Lotus Girl is a partial autobiography by one of the leaders in the Buddhism in North America experiences of the last and current centuries. I say it is "partial" because her life is so much more than she included in this one volume. However, given that she did want to focus on how she became a Buddhist and a leader in Canadian and USA Buddhist cultures, it does do that (mostly).
I was alternately intrigued and left feeling deprived as she went from general and specific experiences back to general without enough details, in my opinion, of what she was experiencing internally. It reads more like a travelogue than a memoir, and I wanted a memoir.
However, it is interesting and does satisfy some of whatever curiosity a reader may have about her and these subjects. So, I do recommend it, since there is nothing else remotely like it available.
From one of the central figures in Buddhism's introduction to the West and the founder of Tricycle magazine comes a brilliant memoir of forging one's own path that Pico Iyer calls 'unflinching' and 'indispensable.'
The daughter of an artist, Helen Tworkov grew up in the heady climate of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism; yet from an early age, she questioned the value of Western cultural norms. At the age of twenty-two, she set off for Japan, then traveled through Cambodia, India, and eventually to Tibetan refugee camps in Nepal.
Set against the arresting cultural backdrop of the sixties…
An environment and science reporter, Zoë Schlanger reveals the usually hidden world of plants. She tells the ways that plants have adapted ingenious methods of survival. I was fascinated to discover plants' newly-understood methods for communication, the ways they recognize their "kin" (plants from the same original plant) and engage in social behavior (yes, SOCIAL). Did you know that plants can hear sounds, transform their bodies to camouflage themselves for survival, store memories for self-protection and utilizing techniques to manage cyclical events, and manipulate animals into helping them? I didn't, either, until after reading this book.
This book requires us to look anew at important questions, such as what is "intelligent" life? Which beings are actually "sentient"? How can we exclude plants once we truly understand what they're doing and capable of accomplishing?
I highly recommend Light Eaters if you want to develop a fresh, scientifically proven perspective on these trillions of co-inhabitants on Earth.
"teeming with fascinating and enlightening insights" Observer
A narrative investigation into the new science of plant intelligence and sentience, from National Association of Science Writers Award winner and Livingston Award finalist Zoe Schlanger.
Look at the green organism across the room or through the window: the potted plant, or the grass or a tree. Think how a life spent constantly growing yet rooted in a single spot comes with tremendous challenges. To meet them, plants have come up with some of the most creative methods for surviving of any living thing - us included. Many are so ingenious that they…
As a long-time meditator (since 1972), I recently began leading a meditation group in the "senior dorm" i now live in in downtown Seattle ("First Hill" neighborhood). I discovered this book when doing some research for making presentations and offering exercises, inspiration, and information to the people who have been attending this group (new and experienced meditators, both). I keep finding more and more passages to read to them; this book is filled with great, quotable material for meditators.
Dispenza promises that, when we learn how to apply "supernatural" information through various meditations, "we should experience a greater expression of our creative abilities; that we have the capacity to tune in to frequencies beyond our material world and receive more orderly coherent streams of consciousness and energy; that we can intentionally change our brain chemistry to initiate profoundly mystical transcendental experiences; and how, if we do this enough times, we can develop the skill of creating a more efficient, balanced, healthy body, a more unlimited mind, and greater access to the realms of spiritual truth."
I can attest that meditation is the key to improving one's mind, body, attitude, perspective, and life. We each could utilize our capacities much more effectively, and he offers ways to do that. If you're focused on or already engaged in self-improvement, meditation, and/or healthier living,
I highly recommend this book for ALL adults (I am 71, but the average age of my meditation group's members is 85).
The author of the New York Times bestseller You Are the Placebo, as well as Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself and Evolve Your Brain, draws on research conducted at his advanced workshops since 2012 to explore how common people are doing the uncommon to transform themselves and their lives.
Becoming Supernatural marries some of the most profound scientific information with ancient wisdom to show how people like you and me can experience a more mystical life. Readers will learn that we are, quite literally supernatural by nature if given the proper knowledge and instruction, and…
Dr. Clara Branon’s many visits from five holographic delegates from the Many Worlds Collective (MWC), a consortium of planet and star systems, lead to Clara’s becoming the first “Chief Communicator” for Earth, which changes everything
Told from several narrative voices/perspectives, this series is speculative romance science fiction. Clara and others hone their paranormal talents in the Extraordinary Skills Program (ESP).
Events present nonsequentially and in the present tense due to the simultaneous time vs. linear time quandary within quantum physics and Buddhists. Timulting is the ESP ability to perceive events in multiple timelines. Clara timults to make decisions as Chief Communicator and understand her relationship with Epifanio, who is/is not her husband.
