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The co-editors of Gnosis magazine explore the many esoteric traditions that Western culture has to offer. While terms from Eastern spiritual practices such as Zen, mantra, and karma have become part of our daily lexicon, the traditions of Western spirituality have been largely unexplored by people searching for non-mainstream routes to spiritual experience. But for those who identify with Western culture, Western religious traditions have their own wisdom teachings that are more suitable to their needs and expectations.

Do you need religion to find fulfillment in life? According to J. W. Adams, the answer is "no." In his most comprehensive philosophical work to date, Adams demonstrates that enlightenment has one condition: an open mind. Allow the universe to help you with your own journey by listening carefully to the guiding voice within. This deluxe revised and expanded edition features revised daily affirmations, an interactive journal, and additional resources.

These teachings of the Tree of Life were given to me by my teacher, and they had been given to him by his teacher. I know they were passed down for ages in various forms and wording, but the essence remains the same. These are the teachings that were taken away from human beings when they fell out of Eden. They are available now to people so that they might be reunited with God. They include all the tools and means for people to become one with God and to be able to fully realize God in the center of their being.

THE CHERUBINIC WANDERER: Angelus Silesius Translated by J.E. Crawford Flitch, 1932.

The true account of a man drawn to explore the mysteries of Tibetan spirituality hidden from the outside world for centuries. The story begins in the Highlands of Scotland and quickly moves to the "roof of the world" in the Himalayas where questions are put, and answers revealed, by master teachers in the monasteries on the High Plateau. Set at a time before the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950 and the destruction of hundreds of monasteries and the torture and murder of monks that followed, Dr. MacDonald-Bayne gives the reader a rare glimpse of life as it was.

The Shepherd of Hermas: Hermas of Rome, brother to Pius, bishop of Rome, second century. Translated by the Rev. F. Crombie, MA, 1885.

This audiobook is for people who have been serious about the spiritual path and their connection to the divine. The teachings given here are to move you deeper and into a more conscious relationship to the inner self, which is God, at the center of your being. It is instructive and practical. Each of the lessons contains an exercise, or meditation, that will move you deeper into the experience of God. It is not really for beginners, but if you are just beginning, it will be helpful.

While belief in religious supernatural claims is waning throughout the West, evidence suggests belief in nonreligious supernatural claims is on the rise. What explains this contradiction? How can a society with a falling belief in God have a rising belief in ghosts, psychic powers, ancient astronauts, and other supernatural or pseudo-scientific phenomena? Taking the same anthropological approach he employed in his notable studies of religion, atheist author and activist David G. McAfee turns his attention to nonreligious faith-based claims.

Public opinion will not long endure a theory which does not work in practice. Today, probably more than ever before, man demands proof of the truth of even his highest ideal. For ultimate satisfaction man must find a principle that is for him a way of life, a principle that he can experience as true. I believe I have discovered just such a principle in the greatest of all sacred writings, the Bible. Drawn from my own mystical illumination, this book reveals the truth buried within the stories of the Old and New Testaments alike.

We have all had experiences where we stretched past what was familiar. We took a risk, we tried something new, we decided to be different - and we entered into a more expanded, more powerful, and more complete way of being, at least for a brief moment. In his new book, The Joy of Stretching, Father Peter Bowes delivers us the tools and the insights needed to turn this kind of personal stretching into a continuous discipline and a regular source of abundant joy.

The story of Jesus is a complete and undeviating persistence in the assumption that you are what you want to be. If you haven't experienced wealth and that is what you want, persistently assume, "I am wealthy." If you have not experienced fame, assume you are famous, but, "The day will come," saith the Lord, "when I will send a famine upon you. It will not be a hunger for bread or a thirst for water, but for the hearing of my Word." If that hunger hasn't come to you, then take the same story of Jesus and fulfill your every desire.

Man's three greatest needs are: to feel that he is needed, wanted and loved; to feel that he belongs to the universe in which he lives, and to have an object or objects upon which to lavish his affection. It is now known that most unhappiness comes from a sense of being rejected; of not being wanted, needed and loved. It is also known that a large percent of our physical troubles is a direct result of emotional congestions that follow in the wake of feeling that we don't belong to life.

This is the third book in the series. In this volume you learn of Higher Realms of Consciousness, Emotion and Reality and the Attitudes and Behaviors that align with them.

Did you know, for example, that people who were born on March 4 in leap years or March 5 in common years are not only people-pendulums subject to fluctuations, but also are real sexual maniacs? Did you know that people who were born on March 9 of leap years or March 10 of common years are like giant ovens: they diligently study various philosophical, religious, psychological, scientific, and cultural systems only in order to "burn" it all later, saying: "This is nonsense"? Also, did you know that they can bring anyone to the state of alcoholism?

Public opinion will not long endure a theory which does not work in practice. Today, probably more than ever before, man demands proof of the truth of even his highest ideal. For ultimate satisfaction man just find a principle which is for him a way of life, a principle which he can experience as true. I believe I have discovered just such a principle in the greatest of all sacred writings, the Bible. Drawn from my own mystical illumination this book reveals the truth buried within the stories of the old and new testaments alike.

Paul tells us that whatever was written in former times was written for our instruction. When he speaks of things "written in former time", he means only the Old Testament. He quotes no other book. He doesn't quote Plato, the Vedas, Upanishads, or any ancient book- only the Old Testament; and he tells us that they were written - these books - for our instruction.

Throughout the ages people have prayed, and you and I know that no sincere prayer was ever uttered without helping the one who gave it. We know that faith has done more than any other one thing to keep hope alive. We know that always in times of stress people have turned to god. But we really want to know something beyond this. We want to discover the secret of prayer as an effective force which actually can accomplish definite results.

Fragrance mysticism portends to the aromas of particular events or places in the realms and spheres of out-of-body travel and could be said to be a mystical theology of the path of purification leading to union with the Divine. Every out-of-body experience or event contains an energy, a fragrance, an aroma, which permeates the atmosphere and contains within it the knowledge of that realm.

Shamanism is the oldest type of spiritual practice on the planet. It has been practiced for centuries by indigenous cultures all over the world. Anthropologists have studied the practice for years. The core value of shamanism is that all things are alive and embody the spirit. This practice is a path of direct revelation and grants all individuals access to healing and guidance from the spirit world. It's a way of carrying knowledge that we are not separate from each other but are all connected.

Death as progression in out-of-body travel and mysticism demonstrated by the continuing cyclic exchange between birth and death and the born and the unborn. The final journey can also be one of many out-of-body journeys embarked upon in this human life.