Provides a survey of the topics addressed in the notebooks, written by Paul Brunton. This book touches upon various aspects of the spiritual quest. It includes topics such as meditation, the body, emotions and ethics, the intellect, the ego, world crisis, the arts in culture, psychic experiences, philosophy, the Overself, cosmology, and more.
Provides a survey of the topics addressed in the notebooks, written by Paul Brunton. This book touches upon various aspects of the spiritual quest. It...
'By far the safest and most rational exposition of Eastern metaphysics and the practice of mental discipline that I have read.' Spectator
The Quest of the Overself shows Western readers how to achieve serenity of mind, control of thought and desire, and the power to use higher forces by means of simple exercises. These include breathing and visualisation as well as mental control through meditation. These ideas, which the author gained by extensive travel in India, are as relevant to us today as they were when first published in 1937. Paul Brunton was a British...
'By far the safest and most rational exposition of Eastern metaphysics and the practice of mental discipline that I have read.' Spectator...
'The introductory account of Mr. Brunton's pony-back journey up the mountainside has real charm. One of his most interesting chapters gives a practical-minded consideration to the probable future of Tibet.'New York Times
Paul Brunton was one of a very small number of his generation to travel in India and Tibet so extensively at a time when very few were doing so with such insight and discernment. His journalistic skills produced magnificent descriptions of the snowy peaks and high-desert landscapes of the Himalayan region, but it was the lessons he learned from the...
'The introductory account of Mr. Brunton's pony-back journey up the mountainside has real charm. One of his most interesting chapters gives a pr...
Inspired by his time spent with wise sages in Asia in the 1930s, Paul Brunton (1898-1981) wrote"The Hidden Teaching Beyond Yoga"(and its companion volume"The Wisdom of the Overself") at the request of these remarkable teachers, who recognized that he had a significant role to play in the transmission of Hindu Vedanta and Buddhism to the West. Brunton's books are a profound re-creation of the teachings of those two philosophical schools of thought, informed by the insights of deep meditation. Clearly written without the specialized vocabulary found in those traditions, the books speak directly...
Inspired by his time spent with wise sages in Asia in the 1930s, Paul Brunton (1898-1981) wrote"The Hidden Teaching Beyond Yoga"(and its companion vol...
