Mystical experience

By appreciating and understanding our dreams we can trace wonderful new paths to self-discovery and self-enrichment.Dreams can be vivid, poetic, surreal, erotic, haunting, even disturbing - but if we look more closely at their mysterious symbols and imaginative logic, they can provide us with privileged glimpses into the secret corners of our unconscious minds.The New Secret Language of Dreams tak

Due to the recent work of scholars such as Elaine Pagels and Marvin Meyer the Gospel of Thomas and other rediscovered teachings of Jesus are capturing the imagination of a public increasingly committed to pursuing their faith outside the bounds of orthodoxy. ORIGINAL CHRISTIANITY however proposes that a critical element essential for fully understanding these scriptures has been lost until now. No

"The Most High does not dwell in houses made with hands." aActs 7: 48

"A Church Not Made with Hands" is written for those who are seeking a deeper spiritual connection to Jesus. Using Jesus' own words, Michael Roden strips away centuries of dogma to reveal the mysticism underlying the New Testamentaand Christian spirituality.

This book is constructed around a series of late night conversations between Cheryl Simone and Sadhguru Vasudev at her mountain retreat in rural Georgia. Part personal journey, part teaching book, MIDNIGHTS WITH THE MYSTIC is the most thorough exposition of the teaching of India's most sought after mystic. Jaggi challenges us to embrace the possibility that to each of is available a higher realm o

This is the most comprehensive and accessible reference to women's spirituality on the market. It covers a wide range of women's spiritual experience from the dawn of civilisation to present day: New Age rituals, ancient Jewish traditions, black women's spirituality, Christian theology and more. This book will be the essential reference for the women's spirituality market for years to come. Faulkn

After the publication of Conversations With God, readers from around the world wrote to Walsch, sharing their own direct experiences of what happens when God steps in. This is the paperback edition of the inspirational book of stories from Neale Donald Walsch's readers that was originally published in 2001 under the title Moments of Grace which sold nearly 50,000 copies.Here, Walsch recounts eight

From the mother of the Evolutionary Consciousness Movement, comes this unique manual for the emergence of the Universal Human. Visionary and futurist, Barbara Marx Hubbard, shows how we are all emerging into a new type of human connected through the heart to the whole of life, evolving consciously and helping to co-create a new and better world to live in. In EMERGENCE she offers a completely new

This is the world bible for mystics, with entries from hundreds of men and women saints from all ages and religions. This volume stresses the beauty of religious language and mystical experience, including hundreds of entries from the greatest poets and mystics of all time.Included are selections from William Blake, Ramakrishna, Rumi, St. John of the Cross, Osho, Tagore, Chuang Tzu and another 150

THE E.T. CHRONICLES grapples with the “big” questions such as “Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here?” through a careful reading of world mythology. The authors organise these ancient stories into a chronology that starts with “in the beginning” and ends with the advent of civilisation in an effort to discover the true story of human origins. It brings together myths from many culture

In this inspirational “how-to” book, Guideposts executive editor, Rick Hamlin, shares ten practical ways of praying to God. He draws on the real insight he has gained from the everyday men and women in the pages of Guideposts magazine and from his own lifelong journey in prayer.He encourages readers to think of prayer as an ongoing conversation with God - an ongoing conversation that should includ

Growing numbers of people identify themselves as spiritual but not religious. HOW TO BE SPIRITUAL WITHOUT BEING RELIGIOUS is a book for those who seek a rich and authentic interior life, but find formal religious affiliation unappealing. It is a clear and non-dogmatic guide to finding one's own path of transformation, to embracing a vision of a “practical faith” that enhances a life of happiness a

We all want to know what will happen to the earth and to those who come after us, our children and our grandchildren. Diane, seeking an answer, has gone to women visionaries and seers: women who channel the future and those who bring it to life in their writings. This is the time, Diane avers, for women to define what needs to be changed and begin to do the work. By women’s power of thought a

Reiki master Diane Stein (author of Essential Reiki, 300,000 copies sold) distills more than 25 years of experience as a hands-on healer, guiding readers seeking a deeper level of knowledge through the three degrees of healing.

2012: Crossing the Bridge to the Future is an engaging personal narrative through the author´s apprenticeship with master astrologer William Lonsdale who teaches him how to access a source of great power and creativity buried within the human soul.   The book begins in August 1987 on the slopes of Mount Shasta in Northern California as Borax witnesses the Harmonic Convergence, a spiritual a

The noosphere, identified in the early twentieth century as intrinsic to the next stage of human and terrestrial evolution, is defined as the Earth’s “mental sphere” or stratum of human thought.

Pinchbeck, journalist and author of the drug-riddled psychonaut investigation Breaking Open the Head, has set out to create an "extravagant thought experiment" centering around the Mayan prophecy that 2012 will bring about the end of the world as we know it, "the conclusion of a vast evolutionary cycle, and the potential gateway to a higher level of manifestation." More specifically, Pinchbeck's

These twenty-five words are the bedrock prayer of the worldwide Alcoholics Anonymous movement, a movement that has saved and improved millions of lives.When Barb Rogers first heard this prayer a quarter of a century ago, she could scarcely credit it and hadn't the ears to believe it. It all begins with "meee, meee, mee," she writes. As in, Why is God doing all these things to meee? Why doesn't God

This introduction to the writing and preaching of the greatest medieval European mystic contains selections from his sermons, treatises, and sayings, as well as Table Talk, the records of his informal advice to his spiritual children.

"Zen Training " is a comprehensive handbook for "zazen," seated meditation practice, and an authoritative presentation of the Zen path. The book ""marked a turning point in Zen literature in its critical reevaluation of the enlightenment experience, which the author believes has often been emphasized at the expense of other important aspects of Zen training. In addition, "Zen Training " goes beyon

In The Silent Question, Packer provides fresh insights on using the experiences of life that are raw, messy, painful, and sometimes full of laughter, to open a way to compassion. She urges us to let go of our thoughts and to sit "in the stillness of not knowing" in order to reflect upon the essential question of who we are. Packer encourages us to discover that life, energy, and insight come from