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21) The Sensitives
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The eleventh volume in the Notebooks of Paul Brunton is a timely, informed evaluation of mysticism, paranormal experience, sects and cults. Grounded in a clear distinction between productive spiritual practice and dangerous fascination with the occult, it will be extraordinarily useful to a variety of readers.
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Part 1, Advanced Contemplation, offers a direct route to the deepest mystical states-yielding permanent results of a metaphysical, transpersonal, and universal nature. It introduces Short Path (sudden) practices (such as Zen, Krishnamurti, etc.), develops them, explains why they are so often insufficient, and shows when, how, and in what spirit to use them effectively. Part 2, The Peace within You, offers an uplifting and invigorating approach to...
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Este libro constituye una suerte de introducción a algunas partes del pensamiento de Antonio Rosmini. Aun sin ser un libro orgánico, esto es, una invitación sistemática a su pensamiento, sí que puede ser considerado una puerta de entrada a su filosofía, ya que de inicio se expone el sistema grosso modo, y luego se exploran las partes fundamentales de su ontología, antropología, ética y filosofía del derecho. El pensamiento del filósofo...
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Without a uniform dietary code, Christians around the world used food in strikingly different ways, developing widely divergent practices that spread, nurtured, and strengthened their religious beliefs and communities. These never-before published essays map the intersection of food and faith over the past five centuries, charting the complex relationship between religious eating habits and politics, social structure and culture. Theoretically rich...
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Have you felt that there is a lot going on that doesn't make much sense anymore? Our government seems dysfunctional at best, and working against the good of the people and the country at worst. We don't know who is telling the truth. Many are finding that our religious institutions are not able to give us the answers we need or the solace we yearn for. We feel more and more that we are on our own to navigate this environment, but our lives are...
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In Seeing Ourselves, philosopher and neuroscientist Raymond Tallis brings together the preoccupations of some fifty years of writing and thinking about the overwhelming mystery of ordinary human life, and goes in search of what kind of beings we are, and where we might find meaning in our lives.
If, asks Tallis, we reject the supernatural belief that we are pure spirits temporarily lodged in bodies, handmade by God, and uniquely related to Him, what...
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Part 1, The Religious Urge, carefully distinguishes the heart's ineradicable religious instinct from cultural trappings and conventional religious forms. It also evaluates services and disservices of institutional religion and points to ways in which the current spiritual impulse is likely to unfold. Part 2, The Reverential Life, gives an individualized, practical approach to honest communion with the sacred through intelligent devotion, reverence,...
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This book is a philosophical and theological discourse concerning the ultimate essence of reality as it relates to being. Through an attempt to identify universal truth, this work exposes the limits of human knowledge and explores many of the philosophical underpinnings of a fundamentally Christian perspective. In a dialogue between two fictitious characters, Aaron Kreinbrook articulates the nature and implications of what it means to 'be' for our...
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Sartre contemplates the human emotional experience by analyzing phenomenological psychology and existentialism In The Emotions: Outline of a Theory, French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre attempts to understand the role emotions play in the human psyche. Sartre analyzes fear, lust, anguish, and melancholy while asserting that human beings begin to develop emotional capabilities from a very early age, which helps them identify and understand the emotions'...
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This is a step-by-step introduction to "The Next World." It combines mysticism, physics with meta-physics to explain the process of dying and the nature of the fourth dimensional world that some call "heaven." The time has come for humanity to become familiar with this process. Death can be a smooth and wonderful adventure for those who know what to expect. It teaches you to contact your Invisible Guide who awaits your consent to lead you safely and...
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Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction provides an overview of Scholastic approaches to causation, substance, essence, modality, identity, persistence, teleology, and other issues in fundamental metaphysics. The book interacts heavily with the literature on these issues in contemporary analytic metaphysics, so as to facilitate the analytic reader's understanding of Scholastic ideas and the Scholastic reader's understanding of contemporary...
32) Meditation
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This uniquely comprehensive and reliable volume combines a clear explanation of meditation's goal with a rich variety of effective techniques suitable for individual experimentation. It offers detailed and in-depth writings on the why and the how of many varieties of meditation. A section on potential dangers of meditation makes it especially useful for beginners, intermediates, and teachers.
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This work explores the question of why there is something instead of nothing. Several responses to this question are possible, but only some of them address the question seriously, respecting its emotional aspects as well as its cognitive dimension. The author carefully distinguishes those answers that are truly satisfactory, in both respects, from those that are inadequate. It can be argued that the existence of the world has no explanation at all,...
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You can have abundance in your life. Chris Lianos invites you to discover the abundance from within by Finding Zero. This book illustrates how you can use metaphysics and neurolinguistic programming to solve the problems that confront you every day. Metaphysics is the study of the universe beyond what we can see. Neurolinguistic programming is the study of excellence and how you can achieve success using your mind, focus and language. Chris brings...
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Ever wonder why certain events allow you to expand your consciousness or alter who you think you are beyond what you normally experience?
Through the power of Frameshifting, I'll show you how you can have access to this experience at any time, without adopting, changing, or fixing your beliefs! Along the way, I share with you personal experiences I've had that triggered this shift in me. With the tools provided in this book, you can have these shifts...
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Apenas hablamos de ellas y sus nombres se nos escapan. La filosofía ha tenido por costumbre relegarlas, incluso la biología las considera como una simple decoración del árbol de la vida. Y sin embargo, las plantas otorgan vida a la Tierra: fabrican la atmósfera que nos envuelve, están en el origen del soplo que nos anima.
Los vegetales encarnan el lazo más estrecho y elemental que la vida puede establecer con el mundo. Bajo el cielo y las nubes,...
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Publicado en 1877 por Julius Bahnsen, uno de los principales representantes de la escuela pesimista alemana del siglo XIX," Lo trágico como ley del mundo y el humor como forma estética de lo metafísico" manifiesta el original modo de filosofar de Bahnsen, expuesto en su peculiar estilo literario, caracterizado por una amarga ironía y un corrosivo humorismo. En él presenta "in nuce" su estética, y los rasgos fundamentales de su «pesimismo de...
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Part 1, Human Experience, examines the spiritual lessons implicit in daily living, the need for educational reforms, the causes and purposes of personal suffering, special problems and opportunities of youth and age, problems of marriage and relationship, and how to convert contemporary crises into opportunities for dramatic spiritual growth. Part 2, The Arts in Culture, reverently explores the role of the Beautiful in human culture, with sections...
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"I thought you are stuck at the Railway Station. But I am foolish. Now I see, you are deep in forests, deeper still in the spirit of humanity, blossoming through your hidden divinity. You are indeed, connected with all of us. Your Art touches our souls, because you pour inner vision, inner light that you see, inner voice that you hear. We are really deaf and blind. But your Art makes us see and hear the great message. Thanks Denise. I salute you for...
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A Dissemination of The Truth,as reasonable an account as may be consideredfrom the limiting physical perspective.Many of you have no doubt heard the phrase; "we are spiritual beings, having physical experiences." This takes some "out-side-the-box" thinking for most, even if they've heard it before, even if they think they understand it. The difficulty we have with grasping the depth of this truism lies in the fact we rely almost exclusively on our...
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