Books published by John Hunt Publishing

Womanitys Cosmic Blueprint is unique and farsighted, bringing to light a mounting societal ailment that is weakening the feminine force on the planet. This global ailment is lost womans syndrome, a disconnection from her profound, internal essence or cosmic self. In this book, properties of the female cosmic blueprint are revealed pointing out how these qualities play a paramount role in maintaining humanitys well-being. As modern women lose sight of their TRUE identities they unknowingly accelerate the decline of humankind and Mother Earth.

A one-stop guide to using life-coaching techniques to unleash your writing potential.

Diana had never been ill and on diagnosis she stepped into a parallel world of waiting rooms, treatments, friends and family who supported - or fled - as life became both exquisitely precious and terrible. Dancing with Cancer is a human drama, a ride on the roller coaster of hope and despair and, as the gradients became gentler, a journey through meditation and creativity to wisdom and acceptance.

Pantomime is a theatrical form that has come to rule our everyday lives as terror. In the early years of the 21st century, a dissembling political demonology has sometimes placed otherwise merely lyrical musicians in a volatile predicament. The discussion here is of Fun-da-Mentals Aki Nawaz portrayed as a suicide rapper, Asian Dub Foundation striking poses from the street in support of youth in Paris and Algiers, and M.I.A., born free fighting immigration crackdown with atrocity video. Along the way, bus bombs, comedy circuits, critical theory, Arabian Nights, Bradley Wiggins, Dinarzade, Karl Marx, Paris boulevards, Molotov, Mao, the Eiffel Tower, reserve armies, lists, Richard Wagner, Samina Malik, Slavoj Zizek, Freudian slips, red-heads, Guantanamo. The book offers some sharp critiques of our contemporary complacency, and the failures of theory as more than ten years of war on terror turns anxiety at home and drone-strike assassinations abroad into a normal everyday. This pantomime is a terror story told over and over to distract from the workings of a despotic power. The need for an adequate (winning) counter-narrative was never more clear.

Reflections Beyond Thought is a moving, often amusing, account of the authors personal journey. Struck by life-changing illness, she fights all that challenges her until forced to surrender and, in that moment, to hear answers to her lifelong quest as she learns not only the nature of her own suffering, but that of all mankind. The author reflects on more unusual events in her life. A profound spiritual experience whilst lost in the Norwegian mountains; the horrors and joys of giving birth in a public hospital in Kuwait and the isolation of the lonely seas whilst working as a ship's nurse, are but a few seemingly spun by the hand of unseen forces, to offer just another thread to the spiritual tapestry of life. Every story has its climax. Responding to an inexplicable moment of spontaneity the author moves from her Buckinghamshire home with all her animals to live in France. The real purpose of the re-location however, is only revealed as its truth illumes in the stillness of the foresta story that will inspire and give hope to many.

Over the past 15 years Julie Phillips has been and still is a member of many different groups and committees including: writing groups, Parent/Teacher Associations, local community campaign committees, Scout committees, School Governor Committees, various further education groups and nursing groups. She has probably seen it all when it comes to how groups work and how they can come off the tracks. With her experience and insider knowledge on how good groups function she has crammed all she knows about making groups work well into this book. Shes done the leg work so you dont have to fall into the traps loitering within unsuspecting writing groups.

With a foreword by Peter Rollins and an afterword by Thomas J. J. Altizer, Too Good to be True is a collection of sermons written and preached from a radical theology perspective, which demonstrate preaching in a post-Christendom, post-God world. These sermons were actually preached in a mainline church in the US. The sermons follow the liturgical and lectionary year A, so clergy may use the books for their own preaching and easily reference it in their professional work.

I have nothing to look forward to. Eighteen years old and every vision Ive ever had, every memory of the future; theyve nearly all become real memories now. What you would call the past. Ezekiel, eighteen and clairvoyant, knows the end is coming. Hes been expecting it for years. But with mere weeks to go, he may have finally met his savior. Her name is Mona, and she filled his visions long before she walked into his life. The question is why?

The worlds all-time bestseller meets a twenty-first century musical icon. In this seven-week course, suitable for group use or personal reflection, Steve Mann skilfully interweaves the Gospel narrative with the story of Les Miserables. Daily devotional readings are built around seven key spiritual themes - Grace, responsibility, truth, compassion, fellowship, darkness and reconciliation. These are complemented by weekly study material tied in to the 2012 movie release. This is an ideal resource for those looking for a Lent study but works equally well at any time of year.

Though it is simple and obvious, you may not understand the incredible importance of the way of nothing. When you do see the way, you will wonder, Can it really be this easy and simple? And seeing that there was never anything in the way of freedom can almost be embarrassing. How could I have never seen it? you'll ask. The Way of Nothing: Nothing in the Way explores the obstacles that stop you from reaching your highest desires: enlightenment, eternal peace, or simply ordinary contentment. These obstacles are nothing more than concepts you have that seem real, yet they vanish with insight into the way. It is a wonderful surprise to discover that there has always been nothing in the way of what you want. Best of all, there is really nothing to it!

The Less Dust, the More Trust presents the story of the author's participation in the Shamatha Project, addressing Buddhism, shamatha mindfulness practices (concentration-calm), and meditation-research. With diary excerpts, dream log, and audio transcripts she gives the reader a feel for her personal experiences. The current research outcomes of this unique ongoing project are reported, focusing on the effects of the various practices in attention and emotion regulation, and on health. They include groundbreaking findings of effects down to the chromosome level. The practice ';Settling the mind in its natural state' invites wonder: what is this natural state? Each chapter includes a guided meditation. The book is structured in a way that it can provide the reader with various threads. It can be read as an overview of the Shamatha Project, meditation and science. Additionally, it can be read as an exploration into Buddhist studies, with a focus on psychological and scientific understanding of meditation. Most importantly: the book can support a personal journey for the reader in practicing shamatha meditations, and experiencing increasing well-being.

A history of Raw Nature as the Buddha's first teacher, inspiring some followers to retreat there in search of truth.

Modern life is lived cut off from our souls, our ancestors, the earth and other elements of what once made life worth living. Our souls still yearn for these missing pieces, causing what the author calls the Invisible Wound. This wound is responsible for much of the grief of modern life through soul hungers displaced onto addictions and self-destructive behavior. Post-Tribal Shamanism offers a means of reclaiming many of these pieces, not by a return to the past, but by moving forward into a deeper understanding of our place in the universe.

Magic and murder meet in Suffolk, with short stories exploring the spirit of place, and the dark side of belief. A Dangerous Place is an anthology of crime stories all set in the same place, but spread out over the course of two thousand years. Each crime is set against the backdrop of changing religious and magical/mystical beliefs, such as Iron-Age Druidry, Anglo-Saxon Heathenry, Victorian Spiritualism, & modern neo-paganism, and interweaves old-fashioned detection with mysticism and criminal psychology.

Drawing extensively on his experiences of more than thirty years as a humanitarian worker, Richard Poole takes us on a journey from our earliest origins to our present day, one that enables us to see how far we have strayed from our guiding principles to create a world that is bent on self-destruction. Mankinds Last Chance argues that the repair of our broken societies, our collapsing economies and our wrecked environment lies not in the application of any new form of political and economic governance but in a moral re-awakening and a renewed commitment to the common good that can only come from a spiriitual transformation on a universal scale. More importantly it tells us where the source of such a transformation is to be found and how it can be achieved.

Julian Rose presents a penetrating series of essays calling for urgent action to overcome the perilous state of our planet, at the local as well as global level. He both guides and challenges his readers to share with him a journey through the matrix-maze, and to come out at the other end a more aware and more self-assured human being. Drawing upon his life experiences as a farmer, campaigner, artist and social entrepreneur, Julian brings to our consciousness a way to break through the destructive patterns of our consumer-obsessed society and discover a simpler and more fulfilling way forward. Using essays exploring a wide range of pressing planetary concerns, he calls upon his readers to utilise the largely untapped power of their deeper instincts in coming to the aid of a severely depleted global environment and in striving for the amelioration of mankinds perilous human condition.

Offering a unique - and very easy - method of creating effective, intriguing, and authentic multi-layered personalities that leap off the page.

A new father's experiences of the first year of raising a child. A year of tears, laughter, life and beauty.

Coaching is a space between two or more people. It's Not About the Coach is about inspiring coachees to make informed choices about coaching, discover their readiness for learning and develop the values required for success. In doing so coachees can achieve accelerated results in business, sport and life situations.

A book of tips, advice and encouragement for writers at all levels.

A magical struggle for reality - whose reality will prevail?

A Seekers Guide to a Life worth Living offers a series of short articles on aspects of life and the lessons learnt, particularly through the people who have touched the author's life.

In this spiritual memoir, Professor Marcia Brennan describes how she engages with the mystical and angelic worldsand how you can connect with these realms, as well.

Good at conversation, full of ideas and loving change...does this describe the Gemini in your life? Do you know, however, how important being listened to is for them? Would you like to understand this double-bodied sign? This insider information offers you relevant information on how to use an astrological birth chart to make the best of the Gemini in your life. Find out the three most important parts of an Astrological birth chart, to identify your Gemini's strengths. Using useful tips, suggestions, flower essences and real-life examples from her private practice in the UK, Mary English guides you in learning How to Listen to a Gemini.

Meeting Shiva is a spiritual memoir. Tiziana, a single woman in her mid-thirties, is at the end of an adventurous overland trip through the Himalayas, which she embarked on to search for her tantric soul mate. When the soul mate hasn't materialized after eight months of wandering through Tibet, Nepal, Pakistan and India, she decides to go home. Before her departure, she sets out on a final mountain trip. It is here that she meets Rudra, the man she has been waiting for all her life. But there is a catch: Rudra is a sannyasi, a celibate Hindu monk who lives in an austere ashram in the remote Himalayas. The two get drawn into an intense, romantic relationship that soon spirals out of control as Tiziana is drawn into a past long forgotten that ultimately leads her through pain and misery to healing and transformation.

Looking at my lifelong friend, lying in her bed, I smile and pick up the book. Opening the pages, I arrange my glasses until the words become clear and start reading aloud, the love story that begins in truth and ends the way it should have outside of my dreams...

Failure, A Writer's Life is a catalogue of literary monstrosities. Its loosely organized vignettes and convolutes provide the intrepid reader with a philosophy for the unreadable, a consolation for the ignored, and a map for new literary worlds.

The rage for crime fiction today mysteriously includes a wide and enduring attraction to the few remaining wholly admirable role models still available to readers. The iconic Miss Marple, ';faved' by traditionalists and pop fans alike, deftly models her love of God and neighbor in concrete termsand stands boldly for Truth and Good. This beloved, enigmatic, mild-mannered spinster champions the triumph of order over chaos in society, through her process of detection in which the solution rests in provable fact.

An interest in the magic, religion and spirituality of the ancient Egyptians continues to increase steadily as people begin to realise that it is possible to follow this ancient tradition in the 21st century. The Egyptian religion is the oldest recorded belief system in the world, having just entered its sixth millennium - and it still can still teach us how to live today in both earthly and cosmic harmony.