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Author: William C. Chittick
Publisher: ONEWorld Publications
Published: 2007-06-14
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this profound book, William Chittick examines the demise of the Sufi academic tradition, questioning how Islamic thought can be reclaimed from ideology and commercialism.
Author: Titus Burckhardt
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781887752114
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpiritual attainment has frequently been described as a transformation whereby a human's leaden, dull nature is returned to its golden state. This wonderfully insightful volume introduces some of the metaphors useful for establishing attitudes required for the soul's advancement: trust, confidence, hope, and detachment. It is a reminder that when any substance or entity undergoes dissolution, it must eventually be resolved or re-crystalized in a new, possibly higher and more noble form.
Author: William C. Chittick
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1780744668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith academic courses either encouraging commercialism, or cultivating zealots, Chittick states that it is impossible to understand classical Islamic texts without the years of contemplative study that are anathema to the modern education system. Insisting upon a return to the ways of the ancient wisdom tradition, which saw the quest for knowledge of the soul, the world, and God as a unifying spiritual discipline, Chittick maintains that the study of Islamic texts cannot be treated separately from self-understanding. Fascinating, radical, and a true challenge to modern trends in academic study, this book opens a new debate in Islamic thought.
Author: Ervin Laszlo
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2006-01-12
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 1594776512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a revolutionary new theory that bridges the divide between science and spirituality • Discloses the ramifications of non-localized consciousness and how the physical world and spiritual experience are two aspects of the same reality • Includes contributions from Jane Goodall, Ed Mitchell, Stanislav Grof, Ralph Abraham, and Christian de Quincy, among others What scientists are now finding at the outermost frontiers of every field is overturning all the basic premises concerning the nature of matter and reality. The universe is not a world of separate things and events but is a cosmos that is connected, coherent, and bears a profound resemblance to the visions held in the earliest spiritual traditions in which the physical world and spiritual experience were both aspects of the same reality and man and the universe were one. The findings that justify this new vision of the underlying logic of the universe come from almost all of the empirical sciences: physics, cosmology, the life sciences, and consciousness research. They explain how interactions lead to interconnections that produce instantaneous and multifaceted coherence--what happens to one part also happens to the other parts, and hence to the system as a whole. The sense of sacred oneness experienced by our ancestors that was displaced by the unyielding material presumptions of modern science can be restored, and humanity can once again feel at home in the universe.
Author: Carl Sagan
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2006-11-02
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 1101201835
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Ann Druyan has unearthed a treasure. It is a treasure of reason, compassion, and scientific awe. It should be the next book you read.” —Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith “A stunningly valuable legacy left to all of us by a great human being. I miss him so.” —Kurt Vonnegut Carl Sagan's prophetic vision of the tragic resurgence of fundamentalism and the hope-filled potential of the next great development in human spirituality The late great astronomer and astrophysicist describes his personal search to understand the nature of the sacred in the vastness of the cosmos. Exhibiting a breadth of intellect nothing short of astounding, Sagan presents his views on a wide range of topics, including the likelihood of intelligent life on other planets, creationism and so-called intelligent design, and a new concept of science as "informed worship." Originally presented at the centennial celebration of the famous Gifford Lectures in Scotland in 1985 but never published, this book offers a unique encounter with one of the most remarkable minds of the twentieth century.
Author: Alexis Karpouzos
Publisher: Εργαστήριο Σκέψης
Published: 2016-08-03
Total Pages: 25
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays in this book are the notes from the e – learning courses which organized by the international educational, research and cultural community Think Lab from 20 March and 20 April 2016 on ‘’Introduction to Philosophy of contemporary cosmology: Transformation of thought and evolution of consciousness’’. The courses are held online, the contributions were from London, Berlin, Dublin, New York, Chicago and Athens. The presentation of the courses and the coordination of the program was the thinker Alexis Karpouzos. We would like to thank you for the great response about the courses.
Author: Kevin J. Sharpe
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780742542648
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReligion tells us that God is love but neuroscience counters with love as a well-timed trickle of transmitters and hormones. With doctorates in both mathematics and theology, Kevin Sharpe explores these notions and asks the question Has Science Displaced the Soul?
Author: David Fideler
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-11-20
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1620553600
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHumanity’s creative role within the living pattern of nature • Explores important scientific discoveries that reveal the self-organizing intelligence at the heart of nature • Examines the idea of a living cosmos from its roots in the earliest cultures, to its eclipse during the Scientific Revolution, to its return today • Reveals ways to reengage our creative partnership with nature and collaborate with nature’s intelligence For millennia the world was seen as a creative, interconnected web of life, constantly growing, developing, and restoring itself. But with the arrival of the Scientific Revolution in the 16th and 17th centuries, the world was viewed as a lifeless, clocklike mechanism, bound by the laws of classical physics. Intelligence was a trait ascribed solely to human beings, and thus humanity was viewed as superior to and separate from nature. Today new scientific discoveries are reviving the ancient philosophy of a living, interconnected cosmos, and humanity is learning from and collaborating with nature’s intelligence in new, life-enhancing ways, from ecological design to biomimicry. Drawing upon the most important scientific discoveries of recent times, David Fideler explores the self-organizing intelligence at the heart of nature and humanity’s place in the cosmic pattern. He examines the ancient vision of the living cosmos from its roots in the “world soul” of the Greeks and the alchemical tradition, to its eclipse during the Scientific Revolution, to its return today. He explains how the mechanistic worldview led to humanity’s profound sense of alienation, for if the universe only functioned as a machine, there was no longer any room for genuine creativity or spontaneity. He shows how this isn’t the case and how, even at the molecular level, natural systems engage in self-organization, self-preservation, and creative problem solving, mirroring the ancient idea of a creative intelligence that exists deep within the heart of nature. Revealing new connections between science, religion, and culture, Fideler explores how to reengage our creative partnership with nature and new ways to collaborate with nature’s intelligence.
Author: Richard Dawkins
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 0399592245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA "defense of science and clear thinking [in a] career-spanning collection of essays, including twenty pieces published in the United States for the first time"--Amazon.com.
Author: Jeremy Bernstein
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780192880437
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAsking How can we be sure that Albert Einstein was not a crank?, this book looks at the history of science from a general perspective. It includes an autobiographical account of how the author became science writer for the New Yorker, and a series of profiles of famous scientists from Einstein, Neils Bohr and Alan Turing to Primo Levi, Edwin Land and Sophia Kovalevsky.
