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This Is Your Brain On Music: "Endlessly stimulating, a marvelous overview, and one which only a deeply musical neuroscientist could give. Daniel Levitin has a huge knowledge of music developed since the 1950s (and of blues and jazz before this), and not merely a formal but a deep personal knowledge as an expert performer no less than as a listener. I liked the discussion of 'safe' and 'dangerous' music, and I very much liked the final chapter on the evolutionary origins of music. An important book."--Oliver Sacks, M.D.

Musicopillia, Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks, M.D.
"Oliver Sack's compassionate, compelling tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own brains, and of the human experience. In Musicophillia, he examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians and everyday people --from a man who isstruck by lightning and suddenly inspired to become a painist at the age of forty-two, to an entire group of children with Willaims syndrome who are hypermusical from birth, etc"


The Creating Brain: The Neuroscience of Genius
The Creating Brain: The Neuroscience of Genius
by Nancy C. Andreasen M.D., Ph.D.
"Our leading authority on creativity reveals herself with this splendid book as one of the most valuable creative persons of our time." Kurt Vonnegut. "Drawing on her expertise as a scientist, physician and scholar of literature, Nancy Andreasen gives
a clear, readable, synoptic account of current knowledge in human creativity."
Howard Gardner
, Hobbs Professor of Education and Cognition, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life
The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life
by Joseph Le Doux, M.D.
"You might think that this would be a crowded field of research. Emotions, after all, are the threads that hold mental life together. They define who we are in our own mind's eye as well as in the eyes of others. What could be more important to understand about the brain than the way it makes us happy, sad, afraid, disgusted or delighted" the author states.
"Joseph Le Doux is a superb guide to that ultimate frontier in understanding our emotional life, the brain."--
Daniel Goleman, author of
  Emotional Intelligence Emotional Intelligence.


The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and The Civilized Mind
The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and The Civilized Mind
by Elkhorn Goldberg.
Foreword by Oliver Sacks.
"In this book I explore the one part of your brain that makes you who you are and defines your identity, that encapsulates your drives, your ambitions, your personality, your essence..."


Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are
by Joseph Le Doux author of
The Emotional Brain The Emotional Brain 
Some topics are: The Big One (Dad, What is the mind?); Seeking the Self; The Most Unaccountable of Machinery; Building The Brain; What makes us who we are? etc...


Your Body Doesn't Lie
Your Body Doesn't Lie by John Diamond, M.D.
Everything you see, hear, touch, or smell affects your body's vital energy. Renowned physician John Diamond explains and proves how this happens in this classic, interactive guide to holistic well-being. It will show you how to reinvigorate every area of your life including work, diet, exercise, sports,and music and art expession, as well as increase your overall productivity.

Understanding Emotions
Understanding Emotions
by Keith Oattley, Dacher Keettner, Jennifer M. Jenkins. Imagine you could flip a switch in your nervous system that would shut down your experience of emotions.

Entangled Minds
Entangled Minds
by Dean Radin - Bestselling author of
The Conscious Universe The Conscious Universe.

"
From the Einstein of consciousness research comes a work that could change forever how we view the nature of human consciousness and our origins and destiny."--
Larry Dossey,
M.D.,
author of Healing Words Healing Words.

Scattered Minds Scattered Minds by Leonard Adler, M.D. Director, Adult ADHD Program, NYU School of Medicine with Mari Florence. Foreword by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. coauthor of
Driven to Distraction. Hope and Help for Adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

Shadow Syndromes
Shadow Syndromes by John J. Ratey, M.D. co-author of
Driven to Distraction and Answers to Distraction, Catherine Johnson, Ph.D. author of
When to Say Goodbye to Your Therapist.

 

The Spiritual Universe is a comprehensive and provocative examination of the place where religion and philosophy, science and spirituality intercept. Physicist Fred Wolf clearly demonstrates how quantum physics proves the existence of the soul - says Angelis Arrien, Ph.D. author of
The Four-Fold Way and Signs of Life.


The Secret Spiritual World Of Children
by Tobin Hart, Ph.D. Children have a secret spiritual life. They have spiritual capacities and experiences--profound moments that shape their lives in enduring ways. These are sometimes stunning, often tender, and reveal a remarkable spiritual world that has been kept largely secret. From moments of wonder to finding inner wisdom, from asking the big questions about meaning and life to expressing compassion and even to seeing beneath the surface of the material world, these experiences serve as touchstones for our life as spiritual beings on Earth.


The Mind of Sound.
Everything is alive and singing, or nothing is. What we recognize as the vibrancy of our minds is at the heart of everyting created, pervading and binding mice, minerals, and gravity. Each order vibrates in its fashion; every octave sings. Everywhere the oscillating flux is crooning its heart out.
The Musical Life And How To Live It by W. A. Mathieu.


Miracles of Mind
- Exploring Nonlocal Consciousness And Spiritual Healing
by Russell Targ and Jane Katra, Ph.D. 
"This book...goes beyond scientific facts and technical breakthroughs. It sheds new light on the Great Questions humans have always asked--questions about our essential nature, our origin, our destiny,
and the meaning of life. So, dear reader, be forewarned: In this book you will be handling spiritual and philosophical dynamite."--from the foreword by Larry Dossey, M.D.


Children have a remarkable spiritual lives full of wonder, wisdom, and pure joy. It is the gift they give to us, a remender of our greater possibilities. This deep connection to the spiritual realm can include divine encounters and visions of ethereal worlds, beyond our own. But such spiritual experiences are often dismissed, or worse, labeled as pathology by adults with no map for understanding them. This "signal" can close down a child and stunt spiritual growth in all areas.


"Magical Child
"
was probably before its time, but this book, which captures and propels forward the best of what Pearce has written, may be a civilization-transforming book. Every parent and grandparent should read this book, study it, demand that it reveal its secrets, and watch the whole world transform itself as a result." says Peter Kline,author of Why American Children Can't Think,
about
Magical Parent Magical Child by Michael Mendizza with Joseph Chilton Pearce.
 

Conventional science has long held the position that "the mind" is merely an illusion, a side effect of electrochemical activity in the physical brain. Now comes a major work, grounded in two decades of research, that argues exactly the opposite: that the mind has a life of its own. The Mind And The Brain by Jeffrey M. Schwartz, M.D., and Sharon Begley.


Frames of Mind
by Howard Gardner -
"This book has significance for all of us...Gardner is mindful in every
sense of the word, and his book deserves to be read by mindful people." Colin M.Turnbull,
Philadelphia Inquirer.


"If modern medicine is truly to be a healing art," says Dr. Larry Dossey, "it must embrace three ideas it has too long ignored. It must address not only our bodies, but our minds and spirits as well; it must deal not only with mechanism of illness, but with its meaning; and it must recognize that our power to heal and be healed extends beyond our physical bodies."
Healing Beyond The Body, Medicine And The Infinite Reach of The Mind by Larry Dossey, M.D.


The soundscape of the world is changing. Modern man is beginning to inhabit a world with an acoustic environment radically different from any he has hitherto known. These new sounds, which differ in quality and intensity from those of the past, have alerted many researchers to the dangers of an indiscriminate and imperialistic spread of more and larger sounds into every corner of man's life.
Our Sonic Environment And The Soundscape:The Tuning of The World by R. Murray Schafer.


You are humming with the energy as you read these words, your energy is merging with all the energy around you, and anyone who chooses to try to tune in to your energy may be able to sense it. If you really want to know what the body looks like, look up to the evening sky and see the stars, the cells of cosmic energy scattered in the infinite vacuum of the dark night sky...The Heart's Code  by Paul Pearsall, Ph.D.


Without an awareness of your emotions you are not able to experience reverence. Reverence is not an emotion. It is a way of being, but the path to reverence is through your heart, and only an awareness of your feelings can open your heart.
The Seat of The Soul  by Gary Zukav.


Five musicians walk into a first-grade classroom, instruments in tow. Without a word, they begin playing, to the delight of the children who sit and watch. More than two years after that first visit, t
hese same children do strikingly better on state tests than the third-grade class that preceded them. The improvement continues for future classes that have experienced the musical sessions. It is clear the quintet's intervention has had a positive impact...This charming story straight from the classroom gives us a taste of things to come in one of the newest areas of brain research: the effect of music on the brain. A Well- Tempered Mind by Peter Perret & Janet Fox.

Passion for the Possible by Jean Houston, Ph.D., Harper San Francisco.
Now you can explore and expand your own unique possibilities on all four levels of your being--the physical, psychological, symbolic, and spiritual--using the practical and creative tools in this remarkable guide. In her most keeply transforming book to date, Houston leads you on a profound journey of self-discovery and shows how you can courageously commit to experiencing your real potential.


Biomedical research on internal coherence shows how detrimental stress is to humans. Internal coherence within an individual can be measured by monitoring the heart's rhythmic patterns. When a system is coherent, virtually no energy is wasted; power is maximized. Coherence is efficiency in action. Coherent people thrive mentally, emotionally, and physically. They have the power to
adapt, to innovate. As a result, they experience little stress. The Heartmath Solution by Doc Childre and Howard Martin with Donna Beech.


It is of the utmost importance that we recognize and nurture all of the varied human intelligences, and all of the combination of intelligences....If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appropriately with the many problems that we face in the world...Perhaps if we can mobilize the full range of human intelligences and ally them to an ethical sense, we can help to increase the likelihood of our survival on this planet, and perhaps even contribute to our thriving. Howard Gardner, author of
Frames of Mind on Multiple Intelligences.


The Conscious Heart - Seven Soul-choices That Inspire Creative
Partnership.

y Kathlyn Hendricks, Ph.D. and Gay Hendricks, Ph.D. Bestselling authors of
Conscious Loving. If you want to take your relationship to the deepest level of joy and intimacy, read this book.


Mindful Loving -
10 Practices for Creating Deeper Connection
by Henry Grayson,Ph.D. author of bestselling Sounds True audio course, The New Physics of Love.
Grayson has integrated psychology, spirituality, and the new physics into concrete theory and practice that sheds light on how couples make themselves miserable and how, by transforming their thoughts, they can achieve mutual joy. " I highly recommend it" -
Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., author of
Getting The Love You Want: A Guide For Couples.


Vibrational Medicine, the #1 Handbook of Subtle-Energy Therapies
by Richard Gerber, M.D.
"A veritable encyclopedia of new and old healing practices in which concepts of energy form the basis for diagnosis and/or treatment....provides enough solid evidence and provocative insights to be of interest to both advocates and skeptics of unconventional medicine." Utne Reader

ABOUT THE AUTHORS


Tobin Hart, Ph. D.
Children have remarkable spiritual lives full of wonder, wisdom, and pure joy. It is the gift they give to us, a reminder of our greater possibilities. This deep connection to the spiritual realm can include encounters and visions of etheral worlds beyond our own. But such spiritual experiences are often dismissed, or worse, labeled as pathology by adults with no map for understanding them. This "signal" can close down a child and stunt spiritual growth in all areas. Author of The Secret Spritual World of Children.



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