Shambhala: 1067 books
The Unfolding Now
Realizing Your True Nature through the Practice of Presence
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
The keys to self-knowledge and deep contentment are right here before us in this very moment—if we can simply learn to live with open awareness. In The Unfolding Now, A. H. Almaas presents a marvelously effective practice for developing the transformative quality of presence. Through a particular...
No Boundary
Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2001
A simple yet comprehensive guide to the types of psychologies and therapies available from Eastern and Western sources. Each chapter includes a specific exercise designed to help the reader understand the nature and practice of the specific therapies. Wilber presents an easy-to-use map of human consciousness...
The Psychology of Yoga
Integrating Eastern and Western Approaches for Understanding the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
"Psychoanalysis itself and the lines of thought to which it gives rise," said C. G. Jung, "are only a beginner’s attempt compared to what is an immemorial art in the East"—by which he was referring to the millennia-old study of the mind found in Yoga. That tradition was hardly...
The Diamond Approach
An Introduction to the Teachings of A. H. Almaas
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 1999
The Diamond Approach has been developed and taught over the last twenty-five years by Hameed Ali (known chiefly by his pen name, A. H. Almaas), who is widely recognized as a leader in the integration of spirituality and psychology. This is the first book to introduce the complete spectrum of his teachings to a general audience.
The Pearl Beyond Price
Integration of Personality into Being, an Object Relations Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2000
In this book Almaas demonstrates that healthy ego development is part of the continuum of spiritual development. He also establishes the possibility of attaining inner realization and developing our essential being—"the pearl beyond price"—in the context of living a normal human life.
by Robert H. Hopcke
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
The writings of C. G. Jung himself are the best place to read about all his main ideas—but where to start, when Jung's Collected Works run to more than eighteen volumes? Robert H. Hopcke's guide to Jung's voluminous writings shows exactly the best place to begin for getting a handle on each of...
Art as Medicine
Creating a Therapy of the Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1992
"Whenever illness is associated with loss of soul," writes Shaun McNiff, "the arts emerge spontaneously as remedies, soul medicine." The medicine of the artist, like that of the shaman, arises from his or her relationship to "familiars"—the themes, methods, and materials...
Diamond Heart: Book Three
Being and the Meaning of Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2000
We live in a world of mystery, wonder, and beauty. But most of us seldom participate in this real world, being focused rather on the part that is mostly strife, suffering, or meaninglessness. This situation is basically due to our not realizing and living our full human potential. This potential can...
Facets of Unity
The Enneagram of Holy Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2000
Facets of Unity presents the Enneagram of Holy Ideas as a crystal clear window on the true reality experienced in enlightened consciousness. Here we are not directed toward the psychological types but the higher spiritual realities they reflect. We discover how the disconnection from each Holy Idea...
Toward a Psychology of Awakening
Buddhism, Psychotherapy, and the Path of Personal and Spiritual Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2002
How can we connect the spiritual realizations of Buddhism with the psychological insights of the West? In Toward a Psychology of Awakening John Welwood addresses this question with comprehensiveness and depth. Along the way he shows how meditative awareness can help us develop more dynamic and vital...
The Inner Journey Home
The Soul's Realization of the Unity of Reality
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2004
What is the soul, and how do we come to know it? What is its journey in life, and what stages and obstacles are encountered along the way? These questions are explored here in detail according to the Diamond Approach, a spiritual path that combines systematic inquiry into personal experience, the...
Runaway Realization
Living a Life of Ceaseless Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
The teaching in this book is off the map—because reality itself cannot be captured in a map. In fact, reality is far more alive, far more mysterious than anything we can conceive of. It is always revealing itself by knowing itself; and knowing reality and living it becomes the fulfillment of our...
Buddha of Infinite Light
The Teachings of Shin Buddhism, the Japanese Way of Wisdom and Compassion
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2002
Shin is the uniquely Japanese flowering of the type of Buddhism known as "Pure Land." It originated in the thirteenth century with the charismatic and prophetic figure Shinran (1172–1263), whose interpretation of the traditional Pure Land teachings was extremely influential in his own...
by Willis Barnstone, Marvin Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
The people we’ve come to call gnostics were passionate advocates of the view that salvation comes through knowledge and personal experience, and their passion shines through in the remarkable body of writings they produced over a period of more than a millennium and a half. Willis Barnstone and...