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The Penguin Book of New Age and Holistic Writings William Bloom

The Penguin Book of New Age and Holistic Writings By William Bloom

The Penguin Book of New Age and Holistic Writings by William Bloom


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Summary

This text offers an introduction to the major sources, ideas and teachers of New Age or Holistic movement. Many of the ideas represented in the book are already hugely influential and set to become more so as the scientific revolution continues and communications become ever more sophisticated.

The Penguin Book of New Age and Holistic Writings Summary

The Penguin Book of New Age and Holistic Writings by William Bloom

As we enter the 21st century and millions of us turn to new and practical ways of coping with the modern world, the New Age and Holistic movements have become hugely popular and influential. Now, in the information age, we have access to a wide range of alternative therapies, complementary medicine, new scientific perspectives, Eastern philosophies and distant cultures to help us achieve physical, emotional and spiritual well-being. But what are the ideas behind Holism? This inspirational and authoritative guide introduces the major concepts and great thinkers of the New Age and Holistic movements, showing how they have influenced the way we now think of health, religion, philosophy, sexuality and feminism. It offers wisdom and advice from some of the best-known and most respected writers of the New Age, including Louise Hay on emotional healing, Deepak Chopra on the prevention of aging, Ram Dass on psychedelia, M. Scott Peck on the nature of love, Jonathon Porritt on overcoming greed and self-interest, Carl Jung on dreams and Carlos Castaneda on shamanism. With eight sections covering all aspects of Holism, each with an enlightening introduction by William Bloom, this is the essential New Age handbook.

About William Bloom

William Bloom has been a prominenet and authoritative spokesman and commentator on the holistic and New Age movement in Britain for the past 20 years; he is widely regarded as its most well-known spokesman. A former academic at the LSE, he is the author of many books and has appeared on and consulted to numerous radio and television programmes.

Table of Contents

Part 1 New science: the Tao of physics, Fritjof Capra; wholeness and the implicate order, David Bohm; chaos - making a new science, James Gleick; a new science of life, Rupert Sheldrake; cosmic life-force, Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe; the quantum self, Danah Zohar; stalking the wild pendulum, Itzhak Bentov. Part 2 Psychology: memories, dreams, reflections, Carl Jung; religions, values and peak-experiences, Abraham H. Maslow; a way of being, Carl Rogers; psychosynthesis, Roberto Assagioli; the function of the orgasm, Wilhelm Reich; the Atman-Project, Ken Wilber; the phenomena of astral projection, Sylvan Muldoon and Hereward Carrington; other lives, other selves, Roger Woolger. Part 3 Gaia - the living Earth: address given in January, 1954, Chief Seattle; Gaia - a new look at life on Earth, J.E. Lovelock; seeing green, Jonathon Porritt; small is beautiful, E.F. Schumacher; Ben and Jerry's double-dip, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield; paradigms in progress, Hazel Henderson; world as lover, world as self, Joanna Macy; the new view over Atlantis, John Michell; the Findhorn garden, Dorothy Maclean. Part 4 Holistic health and healing: spiritual midwifery, Ina May Gaskin; the continuum concept, Jean Liedloff; esoteric healing, Alice Bailey; molecules of emotion, Candace Pert; vibrational medicine, Richard Gerber; heal your body - the mendal causes for physical illness and the metaphysical way to overcome them, Louise Hay; there is a river, Thomas Sugrue; the holistic herbal, David Hoffmann; the road less travelled, M. Scott Peck; ageless body, timeless mind, Deepak Chopra; who dies?, Stephen Levine. Part 5 Feminism and the goddess: the spiral dance, Starhawk; the paradise papers - the suppression of women's rites, Merlin Stone; the white goddess, Robert Graves; the pregnant virgin, Marion Woodman; gyn/ecology - the metaethics of radical feminism, Mary Daly; the wise wound, Penelope Shuttle and Peter Redgrove; our bodies ourselves, the Boston women's health collective. Part 6 The shamanic and magical traditions: Black Elk speaks, Black Elk; the teachings of Don Juan - a Yaqui way of knowledge, Carlos Castaneda; of water and the spirit, Malidoma Some; the mystical Qabalah, Dion Fortune; cutting the ties that bind, Phyllis Krystal; soul retrieval - mending the fragmented self, Sandra Ingerman; the art of sexual ecstasy, Margo Anand. Part 7 Mystic and esoteric religion: mysticism, Evelyn Underhill; the varieties of religious experience, William James; the gnostic gospels, Elaine Pagels; the western way II, Caitlin and John Matthews; light on yoga, B.K.S. Iyengar; the Tibetan book of living and dying, Sogyal Rinpoche; the I Ching, Richard Wilhelm; cutting through spiritual materialism, Chogyam Trungpa; Zen mind, beginner's mind, Shunryu Suzuki; be here now, Ram Dass. Part 8 Modern prophesy: the phenomenon of man, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin; the life divine, Sri Aurobindo; a course in miracles, anon; the nature of personal reality, Jane Roberts.

Additional information

GOR001509744
9780140195958
0140195955
The Penguin Book of New Age and Holistic Writings by William Bloom
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
2001-05-31
432
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