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The poison was cyanide, slipped into the sacred wine of ecstasy just before it was presented to Miss Cara Quayne at the House of the Sacred Flame. The victim was a deeply religious initiate who had trained for a month for her last ceremony. She was also a very beautiful woman.... The suspects were the other initiates and the high priest. All claimed they were above earthly passions. But Cara Quayne had provoked lust, jealousy - and murder.

Once again, Roderick Alleyn is on the case of a killer who plucked the life from the newest initiate of The House of the Sacred Flame, just as she was about to drink the sacrificial wine, being as it was laced with cyanide. In investigating her death he finds the High Priest and his followers are more enmeshed is the earthly passions of lust and jealousy than they would like to imagine.

A young American woman arrives in Florence from Boston, knowing no one and speaking little Italian. But Hannah is isolated in a more profound way, estranged from her own identity after a bout with starvation that has left her life and body in ruins. She is determined to recover in Florence, a city saturated with beauty, vitality, and food - as well as a dangerous history of sainthood for women who starved themselves for God.

One of the most highly acclaimed and best-selling novels of 1991, Mariette in Ecstasy inspires even the most discriminating listener to some degree of reverence. This captivating story of faith and divine madness may move you to examine your own belief system. Since the tender age of four, Mariette Baptiste has had visions of her Savior. Now, at 17, she is entering the convent to dedicate her life to Him. At first, she is welcomed and admired. Then she begins to bleed from stigmata, and the villagers regard her as a saint.

Ecstasy: The Forgotten Language invites us to rediscover our natural state of ecstasy. We have lost touch with our intrinsic nature, says Osho, because we no longer live existential lives; we put our whole focus on our private lives. We have lost contact with the real and live almost entirely in our minds, in our imaginations. This makes us dull and unhappy and unavailable for what life is really offering us. Society and civilizations originally evolved to support and protect us, but now the situation has reversed and instead we find ourselves existing to sustain them.

Du bist ein Geschenk. Mit allem, was in dir ist. Mit deinen Ängsten, Unsicherheiten, Verletzungen. Mit allen Anteilen. Dein Herz ist ein Geschenk. Ich möchte dich daran erinnern, wie wunderbar du bist. Damit du dich wieder zeigst – beim Dating & in Beziehungen – dein Herz öffnest. Um die Menschen in dein Leben zu ziehen, die dich nähren. Ich erinnere dich daran, dass die Liebe auch in einem einzelnen Moment zu finden ist. Und ich zeige dir Wege, wie du aus dem, was gerade ist, die größte Kunst und die meiste Liebe für dein Leben erschaffen kannst. In service to love. instagram.com/...

Few drugs in history have generated as much controversy as MDMA—or held as much promise. Once vilified as a Schedule I substance that would supposedly eat holes in users’ brains, MDMA (also known as Molly or Ecstasy) is now being hailed as a therapeutic agent that could transform the field of mental health and outpace psilocybin and ketamine as the first psychedelic approved for widespread clinical use. In I Feel Love, science journalist Rachel Nuwer separates fact from fantasy, hope from hype, in the drug’s contested history and still-evolving future.

Los tiempos han cambiado. Las redes sociales, los chats, la vida práctica y vertiginosa de los jóvenes; todo ello ha contribuido a que las parejas tengan nuevas dinámicas. Cada vez son menos usuales los noviazgos. A cambio, proliferan las relaciones libres. El autor de Juventud en éxtasis, nos presenta el libro más esperado de la actualidad. Un documento moderno, con formato ágil y divertido, pero de conceptos profundos, basados en datos estrictamente científicos y objetivos.

Exile and Ecstasy sets out to explore the psychedelic path that occupies the crossroads between the Ram Dass movement and Hasidism. It's a path of seeking and escape, rebellion and return, medicine and magic. Bridging the polar ends of the Jewish and psychedelic worlds, while buttressing the...