The Nature of Reality

The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: Challenging Constructs of Mind and Reality

by Joseph Chilton Pearce

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""The Crack in the Cosmic Egg" will challenge you to think about what is it? What is this thing we call reality? How is it that paradigms and how we view the world works and how is it that sometimes the seemingly miraculous occurs. Where does it come from, that which is so improbable may tomorrow be everyday knowledge.

A good book to get your feet wet, into exploring mind and reality."

Publisher: Julian Press | More reviews: amazon.com

Myth, Symbol, and Reality (Boston University studies in philosophy and religion)

by Alan Olson

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Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr | More reviews: amazon.com

Evolution and the Nature of Reality

by Douglas H. Shennan

Shows how the conventional idea of absolute truth is false. Our concept of truth depends on the experience of our ancestors and on the evolution of their sense organs

Publisher: Trafford Publishing | More reviews: amazon.com

The Imprisoned Splendour - An approach to Reality, based upon the significance of data drawn from the fields of Natural Science, Psychical Research and Mystical Experience

by Raynor C. Johnson

Publisher: Harper & Brothers, NY | More reviews: amazon.com

Backfire: A Novel (The Virtual Reality, Book 3)

by William Kritlow

"Why is he sneaking around in Virtual Reality at, what? Midnight? The kid's hooked." Helbert laughed. Kelly and her parents aren't the only ones who notice that Tim is putting VR before eveything else. There's someone else who's noticed--and he has a plan that will use Tim's obsession with VR to see that his own plan succeeds. In a series of high-tech adventures in a computer-generated world, Tim and Kelly Craft find themselves caught in a battle between good and evil. The outcome depends on who they trust and the choices they make in Virtual Reality

Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc | More reviews: amazon.com

Investigating the Mind 2005: The Science and Clinical Applications of Meditation (Video DVDs)

by Mind and Life Institute / The Dalai Lama

This latest Mind and Life public meeting "Investigating the Mind 2005: The Science and Clinical Applications of Meditation" built on the growing interest in meditation within modern medicine and biomedical science that has arisen over the past thirty years and further explores the emerging clinical opportunities. Meditation is becoming Mainstream in Western Medicine and Society Applications of meditation are now common in the treatment of stress, pain, and a range of chronic diseases in both medicine and psychiatry, and some approaches are currently the subject of NIH-supported clinical trials and research studies. At the same time, the power of our non-invasive technologies have made it possible to investigate the nature of cognition and emotion in the brain as never before, and to begin to explore the interfaces between mind, brain, and body, and the implications of particular forms of meditative practices for modulating and regulating biological pathways to restore or enhance homeostatic processes and perhaps extend the reach of both mind and body in ways that might potentially promote rehabilitation and healing as well as greater overall health and well-being.

Publisher: The Mind and Life Institute | More reviews: amazon.com

Second Lives

by Tim Guest

Every day, millions of people abandon reality for virtual worlds — building houses, making and selling works of art, getting married. On ebay, people sell virtual clothes and rent virtual cars. Tim Guest takes us into the bizarre culture of virtual lives.

Publisher: Arrow | More reviews: amazon.com

Beyond Science & Religion; The Greater Reality; A Mental & Spiritual Journey

"Science, which initially relegated spiritual beliefs to the ideological bone pile, is now turning out to be a major source of proof that much of what (is) happening can only be explained if consciousness is an all-pervading truth and entirety of Creation may well be spiritual in nature. Life on the planet, therefore, is not accidental + meaningless, but has great purpose + reason. This book examines validity of this theme as it applies to (many things)."

Publisher: Publishers West | More reviews: amazon.com

The Model Mind: How the Mind Moves Matter

by Peter Bros

HOW DO WE RECALL AN IMAGE OF A TREE WHEN THERE IS NO TREE PRESENT? WHY DO WE RECALL A TREE WHEN WE SEE A TREE? WHAT MAKES IT POSSIBLE TO CREATE A TREE THAT HAS NEVER EXISTED BEFORE? These questions of memory, perception and creativity are just a part of The Model Mind, the first explanation of how the mind forms images, how it stores and recalls those images, and why those images, non-material in and of themselves, can drive the body, tormenting it with guilt, destroying it with anger and elevating it to create cities in the sky. THE MODEL MIND TAKES CHAPTER SIXTEEN, "THE MECHANICAL MIND" FROM THE AUTHOR'S ATOMS, STARS AND MINDS: SYNTHESIZING AN ELEMENTARY PARTICLE THAT COMPREHENDS ITSELF, AND SHOWS THE PHYSICAL CONNECTION BETWEEN THE MIND AND OUR ACTIONS.

Publisher: Financial Book Partners | More reviews: amazon.com

The Origins of Man and the Universe: The Myth That Came to Life

by Barry Long

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"Whether or not I "liked" this book is irrelevant! The fact is that it is helping to awaken me from the self-ish ignorance of my mind, our society, our culture, and our evolutionary history. Having already read it several times through, with a still mind, it has en-lightened several spirit-ual Ideas in my consciousness. This work is nothing less than the mythic revelation of the cosmos in contemporary scientific language. It is the timeless LOGOS in the language of our times; A psycho-spiritual Master-piece; The Word of God written through man the master. Mr. Long's words guide the still mind and present consciousness on an inward mytho-scientific journey through the habitual ignorance of the selfish psyche back to its divine origins. I have not yet completed this journey and will continue to read it until I do, but I have realized the Idea of what Mr. Long is doing. From this place of love and truth I commend this book to you. You may not "like" it, but if you are ready it will help to enlighten your consciousness and reveal some original truth to you."

Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books Ltd | More reviews: amazon.com