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"All the world is a puzzle, and Mike Brink--a celebrated and ingenious puzzle constructor--understands its patterns like no one else. Once a promising Midwestern football star, Brink was transformed by a traumatic brain injury that caused a rare medical condition: Acquired Savant Syndrome. The injury left him with a mental superpower--he can solve puzzles, calculate equations, and see patterns in ways ordinary people can't. But his condition has also...
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Works by Kahlil Gibran intimately reveal the complex nature of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers Kahlil Gibran wrote prolifically and passionately in Arabic as well as English. First published in 1965 with nine works of poetry translated by Joseph Sheban, Mirrors of the Soul includes writings by Gibran that are as poignant today as when first written, such as "The New Frontier" and"The Sea." These poems illuminate the dual...
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The definitive collection of works by one of the twentieth century's most acclaimed writers and philosophers Kahlil Gibran produced some of the world's most remarkable poems and philosophical essays throughout his almost thirty-year career. This enriching collection of his works includes more than 150 of his stories, prose poems, verse, parables, and autobiographical essays. From The Broken Wings, about the tragic end of a first love, to A Self Portrait,...
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An A-to-Z guide to the mystic poet's maxims and aphorisms. An early twentieth-century Lebanese-American writer, Khalil Gibran instilled his poetry and art with his experiences in both the East and West. This selection of quotes, maxims, and aphorisms is drawn from such poems as "Secrets of the Heart," "Spirits Rebellious," and "Broken Wings," as well as from his autobiography and essays. Gibran's words express a strong spirituality and mysticism and...
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Ricky and Lindi's heart behind this book is to help believers understand that they can all see into the Kingdom Realms, see and establish their mountains, behold and honour the physical body and its spiritual connection to the Kingdom Realms and Yahweh, and to engage with the power of speaking in tongues.
Every topic in this book is followed by an activation, walking you step by step into seeing and beholding.
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The Great Cistercian Mystics is an in-depth analysis of the mystical theology of the major Cistercian mystics of the 12th century, Bernard of Clairvaux, William of Saint-Thierry, Guerric of Igny, Isaac of Stella, and Aelred of Rievaulx, as well as the continuators of Bernard's sermons on the Song of Songs. It also contains a survey of the Cistercian women mystics of the 13th century.
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In spirituality and mysticism, many seek a counterbalance to the strong emphasis on the self that modernity demands of us: We desire a fixed self on the one hand and are fascinated by selflessness on the other. But is our fascination with selflessness not a ruse to make that self of ours even stronger? And is that self-critical question not the kernel of even traditional mysticism? Marc De Kesel investigates some dark rooms of the mystical tradition...
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Restores the Platonic history and context of mysticism and shows how mysticism helps us understand more deeply the humanities as a whole, from philosophy and literature to art.
In Platonic Mysticism, Arthur Versluis clearly and tautly argues that mysticism must be properly understood as belonging to the great tradition of Platonism. He demonstrates how mysticism was historically understood in Western philosophical and religious traditions and emphatically...
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"Winner of the 2019 I.R. Iran World Award for Book of the Year, Islamic Republic of Iran" Alexander Knysh is professor of Islamic studies at the University of Michigan. His many books include Islamic Mysticism: A Short History and Islam in Historical Perspective.
A pathbreaking history of Sufism, from the earliest centuries of Islam to the present
After centuries as the most important ascetic-mystical strand of Islam, Sufism saw a sharp decline...
10) Divine Mathematics: Unveiling the Secrets of Gematria Exploring the Mystical & Symbolic Significa
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Divine Mathematics: Unveiling the Secrets of Gematria
Exploring the Mystical & Symbolic Significance of Numerology in Jewish and Christian Traditions, & Beyond
For ages, gematria, the practice of assigning numerical values to Hebrew letters, has enthralled and divided people.
For some, it is a potent instrument for deciphering the hidden meanings of ancient books, discovering the world's secrets, and even predicting the future. For others, it is...
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Create Your Own Religion is a call to arms an open invitation to question all the values, beliefs, and worldviews that humanity has so far held as sacred in order to find the answers we need to the very practical problems facing us.
Writer, philosopher, and professor of comparative religion, Daniele Bolelli, leads the reader through three thousand years of mythology, misogyny, misinformation, and the flat-out lies about revealed truth that continue...
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Deeper, deeper, and deeper we go! In this fourth and final book of the Sonship Series, Jessica explores the ins and outs of walking in the power of Yahweh. As sons of God, we are the embodiment of Jesus everywhere we go. But what does that look like for us and for the world around us? How do we do the things that Jesus did? If you are ready for more, then buckle up as we close this series by exploring how to practically start walking in God's power...
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Embark on a Transformative Spiritual Quest
In "Dreamism: An Introduction to Modernized Mysticism," author Seth Ben Abraham invites you on an extraordinary journey into the heart of a new spiritual awakening. Bridging the gap between ancient wisdom and modern thought, this book unveils the inner understandings of Dreamism, a path that integrates profound mystical insights with the urgent needs of our contemporary world.
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This book is an original, non-denominational approach to the concept of divinity. The basic underlying philosophy is that, since the existence of God cannot be proven, one can only hypothesize about his/her/its existence. Mystics claim to know God through direct experience. Their views are amply represented. In conclusion, a hypothesis of divinity is formulated, inspired by the mystical view of the omnipresence of the Divine.
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This eclectic, perhaps quirky collection of reflections celebrates a longing to know who we are, who and what God is, and what the world is like. In joy and sorrow, each one mirrors the holiness of life, eliciting reverence--for ourselves, the natural world, and the mystery of what it means to be. Each conveys a sense of awe and wonder while pointing beyond mere observation, a deeper and more profound encounter than may first meet the eye. The faces...
16) Sense to Soul
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REVISED EDITION The way man has been living is not the Truth of Life. Man has been living on the words of man experiencing a life separate and apart from God and not by the Word of God, the consciousness of God through the revealed Christ of your own being. Why has no one asked: why, if there is a New Testament that gives of a God of grace, of love and forgiveness, harmony, peace and abundance does every religion based on a single God still express...
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Offers a new approach to Theosophy that takes into account its global dimensions and its interaction with highly diverse cultural contexts.
Theosophy across Boundaries brings a global history approach to the study of esotericism, highlighting the important role of Theosophy in the general histories of religion, science, philosophy, art, and politics. The first half of the book consists of seven perspectives on the activities of the Theosophical...
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Guardian ChroniclesSafeguarding the Soul Journey into the spiritual realm with "Guardian Chronicles: Safeguarding the Soul", a compendium of potent prayers and ancient rituals designed to protect, heal, and empower your soul. Rooted in age-old traditions and celestial wisdom, each passage resonates with the power to shield against modern-day adversities, negative energies, and unseen forces. Whether you seek solace from stress, a barrier against malevolent...
19) Beyond Jesus
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In the crucible of grief following a friend's death, Presbyterian pastor Patricia Pearce sensed a dimension of existence beneath her ordinary perception-and became resolved to discover it. She soon found herself in a vortex of revelatory dreams, synchronicities, energy openings, and insights that shattered her worldview, exposed a unified Reality of Love, and unveiled the illusory nature of the ego and the world it has created. Faced with these discoveries,...
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"Occult Science in India" by Louis Jacolliot, a French lawyer and prolific author, is a fascinating exploration of the roots of Western esoteric traditions in the East, written during the 1860s. In this era, when accurate insights into Hinduism were just emerging in the West, Jacolliot embarked on a captivating journey to uncover the ancient wisdom that influenced many Western mystical beliefs. The book's highlight is a riveting travelogue detailing...
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