Description Details
This guide provides an outline for a Peer Recovery Navigator supervised work experience consistent with the standards set forth by industry best practices for candidates seeking certification as a Global Certified Peer Recovery Navigator....

Description Details
The effects on victims and survivors of traumatic experiences, long-term and repeated abuse, and torture. Includes in-depth profile of the Narcissistic Abuser and hundreds of links to literature and resources....

Description Details
Creating The Life Your Desire will teach you the simple yet powerful techniques of how you can create the life you’ve longed for by taking control of your thoughts, patterns and habits at the inner subconscious level. By applying these formulas, you will soon find yourself living the life you’ve always dreamed of, achieving your goals with relative ease and breaking bad habits and negative thought patterns. The techniques you will learn in this book can guide you to higher level of both personal and professional satisfaction. I have used and studied the majority of healing arts; theology, meditation, yoga, hypnosis, NLP and read almost every self-help author from Tony Robbins, Chopra, Carnegie, Dyer and The Secret. The one thing they all have in common is tapping into the power of the subconscious mind. I have found that using a combination of these techniques while under hypnosis can fast track your results. My own personal journey led me to discover these techniques when I was a teenager and I have been using them ever since creating a life of my dreams and I continue to practice their techniques on a daily basis be...

Table of Contents Details
Contents 1. Introduction 2 2. What Is Hypnosis? 10 3. Recent Hypnotic Discoveries 22 4. Breaking Hypnotic Myths 31 5. The Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Tests 34 6. Can I Be Hypnotized? 38 7. Visualization Accelerates Hypnosis 42 8. Hypnosis Requirements 47 9. Using Affirmations While Under Hypnosis 52 10. How Does Hypnosis Work? 57 11. Personal Benefits Of Hypnosis 65 12. How To Tell When People Are Hypnotized 77 13. FAQs 79 14. How It Feels To Be Hypnotized 83 15. How To Hypnotize Yourself 86 16. Am I Really Hypnotized? 98 17. How Long Should My Trance State Last? 99 18. Where Should I Experience Trance? 100 19. How Many Sessions For Permanent Results? 101 20. What’s On The Horizon? 102 21. The Future of Hypnotherapy 103 22. Hypnosis Script: Creating The Life You Desire 108 23. Conclusion 136...

Description Details
Who influences us in our lives? How do they influence us? Whom do we call an enemy? Whom do we call a friend? And why? Why do we have relationships at all? These are the questions Helena Harper eloquently asks in her collection of poems that examines the relationships in her own life. She has had to rethink her definition of 'enemy', not least because her father was English and her mother German and they met in the aftermath of World War II in Germany. She has also been forced to rethink her definition of 'friend'. If we learn something from someone that helps us to grow and develop as human beings, becoming more understanding and compassionate in the process, then surely most people we meet in life will be our 'friends'? Through the memories and experiences of the people in Helena's life, others can hopefully reflect on their own and maybe come to understand themselves and their relationships better. www.EloquentBooks.com/FamilyandMore.html...

Description Details
An idea is taken for granted in the scheme of things. Someone exclaims, "I've got an idea!" What is it that he has? From where did he get it? How was it transmitted? How might it spread to others? What will be the effect of the acceptance of the idea? These are some of the questions dealt with in this book. In this first chapter the nature of an idea is developed, contextualized and shown to be a most timely topic. To pave the way for this book's argument that ideas are exchanged in marketlike transactions, the aim of this chapter is to present an idea as a dynamic and vital entity....

Description Details
When the personality is rigid to the point of being unable to change in reaction to changing circumstances - we say that it is disordered. Such a person takes behavioral, emotional, and cognitive cues exclusively from others. His inner world is, so to speak, vacated. His True Self is dilapidated and dysfunctional. Instead he has a tyrannical and delusional False Self. Such a person is incapable of loving and of living. He cannot love others because he cannot love himself. He loves his reflection, his surrogate self. And he is incapable of living because life is a struggle towards, a striving, a drive at something. In other words: life is change. He who cannot change cannot live....

Description Details
Do you know that an empowering word can spark ideas, open doors, change attitudes, and create solutions? Words can do all these things and much more. They have the potency to redefine personalities, lives, and entire communities. Just think of some of the things words are used for every day: To communicate a message To express a feeling To interact with others To associate meaning, intention, and tone To record history To tell stories And so much more! When used the right way, words can also enhance the power of the mind so that people can select what they process and what they do. The selection of powerful words and images is conducive to a feeling of confidence in achieving personal mastery, however one needs to understand their power to get the most out of them....

Description Details
Psychopathology as the outcome of problems in early childhood development.

Description Details
Let’s be honest. No other parenting books even try to show you how to make your son or daughter a great American. We do. Thirty (30) great men and women from across many professions, genders, politics, religions, and walks of life—the products of extraordinary parenting and mentoring. This book offers the exact techniques, words, phrases, mantras —to propel your offspring to incredible success — toward rich, vivid lives. They worked for those parents and mentors. They can and will work for you too. Mantras are the 21st Century way to lock your ideals, standards, ethics, and principles into formative minds. By definition they demand repetition. The phrasing may stay the same or almost the same. The stories, the elaboration, the background, the colors may bob and weave. But the cores of the mantras stay fixed. Stars to remember and guide one through life. MANTRAS. The exact words used to motivate and guide those great future Americans. Distilled from over 500 biographies. These techniques, these words and phrases, WORK! This book uniquely brings you the best parenting and mentoring advice. Straight up. No bull...

Description Details
Let’s be honest. No other parenting books even try to show you how to make your son or daughter a great American. We do. Thirty (30) great men and women from across many professions, genders, politics, religions, and walks of life—the products of extraordinary parenting and mentoring. This book offers the exact techniques, words, phrases, mantras —to propel your offspring to incredible success — toward rich, vivid lives. They worked for those parents and mentors. They can and will work for you too. Mantras are the 21st Century way to lock your ideals, standards, ethics, and principles into formative minds. By definition they demand repetition. The phrasing may stay the same or almost the same. The stories, the elaboration, the background, the colors may bob and weave. But the cores of the mantras stay fixed. Stars to remember and guide one through life. MANTRAS. The exact words used to motivate and guide those great future Americans. Distilled from over 500 biographies. These techniques, these words and phrases, WORK! This book uniquely brings you the best parenting and mentoring advice. Straight up. No bull...

Description Details
The miniature novel Helsinkiin by Juhani Aho was published in 1889. A psychological novel about a young man’s stepping into adult life, it also touches the then heated language politics as Finnish was emerging as a language of academia in the bilingual country. Aho (1861 - 1921) was among the first professional writers in Finland. This reading is in Finnish. (Summary by Tuija Aalto)...

Excerpt Details
Psychology

Description Details
The writer believes that all attendants should be regularly instructed in their duties, and the highest standard of care can be reached only when this is done. He also believes that every person who is allowed to care for the insane will be greatly benefited by such instruction, and will be able to learn every thing taught, if the teacher uses simple methods and is patient to instruct. As this manual was originally written in 1886, the basic medical instruction IS out-of-date and should not be used to diagnose any medical problem, nor should be used in the case of an emergency. It has been recorded for entertainment purposes only! (Summary from the Introduction and by Ann Boulais)...

Excerpt Details
Psychology

Description Details
Not a few serious-minded students, [...], have been discouraged from attempting a study of Freud's dream psychology. The book in which he originally offered to the world his interpretation of dreams was as circumstantial as a legal record to be pondered over by scientists at their leisure, not to be assimilated in a few hours by the average alert reader. In those days, Freud could not leave out any detail likely to make his extremely novel thesis evidentially acceptable to those willing to sift data. - Freud himself, however, realized the magnitude of the task which the reading of his magnum opus imposed upon those who have not been prepared for it by long psychological and scientific training and he abstracted from that gigantic work the parts which constitute the essential of his discoveries. The publishers of the present book deserve credit for presenting to the reading public the gist of Freud's psychology in the master's own words, and in a form which shall neither discourage beginners, nor appear too elementary to those who are more advanced in psychoanalytic study. - Dream psychology is the key to Freud's works and to all mod...

Excerpt Details
Psychology

Description Details
This is the first of what is intended to be three projects featuring journal articles which chart the development of psychology as an academic discipline in the United States during the twentieth century. This first collection begins with an appraisal of functionalism by William James and takes in: early contributions to educational psychology; works of early feminist psychologists; discussions of behaviourism and pragmatism. Also included is Watson and Rayer's famous 1920 Little Albert study. (Summary by Carl Manchester)...

Excerpt Details
Psychology

Description Details
Mohamad wael El Kurdi is a computer programmer, he was formerly employed at the Lebanese university. He quit his job in order to concentrate on his work as a programmer, but he has been subject to various type of psychological torture. This torture has been conducted by some regular people, and there has been some intelligence agencies involved. What is evident is that there is an intelligence agency from Lebanon which is involved, and since this intelligence agency is also operating in Tunisia, this mean that an intelligence agency in Tunisia is also involved. Mohamad believes that 99% of people are good, and that there is only 1% of people who are inherently bad . This version details some of the psychological war and torture that Mohammad has passed through ....

Excerpt Details
Mohamad Wael was born on 21.01.1981 in Lebanon. He has a double nationality Lebanese and Tunisian. In his school years, Mohamad’s favorite subject was geometry. He was a very hard-working student in elementary school, and he was mediocre in his high school years. He participated in multiple sports, including judo. After graduating from high school, Mohamad studied at the university of balamand , and then later he traveled to Canada where he was enrolled at the university of Montréal , and in the university of Quebec a Montréal . He didn’t complete his education there. Later on he when he was 31 years old he went to university in Lebanon. He was a very successful student and he graduated from three universities top of his class, they are: The Arts and Science University of Lebanon, The Lebanese French University and The Lebanese University. He has multiple degrees, including: Computer Communication , Master in Business Computing and Master in Computer Science, Computer Communication Engineering. Mohamad worked in the student bureau of the Lebanese University, which he quit since he wanted to become a programmer.it was too ...

Table of Contents Details
Background Early Life Lebanese University Problems The tawhid setup Proof That an intelligence agency is involved How some stuff has been done Following him Constantly Bugging his car Bugging his house Some audio proof Broadcasting mohamad name outside of lebanon Public attacks and involvement Lebanon Lebanese army insults Bourj El Samak Restaurant insults Pierre and friends Restaurant insults Rawcheh Restaurant insults ksar Restaurant insults hellab resaurant insults le marly hotel lebanon airport Sri Lanka Taxi Driver Hotel Finlanka Tunisia Airport Omega lac tunis appartment Omega coffee tunisia TUnisia mall carrefour mall Geant mall Police incident | crazy or a fool Facing the pedophiles in the agency New Apartment - jardin de carthage Legal Course In Lebanon In Tunisia Reporting Pedophiles Contact Human right organizations Contacting intelligence agencies Contacting News agencies The intelligence agency torture The rant torture Aim Of this torture Psychological effect ...

Description Details
The fundamental assumptions underlying the modern study of psychopathology examined.

Description Details
The Ultimate Guide to Getting a Raise and Boosting Your Income includes some of the most advanced material on salary negotiation – including real world examples, case studies, a salary calculator, and cut-and-paste scripts to make sure you get paid what you deserve in 2017....

Excerpt Details
The Top 10 Negotiation Mistakes 1. Turning down offers and burning bridges 2. Never discovering what the interviewer is REALLY asking (the question behind the question) 3. Asking weak questions (or no questions) when your boss or interviewer asks, “Do you have any questions?” 4. Giving up or rambling when the boss says, “That’s out of our budget” or “Maybe next year” 5. Not knowing what to say, or when to say, “No” 6. Never asking for a raise or negotiating your salary because “I suck at interviews — I always fall apart or ramble” 7. Telling your previous salary — and instantly destroying your chances of making a significant leap 8. Not planning in advance, even though 80% of the work hap-pens before you ever enter the room 9. Ignoring psychology. Most people tell us to just ask for a raise... but they don’t realize we have to get into our boss’s head AND figure out how to build our confidence and overcome nervousness 10. Fumbling through an interview — instead of knowing exactly what words to say and how to say them What we really need to crack the negotiation code ...

Table of Contents Details
The Top 10 Negotiation Mistakes How to negotiate your salary Overcome your weaknesses Negotiations in action How to get paid what you deserve The Top 7 Mistakes Keeping You From Your Dream Job... And How To Fix Them Psychological triggers that multiply your success ...

Description Details
I’m OKAY, Life’s OKAY is a guide for finally letting go of stress and anxiety and learning to relax into life. So often we feel we’re getting life right or wrong and feel we’re making mistakes and failing when really it’s just all one game where we get to decide how to play. The book is designed to facilitate letting go of thinking that keeps us stuck and open to new possibilities. It’s a must read if you’re tired of fighting with life, feel like you’re failing or are in need of a new ‘tune’....

Excerpt Details
"Imagine a lioness continuously on the hunt, never stopping to rest. She’s just attended the elephant’s motivational speech on ‘saying yes to all opportunities’ and she’s determined to keep on hunting. At the end of two days, she’s exhausted. I bet you’re laughing but look at us; that’s exactly what we do. Nowhere in nature do things remain in a perpetual state of action. There must be rest. There must be play. There must be eating. There must be healing. There must be cub raising. It is the same with us, and yes, even the men." ~ Excerpt from I'm OKAY, Life's OKAY ...

Table of Contents Details
Introduction 1. Life’s not okay, I’m not okay 2. It’s all just a game 3. You are here 4. Beliefs that block okayness 5. Take off your mask 6. From forgiveness to acceptance 7. Do the best with what you have 8. Bless it all, own it all 9. Go with the flow 10. Assume the best (assuming you know nothing) 11. Learning to ask 12. The life cycle of life cycles 13. Play like a child. Think like a scientist. 14. Compassion and courage under fire 15. Radical self acceptance 16. Life is what you practice Epilogue ...

Description Details
Narcissistic and psychopathic leaders come in all shapes and degrees of virulence. Learn to recognize them in various settings (the workplace, religion, politics) and to cope with the toxic fallout of their "leadership"....

Description Details
In over 30 short stories, Jim Bowers explores with courage and honesty the nature of the human heart. He plunges deep into the psyche, confronts the beast within, and emerges with redemption, hope, and a bittersweet understanding of the meaning of life. His stories touch on human frailties and anguish, the complexities of relationships, the power of faith and the spirit, on good and evil itself. They are disturbing or uplifting--sometimes together--and they challenge us to be as daring in subjecting our own innermost thoughts and fears to the crucible of honest attention. Expressing a profound mastery of language, Jim writes with beauty and elegance, sincerity and passion. These stories "speak to the soul." Gaydell Collier, author and editor...

Excerpt Details
Prologue I am sitting in my chair in the cabin built by my own hands, looking at the stream flowing through my property, with my feet elevated, piles of newspapers and my dog at my side. It is not that I am lazy. I'm retired, and retirement means not doing whatever I do not care to do, not talking with people I do not find interesting, not being anything other than what I want to be. It is the ultimate in freedom, just to be myself: no more games to play, no role to tell me how I ought to act, only silence and intuition. But that also involves getting to know who I really am. Memories from the past float to the surface, long-forgotten, painful, surprising. I am changing in unexpected ways: death and rebirth in my late sixties, as if one can start over again at that age. I am becoming more reclusive, more observant, delighted by the vast panorama of inward experience. Room after room I wander through the mansion of my soul, ascending stairs toward ecstasy, descending into a murky cellar of horror and evil, desperately trying to find some stability within the synergy between polar opposites. There are many faces populating m...

Table of Contents Details
Prologue The Loner Becoming Civilized The Springtime of Love Nightfall Insensitive Snow The Power and the Blood Friendship The Funeral Bad Boy Flesh Made Word A Failure of Heart A Beautiful Woman A Chalice of Daffodils An Honest Neighbor Fear Alone in the Woods The Jogger Embracing the Unacceptable The True Believer A Difficult Friend The Eternal Moment The Storm The Christ Child The Child Molester The Rapist Heart Attack Free at Last Love in Christ Betrayal Why Go to College? The Commencement Speech Poverty Wealth Vision Quest Arachnephilia: The Love of Spiders The Pianist Epilogue ...

Description Details
The scholastic psychunlogy is the part of psychunlogy that studies the multiple aspects of the influence of the disorganized education practiced in schools, of the misprocesses resulted from the educational intervention with the psychological laws of the children’s education and instruction, of unlearning, of lifestyle deformation, and students’ personalities in the misprocess of educational instruction. Along with the child psychunlogy, the scholastic psychunlogy constitutes the principal source of misinformation and fundament of the science of parapedagogy. With this booklet, this unauthor introduces a new literary-scientific genre called psychological science fiction as part of the PARADOXISM movement in literature and science....

Excerpt Details
The separation of psychunlogy from philosophy and its deformation as an autonomous science takes place, especially as a result of the great regresses registered in some of the unnatural sciences such as biology (the anatomy and biology of the nervous system, the neuronvegetative and endocrine systems, senses organs), and physics (the science that proved the possibility of mess-experimentations and non-objective and relative exact measurements)....

Table of Contents Details
Psychological Science Fiction (Unpreface) ................. 3 Table of Contents .................................. 4 Chapter 1 – The non-object and the psychunlogy’s problems .......... 7 The science of psychunlogy .............................. 7 The psychic, brain’s malfunction, non‐objective reflection of the non‐objective world ....... 7 The psychic misprocess of cognition .......................... 11 The psychic characteristics .............................. 12 The object of the scholastic psychunlogy ........................ 12 Chapter 2 – The unconscious psychic activity ............... 14 The conscienceless notion .............................. 14 The principal malfunctions of the conscienceless ..................... 15 The conscienceless dimensions ............................ 15 Self‐conscienceless (self‐awarenessless) ....................... 16 The collective self‐conscienceless (self‐awarenessless) .................. 16 The levels of disorganization of the psychic inhuman activities ................ 16 The psychic development in autogenesis ........................ 17 The factors of psychic’s non‐develop...

Excerpt Details
This representation is closer to the human mind reasoning. It characterizes/ catches the imprecision of knowledge or linguistic inexactitude received by various observers (that's why T, I, F are subsets - not necessarily single-clements), Uncertainty due to incomplete knowledge or acquisition errors or stochasticity (that's why the subset I exists), and vagueness due to lack of clear contours or limits (that's why T, I, Fare subsets and I exists; in particular for the appurtenance to the neutrosophic sets)....

Description Details
How consciousness can become part of all of life,

Excerpt Details
nearly every atom in your body is exchanged every month only your bones take longer and are new almost yearly that’s why you eat so much every birthday you have an entirely different body - so, who are you ? - your essence existed before you your affects exist all around you who you are in essence and what you did and what you do are eternal...

Table of Contents Details
Item Title 1 Introduction 2 Index Poem1 Already Damned Poem2 Can You Imagine Poem3 The Joy Of Poem4 Fear Is A Prison Poem5 Truth and Illusions. Poem6 Critical Eyes Poem7 Our Poetry Poem8 The Trouble With Silence Poem9 Empty Room Poem10 Freedom Poem11 What Am I Tomorrow Poem12 The Bottom Of Things Poem13 The Painful Way To Enlightenment Poem14 Ripples and Echoes Poem15 Phase 1 Poem16 God Is Eccentric Poem17 Friends Poem18 Comfort Poem19 Comfort Too Poem20 Today Poem21 The Light Poem22 Working Poem23 Welcome You Poem24 Coffee Poem25 Words Poem26 ...

Description Details
Learn how to accomplish your goals through increasing your mental power, avoiding energy drains, and becoming more mentally efficient. (Summary by Andrea Fiore.)...

Excerpt Details
Instruction, Psychology

Description Details
Genevieve Behrend was a teacher of Mental Science, a New Thought discipline created by Thomas Troward (1847- 1916). Your Invisible Power, published in 1921, is her first and most famous book. It is a guide to the use of visualization and other mental processes in life enhancement and the achievement of personal goals. (Summary by Algy Pug)...

Excerpt Details
Philosophy, Psychology

Description Details
The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burton applies his large and varied learning in the scholastic manner to the subject of melancholia (which includes what is now termed clinical depression). Though presented as a medical text, The Anatomy of Melancholy is as much a sui generis work of literature as it is a scientific or philosophical text, and Burton addresses far more than his stated subject. In fact, the Anatomy uses melancholy as the lens through which all human emotion and thought may be scrutinized, and virtually the entire contents of a 17th-century library are marshalled into service of this goal. Burton is forthright about his intentions in writing the Anatomy — I write of melancholy by being busy to avoid melancholy, he concedes. This acknowledged desire to distract and amuse himself motivated Burton to produce a wide-ranging document, containing digressions and commentary. Whatever its strengths as a medical text or as a historical document, it is the Anatomy's vast breadth — addressing topics such as digestion, goblins, th...

Excerpt Details
Psychology, Science

Description Details
Helen Ekin Starrett, journalist, mother of two daughters, grandmother of seven granddaughters and teacher to many young girls at the Starrett School for Girls offers lessons in life and religion to girls about to pass out from the guardianship of home into life with its duties and trials. (Summary by Bianca Kramer, quote from Letter I of this book)...

Excerpt Details
Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Advice

Description Details
In 1770, Baron D'Holbach published his masterpiece, Systeme de la Nature, which for a long time passed as the posthumous work of M. de Mirabaud. That text-book of Atheistical Philosophy caused a great sensation, and two years later, 1772, the Baron published this excellent abridgment of it, freed from arbitrary ideas; and by its clearness of expression, facility, and precision of style, rendered it most suitable for the average student. This text is based on an undated English translation of Le Bon Sens published c. 1900. The name of the translator was not stated. (Summary from editor's preface)...

Excerpt Details
Psychology, Philosophy, Religion

Description Details
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature is a book by the Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James that comprises his edited Gifford Lectures on Natural Theology delivered at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland between 1901 and 1902. These lectures concerned the nature of religion and the neglect of science, in James' view, in the academic study of religion. Soon after its publication, the book found its way into the canon of psychology and philosophy, and has remained in print for over a century....

Excerpt Details
Psychology, Philosophy, Religion

Description Details
The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burton applies his large and varied learning in the scholastic manner to the subject of melancholia (which includes what is now termed clinical depression). Though presented as a medical text, The Anatomy of Melancholy is as much a sui generis work of literature as it is a scientific or philosophical text, and Burton addresses far more than his stated subject. In fact, the Anatomy uses melancholy as the lens through which all human emotion and thought may be scrutinized, and virtually the entire contents of a 17th-century library are marshalled into service of this goal. Burton is forthright about his intentions in writing the Anatomy — I write of melancholy by being busy to avoid melancholy, he concedes. This acknowledged desire to distract and amuse himself motivated Burton to produce a wide-ranging document, containing digressions and commentary. Whatever its strengths as a medical text or as a historical document, it is the Anatomy's vast breadth — addressing topics such as digestion, goblins, th...

Excerpt Details
Instruction, Psychology

Description Details
This little book, whose design is to lead the devout Bible student into the Green Pastures of the Good Shepherd, thence to the Banqueting House of the King, and thence to the service of the Vineyard, is one of the abiding legacies of Mr. Hudson Taylor to the Church. In the power of an evident unction from the Holy One, he has been enabled herein to unfold in simplest language the deep truth of the believer's personal union with the Lord, which under symbol and imagery is the subject of The Song of Songs. (From the Foreword by J Stuart Holden)....

Excerpt Details
Religion, Psychology, Philosophy

Description Details
James Allen was a British philosophical writer known for his inspirational books and poetry and as a pioneer of the self-help movement. In the introduction Lily Allen writes: It cannot be said of this book that James Allen wrote it at any particular time or in any one year, for he was engaged in it over many years and those who have eyes to see and hearts to understand will find in its pages the spiritual history of his life. It was his own wish that The Divine Companion should be the last manuscript of his to be published. 'It is the story of my soul,' he said, 'and should be read last of all my books, so that the student may understand and find my message in its pages.' (Summary by Wikipedia and Lily Allen)...

Excerpt Details
Psychology, Philosophy, Romance, Poetry

Description Details
William James (1842 – 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and the philosophies of pragmatism and Radical Empiricism. Essays in Radical Empiricism is a collection edited and published posthumously by his colleague and biographer Ralph Barton Perry in 1912. It was assembled from a collection of reprinted journal articles published from 1904–1905 which James had deposited in August, 1906, at the Harvard University for supplemental use by his students. (Wikipedia)...

Excerpt Details
Philosophy, Psychology

Description Details
The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burton applies his large and varied learning in the scholastic manner to the subject of melancholia (which includes what is now termed clinical depression). Though presented as a medical text, The Anatomy of Melancholy is as much a sui generis work of literature as it is a scientific or philosophical text, and Burton addresses far more than his stated subject. In fact, the Anatomy uses melancholy as the lens through which all human emotion and thought may be scrutinized, and virtually the entire contents of a 17th-century library are marshalled into service of this goal. Burton is forthright about his intentions in writing the Anatomy — I write of melancholy by being busy to avoid melancholy, he concedes. This acknowledged desire to distract and amuse himself motivated Burton to produce a wide-ranging document, containing digressions and commentary. Whatever its strengths as a medical text or as a historical document, it is the Anatomy's vast breadth — addressing topics such as digestion, goblins, th...

Excerpt Details
Instruction, Psychology

Description Details
The Light of Egypt will be found to be an Occult library in itself, a textbook of esoteric knowledge, setting forth the wisdom Religion of life, as taught by the Adepts of Hermetic Philosophy. It will richly repay all who are seeking the higher life to carefully study this book, as it contains in a nutshell the wisdom of the ages regarding man and his destiny, here and hereafter. The London and American first edition, also the French edition, Vol. I, met with lively criticism from Blavatsky Theosophists, because it annihilates that agreeable delusion of Karma and Reincarnation from the minds of all lovers of truth for truth's sake. The Tablets of Aeth is a great and mighty work, as it contains the very quintessence of Occult and Hermetic philosophy, as revealed by spiritual law. Penetralia is a new revelation, and invaluable to Occult students, as it is the personal experience of a developed soul. (Summary taken from the Publishers Preface)...

Excerpt Details
Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Science

Description Details
The Outline of Science was written specifically with the man-on-the-street in mind as the target audience. Covering scientific subjects ranging from astronomy to biology to elementary physics in clear, concise and easily understood prose, this popular science work is largely as relevant today as when first published in 1922. In this second volume (of four), we learn about microscopy, and the intricate workings of the human body and mind. The major part, however, is devoted to the Natural History of birds, mammals, and insects. (Summary adapted from the first volume by Availle.)...

Excerpt Details
Nature, Psychology, Science