Ecstasy Books

A great book for anybody who wants to add a little spice and excitement to their love life. It's written so that you can get an idea for something fun to do in just a few minutes. It's also remarkably comprehensive, with fun things for him and her. We're having a lot of fun with it.

Ms. Gentry does a great job just adding some nice tips for everyday life. Some of them I would never have thought to do on my own. Its just nice to have something fun to look forward to when my boyfriend and I are looking to spice things up.

We found this book because Richard Rhodes raves about it in his "Erotic Journey" autobiography. The book helps enhance lovemaking... and love. First part consists of facts... anatomy, general technique. Then, the second part consists of exercises, starting with simple communication and kissing and moving to techniques for helping each other reliably achieve 30-minute climaxes. It's nearly unnecessary to say that the exercises are fun. But the book is more than fun - it approaches being essential.

I read a lot of books about how to do good sex and how to be intimate. This book continues to be the most accessible to a broad group of people interested in the journey of intimacy.<P> A tested and thought through program of 13 weeks that will bring partners together in a profound way, without esoteric ritual. I give this book as a wedding present in addition to anything else I might want to send a new couple on their journey with

Unhappiness is a state of mind. "Cracking the Glass Darkly: Discovering Power and the Ecstasy of Your True Cosmic Self" is a compelling and informative examination of the depression that humanity so often puts itself through for no apparent reason. Speaking on how to deal with it and how to break through one's own fog of depression, it encourages readers to stop living in the past and stop living in the future, but to focus in on the here and now. Highly recommended for Self-Help, Self-Improvement reading lists and reference collections, "Cracking the Glass Darkly" is a fresh and original approach to helping one's self out of life's funk.

Robert Egby's "Cracking The Glass Darkly" explains in plain language the path to spirituality and enlightenment. For the past 52 years, I've been trying to understand the Russian mystic, Gurdjieff, as presented by P. D. Ouspensky from his book, "In Search Of The Miraculous" - with no success. Egby explains in 21st Century language the mysticism of Gurdjieff.

One would have to spend a lifetime sitting at the feet of Tibetan, Buddhist and Zen Masters to learn what is in this book. Buy and study this book and be pleased that it no longer takes 52 years to understand your spiritual path and a realization of your true self.

Written by hubby, Donald D. Scott, who won't turn on a computer.

This is a book is for anyone interested in new ideas for education. Even though it was written a while ago, its still as relevant as ever. Since the school system is still using the same outdated tactics to get kids to learn, and it suffers continual degradation in results, the system still hasnt got the message that its way off track. This book will pull the reader back to a sane way to educate your child. One that doesnt sacrifice the child's desire to learn in favor of regimen, rules, standardization, repitition, uniformity, etc. This book will tell teachers how to create an envirnment where the student wants to learn. It will re-ignite the childs passion, sense of wonder, creativity, and yes, freedom to go as far or in any direction he/she wants to.

This is a book is for anyone interested in new ideas for education. Even though it was written a while ago, its still as relevant as ever. Since the school system is still using the same outdated tactics to get kids to learn, and it suffers continual degradation in results, the system still hasnt got the message that its way off track. This book will pull the reader back to a sane way to educate your child. One that doesnt sacrifice the child's desire to learn in favor of regimen, rules, standardization, repitition, uniformity, etc. This book will tell teachers how to create an environment where the student wants to learn. It will re-ignite the childs passion, sense of wonder, creativity, and yes, freedom to go as far or in any direction he/she wants to.

I've got the name of this book tattooed on my arm. Its not neccessarily my favourite book or particularly clever. But it has an underlying current that is like a shooting up smack whilst driving a stolen car through a residential area.

Once in a while I come across a writer who is so dexterous, so acute, that I am willing to follow him to whatever depths of depravity to which he chooses to descend.

Tim Willocks is such a writer, and in Bad City Blues, he has elected to visit a deeper place than I have gone before. The setting is a Louisiana hotter, dirtier and uglier than the one I have visited and it is peopled with demons disguised as policemen, addicts, thugs and men of the cloth. These creatures are violent and vengeful, heaping pain and indignities upon one another with an abandon that should chill and repel the reader, but the spare beauty of the language keeps us hanging on through the worst of it.

There are only seven characters in Bad City Blues and in lesser hands such paucity of interaction might seem cramped and claustrophobic, but it's clear that Willocks requires every one of the books 245 pages to bring them to life and could probably have done with another hundred or so.

As with most of stories of human nature, Bad City Blues is about two brothers. It is a logical way for a writer to start - two men who have had the same upbringing and background should turn out roughly the same way, yet one goes bad, the other goes worse. Cicero and Luther Grimes (Grimes - dirty, besoiled, low - even the names are evocative) are white trash who haven't spoken in years due to an unnamed wrong committed by Luther on Cicero. Luther spends most of his time in South America, training death squads and dealing drugs, while his brother elected to go to medical school. Cicero could have been a successful doctor, but instead now lives in a broken-down firehouse in a broken-down part of town and tends to the afflicted, often free of charge. Does this make him a good man? No, not really. Violence and retribution boil just below the surface of his calm demeanor. Though the "good" Grimes does not uncork his rage, the bloodlust surges through him and is as ugly as the acts perpetrated by the other characters.

Separated by years and miles, the brothers are pulled together by Callie Carter, a former hooker and current addict, who is on the run with a million dollars stolen from the bank where her husband is a Vice President. The husband, Cleve Carter, is also a television evangelist who sparks through his brief appearance in this book like a high-voltage wire chewed through by wild nutria.

Clarence Jefferson is a crooked cop who destroys or befouls everything he touches, including his sweet and unassuming Baptist wife. He catches wind of the million dollar heist and sets out to claim his piece of it, leaving a wake of bloodied and broken humanity behind him.

Bad City Blues is a ferocious and extraordinary book that will be enjoyed by fans of Chuck Palahniuk and James Lee Burke and burned in horror by fans of Agatha Christie and Joan Hess.

This is one of those rare anthologies that is worth its price more for the editor's introductory remarks than for the anthologized essays. Don't misunderstand me. Buber does a wonderful job of selecting mystical "ecstatic confessions" from the world's religious traditions. He includes passages from writers such as Rumi, Rabia, Symeon the New Theologian, Hildegard of Bingen, the Beguines, Julian of Norwich, and Catherine of Siena, as well as representative selections from works such as the Mahabharata. For the most part the selections are judicious--although, because the book was published in 1909, twentieth century mystics such as Simone Weil and Thomas Kelley naturally aren't included. Curiously, too, only a tiny snippet from Meister Eckhart makes it into Buber's book.

But what really makes the book invaluable is Buber's Introduction, in which he spells out his distinction between the "commotion" that distracts us from a unitive experience of God and the nature of the "unity" sought by the mystics. The distinction is one that, under the guise of other terms (such as "many" and "one") is well-known in mystical literature. But Buber's beautiful prose, and especially his sensitivity to the importance of silence, are unmatchable. Here's an example (p. 7): "Silence is our symbolon which protects us from the gods and angels of the commotion, our guard against its aberrations, our purification against its purity. We ensilence our experience, and it is a star that travels along its path. We speak it, and it is thrown down under the thread of the market."

A book that deserves to be better known.

Martin Buber gives us collected writings of well known and unknown mystics. First published in German in 1909 this wonderful work gives a good introduction for anyone who wants more knowledge and confirmation of the existence of the Divine in our finite lives. LK 11:9 "And I tell you, ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. Other works that have passed the test of time are:
Interior Castle or The Mansions by St. Teresa of Avila
Dark Night of the SoulDialogue of St. Catherine of Siena
Dark Night of the Soul by Saint John of the Cross
Essentials of Mysticism by Evelyn Underhill.

This is a book of incredibly beautiful poetry and prose from the sacred writings of the Baha'i Faith. Not just any sort of prayer book, a treasure for a lifetime of meditation on what is truly important in this life.

A beautiful pocket-sized presentation book of Bahá'í prayers and passages from the holy writings of The Báb, Bahá'u'lláh and 'Abdu'l-Bahá. This small selection of prayers and writings of the twin founders of the Bahá'í Faith and of 'Abdu'l-Bahá (son of Bahá'u'lláh) will delight the hearts not only of Bahá'ís but also many others who wish to have at hand an array of beautiful devotional readings capable of moving the heart, soul and spirit. For those who wish to pray, meditate and reflect, here are some of the best loved and familiar words and passages revealed through God for this day.

Aptly titled, Prayers of Ecstasy is the perfect prayer book to help the soul respond to its Creator.

Liebert captures the ecstacy of Rumi. It is extraordinary. You won't feel cheated.
He doesn't depart from the thrill. It is just too short. "I drained this cup; / there is nothing, now,/ but ecstatic annihilation/ were I ever other than this/ I regret being born/ if forever it is this, / I'll tramle both worlds!/ and dance/ ecstatic/ forever!/ O, Shams, / I am so drunk!/ what can I say, but I am so drunk on love"

As some of the world's most spiritually poignant and pithy literature, the writings of Rumi can be a challenge to translate. Fragments & Ecstacies is Rumi at his best and translation at its best. It is a journey of absolute love and wisdom set in the simplest of peotic form. A real gem! I think Rumi, himself, would be pleased.

I was given this book to read by a teacher when I was fifteen. I was a voracious reader, and my instructor and I shared a mutual love of good writing, he gave me a number of good books and this one has always stood out -- so much so that a decade has passed and I have yet to return it!

White's poetry manages to effortlessly capture a number of emotions. I've read few poets who can talk about sex without making it seem either trashy or overly romantic; he used his words to describe it as a primal and natural thing. His lines about love are the same way, neither sappy nor cold, but somewhere in the warm middle that feels like reality.

James L. White died in 1981, shortly before the publication of this book, which collects his astonishingly moving lyrics. While the poems share in the period style of the Seventies -- the "Deep Image" poetics of Bly and Wright -- they have an emotional availabiliy that's uniquely White's. They're direct, tender, often desolate poems which opened new territory in American poetry, by offering us an out gay speaker whose sexuality in itself is not necessarily in the foreground of the poems -- White's gayness is completely assumed, available, but what is foregrounded is a whole range of emotional experience: longing, regret, self-loathing, tenderness. A stunning and enduring book

I read this book in a few short hours and could hardly put it down. Young impressionable lives are BEAUTIFUL and represent 100% of our future. Drug abuse is a BEAST which looks forward to snuffing out those lives. If placed in our high schools and college campuses, this dynamic book has the awesome potential to dramatically change lives. Maybe someone reading this can help get these books there. If it can save ONE young person's life, or encourage parents and guardians everywhere to be more involved in their loved one's life as Gia's mother was, just maybe the suicide rate of teens and young adults would drastically diminish.

Gia's mom did all she could to save her, and thats all that is asked. Ultimately, the responsibility rests with the struggling individual to make the choice to receive help; but to those hurting parents who don't know what to do when they see the signs of drug abuse and odd behavior in their loved one - pay attention to the details in this book. Who knows how your efforts can save the life of a despondant soul -- this book's truths can help them! I'm sending a copy to my 30 year old daughter (who struggles with issues)! This book has done it's work, and as Gia stated within it, she wanted her story told... not wanting anyone to follow her path... it has been told; let's take heed by taking this message to others while they are yet living and breathing.

The loss of a child is surely the worst experience any parent could ever go through. Minister Butts tells the story of her brilliant and beautiful daughter Gia's disintegration and death due to drug abuse with a level of honesty and insight that is both riveting and heartbreaking. This is also a moving testament to the power of unshakable religious faith, a faith that gets severely tested and we can only marvel at Butts' ability to convert emotional pain into spiritual strength. This is a must read for anyone who cares about our current generation of adolescents and emerging adults. It should be required reading in middle and high schools everywhere. Clergy from all denominations might also find this to be an excellent resource to share and recommend to their congregations.

This is definitely one of those books that once you've finished reading it, you don't put it down, you look for someone else to give it to.