Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

Two controversial authors debate the nature and methods of science, its dogmas, and its future.

Stimulating and often startling discussions between three friends, all highly original thinkers: Rupert Sheldrake, controversial biologist, Terence McKenna , psychedelic visionary, and Ralph Abraham , chaos mathematician.

Arne Ness (Naess) (1912-2009) shows with careful questioning of people who are not professional philosophers that there is no single common notion of truth, and indeed the variety of views that philosophers hold on truth are held by more or less equal proportions of those he interviews.

Time and Space in Formal Logic begins with an analysis of assumptions about how logic and language relate.

This series of books presents the fundamentals of logic in a style accessible to both students and scholars.

Backed by its technological achievements, modern science appears as the de facto source of truth to the majority of our contemporaries.

We all wish to know whence we have come and whither we are going.

This volume offers a strong treatment of what enlightenment is and is not, and of the principles that underlie its arisal.

Part 1, Advanced Contemplation, offers a direct route to the deepest mystical states--yielding permanent results of a metaphysical, transpersonal, and universal nature.

Nearly everyone has brief moments of exalting contact with his or her own divine Soul: this book shows how to make the most of those moments; how to recognize, develop, test, and follow through on intuitions; how to contact the source of inspiration and make its vitalizing power a continuous presence.

Examining the relationship between perception and events, this highly significant volume contributes several important ideas to the "e;bridge"e; between modern science and perennial wisdom teachings.

This volume stresses the importance of veneration for the source of Life at all levels of human development.

The eleventh volume in the Notebooks of Paul Brunton is a timely, informed evaluation of mysticism, paranormal experience, sects and cults.

This tenth volume in The Notebooks of Paul Brunton presents, in-depth, the fifteenth major section in the personal notebooks Dr.

Part 1, Human Experience, examines the spiritual lessons implicit in daily living, the need for educational reforms, the causes and purposes of personal suffering, special problems and opportunities of youth and age, problems of marriage and relationship, and how to convert contemporary crises into opportunities for dramatic spiritual growth.

Reflections on My Life and Writing is a mosaic of autobiographical excerpts from Paul Brunton's personal notebooks.

Part 1, Healing of the Self, explores fundamental principles of healing.

Part 1, The Ego, is one of Paul Brunton's greatest and most unique gifts to the literature of realization--a truly earth-shaking piece of work for serious spiritual seekers.

This fifth volume in The Notebooks of Paul Brunton is an in-depth presentation of the sixth and seventh major topics in the personal notebooks of Dr.

Part 1 of the fourth volume of Paul Brunton's Notebooks series, bound here separately in paperback.

Part 1, Practices for the Quest, goes to the heart of various disciplines, exercises, and techniques that are useful at various stages of spiritual self-discovery and self-development.

This second volume in The Notebooks of Paul Brunton gives timely, candid advice about the promises and pitfalls of spiritual seeking.

Theophobia is the latest volume in Bruce Beasley's ongoing spiritual meditation which forms a kind of postmodern devotional poetry in a reinvention of the tradition of John Donne, George Herbert, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and T.

The Secret Source reveals the actual occult doctrines that gave birth to The Law of Attraction and later inspired the media phenomenon known as The Secret.

Some of the most provocative questions confronting philosophers in Africa are grounded in the historical memory of conquest and the peripheralisation the continent.

Some of the most provocative questions confronting philosophers in Africa are grounded in the historical memory of conquest and the peripheralisation the continent.

The very idea that the teachings can be mastered will arouse controversy within Buddhist circles.

Stimulating and often startling discussions between three friends, all highly original thinkers: Rupert Sheldrake, controversial biologist, Terence McKenna , psychedelic visionary, and Ralph Abraham , chaos mathematician.

For someone whose influence has been so profound on Western thinking remarkably little is known of the Greek philosopher and thinker Plato.

For someone whose influence has been so profound on Western thinking remarkably little is known of the Greek philosopher and thinker Plato.

For someone whose influence has been so profound on Western thinking remarkably little is known of the Greek philosopher and thinker Plato.

For someone whose influence has been so profound on Western thinking remarkably little is known of the Greek philosopher and thinker Plato.

For someone whose influence has been so profound on Western thinking remarkably little is known of the Greek philosopher and thinker Plato.

For thousands of years philosophers and theologians have grappled with the problem of evil.

Thomas Aquinas has always been viewed as a highly importantfigure in Western Civilization, and the chief philosopher of RomanCatholicism.

The traditional account of mind/body union attributed to Descartes supposes that the immaterial, thinking mind and the material, non-thinking body interact by means of efficient causation - that the mind causes events in the body, e.

A strong and growing intuition in society today is the idea that our thoughts create our own reality.