Timothy Leary, the visionary Harvard psychologist who became a guru of the 1960s counterculture, reentered as an icon of new edge cyberpunks.HIGH PRIEST chronicles 16 psychedelic trips taken in the days before LSD was made illegal. The trip guides or «High Priests» include Aldous Huxley, Gordon Wasson, William S. Burroughs, Godsdog, Allen Ginsberg, Ram Dass, Ralph Metzner, Willy (a junkie from New York City), Huston Smith, Frank Barron, and othe ...
I am a philosopher. I am trying to help the world see the insanity of what they are creating. I want the world to truly come together and put a stop to the wars that are created out of ignorance, fear, and hatred. No one should live in fear of having another human kill them. This is book one in a series called: «The Simplicity of Life» ...
The book contains stories, insights and factual information about the individual in Canada struggle for survival in a life controlled by a flawed system of government that is forced on us at birth. ...
The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu a high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician. The text is composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare. This book has had an influence on not only military strategists and tacticians but also on businessmen as well. The principles used here can help you become successful in just about any endeavor as long as they are f ...
We must expand our fight against cancer– mental and moral cancer. Radical Chemo explores six psychological cancers that have been lurking among and spreading through the population for quite some time now. The text uses many personal examples, as well as examples of sports figures, politicians and celebrities. Learn to recognize the symptoms and what to do about them.
Thomas E. Mahon is the dean at a Ft. Lauderdale area high schoo ...
To say that we are embodied subjects is to affirm that we are both extended and conscious: both a part of the material world and a place where that world comes to presence. The ambiguity inherent in our being both can be put in terms of a double “being in.” Thus, while it is true that the world is in consciousness taken as a place of appearing, it is equally true that, taken as embodied, consciousness is in the world. How can our selfhood suppor ...
Joseph Sverker explores the division between social constructivism and a biologist essentialism by means of Christian theology. For this, Sverker uses a fascinating approach: He lets critical theorist Judith Butler, psycholinguist Steven Pinker, and systematic theologian Colin Gunton interact. While theology plays a central part to make the interaction possible, the context is also that of the school and the effect of institutions on the pupil a ...
The strategies Machiavelli developed and endorsed in The Prince made his name an enduring synonym for the ruthless acquisition and use of power. Discourses on Livy, published in 1531, is equally essential to an understanding of political theory. Both treatises compare the government of ancient Rome to that of the Italian Renaissance. The Prince, however, offers advice on maintaining a monarchy; with Discourses, Machiavelli considers the structur ...
10 brilliant essays by a Nobel Prize-winning philosopher challenge romantic mysticism and promote a scientific view of society and nature. Russell explains his theory of logical atomism in these witty, cogent writings, which include popular treatments of religious and educational issues as well as more technical examinations of problems of logic. ...
