Category: Mysticism

By Paul Brunton

By Giuseppe Montalenti

By Osho

During this finished and sensible advisor, the secrets and techniques of the traditional technology of Tantra turn into on hand to a modern viewers for the 1st time. constrained to small, hidden secret faculties for hundreds of years, and infrequently misunderstood and misinterpreted this present day. Tantra is not only a set of options to augment sexual event. As Osho exhibits in those pages, it's a entire technological know-how of self-realizatoin, according to the cumulative knowledge of centuries of exploration into the which means of existence and awareness. Tantra-the very observe skill "technique"-is a collection of strong, transformative instruments that may be used to carry new which means andjoy to each element of our day-by-day lives.

By Gershom Scholem

Noticeable because the e-book approximately Kabbalistic examine, that has nonetheless held up over the years; not to mention being Scholem's maximum work.

Reviews:
"A crucially important paintings within the lengthy background of Jewish esoteric spirituality. other than its intrinsic value, the book's impression has been huge, immense, and is probably going to proceed all yet indefinitely."--Harold Bloom, Yale University

"Major tendencies [is] the canonical smooth paintings at the nature and background of Jewish mysticism. for a complicated figuring out, not just of the dynamics of Jewish mysticism, yet of the beautiful complexities of Jewish background and culture, significant tendencies is an important port of access during which one needs to pass."--Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Columbia University

This e-book outlines Jewish Mysticism from its beginnings in antiquity to its newest section in Hasidism. first and foremost the Kabbalah used to be an esoteric doctrine limited to small teams of the choose. After the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, it grew to become the real voice of the folk and a dominant religious strength in Judaism. no longer until eventually the 18th century, after the cave in of the Sabbatian Messianic circulation, was once Kabbalah thought of "dangerous" for the folk. Thereafter Western Jewish students kept away from any theological dialogue which would revive mystic inspiration. hence the far-reaching makes an attempt of Jewish mystics to interpret theologically the that means of life remained unknown, and useful Kabbalistic manuscripts unexplored.

By Alys Clare

The hot novel within the ever-popular ‘Hawkenlye’ sequence - Autumn, 1210. A 12 months in the past, King John used to be excommunicated – and now his males have come to Hawkenlye Abbey to take it over. Abbess Caliste, Helewise’s successor, concerns how she is to feed the nuns lower than her care, not to mention behavior her traditional stable works. in the meantime, Helewise has moved into Hawkenlye Manor with Josse, and their lives are choked with relatives and heat. yet after a trip to St Edmund’s Chapel, Helewise’s eleven-year-old granddaughter, Rosamund, is going lacking – and shortly all that they carry pricey is threatened . . .

By Hazrat Inayat Khan

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By Gilbert Murray

By Andrew Phillip Smith

The key historical past of the Gnostics bargains long-awaited illumination at the mystical circulate that teaches 'gnosis' - wisdom of God instead of unquestioning religion. Acclaimed writer Andrew Phillip Smith delves into the myths and practices of this historical circulation, exploring its reputation in the course of second century advert, its next decline lower than the burden of orthodoxy within the Church, and its present-day resurgence. Gnosticism has travelled a desirable direction - from the Manichaeans in smooth Persia among the third and seventh centuries advert, to the triumphs and tragedies of the Cathars in Southern Europe among the twelfth and 14th centuries, to, eventually, present day Mandaeans in Iraq. notwithstanding, because the writer issues out, the revival of Gnosticism extends additional than those slim sects, supplying thought to a legion of literary figures, together with Dan Brown and Philip Pullman. Gnosticism's emphasis on own over equipped faith, according to the doctrine of the early Christian period within which it thrived, has came across specific resonance with latest multicultural global. the key historical past of the Gnostics isn't really easily an authoritative account of 1 sect's functional ideals and customs - it's, in impact, a manifesto, an entice these encouraged by means of or interested in the Gnostic religion to not put out of your mind its origins.

By Alan Unterman

A entire survey of the Jewish mystical tradition

An necessary advisor to hundreds of thousands of years of non secular inquiry, The Kabbalistic culture positive aspects writings from quite a few literary forms-from the earliest biblical resources via twentieth-century studies-as good as useful details and practices for the trendy reader. those choices pay attention to the 3 major parts of Kabbalistic creativity-the literature of Zohar, the Lurianic corpus, and the Chasidic mystical culture. Alan Unterman's enlightening creation examines the original features of the Kabbalah and areas this quantity in its right historic and philosophical context.

By Aldous Huxley

Chosen writings from the writer of Brave New World and The doorways of Perception at the function of psychedelics in society. 

• contains letters and lectures by means of Huxley by no means released elsewhere. 

In could 1953 Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gram of mescaline. the paranormal and transcendent adventure that set him off on an exploration that used to be to supply a innovative physique of labor concerning the internal reaches of the human brain. Huxley was once a long time prior to his time in his anticipation of the hazards smooth tradition was once developing via explosive inhabitants raise, headlong technological boost, and militant nationalism, and he observed psychedelics because the maximum capability at our disposal to "remind adults that the genuine global is particularly diverse from the misshapen universe they've got created for themselves by way of their culture-conditioned prejudices." a lot of Huxley's writings following his 1953 mescaline test may be obvious as his try and show the ability of those elements to evoke a feeling of the sacred in humans dwelling in a technological society adverse to mystical revelations. 

Moksha, a Sanskrit observe which means "liberation," is a suite of the prophetic and visionary writings of Aldous Huxley. It comprises decisions from his acclaimed novels Brave New World and Island, either one of which envision societies based round the use of psychedelics as stabilizing forces, in addition to items from The doorways of Perception and Heaven and Hell, his well-known works on recognition enlargement.