Mystical experience

For anyone who's ever had the desire to look at the world through the eyes of our indigenous ancestors, here is a unique opportunity. Traveling between the Worlds is a treasure trove of insight and exploration into the ancient spiritual wisdom of such diverse cultures as Ireland, Africa, and the Americas. The keeper of this wisdom is the shaman--a man or woman who can, at will, enter into altere

AN ORDER OUTSIDE TIME is a reinterpretation of Western Spirituality through Jungian symbolism including Jung's concept of individuation - an individual's journey from their lowest to highest self - a process documented throughout world mythology and referred to as The Hero's Journey by Joseph Campbell in his best-selling The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Citing Christ as the ultimate example of indi

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

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

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

By the time you finish this book, the term "inanimate object" will no longer have a place in your vocabulary, for Shaun McNiff will awaken you to the wondrous energies streaming out of familiar things and bringing a sense of magic into everyday life. Join the author as he discovers the autonomous spirits of a silver Mercedes convertible, a mysterious cigarette burn on the dining room table, and

For the past three decades Dr Williams has risked his personal safety to journey among shamans in Peru the mystical and spiritual centre of our times. The spiritual travelogue includes descriptions of the shamanic ceremonies he performed at sacred sites like Machu Picchu and Cuzco as well as his initiations using the mind- expanding psychedelic ayahuasca and the sacred coca plant.

Why don't people heal? Why do they stay wounded--some even driven to suicide by their pain-despite the best that organic and psychological medicine can offer? To find the answers, Russian--born psychiatrist Olga Kharitidi traveled to exotic Samarkand, a major cultural and spiritual crossroads, and ancient capital of Uzbekistan, in the heart of Central Asia. No stranger to mystical and shamanic

"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.

Millions of people have read all three volumes in the Conversations with God series. The Conversations with God Guidebook invites Walsch fans not only to delve more deeply into the concepts and principles delineated in his bestselling series, but, more importantly, to experience those teachings. The goal here is to create for readers an interactive experience that will provide them the opportunity

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

In Sweat Your Prayers, internationally acclaimed movement and theater artist Gabrielle Roth translates to the printed page the insights of her nearly forty years of teaching personal and spiritual development. Her workshops, attended by thousands around the world, teach us to realize our potential for ecstasy as we experience movement and ritual-theater techniques. The book is a journey through f

This abridgment of Il Direttorio Mistico, written by G.B. Scaramelli (1687?-1752) is a foundational work for people seeking the contemplative life that leads to the Spiritual Marriage, or reintegration of the human spirit with God. Nicholson's translation has been skillfully abridged to include the most cogent material. Step-by-step, Scaramelli describes mystical theology in general and then moves

This volume contains three of Jan van Ruysbroeck's best works: The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage, The Sparkling Stone, and The Book of Truth. These works are remarkable for their combination of lofty spiritual philosophy and robust common sense. As we read them, we feel that we are in touch with a man who, in his ecstatic ascents to God, never loses hold of the actualities of human life. I

The Clavis or 'Key' of Jacob Boehme, the seventeenth-century German theosopher, is a condensed version of the principal points of his mystical philosophy.Boehme, an unschooled shoemaker, experienced while young an intense vision of the spiritual world a vision of the origin of the universe, the struggle of polarities in creation, and the role of Sophia or Divine Wisdom in the world. This vision in

Tribal people of the past, as well as those throughout the world today, experience reality very differently than most of us in the modern, technological world. According to these ancient belief systems, the physical realm is alive with spirits, both beneficial and malevolent, and proper interaction with these intelligences is necessary for the harmony and health of the individual and community.

The Christian mystics are the treasure of Western civilization—yet they remain little known among those of us who are potentially their spiritual heirs. Andrew Harvey's anthology confronts us with the mystics in their own words, to show us how well they serve, even now, as guides for the spiritual life—and to challenge our preconceived ideas about the path of Christianity. He has chose