Books published by Collective Ink

What is he thinking? Are they ready to make a commitment? Why do all my relationships end the same way? The key to answering your relationship questions and to understanding the patterns of love in your life can be found within the tarot. When it is used to its full capacity as a spiritual and divinatory system the Tarot can be an amazing tool for enlightenment, transformation and change. Are you hung up on an ex? Are you following in the footsteps of your mother? Inside these pages you will find the tarot explained specifically in terms of love and relationships helping you to identify Mr Right from Mr Wrong and allowing you to let love in to your life. Journey through the 78 cards of the Tarot deck and uncover the relationship patterns at play in your life. Understand why your old relationships didnt work, figure out what your current partner is really thinking and see what the future has in store for your love life.

Who are you? What happens when you die? Is there a God? Is the universe created? Advaita is a teaching with a tradition of thousands of years which provides totally reasonable answers to all such questions. This essential introduction from the acclaimed author of numerous books on the subject will demonstrate why it is so successful.

David Bowie: every single song. Everything you want to know, everything you didnt know. David Bowie remains mysterious and unknowable, despite 45 years of recording and performing. His legacy is roughly 600 songs, which range from psychedelia to glam rock to Philadelphia soul, from avant-garde instrumentals to global pop anthems. Rebel Rebel catalogs Bowies songs from 1964 to 1976, examines them in the order of their composition and recording, and digs into what makes them work. Rebel Rebel is an in-depth look at Bowies early singles and album tracks, unreleased demos, session outtakes and cover songs. The book traces Bowies literary, film and musical influences and the evolution of his songwriting. It also shows how Bowie exploited studio innovations, and the roles of his producers and supporting musicians, especially major collaborators like Brian Eno, Iggy Pop and Mick Ronson. This book places Bowies music in the context of its era. Readers will discover the links between Kubricks 2001 and Space Oddity; how A Clockwork Orange inspired Suffragette City. The pages are a trip through Bowies various lives as a young man in Swinging London, a Tibetan Buddhist, a disillusioned hippie, a rock god, and a Hollywood recluse. With a cast of thousands, including John Lennon, William S. Burroughs, Andy Warhol and Cher.

In the last few decades, new technologies have brought composers and listeners to the brink of an era of limitless musical possibility. They stand before a vast ocean of creative potential, in which any sounds imaginable can be synthesised and pieced together into radical new styles and forms of music-making. But are musicians taking advantage of this potential? How could we go about creating and listening to new music, and why should we? Bringing the ideas of twentieth-century avant-garde composers Arnold Schoenberg and John Cage to their ultimate conclusion, Infinite Music proposes a system for imagining music based on its capacity for variation, redefining musical modernism and music itself in the process. It reveals the restrictive categories traditionally imposed on music-making, replaces them with a new vocabulary and offers new approaches to organising musical creativity. By detailing not just how music is composed but crucially how its perceived, Infinite Music maps the future of music and the many paths towards it.

Popular culture mirrors the human soul and it cant lie about the state it is inwhich is what makes it an essential guide on the quest for self-knowledge. Seen and Not Seen: Confessions of a Movie Autist is a series of autobiographical explorations which slowly uncover the authors secret life to himself. Revisiting his former writings on film and deconstructing old texts, he engages in a literary dialogue with his past as he struggles to bust open his fantasy life and reach the truth behind it. Moving into and through the cultural, social and political dimensions of movies, the book maps previously undiscovered psychological and spiritual realms of the movie-going experience to create an engaging, thought-provoking, utterly original narrative about the essential acts of movie-watching, writing, and self-examination.

"In this book we again encounter Harman's voice and the extraordinary force of his theses." Quentin Meillassoux, Ecole normale superieure, author of After Finitude This bestselling book presents the metaphysical system of renowned philosopher Graham Harman in lucid form, aided by helpful diagrams.

A compelling and eloquent articulation of a future when humanity will transcend logic and find profound meaning in the absurd.

An explosive unique crucial book tackling the issues of Jewish Identity Politics and ideology and their global influence.

Christian Atheist examines the growing religious phenomenon of those who are drawn to Christianity without accepting its metaphysical claims or dogma. Throughout the history of the Church there have been many people like this who have sat differently to the central creedal claims, but in the contemporary 'god delusion' culture, more are coming out to claim acceptance for their views. The key to the book is a set of interviews with people who fall broadly into the 'Christian Atheist' category; some are more agnostic and less sceptical than others, but what they have in common is the rejection of traditional belief in God, counterbalanced by an admiration for the aesthetic genius of Christianity (leading to a sense of deeper value), the Christian moral compass, and in some cases the community aspect of Christian life.

What happens when suddenly the wind changes and the loving connection between two partners is disrupted for hours or even days? Why is love associated with ups and downs? This title shows in easy to follow steps how to recognise emotions, to leave them behind, and to create space for the expression of real feelings where love has a chance.

From Morning Glories and Magic Mushrooms to Belladonna and Buttercups, Steve Andrews delves into herbal magic and mystery.

Suitable for Reiki novices, students and teachers alike, this is a comprehensive book on the system of Reiki. It includes information from sources such as living students of the Reiki masters, Mikao Usui, Chujiro Hayashi and Hawayo Takata. It offers an introduction for beginners and a chronological history of Reiki.

Addresses the fundamental problem that various spiritual seekers face on the journey to awakening; the ego. This title unravels and demystifies the ego-release process and provides guidance on undoing the cause of all human suffering; our distorted belief system.

A guide to the runes of the Elder Futhark addresses the various aspects of rune philosophy. It shows how you do not need to be actually psychic to read the runes, and explains how the runes will help you to develop your intuitive abilities.

Refines palmistry down to a ten-point technique. This title is illustrated with images of actual hands.

Listing over 1,200 symptoms, this is a practical first-aid guide based on sound crystal-healing principles that have been practiced for millennia. Crystals are a gentle, non-invasive system of holistic healing with no side effects. Suitable for children and animals, they can also benefit your environment and your home.

"A popular history of England's unofficial national anthem which began life as a poem by William Blake, was set to music by Hubert Parry and is sung every year at the Last Night of the Proms"--

We live in an age of emergency, exacerbated by a collapse of meaning. Writer and psychotherapist Mark Vernon examines the type of intelligence that, whilst often dismissed and overlooked, is crucial to understand and cultivate if we are to survive and thrive in our times. Spiritual intelligence is the foundation of who we are and our particular type of consciousness. It is the perception identified across wisdom and religious traditions, and known by many names, which can be summarised as the awareness of awareness, and so of being itself. It is the foundation of peace, even in the face of death, as well as purpose and solidarity. The challenge today is to recover and live according to that knowledge. Examining themes from the nature of consciousness to the experience of time, the emergence of our species and the teaching of spiritual adepts, the book is an antidote to rampant AI and a complement to emotional intelligence. It is written without presuming religious commitments in readers and draws on a mix of sources and experience gained from the author's own practices. It advocates pilgrimage and improvisation, virtues over morality, and big histories that do not turn the story of our species into a bleak struggle for survival. The seven steps will help readers identify spiritual intelligence within themselves, unpack why it matters, and suggest how a wider trust in it may be revived.

The "Greening of the Self" didn't happen. We can replace it with a philosophy of complex systems, moral summons, wonder, healing, and love.

A story of transformation, from bitter loss to hope, to life after death.

The roadmap to deepen your understanding of the system of Reiki and rediscovering your True Self.

The historically precise 'all killer - no filler' fictional biography of the extraordinary Oliver Cromwell

The life and times of the last man hanged in Birmingham

The first and most complete study of the work of the British intellectuals whose studies and stories of popular resistance, rebellion, and revolution from the bottom up radically transformed our understanding of the making of history.