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New York: Schocken, 1977. 184 pages. More
New York: Schocken, 1977. 184 pages. More
New York: 1996. What Manner of Man is the Prophet? by Abraham J. Heschel - A classic inquiry; "The First Prophet: An Interview with Seyyed Hossein Nasr" - Divine reality in the world of creation; "Partial Revelation of the Truth" by Walter Gardini - A modern prophet's theory of education;..... More
New York: 2005. 30th Anniversary Issue; Contains "An Eternal Perfume" Patrick Laude - Mystery and beauty as the true fundamentals; "Do Many Heads Necessarily Have Many Minds?" Wendy Doniger - Tracking the sources of Hindu tolerance and intolerance; "Beyond Views" An exchange with Thich Nhat Hanh; "Lines in the Sand"..... More
New York: Tarcher / Penguin, 2007. First edition. 285 pages. In Why Can't We Be Good? Needleman identifies the core problem that therapists and social philosophers fail to see. He depicts the individual human as a being who knows what is good, yet who remains mysteriously helpless to innerly adopt..... More
New York: 1995. First edition. Twentieth anniversary issue; Contains "Divine and Human Lovers" - A Photographic Gallery, "Between Heaven and Earth: An interview with Jacob Needleman" - The connection between humanity and a higher level, "The Five-fold Sacrament" by Indra Sinha - Tantra and erotic communion, "Desire and Illusion: Two..... More
New York: 2012. First printing. Contents include PATHS ARE MADE FOR WALKING by Nipun Mehta: Four steps to take on the road of life, A SHIFT IN VISION by Barbara Helen Berger: The unexpected potential of negative space, THE TWILIGHT OF CERTAINTY by Rob Percival: Raised in darkness, they strive..... More
New York: 2012. First printing. Contents include PATHS ARE MADE FOR WALKING by Nipun Mehta: Four steps to take on the road of life, A SHIFT IN VISION by Barbara Helen Berger: The unexpected potential of negative space, THE TWILIGHT OF CERTAINTY by Rob Percival: Raised in darkness, they strive..... More
New York: 2004. Contains "Ours Is Not a Dead Universe" by Seyyed Hossein Nasr - The primacy of consciousness; "Witnessing the Great Life" by Christopher Bamford - An epiphany "Praying to God in Every Place" by Paul Sorrell - The spiritual unity of humanity and nature; "All Those Shining Worlds"..... More
New York: 2005. First edition. 30th Anniversary Issue; Contains "Wake-up Calls: Some Ancient Hindu Myths" by Wendy Doniger - Reincarnation and deja-vu, "Passing Through the Sun-door" by Peter Samsel - Liberation from the realm of contraries, "I Sleep, but My Heart Is Awake" - An Interview with Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz..... More
New York: 2005. First edition. 30th Anniversary Issue; Contains "Wake-up Calls: Some Ancient Hindu Myths" by Wendy Doniger - Reincarnation and deja-vu, "Passing Through the Sun-door" by Peter Samsel - Liberation from the realm of contraries, "I Sleep, but My Heart Is Awake" - An Interview with Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz..... More
New York: 2005. Contains "Spirit, Body, and In-between" by William Chittick - Ambiguity and the intermediate realm; "Bees of the Invisible World" by Martha Heyneman - Rilke's soul at work; "Intentional Blending" by G. I. Gurdjieff - The birth of one's own initiative (illustrated with two paintings by Paul Reynard);..... More
New York: 1997. Contains "With Visible Breath" by Joseph Bruchac - Sacred powers in Native American traditions; "A Theater That Transforms Us" by William A. McIntosh - Giving drama to a teaching; "The Milk of Miracles" by Eliezer Shore - The inner meaning of miraculous stories; "Compassion's Flower" - An..... More
Ghent: Sophia Perennis, 2001. 127 pages. Most of us are deeply committed to a cult of change. We believe in the essential beneficence of progress. We deal piecemeal with the frightening range of new problems that increasingly beset our society, but the assumptions underlying the ideology of progress are seldom..... More
New York: 2008. Contains A GUERRILLA GUIDE TO THE POPOL VUH by Sarah Jane Sloane - An ancient myth lights the path to justice, THE OPPOSITE OF INJUSTICE is Compassion by Charlotte Joko Beck - Healing advice from a modern Zen master, DOING JUSTICE TO LIFE - A conversation with..... More
New York: 2007. Contains Down Came the Door of Dharma by Trebbe Johnson - Lovemaking between humans and gods; The Most Sacred of Places by Rick Blum - A story of Moses; Jordan Was Driven Back by Eugene Myshkin - Sex in the light of tradition; Spiritual Teachings on Sex..... More
New York: 1991. Contains "The One Who Flies All Around the World" by Thomas Buckley - The dance of wealth among the Yurok Indians, "The Role of Money" by Sri Aurobindo - Reconquering a metaphor for the Divine, "The Test of Giving" by Philip Zaleski - Exploring the impulse behind..... More
New York: 1992. First edition. Contains "Living with Sacred Power" by Alan L. Miller - How we fear and long for God, "Quest for the Summit" by Ron Matous - The energy of the mountain climber, "Food for Transformation" by P. D. Ouspensky - G. I. Gurdjieff's description of the..... More
New York: Parabola Books, 2004. Foreward by Larry Dossey; Articles by Jacques Lusseyran, Thomas Dooling, Kat Duff, Edward Srachura, Lewis Thomas, Marvin Barrett; Milton H. Erikson; Arthur Osborne, Helen M. Luke and others; 228 pages. More
New York: Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition, 2006. Includes a brief excerpt from a talk by Lord John Pentland titled The Thinking of a Man of Vision: Four Virtues of a Real Thinker, also, a review of Frank Sinclair's Without Benefit of Clergy reviewed by David Appelbaum..... More
New York: Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition, 2005. Includes "Another Axis Within", An Interview with Paul Reynard; "On Not Speaking" by Brother Paul Quenon; "The Secret Practice" by Laura Simms; "Negative Capability" by Christopher Bamford; "Nothing to Gain, Nothing to Lose" by Sheng Yen; "Listening to Another"..... More
Hillsdale: Sophia Perennis, 2004. First edition. 490 pages. The interfaith movement, which began with the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago, has grown worldwide. Although this movement has been largely unknown to the public, it now provides a spiritual face for globalization, the economic and political forces leading us..... More
2007. Brief quotations on hundreds of subjects; Introduction by Huston Smith; Foreword by Marco Pallis; 1,144 pages. More
New York: 1996. Contains "The Noble Traveler by Alvin Moore, Jr. - The soul in the subtle realm; "Lord of Flowers" by Laurette Séjourné - Causing the flower of the body to bloom; "The Soul's Religion" by Thomas Moore - Religion as--not versus--spirituality; "Ba and Khu" by Normandi Ellis -..... More
London: Temenos, 1983. Contributors include Joscelyn Godwin on the Golden Chain of Orpheus, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Sohravardi with commentary by Henry Corbin, Robert Duncan, Brian Keeble, S.N. Nasr, Kathleen Raine, Czeslaw Milosz on Swedenborg plus the poem Pax, plus reviews, also, Eight color plates of dyed paintings on the subject of..... More
London: Temenos, 1984. Contributors include Kathleen Raine on Yeats and Kabir, Jean Mabrino, Peter Redgrove, Sisirkumar Ghose, Marco Pallis, Keith Critchlow, Jan le Witt, Peter Malekin, Philip Sherrard on C.P. Cavafy, plus reviews, also, Eight color plates of Islamic geometric designs with an introdcutionory essay by Keith Critchlow; 296 pages..... More