🕯️ Comparative Mysticism

Explorations of the contemplative traditions across religions and cultures, seeking the common threads in how humans have pursued direct experience of the divine.

Sacred Nature

by Karen Armstrong • 2022

Our environmental crisis is a spiritual one, and the blueprint is older than scripture.

3.67

2k+

🌍 Comparative Religion 🌿 Environmental Philosophy 🙏 Spiritual Ecology ✝️ Ecotheology 🔮 Perennial Philosophy

Sacred Nature

Our environmental crisis is a spiritual one, and the blueprint is older than scripture.

by Karen Armstrong 2022

3.67

2k+ ratings

🌍 Comparative Religion 🌿 Environmental Philosophy 🙏 Spiritual Ecology ✝️ Ecotheology 🔮 Perennial Philosophy

Become What You Are

by Alan W. Watts • 1955

The self you're trying to improve is exactly what's in the way.

4.07

6k+

🪷 Zen Buddhism ☯️ Eastern Spirituality 🪞 Non-Duality ⏳ Present Moment Awareness 🦋 Ego Transcendence

Become What You Are

The self you're trying to improve is exactly what's in the way.

by Alan W. Watts 1955

4.07

6k+ ratings

🪷 Zen Buddhism ☯️ Eastern Spirituality 🪞 Non-Duality ⏳ Present Moment Awareness 🦋 Ego Transcendence

No Boundary

by Ken Wilber • 1979

A single illusion fuels all suffering: the line between the observer and the observed.

4.30

2k+

🧠 Transpersonal Psychology ☯️ Nondual Awareness 🌑 Shadow Work 📜 Perennial Philosophy 🏃 Mind-Body Integration

No Boundary

A single illusion fuels all suffering: the line between the observer and the observed.

by Ken Wilber 1979

4.30

2k+ ratings

🧠 Transpersonal Psychology ☯️ Nondual Awareness 🌑 Shadow Work 📜 Perennial Philosophy 🏃 Mind-Body Integration

Eight Lectures on Yoga

by Aleister Crowley • 1939

A Western magician's guide to yoga's classical stages, where meditation and spellcraft converge.

4.09

668

📿 Classical Yoga 🔮 Western Esotericism ⭐ Occult Philosophy 🌬️ Yogic Breathwork ☯️ Nondual Awareness

Eight Lectures on Yoga

A Western magician's guide to yoga's classical stages, where meditation and spellcraft converge.

by Aleister Crowley 1939

4.09

668 ratings

📿 Classical Yoga 🔮 Western Esotericism ⭐ Occult Philosophy 🌬️ Yogic Breathwork ☯️ Nondual Awareness

The Occult

by Colin Wilson • 1971

Magic is a manual for waking a latent human faculty that sharpens all of reality.

3.91

2k+

🗝️ Western Esotericism 📜 History Of Magic 🌑 Modern Occultism 🧬 Latent Human Potential 👁️ Psychic Phenomena

The Occult

Magic is a manual for waking a latent human faculty that sharpens all of reality.

by Colin Wilson 1971

3.91

2k+ ratings

🗝️ Western Esotericism 📜 History Of Magic 🌑 Modern Occultism 🧬 Latent Human Potential 👁️ Psychic Phenomena

The Holy Science

by Yukteswar Giri • 1894

A single sound birthed the cosmos. Five heart-states lead home, and Genesis reads like the Vedas.

4.48

2k+

🕉️ Vedantic Philosophy 🌐 Perennial Philosophy 🧘 Yoga Spirituality 🔆 Self-Realization 📜 Modern Vedanta

The Holy Science

A single sound birthed the cosmos. Five heart-states lead home, and Genesis reads like the Vedas.

by Yukteswar Giri 1894

4.48

2k+ ratings

🕉️ Vedantic Philosophy 🌐 Perennial Philosophy 🧘 Yoga Spirituality 🔆 Self-Realization 📜 Modern Vedanta

The Eye of Spirit

by Ken Wilber • 1997

Reality has four faces. Most arguments happen because we each stare at a different one.

4.17

277

🧠 Transpersonal Psychology 👶 Developmental Psychology 💡 Consciousness Studies 🌱 Spiritual Development 🧘 Contemplative Traditions

The Eye of Spirit

Reality has four faces. Most arguments happen because we each stare at a different one.

by Ken Wilber 1997

4.17

277 ratings

🧠 Transpersonal Psychology 👶 Developmental Psychology 💡 Consciousness Studies 🌱 Spiritual Development 🧘 Contemplative Traditions

Gurdjieff

by Joseph Azize • 2020

Gurdjieff's contemplative method was adapted, breath by breath, from the monks of Mount Athos.

4.69

🏔️ Hesychasm 🧭 Gurdjieff Studies 🧘 Contemplative Practice ☦️ Eastern Orthodoxy 📿 Esoteric Christianity

Gurdjieff

Gurdjieff's contemplative method was adapted, breath by breath, from the monks of Mount Athos.

by Joseph Azize 2020

4.69

16 ratings

🏔️ Hesychasm 🧭 Gurdjieff Studies 🧘 Contemplative Practice ☦️ Eastern Orthodoxy 📿 Esoteric Christianity

The Hermetic Tradition

by Julius Evola • 1931

The alchemists were not chemists; their metals coded a warrior path to spiritual immortality.

4.14

589

🧿 Western Esotericism 📜 Hermetic Philosophy ⚗️ Spiritual Alchemy 🕯️ Initiatory Science 🔮 Esoteric Symbolism

The Hermetic Tradition

The alchemists were not chemists; their metals coded a warrior path to spiritual immortality.

by Julius Evola 1931

4.14

589 ratings

🧿 Western Esotericism 📜 Hermetic Philosophy ⚗️ Spiritual Alchemy 🕯️ Initiatory Science 🔮 Esoteric Symbolism

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