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The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 37,478 ratings — published 2017
The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.85 — 12,704 ratings — published 1976
The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 17,990 ratings — published 2005
Rapport: The Four Ways to Read People, Communicate Better, and Build Lasting Connections (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.20 — 811 ratings — published
The Power Bible (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 3.71 — 14 ratings — published
The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 4,016 ratings — published 2019
Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 247 ratings — published 1998
The Winner Effect: The Neuroscience of Success and Failure (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.76 — 902 ratings — published 2012
When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 5,086 ratings — published 1994
The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy - and Why They Matter (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,897 ratings — published 2007
Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect with Others (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 989 ratings — published 2008
“At this moment, in this place, the shifting action potential in my neurons cascade into certain arrangements, patterns, thoughts; they flow down my spine, branch into my arms, my fingers, until muscles twitch and thought is translated into motion; mechanical levers are pressed; electrons are rearranged; marks are made on paper.
At another time, in another place, light strikes the marks, reflects into a pair of high-precision optical instruments sculpted by nature after billions of years of random mutations; upside-down images are formed against two screens made up of millions of light-sensitive cells, which translate light into electrical pulses that go up the optic nerves, cross the chiasm, down the optic tracts, and into the visual cortex, where the pulses are reassembled into letters, punctuation marks, words, sentences, vehicles, tenors, thoughts.
The entire system seems fragile, preposterous, science fictional.”
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
At another time, in another place, light strikes the marks, reflects into a pair of high-precision optical instruments sculpted by nature after billions of years of random mutations; upside-down images are formed against two screens made up of millions of light-sensitive cells, which translate light into electrical pulses that go up the optic nerves, cross the chiasm, down the optic tracts, and into the visual cortex, where the pulses are reassembled into letters, punctuation marks, words, sentences, vehicles, tenors, thoughts.
The entire system seems fragile, preposterous, science fictional.”
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
“Meditation has also been proven scientifically to untangle and rewire the neurological pathways in the brain that make up the conditioned personality. Buddhist monks, for example, have had their brains scanned by scientists as they sat still in deep altered states of consciousness invoked by transcendental meditation and the scientists were amazed at what they beheld. The frontal lobes of the monks lit up as bright as the sun! They were in states of peace and happiness the scientists had never seen before. Meditation invokes that which is known in neuroscience as neuroplasticity; which is the loosening of the old nerve cells or hardwiring in the brain, to make space for the new to emerge. Meditation, in this sense, is a fire that burns away the old or conditioned self, in the Bhagavad Gita, this is known as the Yajna;
“All karma or effects of actions are completely burned away from the liberated being who, free from attachment, with his physical mind enveloped in wisdom (the higher self), performs the true spiritual fire rite.”
― The Labyrinth: Rewiring the Nodes in the Maze of your Mind
“All karma or effects of actions are completely burned away from the liberated being who, free from attachment, with his physical mind enveloped in wisdom (the higher self), performs the true spiritual fire rite.”
― The Labyrinth: Rewiring the Nodes in the Maze of your Mind
