Paramahansa Yogananda's life story is an absorbing account of a singular search for truth, skillfully interwoven with scientific explanantions of the subtle but definite laws by which yogis perform miracles and attain self-mastery.  The author describes in vivid detail his many years of training in India under Swami Sri Yukteswar, a Christlike master. 

The vast majority of mankind goes through life never finding the answer to “Why am I here”? The Books of Genesis and Revelation tell us macrocosmic stories of man’s symbolic beginning and end.  But the Truth isn’t what’s on the surface but what’s buried beneath. In the English dictionary the words exoteric and esoteric mean “what’s known to the masses” and “what’s known to only a small group” respectively.

"Prophets of all lands and ages have succeeded in their God-quest," writes Paramahansa Yogananda in the foreword to The Holy Science.  "Entering a state of true illumination, nirbikalpa samadhi, these saints have realized the Supreme Reality behind all names and forms.  Their wisdom and spiritual counsel have become the sciptures of the world.  These, although outwardly differing by reason of the variegated cloaks of words, are all expressions...

Promotes an interspirituality for the twenty-first century that tears down the walls between East and West and reveals how all the world's religions encourage the practice of transformation.

To make the journey into The Power of Now we will need to leave our analytical mind and its false created self, the ego, behind.  From the very first page of this extraordinary book, we move rapidly into a significantly higher altitude where we breathe a lighter air.  We become connected to the indestructible essence of our Being, "the eternal, ever-present One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death."

The book Your Soul’s Plan: Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born by Robert Schwartz (www.yoursoulsplan.com) explores the premise that we are all eternal souls who plan our lives, including our greatest challenges, before we’re born for purposes of spiritual growth.

The Dialogue Begins... I have heard the crying of your heart.  I have seen the searching of your soul.  I know how deeply you have desired the Truth.  In pain have you called out for it, and in joy.  Unendingly have you beseeched Me.  Show Myself.  Explain Myself.  Reveal Myself.