Download or read book Ten Discoveries from Biology to Spirituality written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers an alternative paradigm for viewing life and its dynamic capacity for change. Rather than looking at the end result of evolution with concepts such as fitness, we focus on the actual process of change, which is fragile. Using plain-spoken language and based on an earlier scholarly work, six biological domains which exhibit fragility and make for evolutionary novelty are examined. 1) the organism's dynamic genome, which exhibits a remarkable fluidity and interactivity with the environment; 2) Symbiosis, which involves the creative merger of two types of organisms; 3) Sexuality, in which sexes merge to produce unique offspring; 4) Multicellularity, which makes for most of earth's macroscopic life; 5) Development, which are changes during the fragile period of immaturity. 6) The principle of the "head", a holistic/controlling dimension of the organism, which is inherently fragile and dynamic; 7) The social dimension, with both fragile cooperative and competitive interactions, and; 8) The ecological dimension with its interwoven, delicate web of connections. To this we can add a cumulative dimension, embraces a spirituality of biology. Instructing youth and having the public become aware of models, which consider the fragility and sacrificial dimension of dynamic change, would enhance our personal lives and increase the chances for humanity's and the biosphere's survival on earth. Read this work to gain a healthy view of the reality of biological organisms and how dynamic change occurs.

Download or read book Ten Metadiscoveries We Have Made written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-27 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers ten meta-insights about the universe, ones which also resonate with our inner world. Drawing upon the author's interdisciplinary studies and life, we ask what can be said in total? This work serves as an invitation for each of us to explore our own philosophy and identify our own meta-discoveries. When doing such work, we will become more aware and able to actualize our lives more fully.

Download or read book Spiritual Evolution written by John Marks Templeton and published by Templeton Foundation Press. This book was released on 1998-06 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These personal essays by esteemed scientists worldwide describe the spiritual journeys they have taken. Autohirs share their own experiences of learning to blend an understanding of the Divine with scientific perspectives.

Download or read book Ways We May Be Surprised by Heaven written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-07 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book imagines several traits of heaven, a place of consciousness and life beyond death. In particular, It considers the ways heaven might surprise us, such as having a heavenly body, that animals may be in heaven, and that heaven may be to the "the side of us." By considering several such traits, the author intends to show the surprising joy and beauty is closer than we might think.

Download or read book Transformative Experiences Psychiatric Research and Informed Consent written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-09 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a critical look at psychiatric research, factors which compromise its integrity and which may steer us from paths that lead to healing. The lack of informed consent is a major problem in research, in which subjects are in emotional distress. This work suggests an alternative vision, one backed by scientific research and which can be lifesaving for persons going through crisis. Read this work if you want to take an independent look at the science involved, and a more effective way to help people.

Download or read book Ten Sayings to Guide Our Lives written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers ten sayings the author has found himself using to guide himself during the course of his life. They range from becoming young and renewing, to helping you overcome obstacles during difficult times. Take this journey of interesting reflections and add them to your own sayings, discovering the ones that will help you lead a fuller life.

Download or read book The Imagination Being written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-16 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work shares a personal journey with an imaginary spirit companion. Along the way, the author wrestles with how to love, how to integrate one's body, how to face failure, and how to finish one's life work. Often, it is a crisis that helps answer these questions and provide the motivation to fulfill these goals. While writing this, the author was informed of the impending death of his brother. This work, completed after his brother's death, provided the spiritual dynamic that helped release the author's creativity into the world.

Download or read book Philosopher Stone from the Lower Shenandoah written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-18 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a philosophic exploration of markings on a quartzite cobblestone found near the Shenandoah River. Questions have arisen as to the origins of the markings, what meaning they might have, and its resonance with Eastern Woodland Cosmology. One conclusion reached is the finding of something simple as a stone can bring unexpected significance. Come, take this journey of how a "mystery stone" can become a portal for novel dimensions to unfold.

Download or read book MYSTERY STONE FROM THE SHENANDOAH written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Near Holy Cross Abbey, Virginia, a beautiful tablet-like stone has been found by the Shenandoah River. Under its brown-orange patina, peck-marked shapes reveal a crystalline heartstone and intriguing designs. While a variety of opinions have been offered by experts on the origin of the designs, the author takes you on a tour so you can make your own judgement. Findings reveal aesthetic proportions and intriguing gestalts which resonate with Eastern Woodland cosmology of early America. These include archetypes of the avian-man, skeletal and twinned shaman, earth mother, and a cosmology which shows a three-layered and four-cornered world. With an abundance of imagery supported by commentary, this "mystery stone" illustrates the Indigenous way of viewing the universe, and one that can enrich our lives.

Download or read book To the Beginning Journey Through Here written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-13 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoe and Tod go on vacation, and outside of Yosemite Park have a near death experience. Transported to a Way-Station world, they are joined by an angelic being who becomes their guide. In the afterworld, they experience colors, each producing an exotic experience which challenges their conception of the world. The couple encounter people who still carry their hurts and earthly possessions, which they need to discard. The end holds a surprise for which the reader will have to answer. Read this book to gain a novel perspective on the immediate afterlife.

Download or read book Science Set Free written by Rupert Sheldrake and published by Deepak Chopra. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home offers an intriguing new assessment of modern day science that will radically change the way we view what is possible. In Science Set Free (originally published to acclaim in the UK as The Science Delusion), Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative scientists, shows the ways in which science is being constricted by assumptions that have, over the years, hardened into dogmas. Such dogmas are not only limiting, but dangerous for the future of humanity. According to these principles, all of reality is material or physical; the world is a machine, made up of inanimate matter; nature is purposeless; consciousness is nothing but the physical activity of the brain; free will is an illusion; God exists only as an idea in human minds, imprisoned within our skulls. But should science be a belief-system, or a method of enquiry? Sheldrake shows that the materialist ideology is moribund; under its sway, increasingly expensive research is reaping diminishing returns while societies around the world are paying the price. In the skeptical spirit of true science, Sheldrake turns the ten fundamental dogmas of materialism into exciting questions, and shows how all of them open up startling new possibilities for discovery. Science Set Free will radically change your view of what is real and what is possible.

Download or read book Ten Mystery Photos written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents ten of the author's best photographs, which also show mystery. Either part or all of the photograph cannot be readily deciphered or explained. Starting with the recent eclipse that just occurred, the author's work ranges from a miniature plant world to a communal kitchen in the highlands of Guatemala. Each photograph includes a reflection of how it came to be, and more immediate personal reflections. Then the reflection is extended into the cosmological, to see what the photograph tells us about the wider universe and our inner souls. Come, take this journey with the author, exploring beauty in the world and the nature of mystery itself.

Download or read book Ten Times We Almost Died written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores the author's encounters with times he almost died. A reflection on such events, in which we approach the razor's edge between life and death, has something to teach us. The author invites you to explore the meaning of your own life's relationship to death. By his reflections he hopes to open a door to the unexpected discoveries of times we companioned with death, and how they might become life-giving.

Download or read book Ten Pulses of Evolution written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers a novel way to map evolutionary time from life's origin to the first humans. Rather than using a traditional, linear scale in which events bunch up toward the end, a logarithmic scale is employed that expands our resolution as we come to the present. Such a scale allows us to detect patterns that would otherwise be invisible and arrange evolutionary events in memorable fashion. The basic concept of logarithms is not complicated, as we will simply halve units as we move from the past to the present in order to highlight major evolutionary change. Thus, we find the start of life to be approximately four billion years ago, the nucleated cell at two billion years ago, complex multicellularity at one billion years ago, and so on. Remarkably, we find the major events of evolution, along with the certainty of supporting evidence, to be pulsed with logarithmic regularity. This chart also reveals that each Major Node represents change in three major arenas, making for significant leaps in consciousness, gains in mobility, and increased social connectivity. Come, take this evolutionary journey and discover the surprising pattern of logarithmic time, with changes that would seem to have no end.

Download or read book Ten Mememtos on Our Desk written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-13 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work invites us to enter the world of mementos, as to their significance and hidden meaning. By way of example, the author describes ten mementos from his own desk. His "first reflections" describe the object and the immediate story behind them. In his "second reflections," the author ventures into the philosophic and metaphysical domains to consider each memento's meaning. The ordinary world of mementos may not give us much pause during the course of the day. Yet they are in front of us and telling us something important about ourselves and our lives You are invited to take a journey into this world of mimentos, so you may begin to explore the meaning of yours, and discover what is being said to you.

Download or read book Across the Gulf and Journey Into Un Time written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friends since childhood, Zoe and Tod, travel into the mountains of Guatemala where they explore the ways of village life. Invited to witness a Mayan ritual, they enter a deep cave. The New Year is to be brought in by the elders, but time is stopped and the ancient gods demand a sacrifice. In the swirling chaos of un-time, Zoe and Tod have a revelation that will change their lives.

Download or read book Ten Traits of Empire written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wave of authoritarianism is sweeping the planet, tempting people to choose a dark path. It would be in our interest to know the traits of empires, so we can be alert to its dangers, to prevent and control its rise. Yet we are not taught to name the reality or to identify empire's basic traits. Thus, this work seeks to make clear the traits of the empire path. Then, this work wrestles with questions "Is there a good empire? Is a more utopian vision possible? And, if we are in an empire, how do we resist and build to a better future? We invite you to read this work to understand the flow of history and to gain hope that our world and its children can live in a richer, freer world.