Leaping Without Words explores the elusive task of unveiling the nuances and presences of spirit through words. It highlights the capacity of the writing and reading processes to transform the artifacts of words into spiritual meaning. Written by Chris Dube, publisher/editor for Urban Mystic Books, this book touches into the metaphysical and spiritual source of words and how they can be comported into an affective approach to spiritual awareness. This is a highly recommended book for writers and readers who sense that words can be more than the expression of ideas, that they can be used as vessels and containers for the sacred.
Author: Christopher Dube
Genre: Spirituality / Writing / Reading
Size: 5.5" x 8.5" soft cover; 276 pp
ISBN: 9780973459746
Retail: $23.95 CAD
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The Buddha-nature is a universal reality and our connection to all that is. Writing in an accessible and down-to-earth manner, Sheldon Moore outlines this subject and connects it to the Four Noble Truths. According to Moore, the great way is accessible in ordinary life and more immediately via our connection to nature. Remember Zen shows that the process of our awakening is not limited to any religious connection but is rather related to our core nature as aspects of and representations of a single oneness. Still, our awakening has to be lived and Sheldon Moore highlights some of the ways humanity must change to become an enlightened species.
Author: Sheldon Moore
Genre: Zen Buddhism / Awakening / Simplicity
Size: 5.5" x 8.5" soft cover; 248 pp
ISBN: 9780973459777
Retail: $23.95 CAD
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This book is an accessible rendering of the philosophy of Lao Tzu’s TAO TE CHING. The language of the text has been adapted into lucid poetry and given a focus that allows the poems to speak in unison. The result is a vibrant focusing of the text into a resonant and poignant poetry; a rare opportunity to read an ancient teacher who has a clear grasp of the nature and process of uncovering the sacred, and most unusually, the language to express it. This edition of The Book of the Way and its Way has been updated for reading aloud and meditative listening.
Author: Lao Tzu / Jarcq Terra
Genre: Spiritual Awareness / Poetry
Size: 5.5" x 8.5" soft cover; 144 pp
ISBN: 9780973459715
Retail: $18.95 CAD
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Kabir (1398–1518 CE) is one of the foremost mystic poets of India. Kabir’s poetry is founded on the devotional bhakti movement that heightened the mystical quest for God as a way out of the religious disunity that was being expressed between Hindus and Muslims. Kabir was pained to see how people erected barriers that kept them apart; he sought to break those barriers with the key of mysticism. Kabir’s poetic voice is incisive, direct, and revelatory. His signature is a rare astuteness married to a clear vision of our need to discover the divine that is already within us.
Author: Kabir 15th Century / Dr. J. Das
Genre: Mysticism / Poetry
Size: 5.5" x 8.5" soft cover; 208 pp
ISBN: 9780973459739
Retail: $21.95 CAD
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