Hopefully you will find something to inspire, challenge and enliven your thinking.
Light Bulb Moments and the Power of Critical Thinking: Insights from Inquiring Minds and Literary Heroes
by Gloria Moss and Katherine Armitage | 3 Dec 2022
5.0 out of 5 stars (4) Paperback
The value of Critical Thinking has been celebrated for centuries. Einstein spoke of the need to ‘Question everything’ and Jung summed up its importance when he stated that ‘The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth’.
Unfortunately, a number of factors can stand in the way of Critical Thinking, one of these being a lack of training, a problem in numerous countries where school and university curricula neglect these skills. There are also psychological obstacles with group pressure and propaganda forcing conformity, these effects are illustrated by extensive research. What research has ignored, however, are those factors that can encourage it.
This book fills this gap by analysing the Critical Thinking of twenty four modern-day thinkers whose insights cover topics from Money, Law and Order, Health, History and Geo-Politics through to Philosophy, Religion and Spirituality.
What is more, the book compares the attributes and triggers of these inquiring minds with those of the heroes of Brave New World, Nineteen Eighty Four and Fahrenheit 451 and the findings may leave you excited and astonished.
The One-Straw Revolution
Fukuoka, M. (1978/2009).
Masanobu Fukuoka’s book about growing food has been changing the lives of readers since it was first published in 1978. It is a call to arms, a manifesto, and a radical rethinking of the global systems we rely on to feed us all. It is also the memoir of a man whose spiritual beliefs underpin and inform every aspect of his innovative farming system. Equal parts farmer and philosopher, Fukuoka is recognized as one of the founding thinkers of the permaculture movement. Fukuoka perfected his so-called do-nothing technique, a way of farming that seeks to work with nature rather than make it over through increasingly elaborate-and often harmful -methods. His farm became a gathering place for people from all over the world who wished to adapt his ways to their own local cultures.
Smoke and Mirrors
https://www.edward-fitzgerald.com/smoke-and-mirrors
In fact the people, that’s YOU, actually hold the power over the Monarch (the King/Queen),
and in turn Parliament and the Government!
By Laura Brand
Nature Stories For Children to Make You Stop, Look and Be Amazed by the Tiniest Things
#1 Best Seller in Children’s Books on the Environment & Ecology
Zoom in to watch a hummingbird drink nectar; watch a pea shoot appear; see a little snail as he comes come out to drink. With charming text and real science, see nature up close and let it stop you in your tracks, so that you can truly find joy in the present moment.
Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on a Bountiful Planet 20 Sept. 2022
by Marian L Tupy (Author), Gale L Pooley (Author)
4.6 out of 5 stars 191 ratings
For centuries, the ivory towers of academia have echoed this sentiment of multitudinous ends and limited means. In this supremely contrarian book, Tupy and Pooley overturn the tables in the temple of conventional thinking. They deploy rigorous and original data and analysis to proclaim a gospel of abundance. Economics–and ultimately, politics–will be enduringly transformed.” –George Gilder, author of Life after Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy Generations of people have been taught that population growth makes resources scarcer. In 2021, for example, one widely publicized report argued, “The world’s rapidly growing population is consuming the planet’s natural resources at an alarming rate . . . the world currently needs 1.6 Earths to satisfy the demand for natural resources . . . [a figure that] could rise to 2 planets by 2030.” But is that true? After analyzing the prices of hundreds of commodities, goods, and services spanning two centuries, Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley found that resources became more abundant as the population grew. That was especially true when they looked at “time prices,” which represent the length of time that people must work to buy something. To their surprise, the authors also found that resource abundance increased faster than the population–a relationship that they call “superabundance.” On average, every additional human being created more value than he or she consumed. This relationship between population growth and abundance is deeply counterintuitive, yet it is true. Why? More people produce more ideas, which lead to more inventions. People then test those inventions in the marketplace to separate the useful from the useless. At the end of that process of discovery, people are left with innovations that overcome shortages, spur economic growth, and raise standards of living. But large populations are not enough to sustain superabundance–just think of the poverty in China and India before their respective economic reforms. To innovate, people must be allowed to think, speak, publish, associate, and disagree. They must be allowed to save, invest, trade, and profit. In a word, they must be free.
A State of Fear: How the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic Paperback – 16 May 2021
by Laura Dodsworth (Author)
4.7 out of 5 stars 2,230 ratings
This is a book about fear. Fear of a virus. Fear of death. Fear of losing our jobs, our democracy, our human connections, our health and our minds. It’s also about how the government weaponised our fear against us – supposedly in our best interests – until we were one of the most frightened countries in the world.But why did the government deliberately frighten us? How has this affected us as individuals and as a country? Who is involved in the decision-making that affects our lives? How are behavioural science and nudge theory being used to subliminally manipulate us? How does the media leverage fear? What are the real risks to our wellbeing
Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future And A Way To Get There From Here
by Bruce H. Lipton (Author), Steve Bhaerman (Contributor)
4.7 out of 5 stars 587 ratings
We’ve all heard stories of people who’ve experienced seemingly miraculous recoveries from illness, but can the same thing happen for our world? According to pioneering biologist Bruce H. Lipton, it’s not only possible, it’s already occurring.
In Spontaneous Evolution, this world-renowned expert in the emerging science of epigenetics reveals how our changing understanding of biology will help us navigate this turbulent period in our planet’s history and how each of us can participate in this global shift. In collaboration with political philosopher Steve Bhaerman, Dr. Lipton invites readers to reconsider:
• the “unquestionable” pillars of biology, including random evolution, survival of the fittest, and the role of DNA;• the relationship between mind and matter;• how our beliefs about nature and human nature shape our politics, culture, and individual lives; and• how each of us can become planetary ‘stem cells’ supporting the health and growth of our world.
By questioning the old beliefs that got us to where we are today and keep us stuck in the status quo, we can trigger the spontaneous evolution of our species that will usher in a brighter future.
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change
Good News – Why there is no need to fear human driven climate change
Less freedom. More regulation. Higher costs. Make no mistake: those are the surefire consequences of the modern global warming campaign waged by political and cultural elites, who have long ago abandoned fact-based science for dramatic fearmongering in order to push increased central planning.
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change gives a voice – backed by statistics, real-life stories, and incontrovertible evidence – to the millions of “deplorable” Americans skeptical about the multibillion dollar “climate change” complex, whose claims have time and time again been proven wrong.