Dr. Houston explains the theories that helped form the foundation of the human potential movement while she teaches readers to draw on their inner resources and employ strategies that have been used successfully by writers and artists, teachers and therapists, actors and athletes, scientists and business executives. This original and essential guide is a passport to the wondrous, and tragic, dimensions of the human psyche.
Richet, in his role of psychical researcher, investigated ESP, mental and physical mediumship, survival of death, and hypnosis. While never publicly accepting survival and communication with discarnate entities, he became fully immersed in the phenomena.
After a shattering near-death experience Joyce Whiteley Hawkes left her career as a biophysicist and embarked on an intensive exploration of indigenous healing practices. Living and working with priests and shamans in the Philippines, South India, and Bali, she explored the previously uncharted territories that divide biology from spirituality—discovering that emotional, mental, and spiritual feelings can have a powerful effect on our bodies at the cellular level.
Rooted in an analysis of the philosophical underpinnings of modern science and based on the early twentieth-century work of Arthur Eddington and Bertrand Russell, Goff makes the case for panpsychism, a theory which posits that consciousness is not confined to biological entities but is a fundamental feature of all physical matter—from subatomic particles to the human brain.
Patañjali’s Classical Yoga is a classic of Eastern and world thought. Patañjali teaches that notions of a separate egoic “I” are little more than forms of mistaken identity. Carl Jung’s depth psychology, which remains deeply influential to psychologists, religious scholars, and artists alike, argues that ego-consciousness developed out of the unconscious over the course of evolution. Whitney explores the extent to which the seemingly irremediable split between Jung and Patañjali’s ontological beliefs can in fact be reconciled.
