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Brunton unfolds the grand vision for human development by investigating consciousness as the source of all experience; how to move from ego-centered life to the transcendent reality; the interplay of karma, free will, and grace; the nature of evil and suffering; how to awaken intuition and penetrative insight; the passage through death to rebirth; and psychic experiences and mystic visions. He also provides seven ultramystic exercises to open the door to higher consciousness, including a healing meditation on the sun; practices for transforming the future, dream, and sleep; and a meditation on the timeless self. These techniques lead to the deepest spiritual realizations—to the true "Wisdom of the Overself."
This new edition has been updated to incorporate Brunton's final revisions. It includes a new foreword plus supplementary reading material selected from the author's archives by the Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation.
Contents
Foreword by the Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation
1. Prefatory
2. The Meaning of Mentalism
3. The Birth of the Universe
4. Studies in Dreams
5. The Metaphysics of Sleep
6. The Secret of the "I"
7. The Scorpion of Death
8. The Immortal Overself
9. The Shadows of Evil and Suffering
10. The War and the World
11. The World-Mind
12. The Unveiling of Reality
13. Initiation into Mystical Experience
14. The Yoga of the Discerning Mind
15. The Mystical Phenomena of Meditation
16. Some Fruits of Philosophy
Appendix: Additional Resources from The Notebooks of Paul Brunton, Compiled by the Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation Editors
In The Press
"[Paul Brunton is] a person of rare intelligence ... thoroughly alive,
and whole in the most significant, 'holy' sense of the word."
—Yoga Journal
“Brunton has penetrated further
than many others who are writing in his line. He has touched the
heights of overcoming even meditative mysticism and its achievements,
as Brunton calls it, in order to arrive at 'philosophy,' by which he
means the realization that Yoga is means, not ends.… Brunton has
successfully avoided any conventional or worn out religious
terminology—even the word 'God' is not used."
—Review of Religion,
Prof. Frederic Spiegelberg, Stanford University
“[Dr. Brunton] is an indefatigable and well-balanced expounder of the
half-forgotten thought of the ancient world, and a stimulating guide
to those who would be initiated into the Wisdom of the East.”
—Buffalo News
[New York]
“Not withstanding the difficulty of the subject presented, it is
written in a most lucid manner which could be comprehended by
everyone, even if this is their first book on the higher philosophy.
Dr. Brunton applies this ancient wisdom to the great philosophical
problems which have been cause for inquiry throughout the ages. His
analyses … are masterly.”
—Occult Review [London]
“Dr. Brunton has made a deep exploration into the metaphysical … and
has created a work of considerable importance in this present age. The
author's message is intended to create a transformation in both mind
and body, a mystical asceticism which transcends all personal
self-interest.”
—The Border Standard [England]
“Dr. Brunton emphasizes the mystical nature of grace … it will be
gratifying to many students and practitioners of spiritual life to
find it here revived in its own name and proper nature. Dr. Brunton's
work has now become a full philosophical system of thought, a
definitely modern teaching, in which the ancient Wisdom is transposed
for realization by these times.”
—The Beacon [New York
City]
“The book is an interesting and clear statement of orthodox Yoga. The
virtue of Dr. Brunton's books is their freedom from the usual esoteric
decoration. The vocabulary, both verbally and ideologically, is modern
… and his ideas and expressions thought-provoking.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
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