Spirit, Earth and Human Evolution
Author: Yubraj Sharma
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781904472032
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Spiritual Evolution
Author: George Vaillant
Publisher: Harmony
Published: 2009-06-09
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0767926587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn our current era of holy terror, passionate faith has come to seem like a present danger. Writers such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens have been happy to throw the baby out with the bathwater and declare that the danger is in religion itself. God, Hitchens writes, is not great. But man, according to George E. Vaillant, M.D., is great. In Spiritual Evolution, Dr. Vaillant lays out a brilliant defense not of organized religion but of man’s inherent spirituality. Our spirituality, he shows, resides in our uniquely human brain design and in our innate capacity for emotions like love, hope, joy, forgiveness, and compassion, which are selected for by evolution and located in a different part of the brain than dogmatic religious belief. Evolution has made us spiritual creatures over time, he argues, and we are destined to become even more so. Spiritual Evolution makes the scientific case for spirituality as a positive force in human evolution, and he predicts for our species an even more loving future. Vaillant traces this positive force in three different kinds of “evolution”: the natural selection of genes over millennia, of course, but also the cultural evolution within recorded history of ideas about the value of human life, and the development of spirituality within the lifetime of each individual. For thirty-five years, Dr. Vaillant directed Harvard’s famous longitudinal study of adult development, which has followed hundreds of men over seven decades of life. The study has yielded important insights into human spirituality, and Dr. Vaillant has drawn on these and on a range of psychological research, behavioral studies, and neuroscience, and on history, anecdote, and quotation to produce a book that is at once a work of scientific argument and a lyrical meditation on what it means to be human. Spiritual Evolution is a life’s work, and it will restore our belief in faith as an essential human striving.
The Spirit in the Gene
Author: Reg Morrison
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780801436512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom famines and deforestation to water pollution, global warming, and the rapid rate of extinction of plants and animals--the extent of the global damage wrought by humankind is staggering. Why have we allowed our environment to reach such a crisis? What produced the catastrophic population explosion that so taxes the earth's resources? Reg Morrison's search for answers led him to ponder our species' astonishing evolutionary success. His extraordinary book describes how a spiritual outlook combined with a capacity for rational thought have enabled Homo sapiens to prosper through the millennia. It convincingly depicts these traits as part of our genetic makeup--and as the likely cause of our ultimate downfall against the inexorable laws of nature. The book will change the way readers think about human evolution and the fate of our species. Small bands of apes walked erect on the dangerous plains of East Africa several million years ago. Morrison marvels that they not only survived, but migrated to all corners of the earth and established civilizations. To understand this feat, he takes us back to a critical moment when these hominids developed language and with it the unique ability to think abstractly. He shows how at this same time they began to derive increasing advantage from their growing sense of spirituality. He convincingly depicts spirituality as an evolutionary strategy that helped rescue our ancestors from extinction and drive the species toward global dominance. Morrison concludes that this genetically productive spirituality, which has influenced every aspect of our lives, has led us to overpopulate the world and to devastate our own habitats. Sobering, sometimes chilling, consistently fascinating, his book offers a startling new view of human adaptation running its natural course.
Human Evolution
Author: Rudolf Steiner
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Published: 2014-12-15
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1855844508
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReturning from travels in war-torn Europe, Steiner gives a stark impression of the conditions of the time, encouraging esoteric work as a counter to the world-situation. Steiner analyses the gulf between contemporary culture and science – which he says are characterized by 'narrow-mindedness, philistinism and ineptitude' – and a scientific approach to the spirit. The wealth of spiritual thoughts and knowledge in these lectures remain as relevant today as they did when they were first delivered.
Awakening Earth
Author: Duane Elgin
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Just as there are relatively distinct stages that characterize the development of an individual from infancy to early adulthood, so too are there discernible stages in the development of our species as we move toward a planetary-scale civilization. Awakening Earth brings together views from science and spirituality, East and West, the practical and the visionary, to present a compelling new picture of human evolution. Based upon twenty years of research, this book explores the human journey from the initial awakening of hunter-gatherers roughly 35,000 years ago, through the agrarian era and Industrial Revolution, and then goes on to describe three additional stages of development essential for realizing our initial maturity as a global species-civilization." "A disoriented world civilization faced with dwindling resources, mounting pollution, and exploding population is a recipe for ecological collapse and social anarchy. It is imperative that the human family begin to make rapid and profound changes in how we live together on the Earth. To accomplish this, we must now ask ourselves fundamental questions: Who are we? What are we doing here? Where are we going as a species? Awakening Earth provides a catalyst for this conversation with its integrative vision and inspiring map of the journey toward a sustainable, compassionate, and creative future. While not predicting a sudden "new age" of social enlightenment, Awakening Earth does present the promising view that humanity is roughly halfway through seven major transformations in culture and consciousness required to build a planetary civilization that can endure into the deep future."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The New Human
Author: Kryon (Spirit)
Publisher: Bright Sparks
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781888053203
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Have you ever wondered about Human Evolution? Are we actually evolving at all? This entire book is dedicated to the channellings of KRYON, who lovingly describes some of the truly unexpected aspects of what THE NEW HUMAN means, and the coming evolution of our species"--Amazon.com.
Spiritual Evolution
Author: Amanda M. Hicks
Publisher:
Published: 1917
Total Pages: 40
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKReincarnation: A Study in Human Evolution
Author: Théophile Pascal
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-09-16
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Reincarnation: A Study in Human Evolution" by Théophile Pascal. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Unselfish Spirit
Author: Mick Collins
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781856231947
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Unselfish Spirit is an essential 21st century guide to unlocking the secrets of how we as a race can collectively grow our consciousness to solve the complex web of challenges that threaten life on Earth. Mick Collins identifies how our global crisis is also a spiritual one. Drawing inspiration from cosmology, biology, quantum physics, psychology and occupational science, he suggests that the cultivation of our psycho-spiritual awareness can reveal new vistas, helping us engage in our transformative potential. The Unselfish Spirit draws inspiration from such diverse fields as cosmology, new biology, and quantum physics, along with insights from depth psychology, occupational science, and mysticism. Theories are discussed in relation to transforming consciousness and are enlivened by fascinating, real-life stories of people who have engaged in deep processes of change and transformation. At the end of each chapter there is an exercise that provides opportunities for experiential reflection, aiding you on your personal journey.
The Evolution of Human Consciousness
Author: Veronica Vogel
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
Published: 2021-05-10
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1649525443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis unconventional book is being written with the highest intention to awaken the consciousness of all humanity and that it will help us speed up in the path of human evolution. We are to include our feelings and our emotions and with open minds to be our guide in this process. All the information in this book needs to be approached in this manner! A sudden realization came that this book was there all along, and it was just waiting to be written when the highest awareness was there!
