Describing the use of symbols in philosophy and religion, this book connects the Taoist symbol of the self—the diamond body—to the tetrahedron, as well as to the four valences of the carbon molecule, the basis of all life. Following these ideas further, the discussion details the close correspondence between the ancient wisdom of Lao Tsu and the symbolism of Jungian psychology—and also conjectures about the possibility of a more image-oriented view of science. Editorial Reviews Review ""In...

With growing and ageing comes changes and more responsibilities for kids. One of the biggest and sometimes most difficult is starting school. Adjusting to the new people, adapting to new schedules, with time away from home, are just a few of the challenges Grecko learns to overcome. Grecko shows, through strength, acceptance, and determination, that growing up and starting new things can be scary, but these have great rewards. He proves that school and learning is important and fun. With s...

A remarkably simple and yet profoundly deep narrative, this translation is an introduction to the remote world of the 19th-century Altai: a mountainous region of southern Siberia possessing unique flora and fauna and peaks rising to nearly 15,000 feet. Native Altai tribesman Mikhail Chelvalkov vividly describes the physical beauty of the region while chronicling many of the encounters that took place throughout his life as the population transformed from competing nomadic pagan tribes to a...

This report was produced by the CSIS Nuclear Consensus Working Group (NCWG) to assist the Obama administration in forging, during its second term, an enduring consensus about the U.S. nuclear posture. The report includes (1) seven individual statements from nuclear thinkers and practitioners across the “broad middle” of the spectrum of opinion on the role and value of U.S. nuclear weapons, the U.S. nuclear posture needed for this defined role, and a political strategy for sustaining the re...

Finding out the guy I hooked up with is on my team isn't the way I saw my first week of coaching going.My name is Anthony Hawke, and I used to be a rising star in the NHL until someone purposefully tore my ACL, ending my career. I went from the top of my life to nothing in a matter of months.I take a coaching job a thousand miles away as a fresh start, only to ruin it before I start.Three months ago, I met him in a bar. Sexy and funny and built like...

Never before have 442 cosmic / universal laws ever been defined in one place.Have you ever wondered how many cosmic and universal laws exist? I bet you have no idea how many of these laws affect you every day, second-by-second.One of these laws states that the three points of a triangle are responsible for the manifestation of all things in the infinite plane. (Law of Triangle)Another law states that everything is as it should be. There are no accidents. Your energy...

Matthieu Ricard trained as a molecular biologist, working in the lab of a Nobel prize—winning scientist, but when he read some Buddhist philosophy, he became drawn to Buddhism. Eventually he left his life in science to study with Tibetan teachers, and he is now a Buddhist monk and translator for the Dalai Lama, living in the Shechen monastery near Kathmandu in Nepal. Trinh Thuan was born into a Buddhist family in Vietnam but became intrigued by the explosion of discoveries in astronomy dur...

Gallileo, Copernicus, Newton, Niels Bohr, Einstein. Their insights shook our perception of who we are and where we stand in the world and in their wake have left an uneasy co-existence: science vs. religion, faith vs. empirical enquiry. Which is the keeper of truth? Which is the true path to understanding reality?After forty years of study with some of the greatest scientific minds as well as a lifetime of meditative, spiritual and philosophical study, the Dalai Lama presents a bri...

Would you like the ability to read other peoples' minds? Predict the future? Give incredible demonstrations that would strike awe into any audience?In Mind - will give you this ability – guaranteed.With the popularity of the excellent American crime drama "The Mentalist" there has been a resurgence of interest in what may be termed "tricks of the mind". Patrick Jane is a mentalist who works for the California Bureau of Investigation. Week in and week out he solves murders u...

For the last four centuries, science has tried to account for everything in terms of atoms and molecules and the physical laws they adhere to. Recently, this effort was extended to try to include the inner world of human beings. Gary Lachman argues that this view of consciousness is misguided and unfounded. He points to another approach to the study and exploration of consciousness that erupted into public awareness in the late 1800s. In this secret history of consciousness, consciousness is ...

From Science to God offers a crash course in the nature of reality. It is the story of Peter Russell's lifelong exploration into the nature of consciousness — how he went from being a strict atheist, studying mathematics and physics at Cambridge University, to realizing a profound personal synthesis of the mystical and scientific. Using his own tale of curiosity and exploration as the book’s backbone, Russell blends physics, psychology, and philosophy to reach a new worldview in which cons...

We are all here on earth to learn and have experience through this game called life. One of the biggest lessons that most of us on the planet have to learn is one of unconditional acceptance and love of self. The myths of Karma, Hell and punishment unknowingly keeps us from attaining that unconditional acceptance. They are myths that need to be dispelled if we are to every live in harmony on earth.In this ebook, I use proven modern scientific concepts to show the ideas of karma, he...