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...amples from science and Kabbalah that the ego stands behind all human suffering, but also shows how we can use it to our benefit. With clear analyses of the human soul and its problems, the book provides a 'roadmap' indicating how we can achieve a new level of existence and fulfillment....

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...Chaos to Harmony The Solution to the Global Crisis According to the Wisdom of Kabbalah Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Translation: Chaim Ratz Editor: C... ...M CHAOS TO HARMONY The Solution to the Global Crisis According to the Wisdom of Kabbalah Copyright © 2006 by MICHAEL LAITMAN All rights reserved P... ...gy from the Russian Academy of Sci- About the Author 13 ences in Moscow. In recent years, Rav Laitman has been cooperating with leading scientists... ...hers. This is a fundamentally different principle from the one that motivates humans. Cells in organisms unite by reciprocal giving for the sake of ... ...arts, this builds within us a desire to en- joy that is twice as strong as the original desire. What satisfies us today will not satisfy us tomorrow.... ... to this fact, despite the great difficulties they pose for the children. The recent increase in the number of old-age homes, an unheard of institut... ...method that enables us to do that is the wisdom of Kabbalah. This is also the origin of its name. Kabbalah means to receive. Hence, the wisdom of Ka... ...s state of affairs. In the past, before the West interfered with their lives, Africans provided for themselves. Today, however, despite the food an... ...h explains that we are all one soul, materi- alized in many bodies. Similarly, modern science states that at the most fundamental level, we are all l...

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...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...

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...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

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... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics Pgs 223-266 Human Psychobiolog... ...Splitting of Life Energy Pg 192 The Definition of What is Human Pg 198 The Origin of Culture Pg 206 The Tool-Dynamic of Civilized Culture Pg 21... ...undead Pg 1865 Sports and Hitting Pg 1867 Possession by the undead and the Origin of all evil Pg 1874 Postscript ... ...y lacked certain crucial scientific facts which have come to light until just recently... but because the entire question about the origin of our Un... ...ht, smell and hearing, compete and survive during the seasonal drought of the African Veldt? The drying up of vegetation, waterholes, the migrating... ...n live for 2 weeks in the Veldt from the marrow found in the thigh bone of an African antelope. Not only could they eat what was inside the bones, ... ...me that no other kinds or levels of energy exist except those which have just recently been discovered? We cannot explain life-energy by any ki...

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...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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...d Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download free... ... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...ocess of distancing and dehumanization I call "exclusionary conscience". The most recent examples are the massacre of the Tutsis in Rwanda, the Ho... ...ry quiddity of the oppressive state, its laws, police, prisons, and army? Are the origins of the coercive state and its justification not firmly r... ...mary asymmetry that anarchism must address. Anarchy (as Organizing Principle) The recent spate of accounting fraud scandals signals the end of an ... ...wever arbitrarily defined or capriciously delimited) just because of their common origin or habitation. The State of Israel is not exclusionary. T... ...en connected to "desirable genes" (pleitropy). Sickle cell anemia protects certain African tribes against malaria. This is called "diversifying or ... ... hotels (or luxurious apartments) overlooking the communist, or Middle-Eastern, or African shantytowns. They drive utility vehicles to the shabby o...

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...Modern labour theories and practice. Covers issues like employment, unemployment, migration, brain drain, entrepreneurship, workaholism, and trade unions....

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... listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake com...

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...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ...ans are more likely to be given the task of healing the afflicted. In our modern world we look to science for probabilities, such as which potential... ... add when you have a calculator? Why consider alternative theories of the origin of the universe when we have the Bible? Why consider us to be anim... ...documents we have to be concerned with the biases of those who copied the original works or those who transcribed the oral traditions. ―So Ho... ...t empirical science has to offer. ―Father Ray, Cardinal Schonborn recently said that ‗Dogmas of faith are OK, but not the dogmas of science‘... ...recruits. Isn‘t that true Father?‖ --‖Yes it is. The Vatican recently announced that there is only one priest for every 2,677 Catholics... ...rs as your older population. This might be because more are educated. And African-Americans, who have less education on the average, have twice the n... ...ssions. ―We have increased the rights of deserving minorities, such as African-Americans and Hispanics, while concurrently expanding the rights o...

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...Most readers of this book will have had some type of religious instruction. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live...

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...What Is Religion? 1Buddhism 16Christianity 59Mysticism 118A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238Conclusion 277References 293The Collected Works Of Carl Jung 299...

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...on Published by the Author York, Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book was published under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millenniu... ...lished under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with tex... ... Concept Of The Buddha Buddhist Yoga Zen Buddhism And Jung Christianity 59 Origins How Much Does Historical Truth Matter? Centrality Of Beliefs In Chr... ...r with Plato. I could sense that he had come upon an insight which has its origins in something far deeper than mere intellectual reasoning. His mento... ... roots of religious belief and practice I could find what I was missing in modern day religion. I enrolled in Union Theological Seminary in the city o... ...formation. Although at UTS a friend had introduced me to Jung’s short book Modern Man in Search of a Soul which became a very close friend of my own s... ...s been a feature of human activity, yet we have detailed knowledge of only recent manifestations of religious thought. The principal reason for this i... ...e importance of this fact is that where known religious icons and (in more recent times) writings do survive, it is likely that there is up to two mil... ...ion of God arises within some groups (e.g., Jews, Muslims, Hindus, various African tribes, some varieties of American Indian culture), while other gro...

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...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of Southeast A... ... 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 5 MY VISIT TO SINGALING by Lemuel Gulliver XVI a... ...The magnificent buildings were monuments to the most creative thoughts of modern architecture. The pastel hued apartments were a colorful backdrop f... ...al beating, gang killings, and I think even sarcasm, generally find their origins in a lack of a loving home. The Singalingians are attempting to st... ...idual buying power more if you hadn‟t borrowed from China to finance your recent wars and tax breaks? Your leaders didn‟t look at the long term trend... ...he idea that all men are brothers or that we all are products of the same African origin. “So the low rate of population growth began to con... ...that all men are brothers or that we all are products of the same African origin. “So the low rate of population growth began to concern the... ...89 a $20,000 tax rebate was announced for a fourth child. “The more recent Singaporean slant is that having children is now a duty to your soci... ...ally qualified for pareenthood. “Some might call it genocide for Africans or Latin Americans if licenses were required in those area, but w...

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...e ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinat...

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Hawaii Business Magazine in tribute to the APEC meeting of 2011.

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...- 32 Air Conditioning from Seawater -- 36 America’s Most Diverse State -- 38 Local Economy -- 40 Hawai‘i’s Ties to the APEC Economies -- 42 A History of Innovation -- 44 Astronomy, and Ocean and Earth sciences -- 48 Turning Science Into Practical Inventions -- 56 Winners of the Hawai‘i Business Innovation Showcase -- 60 Breakthroughs in Health and Medicine -- 68 Hawai‘I Di...

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