The Direct Path: Creating a Journey to the Divine Through the World's Mystical Traditions - Rilegato

Harvey, Andrew

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ISBN 10: 0767902998 ISBN 13: 9780767902991

Casa editrice: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 2000

Riassunto

A handson guide to spiritual practice by a scholar of spirituality urges seekers to make a direct connection with the divine rather than using gurus or other intermediaries, arguing that all people possess the capacity to find God on their own.

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Informazioni sull?autore

World-renowned religious scholar and teacher Andrew Harvey is the author of over thirty books, including the critically acclaimed Son of Man and Journey to Ladakh, and coauthor of the bestselling The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.  Born in South India in 1952, he studied at Oxford University and became the youngest person ever awarded a fellowship to the prestigious All Souls College. He has devoted the past twenty-five years of his life to studying the world's various mystical traditions, living in London, Paris, New York, and San Francisco, and teaching at Oxford, Cornell, and the California Institute of Integral Studies. He currently resides in Nevada with his husband, writer and photographer Eryk Hanut.

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The Direct Path is the Path to God without dogma or priests or gurus, the Path of DIRECT self-empowerment and self-awakening. Whether you know it yet or not, you have been on it since the day you were born."

Today more Americans than ever consider themselves to be "spiritual" people, and yet regular attendance at religious institutions is down, perhaps because many of us are searching for a way to encounter the divine on our own terms. We long to connect with something greater than ourselves, but are often conflicted about the teachings and rituals of organized religions, or simply don't know where to begin. In this groundbreaking, eloquently written work, renowned religious scholar Andrew Harvey builds on his twenty-five-year study of the world's various mystical traditions--including Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Sufism, the Kabbalah, and Christian mysticism--to create an illuminating spiritual map that anyone can use to develop a direct path to

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0767902998
• ISBN 13: 9780767902991
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 291
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile