MITCH ALBOM is an internationally renowned and best-selling author, journalist, screenwriter, playwright, radio and television broadcaster and musician. His books have collectively sold over 28 million copies worldwide; have been published in forty-one territories and in forty-two languages around the world; and have been made into Emmy Award-winning and critically-acclaimed television movies.
As America struggles with hard times and people turn more to their beliefs, Mitch Albom explores issues that perplex modern man: how to endure when difficult things happen; what heaven is; forgiveness; doubting God; and the importance of faith in trying times. His latest is his first nonfiction book since Tuesdays with Morrie, Have A Little Faith begins with an unusual request: an 82-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy.
Larry Dossey, M.D.,
is a respected leader in bringing scientific understanding to
spirituality and an internationally influential advocate of the role of
spirituality in healthcare and wellness. During his distinguished
career as a practitioner of integrative medicine, he helped establish
the Dallas Diagnostic Association and served as Chief of Staff of
Medical City Dallas Hospital. The author of eleven books, including the
New York Times bestseller Healing Words, he is executive editor
of Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing. Dr. Dossey has lectured
all over world and at major medical schools and hospitals in the United
States-Harvard, John Hopkins, Cornell, and the Mayo Clinic, among
others. A native Texan, he lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
More than an examination of case studies, The Power of Premonitions reveals
the world of science and research that proves the human capacity for knowing
the future. Experiments consistently show that human beings are as wired to
know what's coming next as we are to see, feel, hear and think. Dossey uses
cutting-edge science to prove the value of what had long been considered
the provenance of mystic charlatans and to show readers how to cultivate
their natural abilities. This is a book for the skeptical mind, but it's
also for the believer's heart-because its author possesses the rare
gift of having both.
W. Daniel Hale, Ph.D.
Click to Hear Dr. Hale Speak>> W. Daniel Hale is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Community Health Initiative at Stetson University. He earned his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst, where he also completed his clinical internship. He served as a clinical psychologist at Orlando Regional Medical Center before joining the faculty at Stetson University in 1979. He has been a consultant to hospitals, medical centers, and colleges, and he maintained a psychotherapy practice for more than twenty-five years.
Dr. Hale is also author (with Harold G. Koenig, MD of Duke University) of Healing Bodies and Souls: A Practical Guide for Congregations (Fortress Press, 2003) and numerous research articles on mood disorders, aging, and chronic illness. Since 2003 Dr. Hale has served as President and Executive Director of the O'Neill Foundation for Community Health, and in 2009 he was appointed Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Rabbi Hirsch was ordained in 1998 and spent the next 8 years as the first woman rabbi at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, the largest Conservative synagogue in the western U.S. During her tenure at Sinai that Rabbi Hirsch first stepped out from behind the formal podium to move among the congregation, building a more personal relationship with her audience.
Since leaving Sinai in 2006 she has been sharing her unique blend of the spiritual and the everyday with a larger audience, appearing on "The Today Show" , "ABC News", "Inside Edition", "Faith Matters Now" and "Thirty Good Minutes" as a spiritual commentator, discussing interfaith issues as a frequent guest on "KTLA News" and "Naomi's New Morning" show, and offering relationship advice on "The Tyra Banks Show."
Her first book,We Plan, God Laughs: 10 Steps to Finding Your Divine Path When Life Is Not Turning Out Like You Wanted(Doubleday), was published in April 2008. The book reflects a theme in Hirsch's own life and she expertly guides readers through a spiritual and introspective journey toward reaching their divine potential.
For
many, Bernie Siegel, MD, needs no introduction. He has touched many
lives all over our planet. In 1978 he began talking about patient
empowerment and the choice to live fully and die in peace. As a
physician, who has cared for and counseled innumerable people whose
mortality has been threatened by an illness, Bernie embraces a
philosophy of living and dying that stands at the forefront of the
medical ethics and spiritual issues our society grapples with today. He
continues to assist in the breaking of new ground in the field of
healing and personally struggling to live the message of kindness and
love.
After forty years of study with
some of the greatest scientific minds, as well as a lifetime of
meditative, spiritual, and philosophic study, the Dalai Lama presents a
brilliant analysis of why all avenues of inquiry-scientific as well as
spiritual-must be pursued in order to arrive at a complete picture of
the truth. Through an examination of Darwinism and karma, quantum
mechanics and philosophical insight into the nature of reality,
neurobiology and the study of consciousness, the Dalai Lama draws
significant parallels between contemplative and scientific examinations
of reality.
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