September 20th, 2009 by Salvia Fan

With a dash of humor and a dollop of science, Michael Kuo selects the top 100 mushrooms best suited for cooking. Like Kuo’s very popular book Morels, 100 Edible Mushrooms is written in the author’s inimitable, engaging, and appealing style, taking the reader on the hunt through forest and kitchen in search of mycological pleasures and culinary delights. Kuo describes in detail how to identify each species, where and when to find them, and how to cook them in creative and delicious recipes. The mushrooms presented in the book are the most often eaten varieties, and a description of the button mushrooms found in the grocery store is included. All of the mushrooms have at least one full-color illustration and some several more to aid in identifying and distinguishing look-alike and nonedible species. An indispensable book for mushroom hunters, naturalists, and cooks Michael Kuo, an English teacher in Illinois, is the developer of mushroomexpert.com, a popular online reso (more…)

Edible, Mushrooms, Paperback

September 18th, 2009 by Salvia Fan

El Arte de Ensoñar, el noveno y mas reciente libro de Carlos Castaneda, aparece despues de un período de seis años de silencio del autor.”Don juan”, escribe Carlos Castaneda en prólogo, “era un intermediario entre el mundo natural de la vida diaria y un mundo invisible, uno que él no llamaba lo sobrenatural, sino la segunda atención. Su taréa de maestro fue hacer accesible a mi esta configuración. En mis trabajos previos, he descrito sus metodos de enseñanza, al igual que las práticas que me hizo ejercitar, la más importante de las cuales fue sin duda, el arte de ensoñar.Don juan sostenia que nuestro mundo, que creemos ser único y absoluto, es solamente un mundo dentro de un grupo de mundos consecutivos, los cuales están ordenados como las capas de una cebolla. Aunque hemos sido condicionados para percibir únicamente nuestro mundo, efectivamente tenemos la capacidad de entrar en otros, que son tan reales, únicos, absolutos y absorbentes como el nuestro.”

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arte, ensoñar, Paperback

September 15th, 2009 by Salvia Fan

From Library Journal
Original publisher University of California Press here offers a 30th-anniversary edition of Castenada’s Teachings. Along with the original text, this sports a new introduction by the author, who, it was revealed recently, died earlier this year. Though this is reasonably priced for a hardcover, libraries needing multiples copies may opt for the paperback.Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
–This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
Ethnography, allegory, anthropology, psychology and a touch of Kafka’s Metamorphoses are all components of this unusual case history of one man’s hallucinogenic experience. The author, an anthropology student at the University of California, was apprenticed for four years to Don Juan, a Yaqui Indian “brujo” or sorcerer. The training involved the use of peyote, Jimson weed and an unidentified type of mushroom but, more important, the conceptualization of a higher order, a (more…)

Carlos Castaneda, Juan, Knowledge, Paperback, Teachings, yaqui

September 15th, 2009 by Salvia Fan

Review`…this is an interesting and valuable book. One can only hope researchers will take up these ideas in the lab, to help uncover the `valuable insights into the neurophysiology of normal cognitive functioning that Green and McCreery, in concluding, promise us. – The Skeptic`…this is an interesting and valuable book. One can only hope researchers will take up these ideas in the lab, to help uncover the `valuable insights into the neurophysiology of normal cognitive functioning’ that Green and McCreery, in concluding, promise us.’ – The Skeptic`The book is highly recommended as an interesting read, a useful source book, and as a sensitive yet scientifically sound approach to these fringe phenomena.’ – The Irish Psychologist`The book is highly recommended as an interesting read, a useful source book, and as a sensitive yet scientifically sound approach to these fringe phenomena. – The Irish Psychologist

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Consciousness, Dreaming, During, Lucid, Paperback, Paradox, Sleep

September 12th, 2009 by Salvia Fan

Review
Familiarize yourself with the spiritual transformative teachings of Don Carlos of the Castaneda shaman fame; then use this to provide practical applications of his philosophy to everyday life. Chapters present segments of his ideas and blend in exercises and applications to everyday life. — Midwest Book Review

Review
“I was struck by the clarity, intensity, and insight of Sanchez’ words. . . . he comprehends the nature of magical transformation.” (Gnosis Magazine )

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Applications, Carlos, Castaneda, Paperback, Practical, Teachings, Works

September 10th, 2009 by Salvia Fan

After years of living in awe of the mysterious fungi known as mushrooms-chefs, health enthusiasts, and home cooks alike can’t get enough of these rich, delicate morsels. With updated production techniques for home and commercial cultivation, detailed growth parameters for 31 mushroom species, a trouble-shooting guide, and handy gardening tips, this revised and updated handbook will make your mycological landscapes the envy of the neighborhood.

About the Author
PAUL STAMETS is the founder of Fungi Perfecti and codirector and founder of the Rainforest Mushroom Genome and Mycodiversity Preservation Project. He is the author of two seminal textbooks, The Mushroom Cultivator and GROWING GOURMET AND MEDICINAL MUSHROOMS, has been published in numerous journals, and is presenting more lectures on mycology than he can keep track of. An advisor and consultant to the Program for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona Medical School and the 1998 recipient of the Coll (more…)

Gourmet, Growing, Medicinal, Mushrooms, Paperback

September 9th, 2009 by Salvia Fan

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Astral, Daring, Dream, Dreaming, growth, Guide, Lucid, Paperback, Spiritual, travel

September 6th, 2009 by Salvia Fan

Primero de los libros de este antropologo en el que narra la primera etapa del aprendizaje que lo convertira en hombre de conocimiento bajo la guia de un brujo yaqui. Por diversos medios, don Juan sumerge a su discipulo en una realidad no ordinaria, inexplicable para nuestros esquemas de pensamiento pero no para la sabiduria antigua que trasmite el maestro.

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conocimiento, Edition, ensenanzas, forma, Juan, Paperback, Popular, Spanish, yaqui

September 3rd, 2009 by Salvia Fan

Back from the abyss and without don Juan, Carlos Castaneda is faced with the staggering effort of recovering, on his own, don Juan’s teachings. In doing so, he understands what don Juan and his cohorts were really doing to him: “They were not teaching me sorcery, but how to master three aspects of an ancient knowledge they possessed: awareness, stalking, and intent. And they were not sorcerers; they were seers.” This work deals with the mastery of awareness and with the realization of a new cycle of seers, “warriors of total freedom, … such masters of awareness, stalking, and intent that they are not caught by death, like the rest of mortal men, but choose the moment and the way of their departure from this world. At that moment they are consumed by a fire from within and vanish from the face of the earth, free, as if they had never existed.”

About the Author
Born in 1925 in Peru, anthropologist Carlos Castaneda wrote a total of 15 books, wh (more…)

Fire, from, Paperback, Within

September 3rd, 2009 by Salvia Fan

From Publishers Weekly
Inspirational imagery revealed in dreams to Muhammad, Gandhi, Descartes, Wagner, Handel, Coleridge, Yeats, Orson Welles, Elias Howe and many others has wrought significant changes in politics, science, art, music, film, literature and religion. Yet dreams have been devalued in Western culture, and one reason for this, suggests Van de Castle, is that Freud’s forging of strong links among dreams, neuroses and sex has thwarted a wider exploration of the full meaning of dreams. Former director of the University of Virginia Medical School’s Sleep and Dream Laboratory, the author explores the dream theories of Freud, Jung, Montague Ullman, Fritz Perls and others. He surveys the importance of dream imagery in ancient and non-Western cultures and crams in a wealth of information on children’s dreams, recurrent dreams, nightmares, gender differences in dreaming and much else. This immensely readable resource is a monumental history of dreams and a practical s (more…)

Dreaming, Mind, Paperback