More and more business leaders are catching on to an often-overlooked fact: consciousness is our basic faculty for survival and success. Without it, we forget what's important to us and lose sight of
Given that consciousness is poorly understood and vaguely defined, Paul Feyerabend's advice to "keep our options open" seems sound, but is frequently ignored in favour of an insistence that a scientif
Beginning with the view that human consciousness is essentially embodied and that the way we consciously experience the world is structured by our bodily dynamics and surroundings, the book argues tha
Animals are disappearing, vanishing, and dying out--not just in the physical sense of becoming extinct, but in the sense of being erased from our consciousness. Increasingly, interactions with animals
The classic statement of the ideas which form the religious consciousness of the Jewish people at large, by one of the great minds of Jewish scholarship of our century. His creative scholarship, compe
In today's world, we are bombarded by negative situations such as war, poverty, and disease. When we allow this negativity to permeate our consciousness, it's difficult to think positively about life.
Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory has deeply affected how we think of ourselves, in emphasizing the limits of consciousness and the impact of irrational forces on our behavior. Philosophers have b
This book brings together three essays and one speech, dating from 2004 to 2010, that highlight the power of our words and the importance of elevating and transforming our consciousness.
Vision is not mere registration of what enters, via the gateway of our eyes, from the outside world into our inner consciousness. Understanding the act of seeing as mirroring the outside world in ment
Contemporary society tends to conceal death and the dying process from public view, seeking to erase them from our consciousness. This attitude of denial stands in great contrast to the approach of th
Among the most well-known and beloved of stories that affect our modern consciousness, this book collects some of the best and favorite of the stories from the Arabian Nights, making it well worth the
Once again war flickers across our television screens and our consciousness. Men crouch, running, holding large black guns; child amputees scream; women mourn their dead in languages we cannot underst
Over the past decade, the North, or at least the idea of it, has slowly made its way back to our consciousness, a notion that the North is synonymous with a lawless, rugged freedom. But at first glanc
Useless Virtues, T. R. Hummer's seventh book of poetry, is a wide-ranging series of forays into metaphysical territory. Its presiding inquiry concerns the dependency of our consciousness and our spiri
What happens when we die? Powerful evidence indicates our consciousness continues. The author spent two years gathering material that demonstrates this, interviewing more than a hundred experts, inclu
The problem of consciousness may just be a semantic one. The brain absorbs a sea of sensory input, the tiniest fraction of which reaches the shore of our awareness. We pay attention to what is most no
Endorsements: "Walter Brueggemann is the master of finding fresh and compelling dimensions of meaning in texts so familiar they barely scratch the surface of our consciousness. In this exciting collec
This book presents a theory of the self whose core principle is that the consciousness of the self is a process of self-representing that runs throughout our life. This process aims primarily at defen
If you read in every ancient tradition you will find common threads. Many of the characters are the same in nature, same in story. As Carl Jung stated, we all share a common consciousness and thus our
