New Philosopher

In The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him personally. He narrates the education of Locke, including his becoming the first African American Rhodes Scholar, earning a PhD in philosophy at Harvard University, and his long career as a professor at Howard University. And yet he became most closely associated with the flowering of Black culture in Jazz Age America.

An immediate sensation when it was first published in two volumes in 1945, Popper's monumental achievement has attained legendary status on both the Left and Right and is credited with inspiring anticommunist dissidents during the Cold War. Arguing that the spirit of free, critical inquiry that governs scientific investigation should also apply to politics, Popper traces the roots of an opposite, authoritarian tendency to a tradition represented by Plato, Marx, and Hegel.

Here is a special presentation of mystical teacher Neville Goddard's first full-length book, At Your Command, as it originally appeared in 1939. In this immensely practical short work, you receive a complete understanding of Neville's method for using the true nature of your imaginative powers of creativity. Neville discloses his extraordinary and testable claim that your awakened imagination is God Itself.

Many of us tend to live as though Jesus represents the "spiritual part" of our lives. We don't clearly see how he relates to the rest of our experiences, desires, and habits. How can Jesus, the Bible, and Christianity become more than a compartmentalized part of our lives? Highly regarded New Testament scholar and popular teacher Jonathan Pennington argues that we need to recover the lost biblical image of Jesus as the one true philosopher who teaches us how to experience the fullness of our humanity in the kingdom of God.

It is impossible to overstate the cultural significance of the four men described in Don Lattin's The Harvard Psychedelic Club. Huston Smith, tirelessly working to promote cross-cultural religious and spiritual tolerance. Richard Alpert, aka Ram Dass, inspiring generations with his mantra "be here now". Andrew Weil, undisputed leader of the holistic medicine revolution. And, of course, Timothy Leary, the charismatic, rebellious counterculture icon and LSD guru.

They say that turning lead into gold is a myth. In 1380 the king of England passed a law forbidding the transmutation of base metals into gold. He did that because he had an alchemist who was making gold for him, and he wanted to prevent competition. Now we are told that making gold from lead was a myth. One is left asking, "Why would the king forbid doing something that was a myth?" Thus the legend of the Philosopher stone (the mysterious powder used to make gold) began. Was it a myth? We are going to submit that it was not a myth. We are going to tell you a cotton farmer from Arizona has ...