epub |eng | 2008-09-03 | Author:Handbook of Religion & Mental Health (1998)

Psychosocial Outcomes. While recognizing how the religious connotations of the 12-step program have remained an obstacle for many potential participants and clinicians, Peteet (1993) examined the positive effects of the ...

epub |eng | 2019-04-12 | Author:Gael McCool

“Denied the comforting blanket of illusory permanence and absolute truth, we have the opportunity and obligation to do something extraordinary: to see the world as it is, and to understand ...

epub |eng | 2018-06-12 | Author:Rupert Sheldrake

Ritual Sacrifice Until recently, some traditional societies practiced human sacrifice, which is now banned by law everywhere. But it still happens, and is now called ritual murder. In 2006, in ...

epub |eng | | Author:Ben Connelly

Organ / Sense Base Consciousness Sense Object Eye Eye Consciousness Sight Ear Ear Consciousness Sound Nose Nose Consciousness Smell Tongue Tongue Consciousness Taste Body Body Consciousness Touch Manas Mano / ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:D. Jason Slone [Slone, D. Jason]

Representing the Buddha At the heart of the question about why Buddhists are “religious” if the Buddha taught nontheism is a more fundamental question about the nature of the Buddha. ...

epub |eng | 2011-04-15 | Author:Owen Flanagan [Flanagan, Owen]

6 Virtue and Happiness This alone—one’s service to sentient beings (sattvaraddhana) is pleasing to Tathagatas [Enlightened or Awakened Ones]. This alone is the actual accomplishment of one’s goal. This alone ...

epub |eng | 2015-03-16 | Author:Scott Carney [Carney, Scott]

10. Twelve Years, Fifteen Feet I did not marry Geshe Michael because I was in love with him. And he did not marry me because he was in love with ...

epub |eng | 2007-06-12 | Author:Eagleton, Terry;

Chapter 3 The eclipse of meaning Consider this brief exchange in Anton Chekhov’s play Three Sisters: MASHA: Isn’t there some meaning? TOOZENBACH: Meaning? … Look out there, it’s snowing. What’s ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2004-09-01 | Author:Scott Adams [Adams, Scott]

* * * GENERAL CRUZ PLANS WAR * * * Cruz’s generals busied themselves with the details of war planning: supply lines, target priorities, communications backup, and combat readiness. Cruz ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2016-03-14 | Author:Andrew Newberg & Mark Robert Waldman [Newberg, Andrew]

GOD’S ORIGINAL NAME Although one does not have to believe in God to reach Enlightenment, God often can provide an important focus for facilitating it. But it depends on how ...

epub |eng | | Author:Lewis Wolpert

CHAPTER NINE Paranormal beliefs For what a man had rather be true he more readily believes. Francis Bacon 1561–1626 A large number of people hold paranormal beliefs even though others ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-20 | Author:Eddie S. Glaude Jr. [Jr., Eddie S. Glaude]

African Americans from every sector of life were drafted to fight the battle against fascism in World War II. More than 3 million African American men enlisted in the armed ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-09-26 | Author:Chet Raymo

NINE Academy in Revolt The only source of knowledge is experience. Albert Einstein ELS A EINSTEIN WAS once asked if she understood her famous husband's theory of relativity. She replied, ...

epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Flora Jessop & Paul T. Brown [Jessop, Flora & Brown, Paul T.]

11 Shauna I went back to my waitress job at Shoney’s and promptly met a customer who stole my heart. Terrel—everyone called him Terry—was tall, with long hair and tattoos. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-19 | Author:Barrett, Justin L [Barrett, Justin L]

A boy was swimming alone in a swift and rocky river. The boy got his left leg caught between two large, gray rocks and couldn’t get out. Branches of trees ...