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Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity, Parfit claims that we have a false view about our own nature. It is often rational to act against our own best interests, he argues, and most of us have moral views that are self-defeating. We often act wrongly, although we know there will be no one with serious grounds for complaint, and when we consider future generations it is very hard to avoid conclusions that most of us will find very disturbing. 

This book is a three-part journey into the rabbit hole we call the nature of reality. Its ultimate destination is a plausible, living validation of transcendence. Each of its three parts is like a turn of a spiral, exploring recurring ideas through the prisms of religious myth, truth, and belief, respectively. With each turn, the book seeks to convey a more nuanced and complete understanding of the many facets of transcendence. 

As we navigate through life we instinctively model time as having a flowing present that divides a fixed past from open future. This model develops in childhood and is deeply saturated within our language, thought, and behavior, affecting our conceptions of the universe, freedom, and the self. Yet as central as it is to our lives, physics seems to have no room for this flowing present. What Makes Time Special? demonstrates this claim in detail and then turns to two novel positive tasks.

In Practical Mysticism, Evelyn Underhill distills the essential (and comprehensible) steps that comprise the process of achieving mystical understanding. Though she uses the pantheon of Christian mystics as her guide, her methodology transcends any particular faith and offers a common sense approach to self-improvement and enhanced awareness.

Bloomsbury presents Noticing by Ziyad Marar, read by Silas Carson What does it mean to 'notice' something? To really see it. In his exhilarating quest to help us notice better, Ziyad Marar poses a deceptively simple question: 'what are you good at noticing?' In the process of 'noticing what we notice' we re-attune to questions of perception, orientation, and above all, attention: How do we walk the wrong way down the street without being aware of it? What is happening in us when our eyes pass unseeing over a familiar face in a crowded restaurant?

From the bestselling author of Communion comes the mysterious true story of how an unknown visitor barged into Streiber's hotel room late one night--and imparted extraordinary lessons in personal development and man's fate that challenge us to rethink every assumption about the meaning of life...

In 1656, after being excommunicated from Amsterdam's Portuguese-Jewish community for "abominable heresies" and "monstrous deeds", the young Baruch Spinoza abandoned his family's import business to dedicate his life to philosophy. He quickly became notorious across Europe for his views on God, the Bible, and miracles, as well as for his uncompromising defense of free thought. Yet the radicalism of Spinoza's views has long obscured that his primary reason for turning to philosophy was to answer one of humanity's most urgent questions....

هذا أكثر كتب دولوز شخصيةً وأقربها منالاً، يتيح أفضلَ تقديمٍ لفكره، لا كعرضٍ مدرسي، بل بالشكل الذي يتفق مع بنية هذا الفكر. ليس الكتاب 'حوارا' أو 'محادثة'، رغم أن به...

فبحسب نظرية الكم ليس للكون وجود أو تاريخ واحد فقط..وهي فكرة مفادها أننا مجرّد كون من أكوان عديدة لكل منها قوانين طبيعية مختلفة. والنظريّة إم تقدّم تفسيراً للقوانين التي تحكم كوننا، المرشّح الوحيد الموجود "لنظرية كل شيء"، وهي النظرية الموحّدة التي كان يبحث عنها آينشتاين، والتي إن ثبتت، فإنها ستمثّل انجازاً عظيماً للفكر الإنساني.

LEARN TO BECOME METAPHYSCIALLY AWARE AND WALK A GROUNDED SPIRITUAL PATHThis audio program contains some of the collected writings of psychic researcher Dick Sutphen. His unique blend of metaphysics, Zen, and human-potential concepts clarifies and simplifies the spiritual quest, while challenging...

Il "Fedro", scritto da Platone probabilmente nel 370 a. C., è un dialogo tra due personaggi, Socrate e Fedro. Il dialogo è composto da tre discorsi sul tema dell'amore che servono come metafora per la discussione del corretto uso della retorica. Esse comprendono discussioni sull'anima, la follia, l'ispirazione divina e l'arte.

Socrate est souvent qualifié de "père de la philosophie". S'il n'en est peut-être pas le fondateur, il est le premier à se détourner de l'étude de la nature et à insister pour que la réflexion philosophique s'intéresse désormais, et exclusivement, aux "affaires humaines". En raison de cette stature, et du fait qu'il n'ait jamais laissé d'écrit, on a longtemps cherché dans les œuvres de Platon, de Xénophon, d'Aristophane ou encore d'Aristote, la trace du vrai Socrate, du Socrate historique.

Wdziecznosc to stan umyslu czlowieka o wysokim poziomie swiadomego JA. Wdziecznosc to umiejetnosc patrzenia na zycie i na to co nas spotyka z wielu perspektyw, to docenianie kazdego doswiadczenia, nawet tego bolesnego i przykrego. Ten stan otwarcia przestrzeni czakry serca, zwany tez Koherencja Serca pozwala na otwarcie „furtki do nieba”, a dokladnie do kontaktu z wlasna dusza i czerpania obfitosci inspiracji z zasobów wszechswiata.