Showing results for "Harding" in Philosophy

'Reason and imagination and all mental chatter died down... I forgot my name, my humanness, my thingness, all that could be called me or mine. Past and future dropped away... Lighter than air, clearer than glass, altogether released from myself, I was nowhere around.' Thus Douglas Harding describes his first experience of headlessness, or no self. First published in 1961, this is a classic work which conveys the experience that mystics of all times have tried to put words to.

Brought to you by Penguin. This rich and enjoyable book by the acclaimed author of Japan Story explores the many ways in which Asia has influenced Europe and North America over centuries of tangled, dynamic encounters From the time of the ancient Greeks onwards the West's relationship with Asia...

Heroic Aging explores how to age with clarity, resilience, and meaning in an increasingly dystopian world. Created by Gus, this podcast blends science, philosophy, and personal growth to help you navigate the challenges of aging without magical thinking or denial. Each short episode dives into topics like emotional mastery, purpose, frailty prevention, mortality, and the psychology of heroic living. Whether you're facing down old age or simply seeking meaning in the face of nihilism, Heroic Aging offers tools, insights, and inspiration to support your hero’s journey. New episodes every week.

Chronicling what went wrong for Middle America to future generations We are digging deeper into the social / political conversation: Diagnosing and discussing the underlying issues we are facing as a society, the irrational philosophies and ideas we are being subjected to, and their disastrous consequences.

In this eye-opening book, Matthew Rose introduces us to one of the most controversial intellectual movements of the 20th century, the "radical right", and discusses its adherents' different attempts to imagine political societies after the death or decline of liberalism. Questioning democracy's most basic norms and practices, these critics rejected ideas about human equality, minority rights, religious toleration, and cultural pluralism not out of implicit biases, but out of explicit principle.

A podcast for youth pastors, youth workers, and parents about ministry topics and methods that range from the conventional to the unconventional...all for solid investment in the next generation of the Church.

Discovering that reason is the defining feature of our species, we named ourselves the “rational animal”. But is this flattering story itself rational? In this sweeping account of irrationality from antiquity to today - from the fifth-century BC murder of Hippasus for revealing the existence of irrational numbers to the rise of Twitter mobs and the election of Donald Trump - Justin Smith says the evidence suggests the opposite.