If it aint one thing its another was a catchy phrase I often heard growing up. At the time, I didnt give it much thought, except that I heard it a lot. But fast forward a few decades, and I get it; in life, theres always going to be something! I recently heard a pastor say as he delivered the eulogy for a young man who had battled addiction most of his life: We all have issues. And if you are sitting out there in your pew thinking that you dont have any, then maybe thats your issueyou think you dont have any. Man, was he on target. Theres always something! Its your health. Disease is robbing you of your joy. Free your mind! Its your finances. You just lost your job and bills are piling up. Free your mind! Its your addiction. Your life is spiraling out of control. Free your mind! Its your weight. You know you need to do better but cant seem to get a grip. Free your mind! Its your run-ins with the law. Youre an ex-convict, stuck in the penal systems revolving door. Free your mind! Its your childhood. Abuse and rape have left you with wounds so deep that they have festered into a sore that just wont heal. Free your mind! Its your relationships. Youve been beaten and battered by your spouse and you dont know where to turn. Free your mind! Its your gender identity. You are gay and you feel trapped. Free your mind! Free Your Mind and the Best Will Follow is a guide to letting go of your issues and living your dreams. It is a book of stories, spiritual truths, and activities that will help you realize that you are so much more than your circumstances and conditions. Now is the time to reconnect with your inner power. Its time to let go of your past.

The search for true happiness and our own authenticity is one of our deepest and most natural inclinations, yet the majority of us spend our entire lives never having found the answer to these questions: Who am I? Why am I here? What is my purpose? These questions seem so simple, yet they are extraordinarily difficult to answer. But what does living authentically really mean? If we could wake up tomorrow and be our authentic selves, who would we be? What type of things would we do? In what ways would our lives change? What would it take to make you happy with your life? It doesnt matter if youre rich or poor, young or old, or all things in between. The truth is that the majority of us are dissatisfied with our current states of living. This is because we are not being authentic with ourselves. It is time for us to discover how our minds work; learn how we create our reality; enlarge our vision; find our true selves. We struggle daily seeking out ways in which to make our lives reflect who we feel we are, while striving to survive, but who are we really? Who are we as individuals with individual consciousness? As a member of a society that shares a collective consciousness, who are we? Its time to seek out the new youthe true you.

Free will is a key but contested concept in the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: while the famed philosopher is known to have asserted that free will distinguishes human beings from animals, several interpreters have argued that he merely pretends to have this belief for the sake of healthy politics and to avoid persecution by religious authorities. Through careful readings of key texts and letters, The Free Animal offers a new and original exploration of Rousseau’s views on free will. Lee MacLean shows that Rousseau needs and uses the idea of human consciousness of free will to explain the development of morality, convention, and vice. MacLean bases her argument on a broad range of texts, from canonical works to Rousseau’s untranslated letters and drafts. Featuring careful analyses and an extensive engagement with the secondary literature, The Free Animal offers a novel interpretation of the changing nature and complexity of Rousseau’s intention.

In this book the author examines the stubborn philosophical belief in moral responsibility, surveying the philosophical arguments for it, but focusing on the system that supports these arguments: powerful social and psychological factors that hold the belief in moral responsibility firmly in place.--Publisher's description.