The Lonely Mind Of God

Author : Sherman O'Brien
Publisher : Phrase Bound Publications
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780996307567

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The Lonely Mind of God by Sherman O'Brien Pdf

Current students of philosophy or armchair philosophers... Want the answer to the Primordial Existential Question: Why is there something rather than nothing? While history has produced no shortage of attempted answers, clearly none is the answer. Now comes the unique perspective of acosmism to provide a complete and plausible answer. After a lifetime of reflection, acosmist Sherman O'Brien offers this analysis of the issues and a thoughtful, reasoned answer to philosophy's most vexing question. The acosmic answer requires no faith whatsoever, either in supernatural or unexplained causes; in fact, it discourages it. Acosmism rejects both traditional religion and philosophically neglectful science. As a metaphysical system, it is based on an epistemological insight, with implications for immortality, determinism, ethics, and ultimate purpose. Reasoned wholly from the ground up, its conclusion is the very meaning of existence. The solution to the Omniscience Riddle becomes the key to understanding how the question is best stated and understood. This book represents one person's effort to make sense of what is true and what only seems to be so. Why is there something rather than nothing? What is your potential role in the entirety of experience? This foray into acosmism offers a path to the genuine understanding of both existence and reality. Note: the main text constitutes roughly two-thirds of the total pages, the remainder being mostly endnotes.

Author : Ronald L. Dart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1933265930

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The Lonely God by Ronald L. Dart Pdf

The Bible doesn't contradict itself, but it often runs counter to what we expect. Part of the problem lies in the limitations of the human mind. The very idea of God exceeds our grasp. Traditional views hold that God himself is the only uncreated being. Everything and everyone else was created by him. But then that means that before God created the things that are, he was alone - for eternity. But that seems impossible. It is possible to understand God, but only on his own terms, and only by his own revelation. When we try to go beyond what he shows himself to be, we risk creating God in our own image. God has not left us in the dark. He has given us clouds of witnesses, some of whom survived a close encounter with God. From their testimony and from the actions of God in history, a picture begins to emerge. So what in the world is God doing? What is God's purpose for mankind? This book is about understanding and knowing God as he wishes to be known, not necessarily as we wish to know him. The picture that emerges is disturbing. God is not only kind, merciful, forgiving, and longsuffering. He is dangerous. This is why the Bible speaks of the fear of God. This insightful, instructive, and provocative book will change the way you think about God.

Author : Christopher O. Blum,Joshua P. Hochschild
Publisher : Sophia Institute Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781622823819

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A Mind at Peace by Christopher O. Blum,Joshua P. Hochschild Pdf

These past two decades, modern technology has brought into being scores of powerful challenges to our interior peace and well-being. We’re experiencing a worldwide crisis of attention in which information overwhelms us, corrodes true communion with others, and leaves us anxious, unsettled, bored, isolated, and lonely. These pages provide the time-tested antidote that enables you to regain an ordered and peaceful mind in a technologically advanced world. Drawing on the wisdom of the world’s greatest thinkers, including Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, and St. Thomas Aquinas, these pages help you identify – and show you how to cultivate – the qualities of character you need to survive in our media-saturated environment. This book offers a calm, measured, yet forthright and effective approach to regaining interior peace. Here you’ll find no argument for retreat from the modern world; instead these pages provide you with a practical guide to recovering self-mastery and interior peace through wise choices and ordered activity in the midst of the world’s communication chaos. Are you increasingly frustrated and perplexed in this digital age? Do you yearn for a mind that is more focused and a soul able to put down that IPhone and simply rejoice in the good and the true? It’s not hard to do. The saints and the wise can show you how; this book makes their counsel available to you.

Author : Julian Jaynes
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000-08-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780547527543

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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes Pdf

National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry

Author : Michael Gonzalez
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781098068936

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A Book for the Lonely by Michael Gonzalez Pdf

A Book for the Lonely is more than just a book. It is a weapon against loneliness. It removes blindness of the mind and destroys loneliness-producing thoughts and beliefs. Many times, a person who feels alone does not know how to break free from it. The chapters in this book serve as a guide to the One Who is able to free anyone from loneliness. 27

Author : Lynn Picknett,Clive Prince
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781620876640

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The Forbidden Universe by Lynn Picknett,Clive Prince Pdf

Secret societies, famous scientists, ancient Egyptian mysticism, and a fascinating addition to the god-versus-science debate: the Catholic Church. By the bestselling authors of The Templar Revelation and Mary Magdalene, The Forbidden Universe reveals how the foundations of modern science were based around a desire to destroy the church. The great pioneering scientists of the Renaissance and the early Enlightenment (including Copernicus, Galileo, and Sir Isaac Newton) were fervent devotees of the philosophical/mystical system of Hermeticism. Many of the most important scientists of this age, including Galileo, belonged to a secret society called the Giordanisti, which had the agenda to overthrow the Church and establish a new age of Hermetic supremacy.

Author : Ruth Graham
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493432851

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Transforming Loneliness by Ruth Graham Pdf

Loneliness knows no season. It can strike during times of busyness and a full social calendar just as easily as it can when plans are canceled and friends are far off. And we may be surprised just how common loneliness is among our friends, family, and colleagues. But it isn't inevitable and it isn't forever. In Transforming Loneliness, Graham invites you to surrender your loneliness to God and work with Him in making healthy choices that lead to life, joy, and community. Through biblical principles and examples, along with true-life stories, you will discover how the core needs that drive your loneliness--the need to be known, to be chosen, to belong, and to be valued--can be met as God transforms your loneliness into a positive experience that accomplishes His purposes and draws you into a closer, more intimate, and more meaningful relationship with Him and others. Loneliness is not the last word. God designed you for connection, and through his power you will find it. Includes a reader's discussion guide and the UCLA Loneliness Survey.

Author : Judy Blume
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781481409940

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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. by Judy Blume Pdf

Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.

Author : Thomas J. Vaiden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1038 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Rationalism
ISBN : UOMDLP:afz1659:0001.001

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Rational Religion and Morals: Presenting Analysis of the Functions of Mind, Under the Operations and Directions of Reason by Thomas J. Vaiden Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Laing Thompson
Publisher : Barbour Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781683223047

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When God Says "Wait" by Elizabeth Laing Thompson Pdf

A job, a true love, a baby, a cure. . . We’re all waiting for something from God. And the place between His answers can feel like a wasteland where dreams—and faith—go to die. When we’re waiting, we wonder, “Why?”, “Why me?”, and “How long?” But the truth? . . . When God says, “Wait,” He doesn’t tell us for how long. When God says, “Wait,” we face one of life’s greatest tests. When God says, “Wait,” we have decisions to make. When God says, “Wait,” we can control only two things: how we wait, and who we become along the way. Author Elizabeth Laing Thompson invites you to walk alongside people of the Bible who had to wait on God. . .imperfect heroes like David, Miriam, Naomi, Sarah, Joseph, and others. Their stories will provide a roadmap for your own story, helping you navigate the painful, lonely territory of waiting, coming out on the other side with your faith, relationships, and sense of humor intact. They might even help you learn to enjoy the ride. This book is about the journey of waiting, the space between answers, and the people we become while we live there.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Readers
ISBN : PRNC:32101063583361

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One Hundred Choice Selections by Anonim Pdf

Author : Phineas Garrett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Readers
ISBN : WISC:89007464522

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One Hundred Choice Selections by Phineas Garrett Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Recitations
ISBN : PSU:000052899041

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One Hundred Choice Selections in Poetry and Prose by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Readers
ISBN : UCAL:$B258694

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The Speaker's Garland and Literary Bouquet by Anonim Pdf

Author : C. K. Williams
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781466880580

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A Dream of Mind by C. K. Williams Pdf

The challenging, exhilarating collection in A Dream of Mind represents an important stage in the evolution of C. K. Williams' work. It is dominated by the long title poem, which explores the materials and qualities of states of consciousness with enormous flexibility and suppleness. Other poems explore jealousy, psychology, family relationships and intellectual constructs.