Mundane (exoteric) astrology focuses on the personality, through the Sun sign, whereas true Esoteric Astrology focuses on the Soul's Purpose, mainly through the ascendant sign. This work by the Master Astrologer Dr. Douglas Baker covers the ascendant sign for about half of the signs, with the other half in Part VIII of the same title. Baker parses the aspects of each of the 12 (ascendant) rising signs and gives significant insight into unfolding the Soul's Purpose to anyone with the same rising sign. A very deep work and a must for any esoteric astrologer.

Retrograde planets offer real spritual opportunity for those individuals on the Path. Some of us are born with some retrograde planets and all of us experience retrograde planets as they transit our charts and daily lives. Baker gives us the real meaning behind these opportunities, as no one else could.

This amazing book is divided into the sections: Stress Disorders, Flower remedies, Alcoholism and The Completion of Cycles, but it deals with much more, like symbols, their use in meditation, the Cell Salts of Dr Schuessler, the platonic solids, and even astral vampirism! The section on the Bach Flower Remedies is the most interesting and informative I have ever found on the subject and contains beautiful color and black & white illustrations of the plants concerned, plus a striking illustration of how the vibrations in the remedies swirl in and around the body after you've taken them. Instructions on how to prepare the remedies are provided. The next section deals with alcoholism, its esoteric significance and healing. Some of the text can only be understood if one is familiar with the vocabulary of Theosophy (rays, etc), but other parts are easier to grasp - a relevant letter of Carl Jung is printed in full. This sections also contains impressive illustrations, the most frightening of which is an instance of astral vampires attaching an alcoholic in sleep. Treatments for alcoholism are given with special reference to psychology and the flower remedies. This is followed by a long illuminating section on the Vagus nerve (Man's Psychic Aerial) and the charkas. The work concludes with an essay on holistic methods of healing and there are fold-out maps of the flower remedies and their use, ear-stimulation acupuncture points and feet-massage reflexology points. A very impressive work to be read again and again, and an essential reference work for practitioners of alternative healing.

Imagine assembling over 300 missionaries, mission leaders and professors of missions to ask them any question you wanted. Now imagine that they addressed over 1400 topics. This new encyclopedic dictionary has done just that. With 700 topical articles, almost 500 short biographical articles, and hundreds of country profiles, the Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions is a veritable goldmine of up-to-date information on missions.

The authors include people from East and West, North and South; practioners and teachers. All have written in non-technical vocabulary and evaluate their assigned topic(s) in light of evangelical thought. The book is decidedly Christian and missiological in tone.

There are short bibliographical notes at the end of many articles and a good indexing system.

Dive in anywhere and enjoy the learning experience.

This book is full of awesome testimonies of the Lords faithfulness to a very courageous group of poeple. The true life accounts in this book give testimony to the sufficiency of God to meet every one of our needs in times of trials and suffering! To praise HIM in the midst of trials and persecution...To know his peace that is not contingent on where we eat or what we sleep on or what we are made to do....This is a book about people still alive today who have risked everything and won the greatest gift, to be in the Presence of God! I recommend this book to new Christians and people who have been walking with God all of there lives. You will never be the same again! Oh Lord if we could just throw off the comforts of the world that so easily hinder us from receiving every good gift that HE has for us. This book was stunning and powrful the first time around and it remains one of my favorite devotionals that refreshes my spirit and reminds me in just a couple of pages of what really matters in my Christian walk with Jesus..

This book was very informative. It gave the information I needed about some collectible jewelry I am accumulating. It gives a more in-depth history of the manufacturing of many collectible brands than other books I have seen. I would highly recommend this book for vintage jewelry collectors.

I absolutely love these books! They are are easy for kids to understand, and the stories are fun and imaginative. Carin Greenburg Baker is at her best. Being a second degree brown belt,any child who understands karate will not be able to get enough of these books!

I've spent so much time trying to find a book like this. Finding Signs is about the potential for adventure in life. Set in the 70s, it is similar in style to On The Road, but Finding Signs, written by a woman, delves far deeper into the philosophy behind the archetypal wanderer. This book is truly a masterpiece and I am crushed that Sharlene Baker has not written anything else.

Samson Shillitoe finds A Fine Madness in a world he understands all to well. An unexpected poet, the gruff Shillitoe upsets his wife, his landlord, his boss, a lawyer, a psychologist, a cop, and every woman he meets in this cockamamy tale. But one of the most interesting parts is the way Baker tells the story. He writes it like a narrator following, not one character, but different charcters at different times. A bit sexy at some times, but great book for any poet. Also a movie.

A zany riot of language and image. My children were going around the house for days mouthing "Finsterisms." I recommend the book without reservation for children and adults alike. Neither you nor your kids will soon forget the adventures of Finster and Holly Berry.