Books : The Heart of the Mind: How to Experience God Without Belief
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by: Jane Katra, Russell Targ
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 291
EAN: 9781577311560
ISBN: 1577311566
Label: New World Library
Manufacturer: New World Library
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 2000-04
Publisher: New World Library
Sales Rank: 491451
Studio: New World Library
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Product Description:
The authors point to scientifically documented parapsychological phenomena as indicators that consciousness extends beyond the individual self.
Amazon.com Review:
Scientist Russell Targ and spiritual healer Jane Katra (Miracles of Mind) join forces again, successfully blending their fascinating research and insights on life and spirit. On the surface, this book is a profound and intelligent discussion of where mysticism and parapsychological science intersect. But at its core, this is a tender book about living a life of peace and feeling connected to universal love. In the opening chapters, the authors address the illusion that we are separate from other beings--one that has tainted our scientific and spiritual models for decades. From here the authors move into scientific evidence for mind-to-mind and spirit-to-spirit connections and how to experience this 'oneness' (or, as the title suggests, how to experience God) through freeing the heart and quieting the mind.
Their most groundbreaking chapter is 'Why Scientists Pray,' in which the authors challenge the stereotype of the cold, unfeeling scientist and show us just how dedicated and spiritual the heart of a scientist can truly be. This is an especially supportive book for contemporary scientists who are trying to break out of the current mold and create a more mystical and intuitive approach to inquiry. --Gail Hudson
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Rating:  - Exploring various mystical views.
I enjoyed this book, but I didn't think it was really about how to experience God without belief. Many of the belief systems in the world were touched upon in this text. I was inspired to explore Christian Mysticism and Gnosticism more deeply after being introduced to these ideas. I did not find the sections on ESP and transpersonal psychology interesting. I find them both to be weak equivalents to traditional science. Still the book offerred me a lot of food for thought about how man can explore ... Read More
Rating:  - Highly recommended reading.
Most people accept God "on faith." People who need evidence of some kind have been left to manage as best they can. Jane Katra, Ph.D. and Russell Targ wrote In The Heart Of The Mind: How To Experience God Without Belief to "describe a comprehensible spirituality, one in which experience takes primacy over religious belief." They add that, "as scientists we are convinced that a person need not believe or take on faith anything about the existence of the universal spirit, because the experience ... Read More
Rating: - outstanding
I read this through in one sitting, I found it so absorbing. It had a looser feel to me, though, than their first book, and I wonder whether I would have found it as engaging had I not already read their MIRACLES OF MIND first. As an artist, I am fascinated by nonlocal consciousness in the creative process. As a very secular University of Chicago-trained economist, however, hearing the word "God" is like a red-flag. Uh oh... I just can't take seriously "God," that Big Bearded Daddy in the Sky who's ... Read More
Rating: - Wonderful, Splendid, Eye-opening
It expands on the incredible, ground breaking work started by the late, great L. Ron Hubbard. This book should be called DIANETICS 2. Quite simply one of the most profound reading experiences I have ever had. I know the authors are students of Hubbard, and they carry on his tradition with exquisite accuracy. They are not weird lunatics, they are gods, as are we. Praise them. Praise me. Praise you. We are not flakes, we just get it.
Rating:  - New Age Nonsense
Another book that says, "The real god is you." We are hardly God. Give me a break. Either there is a god out there, or there is no God. People are not gods.
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