The subject of this book is the relationship and the difference between the temporal everlasting and the atemporal eternal. This book treats the difference between a temporal postmortem life and eternal life. It identifies the conceptual tension in the religious idea of eternal life and offers a resolution of that tension.

In his new book, John S. Dunne asks: "So what is eternal consciousness? It is, I take it, consciousness of the eternal in us. If time is 'a changing image of eternity, ' as Plato says, the changing image of the human being is like "The Voyage of Life," four paintings by Thomas Cole, showing childhood, youth, adulthood, and age. The eternal in us is the person going through these phases. It is the vertical dimension of the life, as in the title scene of "War and Peace" where Prince Andre lay on the battlefield looking up into the peaceful sky, perceiving peace in the midst of war. If the horizontal dimension is time and the vertical dimension is eternity, then eternal consciousness is awareness of the vertical dimension. What is more, the vertical dimension carries through the horizontal, as the person walks through life upright instead of being dragged through in 'quiet desperation.' Willingness and hope, accordingly, is willingness to walk through upright with hope in the face of death and darkness." --"from the book" What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? Dunne explores these questions in his characteristic hermeneutic method, finding the answer in "the words of eternal life" (John 6:68). It is the life of the spirit that is the eternal in us, the inner life of knowing and loving, the life of hope and peace and friendship and intelligence. "If there were no eternal consciousness in a man," Kierkegaard says, "what then would life be but despair?" John Dunne adds, if there" is" eternal consciousness in us, on the other hand, there is hope. To readers of John Dunne's books, "Eternal Consciousness" will be the latest installment chronicling his spiritual journey; to readers new to Dunne's oeuvre, it will be a lively introduction to the distinctive voice and thought of an inspiring author. "As action grows more frantic and voices more shrill in this age of terror, John Dunne's wisdom, born of Eternal Consciousness, shows us and leads us into our true selves--never unloved, never abandoned, willing to walk on with God through life into the very gateway of death itself." --Jon Nilson, Loyola University Chicago

Modern science has reached levels of knowledge and sophistication that will enable us to start building theories explaining phenomena once thought to be forever in the realm of faith, closed to rational examination. The spiritual ideas formerly always based on intuition- eternal consciousness, infinite freedom, connection with any possible mind

The story of consciousness describes the mystery we are; where we come from before birth and where we go after death; and the thinking both in our body mind and subconscious and beyond it. It is the dimensions of rational awareness of mind and heart we use for our ego and creative life on earth, and in other dimensions around us. Imagine that you have an all-pervading higher intelligence within in your many layered consciousness. How we employ it for this dynamic life with love, and the ways it works, make you the self you are. Consciousness is an energy which comes into the brain of the embryo to activate the mind for this life; it functions at many levels. The level we call the heart is an influence emotionally with love and loving. Consciousness radiates, and the way it relates in us and beyond is the story of our lives. We can use this to great effect with certain techniques. We are alive in several levels of consciousness.

Written by a Physicist with 20 years in Neuro-science Medical Research who has experienced numerous medically documented NDEs.The book describes how and why reality, this Universe, is interdependent with consciousness in order to exist. Beginning with the founders of Quantum Physics, Bray describes in detail how we interact with, manipulate and define the finite Universe. We "Paint the Universe into Being", as Bray says based on the hard data which has been proven as correct through a century of quantum research.Contrary to the concepts of many physicists and neuroscientists who consider consciousness as emerging from the physical brain, Bray describes consciousness creates the physical brain which being finite, ends, while consciousness remains. This consciousness is unique for each individual and will remain so. He also identifies in philosophy and religion the truths that are permanent through centuries, if you extract them from myth and dogma. Through this, many paradoxes in physics, religions and philosophy are eliminated. Bray shows that contrary to cognitive belief systems which change day by day, Faith is being aware that one exists as a tangible, unique and real infinite being in an eternal consciousness in which we totally focus when we die, or when we have a Near Death Experience. He has studied it not only as a physicist and neuroscientist, but as a unique experiencer: he is a rarity who has had many near-death experiences, many medically documented, due to an unknown medical condition which caused his death many times. He also proves through physics how our consciousness must be eternal in order to exist. In fact, even while we are experiencing this short, finite, physical life, we are at the same time existing in the eternal consciousness, only that we are not aware of it, because we are focusing in this finite Universe observation. The purpose is not to "prove" God, but to show that each of us is a unique individual consciousness that exists beyond space-time, for infinity.The book is not going to be 'easy' to read, so don't expect it to be so. You will probably need to read it more than once. The text is high work-high payoff. There are no 'claims' or ideological arguments that are not backed up with solid mathematical axioms and unambiguous empirical data that is not open to speculation. The subjects covered are those listed in the title.The text: Teaches the subject of Quantum Physics to the lay reader in math and terminology that is simple to understand. describes how and why reality, this Universe is interdependent with consciousness in order to exist, as defined by the founders of Quantum Physics over half of a century ago, to describe this mechanism in detail, how we interact with, manipulate, and define this finite Universe. To describe how we 'Paint the Universe into Being' in a tangible argument, without metaphor, ambiguity, or uncertainty that is suitable within the formal definitions of Quantum Physics as well as the philosophies and Religions of Man. To present a working definition for consciousness that is suitable to the formal definitions of Quantum Physics as well as the philosophies and Religions of Man. To establish that this definition for consciousness requires infinite, unique existence. To define perception employing a unique definition for consciousness that requires infinite existence in order to truly exist. This unique definition for consciousness states that consciousness cannot reside within the limited confines of this finite reality as it has been misunderstood to be, and as such, has evaded being properly defined. Finding this definition was the hope of the founders of Quantum Physics in order to complete a model that describes a universe interdependent on our existence. This is not an ideological argument or exploration. This book very strongly disagrees with most everything written to date, and will bring about contention.

This first part of Colin Tyler's new critical assessment of the social and political thought of T.H. Green (1836–1882) explores the grounding that Green gives to liberal socialism. Tyler shows how, for Green, ultimately, personal self-realisation and freedom stem from the innate human drive to construct a bedrock of fundamental values and commitments that can define and give direction to the individual's most valuable potentials and talents. This book is not only a significant contribution to British idealist scholarship. It highlights also the enduring philosophical and ethical resources of a social democratic tradition that remains one of the world’s most important social and political movements, and not least across Britain, Europe, North America, India and Australia. Dr Colin Tyler is Reader in Politics at the University of Hull and joint convenor of the Centre for British Idealism.

For thousands of years, thinkers have argued passionately and even died for the idea that the universe may be endless and that all things happen over and over; all beings live countless times and have infinite possibilities. The belief has been common worldwide and seems to come from deep human instinct. There is great power in this debate, on one side for the individual, free-thinking mind and on the other for those who wish to declare themselves authorities over the realities of the universe and existence. In every age there has been no shortage of the latter, and they have often tried actively to silence the former. The debate has evolved over the ages, but modern science still struggles with the idea of actual infinities and eternities. The idea reaches deeply into personal, religious, philosophical and scientific realms, and over the ages has been seen by its proponents as highly liberating, offering the best paradigm for endless potentials of all types, spiritual and scientific. Critics and antagonists have seen it as threatening and humiliating to their fixed spiritual and scientific regimes. This book gives you conceptual tools to begin scientific and personal exploration of the physical mechanisms of eternal consciousness, starting from the smallest known quanta found so far, the most fundamental physical particles and molecular systems, proceeding through the simplest life forms to the most complex nervous systems and beyond, to sets and metasets of pattern equivalent and pattern-related minds, entities which generate eternal consciousnesses. Learn how, by experiencing infinite universal pattern equivalence, you can transcend physical and conceptual barriers to understanding our existence in the universe. Don't assume that only experts in particle physics and astrophysics can have ideas on what the universe is and how it works, it is here with us on all levels. No special or transcendent mode exists for higher consciousness in the modern cosmological paradigm, but neural systems (minds) are actually infinitely self-contained, self-creating, and self-objective. Universal fractal geometry, holistic biology and chaos science show that no pattern category is more real or absolute than any other.

This is a collection of elegant and learned writings by the late Lord Quinton, one of the most prominent men of letters of the late twentieth century. The first part ranges over the last 400 years of intellectual history; in the second he discusses freedom, morality, politics, language, culture, and the relation between humans and animals.

This book discusses in detail the importance of maintaining the God consciousness to achieve God realization. Without maintaining the God consciousness one may never touch the higher planes of self consciousness and at the end may land up disastrously nowhere. The book is divided in 5 topics of Consciousness, Spiritual Experiences and Miracles, Holy Path, Spiritual Quest and Renunciation. Saint Khemraja chief disciple of Sage Vasaguta has said that the aspirants who do upasana and meditation day and night do not achieve anything even after years of practice. These aspirants are ignorant in a way bound by worldly affairs and maya. The realization of self has not taken place. When full realization has not been achieved, that when consciousness has not been filled with independent state of supreme God consciousness. Till then everything is useless. There will be no results. There will be no progress on the path to God realization. So, it is very important to maintain Consciousness of Supreme God at all time for the real benefit of one’s efforts. The independent state of God consciousness is also found in each and every being. In accordance with Vijnan Bhirav one must find this God consciousness. To discover it one should concentrate on totality of individuality which is the state of universal consciousness. By doing this practice one will get differentiated state of universal consciousness above the individuality of consciousness. One has to be aware of God consciousness at all the times in true spirit with utmost love dedication and seriousness. This God consciousness is most intoxicating if cultivated in right and true manner. Without maintaining the consciousness the progress is hindered. This consciousness should be endeavored to hold it in all the three states.

International Library of the Philosophy of Education reprints twenty-four distinguished texts published in this field over the last half-century and includes works by authors such as Reginald D. Archambault, Charles Bailey, Robin Barrow, Norman J. Bull, D. E. Cooper, R. F. Dearden, Kieran Egan, D. W. Hamlyn, Paul H. Hirst, Glenn Langford, D. J. O'Connor, T. W. Moore, D. A. Nyberg, R. W. K. Paterson, R. S. Peters, Kenneth A Strike, I. A. Snook, John and Patricia White, and John Wilson. Themes discussed include: Liberal education, moral education, the aims of education, the education of teachers, adult & continuing education and the philosophical analysis of education.