108 Mystics

Author : Carl Mccolman
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1781808775
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 108 Mystics written by Carl Mccolman and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a user-friendly and potentially life-changing introduction to the wisdom teachings of 108 of the greatest mystics in the Western tradition. McColman's premise is that we all need teachers and companions to assist us in developing rich interior lives. It celebrates the universal power and wisdom of the teachings of the mystics, highlighting the ways in which their words can help anyone find greater love, purpose and a deeper sense of God's presence. McColman organizes the mystics into nine categories: visionaries, confessors, lovers, poets, saints, heretics, wisdom keepers, soul-friends and unitives, and he covers a wide range of mystics including Martin Luther King, Hildegard of Bingen, Julian of Norwich, Dag Hammarskjold and C.S. Lewis, plus Evelyn Underhill, Simone Weil, Thomas Merton and Bede Griffiths.

Author : Carl McColman
Publisher : Broadleaf Books
ISBN 13 : 1506485774
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian Mystics written by Carl McColman and published by Broadleaf Books . This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Mystics: 108 Seers, Saints and Sages celebrates the many types of mystics, visionaries, wisdom keepers, and non-dualists whose spiritual insight and perceptive teachings have illuminated the Christian tradition for the past two thousand years. Looking at 108 mystics from Biblical times to the present day, this user-friendly guide shows how the spiritual masters of the western tradition provide a variety of paths into the transforming heart of God. Everyone needs teachers and companions to guide and nurture us in developing rich interior lives -- as we seek to respond to the beatifying, deifying love of God. The mystics, whose legacy includes sublime poetry, fascinating autobiographies, and potentially life-changing teachings, can help anyone find greater love, purpose, and a deeper sense of God's presence. But the mystics are not a uniform bunch, which is why this book is such an essential guide to their lives, wisdom, and essential teachings. Carl McColman, author of The Big Book of Christian Mysticism, organizes the mystics into nine categories: visionaries, confessors, lovers, poets, saints, heretics, wisdom keepers, soul-friends, and unitives. By profiling twelve examples of great mystics and spiritual teachers in each category, the book can help you to learn more about the mystics, and identify those whose writings will be most valuable to you as you pursue your own adventure of falling ever more deeply in love with God.All of the most famous Christian mystics are profiled here: figures like Teresa of çvila, Meister Eckhart, Julian of Norwich, John of the Cross, Evelyn Underhill, Thomas Merton, and anonymous masters like the authors of classics like The Cloud of Unknowing or The Way of a Pilgrim. But the book also will introduce you to many lesser known (but truly wonderful) mystical geniuses, such as Beatrice of Nazareth, Gregory of Narek, and Coventry Patmore. Nor does the book shy away from living (or recently living) mystics: visionaries such as Howard Thurman, Sara Grant, Kenneth Leech, and Bruno Barnhart are all included.This informative volume will appeal to those who buy religious reference books and anyone interested in Christian mysticism or western spirituality. But it's more than just a history book or an encyclopedia: Christian Mystics: 108 Seers, Saints and Sages is a curated celebration of western spiritual wisdom, making it accessible for all seekers today.

Author : Rudolf Steiner
Publisher : SteinerBooks
ISBN 13 : 9780880104708
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mystics After Modernism written by Rudolf Steiner and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 2000 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mystics Steiner writes about in this book were early giants in the modern art of illumined self-knowledge. Their ways of seeing the world, God, and themselves foreshadowed all that we practice now in the best of meditation, both East and West. Here, you can read about their essential passion for unity, their practice of intensification of perception, and their ever-fresh insights into the process of knowing itself. Contents: Foreword by Christopher Bamford Preface to the 1923 Edition Introduction: Mystics, Natural Science, and the Modern World (by Rudolf Steiner) Meister Eckhart The Friendship with God: Johannes Tauler Cardinal Nicolas of Cusa Agrippa of Nettesheim & Theophrastus Paracelsus Valentin Weigel & Jacob Boehme Giordano Bruno & Angelus Silesius Epilogue Afterword: About the Author, the People, and the Background of This Book (by Paul M. Allen) Preface to First Edition 1901 Steiner immerses us in the evolving stream of these eleven mystics who appeared in central Europe between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries. They managed to resolve the conflict between inner perceptions and the new seeds of modern science and human individuality. Based on the lives of those mystics and on his own spiritual insight, Steiner shows how their ideas can illuminate and preserve our true human nature today. Rudolf Steiner ends his book with a quotation from the Cherubinic Wanderer, a collection of sayings gathered by Angelus Silesius: "Dear Friend, this is enough for now. If you wish to read more, go and become the writing and the essence yourself." A previous edition was titled Mysticism at the dawn of the Modern Age.

Author : Philip Jenkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198029330
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mystics and Messiahs written by Philip Jenkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mystics and Messiahs--the first full account of cults and anti-cult scares in American history--Philip Jenkins shows that, contrary to popular belief, cults were by no means an invention of the 1960s. In fact, most of the frightening images and stereotypes surrounding fringe religious movements are traceable to the mid-nineteenth century when Mormons, Freemasons, and even Catholics were denounced for supposed ritualistic violence, fraud, and sexual depravity. But America has also been the home of an often hysterical anti-cult backlash. Jenkins offers an insightful new analysis of why cults arouse such fear and hatred both in the secular world and in mainstream churches, many of which were themselves originally regarded as cults. He argues that an accurate historical perspective is urgently needed if we are to avoid the kind of catastrophic confrontation that occurred in Waco or the ruinous prosecution of imagined Satanic cults that swept the country in the 1980s. Without ignoring genuine instances of aberrant behavior, Mystics and Messiahs goes beyond the vast edifice of myth, distortion, and hype to reveal the true characteristics of religious fringe movements and why they inspire such fierce antagonism.

Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429944005
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mystics and Zen Masters written by Thomas Merton and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1999-11-29 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Merton was recognized as one of those rare Western minds that are entirely at home with the Zen experience. In this collection, he discusses diverse religious concepts-early monasticism, Russian Orthodox spirituality, the Shakers, and Zen Buddhism-with characteristic Western directness. Merton not only studied these religions from the outside but grasped them by empathy and living participation from within. "All these studies," wrote Merton, "are united by one central concern: to understand various ways in which men of different traditions have conceived the meaning and method of the 'way' which leads to the highest levels of religious or of metaphysical awareness."

Author : Rudolf Steiner
Publisher : Health Research Books
ISBN 13 : 9780787308230
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mystics of the Renaissance written by Rudolf Steiner and published by Health Research Books. This book was released on 1967 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kathryn Babayan
Publisher : Harvard CMES
ISBN 13 : 9780932885289
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mystics, Monarchs, and Messiahs written by Kathryn Babayan and published by Harvard CMES. This book was released on 2002 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on idealists and visionaries who believed that Justice could reign in our world, this book explores the desire to experience utopia on earth. Reluctant to await another existence, individuals with ghuluww, or exaggeration, emerged at the advent of Islam, expecting to attain the apocalyptic horizon of Truth.

Author : Rudolf Steiner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mystics of the Renaissance and Their Relation to Modern Thought written by Rudolf Steiner and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Moshe Idel
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300082883
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Messianic Mystics written by Moshe Idel and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the worl'ds leading scholars of Jewish thought examines the long tradition of Jewish messianism and mystical experience.

Author : Eric Sandras
Publisher : Ampelon Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0981770525
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mystics, Mavericks and Miracle Workers written by Eric Sandras and published by Ampelon Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is much to be learned from those who have discovered the secrets of the journey in relationship with Christ. In this devotional, Eric Sandras and Jason Chatraw share the stories and writings of six saints, creating a context for which the saints' ancient texts are still very relevant to followers of Jesus in the 21st century. Read excerpts of writings and journal entries from saints of yesteryear as well as thoughtful insights into what those ideas mean to us today. Be provoked to ponder how the rich discoveries from these ancient saints impacts the way you live. This engaging and deep devotional will inspire you to drink deeply from the fountain of experience created by some seasoned travelers in their journey of faith.