How many of us can state clearly what a value is? By making use of everyday situations, this book helps us identify and understand the values we hold. It also shows us how to form them, use them, and justify them against the competing values of others.
How can we find serenity in the midst of so much noise without and within? Oates maintains that we can nurture silence in our lives if we truly value it and are eager and dedicated to nourishing it. In this book, he explores practical and spiritual ways to maintain peace and centeredness in our work, our relationships, and our daily routines.
Do psychics have special powers, allowing them to succeed where ordinary police work fails? How often do the police actually enlist psychics in solving crimes, and what do they really think of these paranormal "experts"? This work discusses such questions. It serves as a study of those who supposedly use extrasensory powers to help solve crimes.
Probes ten tantalizing mysteries that, for decades, have defied rational analysis and convinced many people that supernatural events really do happen. This book scrutinizes the evidence for a variety of strange historical, paranormal, and forensic phenomena.
Written mainly for children aged 3 to 7 years, this book is primarily intended to be read aloud by a parent. It has also been written and designed for use with the beginning reader in mind.
Parapsychology texts contain many references to Czechoslovakian clairvoyant, Pavel Stepanek. Stepanek's tested "ESP" success rate of over 60 per cent caused the 1970 edition of the "Guinness Book of World Records" to proclaim him "the best clairvoyant ever tested". The science writer disagrees.
A sympathetic and often fascinating view of contemporary and traditional customs, arts, architecture, philosophies, and spiritual leaders of the Orient. Often reading like a colourful travelogue, it has sections on India, China, Angkor Wat, Ceylon, Japan, Egypt, Tibet, and other Himalayan countries. The book emphasises that East and West can (and ......
Part 1, "Human Experience" explores the spiritual lessons implicit in daily living, the need for educational reforms, the causes and purposes of personal suffering, special problems and opportunities of youth and age, problems of marriage and relationship, and how to convert contemporary crises into opportunities for dramatic spiritual growth. ......
Takes on psychics, astrologers, myth-makers and other assorted purveyors of the paranormal, and shines the light of common sense into the murky darkness that is the world of paranormal claims. This book collects commentaries on 'The Paranormal', 'Prophecy', 'Spirits', 'Superstition', 'Pseudoscience', 'Higher Life', and 'Truth'.
