Molly is a thirty-year-old woman searching for the meaning of life, looking for an answer to the three questions that she has not yet found an answer to: Who am I? What is my purpose? When will I know? Her partner Jake is a forty-year-old cynical film producer who has no interest in the answers to life. He thinks that life is just what it is: a struggle until you die and then it’s over. They embark on a Mind Flight journey into the unknown, where everything is slowly revealed as being known. It is a journey that is spiritual, fearful, informative and, more importantly, a story of truth – a truth of the self of the human being. It also reveals how we function, how our beliefs and emotions restrict us and how nothing is as it really seems. When we face the truth of life, its magic reveals itself to us in all its mysterious wonder. It is a journey of immense possibility, heartbreaking truth and uncomfortable reality, where Molly gets the answers to her questions as Jake turns from a cynic into a believer at the very moment that life is about to be taken away by the only thing that we have no control over: Death... Mind Flight, similar in tone to The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo, is a gripping work of spiritual fiction that weaves in self-help elements and teaches as it entertains.

With great honesty, and both drama and romance, Mind Flight weaves together personal narrative and intellectual odyssey, taking readers along on the authors pursuit of wisdom and enlightenment, his search for love, and his quest for an inspiring vision of the future. Encyclopedic in scope, the book pulls together Plato, Freud, Spinoza, Nietzsche, and other epochal historical figures with Pink Floyd, the Hippies, the Sexual Revolution, A Clockwork Orange, the Yin-Yang, the madhouse world of mental health, and the fantastical visions of science fiction. What results in this grand saga is not only a chronicle of one mans journey from industrial, middle-class Americawhere weightlifting and fist fighting define virtue and valueto the philosophical life in the mystical expanse of the Southwest, but a profound exploration of the archetypal themes of order and chaos; good and evil; truth and beauty; passion and reason; and science and God. Mind Flight draws the reader into the vast wonders and possibilities of the future, and is a stunning example of living the examined life.

In this major new book on Virginia Woolf, Caramagno contends psychobiography has much to gain from a closer engagement with science. Literary studies of Woolf's life have been written almost exclusively from a psychoanalytic perspective. They portray Woolf as a victim of the Freudian "family romance," reducing her art to a neurotic evasion of a traumatic childhood. But current knowledge about manic-depressive illness—its genetic transmission, its biochemistry, and its effect on brain function—reveals a new relationship between Woolf's art and her illness. Caramagno demonstrates how Woolf used her illness intelligently and creatively in her theories of fiction, of mental functioning, and of self structure. Her novels dramatize her struggle to imagine and master psychic fragmentation. They helped her restore form and value to her own sense of self and lead her readers to an enriched appreciation of the complexity of human consciousness.

The Awakening presents a profound yet simple message: how to awaken from emotional imprisonment and find psychological freedom.Many of us feel we are not living life to the full or living it as we should. Haunted by anxiety, we long for lifelines that can lift us out of the mundane into what Seamus Heaney called 'the marvellous'. If you feel like this, then The Awakening may be for you.Drawing on the wisdom of ancient Ireland and using the symbol of the Celtic Cross as an image for how to live, Dr O'Connor shows us that we inhabit both a vertical and a horizontal life, which intersect where the eternal breaks into the everyday and ordinary activities are infused with an extraordinary purpose.Taking you beyond mindfulness and introducing delightful new concepts like 'Mind-Flight', this book uncovers the sparkling jewels buried in the rubble of life's indifference. You can turn a tiny space into a palace, a misfortune into an opportunity, a disability into a blessing and fly when life expects you to fall. The Awakening, like the first light at Newgrange, will illuminate the hidden blessings in what may seem to be your darkened life.

Make it to resemble a man Sans emotions of any kind Ignorant of pain and pleasure Cold: bereft of heart and soul One to kill at my command. From 'PANDORA'