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Dr. Thomas Hora

This book is the first of a series of short volumes that present Dr. Thomas Hora's Metapsychiatric teachings through dialogues with his students.

Never published before, these dialogues are as fresh and helpful as the moment they happened.

Thomas Hora, M.D., a pathbreaking psychiatrist and spiritual teacher, passed away in October 1995. His legacy includes students and teachers around the world, and a number of seminal books, such as One Mind, Beyond the Dream and Dialogues in Metapsychiatry.

Table of Contents: Encounters with Wisdom: Book One ~ Spiritual Blessedness ~ The Inside and the Outside ~ Death and Mourning ~ The Meaning of Attachment ~ Abundance ~ What Yen Hui Understood ~ Koans and the Rosetta Stone of Metapsychiatry ~ Spontaneity

135 pages $12.00 ISBN 1-931052-03-4

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These dialogues between Dr. Hora and his students first teach us the meaning of our mental, emotional and physical problems, and then point to the Reality of God, the one true Mind in which we live and move and have our being.

As we become aware of our true existence in God, our problems begin to dissolve and we realize peace, assurance, gratitude and love.

Those who are familiar with these teachings and those who are new to them will appreciate and benefit from the inspired wisdom in One Mind.

Thomas Hora, M.D., a pathbreaking psychiatrist and spiritual teacher, passed away in October 1995. His legacy includes students and teachers around the world, and a number of seminal books, such as Beyond the Dream and Dialogues in Metapsychiatry.

Table of Contents: One Mind ~ The Dynamics of Liberation ~ A Sermon in the Flesh ~ Hype ~ Beyond Words ~ The Mystery of Ignorance ~ The Gift of Knowledge and Speech ~ Basket Weaving ~ Receptivity ~ Glowing ~ Self-Esteem ~ God Is ~ Epistemology ~ The Right Orientation ~ Pain and Gratitude ~ Heaven ~ The Herodian Thought ~ Envy ~ Awareness ~ What Is Thinking? ~ Freedom ~ The Millennial Vision ~ Pain ~ The Serpent and the Dove ~ Noah's Ark ~ "Take My Yoke..." ~ Existentially Engaged ~ Humility ~ Real Communication: God to Man ~ Immunity ~ The Universe Speaks ~ Infinite Structure ~ Possessiveness ~ Collective Right-Knowing ~ Attachments ~ The Mystery of Evil ~ Work ~ Progress ~ Overcoming Self-Confirmation ~ Life, Love, Laughter, and Listening ~ Mental Arm-Wrestling ~ The Eleven Principles of Metapsychiatry ~ Published Works of Thomas Hora, M.D. ~ Index

400 pages $25.00 ISBN 1-931052-01-8

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BEYOND THE DREAM: Awakening to Reality

"BEYOND THE DREAM contains original insights on life, health, healing and wholeness... insights that can help anyone to awaken spiritually - to find light beyond the dream of life as personal selfhood. Dr. Hora drew on the teachings of Jesus as much as he did on conventional psychotherapy to evolve a way of seeing and being in the world that bears good fruit, here and now." (Excerpt from the Crossroad Fall '96 Book Catalogue.)

Table of Contents: What is Man? ~ Phenomenology and Hermeneutics ~ Thoughts and Feelings ~ Thought as Energy ~ Shouldlessness ~ The Law of Karma ~ What Can Be Done and What Cannot Be Done ~ Prepare Ye the Way ~ The Curtain of Time ~ Time and Timelessness ~ "He that Hath an Ear" ~ Information and Transformation ~ The Teacher and the Teaching ~ Beyond Nothingness ~ Transubstantiation ~ Willfulness ~ "Fail-Safe" ~ A Sense of Humor ~ The Curtain of Fear ~ Sex Education ~ Yielding ~ The Natural, The Supernatural, and the Spiritual ~ Innocence ~ The Bureaucrat and the Therapist ~ Safety ~ Marriage and Parenting ~ The Divine Context ~ "The Nightmare Pill" ~ Fearlessness ~ The Love of Being Loving ~ The Healing Environment ~ The Riddle of the Sphinx ~ Approbation ~ The Question of Affectivity ~ The Physical is Mental ~ The Healing Factor ~ Malicious Hypnotism ~ Semantics ~ The Body ~ Anger ~ Alcoholism ~ Levels of Cognitive Integration ~ Friction ~ The Other Cheek ~ Anxiety ~ The Origin of Man ~ The Line and the Circle ~ Enlightenment ~ Solitary Man ~ Decision or Commitment? ~ Guilt ~ Evil ~ Compassion ~ Is There Nothingness? ~ The "IS" ~ How Mature is God? ~ The Living Soul ~ Prayer of "At-one-ment" ~ Reading List and Index

ISBN: 0-8245-1636-2; $16.95, paperback, 348 pages.

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Dialogues in Metapsychiatry

"These dialogues between Dr. Hora and his students are as fresh as the day they took place. They shed new light on what is real and what is illusory, and on such issues as our purpose in life, the good of life, affluence, ambition, anxiety, humility, freedom, safety, and joy." (Excerpt from the Crossroad Fall '96 Book Catalogue.)

Table of Contents: The Supreme Way ~ The Perfect Principle ~ The Real ~ The Right Context ~ Thinking and Knowing ~ I Am the Light ~ Meditation ~ Affluence ~ Who is in Control? ~ What is Good? ~ Beholding the Good ~ What is Beholding? ~ Beyond Religion ~ Symbolic Structures ~ What is a Healing? ~ Freedom and Joy ~ Safety ~ Protection ~ Substance ~ Parasitism ~ Self-Pity ~ Pleasure and Joy ~ Frictionlessness ~ The Human Mockery ~ Eternal Damnation ~ What is the Purpose of Man? ~ What is Life? ~ Overcoming the World ~ Ambition ~ The Gatekeeper ~ Meekness and Humility ~ Is God Slow? ~ Anxiety ~ Believing and Knowing ~ Indestructible Life ~ Self-Confirmatory Ideation ~ Power Struggle ~ What is Hypnotism? ~ Progress ~ Is it Worth It? ~ Completeness ~ Self-Esteem ~ Interaction or Omniaction? ~ Innocence ~ Yes is Good ~ No Is Also Good ~ On Being Helpful ~ Parameters of Progress ~ Reading List and Index

ISBN: 0-8245-1637-0; $14.95, paperback, 248 pages.

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Existential Metapsychiatry

A companion to Dialogues in Metapsychiatry, it is dedicated to "the sincere seekers after the truth who are willing to forego intellectual conformity in exchange for freedom and authenticity ... Dr. Hora presents a therapeutic method based upon the free use of creative intelligence and open-minded receptivity to the patient. His therapy leaves behind all preconceived ideas, explanations, and speculations, especially those based upon cause and effect reasoning. Instead he participates with the patient in a search for truth and understanding resulting in healing and harmony with the fundamental order of existence." (Excerpt from book cover)

Table of Contents: Basic Concepts ~ Existential Validation ~ Commitment ~ The Prayer of Beholding ~ The Transpersonal ~ Operationalism ~ Compassion ~ Believing and Disbelieving ~ Love-Intelligence ~ Nihilation ~ Competition ~ Laws and Principles ~ The Right Question ~ The Realm of the Non-Dual ~ Personhood ~ Needs ~ Family Therapy ~ Ethics of Psychotherapy ~ What are Thoughts? ~ Conscious Union with God ~ The Epistemology of Believing ~ A Case of Phobia ~ Fulfillment ~ Ego-Gratification or Existential Fulfillment? ~ Romantic Love and Spiritual Love ~ "I am" ~ Healing of Character ~ Identity and Individuality ~ The Clinical Eye ~ Context ~ Dynamics of Depression ~ The Divine Marriage ~ The Serpent ~ The Pearl of Great Price ~ As Thou Seest ~ Influencing ~ Reading List

ISBN: 0-913105-007; $20.00, 234 pages.

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In Quest of Wholeness

Table of Contents: Cognition and Health ~ Illness and Health - What Are They? ~ The Transpersonal Perspective ~ Beyond Self ~ Responsibility ~ Wholeness ~ Prayer ~ Identity ~ The Epistemology of Love ~ Commentary on a Lecture at a Scientific Meeting ~ Religious Values in Illness and Health ~ Transcendence and Healing ~ Existential Psychotherapy, Basic Principles ~ Bibliography and Index

1972. $15.00, 141 pages.

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~ Booklets ~

Twelve short essays

1) Healing through Spiritual Understanding - The Dynamics of Illness and The Nature of Spiritual Healing

Table of Contents: Divine Consciousness ~ Spiritual Discernment ~ Wholeness ~ Healing, Prayer, and Meditation ~ Spiritual Reality is Non-Dimensional Reality ~ Two Intelligent Questions ~ The Dynamic of Illness: Hypnotism ~ Symptom Choice ~ Shifting Attention ~ The Flesh Warreth Against the Spirit ~ Enlightenment ~ The Function of the Living Soul

$5.00, 38 pgs.

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2) A Hierarchy of Values

Table of Contents: Cognition, Behavior, Experience ~ Values and Qualities ~ Ascending ~ Context ~ Substance and Reality ~ Hierarchy of Values ~ Clinical Relevancy of Values ~ Therapeutic Implications of Spiritual Values ~ Modes of Being-In-The-World ~ The Hostage Syndrome ~ Convergence of Physics, Brain-Physiology and Metapsychiatry ~ The Fishmonger ~ The Land of PAGL ~ How Do We Know That We Are Spiritual?

$5.00, 34 pgs.

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3) Forgiveness - and the Healing of Compulsions

Table of Contents: Forgiveness ~ Compassion ~ Compulsions ~ Healing the Past ~ A Holy Process ~ Responsibility and Culpability ~ Forgive Us Our Debts ~ Cognitive Dialectics ~ Curing and Healing ~ The Evolution of Seeing ~ Neither Form Nor Formlessness ~ The Eye of Wisdom ~ As Thou Seest So Thou Beest ~ Beholding ~ Meditation and Mind-Fasting ~ Gateway to Reality

$5.00, 31 pgs.

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4) The Soundless Music of Life - Mental Liberation from Calculative and Interaction Thinking

Table of Contents: The Healing Dialogue ~ Being ~ Existentialism ~ Health ~ Mental Liberation ~ Knowledge ~ Being-In-The-World ~ Existential Validation ~ Futile Questions ~ Deep Meditation ~ Cognitive Freedom ~ The Gates of Hell ~ The Good ~ The Soundless Music of Life ~ The Curtain of Time.

$5.00, 36 pgs.

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5) Can Meditation Be Done? - Conscious Union With God

Table of Contents: Meditation ~ Imagination and Visualization ~ Finding Our Soul ~ The Living Soul ~ Visualization versus Realization ~ The Firmament ~ Beholding ~ Transitional Struggle ~ Thinking and Awareness ~ The Buddha Versus The Thinker ~ The Two Shall Be One ~ Three Levels of Meditation ~ The Bible and Meditation ~ The Prayer of Right Seeing ~ Prayer as a Mental Health Principle ~ The Prayer of Beholding ~ Meditation on the Lord's Prayer ~ The Four Ws ~ The Prayer of Glowing ~ Two Meditations

$5.00, 33 pgs.

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6) Compassion - The Emergence of Spiritual Maturity

Table of Contents: Compassion ~ The Context of God ~ Right Seeing ~ Stages of Maturation ~ How Mature is Our God? ~ The Symbol of the Cross ~ The Delilah Complex ~ Existential Commitment ~ Letting Be ~ Action Versus Activity ~ Nonconditional Love Versus Unconditional Love ~ The Christ Consciousness ~ Compassion for Oneself ~ Presence Versus Personality ~ Solitariness ~ Beholding ~ Types of Students ~ The Bodhisattva ~ The Bodhisattva's Work

$5.00, 33 pgs.

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7) Marriage and Family Life - The Possibility of Frictionless Coexistence

Table of Contents: Neither to Marry Nor to Not Marry ~ Responsibility in Marriage ~ Separate But Not Separated ~ The Meaning of Sexual Attraction ~ Sex and Love ~ PAGL as Communion ~ Feminist Ideology ~ Parenthood ~ Family Values ~ Harmony ~ Clarifying Versus Influencing ~ Child Training ~ Learning From Children ~ Freedom From Family Fixations ~ Manifesters of Love ~ Spiritual Self-Esteem ~ Parental Fantasies ~ The Caterpillar and the Butterfly ~ The Process of Transcendence ~ Touching ~ Positive Regard

$5.00, 30 pgs.

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8) God in Psychiatry - The Mystery of Suffering and of Being Born Again

Table of Contents: Theistic Existentialism ~ Humanistic Psychology ~ The Right Man ~ Concepts of God ~ Knowing the Unimaginable ~ Spiritual Faculties of Perception ~ Expanding Our Mental Horizon ~ A Beneficial Presence ~ The Mystery of Suffering ~ Are We Thinking Our Own Thoughts? ~ Two Sources of Thoughts ~ Parental Fantasies ~ Definitions

$5.00, 35 pgs.

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9) What Does God Want?

Table of Contents: What Does Man Want? ~ Fulfillment ~ Anxiety ~ Priorities ~ Receptivity ~ The Purpose of Understanding Meaning ~ Humility and Gratitude ~ Being Here For God ~ What Does God Want?

$5.00, 27 pgs.

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10) Self-Transcendence

Table of Contents: Self-Transcendence ~ Transcendence of the Past ~ The Theory of Evolution ~ Monasticism ~ Dreaming and Waking ~ Two Ways of Experiencing Healing ~ Inertia ~ Is Faith Helpful? ~ Transcendent Regard

$5.00, 30 pgs.

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11) Right Usefulness

Table of Contents: Fatigue ~ The "Workaholic" ~ Prospering ~ Uniqueness ~ How Much Are We Worth? ~ Leadership ~ Trends ~ Cooperation ~ Conflict Resolution ~ The Right Motivation ~ Self-Esteem ~ Mental Work ~ Supply

$5.00, 26 pgs.

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12) Commentaries on Scripture

Table of Contents: The Beatitudes ~ Blessed Are They That Mourn ~ Poor in Spirit ~ Blessed Are You If They Revile You ~ Blessed Are The Merciful ~ Blessed Are The Meek ~ Blessed Are The Peacemakers ~ Blessed Are They That Hunger ~ Blessed Are The Pure in Heart ~ The Three Temptations ~ Three Kinds of People ~ Overcoming the World ~ Portrayals of Jesus ~ The Comforter ~ Teaching with Parables and Miracles ~ One Single Direction ~ Losing Our Life For Christ's Sake ~ Book of Proverbs ~ Jesus' Healing Work ~ Raising the Dead ~ Adam's Rib ~ Creation ~ The Origin of Jesus' Self-Esteem

$5.00, 37 pgs.

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13) Laminated Bookmark of the 11 Principles @$3.00 each

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