Sacred texts, scriptures and revered writings

A guide to reconnecting with Jesus, Mary, and the saints as shamanic teachers of divine mysteries*; Contains meditations, contemplations, parables, and active ritual tasks that help bring forth a shamanic understanding and practice of Christianity*; Shows shamanic experience to be the root of mystical communionWhen the missionaries came to North America to ';save' the American Indians, they were perplexed to discover that while they talked about Jesus, some of the Indians claimed to talk directly with him.

Thomas Merton is one of the most influential spiritual figures of the twentieth century.

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This book is an interdisciplinary and multicultural study of ancient and contemporary texts that encode women's spirituality.

Scattered throughout the Talmud, the founding document of rabbinic Judaism in late antiquity, can be found quite a few references to Jesus--and they're not flattering.

*; Details the nine stages of the ancient Egyptian initiatory path, describing each stage's powers as well as the culminating ceremony called ';The Crown of Isis' *; Provides profound guided meditations for each of the nine stages and illustrates the manifestation of this path's principles through stories of awakening *; Shares the author's personal journey as a Garment of Isis and her own powerful interactions with Isis, which culminated in her serving as Oracle of Isis at the Parliament of World Religions in Chicago in 1993 The Sacred Science of ancient Egypt was an initiatory spiritual system, a technology of consciousness designed to birth a mystical communion with the divinities, an embodied union of being between the eternal and the mortal.

The companion resource to the bestselling Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old TestamentSouthwestern Journal of Theology 2023 Book of the YearWith the torrent of publications on the use of the Old Testament in the New Testament, it's time for a dictionary dedicated to this incredibly rich yet diverse field.

Sayings, prayers and stories drawn from the life and teachings of one of the world's greatest spiritual teachers are here brought together - for the first time - as reflections for each day of the year.

Armed with a generous heart, subtle mind, and a PhD in comparative religion from Columbia, Lex Hixon, as host for WBAI's In the Spirit, was able to interview and skillfully probe the leading spiritual lights of the seventies and beyond.

Psychoanalysis and Wisdom applies psychoanalytic insights into one of the great examples of wisdom literature, the Ethics of the Fathers, an ethical tractate of the Talmud.

Prevailing stories about law and religion place great faith in the capacity of legal multiculturalism, rights-based toleration, and conceptions of the secular to manage issues raised by religious difference.

A deep exploration of the direct experience of non-dual reality and its lessons for spiritual growth and development*; Examines the direct perception of non-dual reality and shows its implications for navigating ordinary reality in an open, compassionate, and ever-maturing way*; Shares the author's most significant awakening experiences and explores their psycho-emotional and psychospiritual foundations*; Offers practical teachings for spiritual understanding, emotional development, and the cultivation of compassionExploring the direct perception of non-dual, ';non-ordinary' reality, Paul Weiss shares guidance for navigating ordinary reality in an open, compassionate, and ever-maturing way.

This volume is the first trilateral exploration of medieval scriptural interpretation.

More than two decades have passed since Chicago published the first volume of this groundbreaking work in the Religion and Postmodernism series.

In this companion to his best-selling translation ofThe Dhammapada, Eknath Easwaran explains howThe Dhammapadais a perfect map for the spiritual journey.

Sufism is Islam's principal mystical tradition.

Magic and Mysticism: An Introduction to Western Esoteric Traditions is a concise overview, from antiquity to the present, of all the major Western religious esoteric movements.

Islam in Africa is deeply connected with Sufism, and the history of Islam is in a significant way a history of Sufism.

Between 2007 and 2011, Michael Eigen gave three seminars in Seoul, each running over three days and covering different aspects of psychoanalysis, spirituality and the human psyche.

This first-ever English translation of Nur Baba - a classic of modern Turkish literature written by Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu - offers a unique window into Sufi lodges, social dilemmas, and intellectual life in early twentieth-century Istanbul.

The finalisation of Volumes I and II completes Eckhart=s Edition of Latin Works (with the exception of the Register).

A radical reexamination of Western history that suggests the descendants of Moses were the architects of the rise of the Roman Church and the ancestors of European aristocracy *; Answers the inexplicable disappearance of all mention of Moses's descendants from the Bible *; Reveals the key role played by Josephus Flavius in shaping early Christianity *; Explains the connection of this secret priesthood to modern secret societies like the Freemasons After the book of Exodus, Moses's two sons and numerous descendants all vanish from the Bible.

Die Menschen stehen in ihrem eigenen Schatten und trüben dadurch meist ihre Lebensumstände.

Ahreum Kim re-examines conquering language in 1 John, arguing that when the letter is read with the context of Greco-Roman culture in mind, the conflict extends beyond in-fighting within the Johannine community.

Writing Teresa: The Saint from Avila at the fin-de-siglo examines the Teresa de Jesus "e;boom"e; of roughly 1880-1930 and offers an in-depth study of five major Spanish participants in the turn-of-the-twentieth-century explosion of literary treatments of St.

The War Texts is the name given to a small group of Dead Sea Scrolls that depict the preparation for and the various phases of the eschatological battle between the 'Sons of Light' and the 'Sons of Darkness'.

2016 BIBLE OF THE YEAR - CRT Awards 2016A bright, lively new edition of the UK's bestselling Bible, perfect for helping children to enjoy and engage with the Bible.

In the Ethico-Religious Concepts in the Qur'an Toshihiko Izutsu analyzes the guiding spirit of the Islamic moral code, the basic ethical relationship of man to God.

Mystics are path-breaking religious practitioners who claim to have experience the infinite, word-defying Mystery that is God.

In this companion to his best-selling translation ofThe Dhammapada, Eknath Easwaran explains howThe Dhammapadais a perfect map for the spiritual journey.

Practical Mysticism in Islam and Christianity offers a comparative study of the works of the Sufi-poet Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-1273) and the practical teachings of the German Dominican, Meister Eckhart (c1260-1327/8).

The language of the Bible can be beautiful but profoundly elusive, possessing a strangeness that only deepens the committed reader's sense of its impenetrability.

Newton's heretical yet equation-incisive writings on theology, spirituality, alchemy, and prophecy, written in secret alongside his Principia Mathematica *; Shows how Newton's brilliance extended far beyond math and science into alchemy, spirituality, prophecy, and the search for lost continents such as Atlantis *; Explains how he was seeking to rediscover the one true religion that existed prior to the Flood of Noah, when science and spirituality were one *; Examines Newton's alternate timeline of prehistory and his study of prophecy through the Book of Revelations, including his prediction of Apocalypse in the year 2060 Isaac Newton (1643-1727) is still regarded by the world as the greatest scientist who ever lived.

This volume studies concrete examples of how female monastic spirituality acquires allegorical-symbolic connotations when representing itself, the world or life in the monasteries of the Hispanic area.

A fresh, new prose translation of the classic Indian poem, ideally focused for students and teachers and for yoga teacher training The Bhagavad Gita, a small section of the massive Sanskrit epic the Mahabharata, is one of the central texts of Indian culture and philosophy, and one of the great works of world literature.

Mystikerin – Frauenrechtlerin – Ganzheitsmedizinerin – VisionärinWas uns eine der einflussreichsten Frauen des Mittelalters heute noch zu sagen hatSeit Jahrhunderten geht von der hl.

Analyzing the intersection between Sufism and philosophy, this volume is a sweeping examination of the mystical philosophy of Muhyi-l-Din Ibn al-?

This book offers a new, multidisciplinary way of thinking about the Kingdom of God which fully recognises its sociological and spatial significance in performing boundaries of the sacred.