Product Description: Why the works and writers considered the guardiansof traditional human values -- Heraclitus, Chuang Tzu, St. Augustine, the Upanishads, and others -- are essential tools for rediscovering our moral worth and understanding our place in the universe.

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Eliot Appleman joins a club of teenage magicians called The Sorcerer's Apprentices and is swept up into a world of magic

This book reveals the rich, but generally unknown, influence of Sufism on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature. The translation of Persian poets such as Hafiz and Sa'di into English and the ongoing popularity of Omar Khayyam offered intriguing new spiritual perspectives to some of the major American literary figures. As editor Mehdi Aminrazavi notes, these Sufi influences have often been subsumed into a notion of "Eastern," chiefly Indian, thought and not acknowledged as having Islamic roots. This work pays considerable attention to two giants of American literature, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman, who found much inspiration from the Sufi ideas they encountered. Other canonical figures are also discussed, including Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, along with literary contemporaries who are lesser known today, such as Paschal Beverly Randolph, Thomas Lake Harris, and Lawrence Oliphant.

A renowned philosopher provides insightful approaches to recapturing time and unearthing the emotional issues and anxieties surrounding time that may hinder the future and explains how to reset the human clock so that it breaks the constraints of time and freedom ensues.

Product Description: Originally published in France in 1969 and in America in 1972 and again in 1995, To Live Within is a thoughtful, beautifully written record of Lizelle Reymond’s five years spent in a hermitage in Northern India. Reymond studied with guide and mentor Shri Anirvan, a master of the ancient Samkhya tradition...read more

Product Description: The story of a Swiss woman's 5-year study in a Himalayan hermitage. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Essays by contemporary writers and scholars probe the role, nature, historical context, significance, phenomenology, and sociological ramifications of new religions in America

Offers insight into the inability of human beings to adopt the ethical, moral, and religious ideas imparted by the historical world, in a series of case studies that makes optimistic recommendations for understanding and managing ethical dilemmas.