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Ptolemy Tompkins

    Claudius Ptolemy was a Greco-Roman scholar working in Egypt whose writings spanned mathematics, astronomy, geography, and astrology. While his name is most famously associated with astronomy today, his works on geography and astrology also profoundly influenced later Islamic and European science. His treatises are valued for their systematic approach and their impact on the development of thought.

    Ptolemy Tompkins
    El Mapa del cielo
    Im Weisheitsbasar
    Gli angeli accanto a noi. La storia vera che dimostra che non siamo soli
    Proof of Angels
    The Book of Astronomy in Antiquity (Concise Edition)
    The Beaten Path
    • The Beaten Path

      Field Notes on Getting Wise in a Wisdom-Crazy World

      • 225 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      In an America obsessed with quickie enlightenment and wisdom-acquisition, Ptolemy Tompkins is a seeker who has been there and done that. From Black Elk to the Dalai Lama -- from Hun Tun and mescaline to motorcycle Zen and mind at large -- the acclaimed author of Paradise Fever has followed many roads in pursuit of a universal truth. And he has survived to tell the tale. Ptolemy Tompkins came of age in the '70s -- before Americans began spending uplifting Tuesdays with Morrie or perusing Little Instruction Books. In the wake of a quintessentially New Age childhood as the son of the radical freethinker Peter Tompkins, author of the bestselling The Secret Life of Plants, Ptolemy began a personal quest for enlightenment decades before it became trendy to do so. He gained much valuable insight as he careened from Buddha to the Bhagavad-Gita, from Krishna to Carlos Castaneda. But how much actual "wisdom" he accrued is a matter the author himself admits is up for debate. The Beaten Path is a work of great intelligence that is profound, moving, and hilariously entertaining. In his funny and touching account of a spiritual journey that went wildly off course, the author bares his soul even as he knocks down the gaudy signposts that guide eager pilgrims through today's pop-wisdom landscape. Yet he never loses sight of what is valuable and true in the literature of the spirit. Part gripping personal memoir, part merciless-yet-affectionate critique, and part genuine prescription for the good life, The Beaten Path is a provocative gift from a man who left no page unturned, no odyssey uncompleted, in his determination to find direction and meaning in the cosmos. In exploring what it is that makes so many of his contemporaries actively seek the light of peace and transformation in its most convenient and palatable form, he offers readers a unique, idiosyncratic insight into our modern world. And he has great fun while doing so.

      The Beaten Path
    • Ptolemy’s The Almagest brought together the ideas of Greek Antiquity, that the sun and planets revolved around the earth, the geocentric view which was used by European, Byzantine and Islamic scholars for 1400 years until Copernicus placed the sun as the focus of the solar system. This new book offers an accessible version of Ptolemy’s great work.

      The Book of Astronomy in Antiquity (Concise Edition)
    • Ptolemy Tompkins and Tyler Beddoes share details of modern-day miracles and explore the evidence for the existence of angels in the world

      Proof of Angels
    • Venerdì 6 marzo 2015, Spanish Fork, Utah. Jennifer, venticinque anni, è appena stata a cena da suo padre e sta tornando a casa quando perde il controllo dell'auto. La macchina sbanda, finisce capovolta nel fiume, Jennifer muore sul colpo. Il mattino successivo l'agente Tyler Beddoes è da poco giunto sul luogo dell'incidente con la sua squadra quando improvvisamente una voce di donna richiama la sua attenzione tra le lamiere. La voce non può certo essere quella di Jennifer, ma non può essere neppure quella della sua piccola Lily, di soli diciotto mesi, miracolosa mente illesa e sospesa a testa in giù al buio, a pochi centimetri dall'acqua fredda del fiume. Da questo episodio di cronaca che ha colpito e commosso l'America partono Ptolemy Tompkins (che per primo ha raccontato la straordinaria vicenda di Eben Alexander, protagonista e autore di "Milioni di farfalle") e Tyler Beddoes per costruire una vera e propria inchiesta sugli angeli, tanto emozionante quanto documentata e ricca di testimonianze. Cosa sono davvero? È corretto attribuire loro sembianze e caratte-ristiche umane? Si manifestano esclusivamente alla vista o la loro presenza può essere percepita anche attraverso gli altri sensi? Sono solo presenze benefiche o esistono anche i demoni? E ha senso parlare di angeli custodi?

      Gli angeli accanto a noi. La storia vera che dimostra che non siamo soli
    • El Mapa del cielo

      Cómo la ciencia, la religión y la gente común están demostrando el más allá

      • 208 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      El autor de La prueba del cielo, el bestseller #1 del New York Times, recurre a los sabios de tiempos pasados, a los científicos modernos y a historias de gente común para mostrar que el cielo es real. Cuando el Dr. Eben Alexander conto la historia de su experiencia cercana a la muerte y su vivido viaje al otro lado, muchos lectores escribieron para decir que eso resonaba profundamente con ellos. Gracias a estos lectores, el Dr. Alexander comprendió que compartir su historia ha permitido a la gente a redescubrir lo que muchos ya sabían en la antigüedad: que la vida consiste en algo mas que en la vida terrenal. En El mapa del cielo, el Dr. Alexander y su coautor, Ptolemy Tompkins, comparten visiones sobre la vida del mas allá vividas por sus lectores y muestran la manera en que estas se sincronizan frecuentemente con las de los lideres espirituales del mundo, así como con las de filósofos y científicos. Hay un gran acuerdo, a lo largo del tiempo y de las experiencias, sobre la travesía del alma y su supervivencia mas allá de la muerte. En este libro, el Dr. Alexander sostiene que el cielo es un lugar genuino, mostrando como hemos olvidado y como por fin estamos recordando, lo que en realidad somos y cual es nuestro verdadero destino.

      El Mapa del cielo
    • Dôkaz anjelov

      • 192 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      Fascinujúca kniha o tom, že anjeli sú skutoční a v živote každého z nás hrajú prekvapujúcu úlohu. V marci 2015 milióny ľudí na celom svete šokovala správa o dramatickej záchrane osemnásťmesačnej Lily Groesbeckovej, ktorej sa podarilo prežiť napriek tomu, že štrnásť hodín strávila v prevrátenom aute. Vozidlo, nad ktorým jej matka podľa všetkého stratila kontrolu, zostalo čiastočne ponorené v ľadovej rieke v štáte Utah. Štyria vyslaní policajti začuli hlas, ktorý ich vyzýval, aby nepoľavovali v úsilí: „Pomôžte mi, pomôžte mi.“ Domnievali sa, že sa im prihovára matka dieťaťa, ktorá zostala zakliesnená v aute. Keď ju však s dcérou vytiahli von, uvedomili si, že hlas nemohol patriť jej. Očividne totiž zomrela už pri dopade. Ptolemy Tompkins, spoluautor bestsellera denníka The New York Times, a Tyler Beddoes, jeden z policajtov, ktorí sa zúčastnili na záchrane Lily, vysvetľujú nielen tento zázrak dnešných čias, ale aj existenciu anjelov. Do pútavého rozprávania zakomponovali viaceré príbehy zo života a preskúmali dejiny, podstatu i význam anjelov v životoch ľudí. Kniha dokazuje, že hranica medzi duchovnom a tým, čím sa zaoberá veda, je menej jasná, ako si myslíme.

      Dôkaz anjelov
    • Neue Antworten auf die großen Fragen des Lebens Die Nahtoderfahrung, von der Dr. Eben Alexander in seinem SPIEGEL-Bestseller Blick in die Ewigkeit berichtete, berührte Millionen von Menschen weltweit. Für den Neurochirurgen war sie der Anlass für eine weitaus umfassendere Erforschung dessen, was nach dem Tod geschieht: In seinem neuen Buch setzt er sein eigenes Nahtoderlebnis in Beziehung zu modernsten Wissenschaften, zu spirituellen und philosophischen Weisheitslehren sowie Aufsehen erregenden Erfahrungsberichten anderer Menschen. In Form von sieben fundamentalen Erkenntnissen über das Leben nach dem Tod lädt er zu einer spannenden Reise auf die »andere Seite« ein und führt vor Augen: Unser jetziges Leben ist nur ein kleines Kapitel in einer viel größeren Geschichte – der spirituellen Entwicklung des Universums. Und unsere unsterbliche Seele ist jederzeit Teil dieser Entwicklung …

      Vermessung der Ewigkeit