Author David Hatcher Childress has traveled around the world several times over, but finds one of the most fascinating mysteries of history very close to home-the Olmec culture of ancient Mexico.

The Olmecs were not acknowledged to have existed until an international archeological meeting in Mexico City in 1942. Now they are slowly being recognized as the mother culture of Mesoamerica having developed metallurgy, writing and the calendar long before the Maya. The statuary left behind by these enigmatic people very clearly depict features that seem to indicate residents of the Land of Olman came from Africa, Asia and Europe.

Was the narrow isthmus of southern Mexico an important part of a trade route that spanned both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans? Examine the evidence in this fascinating book by one of the most interesting historians around.

You might learn more than you wanted to know about these strange people who populated the old New World!

(Support moorsgate.com by purchasing this book. Click the cover.) 

Murphy, a co-founder of the Esalen Institute, believes that all human beings possess the capacity for extraordinary development, and that at least part of this capacity can be intentionally developed through what he calls transformative practices.

He uses much of the text to provide examples of metanormal functioning in literature, religion, science, and psychology from many cultures and historical eras. His main thesis is that each of us harbors latent metanormal capacities rooted in biological evolution: ESP, clairvoyance, extraordinary movement abilities, uncanny somatic awareness and self-regulation, superabundant vitality and universal love, among others.

Our genetic inheritance, he argues, predisposes us toward developing these powers, which can be mediated by Christian/Islamic grace, the Tao or the workings of Buddha Mind, and also can be developed through specific practices. These include psychotherapy, fitness training, martial arts, meditation, biofeedback and prayer.

Murphy’s claims for extraordinary human potential are annotated with references to 3000 sources, ranging from physiological studies of meditators to reports of near-death experiences.

In closing he scans the impulse toward wholeness in ancient and modern cultures and warns of the mental imbalance that misuse of transformation discipline can cause.

(support moorsgate.com by purchasing this book. Click the cover.)