Product Description: 'Sam Harris and the Future of Ignorance' is a critical exploration of the published dialogue between Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz entitled: 'Islam and the Future of Tolerance'. Dr. Harris claims that he is interested in peace, harmony, cooperation,and tolerance...read more

Product Description: The word "leadership" is, and has been for some time, a buzz word which is espoused by many to be 'the' key to solving most, if not all, of the problems in the world. If only there were the 'right' sort of leaders in the world, then the political, economic, educational, business, scientific, environmental, military, judicial, and spiritual difficulties facing humankind could be resolved...read more

Product Description: Nine characters are cast into a set of circumstances that cannot be explained but with which those individuals must deal. The fate of humanity rides on what they do. Their task is to come to grips with the issue of self-governance...read more

Product Description: The 'Occupy Movement' took many people by surprise with both its scope, as well as with the manner in which it resonated with the deep sense of discontentment that appears to be felt by many people in the United States concerning the economic and political character of American life...read more

Product Description: This is a work which provides an excellent summary of the essential themes, issues, facts, and questions concerning the tragic events of 9/11. This book engages the events surrounding 9/11 from a very different perspective -- namely that of a member of a hypothetical grand jury which is faced with the task of critically examining the available evidence concerning all manner of 9/11-related topics in order to determine whether or not a further public inquiry into 9/11 is appropriate and necessary...read more

Product Description: 'Epistle To A Sam Harris Nation: Debunking The Moral Landscape' takes on the ideas of Sam Harris using his own chosen tools -- namely, reason and science. When those tools are turned back on his book, 'The Moral Landscape', one comes to understand that his perspective is very much like an onion since, after one peels away the various decaying layers of philosophy, reasoning, and science, there is really nothing left at the heart of his worldview...read more

Product Description: More than nine years after 9/11 the truth about the events of that day are not known by most people in the United States. Many of those individuals believe that they know what happened on September 11, 2001, but their understanding has been constructed for them by people in media, government, and academia who are themselves confused, ill-informed, and lacking an insightful understanding in relation to many issues that permeate 9/11...read more

Product Description: Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is at the center of a controversy concerning the proposed community center in Manhatten, New York -- a center known alternatively as: Cordoba House, Park51, and the Ground Zero mosque. Consequently, people -- both Muslims and non-Muslims -- might benefit from a critical examination of his ideas concerning a wide variety of issues...read more

Product Description: There are 28 short stories in 'Sufi Teaching Stories'. These tales reflect a variety of principles, values, and ideas which are entailed by the Sufi mystical tradition. Some of the stories are original. Other entries in this book constitute a refashioning of stories that have been told and re-told by Sufi spiritual guides down through the ages...read more

Product Description: This book consists of twenty-seven short stories rooted in an array of teachings, principles, and values of the Sufi mystical tradition. Some of the entries are wholly original, while other tales constitute a refashioning of stories which have been handed down from generation to generation by Sufi teachers...read more

Product Description: The material contained within 'Sufi Inspirations' -- and which is given expression through the different chapters of this book -- constitutes, both individually as well as collectively, a Sufi perspective. However, one does not have to be on the Sufi path or inclined to that path in order to engage the material in this book...read more

Product Description: The material contained within 'Meditations of A Sufi' that is given expression through the different chapters of this book constitutes, both individually as well as collectively, a Sufi perspective. However, one does not have to be on the Sufi path or inclined to that path in order to engage the material in this book...read more

Product Description: The two volumes which give expression to 'Mapping Mental Spaces' are a series of working exercises involving different problems which are entailed by issues of: hermeneutics, innate ideas, apodicticity or certainty, belief, meaning, model-building, psychology, mythology, mysticism, logic, fields, mathematics, quantum mechanics, and holographic theory...read more

Product Description: 'Exploring Psychological Horizons' consists of thirteen essays which venture into various facets of psychology - ranging from: Freud and Sullivan, to: Piaget, Sheldrake, and beyond. Among the topics explored are: anxiety, dissociation, abuse, charisma, theories of psychological development, the 'God gene', formative causation, memory, and holographic theories of mind...read more

Product Description: The fifty-two chapters (not counting five appendices) which make up the main body of this book encompass lectures, articles, and letters/e-mails written over a period of about eleven years (from about 1998 through 2009). The material covers a variety of thematic topics both within Islam, in general, as well as with respect to its mystical dimension of tasawwuf - known in the West as 'the Sufi path' or 'sufism' - in particular...read more

Product Description: In 2007 Daveed Gartenstein-Ross wrote a memoir entitled: 'My Year Inside Radical Islam'. The book outlines a journey starting from a liberal Jewish background, to becoming a Muslim, and, finally, converting to Christianity. A critical fulcrum which leveraged his journey toward the latter conversion involved becoming entangled with a fundamentalist group of Muslims in Ashland, Oregon when he was still a Muslim...read more

Product Description: Three issues of paramount importance -- namely, terrorism, fundamentalism, and spiritual abuse -- are brought together in one volume in a way that delineates the interconnected dynamics of these topics. Moreover, these central themes are engaged from a variety of perspectives ranging from, on the one hand, psychology, sociology and philosophy, to, on the other hand, history, political science, and religion...read more

Product Description: 'Reality Without A Name' is a critical examination of a variety of themes and principles that are of relevance to exploring the Sufi mystical path. Using 'Sufism: A Short Introduction' by Professor William C. Chittick as a case study, the present work takes the shortcomings, problems, and errors of the latter book as a starting point for explicating an array of misunderstandings concerning the Sufi spiritual tradition, in particular, and the Islamic religious tradition, in general, that are prevalent both within and outside of academia...read more

Product Description: The book, 'Chaco Canyon', is a novel which ranges across an assortment of kidnapings, murders, mysteries, intrigues, rescues, problems, and relationships. The plot development, characterization, dialog, as well as the dramatic tension and resolution of this story are employed to induce readers to undertake a quest somewhat similar to that of the main character...read more

Product Description: No religious or mystical tradition is immune from the presence of spiritual abuse, for wherever there are people who are seeking to become to closer to essential truths, purpose, and meaning, there will be individuals seeking to generate counterfeit currency to offer to those who are unaware, or uncautious toward the dangers which lie in wait along the spiritual path...read more

Product Description: Democracy Lost and Regained explores various facets of the history, principles, and philosophies which went into forging the United States Constitution. Special attention is paid to the Bill of Rights, in general, and the Tenth Amendment, in particular, as important sources of constraint on the meaning and scope of the Constitution...read more

Product Description: This book outlines a paradigm shift concerning education, schools, learning, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. The book explores numerous themes ranging from: religion and science: to: issues of public policy and, in the process, puts forth a perspective which argues that much of what goes on with respect to education is inconsistent with a variety of principles inherent in both the amended Constitution as well as our intuitive ideas about basic human rights...read more