Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Create Your Life, Your Relationships, and Your World in Harmony with Your Values (Nonviolent Communication Guides)
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  • Kathryn Mayton, The Work and NVC forever
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  • Non-Violent Communication : A revolutionary investment for self growth
 Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Create Your Life, Your Relationships, and Your World in Harmony with Your Values (Nonviolent Communication Guides)
Marshall B. Rosenberg
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Do you hunger for skills to improve the quality of your relationships, to deepen your sense of personal empowerment or to simply communicate more effectively? Unfortunately, for centuries our culture has taught us to think and speak in ways that can actually perpetuate conflict, internal pain and even violence. Nonviolent Communication partners practical skills with a powerful consciousness and vocabulary to help you get what you want peacefully.

In this internationally acclaimed text, Marshall Rosenberg offers insightful stories, anecdotes, practical exercises and role-plays that will dramatically change your approach to communication for the better. Discover how the language you use can strengthen your relationships, build trust, prevent conflicts and heal pain. Revolutionary, yet simple, NVC offers you the most effective tools to reduce violence and create peace in your life—one interaction at a time.

Over 150,000 copies sold and now available in 20 languages around the world. More than 250,000 people each year from all walks of life are learning these life-changing skills.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Kathryn Mayton, The Work and NVC forever.......2007-10-02

I love NVC. I teach at a community college and used it in a class for Adult High School and also taught it to staff. I felt unsure of myself and thought it would be better to train to do this in person with Marshall. However, insecure or not, Marshall's techniques DO work with anyone in my life, when I use them. One idea of Marshall's was adopted by a fellow teacher in her classes with great success. A former teenage student came to me and said she wanted to be able to talk to everyone in her life like this, but she can't because no one she knows talks this way and they'll think she's nuts. sigh. I also taught Byron Katie's "The Work" and think these two things have a lot in common and could be used together with great success.

Marshall's book is easy to read, understand, and apply, although as I said, the application is not the way we do it normally. I used exercises in my class from companion books based on Marshall's work like, "The Compassionate Classroom" and got so much from them as well. Other books written by Marshall, specifically, "Speak Peace in a World of Conflict" and "Life-Enriching Education" need fresh examples and material. I do so wish that schools would adopt Marshall's NVC. I wanted my daughter to have an experience in school of being listened to with empathy, but it rarely happens. sigh.

These books on NVC would be so helpful to anyone who is tired of complaining about relationships that don't work and wants to create an alternative. Go for it!

5 out of 5 stars Insightful and delightfully straightforward.......2007-09-17

This is one of those books that's potentially life-changing. Its conclusions, exercises, and recommendations are delightfully simple, and in some ways even obvious - except - the obvious isn't always so obvious, is it?

One example that really struck home for me was the concept of positive feedback. Instead of just giving someone a compliment - "Wow, great work!" or "I really appreciate your help" - say specifically what was great about it or what you appreciated. "Without your help in the yard last weekend, I wouldn't have been able to get the fruit trees pruned in time to get all the branches out for curbside pickup. I really want to thank you for helping me meet that deadline."

This is only one of the truly meaningful ways that Nonviolent Communication can help you make a difference in your relationships with others and can help you really get your requests and needs *heard,* *understood,* and *acted on* by others. Highly recommended!

5 out of 5 stars Harmony in Life.......2007-09-14

Life and self matter. This book is similar to Dr. Phil McGraw, however it's easier to read and quicker to understand

5 out of 5 stars fantastic book.......2007-08-26

year old We are using this book with our 8 year old and 13 year old daughters to great sucess. Also my wife and myself find it great to use between ourselves, My wife is a teacher and this is the style her new school is using starting this year, we highly recomend this book and any of the authers material if you are interested in a different and sucessful way to communicate and BE HEARD < without too much resistance.

5 out of 5 stars Non-Violent Communication : A revolutionary investment for self growth.......2007-08-06

I find this book quite interesting. This book covers a technique of expressing the genuine feeling without accusing others. I felt inspired to communicate as I discovered that the apparent conflict between my need for authenticity & Non-violence has been resolved. I am grateful to Marshall Rosenberg for stimulating this new realiztion which is taking me to a more fulfilling plane in terms of both giving & receiving in my personal life.
Nonviolent Communication: Create Your Life, Your Relationships, and Your World in Harmony with Your Values
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Communicating Values
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 Nonviolent Communication: Create Your Life, Your Relationships, and Your World in Harmony with Your Values
Marshall B. Rosenberg
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What if you could defuse tension and create accord in even the most volatile situations—just by changing the way you spoke? Over the past 35 years, Marshall Rosenberg has done just that, peacefully resolving conflicts in families, schools, businesses, and governments in 30 countries on 5 continents. On Nonviolent Communication, this renowned peacemaker presents his complete system for speaking our deepest truths ... addressing our unrecognized needs and emotions ... and honoring those same concerns in others. With this adaptation of the bestselling book of the same title, Marshall Rosenberg teaches in his own words:

• Observations, feelings, needs, and requests: how to apply the four-step process of Nonviolent CommunicationSM to every dialogue we engage in
• Overcoming the blocks to compassion—and opening to our natural desire to enrich the lives of those around us
• How to use empathy to safely confront anger, fear, and other powerful emotions

Here is a definitive audio training workshop on Marshall Rosenberg's proven methods for "resolving the unresolvable" through Nonviolent Communication.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Communicating Values.......2007-08-16

This audiobook is a really neat exploration of how to communicate honestly to positive ends.

The cds are dotted with Rosenberg relating conversations that employ each technique he discusses. While actual tapes of the conversations would have been more illustrative, they are still believable.

The message is really about how to enact harmonization instead of blunt decisions in disagreements, as well as exploring your own values and how to communicate those values to others.

5 out of 5 stars Go ahead and buy it now..........2007-07-27

Nonviolent communication is a very effective tool for anyone looking to create a bridge of understanding and establishing healthy boundaries through thoughts and words. It moves away from the aggressive, competitive and confrontational models that so many people learn from parents, in dysfunctional relationships and at work. My cousin took "Assertiveness Training" back in the 70s. She said that NVC though took that to the next level by introducing compassion, understanding and nonjudgment though observations, feelings, needs and requests.

I've recommended this series to many people [including my cousin] and especially those who have problems with coworkers and bosses. I thought it amusing that even one of Dr Rosenberg's participants conceded that working with parents can be the biggest NVC challenge of all. Nonviolent communication may not be the solution, but it does help.

One particular story Dr Rosenberg imparts among many is about how his grandmother -- a Jewish immigrant for whom English was a second language -- invited a homeless man into the house for a bit of food and rest. When she asked the man his name, he said, "Jesus the Lord." Without a hint of irony or judgment, the grandmother introduced the man to the rest of the family as Jesus. She fed him and gave him a place to stay without a second thought for his gruff appearance or his unusual name. In her own way, by living NVC everyday, she provided the framework for Dr Rosenberg's works.

A few items to nitpick -- and by no means a slight or a reason not to buy the audiobook. In fact, go ahead and buy it now.

Sometimes using NVC language can seem a bit stilted and unnatural. For example Dr Rosenberg often says the phrase, "This meets my need to..." It works in writing and even when Dr Rosenberg says it. But personally, it sounds stilted and just doesn't quite roll off the tongue for many of us. Instead, I personally say, "This works for me. Does this solution work for you?"

Another nitpick: I paraphrase a bit but Dr Rosenberg gives one particular sentence as an example of violent communication: "Black people don't take care of their property." Then he offers a nonviolent-communication example: "I've never noticed the minority family down the street take out the trash." I wondered if bringing up that the family was black [or "minority"] was truly germaine. Is bringing up a source of division and stereotype such a race truly nonviolent or would it be more kind to refer to the family as "the Smith Family" or even as "the family two doors down"?

Last small nitpick [and a bit of a spoiler]: Dr Rosenberg tells a compelling story of a patient who was uncommunicative and unresponsive due to severe psychological trauma. Dr Rosenberg describes how the woman finally broke through by writing a note to him in perfect NVC language. "Help me to express what is going on within me..." Not only did she become NVC fluent after 4 or 5 treatments, but she had the fine motor skills to write this out. So why then did she seem unable to pass him the note until he had to pry her fingers open? There must be more to the story than what we're being told, but it is a bit of a small plot loophole in the overall scheme of what is a great tool for communication and for expressing compassion while at the same time holding one's own integrity.

This audiobook introduced me to the grander realm of NVC and I've since attended some workshops where "jackal" and" giraffe" are introduced. Like me, you may find that you already use many of these techniques, but NVC just ads a few more tools to the toolbox.

5 out of 5 stars Very Useful.......2007-07-15

Should be a requirement to learn these skills in school and all business, not just your personal life. A little dry in delivery, but very useful.

5 out of 5 stars I'm amazed I could get so much for so little.......2007-03-02

Through NVC, I have found a way of perceiving and connecting to people that has really changed my life. I can't recommend this book enough. It was a little hard to swallow at first, but after I gave it a chance, it has taken hold of me hook, line, and sinker; and I see the positive results of living NVC, and I see the insights I've learned from NVC all the time. Amazing.

5 out of 5 stars Excellent resource for couples, business people and parents!.......2007-01-27

Marshall Rosenberg has initiated peace programs in war ravaged areas around the world including Ireland, Serbia, Croatia, Rwanda and the Middle East. He also gives workshops has worked in the prison systems and has applied his ideas with great success in a variety of settings. His book that goes along with this audio series Nonviolent Communication was a textbook for one of my communication courses which was a requirement for a Masters in Integral Psychology. In short, he is a highly credible author with a gift for simplifying complex topic down to simple models that could be applied easily in daily life.

The basic model he uses allow a person to unravel the trigger for an emotion from the actual cause which is often unconscious thinking or beliefs. For example, if I child didn't clean his room that is not necessarily the cause of the parent's anger. The real cause is some underlying need for example that the parent is concerned about the child developing discipline or an examined assumption such as my child is ignoring what I asked them to do. The point is that we often jump into action or go immediately to a negative emotion without much CONSCIOUS thought. This four step process allows you to deepen your awareness so that when you are in situations that might automatically trigger you, you can chose more healthy options.

Another aspect of the four step process is staying with emotions until one uncovers the underlying need. Sometimes, this involves the emotion shifting to another one. For example, say my partner gets angry because I didn't do the dishes. Rather than just starting an argument, Rosenberg would advise my partner to stay with her emotion. By being willing to fully feel the anger, she might realize in actuality that she feels hurt. By staying with the hurt she may have the realization that her underlying need is actually to feel loved and that me doing the dishes is symbolic for her of loving her and being concerned. With this additional awareness she is in a position to make a more vulnerable and powerful request that is likely to get her what she really wants. For example, using the four part model she might say, "When you forget to do the dishes (observation), I feel hurt (feeling-notice there is no blame or shame) because I notice that I'm not feeling loved because I associate you following through on things like that with being concerned for me (the real need). Now that you understand how I feel, would you be willing to be more vigilant about your agreements over everyday stuff because when you do it makes me feel like you care (request).

Admittedly the model is simple, but it is also very powerful. Most of us act without awareness much of the time. In our time contrained culture, we also tend to dismiss feelings as sources of information about needs that are important to us. This model helps you to get back in touch with the purpose of your emotion and your buried needs. It will help you to increase the intimacy in all of your relationships, not to mention helping you to make requests that are more likely to get you the results you wanted in the first place.

If you are serious about changing unhealthy communication patterns, I would also get the book to accompany this audio set. Patterns of language and the thinking that accompanies them are deeply engrained. In fact, there are often hidden assumptions in our automatic thinking such as OTHER people CAUSE our emotions. We actually have a lot of degree of control over how we feel when someone does a particular behavior. A lot of this depends upon how we "frame" or contextualize the behavior. This book is very useful in helping you uncover these patterns and changing them.

In my practice as personal growth coach I often recommend this book and audio CD to clients. I've seen this information help a lot of people and it has helped me too. If it helps you avoid even one argument with an important person in your life, it is well worth the cost. I guarantee it will raise your awareness around your unconscious processes and help you to have healthier relationships if you apply the ideas faithfully.

The CD on giving and receiving anger compassionately is especially good. This is a problem area for a lot of people and I think this CD alone justifies the cost of the set. Don't be deceived by Rosenberg's simple presentation of ideas. It is often the most simple ideas that are the most powerful when applied in daily life.
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Taming the Tiger Within is a handbook of meditations, analogies, and reflections that offer pragmatic techniques for diffusing anger, converting fear, and cultivating love in every arena of life-a wise and exquisite guide for bringing harmony and healing to one's life and relationships.

Acclaimed scholar, peace activist, and Buddhist master revered by people of all faiths, Thich Nhat Hanh has inspired millions worldwide with his insight into the human heart and mind. Now he focuses his profound spiritual wisdom on the basic human emotions everyone struggles with on a daily basis.

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"Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh offers daily guidance for becoming free of the strong emotions that make us suffer the most. Everyone wants peace, but as anyone who has tried to find it knows, the biggest obstacle is often our own powerful emotions. In Taming the Tiger Within, Thich Nhat Hanh distills the wisdom of his many books into short meditations and contemplations for applying his advice to daily life-for transforming anger, fear, jealousy, and other difficult emotions. An acclaimed scholar, peace activist, and Buddhist master revered by people of all faiths, Thich Nhat Hanh has inspired millions worldwide. Now, he focuses his profound spiritual in-sight on the basic human emotions we all struggle with every day: anger, fear and love. Drawn from his national bestsellers No Death, No Fear; Anger; and Going Home and grounded in the Buddhist practices of mindfulness and compassion, this handbook of meditations and reflections offers readers inspirational and pragmatic techniques for diffusing anger, conquering fear, and cultivating love in every arena of life."

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4 out of 5 stars Inspirational "quick" read!.......2006-02-27

This book was inspiring, yet very short. I found that this title isn't one of Nhat Hanh's better books...but if it's your first time with one of his titles than I would recommend it.
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A revised and updated edition of the manifesto that shows how simplicity is not merely having less stress and more leisure but an essential spiritual discipline for the health of our soul.

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5 out of 5 stars Great Book, Very Insightful.......2007-06-29

I took alot away from this book. Foster is an obviously brilliant intellectual that was able to articulate the purpose and meaning of simplicity in a way that was inspiring.

5 out of 5 stars A wonderful study on simplicity!.......2007-06-07

Foster has done it again. Such a beautifully woven guide to this most elusive of subjects...with ensites into the old testiment, new testiment, and early christian traditions...this book is a God send. It is best pared with John Michael Talbots "Lessons of Saint Francis".

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4 out of 5 stars A Insightful Book.......2007-06-05

This book provided good insight into the simpiclity of scripture. Yet it's complex application in the eal world.

1 out of 5 stars I agree - not a very helpful worldview.......2006-03-09

I agree with the previous reviewer.

When they re-released this book, they should have updated it. It makes the author looks silly.

But more importantly, it raises questions about this entire Fundamentalist worldview. This movement is constantly pronouncing so-called timeless values, visions, a prophecies, etc., then they change their minds every few years.

In 1981, the apocalypse was upon us. Then Clinton was the anti-christ, then Saddam...what's next?

In 1981, these same people condemned women preaching & working because the Bible was so clearly against it. Now, these same people are hiring female preachers and writing books to help women balance working while having children. Did the Bible really change that much in 25 years?

In 1961, these same people were against people of color in their churches, for multiple so-called "Biblical" reasons. And as you all know, we must always interpret the Bible literally. In fact, it took a Supreme Court intervention in 1986 to get the fundamentalists & southern baptists to open their schools up to blacks.

Now, because they see the money rolling in, they are building coalitions with African-American preachers like TD Jakes and Eddie Long.

And, of course, the fundamentalist church will never, ever, ever, ever...not in a million years...ordain gays and lesbians. That is, until they change their minds at their next board meeting.

So what changes? The Bible? Morality? Does God change his mind this much? Or is it the opportunistic charlatans of the fundamentalist movement?

Trying to follow the "gospel truth", Biblical inerrancy, and the timeless & unchanging laws of the Bible (that is, however they are interpreted this week) is making my head spin.

1 out of 5 stars A great disappointment.......2004-01-23

This book was written in 1981 and, unfortunately, it hasn't aged well. It is loaded with unfulfilled sky-is-falling, doom-and-gloom predictions that look pretty silly in retrospect. I have great respect for Foster's other books, but this one is in desperate need of a rewrite -- with a lot less agitprop and a lot more spirituality.
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5 out of 5 stars Ready for Tao.......2007-09-24

This is a really good starter book for daily reflections on Tao. The reflections are short, and easily understood, and even for people who are not that familiar with Tao, it's easy to understand the wisdom of the author.

5 out of 5 stars Read, contemplate and apply to your own life.......2006-10-25

This is the first 'Tao' book I've ever read. I picked this up, not even really knowing what 'The Tao' is. As I flipped through and read the short passages on random pages, I was immediately drawn in to the peacefullness, simplicity and the interpretations of the words and symbols on the pages.

I found the introduction to be extremely well written. I even go back and re-read the introduction, just because I love what it says! For example, it begins with this:
"Following Tao means following a living path. It is a way of life that sustains you, guides you, and leads you to innumerable rich experiences. It is a spiritual path of joy and insight, freedom and profundity." -Wow, well that sounded like just what I was looking for!
The introduction goes on to explain some of the special qualities of those who follow Tao. Then, tells you about other good books to read about the Tao. The structure of the book is then broken down to explain what each part is for.

Now, here's an overview of the book:
There are 256 pages. Each page has a word at the top left hand corner of the page, and a chinese (calligraphy) symbol below the word. There is a paragraph beside the symbol that explains the symbol/picture/lines in brief detail. Below that, there are about 3-4 short paragraphs on each page that describe the meanings/relevance of the word/symbol in our lives.

My book is full of bookmarks and slips of paper of my favorite passages.

This is a partial excerpt that I particularly liked:
Moon: "It is important in life to be constant." "The moon has its own primal power. It pulls on the earth; it pulls on the oceans and on the hearts and minds of human beings; it paces the seasons. The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not crush others. It keeps its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished. Look no further than tonight's sky if you would want to know how you can be both true to Tao and to yourself."

This is a beautiful book! Looking for something to inspire you, nurture you in your spirituality, and teach you? Read this.

5 out of 5 stars The Chinese characters or symbols called hanzi .......2005-09-06

I am a student of chi gung.I was surprised at how much detail he puts into this book.
I have lived in China for many years. I read and write hanzi or Mandrin ,the changes were instituted after --The cultural revolution and The great leap forward.The other writer may not be aware of the changes.

Hanzi was simplified for the peasants to learn.

5 out of 5 stars Everyday Tao.......2005-09-04

It is excellent and both my friend and I are enjoying the readings.

4 out of 5 stars Simple but valuable.......2005-08-27

I'm writing this review because I realized that I've had this book for years and it's never reached my bookshelf. It's always by my bedside, because I turn to it at least weekly as a source of meditation or comfort or thought. It's not a perfect book - some of the text is too vague to be inspiring - but it's simple, clear, and insightful. I think it's a great book to buy and keep as a companion on your journey.
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 World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony
Will Tuttle
Manufacturer: Lantern Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1590560833

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Food is our most intimate and telling connection both with the living natural order and with our living cultural heritage. By eating the plants and animals of our earth, we literally incorporate them. It is also through this act of eating that we partake of our culture's values and paradigms at the most primal levels. It is becoming increasingly obvious, however, that the choices we make about our food are leading to environmental degradation, enormous human health problems, and unimaginable cruelty toward our fellow creatures.

Incorporating systems theory, teachings from mythology and religions, and the human sciences, The World Peace Diet presents the outlines of a more empowering understanding of our world, based on a comprehension of the far-reaching implications of our food choices and the worldview those choices reflect and mandate. The author offers a set of universal principles for all people of conscience, from any religious tradition, that they can follow to reconnect with what we are eating, what was required to get it on our plate, and what happens after it leaves our plates.

The World Peace Diet suggests how we as a species might move our consciousness forward so that we can be more free, more intelligent, more loving, and happier in the choices we make.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars An Enlightening Book On The Merits Of Veganism.......2007-09-21

As long as governments wage wars and people endure violence and oppression, compassionate individuals will ask themselves, "What can I do to make the world a more peaceful place?"
This book offers an answer. It contains eye-opening revelations about the food choices we make and the ramifications of those choices. It provides insight into how our food choices affect our attitudes toward our fellow creatures and toward other human beings. The book also explores the way our food choices impact the environment and human health.
Author Will Tuttle insightfully points out how the unimaginable cruelty of factory farming is suppressed and hidden away from the general public --- and from our own conscience. He demonstrates a link between the brutality and terror inflicted on factory farm animals and the brutality and terror human beings inflict on each other.
Unlike many animal rights advocates, Tuttle uses no disturbing images to make his points. He doesn't need to --- the facts he presents are shocking enough. His tone is informative, not vindictive, and his message draws upon examples from ancient history through the present day.
The book illustrates the total disregard factory farm practices have for an animal's natural instincts to socially interact, mate and nurture its offspring. It tells how extinguishing both human and non-human inclinations to nurture life and protect the vulnerable results in a culture of hardened, self-centered people who focus on the differences between themselves and others rather than the similarities. Tuttle sees this focus on differences, rather than similarities, as the fundamental problem behind many of the world's problems such as racism, elitism and war.
"The World Peace Diet," delves into the long history of today's profit driven factory farm operations. It reaches back thousands of years to show how nomadic life gave way to the domestication of animals and the herding culture that remains in practice today, with feed lots and factory farms. I found some of the historical anecdotes extremely enlightening. I didn't know the word, "capital," derives from, "capita," Latin for, "head;" as in head of cattle or sheep and how the first capitalists were ancient herders.
"The World Peace Diet," shows it's possible for anyone to diminish cruelty, violence and terror in the world by making compassionate food choices. The book advocates a vegan lifestyle that excludes the use or consumption of animal products. Tuttle examines the challenges of transitioning to veganism and shares his own experiences moving from a typical meat eating lifestyle to vegetarianism and, finally, to veganism.
With American attitudes inclined toward healthier lifestyles, and worldwide concern over diseases and contaminated food supplies, "The World Peace Diet," is a book for our times. It tells how the widespread, savage use of animals as commodities damages our health, our planet and our relationships with each other. At the same time, the book provides a solution; demonstrating how we can all make the world a more peaceful place through our daily food choices.

4 out of 5 stars Great Read.......2007-05-15

I really enjoyed the unique perspective this book provides on nutrition and our planet. We need to start putting our environment first. There is more than enough food to sustain us! This book makes a case for eating a plant-based diet.

If you are looking for specific ways to eat a vegan diet (e.g., meal plans, etc) - this book won't help with that.

5 out of 5 stars Eye-Opening.......2007-02-28

Eye-opening and life-changing. This account is our history of animal slaughter and our collective guilt because of it. This book articulates how a vegan lifestyle not only is healthy, but also helps to save the environment and promote peace.

Excellent -possibly one of the most important books I've ever read.

5 out of 5 stars Important Book, written with love.......2007-02-16

This book should be read by every compassionate human
on the planet. There are 3 excellent reasons for eating
less meat: 1) help the planet and the environment, including
reducing global warming 2) your own health and 3) the
most important reason of all is for the welfare of the animals

5 out of 5 stars Most Important Book on Veganism.......2007-01-25

The World Peace Diet is the most eloquent and important book ever written on why we must go vegan and it seems Divinely inspired. Dr. Tuttle says, "To meditate for world peace, to pray for a better world, and to work for social justice and environmental protection while continuing to purchase the flesh, milk, and eggs of horribly abused animals exposes a disconnect that is so fundamental that it renders our efforts absurd, hypocritical, and doomed to certain failure." He doesn't just make such powerful statements, he very clearly and convincingly explains why it is so. This book has the power to change our world for the better. I give it the highest rating.
An Illusion of Harmony: Science And Religion in Islam
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • A Different View of Religion vs. Science
  • A fascinating discourse and a top pick for Middle Eastern holdings.
  • This book deserves a wide audience
  • A clash of tradition and modernity
 An Illusion of Harmony: Science And Religion in Islam
Taner Edis
Manufacturer: Prometheus Books
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ASIN: 1591024498

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Current discussions in the West on the relation of science and religion focus mainly on science's uneasy relationship with the traditional Judeo-Christian view of life. But a parallel controversy exists in the Muslim world regarding ways to integrate science with Islam. As physicist Taner Edis shows in this fascinating glimpse into contemporary Muslim culture, a good deal of popular writing in Muslim societies attempts to address such perplexing questions as:

· Is Islam a "scientific religion"?
· Were the discoveries of modern science foreshadowed in the Quran?
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Edis examines the range of Muslim thinking about science and Islam, from blatantly pseudoscientific fantasies to comparatively sophisticated efforts to "Islamize science." From the world's strongest creationist movements to bizarre science-in-the-Quran apologetics, popular Muslim approaches promote a view of natural science as a mere fact-collecting activity that coexists in near-perfect harmony with literal-minded faith. Since Muslims are keenly aware that science and technology have been the keys to Western success, they are eager to harness technology to achieve a Muslim version of modernity. Yet at the same time, they are reluctant to allow science to become independent of religion and are suspicious of Western secularization.

Edis examines all of these conflicting trends, revealing the difficulties facing Muslim societies trying to adapt to the modern technological world. His discussions of both the parallels and the differences between Western and Muslim attempts to harmonize science and religion make for a unique and intriguing contribution to this continuing debate.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A Different View of Religion vs. Science.......2007-06-16

In America, a large proportion of the population rejects the findings of science whenever those findings conflict with scripture taken literally. The scripture in such cases is usually the Bible, but it is good to be reminded that fundamentalists Christians are not the only ones who can't accept all that science has to offer. With even more fervor, believers in Islam have such a degree of faith that they are able to reject even larger chunks of science. Many American scientists and believers in the scientific way fret that churches who instill doubt about scientific discoveries may undermine young peoples' understanding of the natural world around them, a world that is the target for all scientific explanations. But Islam's difficulty in accommodating science is even more fundamental. In _An Illusion of Harmony: Science and Religion in Islam_ (Prometheus Books), physicist Taner Edis has written an overview that will provide a new way of looking at the classic religion vs. science conflict if you are used to considering only Christianity as representing the religious side.

For Christian fundamentalists, the idea that the Bible could be anything but literally true is unacceptable. This is even more the case, Edis shows, in Islam which is centered on the Quran as the word of God, a divine text whose freedom from error must not be questioned. Of course there is a creationist movement in Islam, often allied with Christian creationists. American creationists, "due to their ever-fruitless but always hopeful expeditions hunting for the remains of Noah's Ark in the mountains of eastern Turkey," have been considered scientific experts by Muslims in the region, experts who could spout an anti-evolution position. The refusal to accept evolution reflects but one part of Islamic rejection of science. Muslims can view scientific thinking as part of the Western or Christian culture, yet another import that corrupts the faith. There is emphasis on applied science in Muslim countries. There are plenty of engineers among Muslims, and especially among their political leaders, and technology is valued. Science is equated with practical technology; astrophysics or evolutionary theory are among the pure sciences that demonstrate at the deepest levels how material causes are sufficient to understand our world, and are thus suspect. There are Muslims who favor liberal views similar to many Christians; if the science conflicts with a passage in the respective holy book, for instance, it is best to take the passage metaphorically. There is a western tradition of doing so going back to Copernicus, and millions of Christians with liberal views, notably even Catholics, have no problem accepting that the Bible is not a text to be used as a science book. Muslim thinkers who advocate such liberal, metaphorical views are subject not only to censorship but to persecution.

Edis has a fine vantage from which to view these issues, and to help explain them. He was born and raised in Turkey, where his introduction to Islamic concepts was within the secular state advocated by Kemal Ataturk. He admits that his personal sympathies are with Enlightenment ideals. He does his physics research in American institutions rather than even in the secular Turkish ones not only because the resources are superior, but because of the better intellectual climate. Muslims who want to do pure scientific research have to go abroad to study, because Muslim culture does not now accept the experimentation and formation of theories which is the way science is done. Edis reflects that it isn't impossible that Islam and science will take their own paths as Christianity and science have done, but he makes clear that such a separation would mean a complete reinterpretation of Muslim thought, a change which is likely no time soon.

5 out of 5 stars A fascinating discourse and a top pick for Middle Eastern holdings........2007-06-10

AN ILLUSION OF HARMONY: SCIENCE AND RELIGION IN ISLAM charts a changing relationship between science and religion in the Islamic world, departing from the usual Western Christian connections and focus and thus providing college-level holdings strong in Middle Eastern studies and spirituality with a unique coverage. From discussions of modern scientific routes possibly foreshadowed in the Quran to issues of intelligent design and the Muslim world, chapters consider history, religious developments, and trends which have pitted Western science's progress against Islamic traditions. A fascinating discourse and a top pick for Middle Eastern holdings.

5 out of 5 stars This book deserves a wide audience.......2007-03-19

This is a rare book, informative and precise, yet perfectly accessible to the non-expert. Anyone who wants to know the nature and history of the Muslim interaction with the modern sciences could not do better.

Taner Edis at no point condemns the Muslim attitude; rather, he understands and explains the effect on science of the traditional religion that permeates the social structure of the Muslim people, determines their view of the world and reality, and forms the basis for a kinship that transcends even national identity. And he explains how it is that religious people, by a socially normal insistence on the perfection of Islam as a religion and a social force, have boxed themselves into a corner in which theoretical science, to the extent that it might contradict religious orthodoxy, cannot be easily tolerated; it is antithetical to an entire way of looking at the world.

The book is fascinating.

There is food for thought and a cautionary tale embedded within this story of Islam and science. It might be wise if our own society gave serious consideration to the consequences for theoretical and innovative scientific research when the results of such research have to be stifled and forced to conform to the dictates of a religious orthodoxy that insists that nothing can be allowed to deviate from its particular beliefs.

5 out of 5 stars A clash of tradition and modernity.......2007-03-11

With one famous exception, Muslims don't live in caves. They like the control, convenience and power that technology gives to otherwise weak humans as well as anybody else does. But they conspicuously do not feel comfortable with the "why" questions that underlie the "how" questions that technology answers. That is, to the extent (small as a proportion of the whole umma) that Muslims turn toward modernity, they turn to engineering, not to research science.

Taner Edis, a physicist educated in the allegedly most secular of Muslim countries, Turkey, asks how this came about and whether there is any chance that science, as westerners understand it, could ever become as much a part of Muslim societies as it has in western countries and, as he notes, a few others, like Japan.

Not to give away the ending, but, no, not likely.

Because Islam is based on a sacred text, and because almost all Muslims remain committed to a fundamentalist conception of the text's inerrancy, Edis must start by asking what, if anything, the Koran says about science. Answer: not much, but because of a predilection for finding all things in the sacred words (Koran and hadith), the scholars spend a lot of energy trying to find it.

After setting the stage, he then asks how leading Muslim thinkers have conceived of science and its relation to the restrictions of the Koran. Of course, at this point, Edis might have stopped. Once restrictions are imposed, science slows down or stops. Though Edis, unlike some other commentators, speaks respectfully about Islam, this requires a certain indifference to the elephant in the room -- Islam has not contributed anything to modern science.

It contributed to medieval science, but that was a different animal. Edis writes, "When European science began to take off, education and intellectual life in Muslim lands was completely dominated by orthodox scholars and sufi saints, neither of whom encouraged attention to knowledge that did not have any explicit religious purpose."

The political collapse of Islam in front of expanding Europe (and even expanding but not very modern Russia) forced a reassessment. Edis traces the different approaches various Muslims have taken in trying to tap the obvious advantages of modern thought without abandoning the social harmony on which Islam prides itself. A number of Islamic schools of thought have thought that it could be done.

Edis, correctly, considers these all to have been failures -- illusions of harmony.

As a result, pseudoscience is rife even among the small, sophisticated segments of Islam. As Edis notes, the same can be said about western society. But crackpottery has a different quality in Islam.

For one thing, it is powerful as it is not in the West. Edis does not bring up the examples of Muslim opposition to eliminating poliomyelitis or guinea worm, but he could have.

Edis, a skilled explainer of ideas that he does not himself accept (for example, in his demolition of the Christian fundamentalist "intelligent design" movement in a book he co-wrote with Matt Young, "Why
Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism") packs a lot into few pages.

He rightly dismisses liberalizing tendencies among Muslims, as far as they might create an opening for a genuine science within Islamic societies. Although Edis does not go into earlier history, Islam has always destroyed its liberalizers. From Almohads to Wahhabis, the puritans have always prevailed politically, if not necessarily in every corner of daily life.

Edis then contemplates the possibility that "fundamentalism could inadvertently create conditions more hospitable for doubt and skeptical inquiry . . . For this to happen, however, fundamentalism must fail."

Edis does not relate this to the Bonifacian solution, but that is what it is: Boniface, the apostle to the Germans, cut down the sacred grove. When the gods failed to retaliate, they lost status. As long as all Muslims are persuaded that god prefers them, there will be no incentive for them to suspect that the future history they believe they have been divinely promised could be illusory. This cancels out whatever tendencies toward accommodationism they may feel.

Edis leaves the question of whether one of the alternatives might work for science open.

As a scientist himself, he would like to see real science become part of Muslim societies. But it is doubtful many Muslims, most of whom cannot even read, put such goals high on their priority lists.

The implications for a rejection of genuine science on Islamic political relations with the rest of the world are obvious, but Edis does not mention them.

"An Illusion of Harmony" is probably as fair and respectful a hearing of the options facing Islamic premodernism as Muslims are ever likely to get.
The World Is Sound: Nada Brahma: Music and the Landscape of Consciousness
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Sound principles expand horizons
  • Nada Brahma
  • Nadha Bhrama is an excellent esoteric book
 The World Is Sound: Nada Brahma: Music and the Landscape of Consciousness
Joachim-Ernst Berendt
Manufacturer: Destiny Books
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ASIN: 0892813180
Release Date: 1991-05-01

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One of Europe's foremost jazz producers takes us through a world of musical traditions and explores the effects of sound on consciousness.

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5 out of 5 stars Sound principles expand horizons.......2007-09-11

Joachim-Ernst Berendt has a great gift for synthesizing informaion. This book is a must read for anyone interested in harmony and understanding our place in the universe as part of the great expression of spirit. It will also appeal to those who prefer more practical information as to how sound and music has transcended and unified while informing those who play as well as the listener. I just love this book! I'm a yoga teacher and a singer and this book really touched me on all levels.

4 out of 5 stars Nada Brahma.......2005-12-27

I read this book a little while ago and it completely transformed the way I perceive the world around me. This book showed me the power that sound has. While the book is primarily concerned with the mysticism of sound, he also relates the world around us to sound, and shows us how reliable and accurate our ears are when compared to our eyes.
Joachim-Ernst Berendt also gives listening tests in some of the chapters to give the reader an opportunity to develop their sense of hearing, which he says is being underused in our predominantly visual western culture.

I am a private detective and ever since reading this book, I have always tried to use sound equipment and techniques on my investigations. Since reading this book I have completely re-evaluated and structured the approach and conduct of my work for the better. Can't recommend it enough.
James Pearson.

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5 out of 5 stars Nadha Bhrama is an excellent esoteric book.......1999-12-04

My intimate partner is a spriritual practitioner of the Way of Adidam. He is also a musician and chanter. He finds this book both exciting and fascinating. I deals with subtle and cosmic aspects of music, sound and the manifest universe. He has wanted it for a long time. I am happy to have finally found it for him.
Inneractions: Visions to Bring Your Inner and Outer Worlds into Harmony
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • This little book is a great encourager.
  • Stay with the predecessor
  • How to effect change in your life with harmony.
 Inneractions: Visions to Bring Your Inner and Outer Worlds into Harmony
Stephen C. Paul
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ASIN: 0062507117

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In Illuminations, Stephen Paul drew from his experience as a therapist, counselor, and teacher to compose a collection of proverbs to inspire and assist those seeking personal change and renewal. Inneractions continues this process through and beyond the point of "illuminations," offering meditations and proverbs designed to enhance and sustain the growth, change, and self-acceptance that have been achieved. This book is for those who have been willing to face their personal issues and do the work necessary to remove the inhibitions, misconceptions, fears, and doubts that have limited them in the past.

Stating that is now the time "to catch the rhythm and join the dance" and "to pass through the door when it opens," Inneractions provides a clear roadmap for integrating the self with the beauty of the natural world and for being able to accept and receive its gifts.

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5 out of 5 stars This little book is a great encourager........2003-03-04

This book is terrific for inspiration and uplift when you don't want to plow through a lot of words! The illustrations equally enhance the short affirmations. I wish I could order some of Max Collins illustrations. This review applies to all three books, "Illuminations", "Inneractions", and "Love." Stephen Paul keeps us on the right track with a change of viewpoint toward ourselves, our loved ones, and the world. I have bought extra copies and given them to friends who appreciate the words and visual effect too. I highly recommend them. I'm sorry some are out of print.

1 out of 5 stars Stay with the predecessor.......2000-06-26

I read Stephen C. Paul's first book, Illuminations, many times. It is a spiritual wonder, a way to keep yourself honest and on the path you _should_ be on, especially if you randomly select a page to "read." I was extremely disappointed with this volume as I felt it lacked the spirit and movement of Illuminations. I expected it to be a follow-up, a companion volume. Instead, I found the text to feel forced, as if it was written on the heels of Illumination's success. Remember writing term papers on deadline? This was no different. The book felt rushed and the concepts within lack the depth and "illumination" of the previous volume. Maybe Mr. Paul should take some time off and rethink before he writes again.

5 out of 5 stars How to effect change in your life with harmony........1997-09-04

This book is very similar in layout and design to the author's and artist's first book, "Illuminations". In that book, author Stephen Paul gave aphorisms that assist one to make changes in one's life. In this, what could be called a sequel, the author gives a different slant. It is for those who have been willing to face their personal issues, and confront their fears, doubts and misconceptions. In the author's words, "I have tried to suggest the life that lies beyond the changes; the life that we change to have."

This book is a very good companion to it's predecessor. I found it very helpful, though I would recommend "Illuminations" be read first, if possible. "Inneractions" serves a different but related purposes. It is more to do with enacting and developing changes already confronted by us.

In this book the author uses, again through short but powerful aphorisms, various tools found in other books. Tools like "creative visualisation", popularised by author Shakti Gawain and "affirmations", attributed to Louise Hay (author of "You Can Heal Your Life") and others. Perhaps what distinguishes Paul's books from others is his uncanny ability to put so much meaning and self-evident truth into what could be called short codes. Just a brief saying can really get your self 'happening' on so many different levels.

Paul Marti
Nada Brahma: The World Is Sound : Music and the Landscape of Consciousness
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Extremely interesting and well written
 Nada Brahma: The World Is Sound : Music and the Landscape of Consciousness
Joachim-Ernst Berendt , and Helmut Bredigkeit
Manufacturer: Inner Traditions
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Binding: Hardcover

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5 out of 5 stars Extremely interesting and well written.......1998-11-21

This book explores the relationship between music, consciousness and the physical world. The author makes an interesting argument that objects in the physical world generally form into harmonious relationships, and he cites the movements of the planets, oxygen atoms in H20 and so forth as examples. This is well written and argued, not a purely metaphysical line.

Having described the harmony of the physical world at atomic and astronomical levels, he goes on to consider Nada Brahma, an Indian Yoga technique of 'listening to the internal sound current'. The technique consists essentially of blocking ones ears and listening to the 'sound currents' which do actually come when one performs the technique (I've tried it). By meditating on these sound currents, one is taken into deeper levels of concentration. This 'inner music' is related to the concept of the music of the spheres, and this notion is investigated historically.

Overall, the book is an excellent read, and I just regret I lent my copy to someone and never got it back. Maybe I'll have to get the next edition from Amazon.com, as it seems to be on their website. If you're a musician and want something spiritual, this meditation might be for you!

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