THE MARK OF A TRUE MASTER is that he can express a subject of the utmost complexity with uncanny simplicity. Jed McKenna is such a master, and spiritual enlightenment is his subject.
His first book, Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing, was an instant classic and established him as a spiritual teacher of startling depth and clarity. Now, his second book, Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment, takes us on a fascinating tour of the enlightened state — what it is and what it’s not, who’s there and who’s not, how to get there and how to get somewhere better.
Delightful surprises abound, including the dramatic unveiling of perhaps the greatest spiritual masterpiece of all time — long hidden in plain view and well known to all. Whitman, Melville, Thoreau, Mark Twain and U.G. Krishnamurti all appear, and a student from the first book returns to share her Spiritual Autolysis journals. Also surprising are the author’s gentle efforts to guide the reader away from enlightenment toward a more desirable and accessible state.
Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged,
Missing me one place, search another,
I stop somewhere, waiting for you.
— Walt Whitman —
Jed McKenna’s books aren’t for everyone. They’re for people who are tired of the spiritual merry-go-round and ready to confront the unadorned reality of the awakening process. If you like your teachers with all the spiritual trimmings and trappings, Jed may not be right for you, but when you’re ready to jump off the merry-go-round and begin your journey, Jed McKenna is the guy you want to see standing there — waiting for you.
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Brad Blanton - Neale Donald Walsch - Honest to God
"Nobody tells the truth about anything anymore. Not anything important. Everybody's lying to everybody else, and everybody knows it." With these words, two great figures in the emerging culture of consciousness begin a searingly powerful dialog about the practical applications of honesty in our everyday lives. Neale Donald Walsh, five times New York Times bestselling author of the book series Conversations with God, and Brad Blanton, noted seminar leader and bestselling author of the Radical Honesty books, here speak with one voice about the new spiritual revolution and its application to both personal and political life. This book shows the absolute necessity for individual and social transformation and the absolute necessity for honesty in order to bring it about. Climbing down from the ivory tower of philosophers to tackle the problems that vex real people - lying about income taxes, a spouse's infidelity, a terminal diagnosis for a parent or child, the sudden loss of a job, the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks - the authors give us a blueprint for living fully, authentically and honestly in a world full of lies. And they fearlessly confront the changes we need in governance to deal with the social tragedies that focus the attention of today's world. Their message of honesty offers real hope. Yet it does not gloss over the courage and conviction required to make lasting changes. The authors show that just as great personal tragedy often sparks positive growth if we're willing to face it, great social tragedy can also serve as a pivotal opportunity for positive social transformation.
Eckhart Tolle - A New Earth
Eckhart Tolle's "A New Earth" will be a cornerstone for personal spirituality and self-improvement for years to come, leading readers to a new levels of consciousness and inner peace. Taking off from the introspective work "The Power of Now", which is a number one bestseller and has sold millions of copies worldwide, Tolle provides the spiritual framework for people to move beyond themselves in order to make this world a better, more spiritually evolved place to live. Shattering modern ideas of ego and entitlement, self and society, Tolle lifts the veil of fear that has hung over humanity during this new millennium, and shines an illuminating light that leads to happiness and health that every reader can follow.
Rhonda Byrne - The Secret
Once known only by an elite who were unwilling to share their knowledge of the power, 'the secret' of obtaining anything you desire is now revealed by prominent physicists, authors and philosophers as being based in the universal Law of Attraction. And the good news is that anyone can access its power to bring themselves health, wealth and happiness. Fragments of The Secret have been found in oral traditions, literature, religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. A number of the exceptional people who discovered its power went on to become regarded as the greatest human beings who ever lived. Among them: Plato, Leonardo, Galileo and Einstein. Now 'the secret' is being shared with the world. Beautiful in its simplicity, and mind-dazzling in its ability to really work, The Secret reveals the mystery of the hidden potential within us all. By unifying leading-edge scientific thought with ancient wisdom and spirituality, the riveting, practical knowledge will lead readers to a greater understanding of how they can be the masters of their own lives.
Morten Toft - Fitting Together the Puzzle of Your Life
Morten Tofts facilitates "success" oriented workshops around the world. This book is a successful combination of his knowledge and guidance through powerful processes, his easy-to-follow style and his telling of stories from his own life that we can all relate to. Fitting Together the Puzzle of Your Life is a wonderful tool for finding and walking the path of ones heart and creating a life filled with joy, health and personal strength. The CD accompanying the book is entitled Out of Nowhere. Many of the compositions are directly related to and inspired by the book. The use of music to accompany the processes (Superlearning) and to play again for reminding the subconscious of the breakthroughs that were achieved makes this a powerful set!
Joseph Chilton Pearce - Spiritual Initiation and the Breakthrough of Consciousness
SPIRITUALITY / SELF-HELP
Shakti is the creative force, the bonding power, that holds the universe together. Shaktipat is the moment when enlightenment is instantaneously conferred upon a student by a master’s touch. The guru conferring shaktipat creates a bond of power in those who have accepted him or her as their teacher. In Spiritual Initiation and the Breakthrough of Consciousness Joseph Chilton Pearce describes his experience of shaktipat from his teacher Swami Muktananda. From this awakening Pearce undergoes a dramatic shift of mind and comes to the realization that perception is reality and that insight is our only vehicle for profound self-transformation.
Oneness with God is the birthright of every individual, though we are culturally vaccinated to resist experiencing this higher consciousness. Our search for objective truth has led us not to wholeness, but instead to the belief that we have no bond to each other, to God, or to an inanimate, physical world. The challenge faced by modern humanity, which is the challenge Muktananda gave to his students, is to passionately gather up the scattered fragments of our lives and channel them into the creative realm, where, with insight or revelation, we will be able to become more than ourselves.
JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE is the author of The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, The Biology of Transcendence, Magical Child, From Magical Child to Magical Teen, and Evolution’s End. For the past twenty-five years he has taught about the changing needs of children and the development of human society. He lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
Rhonda Byrne - The Power
You are meant to have an amazing life! In this book I want to show you the way to an amazing life. There is so much for you to know about life, and it is all good. In fact, it is beyond good. It is phenomenal!
Life is so much easier than you think it is, and as you come to understand the way life works, and The Power you have inside you, you will experience the magic of life in its fullness - and then you will have an amazing life!
Now let the magic of your life begin.
- from The Power
Jan Goldstein - Life Can Be This Good
Wonder is everywhere — if we would just notice it and invite it in. In this book, Jan Goldstein offers 40 life-affirming stories of people who opened themselves to all that is possible and were rewarded with miraculous experiences. The author describes a four-step process for turning the ordinary into the extraordinary: Listen, Open, Step Into, and Receive. This simple method brings greater recognition of and gratitude for the luminous moments in life. “This book is a lifetime of deep breaths. Jan Goldstein is right on target. Life really can be this good.” — Richard Carlson, author of Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff
Rajiv Malhotra - Indra's Net
Defending Hinduisms Philosophical Unity, it is fashionable among intellectuals to assert that dharma traditions lacked any semblance of unity before the British period and that the contours of contemporary Hinduism were bequeathed to us by our colonial masters. Such arguments routinely target Swami Vivekananda, a key interlocutor who shattered many deeply rooted prejudices against Indian civilization. They accuse him of having camouflaged various alleged contradictions within traditional Hinduism and charge him with having appropriated the principles of Western religion to manufacture a coherent and unified worldview and set of practices known today as Hinduism. Indras Net: Defending Hinduisms Philosophical Unity provides a foundation for theories that slander contemporary Hinduism as illegitimate, ascribing sinister motives to its existence and characterizing its fabric as oppressive. Rajiv Malhotra offers a detailed, systematic rejoinder to such views and articulates the multidimensional, holographic understanding of reality that grounds Hindu dharma. He also argues that Vivekanandas creative interpretations of Hindu dharma informed and influenced many Western intellectual movements of the post-modern era. Indeed, as he cites with many insightful examples, appropriations from Hinduism have provided a foundation for cutting-edge discoveries in several fields, including cognitive science and neuroscience.
Julian Baggini - The Ego Trick
A riveting and profound exploration of what the 'self' actually is, by Britain's best-loved popular philosopher.
Are you still the person who lived 15, 10 or five years ago? 15, 10 or five minutes ago? Can you plan for your retirement if the you of 30 years hence is in some sense a different person? What and who is the real you? Does it remain constant over time and place, or is it something much more fragmented and fluid? Is it known to you, or are you as much a mystery to yourself as others are to you?With his usual wit,infectious curiosity and bracing scepticism, Julian Baggini sets out to answer these fundamental and unsettling questions.His fascinating quest draws on the history of philosophy, but also anthropology, sociology, psychology and neurology;he talks to theologians, priests, allegedly reincarnated Lamas , and delves into real-life cases of lost memory, personality disorders and personal transformation; and, candidly and engagingly, he describes his own experiences.After reading The Ego Trick, you will never see yourself in the same way again.
Eckhart Tolle - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer - Miért fontos, hogy rendkívüliek legyünk?
Ki vagyok én?
Mit keresek itt?
Mi az élet értelme?
A két nagy hatású spirituális tanító őszinte és megindító, komoly témákat feszegető, mégis könnyed hangvételű beszélgetésben válaszolja meg létezésünk alapvető kérdéseit. Miért fontos, hogy rendkívüliek legyünk? Eckhart Tolle és dr. Wayne W. Dyer a maga utánozhatatlanul humoros stílusában rámutat, miért vagyunk mindnyájan a magunk módján rendkívüliek, és mi tesz minket valóban emberré. Csak akkor indulhatunk el az öntudatra ébredés útján, ha felismerjük magunkban saját rendkívüliségünket.
„Rendkívülinek lenni azt jelenti: felébredt lénynek lenni. Az ember nem a gondolkodással való teljes azonosulás álomvilágában mozog, hanem tudatos, jelenlévő. A rendkívüli a tudatosság. Az ember maga ez a tudatosság.”
Eckhart Tolle
„A tökéletességről lenevelnek minket. Inkább rászoktatnak egy olyan életre, amelyben a tulajdon és a siker felhalmozása a cél. Így aztán azt hisszük, azzal vagyunk azonosak, amivel rendelkezünk, és ahogyan teljesítünk, és sosem fedezzük fel magunkban a rendkívüliséget. Rendkívülinek lenni pedig azt jelenti, hogy megbecsüljük a saját nagyszerűségünket, azt, ami vagyunk, minden pillanatunkban, amely megadatott.”
dr. Wayne W. Dyer
„Öt példaképem van. E könyv mindkét írója közéjük tartozik. Ezek után magától értetődő, hogy szívből ajánlom művüket.”
dr. Domján László agykontrolloktató
A könyv a mellékelt DVD-n szereplő beszélgetés teljes szövegét tartalmazza.
Thomas Metzinger - The Ego Tunnel
Consciousness, mind, brain, self: the relations among these four entities are explored by German cognitive scientist and theoretical philosopher Metzinger, who argues that, in fact, there is no such thing as a self. In prose accessible mainly to those schooled in philosophy and science, Metzinger defines the ego as the phenomenal self, which knows the world experientially as it subjectively appear[s] to you. But neuroscientific experiments have demonstrated, among other things, that the unitary sense of self is a subjective representation: for instance, one can be fooled into feeling sensations in a detached artificial arm. So the author argues that the ego is a tunnel that bores into reality and limits what you can see, hear, smell and feel. Metzinger tests his theory by ranging over events of the consciousness such as out-of-body experiences, lucid dreaming and free will, and he concludes by probing ethical actions and what a good state of consciousness would look like. Most readers will have difficulty penetrating Metzinger's ideas, and those who do will find little that is genuinely new.
Palócz Zita - Kézikönyv útkeresőknek
E könyvet gyakorlati útmutatónak szánom egy egészségesebb, boldogabb élethez.
Elárulok egy nagy titkot: a lehető legjobb, legnagyobb segítség önmagad számára te magad vagy!
Mélységesen bízom abban, mire a könyv végére érsz, nem csak hinni, de tudni is fogod, hogy így van. A miértek megértéssé, a félelem szeretetté, azaz egész elemmé alakul, mert rájöttél a legfontosabb feladatra: elfogadod és szereted azt a csodát, aki vagy!
Leo Babauta - Zen to Done
Zen To Done takes some of the best aspects of a few popular productivity systems (GTD, Stephen Covey and others) and combines them with the mandate of simplicity. It makes things as simple as possible, and no more.
Rhonda Byrne - The Secret Daily Teachings
The Secret Daily Teachings is one of the most powerful tools you can use to transform your life into total joy. With its unique design and totally original content, it gives readers a daily opportunity to embrace more fully the concepts and principles that made The Secret an international publishing and cultural phenomenon. Rhonda Byrne provides a fresh insight, exercise or quotation on each page that will allow you to access the power within you to attract health, wealth, happiness and every good thing you desire. The text is inspired by the literally millions of email questions Rhonda has received since the publication of The Secret. Her warm, inspiring advice to them is collected here for the first time, providing a deeper understanding of the principles behind the original book. Designed to provide a new idea every day of the year, this book is unlike any other book or calendar on the market: each page can be removed and easily attached wherever the reader would like to see it - on a computer monitor, fridge, mirror, anywhere at all. The pages are contained in a paper-over-board case that flips open at the top, making this unusual book a beautiful and durable object.With 365 entries in all, The Secret Daily Teachings is a brilliant new way of using the principles of The Secret to increase you magnetic power and attract a magnificent life beyond your wildest dreams.
Spitzer Gyöngyi (Soma Mamagésa) - Hogyan ne sárkányosodjunk el?
Tényleg minden nő egy potenciális házisárkány? Mit lehet tenni egy kapcsolat ellaposodása ellen? Vajon a sors vagy a szabad akarat irányítja az ember életét? Valóban szükségünk van az illúziókra ahhoz, hogy tovább tudjunk lépni?
Ehhez hasonló izgalmas és húsbavágó kérdésekre keresi a választ Soma Mamagésa legújabb kötete, amely az elmúlt évek legjobb és legérdekesebb előadásaiból válogat. Soma néha humorral, máskor szenvedéllyel, olykor elgondolkodva, de mindig nagy alapossággal járja körül témáit hallgatóit és olvasóit egyaránt elragadtatva.
Valójában mindig ugyanoda lyukadunk ki: a szeretethez. A szeretet, a gyűlölet. A szeretet eteti, táplálja az életerőt, a gyűlölet kiöli. Irányuljon az magunk, vagy mások felé. Amiért mi felelősséget vállalhatunk: az saját magunk. A saját elsárkányosodásunkért. Úgyhogy kívánok mindenkinek bátor tükörbe nézést, és sok-sok erőt!
Gretchen Rubin - The Happiness Project
Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. "The days are long, but the years are short," she realized. "Time is passing, and I'm not focusing enough on the things that really matter." In that moment, she decided to dedicate a year to her happiness project.
In this lively and compelling account of that year, Rubin carves out her place alongside the authors of bestselling memoirs such as Julie and Julia, The Year of Living Biblically, and Eat, Pray, Love. With humor and insight, she chronicles her adventures during the twelve months she spent test-driving the wisdom of the ages, current scientific research, and lessons from popular culture about how to be happier.
Rubin didn't have the option to uproot herself, nor did she really want to; instead she focused on improving her life as it was. Each month she tackled a new set of resolutions: give proofs of love, ask for help, find more fun, keep a gratitude notebook, forget about results. She immersed herself in principles set forth by all manner of experts, from Epicurus to Thoreau to Oprah to Martin Seligman to the Dalai Lama to see what worked for her—and what didn't.
Her conclusions are sometimes surprising—she finds that money can buy happiness, when spent wisely; that novelty and challenge are powerful sources of happiness; that "treating" yourself can make you feel worse; that venting bad feelings doesn't relieve them; that the very smallest of changes can make the biggest difference—and they range from the practical to the profound.
Written with charm and wit, The Happiness Project is illuminating yet entertaining, thought-provoking yet compulsively readable. Gretchen Rubin's passion for her subject jumps off the page, and reading just a few chapters of this book will inspire you to start your own happiness project.
Osho - Az ego könyve
Az ego nem más, mint a valódi éned ellentéte. Az ego nem te vagy. Az egót a társadalom találta ki; ezzel csapnak be, hogy nyugodtan játszadozhass tovább vele, mint valami játékszerrel, és soha ne gondolkozz el azon, hogy mi is a valóság. Ezért mondom folyton, hogy amíg nem szabadulsz meg az egódtól, addig képtelen leszel megismerni önmagad. (...)
Michael J. Roads - Getting There
Adam Baker, an eco-farming consultant, is divorced, estranged from his family... totally miserable. Walking on a deserted beach, he meets "Selph, " a precocius, overweight, wisecracking, sloppily-dressed teenager who appears out of nowhere and claims to be his long-sought spiritual teacher. Wanting to get Adam's attention, Selph brings a long-dead seabird back to life. Thus begins this funny, insightful, dramatic, and fast-paced adventure about the meaning of life. With Selph's wit, antics, and not-so-gentle guidance, Adam evolves from embittered selfishness to understanding life, death, and the spiritual basis of the universe. Against a background of passionate romance, injury, pain, and the harsh beauty of Australia, this magical story will enlighten and entertain and inspire you to appreciate and celebrate life, no matter what the circumstances of "fate" may bring your way.
Robert Greene - The Art of Seduction
The season's most talked-about all-purpose personal strategy guide and philosophical compendium," said Newsweek of Robert Greene's bold, elegant, and ingenious manual of modern manipulation, The 48 Laws of Power. Now Greene has once again mined history and literature to distill the essence of seduction, the most highly refined mode of influence, the ultimate power trip.
The Art of Seduction is a masterful synthesis of the work of thinkers such as Freud, Ovid, Kierkegaard, and Einstein, as well as the achievements of the greatest seducers throughout history. From Cleopatra to John F. Kennedy, from Andy Warhol to Josephine Bonaparte, The Art of Seduction gets to the heart of the character of the seducer and his or her tactics, triumphs and failures. The seducer's many faces include: the Siren, the Rake, the Ideal Lover, the Dandy, the Natural, the Coquette, the Charmer, and the Charismatic. Twenty-four maneuvers will guide readers through the seduction process, providing cunning, amoral instructions for and analysis of this fascinating, all-pervasive form of power. Just as beautifully packaged and every bit as essential as The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction is an indispensable primer of persuasion and offers the best lessons on how to take what you want from whomever you want or how to prevent yourself from being taken
Paul Ch. Donders - Creative Life Planning
Believe it or not, there is a plan for your life, and it is up to you to discover it. This book will help you with that, to actiely shape your life and find your own calling. Together with God, everyone is called to create a unique work of art from their lives.