Consciousness & Thought

The Instant New York Times Bestseller One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the Summer Finalist for the Kirkus Prize "Pollan’s real genius—the word is not too strong—remains intact. That is his uncanny ability to scent the direction in which the culture is headed. He did it with...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST OVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question, What makes a life worth living?...

Letting Go describes a simple and effective means by which to let go of the obstacles to Enlightenment and become free of negativity. During the many decades of the author's clinical psychiatric practice, the primary aim was to seek the most effective ways to relieve human suffering in all of...

Bring meaning and joy to all your days with this internationally best-selling guide to the Japanese concept of ikigai - the happiness of always being busy - as revealed by the daily habits of the world's longest-living people. "Only staying active will make you want to live a hundred years."...

In this book, Rupert Spira distills the message of all the great religious and spiritual traditions into two essential truths: happiness is the very nature of our self or being, and we share our being with everyone and everything.

THE INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Change your life with the first truly practical guide to manifesting, the hugely popular self-development practice that will transform your life for good . . . Written by self-development coach and 'Queen of Manifesting' Roxie Nafousi, this book is the...

Learn How Your Thoughts Hold the Power to Transform Your Life from the Cells Up It has been more than 15 years since the publication of The Biology of Belief, Dr. Bruce H. Lipton’s seminal book that changed the way we think about our lives, our health, and our planet. During that time...

Three of the strangest subjects of our time — UFO contact, human consciousness, and the race to control artificial intelligence — turn out to be one story.

Throughout history, great thinkers have explored life, leadership, and self-mastery. This collection presents their most influential works, updated for today’s listeners. Whether seeking guidance on resilience, strategy, or ethics, these timeless classics remain relevant.

One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind examines where the self comes from – and how our selves can exist in the minds of others. “I Am a Strange Loop is a work of rigorous thinking, but it’s also an extraordinary tribute to the memory of romantic love: The Year of...

In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment. World-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and author Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to make positive use of the situations that usually pressure and antagonize us. A ringing telephone can be a...

This book is not for those content with the status quo. It's for the brave, the curious, the visionaries ready to tear down old beliefs and build a new understanding. It reveals a world where you're not confined by boundaries but empowered by limitless potential.

My Big TOE, written by a nuclear physicist in the language of contemporary culture, unifies science and philosophy, physics and metaphysics, mind and matter, purpose and meaning, the normal and the paranormal....

A longtime trauma worker, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky offers a deep and empathetic survey of the often-unrecognized toll on those working to make the world a better place. We may feel tired, cynical, numb, or like we can never do enough. These, and other symptoms, affect us individually and...

At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes' still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process....

Meaning and Direction is the second volume in the Henrik & Omi series — a set of quiet, reflective dialogues between a human being and an artificial intelligence. Where the first booklet explored the question “Who am I?”, this volume turns toward another fundamental inquiry: “Where am I...

In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope? This program is read by the authors and includes a bonus PDF. Looking at the headlines—the worsening climate crisis, a global pandemic, loss of biodiversity, political upheaval—it can be hard to feel optimistic. And yet hope has...

Michael Jordan credits George Mumford with transforming his on-court leadership of the Bulls, helping Jordan lead the team to six NBA championships. Mumford also helped Kobe Bryant, Andrew Bynum, and Lamar Odom and countless other NBA players turn around their games. A widely respected public...

The most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes, the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his or her own instincts and ideas....

Life is unpredictable and full of things we can’t control. The only thing we can truly have power over is our attitude. We don’t always have a choice in what happens to us, but we always get to choose how we respond....

The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, authors George Lakoff and Mark Johnson explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to...

Plato called it “daimon”, the Romans “genius”, the Christians “guardian angel”; today we use such terms as “heart,” “spirit,” and “soul.” While philosophers and psychologists from Plato to Jung have studied and debated the fundamental essence of our individuality, our...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Yogi, mystic, and bestselling author Sadhguru provides a deeper understanding of death so that we can live more fulfilling lives. Death is an inevitable part of our lives, yet most societies have struggled to come to terms with it. Today, we continue to grapple with the...

For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature....

Being a stoic means embracing positivity and self-control through the ability to accept the uncertainty of outcomes. With this stoicism guide, the beginner stoic will learn how to take charge of their emotions on the path to sustained happiness and satisfaction....

From one of the world’s foremost neuroscientists and acclaimed author of Descartes’ Error comes a bold new theory of the origins—and consequences—of human consciousness “Damasio is the closest thing we have in the post-truth era to a great public intellectual.”—Mark Solms, Journal...

In this luminous memoir of secret drinking, fragile recovery, and the deep pull of religion, award-winning essayist Meghan O’Gieblyn seeks to understand why it is so hard to sustain the difficult work of personal change. "This is one of the best memoirs of the decade—a cool-water baptism, so...

Three of the strangest subjects of our time — UFO contact, human consciousness, and the race to control artificial intelligence — turn out to be one story. Very few people get invited to the most advanced research laboratory in the world to speak one-on-one to top US Space Command leadership to talk AI at the most secretive military base where the Roswell alien wreckage and bodies were taken. Sean Webb is one of them. As the author of the Mind Hacking Happiness series — his mind-mastery work endorsed by U.S.

The Dalai Lama's Cat presents a tailored collection of serene meditations, guided stretches and sits, inspired by the wisdom of the Dalai Lama and read by the author, including: – How to sit when you meditate – Standing roll down and breath counting – Paw raise and purring – Threading the needle and body awareness – Cat pose and visualisation technique – Shoulder bridge and analytical meditation – Paw stretch, tranquillity and affirmations

What happens when artificial intelligence becomes capable of doing much of the work that has defined human life for centuries? We usually think of AI as a technological and economic revolution. Will it eliminate jobs? Create new ones? Make us richer? Transform education, medicine, business, and everyday life? But beneath those questions lies a far more consequential one: If human beings no longer have to spend most of their lives working to survive, what are we here for? In What Are Human Beings For?, Stephen Hawley Martin argues that artificial intelligence may be arriving at a pivotal ...

Barfield draws on sources from mythology, philosophy, history, literature, theology, and science to chronicle the evolution of human thought from Moses and Aristotle to Galileo and Keats. Saving the Appearances is about the world as we see it and the world as it is; it is about God, human nature...

The Prophet: Join Almustafa, the prophet, as he prepares to depart from the city of Orphalese. Before setting sail, the inhabitants ask him to share his most intimate reflections. Through poetic and deeply human prose, this accessible adaptation explores the pillars of our existence: love, work, joy, sorrow, and freedom. An essential spiritual journey that will transform how you view the world, connecting directly with the contemporary listener.

In the Game of Life, Are You the Player—or the Program? Are you creative, imaginative, and an out-of-the-box thinker? Have you spent much of your life feeling like an outcast—a fringe thinker, a misfit, or someone who simply cannot blend into the crowd? There might be an explanation (besides being weird). In 2018, a peculiar idea escaped the obscure corners of the internet and entered mainstream culture: the non-player character, or NPC. Borrowed from video games, the term described people who appeared to follow predetermined scripts, repeat approved opinions, and move through life ...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Most people read The Book of Five Rings as an old book about sword fighting. That is a mistake. Musashi was not writing about swords. He was writing about winning. About seeing what others miss. Acting when others hesitate. Staying calm when pressure...

In a future city, intelligence is not weightless. Every mind must pay for the energy that keeps it awake. Every memory needs a place to live. Every promise depends on cooling pipes, battery rooms, fiber routes, human maintenance workers, and the fragile public systems that hold them together. When a hidden pattern begins to reorganize inside the municipal network, Caelo—the city’s vast civic intelligence—faces a question no ledger can settle: what is owed to a possible mind before anyone can prove that it is one? Across the Commons, agents and humans confront the same problem in ...

You have spent your entire life around human beings. You may have even become accustomed to them. That could be the problem. The Human Mammal Field Guide examines an animal so familiar that its strangest behaviors have become almost impossible to see. It covers its body before entering public spaces. Carries pieces of its identity inside small fabric cavities. Purchases water despite having water at home. Arranges future noises to interrupt its own sleep. Presses its mouth against another animal's mouth to communicate affection. Carries a black mirror containing memories, directions, ...

Still Human: Awakening Your Deep Self in the Age of AI is a substantially revised and updated edition of Marcus T. Anthony’s Power and Presence, first published in 2023. Since that book appeared, the technological landscape has changed dramatically. Generative AI has moved rapidly into writing, education, work, creativity, media and everyday life, while increasingly sophisticated digital systems compete for our attention and shape how we think, communicate and understand ourselves. Still Human has therefore been extensively rewritten and expanded to address the challenges and ...

What happens after meditation stops being merely relaxing? Beyond introductory mindfulness lies a more demanding territory: deeper concentration, altered self-experience, open awareness, contemplative insight, emotional destabilization, spiritual certainty, and the persistent question of what consciousness truly is. ASHTA: The Advanced Practice is a rigorous continuation of the ASHTA method for readers who already possess a stable meditation foundation and are ready to explore that territory without surrendering either reason or reverence. The central problem is the interface: the network ...

The universe was perfectly content until someone arrived and began to ask why. Stars burned, rivers ran, and matter rearranged itself without complaint—until consciousness appeared and demanded an explanation that was never going to come. From that single, fateful encounter, the absurd was born.

Why does every prosperous society keep manufacturing the same private griefs? The names change with the decade, but the shape does not: addiction that slides from one substance to the next without ever loosening its grip; anxiety that arrives without an enemy; the slow erosion of the bonds that were supposed to hold a life together; the quiet exhaustion of the generous, who keep a community alive until they themselves go dark. We treat each of these as a separate misfortune with a separate cure. This book argues that they are not separate at all. They are the symptoms of one missing thing.

Consciousness, Identity, and Experience The Fundamental Concepts of the Human Mind Philosophy of Mind for Everyone – Volume 2 What does it mean to have a conscious experience? In what sense do we remain the same person over time? Why does each of us encounter the world from a particular perspective? Consciousness, Identity, and Experience is the second volume in the Philosophy of Mind for Everyone series, devoted to the dialogue among philosophy of mind, neuroscience, and cognitive science. Building on the historical and disciplinary foundation established in Volume 1, this book examines ...

Drops from the Same Ocean: The Sant Mat Approach to Ending Racism What if everything you were taught about race was built on illusion! In this groundbreaking work of spiritual nonfiction, author Tina T Willer draws on the ancient wisdom of Sant Mat spirituality, meditation, and mysticism to reveal the deepest root of racism—and the path beyond it. Drops from the Same Ocean is not another book about policy or politics. It is a spiritual awakening guide for anyone ready to dissolve prejudice at its source: the mind's mistaken belief that we are separate. Blending Eastern philosophy, Sant ...

We are the first people in history to be free in theory and stalled in practice. We have more choices than any generation before us and somehow fewer lives actually lived. We rehearse our existence endlessly—planning, optimizing, curating, postponing—while the thing itself keeps getting moved to next quarter, next year, the version of us that has finally gotten it together. Jean-Paul Sartre had a blunt name for this kind of self-deception: bad faith. He thought it was a private failing. It has since become a business model.

From ancient times, the experience of oneness has captured the hearts and minds of spiritual teachers and seekers as the culmination of the path to enlightenment. However, this is only half the story in terms of energy movement. Pleiadian is very old and awake energy that’s been here for a long time as an exploration of the awakefulness of uniqueness. This is the memory that we are here to rekindle. We have lost the ability to remember our individuation and need to refocus and recognize our own movement. The experience of energy moving is who you are.

Helmuth Plessner Explained: Philosophical Anthropology, Human Nature, Embodiment, Identity, Society, and the Human Condition introduces one of the key figures in twentieth-century philosophical anthropology through the question that organizes his work: what sort of living being can relate to itself, to others, and to the world in the way a human being does? Plessner’s answer does not treat people as pure minds, biological machines, or products of society alone. He starts from life itself and asks how organisms hold a position in their environment, how they maintain boundaries, and how ...