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Power or Depression?: The Cultural Roots of Abuse points out the historical roots of abuse and patriarchal society's systematic breeding of depression as something like a cultural disease.
However, the author does not stay with the analysis but shows practical ways to get free from the cultural trap so as to find a way of personal liberation and creative realization. The approach of this book to healing the abuse pattern is mainly focused upon establishing a strong identity, building soul values, and realizing a high level of personal autonomy. This involves working on the integration of emotions and the dissolution of patterns of codependence and emotional abuse in our lives and relationships.
And beyond current cutting-edge psychiatry that has recognized the devastating effects of codependence and emotional abuse in individual relationships, this essay shows these same effects to happen in the relation individual-organism, individual-group, individual-ideology, and individual-sect. Fusion is even more dangerous when people seek to dissolve themselves within organizations because what happens then is that they will indeed be eaten up by the organism and become wheels in a murderous system.
One essential element in this process of identifying and healing an abuse pattern in your life is to stay as much as possible untouched by the current media propaganda that focuses on labeling certain people as abusers and certain people as victims, thereby occulting the real causes of abuse in our culture. In truth it's the system itself that perpetuates abuse, as forensic psychiatry precludes any reform with the argument that the abused of today will inevitably be the abusers of tomorrow.
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- The Transformative Power of Saturn, Chiron, and Uranus
- By: Barbara Hand Clow
- Narrated by: Angela Starling
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 181
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 146
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 146
Revised and updated edition of the classic astrology text on predicting and navigating life crises. Provides charts for the transits of Saturn, Uranus, and Chiron - now updated through 2050 - to predict your personal growth cycles and timing of kundalini rising. Shares tools to cope with the intensity of spiritual emergency and direct the kundalini energy released during planetary passages. Includes a new preface by the author reflecting on 20 years of success stories since the book's initial publication.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Downloadable PDF is incomplete
- By Amazon Customer on 08-17-16
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Civilization and Its Discontents, Totem and Taboo
- By: Sigmund Freud
- Narrated by: Martyn Swain
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 22
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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is remembered as the father of psychoanalysis. Civilization and Its Discontents (1930) is one of his key works, written three decades after his seminal book The Interpretation of Dreams. In it he considers the conflict between the needs of the individual acting both egotistically and altruistically in the pursuit of happiness and the myriad demands of civilised society and the ensuing tensions this clash of needs and demands generates.
By: Sigmund Freud
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Living an Examined Life
- By: James Hollis PhD
- Narrated by: Kevin M. Connolly
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 186
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 143
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 140
How do you define “growing up?” Does it mean you achieve certain cultural benchmarks - a steady income, paying taxes, marriage, and children? Or does it mean leaving behind the expectations of others and growing into the person you were meant to be? Here acclaimed author James Hollis guides you through 21 areas for self-inquiry and growth - such as how to exorcise the ghosts of your past, when to choose meaning over happiness, how to construct a mature spirituality, and how to seize permission to be who you really are.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extraordinary compilation of Dr. Hollis' works
- By Joseph on 02-17-18
By: James Hollis PhD
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A Radical Awakening
- Turn Pain into Power, Embrace Your Truth, Live Free
- By: Shefali Tsabary
- Narrated by: Shefali Tsabary
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,108
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 945
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Story5 out of 5 stars 939
A Radical Awakening lays out a path for women to heal their psychic wounds and prepares them to discover their own powers to help heal others and the planet. Dr. Shefali helps women uncover the purpose that already exists within them and harness the power of authenticity in every area of their lives. The result is an eloquent and inspiring, practical and accessible book, backed with real-life examples and personal stories, that unlocks the extraordinary power necessary to awaken the conscious self.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Idealistic views without tools
- By Just a Dad on 06-11-21
By: Shefali Tsabary
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Living Between Worlds
- Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times
- By: James Hollis PhD
- Narrated by: Michael Cover
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 60
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 59
What guides us when our world is changing? Discover the path to deeper meaning and purpose through depth psychology and classical thought.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting book, Woeful narration
- By Roger Morris on 07-01-20
By: James Hollis PhD
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Escape from Freedom
- By: Erich Fromm
- Narrated by: Anthony Haden Salerno
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 396
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 328
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 324
lf a man cannot stand freedom, he will probably turn fascist. This, in the fewest possible words, is the essential argument in this modem classic, Escape from Freedom. The author, Erich Fromm, is a distinguished psychologist, late of Berlin and Heidelberg, now of New York City.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Why is this not required reading in high school?
- By Xander on 09-07-16
By: Erich Fromm
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Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning
- By: Viktor E. Frankl
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 321
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 225
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Story4 out of 5 stars 229
Viktor Frankl is known to millions of listeners as a psychotherapist who has transcended his field in his search for answers to the ultimate questions of life, death, and suffering. Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning explores the sometimes unconscious basic human desire for inspiration or revelation and illustrates how life can offer profound meaning at every turn.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unconscious Religiousness and the Ultimate Meaning
- By Mirek on 12-07-08
By: Viktor E. Frankl
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A New Earth
- Awakening Your Life's Purpose
- By: Eckhart Tolle
- Narrated by: Eckhart Tolle
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 19,829
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 15,390
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Story5 out of 5 stars 15,198
Humanity now, perhaps more than in any previous time, has an opportunity to create a new, saner, more loving world. This will involve a radical inner leap from the current egoic consciousness to an entirely new one. In illuminating the nature of this shift in consciousness, Tolle describes in detail how our current ego-based state of consciousness operates. Then gently, and in very practical terms, he leads us into this new consciousness. We will come to experience who we truly are and learn to live and breathe freely.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Realized Being Shares In Person...a rare find.
- By Mr. Word Sponge on 12-05-09
By: Eckhart Tolle
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The Ascent of Humanity
- Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
- By: Charles Eisenstein
- Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
- Length: 27 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 109
Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. He argues that our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science, religion, money, technology, economics, medicine, and education as we know them. It has fired our near-pathological pursuit of technological Utopias even as we push ourselves and our planet to the brink of collapse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I love this author!
- By Tamara Smith on 12-03-17
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Sacred Contracts
- Awakening Your Divine Potential
- By: Caroline Myss
- Narrated by: Caroline Myss
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,922
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,477
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,457
Would you like to discover your sacred purpose in life? With a unique system that utilizes 12 central archetypes and a symbolic Wheel of Life, Caroline Myss helps you follow your personal life path to its highest point.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Soul Agreements
- By Skyy Storm on 08-27-03
By: Caroline Myss
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Defy Gravity
- Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason
- By: Caroline Myss
- Narrated by: Caroline Myss
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 359
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 259
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 258
New York Times best-selling author Caroline Myss draws from her years as a medical intuitive to show that healing is not only physical, it is also a mystical phenomenon that transcends reason. Inspired by ordinary people who overcame a wide array of physical and psychological ailments - from rheumatoid arthritis to cancer - Caroline dove into the works of the great mystics to gain a deeper understanding of healing's spiritual underpinnings.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Defy Gravity
- By Ruth on 09-26-10
By: Caroline Myss
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The Religion of Tomorrow
- A Vision for the Future of the Great Traditions - More Inclusive, More Comprehensive, More Complete
- By: Ken Wilber
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
- Length: 30 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 196
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 169
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 166
A single purpose lies at the heart of all the great religious traditions: awakening to the astonishing reality of the true nature of ourselves and the universe. At the same time, through centuries of cultural accretion and focus on myth and ritual as ends in themselves, this core insight has become obscured. Here Ken Wilber provides a path for reenvisioning a religion of the future that acknowledges the evolution of humanity in every realm while remaining faithful to that original spiritual vision.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A mind-blowing spiritual experience
- By IW Ferreira on 09-01-17
By: Ken Wilber
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50 Self-Help Classics
- By: Tom Butler-Bowdon
- Narrated by: Jack Garrett
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 311
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 110
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Story4 out of 5 stars 112
Discover the books that have already changed the lives of millions. This award-winning, unabridged guide to the "literature of possibility" surveys 50 of the all-time classics, giving you their key ideas, insights, and applications, everything you need to know to start benefiting from these legendary works.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Surprisingly Interesting
- By Cathy Dopp on 10-15-06
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Power vs. Force
- The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior
- By: Dr. David R. Hawkins
- Narrated by: Dr. David R. Hawkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,197
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2,526
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,507
The publication of Power vs. Force by Sir David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., reveals to the general public secret information heretofore only shared by the author with certain Nobelists and world leaders. Analyzing the basic nature of human thought and consciousness itself, the author makes available to everyone the key to penetrating the last barrier to the advancement of civilization and science and resolving the most crucial of all human dilemmas.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good book – poor narrator
- By Greg on 06-28-07
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- D. Longfellow
- 07-29-18
Homophobic author wastes your time
My subject says it all. If you’re into Freud and modern homophobia, this book is for you. For the rest of us, I can’t stress enough how awful this book is. (My first review because the book is so bad).
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