"Wisdom is to reject conventional wisdom about almost everything."Thus begins Robert Powell's inquiry into the nature of Totality and the unreality of all else.
Hazrat Inayat Khan's books were among the first to bring Sufism to the West. They remain among the most important introductions Westerners have to the concepts of the ancient religious tradition. In Rassa Shastra, Khan shares his teachings on Sufi ideas about the spiritual and sacred purpose of sex and relationships and stresses 'true union', one of the Sufi keys to perfection.
Modern scientists are just now beginning to understand what yogis have known for centuries--that the life force animating our physical bodies is regulated by breath, and that the breath energy is controlled by the mind.