Search Results: Mysticism from By The Way Books

New York: Barnes & Noble, 1998. Hardbound in very good condition in a very good dust jacket.. 498 pages. Seymour-Smith is extraordinarily erudite, exhibiting an encyclopedic grasp of virtually every area of knowledge. From the I Ching, The Iliad and The Upanishads to Gurdjieff, Wittgenstein and B.F. Skinner, he has selected 100 books and/or authors that have significantly influenced the human paradigm (he includes T.S. Kuhn for making 'paradigm' a significant concept). In addition to including Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, number 94 chronologically, he refers to aspects of Gurdjieff's teaching in the context of other influential works where he sees a correlation, in the Enneads of Plotinus, The Kabbalah and Soren Kierkegard. By 'Most Influential' Seymour-Smith does not mean great. He means significantly affecting human thought and perspective. He includes several authors he considers lacking in depth or insight, charlatan, even odious, due too his perception of their, misguided and unfortunate,… Read More

New York, 2006. Paperback in very good condition.. Contains "A Blinding Proximity" by Patrick Laude - Divine presence and human absence; "And Where He comes from And Where He Goes" by Bernard of Clairvaux - Self-observation and counsel from a twelfth-century saint; "Entering the Ordinary" by Hilary Hart - Lessons in simplicity and love; "The Buddha Calling the Buddha" by Kinrei Bassis - Learning to listen; "The Path of Yearning" by Marc Gafni - From separation to union; "Glyphs" by Sandra Alcosser - Reading the landscape with Lewis and Clark; "The Pain of Divine Love" by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee - The sanctity of sorrow; "In Time" by Eduardo Galeano - The voyage "between two flutterings"; "The Formless Hunch" by Peter Brook - A way of working; "As Far As Longing Can Reach" by Peter and Maria Kingsley - The energy of wanting; "To Perfect Oneself in the Sense of Being", A conversation with Margaret Flinsch; "Attention of the Heart" by Abba Dorotheus; "All that is Between Them" by Omid Safi - The journey… Read More

London: Barnes & Noble, 1973. Fine condition in a near very good dust jacket, spine faded.. Facsimile reprint of the second edition in of 1922.

New York: Inner Traditions/Lindisfarne Press, 1987. First edition. Very good condition in a very good dust jacket; Modest spotting to page edges.. 286 pages.

New York: Henry Holt, 1994. First edition. Fine condition in a very good dust jacket.. Many illustrations.

Normal IL: American Blake Foundation, 1974. Cloth bound in very good condition.. Introduction by G.E. Bentley and signed by him; Limited edition limited to 500 number and signed copies; Materials for the Study of William Blake Series Volume I; 20 pages of text and 26 plates of the reproducing the original manuscript.

London: The Swedenborg Society, 1868. Cloth bound in near very good condition; Some wear to spine ends, short tear between coth and front board; Two library labels to front pastedown though no other library marks.. Not a particularly early printing but this edition was limited to 500 copies, according to Hyde #2058; viii, 194 pp.

New York: Swedenborg Foundation, 1960. Cloth bound in very good condition except for long gift inscription to free-end paper.. 580 pages.

Poona: Rajneesh Foundation, 1978. First printing. Very good condition in a very good dust jacket.. 263 pages.

Poona: Rajneesh Foundation, 1978. First printing. Hardbound in near very good condition in near very good dust jacket; Some underlining and highlighting in text; Small piece missing from top of jacket spine.. 263 pages.

Pune: Rebel, 1999. Second edition. Hardbound in fine condition in fine dust jacket.. 273 pages.

Locust Valley, NY: Living Flame Press, 1973. Paperback in very good condition.. 7.25" x 4.75"; 26 pages.

New York: Vintage, 1979. First Paper. Large paperback in very good condition.. Two prints laid in; A Companion Volume to 'The Zen of Seeing'; 147 pages.

New York, 2005. First edition. Paperback in new condition.. 30th Anniversary Issue; Contains "Wake-up Calls: Some Ancient Hindu Myths" by Wendy Doniger - Reincarnation and deja-vu, "Passing Through the Sun-door" by Peter Samsel - Liberation from the realm of contraries, "I Sleep, but My Heart Is Awake" - An Interview with Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, "Slumber Seizes Him Not" by William C. Chittick - The remedy for forgetfulness, "Waking" by Linda Hogan - Daily there is beauty, "What Do You See When You're Awake?" - Views from Martha Heyneman, Stephen Batchelor, Robert Aitken, Pir Zia Inayat Khan, Kate Wheeler, Marion Woodman, Thomas Moore, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, Rabbi Rami Shapiro, "The Hidden Union" by Jacob Needleman - Transformational knowing, "Sensations" by Sri Anirvan - The harmonious body, "Eight Awakenings of Great Beings" by Dogen Zenji - The last teaching of Shakyamuni Buddha, "The Liberating Shock" by Paramahansa Yogananda, "In the Zone of Complexity" by Holmes Rolston III - Who we are, where… Read More

New York, 2005. First edition. Paperback in very good condition.. 30th Anniversary Issue; Contains "Wake-up Calls: Some Ancient Hindu Myths" by Wendy Doniger - Reincarnation and deja-vu, "Passing Through the Sun-door" by Peter Samsel - Liberation from the realm of contraries, "I Sleep, but My Heart Is Awake" - An Interview with Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, "Slumber Seizes Him Not" by William C. Chittick - The remedy for forgetfulness, "Waking" by Linda Hogan - Daily there is beauty, "What Do You See When You're Awake?" - Views from Martha Heyneman, Stephen Batchelor, Robert Aitken, Pir Zia Inayat Khan, Kate Wheeler, Marion Woodman, Thomas Moore, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, Rabbi Rami Shapiro, "The Hidden Union" by Jacob Needleman - Transformational knowing, "Sensations" by Sri Anirvan - The harmonious body, "Eight Awakenings of Great Beings" by Dogen Zenji - The last teaching of Shakyamuni Buddha, "The Liberating Shock" by Paramahansa Yogananda, "In the Zone of Complexity" by Holmes Rolston III - Who we are,… Read More

Wheaton: Quest, 2003. Paperback in very good condition.. 192 pages.

New York: Macmillan, 1947. First printing. Very good condition in a very good dust jacket.. Translated by Ronald Gregor Smith; 211 pages.

New York, 1998. Paperback in very good condition.. Contains "Kheperi, Ra, Atum" by Normandi Ellis - The ancient Egyptian vision of transformation; "Cauldron of Changes" by Mara Freeman - Shifting from form to form; "Who Lives, Who Survives?" by Wendy Doniger - Karma and reincarnation in Hindu texts; "By Whom Is Wisdom Sown?" from the Hermetica - Teachings of Hermes Trismegistus; "In the Dark Places of Wisdom" by Peter Kingsley - The incubation of initiates; "Blessed Are the Birth-Givers" by Miranda Shaw - A Buddhist celebration of motherhood; "The Night Journey of Nicodemus" by Philip Zaleski - Baptism into a new life; "How Our End Will Be" from The Gospel of St. Thomas - On the undying self; "Circulation of the Light" from The Secret of the Golden Flower - The Taoist doctrine of the reverse current; "The Serpent That Bites Its Own Tail" by William A. McIntosh - Symbol of death and revival; "Birth and the Witness" by Elizabeth N. Brower - A midwife's perspective; "Radiant Gravity" by Anne Farber -… Read More

New York: Macmillan, 1933. Very good condition.. Part of the Great Lives Series; 140 pages.

New York, 2005. Paperback in new condition.. Contains "Spirit, Body, and In-between" by William Chittick - Ambiguity and the intermediate realm; "Bees of the Invisible World" by Martha Heyneman - Rilke's soul at work; "Intentional Blending" by G. I. Gurdjieff - The birth of one's own initiative (illustrated with two paintings by Paul Reynard); "Plural Souls" by Adin Steinsaltz - Descent for the sake of ascension; "The Fragrance of the Friend" An interview with Iraj Anvar; "One Coffin--Two Corpses" by J. A. Taylor - Zen ancestor's teaching through dying; "Embodied in Air" by Lory Widmer Hess - The vitality of vowels, the power of consonants; "Except by Light" by Elizabeth Carothers Herron - The enduring affection among all things; "The Mind in the Hand" by Linda Hogan - Living by feel; "The True Human Body" An Interview with Jacob Needleman; "Legitimate Duality" From MEDITATIONS ON THE TAROT, Translated by Robert Powell - Rooted in being or rooted in love?; "The Pattern that is Me" by John… Read More