Explores the experience of enlightenmentin sacred traditions and how it affects those who experience it.

Coming Home: The Experience of Enlightenment in Sacred Traditions

Religion & Spirituality

Lex Hixon

Other Eastern Religions & Sacred Texts

Larson Publications

This comprehensive volume is an initiation into Sufism by a Western teacher of Islamic mysticism who saw in this ancient tradition a universal path to enlightenment. Atom from the Sun of Knowledge explores the spiritual secrets of the practices of Islam and interprets the spiritual wealth of its sacred book, the Quran, and the sayings (hadith) of the Prophet Muhammad. The volume also contains modern ecstatic Sufi poetry and spiritual discourses that illuminate the essential unity of all existence and the immense love at its heart.

Atom from the Sun of Knowledge

Pir Press

Coming home is an unusually clear and readable exploration of these questions its experiential bent and spirit of universality have brought it wide recognition as a classic lex hixon warmly quides the reader through an intriguing array of traditional teachings to the essential truth of all the worlds great religions, which is simply to come home invoking the essence and texture of different sacred paths, he presents enlightment as the full flowering of human nature, accessible to everyone

Coming Home: The Experience of Enlightenment in Sacred Tradtions

New Age Books

Product Description The Great Mother is humanity's most primordial, pervasive, and fruitful image of reality. Either secreatly or openly she appears with extra-ordinary power wisdom and tenderness at the core of every noble culture. She illuminates the entire universe because she is not some local or limited goddess but our Universal Mother. She expresses herself fluently through and within every sacred tradition, without needing to call attention to her feminine nature. Review No one who wants to approach and enjoy the mystery of the Divine Feminine in its paradoxical glory should be without this book. --Andrew Harvey, author of Hidden Journey, Journey in Ladakh, and coauthor of Dialogues with a Modern MysticIn this delightful translation by Lex Hixon, we hear the pillow talk of the mystic poet Ramprasad to his Goddess Kali, Mother of the Universe, Mother of Reality-a tantric love affair with the Divine that will completely enchant the reader. --Catherine Ingram, author of In the Footsteps of Gandhi: Conversations with Spiritual/ Social ActivistsMother of the Universe is a fascinating example of the devotion inspired by Ma Kali, one of the very few manifestations of the ancient Primal Goddess still actively worshiped today. This book is a revelation for the uninitiated and a joy for those who already know the Goddess. --Barbara Walker, author of The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, The Skeptical Feminist, and Amazon About the Author Lex Hixon holds joint citizenship in several sacred worlds - Advaita Vedanta, Islamic Sufism, Vajrayana Buddhism, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, and Soto Zen. He received a doctorate in philosophy and religion from Columbia University and is the author of Coming Home: The Experience of Enlightenment is Sacred Traditions and Heart of the Koran.

Mother of the Universe: Visions of the Goddess and Tantric Hymns of Enlightenment

Unlike scholaly translation this contemplative expansion of forty passage from the prajnaparamita sutra in 8,000 lines-the basic scripture of all schools of mahayana buddhism yields a text of devotional beaauty that is poetic and uplifting through dramatic conversation between the buddha and his disciples shariputra, subbuti and ananda the bodhisattva path to enlightenment is revealed this spiritually inspiring book features a foreward by renowned americana buddhist scholars dr robert ae thurman on the historical background of the radical madayana teachings on the nature of reality

Alchemy Mother Of The Buddhas

Alchemy

Modern meditation on Islam's Koran in free English prose. Companion video.

Heart of the Koran - Meditations and Illuminations from the Scriptures of Islam

Islam

Goodword Books

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