Sexuality is a basic feature of human life. Gender, sexual and romantic attraction, sexual excitement, and sexual desire and fantasies all move in various degrees through our daily awareness. However, despite this pervasiveness, there is much disagreement surrounding the nature of such things and experiences. This book explores just these issues in an attempt to get clear about this enigmatic aspect of our existence. Through a series of interrelated essays, internationally acclaimed philosopher James Giles takes the reader on a fascinating journey to the depths of experiential, social, biological, and evolutionary aspects of sexual life. Presenting his arguments and ideas in a clear and easy to follow language, Giles criticizes several popular views, clearing the way for his own unique vision of human sexuality. Often controversial, always engaging, these pages will prove to be absorbing reading for anyone who has ever pondered the nature of sexuality and why it fills our lives in the way it does.

THE FIRE INSIDE: Keys to Accessing Passion Purpose and Destiny by James L. Giles It is scientifically proven that humans use only ten percent or less of the capacity of their brains. Could it also be true that they only use a mere ten percent of their hidden talents and potential? Is there a potential world-class gift or talent inside every human on earth? Can greatness be buried under timidity, fear of risk, lack of courage, fear of adventure, lack of discipline, or lack of interest in maximizing one's potential. Is there a process for discovering the gift or genius inside you? Can everyone bypass mediocrity and underachievement? Having conducted over twenty-five years of research, James Giles releases powerful new information and strategies to help individuals search, discover, develop and master their talent and genius. Discover your Fire Inside and accomplish your predestined greatness for God's Glory. Furthermore, you will learn about the force of creativity, the steps to becoming a master learner and the phenomenon of genius. After reading this book, you will learn that God has fully equipped you to stoke that fire inside of you. Some refer to it as a calling, purpose or destiny. However you put it, God puts every person on the earth to achieve something noteworthy. However, don't confuse achievement with celebrity or fame. A celebrity is someone who is famous for being famous. Instead I am talking about something much deeper, the fire inside, in the deepest part of you. It burns with unquenchable intensity. Every cell in your being is consumed with the passion for something. It may be music, physics, poetry, painting, architecture, teaching, writing, parenting, cooking, writing software, starting a company, running for congress, building a great church, becoming the top salesperson in the company you work for or any one of a thousand other things. This is not simply a wish or fantasy. You have a raging fire inside that will not leave you alone. You must respond or pay a dear price. That's because God has created you to succeed. He has endowed you with amazing capacities and made available to you the miraculous force of faith. accomplish what was predestined for you. In this book, you will learn about these amazing capabilities that God has given you so that you can achieve your destiny. You will learn about the power of your magnificent brain, your marvelous mind, your powerful memory. You will learn about your intelligence and giftedness. About the Author James L. Giles is a dynamic speaker, author, and researcher who travels nationally and internationally encouraging personal and institutional excellence. He is a lifelong learner whose interests include science, politics, history, sports, culture, economics, business, technology, psychology and spirituality. Mr. Giles has spent over twenty-five years studying the world's greatest achievers and the principles of extraordinary achievement. He has addressed members of a parliament in South Africa and appeared on the South African Broadcasting Network. James Giles served multiple terms on the Washington State Commission on African-American Affairs. He has appeared in various radio and television markets in the United States and has hosted his own television and radio programs. Mr. maximized in their God-given gifts, talents, and destiny. He and his wife Shelley live in Charlotte, North Carolina. They have four sons.

Although there has been much discussion about things like the causes, loss, and maintenance of sexual desire, there has been little research into the nature of sexual desire itself. Consequently, most of the discussions on these topics have gone on without any clear idea about what it is that is being discussed. Readers will be interested that at last there is a full-length book that attempts to say what sexual desire is. Further, this book takes an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach, drawing on a wide range of texts and research. Drawing on such diverse sources as psychology, philosophy, and biology, a thorough discussion of sexual desire is presented. Also presented are new accounts of the sexual process, gender, romantic love, and love's relation to sexual desire.

This book is a exploration of the notion of personal identity. Here it is shown how the various attempts to give an account of personal identity are all based on false assumptions and so inevitably run aground. One of the first Western thinkers to realize this was David Hume, the 18th century empiricist philosopher who argued that self was a fiction. A new interpretation of Hume's no-self theory is put forward by arguing for an eliminative rather than a reductive point of view of personal identity, and by approaching the problem in terms of phenomenology, Buddhist critiques of the notion of the self, and the idea of a constructed self-image. No Self to Be Found explores the problem of personal identity from the most basic level by raising the question of the existence of personal identity itself.

How and why does sexual attraction happen? This book is an exploration of the universal yet highly individualized experience of being sexually attracted to another person. Incorporating interviews, research findings, and excerpts from romantic and erotic literature, lyrics, and film, Sexual Attraction: The Psychology of Allure explores a subject that is central to the human experience and highly relevant not only in personal, intimate interactions but also other relationships as well. Although the causes and effects of sexual attraction have been studied, sexual attraction itself-how we experience others in terms of their sexual attractiveness-remains a neglected, rarely researched topic. Scholar James Giles presents jargon-free information that is accessible and fascinating to the general reader as well as highly useful and informative to students and researchers in social psychology, sexology, sex and marital therapy, and relationship counseling. The book explores subjects such as how sexual attraction is fundamentally different from other forms of interpersonal attraction and how at the heart of sexual attraction lies the experience of allure-something that makes one feel helplessly drawn towards an intimate physical joining with the sexually attractive person. The allure of strangers, cross-sex friends, sexual friends ("friends with benefits"), and romantic partners are all addressed, revealing the often subtle heterosexual attraction that typically exists between males and females in all their relationships, including between those who are ostensibly "just friends." Identifies the numerous elements that surround and affect sexual attraction, including bodily features, relationships, and social factors, and examines each to illuminate the individualized experience of attraction that takes place in each case Pinpoints the triggers for sexual attraction and identifies how men and women, though equally compelled, often express their attraction differently Explains how males and females typically give attention to the various objects of attraction in distinctly different ways, allowing readers to better understand the complexities of heterosexual interaction Reveals the relationships between sexual attraction, opposite-sex friendship, and romantic attraction, showing how these can blend together in various ways Enables readers to understand the basis for sexual experiences and the role it plays in his or her life-a topic that is of great significance for many individuals, yet not a subject that is often or readily discussed

The writings of William James represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Ranging from philosophy and psychology to religion and politics, James composed the most engaging formulation of American pragmatism. 'Pragmatism' grew out of a set of lectures and the full text is included here along with 'The Meaning of Truth', 'Psychology', 'The Will to Believe', and 'Talks to Teachers on Psychology'.

In The Spaces of Violence, James R. Giles examines ten contemporary American novels for the unique ways in which they explore violence and space as interrelated phenomena. These texts are Russell Banks’s Affliction, Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark and Child of God, Lewis Nordan’s Wolf Whistle, Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina, Don DeLillo’s End Zone, Denis Johnson’s Angels, Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer, Robert Stone’s Dog Soldiers, and Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho. A concluding chapter extends the focus to texts by Jane Smiley, Toni Morrison, Edwidge Danticat, and Chuck Palahniuk, who treat the destructive effects of violence on family structures.

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The Shell of When is a book of poetic reflections tied intimately to the experience of moving through the world. The poems take the reader on a journey through different lands and cultures while at the same time following an interior journey through the poet's mind. In this way the poems seek to present the naked experiences of wonder, fear, love, erotic desire, and the sense of merging with the natural world while at the same time drifting through it. In these reflections language is used in new ways in order to capture experiences as they directly present themselves to awareness.

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This book explores ancient Daoist philosophy and argues against interpretations that paint the early Daoist philosophers as mystics or cosmologists. It claims that Dao is best understood as awareness and that Daoist concerns are primarily with the nature of human experience, meditation, and our relation to the world. The Dao of Awareness starts by placing Daoist philosophy within the context of ancient Chinese thought. It then proceeds by critically engaging each of the major Daoist thinkers, works, or schools: Laozi, Yang Zhu, Zhuangzi, the Inward Training, Liezi, and Neo-Daoism. It concludes by pointing to ways in which Daoist thought can offer insights into contemporary Western philosophy. Throughout the book, comparisons are drawn with Western thinkers, psychological research, and Buddhist thought. The book is both a scholarly examination of Chinese and cross-cultural philosophy as well as an original work on ethics, metaphysics, and the philosophy of mind.