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Books > Health, Home & Family > Mind, body & spirit
Are you sleepwalking through life, overwhelmed by an unending stream of
desires, duties and demands?
In this groundbreaking guide, Deepak Chopra reveals how you can connect
with your true self and break free from the limitations of the ego.
Building on decades of spiritual teachings, Chopra takes you through 40
sutras – statements that capture the essence of a profound truth – and
shows you how to move from a state of simply surviving to one where you
can access deeper intuition and insights.
Featuring practical exercises, meditations and personal stories from
Chopra's own spiritual journey, Awakening will shake you from the
nightmare of a limited self and invite you to embrace a new way of
being – one marked by inner peace, purpose and boundless possibility,
where miracles become everyday occurrences.
Explore the haunted history of Salem, Massachusetts.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, a panoptic exploration of consciousness--what it is, who has it, and why--and a meditation on the essence of our humanity.
When it comes to the phenomenon that is consciousness, there is one point on which scientists, philosophers, and artists all agree: that it feels like something to be us. Yet the fact we have subjective experience of the world remains one of nature's greatest mysteries. How is it that our mental operations are accompanied by feelings, thoughts, and a sense of self? What would a scientific investigation of our inner life look like, considering we have as little distance and perspective on it as fish do of the sea? In A World Appears, Michael Pollan traces the unmapped continent that is consciousness, bringing radically different perspectives--scientific, philosophical, literary, spiritual and psychedelic--to see what each can teach us about this central fact of life.
When neuroscientists began studying consciousness in the early 1990s, they sought to explain how and why three pounds of spongy grey matter could generate a subjective point of view--assuming that the brain is the source of our felt reality. Pollan takes us to the cutting edge of the field, where scientists are entertaining more radical (and less materialist) theories of consciousness. He introduces us to "plant neurobiologists" searching for the first flicker of consciousness in plants; scientists striving to engineer feelings into AI, and psychologists and novelists seeking to capture the felt experience of our slippery stream of consciousness.
In Pollan's dazzling exploration of consciousness, he discovers a world far deeper and stranger than our everyday reality. Eye-opening and mind-expanding, A World Appears takes us into the laboratories of our own minds, ultimately showing us how we might make better use of the gift of awareness to more meaningfully connect with our deepest selves.
Pensacola may boast the world's whitest beaches, but the sands of
time reveal a dark history in America's first settlement. It's no
surprise that one of the nation's oldest cities is also among the
most haunted, with culturally diverse spirits from the ages of the
Spanish founders and British settlers through the turbulent era of
the Civil War. Author and expert Alan Brown presents a survey of
unexplained mysteries at Pensacola's eerie landmarks. The infamous
haunted lighthouse, the ghosts of St. Michael's Cemetery and the
tale of the headless woman of Ramona Street are just a few of the
chilling stories recounted in Haunted Pensacola.
Raphael's Ephemeris 2023 - the essential Annual for every
Astrologer. Widely recognised by astrologers as the most accurate
and reliable ephemeris and aspectarian, Raphael's, pocket
ephemeris, contains everything needed throughout the year.
Raphael's Ephemeris 2023 features: * Daily longitudes of all the
planets * Complete lunar and planetary Aspectarian * Cutting-edge,
NASA based, astronomical accuracy for tightly focussed birth
charts. * Wide scope giving noon GMT daily longitudes and latitudes
of the planets, declinations, Moon's phases, true and mean nodes,
ten daily asteroids and much more. * Easy-to-read layout ensures
you find the information you need quickly and easily. * Handy,
portable size, fits snugly in to a bag or pocket for quick
reference on the go Published annually since 1819, Raphael's is the
only companion any astrologer needs to navigate the year.
Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets provides an ethnographic study of
varmakkalai, or "the art of the vital spots," a South Indian
esoteric tradition that combines medical practice and martial arts.
Although siddha medicine is officially part of the Indian
Government's medically pluralistic health-care system, very little
of a reliable nature has been written about it. Drawing on a
diverse array of materials, including Tamil manuscripts, interviews
with practitioners, and his own personal experience as an
apprentice, Sieler traces the practices of varmakkalai both in
different religious traditions-such as Yoga and Ayurveda-and within
various combat practices. His argument is based on in-depth
ethnographic research in the southernmost region of India, where
hereditary medico-martial practitioners learn their occupation from
relatives or skilled gurus through an esoteric, spiritual education
system. Rituals of secrecy and apprenticeship in varmakkalai are
among the important focal points of Sieler's study. Practitioners
protect their esoteric knowledge, but they also engage in a kind of
"lure and withdrawal"--a performance of secrecy--because secrecy
functions as what might be called "symbolic capital." Sieler argues
that varmakkalai is, above all, a matter of texts in practice;
knowledge transmission between teacher and student conveys tacit,
non-verbal knowledge, and constitutes a "moral economy." It is not
merely plain facts that are communicated, but also moral
obligations, ethical conduct and tacit, bodily knowledge. Lethal
Spots, Vital Secrets will be of interest to students of religion,
medical anthropologists, historians of medicine, indologists, and
martial arts and performance studies.
Boilermakers beware: There's a dark and secret side to to
Lafayette's history that is sure to send shivers down the spine.
From storied specters and urban legends, like Amelia Earhart's
tragic figure haunting hangar number one at Purdue University
Airport and sightings of the ever-elusive Bigfoot, to haunted
houses and battlefields, with a guillotine suicide in the Lahr
Hotel and the Trail of Death, authors Dorothy Salvo Davis and W.C.
Madden leave no stone unturned as they examine the tragic past and
the haunted present of Lafayette. With stories focusing on West
Lafayette and White, Carroll and Warren Counties, "Haunted
Lafayette" is a chilling read that no ghost enthusiast should miss.
Tales of ghostly spirits envelop the northeast Tennessee landscape
like a familiar mountain fog. Join Pete Dykes, editor of
Kingsport's "Daily News," as he offers up a collection of spooky
local stories and legends from centuries past, including such
spine-chilling accounts as the foreboding ghost of Netherland Inn
Road, spectral disturbances at the Rotherwood Mansion, devilish
felines, ruthless poltergeists in Caney Creek Falls, the tortured
cries from fallen Rebel soldiers still heard today- and could
bigfoot really be buried in the woods of Big Stone Gap?
Drawing on her work with the Cold Case Investigative Research
Institute at Bauder College and Ghost Hounds Paranormal Research
Society, elite psychic medium and cold case researcher Reese
Christian writes of the tragic past and the haunted present of
Greater Atlanta. From Peachtree Street in the heart of downtown to
the plantations and battlefields surrounding the city, join her in
discovering the twisted histories of some of Atlanta's most
infamous landmarks and forgotten moments.
In 2023, Old Moore's Almanack will be 327 years old and deserves
its world record-beating inclusion in the Guinness Book of Records.
With such accurate world predictions - the Arab Revolutions and new
terror attacks, the 2007/8 banking collapse, and predictions of the
comparatively strong progress of UK through the years - Old Moore
proves he is the No. 1 Seer. The best of British Astrology plots
your key dates through each month of your year ahead. Use it to
plan ahead to maximise your opportunities. Accurate, fascinating
and appropriate, Old Moore plots you a better year ahead. PLUS - UK
events, gardening times, horse-racing , fishing times, UK weather,
lighting-up times, UK tides times, plus much, much more. Old
Moore's Almanack 2023 features: * your personal 2019 horoscopes *
celebrity astro-profiles * accurate predictions of UK and world
affairs * Thunderball and Health Lottery astro-guides * winning
periods for jockeys and trainers * best dates for planting by the
moon and fishing * lighting-up and high and low water times
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