In the current model of health dispensation in South Africa there are two major paradigms, the spirit-inspired tradition of izangoma sinyanga and biomedicine. These operate at best in parallel, but more often than not are at odds with one another. This book, based on the author’s personal experience as a practitioner of traditional African medicine, considers the effects of the absence of spirit in biomedicine on collaborative relationships. Given the unprecedented challenge of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the country, the author suggests that more cooperation is vital. Taking a critical look at the role of anthropology in this endeavor, she proposes the development of a “language of spirit” by means of which the spirit-inspired aetiology of izangoma sinyanga may be made comprehensible to academic scientists and applicable to medical interventions. The author discusses white izangoma in the context of current debates on healing and hybridity and insists that there exists a powerful role for izangoma in the realm of societal healing. Above all, the book constitutes a start in what the author hopes will develop into an ongoing intellectual conversation between traditional African healing, academe, and biomedicine in South Africa.

Discover the different types of spirit guides, how to communicate and work with them and how they can help you in every facet of life. Connect with your personal team of spirit guides, and draw on their ancient wisdom and healing to overcome challenges, unlock success and achieve your dreams. The Seven Types of Spirit Guide is the first-ever exploration of the cosmic helpers who have communicated with everyday people across cultures and throughout human history. Spirit guides take many forms, and in this book spirit guide medium Yamile Yemoonyah will introduce you to each of the seven types: angels, ancestors, nature spirits, star beings, animal spirits, ascended masters and deities. Each has specific characteristics, gifts and challenges, and you'll learn the unique reasons your spirit guides are here to support you on your personal path. Featuring an extensive quiz to help you discover which types of spirit guide, or guides, you have, and practical advice on identifying and communicating with them, this refreshing and inclusive companion will help you to further your spiritual development, manifest your dreams and live your purpose.

With Intuitive Self-Healing, this registered nurse and renowned energy healer provides accessible instruction for helping readers tune into their health at a deeper level. Offering a compendium of illuminating case studies and practical self-care techniques, Marie invites readers to learn more about: The chakra system--how to access and activate seven energy centers that hold the key to our wholeness and intuitive gift tools for self-analysis--a chakra-by-chakra examination of where specific health and emotional issues arise Energetic preventative care--detecting and addressing potential health problems before they physically manifest Your intuitive style--how to discover your unique strengths for reading and working with subtle energy Through her popular radio show and workshops, Marie Manuchehri has provided invaluable guidance for those seeking to take a more active role in their own well-being.” Everyone has the power to create a vital, fulfilling, and healthy life,"" teaches Manuchehri--and with Intuitive Self-Healing, she offers key insights for awakening your own life-changing gifts.

Michael Fullan and Mark Edwards capture a powerful way forward Today’s challenges have led to a loss of hope at all levels of education leadership. Spirit Work and the Science of Collaboration advocates for the development of two qualities that will bring back hope: "spirit work" and the “science of collaboration”. Built on eight school district cases of success spirit work inspires leaders and community members to join to create a positive powerful culture. The authors delve into new developments in neuroscience to show how spirit and collaboration represent revolutionary potential for education. Readers will find: A lifeline amid overwhelming and exhausting conditions Hope for themselves and the future of education Ideas for building cohesion throughout school communities

They come to our aid when we least expect it, and they disappear as soon as their work is done. We all regularly receive messages from our guardian angels and spirit guides but usually fail to recognize them. This book aims to help the reader to realize when this occurs.

"This is a clear and thoughtful introduction to building relationships with your spirit guides. It shows readers how helpful spirit guides and angels can be in everything from the simplest to the most challenging of life decisions and how easy they are to connect with, too. Our spirit guides help us to: fulfill our purpose; make decisions that will move us forward faster; stop sabotaging ourselves as well as judging ourselves and everyone else; remember that we are more than our job or house or relationship; see ourselves as beautiful and everything in life as a gift; give ourselves and everybody else a break; keep growing until the day we leave our bodies behind; go beyond the life we hoped for and onto the life we never even imagined."--Publisher information.

Do we all have guides? Who are they, and what do they do? In WORKING WITH SPIRIT GUIDES, bestselling author Ruth White explains all you need to know about these special beings: What their purpose in our lives is; how to identify and communicate with them; and what to expect from them. Ruth tells her own amazing story and those of others, and includes easy-to-follow exercises for activating your sensitivity and intuition and helping you on the path to inner wisdom. You will discover how to: * recognise and communicate with your guid * increase your awareness through meditation * ask the right questions and receive the right answers * work with your dreams and intuition * guard against false guidance * find your sense of purpose and follow your destiny.

Every soul experiencing a physical incarnation is in constant—although subconscious—contact with their spirit guides: spiritual teachers offering guidance, knowledge, and wisdom.In this book, world-renowned spiritual medium James Van Praagh teaches readers the benefits and rewards of having a conscious relationship with their guides. The work includes exercises and meditations (along with a description of the various guides who help us on this earthly adventure), to enrich and assist readers during their physical journey.

Since the rise of modern industrial society, work has come to pervade and rule the lives of men and women. Although there have been many popular books and church documents on on the Christian understanding of work, this is the first scholarly effort to articulate a developed Protestant theology of work. In Work in the Spirit, Miroslav Volf interprets work from a new perspective - in terms of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit. He exhaustively explores the nature of work in both capitalist and socialist societies and considers a variety of work, including industrial, agricultural, medical, political, and artistic work. Examining the importance of alienation in work in industrial and information societies (particularly in the relation of workers to management and technology), he analyzes various forms of such alienation, and elucidates the character of humane work. On the basis of the ÒpneumatologicalÓ theology of work that he develops, Volf rejects the traditional Protestant understanding of work as vocation, and takes the concept of charisma as the cornerstone for his theological reflection on work. He denies that one is ÒcalledÓ to do a particular work irrespective of one's inclinations, and asserts, instead, that it is our privilege to do the kind of work for which God's spirit has gifted us. All human work done in accordance with the will of God, Volf argues, is cooperation with God in the preservation and transformation of the world.

#1 New York Times best-selling author | Includes a Free Spirit Guide Meditation download! Contacting Your Spirit Guide is divided into two parts. In the first section, Sylvia Browne helps you find your spirit guides – the entities who are designated by you and God to assist you with life and give you guidance. You will not only learn how to tune in to this guide or guides, but you’ll also see how you can recognize who they are, the messages they can give you, and even discern what their names are so you’ll know how to refer to them. In the second part of the book ("A Day in the Life of a Spirit Guide"), Sylvia writes intimately about her spirit guides, Francine and Raheim. For example, she explains how Francine first contacted her, how she (Sylvia) first went into trance mediumship, and reveals personal tidbits about her relationship with this guide. Sylvia’s love and respect for Francine and Raheim is evident throughout the stories that are presented. It becomes clear that through good times and bad, spir-it guides look out for those under their care. Sylvia offers great insight into the workings of spirit guides, and in so doing, gives you the tools to understand your “unseen companions along the way.”