Social Consciousness

How can science teach us that animals feel no pain when our common sense observations tell us otherwise? Bernard Rollin offers welcome insight into questions like this in his ground-breaking account of the difficult and controversial issues surrounding the use of animals. He demonstrates that the denial of animal consciousness and animal suffering is not an essential feature of a scientific approach, but rather a contingent, historical aberration that can and must be changed if science is to be both coherent and morally responsible.

Wenn wir ganz wir selbst sind, im Einklang mit unserem innersten Wesenskern, fühlen wir uns tief verbunden und glücklich. Durch negative Prägungen wird dieses Potenzial jedoch oft schon in der frühen Kindheit verschüttet. Der Bewusstseinstrainer Dain Heer zeigt, wie wir zurück zu unserem wahren Selbst finden: Access Consciousness kombiniert hochwirksame Techniken und Übungen, die uns dazu ermächtigen, Schritt für Schritt bewusster zu leben, wertfrei wahrzunehmen und belastende Erfahrungen zu transformieren.

How do we regain our equilibrium when everything feels out of whack? Based on the inspirational wisdom of kinesiology, Change Your Life is a guide to restoring balance to your physical, emotional and mental systems. Created by experienced kinesiologist Zoe Bosco, it will help you change your life from the inside out and tap into your innate healing intelligence to create new patterns for a healthier, happier life.

Why does writing exist? What does it mean to those who write? Born from the interplay of natural and cultural history, the seemingly magical act of writing has continually expanded our consciousness. Portrayed in mythology as either a gift from heroes or a curse from the gods, it has been used as both an instrument of power and a channel of the divine, a means of social bonding and of individual self-definition.

الكتاب عبارة عن مجموعة رسائل تحتوي على فلسفة خاصة من عاشق شغوف يرى الجمال في كل شيء حوله.

هذا الكتاب يعتبر صغيراً في الحجم إلا أنه كان وافياً ليغطي إجابات كافة الأسئلة المحورية التي يطرحها الكاتب عبد اللطيف الصديقي. ومن أبرز هذه الأسئلة التي يتطرق إليها في الكتاب هي: هل كان الدين مسألة أساسية ومهمة في فكر آينشتاين الفيزيائي الكبير؟ وهل كان آينشتاين متديناً بالمعنى الشائع لهذه الكلمة؟ بمعنى: هل كان ممارساّ للطقوس الدينية؟. وفي إجابة عن السؤال الأول قدم الصديقي العديد من المعطيات التي تظهر أن آينشتاين كانت له خلفية دينية عميقة، ولكن بالمعنى ال.

This book is a profound exploration of the external influences that shape human consciousness, from healing rituals to digital devices. In this voyage through thousands of years of psychosomatic healing, distinguished anthropologist and sociologist Roger Bartra examines the placebo effect as a key to our understanding of human consciousness. Shamans and Robots demonstrates how biology and technology become intertwined within human culture by using the various histories of ritual and symbolic healing to speculate about future developments in artificial intelligence.

El relato cuenta la historia de Memnón, un hombre que decide alcanzar la sabiduría absoluta siguiendo una vida estrictamente virtuosa y racional. Para ello, renunciará a sus pasiones, permanecerá sobrio, vivirá de su fortuna sin tener que cortejar y cultivará sus amistades. Sin embargo, sus esfuerzos por llevar una existencia perfecta resultan en una serie de desastres cómicos. Memnón, se enfrenta a pérdidas, decepciones y absurdidades que desbaratan sus planes, llevándolo a comprender que la perfección humana es inalcanzable.

An instant classic in the field of love and relationships, this deeply profound book by self-help gurus Ariel and Shya Kane teaches you and your partner how to have a successful relationship in three simple steps. By learning how to let go, let be, and fully commit to the happiness that can only be found within you and each other, you will rediscover the passion that first brought you together and the magic to keep you as a couple.

With candid, witty, and compelling experiences of yoga from renowned memoirists, including Cheryl Strayed (author of the number one New York Times best-seller Wild), Claire Dederer (author of national best-seller Poser: My Life in 23 Yoga Poses), Dinty W. Moore (author of The Accidental Buddhist), Neal Pollack (author of Stretch: The Making of a Yoga Dude) and many others, Going Om shares a range of observations about this popular practice.

A fun and simple way to disengage from the pressures of the outside world and find a place of peace internally. With the aid of color breathing and guided imagery, these meditations will enliven your spirit and inspire your heart. Each of the 12 individual color meditations will evoke a particular emotional response and can be used as a tool to transform sadness to joy, anger to peace, or fear to love.

Child psychiatrist and best-selling author Robert Coles offers a profound meditation on how secular culture has settled into the hearts and minds of Americans. This book is a sweeping essay on the shift from religious control over Western society to the scientific dominance of the mind.

Don and Linda Pendleton, authors of the popular book, To Dance With Angels, probe the wisdom of the sages, miracles and angelic influences, aliens and UFOs, death and near-death experiences, spirit communication and spiritual encounters, in this definitive examination of mankind's search for the wellsprings and moving forces of the human experience.

There are eight billion people on this planet and the idea, or box of "NORMAL" that we try to live in is as varied as there are people. Who has the authority to tell us how to behave? It's not natural, it's not right, and it causes stress and illness for far too many humans. This book is a guide to finding freedom and understanding how to understand ourselves. It's a guide to becoming human being and enjoying life.

Dis-moi ce que tu ne peux concevoir et je te dirai les limites de ta pensée! Pourquoi est-il si difficile d'envisager sereinement le contraire de nos opinions? Les oppositions semblent pourtant indispensables à la structuration de notre esprit. À commencer par le bien et le mal, le vrai et le faux, le juste et l'injuste. Philosopher à travers les contraires est un combat à pratiquer avec nous-mêmes pour enfin réfléchir. À recommander pour se libérer des raideurs qui nous paralysent et prendre plaisir à entrevoir l'unité de l'être à travers ses oppositions.

Listeners of Cogito: Part 2, The Dream will not take long to realize that they are entering a different world, the world of Cogito. Years after he was released from captivity by Palestinian terrorists, a prediction Antoine Bacha heard from what he calls "the voice" came true. The voice told him, among other things, that he would meet an unusual woman that would share in his spiritual journey. He did not know that the woman would also experience the very same kind of intuitive lessons from the voice as he did. That woman is Liliana Franco....

Philosophy, Socrates declared, is the art of dying. This book underscores that it is also the art of learning to live and share the earth with those who have come before us. Burial, with its surrounding rituals, is the most ancient documented cultural-symbolic practice: all humans have developed techniques of caring for and communicating with the dead.

Each of us is a conscious individual living in the world. Very occasionally we have experiences so bizarre we have difficulty understanding what occurred. The Lantern in the Skull explores a selection of these unsettling yet intriguing experiences.

The future will be shaped not only by technology, but also by the liberation of human potential, much of it locked up in obsolete schooling. This book mines the rich cultural legacy of philosophy, folklore, and legend, especially Greek mythology, to understand their inner meaning and their relevance to the dilemmas of a troubled and confused world at the crossroads of evolution.

En este clásico del Nuevo Pensamiento, William Walker Atkinson examina con la prosa que lo caracteriza, la ley de la atracción en el mundo del pensamiento. Señala las similitudes entre la ley de la gravitación y la de la atracción. Explica porqué las vibraciones del pensamiento no suelen ser percibidas por nuestros sentidos.