Causal powers are ubiquitous. Electrons are negatively charged; they have the power to repel other electrons. Water is a solvent; it has the power to dissolve salt. We use concepts of causal powers and their relatives-dispositions, capacities, abilities, and so on-to describe the world around us, both in everyday life and in scientific practice. But what is it about the world that makes such descriptions apt? On one view, the neo-Humean view, there is nothing intrinsic about, say, negative...

First published in 1904, ‘Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and its Attainment’ by Rudolf Steiner is the classic account of the modern Western esoteric path of initiation. This work constitutes a fundamental guide to the anthroposophical path of cognition or knowledge. In human consciousness, faculties are sleeping that, if awakened, lead to life-giving wisdom. Steiner begins with the premise that “the capacities by which we can gain insights into the higher worlds lie dormant within each one...

In Admirable Evasions, Theodore Dalrymple explains why human self-understanding has not been bettered by the false promises of the different schools of psychological thought. Most psychological explanations of human behavior are not only ludicrously inadequate oversimplifications, argues Dalrymple, they are socially harmful in that they allow those who believe in them to evade personal responsibility for their actions and to put the blame on a multitude of scapegoats: on their chi...

Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, The Body in Pain is a profoundly original study that has already stirred excitement in a wide range of intellectual circles. The book is an analysis of physical suffering and its relation to the numerous vacabularies and cultural forces--literary, political, philosophical, medical, religious--that confront it. Elaine Scarry bases her study on a wide range of sources: literature and art, medical case histories, documents on torture comp...

From now on, you can too! - Practical essoteric manuals: Chakra meditation, test, healing, colors, balancing, opening, activation, awakening, cleansing, seeing and so on...Title: Chakra: how to see them with your own eyes, not only “feel” them.We actually SAW them and to be sure we were not hallucinating we took pictures of them with a normal camera without using any software. Practical manual to learn, fast, how to see them: Milena and Marco teach you how to see Chakra with...

I saw it with my own two eyes and I still dont believe it! Scratches appeared on both of Ms. Gagliardos hands and then disappeared! The girls were found just as she described them and their hands were bound with wire!Detective Tom Williams, Wheeling, WVPebbles On the Path is a spellbinding autobiography told through the heart and soul of the author, who takes the reader on an unforgettable journey of love, loss, near-death experiences and an extraordinary 360-degree...

How can the human mind represent the external world? What is thought, and can it be studied scientifically? Should we think of the mind as a kind of machine? Is the mind a computer? Can a computer think? Tim Crane sets out to answer these questions and more in a lively and straightforward way, presuming no prior knowledge of philosophy or related disciplines.Since its first publication, The Mechanical Mind has introduced thousands of people to some of the most important id...

Although best known for his contributions to the theory of knowledge, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion, Hume also influenced developments in the philosophy of mind, psychology, ethics, political and economic theory, political and social history, and aesthetic theory. The fifteen essays in this volume address all aspects of Hume's thought. The picture of him that emerges is that of a thinker who, though often critical to the point of scepticism, was nonetheless able to build on that ...

Have you ever asked yourself "who am I?" or "why am I here?", or wanted to know was Jesus married, do animals have souls, or are ETs real? This 100-book series publishes all the answers for the first time. They have been down-stepped from the Akashic Records so that you can have answers to all these questions and more. Since late 2009 world-renowned authors, speakers, radio hosts and teachers Aingeal Rose (USA) and AHONU (Ireland) have been getting answers to these big questions about heal...

Henry E. Allison presents an analytical and historical commentary on Kant`s transcendental deduction of the pure concepts of the understanding in the Critique of Pure Reason. He argues that, rather than providing a new solution to an old problem (refuting a global skepticism regarding the objectivity of experience), it addresses a new problem (the role of a priori concepts or categories stemming from the nature of the understanding in grounding this objectivity), and he t...

In this book, the questions are on Past Life Memories, Cloning, US Politics, World Politics, the Best Way to Pray, Light Codes, Sun Gazing, Negative Thoughts, Brain Power, Torture, Free Energy, Cremation vs Burial, Higher Consciousness, and more! Some of the profound statements from this book are: God/Source has no judgment around suicide, Sometimes our greatest soul victories are achieved during our darkest hours, Every lifetime provides unlimited opportunities for love and forgiveness, a...

An exploration of the fundamental realities of the existenceIs this the end? If not; how are we to discover and assure for stricken Humanity the vision and the possession of a Better Land?In this volume plumbing the depths of human experience, Alexander Philip explores the nature of reality at its most basic level. Examining the ways that time, abstract thought, and physical sensation affect consciousness, this book posits that matter and energy are the foun...