Radiance Books.
Radiance carries an exciting variety of books on herbal medicine, general wellness, cooking and nutrition, personal growth, mind-body healing, spirituality and metaphysical studies, and much more. On this page you will find info about some of our featured books, authors and distributors.
New Leaf Distributors, one of Radiance's source for books and DVDs, shares many of our values, like environmental responsibility, contributing to the community, and fostering an environment of honesty and respect. Their mission is "to spread wisdom and joy by helping to make available books, recordings and other products that foster conscious living, natural wellness and a deep inner life of spiritual realization."
Currently Featured Books:
Cosmic Tribe Tarot
The best tarot deck for you is one that uses the symbol system you are most comfortable with. Some people need Goddesses, others need crystals, others still need groovy naked neo-pagan animal people. The 78-card tarot system comes to us from Egypt through Christianity. As our culture has become more fluent in Buddhist and Pagan symbol systems, the vocabulary of our intuition has grown enormously. Tarot symbolism hasn't often adapted. After staring fruitlessly at drawings of sticks falling from the sky, like in Rider-Waite's Seven of Wands, the Cosmic Tribe Tarot feels like a 3 AM rave at Burning Man--sweaty, vibrant, and in-your-face direct. If you're comfortable with full frontal nudity, and we should clarify that these images are gorgeously manipulated photographs, not paintings, you may find yourself surprised by the gentleness and generosity of the spirit behind these multiply pierced and tattoo-spangled archetypes. For example, there are three versions of The Lovers card, a female-female couple, a male-male, and male female couple, so that the deck can honor the holiness of all kinds of love. Readers are encouraged to select the version they feel suits them best, or leave all three in and assign their own meanings to each. The right person will find it a deck of radical and boundary expanding kindness.
Feng Shui and Health
Nancy SantoPietro
When a book is able to take a fascinating, valuable, but really esoteric system, say Feng Shui, and can offer an average person a practical way in to really understanding it from the inside out, it deserves to become a classic. Feng Shui got popular enough about a decade ago to taste a little faddish. Fortunately, Nancy SantoPiedro has put together a book that takes the time and detail needed to rescue this ancient system of design and energy management from the woo-woo clich� bin. Better yet, she draws the connection between home energy flow and the body's energetic, psychological, and physical health systems. Truly a book that can grow an interested beginner into a capable designer and student conversant in modern applications and new movements within this time-honored study.
Common Herbs for Natural Health
Julliet de Bairacli Levy
Ask a traditional herbalist about Julliet de Bairacli Levy, and watch them fall silent and starry-eyed for a moment. It's like asking a violinist about Paiganini. To speak about them is to tap into the bridge between the modern practice and the rich, holy history of our leaf-snacking and fiddle-swinging ancestors.
While Paiganini promoted the rumor he'd sold his soul to the devil to play so well, Juiette merely uprooted herself and traveled Europe for years with the Roma in their horse-drawn, painted wagons. As a traveling and often mistrusted minority, the Roma were forced into medical self-reliance. This meant they also maintained a beautiful living repository of traditional European herbal know-how. And Ms. de Bairacli Levy soaked it up until it saturated her fibers. This book is a rarity, one that speaks comfortably to a modern audience about the type of herbal knowledge one often has to brave antiquated English to access. In many ways she's the ur-mother of the modern herbal movement who is very much the direct ancestor of herbalists like Rosemary Gladstar, Stephen Harrod Buhner, and Susun Weed.
