Swami Sri Yukteswar, the revered guru of Paramahansa Yogananda, outlines the universal path that every human being must travel to enlightenment. He also explains the vast recurring cycles of civilization, affording a profound understanding of history and the ever-changing panorama of turbulent world events.

    It was written as a phenomenological account of the "results of observing the human soul according to the methods of natural science. This seminal work asserts that free spiritual activity - understood as the human ability to think and act independently of physical nature - is the suitable path for human beings today to gain true knowledge of themselves and of the universe. This is not merely a philosophical volume, but rather a warm, heart-oriented guide to the practice and experience of living thinking. Readers will not find abstract philosophy here, but a step-by-step account of how a person may come to experience living, intuitive thinking - "the conscious experience of a purely spiritual content." During the past hundred years since it was written, many have tried to discover this "new thinking" that could help us understand the various spiritual, ecological, social, political, and philosophical issues facing us. But only Rudolf Steiner laid out a path that leads from ordinary thinking to the level of pure spiritual activity - intuitive thinking - in which we become co-creators and co-redeemers of the world.

    Beliefs About the Soul & Cult of Souls in the Homeric Poems 2. Islands of the Blest. Translation 3. Cave Deities. Subterranean Translation 4. Heroes 5. The Cult of Souls:- i. Cult of Chthonic Deities- ii. Funeral Ceremonies & Worship of the Dead- iii. Traces of the Cult of Souls in the Blood Feud & Satisfaction for Murder 6. The Eleusinian Mysteries 7. Ideas of the Future Life 8. Origins of the Belief in Immortality-The Thracian Worship of Dionysos 9. Dionysiac Religion in Greece. Its Amalgamation w/Apolline Religion. Ecstatic Prophecy. Ritual Purification & Exorcism. Asceticism 10. The Orphics 11. The Philosophers 12. The Lay Authors: Lyric Poets/Pindar/The Tragedians

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