The book ranges across the origins of ecology, the nature of spirituality and religion, the evidence for non-human intelligence, ecopsychology and the ecological self. It examines animism, parapsychology and sacred geography.
This book is the first scholarly study of the life and work of Joséphin Péladan that succeeds in placing it in the context of the history of Western Esotericism while also providing a clear roadmap to the entirety of Péladan’s initiatory teachings and philosophy of the esoteric power of art.
Through a careful study of Sri Ramakrishna’s recorded oral teachings in the original Bengali, Ayon Maharaj (also known as Swami Medhananda) reconstructs his philosophical positions and analyzes them from a cross-cultural perspective. Sri Ramakrishna’s spiritual journey culminated in the exalted state of “vijñana,” his term for the “intimate knowledge” of God as the Infinite Reality that is both personal and impersonal, with and without form, immanent in the universe and beyond it.
This book provides a timely synthesis and discussion of recent developments in mindfulness research and practice within mental health and addiction domains. The book also discusses other Buddhist-derived interventions – such as loving-kindness meditation and compassion meditation – that are gaining momentum in clinical settings.
Jeffrey Mishlove gives skeptics room to voice their most sophisticated criticism of parapsychology research and allows researchers their most articulate responses. The reader will find a clear and unbiased presentation of a wide variety of phenomena long relegated to the realm of the “supernatural,” and of new theories now unifying these phenomena with leading physicists’ understandings of the universe.