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Fourteenth-century Germany produced three authors - Eckhart, Tauler, and Suso - who wrote numerous sermons, tracts, and anecdotes in the vernacular rather than Latin. This survey chronicles their lives, critiques their works, and discusses their influence on the development of Christian spiritual expression along with that of their contemporaries, the Friends of God and the Franciscan friars.
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Newly updated to emphasize its relevance to recent events as well as the coming turn of the millennium, this edition of The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus--including all the prescient verses of the 16th-century seer--will be the most sought-after book of its kind, now and for years to come.
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Join author Laura Duhan-Kaplan in the Kabbalah practice of Sefirat ha'Omer, a forty-nine-day program of spiritual reflection. Rabbi Laura weaves Kabbalah, philosophy, psychology, and her own experiences of love and loss into a series of daily reflections. She invites readers to explore the meaning of love, boundaries, beauty, endurance, gratitude, grounding, and presence. With a mix of stories and ideas, she helps readers find Shechinah, a divine...
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The Interior Castle, or The Mansions, (Spanish: El Castillo Interior or Las Moradas) was written by St. Teresa of Avila, O.C.D., the Spanish Discalced Carmelite nun and famed mystic, in 1577 as a guide for spiritual development through service and prayer. Inspired by her vision of the soul as a crystal globe in the shape of a castle containing seven mansions, which she interpreted as the journey of faith through seven stages, ending with union with...
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This unique reflection was prompted by an invitation Matthew Fox received to speak on the centennial of Thomas Merton's birth. Fox says that much of the trouble he's gotten into - such as being excommunicated in 1993 from the Dominican Order by Cardinal Ratzinger (who later became Pope Benedict) - was because of Thomas Merton, who sent Fox to Paris to complete a doctoral program in philosophy. Fox found that Merton's journals, poetry, and religious...
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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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Sex has many facets- biological sociological, esthetic, psychological, compulsive, ecstatic, tragic, playful, loving, perplexing and (I am told), even on occasion boring, but in this text is considered chiefly in its "transcendental" aspect. By this, I mean simply that in orgasm everybody experiences, to some degree, an explosion/implosion of the normal ego and a melting, merging, "oceanic" sensation of at one-ment.
There are many types of drugs...
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Along with Mother Teresa and John Paul II, Padre Pio is one of the most beloved and inspirational figures for both Catholics and people of belief throughout the world. Now, in Padre Pio-The Scent of Roses, award-winning journalist Colm Keane, brings accounts of the saint's wonderful influence up to date.
Using first-hand accounts of healing and recovery from illness, and through the stories of miracles and cures attributed to Padre Pio, this book...
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Meister Eckhart, a now-popular medieval German mystic, provides the contemporary person with a way of living that centers on nothing but God in everyday life. He insists that everyone--whatever they have done, whatever they believe--is one with God. Because of this, the good Meister sees no opposition between our spiritual and daily lives. We access oneness with God through letting go. Bliss and freedom flow from giving birth to this divine oneness...
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Ricky and Lindi's heart behind this book is to teach on the foundations of our belief so that Sons can step into the fullness of who they are.
In this book Ricky and Lindi cover the importance of untangling from religious beliefs, how to govern time and the power of deconstructing scripture. They also write about the importance of meditation, baptism and the laying on of hands. It is imperative as Sons of Yahweh that we engage with these foundations...
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Get drunk on Love, for Love is all that exists. Unless you make Love your business, you will not be admitted to the Beloved,' (Divan-i Shams-i Tabriz 455:A1:54). The thirteenth-century saint Jalaluddin Rumi has been called the greatest mystical poet of any age, and his work compared to that of Dante and Shakespeare. Over a period of 25 years he composed over 70,000 verses of poetry on the subjects of divine love, mystic passion and ecstatic illumination....
52) Lights of Fire
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1959 - a group of Russian hikers were going for a grade 3 certification on (the highest in the country during the period). A high-spirited team of ten members started on a hike for the Northern Urals of Russia...a vigorous trek that all of them have planned and prepared for. One hiker returns shortly due to health issues, a crisis it may have seemed at that time, but which will remarkably save his life. Few days pass and the nine have not returned....
53) 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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"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...
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An innovative handbook to the world of the Jewish mystics that opens up a window onto a higher reality. This unique guide to the world of the Jewish mystics will refashion the way you understand life, God and religion. Renowned teacher and spiritual mentor Rabbi Yoel Glick uses the secret traditions of Judaism and other faiths to show you how to deepen your self-knowledge and live life with greater meaning and awareness. Through the exploration of...
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Here is the Manual that was never, given to us when we were born on Earth. There is a dire need for this information right now. As we start feeling more adverse, conditions in the world at large, and our personal lives, it becomes more critical to shield ourselves from the unfavorable effects of these experiences. "Getting Back to Source: Tools for Connection Protection & Empowerment" allows us to put into practice tools and techniques for protection...
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A comprehensive exploration of the philosophical issues raised by mysticism.
This work is a comprehensive study of the philosophical issues raised by mysticism. Mystics claim to experience reality in a way not available in normal life, a claim which makes this phenomenon interesting from a philosophical perspective. Richard H. Jones's inquiry focuses on the skeleton of beliefs and values of mysticism: knowledge claims made about the nature of reality...
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Just imagine. What if deep in the unexplored wilderness of your inner soul lies a secret passage into a place where silence speaks of all there is to know--a place to which we can only point--yet, once discovered, we know it better, trust it more, than any other place we could possibly conceive of or imagine? What if, beyond all you've ever feared, beyond all your doubts, even beyond all your questions, there was a simple answer waiting, waiting for...
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