Transpersonal means beyond the personality. It refers to the innate creative and spiritual resources we all have. When you need help or are called upon to help someone else, these resources can make a crucial difference. This book offers you the principles and step-by-step techniques of transpersonal practice, backed up by many case stories and the latest scientific research. Our hope is that every helping professional learns how to do transpersonal work.
The number one emotional challenge in the entire human world is the stimulation of our vulnerability and the fear, anxiety and anger it provokes in us. The Schaubs demonstrate that it is the very universality of our vulnerability that offers us a new way to see it and be in harmony with it. Offering specific, intimate examples of the choices people make to deny their vulnerability, they show you how to practice the awareness of vulnerability and how to turn toward it with courage and serenity. The End of Fear helps you to accept your vulnerability and to allow it to be your realistic spiritual path of connection to every other living being.
Why are we afraid? Why do we dwell on worst-case scenarios, lie awake in anxiety's grip, and react to minor mishaps as though they threaten our very survival? Chances are you don't envision the world's or your own catastrophic end on a daily basis; however, we are all routinely altered by fear - from simply feeling nervous about a new experience to repeatedly rethinking a critical comment. In The End of Fear, Richard and Bonney Schaub explore the origin of fear down to its root and posit that it grows out of our innate love of life. They teach that fear is so influential because deep down we know that our life is unpredictable and that we are all vulnerable; we risk change and loss at every moment. No religion grants any exemption, and no amount of money or status can change this fact for us.Using examples from their lives and those of their patients, the Schaubs draw upon their 30 years of experience as psychotherapists to explore the common methods people turn to in order to cope with their basic vulnerability. After this exploration, the Schaubs lead us on a spiritual journey that teaches us to skillfully turn toward fear and transform it. Once we stop fleeing from or fighting fear and instead face it with compassion, we'll be free to realize and achieve our full potential for peace, joy, and love.
Dante's Path guides you along the steps of the classic Western spiritual journey. Oprah's "O Magazine" called the first edition (2003) of Dante's Path "divine therapy," and letters came in from clergy, counselors, nurses, executives, teachers, soldiers, and seekers of many backgrounds telling how Dante's Path helped them to increase their conscious contact with their innate spiritual nature. This new second edition is filled with specific steps, methods, detailed explanations and images so that you can go on the classic spiritual journey for yourself. First described by the Florentine mystical poet Dante in 1307 in the masterpiece "The Divine Comedy," this path has been studied for centuries by people around the globe. The most famous part of "The Divine Comedy" is the Inferno (the worst aspect of human nature), but Dante's true intention was to teach about the practices of freeing ourselves from suffering (purgatory) and experiencing illuminations and higher consciousness (paradise). Six hundred years later, the visionary Florentine psychiatrist, Roberto Assagioli, MD, integrated Dante's insights into a school of self development, psychosynthesis, so that people could make these important discoveries for themselves. Looking for a psychology that respected spirituality, the authors studied Assagioli, which led to their own immersion into Dante and the city of Florence itself. The authors call the discoveries along Dante's Path "transpersonal" (meaning "beyond the personality") and advocate that each person without exception can develop their natural transpersonal intelligence. They have gone on to teach Assagioli's work and transpersonal intelligence internationally for over 35 years and now train health professionals to be transpersonal teachers for their patients, clients, and students. Dante's Path is for any seeker who wants a realistic, pragmatic approach to increasing peace and wisdom in their daily life.
Two pioneers in holistic psychology address such disorders as depression, anxiety, and addiction from a spiritual perspective, using Dante's Divine Comedy as a metaphor for personal growth. 30,000 first printing.
In bacteriology's Golden Age (roughly 1870-1890) European physicians focused on bacteria as causal agents of disease. Advances in microscopy and laboratory methodology--including the ability to isolate and identify micro-organisms--played critical roles. Robert Koch, the most well known of the European researchers for his identification of the etiological agents of anthrax, tuberculosis and cholera, established in Germany the first teaching laboratory for training physicians in the new methods. Bacteriology was largely absent in early U.S. medical schools. Dozens of American physicians-in-training enrolled in Koch's course in Germany, and many established bacteriology courses upon their return. This book highlights those who became acknowledged leaders in the field and whose work remains influential.
In ruling against the controversial historian David Irving in his libel suit against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt, last April 2000, the High Court in London labeled him a falsifier of history. No objective historian, declared the judge, would manipulate the documentary record in the way that Irving did. Richard J. Evans, a Cambridge historian and the chief advisor for the defense, uses this pivotal trial as a lens for exploring a range of difficult questions about the nature of the historian's enterprise. For instance, don't all historians in the end bring a subjective agenda to bear on their reading of the evidence? Is it possible that Irving lost his case not because of his biased history but because his agenda was unacceptable? The central issue in the trial -- as for Evans in this book -- was not the past itself, but the way in which historians study the past. In a series of short, sharp chapters, Richard Evans sets David Irving's methods alongside the historical record in order to illuminate the difference between responsible and irresponsible history. The result is a cogent and deeply informed study in the nature of historical interpretation.
Richard J. Evans worked on the historical evidence on behalf of the defence during the Irving libel trial. In Telling Lies about Hitler, the author discusses the importance of historical writing and the social role of historians in such trials.
Originally published in 1991, user charges and earmarked taxes are methods by which people pay directly for the services they recieve from government. As such they are frequently supported by those who oppose increased taxation, who argue that they are more like market transactions than traditional forms of taxation. This book explores the cogency of these arguments in the light of public choice analyses of political processes.
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