2003 Books

Finalist in the Jewish Book Council 2002-2003 National Jewish Book Awards! Winner of the Mark Twain Award from the Connecticut Press Club for 2003! “...Doña Gracia’s character leaps out of the archival material–she is headstrong and intelligent, as charismatic as any fictional protagonist."

The Woman Who Defied Kings (Amazon Kindle)   (BN Nook Book)

Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust by David P. Gushee is an authoritative and indispensable exploration of a highly important aspect of the Holocaust, the willingness of a small, but morally significant, number of non-Jews to take on great risks for themselves and their families to rescue Jews from the Nazi death machine.

Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust: Amazon Kindle Edition

How is modern psychotherapy impacted when it is approached from the presence and understanding of the unconditioned mind? What happens when therapists are able to function as a sacred mirror for their clients’ essential nature, reflecting back not only the contents of awareness—thoughts, feelings and sensations—but awareness itself? Informed by their direct experience as well as by nondual teachings from both eastern and western wisdom traditions, the authors take a fresh look at what psychotherapy can be.

Sacred Mirror: Amazon Kindle Edition

"...will be tantalized by Chung Wu's annotations. The readers will find that they come away with a better understanding of the oftentimes tenuous connection between the hexagram-and-line texts on the one hand and the Tuan and Xiang commentaries on the other.

"...a thrilling ride through the passionate and inspired contemplations of a powerfully enlivened mind as it careens, often wildly, through a torrential stream of insight and realization."—What is Enlightenment Magazine

"This work focuses on releasing unconscious karmic memories, which allows for the return of a naturally harmonious relationship to the All."

Oneness Perceived: Amazon Kindle Edition

Nietzsche Unbound penetrates to the heart of the
mysterious meaning of Nietzsche and describes in a highly approachable
way the acute relevance of his thought to all who are concerned to fashion
a spiritually satisfying life in the midst of today's culture of rampant
materialism and disenchantment.

The Ghosts of Consciousness: Thought and the Spiritual Path details an entirely new theory of the micro-dynamics of thinking and self-awareness. At bottom, it outlines a phenomenologically-based structure of the “parts” of any given thought which is so clarifying, and possesses so much explanatory power, that it lends itself to definitions of ten types of thought, understanding how “reflective thoughts” interconnect and create increasingly acute and expansive forms of self-awareness across their development, and to distinctions regarding the phenomenologies of varied experiences of self; all of which is placed within a transpersonal developmental hierarchy.

“There is at the moment a very important revolution in world politics
going on. The NGO revolution is possibly the biggest change in world politics
since the defeat of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.

“I have read Joseph Freeman’s testimony and remain
moved by its painful and powerful message. I have never been in Radom, but Freeman brings back fragments of its Jewish life—as well as images of its death.

Challenges Social Taboos
“The Politics of Parenting takes an unflinching look at some taboo topics. From a re-animation of the long-dormant debate over eugenics to a renewed call for the licensing of parents, William Irvine challenges assumptions that underlie our policies.

Time for Healing bridges the gap between alternative medicine and modern clinical practice, showing how increasing evidence supports the validity of acupuncture, herbal medicine, aromatherapy, and naturopathy.