Download or read book Dialogues with Scientists and Sages written by Renée Weber and published by Routledge & Kegan Paul Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in which contemporary scientists and mystics share with us-in their own words-their views on space, time, matter, energy, life, consciousness, creation and on our place in the scheme of things. The book is also the story of an American philosopher who-with these dialogues-ventures into ground-breaking territory, and of her search in America, Europe, India and Nepal for people whose work is at the center of our understanding of reality.
Download or read book Dialogues with Scientists and Sages written by Renee Weber and published by Viking Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring conversations with scientists and 'sages' such as Hawking, Bohm, Sheldrake, Prigogine, the Dalai Lama, Father Bede Griffiths and Krishnamurti, this book addresses key issues relating to the unity of our underlying experience.
Download or read book Dialogue as a Means of Collective Communication written by Bela H. Banathy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dialogue as a Means of Collective Communication offers a cross-disciplinary approach to examining dialogue as a communicative medium. Presented in five parts, the book takes the reader on a journey of exploring the power and potential of dialogue as a means for communication. In particular, this volume comes at a time when the global society's attention has been directed to creating more productive conversations in the name of world peace and harmony. It provides a unique new work on dialogue that brings the reader into a "dialogue with dialogue", offering an opportunity to understand the communicative potential of dialogue. In the book, readers are introduced to five sections: Section I examines the historical and cultural perspectives of conversation. This examination helps to create a foundation for a deeper study of the emergent and salient aspects of conversation as it relates to cultural creativity and human systems design. Sections II offers the reader an examination of dialogue through different philosophical and theoretical perspectives as well as methodological ideas related to conversation. Section III explores different modalities of conversation and the application of design conversation within and across various types of design settings and human experiences. Section IV examines the field of practice as related to use of different forms of conversation. Here various authors will share their different approaches to conversation and their reflections and insights in using conversation in a variety of settings. Concluding the book, Section V reflectively examines the authors' contributions to the book and provides the reader with a focus on the future.
Download or read book Nothing I See Means Anything written by David Parrish and published by Sentient Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want a hundred sound reasons to open your heart to the Divine, READ THIS BOOK.
Download or read book Dialogue written by Linda Ellinor and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2023-03-11 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1998 by John Wiley & Sons, this book offers insights, skills, and suggestions for how to introduce David Bohm’s proposal of Dialogue into organizational contexts. In 1990 Peter Senge called Dialogue a key leadership tool for promoting team learning and fostering shared meaning, and community. The insights and skills offered in Dialogue: Discover the transforming power of conversation are just as relevant today as they were in 1998 or 1798 and will be far into the future. By republishing this book as an ebook, the material will now be more easily available. How do we, as members of a global human family engage the questions of global climate change, poverty, growing income inequality, wars, etc.? These are complex systemic issues with viewpoints becoming increasingly polarized. Many feel that the world is more divided and fragmented than ever. Dialogue is a way of connecting across such gaps of meaning; of listening, of speaking and being deeply heard and respected, building the trust that fosters people talking across positions and beliefs. New portals can then open for seeing beyond the levels of thinking that created the problems in the first place. Dialogue leads to new possibilities and hope for a vital future. Linda Ellinor and Glenna Gerard, co-founders of The Dialogue Group, collectively draw upon 50+ years of experience in multiple contexts ranging from corporations, education, and government, to personal and professional coaching. While the strategies in this book are focused on business contexts, they can help anyone to: –Develop trust building skills to speak about 'undiscussable' issues that block creativity, learning, effectiveness and satisfaction –Build strong and vital agreements that foster shared responsibility, collaboration, and accountability –Open doors to new and innovative ways of thinking and problem solving –See the roots of recurring problems' and make different choices moving forward –Reawaken and vitalize meaning, satisfaction and inspiration in all relationships, personal and professional. The Dialogue Group www.thedialoguegroup.net, is a consulting firm, with two private retreat centers, specializing in training and application of interpersonal communication skills for collaboration, full system engagement, innovation and strategic systemic thinking. A partial list of organizational clients include Boeing, 3COM, Silicon Graphics Inc., Levi Strauss & Company, University of San Diego, The Fetzer Institute, and The American Cancer Society.
Download or read book Taking Religious Claims Seriously written by Warren E. Steinkraus and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking Religious Claims Seriously is a systematic, critical, and comprehensive study of the fundamental questions of the philosophy of religion: religious experience, the existence and nature of God, religious knowledge and truth, good and evil, immortality of the soul, religious diversity, religious claims about the person, faith, and the religious way of life. In this study the author seeks to capture the reality and meaning of the religious as such: What is the foundation of religion? Under what conditions is an authentic religious way of life possible? His method of inquiry is phenomenological. The author begins his discussion with a general characterization of the basic features of all the literate and illiterate religions of the world. He then identifies the ideas, beliefs, and concerns which are common to these religions: What are the central claims of these religions? How did the various religions understand these claims? The author makes a serious attempt to clarify these claims and explore the possibility for a reconcilation between them. For him, the foundation of religion is the religious experience, and the essence of this experience consists in a serious, cognitive, and meaningful encounter with the Ultimate Being. This being is the ground of the world and human life. This book is a comparative, pluralistic study of the philosophy of religion.
Download or read book Gaither s Dictionary of Scientific Quotations written by Carl C. Gaither and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 2800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unprecedented collection of 27,000 quotations is the most comprehensive and carefully researched of its kind, covering all fields of science and mathematics. With this vast compendium you can readily conceptualize and embrace the written images of scientists, laymen, politicians, novelists, playwrights, and poets about humankind's scientific achievements. Approximately 9000 high-quality entries have been added to this new edition to provide a rich selection of quotations for the student, the educator, and the scientist who would like to introduce a presentation with a relevant quotation that provides perspective and historical background on his subject. Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations, Second Edition, provides the finest reference source of science quotations for all audiences. The new edition adds greater depth to the number of quotations in the various thematic arrangements and also provides new thematic categories.
Download or read book Science and Spirit written by Charles F. Emmons and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-08-24 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you out of your body? At least part of you may be, if consciousness can extend beyond the brain in your skull. In Science and Spirit, authors Charles F. Emmons and Penelope Emmons explore some intriguing questions: What evidence is there for consciousness apart from the body, and what evidence is there for survival of consciousness after bodily death? Through ethnographic interviews with scientists, observations at conferences, and visits to research institutes, they investigate the existence and meaning of ESP, out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, reincarnation, spirit mediumship, lucid dreaming, and ghost experiences. In this study, they share a variety of scientific frames for looking at these questions and happenings, and they disclose their own paranormal experiences. Science and Spirit uses a unique blend of strong academic and scientific theory and methodology and applies it to the examination of paranormal topics.
Download or read book Sand Water Silence The Embodiment of Spirit written by Mary Jane Markell and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2002-04-29 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Therapists often encounter people who have suffered severe emotional damage resulting in feelings of psychological fragmentation. Sandplay therapy, which combines the physical actions of play with observation and understanding through the use of symbolism, can be a useful method of treating this kind of damage. This book focuses on the theoretical aspects of sandplay therapy, presenting Dora M. Kalff's ideas and drawing out the significance of Kalffian sandplay for therapists. Building on Kalffian ideas of the integration of Eastern and Western thought in relation to healing through sandplay, the author explores theories in quantum physics and Eastern philosophies. Her theoretical insights are illustrated with clinical examples, and her book will be of great interest to arts therapists and to students of related disciplines.
Download or read book The Renaissance of Science written by Albert Martini and published by Albert Martini. This book was released on 2015-05-27 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Magnificent Scientists and their Fabulous Accomplishments A Fantastic Dream and Journey into the Past, Present and Future In the World of Biology
Download or read book Science and the Search for Meaning written by Jean Staune and published by Templeton Foundation Press. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the mysteries of reality from a multi-faith, multi-cultural perspective. -- Back cover.
Download or read book Science Order and Creativity written by David Bohm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the foremost scientists and thinkers of our time, David Bohm worked alongside Oppenheimer and Einstein. In Science, Order and Creativity he and physicist F. David Peat propose a return to greater creativity and communication in the sciences. They ask for a renewed emphasis on ideas rather than formulae, on the whole rather than fragments, and on meaning rather than mere mechanics. Tracing the history of science from Aristotle to Einstein, from the Pythagorean theorem to quantum mechanics, the authors offer intriguing new insights into how scientific theories come into being, how to eliminate blocks to creativity and how science can lead to a deeper understanding of society, the human condition and the human mind itself. Science, Order and Creativity looks to the future of science with elegance, hope and enthusiasm.
Download or read book The Taboo of Subjectivity Towards a New Science of Consciousness written by Department of Religious Studies University of California B. Alan Wallace Visiting Lecturer, Santa Barbara and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a bold new look at ways of exploring the nature, origins, and potentials of consciousness within the context of science and religion. Alan Wallace draws careful distinctions between four elements of the scientific tradition: science itself, scientific realism, scientific materialism, and scientism. Arguing that the metaphysical doctrine of scientific materialism has taken on the role of ersatz-religion for its adherents, he traces its development from its Greek and Judeo-Christian origins, focusing on the interrelation between the Protestant Reformation and the Scientific Revolution. He looks at scientists' long term resistance to the firsthand study of consciousness and details the ways in which subjectivity has been deemed taboo within the scientific community. In conclusion, Wallace draws on William James's idea for a "science of religion" that would study the nature of religious and, in particular, contemplative experience. In exploring the nature of consciousness, this groundbreaking study will help to bridge the chasm between religious belief and scientific knowledge. It is essential reading for philosophers and historians of science, scholars of religion, and anyone interested in the relationship between science and religion.
Download or read book Science Knowledge and the Environment written by Michael Littledyke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2000. The timing of this book is auspicious in that we can look backwards at the twentieth century as the period of maximum environmental impact by humans in their history, while looking forward to a new era of potential improvement by drawing on and learning from this experience. This book's purpose, therefore, is to consider how to address education for children to become informed and concerned adults who will be able to understand critically the implications of these choices and act wisely in the wider interests of society and the planet as a whole.
Download or read book The Science of Vampires written by Katherine Ramsland and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: · Are any vampire myths based on fact? · Bloodsucking villain to guilt-ridden loner—what has inspired the redemption of the vampire in fiction and film? · What is Vampire Personality Disorder? What causes a physical addiction to another person’s blood? · Are there any boundaries in the polysexual world of vampires? · How could a vampire hide in today’s world of advanced forensic science? · What is the psychopathology of the vampire? · What happens in the brain of a vampire’s victim? Si...
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Download or read book PERSPECTIVES OF SCIENCE SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGION written by Ratikanta Maiti and published by American Academic Press. This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspectives of Science, Spirituality and Religion discusses about the interrelations between science, spirituality and meditation. It makes a critical synthesis of leaders in science, spirituality and religion. It is divided into long and short review of articles of books, authors’ own experience on meditation, mystery of plant science and other aspects. It enumerates how each field of science though appears different; they strive in one way of the other to benefit the humanity. Each field by itself though independent is accountable for the upliftment of the mankind. Scientists through research unveil the mystery of nature. Science says that every organism is made up a mass of atoms and each of which possesses some energy. Spirituality leads to the realization that universal energy is also present in each individual and organism in the universe and it is responsible for the movement of these organisms. It speaks about the presence of the divine creature in the universe responsible for the built up of the universe and all the creatures in this universe. Mediation discusses about how to harness this universal energy in changing our thoughts and attainment of stable and balanced mind. It assists in the realization of the inner consciousness and inner wisdom. For over a long period debate has been going on among different classes of scientists. In the light of the three considered together the book reviews about the three disciplines presents in brief the techniques of meditation designed for harnessing the universal source of energy. It also describes in brief about the relationship between science, religion and spirituality. It gives a few guidelines of the benefits that the meditation and spirituality can bring to the humanity. It discusses about the roles of science, spirituality and religion in the present scenarios, which are virtually accepted for being responsible for the upliftment of human beings. According to few leaders of science and spirituality, all these three disciplines should work together for benefit of human society. The book will enlighten readers about recent advances in the disciplines of science, spirituality and religion.
