Philosophy Consciousness

The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to explore gay rights and sexual liberation, feminism, and the civil rights movement.

A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for organizations and societies to think at large scale. This "bigger mind" - human and machine capabilities working together - has the potential to solve the great challenges of our time. So why do smart technologies not automatically lead to smart results?

For Epicurus, the purpose of philosophy was to attain the happy, tranquil life, characterized by peace and freedom from fear, the absence of pain, and by living a self-sufficient life surrounded by friends. He taught that pleasure and pain are the measures of what is good and evil; death is the end of both body and soul and should therefore not be feared; the gods neither reward nor punish humans; the universe is infinite and eternal; and events in the world are ultimately based on the motions and interactions of atoms.

Inspired by Sri Atmananda (Krishna Menon), the Direct Path is a "pathless path". It simply articulates the being of you and the world as loving, open, clear awareness. If this truth is realized as your experience, then nothing need be done. The path disappears, and life is lived in sweetness and celebration! But if there are still questions or doubts, the Direct Path contains unique and powerful resources that stabilize this truth as your everyday reality.

Dans ce livre audio, plus de cent auteurs du monde entier dévoilent les secrets et se penchent sur les mécanismes de l’amour. Au cœur de nos vies, ce sentiment intense est ici traité sous toutes ses coutures et selon des approches variées. Sociologues, anthropologues, neuroscientifiques, psychologues ou sexologues, c'est avec des mots simples et de manière accessible que ces chercheurs nous font part de leurs opinions, analyses et expérimentations minutieuses.

In 2018, I had a dream of a coming second American Revolution/Civil War. In this dream, I saw events that are now unfolding at a rapid pace. I saw the conclusion of our present trauma, and the triumph over the evil that has been subduing our land. I saw how this victory will be accomplished. This is what I saw.

"Le titre de cette conférence est "L'âme et le corps", c'est-à-dire la matière et l'esprit, c'est-à-dire tout ce qui existe et même, s'il faut en croire une philosophie dont nous parlerons tout à l'heure, quelque chose aussi qui n'existerait pas. Mais rassurez-vous. Notre intention n'est pas d'approfondir la nature de la matière, pas plus d'ailleurs que la nature de l'esprit. On peut distinguer deux choses l'une de l'autre, et en déterminer jusqu'à un certain point les rapports, sans pour cela connaître la nature de chacune d'elles.

Time governs every heartbeat, every memory, every dream of tomorrow. Yet, what is it really? A river we drift through, or a fabric we weave ourselves? In this book, Tenzin C. Trepp invites us on a journey through history, science, and culture to confront the mystery of time. From ancient civilizations and Indigenous worldviews to Einstein’s relativity and today’s cutting-edge physics, we discover that time is never just measured—it is lived, shaped, and endlessly re-imagined.

Finding your ikigai—the thing that makes you jump out of bed in the morning—is one of the most important things you can do for yourself. The concept of ikigai is closely linked to the idea of finding one's passion in life. If you want to live a life of meaning and passion, you’ll have to start by facing your deepest fears and desiring a life worth living. If you don’t have this desire, your life becomes a journey of self-improvement with nothing else to define you. In this audiobook, you will learn what Ikigai is all about.

In einer Einbahnstraße gibt es keinen Gegenverkehr. Und von einer neuen Erkenntnis geht es nicht rückwärts! Walter Benjamins 'Einbahnstraße' führt an zahlreichen Denkanstößen entlang, hin zu richtungsweisenden Erkenntnissen - für jeden, der sich darauf einlässt. 'Einbahnstraße' ist zunächst einmal Kurzprosa - eine Sammlung von Gedanken, von Notizen, ein Kaleidoskop von literarisch-philosophischen Miniaturen, eine Präsentation von 'Denkbildern', essayistische Feinkost. Das 1928 erschienene Werk ist thematisch breit angelegt und hat viele Bezüge zu unserer aktuellen Gegenwart.

In Artificial You, Susan Schneider says that it is inevitable that AI will take intelligence in new directions but urges that it is up to us to carve out a sensible path forward. As AI technology turns inward, reshaping the brain, as well as outward, potentially creating machine minds, it is crucial to beware. Homo sapiens, as mind designers, will be playing with "tools" they do not understand how to use: the self, the mind, and consciousness.

We all long for boundless love as we long for home. But how can we find our home our meaning and purpose if we don't know our self? Wise-Love is an exploration of the self, or consciousness, guided through the meditative eyes of saints, sages, seers, and mystics. As we embark on the journey to the self, we discover that the self's most charming characteristic part of its eternal, unchanging nature is that it is a lover, a lover who can be satisfied only when ordinary love evolves into wise-love.

On those long nights when your mind is racing and the clock slowly ticks its way to dawn, sleep seems unattainable and precious. The three sessions on this audiobook offer time-honoured skills from the yoga tradition that will help you to enjoy a natural, nourishing night’s sleep. In the first session you learn to calm your mind and relax your body using a deep breathing technique with visualisations. The second session is a deep relaxation practice known as yoga nidra, or psychic sleep. It is used here as a self-hypnosis strategy for inducing sleep.

On Memory is a work of the Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle, included in the collection Parva Naturalia. The Parva Naturalia (a conventional Latin title first used by Giles of Rome: "short treatises on nature") are a collection of seven works by Aristotle, which discuss natural phenomena involving the body and the soul. They form parts of Aristotle's biology.

Maximen und Reflexionen – eine philosophische Spruchsammlung alltagsnaher Lebensweisheiten von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Tiefsinnig, prägnant und lebensnah – ausgewählt und ungekürzt gesprochen von Sven Görtz. Über das Hörbuch: Dies ist eine Auswahl bedeutender Reflexionen aus Goethes Maximen und Reflexionen – ergänzt durch Einsichten aus Farbenlehre , Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahren , Wahlverwandtschaften und seinem Nachlass. Themen wie Kunst, Leben, Literatur und menschliche Beziehungen begegnen uns in prägnanter Form.

Aus den Sudelbüchern versammelt eine Auswahl von Aphorismen, Gedanken und pointierten Beobachtungen des Aufklärers Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799). Obwohl er als Physiker und Mathematiker wirkte, ist er der Nachwelt vor allem als scharfsinniger Denker, Satiriker und Meister der Formulierung in Erinnerung geblieben. Zwischen Spott und Scharfsinn, Selbstironie und Tiefgang – Lichtenbergs Sudelbücher zeigen, wie philosophisch und humorvoll kluge Beobachtung sein kann.

Die Sammlung Von den ersten und letzten Dingen stammt aus Friedrich Nietzsches Werk Menschliches, Allzumenschliches und beschäftigt sich mit den großen Fragen der Philosophie: Woher kommen wir? Was können wir erkennen? Was bleibt am Ende? In knappen, gedankenscharfen Aphorismen entfaltet Nietzsche eine radikale Kritik an traditionellen Wahrheiten, Metaphysik und religiösen Weltdeutungen. Er zeigt: Zwischen Anfang und Ende liegt nicht Wahrheit – sondern Perspektive, Irrtum und die schöpferische Kraft des Menschen.

The consciousness is far bigger than once perceived. We have lived our whole life thinking and believing that the brain was at the center core of all that is and all that will ever be in this life. Science, medicine, and spirituality have afforded us the truth about what causal is and based on that where you are going. Consciousness, soul, and spirit are fundamental in this universe. Knowing this, take a moment, contemplate: where are you, where are you going?

Drawing on a wide variety of influences, from literature to Zen Buddhism, biology to neuroscience, Enough Is Enough lays out the habits anyone can develop to turn them into just the kind of hard-working, deep-thinking ideal they’ve always wanted to be. Written with passion, wit, and knowledge gained as much from life as from literature, Enough Is Enough promises to be just the book you’re looking for if you want to run headlong into the future and never look back.

Марк Твен умел несколькими словами выразить истинную суть любого явления, охарактеризовать человека или описать ситуацию так, что это становилось афоризмом. Всю жизнь он изучал человечество, бездны его пороков и вершины величия. В своих произведениях Марк Твен смеялся над ним – иронично, зло, с состраданием. Он как будто подносил зеркало и говорил: смотрите, люди, вы вот какие, исправьтесь. Никто вам не поможет: ни царь, ни бог, ни герой, ни демократия. Давайте сами. Предлагаем и вам, дорогие читатели, посмотреться в это зеркало. Приобщиться к искусству размышлять о времени и о себе.