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| spiritual quest ran: The Spiritual Quest Robert Mitchell Torrance, 1994 This treatise argues that the quest for the spirit is not a rare mystical experience, but a frequent expression of basic human impulses, rooted in our biological, psychological and social nature. It presents the quest in the myths and religious practices of tribal people throughout the world. |
| spiritual quest ran: Through the Eyes of Blue Catherine Matsalla, 2021-06-04 Ellie and Blue have been running their entire lives. An internationally recognized ultraendurance athlete, Ellie has competed in the world’s most difficult races, with her faithful canine companion, Blue, never far from her side. Beyond running, they’ve navigated life’s most daunting challenges. But locked behind Blue’s soulful eyes is a secret—a secret that will change their lives forever. A timeless story exploring the depths of love, loyalty and perseverance between Ellie and her dog, Blue, who learn that sometimes self-discovery, resilience and redemption come from the most unlikely and unexpected places. |
| spiritual quest ran: ThirdWay , 1988-11 Monthly current affairs magazine from a Christian perspective with a focus on politics, society, economics and culture. |
| spiritual quest ran: THE CURSE SHANKAR BHAT, 2023-02-11 Aptly named THE CURSE, Shivananda suffers all his life after being cursed by a grief-stricken mother that he will never find peace for the harm he had inflicted on her family. Although in the garb of a Swamiji he wanders all over the country, trying to guide youngsters, it is only after a chance encounter with his daughter, born out of a wedlock, that he realizes he has never worked or earned money to be independent and has always stretched out his hand to beg for alms transformed by her bitter acrid comment he starts working, earns a lot of money which he uses for acts of social transformation in his community. This activity extends as he reaches the Himalayas to find his original Guru and here he finds some solace from the work at last, before he breathes his last in those surroundings. The loneliness of his life is finally absolved with the service to mankind. |
| spiritual quest ran: Mystic Modernity Ashim Dutta, 2021-12-05 This is a transnational and bilingual investigation of the cross-fertilisation of mystical religiosity and modern poetical imagination in the works of the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore and the Irish poet W. B. Yeats. The book demonstrates how their commitments to transnational mysticism deeply form and inform the modernist literary projects of these poets as well as their understanding of cultural modernity. Although its primary interest lies in their poetry and poetics, the monograph also includes some of their relevant prose works. This study begins with a close look at and around the phase of 1912-1913, when Yeats and Tagore met over the collection of the latter’s English translations of his spiritual verses, Gitanjali, and took mutual interests in each other’s works and cultural significances. The monograph then expands on both sides of that phase, selectively covering the whole career of the poets in its exploration of their parallel mystic-modern cultural-poetical projects. |
| spiritual quest ran: Betrayal of the Spirit Nori J. Muster, 2013-03-15 Combining behind-the-scenes coverage of an often besieged religious group with a personal account of one woman's struggle to find meaning in it, Betrayal of the Spirit takes readers to the center of life in the Hare Krishna movement. Nori J. Muster joined the International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON)--the Hare Krishnas--in 1978, shortly after the death of the movement's spiritual master, and worked for ten years as a public relations secretary and editor of the organization's newspaper, the ISKCON World Review. In this candid and critical account, Muster follows the inner workings of the movement and the Hare Krishnas' progressive decline. Combining personal reminiscences, published articles, and internal documents, Betrayal of the Spirit details the scandals that beset the Krishnas--drug dealing, weapons stockpiling, deceptive fundraising, child abuse, and murder within ISKCON–as well as the dynamics of schisms that forced some 95 percent of the group's original members to leave. In the midst of this institutional disarray, Muster continued her personal search for truth and religious meaning as an ISKCON member until, disillusioned at last with the movement's internal divisions, she quit her job and left the organization. In a new preface to the paperback edition, Muster discusses the personal circumstances that led her to ISKCON and kept her there as the movement's image worsened. She also talks about the darkest secret–child abuse in the ISKCON parochial schools--that was covered up by the public relations office where she worked. |
| spiritual quest ran: Opening to Fullness of Spirit Carolyn Greer Daly, 2016-07-06 This book is about an individual’s journey into the world of the unknown when asked the question by one of her Sunday school students, Can you believe in reincarnation and still be a Christian? In finding the answer, the author is introduced to automatic writing and with this the adventure begins. |
| spiritual quest ran: Buckley: Victorian Temper Jerome Hamilton Buckley, 2012-11-12 First Published in 1966. This volume is selected collection of what can be constituted as ‘Victorian Temper’ with parallel motifs in Victorian painting and in the plastic arts, The author draws most freely upon literary sources, including a good many minor writers whose work, whatever its subsequent fate, was in its day broadly representative. He has sought an interpretation of what might be called the Victorian temper rather than a reappraisal of Victorian talents. |
| spiritual quest ran: Christianity in South and Central Asia Kenneth R. Ross, 2019-03-14 This comprehensive reference volume covers every country in South and Central Asia, offering reliable demographic information and original interpretative essays by indigenous scholars and practitioners. It maps patterns of growth and decline, assesses major traditions and movements, analyses key themes and examines current trends. |
| spiritual quest ran: The Sacred Network Chris H. Hardy, 2011-02-23 How sacred sites amplify the energies of consciousness, the earth, and the universe • Examines the web of geometrical patterns linking sacred sites worldwide, with special focus on the sacred network of ley lines in Paris • Unveils the coming state of shared consciousness for humanity fueled by the sacred network • Reveals how consciousness is a tangible form of energy First marked by the standing stones of our megalithic ancestors, the world’s sacred sites are not only places of spiritual energy but also hubs of cosmic energy and earthly energy. Generation upon generation has recognized the power of these sites, with the result that each dominant culture builds their religious structures on the same spots--the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, for example, was constructed over a Temple to Diana that in turn had been built over a stone pillar worshipped by the Gauls. In The Sacred Network, Chris Hardy shows how the world’s sacred sites coincide with the intersections of energetic waves from the earth’s geomagnetic field and how--via their megaliths, temples, and steeples--these sites act as antennae for the energies of the cosmos. Delving deeply in to Paris’s sacred network, she also explores the intricate geometrical patterns created by the alignments of churches and monuments, such as pentagrams and Stars of David. Revealing that consciousness is a tangible energy, she explains how the sacred network is fueling an 8,000-year evolutionary cycle initiated by our megalithic ancestors that will soon culminate in a new state of shared consciousness for humanity. |
| spiritual quest ran: Reading Spiritualities Dawn Llewellyn, 2016-04-01 The phenomenon of 'sacred text' has undergone radical deconstruction in recent times, reflecting how religion has broken out of its traditional definitions and practices, and how current literary theories have influenced texts inside the religious domain and beyond. Reading Spiritualities presents both commentary and vivid examples of this evolution, engaging with a variety of reading practices that work with traditional texts and those that extend the notion of 'text' itself. The contributors draw on a range of textual sites such as an interview, Caribbean literature, drama and jazz, women's writings, emerging church blogs, Neopagan websites, the reading practices of Buddhist nuns, empirical studies on the reading experiences of Gujarati, Christian and post-Christian women, Chicana short stories, the mosque, cinema, modern art and literature. These examples open up understandings of where and how 'sacred texts' are emerging and being reassessed within contemporary religious and spiritual contexts; and make room for readings where the spiritual resides not only in the textual, but in other unexpected places. Reading Spiritualities includes contributions from Graham Holderness, Ursula King, Michael N. Jagessar, David Jasper, Anthony G. Reddie, Michèle Roberts, and Heather Walton to reflect and encourage the interdisciplinary study of sacred text in the broad arena of the arts and social sciences. It offers a unique and well-focused 'snapshot' of the textual constructions and representations of the sacred within the contemporary religious climate - accessible to the general reader, as well as more specialist interests of students and researchers working in the crossover fields of religious, theological, cultural and literary studies. |
| spiritual quest ran: The Ultimate Soul Journey James Gilliland, 2016-01-20 There is a saying, As one ascends into the planes of nirvana and bliss, not only are there tests, initiations and challenges, but the dark rises as well, to rear its ugly head in opposition. By putting out this book, I hope to offer some guidelines on how to transcend problems and limitations, and support those who are awakening and are having similar experiences. If you are now struggling with some issues, it is good that they have come up for scrutiny and healing. You may not realize this yet, but you too are a powerful, loving, manifesting God/Goddess, and you lack nothing. You are the spark waiting to burst into the full flame of creation. I wish you the very best on your own awakening process, your own Journey back to Source. James Gilliland |
| spiritual quest ran: Clergy Table Talk Kent Ira Groff, 2012-04-12 What goes on in the back of clergy folks' heads that we wish we could talk about? And what do we talk about with no holds barred? In each chapter of this book, Groff offers a spiritual spin on an issue in ministry normally viewed as a distraction. He shows real life ways that a barrier can become a bridge to deepening spiritual life and vocation. A paragraph ends with a question, inviting the reader to pause . . . and ponder. Each chapter ends with a spiritual practice and questions for reflection. Here is ideal grist for intergenerational study groups for ministers, members, and seekers. |
| spiritual quest ran: The Contemplative Practitioner John P. Miller, 2014-01-01 Describes how the experience of the whole through mindful contemplation can release energy and knowledge for practical use in the classroom and in the place of business. |
| spiritual quest ran: The Many Lives of Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna Veejay Sai, 2022-09-12 Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna, an internationally renowned Carnatic musician from the illustrious musical lineage of composer Saint Tyagaraja, wore many hats in his lifetime. Having made a stage debut at the age of seven, he was hailed as a child prodigy. From then till the time he passed away, at age eighty-six in 2016, he continued to be in the spotlight, not just for his extraordinary talent and versatility as a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, but as a composer, playback singer and even, briefly, as a character actor. He was a primary school dropout, a teenage poet and composer, a restless mind, a polyglot, a legacy upholder, a wordsmith, an ice cream lover and a pathbreaker. This is a story of the many lives of Dr Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna. Veejay Sai's in-depth research into his life and work led him deep into unseen archival material and across the Carnatic musical landscape of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Fortified by interviews with his family members, disciples and peers, The Many Lives of Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna, a definitive biography of the musical genius, is not only a revealing account of the personal traits and facets of an unparallelled genius, but is also a portrait of India's classical music world, a place as much of beauty as of untrammelled egos. |
| spiritual quest ran: Futurizing the Jews Tsvi (Howard) Bisk, Moshe Dror, 2003-11-30 Bisk and Dror assert that the 21st Century can be the Jewish Century, that no other people is better prepared to face its challenges. However, to do so, a stress on the Jewish Future must replace a preoccupation with the Jewish Past. They offer a neo-Zionist ideological analysis of modern Jewish life as an alternative to both classical Zionism and post-Zionism. They conceptualize a Jewish Grand Strategy by clearly defining and delineating between ideology, policy, grand strategy, strategy and tactics, with compelling proposals for what such a revised Grand Straegy might entail. They suggest a concept of reinvigorated Israel-Diaspora relations based on this new Grand Strategy and the potential of the Information Technology Revolution. They also offer a conception of Jewish spirituality that could be as appealing to secular as to religious Jews. They reject the concept of a Nation that Dwells Alone. Throughout the ages, Jews have affected and been affected by the world more than any other People they assert. They also reject the view that suffering is the dominant feature of Jewish history as this lachrymose perception cannot inspire needed Jewish ambitions in the young. They stress the needs of the Jewish person and insist that there can be no real significance to the continued existence of the Jewish People unless the real life, concrete needs of the individual are addressed. As former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations and former Cabinent Minister Gad Yaacobi asserts in his foreword, The book is original, iconoclastic and in some ways revolutionary ... it challenges inherited assumptions and calls for positive action. I believe we have before us a book that must become a reference point for Jewish policy makers as quickly as possible. |
| spiritual quest ran: Rolling Away the Stone Stephen Gottschalk, 2011-02-23 “Gottschalk distinguishes himself by placing Christian Science in the larger context of American religion . . . sheds new light on Eddy’s life and work.” —Publishers Weekly This richly detailed study highlights the last two decades of the life of Mary Baker Eddy, a prominent religious thinker whose character and achievement are just beginning to be understood. It is the first book-length discussion of Eddy to make full use of the resources of the Mary Baker Eddy Collection in Boston. Rolling Away the Stone focuses on her long-reaching legacy as a Christian thinker, specifically her challenge to the materialism that threatens religious belief and practice. “Gottschalk has provided readers with a masterful account of Christian Science in its heyday. This book is a first-rate read for students of American religion and provides a look into how one of the country’s more complex religious figures dealt with materialism in the late-nineteenth-century America.” —Religious Studies Review “Gottschalk does a superb job of providing historical context for the chaotic events of Eddy’s final decades.” —Choice “Gottschalk’s account is well told and enriched by fresh material now available from the Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity.” —Christian Science Monitor “The book includes a great deal of fresh research and honest scholarship . . . for the individual wanting to sink his or her teeth into a serious study of Eddy . . . you have a lot to look forward to in reading this book.” —The Christian Science Journal |
| spiritual quest ran: The Philosophy of Spirituality Heather Salazar, Roderick Nicholls, 2018-11-05 The essays in The Philosophy of Spirituality explore a new field in philosophy. Until recently, most philosophers in the analytic and continental Western traditions treated spirituality as a religious concept. Any non-religious spirituality tended to be neglected or dismissed as irremediably vague. Here, from various philosophical and cultural perspectives, it is addressed as a subject of independent interest. This is a philosophical response to increasing numbers of spiritual but not religious people inhabiting secular societies and the heightened interaction between a multitude of spiritual traditions in a globalized age. A provocative array of approaches (African, Indigenous, Indian, Stoic, and Sufic perspectives, as well as Western analytic and continental views) offer fresh insights, many articulated by emerging voices. Contributors are Mariapaola Bergomi, Moses Biney, Christopher Braddock, Drew Chastain, Kerem Eksen, Nikolay Milkov, Roderick Nicholls, Jerry Piven, Heather Salazar, Eric Steinhart, Richard White, Mark Wynn and Eric Yang. |
| spiritual quest ran: Eternal Shadows or Shadow Makers Fr. Steve Peterson OSJ, 2012-07 Everything in our solar system casts a shadow. The Earth, the moon, and the planets cast a shadow. The only thing that does not cast a shadow is the sun. The sun shines its light on one half of the planets, while the other half is in the shade of its own shadow. All living and non-living things expose only half of themselves to the light of the sun. Their other half remains in its shadow. Plants and animals are born with a shadow, live with a shadow, and must die with a shadow. Man is born with a shadow; however, he does not have to live and die with a shadow like the rest of the living creatures. He can choose to stay confined within the shadows of earthly things or go beyond the shadows to become something like the sun. But this quest takes a little something extra than most ordinary men seem to look for or even believe is possible to achieve. Early on in childhood, Fr. Peterson wanted to fly. Little did he know that his innocent desire to fly was an extraordinary, shadowless thing called prayer. A real and very extraordinary ear heard his plea. So God s heart, the only one in nature who produces no shadow, was moved to help show him how to go beyond the shadows of worldly things, frightful things, and even deadly things. |
| spiritual quest ran: Katrina's Wings Patricia Hickman, 2010-05-05 A rich, reassuring, coming-of-age tale for the dreamer in us all For every woman who has come into her own or is striving to find her way in the world, Katrina's Wings honors and explores the desire to break free from childhood constraints and soar into the future. A tale of redemption, love, and triumph set entirely in the Deep South, Patricia Hickman's novel offers an intimate, occasionally painful, and frequently humorous glimpse into the lives of two sisters who take different paths in life, yet wind up at the same discovery: Miracles show up in the most unexpected places. Praise for Patricia Hickman and Katrina's Wings from other best-selling authors: I was captivated by Katrina's Wings, an irresistible novel with unique charm and depth. This is Ms. Hickman's absolute best! —Robin Lee Hatcher The pain of growing up is dramatized skillfully by Hickman, and by the time Katrina reaches her goal, the reader has identified with her. A fine treatment of the growth of an artist-and of a human being! —Gilbert Morris Katrina's Wings takes the reader on a journey through the introspective places of the soul to a place where love is launched and faith begins. —Karen Kingsbury Keep some tissues handy, and be prepared to laugh as well. Beautiful language, fascinating characters moving about the pages, and a richly woven story make this a delightful read! —Lawana Blackwell |
| spiritual quest ran: Happily Ever After Susan May Warren, 2003 Mona Reynolds needs to do some major overhaul on her new bookstore and cafe and hires Joe Michaels, a handyman running from his past to accomplish the renovations. |
| spiritual quest ran: New Ideas in Environmental Education Sálvano Briceño, David C. Pitt, 2018-10-16 Originally published in 1988, this book was a plea for new approaches to environmental education. In the years prior to publication there had been a reappraisal of education and a growing awareness of the problems of environment and development. However, the movements had rarely met. The objective of this book was to present some of the ideas and the action that was taking place at the time. It was put forward for discussion because a major intergovernmental meeting took place in 1987, ten years on from the famous Tbilisi meeting, the world's first intergovernmental conference on environmental education. With environmental education still very much on the world’s agenda today, this title can be used as a resource to show where it all began. |
| spiritual quest ran: There Was A Light Rich Tupica, 2020-09-22 Available for the first time as a traditional paperback, this revised and updated edition contains new and archival interviews with those closest to Chris Bell and the Big Star circle: their friends, family, former bandmates—even fans, exes, classmates, and coworkers. “Bell’s and Big Star’s existence was short, but the wealth of stories and quotes here provides a healthy sustenance for the truth seekers. A top-notch biography.” —San Francisco Book Review The varied cast of voices—many from the band’s hometown of Memphis—comprises all the members of Big Star, including Chris Bell, the iconic Alex Chilton, Andy Hummel, and Jody Stephens. In the following decades after its 1975 breakup, the obscure group somehow reached and inspired some of rock’s most important bands, including R.E.M., the Replacements, Yo La Tengo, Teenage Fanclub, Beck, and Wilco. With Chris Bell at the center of the Big Star universe, this book carefully reveals the production of the band’s masterful 1972 debut LP, #1 Record, for Ardent/Stax Records. Despite stellar reviews, the record suffered abysmal sales. Soon after, toxic personality conflicts and turmoil tore the band apart while Bell battled drug abuse and depression. There Was A Light then delves into Big Star’s second and third albums, while recounting Bell’s second act as a struggling solo musician and born-again Christian. During several trips to Europe, he produced ambitious recordings and pitched himself to record labels—even crossing paths with Paul McCartney. From this fertile era arose Bell’s lone solo album, the posthumously released I Am the Cosmos—his swan song and masterpiece. There Was A Light details the pop culture phenomenon that made Big Star legendary and divulges how its staunch fanbase saved the band from obscurity. “... an encyclopedic compendium…illuminating Bell’s life from a thousand angles.” —Memphis Flyer |
| spiritual quest ran: Religion and the Decline of Magic Keith Thomas, 2003-01-30 Witchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the assaults of the Devil to the use of the same charms to recover stolen goods. At the same time the Protestant Reformation attempted to take the magic out of religion, and scientists were developing new explanations of the universe. Keith Thomas's classic analysis of beliefs held on every level of English society begins with the collapse of the medieval Church and ends with the changing intellectual atmosphere around 1700, when science and rationalism began to challenge the older systems of belief. |
| spiritual quest ran: Yoga Journal , 2003-12 For more than 30 years, Yoga Journal has been helping readers achieve the balance and well-being they seek in their everyday lives. With every issue,Yoga Journal strives to inform and empower readers to make lifestyle choices that are healthy for their bodies and minds. We are dedicated to providing in-depth, thoughtful editorial on topics such as yoga, food, nutrition, fitness, wellness, travel, and fashion and beauty. |
| spiritual quest ran: Modern Jewish Literatures Sheila E. Jelen, Michael P. Kramer, L. Scott Lerner, 2011-06-06 Is there such a thing as a distinctive Jewish literature? While definitions have been offered, none has been universally accepted. Modern Jewish literature lacks the basic markers of national literatures: it has neither a common geography nor a shared language—though works in Hebrew or Yiddish are almost certainly included—and the field is so diverse that it cannot be contained within the bounds of one literary category. Each of the fifteen essays collected in Modern Jewish Literatures takes on the above question by describing a movement across boundaries—between languages, cultures, genres, or spaces. Works in Hebrew and Yiddish are amply represented, but works in English, French, German, Italian, Ladino, and Russian are also considered. Topics range from the poetry of the Israeli nationalist Natan Alterman to the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam; from turn-of-the-century Ottoman Jewish journalism to wire-recorded Holocaust testimonies; from the intellectual salons of late eighteenth-century Berlin to the shelves of a Jewish bookstore in twentieth-century Los Angeles. The literary world described in Modern Jewish Literatures is demarcated chronologically by the Enlightenment, the Haskalah, and the French Revolution, on one end, and the fiftieth anniversary of the State of Israel on the other. The particular terms of the encounter between a Jewish past and present for modern Jews has varied greatly, by continent, country, or village, by language, and by social standing, among other things. What unites the subjects of these studies is not a common ethnic, religious, or cultural history but rather a shared endeavor to use literary production and writing in general as the laboratory in which to explore and represent Jewish experience in the modern world. |
| spiritual quest ran: Sanctuary in the Wilderness Alan Mintz, 2011-12-14 The effort to create a serious Hebrew literature in the United States in the years around World War I is one of the best kept secrets of American Jewish history. Hebrew had been revived as a modern literary language in nineteenth-century Russia and then taken to Palestine as part of the Zionist revolution. But the overwhelming majority of Jewish emigrants from Eastern Europe settled in America, and a passionate kernel among them believed that Hebrew provided the vehicle for modernizing the Jewish people while maintaining their connection to Zion. These American Hebraists created schools, journals, newspapers, and, most of all, a high literary culture focused on producing poetry. Sanctuary in the Wilderness is a critical introduction to American Hebrew poetry, focusing on a dozen key poets. This secular poetry began with a preoccupation with the situation of the individual in a disenchanted world and then moved outward to engage American vistas and Jewish fate and hope in midcentury. American Hebrew poets hoped to be read in both Palestine and America, but were disappointed on both scores. Several moved to Israel and connected with the vital literary scene there, but most stayed and persisted in the cause of American Hebraism. |
| spiritual quest ran: The Story of the life of an unknown Indian Rahul Dasgupta, 2024-08-28 It's all in the mind' |
| spiritual quest ran: Stories from the Front Lines Jane Rumph, 2001-10 |
| spiritual quest ran: D. H. Lawrence's Australia Dr David Game, 2015-08-28 In this first full-length account of D. H. Lawrence’s rich engagement with a country he found both fascinating and frustrating, Game examines how Australia informed the utopian and regenerative visions that characterize so much of Lawrence’s work. He sheds new light on Lawrence’s attitudes towards Australian Aborigines, women and colonialism, and revisits key aspects of Lawrence’s development as a novelist and thinker. |
| spiritual quest ran: Playing with God William J Baker, 2009-06-30 Like no other nation on earth, Americans eagerly blend their religion and sports. This book traces this dynamic relationship from the Puritan condemnation of games as sinful in the seventeenth century to the near deification of athletic contests in our own day. |
| spiritual quest ran: James Joyce and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel Finn Fordham, Rita Sakr Rita Sakr, 2011-03 The essays of this volume show how Joyce’s work engaged with the many upheavals and revolutions within the French nineteenth-century novel and its contexts. They delve into the complexities of this engagement, tracing its twists and turns, and reemerge with fascinating and rich discoveries. The contributors explore Joyce’s explicit and implicit responses to Alexandre Dumas, Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo and Émile Zola and, of course, Flaubert. Drawing from the wide range of Joyce’s writings - Dubliners, A Portrait., Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, and his life, letters, and essays - they resituate Joyce’s relation to France, the novel, and the nineteenth century. |
| spiritual quest ran: The Man of God Walks Alone Orest Stocco, 2015-11-08 Not unlike Neale Donald Walsch's conversations with God, the author of THE MAN OF GOD WALKS ALONE has a series of dialogues with Ascended Master St. Padre Pio. Their talks touch on the daily activities of the author's life, and in the process he receives wisdom from Heaven. |
| spiritual quest ran: Adventures of Suliman and the Sandopie Rohan Singh, 2015-07-24 Adventures of Suliman and the Sandopie is a journey into the reality of childhood dreams where everything and anything is possible providing you believe. Foremost of which is to believe in the capacity of the human mind to transcend all internally and externally imposed limitations established by our individual and collective socialization process. The same mind that imposes all limitations is the same mind that allows us to transcend them. Hence the saying, Conquer the mind, conquer the world. It is a closer look behind the shadow world of another reality outside the materiality of our existence. One that we call illusion even though it is real! One that respects neither riches nor rags! Whether illusion or reality, our navigational tools, imperfect as they are, toss us through the riptide of our emotions, of ignorance, desires, anger, greed, pride, jealousy, and yet abounding faith in the capacity of the human spirit to love and to care. These human frailties and immense strengths are not mutually exclusive as distinct and separate shadow entities. It was never one or the other as we were taught to think! They coexist. They ascend and descend and take turns at manifesting under different circumstances depending on the choices we make. Together they form a kaleidoscope of inherent characteristics peculiar to each and every one of us. Understanding this is self-empowering. It is the key to mastering the self. Knowledge of self tears asunder the veil of ignorance and breaks the shackles of controland limitations! |
| spiritual quest ran: Still Singing, Somehow Rob Rideout, 2010-04-13 Still Singing, Somehow will make you laugh, cry or maybe even angry at times. It is about one man's life as he fights through alcoholism, prison, traveling all around the world, married life and finely peace at the end. It is stranger than fiction; this book will take you beyond your imagination to faraway places and bizarre situations. |
| spiritual quest ran: A Galaxy of Immortal Women Brian Griffith, 2012-05-08 The goddess tradition remakes China and the world. |
| spiritual quest ran: Teaching Yoga Mark Stephens, 2011-09-06 THE FUNDAMENTALS OF YOGA: Discover the history and philosophy of yoga—plus tools for teaching 108 yoga poses, planning and sequencing your yoga classes, and much more. “Will help [yoga] instructors fine-tune their classroom skills and empower their personal practice.” —Yoga + Joyful Living Drawing on a wide spectrum of perspectives and featuring more than 150 photographs and illustrations, Teaching Yoga covers the fundamental topics of yoga for new and experienced yoga teachers. Inside, you’ll find: • A foundational overview of yoga philosophy and history • Presentations of yoga classics like Vedas; Upanishads; Bhagavad Gita; Yoga Sutras of Patanjali • Profiles of the 11 styles of contemporary yoga, including their history and distinguishing elements • Support and tools for teaching 108 yoga poses, breathing techniques, and meditations • Practical advice for classroom setup, and planning and sequencing yoga classes • Guidance through the process of starting and sustaining a career as a yoga teacher • Over 200 bibliographic sources and a comprehensive index • A useful appendix listing associations, institutes, organizations, and professional resources Addressing 100% of the teacher training curriculum standards set by Yoga Alliance—the world’s leading registry and accreditation source for yoga teachers and schools—Teaching Yoga is the perfect resource for experienced yoga teachers, teachers in training, and anyone interesed in deepening their understanding of their yoga practice. |
| spiritual quest ran: The Wonder of Unicorns Diana Cooper, 2019-11-05 A guide to engage with the majesty and wisdom of unicorn energy • Reveals the role of unicorns in our soul evolvement today as well as in legends and myths and explains how they open our hearts, offer protection and support, and inspire us to choose actions for the highest benefit of all • Provides many exercises, meditations, ceremonies, dream work practices, and games to help you consciously connect with your unicorn, raise your energetic level, and spiritually progress on your journey to enlightenment • Shares anecdotes and real-life stories of people meeting unicorns and experiencing their energy Fully of the angelic realms, unicorns live in the seventh dimension, the seventh heaven. These beautiful creatures are aspects of the divine, in the same way angels are. While angels work through the heart, unicorns work with the soul and help you fulfill your pre-life contracts through their energy. In The Wonder of Unicorns Diana Cooper explains ancient myths and legends of these amazing energetic beings from a higher spiritual perspective. Who are they, these seventh-dimensional creatures of myth and magic? Where do they stand in the angelic hierarchy and what is their role with regard to us humans? How can you meet and engage with them as an individual? These magical beings of light, absent from the Earth for many centuries, are now returning to guide humanity on their spiritual path. Prevalent in the times of Atlantis, unicorns open hearts through bringing in joy, wisdom, and healing. They offer protection and support and inspire us to choose actions for the highest benefit of all. Consciously connecting and working with your unicorn will enable you to raise your energetic level and assist you on your journey to enlightenment. Create a unicorn humming ball, engage in a unicorn healing, or join in dream work with your unicorn. Whether aspiring to help the world at large or simply improve a small corner of it, enlightenment seekers can apply the meditations, rituals, ceremonies, and games featured in this book to unleash the great abilities of these elusive spirit guides. With wonderful real life stories and anecdotes from people who have seen and experienced unicorns first hand, The Wonder of Unicorns is a book to inspire and empower you on your spiritual path. |
| spiritual quest ran: American Mystic Arunachala Ramana, 2016-01-04 American Mystic is dedicated to all those seeking true and lasting happiness. Ramana's story is gripping, frankly told, providing a fascinating glimpse into American culture and history beginning in the Great Depression and ending in the new millennium. His struggles, adventures and inner search, culminated on June 4, 1973 in his having a homecoming, an Awakening with a capital A. How many people can actually say that they have e;awakenede; or e;found happiness?e; Ramana did - and in these memoirs, he shares his journey and his thoughts about how this can happen for all of us. American Mystic is in the tradition of great spiritual memoirs, such as e;Autobiography of a Yogie; by Paramahansa Yogananda or e;Meetings with Remarkable Mene; by Gurdjieff, giving us an inside and intimate view of the spiritual journey. |
| spiritual quest ran: Romancing the Cathedral Elizabeth Emery, 2001-09-20 Romancing the Cathedral explores the late-nineteenth-century French passion for Gothic architecture, particularly the cathedral. Though maligned in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and vandalized during the French Revolution, by World War I the cathedral was considered the genius of the French nation, a privileged and patriotic work of art that surpassed such other national artworks as Wagner's operas and the Parthenon. However, the moment at which the Gothic style finally reached near-universal acclaim in France also coincided with one of the most anti-clerical periods of French history, the years surrounding the separation of church and state. Taking this contradiction as a starting point, Elizabeth Emery explores how the cathedral's popularity stemmed from its semantic richness as well as its glorification in the works of such writers and artists as Emile Zola, J.-K. Huysmans, Marcel Proust, Paul Claudel, Claude Monet, Auguste Rodin, and others. Using their works as a springboard, Emery examines the ways in which they responded and contributed to prevailing discourses about the cathedral. Interdisciplinary in nature, Romancing the Cathedral will appeal to those interested in Gothic art and architecture, European cultural studies, medievalism, and French literature. |
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