Friendlier Title, Same Great Book “Spirituality For Dummies” is now “Spirituality For Everyone” From The Village Voice: If you feel empty inside (and not because it's been six hours since your last burrito), it might be time to search for the meaning of life in Spirituality for Dummies (now Spirituality for Everyone). This chunky primer provides a comprehensive rundown of the existential questions that Eastern spirituality aims to answer. Even skeptics can gain self-knowledge from the thought and visualization exercises strewn throughout the book, which demonstrate how to take a positive view of negative experiences and let go of emotional baggage—like going to a therapist, but cheaper. From Reverend Dr. Michael Beckwith: A Mecca for those who are sincerely seeking the genuine meaning and practice of spirituality. Sharon Janis fuses mystical insights drawn from the east/west approaches, resulting in a volume that opens the heart, exhilarates the mind, and inflames the soul. No matter upon which rung of the spiritual ladder you now stand, expect to be catapulted to the next level of awareness through practice of the wisdom-offerings in this scripture of Truth. From Dr. Christopher Key Chapple, Loyola Marymount University: This book bridges the gap between conventional experience and the spiritual life. Spirituality for Dummies gives practical advice for entering the path of spirituality, borrowing wisdom from a host of religious, philosophical, and comedic traditions. Insightful, wise, and humorous, this book can and should be read by all, from novice to saint! From the Sacramento Bee, Book Review: This insightful spiritual treatise definitely is not for dummies: This primer provides a general overview of spiritual knowledge and awareness, and offers specific spiritual exercises and principles designed to expand one's universal consciousness. Author Sharon Janis fuses mystical traditions with "new thought" to encourage individuals to see beyond mere appearances and use intuitive perceptions to comprehend the spiritual laws at work behind the outer conditions in their lives.

Spirituality For EVERYONE: Based on the 2nd Edition of Spirituality for DUMMIES

Self-Help

Janis, Sharon

Janis, Sharon Kumuda

Spiritual

Night Lotus Productions

In "Secrets of Spiritual Happiness," Sharon Janis demystifies the secrets of spiritual happiness in an entertaining, accessible and down to earth style. She describes the barriers to happiness and offers practical tips to help readers respond to life situations in ways that will bring greater harmony and happiness. Readers will learn how to feel complete even while grieving the loss of something or someone of great value. Spiritual happiness transforms your fear into faith, and your anger into compassion and blessings. Sharon Janis combines spiritual teachings of many traditions with examples from current world events, along with humorous and touching stories from her own colorful journey to explain the keys to happiness and to offer simple tips to help readers respond positively to life situations. Janis's sound advice makes Secrets of Spiritual Happiness a refreshing, realistic tool for achieving joy and fulfillment in everyday life. Sharon Janis is an award-winning filmmaker, speaker, singer, photographer, graphic artist, and author of Spirituality For Dummies and other books. Sharon Janis brings together the depths of her decade of monastic life with the entertainment value of years as a Hollywood producer to offer writings that educate and uplift readers in a friendly, easy, personal, and down-to-earth style. "With spiritual happiness, you are not waiting to be rich before you can be happy, or to find the right person to be happy, or to have more friends to be happy. You don't need to look different to be spiritually happy; nor do you have to heal all your flaws to be spiritually happy. With spiritual happiness, you can look at the world with realistic eyes -- seeing, experiencing, and responding to all the muddled mess that life can sometimes seem to be. Yet, in the depths of your being, you'll know a peacefulness and contentment that never fades, even while the world may be crashing down around you." Read excerpts from the book at spiritual-happiness.com.

Secrets of Spiritual Happiness

Religion & Spirituality

A multi-media expos in service of the public good. How many con artists are allowed to blast through the media landscape, telling blatantly false lies and getting some of the top journalists and media figures in the United States to knowingly or unknowingly con and steal from the public on their behalf? In this expos , you will see why Suze Orman's name should go down in history right next to Bernie Madoff's, except that while Madoff plundered the wealthy, Orman has slopped up and stolen a fortune directly from the pockets of the poor and middle class for the past fifteen-plus years. Sponsored and protected by corporations, banks, and billionaires and propped up by ghostwriters and behind-the-scenes experts, Suze Orman's scams, shams and shenanigans have caused serious damage to many lives and to the economy of the United States of America.

SCAMMED! Unmasking Suze Orman and Her Crooked Cabal: An expose about much more than just Suze Orman

Biographies & Memoirs

Janis, S. K.

True Crime

A Life-Changing Spiritual Adventure Memoir by the author of Spirituality For Dummies and Secrets of Spiritual Happiness. The purpose of this memoir is to awaken readers to new ways of looking at their own lives as they join author Sharon Kumuda Janis on a metaphysical cruise through her interesting and educational life, with stories that reveal the humor and pathos of a quest for eternal truth in our modern-day world. Sharon’s eclectic journey includes taking a three-month course in hypnosis with her psychology teacher parents at age seven, explorations of consciousness while studying neuroscience at the University of Michigan, ten years living a monastic style life in the Siddha Yoga ashram of Baba Muktananda and Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, then a transition from the ashram to Hollywood, where the author jumps into an award-winning television and film career, editing and producing some of the most popular shows of the 1990s, and helping to start or uplift the career of many famous, nonfamous, and infamous people, before retreating to a peaceful life of creative solitude and service, writing books including Spirituality For Dummies, and creating the well-stocked Night Lotus website of free multimedia spiritual resources. A beautiful and poignant spiritual odyssey that is equally provocative and touching, informative and enlightening, humorous and heartbreaking. – Joseph Chilton Pearce In a larger sense, this memoir is a dialogue between Indian spirituality and Western psychology. The question that Janis answers is: "Can a westerner come to know Indian spirituality and flourish in its depths, even when it is alien to western ways of knowing?'" She answers with a resounding "yes." – Publishers Weekly It's a good story, and for those of us who are interested in what exactly goes on in those ashrams, it's hard to put down... Few writers so far have told the tale of what it is like to live and study, heart and soul, with the likes of Muktananda. – RALPH: Review of the Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities Inspired by deep guidance and inner listening, this book aims to bring readers to "a sense of wonder and respect for their own journey" and a greater regard for others on their paths. – NAPRA ReVIEW It is a book that is very difficult to put down—the kind that keeps you up at night beyond your bedtime. – 21st Century Books

A Modern Quest For Eternal Truth

A contemplative smorgasbord with something for everyone, Things that Make You Go Oooommmmm is a collection of personal insights from spiritual philosopher Sharon Janis, author of Spirituality For Dummies, Secrets of Spiritual Happiness, and A Modern Quest for Eternal Truth. In the spirit of Hugh Prather’s Notes to Myself, these poetic insights are notes to herself from the author's journeys and explorations through spirituality, science, psychology and metaphysics. These breadcrumbs from her path can also provide fertile philosophical nourishment for others who are seeking to find deeper meanings and a more expanded relationship with life.

Things That Make You Go Oooommmmm

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy