Grandfather's Garden has the endearing quality of a classic of a new kind. As with the Harry Potter books, its rollicking stream of quirky tales is for "kids, teens, moms, dads, grandmoms, granddads, and the close, warm delight of reading aloud to kids at bedtime."A lonely child who lives beneath the clatter of the stairs in a busy household dreams of a magic island where he can live in the wonder of Grandfather’s garden. Eggplants big as elephants. Tap dancing stalks of celery. Th...

The startling, long ignored, but now widely acclaimed new story of the life and full theory of the Darwin who wrote only twice about “survival of the fittest” but 95 times about the evolutionary drive of LOVE in the lives of all species—including us—in The Descent of Man. This is the first of five books for Darwin’s New World View Series. Book by book the series will unfold pioneering evolutionary systems scientist David Loye's reconstruction of the drive of love in Darwin’s life and the p...

Hailed as a breakthrough in 12 pages of pre-publication reviews by leading evolutionary thinkers, this new book has been rushed into print for impact in the wake of both the honoring and the dishonoring of Darwin’s 209th birthday on February 12.Rediscovering Darwin: The Rest of Darwin’s Theory and Why We Need it Today weaves three gripping stories into a compelling single account. First a new perspective on the startling discovery of the long-buried rest of Darwin’s theory of evolut...

Systems scientist and evolutionary theorist David Loye argues that Darwin was misunderstood and misinterpreted. After years of research, Loye discovered two things: less than a dozen people understood what Darwin was writing about; and Darwin spoke far more about love than he did about selfishness and the survival of the fittest.

How can we respond urgently and effectively to the ecological crisis—and stay sane doing it?This landmark work is simultaneously a manifesto, a blueprint, a call to action, and a deep comfort for troubling times. David R. Loy masterfully lays out the principles and perspectives of Ecodharma—a Buddhist response to our ecological predicament, introducing a new term for a new development of the Buddhist tradition.This book emphasizes the three aspects of Ecodh...

Der Gelehrte und Zen-Lehrer David R. Loy umreißt in diesem Buch die Grundmerkmale eines zeitgenössischen Buddhismus. Dieser ist weit mehr als ein psychologisches Selbsthilfeprogramm für das individuelle Glück oder eine Anleitung für einen Ausstieg aus dieser Welt. Seinen wichtigsten Lehren treu bleibend, tritt der Buddhismus hier zugleich in einen fruchtbaren Dialog mit der Moderne – über individuelles und gemeinschaftliches Leiden und Erwachen, über persönlichen und gesellschaftlichen Wan...

Sean cuales sean las diferencias en sus métodos y objetivos, la psicoterapia, el existencialismo y el budismo se preocupan por los mismos problemas fundamentales de la vida y la muerte y la muerte en vida. En esta obra única, David Loy reúne las tres tradiciones por primera vez en una síntesis receptiva a las percepciones de cada una, arrojando así nueva luz sobre problemas que nos resultan familiares. Escrito en un estilo claro y sin tecnicismos, este libro atraerá muchos tipos de lectore...

El tema de la no-dualidad se abre paso en los debates filosóficos y religiosos de nuestro tiempo. No obstante, la mayoría de intelectuales occidentales dispone de una información muy pobre, cuando no equivocada, acerca de su significado. Generalmente, se asocia la no-dualidad con las diferentes versiones de idealismo absoluto de la filosofía occidental.En este libro, que reúne el rigor académico con la claridad de las mejores obras de divulgación, David Loy aclara los conceptos, an...

The world is destroyed.Stripped of all modern technology, a small group of people survive and evolve. The Rehloy are born blind and don't gain sight until they reach puberty. Learning of the world first through their other senses, creates such a high level of awareness in them that they border on the mystical.For a thousand years they have lived in isolation, developing a special relationship with nature. Theirs is a "spiritual" life, ethereal, in some ways divine. But the ...

Acclaimed author David Loy explores what has gone wrong with humanity and how we can fix it.Humanity’s survival instincts worked great back when humans were few, primitive, and had to fight against the entirety of nature to survive. But those same instincts proved disastrous once humans began to organize themselves into complex societies. How did we manage? We developed moral and ethical frameworks that kept societies functioning for centuries.But now, in t...

Engage with a new vision of Buddhism and the modern world with the bestselling author of Money Sex War Karma: Notes for a Buddhist Revolution.David R. Loy addresses head-on the most pressing issues of Buddhist philosophy in our time. What is the meaning of enlightenment—is it an escape from the world, or is it a form of psychological healing? How can one reconcile modern scientific theory with ancient religious teachings? What is our role in the universe?

Loy draws from giants of psychotherapy and existentialism, from Nietzsche to Kierkegaard to Sartre, to explore the fundamental issues of life, death, and what motivates us.Whatever the differences in their methods and goals, psychotherapy, existentialism, and Buddhism are all concerned with the same fundamental issues of life and death—and death-in-life. In Lack and Transcendence (originally published by Humanities Press in 1996), David R....