Matter and Spirit: A Study of Mind and Body in Their Relation to the Spiritual Life

Matter and Spirit: A Study of Mind and Body in Their Relation to the Spiritual Life

Author: James Bissett Pratt

Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.

Published: 2005-12-01

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1596054980

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If we knew just how mind affects body and how body affects mind we should have the clew to many a philosophical riddle, and a clew that would give us much-needed guidance not only in philosophy but in many a region of practical, moral, and religious activity and experience in which our generation is groping rather blindly and is longing very eagerly for more light. -from the Preface Developed from a series of lectures Pratt delivered at Yale Divinity School in 1922, this is classic work of modern philosophy, an outspoken defense of dualism: the idea that the physical brain and the mental mind are two distinct entities. With its dramatic impact upon contemporary understandings of human consciousness, religious belief and spirituality, and even the biological evolution of sentience on the planet Earth, this is readable guide to a complex concept that underlies the modern debate between faith and reason. American philosopher JAMES BISSETT PRATT (1875-1944) was professor of philosophy at Williams College from 1905 to 1943. He is also the author of The Psychology of Religious Belief (1905), Democracy and Peace (1916), Reason in the Art of Living (1949), and Eternal Values of Religion (1950).


Matter Mind Spirit

Matter Mind Spirit

Author: Jean Robertson

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 0253213223

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Matter Mind Spirit is one in a series of exhibitions organized by the State Committees of the National Museum of Women in the Arts since the museum's opening in 1987.


Spirit Matters

Spirit Matters

Author: Matthew J. Pallamary

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2007-12

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1434318028

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This book acts as a supplement to a traditional textbook in international business. This book provides for an applications-oriented approach to the study of international business.


Making Spirit Matter

Making Spirit Matter

Author: Larry Sommer McGrath

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2020-10-19

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 022669982X

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The connection between mind and brain has been one of the most persistent problems in modern Western thought; even recent advances in neuroscience haven’t been able to explain it satisfactorily. Historian Larry Sommer McGrath’s Making Spirit Matter studies how a particularly productive and influential group of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French thinkers attempted to solve this puzzle by showing the mutual dependence of spirit and matter. The scientific revolution taking place at this point in history across disciplines, from biology to psychology and neurology, located our mental powers in the brain and offered a radical reformulation of the meaning of society, spirit, and the self. Tracing connections among thinkers such as Henri Bergson, Alfred Fouillée, Jean-Marie Guyau, and others, McGrath plots alternative intellectual movements that revived themes of creativity, time, and experience by applying the very sciences that seemed to undermine metaphysics and religion. Making Spirit Matter lays out the long legacy of this moment in the history of ideas and how it might renew our understanding of the relationship between mind and brain today.


Spirit and Matter

Spirit and Matter

Author: José Lacerda de Azevedo

Publisher:

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9781561840830

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A radical paradigm for integrating modern Western medicine with mental and spiritual practices such as hypnotism, Macumba and Voodoo. The many well-documented case studies in this text attempt to force the reader to reconsider the nature of spiritual evolution, existence beyond death, reincarnation, and the so-called mind-body dichotomy.


Everything Is Spiritual

Everything Is Spiritual

Author: Rob Bell

Publisher: St. Martin's Essentials

Published: 2020-09-15

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1250620570

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"An exciting vision of the future" --Michael Eric Dyson Everything Is Spiritual is an unexpected and compelling invitation to see your life in a whole new way. We have the great moments of our lives, the highs, those times when we soar, when it all makes sense, when it feels like it all has purpose and meaning. And then there are all those other moments—the lows and aches and failures and struggles and experiences that leave us wondering what the point of it all is. Are our lives ultimately bits and pieces and fragments—you try to find a little peace and hope and then it’s over? Or is there more going on here? In our increasingly polarized and disoriented world, Everything Is Spiritual gives us a radical new take on how it all fits together, how it works, how it’s all connected. Part memoir, part extended riff on the quantum nature of reality, part history of the universe, Rob Bell takes us back through the twists and turns and struggles of his story in order to help us see the larger story so that we can reconnect with our story.


Synchronicity

Synchronicity

Author: F. David Peat

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780553346763

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With fascinating historical anecdotes and incisive scientific analysis, this important work combines ancient thought with modern theory to reveal a new way of viewing our universe that can expand our awareness, our lives, and may well point the way to a new science for the twenty-first century.


The Spiritual Universe

The Spiritual Universe

Author: Fred Alan Wolf

Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 1609255429

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From a National Book Award winner, “methodical and clear . . . provides physics-phobics a wide bridge to understanding some often arcane material” (Booklist). Why do we believe in the soul? Does it actually exist? If so, what is it? Does it differ from the self? Does it survive the body after death? In The Spiritual Universe, Fred Alan Wolf brings the most modern perspective of quantum physics to the most ancient questions of religion and philosophy. Taking the reader on a fascinating tour of both Western and Eastern thought, Wolf explains the differing view of the soul in the works of Plato, Aristotle, and St. Thomas, the ancient Egyptian’s belief in the nine forms of the soul, the Qabalistic idea of the soul acting in secret to bring spiritual order to a chaotic universe of matter and energy, and the Buddhist vision of a “nonsoul.” Wolf then mounts a defense of the soul against its modern critics who see it as nothing more than the physical body. “One of the few pathfinders who have discovered the versatility and potency of the new quantum paradigm based on consciousness.” —Amit Goswami, Professor of Physics and author of The Self-Aware Universe “The questions are exhilarating and the conclusions are properly mysterious and profoundly inconclusive . . . you’ll love the spirited journey.” —Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul and The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life “Wolf is a new Thales for a new physics of the soul; his book will blow your mind and quicken your spirit.” —Michael Grosso, Ph.D., author of The Millennium Myth and Frontiers of the Soul


Mind into Matter

Mind into Matter

Author: Fred Alan Wolf

Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1609255402

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A physicist examines ideas from medieval alchemy and contemporary science to explore the connection between mind and matter. Alchemists of old attempted to make sense of the universe—to discover the connection between mind and matter. Some of today’s scientists, in particular quantum physicists, are doing the same. In this contribution to the study of consciousness, physicist Fred Alan Wolf reveals what he calls the “new alchemy” —a melding of the ideas of the old alchemists and the new scientists to reach a fuller understanding of mind and matter. An elegant book with short, stand-alone chapters, each framed by an alchemical symbol and its definition, Mind into Matter is thought provoking for scientists and lay people alike. Praise for Mind into Matter “I consider Fred Alan Wolf one of the most important pioneers in the field of consciousness. This book could change the way you perceive the world.” —Deepak Chopra, MD, FACP, author of How to Know God “Once again, physicist Fred Alan Wolf takes us on a magical mystery tour into the adventure land of science and spirit. . . . Both enthralling and energizing.” —Michael Toms, cofounder, host, producer of New Dimensions Radio “How refreshing to have a scientist put the emphasis on the individual where it belongs! Wolf has written a glorious entertainment for the mind that matters.” —Kenneth Ring, PhD, author of Lessons from the Light “[A]llows readers to look at their own inner mechanism and better understand the consciousness which gives them life and makes them aware of the outer world of forms and phenomena in which they live.” —Glen P. Kezwer, Ph.D., physicist, author of Meditation, Oneness and Physics


The Laws of the Spirit World

The Laws of the Spirit World

Author: Khorshed Bhavnagri

Publisher: Jaico Publishing House

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 817992985X

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WITH A BRAND NEW LOOK! ON FEBRUARY 22, 1980, KHORSHED AND RUMI BHAVNAGRI’S WORLD WAS SHATTERED. ONE MONTH LATER, A NEW ONE OPENED. Khorshed and Rumi Bhavnagri lost their sons, Vispi and Ratoo, in a tragic car crash. With both their sons gone, the couple felt they would not survive for long. They had lost all faith in God until a miraculous message from the Spirit World gave them hope and sent them on an incredible journey.