Mysticism Books

Book SynopsisIn today''s world of political and climate instability, Real People tells the story of a unique school designed not only to prepare students for the future but to help them become real human beings.John G. Bennett spent fifty years studying the spiritual teachings of George Ivanovich Gurdjieff and others. At seventy, he followed an inner directive to start a school. Few of Bennett''s students have chronicled the esoteric experience of his ten-month Basic Courses at Sherborne House in the bucolic Cotswolds area of England. Roberta J. Chromey has done this through telling the story of her young self, Bobby Jo.Real People follows Bobby Jo from college in New Jersey to her first teacher in the Gurdjieff Work, then on to J. G. Bennett''s school in England in the early 1970s. In the ancient halls and dorms, paneled dining room, Great Hall, basement kitchen, and Horse Parlor of Sherborne House magical events happen. Bennett gives talks and Themes that inspire surprising outcomes, such as an examination of one''s relationship to material objects culminating in empathy with a potato and a dance with a mop.The course is its own journey, from learning to cook and clean for one hundred fellow travelers, to experiencing the discipline and mystery of Gurdjieff''s dances, to finding communion with a pony. Meditative exercises and practices of silence and awareness open doors to external and internal realms. Senior staff are fully drawn characters. Visiting teachers play major roles at crucial junctures, fellow students provide background. The course comes alive in a living crucible that melts young Bobby Jo and forms in her a new understanding.

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Book SynopsisLet us be aware that human existence is not real. If it truly were reality, then the physical body would not perish; there would then be lasting youth. The soul in a person is not of this world, it lives eternallywe are therefore nothing more than wayfarers on the way back to the true eternal homeland. However, to which influences a person is exposed to on his way on this side of life and as a soul in the beyond is reported about in this book as a warning and guidance. Those people who believe in a higher existence, which we call Creator or God, should be aware that this side of life and the beyond are not separateand that our behavior on this side has an effect on our further life''s path as a soul.A selected passage from the book:Every person has a spiritual guardian being at his or her side, which, according to free will, admonishes and warns. But whether the person perceives the impulses or disregards them is determined by the person himself. Life on Earth is dange

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Book SynopsisEn mystiker er en person som baserer sin forståelse av virkeligheten kun på sin egen erfaring.Kabbalah er en av de eldste mysterietradisjoner i vesten, og er et skattkammer, et speil og et veikart for dem som søker sannheten om seg selv, skapelsen og det Guddommelige.Det er en levende tradisjon av fortellinger og symboler, diktet for å sette mennesket i stand til å gjennomtrenge sjelens tåke og åpenbare de hemmeligheter som er forvart i det aller helligste rom.Dette er den ensommes vei: for dem som ikke kan tro, men enten vet, eller ikke vet.Dette er de levendes vei: som aldri gir etter for verdens sorg, men søker sitt opphavs mysterier.

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Book Synopsis Nostradamus (Michel de Nostradame) was born on December 14, 1503 in St. Remy, Provence, France. Nostradamus came from a long line of Jewish doctors and scholars. He is considered by many as one of the most famous and important writers of history prophecies. He is famous mainly for his book ''The Prophecies,'' consisting of quarantine in rhyme. Supporters of the trustworthiness of these prophecies attribute to Nostradamus the ability to predict an incredible number of events in world history, including the French Revolution, the Atomic bomb, the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and the attacks of 11 September 2001. However, no one has ever proved that Nostradamus''s quarters can provide reliable data for the foreseeable future. Nostradamus had the visions which he later recorded in verse while staring into water or flame late at night, sometimes aided by herbal stimulants, while sitting on a brass tripod. The resulting quatrains (four line verses) are oblique and elliptical, and use puns, anagrams and allegorical imagery. Most of the quatrains are open to multiple interpretations, and some make no sense whatsoever. Some of them are chilling, literal descriptions of events, giving specific or near-specific names, geographic locations, astrological configurations, and sometimes actual dates. It is this quality of both vagueness and specificity which allows each new generation to reinterpret Nostradamus.

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