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Standing in the Light
My Life as a Pantheist
In a glorious new memoir, a prize-winning natural science writer meditates on the history and meaning of pantheism.
- Publications Books
- July 1, 2008
- 356 pages
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"Memoirs of the Soul" with Nan Phifer
Writing is a great way to make sense of your life, and as we move towards our elder years we have an opportunity to harvest the meaning of our lives ...
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2011-02-24
- 01:01:59
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Walking Through Walls
A Memoir
Running with Scissors meets Bewitched in this irresistible memoir, as Philip Smith describes growing up in 1960s Miami with his decorator father, who one day discovers he has the miraculous power to talk to the dead and heal the sick.
- Publications Books
- September 16, 2008
- 352 pages
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A Spiritual Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe
Travel Tips for the Spiritually Perplexed
A Spiritual Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe is the perfect book for readers who feel that their religious tradition no longer satisfies their spiritual needs. An elegantly written memoir and meditation, the book explores the many paths of enlightenment available to readers looking beyond today's churches, temples, and synagogues.
- Publications Books
- May 22, 2009
- 296 pages
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Do You See What I See?
Memoirs of a Blind Biker
Do You See What I See? is the remarkable story of a visually impaired physicist who sees beyond perception to help readers find meaning and joy.
- Publications Books
- May 23, 2008
- 296 pages
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"Experiments and Practice in Energy Healing" with William Bengston
Dr. Bill Bengston has produced the first known full lifespan cures of cancer in experimental animals using healing techniques that he helped to develop. A recounting of his 30 years ...
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2011-05-04
- 01:44:46
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The Journey of Robert Monroe
From Out-of-Body Explorer to Consciousness Pioneer
In 1971 Doubleday published a book called Journeys Out of the Body, a Virginia businessman's memoir of his weird and wonderful adventures on other planes of reality. That book, which has sold more than a million copies, and that man, Robert Monroe, helped cement the concept of astral travel into the American psyche ...
- Publications Books
- July 13, 2007
- 408 pages
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William Bengston, PhD
Dr. Bengston is a professor of sociology at St. Joseph’s College in New York, and President of the Society for Scientific Exploration, an international group of scientists who study anomalies. For over twenty five years, Dr. Bengston has been doing research into anomalous healing and has numerous publications. His research has produced the first successful full cures of transplanted mammary cancer and methylcholanthrene induced sarcomas in experimental mice by laying-on-of-hands techniques that he helped to develop. He has recently published a memoir, The Energy Cure, with Sounds True, along with a 6 CD set Hands on Healing: A Training Course in the Energy Cure, which describes his healing techniques.
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Nan Phifer
Nan Phifer, author of Memoirs of the Soul: A Writing Guide, serves as an associate director for the Oregon Writing Project at the University of Oregon and presents workshops for writers' groups, libraries, religious and contemplative organizations, continuing education programs, and retreat and renewal organizations. Her interest in American Literature and her Master of Liberal Arts studies at The Johns Hopkins University contributed background for her present work. Her workshops range from monthly sessions in Indianapolis where she co-guided pastors in writing to explore their vocational dedication, to a retreat in the Rocky Mountains, to nation-wide, on-line teaching for Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. At The Church of the Epiphany in Washington, DC, she led participants in writing to design sacred space, and on the West Coast she guided writers in exploring wilderness without, and within, themselves. Currently, she designs a series of interfaith writing workshops.
To learn more about Nan’s book and workshops, please go to www.memoirsofthesoul.com or write to her at nanphifer@mac.com.
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Bernard Haisch
Bernard Haisch is an astrophysicist who has done research in solar-stellar astrophysics and stochastic electrodynamics and is best known for developing (with Alfonso Rueda) a theory proposing that a hypothetical "zero-point-field inertia resonance" might provide a physical explanation for the origin of inertia, and more controversially, might someday be used for spacecraft propulsion. Haisch has advocated the serious scientific study of phenomena outside the traditional scope of science and is known for his interest in the UFO phenomenon as well as a variety of other unorthodox topics.
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Joanna Macy, PhD
Eco-philosopher Joanna Macy, PhD, is a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. She is also a leading voice in movements for peace, justice, and a safe environment. Interweaving her scholarship and four decades of activism, she has created both a ground-breaking theoretical framework for a new paradigm of personal and social change, and a powerful workshop methodology for its application.
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Henry Bauer
Henry Bauer is Austrian by birth (1931), Australian by education (1939-56), and American (since 1969) by choice. His Austrian background is evident in his pronunciation of the consonants and slow tempo of speech; his childhood experience in Austria of the Nazi takeover in 1938 led to an unshakeable belief that human beings should be treated as individuals and not as members of groups. His Australian upbringing is discernible in his pronunciation of the vowels and in a relish for plain-speaking argument; his education in Australia led to an unshakeable wish that everyone should be able, as he did, to benefit from free public education focused on intellectual development.
Bauer taught chemistry and carried on research in electrochemistry for about 25 years, at the Universities of Sydney (Australia), Michigan, Southampton (England), and Kentucky. In the 1970s he turned to “science studies” (history, philosophy, and sociology of science), looking particularly into how to differentiate science from pseudo-science. He was a founding member of the Center for the Study of Science in Society at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, teaching in the undergraduate program in Humanities, Science & Technology and the graduate program in Science & Technology Studies. From 1978 until 1986 he served as Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences. When political correctness arrived, he joined the National Association of Scholars, and founded and edited (1993--99) Virginia Scholar, newsletter of the Virginia Association of Scholars. Retired from teaching at the end of 1999, he became Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Scientific Exploration.
Bauer’s studies and writings in recent years have focused on the takeover of science and medicine by bureaucracies, resulting in the creation of knowledge monopolies and research cartels and in the suppression of substantively valid though heterodox approaches--regarding Big-Bang cosmology, “cold fusion”, global warming, HIV/AIDS. His latest book, The Origin, Persistence and Failings of HIV/AIDS Theory
(McFarland 2007), draws on official reports and data to demonstrate that almost everything that “everyone knows” about HIV/AIDS is plainly wrong.
Bauer’s earlier books include--as well as texts in electrochemistry and analytical chemistry-- Science or Pseudoscience: Magnetic Healing, Psychic Phenomena, and Other Heterodoxies (2001/2004); Fatal Attractions: The Troubles with Science (2001); Scientific Literacy and the Myth of the Scientific Method (1992/1994/2005); To Rise Above Principle: The Memoirs of an Unreconstructed Dean (1988, as ‘Josef Martin’); The Enigma of Loch Ness: Making Sense of a Mystery (1986/1988; U.K. edition, 1991); Beyond Velikovsky: The History of a Public Controversy (1984/1999).
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A Tale of Two Sciences: Memoirs of a Dissident Scientist
Anomalies should be the lifeblood of science. Niels Bohr once said that “progress in science is impossible without a paradox,“ and Richard Feynman has remarked that “the thing that doesn’t fit is the thing that is most interesting.“