Devereux calls for an alteration of traditional perceptions of the world around us, an "ecopsychology" that will reestablish harmony with the natural world. His explorations of such ancient arts as feng shui, herbal medicine, vision questing, and lucid dreaming heighten awareness of our place on the planet. Photos & line drawings.
This unique book provides a new perspective on the past, and reveals how sights we all know, and which are universally recognised, still retain and reveal to us the old knowledge of our world and our ancestors. In our 'march of progress' we have gained untold material wealth, but certain vital aspects of being human, conscious and part of nature seem to have slipped from our grasp. Guidelines that might help our future way, ironically, lie in the past. In short, we need to discover the secrets of ancient and sacred places. Paul Devereux takes a refreshing look at the often hidden, ignored or often overlooked aspects of selected major sites world-wide that, significantly, UNESCO - the cultural agency of the United Nations - has also included in its world heritage list of important natural or cultural sites.
This text aims to bring the secrets of the ancients to life, showing how we can benefit from their knowledge today. Earth mysteries expert Paul Devereux considers the key concepts of the ancient world, including sacred centres, pilgrimage, sacred geography and divination. He also looks at important world sites related to these key concepts, the ancient practices connected to these sites and what these reveal about the people that performed them. The author continues to investigate practical means through which we can enter the ancient mindset and benefit by experiencng the world toady from a radically different perspective.
This book undertakes a fundamental review of the existing international system of taxing business profit. It steps back from the current political debates on how to combat profit shifting and how taxing rights over the profits of the digitalized economy should be allocated. Instead, it starts from first principles to ask how we should evaluate a tax on business profit—and whether there is any good rationale for such a tax in the first place. It then goes on to evaluate the existing system and a number of alternatives that have been proposed. It argues that the existing system is fundamentally flawed, and that there is a need for radical reform. The key conclusion from the analysis is that there would be significant gains from a reform that moved the system towards taxing profit in the country in which a business made its sales to third parties. That conclusion informs two proposals that are put forward in detail and evaluated: the Residual Profit Allocation by Income (RPAI) and the Destination-based Cash Flow Tax (DBCFT). The book is authored by group of economists and lawyers—the Oxford International Tax Group, chaired by Michael P. Devereux. It draws insights from both economics and law—including economic theory, empirical evidence on the impact of taxes, and an examination of practical issues of implementation—to assess the existing system and to consider fundamental reforms. This book will be useful to tax policy makers, tax professionals, academics, and anyone interested in tax policy.
The international tax system is in dire need of reform. It allows multinational companies to shift profits to low tax jurisdictions and thus reduce their global effective tax rates. A major international project, launched in 2013, aimed to fix the system, but failed to seriously analyse the fundamental aims and rationales for the taxation of multinationals' profit, and in particular where profit should be taxed. As this project nears its completion, it is becomingincreasingly clear that the fundamental structural weaknesses in the system will remain. This book, produced by a group of economists and lawyers, adopts a different approach and starts from first principles in order to generate an international tax system fit for the 21st century. This approach examines fundamental issues of principle and practice in the taxation of business profit and the allocation of taxing rights over such profit amongst countries, paying attention to the interests and circumstances of advanced and developing countries. Once this conceptual framework is developed, the book evaluates the existing system and potential reform options against it. A number of reform options are considered, ranging from those requiring marginal change to radically different systems. Some options have been discussed widely. Others, particularly Residual Profit Split systems and a Destination Based Cash-Flow Tax, are more innovative and have been developed at some length and in depth for the first time in this book. Their common feature is that they assign taxing rights partly/fully to the location of relatively immobile factors: shareholders or consumers.
From the earliest times people from diverse cultures have felt the landscape to be teeming with spirits and spectres. In Haunted Land bestselling author Paul Devereux marries mysteries of the past with eerie unexplained phenomena that still haunt us. In an extraordinary piece of research he uncovers the remains of medieval death roads, spook paths and spirit places and reveals how their pattern can be traced throughout Britain, Europe and ancient America.
Darklore is a journal of exceptional observations, hidden history, the paranormal and esoteric science. Bringing together some of the top researchers and writers on topics from outside of mainstream science and history, Darklore will challenge your preconceptions by revealing the strange dimensions veiled by consensus reality. Featuring contributions from Stephen E. Braude Ph.D, Nick Redfern, Jon Downes, Blair Blake, Theo Paijmans, Michael Tymn, Greg Taylor and many others, Volume 2 of Darklore offers only the best writing and research from the most respected individuals in their fields. In Darklore Volume 2 you'll find discussions of subjects such as the occult underpinnings of modern rock music, the origins of the Illuminati, hallucinogens and witchcraft, DMT and the occult, and much more. Find out more about the book - including free sample articles - at the Darklore website: darklore.dailygrail.com
What is a ghost path? What is its sinister association with death, and why might fairies use it? This guide provides an intriguingly original way of exploring the landscape.
Forget your 3D cinema and TV, and your virtual cyber-worlds - these are but pale electronic imitations of what you can access through your own mind. This book shows you how to dream lucidly, which means waking up inside dreams while still physiologically asleep. Lucid dreaming is a genuine altered state of consciousness, not merely vivid dreaming, in which you can find yourself in other realities that seem as real as waking consciousness. There is no limit to the creations you can explore, because the biological wonder that is your brain is the most complex thing we know of. You can have fun, meet departed friends and relatives as if they were still alive, rehearse actions you have to undertake in the normal world of daily reality, experience mystical and paranormal mind states, and much more. A third of our life is spent asleep, and in an average lifetime we experience about half a million dreams. Yet for most of us that part of our existence is like a closed book. We might remember an occasional vivid dream, but usually our dreams are just vague, fragmented shadows that evaporate in our minds as soon as we open our eyes. This book explains the history and nature of dreams and lucid dreams, and then presents a uniquely comprehensive range of techniques, tools and aids for attaining lucid dreaming. So leave your 3D glasses behind and train yourself to plunge into the inner virtual worlds that lie beyond your dreams.
All archaic landscape lines are, in essence, spirit lines. Within us all we hold a blueprint of this spiritual earth and of the ancient shamanic power of magical flight. If we could only find the wellsprings of the psyche and translate these timeless patterns from our minds to the physical earth, then we too could learn to experience the reality behind the straight line mystery. Once again, we would allow the spiritual earth to lead the way in our personal growth and transformation. We need to bring this out-of-body state from its cultural exile and give it the much greater attention it deserves.
This dreaming kit shows you how to train yourself to control what happens in your dream. Dreamwork exercises and techniques to encourage dreams using the tape, oil and visualization card provided, offer practical guidance. There is also advice on developing dream awareness.
A unique presentation of why our ancestors perceived certain locations and landscapes as being powerful, holy, or places where they felt their spirits or deity were located or housed.
Delve into ancient cultures and rituals to see how "places of power" -- standing stones, earth lights, monuments, holy hills and mountains -- became associated with healing, visions, omens of natural disaster, altered states of consciousness, and as doorways to other worlds. Find out what role such phenomena as background radioactivity and natural magnetism play in explaining the magic assigned to various locations, and discover the many mysteries that still remain to be solved. An extraordinary study, based on years of research.
A new approach to the night sky, with superb pictorial star maps - and artworks of secret celestial alignments The Language of the Stars and Planets explores the profound meanings that humankind has attributed over the centuries to the heavenly bodies. Drawing upon a mixture of astrology, astronomy, anthropology and other strands of science both ancient and modern, the authors show the underlying spiritual and psychological perceptions behind interpretations placed upon the heavens by various cultures, including Aztec, Mayan, Mesopotamian, ancient Egyptian, Native North American, Chinese and Hindu. This unique guide also features original colour artwork showing how structures such as the Great Pyramid of Giza and Stonehenge are aligned with the stars.
This geomancy text covers the whole area of ley lines, from theory to practice. First published in 1979, this updated edition includes hints on searching for ley lines and their equivalents in the Americas and continental Europe.
Thank you for visiting our website. Would you like to provide feedback on how we could improve your experience?
This site does not use any third party cookies with one exception — it uses cookies from Google to deliver its services and to analyze traffic.Learn More.