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Fritjof Capra and the Systems View of Life (Great Minds, Book 3): 2017 Revised, Updated, and Reformatted Edition is a passionate study about the great contemporary physicist and a review of all of his published books, including extensive quotes. The author considers Fritjof Capra as one of the most important authors on new science and systems research and considers as genius Capra's unique gift to formulate and explain complex scientific and philosophical insights and interrelations in a way that the educated listener can understand.

The Tao Te Ching by Lao-tzu is one of the most translated books of world literature. It is here presented in a translation that deliberately avoids any philosophical commentary and renders the text in English in its most simple and straightforward composure.

This book is a scholarly yet practical edition of the I Ching both for beginners and seasoned practitioners. The special focus of this divination guide is upon leadership, self-leadership, and leading others. The central concern of the author is to help the reader understand the I Ching from a point of view of decision-making, and as an aid to decision-making. In this sense, the ‘oracle book’ becomes an effective guide for taking action, which can mean bold action, nonaction or retreat. The wisdom is to arrive at right action, in whatever form it has to be carried out.

Consciousness and Shamanism is the result of the author's Ayahuasca voyage in 2004 to Ecuador, where he was drinking the sacred brew in the presence of an experienced Shuar shaman. He puts up the hypothesis that when the traditional Ayahuasca brew is ingested, it is not, or not directly, the plant's DMT that causes the spiritual voyage as it is assumed in the overwhelming part of the literature on shamanism and entheogens. It is the shaman's super-consciousness impacting directly upon the consciousness of the shaman's client, the seeker of truth who comes to drink the brew.

Wilhelm Reich and the Function of the Orgasm; Great Minds Series, Vol. 11 - the 2017 revised, updated and reformatted edition - is a study about one of the greatest authorities on the discovery of the bioenergy for modern science and medical science. The author understands his engagement for Reich as a contribution to the rehabilitation of one of the greatest but also one of the most misunderstood scientists of the 20th century.

The Mythology of Narcissism - 2017 revised, updated, and reformatted edition - is a scholarly article both for neophytes and professionals on the subject of narcissism, a recognized psychiatric pathology or disorder that the author identifies, for various reasons, as typically related to our modern consumer culture.

Creative Genius is the second audiobook of Great Minds series and the author's main publication on his more than 30 years of genius research. The author, applying the 4-quadrant IQ scheme commonly used in genius research, reviews and portrays the lives of five highly creative men: Leonardo da Vinci, Wilhelm Reich, Albert Einstein, Svjatoslav Richter, and Keith Jarrett.

An Other Kingdom takes us out of a culture of addictive consumption into a place where life is ours to create together. This way depends upon a neighborly covenant—an agreement that we together, will better raise our children, be healthy, be connected, be safe, and provide a livelihood. The authors invite you on a journey of departure from our consumer market culture. Discover an alternative set of beliefs that have the capacity to evoke a culture where poverty, violence, and shrinking well-being are not inevitable.

Edward de Bono and the Mechanism of Mind is a study that features one of the greatest think tanks of our time. Born in 1933 in Malta, he has been a training expert, corporate consultant, writer, and philosopher of world renown for decades. He has been a corporate consultant for DuPont, Exxon, Shell, Ford, IBM, British Airways, Ciba-Geigy, Citibank - to name a few. Unlike many other corporate training experts, Dr. de Bono went way beyond the job of a corporate trainer, and is to be considered a true business philosopher and conceptualist. His research on perception and the memory matrix of the human brain has had a decisive impact upon accelerated learning. Dr. de Bono is the creator of many creativity-boosting games and training programs, among them the concept of "lateral thinking" and the "Six Thinking Hats" brainstorming technique. In various countries, governments use his techniques in primary schools and high schools for boosting the creativity and learning skills of their students.

Villoldo directs the Four Winds Society, where he trains individuals throughout the world in the practice of energy medicine and soul retrieval. While at San Francisco State University, he founded the Biological Self-Regulation Laboratory, to study how the mind creates psychosomatic health and disease, and it was with this research intention in mind, that he left his orderly life and ventured into the Andes, to find a knowledge that dates back thousands of years among native shamans and natural healers.

"The Secret Science: The Huna Knowledge of the Cosmic Energy Field" Scholarly Articles, Vol. 19, 2017, is a scholarly article for both neophytes and professionals on the subject of the Huna knowledge of the cosmic energy field. The author first asks what the motivation might be to studying Huna at all, and he comes to the conclusion that Huna is both a religion and a science, thus has prepared the path for the ultimate new age science that we now see emerging.

Terence McKenna (1946-2000) has been studying the ontological foundations of shamanism and the ethnopharmacology of spiritual transformation for the past quarter century. An innovative theoretician and spellbinding orator, McKenna emerged as a powerful voice for the psychedelic movement and the emergent societal tendency he calls The Archaic Revival, one of his most popular books. In 1993, McKenna wrote in This World and Its Double. It’s clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning.

Together with Dr. John Watson, he investigates in sinister opium dens and a mysterious moated castle. Along the way, he meets a shady opera singer, an enigmatic gnome, and a derelict abortionist.

Vier Geschichten aus Dr. Watsons unerschöpflicher Nachlasssammlung zeigen Sherlock Holmes in Bestform. Eine nackte Tote aus der Themse offenbart Holmes bis auf ihren Namen alles über sich und ihren Mörder. Der versteht sich meisterhaft auf die Handhabung einer seltenen indischen Spezialwaffe. Auf der Suche nach einem verschwundenen Fabergé-Ei stellt der Meisterdetektiv Blenheim Castle, die weltberühmte Nobelimmobilie des Duke of Marlborough, komplett auf den Kopf. Zwei Leben stehen auf dem Spiel.

Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson werden beim Fund einer Wasserleiche beratend hinzugezogen. Rasch kann Holmes anhand der körperlichen Auffälligkeiten über die Lebensumstände der Frau schließen. Auch über die sonderlichen Verletzungen, die das Opfer am Rücken aufweist, kann Holmes schnell auf die eigenwillige Tatwaffe schlussfolgern.

Dem inzwischen im Ruhestand stehenden Sherlock Holmes werden von Dr. Watson höchst brisante Nachrichten heran getragen. In den Kinos liefe ein neuer Detektivfilm mit überaus anrüchigem Inhalt. Die Hauptfigur sollte niemand anderem als Sherlock Holmes selbst darstellen. Dr. Watson ist um den guten Ruf des Meisterdetektives in großer Sorge. Doch auch Dr. Watsons guter Ruf steht auf dem Spiel, wie auch die Ehe mit seiner geliebten Mary.

Hoher Besuch in der Baker Street. Der 8. Herzog von Marlborough, George Spencer-Churchill persönlich, suchte Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson auf. Sein überaus kostbares und seltenes Fabergé-Ei wurde ihm gestohlen. Doch der Herzog weiß sogar, wer es ihm entwendet hat. Nämlich seine getrennt lebende Frau, die besagtes Ei in dem Schloss des Herzogs gefinkelt versteckt hat. Nun ist es an Holmes das wertvolle Ei wieder in die Hände seines Besitzers zurück zu bringen.

Natürlich hätte Holmes eine automatische Datenverarbeitungsmaschine, wie sie heute in jedem Haushalt steht, gut gebrauchen können. Da sie aber zu seiner Zeit nur ein vager Traum sein konnte, musste er sich noch auf die eigene Intuition und die gelegentlichen Geistesblitze seines treuen Begleiters, Mitbewohners und Chronisten Dr. Watson verlassen. Einmal, bei einem Aufenthalt in Ägypten nach der Reichenbach-Affäre, wurde der gute Doktor durch Mister Tristram würdig vertreten.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle war ein Ausbund an Diskretion. Über prominente Zeitgenossen, die die Wege von Sherlock Holmes kreuzten, verlor er nie ein Wort. Nun konnte endlich wieder eine Handvoll lost cases aufgefunden und der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht werden.

Eine wahrhaft unfassbare Geschichte weiß der junge Jagdaufseher Finley Lampard zu erzählen. Zufällig fand er im Wald, nahe eines stillgelegten Kohlemeilers, den Kopf einer ehemaligen Angestellten des Gutsbesitzers. Die in den Schädel eingeschlagenen Nägel lassen auf schwerste Misshandlungen und Folterungen schließen.