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About This Candle I am in need of frequent clarity and burn this candle often, with magical results. One example: In May 2001 I found out I had the opportunity to contribute something to the gift bags handed out at Oprah's "Live Your Best Life" nationwide tour. Thing was, I had to produce 8,500 candles in 3 weeks--a daunting challenge for a one-woman shop! So I freaked out, and then I created an altar that held a clarity candle along with a written prayer asking for a clear path towards logistical and financial help. Within an hour, my prayer was answered. The quote by Jane Wagner (Lily Tomlin's longtime partner and writer) is a classic. —Carla Blazek, creator, zena moon |
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Our Recommended Books, Music & Movies for Clarity zena moon sells books, CDs and DVDs in association with Amazon.com. To order, click on the item's title or image, then add it to your Amazon shopping cart. Orders are then filled and shipped by Amazon. Send us your recommendations for this page--we may post them here.
Last updated 4/4/2005
1. Meditation 24/7 : Practices to Enlighten Every Moment of the Day
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From Amazon.com: Many misunderstand meditation as an ethereal
state only achieved by the likes of monks and yoga experts. But its power is
available to everyone, if they know how to tap into it. For those who have
been curious, fascinated, or intimidated by the practice of meditation,
Meditation 24/7
is the perfect guide for mastering practical techniques for getting the most
out of your daily walk through life. Just imagine... Eating a simple meal and
taking great delight in each bite. Lying down and relaxing so deeply that in a
few minutes you are rested and ready for action. Walking and feeling the
simple joy of movement as you stride along. Drinking your morning beverage
with intense pleasure, as if it were an elixir of life. Rich moments like
these slip past people every day because they're too distracted, fatigued, or
stressed-out to notice or enjoy them. This book and CD ensemble gives you the
easy-to-follow practices that will enable anyone to tap the full enjoyment
from moments in time that too often flash by without being fully appreciated.
With patented, easy-to-follow techniques such as "Fill Your Cup," "Wait Up,"
and "Groom and Zoom,"
Meditation 24/7
offers readers of all generations the chance for profound physical, mental,
emotional, and spiritual enhancement.
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From Amazon.com:
The Salmon of Doubt is a
book that both excited and surprised me. Published posthumously following the
unexpected death of Douglas Adams, I and presumably many others expected it to
be another installment of
The Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy.
This, the longest trilogy in the history of the Universe, is the work he
remains famous for worldwide. Unfortunately, within these pages you will not
find Marvin the paranoid android; neither will you find Arthur Dent. Certainly
this is a masterstroke and a little devious by the publishers to advertise the
book with the sub-title "Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time" and at first
you may feel cheated. However, do not discount this book as a cash-in on a
great man's name. You may not find what you were expecting but what you will
find is an eclectic mix of Adams writings, many of which have never been
published before. You will find musings and notes, interviews and snippets and
the Holy Grail itself. A short story revolving round a young Zaphod Beeblebrox
the two headed alien infamous in the Hitchhiker's series.
3. Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
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From Amazon.com: In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders...until he meets Donald Shimoda--former mechanic and self-described messiah who can make wrenches fly and Richard's imagination soar.... In Illusions, the unforgettable follow-up to his phenomenal bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach takes to the air to discover the ageless truths that give our souls wings: that people don't need airplanes to soar...that even the darkest clouds have meaning once we lift ourselves above them... and that messiahs can be found in the unlikeliest places--like hay fields, one-traffic-light midwestern towns, and most of all, deep within ourselves.
Original Release Date: 1992
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From Amazon.com: Emergence is one of R. Carlos Nakai's most emotive CDs, exploring traditional melodies and prayers of Northern and Central Plains Native Americans while waxing improv on everything from desert winds to willow trees and red-tailed hawks. The result is a sweet, expressive, and grounding music dedicated to the songs and stories of Nakai's tribal ancestors. This longtime master owns a natural gift for singing with the cedar flute, and this becomes delightfully apparent after hearing the fresh and light "Whirlwinds Dancing" and "Coyote Rainbows." Nakai devotes the last third of the album to South American Diné creation and emergence stories and his original, "Willow People"--with its echoing notes and touch of ambient synthesizer--begins to sing with cosmic tones, reflecting the landscape of the Din&ecute; songs. What follows are four lovely pieces of expansive Native American music, some of which include Nakai's deep, godly voice floating over a timeless universe, before ending on a quiet, melancholy rendition of "Amazing Grace." With each song, Emergence emerges into a masterpiece.
Original Release Date: 1990
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From Amazon.com: Heaven or Las Vegas is the Cocteau Twins album that it seems most people claim as their favorite (although my personal fave is the rapturous Blue Bell Knoll). Liz's vocals on Heaven or Las Vegas are intriguing; you can once again recognize the occasional word, enough to know that the whole thing is really words and not just vocalizations. But her diction and pronunciation are done so that most of the words remain just out of reach, like a dream you just had but can't quite remember. The sound has a rich low end, with pulsing electronics holding down the bottom, and Simon Raymonde's mellow harmonizing on the 6-string bass sliding along like water across rocks. Robin Guthrie's luscious harp-guitar is used in kind of spare, subdued ways, weaving a web very simply and elegantly. Absolutely mesmerizing.
Original Release Date: 1998
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From Amazon.com: Tom Waits pulled off a neat trick with the 1983 release of Swordfishtrombones: he disengaged himself from the present (and his own recent achievements) and allied himself with the past. And yet no one could accuse him of becoming mired in nostalgia. A decade before the phrase lo-fi gained favor, Waits purposely ravaged his songs by stomping them into peculiar shapes and utilizing arcane instruments and recording techniques to further bend them into new kinds of aural sculptures. The result was a genuine musical breakthrough. Beautiful Maladies gathers 23 tracks from Waits's seven post-Swordfishtrombones Island LPs. These pretty/ugly tracks provide a riveting view of Tom's wild years. While at least four Waits Island titles qualify as essentials, Beautiful Maladies and the 1988 live set, Big Time, provide compact introductions to a matchless body of work.
1. Memento
(2000) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com: Guy Pearce (L.A. Confidential) and Joe Pantoliano (The Matrix) shine in this absolute stunner of a movie. Memento combines a bold, mind-bending script with compelling action and virtuoso performances. Pearce plays Leonard Shelby, hunting down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The problem is that "the incident" that robbed Leonard of his wife also stole his ability to make new memories. Unable to retain a location, a face, or a new clue on his own, Leonard continues his search with the help of notes, Polaroids, and even homemade tattoos for vital information.
Because of his condition, Leonard essentially lives his life in short, present-tense segments, with no clear idea of what's just happened to him. That's where Memento gets really interesting; the story begins at the end, and the movie jumps backward in 10-minute segments. The suspense of the movie lies not in discovering what happens, but in finding out why it happened. Amazingly, the movie achieves edge-of-your-seat excitement even as it moves backward in time, and it keeps the mind hopping as cause and effect are pieced together.
Pearce captures Leonard perfectly, conveying both the tragic romance of his quest and his wry humor in dealing with his condition. He is bolstered by several excellent supporting players, and the movie is all but stolen from him by Pantoliano, who delivers an amazing performance as Teddy, the guy who may or may not be on his side. Memento has an intriguing structure and even meditations on the nature of perception and meaning of life if you go looking for them, but it also functions just as well as a completely absorbing thriller. It's rare to find a movie this exciting with so much intelligence behind it.
2. Fight Club
(1999) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com: All films take a certain suspension of disbelief. Fight Club takes perhaps more than others, but if you're willing to let yourself get caught up in the anarchy, this film, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, is a modern-day morality play warning of the decay of society. Edward Norton is the unnamed protagonist, a man going through life on cruise control, feeling nothing. To fill his hours, he begins attending support groups and 12-step meetings. True, he isn't actually afflicted with the problems, but he finds solace in the groups. This is destroyed, however, when he meets Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), also faking her way through groups. Spiraling back into insomnia, Norton finds his life is changed once again, by a chance encounter with Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), whose forthright style and no-nonsense way of taking what he wants appeal to our narrator. Tyler and the protagonist find a new way to feel release: they fight. They fight each other, and then as others are attracted to their ways, they fight the men who come to join their newly formed Fight Club. Marla begins a destructive affair with Tyler, and things fly out of control, as Fight Club grows into a nationwide fascist group that escapes the protagonist's control.
Fight Club, directed by David Fincher (Seven), is not for the faint of heart; the violence is no holds barred. But the film is captivating and beautifully shot, with some thought-provoking ideas. Pitt and Norton are an unbeatable duo, and the film has some surprisingly humorous moments. The film leaves you with a sense of profound discomfort and a desire to see it again, if for no other reason than to just to take it all in.
(1997) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com: Imagine if an actor's director like Eric Rohmer--whose films consist almost entirely of conversation between pairs or small groups of people--made a film that incorporated elements from movies like Dark City, eXistenZ, The Thirteenth Floor, The Truman Show, and Total Recall. The result might resemble Alejandro Amenabar's remarkable second feature, Open Your Eyes, which favors ideas over effects and offers twist upon twist with mind-warping agility. This film rewards multiple viewings, pushing the viewer toward one perception of reality, then switching to another until reality itself is called into question. Melodrama, love story, and psychological thriller combine with a dash of science fiction, forming a plot that is both disorienting and deceptively precise.
Set in Madrid, the story defies description, but this much can be revealed: young, handsome Cesar (Eduardo Noriega) is vain, rich, charming, and--following a botched suicide-murder scheme by a jilted lover--horribly disfigured. He'd fallen in love with Sofia (Penélope Cruz) but is now an embittered husk of his former self, stuck in a "psychiatric penitentiary" on a murder charge and hiding behind an expressionless mask. His reality has crumbled, but as the film's agenda is gradually revealed, we realize that there are other factors in play. Exposing that agenda would be a criminal offense against those who haven't seen the film; suffice it to say that Open Your Eyes takes you into the twilight zone and beyond, and does so cleverly enough to prompt Tom Cruise to produce and star in an English-language remake, Vanilla Sky. The 2001 remake, directed by Cameron Crowe, costars Cameron Diaz and Penélope Cruz, who reprises her original role. | |||||||||
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