Metaphysics category: 2011 books

During the time that the author was living in Nepal (2001-2007) and studying various meditation techniques as well as an overall science of the mind with her Tibetan Buddhist spiritual masters there, she visited the 'Caves of Immortality' at Maratika, in Eastern Nepal and Mount Kailash in West Tibet....

The future of public space is uncertain. Although public spaces have become increasingly shabby and crowded, novel alternatives have appeared in the form of fantastic, semi-public pleasure grounds, developed by well-heeled, crowd-pleasing entrepreneurs and devoted to profit, consumption, and self-indulgence....

Dustin McWherter defends the possibility of critical ontology by pitting Roy Bhaskar's attempt to rehabilitate ontology in the philosophy of science against Kant's attempt to replace traditional ontology with an account of cognitive experience.

We shall be concemed in the following pages with some issues common to the systems of both Kant and Husserl. Given the structured nature of philosophical systems, however, the topics cannot be isolated from the systems in which they function, imbuing them in each case with a specific direction. An...

Gilbert Simondon: Information, Technology and Media is a comprehensive introduction to the work of the French philosopher Gilbert Simondon. In particular it examines Simondon's original informational ontology, as developed from a synthesis of Cybernetics, thermodynamics and French epistemology, The...

Jan Frazier experienced a radical transformation of consciousness at age fifty, in 2003. Her first book, "When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening" (Weiser Books, 2007), is an account of her awakening, as it unfolded over the first eighteen months. "The Freedom of Being: At...

The incompatibility of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics is explored, this necessitated by proposals for Quantum Gravity by their merger or replacement, shining a new light on old philosophical problems.

This edition contains the text of all my quatrains, about 650, as selected from Today’s Rubaiyat and my other books. Inspired by Omar, I have endeavored to capture his spirit for more modern times, although I have surely been influenced by Edward FitzGerald’s translated gems.

Very large compilation of universal investigations of being and the Cosmos. A few color illustrations. The ‘false’ and melted vacuum was liquid energy— Unstructured, unordered, and going nowhere, But, then, inexplicably, it ‘fell’, As from a kind of ‘shelf’… Whirling, twirling...

We have often asked why some space exists, Why it permits the countless to briefly persist On Mother Earth, nourished under Father Sky— All of those finite sparks that light and die. There were those who endlessly debated, Whether to live in their virtuals unabated, Or to press forwards and...

Before entering upon an explanation of the teachings of the Rosicrucians, it may be well to say a word about them and about the place they hold in the evolution of humanity. For reasons to be given later these teachings advocate the dualistic view; they hold that man is a spirit enfolding all the...

There are tens of thousands of self-help books on psychology and human relationships; however, there are very few that integrate the topics of the soul and spirit into the picture. Most books on this subject focus on personality-level self-actualization. The new wave in the field of psychology is...

  A light philosophical research of spirituality and life. You will find random contemplations of the way things are, or at least, the way they can seem to be.

This is not just a book, it is an experience for your soul. Do you yearn to reconnect with the authenticity of who you really are? Your Insight and Awareness Book is a unique and detailed guide that broadens your understanding of the journey of life, and assists you to rediscover the...