An exploration of how paranormal powers and experiences foreshadow humanity's evolutionary future.

Frontiers of the Soul: Exploring Psychic Evolution

Grosso, Michael

Religion & Spirituality

Quest Books

Visionary thinkers of the past and startling projections for the future point the way toward humankind's coming regeneration.

The Millennium Myth: Love and Death at the End of Time

New Age & Spirituality

What happens when modern technology meets the apocalyptic imagination? Technocalypse, says journalist-philosopher Grosso, an intertwining of human life and technology which promises to fulfill the hopes of prophets since the time of Revelation--a new order of love and the abolition of death itself. Visionary thinkers of the past and startling projections for the future point the way toward humankind's coming regeneration. Valuable insight. Highly recommended.--Library Journal

Theosophical Pub. House

Examines the nature of death and the possibility of life after death and discusses the collective consciousness

The Final Choice: Playing the Survival Game

Stillpoint Pub.

A guide to harnessing the vibration that created the universe for healing and spiritual awakening * Shares profound lessons from Swami Nada Brahmananda, a master of the yoga of sound and vibration * Centers on three life-enhancing themes: controlling the mind, diet and practices conducive to healing and perfect health, and how music can be used to transform consciousness and enrich our spiritual life * Also paints a vivid portrait of New York City in the 1970s and its underground arts and music scene Not long after obtaining his Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University in 1971, Michael Grosso had an extraordinary experience in Greenwich Village, New York, that led him to realize he needed to balance his overly intellectual life with music. He met Swami Nada Brahmananda, a former court musician for the King of Mysore, famous throughout India for being a master of Taan music and sound yoga as well as for his supernatural control of his body. Grosso began studying with Swami Nada and found his life profoundly changed. Sharing the lessons of Swami Nada Brahmananda as well as painting a vivid portrait of New York City in the 1970s--and its vibrant and chaotic underground arts and music scene--Grosso explores Swami Nada's Indian yoga of sacred sound in depth. He reveals how the tradition centers on the sound or vibration that created the universe, its personal cultivation, and its power to heal, enlighten, and offer insight about how to live in the Kali Yuga, the Age of Conflict. Grosso also examines the siddhis, or extraordinary powers, that can arise from this work, detailing the otherworldly abilities of his master. The lessons that Grosso shares center on three life-enhancing themes: controlling the mind, which provides the very essence of a happy life; diet and practices conducive to healing and perfect health--Swami Nada himself never knew a day of sickness in all of his 97 years; and how music in all its forms can be used to transform consciousness and enrich our spiritual life. Revealing Swami Nada Brahmananda as the very embodiment of a Celestial Songman, Grosso shows how, by practicing the yoga of sound, we can embody Swami Nada's greatest lesson of all: that we can all learn to make music from the discordant notes of our lives and sing our way out of the Kali Yuga.

Yoga of Sound: The Life and Teachings of the Celestial Songman, Swami Nada Brahmananda

Arts & Photography

Music

Inner Traditions

Note: This revised edition was first published under the title The Final Choice: Playing the Survival Game.
These are dangerous times and history seems to be accelerating—toward what? It’s starting to look like a big crash. No, not a clash of civilizations but civilization itself crashing.
There are world trends propelling us towards doomsday: the lunacy of nuclear brinkmanship, the inexorable march toward climate catastrophe, the savage economic inequality that reigns over a suffering Earth—none of these bode well for the future. The more pronounced these trends, the greater the need to take stock of our options.
This book looks at consciousness facing the threat of annihilation. Beyond politics, it examines some forgotten forces at our disposal in the quest for transcendence. It attempts to sketch a mythology of transcendence, based on the raw materials of human experience, ordinary and extraordinary.
The meaning of death changes from culture to culture, and is evolving as we speak. The modern near-death experience transforms the meaning of death into something quite different from the mainline view of death as the extinction of consciousness. 
Near-death phenomena imply new dimensions of meaning—and as well, a new dimension of existence. It opens the door into an expanded world of consciousness, upending scientific physicalism. The NDE is a discovery as revolutionary in psychology as quantum mechanics was in physics. In both cases we have an enigma, a window to alternate realities, and metaphysical shock therapy.
The Final Choice goes behind the surface-meaning of death. The search leads to the re-discovery of the ancient philosopher, Heraclitus, who said that no matter how far you search, you will never find the boundaries of Mind.
Facing the looming collapse of world civilization, the question of a possible global near-death experience arises. Major world-trends today force us to reflect on these awesome possibilities.

The Final Choice: Death or Transcendence?

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

White Crow Books

Soulmaker: True Stories from the Far Side of the Psyche

Hampton Roads Publishing

Why Is the Universe Smiling?The word miracle is rooted in a Sanskrit syllable smi, from which we get the English word smile. So a miracle refers to a smile induced by certain sensations of awe, beauty, and wonder.Humans have always had extraordinary experiences, often called miracles. An account of reported miraculous phenomena, Smile of the Universe takes us beyond conventional religion and science to explore the outer reaches of human potential. Grounded in true stories and matters of fact, Michael Grosso argues for the reality of a great Mind and for the human ability to communicate with that Mind. In an age of disbelief, it presents a fact-based template for experimental spirituality and makes the case that every one of us, rightly understood, is a smile of the universe.

Smile of the Universe: Miracles in an Age of Disbelief

Occult & Paranormal

Anomalist Books

First English translation of the life of St. Joseph of Copertino, mystic famous for his ecstasies, levitations, bilocations, mind-reading, miraculous healings, and other extraordinary phenomena. The Vita is followed by a Commentary that details the evidence for these claims, and discusses their implications for human potential and human evolution; offering new perspectives on our understanding of the nature of mind and spiritual life. This book is unabashedly conscious of itself as a challenge to reductive scientific materialism.

Wings of Ecstasy: Domenico Bernini’s Vita of St. Joseph of Copertino (1722)

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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Frontiers of the Soul: Exploring Psychic Evolution

The Millennium Myth: Love and Death at the End of Time

The Millennium Myth: Love and Death at the End of Time

The Final Choice: Playing the Survival Game

Yoga of Sound: The Life and Teachings of the Celestial Songman, Swami Nada Brahmananda

The Final Choice: Death or Transcendence?

Soulmaker: True Stories from the Far Side of the Psyche

Smile of the Universe: Miracles in an Age of Disbelief

Wings of Ecstasy: Domenico Bernini’s Vita of St. Joseph of Copertino (1722)