Quest Books

The fully revised complete collection of eleven seminalk works on Gnosticism, the first of which orginally appeared in 1906.

Bridging science and spiritualtiy, Theosophy formulates a modern statement of the ancient wisdom tradition found in all world religions.

Here is the amazing story of two early twentieth-century Russian visionaries whose quest to unite humanity through art and culture still echoes powerfully today.

Contemporary seekers on the hunt for an overview of the Western mystery traditions often face a small selection of dense, out-of-date tomes. Alternatively, Hidden Wisdom is a fresh, coherent, and accessible work that expounds many of the teachings of Western esotericism, examining its key figures and movements.

One effect of rising interest in the Kabbalah is a renewed focus on the Shekhinah, Judaism's divine feminine principle.

In this clear, engaging book, Robin Robinson draws parallels between alchemy and chaos theory and shows how to apply them to our inner development.

Yoga props, videos, designer clothing--yoga instructor Pilarzyk believes that something essential has been lost as the 5,000-year-old spiritual practice has morphed into a pop culture phenomenon.

In these days of global crisis, thoughtful seekers increasingly turn to Native Americans for healing wisdom. The Sacred Pipe is the medicine, says Jay Cleve in this informative and practical guide to a key practice of Native American spirituality. The Hopi and other ancient cultures predicted our present age as one of transition into a New World.

“This finely arranged and annotated collection shines a brilliant beam onto the inner planes of Annie Besant's consciousness, showing us both the ordered structure of her thought and the wonderful richness of the realms with which she dealt. With its help, we are invited to join her by exploring and mapping our own inner multiverse.

"Reality is experience, and experience is reality," says Hawaiian shaman Serge King, speaking of Huna, the esoteric tradition in which he was reared.King emphasizes that all of us have the ability to shift from one world to another.

Although the seven chakras are now accepted concepts among yoga practitioners and those who study and engage in meditative or other "alternative" spiritual practices, they were exotic when C. W. Leadbeater set pen to paper in the 1920s.

The search for inner peace is often met with what seems like a conflicting path– the irresistible pull of love and connection with others to which we are drawn. Reconciling these opposites, John Amodeo shows how spirituality and vibrant relationships are identical. He says that Buddha's concept of the root of suffering is misunderstood.

'A woman in the audience once handed Elvis a crown saying, “You're the King.” “No, honey,” Elvis replied. “There is only one king - Jesus Christ. I'm just a singer.” Gary Tillery presents a coherent view of Elvis' thoughts through such anecdotes and other recorded facts.

'"A spiritual tone overlays these authors’ deconstruction of popular movies’ commentary on death and the afterlife. While [the book] reads like a series of columns in a highbrow cinema magazine, the Genellis’ work, like most of the more than sixty movies they mention, is both thoughtful and entertaining.

True to the title, this guidebook directs beginners on the spiritual journey. Author Jan Phillips, reared Catholic, has traveled through Buddhist, Hindu, and Muslim cultures merging dualities of East and West. A popular workshop leader for decades, she is a dynamic, upbeat, straight-talking, wise old woman in her own right, and her prose reflects her character.

As a man thinketh, so is he—thus is the biblical King Solomon often quoted by proponents of New Thought, one of the most influential native religious movements in America. Albert Amao provides an engaging and serious history of this and related movements from the eighteenth century to the present. His discussion ranges from Phineas P.

'Among books that discern people's reason for living, this one is exceptional for its interfaith perspective and clear text readily accessible to people of all backgrounds. Reverend Poos-Benson mines the wisdom of the great spiritual heroes — Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Mohammed, Lao Tzu — to reveal a pattern in how God works in the world.

In the West, Islam has replaced Communism as the new bugbear, while Sufism, Islam’s mystical dimension, is often dismissed as the delusions of an irrational and backward people. Ken Lizzio corrects such misperceptions in this firsthand account of the year he spent in 1991 living with the head of the Naqshbandis, Afghanistan’s largest Sufi order.

THE PRESENCE OF THE INFINITE sheds new light on the important subject of spiritual experience. Using the emerging insights of evolutionary spirituality, integral philosopher, Steve McIntosh, enlarges readers' capacity to have spiritual experience more abundantly and use it more effectively to improve their lives and the world around them.

This volume is a study of the symbols of cosmic origins. It throws a new and searching light upon The Stanzas of Dzyan, a little-known collection of cosmogenic verses relating to cosmogenesis as set forth in H. P. Blavatsky's great work The Secret Doctrine. “We are considering the universe as a tissue of psychic experience,” say the authors.