Telical Books
Books On Philosophy, Art, Religion, Psychology and Computer-Aided Brainstorming
Virtuism: Philosophy and the Aesthetics of Virtue is about the aesthetics of human virtue, how virtuous acts produce in us the same experience as great works of art. Witnessing or creating a virtuous act produces the aesthetic experience. The giving of the good feeling of the aesthetic or "art" experience gives evidence that life has a higher meaning. The book "Virtuism: Philosophy and the Aesthetics of Virtue" discusses other philosophical implications of this relationship.
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Hyperreligiosity: Identifying and Overcoming Patterns of Religious Dysfunction. Hyperreligiosity is when the outward forms and other aspects of religion become life disabling. There is a direct connection between hyperreligiosity and terrorism or destructive cults. Hyperreligiosity is the ill-fitting grasp of the role of religion and God in one's life. It is the disability that can lead to isolation from others because one thinks God is vengeful and punishing.
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"The Experience of Hallucinations in Religious Practice" is a book that helps distinguish what is a spiritual experience and what may be merely a type of dream phenomena or hallucination. The author discusses how some religious and so-called esoteric experience takes place in the state of consciousness within the brain that is similar to the dream state in human beings.
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"Motivated for the Cause" is an anti-novel comprised of poetry, prose and philisophical essays. Beautiful language in tandem with deep, philospohical questioning of our purpose as human beings and our place in the universe stretches the reader's mind and delivers an important message of virtue.
Available December 4th, 2007
"The Exhaustion of the Interaction of Words: Brainstorming with the ParaMind Brainstorming Program" describes an interesting theory in the possibilities of thought. If we exhausted all the different interactions of words, would we come up with every idea possible for us? ParaMind Brainstorming Software, created by a Seattle company founded in 1992, is a tool that automates these word interactions.
Available November 27, 2007