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Author: Roy A. Sorensen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-06-09
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 0199797137
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRoy Sorensen here defends the causal theory of perception by treating absences as causes. He draws heavily on common sense and psychology to vindicate the assumption that we directly perceive absences.
Author: Timothy Ferris
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-12-18
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 1476711755
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Seeing in the Dark, a poetic love letter to science and to the skies, Timothy Ferris invites us all to become stargazers. He recounts his own experiences as an enthralled lifelong amateur astronomer and reports from around the globe -- from England and Italy to the Florida Keys and the Chilean Andes -- on the revolution that's putting millions in touch with the night sky. In addition, Ferris offers an authoritative and engaging report on what's out there to be seen -- what Saturn, the Ring nebula, the Silver Coin galaxy, and the Virgo supercluster really are and how to find them. The appendix includes star charts, observing lists, and a guide on how to get involved in astronomy. Ferris takes us inside a major revolution sweeping astronomy, as lone amateur astronomers, in global networks linked by the Internet, make important discoveries that are the envy of the professionals. His ability to describe the wonders of the universe is simply magical, and his enthusiasm for his subject is irresistible.
Author: Heather Graham
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Published: 2020-06-24
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ISBN-13: 9781432879792
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ronald Epstein, PhD
Publisher: Buddhist Text Translation Society
Published: 2012-08-06
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 1601030177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor more than a thousand years, the Śūraṅgama Sūtra has been held in high regard in the Mahāyāna Buddhist countries of East and Southeast Asia and has been as popular as the Lotus, Heart, and Diamond Sūtras. Its wealth of theoretical and practical instruction in living a spiritual life often made it the first major text studied by newly ordained monks, particularly in the Chan tradition. This Sutra is regarded as a complete and practical manual for spiritual practice that will lead to enlightenment. It provides instruction on understanding one’s own Buddha-nature, the potential within every being for becoming a Buddha. The Sutra explains how and why this nature is hidden and how we can uncover it and recognize it as our own true mind. The Sutra also explains why personal integrity and purity of conduct are prerequisites for spiritual awakening. It presents the principles of meditation, and provides guidelines for discerning correct practices from those which deviate into wrong ones. It explains how our own intentional acts, whether physical, verbal, or mental, result in karmic experiences, including rebirths into various levels of being, both human and non-human. At the heart of the Sūtra is the Śūraṅgama Mantra. The Sutra promises that the practice of reciting this mantra, in the context of the other practices taught in the Sutra, can successfully eliminate internal or external obstacles that block the path of spiritual progress
Author: Joseph Koury
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Published: 2020-10-07
Total Pages: 147
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeeing Without Eyes is the narration of real life experiences of Joe Koury as he transitioned through sight loss and learned to "see" using echo location techniques and survival instinct. This book was written in response to the previous book titled "Flying Blind, One Man's Journey Out of Darkness" by Lou Briganti which left many readers asking for more.Many of us experience a moment in which a single event takes us in an entirely new and unanticipated direction. In such moments, we are tested, and the rest of our lives follow a far different path than the one we had planned. This is the story of Joe Koury, who, in 1954 at age 19, experienced that life altering moment when he suddenly lost his sight and started a wholly unplanned life as a blind man. It is a story of sudden desperation and a decision made in that moment that demanded much of him: courage, sacrifice, and enormous self-reliance. It is a story of one man who made an epic journey - out of darkness.
Author: Zhang Jiankun
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Total Pages: 985
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nancy Ortberg
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1414375603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChristians are supposed to be “the light of the world.” Yet we seem to spend most of our time stumbling in the dark. We want answers carved in stone, and instead we get uncertainty. We want a clearly marked path and a panoramic view of the future, and God gives us only fleeting glimpses of what lies ahead—and just enough light to take the next step. So what do we do? We take the next step. In her much anticipated follow-up to Looking for God, Nancy Ortberg takes readers on a journey that began thousands of years ago. From an ancient cave in Turkey to the California coast, Nancy highlights the often unexpected, sometimes imperceptible, yet always extraordinary means God uses to light our way through even the most painful and challenging moments in life.
Author: Arindam Chakrabarti
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-09-19
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 1350044482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book brings together over 25 years of Arindam Chakrabarti's original research in philosophy on issues of epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. Organized under the three basic concepts of a thing out there in the world, the self who perceives it, and other subjects or selves, his work revolves around a set of realism links. Examining connections between metaphysical stances toward the world, selves, and universals, Chakrabarti engages with classical Indian and modern Western philosophical approaches to a number of live topics including the refutation of idealism; the question of the definability of truth, and the possibility of truths existing unknown to anyone; the existence of non-conceptual perception; and our knowledge of other minds. He additionally makes forays into fundamental questions regarding death, darkness, absence, and nothingness. Along with conceptual clarification and progress towards alternative solutions to these substantial philosophical problems, Chakrabarti demonstrates the advantage of doing philosophy in a cosmopolitan fashion. Beginning with an analysis of the concept of a thing, and ending with an analysis of the concept of nothing, Realisms Interlinked offers a preview of a future metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind without borders.
Author: J. I. Packer
Publisher: Hendrickson Pub
Published: 2013-01-01
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9781619701373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published under the title: Serving the people of God: Carlisle [Eng.]: Paternoster Press, 1998.
Author: Craig Detweiler
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2008-08
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0801035929
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Hollywood screenwriter/producer and film professor explores forty-five of the twenty-first century's most popular films as vehicles of common grace.
