Why We Ignore the Damage We Inflict on the Planet--And Ourselves
Our wants for food, housing, medicine, transportation, luxuries, and all the other benefits of industrialisation have resulted in the exploitation of our natural surroundings. This book explores the complex convergence of psychological, social, economic, and political factors that keep us from acting in our own self-interest.
The ability to think clearly and the power to reason well set leaders apart from the crowd. This guide talks about the world of logical thinking and reasoning. It walks the reader through the modes of thinking, understanding, and reasoning. It also offers tips on how anyone can be empowered through continual self-monitoring and self-improvement.
This book clearly explains what meditation is and how to initiate and develop its practice. Learning through experience entails mindfulness in all we do. From the simple action of getting up in the morning to our dreams at night, everything can be included in this meditation. We can learn to open our senses to each nuance of experience, mindful of ......
Documents the work of alternative cancer researchers--which, the author charges, has been ignored or suppressed by the medical establishment--on a possible link between bacteria and cancer and on alternative treatments for the disease. UP.
The world we live in appears in space, unfolds in time, and makes itself available through knowledge. Time, Space, and Knowledge evokes direct insight into the broader dimensions of these most fundamental aspects of existence. The visionary, analytical text is supplemented by 35 thought experiments and imaginative exercises. Appeals to readers in ......
Includes chapters on romantic love. This book aims to broaden the scope to include the role of love in the developmental process of infants and children, on physical and mental health and illness, on violent criminality, and other social aspects of love. It emphasises what various scientific disciplines have discovered about the role of love.
Alien abductions, satanic kidnappings, the channelling of spirits, the recall of past lives and other similar bizarre experiences are reported almost daily in the media. Is there a rational explanation for these events? This work uses scientific evidence on memory to dispel many supernatural beliefs.
As a starry-eyed student, the author was convinced of the reality of astral planes, telepathy, and life after death. She was determined to devote her life to parapsychology, but what she found wasn't what she had bargained for. This book offers a personal account of one scientist's never-ending search for the paranormal.
