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In this book, John Buchanan takes us on a journey through the early death of a parent, the ups and downs of addiction, the extraordinary revelations of psychedelic experiences, and the rewards of a sober and meaningful life. Reflecting on these experiences, the author identifies five pivotal events that drove him to seek a deeper understanding of the significance of extraordinary experiences, the nature of mind and the universe, the meaning of life, and most generally to ask: What is Reality? Drawing on his wide-ranging studies and explorations, Buchanan discusses the ideas that most influenced his search and led him to conclude that transpersonal psychology and process philosophy, especially as developed by Stanislav Grof and Alfred North Whitehead, offer the most satisfying answers. He presents in some detail the essence of Grof’s and Whitehead’s thought as it pertains to these basic questions about life and reality so that readers can appreciate these ideas for themselves. Buchanan argues that taken together process thought and transpersonal theory offer the kind of enspirited worldview capable of providing both the necessary inspiration and the intellectual understanding for confronting the great challenges facing our world.
This book brings together the contributions of leading researchers in the field of machine intelligence, covering areas such as fuzzy logic, neural networks, evolutionary computation and hybrid systems.There is wide coverage of the subject ? from simple tools, through industrial applications, to applications in high-level intelligent systems which are biologically motivated, such as humanoid robots (and selected parts of these systems, like the visual cortex). Readers will gain a comprehensive overview of the issues in machine intelligence, a field which promises to play a very important role in the information society of the future.
Using a process-based approach to personalize CBT for better success Presents a unique dynamic approach to CBT Shows how to implement this approach Provides downloadable tools The process-based approach to cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is a unique method for understanding psychological problems as complex networks of interacting processes. It allows therapists to grasp the individuality, complexity, and dynamics of psychological disorders – things that often get missed in diagnosis-oriented approaches. The authors, both experienced researchers and practitioners of this method, explore how understanding these complex networks enables therapists using CBT to focus on the core processes responsible for a person's suffering. First, the reader is shown how emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and somatic processes interact in maintaining maladaptive states and how this approach identifies the points at which therapeutic interventions can be applied to achieve maximum leverage. This is followed by guidance on implementing the approach in practice, including addressing diagnostic issues, to create an individual process-based model network for selecting the right evidence-based interventions. The process-based approach forms a connecting foundation that combines classical CBT with third-wave approaches (acceptance commitment therapy, schema therapy) and integrates helpful recent developments in psychotherapy research, such as evolutionary theories. Practitioners will find the downloadable tools in the appendix invaluable for their clinical practice. This book is of interest to clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, mental health practitioners, students, and trainees.
Every growing young must know cooking and understand reality. Maturing is about understanding recipes of reality as well as reality of recipes. Cooking is a great simulation of life’s relationship with reality. Cooking entails conscious construction of cause-effect relationship with different ingredients to create recipes of realities of experience-cognition of taste and aroma. Good life-living, like cooking, needs knowledge of causal relationships to create recipes of blissful realities, out of the ingredients of life-living information. This innovative cook book very humbly wishes to help you cook and taste all realities, the best way they should, to optimize life-living experiences, beyond restrictiveness of populism, viscerality and intuitiveness. As you grow and become an adult, your life journey unfolds in two related ways – first you consciously and conscientiously create new relationships with lot many novel and alternative realities and secondly; you continuously redefine and rebuild your existing relationships with all realities in this big world you live. This Relationship of You with Realities and its conscious-conscientious and artistic creation are critical to richness and diversity of experiences-cognitions, which alone is the true wealth of life-living. Cooking is a great modeling of this art and science of life-living and therefore every young must learn it well to be the masterchef of life. Life is largely about consciously having good and right ingredients and ‘cooking’ them to conscientiously create and recreate good and diverse recipes of beautiful, healthy and satisfying relationships with realities. You need to understand that the universe and world outside you only has Information. They are not Reality. Reality happens only when you cook and taste ‘Relationship with the Information’. The true-right-objective-holistic ‘Information’ is the best available ‘Ingredients’ of life-living recipes of realities. Recipes of reality and their experiencing depend on the experience as well as knowledge you have of infinite ingredients of information out there in the universe. Information is critical for blissful-harmonious life-living and reality of recipes requires that you understand the twin dimensions of information – Intuitive and Non-Intuitive. As you grow, you acquire ‘Ingredients of Information’ primarily through experiencing and it happens through the Intuitive-visceral and hardwired sense of utility-worth-righteousness of five senses and emotions. This intuitive sensory experiencing however is heavily prone and susceptible to fake-fudged-fraudulent-propagandist information as evidences for and against them come only with objective-scientific-holistic knowledge. This knowledge cannot be experienced by intuitive-visceral processes but only through disciplined and persevered learning. In fact, many information you get through intuitive experiencing, have to be ‘unlearnt’ through knowledge acquisition as many experienced Information are only partial and even wrong. Knowledge acquisition process is often non-intuitive and counter-intuitive, which are hard to accept as they stand antagonistic to intuitive sense of happiness. You cook not only for tastes as it is only an intuitive experiencing of happiness. You essentially cook and eat for health and energy needs of your body and health information is non-intuitive knowledge, which is often antagonistic to intuitive-visceral validation of tastefulness. Cooking and life need you to go beyond intuitive-visceral, self-validating rationality. Cooking makes you learn to balance between intuitive and non-intuitive information. It leads you to accept the importance of having true-right-holistic ‘Ingredients of Information’, to ‘cook’ most healthy as well as tasteful recipes of realities, for harmonious life-living. This novel-innovative-experimental cook book very humbly journeys all realities for your life-living wellness and prosperity. Welcome…
Simply to say that this is a collection of essays in honor of the late Wolfgang Yourgrau (1908-1979) is to explain, at least for-the obviously many-"insiders," the unusually wide-ranging title of the present volume. In a Foreword to the Proceedings of the First International Colloquium (focusing on logic, physical reality, and history), held at the University of Denver in May of 1966 under their leadership, Wolfgang Y ourgrau and Allen Breck wrote, in an oblique reference to C. P. Snow: "Indeed there are not two or three or four cultures: there is only one culture; our generation has lost its awareness of this . . . . Historians, logicians, physicists-all are banded in one common enterprise, namely in their des ire to weave an enlightened fabric of human knowledge. " Augment, if you will, the foregoing categories of scholars with biologists, philos ophers, cosmologists, and theologians-all of whom, in addition to historians, Wolf gang Yourgrau, by dint of his inextinguishable enthusiasm and charismatic qualities, assembled in Denver for the Second and Third International Colloquia (in 1967 and 1974, respectively)-and a few other besides, and one arrives at a statement of the credo wh ich Y ourgrau not only professed, but consistently exemplified throughout his adult life.
Tobias Aberle examines how an entrepreneurship training helps disadvantaged youths in rural parts of Bihar, India, to cope with structural conditions that enable or constrain them. The present research reveals that young entrepreneurs can be divided into two groups: those who developed personal initiative and thus coped with limiting structural conditions very proactively, and those who solely behaved in a reactive way. For many entrepreneurs, the self-employed activity was only a Plan B, as in reality they sought for high-prestige career jobs. IFor entrepreneurship training to become a tool of empowerment, the range of training must be significantly adjusted in accordance with young trainees’ social and educational backgrounds. In addition, a functioning ecosystem for entrepreneurship education must be in place, which ensures support for individual entrepreneurs through mentorship and networks.
Public Policymaking Reexamined is now recognized as a fundamental treatise for public policy studies. Although it caused much controversy when it was first published for its systematic approach to policy studies, the book is acknowledged as a modern classic of continuing importance for the teaching and research of public policy, planning and policy analysis, and public administration. The paperback includes a new introduction updating and supplementing many of the author's original ideas.Professor Dror combines the approaches of policy analysis, behavioral science, and systems analysis in his examination of the reality of public policymaking and his suggestions for its reform. Actual policymaking is carefully evaluated with the help of explicit criteria and standards based on an optimal model approach, resulting in detailed proposals for improvement. He applies a scientific orientation to the study of social facts and theory.
One of the major philosophical texts of the 20th century, Process and Reality is based on Alfred North Whitehead’s influential lectures that he delivered at the University of Edinburgh in the 1920s on process philosophy. Whitehead’s master work in philsophy, Process and Reality propounds a system of speculative philosophy, known as process philosophy, in which the various elements of reality into a consistent relation to each other. It is also an exploration of some of the preeminent thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, such as Descartes, Newton, Locke, and Kant. The ultimate edition of Whitehead’s magnum opus, Process and Reality is a standard reference for scholars of all backgrounds.
Thought-provoking and enlightening, God: The Active Principle of Love examines the “dual componency” of the metaphysical and the physical that encompasses human existence. Addressing the traditional teachings of a variety of world religions, M. J. Azhikannickal deconstructs the conventional understanding of “God” and “spirituality” and presents a refreshing view of our relationship with the Divine. Human spirituality is a Theo-centric metaphysical ideation attained by disciplined physical instrumentation. Humans have a built-in free will through which they choose to “tilt” to the positive or the negative. Their choices impact society in general, because as individual entities, they are still intricately connected in the human aggregate. Tendencies to the negative have led to the degeneration and disintegration of all society, but an awareness of the Divine within us and a move to more positive choices will usher in a new era and a new civilization, where every human being, born and unborn, matters. Although philosophical in nature, the book also touches on the practical implications of God as the active principle of love, including justice, relationships, sexuality, and charity. Readers will be challenged to expand their understanding of reality and align their actions with their understanding of divine love.