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But as fields of knowledge become increasingly specialized, it gets harder and harder to see how disparate strands of understanding could possibly integrate into a unified whole. How do science and religion fit together? Is one right and the other wrong? Or are they both telling us truths about different aspects of a single reality? Is there a theory large enough to embrace it all?
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Within each of us is a "cauldron" of knowledge and wisdom about ourselves and the world, which we can access through shamanic techniques. Scully describes how and why trance journeys into the world of deities, totems, and archetypes work to give us courage, insight, or healing.
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With the help of goddess archetypes that every woman can cultivate within herself — older women can revolutionize the way they live and the way they are seen by society. Bolen suggests specific goddess archetypes that embody compassion, fierceness, humor and wisdom in older women. She points out, "in all cultures the divinity of wisdom is feminine."
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If you feel time has speeded up and the pace keeps getting faster, Margo Adair has some tools to transform the situation. With a non-sectarian approach that borrows from Quaker and Buddhist principles, she addresses problem-solving through visualization, intuition and the imagination.
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According to today's conventional scientific wisdom, time flows strictly forward - from the past to the future through the present. We can remember the past, and we can predict the future based on the past (albeit imperfectly), but we can't perceive the future. However, there are those scientists who are studying and performing repeatable experiments to demonstrate that precognition, the ability to perceive the future, is possible. One such scientist...
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Woodman believes that facing the intense power of your own heart is the only way to truly connect with other living things. She says we must not be "afraid of the intensity of opening ourselves to our real personhood." Her insight in analyzing ancient folk tales and applying them to current events is intriguing. She will inspire you to get out of your soul's way.
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In a heartfelt discussion, Phil Catalfo talks about how we, as parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, can guide our children's spiritual development at a time when we are questioning our own. As we become disenchanted with the all-too-material world in which we live, Catalfo feels we must not only foster our children's spiritual growth, but we also need to help them find a way to apply it in this world.
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Cats and dogs bring to us many gifts including companionship and unconditional love. Carlyn Montes De Oca points out that "These furry companions are scientifically proven stress-busters in, perhaps, this most stressed-out age that humanity has ever known." Here we explore how our cats and dogs can be our health and wellness allies. Carlyn Montes De Oca is the author of Dog as my Doctor, Cat as my Nurse.
12) Eating Wisdom
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One of life's greatest pleasures is eating, according to Weil, who cuts through the national obsession with diet and weight like a knife through an overripe papaya. Dr. Andrew Weil believes there doesn't have to be a distinction between healthy food and pleasurable food. His sensible advice stems from a belief in a natural, balanced approach to health and healing.
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This is for everyone who has ever felt that mystical awareness and inner contentment are impossible given their current life situations. Mystical traditions, on the contrary, widely agree that ordinary experience is where we find the key to deep involvement in life.
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In 1969 Elisabeth Kubler-Ross asked, "What happens to us as we die?" In 1975 Raymond Moody asked, "What happens to us when we die?" In 1994, Sherwin Nuland introduced us to the physical realities of death itself. One of the first researchers to study the cross-cultural dimensions of the after death, Sukie Miller here asks, "What happens to us after we die?"
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Homer survived being trapped, without Cooper, for days after 9/11 in an apartment near the World Trade Center. Listen as Cooper shares how his unswerving loyalty, his infinite capacity for love, and his joy in the face of all obstacles inspired her daily and transformed her life.
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Paul Rademacher guides us to engage the world in ways that invite mystical experiences into our lives every day. It's not easy, he notes, in a culture where the dominant belief system is rooted in science and the physical world. But the direct experience of altered states of awareness is available to each of us.
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