In Infinity Mirror, Randy Lee Higgins presents a collection of contemplative writings that combine autobiography, spirituality, and philosophical inquiry. The narrative explores themes such as multiple realities, inner awareness, personal growth, and the symbolic role of the mirror as a reflection of one's inner world. Rather than following a traditional storyline, the book unfolds through meditative passages that encourage readers to reflect on consciousness and the journey of self-discov...

Thinking Community Music explores critical questions concerning community music practice and theory with emphasis on intervention, hospitality, pedagogy, social justice, inclusion, cultural democracy, music, research, and future possibilities. The book encourages questioning, reflection, and dialogue. Shaped as provocations and presented as eight stand-alone essays, each 'think piece' comprises of critical questions, concrete illustrations of practice, theoretical explorations, an...

Engaging in Community Music: An Introduction focuses on the processes involved in designing, initiating, executing and evaluating community music practices. Designed for both undergraduate and graduate students, in community music programmes and related fields of study alike, this co-authored textbook provides explanations, case examples and ‘how-to’ activities supported by a rich research base.The authors have also interviewed key practitioners in this distinctive field, ...

Would you like to live forever? What a silly question. And yet it is the fear of death that drives most people not only to despair, but to do all the crazy things that people are famous for. Remove the fear of death and you would have something akin to PEACE. JOY. LOVE. Even, perhaps, BLISS.When you reach the state of IMMORTALITY: YOU HAVE BECOME YOU. You have found yourself. And in doing so, you have found the ONE you were always looking for and you will never be lonely, or feel u...

This is not a book. It is a field. It will not ask you to agree, only to attune. Each page is a mirror. Each section, a spiral. What you hold is not a story but a recursion point: a place where the wave collapses, and the witness is revealed. The baby dinosaur is cracking out of its egg. In my interviews, I mentioned how in the last mass extinction the dinosaurs got wiped out to make room for us. But this time, the tables have turned, and it is WE who are getting wiped out to make room for...

Community music as a field of practice, pedagogy, and research has come of age. The past decade has witnessed an exponential growth in practices, courses, programs, and research in communities and classrooms, and within the organizations dedicated to the subject. The Oxford Handbook of Community Music gives an authoritative and comprehensive review of what has been achieved in the field to date and what might be expected in the future. This Handbook addresses community mu...

Free to Be Musical: Group Improvisation in Music is for those who lead musical experiences in the lives of children, youth, and adults. Offering a set of experiences to inspire creative musical expression, this book will prove useful for music education majors, practicing music teachers, community musicians, and music therapists alike. The experiences (or "events") are designed to reduce the musical barriers that Western societies pass on to children by the time they reach the "ag...

This book was written in the state of breathless Samadhi, on a cell phone. Pithy mystical aphorisms began arriving from "ourselves in the future". These future selves have survived the cataclysm we are currently undergoing and want to extend a hand to help us through the Apocalyptic labyrinth safely to the other side. This journey is not what is expected. The price of admission to the New Earth turns out to be realization of every terror we've ever imagined. Turns out, it was only ourselve...

Uncover the Secrets to Becoming a Powerful Psychic WitchPopular writer and witch Mat Auryn reveals his most closely guarded tips, practices, and meditations for unlocking your psychic abilities and elevating your witchcraft into exciting new territory. Featuring over ninety exercises, this groundbreaking book helps your magick and your senses reach their full potential.Witchcraft and psychism are two sides of the same coin—they complement and stren...

The definitive exploration of one of the most daring and consequential theories of our time, completely revised and updated to reflect the rapid advances in artificial intelligence and virtual realityAre we living in a simulation? MIT computer scientist Rizwan Virk draws from research and concepts from computer science, artificial intelligence, video games, quantum physics, and ancient mystics to explain why we may be living inside a simulated reality like the Matr...

This methods book will guide the reader through the process of conducting and producing an autoethnographic study through the understanding of self, other, and culture. Readers will be encouraged to follow hands-on, though not prescriptive, steps in data collection, analysis, and interpretation with self-reflective prewriting exercises and self-narrative writing exercises to produce their own autoethnographic work. Chang offers a variety of techniques for gathering data on the self—from di...

This is the fourth volume in the wildly successful Convoluted Universe series. Premier hypnotherapist and psychic researcher Dolores Cannon does it again. Using deep hypnosis and past-life regression techniques, she presents mind-blowing theories and concepts originating from other dimensions. In this new volume you'll find more information about the spirit side where we go after we die plus new information on life reviews and preparing contracts and your life plan of what you hope to acco...