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26.01.2021

“Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture” by Designing the Mind

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"Is it possible to rewire your own negative emotions? Can you reprogram your self-limiting beliefs or behavioral patterns? This book will argue that it is possible for you to unplug from your own mind, identify its patterns, and become the architect of your own enlightenment. A bold and fascinating dive into the nuts and bolts of psychological evolution, Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture is part inspiring manifesto, part practical self-development guide, all based on the teachings of thinkers like Marcus Aurelius, Lao Tzu, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Abraham Maslow. The ideas and techniques it offers are all woven together into a much-needed mindset to help people lead better, happier lives. If you have ever tried...>>

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26.01.2021

“Emotional Freedom: Techniques for Dealing with Physical and Emotional Distress” by Garry A. Flint

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"EFT: Spoon-fed Emotional Freedom is a short book that teaches EFT. It is described as a method with a short chapter teaching each part of the method with clarity and clear illustrations. Notable are chapters that give an orderly approach to treating barriers, an explanation of the use of shortcuts, and a chapter that teaches your subconscious to treat issues on demand. Also, an appendix includes lists of issues and aspects to help the reader identify and treat additional issues that would otherwise be overlooked. There is also a Flow Diagram of the entire treatment method. For those more spiritually inclined, there is a chapter that will teach the subconscious of some readers the EFT method....>>

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26.01.2021

“Stand out of our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy” by James Williams

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"Former Google advertising strategist, now Oxford-trained philosopher James Williams launches a plea to society and to the tech industry to help ensure that the technology we all carry with us every day does not distract us from pursuing our true goals in life. As information becomes ever more plentiful, the resource that is becoming more scarce is our attention. In this 'attention economy', we need to recognise the fundamental impacts of our new information environment on our lives in order to take back control. Drawing on insights ranging from Diogenes to contemporary tech leaders, Williams's thoughtful and impassioned analysis is sure to provoke discussion and debate. Williams is the inaugural winner of the Nine...>>

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26.01.2021

“American Possessions: Fighting Demons in the Contemporary United States” by Sean McCloud

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"Stories of contemporary exorcisms are largely met with ridicule, or even hostility. Sean McCloud argues, however, that there are important themes to consider within these narratives of seemingly well-adjusted people who attend school, go shopping, watch movies, and also happen to fight demons. American Possessions examines Third Wave spiritual warfare, a late twentieth-, early twenty-first century movement of evangelicals focused on banishing demons from human bodies, material objects, land, regions, political parties, and nation states. While Third Wave beliefs may seem far removed from what many scholars view as mainstream religious practice, McCloud argues that the movement provides an ideal case study for identifying some of the most prominent tropes within the contemporary American religious...>>

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26.01.2021

“Elemental Philosophy: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water as Environmental Ideas” by David Macauley

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"Bachelard called them “the hormones of the imagination.” Hegel observed that, “through the four elements we have the elevation of sensuous ideas into thought.” Earth, air, fire, and water are explored as both philosophical ideas and environmental issues associated with their classical and perennial conceptions. David Macauley embarks upon a wide-ranging discussion of their initial appearance in ancient Greek thought as mythic forces or scientific principles to their recent reemergence within contemporary continental philosophy as a means for understanding landscape and language, poetry and place, the body and the body politic. In so doing, he shows the importance of elemental thinking for comprehending and responding to ecological problems. In tracing changing views of the...>>

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