Let Me Give It to You Straight

Let Me Give It to You Straight
Author: Mark Jaffe
Publisher: Cgw
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2014
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781908293312

Let Me Give It To You Straight is an examination of the human condition as seen through the striving of corporate management, a guide to getting ahead without getting mustard on your jacket. If you're bored to tears with business books that take themselves too seriously and then don't even bother to tell you the meaning of life, look no further.

Stumbling Toward Enlightenment

Stumbling Toward Enlightenment
Author: Geri Larkin
Publisher: Celestial Arts
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2008-11-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1587613298

A humorous and honest collection of Buddhist wisdom from a Western beginner'­s perspective. Instead of promising a straight and clear path to enlightenment, author and teacher Geri Larkin shows us that even stumbling along that path can lead to self-discovery and awakening, especially if we prize the journey and not the destination. With candor, affection, and earthy wisdom, Larkin shares her experiences as a beginning and continuing Buddhist. This spirituality classic shows any seeker that it's possible to stumble, smile, and stay Zen through it all.

The Yoga of Consciousness

The Yoga of Consciousness
Author: SantataGamana
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2018-05-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781719017954

Never has Enlightenment been made so accessible. The book that is guaranteed to show you what you haven't seen before, revealing the Missing Keys to Self-Realization. This book exposes the ultimate practical guide to Enlightenment & uncovers the unseen blockages made by the ego-mind. It is a practical book especially for those who: - are sincere practitioners, meditators or seekers of the Truth; - wish to put an end to the misery-creator known as ego in this lifetime; - have struggled with their meditation and spiritual endeavors for a long time but have yet to put an end to all dissatisfaction, suffering or incompleteness. Supreme Bliss, Peace and eternal completeness are truly possible! Your true Self can unquestionably be realized in this lifetime, if you follow what is shared in here. 25 Non-dual practices will be given that point directly toward your true nature, helping you to experientially recognize and abide as deathless Consciousness that you are, effortlessly. The Parvastha of Kriya Yoga, the Presence of Being, the Background of Awareness, the "I Am." It's not a mere philosophy-it's the bridge toward true and perpetual Freedom. This guide will make it accessible, direct, and practical. You have been searching for something beyond yourself, beyond the mundane life, beyond the plastic flowers of human existence. Yet, every time you seem to be closing in on the Truth, something has gotten in the way. Despite many meditations, spiritual practices, pilgrimages, mystical experiences, and so on, you see yourself sidetracking from your spiritual journey, over and over again. It is as if it were stronger than you. It's not your fault though... it's the false self, posing as the real Self that prevents you from reaching the highest potential of human existence. Its name: Ego. By showing you how the ego works behind the scenes, and leads you to live a life of discontentment and incompleteness, you will finally wake up to your true purpose of attaining Freedom, going beyond Kundalini, Kriya Yoga & all Spirituality into awakening Non-Duality. For a long time you've been invested in your current way of living, afraid of climbing the ultimate step into the unknown, bound by the ego's illusions. As long as you keep investing in your current way of living, you will not climb the ultimate step into the unknown. Recognizing the "I-ego," dissolving it and living without it, is truly being enlightened. Are you ready to dive into this unknown? *This book can be read as a standalone, or in conjunction with the previous three books

Practical Enlightenment

Practical Enlightenment
Author: Ariel and Shya Kane
Publisher: Waterfront Digital Press
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2015-07-23
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9781943625017

Enlightenment isn't a mystical state that requires years of effort to achieve. It is a practical lifestyle that you can have right now. In Practical Enlightenment, Ariel & Shya Kane share a refreshing approach to living life without worry, stress or anxiety - a way of living where your past no longer dictates your present or future and you experience your own perfection. Through humorous and touching stories of real people in real life situations, the Kanes show you the easy way to live an enlightened life - no effort required!

The Enlightenment Project

The Enlightenment Project
Author: Lynn Hightower
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2022-02-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 144830718X

Cutting-edge science meets demonic possession: the long-awaited new supernatural thriller from award-winning author Lynn Hightower. "Sensitive characterizations match the imaginative plot. Readers will compulsively turn the pages to see how it all ends" - Publishers Weekly Starred Review Have you ever known anyone who survived being possessed? You do now. You’ve met me. Noah Archer is a renowned neurosurgeon, with an impressive success record. He has a happy home, with his beloved wife Moira, their two adopted sons, and a dog who's a very good girl. But Noah keeps a dark secret, shared only with his old friend Father Perry Cavanaugh. When he was just a boy, he was possessed by a demon - and it was only thanks to the exorcist priest that he survived. Now, Noah works at the cutting of edge of medical science and religion, researching the effects of spirituality on the brain. His current research study - The Enlightenment Project - promises breakthrough treatments for depression, addiction and mental illness, and preliminary results are astounding. But after a late-night emergency surgery, Noah returns to his office to find Father Perry waiting for him, with a terrible warning. The Enlightenment Project may not be closing the door to the darkness at all . . . but instead letting it in. Demonic possession is now a recognized psychiatric condition, and the number of exorcist priests in the US has quadrupled in the last decade. As well as being a thrilling read, THE ENLIGHTENMENT PROJECT is an intelligent and fascinating view into the complex worlds of both the medical and the supernatural.

The Enlightenment in France

The Enlightenment in France
Author: Frederick Binkerd Artz
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1968
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780873380324

The founders of the Enlightenment in France are presented in this volume. The author emphasizes the practice as well as practical humanism and examines their fascination with science.

Touching Enlightenment

Touching Enlightenment
Author: Reginald A. Ray, Ph.D.
Publisher: Sounds True
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1591798434

What does it mean to "meditate with the body"? Until you answer this question, explains Reggie Ray, meditation may be no more than a mental gymnastic —something you can practice for years without fruitful results. In Touching Enlightenment, the esteemed author of five books about Buddhist history and practice guides you back to the original practice of the Buddha: a systematic process that results in a profound awareness in your body rather than in your head. Combining the scholarship that has earned him international renown with original insights from nearly four decades practicing and teaching meditation, Reggie Ray invites you to explore: How to enter fully into communion with your embodied natureThe insights of Tibetan yoga, from guidance on breathing and working with discomfort to its challenge to modern practitioners on the path to realizationWhy "rejected" experience becomes imprinted in the body —and how to receive it anew to reconstitute your human way of being Karma of cause and karma of result —taking full responsibility for your lifeYour three bodies—the physical, the interpersonal, and the cosmic "To be awake, to be enlightened, is to be fully and completely embodied. To be fully embodied means to be at one with who we are, in every respect, including our physical being, our emotions, and the totality of our karmic situation," writes Reggie Ray. In Touching Enlightenment, he offers you a map of unprecedented clarity and power for embarking on the journey toward ultimate realization in and through the body.

Enlightenment Now

Enlightenment Now
Author: Steven Pinker
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2018-02-13
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0525427570

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR "My new favorite book of all time." --Bill Gates If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. By the author of the new book, Rationality. Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: In seventy-five jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. This progress is not the result of some cosmic force. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing. Far from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. The Enlightenment project swims against currents of human nature--tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking--which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. Many commentators, committed to political, religious, or romantic ideologies, fight a rearguard action against it. The result is a corrosive fatalism and a willingness to wreck the precious institutions of liberal democracy and global cooperation. With intellectual depth and literary flair, Enlightenment Now makes the case for reason, science, and humanism: the ideals we need to confront our problems and continue our progress.

The E-Word

The E-Word
Author: Cate Montana
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2017-01-17
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1501123548

"An excellent and entertaining look at the issues, challenges, and resolutions that come with the territory of awakening.” —Gary Renard, bestselling author of The Disappearance of the Universe trilogy A book of liberation and ecstasy, The E-Word lucidly explains how the ego is created, how it thinks, and how its limited mind-set can be expanded—not inflated—into a joyous transpersonal perspective that eradicates feelings of isolation, fear, and insecurity in your life. Through stories, practices, and a masterful detangling of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the Matrix, and quantum physics, The E-Word strips the ego bare and liberates the soul in highly entertaining, relatable ways, revealing how even self-improvement techniques can chase away the very fulfillment and wisdom we seek. Montana further reveals how the ego co-opts spirituality, dangling enlightenment in front of us as a prize. Stuffed with electrifying insights and transformative meditations and exercises, The E-Word is the ultimate how-to guide for discovering the “real you” within.

The Enlightenment of Bees

The Enlightenment of Bees
Author: Rachel Linden
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2019-07-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0785221417

In a romantic adventure that travels the globe, The Enlightenment of Bees beautifully explores what it means to find the sweet spot in life where our greatest passions meet the world’s greatest need. Sometimes a shattered heart leads to an amazing journey. At twenty-six, apprentice baker Mia West has her entire life planned out: a Craftsman cottage in Seattle, a job baking at The Butter Emporium, and her first love—her boyfriend, Ethan—by her side. But when Ethan declares he “needs some space,” Mia’s carefully planned future crumbles. Adrift and unsure where her future leads now, Mia joins her vivacious housemate Rosie on a humanitarian trip around the world funded by a reclusive billionaire. Along with a famous grunge rock star, a Rwandan immigrant, and an unsettlingly attractive Hawaiian urban farmer named Kai, Mia and Rosie embark on the adventure of a lifetime. From the slums of Mumbai to a Hungarian border camp during the refugee crisis, Mia’s heart is challenged and changed in astonishing ways—ways she never could have imagined if she hadn’t opened herself up to the opportunity. As she grapples with how to make a difference in a complicated world, Mia’s journey through self-discovery leaves her with the choice between the past she left behind and a new budding dream in her heart. “I combed through the pages with delight. This book is going to cause a real buzz.” —Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling author