Paul Brunton

The Body is a practical course in reducing the physical obstacles that retard progress in meditation and obstruct the unfolding of spiritual intuition and/or stabilizing higher awareness. The Body is a balanced approach to developing the physical body's potential to express divine forces.

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.

As the twenty-first century unfolds, our world faces dire political, ethical, ecological, and spiritual challenges on a global scale. How are we, to understand the crises that are affecting us all? Paul Brunton's Humanity's Spiritual Crisis spells out how today's widespread, confusing, and many-layered crisis is essentially a spiritual one, and one that we ignore to our peril-we must undertake a major step forward in our evolution as a species. He...

This uniquely comprehensive and reliable volume combines a clear explanation of meditation's goal with a rich variety of effective techniques suitable for individual experimentation. It offers detailed and in-depth writings on the why and the how of many varieties of meditation. A section on potential dangers of meditation makes it especially useful for beginners, intermediates, and teachers.

Should we depend exclusively on our own efforts, or surrender all to the Grace of a greater power, in which we live and breathe and have our being? Is there room in life's truth for both Karma and Grace? This heartwarming book clarifies what Grace is and is not, how to recognize its presence in one's life, and how to cooperate wisely with its workings.

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.

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...

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...

This fifth volume in The Notebooks of Paul Brunton is an in-depth presentation of the sixth and seventh major topics in the personal notebooks of Dr. Paul Brunton reserved for posthumous publication.

Part 1, The Ego, is one of Paul Brunton's greatest and most unique gifts to the literature of realization-a truly earth-shaking piece of work for serious spiritual seekers. With no holds barred, it exposes, at an existential level, the most fundamental problems that obstruct achieving a life of unfailing self-integrity. Part 2, From Birth to Rebirth, shows the role of death in the ongoing cycle of life, clarifies beliefs about reincarnation, and explores...