Authentic Knowing is an accessible and humane presentation of our most basic concerns and draws on a wide variety of, disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, and theoretical physics. Enhanced with the author's own varied experiences and copious references for those who seek to read further, this book will appeal to and challenge scientists, psychologists, and all those who have ever asked about the meaning of life.
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Do scientists reject things like ESP and the ouija board simply because they don't fit into their conceptual schemes? Baruss (psychology, King's Coll., Univ. of Western Ontario) argues that they do. While some readers would question his choice of examples from spiritual life?indeed, Baruss himself says that he is in danger of being classified as a New-Ager, and his spirituality is apparently most influenced by theosophy?he does make a worthwhile distinction between scientism and authentic science, i.e., between a science that rejects anything that cannot be measured and one that is open to the possibility of other ways of knowing. Few would quibble with his project, which is to keep open a path of understanding that will allow an appreciation of transcendence. Recommended for larger collections.?Augustine J. Curley, Newark Abbey, N.J.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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This is an interesting thought experiment by a Canadian professor of psychology. The experiment is in coming to a new understanding of authenticity and then applying it in an exploration of existential questions. His presentation of authenticity provokes the question "what is real?" particularly with regard to schemas we may be filtering life through.
His eclectic blend of divergent ideas from Franklin Merrill-Wolf, psychosynthesis and theosophy make for a more Western; less Eastern approach to these questions than most similar books that rely on English translations of Eastern spiritual texts. Baruss takes up the question of multiple "levels" of reality and multiple "bodies" similar to some ideas found in Integral theory. His idea that we are in an age of reason and that reason must be used to explore mystery is compelling and picked up in his latest book "Science as a Spiritual Practice." In a way, this book is a new type of "pointing out instruction" but I'll have to read this one again and check out some of the source material. Perhaps synchronistic with the topic of the book, it came to me at a good time - when I feel stuck in an existential quagmire.
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