Their Messages Are Deep And Lasting
You can tell a lot about a person by what books are in his or her library or what he or she is reading at a certain time in their life. This lens is no exception. You'll know a lot about me by the end of the lens. Hopefully, it won't be too much information!
Read on and rediscover old favorites and maybe some fun new favorites. Be sure to share your wisdom and add those metaphysical writers that were key for your pivotal moments in life.
For fun we'll present them Letterman style, starting with Number 10...
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How Much Do You Know About Metaphysics?
For more about metaphysics check the Wikipedia definition at the bottom of the lens.
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For more about metaphysics check the Wikipedia definition at the bottom of the lens.
What Led Me To Metaphysics?
Growing up on a dude ranch in Montana without a TV, was a good background for becoming an avid reader. But it was in my 20s that deeper yearnings and hunger led me to other types of books. In an effort to understand the inner me, I would aimlessly wander a bookstore until some book jumped off the shelf begging to be read.It always seemed like a message from a higher wisdom, taking me into new realms I'd never heard of or dreamed of.
In my 30s, I went to massage school and discovered my love for the healing arts. I was immediately attracted to energy work because it could take me to the cause of the symptom. The more I looked at cause, the more subtle my work became.
In my 40s and now 50s, I have realized that I am able to do healing that is out beyond my conscious ability to understand what I am doing. Now when I study metaphysics, I am looking for the explanation of what I am doing in my work. It's endlessly fascinating and fuels my continued personal and spiritual growth.
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Number Ten Is...
I read Emerson in high school for my Junior English class that was teaching how to write. I fell in love with Emerson and I fell in love with writing. Emerson inspired Thoreau with his views on self-reliance.
An interesting anecdote about Emerson concerned a fire that annihilated his home containing his extensive library. As he watched it burn down, his remark was how beautiful the flame was.
Thirty years after reading that, the home I was living in also burned down taking with it my metaphysical library at the time. I, however, couldn't watch it with Emerson's detachment...
Self-Reliance and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions)
Amazon Price: $3.50 (as of 12/16/2009)
"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."
-Carl Rogers
Number Nine Is...
In the early 70s, I was searching for clues about why I felt so different from everyone else. Rogers' now classic book gave me insight on why my uniqueness was actually the best of humanity shining through me. Rogers' views, that we are not only essentially good and healthy at the core of our being, but continually striving to actualize greater and greater parts of ourselves struck a cord for me. He was the first to call his clients "clients" instead of "patients."
This book brought me great comfort.
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
Amazon Price: $10.88 (as of 12/16/2009)
Number Eight Is...
In my 20s, I began looking for a new type of spirituality. My father was studying Science of Mind at the time and introduced me to this great thinker, who lived about 100 years after Emerson.
The Science of Mind
Amazon Price: $10.99 (as of 12/16/2009)
"I think we'll be able to prove scientifically that other talents such as intuitive, psychic, clairvoyant and audiovoyant are very real."
-Shirley MacLaine
Number Seven Is...
I connected to Shirley like the ugly duckling finding his swan family. It was the first glimmer of "My People!"
Although she had already written other books prior to this one, Shirley started a new age revolution in the 1980s with this book.
Shirley seemed so familiar to me. Did we know each other from a past lifetime or was it just because we had the same birthday?
Out on a Limb
Amazon Price: $7.99 (as of 12/16/2009)
Number Six Is...
Written in the 80s, Dan Millman's book The Way Of The Peaceful Warrior became a classic and eventually a movie. However, it was this later book that opened my eyes to ancient systems such as Astrology, the Enneagram and numerology. I still refer to this book today for deeper understanding of myself and others.
The Life You Were Born to Live: A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose
Amazon Price: $10.85 (as of 12/16/2009)
"Share our similarities, celebrate our differences."
-M. Scott Peck
Number Five Is...
The last half of the 80s brought heartache and despair as I literally took a different road in my life (it was my late 20s which is a time of Saturn return, i.e. huge upheaval). I went through a divorce and headed off to massage school. This book consoled and supported me with these choices.
The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Amazon Price: (as of 12/16/2009)
"The most important idea is that it's not as easy to open up to spiritual experience as we would like. There are some psychological breakthroughs that need to happen. Learning how not to control others and how not to control our lives so intensely are two of those breakthroughs. We have to let go."
-James Redfield
Number Four Is...
The 90s brought new optimism, not only in my life, but also for the country as we entered a decade of Clintons and prosperity. I first heard of this book in 1994, traveling to a retreat with Angeles Arrien and Brooke Medicine Eagle. It had been self-published by Redfield and only a few copies were to be had. Luckily it was published in mass quantities the following year by Random House. It brought new levels of metaphysical ideas to conscious awareness.
The Celestine Prophecy
Amazon Price: $10.04 (as of 12/16/2009)
Number Three Is...
Reiki introduced me to guides, psychic abilities and new possibilities in energy healing. Diane Stein's books have helped me heal most of my negative karma and karmic contracts. This in turn has helped me bring forth my own gifts and soul purpose.
Essential Reiki: A Complete Guide to an Ancient Healing Art
Amazon Price: $13.67 (as of 12/16/2009)
Number Two Is...
These people and the channeled beings called Abraham talk my language! I'd never met someone before who viewed the world the way I do through vibration. It was love at first sight.
Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires
Amazon Price: $10.76 (as of 12/16/2009)
Esther Hicks and Abraham
Abraham-Hicks: Impersonal v Personal Universe
Abraham answers the question 'Am I really the Creator of my own reality or am I here in order to serve something or please something that really IS the Creator?' Enjoy listening to Abraham :) P.S. This is a clip from 03-12-13 Boca Raton FL - Side B recording.
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And The Number One Metaphysical Writer Is...
One of the greatest minds on the planet today for her work with the consciousness of Nature, microbe balancing (including developing a vibrational essence for the Swine Flu) and using flower essences to create optimal health. Her first book which tells the story of how she got started with it all is fascinating. Also amazing is her book Co-Creative Science
Behaving as if the God in All Life Mattered
Amazon Price: $14.00 (as of 12/16/2009)
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The Metaphysics of Money
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I am a healer. It took me years to discover this. A lot of weird things happened to me and around me before I figured this out. This lens can help you discover if you are a healer and if so how you can express it in positive ways. Doing so will turn...
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Join The Journey Work
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What's Your Turning-Moment Metaphysical Best Seller?
There's loads of books that have helped me and guided me. Here are a few more of mine...add yours to the list. And don't forget to vote for them!
Healing with Love: A Breakthrough Mind/Body Medical Program for Healing Yourself and Others by Leonard Laskow
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The Science of Human Energy Headquarters
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Mantra and Miracles
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Generically mantra refers to sacred words or syllables used repeatedly in religious and ceremonial rituals. The term "mantra" is derived from Sanskrit man, "mind," and tra, "to deliver." Thus a mantra can be considered to be a linguistic device for d...
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After The Secret
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Watching The Secret was for me a big reminder of things I'd learned before, but it put them together in a new way. It was also a wake-up call. Everything in my life needed changing, from the inside out. It's more than the Law of Attraction. The Secr...
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Metaphysical Realms Headquarters
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What About Metaphysical Movies?
What the Bleep!? - Down the Rabbit Hole (QUANTUM Three-Disc Special Edition)
Amazon Price: $21.99 (as of 12/16/2009)
Spirit Space; A Journey Into Your Consciousness
Amazon Price: $22.49 (as of 12/16/2009)
Gandhi (Widescreen Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Amazon Price: $14.49 (as of 12/16/2009)
The Secret (Original Edition)
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The Last Mimzy (Widescreen Infinifilm Edition)
Amazon Price: $10.99 (as of 12/16/2009)
My Own Metaphysical Writing
The latest from my blog Science of Energy Healing.
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Let me know if you liked these metaphysical selections or the story of my life as told through the books that I read.
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- mukunda22 mukunda22 Dec 1, 2009 @ 8:15 pm
- I need to read up, I see--Love the idea of reading these books on a long winter's night!!
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- KM9999999 KM9999999 Nov 15, 2009 @ 11:11 pm
- I do like Emerson. I can't say that I've read any of the others. I may have to give them a try.
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- Varelli Varelli Nov 1, 2009 @ 2:37 am
- Very interesting lens. I am about to look for some of those authors and movies as well.
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- science_fiction_novels_cyberpunk science_fiction_novels_cyberpunk Oct 25, 2009 @ 10:22 am
- I love metaphysics because it allows the connection between spirituality and science. This is necessary to gain knowledge while reflecting about the nature and scope of our human existence. May be you can find something intriguing in one of my lens%u2026
I appreciate your lens because it is well-done and your topic has great importance. I rated your lens 5 stars .
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- Mike Mike Aug 25, 2009 @ 9:00 am
- I like how the law of attraction refers to the "art" of manefesting.
Seems to be the crux of creativity...
I'm happy to announce i've just released a book that's a fun exploration of many similar topics, "Boogeymen and Bedtime Stories"..Check it out at amazon.com and
www.boogeymenandbedtimestories.com
Please forgive the self-shout..
This just seemed to be a place that is similar in views, hopefully someone might enjoy the offering...
Mike
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- Joan4 Joan4 Aug 6, 2009 @ 2:51 pm
- What a great reading list! You listed some of my favorites and some that are new to me. How exciting! Thank you! Blessed by a joyful Squidangel!
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- Spook Spook Dec 8, 2008 @ 10:02 am
- Very interesting and informative. Well done.
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- 0ctavias0fferings 0ctavias0fferings Dec 7, 2008 @ 7:16 am
- Great lens 5*
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- LindaJM LindaJM Nov 2, 2008 @ 1:19 am
- I really love this lens, gia! I'm going to feature it on a few of my lenses. You taught me a lot!
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- Jewelsofawe Jewelsofawe Oct 9, 2008 @ 1:59 am
- My favorite movie is The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra. It is very inspirational and Olivia Newton John sings so beautifully on it.
Great lens, Gia! I am lensrolling it to my book lens.
What is Metaphysics?
Wikipedia on this important topic
Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that investigates principles of reality transcending those of any particular science. Cosmology and ontology are traditional branches of metaphysics. It is concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world.Geisler, Norman L. "Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics" page 446. Baker Books, 1999 Someone who studies metaphysics would be called either a "metaphysician"Random House Dictionary Online "metaphysician." or a "metaphysicist."Random House Dictionary Online "metaphysicist."
The word derives from the Greek words ???? (metá) (meaning "beyond" or "after") and ?????? (physiká) (meaning "physical"), "physical" referring to those works on matter by Aristotle in antiquity. The prefix meta- ("beyond") was attached to the chapters in Aristotle's work that physically followed after the chapters on "physics," in posthumously edited collections. Aristotle himself did not call these works Metaphysics. Aristotle called some of the subjects treated there "first philosophy."
A central branch of metaphysics is ontology, the investigation into what types of things there are in the world and what relations these things bear to one another. The metaphysician also attempts to clarify the notions by which people understand the world, including existence, objecthood, property, space, time, causality, and possibility.
Before the development of modern science, scientific questions were addressed as a part of metaphysics known as "natural philosophy"; the term "science" itself meant "knowledge" of epistemological origin. The scientific method, however, made natural philosophy an empirical and experimental activity unlike the rest of philosophy, and by the end of the eighteenth century it had begun to be called "science" in order to distinguish it from philosophy. Thereafter, metaphysics became the philosophical enquiry of a non-empirical character into the nature of existence.
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