This book is for the reader who has a sense that the adaptive response to these epic times is the power of love. Each element of the writing builds on the next, blending discourse with inner awakening, making available a truly transformational endeavor. For the reader who is new, yet drawn to practical spirituality, Power of Love builds the understanding and experience they need in a step by step way that is easy to apply. For the reader who has been at it a while, we have a way to sort out the chaff from the wheat and filter mental and metaphysical noise from the clear signal of foundational love. For the seasoned reader, who has had the fortune of good teachers and has done superb self-work, we provide refinement and an extended application of what they already know.

The Ways and Power of Love was originally published in 1954 when Pitirim Sorokin was in the twilight of his career and leading the Harvard Research Center in Creative Altruism. His elaborate scientific analysis of love with regard to its higher and lower forms, its causes and effects, its human and cosmic significance, and its core features constitutes the first study on this topic in world literature to date. Sorokin was the one absolutely essential twentieth-century pioneer in the study of love at the interface of science and religion. Bringing The Ways and Power of Love back into print allows a new generation of readers to appreciate Sorokin's genius and to move forward with his endeavor at a time when civilization itself continues to be threatened by a marked inability to live up to the ideal of love for all humankind. It is certainly right to hope, with Sorokin, that progress in knowledge about love can move humanity forward to a better future. Turning the sciences toward the study of love is no easy task, but it can and must be done.

Loving others like Jesus is not automatic or natural, but it is vital to a satisfying home life, productive work environment, and a positive community. "The Power To Love" is a concise overview of the personal, communication, and relational skills needed to develop and maintain loving relationships. The personal skills include cognitive restructuring, emotional management, behavioral redirection, and spiritual enlightenment. The communication skills include understanding the miracle of communication, knowing what to talk about, and being able to speak the truth in love. The relational skills involve confrontation without condemnation, comforting without enabling, and supporting without hidden strings. Together these skills provide the relational empowerment needed to actually fulfill the new commandment of Jesus to love others the way he does. Those who experience "The Power To Love" described in these pages enjoy the personal benefits and genuine freedom of loving others regardless of their circumstances of life.

Race is a result of God’s design and not of sin. God loves diversity and sought it. Race biases are normal and come as a result of likes and dislikes; love of “the other” is to be learned. In this book, Bible stories and principles are combined with four intercultural communication skills to help develop love of the other. This book builds on what Sherwood Lingenfelter and Marvin K. Mayers developed for understanding cultural values and diversity of likes and dislikes. Those differences are normal. The problem comes from excluding the other. This book explores a step-wise approach to developing the love of the other. How the person, the leader, and the church see diversity defines the church’s outreach, mission, and gospel fulfillment. Author’s Own Words Book Description The Power of Love book explains how emotions and feelings were part of God’s creation design from before sin entered this world. While departing from cognitive neuropsychology and the latest learning from science this seminar furthers the idea that race relations are not to be understood by sociology and science but by Bible and Christian beliefs. If you want to learn a non-CRT (critical race theory) approach to race relations while risking being, again, convicted of the need to reach out to the other in gospel love—enter into dialogue—with the author by reading his book and let us pray together. If you want to keep it safe and your intercultural relationships as they are—in a tongue in cheek way the author advices to—stay away from this book!

An Expansive Resource with 55+ Energy Healing Modalities This newly revised edition of The Encyclopedia of Energy Medicine is an extensive directory for anyone wishing to study energy healing practices. With newly added modalities, updated course listings, and an improved list of energy medicine associations, this comprehensive reference features dozens of healing schools as well as licensure and certification programs in a field that is constantly growing and evolving. Linnie Thomas offers resources for pursuing your education in fifty-six energy healing methods, such as: Reflexology • Healing Touch • LomiLomi • Holotropic Breathwork • Thought Field Therapy • Reiki • Medical Qigong • Melody Crystal Healing This much-needed sourcebook covers healing session summaries, certification and continuing education requirements, endorsements and accreditations, standards of practice, legalities, and class availability. Thomas lists each therapeutic approach, course descriptions (including contact information), and codes of ethics, making it easy to find the information you need to explore these healing techniques for yourself. Includes a foreword by Cyndi Dale, internationally renowned author of The Complete Book of Chakra Healing