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This new, expanded edition of our most popular recent title brings forward the importance of joy and love and grace in Short Path practice—with additional meditations and expanded teachings to help readers achieve their goals. These accessible teachings distill the essence of currently popular and traditional sudden-awakening teachings (Advaita, Zen, Dzogchen, etc.). Paul Brunton calls them “Short Path” teachings. A simple recognition, a brief moment of grace, can make what seemed like a far-off spiritual goal actual here and now. But we need reliable pointers for when and how and where to look. Brunton delivers the essence and practices of this path in direct, jargon-free language. Main topics include:

How to move from the Long Path of spiritual disciplines to the Short Path of direct insightShort Path exercisesExperiences that may occurWarningsStages of realizationStabilizing the awakeningThe nature of lasting enlightenment

This comprehensive overview of the many and varied issues involved in starting and completing the spiritual quest features an important section on teacher-student relationships.

This volume is a mosaic of autobiographical excerpts from Paul Brunton's notebooks. It brings together reflections on 50 years of the author's research, practice, travel, and writing -- and some of the people, influences, and events he considered significant in his life.

Part 1 of the fourth volume of Paul Brunton''s Notebooks series, bound here separately in paperback. This uniquely comprehensive and reliable volume combines a clear explanation of meditation''s goal with a rich variety of effective techniques suitable for individual experimentation. It offers detailed and in-depth writings on the why and the how of many varieties of meditation. A section on potential dangers of meditation makes it especially useful for beginners, intermediates, and teachers.

Examining the relationship between perception and events, this highly significant volume contributes several important ideas to the "bridge" between modern science and perennial wisdom teachings. Part 1, The Reign of Relativity, explores the extent of relativity''s domain and the implications of its principles for spiritual development. Part 2, What is Philosophy?, gets to the heart of Paul Brunton''s teachings: how to actualize reliable knowledge and durable wholeness through fulfilling, combining, and balancing the practical, intellectual, and mystical elements of the human psyche. Part 3, Mentalism, examines the power of thought and celebrates a deeper level of each individual''s own mind. It focuses on the fathomless untapped power within, with which we can improve our immediate selves and consequent circumstances.

This comprehensive overview of the many and varied issues involved in starting and completing the spiritual quest features an important section on teacher-student relationships.

Part 1, "Practices for the Quest", explores and explains the importance of fundamental practices in character development and self-discipline without which stable progress on the spiritual quest is simply not possible. Part 2, "Relax and Retreat", presents effective methods for mastering tension, cultivating focused calmness, and balancing periods of extroverted activity with periods of introverted creative stillness.

This volume is a mosaic of autobiographical excerpts from Paul Brunton's notebooks. It brings together reflections on 50 years of the author's research, practice, travel, and writing -- and some of the people, influences, and events he considered significant in his life.

Part 1, "Human Experience" explores the spiritual lessons implicit in daily living, the need for educational reforms, the causes and purposes of personal suffering, special problems and opportunities of youth and age, problems of marriage and relationship, and how to convert contemporary crises into opportunities for dramatic spiritual growth. Part 2, "The Arts in Culture", reverently explores the role of the Beautiful in human culture, with sections on inspired art, creativity, genius, and the relationship of art and spiritual life.

Benchmark visions for a saner new Millennium from New Dimensions national public radio interviews with Huston Smith, Matthew Fox, Rupert Sheldrake, Merlin Stone, David Bohm, Ram Dass, Joan Halifax, Joseph Chilton Pearce, Willis Harman, Marsha Sinetar, and others.

This work explores profound spiritual dimensions of a struggle going on in nearly every modern woman's soul. This struggle is imaginatively portrayed in a no-holds-barred dialogue between the raw, unassuageable pain/rage of Elizabeth (mother of John the Baptist) and the deep, patient, loving trust in God's will of Mary (mother of Jesus) nine years after the violent deaths of their two sons.

This well-rounded selection of real-life stories from Bobrow's therapy practice and personal life helps us in two important ways. It rouses our energy by reawakening us to what an astonishing risk life really is. And it helps us to develop effective tools for creatively engaging that risk in ways that fulfil our heart's deepest desires.

Here is an inspiring book about awakening to the wholeness of who you are, and fulfilling that wholeness in how you earn your living. "Wisdom at Work" offers practical methods for integrating inner spiritual aspiration and the outer work of earning money, face to face with the realities of today's demanding jobs. They all creatively apply principles and techniques of the Perennial Philosophy to the workplace and corporate life. As a spiritual seeker, leadership coach, and historian, Davidson has explored the workaday world as a place of spiritual growth, service, and awakening to the non-dual. Since 1980, he has led hundreds of seminars on empowerment, stress and change management, and personal/spiritual development.

Fred Weiner has worked for over twenty years in the healing profession. The receptivity and energy that characterise his successful healing work are also present in the creation of his poems. The poems in this collection offer glimpses into what nature and those we love can show us of ourselves when we surrender our self-absorption to them.

This book offers an inward journey of initiation into the first great secret of spiritual awakening: our home is not the body, but the soul. The book presents the reader with a uniquely focused exploration of ancient and modern Egypt; Paul Brunton goes in search of the secret hinted at by the mysterious Sphinx and deepened by his visions during his night in the Great Pyramid -- the secret means by which humankind can realise its spiritual destiny. The author introduces us to the faith-based power of a real snake-charmer (and becomes one himself!); he encounters a working magician, a renowned fakir (Tahra Bey -- Houdini's main competitor), and even his own former self, now a ghostly presence amongst the ruins of Karnak. If this book was only meant to display occult phenomena for our entertainment, it would do that job admirably, for it is a compelling account of many extraordinary, and somehow believable experiences. But what sets this book apart is not its occultism, nor is it the author's command of Egyptology, Asian history, nor his openness to Islam. It is the thread that runs through all these adventures that makes this book an essential part of every seeker's library, and that thread is symbolised by the mysteries of the Sphinx, the King's Chamber, and the myth of Osiris. Paul Brunton applies all his erudition and insight towards unlocking their deepest meanings; as he does so the purpose and value of each encounter with a Dervish chief or a temple bas-relief contributes to the successful unlocking of these age-old puzzles. If you haven't read this book before, you should! and if you have read it, read it again! It is a book of many secrets, and hides its greatest one in plain sight: it is here that Paul Brunton unveils the importance, method and consequences of properly seating the body in the mind. Once assimilated, the doors of occult perception are opened, and they open directly into the truly magical kingdom of the Soul itself. This new specially illustrated edition is designed to let you see for yourself all that the author saw on his own journey. There are maps to guide you through Karnak, Luxor, and Cairo; there are author's own photographs which document his adventures, including his deadly work with the village snake-charmer (who ultimately lost his life to a venomous cobra); and of course there are wonderful, inspiring images of the magical power and vivid mysteries which abound in the Egyptian landscape!

Sourced from common roots of ancient Chinese (I Ching) and pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican tradition, this easy-to-use new resource distils and updates ancient, archetypal lessons for motivation, hope, and practical guidance in modern life-situations. Symbolic indigenous images and lucid text energise, harmonise, and integrate the inquirer's feminine and masculine natures -- providing an accessible, refreshing alternative to the masculine/aristocratic biases of previous I Chings. The new sequence of hexagrams is specifically designed to help individuals cultivate wise inner responses to circumstances beyond their control. For readers of Toltec Wisdom that have responded so enthusiastically to books like The Four Agreements and to the idea of spirit warriors as in Dan Millman's Peaceful Warrior, this hands-on oracle will be a welcome addition. In these uncertain times, it will be a helpful tool to many seeking inner guidance and understanding.

Ken Wilber says of Great Swan: “This is a wise, beautiful, brilliant book, designed to introduce us to—no, to directly immerse us in—the mind and spirit of the remarkable Ramakrishna. But as Hixon so accurately points out, ‘Ramakrishna is not a quaint person from an ancient culture, representing a particular religious background, but an Einstein of the planetary civilization of the near future, a greenhouse for the future evolution of humanity.’ This book thus contains the master key that opens all cultures and all hearts. Lex Hixon has succeeded beautifully in this task, and I bow in deep gratitude for the wisdom that comes through Lex to all of us fortunate enough to read this wonderful book.”Hixon’s luminous writing intimately re-creates a series of encounters with this divinely intoxicated master, so readers experience firsthand his power, playfulness, and spiritual intensity.Blissfully devoted to what he called the Divine Mother, Ramakrishna practiced all religions and taught that all sacred paths spring from the same divine source. These “meetings” are keys to seeing how the sacred feminine is re-emerging in our time, to show the unity at the core of all spiritual endeavor.“Meet as many adepts from various paths as you can,” Ramakrishna instructed. “Love these persons, receive their initiations, and passionately practice their disciplines. But enter your own inner chamber of primordial awareness to enjoy selfless peace and delight.”Great Swan may well be the next best thing to a personal meeting with this particular one of them. For many, it’s Lex Hixon’s greatest work—a true classic. The sanctity, delightful playfulness, wisdom, power, devotion, and spiritual intensity of one of the most inspiring spiritual teachers of all time permeate every page.

This is a great place to start reading Paul Brunton''s Notebooks—an uplifting, enlightening survey of virtually every aspect of spiritual awakening and stage of practice. Each of its 28 chapters samples one of the 28 “categories” into which Paul Brunton filed his writings. Topics included are: meditation, the body, emotions and ethics, the intellect, the ego, world crisis, the arts in culture, psychic experiences, philosophy, the Overself, Cosmology, the Absolute, and much more (see table of contents).

This second volume in The Notebooks of Paul Brunton gives timely, candid advice about the promises and pitfalls of spiritual seeking. Drawing upon philosophical insights of both East and West, Dr. Brunton unfolds a viable approach to fulfilling, in today''s world, the timeless search for self-knowledge.

Part 1, Practices for the Quest, goes to the heart of various disciplines, exercises, and techniques that are useful at various stages of spiritual self-discovery and self-development. It explains what qualities must be developed, why they must be developed, how they can be developed, and how that development is tested by life itself. Part 2, Relax and Retreat, lays the cornerstone for a modern life of inspired sanity. It addresses the urgent need in our times to neutralize the hectic pace and mounting tensions of contemporary life with a deliberately cultivated spiritual equilibrium. To that end, it is a practical course in balancing periods of extroverted activity with recuperative periods of creative inner stillness. The skills developed through applying the techniques of this category provide a foundation for stable progress in all aspects of the spiritual Quest.

The Body is a practical course in reducing the physical obstacles that retard progress in meditation and obstruct the unfolding of spiritual intuition and/or stabilizing higher awareness. The Body is a balanced approach to developing the physical body''s potential to express divine forces.

This fifth volume in The Notebooks of Paul Brunton is an in-depth presentation of the sixth and seventh major topics in the personal notebooks of Dr. Paul Brunton reserved for posthumous publication.

Part 1, The Ego, is one of Paul Brunton''s greatest and most unique gifts to the literature of realization--a truly earth-shaking piece of work for serious spiritual seekers. With no holds barred, it exposes, at an existential level, the most fundamental problems that obstruct achieving a life of unfailing self-integrity. Part 2, From Birth to Rebirth, shows the role of death in the ongoing cycle of life, clarifies beliefs about reincarnation, and explores the creative relationships between fate, destiny, and free will.

Part 1, Healing of the Self, explores fundamental principles of healing. It strikes sharp contrasts between surface, psychic, and spiritual methods, recommending a synthesis of conventional and alternative approaches to well-being. It also offers a variety of tested and proven techniques for self-healing and assisting conventional treatment. Part 2, The Negatives, is a shocking look into the nature and roots of evil in both the individual and the world, with powerful tips for how to deal with them. It traces the activity of sinister forces in previous and possible future world war, emphasizing the urgency of recognizing and responding to the intensification of these forces both within and around us.