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Russel Williams is one of the most remarkable enlightened spiritual teachers of our time. After an early life of extreme hardship-leaving school at the age of 11, and becoming an orphan shortly afterwards-he underwent a spiritual awakening at the age of 29. Since the late 1950s, he has been a spiritual teacher, and is still actively teaching now, at the age of 94. Previously, Russel has avoided publicity and never published any writings or transcripts of his talks, preferring to work quietly with small groups. This is the first time any details of his teachings or of his life have appeared in print. This book is partly a record of his teachings, and partly also the story of his extraordinary life. Working with well-known spiritual author Steve Taylor-who has attended Russel's meetings regularly since the 1990s-Russel has created a profound text which will surely become known as a classic of spiritual literature.

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Russel Williams es uno de los maestros iluminados más destacados de nuestros tiempos. Después de vivir acontecimientos extremadamente duros a una edad muy temprana ?abandonó el colegio con 11 años y se quedó huérfano poco después?, experimentó un despertar espiritual a los 29 años de edad. A partir de entonces se dedicó a transmitir sus enseñanzas durante seis décadas, desde finales de los años cincuenta hasta su fallecimiento en 2018, a los 96 años.Russel siempre evitó la publicidad y, hasta la primera edición de este libro en inglés, jamás había publicado sus escritos ni las transcripciones de sus charlas, puesto que prefería trabajar tranquilamente en grupos reducidos. Esta es la primera vez que sus enseñanzas y su vida quedan reflejadas por escrito en castellano.Este libro es, por una parte, la historia de su extraordinaria vida y, por otra, el registro de sus enseñanzas.De la colaboración de Williams con el reconocido autor espiritual Steve Taylor, quien asistió co

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Come Back Home to Life’s Essential Harmony There is harmony at the heart of everything in existence. Yet so many of us live from day to day with a lingering feeling of inner discord—a sense that something is not quite right that we may not even be able to explain. How do we return to the essential harmony at the core of our being? Return to Harmony is a six-session audio course with psychologist and poet Steve Taylor to guide us back home to our fundamental state of peace and presence. Poetry, Teachings, and Guided Practices for the Journey of Spiritual Awakening From time to time, we all have experiences when restlessness and discontent fade away and we’re filled with a sense of life’s inherent goodness. According to Steve Taylor, this expansive state is not an aberration—it’s our natural way of being when we free ourselves from the inner turmoil created by our minds. This is the process of spiritual awakening—the recognition of who we are in our deepest nature, and the journey of living in alignment with life in the timeless present moment. Return to Harmony weaves together over six hours of original poetry, including many unpublished poems, insightful teachings, and guided practices to help you navigate your own transformational path through some of the challenges that life—and spiritual awakening itself—can bring. "The return to harmony is a journey from disconnection to connection, from separation to union," explains Steve Taylor. "Along the way, our lives become the expression of something greater than themselves—of an evolutionary energy that flows through us all." Join this inspiring teacher as your friend and guide with Return to Harmony.

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This is the only guide that covers all the climbs on the Isle of Portland and at Lulworth Cove. Whether it's a sport climb, a trad route, a deep water solo, or a boulder problem, you'll find it here. The bulk of the guide covers sport climbing, and interspersed between the sport climbs are a number of deep water solos. The traditionally protected routes are included in topo format for the first time too. And, for ease of use, separate sections of the guide describe the most worthwhile bouldering areas in detail.

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A new edition of Steve Taylor's bestselling classic, in which the author provides an Afterword, including research developments that have occurred since the book was first published in 2005. "An important and fascinating book about the origin, history and impending demise of the ego - humanity's collective dysfunction. The Fall is highly readable and enlightening, as the author's acute mind is at all times imbued with the higher faculty of spiritual awareness." Eckhart Tolle

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Steve Taylor describe en esta obra que nuestra conciencia habitual es en realidad una especie de sueño del que a veces despertamos para acceder a una realidad más intensa, plena, completa y satisfactoria. Además, ofrece una explicación clara sobre los estados superiores de conciencia, también llamados experiencias de despertar.A lo largo de estas páginas, el autor explora en profundidad: Los métodos que los seres humanos hemos utilizado a lo largo de la historia para inducir experiencias de despertar, incluyendo la meditación, el sexo, el deporte, las sustancias psicodélicas y la privación del sueño. El hecho de que los estados superiores de conciencia hayan sido (y en algunos casos aún sigan siendo) normales y naturales en algunos pueblos del mundo. Los mecanismos con los que podremos conseguir que estar despiertos vuelva a ser nuestro estado habitual.Al explicar las experiencias del despertar, Taylor las hace más accesibles y las convierte en el vehículo de una

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DisConnected offers a new vision of human nature and a new understanding of human behaviour and social problems. Connection is the most essential human trait - it determines our behaviour and our level of well-being. Cruelty is the result of a sense of disconnection, while “goodness” stems from connection. Unfortunately, the most disconnected people gravitate to positions of power, which leads to “pathocracy,” the most common form of government during the 20th century. Disconnected societies are patriarchal, hierarchical and warlike. Connected societies are egalitarian, democratic and peaceful. We can measure both social progress and personal development in terms of how far we move along a continuum of connection. At the most essential level, we are always interconnected. Altruism and spirituality are experiences of our fundamental connection. Regaining awareness of our connection is the only way by which we can live in harmony with ourselves, one another, and the world itself.

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'Insightful and delightful, Steven Taylor's poems are like a beautiful mist of champagne bubbles on a background of infinite space and silence.' --Catherine Ingram author of In the Footsteps of Gandhi, Passionate Presence, and A Crack in Everything' 'There is a strong tradition of poets (including Whitman and Hopkins, Lawrence and Hughes) whose primary concern is to attempt to re-establish contact with the cosmos, and openness to its plenitude of miracle. Steve Taylor s poems are in direct descent from that tradition, at a time when it is needed more than ever.' -- Keith Sagar, literary critic, author of The Art of Ted Hughes and the Art of D.H. Lawrence

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It is often assumed that there are two ways of interpreting the world: a rational scientific way, or an irrational religious way. Spiritual Science offers a third alternative: a spiritual view of reality that transcends both conventional science and religion, and answers many of the riddles that neither can explain. The standard model of science has had little success in explaining such areas as human consciousness, the connection between the mind and the body, altruism and `anomalous' phenomena such as near-death experiences, psi phenomena (such as telepathy) and spiritual experiences. But from a `panspiritist' point of view - which sees spirit or consciousness as a fundamental essence of reality - it is possible to make sense of all these things. Steve Taylor puts forward the evidence for a spiritual view of reality, drawing on the insights of philosophers, physicists, mystics, as well as spiritual traditions and indigenous cultures. He systematically shows how a `panspiritist' view can explain many puzzling aspects of science and the world, including evolution and the origins of life, and a wide range of other phenomena such as quantum physics, the placebo effect, precognition and neuroplasticity. Spiritual Science offers a new vision of the world that is compatible with both modern science and ancient spiritual teachings. It provides a more accurate and holistic account of reality than conventional science or religion, integrating a wide range of phenomena that are excluded from both. After showing how the materialist worldview demeans the world and human life, Spiritual Science offers a brighter alternative - a vision of the world as sacred and interconnected, and of human life as meaningful and purposeful. Spiritual Science explains how the standard materialist model of reality developed, and turned into a belief system. This belief system can only function by denying (or explaining away) a whole range of phenomena that are part of human experience. It is possible to be scientific without adopting this belief system - in fact, it is much more rational to do so.

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Sociology and its applications are key components of the core foundation programme in nursing and healthcare. Sociology of health and health care is an essential textbook for all students of nursing and healthcare and is organised in four parts: the nature of sociology and sociological research; the social patterning of health and disease; the social aspects of illness and dying; and the organisation and delivery of health care. Sociology of health and health care explores the nature of sociology and sociological research and their application to health and health care. It explores the impact of current social contexts on health and healthcare and recent developments in healthcare policy and addresses their implications for nursing and inter-professional working. This fourth edition also examines new approaches to understanding social inequalities in health and experiences of chronic illness and dying.

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