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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 133.8 EAN: 9780874777307 ISBN: 0874777305 Label: Tarcher Manufacturer: Tarcher Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 785 Publication Date: April 21, 1993 Publisher: Tarcher Studio: Tarcher Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: The author of Golf in the Kingdom writes a magnus opus that Darwin would have written if he had looked to the future instead of the past. By synthesizing more than 30 years of research from more than 3,000 sources, including ancient and modern records of sports, medicine, the arts, and religious practices, Murphy identifies the techniques that all transformative disciplines use and forms them into a coherent program for personal transformation. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - An encyclopedia about the human bodyThis book is a must ready for anyone interested in increasing their human potential. Murphy cites countless studies done on the human body, ranging from the normal to the paranormal. In my case, as a writer and long time yoga teacher this book has been invaluable for quoting to my students. I recommend it to people who want to open their minds to ever expanding human potentials. Rating: - Modern classic missing pertinent content, yet, a must read!The Future of the Body is what I would consider a "modern classic." It is one of the truly comprehensive texts published on modern consciousness and transformative studies. I can't recommend it enough as mandatory reading for any student in the field of consciousness, transpersonal, and transformative psychology (or any field directly related to human potentials). However, my only reservation is that there is virtually no mention of psychoactives, those taboos of human culture, within the ... Read More Rating:  - Who is the subject of evolution?With some reservations I found this compendium of disparate information a useful survey and a flying question mark about the meaning of the term 'evolution', a term long since fallen into a ditch whence it stumbles forth into still more confusion, with a black eye from the brain-dead Darwin debate. The number of wild pitches (the phantom index in most such books being high)is not out of hand. The New Age attempts to define the term 'evolution' are at their best as an indirect comment on Darwinian versions, ... Read More Rating: - Interesting BookI gave this book 5 stars because it is very extensive in its scope - it is not, however, the final word on this topic, there is more - I guess there is always more and there are always even more amazing stories. The book explores different phenomena, some rather rare and unusual, as in the following excerpt: "Thurston quoted a sister Margherita Cortonesi: "On one occasion, among others, when [Sister Veronica] being in a trance state was reciting her Office alternately with some invisible ... Read More Rating: - Encyclopedic, Compelling, but Not Entirely Convincing,This is an ambitious book, and must have been a labor of love for Mr. Murphy. It is a thorough treatment of every conceivable mystical or healing arts practice, with plenty of anecdotal evidence, some of it well supported, some not. I say the book is not convincing because so much of this stuff is so bizarre that I need to "see it to believe it." For example, exhumed bodies of highly religious poeple, such as saints, that show no decomposition after years of being buried. How could that be possible? Without photographs ... Read More 
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