What Is Meditation? explains the Buddhist worldview and the age-old practice it perfected to unfold our innate qualities of compassion, self-acceptance, and inner peace. Rob Nairn gives step-by-step instructions for beginning your own meditation practice, including three simple exercises "Bare Attention," "Remaining in the Present," and "Meditation Using Sound" to help get you started."

The Tibetan Book of the Dead is one of the best-known Tibetan Buddhist texts. It is also one of the most difficult texts for Westerners to understand. In Living, Dreaming, Dying, Rob Nairn presents the first interpretation of this classic text using a modern Western perspective, avoiding arcane religious terminology, keeping his explanations grounded in everyday language. Nairn explores the concepts used in this highly revered work and brings out their meaning and significance for our daily life. He shows readers how the Tibetan Book of the Dead can help us...

Angel of Fear is a timely corrective to the shallow "cures" for stress and anxiety that permeate our culture. It is a challenge to a greater view, and a practical guide to calm the mind and heal the nervous system with methods that have proven effective for hundreds of workshop participants. With his unique integral approach, Albert Buhr presents insightful solutions to the crisis of fear that psychiatry has failed to quell with its quick-fix suppression of symptoms. He exhorts us not to become fearless, but to face and befriend fear, and in so doing, embrace life. Fear, as it turns out, is...