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 Prophet represents the acme of Kahlil Gibran's achievement.  Writing in English, Gibran adopted the tone and cadence of King James I's Bible, fusing his personalized Christian philosphy with a spirit and oriental wisdom that derives from the richly mixed influences of his native Lebanon.  His language has a breath-taking beauty.

In the pages of Three Magic Words, you will learn of the unlimited power that is yours. You will learn how you can turn this power to work for you, here on earth, to make your life majestic and overflowing with good. Three Magic Words is not a religion or a sect or a society.

Shortly after Elaine Pagels’ two-and-half-year-old son was diagnosed with a rare lung disease, the religion professor found herself drawn to a Christian church again for the first time in many years. In Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas Pagels, best know for her National Book Award-winning The Gnostic Gospels, wrestles with her own faith as she struggles to understand when-- and why--Christianity became associated almost exclusively...