Why We Ignore the Damage We Inflict on the Planet--And Ourselves
Our wants for food, housing, medicine, transportation, luxuries, and all the other benefits of industrialisation have resulted in the exploitation of our natural surroundings. This book explores the complex convergence of psychological, social, economic, and political factors that keep us from acting in our own self-interest.
The ability to think clearly and the power to reason well set leaders apart from the crowd. This guide talks about the world of logical thinking and reasoning. It walks the reader through the modes of thinking, understanding, and reasoning. It also offers tips on how anyone can be empowered through continual self-monitoring and self-improvement.
Christian Zen is a ground breaking book for all Christians seeking to deepen and broaden their inner lives. Providing concrete guidelines for a way of Christian meditation that incorporates Eastern insights, it is a helpful book that can open new spiritual vistas and reveal profound, often undreamed-of dimensions of the Christian faith.
Includes chapters on romantic love. This book aims to broaden the scope to include the role of love in the developmental process of infants and children, on physical and mental health and illness, on violent criminality, and other social aspects of love. It emphasises what various scientific disciplines have discovered about the role of love.
Alien abductions, satanic kidnappings, the channelling of spirits, the recall of past lives and other similar bizarre experiences are reported almost daily in the media. Is there a rational explanation for these events? This work uses scientific evidence on memory to dispel many supernatural beliefs.
As a starry-eyed student, the author was convinced of the reality of astral planes, telepathy, and life after death. She was determined to devote her life to parapsychology, but what she found wasn't what she had bargained for. This book offers a personal account of one scientist's never-ending search for the paranormal.
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.
From Urban T. Holmes's spiritual typology and her own experience as a spiritual director and pastoral counselor, Ware provides a framework for people to name and understand their spiritual experience-in much the same way the Myers-Briggs typology provides a framework for understanding personality types. Readers explore four spiritual types--head, ......
