Making Spirit Matter

Author : Larry Sommer McGrath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : France
ISBN : 9780226699820

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Making Spirit Matter by Larry Sommer McGrath Pdf

"The problem of the relation between mind and brain has been among the most persistent in modern Western thought, one that even recent advances in neuroscience haven't been able to put to rest. Historian Larry McGrath's Making Spirit Matter is about how a particularly productive and influential generation of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French thinkers attempted to answer this puzzle by showing the mutual dependence of spirit and matter. The veritable revolution taking place across disciplines, from philosophy to psychology, located our spiritual powers in the brain and offered a radical reformulation of the meaning of science, spirit, and the self. Pulling out connections between thinkers such as Bergson, Blondel, and FouilleáI p1 se, among others, McGrath plots the intellectual movements that brought back to life themes of agency, time, and experience by putting into action the very sciences that seemed to undermine metaphysics and theology. In so doing, Making Spirit Matter lays bare the long legacy of this moment in the history of ideas and how it might renew our understanding of the relationship between mind and brain"--

Author : Larry Sommer McGrath
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226699967

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Making Spirit Matter by Larry Sommer McGrath Pdf

The connection between mind and brain has been one of the most persistent problems in modern Western thought; even recent advances in neuroscience haven’t been able to explain it satisfactorily. Historian Larry Sommer McGrath’s Making Spirit Matter studies how a particularly productive and influential group of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French thinkers attempted to solve this puzzle by showing the mutual dependence of spirit and matter. The scientific revolution taking place at this point in history across disciplines, from biology to psychology and neurology, located our mental powers in the brain and offered a radical reformulation of the meaning of society, spirit, and the self. Tracing connections among thinkers such as Henri Bergson, Alfred Fouillée, Jean-Marie Guyau, and others, McGrath plots alternative intellectual movements that revived themes of creativity, time, and experience by applying the very sciences that seemed to undermine metaphysics and religion. Making Spirit Matter lays out the long legacy of this moment in the history of ideas and how it might renew our understanding of the relationship between mind and brain today.

Author : C. D.,Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Spiritualism
ISBN : OXFORD:600072957

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From Matter to Spirit. The Result of Ten Years' Experience in Spirit Manifestations. Intended as a Guide to Enquirers by C. D.,Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan Pdf

Author : Matthew J. Pallamary
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781434318022

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Spirit Matters by Matthew J. Pallamary Pdf

This book acts as a supplement to a traditional textbook in international business. This book provides for an applications-oriented approach to the study of international business.

Author : Michael Lerner
Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : 157174360X

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Spirit Matters by Michael Lerner Pdf

Stock options and high earnings are no replacement for a sense of meaning and purpose for one's life. Living in a society whose "bottom line" is "looking out for number one" has undermined friendships, made relationships difficult, produced alienation and loneliness-and has been used to justify corporate social irresponsibility and environmental destructiveness. Selfishness and materialism permeate our relationships in work and in personal life, while we are taught to keep our spiritual life and our moral vision away from the public sphere. Spirit Matters shows how deeply we've been hurt personally, emotionally, ecologically, and politically by living in a world that systematically represses our spiritual needs-and how we might create a personal life and society that embodies what Michael Lerner describes as an Emancipatory Spirituality. It is a spirituality that affirms that there is enough, that generosity, atonement, joy, and celebration of the grandeur of the universe can be basic building blocks in constructing our own lives together. Spirit Matters demonstrates that the time is now to stop compromising with a world whose fundamentals are so far from our own highest values and begin to create the world we privately tell ourselves we really believe in. Don't be misled by the easy and accessible style of Lerner's writings: Spirit Matters is a profound new contribution to social theory and spiritual practice, and a new framework for thinking about childhood, loving relationships, the world of work, politics, law, education, and ecology. It is on the cutting edge of contemporary thought and yet speaks to the heart and soul. Spirit Matters speaks both to people who have tended to think that "spirit" is an empty category for religious zealots or a reactionary tool of repression, as well as to those who take spirituality seriously in their personal lives but who have yet realized that their spiritual practice could be the basis for a fundamental transformation of the world.

Author : William Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021725100

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An Essay on Spirit and Matter by William Allen Pdf

Author : Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Publisher : Philaletheians UK
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Evil is the infernal end of the polarity of spirit-matter by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Pdf

Devil-evil is a mighty motor in the struggle for life. See how the Christianity of Jesus Christ was degraded to “Church” Christianity. There are two Jesuses: The real Jesus, a Master of Wisdom, and Jesus travestied by pseudo-Christian fancy and clad in pagan robes borrowed from heathen gods. Unmanifested Logos is forever concealed. The “forever concealed” followed Thorah’s advice and did so arrange its forms as to become manifested as the Universe. And if Thorah, why not Satan? Evil is the dark side of good. Yet every goodness has its defect. Truth is mighty and will prevail. Every hitherto far-hidden truth, whether concealed by Nature or human craft, must and shall be revealed some day or other.

Author : James Bissett Pratt
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781596054981

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Matter and Spirit: A Study of Mind and Body in Their Relation to the Spiritual Life by James Bissett Pratt Pdf

If we knew just how mind affects body and how body affects mind we should have the clew to many a philosophical riddle, and a clew that would give us much-needed guidance not only in philosophy but in many a region of practical, moral, and religious activity and experience in which our generation is groping rather blindly and is longing very eagerly for more light. -from the Preface Developed from a series of lectures Pratt delivered at Yale Divinity School in 1922, this is classic work of modern philosophy, an outspoken defense of dualism: the idea that the physical brain and the mental mind are two distinct entities. With its dramatic impact upon contemporary understandings of human consciousness, religious belief and spirituality, and even the biological evolution of sentience on the planet Earth, this is readable guide to a complex concept that underlies the modern debate between faith and reason. American philosopher JAMES BISSETT PRATT (1875-1944) was professor of philosophy at Williams College from 1905 to 1943. He is also the author of The Psychology of Religious Belief (1905), Democracy and Peace (1916), Reason in the Art of Living (1949), and Eternal Values of Religion (1950).

Author : Peter Kaldor,Philip J. Hughes,Alan William Black
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Spiritual life
ISBN : 0980827507

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Spirit Matterrs by Peter Kaldor,Philip J. Hughes,Alan William Black Pdf

Spirit Matters presents the results of unique research into how Australians make sense of life. Written in an accessible style for a wide audience, this book counts and compares those making use of religious frameworks, alternative spiritualities, and largely secular approaches. How we make sense of life is both diverse and challenging. Spirit Matters then takes us deeper, pinpointing ways in which these different approaches can affect personal wellbeing and the common good. This study shows that some appraoaches are more helpful than others. How we make sense of life does matter.

Author : Isaac W. Heysinger
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-17
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1330138910

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Spirit Matter by Isaac W. Heysinger Pdf

Excerpt from Spirit Matter: Before the Bar of Modern Science The time seems to have come for a clear and dispassionate statement of the inevitable trend of Psychology, as it now is, and as it is reaching out to newer and grander fields of discovery in the realms of life, mind and spirit. We have passed the regions of darkness and doubt, and to-day it is true, in all its fulness and strength, that the greatest and profoundest students of Psychology, and of its kindred sciences, most of these sciences new, and all of them reconstructed by fuller knowledge, are agreed, with practical unanimity, that the old past theories, or hypotheses rather, of materialism, of nihilism, of empiricism, have been proven untenable and altogether worthless, and that the so-called physical sciences have never been at all capable of taking sides in the controversy which is now about ended. We have advanced so far and so surely, now, that the alternatives presented are few, as regards the general outcome, and that these are non-physical, in any sense in which the term physical has ever been legitimately employed. In other words, the transcendental has been the final victor, and we are dealing to-day with the various phases of transcendentalism, and even here we have reached a plane in which serious conflict has terminated, and psychical students are searching out, with perfect and friendly interest, the solution of the still remaining open questions. We are clearly able to see that the final conclusions lie along lines already far advanced, and that the future advances will be to still higher planes, which we already clearly see, and can more or less definitely follow and map out. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Julian Stern
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781441149145

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The Spirit of the School by Julian Stern Pdf

Recent interest in personalized learning and the issues raised by Every Child Matters have led to renewed enthusiasm for the more personal and holistic aspects of schooling. This fascinating monograph draws on empirical evidence from schools across the world to answer key questions such as: - What is the spirit of the school? - How does it differ from school ethos? - What can teachers and pupils do to contribute to the spirit of the school? Drawing heavily on research into learning theories (from the social constructivist tradition), community (from the philosophy of John Macmurray) and dialogue (from the philosophy of Martin Buber), Julian Stern's unique and illuminating book will stimulate fresh thinking about spiritual education.

Author : Aidan Hart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Christian art and symbolism
ISBN : 0852447825

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Beauty, Spirit, Matter by Aidan Hart Pdf

Author : José Lacerda de Azevedo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Alternative medicine
ISBN : 1561840831

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Spirit and Matter by José Lacerda de Azevedo Pdf

A radical paradigm for integrating modern Western medicine with mental and spiritual practices such as hypnotism, Macumba and Voodoo. The many well-documented case studies in this text attempt to force the reader to reconsider the nature of spiritual evolution, existence beyond death, reincarnation, and the so-called mind-body dichotomy.

Author : F. Scott Scribner
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271074986

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Matters of Spirit by F. Scott Scribner Pdf

This book offers a radically new interpretation of the entire philosophy of J. G. Fichte by showing the impact of nineteenth-century psychological techniques and technologies on the formation of his theory of the imagination—the very centerpiece of his philosophical system. By situating Fichte’s philosophy within the context of nineteenth-century German science and culture, the book establishes a new genealogy, one that shows the extent to which German idealism’s transcendental account of the social remains dependent upon the scientific origins of psychoanalysis in the material techniques of Mesmerism. The book makes it clear that the rational, transcendental account of spirit, imagination, and the social has its source in the psychological phenomena of affective rapport. Specifically, the imagination undergoes a double displacement in which it is ultimately subject to external influence, the influence of a material technique, or, in short, a technology.

Author : William George Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : UOMDLP:ajf6482:0001.001

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The Ingham Lectures by William George Williams Pdf