Paul Brunton

Part 1, Practices for the Quest, goes to the heart of various disciplines, exercises, and techniques that are useful at various stages of spiritual self-discovery and self-development. It explains what qualities must be developed, why they must b, developed, how they can be developed, and how that development is, tested by life itself. Part 2, Relax and Retreat, lays the cornerstone for a modern life of inspired sanity. It addresses the urgent need...

The eleventh volume in the Notebooks of Paul Brunton is a timely, informed evaluation of mysticism, paranormal experience, sects and cults. Grounded in a clear distinction between productive spiritual practice and dangerous fascination with the occult, it will be extraordinarily useful to a variety of readers.

Part 1, Advanced Contemplation, offers a direct route to the deepest mystical states-yielding permanent results of a metaphysical, transpersonal, and universal nature. It introduces Short Path (sudden) practices (such as Zen, Krishnamurti, etc.), develops them, explains why they are so often insufficient, and shows when, how, and in what spirit to use them effectively. Part 2, The Peace within You, offers an uplifting and invigorating approach to...

Nearly everyone has brief moments of exalting communion with his or her own divine Soul and its finest possibilities: This book shows how to make the most of those moments; how to recognize, develop, test, and follow through on intuitions; how to contact the source of inspiration and make its vitalizing power a continuous presence. One of the most poetic and beautiful sections of The Notebooks, it explores the paradoxical nature of the Overself, where...

Realizing Soul is a uniquely inspiring resource for people of any age feeling "Is this all there is? Shouldn't there be something more?" It's about connecting with-and staying connected with-that intangible (yet undeniable) "something more" that makes struggles worthwhile when it's there, and successes hollow when it's not. It's about how to be consciously what we unconsciously know we really are. This newest compilation of Paul Brunton's reliably...

This volume offers a strong treatment of what enlightenment is and is not, and of the principles that underlie its arisal. Examining claims of "union with God," it addresses forcefully, the fallacy of equating even the highest degree of individual human illumination with the universal intelligence in which individual realization is rooted. P.B. carefully distinguishes stages of enlightenment in the spiritual hierarchy of mystics, saints, messengers,...

Examining the relationship between perception and events, this highly significant volume contributes several important ideas to the "bridge" between modern science and perennial wisdom teachings. Part 1, The Reign of Relativity, explores the extent of relativity's domain and the implications of its principles for spiritual development. Part 2, ‘What is Philosophy?’, gets to the heart of Paul Brunton's teachings: how to actualize reliable knowledge...

Part 1, Healing of the Self, explores fundamental principles of healing. It strikes sharp contrasts between surface, psychic, and spiritual methods, recommending a synthesis of conventional and alternative approaches to well-being. It also offers a variety of tested and proven techniques for self-healing and assisting conventional treatment. Part 2, The Negatives, is a shocking look into the nature and roots of evil in both the individual and the...

This tenth volume in The Notebooks of Paul Brunton presents, in-depth, the fifteenth major section in the personal notebooks Dr. Paul Brunton reserved for posthumous publication.

People who enjoy Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now, A New Earth), Michael A. Singer (The Untethered Soul), or Adyashanti (Emptiness Dancing) will enjoy and benefit greatly from The Short Path to Enlightenment. These accessible teachings distill the essence of Advaita Vedanta, Zen, Sufism, Dzogchen-Brunton calls them "Short Path" teachings. A simple recognition, a brief moment of grace, can make what seemed like a far-off spiritual goal actual here...