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Presents advice on ways to free oneself from habitual thoughts, emotions, and energy patterns that limit one's consciousness.
"Who are you really? What would it be like to free yourself from limitations and soar beyond your boundaries? What can you do each day to find this kind of inner peace and serenity? The Untethered Soul offers a simple, profoundly intuitive answers to these questions. Whether this is your first exploration of inner space, or...
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Visit from the Goon Squad volume 2
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English
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"The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is "one of those tech demi-gods with whom we're all on a first name basis." Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing" memory. It's 2010. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, "Own...
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Citadel Press
Pub. Date
1970
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English
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Acclaimed by William James as "an addition to psychology of first-rate importance," this pioneering work constitutes a classic modern study of the mystical experience. Author Richard Maurice Bucke, a distinguished progressive psychiatrist, explores the phenomenon of transcendent realization, or illumination. Bucke draws upon his firsthand experience of a life-altering insight to explore the theory of cosmic consciousness, an advance in mental evolution...
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English
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"An investigation of the emotional and physical world of the octopus"--
"In this astonishing book from the author of the bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig, Sy Montgomery explores the emotional and physical world of the octopus--a surprisingly complex, intelligent, and spirited creature--and the remarkable connections it makes with humans. Sy Montgomery's popular 2011 Orion magazine piece, "Deep Intellect, " about her friendship with a sensitive,...
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"From one of the world's leading neuroscientists--a succinct, illuminating, wholly engaging investigation of the phenomenon of consciousness. In recent decades, many philosophers and cognitive scientists have declared the question of consciousness unsolvable, but Antonio Damasio is convinced that recent findings in neurobiology, psychology, and AI have given us the necessary tools to solve its mystery. Now, he not only elucidates its myriad aspects,...
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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A leading philosopher offers a major new account of the origins of the conscious mind that explores the deep interactions of evolution, brains, and human culture, demonstrating the role of culture in installing memes, including language, in the mind.
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Vintage Books
Pub. Date
[1970, c1950]
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English
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Tertium Organum, or the third canon of thought, gives a new view of the perception of the world. In Tertium Organum, the author offers the shift of the paradigm and speaks of higher consciousness, or the consciousness of the fourth dimension, the domain for the personal development of the human, the ability to control your emotions and actions. The book is inspired by the teachings of Gurdjieff about the Fourth Way. According to this philosophy, there...
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Verso
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Welcome to 1990s Norway. White picket fences run in neat rows and Christian conservatism runs deep. But as the Artist considers her work, things start stirring themselves up. In a corner of Oslo a coven of witches begin cooking up some curses. A time-travelling Edvard Munch arrives in town to join a death metal band, closely pursued by the teenaged subject of his painting Puberty, who has murder on her mind. Meanwhile, out deep in the forest, a group...
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Hay House
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English
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An internationally bestselling must-read for those on a personal development path from world-renowned author, psychiatrist, clinician, spiritual teacher, and researcher of consciousness, David Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.
Dive deep into the realms of consciousness with Dr. David Hawkins' groundbreaking masterpiece, Power vs. Force, a roadmap to understanding human behavior and emotions.
"[A] beautiful gift of writing . . . [Dr. David...
Dive deep into the realms of consciousness with Dr. David Hawkins' groundbreaking masterpiece, Power vs. Force, a roadmap to understanding human behavior and emotions.
"[A] beautiful gift of writing . . . [Dr. David...
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English
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"From one of the most significant neuroscientists at work today, a pathbreaking investigation of a question that has confounded philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists for centuries: how is consciousness created?" "Antonio Damasio has spent the past thirty years studying and writing about how the brain operates, and his work has garnered acclaim for its singular melding of the scientific and the humanistic. In Self Comes to Mind, he goes...
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1977
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English
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At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion--and indeed our future.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk & Robot series gives us hope for the future. It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend. One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor...
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Publisher
Shambhala
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
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"This book presents one of the first truly integrative models of consciousness, psychology, and therapy. Drawing on hundreds of sources - East and West, ancient and modern - Wilber creates a psychological model that includes waves of development, streams of development, states of consciousness, and the self, and follows the course of each from subconscious to self-conscious to superconscious."--BOOK JACKET
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