Mind And The Cosmic Order

Author : Charles Pinter
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030500837
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind and the Cosmic Order written by Charles Pinter and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topic of this book is the relationship between mind and the physical world. From once being an esoteric question of philosophy, this subject has become a central topic in the foundations of quantum physics. The book traces this story back to Descartes, through Kant, to the beginnings of 20th Century physics, where it becomes clear that the mind-world relationship is not a speculative question but has a direct impact on the understanding of physical phenomena. The book’s argument begins with the British empiricists who raised our awareness of the fact that we have no direct contact with physical reality, but it is the mind that constructs the form and features of objects. It is shown that modern cognitive science brings this insight a step further by suggesting that shape and structure are not internal to objects, but arise in the observer. The author goes yet further by arguing that the meaningful connectedness between things — the hierarchical organization of all we perceive — is the result of the Gestalt nature of perception and thought, and exists only as a property of mind. These insights give the first glimmerings of a new way of seeing the cosmos: not as a mineral wasteland but a place inhabited by creatures.

Author : Thomas Nagel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199919755
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind and Cosmos written by Thomas Nagel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-22 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary theory, and cosmology. Since minds are features of biological systems that have developed through evolution, the standard materialist version of evolutionary biology is fundamentally incomplete. And the cosmological history that led to the origin of life and the coming into existence of the conditions for evolution cannot be a merely materialist history, either. An adequate conception of nature would have to explain the appearance in the universe of materially irreducible conscious minds, as such. Nagel's skepticism is not based on religious belief or on a belief in any definite alternative. In Mind and Cosmos, he does suggest that if the materialist account is wrong, then principles of a different kind may also be at work in the history of nature, principles of the growth of order that are in their logical form teleological rather than mechanistic. In spite of the great achievements of the physical sciences, reductive materialism is a world view ripe for displacement. Nagel shows that to recognize its limits is the first step in looking for alternatives, or at least in being open to their possibility.

Author : Stephen Richards
Publisher : Mirage Books
ISBN 13 : 9781902578248
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cosmic Ordering Guide written by Stephen Richards and published by Mirage Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Age phenomenon called Cosmic Ordering is not as new as some might believe. Media coverage has prompted the author to be brave enough to admit how Cosmic Ordering (United Field Theory) has worked for him and turned his life around.

Author : George Johnson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030776544X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fire in the Mind written by George Johnson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-10-06 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are there really laws governing the universe? Or is the order we see a mere artifact of the way evolution wired the brain? And is what we call science only a set of myths in which quarks, DNA, and information fill the role once occupied by gods? These questions lie at the heart of George Johnson's audacious exploration of the border between science and religion, cosmic accident and timeless law. Northern New Mexico is home both to the most provocative new enterprises in quantum physics, information science, and the evolution of complexity and to the cosmologies of the Tewa Indians and the Catholic Penitentes. As it draws the reader into this landscape, juxtaposing the systems of belief that have taken root there, Fire in the Mind into a gripping intellectual adventure story that compels us to ask where science ends and religion begins. "A must for all those seriously interested in the key ideas at the frontier of scientific discourse."--Paul Davies

Author : Barbel Mohr
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1848504756
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 21 Golden Rules for Cosmic Ordering written by Barbel Mohr and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2011-01-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now an internationally acclaimed author, Barbel Mohr introduced the world to Cosmic Ordering by writing a little book about this amazing method and circulating photocopies amongst her friends. The book went on to become an international bestseller and since then she has written a collection of powerful books to help us understand exactly how to tune into the Universe to turn our dreams into reality. In this new book, Barbel captures the essence of all of her previous titles on Cosmic Ordering to provide you with 21 Golden Rules that allow you to master the concept that seems too good to be true – but nonetheless works. Barbel has condensed the key ideas and principles of Cosmic Ordering to help you appreciate the rules that govern the cosmos and the part that your subconcious mind plays in creating your reality. With numerous tips and exercises to help you fully connect with your inner power, you will learn how to make Cosmic Ordering an integral part of your day-to-day life, opening yourself to a magical future.

Author : Barry Cooper
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268107157
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paleolithic Politics written by Barry Cooper and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using his background in political theory and philosophical anthropology, Barry Cooper is the first political scientist to propose new interpretations of some of the most famous extant Paleolithic art and artifacts in Paleolithic Politics. This book is inspired by Eric Voegelin, one of the major political scientists of the last century, who developed an interest in the very early symbolism associated with the caves and rock shelters of the Upper Paleolithic, but never finished his analysis. Cooper, who has written extensively on Voegelin’s theories, takes up the enterprise of applying Voegelin’s approach to an analysis of portable and cave art. He specifically applies Voegelin’s philosophy of consciousness, his concept of the compactness and differentiation of consciousness, his argument regarding the experience and symbolizations of reality, and his notion of the primary experience of the cosmos to images previously regarded as pedestrian. Cooper demonstrates the political significance of the earliest expressions of human existence and is among the first to argue that political life began not with the Greeks, but 25,000 years before them. Archaeologists, prehistorians, and political scientists will all benefit from this original and provocative work.

Author : Johan C. Thom
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161528095
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cosmic Order and Divine Power written by Johan C. Thom and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The treatise De mundo offers a cosmology in the Peripatetic tradition which subordinates what happens in the cosmos to the might of an omnipotent god. Thus the work is paradigmatic for the philosophical and religious concepts of the early imperial age, which offer points of contact with nascent Christianity.

Author : Richard Maurice Bucke
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140193375
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cosmic Consciousness written by Richard Maurice Bucke and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1991-10-05 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic study in the evolution of the human mind is a pioneering work as valuable today as when it was first published in 1901. At that time, it was enthusiastically acclaimed by both William James and P. D. Ouspensky. It has long been accepted as a landmark in the field of mysticism. In reviewing the mental and spiritual activity of the human race, Dr. Bucke discovers that at intervals certain individuals have appeared who are gifted with the power of transcendent realization—or Illumination. Their experiences constitute a definite advance in man’s relation with the Infinite. Moreover, the author shows from available records that this transfiguring endowment of Illumination is on the increase, and he gives full details of practically all the cases on record up to the time when the book was written.

Author : Richard Maurice Bucke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cosmic Consciousness written by Richard Maurice Bucke and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan Cainer
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062047183
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cosmic Ordering written by Jonathan Cainer and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cosmic Ordering is about wishing, about asking, and about making the impossible, possible. You can fill your life with more of what you want—and less of what you don’t. However big or small, your wishes are attainable. But how do you know what you really want? From order to delivery, Jonathan Cainer, the internationally famous astrologer for the The Daily Mail, will lead you through all the steps of the creed that has become a worldwide phenomenon. Learn how to decide what you really want, announce to the universe your intention to get it, and get it delivered. Call on the cosmos to change your life and realize your dreams with Cosmic Ordering!