The Rebirth of Nature: The Greening of Science and God
10 best books like The Rebirth of Nature: The Greening of Science and God (Rupert Sheldrake): Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness, Hildegard von Bingen's Physica: The Complete English Translation of Her Classic Work on Health and Healing, Earth Prayers: From Around the World: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earth, Shamans Through Time, Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention, Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siecle, Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth/Healing the Mind, The Forgotten Pollinators, Earth House Hold
Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness
| Author | Alva Noë |
| ISBN | 0809074656 |
Alva Noë is one of a new breed—part philosopher, part cognitive scientist, part neuroscientist—who are radically altering the study of consciousness by asking difficult questions and pointing out obvious flaws in the current science. In Out of Our Heads, he restates and reexamines the problem...
Hildegard von Bingen's Physica: The Complete English Translation of Her Classic Work on Health and Healing
| Author | Hildegard of Bingen |
| ISBN | 0892816619 |
One of two major medical treatises by medieval healer Hildegard von Bingen, presented in its entirety for the first time in English during the 900th anniversary of her birth.
• A seminal text in the development of Western herbal medicine
• Presents nine categories of healing...
In forest clearings, beneath star-filled skies, in cathedrals, and before the hearth... women and men have always given voice to the impulse to celebrate the world that surrounds and sustains them. Now, as we face a diminished present and an uncertain future, the need to honor the interconnection...
| Author | Jeremy Narby |
| ISBN | 1585423629 |
A survey of five centuries of writings on the world's great shamans-the tricksters, sorcerers, conjurers, and healers who have fascinated observers for centuries.
This collection of essays traces Western civilization's struggle to interpret and understand the ancient knowledge of...
| Author | Stephan V. Beyer |
| ISBN | 0826347290 |
In the Upper Amazon, mestizos are the Spanish-speaking descendants of Hispanic colonizers and the indigenous peoples of the jungle. Some mestizos have migrated to Amazon towns and cities, such as Iquitos and Pucallpa; most remain in small villages. They have retained features of a folk Catholicism...
| Author | Dawson Church |
| ISBN | 1600700225 |
This is an exciting book about epigenetics - the control of genes outside the cell -, and can be read in conjunction with Candace Pert's "Molecules of emotion" or Bruce Lipton's "Biology of Belief".
Finally, modern scientific research is confirming what many of us have known for some time,...
| Author | Elaine Showalter |
| ISBN | 0140115870 |
This book looks at parallels between the ends of the 19th and 20th centuries and their representations in literature, art and film. This book ranges over the trial of Oscar Wilde, the public furore over prostitution and syphilis, moral outrage over the breakdown of the family, abortion rights and AIDS....
Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth/Healing the Mind
| Author | Theodore Roszak |
| ISBN | 0871564068 |
This pathfinding collection has become a seminal text for the burgeoning ecopsychology movement, which has brought key new insights to environmentalism and revolutionized modern psychology. Its writers show how the health of the planet is inextricably linked to the psychological health of humanity,...
| Author | Stephen L. Buchmann |
| ISBN | 1559633530 |
Really good.
I had read about this years ago, and finally got around to it, expecting something fairly academic.
I was surprised then to see the vivid, kind of aggressive cover as various pollinators come right at you. This is accompanied by several other illustrations that are surprisingly...
| Author | Gary Snyder |
| ISBN | 0811201953 |
As a poet," Snyder tells us, "I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the late Paleolithic; the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying intuition and rebirth; the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe." He develops,...
| Author | Kenneth Meadows |
| ISBN | 1852306688 |
Kenneth Meadows is my aunt's father-in-law. Sadly, I met him for the first and only time at my grandfather's funeral two decades ago. I had been previously given and read his book via my father and was very excited to meet him. Kenneth was very kind and gave a lot of his time to answer my questions and curiosities...
Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy
| Author | Gwyneth Cravens |
| ISBN | 0307266567 |
I wholeheartedly agree with the statements made in this book. There are so many arguments for nuclear power and so few against that for an intelligent person, reading this book is almost an academic confirmation exercise. The fact that the author repeatedly invokes the theory of man-made global warming...
| Author | Stanislav Grof |
| ISBN | 0791438767 |
The Cosmic Game discusses the broadest philosophical, metaphysical and spiritual insights gleaned in Grof's research concerning human nature and reality, addressing the most fundamental questions human beings have asked about the nature of existence since time immemorial. Insights from research...
Hallucinogenic Plants: A Golden Guide
| Author | Richard Evans Schultes |
| ISBN | 0307243621 |
What are hallucinogenic plants? How do they affect mind and body? Who uses them - and why? This unique Golden Guide surveys the role of psychoactive plants in primitive and civilized societies from early times to the present. The first nontechnical guide to both the cultural significance and physiological...
| Author | Terence McKenna |
| ISBN | 3925817352 |
McKenna says we are infantilized, we are told you can wonder around within the sanctioned playpin of ordinary consciousness and we have some intoxicants over here if you want to mess yourself up: scotch, tobacco, red meat, sugar, television… but, the boundary dissolving hallucinogens that give...
Nature-Speak: Signs, Omens and Messages in Nature
| Author | Ted Andrews |
| ISBN | 1888767375 |
I grew up in a house that was surrounded by six acres of woodland, and I was always "disappearing" into nature to scout for animals, or write stories by the creek, or seek the peace and solace of the trees. This book is a keepsake for me -- even when I'm not thumbing through it (for writing research or inspiration),...
The Eros of Everyday Life: Essays on Ecology, Gender and Society
| Author | Susan Griffin |
| ISBN | 0385473990 |
In her award-winning examination of the nature of war, A Chorus of Stones, critically acclaimed author and feminist Susan Griffin showed new ways of thinking about society and war, about private and public lives. In The Eros of Everyday Life, she once again takes readers on a startling journey, showing...
Magic and Medicine of Plants
| Author | Reader's Digest Association |
| ISBN | 0895772213 |
This is actually quite the compendium of the multiple uses and possible abuses of plants and herbs found word wide, along with their histories from Egyptians, Greeks, Romans apothecaries, physicians in the Middle Ages and later, by settlers who came to North America, by the Native Americans who who...
Extraordinary Knowing: Science, Skepticism, and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind
| Author | Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer |
| ISBN | 0553803352 |
In 1991, when her daughter’s rare, hand-carved harp was stolen, Lisby Mayer’s familiar world of science and rational thinking turned upside down. After the police failed to turn up any leads, a friend suggested she call a dowser—a man who specialized in finding lost objects. With nothing to...
The Other Side of the River: Stories of Women, Water and the World
| Author | Eila Kundrie Carrico |
| ISBN | 1910559105 |
The Other Side of the River: Stories of Women, Water and the World is a deep searching into the ways we become dammed and how we recover fluidity. It is a journey through memory and time, personal and shared landscapes to discover the source, the flow and the deltas of women and water.
Rooted in...
Synchronicity: The Bridge Between Matter and Mind
| Author | F. David Peat |
| ISBN | 0553346768 |
1991. I have a crush on Pauline Caluya, but I am restrained from pursuing her. She is a commie and runs with a real different crowd. I fear my feelings, if reciprocated, would result in a failed relationship. One night, I dream of both Pauline and I in a weight room along with a tiger—as tigers so often are…...
Mysticism and the New Physics
| Author | Michael Talbot |
| ISBN | 0140193286 |
Mysticism and the new physics (1992), Michael Talbot
Mystics have long held that the physical world is an illusion. This book shows how quantum physics is putting forward ideas that confirm this perception.
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The Reenchantment of the World
| Author | Morris Berman |
| ISBN | 0801492254 |
The Reenchantment of the World is a perceptive study of our scientific consciousness and a cogent and forceful challenge to its supremacy. Focusing on the rise of the mechanistic idea that we can know the natural world only by distancing ourselves from it, Berman shows how science acquired its controlling...
