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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9781556439117
New Self, New World challenges the primary story of
what it means to be human, the random and materialistic lifestyle
that author Philip Shepherd calls our “shattered reality.” This
reality encourages us to live in our heads, self-absorbed in our
own anxieties. Drawing on diverse sources and inspiration, New
Self, New World reveals that our state of head-consciousness
falsely teaches us to see the body as something we possess and to
try to take care of it without ever really learning how to inhabit
it. Shepherd articulates his vision of a world in which each of us
enjoys a direct, unmediated experience of being alive. He petitions
against the futile pursuit of the “known self” and instead reveals
the simple grace of just being present. In compelling prose,
Shepherd asks us to surrender to the reality of “what is” that
enables us to reunite with our own being. Each chapter is
accompanied by exercises meant to bring Shepherd’s vision into
daily life, what the author calls a practice that “facilitates the
voluntary sabotage of long-standing patterns.” New Self, New
World is at once a philosophical primer, a spiritual handbook,
and a roaming inquiry into human history.
Foreword
Introduction
Part I: Do Be Do Be Do
1The Elements of Myth
2The Universal Law
3 Our Axial Consciousness
4Divided Self, Divided World
Part I1: Two Axes, One Purpose
5A Perspective on Perspective
6The Journey Home
7The Corational Corridor
Part II1: The Exchanges of Being
8The Heart’s Compass
9Becoming Conscious of Consciousness.
Part IV: The Body as History
10 Leaving the Hub
11 Horse and Rider
Part V: Recovering Our Senses
12 Our Elemental Sensitivity
13 So as to Remain in Harmony
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Endnotes
Credits
Index ,
About the Author
Exercises
1 Listen to the Beat
2Wakame
3Floor Yourself
4Ordinary Heroism
5The Naked Tyrant
6The Elevator Shaft
7The Flower and the Cello String
8Just Receive
9The Milk Jug
10 Figure Eights
11 The Horse
12 The Hourglass
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