Integral organizations: Integral Institute Cal. Inst. of Integral Studies Integral University The Life Divine first appeared serially in the Arya, in fifty-two original chapters published from August 1914 to January 1919. In 1939 Sri Aurobindo revised and enlarged these chapters for publication in book form. Volume I was published in November 1939. It included the first twenty seven chapters from the Arya, with an entirely new twenty-eighth chapter. Chapters 19 and 23 a ...

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A Christian theological definition of Book of Life according to CARM - The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry:

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Daniel (דָּנִיֵּאל, Standard Hebrew Daniyyel, Tiberian Hebrew Dāniyyêl) is the name of at least three people from the Bible: A Jewish exile in Babylon, the subject of the Book of Daniel - this article refers to this best-known Daniel. A figure known for his wisdom and righteousness among the exile community (see Ezekiel 14:14,20; Ezekiel 28:3). Some regard this person as probably not the same as the Daniel of the Book of Daniel - this being especially the viewpoint o ...

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Vance Packard (May 22, 1914 - December 12, 1996) was an American journalist, social critic, and author. His million-selling book The Hidden Persuaders, about media manipulation of the populace in the 1950s was a forerunner of pop sociology: science-based thinking without the weight of detail or eloquence, geared for sale to the mass market. Packard's work, though it sold well, was criticized as poorly thought out, light on facts, high on supposition, and frivolous for his serious topics. In truth, much of the emerging wo ...

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Acharya S is the pen name of D. Murdock. A proponent of the Christ-myth hypothesis, she has authored two books and operates a website called "Truth be Known". Her contention is that all religion is founded in earlier myth and that the characters depicted in Christianity are the result of the plagiarizing of those myths to unify the Roman State. Acharya S - Books. Her 1999 book, The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold, is a development of part of her website. A follow-up book, Su ...

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Zedekiah or Tzidkiyáhu (צִדְקִיָּהוּ "Righteous of/is the LORD", Standard Hebrew Ẓidqiyyáhu, Tiberian Hebrew Ṣiḏqiyyāhû; BoM Arabic صدقيا Ṣidqiyyā) was the last king of Judah. William F. Albright has dated his reign to 597 BC-587 BC, while E. R. Thiele offers the dates 597 BC-586 BC. He was the third son of Josiah, and his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah, thus he was the brother ...

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Extraterrestrial life is life that may exist and originate outside the planet Earth. Its existence is currently hypothetical: there is as yet no evidence of extraterrestrial life that has been widely accepted by scientists. Most scientists hold that if extraterrestial life exists, its evolution would have occurred independently in different places in the universe. An alternative hypothesis, held by a minority, is panspermia, which suggests that life in the universe could have stemmed from a single initial distribution of spores ...

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• Extraterrestrial life - Extraterrestrials and the Modern era
• Extraterrestrial life - Scientific search for extraterrestrial life
• Extraterrestrial life - Direct search
• Extraterrestrial life - Indirect search
• Extraterrestrial life - Extraterrestrial life in the Solar System
• Extraterrestrial life - Dealing with extraterrestrial life
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Dr. William S. Sadler (1875 - 1969) was a psychiatrist and college teacher in the school of medicine at the University of Chicago, and one of the individuals closely associated with the publishing of the Urantia Book and the Urantia movement. William S. Sadler - Family life. Sadler was born in Spencer, Indiana, to Samuel C. Sadler and Sarah I. (Wilson) Sadler on June 24, 1875. His father Samuel C. Sadler was a graduate of the Chicago Conservatory of Music and was a teacher and performer. After the death of ...

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The Tree of Life, in the Book of Genesis, is a tree whose fruit gives everlasting life, i.e. immortality. After eating of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil, the story goes, Adam and Eve are exiled from the Garden of Eden. Fearing Adam and Eve will also eat of the tree of life and become immortal, God sets angels to guard the entrance to the Garden. In the story, the serpent had tempted Eve into partaking of the Fruit of Knowledge by promising they would become as wise and powerful as God. The unstated but implied moral is ...

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Berkeley ("Berke") Breathed (last name rhymes with "method") (born June 21, 1957) is a cartoonist, children's book author/illustrator, director and screenwriter, best known for Bloom County, a 1980s cartoon-comic strip which dealt with socio-political issues, as seen through the eyes of highly exaggerated characters (e.g. Bill the Cat and Opus the Penguin) and humorous analogies. Berkeley Breathed - Early life. Breathed was born on June 21, 1957, in Encino, California. He went to Westchester High Sch ...

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Josef Allen Hynek (May 1, 1910 - April 27, 1986) was a U.S. astronomer, professor, and ufologist. He also served as scientific advisor to Project Blue Book from 1952 to 1969. J. Allen Hynek - Early Life and Career. Hynek was born in Chicago to Czechoslovakian parents. In 1931, Dr. Hynek received a B.S. from the University of Chicago. In 1935, he completed his Ph.D. in astrophysics at Yerkes Observatory. He joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Ohio State University in 1936. He specialised in the ...

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Alexander Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 - February 10, 1992) was an African American writer (though he was also proud of his Irish and Cherokee ancestry). He is best known for his book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. Alex Haley - Life. Born in Ithaca, New York, Haley grew up in the Southern U.S. Haley's father Simon was a professor of agriculture who had also served in World War I. Haley always spoke proudly of his father and the incredible obstacles of racism he had overcome. On May 24, 1939 ...

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Alternatively, Professor Walter Raleigh was a scholar and author circa 1900. Sir Walter Raleigh (1554 – October 29, 1618) is famed as a writer, poet, spy, and explorer. Note that many alternate spellings of his surname exist, including Rawley, Ralegh, and Rawleigh; although "Raleigh" appears most commonly today, he himself used that spelling only once. His most consistent preference was for "Ralegh". Walter Raleigh - Early life. Walter Raleigh was born at Hayes Barton, i ...

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Alfred North Whitehead, OM (February 15, 1861, Ramsgate, Kent, UK – December 30, 1947, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) was a British mathematician who evolved into a philosopher. He wrote on algebra, logic, foundations of mathematics, philosophy of science, physics, metaphysics, and education. He is the coauthor, along with Bertrand Russell, of the epochal Principia Mathematica. Alfred North Whitehead - Life. For a biography, see Lowe (1985) and Lowe and Schneewind (1990). A complicating factor is t ...

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Amory Bloch Lovins (born November 13, 1947 in Washington, DC) was trained in physics and has worked professionally as a environmentalist. He is co-CEO of the Rocky Mountain Institute, and author and co-author of books which make arguments for and popularize energy-efficiency principles to public and corporate audiences. Lovins' works include Factor Four with Hunter Lovins and Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, and Natural Capitalism with Hunter Lovins and Paul Hawken. In the 1990s, his work with the Rocky Mountain Institute has included the desig ...

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Book I is an examination of the ways of Nature's progress, the spiritual path, the reasons for the divisions and dualities in creation, and a detailed account of the nature of The Absolute, and how this unknowable, immutable omnipresent Reality became the universe we live in. Book II Part 1 explores the original Knowledge and state of the Absolute, and the cosmic Ignorance which is the source of our false perceptions of divisions and dualities in finite existence. It examines the cause of the ...

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BOOK I Ch.1: The Human Aspiration Ch.3: The Two Negations I. The Materialist Denial Ch.3: The Two Negations II. The Refusal of the Ascetic Ch.4: Reality Omnipresent Ch.5: The Destiny of the Individual Ch.6: Man and the Universe Ch.7: The Ego and the Dualities Ch.8: The Methods of Vedantic Knowledge Ch.9: The Pure Existent Ch.10: Conscious Force Ch.11: Delight of Existence: the Problem Ch.12: Delight of Existence: t ...

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The book is intended to be read as a daily inspiration, with each of the forty short chapters read on consecutive days. Each chapter contains a personal application section at the end with a "point to ponder," a verse to remember, and a question to consider over the course of that day. Rick Warren described his book as an "anti-self-help book." The first sentence of the book reads, "It's not about you," and the remainder of the chapter goes on to explain how the quest for personal fulfillment, satisfaction, and meaning can only be found in u ...

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The universe was created from the Real Idea of the Absolute that ended in its Involution in and as the universe. Since the universe came into being as a result of powers of an Original Consciousness and Force (Spirit - Satchidananda and Supermind), then we (and all beings) must also somehow consist of spirit. That spirit is concealed in the Physical, Vital, and Mental nature, into which it descended through involution. Through Evolution the universe evolves from matter to life to mind and spirit. The purpose of existence is to discove ...

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