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Boomeritis: A Novel That Will Set You Free Author: Ken Wilber Editor/Commentator: Publisher: Shambala, Boston ISBN: 1590300084 Format: Paperback Pages: 464 List Price: £13.00 |
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Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Wilber (A Brief History of Everything) shifts (sort of) from philosophy to fiction in this story about a young MIT grad student's journey to self-discovery, which is finally little more than a thinly veiled attempt to outline and promote a theory of consciousness. Dubbed Ken Wilber, just like his creator, the novel's protagonist finds answers in his search for identity when he attends a series of consciousness lectures at an institute called the Integral Center. There, Wilber is exposed to an eight-level theory of consciousness and buys into the lecturer's premise that baby-boomers made the first step into higher awareness before they got "stuck" in their own narcissism and self-absorption, leaving it to subsequent generations to take things to the next level. Wilber makes a halfhearted effort to inject some plot elements as he tracks his friends' romances and their reaction to the theory, but most of this book is a lengthy rant about the shortcomings of boomers, padded with analysis of various thinkers, political movements and the effect of computers on modern thought. Wilber (the author) has some interesting ideas but, philosophical issues aside, this isn't much of a novel, and Wilber's failure to develop a coherent narrative, some semblance of a plot or interesting characters will deter many readers. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Library Journal Wilber here introduces concepts discussed in his Integral Psychology in the form of a highly entertaining postmodernist novel. Wilber's central character, also named Ken Wilber, is a student at MIT who is energized by his belief that within 30 years artificial intelligence (AI) will have so progressed that humans can upload their consciousness and move from carbon-based to silicon-based life forms. One day he stumbles into an integral psychology seminar and comes to realize that what humans do with these next 30 carbon-based years will greatly affect the AI of the future. The entire seminar is presented within the framework of the novel, along with lunchtime synthesis and analysis presented by Ken and his friends (representatives of Gen X and Y), with Ken's sexual fantasies intruding at regular intervals. Integral psychology is based on levels of consciousness, along with the belief that Gen X and Y will be the first to enter the second tier of consciousness. The boomers came close but then got bogged down in egocentrism and ethnocentrism. Unfortunately, as Ken and his friends are discovering, boomers are ruling the world and trying to perpetuate their flawed philosophies. Boomeritis is destined to be a cult classic and is recommended for all libraries. Debbie Bogenshutz, Cincinnati State & Technical Coll. Lib. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Buy from Amazon US Buy from Amazon UK |
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Eutopia: The Gnostic Land of Prester John Author: Alan Jacobs Editor/Commentator: Publisher: O Books ISBN: 978-1-84694-275-4 Format: Paperback Pages: 128 List Price: £8.99 |
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Editorial Reviews Review Beautifully written and meticulously researched, this short book tells a story of exploration and miraculous discovery in modern-day Ethiopia, based around many historical figures - Whether your interest lies in history or poetry, philosophy or religion, there is much to stimulate and satisfy. Positive and life-affirming; the perfect antidote to the questionable values of modern, Western society. -- Dennis Waite author of several O Books including Enlightenment: the path through the jungle Alan Jacobs' brilliant novella, Eutopia: The Gnostic Land of Prester John,entertainingly informs us how an ideal society run on radically different principles would be. It is a most refreshing and enlightening contrast from today's somewhat decadent modernity, and a great adventure story set in secret Ethiopia. This is yet another profound offering from a highly respected author. -- Paula Marvelly {Author] Product Description Eutopia, The Gnostic Land of Prester John, is an enthralling and adventurous Utopian Novella exploring the up to now undiscovered land of the legendary Emperor Prester John, found in Ethiopia. Prester John's 'Eutopia' is organised on Gnostic Principles and the explorers reveal the esoteric wisdom that governs this unusual State. This easy to read Novella also describes their direct path to Self Realisation. This book will certainly appeal to all lovers of Truth and points the way to a just foundation for the good society. Buy from Amazon US Buy from Amazon UK |
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Jonathan Livingstone Seagull Author: Richard Bach Editor/Commentator: Publisher: Pan ISBN: 0330236474 Format: Paperback Pages: 0 List Price: £5.00 |
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Mouches Volantes - Eye Floaters as Shining Structure of Consciousness Author: Floco Tausin Editor/Commentator: Publisher: Leuchtstruktur-Verlag ISBN: 978-3-033-00337-8 Format: Paperback Pages: 368 List Price: £26.00 |
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Editorial Reviews Product Description Floco Tausin tells the story about his time of learning with spiritual teacher and seer Nestor, taking place in the hilly region of Emmental, Switzerland. The mystic teachings focus on the widely known but underestimated dots and strands floating in our field of vision, known as eye floaters or mouches volantes. Whereas in ophthalmology, floaters are considered a harmless vitreous opacity, the author gradually learns to see them and reveals the first emergence of the shining structure formed by our consciousness. »Mouches Volantes« explores the topic of eye floaters in a much wider sense than the usual medical explanations. It merges scientific research, esoteric philosophy and practical consciousness development, and observes the spiritual meaning and everyday life implications of these dots and strands. Floco Tausin is a Graduate of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Bern, Switzerland. In theory and practice he is engaged in the research of visual phenomena in connection with altered states of consciousness and the development of consciousness. Buy from Amazon US Buy from Amazon UK |
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One Author: Richard Bach Editor/Commentator: Publisher: Pan ISBN: 0330311735 Format: Paperback Pages: 320 List Price: £0.50 |
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Editorial Reviews Product Description What if we could talk face-to-face with the people we were in the past, with the people we are in parallel lifetimes, in alternate worlds? What would we tell them, and what would we ask? How would we change if we new what waits beyond space and time?' In a journey with his wife, Leslie, Richard Bach travels to a realm where survival depends on discovering what the other aspects of themselves have learned on roads they never took; where imagination and fear are tools for saving worlds and destroying them; where dying is one step to overcoming death. One is Bach's most startling story yet, opening a mystical door on an alternative path to finding ourselves. Buy from Amazon US Buy from Amazon UK |
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Sati Author: Christopher Pike Editor/Commentator: Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton ISBN: 034059022X Format: Paperback Pages: 240 List Price: £0.50 Review Link |
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Siddharta Author: Hermann Hesse Editor/Commentator: Publisher: Picador ISBN: 0330234811 Format: Paperback Pages: 128 List Price: £0.50 |
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Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Review In the shade of a banyan tree, a grizzled ferryman sits listening to the river. Some say he's a sage. He was once a wandering shramana and, briefly, like thousands of others, he followed Gotama the Buddha, enraptured by his sermons. But this man, Siddhartha, was not a follower of any but his own soul. Born the son of a Brahmin, Siddhartha was blessed in appearance, intelligence, and charisma. In order to find meaning in life, he discarded his promising future for the life of a wandering ascetic. Still, true happiness evaded him. Then a life of pleasure and titillation merely eroded away his spiritual gains until he was just like all the other "child people," dragged around by his desires. Like Hermann Hesse's other creations of struggling young men, Siddhartha has a good dose of European angst and stubborn individualism. His final epiphany challenges both the Buddhist and the Hindu ideals of enlightenment. Neither a practitioner nor a devotee, neither meditating nor reciting, Siddhartha comes to blend in with the world, resonating with the rhythms of nature, bending the reader's ear down to hear answers from the river. In this translation Sherab Chodzin Kohn captures the slow, spare lyricism of Siddhartha's search, putting her version on par with Hilda Rosner's standard edition. --Brian Bruya --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. From Library Journal Siddhartha's life takes him on a journey toward enlightenment. Afire with youthful idealism, the Brahmin joins a group of ascetics, fasting and living without possessions. Meeting Gotama the Buddha, he comes to feel this is not the right path, though he also declines joining the Buddha's followers. He reenters the world, hoping to learn of his own nature, but instead slips gradually into hedonism and materialism. Surfeited and disgusted, he flees from his possessions to become a ferryman's apprentice, learning what lessons he can from the river itself. Herman Hesse's 1922 Bildungsroman parallels the life of Buddha and seems to argue that lessons of this sort cannot be taught but come from one's own struggle to find truth. Noted actor Derek Jacobi interprets this material wonderfully, and the package, despite abridging a Nobel prize winner's prose, can be highly recommended.AJohn Hiett, Iowa City P.L. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Buy from Amazon US Buy from Amazon UK |
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The Alchemist Author: Paulo Coelho Editor/Commentator: Trans. Alan R Clarke Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0722532938 Format: Paperback Pages: 208 List Price: £7.99 |
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Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Review Like the one-time bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Alchemist presents a simple fable, based on simple truths and places it in a highly unique situation. And though we may sniff a bestselling formula, it is certainly not a new one: even the ancient tribal storytellers knew that this is the most successful method of entertaining an audience while slipping in a lesson or two. Brazilian storyteller Paulo Coehlo introduces Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who one night dreams of a distant treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. And so he's off: leaving Spain to literally follow his dream. Along the way he meets many spiritual messengers, who come in unassuming forms such as a camel driver and a well-read Englishman. In one of the Englishman's books, Santiago first learns about the alchemists--men who believed that if a metal were heated for many years, it would free itself of all its individual properties, and what was left would be the "Soul of the World." Of course he does eventually meet an alchemist, and the ensuing student-teacher relationship clarifies much of the boy's misguided agenda, while also emboldening him to stay true to his dreams. "My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy confides to the alchemist one night as they look up at a moonless night. "Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself," the alchemist replies. "And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity." --Gail Hudson --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. From Publishers Weekly This inspirational fable by Brazilian author and translator Coelho has been a runaway bestseller throughout Latin America and seems poised to achieve the same prominence here. The charming tale of Santiago, a shepherd boy, who dreams of seeing the world, is compelling in its own right, but gains resonance through the many lessons Santiago learns during his adventures. He journeys from Spain to Morocco in search of worldly success, and eventually to Egypt, where a fateful encounter with an alchemist brings him at last to self-understanding and spiritual enlightenment. The story has the comic charm, dramatic tension and psychological intensity of a fairy tale, but it's full of specific wisdom as well, about becoming self-empowered, overcoming depression, and believing in dreams. The cumulative effect is like hearing a wonderful bedtime story from an inspirational psychiatrist. Comparisons to The Little Prince are appropriate; this is a sweetly exotic tale for young and old alike. 50,000 first printing; $50,000 ad/promo. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Buy from Amazon US Buy from Amazon UK |
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The Journey to the East Author: Hermann Hesse Editor/Commentator: Publisher: Picador ISBN: 0330339206 Format: Paperback Pages: 96 List Price: £4.99 |
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The Monkey's Tale: Based on the Epic Adventures of Rama and Seeta Author: Peter Bonnici Editor/Commentator: Publisher: Good Company for Children, London ISBN: 1900197006 Format: Paperback Pages: 176 List Price: £4.99 |
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The Razor's Edge Author: W. Somerset Maugham Editor/Commentator: Publisher: Pan ISBN: 0330244612 Format: Paperback Pages: 314 List Price: £0.50 |
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The Razor's Edge Author: W Somerset Maugham Editor/Commentator: Publisher: Mandarin ISBN: 0749303506 Format: Mass Market Paperback Pages: 352 List Price: £5.99 |
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The Spectre in the Lake Author: D E Harding Editor/Commentator: Publisher: Head Exchange Press, London ISBN: 1900116200 Format: Paperback Pages: 110 List Price: £12.50 |
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The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders Author: Floyd Henderson Editor/Commentator: Publisher: PublishAmerica ISBN: 1413718787 Format: Paperback Pages: 269 List Price: £16.00 |
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Editorial Reviews Product Description The devastation from his encounters with a group of Aryans who stole his family, fortune, and future finally eases after Kirk Wildman’s reunion with his college sweetheart. Their Venetian holiday inspires a novella, The Bridge of Sighs, detailing love rekindled. Then, tragedy strikes again. On Kirk’s ensuing journey, some find a murder mystery, pursuing his son’s killers across Europe, Africa and Belgium, exposing diamond thieves and terrorists along the way. Others discover romance, realizing with Kirk the psychology behind obstacles that destroy relationships and overcoming them to find true love. Others join Kirk’s quest for peace and wholeness, transcending religion and spirituality (via Native American perspectives and Far Eastern nonduality) into reality. Finally, some accompany Kirk on a philosophical passage, transcending pain and healing, shifting beyond the tiring games and phony images and finally settling into the perfect peace that comes after awakening to the truth of Who We Really Are. Buy from Amazon US Buy from Amazon UK |
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Author: Robert M. Persig Editor/Commentator: Publisher: Corgi ISBN: 0552101664 Format: Paperback Pages: 416 List Price: £0.50 |
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Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Review In his now classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig brings us a literary chautauqua, a novel that is meant to both entertain and edify. It scores high on both counts. Phaedrus, our narrator, takes a present-tense cross-country motorcycle trip with his son during which the maintenance of the motorcycle becomes an illustration of how we can unify the cold, rational realm of technology with the warm, imaginative realm of artistry. As in Zen, the trick is to become one with the activity, to engage in it fully, to see and appreciate all details--be it hiking in the woods, penning an essay, or tightening the chain on a motorcycle. In his autobiographical first novel, Pirsig wrestles both with the ghost of his past and with the most important philosophical questions of the 20th century--why has technology alienated us from our world? what are the limits of rational analysis? if we can't define the good, how can we live it? Unfortunately, while exploring the defects of our philosophical heritage from Socrates and the Sophists to Hume and Kant, Pirsig inexplicably stops at the middle of the 19th century. With the exception of Poincaré, he ignores the more recent philosophers who have tackled his most urgent questions, thinkers such as Peirce, Nietzsche (to whom Phaedrus bears a passing resemblance), Heidegger, Whitehead, Dewey, Sartre, Wittgenstein, and Kuhn. In the end, the narrator's claims to originality turn out to be overstated, his reasoning questionable, and his understanding of the history of Western thought sketchy. His solution to a synthesis of the rational and creative by elevating Quality to a metaphysical level simply repeats the mistakes of the premodern philosophers. But in contrast to most other philosophers, Pirsig writes a compelling story. And he is a true innovator in his attempt to popularize a reconciliation of Eastern mindfulness and nonrationalism with Western subject/object dualism. The magic of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance turns out to lie not in the answers it gives, but in the questions it raises and the way it raises them. Like a cross between The Razor's Edge and Sophie's World, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance takes us into "the high country of the mind" and opens our eyes to vistas of possibility. --Brian Bruya --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Review "It is filled with beauty. . .a finely made whole that seems to emanate from a very special grace." (Baltimore Sun ) "The book is inspired, original. . . . The analogies with Moby-Dick are patent." (The New Yorker ) "Profoundly important...full of insights into our most perplexing contemporary dilemmas." (New York Times ) "A miracle . . . sparkles like an electric dream." (The Village Voice ) "An unforgettable trip." (Time ) --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition. Buy from Amazon US Buy from Amazon UK |
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All This is That Author: Pathik Strand Editor/Commentator: Publisher: Laughing Buddha Books ISBN: 978-0-9565640-0-9 Format: Paperback Pages: 258 List Price: £12.00 |
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Product Description Review "This book features a fresh and conversational format. Deep within these pages, a true seeker will find important answers - a great find!" --Spiritual Enlightenment Magazine, December 2010 Product Description All This Is That is a book about spirituality, philosophy and non-duality, with emphasis on spiritual awakening and the transformation of human consciousness. The book is written in literary form and contains exhaustive descriptions of mystical experiences and altered states of consciousness. Some of the subjects that are covered include love, death, freedom, meditation, the nature of time, reality, creativity and the role of religion and politics in spiritual life. All This Is That is a book for anyone who is drawn to exploring the deeper questions of life, and will be particularly relevant to anyone who is seriously interested in spiritual awakening. Buy from Amazon US Buy from Amazon UK |
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The Myth of Seeing Author: Cee Editor/Commentator: Publisher: Booklocker.com, Inc. ISBN: 978-1-60145-845-2 Format: Paperback Pages: 96 List Price: $11.95 Review Link |
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Book Description A Dream Workshop on a tropical island is the setting for stories and poetry that convey profound truths about human existence. Buy from Amazon US Buy from Amazon UK |
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