Letters to Vanessa: On Love, Science, and Awareness in an Enchanted World

The world we inhabit is enchanted--every tree, rock, and star, and even "empty" space itself, is teeming with living energy and awareness. And it's all nearer to us than our own breath. Why, then, can't we see it? Because, according to Jeremy Hayward, we are taught not to. And because our cultural conditioning keeps us in denial about the fact that a strictly scientific worldview provides only a partial, and unsatisfactory, view of reality. Letters to Vanessa is the guidebook for a generation caught in the eunuch between the hard realities of science and the genuine yearning for an experience of the sacred. In a series of letters addressed to his teenage daughter, Dr. Hayward points the way past the limits of science and shows how we can connect with the magical, multidimensional universe of soul. Along the way he presents the most recent findings of neuroscience, cognitive psychology, new biology, and physics in a most engaging and understandable way. He also provides practical meditation instructions that will enable everyone to reconnect with the joyous reality of ordinary life.

Author: Jeremy W. Hayward
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 09/02/1997
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.08h x 6.24w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781570620775
ISBN10: 1570620776
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects
- Religion | Meditations
- Body, Mind & Spirit | Spiritualism | General

About the Author
Jeremy Hayward is international education director of Shambhala Training. He is author of Letters to Vanessa: On Love, Science, and Awareness in an Enchanted World and Shifting Worlds, Changing Minds: Where the Sciences and Buddhism Meet. He teaches warriorship retreats around the world.