Mysticism category: 2293 books
Sufism
A New History of Islamic Mysticism
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
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 in the twentieth century, only to experience a stunning revival in recent decades. In this comprehensive new...
The Conscious Activist
Where Activism Meets Mysticism
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Award-winning author James O'Dea has created a handbook for those interested in Sacred Activism, a fusing spiritual knowledge with radical action. O'Dea outlines the polarities between the inner path of spiritual growth and the outer path of social activism, concluding that the two must co-exist in...
by Michael Green
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
This book is a collection of the finest mystical writings of the great physicists of the 20th Century. They are Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Wolfgang Pauli, James Jeans, Arthur Eddington, Eugene Wigner, David Bohm, and Freeman Dyson. The essays are...
The Ayahuasca Experience
A Sourcebook on the Sacred Vine of Spirits
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2014
An exploration of the chemical, biological, psychological, and experiential dimensions of ayahuasca
• Details the scientific discovery of ayahuasca’s sophisticated psychoactive delivery system in the brain and body and its potential applications in medicine and psychology
• Includes...
Becoming God
The Path of the Christian Mystic
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Mystics are those who seek a direct experience of the Presence of God. Mysticism is not exclusive to Christianity. It is the vital, animating element at the heart of every religion. The spiritual marriage, the mystics tell us, is not merely a conforming to the ways and will of God but a total transforming...
The Cloud of Unknowing
A New Translation
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
This anonymous fourteenth-century text is the glory of English mysticism, and one of the most practical and useful guides to finding union with God ever written. Carmen Acevedo Butcher’s new translation is the first to bring the text into a modern English idiom—while remaining strictly faithful...
The Garden of Truth
Knowledge, Love, and Action
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The headlines are filled with the politics of Islam, but there is another side to the world's fastest-growing religion. Sufism is the poetry and mysticism of Islam. This mystical movement from the early ninth century rejects worship motivated by the desire for heavenly reward or the fear of punishment,...
The Direct Path
Creating a Personal Journey to the Divine Using the World's Spirtual Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2002
"The Direct Path is the Path to God without dogma or priests or gurus, the Path of DIRECT self-empowerment and self-awakening. Whether you know it yet or not, you have been on it since the day you were born."
Today more Americans than ever consider themselves to be "spiritual"...
The Magus of Strovolos
The Extraordinary World of a Spiritual Healer
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2003
In this vivid account, Kryiacos C Markides introduces to us the rich and intricate world of Daskalso, The Magus of Strovolos. In what appears at first to be an exercise in fantasy, we see Daskalos draw on seemingly unlimited mixture of esoteric teachings, psychology, reincarnation, demonology, cosmology...
by E. Allison Peers
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Groundbreaking study of 16th-century Spain's golden age of mysticism briefly explores the period as background to the works and personalities of 15 mystical authors, with extracts from the writings of Juan of Ávila, St. John of the Cross, St. Ignatius of Loyola, Alonso de Orozco, Luis de Granada, Diego de Estella, and 9 others.
The Great German Mystics
Eckhart, Tauler and Suso
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
The remarkable mystic movement of fourteenth-century Germany produced three major writers — Eckhart, Tauler, and Suso — as well as a wide audience for their voluminous works. This survey chronicles the authors' lives, critiques their works, and discusses their influence on the development of Christian...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
The Cloud of Unknowing (Middle English: The Cloude of Unknowyng) is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the latter half of the 14th century. The text is a spiritual guide on contemplative prayer in the late Middle Ages.The Cloud of Unknowing draws on the mystical...
Hafiz
The Mystic Poets
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Discover How Hafiz’s Spiritual Life and Vision Can Enlighten Your Own
Hafiz is known throughout the world as Persia’s greatest poet, with sales of his poems in Iran today only surpassed by those of the Qur’an itself. His probing and joyful verse speaks to people from all backgrounds who...
Muslim Saints and Mystics
Episodes from the Tadhkirat al-Auliya' (Memorial of the Saints)
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
This is a major work of Islamic mysticism by the great thirteenth-century Persian poet, Farid al-Din Attar. Translated by A J Arberry, Attar’s work and thought is set in perspective in a substantial introduction.