Inspiring Books by Others
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The Life and Teachings of the Masters of the Far East
by Baird Spalding
One of the claims of the "esoteric tradition" is that there are and always have been a great group of fully enlightened "Masters of Wisdom" living quietly on the planet. The best introduction to this group that I know of is The Life and Teachings of the Masters of the Far East . The first three volumes of this series are the travel log of a group of North American researchers who had the great good fortune to be welcomed into the Masters' lives for three years in the late 1890's. The stories are fantastic and the teachings wonderful.
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
Very much in the same line as Ramana Maharshi, Eckhart Tolle brings the mind to bear on the limitations in consciousness created by the mind. Coming from his own direct experience of life outside the confines of "normal" mental processes, Tolle provides incredibly clear insight into how the mind sustains our sense of isolation and unhappiness. To see all this clearly is to enter into an entirely new perspective on life.
The Reappearance of the Christ by Alice A. Bailey
In 1895 an English adolescent had a visit from one of the Masters who indicated to her that there was a great work for her to do if she could "give up being such an unpleasant little girl" and gain a measure of self-control. Eventually she succeeded in these steps and developed and ongoing working relationship with that Master as well as a second Master who dictated to her the most comprehensive description of the world from the spiritual perspective available to us today. This series of books, known as the Alice Bailey teachings, are demanding reading for serious students. However, this particular volume is easily accessible and it contains the teaching's most important message: the Masters are returning to open roles in the world led by their Teacher, the One we in the West know as the Christ.
The Great Approach by Benjamin Creme
This book brings Bailey's work into the here and now. Creme too has had long-term contact with one of the Masters, and his work over the last quarter century has been to bring their advent to the attention of all who would listen. He describes the world as the Masters currently see it and outlines the steps that we must take to establish order and justice for all people. This is a book that asks the essential question: What kind of a world do we want and what are we willing to do to help create it? Fortunately, it also assures us that the necessary leadership for real world transformation is at hand. (and for many other books by Benjamin Creme go to www.share-international.org )
Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
India has a long tradition of "avatars," incarnations of fully enlightened individuals who come to offer some service to humanity. Paramahansa Yogananda was such a one. In this book he tells his own story with great humility and humor. The book is saturated with his great love of God as well as the toil of bringing a powerful approach to God-realization to much of humanity. The Self-Realization Fellowship lives on as the result of his great effort, making his teachings available to all who seek them.
Be as You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi
edited by David Godman
To the extent one truly has an integrated personality and is seldom subject to the sways of emotional life, then the teachings of Ramana Maharshi provide an incredibly clear path into the life of the soul. This great sage lived permanently in a state of complete identification with the essence of all being. Amazingly for us, from that state he was able to function and to teach - although the majority of his "teaching" was delivered through the power of the transformative silence that surrounded him. He did answer the thousands of questions that were put to him, and many of those replies have been wonderfully well organized in this priceless book. The path is "self-enquiry," turning the mind inward to find out who it is at the core of being.
Books by Frances
Frances Oman's First Book
Prismatic Co-Incedents
Prismatic Co-Incedents was Frances Oman's first art "miracle." At the very time Maitreya was descending from the Himalayas on 7/7/77, Frances was creating this art event and making it into a book. It is a poetic photo documentation of an art event in nature in which Oman tosses colors to the waves until they are gone and a storm begins to gather, at which point a rainbow appears in the darkening sky.
She had not yet heard of Maitreya but showed this and other video pieces at various venues where she also gave talks about miracles not being mysterious, but following laws of nature involving "co-incidence" and "intention" which she was "playing" with. It was at this time that she began her study of the "laws" in common with science, spirituality and art which later led her to be trained to be a color healer, using colored light scientifically to relieve physical symptoms.
Prismatic Co-Incidents
is an award-winning book as art in a Limited Edition of 100 in hand-set type. Signed by the artist. $50 each.
A poetic and photographic documentation of one of her several art miracles in nature. At the beach she tossed large colored game discs into the waves until they disappeared, snapping photos all along the way. A storm began to gather; she ran out of playing pieces but had one more photo to go and nothing to take a photo of. Then in the darkening sky a rainbow appeared and she got my last shot. Playing all out and letting go, and nature provides miracles.
Letterpress printed at Effie's Press with grants from National Endowment for the Arts and a grant from Xerox Corporation to print the color images on their very first Color Xerox machine in 1977. Years later she was to discover that a further “coincidence” of “miracle” was that the very week she was printing the book, Maitreya the World Teacher left his Himalayan mountain retreat and walked into the modern world.
See a sample spread from Prismatic Co-Incidents
Coloring Outside the Box
While speaking to our highest nature, this book and the companion Time Banishment Workbook offer us very practical tools and a practice for achieving breakthroughs in our productivity by ‘coloring outside the box' of our normal modus operandi.
Oman shows us how to ‘paint' our lives, moving from ‘human doing' to ‘human being.' She invites us to exploit the inherent power of color and rhythm in our day-to-day lives, using her Time Banisher planning system.
When our ‘way of being' creates a new paradigm, anything is possible. She shows us step-by-step how to be the masters of our 'ways of being,' which she asserts are the source of our finest results. Our lives can be the great art; our businesses can transform the world.
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