Philosophy
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-07-02 | Author:Bostrom, Nick [Bostrom, Nick]

The first-order effect of such a capability would seem to be to consolidate power, and possibly to concentrate it in fewer hands. Unification by treaty There may be large potential ...
( Category: Intelligence & Semantics January 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-02-04 | Author:Charles Eisenstein [Eisenstein, Charles]

And in Ecclesiastes 2:8 we read, … I gathered me also silver and gold, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces; I gathered me men-singers and women-singers, and ...
( Category: Civilization & Culture January 24,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-10-23 | Author:Mantak Chia

Fig. 3.24. Expanding a chi ball beneath the sternum 7. Pull up the genitals, bladder, kidneys, liver, and spleen toward the tongue. Contract the muscles around the heart and lungs, ...
( Category: Prostate Disease January 24,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-09 | Author:Mantak Chia

Eye Connection to the Liver The eyes are the extension and orifices of the liver. The fingernails and eyebrow hair store surplus Chi from the tendons. The fingernails, eyebrow hair, ...
( Category: Taoism January 24,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-16 | Author:Mantak Chia

TAOIST DEVELOPMENT LINE Through the Universal Tao practices, this peak state can be maintained and even improved upon during the following decades. Getting older does not have to mean getting ...
( Category: Taoism January 24,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-12-07 | Author:Mantak Chia

INTERMEDIATE LEVEL When all the points covered in the beginning level have been integrated into the Tai Chi form, you can continue the refining process at the intermediate level. Feel ...
( Category: Taoism January 24,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:John D. Barrow [Barrow, John D.]

Fig 8.3 Three possible futures for an oscillating universe: (a) An oscillating universe of many equal cycles. (b) The size of the expansion maximum should grow as the oscillations continue ...
( Category: Metaphysics January 23,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-13 | Author:Einstein, Albert [Einstein, Albert]

The Institute for Intellectual Co-operation DURING THIS YEAR THE leading politicians of Europe have for the first time drawn the logical conclusion from the truth that our portion of the ...
( Category: Essays January 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-04 | Author:Virtue, Doreen [Virtue, Doreen]

Energy Work and Sensitivity All of the Earth Angel realms report extreme sensitivity to energy from crowds, individuals, and places. Yet, the Starpeople realm is the most apt to study ...
( Category: Near-Death Experiences January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-04-01 | Author:Geshe Tashi Tsering & Lama Zopa Rinpoche & Gordon McDougall

For the Prasangika Madhyamaka masters such as Chandrakirti, the obscurations to enlightenment have been identified as the propensities of the innate mind to grasp at things and events as having ...
( Category: Philosophy January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-08-19 | Author:Sherdor, Tulku [Sherdor, Tulku]

Any illusion I had harbored about the prospect of ending my legal career on a quiet note, however, was shattered ridi-culously early one morning in the fall of 2004, when ...
( Category: Lawyers & Judges January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2004-10-26 | Author:Matthieu Ricard & Trinh Xuan Thuan

A correct understanding of emptiness thus stops us from falling into the traps of realism or nihilism. Meditation on emptiness attenuates the belief in the real existence of things. But ...
( Category: Eastern January 22,2015 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2000-10-17 | Author:Chogyam Trungpa

Illustration 6 CHAPTER NINE The Five Buddha Families Tantra is extraordinarily special, and extremely real and personal. The question in this chapter is how to relate our own ordinary existence ...
( Category: Eastern January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 1992-08-25 | Author:Rnin-ma-pa

Vajrayana sadhanas are intended to remedy human alienation from the totality of what is: the energies that constitute the play of the universe, and their corresponding active presence within the ...
( Category: Philosophy January 22,2015 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2007-08-21 | Author:Rodger Kamenetz

Zalman Schachter gave me a beautiful midrash on this subject. He told me, “Shlomo Carlebach said something that deserves attention. He quotes a Hasidic master, Rabbi Mordecai Joseph, the Izhbitzer ...
( Category: Theology January 22,2015 )