Dr. Edward Hoffman, a world-renowned thinker and writer in humanistic psychology, reveals how the Kabbalah exerted a profound influence on the establishment and growth of Western psychological thought through such towering thinkers as Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, and Abraham Maslow. With a new introduction and updated bibliography, The Way of Splendor: The 25th Anniversary begins with an historical presentation of Kabalistic metaphysics and cosmology, then discusses the psychological dimensions of Kabbalah on such topics as dreams, meditation, sexuality, community, health and emotions.
Robert Anton Wilson’s The New Inquisition seeks to rescue science from fundamentalist materialism, and the rest of us from the broader implications of this approach. It is at once a philosophical treatise and an act of cognitive defiance. His message is more important right now than it was when he wrote it. Our digital fundamentalists see human beings as an engineering problem to be solved. Behaviors and thoughts that do not conform to our algorithmically generated profiles are to be eliminated, and humans shepherded into the reality tunnels that obey the laws of rationality alone.
This book presents the Extra-Consciousness Hypothesis: a unified model that connects UFO encounters, near-death experiences, Fae folklore, religious visions, cattle mutilations, and the Skinwalker Ranch hitchhiker effect into a single coherent framework grounded in plasma physics, neuroscience, and consciousness studies. It draws on the work of Jacques Vallée, Jeffrey Kripal, Patrick Harpur, Bernardo Kastrup, Roger Penrose, and dozens of other researchers to propose that the Phenomenon is not arriving from another planet. It is arriving from another mode of reality that has been with us all along.
