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Life Force... the Creative Process in Man and in Nature
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ISBN10: 1412023386
ISBN13: 9781412023382
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Nov 13 2004
Pages: 316
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781412023382
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Nov 13 2004
Pages: 316
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
New discoveries about the nature and properties of the life force confirm what old civilizations like those of India and of China have taught for millennia. The life force can become the central concept in human knowledge, whether it be known as chi, spirit, soul, bioenergy, god, orgone, elan vital, or radix. It sits astride the great divisions in knowledge that split mind and body in the individual, self and other in relationships, religion and science in human society. Knowing the nature and properties of the life force makes it possible to reconcile these divisions. This book provides that knowledge -- what the life force is, how the process of creation through the life force actually works, and how this information can be used to change ourselves and the external world around us.
First, however, long-cherished illusions of both religion and science must be given up. The greatest of these illusions is the belief that religion in itself or science in itself, one or the other, can provide an adequate explanation of the deeper nature of things. The deeper nature of things cannot be explained by religious texts and dogmas. Nor can it be reduced to the laws of physical science. Something else is required.
We need to allow the possibility that consciousness and physical reality have come into and are still coming into existence together through the action of the pre-existing life force in the natural, understandable creative process.
Kelley's frame of reference is scientific, but he is also a psychologist. His discoveries about the life force come alive in these pages when he addresses the profound work of Wilhelm Reich, and demonstrates the relationship of the life force tomuscular armor in human beings with examples from his own personal growth practice. Insights into muscular armor as a positive mechanism of the human will are described in chapters on emotions, purpose and, finally, autonomy.
The primary focus of this book is human consciousness and the life force. A life-time's interest in physical science and the life force - meteorology, cosmology, engineering, -- is concentrated into the last chapter, and prior writings on the subject comprise the Appendix.
We need to allow the possibility that consciousness and physical reality have come into and are still coming into existence together through the action of the pre-existing life force in the natural, understandable creative process.
Kelley's frame of reference is scientific, but he is also a psychologist. His discoveries about the life force come alive in these pages when he addresses the profound work of Wilhelm Reich, and demonstrates the relationship of the life force tomuscular armor in human beings with examples from his own personal growth practice. Insights into muscular armor as a positive mechanism of the human will are described in chapters on emotions, purpose and, finally, autonomy.
The primary focus of this book is human consciousness and the life force. A life-time's interest in physical science and the life force - meteorology, cosmology, engineering, -- is concentrated into the last chapter, and prior writings on the subject comprise the Appendix.
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