Handbook for Humans: A Synthesis of Paths for Personal Growth

We get handbooks when we buy appliances and cars--why not one on basic information for living?

In Handbook for Humans, investigative writer James Sloman distills the wisdom of dozens of traditional paths on subjects of health, happiness, success and peace and clearly, simply, and elegantly describes a comprehensive overview of how our lives really can work. It succeeds as an excellent field guide for achieving balance, equanimity, vibrancy and wholeness in our lives.

Handbook for Humans is actually a collection of four volumes in one cover, addressing the spirit, mind, heart, and body. Each volume is then further divided into two dimensions, the inner and outer, allowing the reader to understand what inner changes might be called for to effect the outer manifestations she or he is seeking out in the world.

Peppered with dozens of real-life stories along with fables, folk tales, quotes and studies, Handbook for Humans is the manual many have been looking for to use in daily life as a course in what works.

James M. Sloman is an investigative writer whose subject is the human condition. He has sought understanding from a wide range of great teachers past and present, famous and obscure, and traditions ranging from India to the kitchen table.

Originally trained in philosophy at Princeton and with an MFA in film from Columbia, he draws from experience in an eclectic career which has included being a copywriter, assistant editor and computer programmer in New York, a novelist in rural Massachusetts, a trader in Chicago and a market theorist in San Diego.

In addition to presenting occasional courses on the theories of financial markets, Sloman has spent over two decades teaching seminars and workshops on spirituality, consciousness in everyday life, diet and nutrition, finding our true calling in everyday life, and accessing our inner guidance.

In addition to Handbook for Humans, Sloman is the author of the books Nothing, The Natural Way, Song of Existence, A Global Vision and The State of the World, as well as the audio series Affecting Our Reality, the music album Songs From The Bottom Of The Sea and the video series Cooling the Mind, Warming the Heart.