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THE SECRET LIFE OF GENIUS
THE SECRET LIFE OF GENIUS:
How 24 Great Men and Women Were Touched by Spiritual Worlds
by John Chambers
Throughout history, many famous men and women have had encounters with the supernatural-what we would today call the paranormal. In most cases, they have kept quiet about these encounters, fearing persecution or death. Often, they have hidden away accounts of their experiences.
Over the past 70 years, as organized religion has bit by bit loosened its hold on the Western world, these secret records have begun to come to light. In The Secret Life of Genius: How 24 Great Men and Women Were Touched by Spiritual Worlds, author John Chambers makes extensive use of these sometimes astonishing documents. They include:
· The transcripts of the 100+ séances attended by Victor Hugo (1802-1885), his family, and his friends, while the author of The Hunchback of Notre Dame was in political exile on the Channel island of Jersey;
· The Red Book by Carl G. Jung (1875-1961), first published in autumn 2009, which describes the psychic and spiritual experiments Jung carried out in private on himself. The Secret Life of Genius examines the sections of this work Jung included in his 1962 autobiography;
· The 3.5 million words Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) wrote on biblical interpretation, Christian history, comparative mythology and alchemy even as he was putting together the Principia Mathematica. These sensational writings, heretical in Newton's time, have been gradually coming to light only since 1937;
· The complete 2,000-page text of the transcripts of the "automatic writing" seances conducted by Irish poet W.B. Yeats (1865-1939), with his wife Georgie, in 1917-1920. These enigmatic transcripts-a tiny portion of which were brought out in 1925 as A Vision-were published, in their entirety, in three volumes, as The Vision Papers, by a group of scholars at the University of Florida, only in 1992.
Many of these documents, taken together, affirm that we live in a universe suffused throughout with conscious energy-with soul. There are hints of still-undisclosed documents in the life and work of other famous historical figures, such as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Michel de Nostradamus, Jules Verne, and H.G. Wells, among others; The Secret Life of Genius tries to trace these hints to the source and find out its contents.
The Secret Life of Genius begins with the assumption that the collapse in 1620 of Prague, then the capital of occult, astro-magical learning in Europe, is emblematic of the triumph and development of the more scientific and technological worldview that shaped our society into what it is today. The book asserts that the magical and occult world revealed in the hitherto-hidden documents of many of the 24 men and women described in its pages offers us a glimpse of an alternate world that could still be ours. It is a world that, though overshadowed by modern scientific/technological principles, can still be glimpsed, on the horizon, in the lightning flashes of the paranormal-and in the secret writings, now surfacing, of a distinguished group of men and women going back through the centuries.
ISBN-13: 978-1-59477-272-6 / ISBN-10: 1-59477-272-X. Quality Paperback. July 1, 2009. 6'x 9'. 336 pp. 24 b&w illustrations. Imprint: Destiny Books. Inner Traditions/Bear & Co., P.O. Box 388, Rochester, VT 05767. 1-800-246-8648 / (802) 767-3174, Fax: (802) 767-3726, , $18.95.
The Red Book
Just Published!!!
The most influential unpublished work in the history of psychology.
When Carl Jung embarked on an extended self-exploration he called his
“confrontation with the unconscious,” the heart of it was The Red Book,
a large, illuminated volume he created between 1914 and 1930. Here he
developed his principle theories—of the archetypes, the collective
unconscious, and the process of individuation—that transformed
psychotherapy from a practice concerned with treatment of the sick into
a means for higher development of the personality.
While Jung considered The Red Book to be his most important work, only a handful of people have ever seen
it. Now, in a complete facsimile and translation, it is available to
scholars and the general public. It is an astonishing example of
calligraphy and art on a par with The Book of Kells and the illuminated manuscripts of William Blake. This publication of The Red Book is a watershed that will cast new light on the making of modern psychology.
212 color illustrations.
ISBN-13: 978-0393065671
Imagining Karma
With "Imagining Karma", Gananath Obeyesekere embarks on the very first comparison of rebirth concepts across a wide range of cultures. Exploring in rich detail the beliefs of small-scale societies of West Africa, Melanesia, traditional Siberia, Canada, and the northwest coast of North America, Obeyesekere compares their ideas with those of the ancient and modern Indic civilizations and with the Greek rebirth theories of Pythagoras, Empedocles, Pindar, and Plato. His groundbreaking and authoritative discussion decenters the popular notion that India was the origin and locus of ideas of rebirth. As Obeyesekere compares responses to the most fundamental questions of human existence, he challenges readers to reexamine accepted ideas about death, cosmology, morality, and eschatology. Obeyesekere's comprehensive inquiry shows that diverse societies have come through independent invention or borrowing to believe in reincarnation as an integral part of their larger cosmological systems. The author brings together into a coherent methodological framework the thought of such diverse thinkers as Weber, Wittgenstein, and Nietzsche. In a contemporary intellectual context that celebrates difference and cultural relativism, this book makes a case for disciplined comparison, a humane view of human nature, and a theoretical understanding of 'family resemblances' and differences across great cultural divides.
ISBN-13: 978-0520232433
Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century
Practically
every contemporary mainstream scientist presumes that all aspects of
mind are generated by brain activity. We demonstrate the inadequacy of
this picture by assembling evidence for a variety of empirical
phenomena which it cannot explain. We further show that an alternative
picture developed by F. W. H. Myers and William James successfully
accommodates these phenomena, ratifies the common sense view of
ourselves as causally effective conscious agents, and is fully
compatible with contemporary physics and neuroscience.
ISBN: 0742547922
Reincarnation and Biology: A Contribution to the Etiology of Birthmarks and Birth Defects
Based on some 30 years of research on people who claim to remember past
lives, this work encompasses the full spectrum of theory and case
studies on the subject to date. It is by far the most definitive work
on the subject by the Galileo of the twentieth century professor Ian
Stevenson. In its more than two thousand pages one cannot but find how
ignorant we are of many aspects of life.
ISBN: 0275952827
Is There an Afterlife?
This
book presents the most complete survey to date of the evidence, both
historical and contemporary, for survival of physical death. It looks
at the question of what survives, in particular exploring the question
of consciousness as primary to and not dependent on matter in the light
of recent brain research and quantum physics. Written by distinguished professor
David Fontana.Experiencing the Next World Now
Everyone
has seen the popular television programmes featuring mediums who speak
with those in the 'beyond'. According to author Michael Grosso the
spirits they are communicating with aren't only real, they are capable
of being reached without the help of James Van Praagh or Johnathan
Edwards. In EXPERIENCING THE NEXT WORLD NOW, Grosso proposes that the
reason channelers are able to contact the dead is the 'Next World' is
inexorably intertwined with the physical world. In addition to
discussing compelling evidence for the afterlife, Grosso shows how
common features of existence, such as out of body experiences, mystic
experiences, past life memories and so on are nothing but cracks of
this world to the Otherworld...Extraordinary Knowing: Science, Skepticism, and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind
Prompted by a personal
experience she interpreted as evidence for extrasensory perception, the
late author embarked on an exploration into research on the subject.
Mayer, who was a psychoanalyst by profession, in this work recounts her
journey, which involved collecting ESP anecdotes, interesting her
professional peers in the subject, and sifting through formal research
into psychic phenomena. The latter process extends back over a century,
to investigations supported by philosopher William James, as chronicled
in Deborah Blum's Ghost Hunters (2006).Mayer summarizes the work of James' Society for Psychical Research, delves into one researcher's projects in the 1930s, describes the CIA's interest in "remote viewing" in the 1960s, and paraphrases research papers of more recent vintage. She never crossed the scientific Rubicon to announce QED on ESP but was bravely enamored of the possibility of its existence. How else to explain the recovery of her daughter's stolen harp, whose location Mayer said was pinpointed by a psychic dowser? Mayer's catalog of personal experience and seemingly rigorous research into "anomalous cognitive events" should inveigle those similarly intrigued. Gilbert Taylor
ISBN: 9780553803358
The Spirit of Science: From Experiment to Experience
The
technical successes of modern science have obscured a deeper
understanding of its place in human knowledge and in our value systems.
For many, science belongs in a separate "compartment" from normal human
experience, confined to the word of the laboratory. This can give rise
to a dark, impersonal and inhuman image of science.In this collection,
scientists and thinkers from a range of disciplines examine the
relationship of scientific knowledge and practice to the wider
dimension of human life and awareness. For some this appears as a
dialogue between science and spirituality, for others an investigation
into consciousness and the intelligent heart of the cosmos. Whether in
physics, cosmology of biology, these essays explore the very nature of
knowledge itself and the continuing role of human creativity,
emphasizing the need for crossing disciplinary boundaries in our search
for understanding.The contributions are based on papers given over 20
years at the annual "Mystics and Scientists" conferences in England.
Edited by David Lorimer.
ISBN: 086315686
Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children's Memories of Previous Lives
For
the past forty years, doctors at the University of Virginia Medical
Center have conducted research into young children's reports of
past-life memories. Dr. Ian Stevenson, the founder of this work, has
always written for a scientific audience. Now, in this provocative and
fascinating book, Dr. Jim B. Tucker, a child psychiatrist who currently
directs the research, shares these studies with the general public.
"Life Before Life" is a landmark work--one that has the potential to
challenge and ultimately change our understandings about life and death. ISBN: 0312321376
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