THE FLOWERS OF LIFE. Vol. I

About the Book

The Flowers of Life: how to extract the nectar of all human experience
Life on earth, in the physical world, inevitably and inexorably involves duality: there is no life without death, good without evil, joy without sorrow. This means that in every human experience there is always some positive and some negative aspects. To live consciously, develop one's own philosophy of life and then live one's "art of living", implies learning how to distill the best from all human experience, from whatever experience we are presently living through. It is the eternal story of the glass that is perceived as being half full or half empty. How to "distill the nectar from all human experience", how to perceive and use the very best of every human experience and develop this personal philosophy and art of living is what this series is all about.

The first volume of this series, "What is Life and what is Death", focuses on two very closely related and truly crucial topics, Life and Death, and their relationship. How can we better understand what Life and death are all about so as to "distill the best from both" is what the author attempts to do by drawing from the teachings of the spiritual tradition and his own personal experiences so as to offer a "model" for the readers to do the same in their own personal and unique ways.

About the Author

Peter Roche de Coppens has dedicated more than 50 years of his life and all of his inner and outer resources to the study of spirituality and the awakening of spiritual consciousness. This he applied to sociology, psychology, psychotherapy, education and finally healthcare and medicine. It was Prayer, which he learned from Saints and Sages as well as his own research that helped him heal from a severe motorcycle accident in his early twenties. This led him to study different medical approaches and paradigms to finally systematically introduce the spiritual dimension and consciousness to bring about a new and more integral healthcare paradigm. With degrees in sociology, anthropology and psychotherapy, Dr. Roche de Coppens has taught for more than 35 years at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania where he is still active as a Professor Emeritus. He also taught at other universities, including the Sorbonne (Paris), McGill (Montreal) and the University of Bari (Bari, Italy). He was a spiritual consultant for the United Nations and now is still active as a spiritual consultant for Guna, Italy. He has authored more than 80 books and numerous articles in English, French and Italian.