Entering The Circle

On a trip into Siberia's Altai Mountains, the author learns from a shaman the ability to untap the wells of spiritual potential in every human soul.

LONGLISTED 2015 – International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, bestselling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award. When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company’s modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can’t believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world—even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman’s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.

This spiritual journey is written in the language of a generation that, having divorced religion, is still desperate to build a relationship with God.

This book, written by Olga Kharitidi, gives us a unique opportunity to acquaint with a Russian esoteric underground, probably for the first time. This honest & deeply personal story told by Olga takes us on a captivating journey with a modern psychiatrist who works in Novosibirsk, a large city in Siberia. She meets with Siberian shamans & finds the link to teachers of ancient tradition that existed thousands of years ago in Siberia. ENTERING THE CIRCLE is a fascinating story of a spiritual search made by a Siberian woman who has walked the paths of modern Soviet psychiatric science, shamanic revelations, occult experiments, alternative healing practices, & who has come to the core of many traditions springing out of Russia during different times, including the work of Roerich, Blavatsky, Gurdjieff & Ouspensky. The root of all these teachings goes to the heart of mystical Russia - North Shambala. The ancient teachers speak to us through Olga Kharitidi as she describes her experiences in her book. The meaning of evolution, personality & the mystery of immortal existence is revealed to her step-by-step as she moves along her difficult journey in Siberia. ENTERING THE CIRCLE is the first book in a trilogy that tells about Olga's experiences in Altai, the mountain country of South Siberia. The second book will describe the connection of Central Asian traditions to North Shambala, & the third one is devoted to ancient mystical ties between Siberian & Native American cultures. Olga Kharitidi, M.D., was born in Siberia. She studied Siberian esoteric traditions during the time when it was prohibited by the Soviet State & used it in combination with her conventional psychiatric work in a major Siberian hospital. She has travelled extensively throughout Siberia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan following the ancient way of knowledge as it spread through Siberia to Central Asia, Tibet & Himalayas. She is the author of the book "Closed Power: Altered States of Consciousness" published in Russia. She is the author & leader of educational & spiritual television programs.

Meetings in the round have become the preferred tool for moving individual commitment into group action. This book lays out the structure of circle conversation, based on the original work of the authors who have standardized the essential elements that constitute circle practice.

The original small-press edition of Calling the Circle has become one of the key resources for the rapidly-growing "circle" movement. This newly revised edition brings Christina Baldwin's groundbreaking work to an even broader audience ranging from women's spirituality groups to corporate development teams. 50,000 years ago, women and men gathered around campfires to decide the key issues in their lives. Today, groups everywhere are discovering a new form of this ancient ritual for communication, mutual support, teamwork, and social change. Now, in a book as consciousness-changing as Riane Eisler's The Chalice and the Blade or Peter Senge's The Fifth Discipline, Christina Baldwin offers this powerful new tool to everyone who longs for a community based on honesty, equality, and spiritual integrity. In this simple, profound practice, participants sit in a circle, pass a talking piece from person to person, and speak and listen from the heart. Christina Baldwin gives detailed instructions and suggestions for getting started, setting goals, and solving disagreements safely and respectfully. She also offers inspiring examples of circles in action: a women's spirituality group, a father and son in crisis, a PTA group that averts a school strike and a work project team that accesses a new level of creativity and caring.

Entering the Circle addresses the practical and methodological aspects of research within the interpretive or hermeneutic perspective. It contains descriptions of exemplary interpretive research projects in psychology and closely allied fields. Offering insight into the range and subtleties of the methods of interpretive inquiry, this collection challenges the reader to question the assumptions behind more traditional research that aims, instead, to objectify human phenomena.

COVR Award Winner The Circle Within is your guide to creating a personal spiritual practice for daily life. The first section is a thoughtful examination of Wiccan ethics and philosophy that explores how to truly live Wicca. The second section includes devotional prayers and rituals that provide inspiration for group or solitary practice. Topics in this Wicca book include: cultivating an ongoing personal relationship with deity, ethics and standards of behavior, concepts of sacred space, elements of a daily practice, tuning into the Wheel of the Year and the elements, and creating meaningful personal Pagan rituals. Move beyond the basics of Wicca and enter the sacred space of the circle within.