Download or read book The Illusion of Mortality written by Phyllis M. Walsh and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Illusion of Mortality is much more than a book about one woman's journey from despair and loneliness into wonder, amazement and enlightenment; it is a pure food for the soul.
Download or read book The Consolations of Mortality written by Andrew Stark and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those who don’t believe in an afterlife, the wisdom of the ages offers four great consolations for mortality: that death is benign and good; that mortal life provides its own kind of immortality; that true immortality would be awful; and that we experience the kinds of losses in life that we will eventually face in death. Can any of these consolations honestly reconcile us to our inevitable demise? In this timely book, Andrew Stark tests the psychological truth of these consolations and searches our collective literary, philosophical, and cultural traditions for answers to the question of how we, in the twenty-first century, might accept our mortal condition. Ranging from Epicurus and Heidegger to bucket lists, the flaming out of rock stars, and the retiring of sports jerseys, Stark’s poignant and learned exploration shows how these consolations, taken together, reveal death as a blessing no matter how much we may love life.
Download or read book The Illusion of Death written by James Devins and published by . This book was released on with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Illusion of Immortality Introduction by John Dewey written by Corliss Lamont and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Illusion of Death written by John P. Dworetzky and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Illusion of Death is a rational examination of what might happen to us after we die, guided solely by science, reason, and logic. Each consciousness has its own unique combination of "something" that gives rise to it and it alone, and not to a different consciousness. What, then, is there to prevent the same combination from occurring once again after death, causing each person to be conscious and alive anew? Using the most recent research from fields as disparate as psychology, physics, and philosophy, Dr. John Dworetzky examines the possibilities of an afterlife, and comes to a surprising but comforting conclusion.
Download or read book Natural Causes written by Barbara Ehrenreich and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We tend to believe we have agency over our bodies, our minds and even our deaths. Yet emerging science challenges our assumptions of mastery: at the microscopic level, the cells in our bodies facilitate tumours and attack other cells, with life-threatening consequences. In this revelatory book, Barbara Ehrenreich argues that our bodies are a battleground over which we have little control, and lays bare the cultural charades that shield us from this knowledge. Challenging everything we think we know about life and death, she also offers hope - that we find our place in a natural world teeming with animation and endless possibility.
Download or read book The Illusion of Life and Death written by Clare Goldsberry and published by Monkfish Book Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ancient sages, spiritual teachers such as the Buddha, philosophers including Plato and Seneca to modern-day quantum physicists, life-long student of religions and spiritual traditions, philosophy and quantum physics, Clare Goldsberry, walks us through the mystery of death and dying, as well as the questions of the meaning and purpose of life. With her insights as a Buddhist practitioner and teacher, student of Hinduism, as well as the journey of the cancer diagnosis of her significant other and his death, she provides a unique view into living and dying as seen through the ages from those who’ve sought answers into this most mysterious of experiences—this thing we call death.
Download or read book Natural Causes written by Barbara Ehrenreich and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the celebrated author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better. A razor-sharp polemic which offers an entirely new understanding of our bodies, ourselves, and our place in the universe, Natural Causes describes how we over-prepare and worry way too much about what is inevitable. One by one, Ehrenreich topples the shibboleths that guide our attempts to live a long, healthy life -- from the importance of preventive medical screenings to the concepts of wellness and mindfulness, from dietary fads to fitness culture. But Natural Causes goes deeper -- into the fundamental unreliability of our bodies and even our "mind-bodies," to use the fashionable term. Starting with the mysterious and seldom-acknowledged tendency of our own immune cells to promote deadly cancers, Ehrenreich looks into the cellular basis of aging, and shows how little control we actually have over it. We tend to believe we have agency over our bodies, our minds, and even over the manner of our deaths. But the latest science shows that the microscopic subunits of our bodies make their own "decisions," and not always in our favor. We may buy expensive anti-aging products or cosmetic surgery, get preventive screenings and eat more kale, or throw ourselves into meditation and spirituality. But all these things offer only the illusion of control. How to live well, even joyously, while accepting our mortality -- that is the vitally important philosophical challenge of this book. Drawing on varied sources, from personal experience and sociological trends to pop culture and current scientific literature, Natural Causes examines the ways in which we obsess over death, our bodies, and our health. Both funny and caustic, Ehrenreich then tackles the seemingly unsolvable problem of how we might better prepare ourselves for the end -- while still reveling in the lives that remain to us.
Download or read book Death Our Last Illusion written by Susan Shore and published by Common Ground Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the latest science on the near-death experience, this resource explores the passage through physical death to the states of conscious being beyond. Traditional sources are compared with findings of science and medicine, and psychology from Jung and Piaget to Wilber.
Download or read book Death Is An Illusion written by Else Byskov and published by Paragon House Publishers. This book was released on 2002-11-18 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martinus will become much more prominent as a spiritual teacher, thanks to Else Byskov's clear summary of his life and teachings. Death Is An illusion is a timely introduction to the Danish 20th century mystic, Martinus (1890-1981) whose teachings have a sound picture of the cosmos and a perspective about the human future based on the evolution of consciousness. Martinus cosmology is an all-embracing world picture, a spiritual science that describes and analyses the spiritual laws of life. It leads to an optimistic view of life, and it provides the basis for a harmonious and empathetic relationship to all people and all living things.
Download or read book Living Your Dying written by Stanley Keleman and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is about dying, not about death. We are always dying a big, always giving things up, always having things taken away. Is there a person alive who isn't really curious about what dying is for them? Is there a person alive who wouldn't like to go to their dying full of excitement, without fear and without morbidity? This books tells you how." -- Front cover.
Download or read book Mortality written by Christopher Hitchens and published by Atlantic Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012-08-25 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's greatest contrarian confronts his own death in this brave and unforgettable book. During the American book tour for his memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens collapsed in his hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest. As he would later write in the first of a series of deeply moving Vanity Fair pieces, he was being deported 'from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady.' Over the next year he experienced the full force of modern cancer treatment. Mortality is at once an unsparingly honest account of the ravages of his disease, an examination of cancer etiquette, and the coda to a lifetime of fierce debate and peerless prose. In this moving personal account of illness, Hitchens confronts his own death - and he is combative and dignified, eloquent and witty to the very last.
Download or read book You Are in This World But Not of It written by Richard Gebers and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WE DON'T DIE THE TRUE STORY - Death is an ILLUSION In this remarkable book Spiritualist minister Rev. Richard Gebers reveals over 30 years of work with startling proof of his actual recorded communications, with the so-called dead -- who are still very much alive and well in God's Heaven They now live happily in this incredibly beautiful After-Death World in Peace, Harmony and Love. So will you. BECAUSE WE ARE ALL IMMORTAL In amazing taped interviews of Rev Gebers' life work we hear those who seemingly "died" but really just crossed the Veil between the two worlds; leaving their ailing physical bodies behind, to wake up again in joy and wonder, still alive, in perfect youthful bodies in God's Heaven. Rev. Gebers even talks to those now in Spirit whom he knew while they were still living on the earth plane Those talks have given absolutely convincing proof of the reality of Life after Death, because no one else could have known the information given by these spirits, as proof of their identity, while they were still alive on earth. What's even more remarkable are the interviews with other-world aliens and even those living INSIIDE the earth. Spirit-world teachers want everyone to know that DYING IS NOTHING TO FEAR because Life-Everlasting in Heaven is God's given birthright to us. They say Earth is just a school we reside on temporarily; and then make the transition back to Heaven to see what lessons we've learned. The incredible true story is all here in this book TRULY, YOU LIVE FOREVER IN THIS WORLD - BUT NOT OF IT
Download or read book CREATING THE ILLUSION OF IMPENDING DEATH written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Illusion of Death written by J. Thomas Devins and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exploration, J. Thomas Devins connects three controversial religious topics (Jesus's resurrection, Shroud of Turin and rainbow body) using their common denominator, the science of the atom. As weird, preposterous and outrageous as it sounds, we each have the capacity to dissolve our body into its atomic parts. That which happened to Jesus on the first Easter Sunday is within the capability of each human being that is willing to follow a structured, disciplined mind training lifestyle. Thousands of practitioners, mostly Tibetan Buddhists, have gracefully exited the planet, like Jesus, without leaving a corpse behind, even in modern times. The human body is but proxy for the human mind. The book is transformational for the reader and a major wakeup call to science and religion. 1) It replaces the notion of a transcendent God with the workings of the human mind. 2) Abrahamic religions, particularly Christianity, must rethink their foundational doctrines. The words of Genesis 3:19, ..".to dust you shall return" can't be universally applied. 3) Mainstream science must end its negative bias against the paranormal in its rigid methods of inquiry. The book brings the known paranormal experience that is frequently demonstrated in the laboratory by fringe science into the light of the real world. 4) The book elevates the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas into prominence. Thomas is the only Gospel that accounts for the resurrection/rainbow body phenomenon and the role of the mind. Connecting the dots, Devins concludes that we are all here, on the planet, because we intend to be here. It is in this knowledge we find the reality of reincarnation and the law of karma; sticky issues which religion and science also need to address. A lifelong Catholic, scientifically educated, and graduate of the school of hard knocks, Devins concludes that the book's revelations will be largely ignored by religion and science. Religion because it is too heavily invested in the biblical notion of death to change. Science because of its engrained attitude against the paranormal. Timely change, if it is to happen, must come from a fiery, renewed attitude of truth seeking that initiates in the Sunday morning pew.
Download or read book Near Death Experiences written by Birk Engmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-01-18 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expression "Near-Death Experience" is associated in the popular understanding with access to knowledge about our transition between the states of life and death. But how should such experiences be interpreted? Are they verifiable with scientific methods? If so, how can they be explained? Attempting to relate matters of scientific knowledge to subjective experience and the realm of belief is a difficult balancing act and has led to a variety of approaches to the topic. This work scrutinizes the diverse views and also myths, about near-death experiences and describes them from a scientific standpoint. Situated at the intersection of neuroscience, psychology, philosophy and religious studies this book will appeal to a broad audience of both scientists and general readers.
Download or read book Dispelling the Illusions of Aging and Dying written by Linda Stein-Luthke and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-05-22 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dispelling the Illusions of Aging and Dying: A Discourse from the Ascended Master ST. GERMAIN The two greatest fears that human beings possess are the fears of aging and dying - and that is exactly what holds you in the grip of the process of aging and dying. This book helps you to realize that every fear you have is illusory. When you move beyond the five senses, you can see these illusions for yourself. If you choose to follow the suggestions offered by the Ascended Master St. Germain and heal your fears, you will move into a greater awareness of the only true reality there is: that all is Light - and that includes you. Our world is changing very rapidly. We show you how to open yourself to a new world in which health and well-being are the natural order of existence. We invite you to join us on a journey to a new paradigm, a life-giving and rejuvenating paradigm that is free from all fear. This is possible now. CONTENTS Chapter 1: How Homo Sapiens Created Aging and Dying Chapter 2: A New Day Chapter 3: A New Way of Being Chapter 4: You Have Begun Chapter 5: Have You Had Enough? Chapter 6: What Is This New Way of Being? Chapter 7: How Will Life be for Me if There is No Death? Chapter 8: Abundance Comes in Many Forms Chapter 9: Break Free of the Illusions Chapter 10: Release All Expectations Chapter 11: Toward Healing, Growth, and Expansion Appendix The Ascended Masters Newsletters Books by the Authors How to Order Books
