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Dan Bruiger

Intentionally brief and pointed, Being: a primer discusses the nature of consciousness, the self, and a reasoned basis for ethical behaviour. It describes various facets of being from a grounding in science and philosophy, and offers practical suggestions and exercises for mindfulness. Through a practice of self-remembering, it is possible to have a more active and responsible relationship to experience, which can help us to get along better and even to consciously manage...

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Dan Bruiger

This book critically examines how mathematical modelling shapes and limits a scientific approach to the natural world and affects how society views nature. It questions concepts such as determinism, reversibility, equilibrium, and the isolated system, and challenges the view of physical reality as passive and inert. Dan Bruiger argues that if nature is real, it must transcend human representations. In particular, it can be expected to self-organize in ways that elude a mechanist treatment....

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Dan Bruiger

Human beings have always felt insecure in the world. Despite confident proclamations by science and religion, no one can be absolutely certain what is really going on here in this drama we call existence. In contrast to the eternity and boundlessness intimated in our consciousness, we are haunted by the realization that we are finite, vulnerable, mortal—and perhaps meaningless—creatures. The ambiguity of all experience leaves us in a state of fundamental uncertainty, with a buried anxiety ...

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Ingo Swann

Any desire for more individual empowerment will soon encounter the question of WHAT to empower. There are many ways to consider this. One way is first to identify human power elements that are known to exist, but DO NOT receive societal nurturing, enhancement, training, scientific research, or philosophical interest.In-depth research will reveal at least five major categories of these power elements, one such category consisting of the aware powers innate in everyone of our species...

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Brian Kowalchuk

Sharing God invites you to penetrate the mysticism of spiritual self-help and distil the underlying profound knowledge. It's time to start taking responsibility for imposing our own limitations and values on God. Sharing God helps us re-invent our spirituality, rather than abandon it. Without deluding ourselves, we can find value in practicing a faith that accommodates both God and scientific inquiry. Using the best ideas from physics, psychology and philosophy, we can fashion a modern and...

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Jonas Liebeskind

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Martin Ucik

In this book, Jonas Liebeskind ventures into areas beyond any theory and asks: How do these ideal humans, towards which we strive collectively and individually to become, look in actuality if we take the most recent understandings of philosophy, evolutionary spirituality, and psychology seriously? The humans who are mentally mature, emotionally healthy and fully in this world (but not of this world.) The humans who are in constant development, the humans who are social and cultural change ...

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Morgan Schell

Understanding modern philosophy is to also understand abstract things. Abstraction has become the focus of philosophy, and practicality, assumed to be dichotomous with abstraction, is seen as antithetical to philosophy. Philosophy is for those who deal with nothing practical, it is just nothing. But philosophy, in dealing with questions, is everything. And what can be gained with everything, supposedly? What is nothing?Everything which is practical is something. It is often assumed...

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Don Richard Riso

"Combines enneagram personality types with recovery movement techniques of releasing undesirable traits and affirming desirable ones." — Library JournalTo heal, one must truly know, and face, one's self. But finding that inner, honest analysis of our own personalities is difficult to say the least. Without the right tools, it can be impossible. Since its development, the enneagram—a model of nine interconnected personality types that allows users to identif...

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Thomas S. Kuhn

"One of the most influential books of the 20th century," the landmark study in the history of science with a new introduction by philosopher Ian Hacking ( Guardian, UK).First published in 1962, Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions "reshaped our understanding of the scientific enterprise and human inquiry in general." In it, he challenged long-standing assumptions about scientific progress, arguing that transformative ideas don't ar...

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James Hollis

Reassurance, inpiration, and guidance for adults in midlife and beyondWhat does it really mean to be a grown up in today’s world? We assume that once we get the right job, marry the right person, have children, and buy a home, all is settled and well. But adulthood presents varying levels of growth, and it's rarely the respite of stability we expected. Turbulent emotional shifts can take place anywhere between the age of thirty-five and seventy when we question the...

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Peter Ralston

For fans of Eckhart Tolle—a guide to mastering self-awareness through direct experience rather than old presumptions or harmful thought patternsThrough decades of martial arts and meditation practice, Peter Ralston discovered a curious and paradoxical fact: that true awareness arises from a state of not-knowing*.* Even the most sincere investigation of self and spirit, he says, is often sabotaged by our tendency to grab too quickly for answers and ideas as we retre...

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Tim Hanson-Mayer

How Life Is: A Search for Meaning speaks directly to Hanson-Mayers own life experiences and what he sees as the universal challenges that we all share in our quest for understanding and meaning in life. He describes, questions, provokes, and shines the light of reason on our shared subjective realities, while exploring such topics as life, death, afterlife, knowledge, faith, and love, and how they intertwine to form the fabric of our lives. He does not seek agreement, but rather a shared expl...