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This book explores themes of consciousness, perception, and the nature of reality through the lens of indigenous wisdom.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kqzqj91ags9h6pbckjkfdnr7.jpg","LrKn9hIpoKs:~pf5oLWVE2oJWXWV",1974,256,[497],{"id":498,"slug":499,"name":500},"01kpbz8es9mhrbf507en08h1zs","carlos-castaneda-6xyi","Carlos Castaneda",[502,503,504],{"id":27,"name":28,"slug":29,"is_fiction":17},{"id":161,"name":162,"slug":163,"is_fiction":17},{"id":35,"name":36,"slug":37,"is_fiction":17},[506],{"id":507,"slug":508,"name":509,"position":482,"is_main_entry":16,"parent_id":7,"parent_slug":7,"parent_name":7},"01kpbzda3cc22h1kjxn9s6vcfb","the-teachings-of-don-juan-tjlc","The Teachings of Don Juan",{"pace":61,"complexity":7,"audience":64,"mood":511,"themes":512,"setting_period":7,"summary":491,"content_warnings":7},[108,174,142,67],[228,513],"fish-out-of-water",{"id":515,"slug":516,"title":517,"description":7,"primary_cover_url":518,"cover_blurhash":519,"first_publish_year":520,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":12,"page_count":521,"authors":522,"genres":527,"series":534,"enrichment":535},"01kr90hyestb47ygsdeed01fwg","biologische-basis-religioser-erfahrung-nd4s","Biologische Basis religiöser Erfahrung","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kr90hyhtq2h6gbvfrj10z4kx.jpg","L1PPx}.9^Z^*_J8_#:pI009s.m#8",1971,112,[523],{"id":524,"slug":525,"name":526},"01kkwhn83cheam0q52qh1f0bsp","gopi-krishna-7sle","Gopi Krishna",[528,529,533],{"id":27,"name":28,"slug":29,"is_fiction":17},{"id":530,"name":531,"slug":532,"is_fiction":17},71,"Science & Nature","science-nature",{"id":161,"name":162,"slug":163,"is_fiction":17},[],{"pace":61,"complexity":7,"audience":64,"mood":536,"themes":537,"setting_period":7,"summary":538,"content_warnings":7},[108,66,67,142,68],[],"This book explores the fascinating intersection of biology and spiritual phenomena. 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In Sapiens, historian Yuval Noah Harari traces the story of our species from insignificant African apes to rulers of the world, arguing that three great revolutions shaped that ascent: the Cognitive Revolution that let us imagine and cooperate at scale, the Agricultural Revolution that tied us to land and grain, and the Scientific Revolution that armed us with unprecedented power.\n\nRanging across biology, economics, religion, and politics, Harari asks how Homo sapiens came to believe in gods, nations, money, and human rights — shared fictions that let millions of strangers work together — and what those fictions have cost us and the rest of the living world.\n\nProvocative and sweeping, Sapiens is a big-picture history of humankind that also turns its questions on the present: now that we are close to overcoming the constraints of biology, what kind of future do we actually want?","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Fcontributions\u002Fwork\u002F01\u002F01kjq6y936bsrccmsswsf754fm_6a25c6237b4ce.jpg?v=92a9cf575c","LMRVtli_?^snw^kCkXV[yDWAVsoz","4.43",351,[597],{"id":598,"slug":599,"name":600},"01kjq6y93d1pxjppy63h7ngk7m","yuval-noah-harari-z3db","Yuval Noah Harari",[602,606,607,608,609,610,611],{"id":603,"name":604,"slug":605,"is_fiction":17},92,"Science","science",{"id":135,"name":136,"slug":137,"is_fiction":17},{"id":353,"name":354,"slug":355,"is_fiction":17},{"id":530,"name":531,"slug":532,"is_fiction":17},{"id":31,"name":32,"slug":33,"is_fiction":17},{"id":27,"name":28,"slug":29,"is_fiction":17},{"id":102,"name":103,"slug":104,"is_fiction":17},[],{"pace":172,"complexity":7,"audience":64,"mood":614,"themes":615,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[66,109],[],{"id":617,"slug":618,"title":619,"description":620,"primary_cover_url":621,"cover_blurhash":622,"first_publish_year":623,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":12,"page_count":624,"authors":625,"genres":630,"series":640,"enrichment":644},"01kjqtty3yhypdrn8331k12pv2","quiet-a53k","Quiet","Susan Cain opens with a simple observation: at least a third of the people we know are introverts, yet Western culture, and especially American business and educational culture, has built its institutions around an \"Extrovert Ideal\" that prizes boldness, quick talk, and constant collaboration. Introverts, who recharge in solitude and think most clearly alone, are routinely treated as a problem to be corrected rather than a different, equally valid way of engaging with the world.\n\nDrawing on psychology, neuroscience, and history, Cain traces how this bias took hold over the twentieth century, profiles influential introverts from Rosa Parks to Steve Wozniak, and dismantles the myth that open-plan offices and group brainstorming produce better ideas than solitary, focused work. 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