History of Mysticism (4th edition) - Softcover

Abhayananda, S.

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9780914557166: History of Mysticism (4th edition)

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ISBN 10: 0914557165 ISBN 13: 9780914557166

Publisher: Atma Books, 2000

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A contemporary American mystic and scholar tells the story of man's recurrent experience of enlightenment throughout the ages, and presents in an historical context the lives and words of over forty famous mystics from various Eastern and Western religious traditions to reveal the antiquity and endurance of the one great Mysticaal Tradition and the unity underlying the diversity of its maniforld expressions.

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is a passionate poetic and powerful work destined to be a classic. -Greg Bogart

Author of Astrology And Spiritual Awakening It has already become a classic valuable to seasoned scholars as well as beginning students of mysticism

About the Author:

Born Stan Trout in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1938, he abandoned the world in 1966 to live in a small cabin in the forested mountains of Santa Cruz, California in order to focus on God. There he attained the enlightenment he sought, and later journeyed to India to live and meditate in the ashram of Swami Muktananda. In 1978, he was initiated into sannyas, and was renamed "Swami Abhayananda". He went on to teach meditation and the philosophy of Self-realization in varius cities throughout the U.S., and now lives, writes, and publishes his books in Olympia, Washington.

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