In her latest work, Universal Awareness: Insights for Igniting the Power Within Us, author Gini Ruhlman reveals how our mindsets and belief systems are molded from the things we see, hear, or have been taught. She encourages us to distinguish our truths from fact and how imperative it is for us to seek direction for our personal lives rather than allow others to do it for us. Ruhlman addresses fear and control and the damaging consequences they have on us. We are empowered with the ability to create positive or negative results in life. With Wisdom and unconditional love, we can learn to use that power to grow, inspire, avoid conflicts and create peace. Finding our truth and living it defines our greatest challenge, marking our critical, invigorating turning point to embrace a truly meaningful life. Gini Ruhlman takes on this substantial task recounting insights drawn from her direct spiritual encounters and heartfelt and deeply moving journey. Explaining to her readers in clear terms how to discover this breakthrough for themselves. Gini motivates her readers to embrace the positive, transformative, and joyful possibilities for a meaningful life as they discover their true path. I highly recommend this important, refreshing, and gratifying read. John T. Chirban, Ph.D., Th.D. Harvard Medical School

History of science credits the Flemish physician, alchemist and philosopher Jan Baptist Van Helmont (1579-1644) for his contributions to the development of chemistry and medicine. Yet, as this book makes clear, focussing on Van Helmont's impact on modern science does not do justice to the complexity of his thought or to his influence on successive generations of intellectuals like Robert Boyle or Gottfried Leibniz. Revealing Van Helmont as an original thinker who sought to produce a post-Scholastic synthesis of religion and natural philosophy, Georgiana Hedesan reconstructs his ambitious quest for universal knowledge as it emerges from the text of the Ortus medicinae (1648). Published after Van Helmont's death by his son, the work can best be understood as a compilation of finished and unfinished treatises, the historical product of a life unsettled by religious persecution and personal misfortune. The present book provides a coherent account of Van Helmont's philosophy by analysing its main tenets. Divided into two parts, the study opens with a background to Van Helmont's concept of an alchemical Christian philosophy, demonstrating that his outlook was deeply grounded in the tradition of medical alchemy as reformed by Theophrastus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus (1493-1541). It then reconstitutes Van Helmont's biography, while giving a historical dimension to his intellectual output. The second part reconstructs Van Helmont's Christian philosophy, investigating his views on God, nature and man, as well as his applied philosophy. Hedesan also provides an account of the development of Van Helmont's thought throughout his life. The conclusion sums up Van Helmont's intellectual achievement and highlights avenues of future research.

In this fascinating book, the author traces the careers, ideas, discoveries, and inventions of two renowned scientists, Athanasius Kircher and Galileo Galilei, one a Jesuit, the other a sincere man of faith whose relations with the Jesuits deteriorated badly. The Author documents Kircher’s often intuitive work in many areas, including translating the hieroglyphs, developing sundials, and inventing the magic lantern, and explains how Kircher was a forerunner of Darwin in suggesting that animal species evolve. Galileo’s work on scales, telescopes, and sun spots is mapped and discussed, and care is taken to place his discoveries within their cultural environment. While Galileo is without doubt the “winner” in the comparison with Kircher, the latter achieved extraordinary insights by unconventional means. For all Galileo’s fine work, the author believes that scientists do need to regain the power of dreaming, vindicating Kirchner’s view.

What if just by simply becoming aware of something, you can change your entire life? What if awareness is the key to healing yourself on all levels. Through awareness, you can make the impossible possible. What if “Impossible” simply means you just don’t understand it yet? Would you believe it? Since the beginning of time, we’ve been told by many spiritual leaders and masters, it all comes down to awareness. But what does that mean? Whenever this is said, many people respond by asking, “is awareness enough?” Not only is it enough, but it is absolutely everything. You see, your level of awareness dictates your belief systems, thus dictating what you ‘can’ and ‘can’t’ do. For this reason, as your awareness expands, the way you live your life completely changes as well. As your awareness expands, the way you think changes. As your awareness expands, the way you heal changes. As your awareness expands, the way you perceive the world around you changes. As your awareness expands, the way you perceive the world within you changes. Are you ready to access higher awareness? If you are, a new world awaits.

An important medieval Islamic philosopher who is little known outside the Persian world, Afdal al-Din Kashani held the position that philosophy awakens people from forgetfulness and incites them to reach for the perfection of existence.

"With lucidity and elegance, Zukav explains that we are evolving from a species that pursues power based upon the perceptions of the five senses -- external power -- into a species that pursues authentic power -- power that is based upon the perceptions and values of the spirit. He shows how the pursuit of external power has produced our survival-of-the-fittest understanding of evolution, generated conflict between lovers, communities, and superpowers, and brought us to the edge of destruction. Using his scientist's eye and philosopher's heart, Zukav shows how infusing the activities of life with reverence, compassion, and trust makes them come alive with meaning and purpose. He illustrates how the emerging values of the spirit are changing marriages into spiritual partnerships, psychology into spiritual psychology, and transforming our everyday lives. The Seat of the Soul describes the remarkable journey to the spirit that each of us is on."--Amazon.com.

The second instalment of the Mind Travelers Trilogy. A tasteful Sci-Fi action adventure novel that explores life and death, reincarnation, out of body experiences and futuristic interior design, playfully positing hi-tech inventions and lifestyle of the future along-side the physics of time travel. This follow up novel focuses predominantly on the journey of Victor's next incarnation, Harold, and includes juicy plot lines dealing with greed and manipulation; patent-jacking; double-cross; interstellar travel; sushi and wine; fantastic futuristic technology; physics and best of all time travel.