This book begins where You Are Being Lied To left off. Once again, an amazing group of investigative journalists, researchers, insiders, dissidents, and academics peels back consensus reality and shows us what's really happening. Hard, documented evidence on the most powerful institutions and controversial topics in the world. Among the revelations: Antidepressants trash your brain.China has repeatedly threatened to nuke the US.Young people are less violent now than they have been in over 30 years.Mad Cow disease is killing people in America.Plus previously unpublished revelations about the In... View More...
Drawing from his experience as a therapist, counselor, and teacher, Stephen Paul has composed this collection of inspirational aphorisms for mediation and renewal. These practical yet lyrical statements offer challenging insights for people embarking on a path of personal growth and change. Each page provides a powerful source of mediation for self-realization and liberation. Beautiful abstract paintings by the internationally acclaimed artist Gary Max Collins accompany each thoughtful maxim, serving as a focus for individual contemplation. View More...
During the 1970s and 1980s feminists increasingly came to recognize how the eroticization of women's inferiority, and male sexual violence are both central to the maintenance and perpetuation of male power over women. These issues were largely taken up by radical and especially revolutionary feminists. Marianne Hester, in this book, attempts to explain how women's experience of male sexual violence, through rape and sexual abuse, can lead to an understanding of male power over women. Her analysis also helps us to understand male power in other historical periods. The book focuses on two very s... View More...
Reflections from the Journey of Life presents quotations from the Dalai Lama selected from personal conversations with editor Catherine Barry. The Fourteenth Dalai Lama is known throughout the world for his promotion of justice, truthfulness, and compassion for all cultures, races, and religions. Inside these pages you will read the Dalai Lama's thoughts about: Happiness and Love Negative Emotions Responsibility and Interdependence Death Mind, Body, and Spirit Ethics and Science Religion Buddhist Teachings and Practices The Dalai Lama is a symbol of peace and of the non-violent struggle again... View More...
The nationally syndicated columnist and Reason magazine editor presents a damning portrait of how politicized government agencies, antidrug activists, and a na ve national media have exaggerated the public's fears of the harmful effects of recreational drugs. Jacob Sullum goes beyond the debate on legalization or the proper way to win the war on drugs, to the heart of a social and individual defense of using drugs. Saying Yes argues that the all-or-nothing thinking that has long dominated discussions of illegal drug use should give way to a wiser, subtler approach exemplified by the tradition... View More...
A classic in the field, this book combines intelligence and practical experience to explain the heart of spiritual guidance--a must for retreat leaders and spiritual directors. View More...
Reflecting the focus of a Jean Piaget Symposium entitled Biology and Knowledge: Structural Constraints on Development, this volume presents many of the emergent themes discussed. Among these themes are: Structural constraints on cognitive development and learning come in many shapes and forms and involve appeal to more than one level of analysis. To postulate innate knowledge is not to deny that humans can acquire new concepts. It is unlikely that there is only one learning mechanism, even if one prefers to work with general as opposed to domain-specific mechanisms. The problems of induction... View More...
This book is a guide to the wilderness that is depression, written by someone who knows the territory and has seen that a map alone is not enough. It is a guide to using our own inner resources, and to learning how to read and listen to the signs around us. It is ultimately a guide to growth, insight, and realization. The Zen Path through Depression is a practical, clear resource that approached depression in an entirely new way. Philip Martin tells us that "depression is an illness not just of the body and mind, but also of the heart." The heart, the spirit, is where the key to healing lies.... View More...
This volume takes us on a healing journey to discover our essence - who we are and who we can become. It shows the reader how to connect with the loving energy in themselves and around themselves in order to help them overcome imbalances that sap their strength and create disease. View More...
In today's hectic times, it's more important than ever to learn to slow down, relax and be calm. Whether part of a religious habit or just part of a daily routine, meditation can help slow frenzied pace, and improve feelings of good health, peace and control. This title explains how easy it is to enjoy the benefits of meditation. View More...
Using stories as diverse as that of the death of a polar bear at the London Zoo, aboriginal refugees of Darwin, Australia, and a munitions expert who becomes a professional safecracker, Anthony Gittins charts unexplored spiritual landscapes of the 21st century. The spiritual approach that identifies Gittins is a practical, down-to-earth way of connecting with God in the place you are -- and an avenue sturdy enough to endure for the long haul.For those who want to uncover a personal spirituality that adapts to the context of a particular culture and to the demands for justice, this book charts ... View More...
