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The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness

Karen Armstrong starts this spellbinding tale of her religious trip along with her departure in 1969 from the Roman Catholic convent she had entered seven years before—hoping, yet eventually failing, to discover God. She knew virtually not anything of the replaced global to which she was once returning, and she or he used to be laid low with panic assaults and inexplicable seizures.

Science and the Reenchantment of the Cosmos: The Rise of the Integral Vision of Reality

Offers a innovative new conception that bridges the divide among technological know-how and spirituality
• Discloses the ramifications of non-localized attention and the way the actual international and religious event are elements of an identical reality
• comprises contributions from Jane Goodall, Ed Mitchell, Stanislav Grof, Ralph Abraham, and Christian de Quincy, between others
What scientists at the moment are discovering on the outermost frontiers of each box is overturning all of the simple premises in regards to the nature of subject and truth. The universe isn't a global of separate issues and occasions yet is a cosmos that's hooked up, coherent, and bears a profound resemblance to the visions held within the earliest religious traditions during which the actual global and non secular event have been either points of a similar fact and guy and the universe have been one. The findings that justify this new imaginative and prescient of the underlying common sense of the universe come from just about all of the empirical sciences: physics, cosmology, the lifestyles sciences, and attention learn. They clarify how interactions bring about interconnections that produce instant and multifaceted coherence--what occurs to 1 half additionally occurs to the opposite components, and accordingly to the approach as a complete. The feel of sacred oneness skilled by means of our ancestors that used to be displaced by way of the unyielding fabric presumptions of contemporary technology may be restored, and humanity can once more consider at domestic within the universe.

Do The Gods Wear Capes?: Spirituality, Fantasy, and Superheroes

Brash, daring, and infrequently brutal, superheroes might sound to epitomize smooth pop-culture at its so much melodramatic and senseless. yet in accordance with Ben Saunders, the charm of the superhero is essentially metaphysical - even religious - in nature. In chapter-length analyses of the early comedian publication adventures of Superman, ask yourself girl, Spider-Man, and Iron-Man, Saunders explores a few advanced philosophical and theological concerns, together with: the matter of evil; the will-to-power; the strain among intimacy and vulnerability; and the problem of affection, within the face of mortality.

Lessons from the Light: What We Can Learn from the near-Death Experience

Whereas supplying many money owed of near-death reports (NDEs) from males, ladies, and kids of every age and backgrounds, classes from the sunshine is far greater than simply an inspiring choice of NDEs. In classes near-death professional Kenneth Ring extracts the 24-karat gold of the NDE and with a gorgeous stability of sound examine and human perception unearths the sensible knowledge held inside those reviews.