Resultados para "The Odyssey" en Religión y espiritualidad

Legendary UFO expert Erich von Daniken stirs up another controversy with an imaginative supposition: What if the myths of ancient Greece were attempts to describe events that really happened? What if ancient peoples were visited, not by imaginary gods and goddesses, but by extraterrestrial beings who arrived on earth thousands of years ago? The author's research into both ancient mythology and current archaeological discoveries leads him to some explosive hypotheses.

Capra relates his personal journey of meeting and interacting with some of the leading contemporary thinkers and visionaries. What emerges is a wisdom-packed dialogue about new ways of thinking and being. From Krishnamurti's spiritual insight to Gregory Bateson's intellectual prowess, Capra weaves an intricate and informative web of influences on his own pioneering work of bridging science and spirit. For anyone interested in the future, this is a conversation not to be missed.

Growing up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn as a member of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic Orthodox Jewish community, Zalman Newfield was raised in an atmosphere of strict gender segregation, rigorous religious education, and nearly all-consuming ritual practices. Trained to be a Lubavitch emissary, he traveled around the world doing Jewish outreach to help usher in the messianic redemption. However, after exposure to the wider world, he abandoned the faith of his youth.

In early November 1834, an aristocratic young couple from Savannah and South Carolina sailed from New York and began a seventeen-year odyssey in West Africa. Leighton and Jane Wilson sailed along what was for them an exotic coastline, visited cities and villages, and sometimes ventured up great rivers and followed ancient paths.

The compelling, beautiful narrative of Code Name God is one man's rags-to-riches story and, more profoundly, the vision of a world-class physicist seeking to integrate the findings of science, religion, and spiritual quest.

In An Odyssey Through the End Times, the listener embarks on a journey unlike any other—one that weaves together the threads of human struggle, hope, and survival in a world on the brink of collapse. This gripping narrative explores the fragility of civilization, delving into themes of apocalypse, redemption, and the resilience of the human spirit. As global disasters and societal breakdowns unfold, the protagonist navigates not only external chaos but also the internal battles that define what it means to remain human in a world that seems to be losing its humanity.

This autobiography of an American yogi is the story of the training of a Western scholar by a unique Himalayan Master, one of the greatest yogis of the era, Shri Swami Rama.

This is a unique tale of one man's spiritual adventure, tracing God's unusual plan of providence from 1950s America to England and back again. Dwight Longenecker's conversion story is a roller coaster ride through fundamentalism, Oxford, Cambridge, and the modern Catholic Church. This story of one man's amazing journey from Protestant fundamentalism through the Church of England to the Catholic priesthood offers an inspiring tale of God's providence.

Two men from opposite sides of the world are brought together by a moment of serendipity. Follow James and his fascinating journey, as he leaves behind his flailing investment banking career in New York, to discover his New You, taken under the wing of a Guru in India. And there is a mysterious character, RK…. What happens when the three meet after James' flight from New York?

Through the Higher Realms is a transformative journey through the mystical and divine dimensions of the universe, inviting readers to explore the higher realms of consciousness, spirituality, and astral projection. This book merges the ancient wisdom of mysticism with cutting-edge scientific knowledge to unravel the mysteries of the cosmos, the soul, and the unseen worlds that surround us. Through the Rapturous Communion in the Interior Mystical Church, readers are introduced to the concept of divine union in the deepest spaces of the soul.

ONE is a revolutionary exploration of individuality and enlightenment that answers the paradoxical question posed by contemporary intellectuals…how can I use the power of my own mind to create a purpose-driven life in a world seemingly without purpose? Jerome Michael McLaughlin draws on 35 years of immersive study into human consciousness, individuality, and transcendentalism to persuasively and poetically asks us to recognize how each of us as self-aware, self-sovereign, and self-governing beings holds the key to our collective destiny.

Homer's Iliad is the famous epic poem set among the tales of Troy. Its subject is the anger of the hero Achilles and its consequences for the warring Greeks and Trojans. Unlike other books on the Iliad, this one combines the detailed expertise of a historian with the sensitivity of a teacher of it as poetry. Lane Fox goes on to consider hallmarks of the poem, its values, implicit and explicit, its characters, its women, its gods and even its horses. He argues repeatedly for its beautiful observation and addresses its parallel use of what is, to us, the natural world.