the tissues of the tree, bred in the silence of the soil, it ascended to the leaves to become eloquent in the fruit."' So, too, Jewishness infused my father like the sap of a tree, and his eloquence was the fruit of his deep Jewish piety and learning.
Particularly extraordinary is the diversity of those who regarded him as their teacher, Catholics, Jews, Protestants, whites and blacks, liberals and conservatives, pious and secular, Americans, Europeans, Israelis. His life challenges our conventional expectations. Here is a rabbi whose books were praised by Pope Paul VI as helping to sustain the piety of Catholics; an Orthodox Jew with a white beard and yarmulke marching for civil rights and demonstrating against the war in Vietnam; an immigrant from Poland whose work is included in anthologies of exceptional English prose.
My father described himself as a "brand plucked from the fire of Europe," rescued from Poland by an American visa just six weeks before the Nazi invasion. According to his own analysis, his survival was a gift because he became a unique religious voice in an era in which religion was in grave danger The Hasidic Jewish world of Eastern Europe in which he was raised was far from the environment in which he wrote and taught in the United States. He came from a rebbe's family in Poland, from a Jewish civilization that was suddenly eradicated in the middle of his lifetime by the Germans, in whose universities he had studied, And, in whose language, he had written about Jewish religious thought. Despite the horrors he experienced-the murder of his mother, sisters, friends, and relatives, the destruction of the world which had nourished him-his life continued to reflect the holy dimension he was able to evoke in his own original and unique words.
Words, he often wrote, are themselves sacred, God's tool for creating the universe, and our tools for bringing holiness-or evil-into the world. He used to remind us that the Holocaust did not begin with the building of crematoria, and Hitler did not come to power with tanks and guns; it all began with uttering evil words, with defamation, with language and propaganda. He used to tell me when I was a child, "Words create worlds",
They must be used very carefully. Some words, once having been uttered, gain eternity and can never be withdrawn. The Book of Proverbs reminds us, he wrote, that death and life are in the power of the tongue.
MY FATHER was born in Warsaw on January 11, 1907, the youngest child of Moshe Mordechai and Reizel (Perlow) Heschel. His mother and father were each descended from distinguished Hasidic rebbes, a family of nobility in the Jewish world. Nearly all the great Hasidic leaders of Eastern Europe, those who inspired and led the pietistic revival that began in the eighteenth century, were among my father's ancestors. He cherished and revered them. I remember as a child how often he used to take small, fragile books from his shelf, Hasidic seforim, show them to me, read a little with me, and tell me with awe about the great-grandfathers who had written them. This is your inheritance, he would say. Far from feeling burdened by the greatness of his heritage, he felt gratitude, humbleness, and reverence for his ancestors. "I was very fortunate," he told an inter-viewer, "In having lived as a child and as a young boy in an environment where there were many people I could revere, people concerned with problems of inner life, of spirituality and integrity. People who have shown great compassion and understanding for other people."

As a small child he was accorded the princely honors given the families of Hasidic rebbes. Adults would rise when he entered the room, even when he was little, recognizing that he was a special person. He would be lifted onto a table to deliver drushas, learned discussions of Hebrew texts. He was considered an illui, a genius. His world was one of intense piety and religious observance. He felt grateful, as he described much later, that he grew up surrounded by people of spiritual nobility. As the baby of the family, he was loved and fussed over by his older sisters, Sarah, Devorah Miriam, Esther Sima, and Gittel, and his brother, Jacob. He was teased and coddled the way youngest children of large families are. He was only three years old, when his oldest sister, Sarah, married their first cousin, the Kapitshinitzer rebbe. He remembered being at the wedding, running around excitedly among the adults. Even as a small child he took his religious obligations very seriously. He seemed amused and embarrassed when he told me that when he was sent as a five-year-old on an errand to a female neighbor, he would ask that the object he was borrowing be placed on a table-according to ultra-Orthodox custom, a man should not give or receive from a woman's hand.
His was a large extended family. His mother was the twin sister of the Novominsker rebbe, Alter Israel Simon Perlow, who lived in Warsaw, and there were many cousins, nieces, and nephews. The family's first tragedy came in 1916. My father was nine years old, and his father died - during an influenza epidemic.

It was devastating for the family. Shortly before I turned nine, I developed a fear the same thing might happen to me. I asked him, over and over, how he could survive such a terrible thing. He used to say, (in a way that was so sad for me to hear), that he just wished he could talk to his father again, just once more, even for one hour.
As a teenager my father began publishing his first articles, short studies, in Hebrew, of talmudic literature, which appeared in a Warsaw rabbinical publication, Sha'are Torah, in 1922 and 1923. When he grew older, he began to read secular books in addition to his Talmud studies. He said his mother worried at not hearing him chant Gemara while he studied, (knowing that he was reading what he should not).Wwith the approval of his family, he finally decided to go to Vilna - to study at a Gymnasium. There he completed his examinations on June 24, 1927, at the Mathematical-Natural Science Gymnasium. He also became involved with a Yiddish poetry group,"Jung Vilna", and published, as his first book, a volume of Yiddish poems, Der Shem Hamefoyrosh: Mentsch, written during his years in Vilna and published in Warsaw in 1933, dedicated to his father's memory.' The poems were greeted warmly in the worlds of Yiddish and Hebrew belles lettres; they brought him to the attention of, among others, Chaim Nachman Bialik, who wrote to him from Israel with an enthusiastic letter of congratulations.
Among my father's childhood friends from Warsaw few survived. One who did was the Yiddish writer Yechiel Hoffer, who immigrated to Israel and wrote autobiographical novels in which my father appears as a young man. Another was Zalman Shazar, a Zionist, and Hebrew writer - who later became President of the state of Israel. They remained good friends throughout their lives; letters from Shazar to my father, written in Hebrew, address him, "To the friend of my soul, master of joy, son of holy people."

In 1970, on the occasion of President Shazar's eightieth birthday, my father wrote a tribute to him in Yiddish: "He is a Jew who lives with visions. He carries in himself a song that calls and awakens sleeping souls." My father also gave President Shazar a mezuzah that had once stood on the doorpost of the synagogue of the Baal Shem Tov, (the founder of Hasidism), in the little East European town of Mezibizh.

After Vilna, in 1927, my father went to study in Berlin, to participate in what he felt was the great center of European intellectual and cultural life. He enrolled at the Hochschule fur die Wissenschaft des Judentums
"A brokhe dem nosi" (Greetings to President Shazar on his eightieth birthday) in Die goldene Keyt, Tel Aviv, No. 68 0970), p. 26. Shazar sent a telegram to the Israel Bonds dinner honoring my father in December 1970: "To Abraham Joshua Heschel, my cherished friend" - "The descendant of so saintly a line, now brings to American Jewry sparks of holiness and true radiance."
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Man’s Quest for God

ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL MAN’S QUEST FOR GOD

Aurora Press presents Abraham Joshua Heschel, Man's Quest for God. A book about Studies in Prayer and Symbolism, with a new introduction by Susannah Heschel.

Man's Quest for God's Dr. Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972), professor of Ethics and Mysticism at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, was one of the outstanding philosophers and theologians of our time. Internationally acclaimed author, scholar, activist and theologian, Dr. Heschel's classic, Man's Quest for God, originally published in 1954, continues to be a significant contribution to contemporary Jewish literature. In his poetic and inspiring style, Heschel offers insights that speak deeply to the essence of prayer.

From Dr. Heschel's book:

"Prayer is the yielding of the entire being to one goal, the gathering of the soul in focus."

"Prayer is like a beam thrown from a flashlight before us into the darkness."

"One of the truly great men of our day and age, a truly great prophet." -Dr. Martin Luther King

"Heschel's Man's Quest for God is the most profound invitation to the journey for recapturing the all-too-forgotten sacred art of prayer." -Rabbi Rolando Matalon, Bnai Jeshurun

"Heschel continues to give words to the longing of the soul for the Great Connection. A theologian who speaks the heart's poetry and makes us aspire to a virtuous source of inspiration. This is a book to keep near your prayer meditation space." -Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi

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Dr. Marc Edmund Jones

Bio

DR. MARC EDMUND JONES – BIO

Marc Edmund Jones
October 1, 1888 - March 8, 1980
Marc Edmund Jones was an original - dropping out of high school to go into business. Years later he completed his formal education with a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University. He participated in the creation of the movie industry by writing scenarios in the very early days and was instrumental in founding what later became the Screen Writer's Guild. A Presbyterian clergyman, he served in a parish for five years. He was a philosopher, author of the major work, "Occult Philosophy." Most people knew him as an astrologer.
Marc Jones began the study of astrology in 1913. In 1922, working with a psychic, Elsie Wheeler, he developed the symbols for each degree of the Zodiac, which have become known as the Sabian Symbols. In 1923 he worked out his Key Principles of Astrology for use with his regular classes. This base
was expanded in the following years. He developed 12 sets of lessons for his students, presenting in mimeographed form a comprehensive but condensed version of a variety of approaches to astrology.
Marc came out in the open with his ideas on reforming astrology while working on his Ph.D. in New York, . Some of the problems he saw in the way astrology was usually practiced included assigning rulership to planets, over personification of symbols, creation of "influences," unnecessary confusion over the distortion of houses, confusion between signs and houses, viewing the signs as quite set in nature, and taking the zodiac as a mystic conglomeration of heavenly influences upon man to which he must submit.
In his increasing efforts to correct such misunderstandings, Marc Jones traveled and lectured in many parts of the country. In these talks he did not refer to "benefics" and '`malefics" in the chart. He challenged the age-old notion that the power is in the stars, that the chart creates the destiny. He taught that astrology properly used helps clients see more clearly their own tendencies so they can decide for themselves what they want to do with those tendencies.
In New York, he produced the series of books which had been projected years earlier as the rigorous presentation of techniques worked out in the mimeographed lessons. His plan was reinforced both by the growing public interest in astrology, and by his position as occult book editor for the David McKay Book Company. Eleven astrological books were written and published over the years from 1941-1979. His last work, "The Counseling Manual in Astrology", had been written and most of the type set at the time of his death, and publication was completed posthumously.
In his later years, Marc Jones was widely recognized for his valuable contribution to astrology. He was customarily and affectionately referred to as the dean of American astrology.

Books by Dr. Marc Edmund Jones:

Astrology How and Why it Works

Astrology How and Why It Works

Astrology How and Why It Works, An Introduction to Basic Astrology was originally published in 1945, this easy-to-understand beginners guide is an in-depth investigation of astrological symbolism. It demystifies astrological prediction and relates theoretical understanding to the experience and practical concerns of the reader. At each stage of the book, Dr. Jones anticipates and answers the readers' questions, so that the explanation of the houses, signs and planets of the horoscope becomes a guide that even a beginner can understand and apply. Every element of the horoscope is illustrated in terms of everyday living, and each technical detail is lucidly explained.

From the most specific human concerns to the universal, topics discussed include:

Twelve Tribes of Individuality
Basic Factors of Delineation -
the Houses, Signs and Planets
The Magic of the Hemispheres
The Divinity of Difference

This classic text has demonstrated its value in serving the needs of students and friends of astrology for almost 50 years.

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ISBN 0-943358-38-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-943358-38-3
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Books by Dr. Marc Edmund Jones

The Sabian Symbols in Astrology

DR. MARC EDMUND JONES – THE SABIAN SYMBOLS IN ASTROLOGY

The Sabian Symbols in Astrology - Dr. Marc Edmund Jones, was first written in 1953, and now integrated into Astrological work globally, Dr. Jones includes in his groundbreaking comprehensive text, for each of the 360 degrees of the zodiac: the symbolical picture, an interpretation in present-day psychological significance, a keyword for use in quick or at sight analysis, the positive and negative influences, the formula to determine the relationship between these symbols, and illustrated with 1000 horoscopes of well-known people. Detailed explanations of their origin, use in the natal, horary, mundane and rectification charts give the reader an unparalleled opportunity to learn directly from the source that envisioned their profound effect in all types of astrological practice.

"The Sabian Symbols marks the fruition for the present lifetime, of three decades of my astrological research."
-Dr. Marc Edmund Jones

"Marc Edmund Jones' Sabian Symbols is by far the best. They constitute a momentous Astrological revelation. It's practical value in Astrological practice is absolutely beyond doubt." -Dane Rudhyar

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ISBN 0-943358-40-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-943358-40-6
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F.S. Kahn

Why Flying Endangers Your Health

WHY FLYING ENDANGERS YOUR HEALTH is an uncompromising, hard-hitting expose of air travel opens our eyes for the first time to the serious health risks of flying and will change forever the way people think about air travel.

Is flying really safe, and why has so little been disclosed about the health hazards of flying? Are there some people who should not fly at all? The flying public has been kept in the dark too long about the health dangers of flying. F. S. Kahn reveals the technical causes of health dangers and gives concrete advice on how to avoid these risks.

Two invaluable checklists are provided: one for all passengers; one for high-risk health conditions-which will enable you to make informed decisions about whether or not you should fly. Recommendations are given to help alleviate the health stressors routinely encountered in flight. This book is compelling reading for all people who fly. In addition, it provides previously unavailable information for doctors, psychiatrists, and flight crews.

". . . this is the first time I have seen such comprehensive coverage in a commercially published book." -New Scientist

". . . a controversial health warning to the globe-trotting set." -The Times

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ISBN 0-943358-36-1
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Katrina Raphaell

Bio

KATRINA RAPHAELL – BIO

Katrina Raphaell has extensively worked with New Age Healing Arts for over 16 years. Her professional experience includes nursing, teaching and practicing massage therapies, and other related healing modalities. She was the director of Health Care for a natural drug and alcohol rehabilitation center. While there, she had the opportunity to apply her knowledge of nutrition, herbology, hydrotherapy, yoga, meditation technologies, kinesiology, flower essences, homeopathy and various forms of natural healing methods.
Through her studies and healing work, Katrina became increasingly aware of the mental and emotional imbalances associated with physical dis-ease. As the world of crystals opened up to her, Katrina was guided to use the energies of light and color to balance the more subtle aspects of our being-emotional, mental, subcon-scious and spiritual. Applying the information received in her personal meditations, she experienced first hand information, about how to utilize the light forces within the mineral kingdom to benefit oneself and others.
To bring this information to a wider audience, Katrina authored Crystal Enlightenment in 1985, which was the result of her personal study, work with clients and research. The material contained in her books, is part of a sacred knowledge, on how to use crystals and stones for healing and the expansion of consciousness. In order to facilitate the art of Crystal Healing, Ms. Raphaell opened the Crystal Academy of Advanced Healing Arts in Taos, New Mexico. Making available intensive seminars, and courses for in depth studies. The Crystal Academy also encourages further gathering of information and research into the potential, and as yet undiscovered, qualities of crystals. Nationally, Katrina is a popular lecturer, and with translations of her books in other languages, is invited to participate internationally in workshops and conferences.

Books by Katrina Raphaell

Crystal Enlightenment

KATRINA RAPHAELL CRYSTAL ENLIGHTENMENT

CRYSTAL ENLIGHTENMENT - Katrina Raphaell is a comprehensive, yet easy to understand guide to the use of crystals and gems for internal growth, healing and balance in your daily life.

Discover new resources, learn how to extend your personal awareness and center by attuning to crystal energies. The magnitude and potential of crystals and gems to impact positively our personal lives and the evolving planet we live on is significant.

Crystal Enlightenment - The Transforming Properties of Crystals and Healing Stones.

Some of the topics explored in this book are:

What are crystals physically and esoterically?
Working with crystals for self-healing
The ancient art of laying on stones
Psychic Protection
Generator Crystals
Important healing stones and their uses
Double terminated stones and their functions
Crystal Meditations
Black Holes

"Crystal Enlightenment" is designed for the lay person, as well as the professional, to give the basic understanding necessary to use the healing properties inherent within the mineral kingdom to improve the quality of our external and internal lives.

"Crystal Trilogy", Volume 1

Crystal Enlightenment on iTunes

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Books by Katrina Raphaell

Crystal Healing

KATRINA RAPHAELL CRYSTAL HEALING

Crystal Healing - Katrina Raphaell, is volume two of the Crystal Trilogy further refines the practical applications of crystal therapeutic techniques. Katrina introduces innovative and previously unavailable methods for discovering and removing internal imbalances.

This wealth of information derived from the author's firsthand experience is practical, while inviting the reader to explore deeper levels and gain insight into the processes underlying our disease and health patterns. Unique in its content, Crystal Healing reveals for the first time:

Six Master Crystals
Time Bridging
Maintenance - Personal Responsibility
Exorcising
Past/Future Life Recall
Laser Wands
Protection & Guidance
Conscious Reprogramming
Mind, Body, Heart & Soul Correlations
Window Crystals
Dematerialization
Channeling Crystals

Crystal Healing the Therapeutic Application of Crystals and Stones

To facilitate a complete understanding of the specific techniques described, Crystal Healing is strikingly illustrated with detailed color photographs. Step-by-step instructions encourage an understanding of all you need to know to reap the benefits emanating through crystals and stones. This invaluable guide enables the lay person and professional to use crystals and healing stones for soul activation, complete healing and expansion of consciousness. This book is an addition to the information in Volume One. It will help activate hidden potential and open up a world of light into your life.

Crystal Trilogy, Volume 2

Crystal Healing on iTunes

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ISBN 0-943358-30-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-943358-30-7
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Katrina Raphaell

Books by Katrina Raphaell:

The Crystalline Transmission

KATRINA RAPHAELL – THE CRYSTALLINE TRANSMISSION

THE CRYSTALLINE TRANSMISSION - Katrina Raphaell, a look inside this third volume in the Crystal Trilogy reveals a whole new dimension of crystal awareness, offering guidelines and instruction on how we, as human beings can become as clear as the crystals and develop the full spectrum of the rainbow ray body.

The crystals are tools and teachers demonstrating how to materially manifest perfected form. As the crystals so purely demonstrate, Katrina focuses on how we can align ourselves with the perfect cosmic geometric grid of light. This would literally change the frequency at which we vibrate. While emphasizing planetary peace, specific information is given to assist individuals in stabilizing their personal identity within their own lighted center of truth, thus establishing entirely new concepts of being. Introduced for the first time are crystals and stones that facilitate this process, the final six Master Crystals and a pure Crystalline Transmission through the writing itself.

Included are:

Specific stones and layouts for individuals suffering from or prone to AIDS.
Crystals that facilitate the activation of new chakra centers
Tantric layouts for couples
Stones and Crystals for protection against nuclear radiation
Dematerialization in action
Encoded crystals-the cosmic alphabet.
Crystals and stones for the new race of beings birthing onto the Earth.
Information of many new stones and crystals to serve our unfoldment in the 1990s.

Crystal Trilogy, Volume 3

Look Inside -The Crystalline Transmission.

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ISBN 0-943358-33-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-943358-33-8
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Dane Rudhyar

Astrological Aspects

Astrological Aspects: A Process-Oriented Approach Paperback – December 1, 1980

Rudhyar's expansive vision finds its ideal complement in Leyla Rael's straightforward approach and clear applications. Together, they have outlined a cyclic dynamic view of aspects which goes far beyond the static 'cookbook tabulations' so prevalent today. Their approach provides the foundation for a meaning - revealing chart interpretation and inspiring life interpretation. Included in this holistic textbook are chapters on retrogradation, rectangular and triangular aspect patterns, seeing the horoscope as a whole, Yods, an explanation of three types of every planetary aspect, examined step by step in depth. Included are numerous examples and practical applications. "Astrological Aspects" is truly a key to holistic Astrological understanding to read for enjoyment, study for lasting insight and keep for future reference.

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An Astrological Triptych

DANE RUDHYAR – AN ASTROLOGICAL TRIPTYCH

In An Astrological Triptych, Rudhyar extracts from traditional Astrology a wealth of psychological and spiritual meaning. New interpretations of the zodiacal signs, houses, and planets are presented, shedding light on the three basic phases of the great ritual which constitutes the spiritual unfoldment of the human being.

Gifts Of the Spirit- The Illumined Road-The Way Through

"To become whole by assimilating that which completes our particular being to realize that individual existence is a process of repeated emergence out of a number of typical conditions which test the individual's strength, resilience and faith, and having realized this, to be victorious over the negative trend which is met at every step of the way."

-RUDHYAR

An Astrological Triptych is a book to read and reread! Each chapter stands by itself yet is a part in a vast symphony of revealed values and inspired imagery.

"Your new book, Astrological Triptych, means for me all psychosynthesis-in another language-in its widest and highest spiritual sense." -Roberto Assagioli

"You are unique in your power to synthesize all elements and include all modern thought and new visions into Astrology." -Anais Nin

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ISBN 0-943358-10-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-943358-10-9
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Books by Dane Rudhyar

Astrological Insights Into the Spiritual Life

DANE RUDHYAR – ASTROLOGICAL INSIGHTS

Astrological Insights provides a penetrating, sensitive, poetic, and visual insight into the twelve qualities required for the spiritual life, for astrologers and non-astrologers alike.

Using the Astrological signs and houses, Rudhyar builds a framework for impregnating the seeker with an awareness of how to use basic life challenges, as a process through which an individual human being evolves. Twelve exquisite artistic renderings evoke the archetypal, intuitive level of each sign.

"Meditation on power. The human earth, level after level rises to Himalayan intensity. A divine Presence overshadows the meditator, as the garnet sun sinks into the abyss. It merges with the guest. It is yogic power taking form as the embodied ideal, the vision made substance. The "Universal" acquires "form and name" according to the longings of particular beings seeking to insure the permanency of ideals." -RUDHYAR

"It would be difficult to exaggerate my enthusiasm for your book, for though I know little of Astrology, I can recognize deep, true, original thought when I encounter it." -Claude Bragdon

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ISBN 0-943358-09-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-943358-09-3
Paperback • 154 Pages • 6” x 9”
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Books by Dane Rudhyar

The Galactic Dimension of Astrology

DANE RUDHYAR -THE GALACTIC DIMENSION OF ASTROLOGY

Dane Rudhyar - "The Galactic Dimension of Astrology -The Sun Is Also a Star"

In this book, Rudhyar expands traditional Astrological philosophy by introducing a galactic view of the solar system.

"When the Sun is seen as the star it fundamentally is, a galactic frame of reference takes form in the consciousness of man, and it brings to all patterns and events of our traditional solar system a potentially new meaning. The entire solar system is seen in a new light, the light of the relationship it has to the Galaxy." -RUDHYAR

"A deepened understanding of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto can guide us towards experiencing the galactic level of consciousness. The "challenge of galacticity" to humanistic astrology releases new perspectives when applied to individual horoscopes. His new interpretations of the transsaturnian planets provide a vehicle to transform how we use Astrology in our daily lives, and for the evolving planet we live on. I am impressed by the thought that of all the books I have read on Astrology, Rudhyar's works eclipse all others. "He has the very special gift of always keeping before our minds the whole". With "His ability to dissect and analyze" and "to show the relation between the parts and finally to relate the parts to the whole, is a most exceptional one".

Reading Rudhyar,

"I am forever impressed by his ability to put in words - what is even difficult to express or understand when conceived in more symbolic, cryptic forms of communication. "

"He is forever awakening in us the relatedness of all things, their profound spiritual significance. This is the sense of the whole which, when relayed to us by an Astrologer, lifts Astrology to its proper place and puts us in our proper place with respect to its aim and purpose." -Henry Miller

"Rudhyar revolutionized twentieth-century astrology, using the symbolic language of the stars and planets to explore the nature of spiritual destiny". "His is an astrology concerned less with measurement than with meaning". It has "the sense of purpose and connectedness to the universe which he thought was essential to a harmonious and positive life."

-DR. NICK CAMPION, Director Bath Spa University College PhD Astrology program, author of Mundane Astrology, and The Book of World Horoscopes

www.bathspa.ac.uk/sophia

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ISBN 0-943358-13-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-943358-13-0
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224 Pages • 5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”
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Books by Dane Rudhyar

Person Centered Astrology

DANE RUDHYAR PERSON CENTERED ASTROLOGY

Dane Rudhyer - Person Centered Astrology is Lucid and inspiring material on the purpose and value of Astrology in New Age Guidance, and the difference between an event-oriented approach, and a person-centered view.

Topics covered include:

Event Oriented vs. Person Centered
Planetary Patterns
Aspect Patterns
Birth Charts as a Whole
Astrology in New Age Guidance
Astrology as Karma Yoga
Planetary & Lunar Nodes
The Moment of Interpretation
Sample horoscopes of well-known people, Assagioli, Freud, Nietzche and others illustrate clearly the techniques described. Two complete detailed case histories are given, enabling the reader to concretely experience Rudhyar's holistic approach in action. Person Centered Astrology represents the harvest of Rudhyar's innovative astrological and philosophical thinking, practically applied to individual birth charts.

"Person Centered Astrology deals with Rudhyar's vision of what the cosmic craft essentially is and should be-a tool 'to help individual persons discover and gradually actualize and fulfill, in the best possible way, the potentialities inherent in their total being.' It's a wonderful and fascinating book. I give it my highest recommendation." -Richard Nolle, Horoscope Magazine

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ISBN 0-943358-02-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-943358-02-4
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Books by Dane Rudhyar

The Astrology of Personality

DANE RUDHYAR – THE ASTROLOGY OF PERSONALITY

The Astrology of Personality is a modern classic. It is as potent today as when first written in 1936.

Dane Rudhyar integrates modern concepts of psychology, with elements of both Western and Oriental philosophies.

He succeeds in presenting Astrology as a symbolic language by reformulating its basic concepts and focusing on viewing the chart as a whole.

Dane Rudhyar's Classic with a Foreword by Charles Harvey

"Astrology has been debased as fortunetelling and usually deals only with concrete events" "Events in themselves are not important. What matters is the significance we bestow upon them. It is only by giving to events the meaning centered in our own souls, that we make them real. There is no reality except that which we create-the very activity of continuous living. Thus events do not happen, we happen to them."

". . . the greatest step forward in Astrology since the time of Ptolomy." -Paul Clancy

". . . the pivotal book that launched humanistic astrology . . ."
-Rob Hand

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ISBN 0-943358-25-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-943358-25-3
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Books by Dane Rudhyar

The Astrology of Transformation

THE ASTROLOGY OF TRANSFORMATION – DANE RUDHYAR

The Astrology of Transformation - Dane Rudhyar - The author explains; "This book is not a textbook with rules to memorize. It is an attempt to open up a new dimension in the practice of Astrology: to assist individuals to transcend the type of ego-responses and culture-bound responses which define ordinary astrology and psychology.

"This Astrology of Transformation could be called my astrological testament. It brings to a conclusion my attempt to reformulate modern astrology and provide techniques that support a holistic perspective. I hope that what I have written will assist those who are ready to understand what is involved in the transpersonal Path of radical transformation." -DANE RUDHYAR, 1980

Rudhyar includes:

Two Basic Ways of Meeting Life's Confrontations
Four Levels of Interpreting Human
Experience and Astrological Data
The Individual Level of Interpretation
The Marriage of Mind and Soul
The Practice and Interpretation of Astrology at the Transpersonal Level
The Marriage of Mind and Soul
Progressions and Transits

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ISBN 0-943358-49-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-943358-49-9
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Books by Dane Rudhyar

The Lunation Cycle

DANE RUDHYAR – THE LUNATION CYCLE

The Lunation Cycle. A Key to the Understanding of Personality is a pioneering classic provides a new dimension in the use of Astrology as a powerful tool in understanding life patterns.

This book is a unique technical breakthrough revealing the significance of the cyclic relationship of the Sun and Moon as phases of a larger process. Rudhyar formulates and describes here for the fist time, the eight Soli Lunar types of personalities and the importance of the "New Moon before birth" and the "Progressed New Moon charts."

Rudhyar's innovative presentation of the "Progressed Lunation Cycle" is an invaluable technique providing insight into how to use all life events in the actualization of inner potentials. The meaning of specific events are viewed as an ordered series of Lunation phases, within the context of your whole life pattern, from birth to death. This is a practical and clear way to anticipate major turning points and transition periods and to understand our individual schedules of unfoldment.

This groundbreaking book includes:

The Sun and Moon as a Dynamic Pattern of Relationship
The Part of Fortune - as an Index of Personality and Happiness
The Part of Fortune - in the Houses and Zodiacal Signs
The Part of Spirit

The Planets in Relationship to the Lunation Cycle
Undoubtedly, Rudhyar's most practical contribution to astrology is his innovative technique, the progressed lunation cycle, detailed in his very readable book The Lunation Cycle. Utilizing this technique with hundreds of my clients, has led to insights offered by no other perspective. One cannot claim to have truly studied astrology without reading this book.
-Nicki Michaels, Certified Professional Co-Active Coach & columnist for The Mountain Astrologer. www.BeyondSunSigns.com

Look_Inside The_Lunation Cycle

The Lunation Cycle on iTunes

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ISBN 0-943358-26-4
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Books by Dane Rudhyar

The Planetarization of Consciousness

THE PLANETARIZATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS DANE RUDHYAR

The Planetarization of Consciousness - Dane Rudhyar is Rudhyar's major philosophical and psychological work, the concentrated outcome of a lifetime concerned with the most basic problems of human existence and the meaning of radical social-cultural crisis mankind is experiencing.

Rudhyar has been for years an apostle of world integration based on the interpretation of Eastern and Western concepts and attitudes to life. He sees emerging a global society, and through the worldwide interaction of all cultures, a new type of "planetary" consciousness which for the first time will reveal in its fullness the potential of man.

"The holistic world-view which I present here is meant to be an incentive to think greater thoughts, to feel deeper, more inclusive feelings, and to act as "agents" for the Power that structures human evolution-however we wish to image this power." -RUDHYAR

The Planetarization is essentially an act of faith in Man. Man as a microcosm of the universe. Man as a reality that transcends the physical organism, all localisms and nationalisms, and in whom spirit and matter can unite in a "Divine Marriage" productive of ever new and greater creative tomorrows.

"I am particularly pleased because Rudhyar's whole trend of thought is in the spirit of psychosynthesis. From different starting points and using a different terminology he arrives at the same basic conclusion on important issues such as: harmonizing the opposites in individuals and in society; the central importance of purpose; the need of a new humanistic psychology." -Roberto Assagioli

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ISBN 0-943358-16-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-943358-16-1
Paperback • 336 Pages
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Bio

DANE RUDHYAR – BIO

A biography of Dane Rudhyar - a contemporary visionary and prolific author in the field of Astrology.

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ABOUT DANE RUDHYAR

DANE RUDHYAR was born in Paris, France, on March 23, 1895. Rudhyar intuitively realized, quite early in his life, two things which have deeply influenced his entire life and work: (1) Time is cyclic, and the Law of cycles describes all civilizations as well as all existence; (2) Western Civilization is now in what could be symbolically called the autumn phase of its period of existence. As these realizations developed into a personal commitment to the future which he envisioned, Rudhyar felt the urge to divorce himself from Europe and to seek a "New World" -a land into which he could sow himself as a seed, carrying within his being the legacy of whatever was viable and constructive in the European past. he came to America in the late fall of 1916, leaving behind his native land, arid ancestral French culture, as well as his family name, Chenneviere.

His change of name was symbolic of a total dedication to his ideal: the transformation of our civilization, a revaluation of all values: He became known as Rudhyar; a name derived from the Sanskrit root Rudra implying dynamic action and the electrical power released during storms. The god Rudra in the Vedas is the Destroyer and Regenerator, the transforming energy, breaker of old molds and the power of will or vital force.

This sense of destiny released through Rudhyar tremendous energy which he channeled into the development of his philosophical ideas; through Music and the use of tone; through Painting as the Art of Gestures; through Astrology as a symbolic language with the potential to bring individuals in tune with cosmic cycles. Throughout his life and his use of many different forms of expression, his purpose became clearly focused and dynamic. He calls forth the need for individuals with holistic vision and a "transpersonal" approach to life to serve as the foundation of a global society.

We are privileged to publish the books of Rudhyar, beloved mentor and friend, internationally acclaimed Astrologer, composer, poet, artist and philosopher, who initiated the concept of a cyclic and transpersonal approach to life. Rudhyar's pioneering work, seeded generations of astrologers globally, inspiring a wholistic approach to contemporary personal and global crisis.

—Barbara Somerfield, Publisher
2004

Click here to read An Interview with
Rudhyar Conducted by Barbara Somerfield on his 89th Birthday

Barbara Somerfield

An Interview with Dane Rudhyar at 89

Mario Wexu, D.AC

The Ear: Gateway to Balancing the Body

MARIO WEXU – THE EAR: GATEWAY TO BALANCING THE BODY

Mario Wexu - The Ear Gateway to Balancing the Body is the first comprehensive modern textbook of ear acupuncture. The author uniquely combines his extensive personal clinical experience with traditional and modem Chinese and European sources.

Anatomical descriptions with detailed charts clearly illustrate how to locate and use over three hundred ear points. Both alone and in combination with body points, to treat and prevent illness.

Case histories, with specific techniques cover problems such as:

Deafness
Otitis
Otalgia
Drug Addiction
Tobacco Addiction
Alcoholism
Obesity
Anesthesia
Oedema
Insomnia
Acupuncture
Anesthesia
Electronic Acupuncture Devices
Mario Wexu - The Ear Gateway to Balancing the Body

A Modern Guide to Ear Acupuncture

Mario Wexu, D. AC.
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An incredible repertory listing 130 diseases facilitates an understanding of this incredible and valuable healing art.

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ISBN 0-943358-08-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-943358-80-2
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Sam Ziff

Silver Dental Fillings - The Toxic Time Bomb

THE TOXIC TIME BOMB – SAM ZIFF

The Toxic Time Bomb - Sam Ziff - EXPANDED EDITION 2002 UPDATE
A significant and shocking exposé of one of the greatest health dangers of our time. The amalgam used to fill teeth is 40 to 50 percent mercury, a known poison. This book explains how mercury migrates from the teeth into the body thus affecting our overall health in a dramatic manner.

This ground-breaking book includes the following (topics and questions):

Mercury in Medicine and Dentistry.
The History of Mercury in Medicine.
The Arguments for and against.
Do we really have electricity in our mouths?
Measurement of Mercury in the urine
How long does it stay in the body?
Mercury in the body, where does it go?
Does Mercury cause any changes in our tissues and organs?
Does Mercury cause psychiatric and behavioral changes?
Micromercurialism, signs and symptoms
This pioneering book is written in a clear, straightforward manner, ideal for the layman and professional who want to become aware of the body of information currently available on mercury toxicity from dental amalgams. Then, after they have been informed, each individual can draw his own conclusions.

"Silver Dental Fillings alerts the reader to the need for more research and understanding of the role that mercury amalgam may have on chronic health dysfunction." -Jeffery Bland, Ph. D.

The Toxic Time Bomb - Sam Ziff - Can the Mercury in Your Dental Fillings Poison You?

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ISBN 0-943358-24-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-943358-24-6

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