You are going to die. It is a fundamental reality of absolutely everyone on Earth, with no exceptions, that death is coming for them, and that they have no idea when it will arrive. Perspectives of death change across cultures and across time, but the reality remains the same. This book discusses the idea in a gentle but firm manner in order to help the modern person face the same tr...
Another feat of artistry and intellect by Ali Ayçil. These stories demonstrate the paradoxes that exist everywhere in the world today. Just such an example is the house of outsiders, a surreal place where all of the people who don’t easily connect with other people come together so that they can fail to connect with each other. One can’t help but wonder if despite our gl...
Faith in the big city.
Half of the worlds population lives in cities and one out of seven people on Earth are Muslim. This leaves us with probably a great number of muslims living in cities. How do we reconcile the seemingly opposing ideas of the modern urban megacity and a traditional belief system like Islam? This book takes this question head on. It examines the problems that aris...
MODERN MEDICINE NOW HAS A NEW DIMENSION TO IT: MUSIC-THERAPHY There are documents on thousand year old history of treatment through music in Turkey. However, traditional use of music in Turkish-Islamic culture had temporarily ended after “Hasim Bey Magazine”. Treatment thogh music had long been erased from collective conscious of he...
Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness which is deeply misunderstood by the public. Commonly confused with Dissassociative Identity Disorder (Previously know as split-personality disorder) schizophrenia does not necessarily imply multiple personalities, but is rather a gradual disintigration of cognitive abilities and emotional responsiveness. It additionally often causes hallucina...
Kemal Sayar, PhD, invites us to escape from a world of relentless speed, and from being enslaved by a life that has lost its values. SLOW DOWN is a book of topical criticism, dealing with lack of communication in technology-focused lives, family dissolution, the loss of privacy, and the speed-centered life that the modern age demands. SLOW DOWN consists of chapters such as “M...
Secrets that never leave the city gates.
Cities are like despots that tyrannize their inhabitants. They force their citizens to endure solitary existences in crowded environments and try to define people by the standards that they dictate. ‘Stories from a Walled City’ is a poetically narrated story about the conflicts between individual and city, an issue that has recent...
All good things must come to an end. Relationships are a subtle and delicate tango of give and take, of pleasure and pain. These sorts of relationships, whether romantic or not, go on throughout our lives and decorate our daily interactions with electricity and excitement. There comes a time, however, as it is with all things, for each such relationship to end.
The mind is a house. Every person’s mind is a house. The house has a front door, which the owner generally keeps well kept and attractive. If you are a friend of the owner, perhaps they will invite you to come inside sometimes. Then you will see at least a little bit about what sort of house they have. Maybe it is clean, maybe it is well decorated, perhaps they have lots of boo...
Language of Emotions by Nevzat Tarhan Emotions, which are actually a scientific category, had been either neglected or exploited until the 90’s. While the West ignores emotions and sanctifies the reason as the only actual value, the East fails to realize its own richness and does not care well enough about educating the emotions. As the emotional intelligence has been ...