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Sit back and let a Christian monk, the late Brother Wayne Teasdale, enlighten your understanding of the deep heart within the world's religions. An initiate of Benedictine monk Father Bede Griffiths, who lived in India for four decades, and the way of Sannyasa, Teasdale calls for an "interspiritual age" in which we "drink from the well of wisdom" that the great religions can provide.
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Meet a man who has helped set up hospitals, famine relief programs, schools and communities for orphaned and blind children on five continents: Thom Hartmann. He describes scenes that may bring tears to your eyes but will awaken your heart to matters that cry out for our attention.
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We are in the kindergarten of the global age, says Robert Muller, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations for forty years. "Humanity, for the first time, is acquiring a global consciousness." He presents an energetic picture of how we can encourage this process, speaking from his deeply involved and caring perspective on politics, education, media, and life.
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Paul Rademacher guides us to engage the world in ways that invite mystical experiences into our lives every day. It's not easy, he notes, in a culture where the dominant belief system is rooted in science and the physical world. But the direct experience of altered states of awareness is available to each of us.
47) The Hero Inside
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What are the six main archetypes of the Hero's journey? Pearson provides a map to chart and examine the heroic archetypes that exist in all of us, enabling us to better understand our own quest.
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Is it possible that the world of dreams is just as real as our waking life? Are our dreams more than just "suds from the brain"? And how can we be sure we aren't dreaming even now? A therapist who has worked with thousands upon thousands of dreams shares his provocative insights and stories about possibilities you may never have considered.
51) Aging And Saging
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Our culture is bent on avoiding aging. The problem with that is every one of us is aging every day. Arrien points to the enormous possibilities for cultural change as we come into our wisdom years. She opens a gateway to personal possibility and an affirmation that we truly can look ahead to the best years of our lives.
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Deep Ecologist George Sessions describes the need for our culture to awaken out of the superficial assumption that nature is for our pleasure and consumption, to honor the inherent value and rights of other species, and to take responsibility not to abuse our power for selfish ends.
54) Dharma Wisdom
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One of the most respected teachers in Tibetan Buddhism, the late Venerable Kalu Rinpoche speaks to the relevance of Buddhist principles in modern contemporary life. His simplicity, clarity and directness provide a thoughtful and enheartening message for the spirit. This is a rare dialogue with a sage of great wisdom and love who lived in a cave for thirteen years.
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Not enough time is the mantra of an entire generation of Americans. Often we operate in a state of "hurry sickness," running headlong from one barely experienced moment to the next. But there is a cure, says Rechtschaffen, we can learn to "expand the present moment" to hold all the awareness and fullness that we need to avoid stress and "time poverty."
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This is for everyone who has ever felt that mystical awareness and inner contentment are impossible given their current life situations. Mystical traditions, on the contrary, widely agree that ordinary experience is where we find the key to deep involvement in life.
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Mirka Knaster wrote Living This Life Fully: Stories and Teachings of Munindra, in collaboration with Robert Pryor. She interviewed some 200 people around the world, including such prominent teachers and writers as Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, Ram Dass, Jack Kornfield, Daniel Goleman, and a host of others. In sharing this venerable teacher with all of us, they describe Munindra as a combination of authority, kindness, and depth.
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Hanson reminds us that we have enormous power, not only to change our frame of mind but also to physically alter our body and even the structure of our brain by taking charge of our thoughts. Learn to retrain your brain from its default position of suffering. Hanson is author of Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence.
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In a heartfelt discussion, Phil Catalfo talks about how we, as parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, can guide our children's spiritual development at a time when we are questioning our own. As we become disenchanted with the all-too-material world in which we live, Catalfo feels we must not only foster our children's spiritual growth, but we also need to help them find a way to apply it in this world.