Category: Mysticism

By J. Krishnamurti

ISBN-10: 1570624429

ISBN-13: 9781570624421

Those choices current the center of Krishnamurti's instructing on meditation, taken from discussions with small teams, in addition to from public talks to massive audiences. His major topic is the basic have to glance inward, to understand ourselves, so as fairly to appreciate our own—and the world's—conflicts. we're the global, says Krishnamurti, and it truly is our person chaos that creates social ailment. He bargains undying insights into the resource of real freedom and knowledge.

By Bernard McGinn

By John A. Grant

ISBN-10: 0959020209

ISBN-13: 9780959020205

By David George Mullan

ISBN-10: 0191520713

ISBN-13: 9780191520716

ISBN-10: 0198269978

ISBN-13: 9780198269977

This ebook deals a portrait of Scottish Puritanism within the generations prime as much as the nationwide Convent of 1638. the writer examines the development of a Puritan group, attitudes in the direction of the Bible, where of the female in Scottish divinity, and the advance of rules approximately predestination, covenanting, and the connection among church and country.

By Peter J. Columbus, Donadrian L. Rice

ISBN-10: 1438441991

ISBN-13: 9781438441993

Considers the contributions and modern value of Alan Watts. Alan Watts—Here and Now explores the highbrow legacy and carrying on with relevance of a prolific author and speaker who was once a big impact on American tradition in the course of the latter 1/2 the 20 th century. A philosopher attuned to the non secular malaise affecting the Western brain, Watts (1915–1973) supplied highbrow and religious choices that assisted in shaping the Beat tradition of the Fifties and the counterculture of the Sixties. popular for introducing Buddhist and Daoist spirituality to a large Western viewers, he additionally wrote on psychology, mysticism, and psychedelic event. Many idolized Watts as a guru-mystic, but he used to be additionally brushed aside as intellectually shallow and as an insignificant popularizer of Asian religions (the “Norman Vincent Peale of Zen”). either severe and appreciative, this edited quantity locates Watts on the vanguard of significant paradigmatic shifts in Western highbrow lifestyles. participants discover how Watts’s paintings resonates in present-day scholarship on psychospiritual transformation, Buddhism and psychotherapy, Daoism within the West, phenomenology and hermeneutics, humanistic and transpersonal psychology, mysticism, and ecofeminism, between different parts. “Columbus and Rice have prepare a quantity that's good conceived, good written, good edited, and obtainable to undergraduates in addition to scholars.” — selection “Watts was once a stunningly marvelous writer—far larger than virtually a person writing then or now; he basically had grasped ‘the essence of Zen.’ each essay during this booklet throws new mild at the relevance of his rules for at the present time, and those written via people who find themselves additionally old figures within the circles Watts moved in and wrote out of provide attention-grabbing historic tidbits. I enthusiastically suggest this book.” — Jeffrey J. Kripal, writer of Esalen: the United States and the faith of No faith Peter J. Columbus is Administrator of the Shantigar origin in Rowe, Massachusetts. Donadrian L. Rice is Professor of Psychology on the collage of West Georgia. also they are the coeditors of Psychology of the Martial Arts.

By Eliphas Levi

ISBN-10: 0877280789

ISBN-13: 9780877280781

Eliphas Lvi used to be steeped within the Western occult culture and a grasp of the Rosicrucian interpretation of the Qabalah, which varieties the root of magic as practiced within the West at the present time. the major of the Mysteries represents the fruits of Lvi's recommendations and is written with refined and mild irony. It unearths the mysteries of faith and the secrets and techniques of the Qabalah, delivering a cartoon of the prophetic theology of numbers. The mysteries of nature, equivalent to spiritualism and fluidic phantoms, are explored. Magical mysteries, the speculation of the need with its 22 axioms are divulged. and at last it bargains "the nice functional secrets." the genuine greatness of this paintings, in spite of the fact that, lies in its skill to put occult proposal firmly in Western spiritual traditions. For Lvi, the learn of the occult was once the learn of a divine technological know-how, the maths of God.

By Richard Sylvester

ISBN-10: 095582902X

ISBN-13: 9780955829024

By Aaron Leitch

ISBN-10: 0738714909

ISBN-13: 9780738714905

The Angelical language channeled through alchemist Edward Kelley and recorded by means of royal astrologer John Dee has mystified magicians, linguists, historians, and cryptographers for generations. It’s even rumored that the language might be an encryption approach to a few type, unbroken to at the present time. This attention-grabbing, in-depth research finds the reality in the back of the saga of 2 Renaissance wizards who spoke with angels and bought guide within the celestial tongue. This quantity starts with an exploration of the magical traditions that stimulated Dee's work—the Fifty Gates of Binah, the legends of Enoch, and the booklet of Soyga. It provides an in-depth examine of the forty-nine Tables of Loagaeth (Speech From God), the forty-eight Angelical Keys (or Calls), and the drama surrounding them as chronicled in Dee's journals. distinct good points comprise an research of the translations of the forty eight Keys, directions for the magickal use of Angelical characters, and an entire Angelical Psalter. Aaron Leitch’s long-awaited masterwork unearths in simple language—for the 1st time ever—how the Angelical language was once bought, for what it was once meant, and the way to exploit it adequately, supplying a desirable ancient context for its functional program within the Angelical Language, quantity II: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the Tongue of Angels. “The Angelical Language is the one so much entire textual content ever written just about the Enochian magical method and language of Elizabethan luminary, Dr. John Dee. This two-volume magnum opus demonstrates Aaron Leitch’s familiarity with sensible magic in addition to his ability as a meticulous researcher. a must have book.”— stylish Cicero and Sandra Tabatha Cicero, leader Adepts of the airtight Order of the Golden sunrise  

By Alan W. Watts

ISBN-10: 1608682048

ISBN-13: 9781608682041

The Joyous Cosmology is Alan Watts’s exploration of the perception that the consciousness-changing medications LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin can facilitate “when followed with sustained philosophical mirrored image via someone who's in seek, no longer of kicks, yet of understanding.” greater than an artifact, it's either a riveting memoir of Watts’s own experiments and a profound meditation on our perennial questions on the character of lifestyles and the lifestyles of the sacred.

Includes Watts’s article “Psychedelics and non secular event”

By Jordan Paper

ISBN-10: 0791462501

ISBN-13: 9780791462508

Explores the human adventure of mysticism and appears at it in the non secular traditions round the world.

The mystic, 0, or void experience—the ecstatic disappearance of self besides every little thing else—is thought of via those that have had it to be the main appealing, completely satisfied, optimistic, profound, and demanding event in their lives. providing either a descriptive and a comparative point of view, this e-book explores the mystic adventure throughout cultures as either a human and cultural occasion. The publication starts and ends with descriptions of the author’s personal mystical stories, and appears at self-reported stories by way of people who don't hyperlink their reports to a non secular culture, to figure out features of this common human experience.

These features are in comparison to statements of stated mystics in varied non secular traditions. The mystic event can be located inside of different ecstatic non secular studies to differentiate it from comparable, yet particular, stories equivalent to lucid goals, shamanism, and mediumism. Jordan Paper is going directly to examine how the mystic event has been thought of in numerous fields, reminiscent of sociology, psychology, anthropology, biology, and comparative spiritual studies.

Jordan Paper is Professor Emeritus of Humanities at York collage and affiliate Fellow on the Centre for stories in faith and Society on the collage of Victoria. He has written a number of books, together with providing Smoke: The Sacred Pipe and local American faith and The chinese language manner in faith, moment version (coedited with Laurence G. Thompson).