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Watkins’ Spiritual 100 List for 2012
Feb 12th
100 Most Spiritually Influential Living people
Watkins' Mind Body Spirit magazine issue 29 features the Spiritual 100
We are delighted to share with you our 2012 list of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People. This marks the second year that we are publishing our 100 list. Last year’s list was extremely popular and we received a great deal of feedback. We’ve done our best to consider as many people as possible and our spiritual database includes the names of approximately 500 candidates. This list is meant to serve as a positive guide to some of the leading modern teachers that are alive today, and we hope that you are as inspired as we are by their impact. There are a few interesting newcomers to this year’s list. Meanwhile, we are sad to report that three members of last year’s list recently passed away: Kenneth Grant, Sai Baba, and Jerry Hicks.
There are several factors that were taken into account when compiling the list. The main three criteria are: 1) The person has to be alive 2) The person has to have made a unique and spiritual contribution on a global scale 3) The person is frequently googled, appears in Nielsen Data, and More >
2011 Roundup at Watkins: Spiritual 100, MBS Magazine & Watkins Ebook App!
Dec 9th
We’re now in the final weeks of 2011 and can declare it a huge success:
The Watkins Spiritual 100 list that came out in February has helped raise awareness about spiritual teachers and authors across the globe – in fact, people from 174 countries read it here on our blog alone!
The reincarnated Watkins Review, now Mind Body Spirit magazine has become a quarterly 100-page publication, distributed world-wide – we just heard the other day from someone in Australia who has picked up their first a copy from the local shop!
People from over 40 countries and 250 cities have made a purchase online through our website watkinsbooks.com – we’re always so delighted to see you here in London, but also appreciate your support when you’re not in town.
And last but not the least, one more piece of good news for 2011 as we’d like to announce the release of our very own Watkins Books app that provides a full environment for reading inspirational ebooks on iPads, iPhones and all Android devices! We’ve even selected some great free ebooks for you to enjoy.
The app is free to download. Browse esoteric and spiritual ebooks, download to your e-library and read directly from the Watkins ebook reader!
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Talk & Signing with Signe Pike: Faery Tale
May 27th
Join Watkins Books at the magical ‘tween hour of 6 PM on Friday June 10th as author Signe Pike entertains you with mystical, charming, and adventurous readings from her memoir, Faery Tale. After the devastating loss of her father, Pike left her career as a book editor in Manhattan to rediscover a lost sense of enchantment in life. In her tour through Mexico, England, Ireland, Scotland and beyond, she takes readers along with her to dark glens and abandoned forests, ancient sacred sites, and local pubs, seeking those who still believe in the elusive beings we call faeries. As Pike at- tempts to connect with the spirit world—and reconnect with her own sense of wonder and purpose—she comes to view both herself and the world around her in a profoundly new light.
Signe Pike now lives and writes full-time in Charleston, South Carolina, with her husband, two pets, and of course, their resident faeries. She is currently at work on her next exploration into things unseen. Visit her website at www.signepike.com
Made-Easy Series Book Launch at Watkins!
May 24th
Wednesday, June 1 @Watkins Books – 6.00pm to 7.00pm (free entry)
The new Made Easy Series of titles are brief 100 page introductions to a broad range of spiritual knowledge areas. They appeal to anyone asking spiritual questions and wishing to explore new areas of spirituality.
Join us for the launch here at Watkins Books in 19, Cecil Court, London WC2N 4EZ on Wednesday 1st June at 6pm. Author talks introducing their books will be followed by Q&A and book signings.
- Simplicity MADE EASY by Jennifer Kavanagh discusses why and how simplicity is more than a lifestyle option: it is a way of life.
- Downshifting MADE EASY How to plan for your planet-friendly future by Marian Van Eyk McCain is a simple, useful guidebook for anyone seeking to move and thrive, healthily and happily, into the coming ‘Age of Sustainability’.
- The Druid Way MADE EASY by Graeme Talboys introduces the Druid Way in an acorn.
- Kabbalah MADE EASY by Maggy Whitehouse is a down-to-Earth, no-red-strings-attached look at the mystical tradition made famous by the Kabbalah Center.
- Psychosynthesis MADE EASY – A psychospiritual psychology for today by Stephanie Sorrell explains why psychosynthesis is known as psychology with a soul, and how it works from the ego to the Spirit.
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“The Portal” by Patrice Chaplin – Talk & Book Signing at Watkins
Mar 21st
Come over to Watkins Books on Wednesday, April 6th, for a great opportunity to meet Patrice Chaplin and hear her talk about The Portal. The true-life memoir Patrice Chaplin began in City of Secrets continues here in the story of her spiritual initiation into the Kabbalistic tradition preserved since the Middle Ages by a secret society in the pre-Roman city of Girona, Spain. Salvador Dalí was a member of that society, as was the renowned author Umberto Eco, and the filmmaker Jean Cocteau. Importantly, so was the mysterious Berenger Sauniere, the priest who in the late 1800s built Rennes-le-Château in southern France, with the Tour Magdala, a tower that is twin to the neo-gothic tower in Girona. In this gripping story that reads like the adventures of a female Castenada, Chaplin is led through a series of initiatory stages which correspond to the magical square of Venus, containing the constellation of the Great Bear.
Patrice Chaplin is an internationally renowned playwright and author who has published more than 25 books, plays, and short stories. Her most notable work includes Albany Park, Siesta, which was made into a film staring Jodi Foster and Isabella Rossellini, Into the Darkness Laughing, Hidden Star, Night More >
Talk & Book Signing – Three Dangerious Magi: Osho, Gurdjieff, Crowley
Feb 28th
Our second event this March is with P.T. Mistlberger, the author of the Three Dangerous Magi: Osho, Gurdjieff, Crowley
The idea of the ‘crazy wisdom teacher’ – a spiritual teacher who generally speaking works outside of conventional approaches (and often, outside of strict moral codes) is frequently misunderstood, and needless to say, wildly misused at times. The 20th century saw a number of famous (and infamous) ‘crazy wisdom teachers’, with three of the best known, and most notorious, being Aleister Crowley, G.I. Gurdjieff, and Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh). P.T. Mistlberger has experiential knowledge of the work of all three of these teachers (and others). In this talk he will discuss some of the matters of the crazy wisdom approach, and in particular how it is more relevant in modern times.
What? Author talk followed by Q&A and book signing.
When? Thursday, March 17, 6.30pm to 7.30pm (free entry)
Where? Watkins Books, 19-21 Cecil Court London (directions)
