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An absorbing, fast-paced, and comprehensive guide to surviving in the wild, with a particular focus on the animals you might encounter–and want to avoid!–while you're there. Whether you're lost in the mountains, stranded the desert, or adrift at sea, if you've read this book, you might just have a fighting chance at staying alive. Vivid photos, maps and other colorful graphics provide plenty to inspire armchair explorers. Chapters cover survival at sea, on a Pacific island, in the Outback, the Sahara Desert, the Amazon Rain forest, Polar wilderness, and in the Rocky Mountains. Readers are provided with information on what to do first, the key rules for survival, the animals in each habitat, and how to signal for help. Feature pages highlight real-life survivors who escaped these harsh environments to inspire young explorers.

The Ultimate Guide to Astrology is a modern and appealing approach to the most popular aspects of astrology-the signs and the planets-from leading astrologer Tanaaz Chubb of the wildly popular Instagram astrology handle, Forever Conscious. Astrology can be a complicated subject filled with technical content such as charting, planetary aspects, and transits. For most beginners, these are confusing and dry details that obscure the most magical aspects of astrology. The Ultimate Guide to Astrology clearly and succinctly explains these complicated facets, thus enabling you to quickly move onto the bigger picture of using the signs and the planets to understand yourself and your life with deeper clarity. • Learn how to quickly set up your astrological chart. • Understand the unique energetic expression of each planet and how it expresses itself in your birth chart. • Discover where each sign sits in your chart and how it impacts specific life areas such as career, finances, health, and relationships. With this unique approach, you'll be able to intuitively understand your cosmic blueprint and how to apply it to your life.

The Ultimate Guide to Energy Healing demystifies energy healing styles and practices and offers accessible techniques that you can use immediately for healing and self-care. The popularity of energy healing is surging as people seek out alternative means of healing and wellness. While popular, energy healing can be intimidating to many, as it sits at the intersection of the scientific and the spiritual. The Ultimate Guide to Energy Healing offers an understandable and practical approach to energy healing. Learn how to: • Develop energetic sensitivity • Work with auras and energy fields and protect your space • Clean and balance chakras • Remove energy blocks and cords • Do light body and DNA activation Techniques for the beginner, intermediate, and more advanced practitioners are included. Detailed information on chakras and energetic anatomy is covered as well as supplemental tools and techniques such as color healing and using crystals, pendulums, and sound. The techniques offered in this book are a fusion of many methods thus enabling practitioners to get the best from each method of energy healing and incorporate the practice into everyday life and adjunctive practices such as meditation or yoga.

A modern approach to an ancient tradition, The Ultimate Guide to Shamanism teaches you how to incorporate shamanic practices and ceremonies into your everyday life. A popular spiritual practice today, shamanic practice spans civilizations, continents, and countries. Indeed, it can be traced as far back as humankind itself. It has existed for as long as we have existed. Today's shamanic practitioner is a mystic, a healer, and a keeper of ancient wisdom. They navigate and balance the seen and unseen energies between the natural world and modern society. Along with the history of shamanism, learn these shamanic skills for healing and empowerment: • Calling in the four directions and setting ceremony • Building an altar and setting sacred space • How to work with shamanic tools and power objects • Working with spirit allies, ancestors, and your Higher Self • Shamanic journeying With The Ultimate Guide to Shamanism, you, too, can access the power of these ancient practices.

Learn how to develop your intuition safely and effectively for joy and personal empowerment with best-selling author and psychic Karen Frazier as your guide. Psychic ability is the capacity to know the unknowable. We are all born with this gift-but we need to know how to access it. The Ultimate Guide to Psychic Abilities teaches you how to awaken your different psychic abilities: • Mediumship-the ability to talk to Spirits • Telepathy-the ability to read what's in someone else's mind • Precognition-the ability to know events before they occur • Precognitive dreaming-the ability to use dreams to predict the future or know events • Remote viewing-the ability to see events at a distance • Channeling-the ability to glean information from other people or Spirits • Astral travel-the ability for your spirit to leave your body and explore other places • Psychokinesis-the ability to affect and move objects with your mind You'll also learn how to use your psychic abilities in conjunction with other divinatory tools such as tarot and astrology. Setting energetic boundaries and protection is discussed as are strategies for managing psychic information if you are empathic or highly sensitive. Exercises and games allow you to explore and learn at your own pace as you strengthen and refine your abilities. The practice includes meditations, asking for and recording psychic dreams, charging crystals, and card play, among others. Written in an accessible style and featuring luminously beautiful illustrations, The Ultimate Guide to Psychic Abilities is the essential guide for developing your most important ability.

The Ultimate Guide to The Witch's Wheel of the Year offers a complete guide to celebrating the eight Wiccan sabbats as part of your spiritual practice. Anjou Kiernan-named "One of the Magical Women You Should be Following on Instagram" by Refinery 29-guides you through the history of the holidays, their pagan roots, and how to merge these sacred cycles and celebrations with today's traditions and holidays. Lavishly illustrated and photographed, The Ultimate Guide to The Witch's Wheel of the Year illustrates spells and practices that will help you incorporate the old magick of the seasons into your modern life. Accompanying each turn of the Wheel as it cycles through the holidays of Yule, Imbolc, Ostara, Beltane, Litha, Lughnasadh, Mabon, and Samhain are: • Feast recipes • Fertility spells • Protection amulets • Home wards • Divination rituals • Prosperity charms • And more From the bright blessings of the Yuletide solstice to the fertile flower magick of Beltane to the thinning of the veil on Samhain, each transition lends itself to a unique catalog of spells, altars, and practices that you can use all year long. The Ultimate Guide to... series offers comprehensive beginner's guides to discovering a range of mind, body, spirit topics, including tarot, divination, crystal grids, numerology, aromatherapy, chakras, and more. Filled with beautiful illustrations and designed to give easy access to the information you're looking for, each of these references provides simple-to-follow expert guidance as you learn and master your practice.

The Ultimate Guide to Crystals is a comprehensive beginner's guide to understanding and working with the stones. The crystal curious will find an introduction to all of the key crystal applications and concepts, including: • How to use crystals with other practices such as feng shui, meditation, and reiki • Crystal correspondences such as color and which stones should and should not be used together • How to use crystals in ritual, gridwork, and in crystal remedies Crystal practitioners will learn the science as well as the art of crystals, including crystal lattice systems, MOH hardness scales, high and low vibration crystals, and energetic concepts such as entrainment and how to use intention to work and manifest with your crystals. The book also includes profiles and meanings for the 100 stones every crystal practitioner should know and work with. Written by crystal influencer, @LovingThyselfRocks and featuring beautiful photography and stunning images of the stones, The Ultimate Guide to Crystals will become your go-to crystal resource.

Written by two of the leading voices in aromatherapy, Amy Galper and Jade Shutes, The Ultimate Guide to Aromatherapy is a progressive, comprehensive approach to using aromatherapy and essential oils for healing and wellness. Essentials oils have been used across all world cultures for thousands of years. While the popularity of aromatherapy has endured, the methods and applications of the craft have evolved. The Ultimate Guide to Aromatherapy is the modern practitioner's guide to working with aromatherapy and essential oils. Using techniques developed over decades of teaching, you will learn the science of aromatherapy and how essentials oils interact with our sense of smell, brain pathways, and skin. The guide also includes over 50 plant profiles, plus recipes and blends for health and beauty. Included are remedies for digestive health, immunity, women's health concerns, and more, such as Hand & Body Wash for Flu Recovery, Self-Love Botanical Perfume, and Tummy Massage Oil for Indigestion. Drawing on the authors' unique methodology and expertise as aromatherapists, herbalists, and healers, you will learn the art of blending formulations with great skill and discernment. The Ultimate Guide to... series offers comprehensive beginner's guides to discovering a range of mind, body, spirit topics, including tarot, divination, crystal grids, numerology, witchcraft, chakras, and more. Filled with beautiful illustrations and designed to give easy access to the information you're looking for, each of these references provides simple-to-follow expert guidance as you learn and master your practice.

Channeling is the ability to communicate with angels, spirit guides, ascended masters, and beings in spiritual realms. The Ultimate Guide to Channeling teaches you how to develop this advanced intuitive skill with precision and safety. Expert author and Spirit School founder, Amy Sikarskie, will guide you through: • The different styles of channeling • How to connect with your personal group of guardian angels and spirit guides • The different chakras and clair senses • How to use your natural intuitive abilities to perceive spiritual messages with accuracy • How to integrate other divinatory tools such as oracle cards and sound into your channeling practice You will also find valuable tools and techniques for energetic hygiene so that channeling can be done safely and accurately. Learn how to discern rogue and imposter spirits and clear energy after a channeling session. Take your intuitive abilities to new heights with The Ultimate Guide to Channeling.