{"id":18767,"date":"2017-10-07T22:12:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T02:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=18767"},"modified":"2017-10-07T22:12:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T02:12:09","slug":"5-books-will-change-understanding-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/18767\/5-books-will-change-understanding-world\/","title":{"rendered":"5\u00a0Books That Will Change Your Understanding Of Our World"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nPeter Wohlleben\u2019s The Hidden Life Of Trees<\/strong>
\nWhat\u2019s it about?<\/strong> The forest is a social network. Groundbreaking scientific discoveries describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, support them as they grow, share nutrients with those who are sick or struggling, and even warn each other of impending dangers.
\nThe author<\/strong> is Peter Wohlleben who spent over twenty years working for the forestry commission in Germany before leaving to put his ideas of ecology into practice. He now runs an environmentally friendly woodland in Germany, where he is working for the return of primeval forests.
\nThe big take away?<\/strong> Plants are more like us than you ever would have dreamed.
\nFind the book here.<\/a><\/strong><\/span>
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\nRob Knight\u2019s Follow Your Gut<\/strong>
\nWhat\u2019s it about?<\/strong> It\u2019s a detailed tour of the ‘micro-biome’ in our guts and it\u2019s influences on our mind, plus an exploration of the known effects of antibiotics, probiotics, diet choices, birth method, and access to livestock on our children’s lifelong health.
\nThe authors<\/strong> are computational biochemist Dr. Rob Knight and award winning science writer Brendan Buhler.
\nThe big take away?<\/a> Our bodies are hosts to vast webs of life that influence our health and consciousness.
\nFind the book here.<\/a><\/strong><\/span>
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\nLyall Watson\u2019s Heaven\u2019s Breath<\/strong>
\nWhat\u2019s it about?<\/strong> Heaven\u2019s Breath looks at the ways in which the winds profoundly affect the earth’s surface and influence plant and animal behavior. First, the author shows how the winds bring the world to life, providing the circulatory and nervous systems of the planet, disseminating energy and information, distributing warmth and bringing rain, making soil and air-conditioning the globe. Then he discusses the way the wind disperses plants and animals, shapes natural communities and gives rise to an aerial ecology of creatures and aero-plankton, which rise and fall over every square mile of land. There are chapters on wind sensitivity, including the creation of a new Beaufort Scale of wind forces, and a look at how the mistral, sirocco, Santa Ana and other winds alter human physiology and psychology to a degree that can lead to disease, suicide and even murder. In the historical section the author describes how the trade winds have influenced human migrations and in war have determined the outcome of battles and shaped empires. In the chapters on wind myth and folklore he shows how experience of the mystery of wind has been directly responsible for the origins of consciousness and the growth and development of religious belief, and he discusses its manifestations in art, music and literature.
\nThe author<\/strong> is Lyall Watson who holds doctorates in anthropology and ethology (animal behavior) and additional degrees in botany, chemistry, geology, geography, marine biology, and ecology. Watson logically investigates illogical events.
\nThe big take away?<\/strong> Our atmosphere is complex, dynamic, mysterious, and filled with life.
\nFind the book here.<\/a><\/strong><\/span>
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\nJames Lovelock\u2019s Gaia : A New Look At Life On Earth<\/strong>
\nWhat\u2019s it about?<\/strong> The Earth functions as a single organism and living matter influences air, ocean, and rock to form a complex, self-regulating system that has the capacity to keep the Earth a fit place for life.
\nThe author<\/strong> is James Lovelock is the multi-award winning chromatographer and originator of the Gaia Theory.
\nThe big take away?<\/strong> The earth is alive.
\nFind the book here.<\/a><\/strong><\/span>
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\nErvin Lazlo\u2019s Science And Akashic Field Theory<\/strong>
\nWhat\u2019s it about?<\/strong> Mystics and sages have long maintained that there exists an interconnecting cosmic field at the roots of reality that conserves and conveys information, a field known as the Akashic record. Recent discoveries in vacuum physics show that this Akashic Field is real and has its equivalent in science\u2019s zero-point field that underlies space itself. This field consists of a subtle sea of fluctuating energies from which all things arise: atoms and galaxies, stars and planets, living beings, and even consciousness. This zero-point Akashic Field is the constant and enduring memory of the universe. It holds the record of all that has happened on Earth and in the cosmos and relates it to all that is yet to happen. From the world of science he confirms our deepest intuitions of the oneness of creation in the Integral Theory of Everything.
\nThe author<\/strong> is Ervin Laszlo, twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, author of 83 books translated into 21 languages, and the founder and president of the international think tanks the Club of Budapest and the General Evolution Research Group.
\nThe big take away?<\/strong> Everything is connected. As time passes the universe becomes more information rich.
\nFind the book here.<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nFind more Recommended Reading here.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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