Matter And Spirit In The Universe

Author : Helge Kragh
Publisher : Imperial College Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Science
ISBN : 186094485X

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Matter and Spirit in the Universe by Helge Kragh Pdf

Cosmology is an unusual science with an unusual history. This book examines the formative years of modern cosmology from the perspective of its interaction with religious thought. As the first study of its kind, it reveals how closely associated the development of cosmology has been with considerations of a philosophical and religious nature. From nineteenth-century thermodynamics to the pioneering cosmological works of Georges LemaŒtre and Arthur E Milne, religion has shaped parts of modern cosmological theory. By taking the religious component seriously, a new and richer history of cosmology emerges.

Author : Fred Alan Wolf
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781609255428

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The Spiritual Universe by Fred Alan Wolf Pdf

From a National Book Award winner, “methodical and clear . . . provides physics-phobics a wide bridge to understanding some often arcane material” (Booklist). Why do we believe in the soul? Does it actually exist? If so, what is it? Does it differ from the self? Does it survive the body after death? In The Spiritual Universe, Fred Alan Wolf brings the most modern perspective of quantum physics to the most ancient questions of religion and philosophy. Taking the reader on a fascinating tour of both Western and Eastern thought, Wolf explains the differing view of the soul in the works of Plato, Aristotle, and St. Thomas, the ancient Egyptian’s belief in the nine forms of the soul, the Qabalistic idea of the soul acting in secret to bring spiritual order to a chaotic universe of matter and energy, and the Buddhist vision of a “nonsoul.” Wolf then mounts a defense of the soul against its modern critics who see it as nothing more than the physical body. “One of the few pathfinders who have discovered the versatility and potency of the new quantum paradigm based on consciousness.” —Amit Goswami, Professor of Physics and author of The Self-Aware Universe “The questions are exhilarating and the conclusions are properly mysterious and profoundly inconclusive . . . you’ll love the spirited journey.” —Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul and The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life “Wolf is a new Thales for a new physics of the soul; his book will blow your mind and quicken your spirit.” —Michael Grosso, Ph.D., author of The Millennium Myth and Frontiers of the Soul

Author : Steve Taylor
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781786781925

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Spiritual Science by Steve Taylor Pdf

It is often assumed that there are two ways of interpreting the world: a rational scientific way, or an irrational religious way. Spiritual Science offers a third alternative: a spiritual view of reality that transcends both conventional science and religion, and answers many of the riddles that neither can explain. The standard model of science has had little success in explaining such areas as human consciousness, the connection between the mind and the body, altruism and ‘anomalous’ phenomena such as near-death experiences, psi phenomena (such as telepathy) and spiritual experiences. But from a ‘panspiritist’ point of view – which sees spirit or consciousness as a fundamental essence of reality – it is possible to make sense of all these things. Steve Taylor puts forward the evidence for a spiritual view of reality, drawing on the insights of philosophers, physicists, mystics, as well as spiritual traditions and indigenous cultures. He systematically shows how a ‘panspiritist’ view can explain many puzzling aspects of science and the world, including evolution and the origins of life, and a wide range of other phenomena such as quantum physics, the placebo effect, precognition and neuroplasticity. Spiritual Science offers a new vision of the world that is compatible with both modern science and ancient spiritual teachings. It provides a more accurate and holistic account of reality than conventional science or religion, integrating a wide range of phenomena that are excluded from both. After showing how the materialist worldview demeans the world and human life, Spiritual Science offers a brighter alternative – a vision of the world as sacred and interconnected, and of human life as meaningful and purposeful. Spiritual Science explains how the standard materialist model of reality developed, and turned into a belief system. This belief system can only function by denying (or explaining away) a whole range of phenomena that are part of human experience. It is possible to be scientific without adopting this belief system – in fact, it is much more rational to do so.

Author : Herbert Stanley Redgrove
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Cosmology
ISBN : HARVARD:HNVD18

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Matter, Spirit and the Cosmos by Herbert Stanley Redgrove Pdf

Author : James Bissett Pratt
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : Charles Mountford Burnett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Matter
ISBN : OXFORD:600043711

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The Philosophy of Spirits in Relation to Matter by Charles Mountford Burnett Pdf

Author : Isaac Winter Heysinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Religion and science
ISBN : UCAL:B4077742

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Spirit & Matter Before the Bar of Modern Science by Isaac Winter Heysinger Pdf

Author : Henry Christmas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Christianity
ISBN : NYPL:33433068238173

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Echoes of the Universe by Henry Christmas Pdf

Author : A. J. Coriat
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1480230537

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The Meaningful Universe by A. J. Coriat Pdf

Can matter, mind and spirit be reconciled through quantum uncertainty, higher dimensions and spiritual correspondence? Most scientists agree that the universe encompasses higher dimensions. But was the physical universe originally derived from these higher dimensions? Is Reality higher-dimensional? And is there a key that unlocks the mysteries of this higher-dimensional universe? In The Meaningful Universe, the author shows how the physical universe must be connected to higher dimensions through spiritual correspondence. Correspondence is the link between physical matter, higher-dimensional mind and spirit. The real universe is not only around us; it is also within us. And it is only when we begin to explore the spiritual landscape of our heart and mind and discover these higher-dimensional correspondences that we can restore value, meaning and purpose to our physical existence. Like the universe is higher-dimensional, the Bible or Word of God also contains higher levels of meaning. When we uncover these higher-dimensional meanings, we are equally able to understand what the Bible is trying to communicate and the real significance and purpose of religion.

Author : Henry Christmas
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1330178246

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Echoes of the Universe by Henry Christmas Pdf

Excerpt from Echoes of the Universe: From the World of Matter and the World of Spirit The connection between human science and divine truth, though in itself neither more important nor more interesting than that which may be shown to exist between any two classes of truths, is yet more easily available for the purposes of religion, because the topics with which it is conversant are more generally understood. For one person who would read Paley's "Horæ Paulinæ," there are hundreds who would read his "Natural Theology," and many may be induced to see the beauties of religious truth, if they be indirectly drawn thereto, who would lay aside with neglect the most eloquent of professedly spiritual works. The substance of the volume here submitted to the reader was delivered in the form of lectures, some time ago, to the Members of the South London Branch of the Church of England Young Men's Society for Promoting Missions at Home and Abroad; and it is hoped that in this enlarged and amended form it will not be less acceptable to them. Though a third edition, and a fourth publication, it is a new book, with a new, and, it is hoped, a more appropriate title. It was first published in a series of Lectures in the Pulpit; then in a small volume; and has been since entirely rewritten and greatly enlarged. It is one of a class of works now more than ever needed. 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 : James M. Lawler
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1580462219

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Matter and Spirit by James M. Lawler Pdf

This narrative shows how the contours of moral and political philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were shaped by Kant's two distinct philosophical responses to the results of modern science. This history of early modern Western philosophy takes its inspiration from Kant's claim that the battle between the metaphysics of matter and that of spirit is the principal axis around which modern philosophy up to his time, in all its aspects, has revolved. The empiricist-materialist trend that dominates in England is first examined in the progressively unfolding works of Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Adam Smith. A contrasting and competing dialectic develops in the rationalist/spiritualist trend in the continental philosophy of Descartes, Leibniz, and Rousseau. Framing this history is the background context of the philosophy and science of Aristotle and the challenges to the traditional paradigm presented by the revolutionary sciences of Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton. James Lawler is Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Author : Nathan R. Wood
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625581839

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The Secret of the Universe by Nathan R. Wood Pdf

The Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit reflected and expressed in the trinities of space, matter, and time is the secret of the universe. It is the key to the many riddles of the universe. It shows why things are as they are, and that they did not happen so. It shows why space is what it is, of three dimensions. It shows why matter is what it is, of energy, motion, and phenomena, with all their relationships. It shows why time is as it is, composed of future, present, and past. It shows why man is made as he is. It may show the great principle of unity in all things. It should illuminate the relationship of space, matter, and time. It may well cast light on the mysterious principles of existence, of change, and of reality, in the universe. The being of God, as the central fact of the universe, may explain these universal things. It may make them clear, not as we ourselves paradoxically try to make mysteries clear, by involved effort, and intricacies of thought, and abstruse analysis, but by the broad, self-evident fact of the Trinity.

Author : Gabrielle Bernstein
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781401952013

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The Universe Has Your Back by Gabrielle Bernstein Pdf

“A new role model.”— The New York Times In The Universe Has Your Back, New York Times best-selling author Gabrielle Bernstein teaches readers how to transform their fear into faith in order to live a divinely guided life. Each story and lesson in the book guides readers to release the blocks to what they most long for: happiness, security and clear direction. The lessons help readers relinquish the need to control so they can relax into a sense of certainty and freedom. Readers will learn to stop chasing life and truly live. Making the shift from fear to faith will give readers a sense of power in a world that all too often makes them feel utterly powerless. When the tragedies of the world seem overwhelming, this book will help guide them back to their true power. Gabrielle says, “My commitment with this book is to wake up as many people as possible to their connection to faith and joy. In that connection, we can be guided to our true purpose: to be love and spread love. These words can no longer be cute buzz phrases that we merely post on social media. Rather, these words must be our mission. The happiness, safety, and security we long for lies in our commitment to love. ” When readers follow this path, they ’ll begin to feel a swell of energy move through them. They will find strength when they are down, synchronicity and support when they ’re lost, safety in the face of uncertainty, and joy when they are otherwise in pain. Follow the secrets revealed in this book to unleash the presence of your power and know always that The Universe Has Your Back.

Author : Nancy Ellen Abrams
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780807075951

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A God That Could be Real by Nancy Ellen Abrams Pdf

A paradigm-shifting blend of science, religion, and philosophy for the agnostic, spiritual-but-not-religious, and scientifically minded reader Many people are fed up with the way traditional religion alienates them, perpetuates conflict, vilifies science, and undermines reason. Nancy Abrams—a philosopher of science, lawyer, and lifelong atheist—is among them, but she has also found freedom in imagining a higher power. In A God That Could Be Real, Abrams explores a radically new way of thinking about God. She dismantles several common assumptions about God and shows why an omniscient, omnipotent God that created the universe and plans what happens is incompatible with science—but that this doesn’t preclude a God that can comfort and empower us. Moving away from traditional arguments for God, Abrams finds something worthy of the name “God” in the new science of emergence: just as a complex ant hill emerges from the collective behavior of individually clueless ants, and just as the global economy emerges from the interactions of billions of individuals’ choices, God, she argues, is an “emergent phenomenon” that arises from the staggering complexity of humanity’s collective aspirations and is in dialogue with every individual. This God did not create the universe—it created the meaning of the universe. It’s not universal—it’s planetary. It can’t change the world, but it helps us change the world. A God that could be real, Abrams shows us, is what humanity needs to inspire us to collectively cooperate to protect our warming planet and create a long-term civilization.

Author : Jon Agar,Crosbie Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781349263240

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Making Space for Science by Jon Agar,Crosbie Smith Pdf

In recent years there has been a growing recognition that a mature analysis of scientific and technological activity requires an understanding of its spatial contexts. Without these contexts, indeed, scientific practice as such is scarcely conceivable. Making Space for Science brings together contributors with diverse interests in the history, sociology and cultural studies of science and technology since the Renaissance. The editors aim to provide a series of studies, drawn from the history of science and engineering, from sociology and sociology and science, from literature and science, and from architecture and design history, which examine the spatial foundations of the sciences from a number of complementary perspectives.