Category: Mysticism

By Jonathan C. Smith

Pseudoscience and awesome Claims of the mystical: A severe Thinker's Toolkit presents readers with various "reality-checking" instruments to research striking claims and to figure out their validity.

• Integrates uncomplicated but strong evaluative instruments utilized by either paranormal believers and skeptics alikeContent:
  Chapter 1 The Continuum Mysteriosum (pages 1–19):
  Chapter 2 Why examine these items? (pages 21–45):
  Chapter three truth money (pages 47–69):
  Chapter four truth fee (pages 71–99):
  Chapter five truth fee (pages 101–117):
  Chapter 6 truth Checking for Oddities of Nature and the realm of Numbers (pages 119–139):
  Chapter 7 truth Checking for Perceptual mistakes and Trickery (pages 141–166):
  Chapter eight fact Checking for reminiscence blunders (pages 167–182):
  Chapter nine truth Checking for the Placebo influence (pages 183–202):
  Chapter 10 truth Checking for Sensory Anomalies and Hallucinations (pages 203–224):
  Chapter eleven Spiritualism and the Survival speculation (pages 225–243):
  Chapter 12 Parapsychology (pages 245–267):
  Chapter thirteen power remedies and Complementary and substitute drugs (CAM) (pages 269–283):
  Chapter 14 Supernatural therapies and religion therapeutic (pages 285–302):
  Chapter 15 Creationism, clever layout, and God (pages 303–317):
  Chapter sixteen the truth Checkup (pages 319–339):

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By Andrew Harvey

This anthology collects the main lyrical, passionate, illuminating writings of the Hindu mystical culture. Andrew Harvey, the preferred non secular pupil and author, has chosen excerpts from historic and modern resources, together with extracts from the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, and different classical Hindu texts; the phrases of such venerable non secular lecturers as Ramakrishna and Ramana Maharshi; and the devotional poetry of Mirabai, Ramprasad, and so forth. The scope of this anthology makes it a fabulous advent to Hindu mystical literature, whereas the facility and wonder of the language will motivate these already acquainted with the style.

By Barrett-Lee

Chic-lit fiction

By John A. Grant

By Saint Germain

Saint Germain indicates that miracles are not anything greater than the common outgrowth of the perform of religious alchemy. during this maximum of all self-help books, Saint Germain describes the foundations of alchemy and the way they are often used to influence religious, psychological, emotional and actual transformation

By Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

‘Think for a minute approximately what electrical energy is and the way we use it, and you'll have a few thought, despite the fact that approximate, of God. We use electrical energy to heat and light our homes, and tool every kind of machines and home equipment, yet we need to be very cautious of ways we deal with it, for you can reason an twist of fate. Direct touch with an electrical present might be deadly. as a way to harness and use it with no risk, we need to channel it via transformers. an analogous will be stated of God: God is sort of a natural present of electrical energy which has to go through transformers earlier than it reaches us. And the transformers that God makes use of are the numerous luminous beings that populate the heavens, identified to culture because the choirs of angels or angelic hierarchies. it truly is via them that we obtain divine lifestyles; it really is via them that we will keep up a correspondence with God.’

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

By Randall Studstill

This ebook argues that mystical doctrines and practices begin parallel transformative techniques within the recognition of mystics. This thesis is supported via a comparative research of Tibetan Buddhist Dzogchen (rdzogs-chen) and the medieval German mysticism of Eckhart, Suso, and Tauler. those traditions are interpreted utilizing a system/cybernetic version of attention. This version presents a theoretical framework for assessing the cognitive results of mystical doctrines and practices and exhibiting how varied doctrines and practices may well however begin universal transformative tactics. This structures procedure contributes to present philosophical discourse on mysticism by way of (1) making attainable an exact research of the cognitive results of mystical doctrines and practices, and (2) reconciling mystical heterogeneity with the fundamental team spirit of mystical traditions.

Modern society has a tendency to hide loss of life and the loss of life technique from public view, trying to erase them from our attention. this perspective of denial stands in nice distinction to the method of the good religious traditions of humanity, for which the loss of life approach was once an crucial and sometimes the most important a part of our personal non secular perform. This quantity deals a pattern of reflections from students and practitioners at the subject of loss of life and death from students and practitioners, starting from the Christian culture to Hinduism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, whereas additionally pertaining to the topics of the afterlife and near-death experiences.

By Yoseph Leib Ibn Mardachya

“In early 2001, I got here to Jerusalem,
just out of excessive school,
looking for an real non secular tradition
for tips on how to smoke marijuana
rightly, helpfully, extra effectively
and extra meaningfully.

What i discovered also and instead
was a dwelling tradition, wrestling with the mystery
of how one can include the ecstatic; and the
mystery of the explanations for it's repression,
along with loads of fabulous information and bad truths concerning the nature of faith, legislations, idealism and drugs.”

Cannabis Chassidis: the traditional and rising Torah of gear (A memoir) information the query and it's exploration: How may perhaps or not it's that whatever as inherent to trendy existence as Marijuana, whatever with a wealthy background of human utilization, has no culture in Torah, a counsel process that i used to be raised to appreciate as encompassing every little thing sturdy that one should still be aware of? there are solutions for what's there within the culture, wealthy allusions to herbs and smokes utilized in assorted capacities, and the extra attention-grabbing solutions and questions are approximately what there isn't within the culture, and why.

And alongside the way in which, the spectrum of an adventure of residing mystical culture is explored, and the romantic idealization and redemptive power of either Psychedelia and faith are touched and felt deeply, within the context of exceptional groups and people who have skilled the glories and the disasters of both.

Join Yoseph Leib on his travels and reviews all through Jerusalem, ny, and Rainbow nation U.S.A, looking for suggestions approximately how hashish and psychedelics have and feature no longer been utilized in either historic and rising Hassidic traditions, and what the best way we've got relating to our wishes for medications, gods, and intoxicants can train us approximately how we relate to ourselves, our group, and our G-d. the fantastic challenge of the way what we will be able to examine can set us loose, in every kind of how.

By Loyal D. Rue

In a compelling learn for somebody attracted to the place we got here from and the place we are going, Everybody's tale bargains a thrilling journey of traditional heritage that illuminates the evolution of topic, existence, and cognizance. As outdated myths, non secular tales, and different shared narratives of humankind are more and more seen as intellectually incredible and morally inappropriate, they turn into much less more likely to satisfy their unique purpose-to provide humans solutions and supply a feeling of balance and peace in way of life. dependable Rue restores that imbalance with a brand new tale in keeping with truth. Rue, writer of a brand new York instances outstanding ebook of 1994, by means of the Grace of Guile: The position of Deception in ordinary historical past in Human Affairs, now offers an evolutionary journey recounting our shared "epic of evolution"