Consciousness & Thought

'What is so appealing about the ideas in this book is that we could pivot coffee from being the driving force behind excessive hours and a poor work-life balance into being a drink that lets us contemplate meaning and purpose in a different way.' James Hoffmann, author of the Sunday Times...

We are all living an existence that none of us chose and none of us truly understand. Naturally, everything can—at times—feel strange, chaotic, and overwhelming. The Art of Living an Absurd Existence helps us find peace with this; it instructs us on how to embrace and appreciate the mystery...

歩けるうちは、人は死なない長生きしたくないという高齢者が増えている。不健康寿命が延び、ムダな延命治療によるつらく苦しい最期は恐ろしいと感じるからだ。著者は2000人以上を看取った元外科医の緩和ケア医。

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.

In The Thread of Theseus, a bold and thought-provoking exploration of consciousness, identity, and transformation, the classic philosophical puzzle of the Ship of Theseus becomes the entry point to a rich synthesis of modern science and ancient wisdom. Bridging physics, biology, and spirituality, this book offers a radical new hypothesis: that the self is not fixed or isolated, but a living, evolving pattern—an entangled self—woven through time, memory, and matter.

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.

Qué pasaría si toda la historia de la filosofía occidental pudiera leerse como una conversación viva, en lugar de una colección de doctrinas aisladas? En SÓCRATES. PLATÓN. ARISTÓTELES, Isaac Volpe ofrece un recorrido audaz, lúcido y profundamente cautivador por la evolución intelectual que dio forma a los fundamentos del pensamiento occidental. Los conceptos complejos se vuelven accesibles sin caer en simplificaciones, lo que convierte este libro en una obra igualmente valiosa tanto para lectores que se acercan por primera vez a la filosofía como para estudiantes experimentados.

Learn how to win arguments. Know when to avoid disputes. Benefit from tools for persuasion. Gain clarity on cognitive bias and conjunction fallacy. Various strategies are presented for effective communication and dispute resolution,

What if psychology’s greatest problem is not lack of data—but lack of structure? Psychology: A Constraint-First Ontology offers a radical yet accessible rethinking of the human mind. Drawing on systems theory, neuroscience, trauma research, and philosophy of science, this book proposes a unifying framework in which mental life is understood as the dynamic stabilization of constraints. Rather than treating disorders as isolated pathologies or the mind as a hidden substance, this work reframes identity, emotion, trauma, and healing as structural processes of coherence, collapse, and repair.

Every lie constructs a world. For as long as it is believed, that world is as real as any other, shaping decisions, emotions, and the trajectory of lives. In this deeply personal and intellectually ambitious book, Boris Kriger dismantles our assumptions about deception and rebuilds them from the ground up, revealing lying not as a simple moral failing but as a structural feature of how information moves between minds, whether those minds are human or artificial.

D’Elle Milton is a long-time student of philosophy and psychology whose work explores meaning, purpose, and consciousness. She is the creator of the EVOLVE Tarot deck and its companion book—the first in a planned trilogy. She weaves imaginative tales grounded in Pure Potential and the Unified Field, using relatable characters to explore Quantum theory, extra-sensory perception, and new models of Conscious Community. Her stories invite listeners into thoughtful adventures that mirror their own inner journey.

What if everything you know about stress is incomplete? The pressure you feel at 3 AM, the tension before a crucial meeting, the weight of demands that seem impossible to meet—this experience is universal. But stress is not merely a human affliction. It is one manifestation of a fundamental law governing all systems capable of maintaining their existence over time.

Your memories aren't stored recordings. They're programs that recompile themselves every time you run them. Your sense of self isn't a permanent soul. It's a subroutine generating the illusion of continuity. And here's the disturbing part: the code is buggy. Depression, anxiety, intrusive thoughts, these aren't character flaws. They're software errors. Patterns that loop without exit conditions. Faulty error handling. Memory leaks. Code that made sense once but hasn't been updated. But if consciousness is programming, then bugs can be fixed. Performance can be optimized.

What remains of a human being when the oldest instinct—self-preservation—is silenced? In a world where survival has become both an obsession and a constraint, Stripped of Self-Preservation: Between Fear and Freedom asks what it means to live when the impulse to avoid harm dominates every gesture, every thought, every choice. This book unravels the instinct that once protected life, now turned into a force that limits it. Through the lens of philosophy, psychology, neurobiology, and cultural analysis, it explores how fear shapes not only bodies but entire civilizations.

Why are some people who suffer terribly not unhappy — while others, whose lives look perfectly comfortable, are miserable? In this groundbreaking book, Boris Kriger reveals a single mechanism that explains most human unhappiness: a mental act he calls negative self-determination — the moment when your mind takes a bounded experience of pain and converts it into an unbounded verdict about who you are. "This hurts" becomes "I am broken." "I failed" becomes "I am a failure." "She left" becomes "I am unlovable.