Self Improvement Books

Edgar Cayce: Psychic Interpretation of the Old Testament

spirit — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:52:37 +0000

Edgar Cayce : Prophecies to Come (disclose.tv)

Ellen Langer: Mindfulness

spirit — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:44:28 +0000


"A landmark work of social psychology" (Booklist) now in paperback at a popular price. " . . . Harvard psychology professor Langer seeks to dramatize the rigid conditions and mindsets that often produce a pervasive state of automatized stupidity . . . (and) proposes a life-enhancing alternative."--Kirkus Reviews.

Steve Zaffron on Rewriting the Future of Your Organization

spirit — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:41:30 +0000

When a hurricane warning is announced, everyone's concerns and actions become focused on that expectation; the hurricane essentially becomes the future which people are "living into." Similarly, when an organization needs to transform or make the leap to a higher level, everyone involved should be "living into" the vision of the organization's new, improved future. But in the majority of organizations, the future people are living into is based on past performance and experience, and so major transformation is almost impossible. Steve Zaffron is, CEO of Vanto Group which has helped hundreds of companies envision and effectively implement major change and performance improvement. Zaffron and Dave Logan outline this proven system for rallying all of an organization's employees around a new vision, and more importantly, making it stick. Their focus is on making such transformations permanent and repeatable, providing practical examples from Vanto Groupâ��s clients such as Apple, Lockheed Martin, Reebok, BHP-Billiton, Johnson & Johnson, Morgan Stanley, and many others.

Extraordinary Life 106 Year Old Woman

spirit — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 01:56:00 +0000

An African American centenarian shares wisdom from a life well lived An inspirational, dynamic, and one-of-a-kind woman, Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson's ordinary life has been nothing less than extraordinary throughout the course of her 105 years. The oldest living black graduate of Case Western Reserve University, Ella Mae is the child of former slaves who has experienced the best and worst of the past century, including the 2009 presidential inauguration, which she memorably attended last January. Through it all, she has endured-and thrived-by believing that compassion is the key to the good life. In It Is Well with My Soul, she shares her insights on living a long and enjoyable life and her hopes for the future.

106-Year-Old Woman Becomes U.S. Citizen (huffingtonpost.com)

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

spirit — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:51:09 +0000

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam as translated by Edward FitzGerald has long been one of the most beloved, and least understood, poems in the English language. In an illuminating new interpretation, Paramahansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of a Yogi, reveals the mystical essence of this enigmatic masterpiece, bringing to light the deeper truth and beauty behind its veil of metaphor. Commonly thought to be a celebration of wine and other worldly pleasures, these lyrical Persian quatrains find their true voice when read as a hymn to the transcendent joys of Spirit. This beautifully illustrated edition of Wine of the Mystic introduces for the first time in book form Paramahansa Yogananda's complete commentaries on an enduring treasure of world literature. Yogananda said: "One day as I was deeply concentrated on the pages of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat, I suddenly beheld the walls of its outer meanings crumble away, and the vast inner fortress of golden spiritual treasures stood open to my gaze. Ever since, I have admired the beauty of the previously invisible castle of inner wisdom in the Rubaiyat. I have felt that this dream-castle of truth, which can be seen by any penetrating eye, would be a haven for many shelter-seeking souls invaded by enemy armies of ignorance. Profound spiritual treatises by some mysterious divine law do not disappear from the earth even after centuries of misunderstanding, as in the case of the Rubaiyat. Not even in Persia is all of Omar Khayyam's deep philosophy understood in its entirety, as I have tried to present it."Winner of the 1995 Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Book in the Field of Religion, this edition features 50 beautiful original color illustrations and includes Persian text and spiritual commentary to each quatrain.

One of my favourites poems from Omar Khayyam is the one below. There is a fatalistic acceptance to it and it connects us to all living things, as we are all, without favour, subject to the inevitability of present actions and events being permanently written in the past.

The moving finger writes and having writ moves on

Nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line

Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it

HumanistLife : Humanist Heroes: Omar Khayyam by Dabir Tehrani (humanistlife.org.uk)
Omar Khayyam, boozy nihilist (wired.com)
There was a Door to which I found no Key: [Zahir shamsery] (ecademy.com)
Hell, paradise and flowers (linusfernandes.com)
Cuckoos, Magna Carta and sufi love poetry: why Liam Fox was wrong to knock the 13th century (independent.co.uk)

Perspective On Dementia & Alzheimers Care

spirit — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:41:13 +0000

In Deeper Into The Soul: Beyond Dementia and Alzheimer's Toward Forgetfulness Care, the authors invite us to shift our attitude toward dementia, or Forgetfulness, as they call it. Accompanying us are four characters -- a sage, a psychologist, a physician, and an intern -- who each see Forgetfulness from a different viewpoint. The goal is to develop a perspective which includes the basic ingredients of openness, curiosity, and acceptance.

Best Friends With People with Alzheimers Disease (nursingassistants.net)
How to spot the early signs of dementia (telegraph.co.uk)
Depressed elderly at risk for dementia or Alzheimer’s disease (kevinmd.com)

Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Gregory Bateson

spirit — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:37:46 +0000

Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. With a new foreword by his daughter Mary Katherine Bateson, this classic anthology of his major work will continue to delight and inform generations of readers. "This collection amounts to a retrospective exhibition of a working life. . . . Bateson has come to this position during a career that carried him not only into anthropology, for which he was first trained, but into psychiatry, genetics, and communication theory. . . . He . . . examines the nature of the mind, seeing it not as a nebulous something, somehow lodged somewhere in the body of each man, but as a network of interactions relating the individual with his society and his species and with the universe at large."--D. W. Harding, New York Review of Books "[Bateson's] view of the world, of science, of culture, and of man is vast and challenging. His efforts at synthesis are tantalizingly and cryptically suggestive. . . .This is a book we should all read and ponder."--Roger Keesing, American Anthropologist Gregory Bateson (1904-1980) was the author of Naven and Mind and Nature.

More on knowability (barefootbum.blogspot.com)
Anthropology (independent.co.uk)

Care of the Soul: Thomas Moore

spirit — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:50:09 +0000

Care of the Soul is considered to be one of the best primers for soul work ever written. Thomas Moore, an internationally renowned theologian and former Catholic monk, offers a philosophy for living that involves accepting our humanity rather than struggling to transcend it. By nurturing the soul in everyday life, Moore shows how to cultivate dignity, peace, and depth of character. For example, in addressing the importance of daily rituals he writes, "Ritual maintains the world's holiness. As in a dream a small object may assume significance, so in a life that is animated by ritual there are no insignificant things." This is the eloquence that helped reintroduce the sacred into everyday language and contemporary values.

Michael Book: Understanding Reincarnation

spirit — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:46:23 +0000


Unique in the market, this book usefully explores how reincarnation works and why people behave in such a multitude of ways.

How reincarnation works (holykaw.alltop.com)

Psalms That Comfort and Mend the Soul

spirit — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:33:57 +0000

Bill Crowder: Singing the Songs of the Brokenhearted: Psalms That Comfort and Mend the SoulNowhere are the personal depths of grief and the cry of the broken heart more clearly revealed than in the Psalms. Through their honest, gut-level responses to their real-life circumstances, the psalmists show joy, anger, bitterness, guilt, resentment, vindictiveness, and most of the other emotions all of us feel at some time in our lives. In looking carefully at Psalms 6, 12, 13, 22, 32, 39, 42, 56, 69, and 73, the author explains how they reveal the truth about our own grief, despair, defeat, guilt, fear, desperation, hate, stress, unfairness, and sin. â��The Lord is near to the brokenhearted,â�� assures the psalmist. In a pain-filled world, only He can heal our broken hearts.

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