#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic story of an incredible group of students and the teacher who inspired them, featuring updates on the students’ lives, new journal entries, and an introduction by Erin GruwellNow a public television documentary, Freedom Writers: Stories from the HeartIn 1994, an idealistic first-year teacher in Long Beach, California, named Erin Gruwell confronted a room...

For readers of Ace and Belly of the Beast: A Black queer feminist exploration of asexuality--and an incisive interrogation of the sex-obsessed culture that invisibilizes and ignores asexual and A-spec identity.Everything you know about sex and asexuality is (probably) wrong.The notion that everyone wants sex--and that we all have to have it--is false. It’s intertwined with our ideas about capitalism, race, gender, and queerness. And it imp...

THE DISCOVERY THAT MAY CHANGE THE WORLD This report deals with the discovery of an ancient and secret system of workable magic, which, if we can learn to use it as did the native magicians of Polynesia and North Africa, bids fair to change the world … provided the atom bomb does not make all Further changes impossible. As a young man I was a Baptist. I attended the Catholic Church often with a boyhood friend. Later on I studied Christian Science briefly, took a long look into Theosophy, an...

Recovering the Ancient Magic presents the results of an 18-year-long study of Huna magic, detailing examples of fire-walking, spiritualism, levitation, mind-reading, instant healing, and changes in physical material.Max Freedom Long spent 14 years in Hawaii studying the secrets of the kahunas of magic. His attempts to discover the secrets behind magical ability are detailed in this volume containing his collected data and assimilated theories. Long examine...

A standards-based teacher’s guide from the educator behind the #1 New York Times bestseller The Freedom Writers Diary, with innovative teaching techniques that will engage, empower, and enlighten.Don’t miss the public television documentary Freedom Writers: Stories from the HeartIn response to thousands of letters and e-mails from teachers across the country who learned about Erin Gruwell and her amazing students ...

Are you ready to join the rebellion?The once lush green lands of Evernyl have become drought-ridden and desolate without draíochta (magic) to fuel its survival. Ruled by a cruel tyrant, whose actions ended the life of a beloved king and exiled its heir, anyone opposing his methods or wielding draíochta is a target.After eight years, Evernyl's heir, Ruadh returns from exile at the behest of her rebel court. Along with her cousin and a shape-shifting mentor, she infiltrates t...

The students of today tell their stories of adversity and growth in letters to the original Freedom Writers—authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Freedom Writers Diary—who write supportive and powerful letters in response.Over twenty years ago, the students in first-year teacher Erin Gruwell’s high school class in Long Beach, California, were labeled “unteachable”—but she saw past that. Instead of treating them as scores on a test, she u...

Messengers Among Us: The Many Voices of GodNot every message from heaven comes with thunder. Sometimes, it arrives as intuition, a stranger's kindness, or a silent knowing that changes how we view the world. Every person can receive guidance not through hierarchy, but through openness.Messengers Among Us explores how the divine speaks through human life itself through art, through compassion, and through moments that transcend logic yet fe...

You've heard of fire-walking, distance-healing, and raising the dead - but can you explain how they do it?Arriving in Hawaii in 1917, psychology-trained teacher Max Freedom Long was fascinated by tales of the kahunas and their amazing abilities. However, no native would tell him the secret behind these miracles - which were commonplace in the backwater areas he travelled to. Study as he might, he ultimately had to return to the States, unable to find out how this a...

Most Esoteric authors look to Western occult traditions, or possibly to borrowed Hindu or Buddhist concepts. Max Freedom Long, on the other hand, was fascinated with the shamans of Hawaii, the Kahuna. This book is not, an ethnographic account of Hawaiian healing, it is informed by anecdote and personal experience in the islands. Long spent many years in Hawaii, and besides several books on 'Huna' he also apparently wrote several mystery novels in that setting. This book, one of the first h...

According to Long, self-suggestion is a technique for using the power of the mind to bring about positive change in one's life. He explains that the subconscious mind is highly suggestible and can be influenced by repeated positive affirmations and visualizations. By using self-suggestion, individuals can reprogram their subconscious minds to focus on positive outcomes and achieve their goals.Long provides practical guidance on how to use self-suggestion effectively. He encourages readers ...

This information concerning those parts of psychology which we have come to call hypnosis, mesmerism and suggestion, is being presented as an addition to the scant literature on the ancient psycho-religious system of the Polynesians called “Huna” or the “Secret”. It is taken for granted that the reader will already have gone through the first three books dealing with the rediscovery of Huna (The Secret Science Behind Miracles, The Secret Science At Work, and Growing Into Light). But for th...