What Is Enlightenment: Exploring the Goal of the Spiritual Path - Softcover

White

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0874773431 ISBN 13: 9780874773439

Publisher: Tarcher, 1985

Synopsis

Fifteen religious philosophers, including Alan Watts, Aldous Huxley, and Ken Wilber, discuss the path to spiritual enlightenment

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About the Author

John Warren White, M.A.T., is an internationally known author, educator and lecturer in the fields of consciousness research and higher human development. He has held positions as Director of Education for The Institute of Noetic Sciences, a California-based research organization founded by Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell to study human potential for personal and planetary transformation, and as President of Alpha Logics, a Connecticut school for self-directed growth in body, mind and spirit. He is author of The Meeting of Science and Spirit, Pole Shift, A Practical Guide to Death and Dying, Everything You Want to Know about TM and a children's book, The Christmas Mice. He has also edited nearly a dozen anthologies, including Frontiers of Consciousness, Psychic Exploration and What Is Enlightenment?. His writing has appeared in magazines and newspapers around the world, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Reader's Digest, Omni, Esquire and Woman's Day, and his books have been translated into ten languages. He holds a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and a master of arts degree in teaching from Yale University. He has taught English and journalism on the secondary and college levels, and has served on the governing and consulting boards of various academic and research organizations. He has also served on the editorial boards of various scholarly and popular publications. He has lectured at various colleges and universities throughout the U.S. and Canada, and has made numerous radio and television appearances.He and his wife Barbara have four grown children and five grandchildren, and live in Cheshire, Connecticut, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tarcher
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0874773431
• ISBN 13: 9780874773439
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1