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...Kabbalah Revealed: The Ordinary Person’s Guide to a More Peaceful Life is a clearly-written, user-friendly guide to making sense of the surrounding world while achieving inner peace. Each of the six chapters in this book focuses on a different aspect of the ancient wisdom of Kabbalah, shedding new light on a teaching that has too often been shrouded in...

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...amples from science and Kabbalah that the ego stands behind all human suffering, but also shows how we can use it to our benefit. With clear analyses of the human soul and its problems, the book provides a 'roadmap' indicating how we can achieve a new level of existence and fulfillment....

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...Chaos to Harmony The Solution to the Global Crisis According to the Wisdom of Kabbalah Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Translation: Chaim Ratz Editor: C... ...M CHAOS TO HARMONY The Solution to the Global Crisis According to the Wisdom of Kabbalah Copyright © 2006 by MICHAEL LAITMAN All rights reserved P... ...uentin Rd, 2nd floor, Brooklyn, New York, 11223, USA Printed in Canada No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written p... ...f an individual, and throughout the generations. Examining the evolution- ary history of other species, such as primates, indicates that several tho... ...cess of desire-evolution happens not only in the whole of humanity throughout history; it happens in the private lives of each of us as well. These ... ...he.” Regrettably, today their words seem more pertinent than ever. Throughout history, we believed that better times were ahead, that we would progr... ... was to urge them forward to greater egoistic evolution. Hence, Jews led the cultural, scientific, economic, and technological revolu- tions. These ... ...has appeared specifically in more evolved nations. It is not surprising that Germany, the most developed country in the beginning of the 20 th cen...

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...TITU POPESCU THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 2... ...) American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 2 Titu Popescu THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) Translated from Romanian by P. Georgelin, ... ... ordered in microfilm format from: Bell and Howell Co. (University of Microfilm International) 300 N. Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346, Ann Arb... ... 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 4 Foreword In the history of thought and creation, the decisive events, the great and signifi... ...nction disturb anybody. Personification being inevitable in creation, the history of art can be superposed to the history of the authors or, at, lea... ...ose who follow it: “art has proved not only that it is, as is the rule in history, impotent to domesticate the Demon of power, but that it is in cond... ...el Levenard, establishes relationships or at least resemblance on a large cultural plan: the romanticism of liberty in the 19th century, Van Gogh, Ri... ...(actual, experimental). Paradoxism is also the living of existential and cultural experiences, both specific of this century’s end, as being determ... ...ot Sullivan remarks: “This kind of literature borrowed massively from the cultural constructions of the past, we undo and rearrange them without for...

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...A wonderful series of Nürnberg – Fürth Strassenbahn (Streetcar) tokens were issued during the Weimar Republic, following the Great War. While they can be classified as transportation tokens they are commonly attributed as German notgeld (eme...

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...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...le of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existence of a right implies obligations or duties of third parties toward... ...of Rights All human cultures have hierarchies of rights. These hierarchies reflect cultural mores and lores and there cannot, therefore, be a unive... ... words, as a result of value judgements within given historical, psychological and cultural contexts. Judgement has to be involved: are the actions... ...perty are secondary asymmetries, not primary ones. There have been periods in human history and there have been cultures devoid of either or both. T... ...s, or symbols, often have different meanings. Meaning is dependent upon historical, cultural, and personal contexts. There is no telling whether two... ...w it "selected"? The Universe is constrained in this "selection process" by its own history, but its history is not synonymous with the Laws of Natu... ...lf evident: the Universe "selected" both the Natural Laws and, as a result, its own history, in a process akin to Natural Selection. Whatever increa...

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... listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake com...

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...The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a prec...

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...In the 1890s, a proofreader at the University of Chicago Press prepared a single sheet of typographic fundamentals intended as a guide for the University community. That sheet grew into a pamphlet, and the pamphlet grew into a book--the first edition of the Manual of Sty...

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...Kabbalah, Science & the Meaning of Life traces the milestones of the evolution of science with which we are familiar, such as Newton’s and Einstein’s theories but goes further to present the science of Kabbalah as the basis for understanding the hidden part...

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...Foreword: The essence of human nature is its perpetually evolving desire for pleasure. To realize this desire, we feel compelled to discover, invent, and improve our reality. The gradual intensification of the desire for pleasure has been the forc...

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... Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life LAITMAN KABBALAH PUBLISHERS Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Kabbal... ...ALAH PUBLISHERS Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life Translation: Chaim Ratz Proofreading: Kate Weibel Editor: Cla... ...lah Publishers E-mail: info@kabbalah.info KABBALAH, SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE Copyright © 2006 by MICHAEL LAITMAN All rights reserved Publis... ...desire for pleasure has been the force behind human evolu- tion throughout our history. The desire for pleasure evolves through several stages. In th... ...ved over thousands of years and been disseminated among Kabbalists throughout history. I would like to briefly review the key points in this process... ...d motion were all formed, and how the will to receive will evolve. Our entire history is determined by the evolution of our will to receive; this ca... ...s members to evolve in their own unique way. Kabbalah strictly objects to any cultural or educational coer- cion from Western countries toward third-... ...nized as the greatest writ- er of the German tradition. The Romantic period in Germany (the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries) is known ... ...ture and art. For the last thirty years of his life he was Germany's greatest cultural icon, serving as an object of pilgrimage from all over Europe...

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The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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... No unauthorized photocopying All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, o... ...ansmitted in any form, or by any Means, without the prior written permission of the Author or New Economics publishers. © Mark W Medley 2009 Co... ... 1 2. Learning from the German New Deal of the 1990’s 3 3. Three forms of Economic systems we... ...th. Consumer goods are far cheaper compared to incomes, then anytime in human history, thanks to the outsourcing of industry to low wage countries in... ... of the money is simply considered of lesser value, and loses its value. The history of economics, has seen many examples of where the printing of ... ...gely profitable Corporations have made some of the biggest loses in financial history. So is outsourcing dead? Insolvent Corporations that were save... ...e Peoples republic of China. Within a few days he had ordered the end of the Cultural Revolution, jailed the Gang of four and later opened up china ... ...nstantly sense. Managing this is difficult, particularly inside larger multi- cultural Organizations. So what are the different perceptions we deal ... ...ronment, and will naturally see, hear, feel and sense things differently. 2. Cultural Perceptions We may often enjoy the same things, but we are al...

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...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

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Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.

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