Peter Wilberg Livres

The aim of Heidegger, Medicine and 'Scientific Method' is to ensure that the profound implications of the Zollikon Seminars Heidegger held for doctors and psychiatrists do not remain unheeded. In one short volume Peter Wilberg concisely summarises Heidegger's fundamental critique of 'scientific method', redefines the basic principles of the 'phenomenological method' and lays out the foundations of a new 'phenomenological' approach to medicine - one which understands that illnesses have meanings not 'causes'. Grounded in Heidegger's fundamental distinction between the physical body (Körper) and the 'lived' or 'felt' body (Leib), phenomenological medicine offers a highly practical and therapeutic understanding of the relation between a patient's clinical disease 'pathology' and the felt 'dis-ease' or pathos that it embodies.

"Being is no longer the essential matter to be thought." Martin Heidegger Western thought clings to the notion that consciousness is essentially both 'intentional' (awareness of something) and the private property of an egoic 'subject'. It has no concept of a Universal Awareness or 'Absolute Subjectivity' of the sort that Indian thought has long understood as the source of all individualised consciousness. Yet in the language of Martin Heidegger we find words such as 'The Open' or 'The Illuminating Clearing', which suggest a primordial 'space' or 'light' of awareness - one that is the condition for any consciousness of things, and is not the private property of any being, body, brain or 'ego'. Heidegger, Phenomenology and Indian Thought explores in an original way the proximity of this language to those schools of Indian thought which recognise a pure, universal and 'non-intentional' dimension of consciousness - an Awareness (Chit) prior to and transcending 'Being' itself (Sat).

Listening is clearly central to the practice of both counselling and psychotherapy. Given this, it is quite extraordinary how little thought has been given to the nature of therapeutic listening and to the cultivation and evaluation of the therapist as listener. Instead, listening is a subject marginalised in both the theoretical literature on psychotherapy and in the practical training of counsellors and psychotherapists .In this collection of essays and articles by Peter Wilberg, the thinking of Martin Heidegger provides the platform for an exploration of the deeper nature of listening - not simply as a passive prelude to therapeutic or diagnostic responses, but as a mode of active inner communication with others. What Wilberg calls Maieutic Listening is not a new form of psychotherapy, but the innately therapeutic essence of listening as such - understood not as a mere therapeutic 'skill' but as a our most basic way of being and bearing with others in pregnant silence.

An ancient Daoist saying tells us "When you are sick, do not seek a cure. Find your centre and you will be healed." The centre it refers to is located deep in the sensed interiority of our belly, that abode of the soul known in Japanese as hara. 'Depression' (a word with no equivalent in Japanese) is, in essence, a lack of hara. With hara awareness we not only recontact our own innermost soul depths and soul centre. We learn to make contact with others from that centre - to experience true intimacy of soul. Hara awareness is both an alternative to medical and psychiatric 'cures' and the basis for a genuinely psychological medicine - an anatomy of the soul-body. Head, Heart and Hara contrasts the head- and heart-centred culture of the West with the hara culture of Japan. It also shows how hara awareness can unite the primordial wisdom of both East and West. Peter Wilberg brings together the dao of Lao Tse and the logos of Heraclitus in a new spiritual anatomy of the soul and its body.

ONE TO ONE is a handbook for teachers of business and executive English. It provides teachers with an approach and highly practical ideas for the small group and one to one teaching situation.

“What the philosopher is, is hard to learn, because it cannot be one has to ‘know’ it from experience.” “A that is a human being who constantly experiences, sees, hears … dreams extraordinary things.” Friedrich Nietzsche It is not often that an Oxford philosophy student spends his spare time flying over carefully tended college lawns. In this volume of selected memoirs, Peter Wilberg reveals himself as a philosopher in the Nietzschean one who has indeed experienced “extraordinary things”. In it, he offers us a glimpse into the lifetime of ‘metaphysical experiences’ which lie behind his numerous philosophical books and writings. Though many of these experiences would be considered ‘paranormal’, Peter Wilberg shows us how through them, he came to his own unique metaphysical or ‘paraphilosophical’ insights - for example into the nature and relation of ‘self’ and ‘soul’, the body and ‘out of body’ states, dreaming and music, language and sound, ‘mantra’, ‘yoga’ and ‘tantra’. He also presents a first-hand account of the origin and evolution of the original and extraordinary form of joint, face-to-face ‘pair meditation’ which became so central to his life and work as both philosopher and ‘yogin’, recounting some of the extraordinary dimensions of shared metaphysical knowledge and experiencing, both interpersonal and transpersonal, mystical and musical, esoteric and scientific, erotic and religious - into which they can lead.

What would it be like to know that you are indeed immortal - that your physical body is but an outward form taken by your own eternal inner form or 'soul body'? What would it be like to experience this soul body as an awareness that is not bounded by your skin but pervades the entire universe - and that can merge with the awareness or 'soul' of others? In this way you can come to experience the bliss of true 'tantra' and 'tantric sex'. This is no mere sensual or spiritual intensification of biological sex but something much deeper - a deeply sensual and sexual intercourse of soul of a sort that requires no skin contact whatsoever - for its sole medium is our divine soul body. Tantra Reborn' introduces this wholly new understanding - and experience - of the tantric tradition and its sexual symbolism, as well as its basis 'The New Yoga'. For this is not a yoga of the physical body or of some 'energy body' but of the soul body itself - our body of sensual feeling awareness or 'soul'.

Nový přístup k nemoci, medicíně a lékařské profesi Autor systematicky a empaticky zároveň tvoří koncept nového přístupu, který je načase zaujmout k medicíně, léčbě a prevenci nemocí. Navrhuje pro něj název "životní medicína" a "životní doktoring" a na příkladech názorně ukazuje, v čem by měl tento nový přístup spočívat. Zároveň rovněž analyzuje rozdíly mezi tímto novým konceptem a tradiční západní medicínou, ale i takzvanou alternativní medicínou (či různými léčitelskými metodami). Hlavní idea spočívá v tom, že nemoc je třeba chápat jako poselství, které se nám snaží sdělit něco důležitého o tom, jak žijeme a kde se zrovna nacházíme na své cestě. Takovýmto poselstvím se je samozřejmě třeba naučit rozumět, aby nám dávala smysl a plnila svůj účel. V tomto smyslu je úloha běžného doktora nebo lékaře, jehož v případě zdravotních problémů navštívíme, nesmírně důležitá. Doktor nám totiž může buď pomoct porozumět této svérázné řeči, anebo ji také mohou umlčet necelistvým, čistě tělesným, mechanickým přístupem a řešením.