Ecstasy Books

I have to say that Payton's Passion is one of the best erotica stories I've ever read. It really touched me which I never would have expected from this genre. That story alone is worth the price of the book and I'd just consider the 2nd novel a freebie. I'm halfway through Authors In Ecstasy but Payton's Passion really is a hard act to follow.

This is one of those "feel good" books. I just loved Andy in the first story, he is just the nicest guy you could imagine and very sexy! I had to admire the way he absolutely adores his wife after twelve years of marriage and three kids and is still so turned on by her! If we could all be so lucky! Great read!

I simply love the first story in the book. I like the way Payton and her husband tried to reignite their passion after many years into their marriage by checking themselves into a fantasy resort. The emotions protrayed were real and sensitive. Sex was fun and good but mostly it was not just plain sex for sex type of story. The second story in the book is not as interesting and touching as the first but nevertheless the whole book is definitely not a bad deal if you are looking for emtional and sensitive erotic story.

How does time function? What is ecstasy? What is illusion? How does the kundalini work? These questions and more are answered in the amazing work. In the first half, the author gives a clear and concise explanation of tantrik cosmology, explaining exactly how tantra perceives, men, women and indeed, perception itself. This is followed by a lengthy treatment of the tantrik path of spiritual illumination/transformation which dissolves the world of illusion; the second half of the book features page after page of beautiful tantrik painting & sculpture from India, Nepal and China. I cannot recommend this book too highly.

How does time function? What is ecstasy? What is illusion? How does the kundalini work? These questions and more are answered in the amazing work. In the first half, the author gives a clear and concise explanation of tantrik cosmology, explaining exactly how tantra perceives, men, women and indeed, perception itself. This is followed by a lengthy treatment of the tantrik path of spiritual illumination/transformation which dissolves the world of illusion; the second half of the book features page after page of beautiful tantrik painting & sculpture from India, Nepal and China. I cannot recommend this book too highly.

It's really, really hard to put any religion into words that someone can understand and read in one evening. Philip Rawson succeeds in this task. Part of his success is the heavy use of pictures and illustrations, which makes the essence of Tantra easily understandable to the visual learner.

Mariah Temple and Echohawk, Chippewa chief, journey into a relationship only you and I dream of. Well written, entertaining. The characters are colorful. Read the book. Cassie has done it again.

Being a avid fan of Cassie Edwards. I truly enjoyed this story. It was tender but captivating. Very well written. I enjoyed this whole series, and look forward to many more books of Cassie's.

Mariah Temple was a young woman living in a nightmare. Fathered by a tyrannical man who is also an Indian hater, she is forced to act and dress like a young lad, for fear that too many boys will be attracted to her beauty. At her wits end Mariah doesn't know what to do until her eyes lock with Echohawk.

Moving his village to a new, peaceful location, the weight of the destruction falls heavily upon his shoulders. Echohawk is torn by listening to his father's please for peace while his heart is being eaten away with hatred for the white men who enforces harm about his people. He trusts few white people and Mariah isn't one of them.

Thrown together by chance and torn apart by hidden truths Mariah and Echohawk have a bumpy road to face. Echohawk falls deeply in love with Mariah's determination and grit and she too falls hard for the future Chief of his people. You can feel the power between these too and there are surprises right up to the end! I thought it was a great book with great supporting characters. A great start to the series. I hope the rest are just as well written!

i was afraid (as i am with many new age books) that "art of everyday ectasy" was going to err on the corny, enlightenment-pretending side like many in this genre. however, ms. anand brings solid, confident insight to this topic, and some very good ideas for rising to your own potential for everyday ectasy.

This book is worth reading. Easy to read without being superficial. Gives multifaceted information that you can use to change your outlook on life.

I have found that the fabric of the material (loosely from mary baker eddy) is the time and space we will overcome to bring us to eternity...scientists have uttered the words 'AT FIRST THERE WAS NOTHING AND THEN THERE WAS LIGHT.For me it was that which was that had died inside:for my love to live i had to overcome...as freud would say..the self imposed...i prayed and thank god for my sanity and the sanctity of all..cobwebs,labyrinth, kings and pretty princes through the lookinf glass and to find the wing on the tail of a kite she would call to know...Theologically, "a man will cleave to his wife becoming one flesh,,,i assume most have found to share the mind is as well an exxtasyty.as we now all brave our vistas and find love we were to deligate to coerce will come some of the hard work of life.., food, clothes, shelter...peace and love, met "where we are at" with humor.

This book discusses not only meeting your lover from the Astral Plane, but also many psychological issues concerning your astral/dream lover, including interaction within nightmares, sex dreams, etc. An excellent book.

an intriguing account of the drug that shaped the eighties and spawned many to turn their backs on shallow materialism and work toward a more enlightened and "cognitively aware" life.

Explores the known or rumored dangers and offers an intelligent approach to diving within your own nervous system as an informed neuronaut bent not just on hedonism, but on coming through the other side with enlightenment.

Read along with the works of Shulgin for a more sensible version of drugs than the one your government feeds you!

Through interviews, anecdotes, extracts and analysis, this book looks at the cultural impact of the drug Ecstasy from its early days in the gay club scene through today. Excerpts from newspaper articles, interviews with those involved in the early club scene are great. The 15-page bibliography is unbelievable, as is the list of 50 or so Web sites.

The authors have done an admirable job at not taking sides on the ecstasy debate. They give treatment to medical information, police and government reports, newspaper accounts as well as the comments of users. This approach makes the book more important and long-lasting than a "isn't this cool" book that links music and E in the club scene only.

This book puts the science in how certain personality types are attracted to different drugs because of the nuerotransmitters they produce. Each personality type, such as an adventurous person who likes to jump out of airplanes, would be susseptible to the addiction of cocaine, because both acts enduce the same endorphines in the brain, thus creating the same high. Each drug is addressed and considered for personality types that might become susseptible to that drug. Fascinating look at how nuerotransmitters and personality types come together to create certain types of addictions and preferences for certain drugs.

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The authors argue for a broad definition of addiction as "self-induced changes in neurotransmission that result in behavior problems." Addictions are grouped into three major categories: satiety, stimulation, and fantasy. Research demonstrates that the biochemical bases for addictions in each group are similar. Thus compulsive use of depressant drugs involves many of the same neurological mechanisms as activities such as overeating and watching television; a similar relationship is found among stimulant use and other thrill seeking activities, such as skydiving and gambling; use of 'hallucinogenic' drugs is related to other activities of compulsive fantastication, such as religious fanaticism and schizophrenia.

My lay opinion is that some of these parallels may not be quite as strong as they are argued to be in the book; nonetheless the thesis is generally valid, and the broad scope of addiction is a concept worthy of further exploration. Certainly it represented a refreshing and progressive development at the time of the book's publication. It will be interesting to see how the authors incorporate new developments in the field of addictions research and in clinical practice when their new work (Craving for Ecstasy: How Our Passions Become Addictions and What We Can Do About Them) is published.

The work includes a good deal of technical information and many interesting anecdotes from the lives of people whose behaviors have taken over their lives. It also contains a good deal of practical information and advice on recovery for those with more than an academic interest in the subject. Considering that it was written by two people, it also reads quite well.

She was cornered: Maggie Sterline's past had caught up with her. What strange twist of fate had led her to walk unknowingly back into the lion's den? Saxon Tremayne was a hot-blooded giant of a man. What had happened betweenn them was a misundertanding, but he was determined to see her pay for everything. His price--that she stay in South Carolina and care for the man who found himself bitter and helpless in a world suddenly turned dark. But if Saxon's blind wrath was unsettling, Maggie still had the stamina to stand up to him, to force him to face his world even as his angry touch grew tender, and his kisses seemed to say that her surrender would mean more--far more--than mere revenge.

A GREAT READ FOR AN AFTERNOON. CLASSIC DIANA, JUST ENOUGH SEX TO KEEP YOU TURING THE PAGE. BUT YOU WOULDN'T MIND YOUR DAUGTER READING IT.THATS WHY I LOVE DIANA PALMER

I AM CURRENTLY RE READING THIS BOOK, IT IS SO FULLL OF INCREDIBLE INFORMATION. MY WHOLE BODY SHIVERS AND TWITCHES AS I READ IT. SHE EXPLAINS THE DIFFERENT BODIES THAT MAKE UP OUR EXPERIENCE. THE PHYSICAL BODY,WHAT OUR SOUL SELECTS AS THE VEHICLE IN WHICH TO HAVE OUR INTERACTIONS, THE MENTAL BODY, WHICH CONTROLS THE PHYSICAL BODY AND CAN ACT AS A TREMONDOUS BLOCK OR BRIDGE DEPENDING ON HOW IT IS USED TO FURTHER SPRIRITUAL PROGRESS, THE SPRIRITUAL BODY,THE UNMANIFEST PART OF OURSELVES WHAT WE RECOGNIZE IN OTHERS, LIKE WHEN WE FIRST MEET SOMEONE AND KNOW WE KNOW THEM,AND THE EMOTIONAL BODY, THE STICKY AND MOST EARTH BOUND PART OF HUMANS. THE EMOTIONAL BODY KNOWS NO SENSE OF TIME OF SPACE IT IS COMPLETELY SELF SEFFECIENT AND CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED BY THE SPIRITUAL BODY, AND SO IT IS UP TO US TO BECOME AWARE ENOUGH TO QUICKEN OUR FREQUENCY SO THAT THE EMOTIONAL BODY CAN LIGHTEN AND RELEASE THE INFINITE AMOUNT OF PAIN AND ANGER AND EXPERIENCE THAT IS HELD THERE, TO COME INTO THE LIGHT. THERE IS SO MUCH IN THIS BOOK, COSMIC ORGASM, ASTRAL ENERGETICS,THE UNENDING PULSATION OF LIFE AND DEATH, AND THAT AS WE PROCEED THAT TOO WILL BECOME UNNECESSARY FOR OUR GROWTH. A STUNNING AND YES VERY CHALLENGING BOOK, VERY VERY VERY MUCH WORTH THE EFFORT.

Content is 5 stars.Slow reading due to presentation.I would have preferred to have terms defined, better and material presented in more simple terms. Words she is VERY fond of,like 'positionality',and holigram, left me wondering how she definded them.There is dictionary of terms in the back, but it was of only limited use.She makes you work for the information, on this book, but it's worth the effort.

Surveying the views on baptism of eight of history's most influential theologians, the author expertly explains the development and bases for the varieties of interpretation and practice of this holy sacrament throughout modern Christianity. First identifying the guiding motif in each of these foundational perspectives, the author ably and accessibly demonstrates how each yields unique theological and practical implications for Christian belief and life. Engaging the work Thomas Aquinas, Karl Barth, John Calvin, Martin Luther, Aimee Semple McPherson, Alexander Schmemann, John Wesley, and John Howard Yoder, the author illuminates the differences between Eastern Orthodox, Anabaptist, Roman Catholic, Anglican, Methodist, Lutheran, Reformed, neo-orthodox, and Pentecostal traditions.

Especially on hotly-debated issues of baptism, many books claiming to be fair and balanced really aren't. This one really is. Haitch gives a fine overview (scholarly but very readable) of eight positions, from the Eastern Orthodox with its concern for exorcism, to the Pentecostal with its emphasis on ecstatic speech.

Approaching baptism as a window into different theological frames of mind, this book let me see the scriptural reasoning behind denominational differences. Equally important, it gives some reasons why baptism matters for everyday Christian life and ministry.

I found biographical notes on Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, Wesley and others interesting as well.

To quote William Placher (from the back cover): "Pastors and students wanting a clear account of the alternatives within the Christian tradition could not turn to a better resource than this one."