Author | : Helena Petrovna Blavatsky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Theosophy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Helena Petrovna Blavatsky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Theosophy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Eknath Easwaran |
Publisher | : General Books |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2010-08 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9781458779113 |
This book is for people who want to understand how the mind works, and how to change it. If we want to grow to our fullest human potential, Easwaran says, we have to train the mind. If we follow his eight-point program, we can begin to choose the way we think and become the kind of person we want to be. Drawing on the teachings of the Buddha, Easwaran's approach is universal and practical, putting our destiny in our own hands. And since it's hard to understand the hidden workings of the mind with the mind, Easwaran selects anecdotes to throw a spotlight on our thinking processes and to point the way to mastering them. For readers who have enjoyed Easwaran's Passage Meditation, Conquest of Mind gives another, intriguing perspective on his eight-point program.
Author | : Ken Monteith |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2014-06-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135915628 |
When H. P. Blavatsky, the controversial head of the turn of the century movement Theosophy, defined "a true Theosophist" in her book The Key to Theosophy, she could have just as easily have been describing W. B. Yeats. Blavatsky writes, "A true Theosophist must put in practice the loftiest moral ideal, must strive to realize his unity with the whole of humanity, and work ceaselessly for others." Although Yeats joined Blavatsky's group in 1887, and subsequently left to help form The Golden Dawn in 1890, Yeats's career as poet and politician were very much in line with the methods set forth by Blavatsky's doctrine. My project explores how Yeats employs this pop-culture occultism in the creation of his own national literary aesthetic. This project not only examines the influence theosophy has on the literary work Yeats produced in the late 1880's and 1890's, but also Yeats's work as literary critic and anthology editor during that time. While Yeats uses theosophy's metaphysical world view to provide an underlying structure for some of his earliest poetry and drama, he uses theosophy's methods of investigation and argument to discover a metaphysical literary tradition which incorporates all of his own literary heroes into an Irish cultural tradition. Theosophy provides a methodology for Yeats to argue that both Shelley and Blake (for example) are part of a tradition that includes himself. Basing his argument in theosophy, Yeats can argue that the Irish people are a distinct race with a culture more "sincere" and "natural" than that of England.
Author | : Gary Lachman |
Publisher | : TarcherPerigee |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2012-10-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1585428639 |
Chronicles the life of the cofounder of the Theosophical Society, examining her legacy and the controversy surrounding her.
Author | : Ester Bianchi |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2021-08-24 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004468374 |
Sino-Tibetan Buddhism implies cross-cultural contacts and exchanges between China and Tibet. The ten case-studies collected in this book focus on the spread of Chinese Buddhism within a mainly Tibetan environment and the adaptation of Tibetan Buddhism among a Chinese-speaking audience throughout the ages.