Showing titles in Consciousness & Thought

"It’s a blessing to live while Darcey Steinke is writing." — Maggie Nelson Darcey Steinke, acclaimed author of Flash Count Diary and Suicide Blonde, explores the world of pain for those who suffer and those who love them. Steinke gets to the heart of pain with her usual brilliance, humor...

Taking a fresh look at the concept of happiness, Hollis uses a warm, accessible tone to encourage listeners to learn to tolerate ambiguity, embrace growth rather than security, respect the power of Eros, engage spiritual crises, and acknowledge the shadow of mortality. Providing inspiring wisdom and personal reflections to address our deepest worries, What Matters Most yields far more than mere self-help clichés.

Upon Scheler's death in 1928, Martin Heidegger remarked that he was the most important force in philosophy at the time. The Human Place in the Cosmos, the last of the works Scheler completed, is a pivotal piece in the development of his writing as a whole, marking a peculiar shift in his approach and thought.

Stop working harder and start thinking higher. Why do some people effortlessly attract wealth while others struggle for every cent? "The Paradigm Shift" reveals the subconscious "software" that dictates your results and provides the step-by-step mechanics to reprogram your life for infinite abundance. Your results are a mirror of your mind. Is it time for a new reflection? Bob Proctor was the world’s foremost authority on the subconscious mind and the Law of Attraction. In "The Paradigm Shift: Mastering the Mindset of Abundance," his sixty years of wisdom are distilled into a powerful ...

There are qualities we all yearn to experience in our lives - peace, simplicity, grace, connection, clarity. Yet these qualities evade us, because each of them arises from an experience of wholeness, and we live in a culture that enforces divisions within each of us. In Radical Wholeness, Philip Shepherd shows the countless ways in which we are persuaded to separate from the body and live in the head. Disconnected from the body's intelligence, we also disconnect from the wholeness of the present.

Praised Yoga teacher & coach, Rishi Eric Infanti presents a fourth work in his inter-web of publications, "Mindfulness & Yin Yoga: Embracing the Yin Path". This body of work casts your relationship to self and others through the understanding and practice of Yin Yoga & mindfulness and what they intersect beneath the veil of illusion — in a vivid and impressive new light. Rishi embarks upon an extraordinary new volume. "Mindfulness & Yin Yoga" provides a deeply practical prescription for heightening your gifts, tranquility and sense of inner calm. Infanti’s previous trilogy of guided ...

¿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. Nos detenemos a reflexionar sobre quiénes somos y por qué somos como somos.

La tesis vertebral de la obra de Jacobo Grinberg, que desarrolla en su libro La teoría sintérgica,sostiene que la realidad perceptible resulta de la interacción de la activación cerebral y el espacio-tiempo (la lattice). Asentadas sus bases teóricas, Grinberg exploró dicha relacióna lo largo de varios libros, entre ellos La construcción de la realidad. En sus páginas explica que tanto el mundo externo y tangible como el interno conformado por los pensamientos y sueños son una descripción que depende de los individuos y sus historias de vida.

Drawing on the wisdom of Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and others, Nancy Sherman's Stoic Wisdom presents a compelling modern Stoicism that teaches grit, resilience, and the importance of close relationships in addressing life's biggest and smallest challenges.

Why has there been such an explosion of discussion about sex in the West since the 17th century? Here, one of France's greatest intellectuals explores the evolving social, economic, and political forces that have shaped our attitudes toward sex. In a book that is at once controversial and seductive, Michel Foucault describes how we are in the process of making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire, rather than the increase of pleasure.

In this workshop held on a cruise ship in 2011, visionary author and intuitive, Caroline Myss, explores the nature of human consciousness. Drawing from her vast experience as a medical intuitive and spiritual teacher, Myss delves deep into the mysteries of human existence and sheds light on how...

“Excellent. Fully Present offers one of the clearest introductions to mindfulness in the field.” —Library Journal Mindfulness has attracted ever‑growing interest and tens of thousands of practitioners, who have come to the discipline from both within and outside the Buddhist...

Consciousness creates all material reality. Biological processes do not create consciousness. This conceptual breakthrough turns traditional scientific thinking upside down. In An End to Upside Down Thinking, Mark Gober traces his journey. He explores compelling scientific evidence from a diverse set of disciplines, ranging from psychic phenomena to near-death experiences to quantum physics and beyond.

This audiobook is a plea for self-trust and a gentle guide to self-awareness. Instead of helping you become who you think you should be, The Art of Talking to Yourself hopes to introduce you to someone more interesting: who you are.

In a world where health care often feels rushed, impersonal, and disempowering, Feel Whole Again offers a transformative path forward. Dr. Kelly J. Blodgett guides you on a healing journey that transcends symptom management and embraces the deeper dimensions of mind, body, and spirit. Rooted in the principles of holistic wellness, biological dentistry, and humanistic health care, this audiobook challenges the fear-based, pharmaceutical-heavy model of modern medicine and replaces it with a sacred partnership between patient and provider.

In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times best-selling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct entity, a course of action, rather than a mere state of mind. Nonviolence can and should be a technique for overcoming social injustice and ending wars, he asserts, which is why it is the preferred method of those who speak truth to power.

Step into one of the most profound and enduring stories in the history of philosophy. The Allegory of the Cave Explained takes you deep into Plato’s timeless metaphor for truth, knowledge, and the human condition. From the shadows on the wall to the blinding light of the sun, this book unpacks each stage of the allegory with clarity, depth, and practical insight. You will explore Plato’s life and historical context, the meaning behind each symbolic element, and how his message about perception and reality resonates more strongly than ever in today’s information-saturated world. With ...

What happens when we accept that everything we feel and think stems not from an immaterial spirit but from electrical and chemical activity in our brains? In this thought-provoking narrative - drawn from professional expertise as well as personal life experiences - trailblazing neurophilosopher Patricia S. Churchland grounds the philosophy of mind in the essential ingredients of biology. She reflects with humor on how she came to harmonize science and philosophy, the mind and the brain, abstract ideals and daily life.

What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate, aesthetic pleasure or spiritual yearning? These questions today are among the most hotly debated issues among scientists and philosophers. Philosopher David J. Chalmers offers a cogent analysis of this heated debate as he unveils a major new theory of consciousness, one that rejects the prevailing reductionist trend of science, while offering provocative insights into the relationship between mind and brain.

Artificial intelligence is advancing at breathtaking speed. Large language models can write essays, generate code, compose music, diagnose disease, and simulate conversation with astonishing fluency. As discussions of artificial general intelligence (AGI) intensify, one question becomes unavoidable: If machines can think, what makes us human? In More Than Machines, award-winning Stephen Hawley Martin explores the critical distinction between machine intelligence and human consciousness. Drawing on philosophy of mind, neuroscience, quantum physics debates, and research into near-death ...