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Of the millions of people who survive drowning each year, about 20% report a near-death experience (NDE). NDEs are usually hyperreal and lucid experiences dominated by pleasurable feelings and more rarely dominated by distressed feelings. This book presents a summary of 40 years of research on NDEs. It contains 22 drowning NDE accounts and recommendations for how water safety professionals can use NDE-related information in their work with people they successfully resuscitate.
Written by one of the world’s leading experts in the field, The Essential Guide to Remote Viewing is a basic introduction to the remarkable extrasensory perceptual skill which was developed for the US military during the Cold War. Leaving its military roots far behind, remote viewing has now broadly expanded into the civilian world. This book describes what remote viewing is, how it came to be, what kinds of remote viewing there are, and counters skeptical arguments disputing remote viewing’s reality. The book contains examples of successful remote viewings, explains how remote viewing can be used for practical purposes, how ordinary civilians can themselves now learn to do it. It also gives easy instructions for experiments that readers can try for themselves.
Pioneer. Visionary. Provocateur. Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky—mystic, occult writer, child of Russian aristocrats, spiritual seeker who traveled five continents, and founder (with Henry Steel Olcott) of the Theosophical Society—is still being hailed as an icon and scorned as a fraud more than 120 years after her death. But despite perennial interest in her life, writings, and philosophy, no single biography has examined the controversy and legacy of this influential thinker who helped define modern alternative spirituality—until now.
This book revisits Patañjali’s philosophy by bringing it into dialogue with contemporary concerns across a variety of topics and perspectives. Questions regarding the role of the body in the practice of classical yoga, the debate between the realistic or idealistic interpretation of the text, the relation between Yoga and other Indian philosophical schools, the use of imagination in the pursuit of self-knowledge, the interplay between consciousness and nature, the possibilities and limitations of using it as a therapeutic philosophy, the science of meditation, and overcoming our fear of death probe the many dimensions that this text continues to offer for thought and reflection.
