Stanley Krippner’s memoir is a riveting masterpiece chronicling the extraordinary journey of a visionary whose life work has been dedicated to weaving cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary perspectives through scholarly research. This personal narrative captures the essence of Krippner’s unparalleled contributions to the field of humanistic psychology, transpersonal psychology, parapsychology, psychedelic research, and anthropology.
Dr. Close goes beyond the question How can we explain consciousness in terms of matter? and asks instead, Can matter be explained in terms of consciousness? The results are astounding. Using unimpeachable scientific evidence and logic, the author provides proof of the absolute necessity of the existence of consciousness prior to the emergence of the first particle of the physical universe.
National government is giving way to emergent global governance without direct democratic control. We are moving from politics to hi-tech physiological command. The transnational corporate biocontrol system will be able to rule us collectively and individually down to our neurons. The human will become something else as technological networks ‘care’ for us totally. The challenge to humanity is based on capturing the concept and practice of care. The brain-cloud interface will work through countless points of contacts, sensors, dots and other small connections. We are on the threshold of dustopia and will encounter a spiritual dustbowl.
The Way of the Mindful Warrior provides a fresh, authentic, and structured path to using mindfulness to embrace living in awareness and reconnecting with our innermost nature of peace, wisdom, and compassion. Mindfulness is a 2,500-year-old Buddhist meditation practice that involves focusing awareness on the present moment, the only place where an individual can truly embrace and experience life. This book integrates the traditional Buddhist teachings on mindfulness with emerging insights from the scientific study of mindfulness, wellbeing and the human mind.
This book is a meditation on the human condition and our relationship to God. Many cannot tell the difference between God and guilt. The simple lines in Is God Confused? help clarify these issues bringing peace and clarity out of the confusion.
Frustratingly elusive, this extraordinary text offers a thrilling glimpse into a struggle to safeguard knowledge amid clashing worldviews and the fervent religio-cultural passions of its time. Echoing the harmonizing tendency of late Neoplatonism, its entangled strands of Greek and Egyptian thought and language do not vie for supremacy, but merge in a battle for interpretation, reinvention, and survival.