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 30 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 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 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 38 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 Science Set Free written by Rupert Sheldrake and published by Deepak Chopra. This book was released on 2012-09-04 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 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 Ten Nodes of Symbolizing Humanity written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2024-09-06 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work documents the surprising logarithmic pacing of human evolution. Starting at 8 million years ago with the first hominin, we keep halving units, revealing a series of distinct leaps in symbolic capacity. Ten major nodes include the first bipedal humans, the making of stone tools, ornaments, and figurines, the ritual burial of the dead, and drawing images in deep caves. We are given considerable cause to wonder about the beauty and meaning of symbols. Read this book if you want to become open to the deepest layers of symbolizing found in our humanity.
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 The Firekeeper written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the prehistoric era, a young firekeeper tends the night fire for the kin. He has personally knows Fire, a being who is crafty and true. Two challenges present, as he falls into an impossible love with a woman of the day and battles the Spirit of the Longest Night. Read this book to inhabit the world of our deep history, and to see how human weakness can combine with spiritual strength to make us heroic and human.
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.
Download or read book The Fragility of Evolution written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-04 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: his work offers an alternative paradigm for viewing life and its dynamic capacity for change. Rather than focusing on the end result of evolution with concepts such as resilience and fitness, it focuses on the actual process of change, in which life goes through a fragile period. Using plain-spoken language and based on an earlier scholarly work, it examines six biological domains which exhibit fragility and make for evolutionary novelty. They are: 1) the organism's dynamic genome, which exhibits a remarkable fluidity; 2) Symbiosis, involving the creative merger of two types of organisms; 3) Sexuality, in which the merger of sexes produces unique offspring; 4) Multicellularity, which makes for most of earth's macroscopic life; 5) Development, change resulting from the fragile period of immaturity of organisms; 6) The principle of the "head", a holistic/controlling dimension of the organism which is inherently fragile and dynamic; 7) The social dimension with the fragility of cooperative and competitive interactions, and; 8) ecological dimension with its interwoven, delicate web of connections. To this we add a "cumulative dimension" which embraces a spirituality of biology. Teaching our youth and having the public become aware of such a model which focuses on the fragility and sacrificial dimension of dynamic change, would serve to enhance our personal lives and work to increase the chances for the earth and humanity's survival.
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 Animal Spell written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The protagonist is a Wolf-dog, who after losing his pack, must find new friends to survive. Throughout the story he chooses between two groups, one more ragtag and appearing weak, and another with more power and less freedom. An intriguing class of characters appears, including a "Fire Lion", the Water Spouter, and a Dust Dragon.There's magic loose in this world too, as the Wolf-dog's shape can change, and he finds himself on either side. An array of paradoxes arises, and your boundaries of empathy are stretched. Come, take this fantastic journey in animals, which has a coherent world vision behind it. Reading this, you are invited to become aware of your light and shadow sides, and to find your true soul self.
Download or read book Gifts from the Indigenous written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-27 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers six awarenesses and six practices we can gain from an exposure to the Amerindian world view. A series of specific awareness, such as "Shamanic bone soul" and actions such as "mandalic walking" will gift us with an enriching and complimentary world view. Drawing upon his own symbolic experiences and after years of study, the author presents the essence of what he has learned. This work also makes use of two recent projects, interpreting markings on a stone tablet found near the Shenandoah River in Virginia, as well as a natural monolithic sculpture at Pin Bluff in Alabama. We are invited to obtain a grasp of the Indigenous world view, so that we may expand our own sense of the possibilities of this universe and live a fuller life.
Download or read book Alwon in Another World written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-18 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alwon's longing transports him into another world. In the realities of Over-world, This World, and the Netherworld, he encounters an array of archetypal beings. They include Beyonder, a Big-foot creature, which guides him on his voyage as his shadow side, for which he must find resolution. Alwon's last challenge is to discover his way out of a maze of caves which are the bodies of dragons. In the end, the resolution of his spirit journey depends on acceptance from unexpected help outside himself.
