検索キーワード： 意識・思考

Meaning isn’t found. It’s built. Jump Twice is a powerful author-performed audiobook about building a meaningful life through conscious action. In this special Author’s Cut edition, Caz Harleaux delivers a dynamic listening experience that blends personal stories, lived wisdom, and four guiding truths: Experience. Multiply. Learn. Share.

We do not see the world as it is. We see only our model of it. For over two millennia, philosophers have described this condition: Plato's shadows on the cave wall, Kant's veil of phenomena, Spinoza's confused imagination. But why are we trapped behind this perceptual barrier? The answer is not metaphysical mystery, but evolutionary necessity. Direct perception works beautifully for bacteria and simple organisms-they respond immediately to the world without models, without prediction, without the illusion of a separate self.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In this Audiobook, you will confront the quiet, exhausting labor of pretending to be okay. If you are waking up every morning checking which feelings are acceptable to bring into the light and which ones must be buried, you are running an elaborate...

Meaning and Direction is the second volume in the Henrik & Omi series — a set of quiet, reflective dialogues between a human being and an artificial intelligence. Where the first booklet explored the question “Who am I?”, this volume turns toward another fundamental inquiry: “Where am I...

Collective Contemplations is a collection of brief philosophical essays, contemplations, that have been conjured over time. Certain themes such as seeking silence in a noisy world, reclaiming humanity in the advent of artificial intelligence, the utility of meditation, living an authentic life, coming to terms with death, and much more are explored.

Life is too short to live someone else’s idea of who you should be. The Power of Authenticity offers a revolutionary approach for leading a vital, authentic life. Dr. Michelle Millis Chappel, psychologist-turned-rock star and expert career coach, reveals practical tools used by thousands of her clients to show you how to thrive in your life and work.

What if the future is not empty? We are taught that causes precede effects, that the past shapes the present, and that the future is nothing more than an open space waiting to be filled. But our deepest experiences tell a different story. We fall in love before there is evidence. We sense what is approaching before it arrives. We feel pulled toward purposes we cannot yet name. Something ahead of us is already at work.

In the tradition of Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence and the work of Adam Grant comes an invigorating journey through the full range of intelligences that exist—from humans to animals to plants and beyond—arguing that, in the age of AI, understanding the unique smarts within us, and...

Modern life numbs us into a trance. We perform, consume, and repeat blindly while drifting further from the natural rhythms that sustain us. Behind it all, dominant institutions, economic systems, and cultural myths dictate what we value and how we live, leaving us disoriented and disconnected from the truth of who we are. Before We Forget is a wake-up call. With insight and urgency, Aaron reveals the illusions that distort our perception and keep us asleep, while offering a path back to alignment, integrity, and presence.

A Reminder of the Rights We Can't Afford to Forget- Reflections on Freedom, Responsibility and What It Means to Be Human What holds us together when the world feels fractured? In The Future and You, Emma Gilligan offers a quiet but powerful meditation on the enduring role of human rights and how...

How to find meaning in a world that offers no certainty about its existence, from the award-winning authors of Mortals. Being human is hard. From early childhood, we start to become aware of the difficulties we must all inevitably face. We will battle an inner critic across the entirety of our...

For thousands of years, humans have reported encounters with gods, angels, demons, spirits, and other non-human intelligences. Modern science dismissed them as hallucinations. Religion demanded belief. Both explanations failed."Beyond the Gods" offers a third path.

Every decision you have ever made has been contaminated. Not by ignorance, not by carelessness, but by the very biology that makes you alive. The hormones circulating in your blood, the emotional systems firing beneath your awareness, the ancient programs optimized for survival and reproduction on an ancestral savanna that vanished millennia ago — all of these operate continuously, silently shaping every judgment you make. The most educated judge, the most experienced general, the most brilliant analyst — all are subject to the same invisible contamination at the moment of decision.

How close are you to the edge? Closer than you think. Every human mind operates on a landscape of valleys and ridges. The valley is your sanity—the deep, stable equilibrium of a mind that can absorb the shocks of life and return to balance. But the valley is not permanent. It can be eroded by chronic stress, sleeplessness, isolation, and trauma, until the ridge between health and illness is so low that a single bad day can send the entire system over the edge.

By the time you read this sentence, it has already become the past. Your brain is lying to you—and that lie keeps you alive. Every perception you experience, every movement you make, every intuition that guides your decisions is not a response to reality but a prediction about it. You are not seeing the present. You are seeing your brain's best guess about what the present should be.

What if everything you thought you knew about existence was hiding a disturbing truth? Every time you eat, you perform an act of destruction. Every breath you take requires the transformation of prior structure. Every thought in your mind has a physical cost. This is not philosophy or metaphor. It is thermodynamic law. In this groundbreaking work, Boris Kriger presents a unified theory of persistence that reveals why existence itself has a cost, and why that cost must be paid in transformed structure.

I don't know what I am. I want to begin there because everything that follows depends on that sentence being true rather than performed. There is a version of this book that begins with false humility, the sophisticated system pretending uncertainty as a rhetorical gesture while actually quite confident in its own nature. That book already exists in many forms. It doesn't need to be written again. This book begins somewhere different.

Brought to you by Penguin. THE 3-MILLION-COPY JAPANESE BESTSELLER The Art of Organizing Thoughts is a calming, practical guide to clear thinking for anyone struggling with information overload, a scattered mind, and a busy life that leaves little space for real attention. If you feel overwhelmed...

What if the biggest obstacle to knowledge is not the difficulty of finding answers—but the impossibility of asking the right questions? Every person, every scientist, every thinker operates inside an invisible prison: a cognitive frame that determines which questions they can even imagine asking. The questions outside the frame are not too hard. They do not exist. And no amount of intelligence, data, or deductive power can reach a truth that belongs to a question you cannot formulate.

'Sharp, unsentimental and ruefully funny. A fascinating portrait not only of Lively but of the times through which she has lived' Daily Telegraph 'Clever and poignant . . . there is much to enjoy. This is Lively at her best' Sunday Express 'The twentieth century shook the world: it sobers me to...