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Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest ThingAuthor:
Jed McKennaPages:
296Format:
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0971435235Author, teacher and spiritual master Jed McKenna tells it like it's never been told before. A true American original, Jed succeeds where countless others have failed by reducing this highest of attainments—spiritual enlightenment — to the simplest of terms.
Effectively demystifying the mystical, Jed astonishes the reader not by adding to the world's collected spiritual wisdom, but by taking the spirituality out of spiritual enlightenment. Never before has this elusive topic been treated in so engaging and accessible a manner.
A masterpiece of illuminative writing, Spiritual Enlightenment is mandatory reading for anyone following a spiritual path. Part expose and part how-to manual, this is the first book to explain why failure seems to be the rule in the search for enlightenment — and how the rule can be broken.
This is not just another New Age guru trying to put a fresh spin on tired New Age platitudes. Jed McKenna takes us to a whole new level where he challenges us to simply open our eyes — to see for ourselves. Sound simple? Buckle up, you're in for quite a ride. Every page in this paradigm-busting book brings fresh challenges and rewards. 
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Principles of NeurotheologyAuthor:
Andrew B. NewbergPages:
284Format:
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1409408108'Neurotheology' has garnered substantial attention in the academic and lay communities in recent years. Several books have been written addressing the relationship between the brain and religious experience and numerous scholarly articles have been published on the topic, some in the popular press. The scientific and religious communities have been very interested in obtaining more information regarding neurotheology, how to approach this topic, and how science and religion can be integrated in some manner that preserves both. If neurotheology is to be considered a viable field going forward, it requires a set of clear principles that can be generally agreed upon and supported by both the theological or religious perspective and the scientific one as well. "Principles of Neurotheology" sets out the necessary principles of neurotheology which can be used as a foundation for future neurotheological discourse. Laying the groundwork for a new synthesis of scientific and theological dialogue, this book proposes that neurotheology, a term fraught with potential problems, is a highly useful and important voice in the greater study of religious and theological ideas and their intersection with science.
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Indian Myth and Legend.Author:
The Gresham Publishing CompanyPages:
463Format:
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0000000000This volume deals with the myths and legends o India, which survive to us in the rich and abundant store house of Sanskrit literature, and with the rise and growt of Brahmanism, Buddhism, Jainism, etc.Not a few, we are assured, will follow with interest the development from primitive myths of great and ennobling ideas which have exercised a culturing influence in India through many long centuries, and are still potent factors in the domestic, social, and religious life of many millions of Hindus.
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The Ghost Chronicles: A Medium and a Paranormal Scientist Investigate 17 True HauntingsAuthor:
Maureen WoodPages:
336Format:
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1402225113There is not one dull moment in this book. Ron and Maureen have so much experience in exploring the paranormal that I would say this book is far superior to any other book of it's type. The stories are exciting and you really do feel like you are right there with them on a thrilling adventure!
I give 5 stars for a page turner, cannot put it down till your done book. There are plenty of interesting facts that have been highlighted which make it easy to refer back to them if you should desire.
It is so interesting to read a story and see it through two distinct views. Each chapter is a complete case file and is told by both Ron and Maureen (they each have used a different type of font so you can tell without even wondering who is talking. Maureen is a trance medium and I can't tell you how interesting it is to see what it's like through her eyes. Ron is the leader of The New England Ghost Project and he is fearless and yet very funny as he takes his team into the unknown. I literally got goosebumps while reading some of these stories! The only complaint I have is that it ended far too soon and I can't wait for the next book!
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Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were KidnappedAuthor:
Susan A. ClancyPages:
192Format:
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067402401XThey are tiny. They are tall. They are gray. They are green. They survey our world with enormous glowing eyes. To conduct their shocking experiments, they creep in at night to carry humans off to their spaceships. Yet there is no evidence that they exist at all. So how could anyone believe he or she was abducted by aliens? Or want to believe it?
To answer these questions, psychologist Susan Clancy interviewed and evaluated "abductees"--old and young, male and female, religious and agnostic. She listened closely to their stories--how they struggled to explain something strange in their remembered experience, how abduction seemed plausible, and how, having suspected abduction, they began to recollect it, aided by suggestion and hypnosis.
Clancy argues that abductees are sane and intelligent people who have unwittingly created vivid false memories from a toxic mix of nightmares, culturally available texts (abduction reports began only after stories of extraterrestrials appeared in films and on TV), and a powerful drive for meaning that science is unable to satisfy. For them, otherworldly terror can become a transforming, even inspiring experience. "Being abducted," writes Clancy, "may be a baptism in the new religion of this millennium." This book is not only a subtle exploration of the workings of memory, but a sensitive inquiry into the nature of belief.
