Mysticism category: 2293 books
Psychedelic Mysticism
Transforming Consciousness, Religious Experiences, and Voluntary Peasants in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Concerned with scholarly, popular, and religious backdrops that understand the connection between psychedelics and mystical experiences to be devoid of moral concerns and ethical dimensions—a position supported empirically by the rise of acid fascism and psychedelic cults by the late 1960s—Psychedelic...
by Edward Lee
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
In Practical Mysticism author Edward Lee answers typical questions that have been asked of correspondents, instructors, and official representatives of the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, over his thirty years of employment at the organization’s headquarters in San Jose, California. Among the many pertinent...
Jung, Buddhism, and the Incarnation of Sophia
Unpublished Writings from the Philosopher of the Soul
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Examines the work of Carl Jung in relation to Eastern religion, the wisdom teachings of the Sophia, Sufi mysticism, and visionary spirituality
• Reveals the spiritual values underlying the psychoanalytic theories of Carl Jung
• Explores the role of the Gnostic Sophia with respect...
Can I Know God by Practicing Mysticism?
Christian Discipleship Series, #14
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2018
Many Christians are unwittingly practicing a form of Christian mysticism without being aware of it. This eBook explores the history and practice of Christian mysticism and answers the question, "Is mysticism a Biblically-supported practice and an authentic Christian means to know God?"
by Daniel M. Horwitz
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
An unprecedented annotated anthology of the most important Jewish mystical works, A Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism Reader is designed to facilitate teaching these works to all levels of learners in adult education and college classroom settings. Daniel M. Horwitz’s insightful introductions and commentary...
Complete Books of Enoch: All Three: New Translation with Extensive Commentary
1 Enoch (First Book of Enoch), 2 Enoch (Secrets of Enoch), 3 Enoch (Hebrew Book of Enoch)
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
A NEW Translation of All Three Books of Enoch
Many of the Book of Enoch books available are in fact public domain (the R. H. Charles version of 1917) which means that they can be given away to anyone for free, by anyone. This book is NOT one of those.
What is the problem with public domain...
Kabbalah
The Mystic Quest in Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2005
Today, many people from all faiths are exploring the Kabbalah. What were once controversial and esoteric teachings from medieval Jewish mystics now is becoming one of the latest spiritual trends sweeping across America. In the wake of this renewed interest comes David Ariel's Kabbalah: The Mystic...
by Perle Besserman
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 1998
Jewish mystics from biblical times to the present have explored the hidden secrets of the Torah in quest of a single goal: to lose the self in the Infinite "No-thingness" (Ein Sof) and be at one with God. In language accessible to the layperson, this Shambhala Guide provides a detailed introduction...
by Paul Hourihan
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Open the Heart of Self-Discovery through the Profound Life and Works of Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau was a lover of Nature and a believer in living the simple life. Using his literary gifts to write "Walden," an account of his two-year experiment at Walden Pond, he became one of America's...
by Paul Hourihan
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
OPEN THE HEART of Self-Discovery through the Life and Amazing Works of Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman was known as the "Good Gray Poet" who paved the way for modern American poetry. The epithets "good" and "gray" make Whitman sound dull to the modern reader, yet Whitman was anything...
The Heart and the Fountain
An Anthology of Jewish Mystical Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2003
Joseph Dan is one of the world's leading authorities on Jewish mysticism. In this superb anthology, Dan not only presents illuminating excerpts from the most important mystical texts, but also delves into the very meaning of mysticism itself. Dan takes readers through the historical development of...
Mysticism in Postmodernist Long Poems
Contemplation of the Divine
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
, Mysticism in Postmodernist Long Poems borrows insights from Religious Studies and critical theory to examine the role of spirituality in contemporary poetry, specifically the genre of the long poem. Descending from Whitman’s Song of Myself, the long poem is often considered the American twentieth-century...
The New Mysticism
How scientific and religious paradigms are being overturned by daring explorers revealing hidden aspects of reality
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear, is a dead man. – Albert Einstein
For millennia, mystics’ explorations...
Wonderful and Dark is this Road
Discovering the Mystic Path
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
In Wonderful and Dark Is This Road, Emilie Griffin invites us to discover the fascinating, yet often misunderstood, spiritual path of mysticism. Griffin explores the origins of mysticism, the different expressions and gifts of mysticism, and the recognized stages on the mystical journey. In beautifully...