He explains how the conscious mind directs unconscious activity and has at its command all the powers of the inner self. Included are excellent exercises for applying these theories to any life situation.

    The text grew out of the interaction between Ram Dass and the spiritual seekers in attendance at these talks. The result of this unique exchange is a useful guide for understanding the nature of consciousness--useful both to other spiritual seekers and to formally trained psychologists. It is also a celebration of the Dance of Life--which, in the words of Ram Dass, is the "only dance there is."

    Here we encounter a profound spiritual penetration into the mystery of Mary’s unique and sublime role in our salvation. Though brief, it can be read over and over with great benefit since it is –just as the title suggests—both a meditation and a prayer on the meaning of Mary. This booklet also contains a brief sketch of Padre Pio’s life and numerous edifying pictures of this saintly stigmatist.

    Kenneth E. Hagin have been reedited to include chapter review questions to further enhance your study of God's Word. These teachings on the vital subjects of faith, prayer, the Holy Spirit and His gifts, and healing will show you how to live a life of victory and abundance!Learning how to pray effectively is one of the most important things a believer can ever do in his Christian walk. A believer cannot be successful in fulfilling God's purpose in his life if he does not know how to pray according to biblical principles.A believer's prayer life should be based and built on the Word of God. This Bible Prayer Study Course discusses many principles of prayer that are found in the Word of God. As you apply these principles in your life, you can be sure of an answer every time!Chapter titles include: -- Seven Steps to Answered Prayer-- Praying in Jesus' Name-- Praying for Results-- The Prayer of Faith-- Praying With Tongues-- What Jesus Sai About Prayer-- The Will of God in Prayer

    Islam continues to be for many a mysterious and misunderstood force, alien to our own cultural values. Yet, in more ways than expected, Christianity and Islam share common ground. For centuries, Sufi thinkers have been linked to both religions in certain important ideas. But, like the elephant in the dark in Jalaludin Rumi's classic fable, these ideas are not grasped in full by seizing parts of the whole and arguing for or against their supposed Christian or Islamic derivation. From a series of lectures given by Idries Shah as a Visiting Professor at Geneva University, Switzerland, The Elephant in the Dark shifts focus to more fruitful ground, tracing documented episodes of co-operation and understanding between Christians and Moslems over the past 1,400 years

    Before becoming a monk he was a physician who worked with the French Resistance during World War Two. His writings have attracted an ever-growing audience in this country and in England, where he is also noted for his radio and television appearances. During the years since its initial appearance, LIVING PRAYER has become a spiritual classic. Among the many topics covered here are the problem of praying honestly, meditation and worship, and how to discard false images of ourselves and of God. In LIVING PRAYER Metropolitan Anthony tells us, as few writers can, how to begin and sustain the life of prayer.

    In this closely knit volume are significant selections not only from his major works but from some lesser-known, yet equally valuable, writings as well. Presented here is a living Thomas Merton, expounding through prose and poetry on an abundance of important themes -- war, love, peace, Eastern thought and spirituality, monastic life, art, contemplation, and solitude.M. Scott Peck puts the writings included here into the context of Merton's life.

    While only 118 pages long, Matchless Gift contains an abundance of material on many facets of the science of Krishna consciousness, along with vivid examples, stories, and analogies not found elsewhere in Srila Prabhupada's writings. Readers will quickly gain an appreciation for Srila Prabhupada's agility of mind and ability to make the highest teachings of the Vedas understandable to a contemporary audience. It's a light book, packed with heavy wisdom, and best appreciated in short installments.

    Real friendship always includes a third person, the Lord Jesus.

    Chant traditions from many cultures are being recognized today not only for their intrinsic beauty but also for their spiritual power. Paramahansa Yogananda, a pioneer in introducing India's art of devotional chanting to the West, explains how it helps to quiet and focus the mind in preparation for meditation.

    

    

    Harlan Hubbard's PAYNE HOLLOW: LIFE ON THE FRINGE OF SOCIETY provides an account of a self-made alternative lifestyle in early 1950's America. Anna and Harlan Hubbard, refusing to adopt the industrial positioning provided, built a simple home at Payne Hollow and documented their "basic relationship of need to fulfillment within the carefully circumscribed wholeness of [their] honest, sensitive, extraordinary lives"--Edward Lueders. PAYNE HOLLOW creates its own self-referential world written as "a painter's prose" that fills its environment with a Thoreau-esque "ecstasy...expressed with sober simplicity"--The Louisville Courier-Journal.

    

    The second volume in a five-volume work in the form of a slightly fictionalized biography describing the development of Soka Gakkai, the worldwide religion based on Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism.

    92 illustrations, 11 in color.

    He took her back to his mother's home, and from that first moment, their times together were filled with delight and discovery. Anna had an astonishing ability to ask--and to answer--life's largest questions. Her total openness and honesty amazed all who knew her. She seemed to understand with uncanny certainty the purpose of being, the essence of feeling, the beauty of love. You see, Anna had a very special friendship with Mister God. . . .

    The author, a Little Brother of Charles de Foucauld, divides his time between the Order's house in the Sahara, and the Umbrian Hills where he lives as a hermit.

    Includes biographical references, indexes, and full-page illustrations.

    Explains a Group karmic experience that revealed details of Jesus's life and the previous incarnations of famous Americans.

    Born a princess in the region of Rajasthan in 1498, Mira (as she is more commonly known) eschewed the marriage her royal family had arranged for her, celebrating instead her right to independence and intense devotion to Krishna in both her life and poetry. In this collection, Robert Bly and Jane Hirshfield, two of America's best poets, have created lively English versions of Mirabai's poems, using fresh images and energetic rhythms to make them accessible to modern readers.

    

    

    

    But prove all things; hold fast that which is good,” teaches St. Paul in his First Epistle to the Thessalonians. The Scriptures foretell the future onslaughts of the Church, but do they also opaquely forecast the arrival of an Angelic Pastor and a Great Monarch, both appointed by God to save the Catholic Church for the sake of the elect? Retaining all of the prophecies from the Old and New Testament, Church fathers, Church saints, blessed, and venerables, and Jewish and Christian apocrypha which were first included in “The Prophets and Our Times,” this 2014 updated digital version adds the prophecies of St. Nilus and Our Lady of Good Success, the latter which were not unearthed until 1906 and therefore probably unknown to the author, Fr. Culleton. Also included are specific details about the “Great Secret of Fatima” which were, at the time the book was written, not yet publicly disseminated. That is, the update includes the exact words in which Our Lady of Fatima requested the collegial consecration of Russia and also the description of the Third Secret Vision of Fatima. Also included are the 1973 prophecies of Our Lady of Akita, which took place 22 years after the author’s death. Finally, re-inserted into the book (which previous editions omitted although it was initially included by the author) is the 1871 publication of one of the Secrets of LaSalette (that of Melanie’s, which was released with the approbation of the Bishop of Lecce). For further “user-friendliness,” Part III of the digital edition features active links to each and every numbered prophecy featured in the book, so that one click takes the reader to the specific prophecy he or she wishes to read. This classic book on prophecy is the one from which a great number of modern-day tomes on the same subject received their impetus. Considering the era in which the author, Reverend R. Gerald Culleton, sought and collected the necessary research, this collection of prophecies remains both impressive and timely.

    Influenced by Mary Baker Eddy and her "Christian Science," Hopkins developed the more metaphysical philosophy of New Thought, an early "New Age" outlook that encouraged its adherents to tap the latent powers of their potent minds. Known as "the teacher of teachers," Hopkins inspired her students, many of whom went on to become influential leaders of the New Thought movement, to give full expression to their creative genius. In this 1888 book, considered by many one of the greatest works of mysticism every written, Hopkins encourages us all to live life with a greater awareness of the mystery and power of the universe as it is seen through the wisdom of Jesus Christ. No bleak call to celebrate Jesus' suffering or pain, this is a glorious expression of the power within us to triumph over loss, sin, and death to find new avenues to joy. ALSO AVAILABLE FROM COSIMO: Hopkins' Scientific Christian Mental Practice

    Collects edited versions of the various commentaries Crowley wrote regarding Liber AL vel Legis , conveniently placing the "Old" and "New" Commentaries for each verse immediately following that verse of the root text.

    Prayer is a gift, not a burden. Through it the Holy Spirit draws us into the Trinity, satisfying the hunger for God that lies within every human heart. "Ralph Martin has been charting the landscape of Catholic renewal for more than two decades. This is a wonderfully readable and enriching, addition to Ralph's reflections on what it means to live as a Christian in a complicated world."—Most Reverend Charles J. Chaput, Archbishop of Denver

    This text returns astrology to its rightful place as a mystical science. This is a reference book which reveals astrology as a tool for understanding oneself, and the world on a deeper level. The Wisdom and Way contains a thorough overview of astrology including planets, signs, houses, and aspects, complete chapters on calculations and delineation offer readers the opportunity to learn to interpret a chart with accuracy and spiritual insight.

    In whispers, cries, and joyful shouts, Ruth Harms Calkin shares her walk with her Lord--it's challenges, its peaks, its quiet moments.Tell Me Again, Lord, I Forget is a rare experience of a modern-day poet who speaks with the clarity and timelessness of the Psalms--in honest prayers that are a habit of the heart.

    In The Celebration of Life, he offers healing balm for the modern soul. In this thought-provoking and unusual book, Cousins takes on a subject no less than immortality itself and shows how we can realize it here and now, every moment of our daily lives.Written in a unique dialogue form, The Celebration of Life is a compelling conversational survey of modern science, philosophy, religion, physics, politics, ecology, and the biology of the human spirit that supports his view that our one hope for the future--and our own immortality--rests in the recognition of our common humanity.