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Hazrat Inayat Khan
Noah Levine • Dharma Punx
When we live with the tension of the personal will directed toward an imagined future, we live in a mind-world maze of possibilities instead of the vivid aliveness of intimacy with what is.
Christopher D. Wallis • Near Enemies of the Truth: Avoid the Pitfalls of the Spiritual Life and Become Radically Free
Five people (Madame Blavatsky, Annie Besant, C. W. Leadbeater, H. Olcott, and A. P. Sinnett) wrote most of what we know to date of the etheric web, auras, magnetism, chakras, spiritualism, psychic perception, and reincarnation. These people took the ancient wisdom of the Hindus and translated them into a language Westerners could understand.
Stuart Wilde • The Quickening
I especially enjoyed the work of Sir John Woodroffe (1865–1936), a.k.a. “Arthur Avalon,” who—while prominently serving as Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court in British India—spent his private hours explaining, defending and ultimately practicing in the then widely reviled Hindu religious schools of Shaiva and Shakta Tantrism.
Michael M. Bowden • The Goddess and the Guru: A Spiritual Biography of Sri Amritananda Natha Saraswati
Sufi teacher Idries Shah
Tara Brach • Radical Acceptance
We start in the depths of time and soul, in the collective archetypal lands of equally bright light and darkness, the depository of humanity’s psychic inheritance.