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The Church of Scientology maintains a wide variety of beliefs and practices. The core belief holds that a human is an immortal, spiritual being (thetan) that is resident in a physical body. The thetan has had innumerable past lives, some of which, preceding the thetan's arrival on Earth, were lived in extraterrestrial cultures.
A Clear is defined by the Church of Scientology as a person who no longer has a "reactive mind" (a pseudoscientific subdivision of the mind), and is therefore free from negative effects purported to be produced by the "reactive mind". A Clear is said to be "at cause over" (that is, in control of) their "mental energy" (their thoughts), and able ...
978-0873327619. The Power of the Powerless (Czech: Moc bezmocných) is an expansive political essay written in October 1978 by the Czech dramatist, political dissident, and later statesman, Václav Havel. The essay dissects the nature of communist regimes of the time, life within such a regime, and how by their very nature such regimes can ...
While the PC's impact is clear now, it wasn't obvious to everyone four decades ago, even to some of the early innovators. In 1981, IBM launched its PC and famously estimated that it would only ...
Exactly what that “reset” and “different world” will look like, if that was her meaning, remains to be seen. Perry’s first album in four years, “143,” arrives on Sept. 20 Best of Variety
Luminous mind (Skt: prabhāsvara-citta or ābhāsvara-citta, Pali: pabhassara citta; Tib: འོད་གསལ་གྱི་སེམས་ ’od gsal gyi sems; Ch: 光明心 guangmingxin; Jpn: 清浄心 syōzyōshin; Kor: kwangmyŏngsim) is a Buddhist term which appears only rarely in the Pali Canon, but is common in the Mahayana sūtras [1] [2] and central to the Buddhist tantras.
Followed by. The Demon-Haunted World. Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space is a 1994 book by the astronomer Carl Sagan. It is the sequel to Sagan's 1980 book Cosmos and was inspired by the famous 1990 Pale Blue Dot photograph, for which Sagan provides a poignant description. In the book, Sagan mixes philosophy about the human ...
Though hailed by Thomas Carlyle as "the writer's best book" [12] and despite its commercial success, initial critical reactions to The Conduct Of Life were mixed at best. The Knickerbocker praised it for its "healthy tone" and called it "the most practical of Mr. Emerson's works," [13] while The Atlantic Monthly attested that "literary ease and flexibility do not always advance with an author ...