World Wisdom: 168 books
Light from the East
Eastern Wisdom for the Modern West
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2007
This is a collection of writings about the spiritual meeting of East and West in the modern world including articles by the Dalai Lama, Huston Smith, Frithjof Schuon, Thomas Merton, Titus Burckhardt, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Diana Eck, Gary Snyder and Aldous Huxley. Highlighting aspects of Hinduism, Buddhism,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
The Spirit of Indian Women provides a unique glimpse into a world that is almost inaccessible in our time. Through the combined power of photos, art, and the wisdom of traditional voices, modern readers can come to feel something of the timeless spirit of Indian women.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2003
Today's belief in an endless progress tends toward an almost total rejection of spiritual wisdom’s world views as being naïve, out-moded, and contrary to empirical evidence. The premises of modernism permeate our culture and our thinking so thoroughly that it is often very difficult for an individual...
Indian Spirit, Revised and Enlarged
Revised and Enlarged
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Through its striking combination of stirring oratory and majestic portraiture from the Plains Indian pre-reservation “old-timers,” Indian Spirit reveals the very heart of the traditional Native American life-way: a world where dignity of soul, nobility of sentiments, discipline of gesture, and a...
Lamp of Non-Dual Knowledge & Cream of Liberation
Two Jewels of Indian Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Two short classics of Advaita Vedanta presented in a single volume: Many people have found that the Advaita Bodha Deepika (Lamp of Non-Dual Knowledge) is the clearest, easiest to understand summary of the system of Hindu thought known as Advaita Vedanta. The Lamp of Non-Dual Knowledge is in the form...
Messenger Of The Heart
The Book of Angelus Silesius, with observations by the ancient Zen masters
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
When mystics like Angelus Silesius speak of God, they do so from a vibrant intensity of awareness, and in a tone of voice one trusts at once. The timeless wisdom embedded in these humble rhymes is beautifully echoed by the observations of the ancient Zen masters which punctuate the text, and in the haiku-like...
Illustrated Introduction To Taosim:
The Wisdom of the Sages
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Containing 118 stunning color illustrations, this beautiful book provides an introduction to Taoism, one of the great religious and philosophical movements in Chinese thought. Incorporating selections from J.C. Cooper’s writings, it explores the concept of the Tao (Way), the symbolism of Yin-Yang,...
Touchstones of the Spirit
Essays on Religion, Tradition & Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
This book explores three themes: the timeless messages of traditional Religion; the modern obscuration of this perennial Wisdom; and the spiritual encounter between East and West. Topics include the Australian Aborigines, the Bodhisattva in Buddhism, and key Perennialist figures such as Frithjof Schuon,...
Mahavira
The Hero of Nonviolence
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Imagine a world where no one gets hurt, a world where no one is teased or bullied, a world where there is no fear or anger. Six centuries before the birth of Jesus, in the faraway land of India, there lived a great spiritual teacher name Mahavira (which means “very brave”), who imagined just such...
World of the Teton Sioux Indians
Their Music, Life, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Sometime in August of 1913, two Sioux warriors, Old Buffalo and Swift Dog, met with Frances Densmore at a makeshift recording site in McLaughlin, South Dakota. What Old Buffalo and Swift Dog said that day—about life as they knew it before the reservation era began—lives on still in the pages of this...
Everyone Prays
Celebrating Faith Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
“Christians, Jews, and Muslims all pray. So do Hindus and Buddhists. Many others pray too.” So begins Everyone Prays, a bright and colorful concept book celebrating the diverse ways that people pray. In a vibrant yet accessible manner, young readers are transported on a visual tour across the globe....
Remembering in a World of Forgetting
Thoughts on Tradition and Postmodernism
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2007
This book contains a wide-ranging selection of writings by “perennialist” author William Stoddart that expose the many false ideologies of postmodernism (“forgetting”) and call for a return to traditional religion, especially in its mystical dimensions (“remembering”).
Returning to the Essential: Selected Writings of Jean Bies
Selected Writings of Jean Bies
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
This is the first presentation to the English speaking world of the writings of Jean Biès, one of the great poets of our time whose work also constitutes a compelling critique of the de-sacralization of the modern world. Recipient of the prestigious High Prize of the Society of French Poets and Chevalier...
Not of This World: A Treasury of Christian Mysticism
A Treasury of Christian Mysticism
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
This profound and insightful book includes selected writings of Christian sages and saints from the Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Evangelical and Celtic branches of the Christian tradition. They are presented from a perspective of 'the transcendent unity of denominations'.