This extraordinary treatise explores parallel passages from the Bible and the Hindu scriptures to reveal the essential unity of all religions. Swami Sri Yukteswar is renowned as the revered guru of the great pioneer of yoga in the West, Paramahansa Yogananda (author of Autobiography of a Yogi). In this remarkable work - composed in the year 1894 at the request of the great Indian sage, Mahavatar Babaji - Sri Yukteswar outlines the universal path that every human being must travel to enlightenment.

This extraordinary treatise explores parallel passages from the Bible and the Hindu scriptures to reveal the essential unity of all religions. Swami Sri Yukteswar is renowned as the revered guru of the great pioneer of yoga in the West, Paramahansa Yogananda (author of Autobiography of a Yogi). In this remarkable work - composed in the year 1894 at the request of the great Indian sage, Mahavatar Babaji - Sri Yukteswar outlines the universal path that every human being must travel to enlightenment.

An ancient Taoist text rediscovered by Richard Wilhelm, who recognized it as essentially a practical guide to the integration of personality.

The original 1931 edition.

First translated into German by sinologist Richard Wilhelm, a friend of Carl Jung, The Secret of the Golden Flower describes a straightforward and silent meditation method that has been characterized as Zen with details.

Asian spiritual practices, from yoga and tai chi to qigong and mindfulness meditations, permeate our culture. But these practices are often casually used in the West, and sometimes little understood. As informative as it is inviting, A Lamp unto Yourself introduces spiritual explorers of all experience levels to embodied Eastern spiritual practices.

Employing decades of personal and professional experience with Asian spiritualities, C. Pierce Salguero explains the origins of key Asian spiritual practices. He grounds them in their historical and philosophical contexts and provides information on how the reader can begin and deepen their personal practices. Salguero also discusses the focus of the path (heart, body, or perception) and describes what one might experience as they develop their practice. In A Lamp unto Yourself, readers will learn more about such traditions as

• mindfulness meditation, insight meditation, and loving-kindness meditation
• yogas, tai chi, and qigong
• Taoism and Advaita
• mantras, chakras, and tantra

Simplified organization, helpful glossaries, and word-for-word analysis make understanding Buddhist scripture easier than ever.

The Heart Sutra is Buddhism in a nutshell. It has had the most profound and wide-reaching influence of any text in Buddhism. This short text covers more of the Buddha's teachings than any other Buddhist scripture, and it does so without being superficial or hurried. Although the original author is unknown, he was clearly someone with a deep realization of the Dharma.

For this award-winning English translation of the Heart Sutra, an award-winning translator of Chinese poetry and religious texts utilizes various Sanskrit and Chinese versions, refining the teachings of dozens of ancient teachers together with his own commentary to offer a profound word-for-word explication.

Divided into 4 parts and broken into 35 lines to make it easier to study or chant, and containing a glossary of names, terms, and texts, The Heart Sutra is a wise book of deep teaching destined to become the standard edition of this timeless Buddhist sutra.

Did you know that there is a connection between neuroscience and free will? While humans have the power to make conscious choices, they are heavily influenced by social media, YouTube, the news they watch and read, their surrounding community, the people they interact with on a daily basis, and even the places they shop.

Philosopher, spiritual figure, and author Jiddu Krishnamurti reminds us, We look to someone to tell us what is right or wrong behavior, what is right or wrong thought, and in following this pattern our conduct and our thinking became mechanical, our responses automatic.

The good news is you can choose all of the things that influence your freedom.

Krishnamurti's Freedom from the Known will show you how to free yourself from the tyranny of the expected, so you can open the door to transform society and your relationships. You'll discover the primary cause of disorders is the reality promised by someone else instead of being our own authority for our way of life.

If you want to challenge the way you look at the world, enhance your spiritual awareness, and open your mind and hearts to others Freedom from the Known is for you. After reading, you'll gain a more meaningful perspective of life that will:

- Enhance your existing and future relationships

- Help you identify and overcome your fears

- Better understand the totality of life

- Enhance your communication skills

- Help you increase your confidence and ability to self-love

Krishnamurti reminds us, To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

For nearly two decades, the Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions has served as a valuable resource for students and scholars of religion in Japan. This exciting update expands the audience to include non-specialists of Japan while also complicating the notions of Japan and religion. Asking the provocative question why study Japanese religions? the editors argue that studying Japan is vital for the academic study of religion writ large and make a case for the continued importance of religious topics in Japan studies, broadly conceived.

The volume addresses the question of why--and how--to study Japanese religions in seven sections, each overseen by a leading expert in that subfield. The section on Knowledge Production investigates medicine, sacred objects, and the politico-economic structures undergirding academia. Cosmology and Time reveals how religion shaped worldviews in both premodern and modern Japan by taking up topics such as the afterlife, divination, and relationships between science and religion. Space and Environment considers geography, relationships between the human and nonhuman denizens of the Japanese archipelago, and religion in Japan's overseas colonies and among diasporic outmigrants. Feelings and Belonging focuses on affective relationships generated through confraternities, homiletics, and caring professions. Politics and Governance describes longstanding relationships between religion and the state, covering everything from sacred kingship to contemporary electoral politics. The final two sections include practical advice for conducting fieldwork and helpful introductions to several relevant archives.

Overall, the volume reflects the impact of recent scholarly trends in the study of Japanese religions, including material religion studies, affect theory, environmental humanities, and critical secularism studies. The breadth of topics as well as the accessibility of the individual chapters makes The New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions an indispensable resource for the classroom. It will be useful not only for scholars of Japan, but also for anyone interested in the academic study of religion.

Volume 1: Introduction of the
Master Emil. Visit to the Temple of Silence. Astral Projection.
Walking on Water. Visit to the Healing Temple. Emil Talks about America. The
Snowmen of the Himalayas. New Light on the Teachings of Jesus. ISBN#
9780875163635

Volume
2: Visit to the Temple of the Great Tau Cross. Visit with the
Master Jesus. Jesus discussed the nature of hell; the nature of God. The
Mystery of Thought Vibrations. Jesus feeds the multitude. An account of a
healing experience. Jesus and Buddha visit the group. ISBN#
9780875163642

Volume
3: One of the masters speaks of the Christ consciousness. The
nature of cosmic energy. The creation of the planets and the worlds. The trip
to Lhasa. Visit at the Temple Pora-tat-sanga. Explaining the mystery of
levitation. A doubtless convinced of the existence of Jesus. ISBN#
9780875163659

Volume
4: First presented as The India Tour Lessons. Each
chapter has text for study as well as guides to teachers for developing and
interpreting the material. Among subjects covered: The White Brotherhood, The
One Mind Basis of coming social reorganization Prana. ISBN#
9780875163666

Volume
5: Lectures and articles by Spalding; also a brief biographical
sketch. Partial contents: Camera of past events. Is there a God. The divine
pattern. The reality. Mastery over death. The law of supply. ISBN#
9780875163673

Volume
6: Thirty-five years after the appearance of Volume 5 of Life
& Teaching of the Masters of the Far East, ten dusty cartons were discovered
in the DeVorss warehouse, some of which held Spalding manuscripts, paper,
letters, photographs, and other materials related to this man whose name has
been a legend in metaphysical and truth circles.
The New Volume 6
includes: Articles previously omitted from Vol.5, Photographs, The 1935 India
Tour and correspondence, Rare letters, Personal recollections of BTS,
Spalding's last days, Spalding biography and memorabilia. ISBN#
978087516988

SET
6 volumes: Handsomely boxed in their own sleeves: Since 1924,
when these writings first appeared, they have influenced and inspired
generations of seekers. Astonished at the interest in his discoveries and
experiences, he wrote Volume 2 (1927). Volume 3 (1935)
followed along with a 30-city tour. Volume 4
(1948) and Volume 5 (1955) were compiled from his
question and answer material and Volume 6 (1996)contains
historical references to his articles for the Mind Magazine 1935-37. ISBN#
9780875165387

Audio
3CD SET (169 min) The content of this CD is an abridged version
of the expedition which takes place in the first three volumes. ISBN#
9780875168180

For more information about the life of Baird T. Spalding and DeVorss & Company publishers visit: https: //devorss.com/collections/books-baird-t-spalding

The Eastern Christian tradition is filled with theological and spiritual riches.

In Passions of the Soul, Rowan Williams opens up the great classics of Eastern Christian writing to show how it can help us to understand and cope with the ups and downs of modern life.

With compelling and illuminating insight, he shows the cost of living in a culture that is theologically and philosophically undernourished, working with a diminished and trivialized picture of the human self. The Eastern tradition teaches us how to develop our self-knowledge and awareness, so that we can relate to the world without selfish illusions. Only then can we be ready for our eyes to be opened to God, and avoid destructive patterns of behaviour.

Only in this way can we understand the kind of people we need to become.

In Japan today, women are the primary drivers of religious re-enchantment, and they are exerting pressure on shrines, temples, and media industries to accommodate their interests and aesthetic tastes. Employing a semantically broad meaning of occult to include the mysterious or supernatural, Laura Miller examines how it manifests to offer avenues of self-exploration and spiritual capital that fundamentally appeal to women. Female seekers have had a major impact on the fashioning and marketing of spiritual sites, texts, and objects, often through encoding the kawaii, or cute, aesthetic. Miller makes the case that the gendered nature of occult hunting has been neglected in research and that greater attention to gendered perspectives reveals significant facets of sociality and recreation.

Written from an interdisciplinary cultural studies perspective, Occult Hunting and Supernatural Play in Japan interlaces history, art, literature, religion, media studies, and anthropology to explore ubiquitous yet understudied activities such as having one's fortune told; visiting powerspots, locations thought to hold exceptional supernatural energy; and playing with new types of tarot decks. Book chapters also focus on material religion, including objects like good luck amulets and votive plaques, Taoist paper talismans, pilgrim stamps, and ancient curved beads called magatama. Tracing their histories and transformations, Miller insists that these forms of visual and material religion and their related activities are neither trivial nor simply commercial gambits. Rather, they provide insights into the realms of creative exploration, pleasure, and spiritual development in the lives of girls and young women.

This book is also available from Echo Point Books in hardcover (ISBN 1648371310).

An ancient Taoist text rediscovered by Richard Wilhelm, who recognized it as essentially a practical guide to the integration of personality.

First translated into German by sinologist Richard Wilhelm, a friend of Carl Jung, The Secret of the Golden Flower describes a straightforward and silent meditation method that has been characterized as Zen with details.

Not a day goes by without our being called upon to help one another--at home, at work, on the street, on the phone.... We do what we can. Yet so much comes up to complicate this natural response: Will I have what it takes? How much is enough? How can I deal with suffering? And what really helps, anyway?

In this practical helper's companion, the authors explore a path through these confusions, and provide support and inspiration for us in our efforts as members of the helping professions, as volunteers, as community activists, or simply as friends and family trying to meet each other's needs. Here too are deeply moving personal accounts: A housewife brings zoo animals to lift the spirits of nursing home residents; a nun tends the wounded on the first night of the Nicaraguan revolution; a police officer talks a desperate father out of leaping from a roof with his child; a nurse allows an infant to spend its last moments of life in her arms rather than on a hospital machine. From many such stories and the authors' reflections, we can find strength, clarity, and wisdom for those times when we are called on to care for one another.

Krishnamurti is a leading spiritual teacher of our century. In The First and Last Freedom he cuts away symbols and false associations in the search for pure truth and perfect freedom. Through discussions on suffering, fear, gossip, sex and other topics, Krishnamurti's quest becomes the readers, an undertaking of tremendous significance.

It is said that the practice of dream yoga deepens our awareness during all our experience: the dreams of the night; the dream-like experience of the day; and the bardo experiences after death. Indeed, the practice of dream yoga is a powerful tool of awakening, used for hundreds of years by the great masters of the Tibetan traditions.

Unlike in the Western psychological approach to dreams, the ultimate goal of Tibetan dream yoga is the recognition of the nature of mind or enlightenment itself. If we cannot carry our practice into sleep, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche states, if we lose ourselves every night, what chance do we have to be aware when death comes? Look to your experience in dreams to know how you will fare in death. Look to your experience of sleep to discover whether or not you are truly awake.