Recommended Book List
Walking Chi Kung by Master Lam
Great informative step-by-step-book on moving chi kung techniques. Buy it here
Chi Kung – Way of Power by Master Lam Kam Chuen
Fundamental warm-up and Chi Kung exercises with in easy to follow information about human energy. Buy it here
Everyday Chi Kung with Master Lam
15 minute routines to build energy, boost immunity and banish stress. Mainly sitting exercises with step by step information on position holding. Buy it here
The Way of Energy by Master Lam Kam Chuen
Zhan Zhaung standing exercises with beautiful meditative pages. Buy it here
Step-by-step Tai Chi by Master Lam Kam Chuen
Buy it here. I use some of the exercises to warm-up before I practice Chi Kung or Tai Chi, very easy to follow.
Eight Simple Qigong Exercises for Health: The Eight Pieces of Brocade by Jwing-Ming Yang
Qigong training with standing and sitting exercises – Buy it here
The Manipulated Man by Esther Vilar
…So I hadn’t imagined broadly enough the isolation I would find myself in after writing this book. Nor had I envisaged the consequences which it would have for subsequent writing and even for my private life – violent threats have not ceased to this date. A woman who defended the arch-enemy – who didn’t equate domestic life with solitary confinement and who described the company of young children as a pleasure, not a burden – necessarily had to become a “misogynist”, even a “reactionary” and “fascist” in the eyes of the public…
“She followed the world-wide success of The Manipulated Man with two more books about the relationship between the sexes” – Buy it here
The Red Book by Carl G Jung
When Carl Jung embarked on the extended self-exploration he called his ‘confrontation with the unconscious’, the heart of it was The Red Book , a large, illuminated volume he created between 1914 and 1930. Here he developed his principal theories – of the archetypes, the collective unconscious and the process of individuation – that transformed psychotherapy from a practice concerned with treatment of the sick into a means for higher development of the personality. While Jung considered The Red Book to be his most important work, only a handful of people have ever seen it. Now, in a complete facsimile and translation, it is available to scholars and the general public. It is an astonishing example of calligraphy and art on a par with The Book of Kells and the illuminated manuscripts of William Blake. The publication of The Red Book is a watershed that will cast new light on the making of modern psychology.
About the Red Book, Jung said:
The years… when I pursued the inner images, were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It began at that time, and the later details hardly matter anymore. My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me. That was the stuff and material for more than one life. Everything later was merely the outer classification, scientific elaboration, and the integration into life. But the numinous beginning, which contained everything, was then.
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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976) by Julian Jaynes
(February 27, 1920 – November 21, 1997) was an American psychologist, best known for his book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976), in which he argued that ancient peoples were not conscious (i.e. could not introspect). Instead, Jaynes claimed that ancient people acted by means of automatic, non-conscious habit. When habit did not suffice and stress rose at the moment of a decision, behavior was directed by auditory verbal hallucinations, which were heard as the voice of a chieftain or god and immediately obeyed. Jaynes argued that the change from this mode of thinking (which he called the bicameral mind) to consciousness (construed as self-identification of interior mental states) occurred over a period of centuries about three thousand years ago and was based on the development of special types of linguistic cognition and the emergence of writing as an alternative means of social control.
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