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Emerging research is revealing that there is, in fact, more to the good life than the current—and even ancient—conversation suggests. This has been identified as psychological richness. Dr. Lorraine Besser, a founding investigator in these studies, shows how psychological richness helps to make our Good Lives more interesting. Interesting experiences captivate our minds, engage our thoughts and emotions, and often change our perspective. What’s interesting is different for everyone, and everyone can obtain and strengthen the skills necessary to access the interesting.

"Consciousness matters. Arguably it matters more than anything. The purpose of this book is to build towards an explanation of just what the matter is."

Nicholas Humphrey begins this compelling exploration of the biggest of big questions with a challenge to the reader, and himself. What's involved in "seeing red"? What is it like for us to see someone else seeing something red? Seeing a red screen tells us a fact about something in the world. But it also creates a new fact - a sensation in each of our minds, the feeling of redness.

Although there are many kinds of love, erotic love has been celebrated in art and poetry as life's most rewarding and exalting experience, worth living and dying for and bringing out the best in ourselves. And yet it has excused, and even been thought to justify, the most reprehensible crimes.

Ariel Burger first met Elie Wiesel at age 15. They studied together and taught together. Witness chronicles the intimate conversations between these two men over decades as Burger sought counsel on matters of intellect, spirituality, and faith while navigating his own personal journey from boyhood to manhood, from student and assistant to rabbi and, in time, teacher. In this profoundly hopeful, thought-provoking, and inspiring audiobook, Burger takes us into Elie Wiesel's classroom, where the art of listening and storytelling conspire to keep memory alive.

Are you ready to embark on a journey that will transform your understanding of the universe and your place within it? "Panentheism: A Beginner's Guide" offers a revolutionary perspective that intertwines the divine with every aspect of existence. This book is your gateway to discovering a profound spiritual worldview where the sacred is not just above us, but within us and all around us. Dive into the core concepts of panentheism with clear explanations and captivating insights. Understand how this belief system stands distinct from pantheism and traditional theism, and why these ...

Half a century ago, the world changed forever when a Swiss chemist inadvertently ingested the experimental compound lysergic acid diethylamide. The Psychedelic Review was founded in 1963 as a serious journal dedicated to the study of the potential of both natural and synthesized psychedelic substances. Presenting experts in the fields of anthropology, religion, pharmacology, poetry, and metaphysics, this pioneering journal had a dramatic impact. The Psychedelic Reader now offers a relevant guidebook to the foundations of a bold new era in mental health studies.

This is an ideal introduction to the ideas of a man whom many regard as the greatest thinker of our time. Here we encounter the stages in the development of his unique philosophy of consciousness, his key intellectual breakthroughs, his theory of history, and his diagnosis of the political ills of the modern age. The book provides a veritable catalog of the thinkers who created the intellectual foundation of the twentieth century.

Learn how you can enhance your brain to take in more information and store it for a very long time, and how to retrieve information at any time no matter how long it has been stored. As you know, forgetting things can be really frustrating and embarrassing. No matter how much stored information you are unable to retrieve, this audiobook is sure to change all your frustrations and change your life forever. Imagine being able to remember anything you see, hear, smell, feel, and taste.

Segunda temporada del exitoso podcast de filosofia y humor de Fabian C Barrio. ¿Eres feliz, Sísifo? ¿Estás donde querías estar? ¿Has llegado a ese punto de tu existencia en el que por fin has encontrado tu lugar en el mundo? Y, si no es así, ¿qué te falta? Explorando infinidad de ejemplos de la historia del arte, la filosofía, la música, la mitología, la literatura, la ciencia, buceamos juntos en la frágil condición humana, sus debilidades, sus asperezas, sus inquietudes, sus dramas y sus alegrías.

We all have things we rely on going our way to help us feel calm and happy. Your partner waking up in a good mood. No traffic on the way to work. No queues at the supermarket. And no rain on your day off. But what happens when things don’t work out that way? We fall back on soothing habits. A trip to the cupboard for snacks. Scrolling on social media. A few beers or a couple of glasses of wine after a stressful day.

Occultism is not magic. It is comparatively easy to learn the trick of spells and the methods of using the subtler, but still material, forces of physical nature; the powers of the animal soul in man are soon awakened; the forces that his love, his hate, his passion, can call into operation are readily developed. But this is Black Magic–Sorcery. For it is the motive, and the motive alone, that makes any exercise of power become black, malignant, or white, beneficent Magic.

Your intellectual freedom is at stake, threatened by everything from academia and Big Tech to the media and government. Fortunately, you have a way to take back personal control, and it’s a solution founded upon ancient philosophy. In Restoring Reason, philosopher Dr. Travis Corcoran demonstrates how the liberal arts provide us with a skillset to evaluate knowledge and draw our own conclusions for clarity, confidence, and freedom.

Perhaps the most important work of philosophy after the Allegory of the Cave. Incomparable logic and findings about the things that matter in life, with a clear, succinct prose touch.

Inner Medicine is raw, real, and written from Kerri Hummingbird's life experience of recovering from a mental illness that experts said would be her lifetime reality. This fate was transformed by practicing Inner Medicine, as revealed within this book. Steeped in wisdom from the medicine people of the Andes Mountains, the new spiritual epicenter of the Earth, this new book by best-selling author, Kerri Hummingbird Sami, will inspire you to walk in beauty, become a luminous warrior, and be on the frontier of a whole new humanity: homo luminous.

Forget the cozy fireplaces and nature walks! This isn't your grandmother's Transcendentalism. Dive into the radical, rebellious, and sometimes downright spooky undercurrents of the movement that dared 19th-century America to rethink religion, break social rules, and encounter the terrifying beauty of the untamed world and human psyche. Explore: Spiritual Anarchists: How Emerson's fiery ideas about divine intuition challenged both churches and conventional ideas of obedience. Screw the Rules: When following your inner truth led Transcendentalists like Margaret Fuller to defy marriage, ...

The law of attraction is undoubtedly the most exciting and misunderstood idea to come about in a long, long time. Exciting because the promise of wealth, abundance, and prosperity is huge. Misunderstood because it isn’t being grasped in its entirety. The term law of attraction is a recent phrase for something that has been around for thousands of years.

Stoicism teaches us to acknowledge our emotions, reflect on what causes them and redirect them for our own good. Whenever we worry about how to be happy, we are worrying about how to lead a good life. No goal seems more elusive. Massimo Pigliucci explores this remarkable philosophy and how its wisdom can be applied to our everyday lives in the quest for meaning. He shows how Stoicism teaches us the importance of a person's character, integrity and compassion.

Swami Vivekananda was the first Indian sage to bring India's ancient spiritual practices to America. Embark on a transformative journey into the realms of inner peace and self-discovery with "Meditation And Its Methods" by Swami Vivekananda. Immerse yourself in the profound teachings of this revered spiritual luminary as he guides you through the art and science of meditation, offering timeless wisdom that transcends cultural boundaries and speaks to the essence of human experience.

Solo integral es la modalidad más extrema de escalada. En su práctica, el escalador se juega la vida en cada uno de sus movimientos. Este conjunto de artículos (cien publicados y otros cien inéditos) reflejan el espíritu crítico y a contracorriente de Fernando Savater. El autor se pone a prueba en esta revisión de sus ideas no solo porque puede llegar a contradecirse, sino porque, al ser textos independientes, que no están adscritos a un medio de comunicación, puede pensar, escribir y opinar de una forma totalmente libre.

Operating Manual for Enlightenment: Recreating Your Mind explores how we see and learn to see the world. It takes you on your own journey into what you consider reality and asks how you can make it better. This journey enters those areas you take for granted: thoughts, sensations, emotions, sense of place, and purpose. The book’s aim is not to explain, but to prepare you for change. Change that you must carry out yourself. Instant Enlightenment will tell you why you must focus on this journey, for your own sake and for the benefit of us all.