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Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, “The Confessions” is an astonishing work of acute psychological insight. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) argued passionately against the inequality he believed to be intrinsic to civilized society. In his “Confessions” he relives the first fifty-three years of his radical life with vivid immediacy – from his earliest years, where we can see the source of his belief in the innocence of childhood, through the development of his philosophical and political ideas, his struggle against the French authorities and exile from France following the publication of “Emile”. Depicting a life of adventure, persecution, paranoia, and brilliant achievement, “The Confessions” is a landmark work by one of the greatest thinkers of the Enlightenment, which was a direct influence upon the work of Proust, Goethe and Tolstoy among others.

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Chime for a Change is a short book that will show you how to change your behavior, attain enlightenment, transform your relationships, nurture your family, empower your friends, motivate your workplace and effect world peace using a digital watch.
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Andrew Cohen (* 23. Oktober 1955 in New York City) ist ein amerikanischer Guru, spiritueller Lehrer, Autor, Herausgeber einer Zeitschrift und Musiker. Er hat einen eigenen spirituellen Weg entwickelt, den er Evolutionary Enlightenment nennt. Gemeinsam mit anderen Denkern und Visionären sieht er seine Aufgabe darin, an der Entwicklung einer neuen Stufe des menschlichen Bewusstseins und der Kultur mitzuwirken. Zu diesem Zweck sind Cohen und seine Schüler mit einer Vielzahl anderer spiritueller Lehrer, Philosophen, Aktivisten und Kulturschaffenden im Dialog. Viele Interviews und Berichte dieser Begegnungen, wie auch Texte von Andrew Cohen, werden im Magazin EnlightenNext veröffentlicht, das vierteljährlich (auch mit einer deutschen Ausgabe) erscheint.
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Why are religious tolerance and pluralism so difficult to achieve? Why is the often violent fundamentalist backlash against them so potent? Robert Erlewine looks to a new religion of reason for answers to these questions. Drawing on Enlightenment writers Moses Mendelssohn, Immanuel Kant, and Hermann Cohen, who placed Christianity and Judaism in tension with tolerance and pluralism, Erlewine finds a way to break the impasse, soften hostilities, and establish equal relationships with the Other. Erlewine’s recovery of a religion of reason stands in contrast both to secularist critics of religion who reject religion for the sake of reason and to contemporary religious conservatives who eschew reason for the sake of religion. Monotheism and Tolerance suggests a way to deal with the intractable problem of religiously motivated and justified violence.

What would it mean to end all conflict within oneself and come to a final resolution with all of life? What would it take for people to abandon all selfish motivation and come together in an ecstatic and liberated expression of human existence? In this inspired talk, Andrew Cohen explores with compelling depth and passion what it would mean to realize such a possibility here and now. Weaving stories, anecdotes, and personal observations, Andrew portrays a striking and original vision of heaven, hell, and the human spiritual predicament. When we cease to be preoccupied with ourselves and make enormous room in our hearts and minds for others, then heaven will no longer be an abstract idea or distant possibility, but will reveal itself as the experience of joy and well-being that is the natural and unfettered expression of life itself.
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The vast majority of books on Buddhism describe the Buddha using the word enlightened, rather than awakened. This bias has resulted in Buddhism becoming generally perceived as the eponymous religion of enlightenment.

Beyond Enlightenment is a sophisticated study of some of the underlying assumptions involved in the study of Buddhism (especially, but not exclusively, in the West). It investigates the tendency of most scholars to ground their study of Buddhism in these particular assumptions about the Buddhaâ??s enlightenment and a particular understanding of religion, which is traced back through Western orientalists to the Enlightenment and the Protestant Reformation.

Placing a distinct emphasis on Indian Buddhism, Richard Cohen adeptly creates a work that will appeal to those with an interest in Buddhism and India and also scholars of religion and history.

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City21 arises from a worldwide learning journey that was transmuted into cinematic composition illuminating some of the key perspectives and initiatives that are reshaping the ethos of the 21st century city.

The underlying quest of the writers is to reframe the conventional and uninspiring visions of the urban future with an unprecedented combination of fresh, invigorating, sustainable, economically viable, and life-enhancing concepts.

Some of the themes explored in the book, in an effort to loosen the geometric and economic grip on the urban imagination, are:

• The Sacred Origins of the City-city plans through time
• The City as Memory Theater-David Mayernik’s timeless cities: useful knowledge transmitted through the generations
• Regenerative Design-nature and architecture: the transformation of the Biosphere2 Project into eco-village design
• The Creative Green City-The Lighthouse Project in Glasgow
• Findhorn-the art of creating eco-villages
• Magical Architecture-the underground city of Damanhur, Italy
• The Utopian Imagination-poetry and architecture: The Open City Project in Ritoque, Chile
• Stewart Brand-the long now perspective

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