A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of 2016 William James is often considered a scientist compromised by his advocacy of mysticism and parapsychology. Jonathan Bricklin argues James can also be viewed as a mystic compromised by his commitment to common sense. James wanted to believe in will, self, and time, but his deepest insights suggested otherwise. "Is consciousness already there waiting to be uncovered and is it a veridical revelation of reality?" James asked shortly before his death in 1910. A century after his death, research from neuroscience, physics, psychology, and parapsychology is making the case, both theoretically and experimentally, that answers James's question in the affirmative. By separating what James passionately wanted to believe, based on common sense, from what his insights and researches led him to believe, Bricklin shows how James himself laid the groundwork for this more challenging view of existence. The non-reality of will, self, and time is consistent with James's psychology of volition, his epistemology of self, and his belief that Newtonian, objective, even-flowing time does not exist.
Winner of the prestigious Kalamazoo Silver Spoon Fictional Book prize, for the most absurd hard-boiled detective novel of the century. Sayonara, Sucker is a surreal, serio-comic, slightly erotic, mystery, thriller, neo-noir, page-turner, set in a parallel universe. Geronimo Katzenjammer is a world-class cliff diver in the twilight of his career, and on the verge of a mid-life crisis, when he meets Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii, a mysteriously alluring lounge singer who's undergone experimental mermaid augmentation surgery. Death-defying cliff diving, killer Mexican food, sex, murder, mermaids and mayhem ensue. But leave it to the legendary alcoholic private eye, Salty "Sally" McGuffin, to save the day. Dazzling with his pistol but unlucky in love. Sally will stop at nothing to save Geronimo and bring the devilishly handsome Armenian thumb wrestler and criminal mastermind, Danny Darbinyan, to justice. This is a story about love and deception, good versus evil, aliens, detectives, cliff divers, disgruntled baby unicorns, and the search for meaning in an utterly incomprehensible universe. "An instant timeless classic!" -Anonymous This story was absolutely mad from start to finish - in an escapist, absurdly amusing way. Normally, I'm a sex-scene skipper, rarely do I find the details better described than they could be imagined, but in this book, the details of the sex scenes embraced such a wanton vulgarity that I didn't want to stop reading. There's a real, suspenseful mystery behind all the madness. -Abigail Ted I loved this book. I had a ton of fun reading it. This is not something I would have thought to pick up on my own, but I'm so glad you opened my eyes to a new type of book that I had a blast reading. -Jay Townsend
James's notion of sciousness or "pure experience" is akin to Zen tathata (suchness). Japan's renowned philosopher Kitaro Nishida, in fact, used James's concept to explain tathata to the Japanese themselves. As this collection of essays makes clear, Western practioners of Zen and other nondual practices need not be spiritual vagabonds. We need, rather, to claim our inheritance from the "father of American psychology.
Discusses how William Jamess work suggests a world without will, self, or time and how research supports this perspective. William James is often considered a scientist compromised by his advocacy of mysticism and parapsychology. Jonathan Bricklin argues James can also be viewed as a mystic compromised by his commitment to common sense. James wanted to believe in will, self, and time, but his deepest insights suggested otherwise. Is consciousness already there waiting to be uncovered and is it a veridical revelation of reality? James asked shortly before his death in 1910. A century after his death, research from neuroscience, physics, psychology, and parapsychology is making the case, both theoretically and experimentally, that answers Jamess question in the affirmative. By separating what James passionately wanted to believe, based on common sense, from what his insights and researches led him to believe, Bricklin shows how James himself laid the groundwork for this more challenging view of existence. The non-reality of will, self, and time is consistent with Jamess psychology of volition, his epistemology of self, and his belief that Newtonian, objective, even-flowing time does not exist.
Timely advice for getting a grip on information overload in the workplace This groundbreaking book reveals how different kinds of information overload impact workers and businesses as a whole. It helps businesses get a grip on the financial and human costs of e-mail overload and interruptions and details how working in an information overloaded environment impacts employee productivity, efficiency, and morale. Explains how information?often in the form of e-mail messages, reports, news, Web sites, RSS feeds, blogs, wikis, instant messages, text messages, Twitter, and video conferencing walls?bombards and dulls our senses Explores what we do with information Documents how we created more and more information over centuries Reveals what all this information is doing Timely and thought-provoking, Overload! addresses the reality of?and solutions for?a problem to which no one is immune.
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