Mysticism category: 2293 books

Restores to the forefront of the Christian tradition the importance of the divine feminine • The first complete English-language translation of the original Coptic Gospel of Mary, with line-by-line commentary • Reveals the eminence of the divine feminine in Christian thought •...

Meditation Q & A: Questions submitted to online forums answered by Prahas.One morning in early 2010 an idea came to me. At that time, I had been practicing meditation for 17 years. I had been a full-time student in a school of meditation for nine of those years. And I had spent six of those...

Whether we are new to the spiritual life or advanced seekers, we all welcome daily opportunities for self-transformation—opportunities to overcome anger, develop more confidence, become more self-giving, listen to our inner voice and surrender to God’s Will.This collection of Sri Chinmoy’s...

This long-awaited book gathers renowned spiritual Master Sri Chinmoy's insights about God into one volume. These selections are drawn from the more than fifteen hundred books he wrote in his lifetime of teaching spirituality and meditation. His intimate knowledge of God transcends religious dogmas...

I wish particularly to point out in the present volume that I am not giving the meanings of symbols in the vestments in which they are now garbed. I am giving their origin and original meanings. Up to the time of Mu's submersion all symbols retained their original meanings. From the time of Mu's destruction...

The Edgar Cayce story is one of the most compelling in inspirational literature. Over the course of forty years the Sleeping Prophet time and again closed his eyes, entered an altered state of consciousness, and spoke to the very heat and spirit of mankind on subjects such as health, healing, dreams,...

It is very difficult to comprehend that our destiny lies in nonphysical dimensions, but Van Auken teaches this well while explaining that our present life is the perfect prerequisite for the next one. Van Auken’s easy writing style helps to shed light on the most complicated concepts in Kabbalah,...

Freedom from your conditioning is possible, but the mind is a formidable opponent to freedom. It was designed to keep you thinking of yourself the way you do. Getting free requires a new way of thinking or, rather, not thinking. Healing our emotional selves entails changing our relationship to our...

Take Your Psychic Abilities from Ordinary to Extraordinary! Find out just how easy it is to use your innate psychic abilities to access insightful and helpful information about anything! Whether you're a beginner exploring your psychic abilities or a professional fine-tuning your skills,...

“The best history of Zen ever written.”Library JournalThe truth of Zen has always resided in individual experience rather than in theoretical writings. To give the modern reader access to understanding of this truth, THE ZEN EXPERIENCE illumines Zen as it was created and shaped by the personalities,...

The Zen tradition has just two main meditative practices: shikantaza, or "just sitting"; and introspection guided by the powerful Zen teaching stories called koans. Following in the tradition of The Art of Just Sitting (endorsed as a "A book we have needed for a long, long time"), this new anthology...

Though a familiar name, little was known about the English mystic Margery Kempe (c. 1373-c. 1440) for hundreds of years except that she had an association with the great Julian of Norwich. This all changed in 1934 with the discovery of The Book of Margery Kempe in a library where it had lain hidden...

The Cloud of Unknowing draws on the mystical tradition of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and Christian Neoplatonism, which focuses on the via negativa road to discovering God as a pure entity, beyond any capacity of mental conception and so without any definitive image or form. This tradition has...

An extraordinary vision of unity among the world's historic faiths and a classic of New Age spirituality. Here is a hugely influential interpretation of the "lost years" of Jesus Christ-from roughly the ages of twelve to thirty that are not covered in Scripture- in which the Son of...