Striving To be Humanexamines what our moral values are, how we came to have them, and how we can add a spiritual dimension to them.
Westerners live in liberal, secular democracies. The religious and moral certainties of the past have lost their influence on us, replaced by liberal freedoms that have led to a culture of moral relativism. The plus about this is that it gives each of us the freedom to decide what is right and wrong. But if moral relativism considers all moral choices to be equal, as a culture what moral values do we end up collectively sharing? Is our morality no more than a grab-bag of values taken from consumerism, power politics, and self-interested ambition that justifies the view that we deserve whatever we can get, all softened by traditional religious ideas that it is good to be nice to others? Or is there is an objective scale of right and wrong that transcends our own individually-centred thoughts and feelings and that can definitely tell us what is moral and what is not?
This book is a search for a moral yardstick that we can use to decide what is truly right and wrong, and that offers us a guide to living together in contemporary Western secular democracies, while we remain true to our individual sense of spirituality and to our shared humanity.
Автор: , Hill Keith Richard Название: Play from the Soul: An Artist`s Science of Creativity ISBN: 1986663892 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781986663892 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 4311.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Do you want to make art that moves people, understand more of how the universe works, or find deeper spirituality? If that sounds like you, read this book.In this trailblazing, comprehensive guide to aesthetic science, Keith Hill offers thirty creative mechanisms that activate the Soul, thirty-five universal principles, and an entirely new explanation of how human beings function. You will learn how to "feed" your Soul in a way that stimulates creativity and insight, and you will discover how to use your senses-all 133 of them-to create excellence in art, work, and life.
In 587 BCE, King Zedekiah of Judah led his people in rebellion against Babylonian rule. Nebuchadnezzar responded mercilessly. His army sacked Jerusalem, destroyed the Temple, and deported thousands to Babylon.
These psalms are written from the perspective of one of those exiles. They express his growing unhappiness with life as a slave, his despairing cries for help to his Lord, and his eventual escape into the wilderness. After much struggle he is reunited with his lost beloved, and together they find their way back to Jerusalem.
Inspired by the passionate writings of the ancient Jewish prophets and poets, and in harmony with the Jewish healing tradition of tikkun olam, these poems recount the spiritual journey seekers make as they strive to transcend everyday life, enter their own hurt heart, heal its pain, and experience the wisdom that exists there. It is the story of exiles who, lost and despairing, rediscover themselves in joy.
I always maintained he would amount to something. Thank goodness I never put money on it. -- Aunt Joan
Strength: Looks good in uniform. Weakness: Not inclined to study. Potential career: Flight attendent. More likely: Carrying sandwich board outside local pizzeria. -- Year Eight School Report
Every time he posts honking geese rise into the sky. -- Asuka (#instapoetfav)
New Zealand literature has no one like him. Always surprising, a genuine original. -- Roger Horrocks
Is this book ticking? -- Receptionist, Ministry for Culture
Описание: It often seems that our biggest problem with being human ... is being human! Here you will find down-to-earth and compassionate comments on some of the biggest issues that trouble us as we attempt to live fully and make sense of our lives. In often humorous responses, the guides talk plainly about the spiritual complexities involved in being human.
"We'll start by introducing ourselves. We're spiritual beings like you. Except we don't have a body. But we did in the past, many times. We have repeatedly lived through the experience of occu-pying a human body and dealing with all the exciting, boring, wondrous and excruciating experiences that go with being human. We have been delirious with joy. We have suffered unimagin-able pain. We have given birth. We have raised children. We have lost children. We have been slaves. We have been masters. We have oppressed. We have fought against oppression. We have experienced everything available to human beings. This is the experiential basis for our claim to authority on what you're living through now. We know because we've done it all."
Topics include:
-Why human beings are confused about their spiritual nature
-The rationale and implications of reincarnation
- Does God really punish us when we screw up?
-The difference between gut feelings and deep insights
-A non-embodied view of what happens to us between lives
-Is more than one of us here right now?
-How can we know whether or not our pets have souls?
-The different varieties and roles of spirit guides
-If we're intrinsically good why is there so much evil?
-What we are to the universe and its enveloping consciousness
Learning Who You Are offers a contemporary take on the age-old questions of who we are and why we are here. The book builds on current scientific knowledge to show how the physical and spiritual realms are interlinked. It does this by presenting a number of innovative models and conceptual frameworks that mesh with twenty-first century understanding. The book also discusses the process of validating these models and concepts empirically, through observation, and explains how meditation may be used to expand vision within and beyond the everyday self. Throughout, the emphasis is on practical processes, focused on the here and now, yet which have the potential to open a doorway into the beyond.
All this is explored using an open-ended, experimental approach that challenges the rigid dichotomies of the past, such as the mundane many vs the enlightened few, and the profane human vs the sacred divine. Historically, the notion of divinity has erected a barrier between humanity and the spiritual realm, which signals that whatever happens in the spiritual dimension is distant and so must remain an unfathomable mystery. Learning Who You Are alternatively, and controversially, asserts that the spiritual domain is not divine; individual human spirits, enlightened or otherwise, are not special; and the spiritual is neither distant nor unfathomable.
The absence of divinity means no Divine Being is pushing or pulling any of us during the course of our lives. So understanding the fundamental nature of our existence doesn't depend on divine decree or sacred revelation. We are already spiritual, hence appreciating the spiritual bases of our existence may be achieved straightforwardly--should we wish to do so, and be willing to make the effort required to discern them.
Learning Who You Are offers the spiritually inquisitive and adventurous a unique, contemporary perspective on what it is to be human, and what may be achieved while living on this often perplexing planet.
Автор: Hill Keith Название: The Ecstasy of Cabeza de Vaca ISBN: 0473324075 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780473324070 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2338.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
In 1528, a Spanish expedition was shipwrecked in the Gulf of Mexico. Eight years later only four men remained alive. One of the four, Cabeza de Vaca, later published an account of what occurred. Naked and enslaved, de Vaca was stripped of all he possessed, then underwent an extraordinary transformation. The Ecstasy of Cabeza de Vaca is Keith Hill's masterful retelling of Cabeza de Vaca's story. This is a heartbreaking account of courage and faith, barbarity and miracles, that transports us to the limits of human experience.
Описание: "Origins have always fascinated human beings. Many wonder at their personal origins, who their forebears were, how they came to be the person that they are. Of course, underneath it, usually unperceived, is a drive by the individual's own spiritual self to make itself known to the personality it has chosen to co-associate with this time round. Because anyone's ultimate origin is not familial, tribal, social, or genetic. It is spiritual. The search for kosmic origins, the beginning of all that is, is an expression of that same drive emanating from your higher spiritual self to know where you came from ... " So speak spirit guides in this revolutionary channelled book, in which they offer a series of wide-ranging, fascinatingly detailed explanations of human nature, the structure of reality, and the intent behind exist-ence. Using current scientific and cultural concepts, but giving them often novel twists, the guides present fresh ways to view the relationship between the spiritual and the physical. For anyone who seeks to understand the what, how and why of their existence, this book offers significant new perspectives on age-old conundrums.
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