Plunging Through the Clouds

Plunging Through the CloudsConstructive Living brings together two psychotherapies Morita and Naikan and their associated lifeways. Both therapies were developed in this century, but their roots extend back hundreds of years in East Asian history. Morita was a professor of psychiatry at Jikei University School of Medicine in Tokyo. Yoshimoto was a successful businessman who retired to become a lay priest in Nara. Morita's method has it origins in Zen Buddhist psychology, and

and Altizer developed in this book effectively reshape and refocus the terms of current debate

Contributors to this book explore the origins

and practice and gives an overview of its promises and problems

Includes podcasts

kinetic theory from gases to granular and active matter

have come to shape our politics and culture

This book reveals the desperate plight of the poor

Neb is a man who escaped slavery

symphonic evocation of the great cathedral and a tribute to its builders

in addition to a new chapter covering pharmacogenomics

accompanied by translations and explanations drawing on the latest epigraphic research

religious differences and shocking endings