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Libra Esoterica

The Penguin book of new age and holistic writing

by William Bloom

  • First published:
  • 21st century
  • Language: English

Part 1 New science: the Tao of physics, Fritjof Capra wholeness and the implicate order, David Bohm chaos - making a new science, James Gleick a new science of life, Rupert Sheldrake cosmic life-force, Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe the quantum self, Danah Zohar stalking the wild pendulum, Itzhak Bentov. Part 2 Psychology: memories, dreams, reflections, Carl Jung religions, values and peak-experiences, Abraham H. Maslow a way of being, Carl Rogers psychosynthesis, Roberto Assagioli the function of the orgasm, Wilhelm Reich the Atman-Project, Ken Wilber the phenomena of astral projection, Sylvan Muldoon and Hereward Carrington other lives, other selves, Roger Woolger. Part 3 Gaia - the living Earth: address given in January, 1954, Chief Seattle Gaia - a new look at life on Earth, J.E. Lovelock seeing green, Jonathon Porritt small is beautiful, E.F. Schumacher Ben and Jerry's double-dip, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield paradigms in progress, Hazel Henderson world as lover, world as self, Joanna Macy the new view over Atlantis, John Michell the Findhorn garden, Dorothy Maclean. Part 4 Holistic health and healing: spiritual midwifery, Ina May Gaskin the continuum concept, Jean Liedloff esoteric healing, Alice Bailey molecules of emotion, Candace Pert vibrational medicine, Richard Gerber heal your body - the mendal causes for physical illness and the metaphysical way to overcome them, Louise Hay there is a river, Thomas Sugrue the holistic herbal, David Hoffmann the road less travelled, M. Scott Peck ageless body, timeless mind, Deepak Chopra who dies?, Stephen Levine. Part 5 Feminism and the goddess: the spiral dance, Starhawk the paradise papers - the suppression of women's rites, Merlin Stone the white goddess, Robert Graves the pregnant virgin, Marion Woodman gyn/ecology - the metaethics of radical feminism, Mary Daly the wise wound, Penelope Shuttle and Peter Redgrove our bodies ourselves, the Boston women's health collective. Part 6 The shamanic and magical traditions: Black Elk speaks, Black Elk the teachings of Don Juan - a Yaqui way of knowledge, Carlos Castaneda of water and the spirit, Malidoma Some the mystical Qabalah, Dion Fortune cutting the ties that bind, Phyllis Krystal soul retrieval - mending the fragmented self, Sandra Ingerman the art of sexual ecstasy, Margo Anand. Part 7 Mystic and esoteric religion: mysticism, Evelyn Underhill the varieties of religious experience, William James the gnostic gospels, Elaine Pagels the western way II, Caitlin and John Matthews light on yoga, B.K.S. Iyengar the Tibetan book of living and dying, Sogyal Rinpoche the I Ching, Richard Wilhelm cutting through spiritual materialism, Chogyam Trungpa Zen mind, beginner's mind, Shunryu Suzuki be here now, Ram Dass. Part 8 Modern prophesy: the phenomenon of man, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin the life divine, Sri Aurobindo a course in miracles, anon the nature of personal reality, Jane Roberts.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Asian esoteric and internal traditions, Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics, Gnosticism and esoteric Christianity, Kabbalah and Jewish esotericism, Lost civilizations and anomalous archaeology, Occultism and esotericism, Out-of-body, astral, and dream studies, and UFOs, extraterrestrials, and contact.

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