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Focus On September 11
To process the tragic events of September 11 and formulate a more conscious and effective response, we need information from a variety of perspectives, some of which are not being widely addressed by the current media coverage. One aspect we need to be aware of is the process of brainwashing and indoctrination happening on all sides of this crisis. The ISHK Book Service is offering a set of key books about this subject at half the regular cost. You can also purchase the books individually at the regular price. We hope you will read these books yourself, recommend them to your friends, bring them into your classrooms and book clubs, donate them to your local library. With the right kind of information and understanding, and in the spirit of learning, we can all help create the future we want for ourselves and for our children.
How Could This Happen? Brainwashing, conditioning, and how the human mind works
Ultimately, to eradicate terrorism and the conditions that spawn it, we must understand the human mind—how it evolved, how it works to create the crises we face, and what we can do to be more conscious in our response. For example, what happens in the minds of ordinary, well-educated human beings that they can carry out incomprehensible acts of terror in the name of a political or religious cause? Is their “conversion”so far beyond the norm or are the same influences at play in all our lives? What are the inherent functions of the human brain that lead to dangerous stereotyping and hatred on all sides? Scientific research of the past four decades illuminates many aspects of the nature of both the human mind and the current human predicament, and points the way to the changes needed. These three books explore some of the important research.
SET OF THREE BOOKS: Battle for the Mind, The Manipulated Mind, and New World New Mind Order Code SW1S7 $25.00 (Save 55% off the single book price)
Traditional Stories for Children and Adults from Afghanistan, Central Asia and the Middle East
These are tales from a rich tradition of story telling—stories that have been told and retold, by campfire and candlelight, for more than a thousand years. This literature for children and adults gives us a glimpse into cultural dimensions of the region that we might not otherwise get. Even more important, these stories can provoke the kind of fresh insights, tolerance and flexible thinking we all need in these challenging times.
SET OF NINE BOOKS FOR CHILDREN: Save 40% on the complete
set of children’s books from Hoopoe Books
(The Old Woman and the Eagle, The Boy Without a Name, The Clever Boy and the Terrible Dangerous Animal,
The Silly Chicken, The Farmer’s Wife, Neem the Half-Boy, The Lion Who Saw
Himself
in the Water, and The Magic Horse) plus World
Tales (all hardback except World Tales), Order Code SW3S1,
a US$166 value, now US$99.60.
SET OF THREE BOOKS: Save over 50% on these three books for adults about the
traditions and traditional literature from Afghanistan, Central Asia and the
Middle East, Afghan
Caravan (paper), Caravan of Dreams (paper) and Tales
of the Dervishes (hardback), SW2S2, $68.00 value, now $31.50.
SET OF FOUR BOOKS ON AFGHANISTAN: Save 60% on these
books which tell the real story of Afghanistan. From these
four books, you’ll
get important insight into the extraordinary Afghan heritage so clearly missing
from the current media coverage. For example, how many people realize that
the region has been home to some of the world’s greatest Sufi thinkers
and poets, including Rumi and Attar? Or that, historically, Afghanistan
has
been a cultural crossroads, a place where many races lived in harmony for
centuries—the center of one of the world’s greatest philosophical
and literary traditions, both oral and written, bridging East and West
at
several key junctures in history? Afghan
Caravan, Tales
of Afghanistan, Adventures
in Afghanistan, Escape
from Central Asia (all hardback) Order Code SW2S4, a $130 Value
for only $52.50.
BATTLE FOR THE MIND
A Psychology of Conversion and Brain-Washing: How Evangelists, Psychiatrists, Politicians and Medicine Men can change your beliefs and behavior
By William Sargant
How can an evangelist convert a hardboiled sophisticate? Why does a POW sign a “confession” that he knows is false? How is a criminal pressured into admitting his guilt? Do the evangelist, the POW's captor, and the policeman use similar methods to gain their ends?
These and other compelling questions are discussed in the definitive work by William Sargant, who for many years until his death in 1988 was a leading physician in psychological medicine. Sargant spells out and illustrates the basic techniques used by evangelists, psychiatrists, and brain-washers to disperse the patterns of belief and behavior already established in the minds of their hearers, and to substitute new patterns for them.
“This mechanism holds the possibility of explaining and understanding much of how people suddenly change direction in life, and some of the strangest religious and spiritual behavior ever described among human beings.... Perhaps most important, understanding it can give us insight into the formation of social bonds, the development of gangs and groups, and allow us to make more informed choices as individuals; as a society; and as a culture, how we want our own groups to develop.”
—Charles Swencionis, Ph.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine, from the Foreward
ISBN 1 883536 06 5, Order Code BAMI1, Paper 332 pages Including 23 black and white plates, $18.00
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THE MANIPULATED MIND
By Denise Winn
Ever since American prisoners of war in Korea suddenly switched sides to the Communist cause, the concept of brainwashing has continued to fascinate and confuse.
Is it really possible to force any thinking person to act in a way completely alien to his character? What makes so-called brainwashing so different from the equally insidious effects of indoctrination and conditioning, or even advertising and education?
Research findings from psychology show that brainwashing is not a special subversive technique; it is the clever manipulation of unrealised influences that operate in all our lives.
This book, by breaking down so-called brainwashing to its individual elements, shows how social conditioning, need for approval, emotional dependency and much else that we are unaware of, prevent us from being as self-directed as we think; and, conversely, which human traits make us least susceptible to subtle influence.
Denise Winn is a British journalist specialising in psychology and medicine. She is a former editor of the UK edition of Psychology Today and has written for national newspapers and magazines in Britain for over 20 years. She is author of 11 other books on psychological and medical topics and is currently also editor of The Therapist.
ISBN 1-883536-22-7, Order Code MAMI2, Paper, 232 pages, $19.00
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NEW WORLD NEW MIND
By Robert Ornstein and Paul Ehrlich
“It’s a rare book that changes people’s lives, rarer still a book that changes the world... In New World New Mind, Robert Ornstein...and Paul Ehrlich... not only have the audacity to attempt both things—but they offer just enough visionary thinking and nuts and bolts research to carry it off.”
—San Francisco Chronicle“If we don’t act on this information, our grandchildren may never forgive us.”
—Dan Goleman, New York Times
There is no longer sufficient time to rely on the normal pace of cultural evolution to deal with today's dilemmas... Human beings have always been the most adaptable creatures on the planet, and they should be able to chart a new course for themselves. Some of that charting is already being done. The old mind today is being challenged and changed by many scattered efforts. Can we bring these efforts together to produce a large-scale program for a rapid “change of mind”? We know what the problem is. The “solution” is not simple—to generate the social and political will to move a program of conscious evolution to the top of the human agenda.
ISBN 1-883536-24-3, Order Code NEWO3, Paper, 302 pages, $18.00
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