Perspectives: the time less way of wisdom/
P. Brunton
Perspectives: the time less way of wisdom/ Brunton P - New Delhi : New Age Books, 2009. - 392p. ; 24cm.
THE QUEST
Its choice—Independent path—Organized jjroups—
Self-development—Student! teacher
PRACTICES FOR THE QUEST
Ant's lonjj path—Work on oneself
RELAX AND RETREAT
Intennittent pauses—Tension and pressures—Relax body,
breath, and mind—Retreat centres—Solitude—
Nature appreciation —Sunset contemplation
ELEMENTARY MEDITATION
Place and condition—Wandetifipj thoupjhts—Practise
concentrated attention —Meditative thinking —
THE BODY
Visualized images —Mantrams —Symbols
—Affinnations and suggestions
Hygiene and cleattsings—Food—Exercises and postures
—Breathhigs—Sex: impoitance, influence, effects
EMOTIONS AND ETHICS
Uplift character—Re-educate feelings—Discipline emotions—
Purify passions—Refitiement and courtesy—Avoid fanaticism
THE INTELLECT
Hature—Services—Dcvelopmettt—Semantic training—
THE EGO
Science —Metaphysics —Abstract thinking
What am /?—The I-thought—The psyche
9 FROM BIRTH TO REBIRTH,
Experience ofdying—After death—Rebirth—Past
t endencies —Destiny —Freedom —Astrology
10 HEALING OF THE SELF
Karma, conneaion with health—Lifeforce in health and
sickness Drags and drink in mind-body relationship
—Etheric and astral bodies in health and sickness
—Mental disorders—Psycfwlogy and psychoanalysis
11 THE NEGATIVES
Nature—Roots in ego—Presence in the world—In thoughts,
feelings, and violent passions—Their visible and invisible harm
12 REFLECTIONS
13 HUMAN EXPERIENCE
Situation —Evesits —Lessons—World crisis
Refections in old age—Reflections on youth
14 THE ARTS IN CULTURE
Appreciation Creativity—Genius—Art experience
15 THE ORIENT
and mysticism—Reflections on pictures,
sculpture, literature, poetry, music
Meetings with the Occident—Oriental people,
places, practices—Sayings of philosophers
16 THE SENSITIVES
—Schools of philosophy
Psychic and auric experiences—Intuitions
17 the RELIGIOUS URGE
—Seas and cults
Origm —Recognition —Manifestations—Traditional and
less known religions—Conneaion with philosophy
18 THE reverential LIFE
Prayer—Devotfon —Worship—Humility
urren Grace: real and imagined
19 THE REIGN OF RELATIVITY
Coincmisness is relative—Dream, sleep, and wakefnlness—
Time as past, present, andfuture—Space
—Twofold standpoint—Void as metaphysical fact
20 WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY?
Dfinition —Completeness —Balance
21 MENTALISM
—Ftdfilment in man «
Mind and the five senses—World as mental experience
—Mentalism is key to spiritual world
22 INSPIRATION AND THE OVERSELF
Intuition the beginning—Inspiration the completion
—Its presence—Glimpses
23 ADVANCED CONTEMPLATION
Anfs long path—Bird's direct path—Exercises for practice
—Contemplative stillness—'Why Buddha smiled"
—Heavenly Way exercise—Serpent's Path exercise
24 THE PEACE WITHIN YOU
—Void as contemplative experience
Be calm—Practise detachment—Seek the deeper Stillness
25 WORLD-MIND IN INDIVIDUAL MIND
Their meeting and interchange—Enlightenment
which stays—Saints and sages
26 THE WORLD-IDEA
Dimne order of the universe—Change as universal activity
—Polarities, complementaries, and dualities of the universe
27 WORLD MIND
God as the Supreme Individual—God as
Mind-in-activity—As Solar Logos
28 THE ALONE
Mind-In-Itself—The Unique Mind—As Absolute
—True idea of man
Psychology.
100 / BRU.P
Perspectives: the time less way of wisdom/ Brunton P - New Delhi : New Age Books, 2009. - 392p. ; 24cm.
THE QUEST
Its choice—Independent path—Organized jjroups—
Self-development—Student! teacher
PRACTICES FOR THE QUEST
Ant's lonjj path—Work on oneself
RELAX AND RETREAT
Intennittent pauses—Tension and pressures—Relax body,
breath, and mind—Retreat centres—Solitude—
Nature appreciation —Sunset contemplation
ELEMENTARY MEDITATION
Place and condition—Wandetifipj thoupjhts—Practise
concentrated attention —Meditative thinking —
THE BODY
Visualized images —Mantrams —Symbols
—Affinnations and suggestions
Hygiene and cleattsings—Food—Exercises and postures
—Breathhigs—Sex: impoitance, influence, effects
EMOTIONS AND ETHICS
Uplift character—Re-educate feelings—Discipline emotions—
Purify passions—Refitiement and courtesy—Avoid fanaticism
THE INTELLECT
Hature—Services—Dcvelopmettt—Semantic training—
THE EGO
Science —Metaphysics —Abstract thinking
What am /?—The I-thought—The psyche
9 FROM BIRTH TO REBIRTH,
Experience ofdying—After death—Rebirth—Past
t endencies —Destiny —Freedom —Astrology
10 HEALING OF THE SELF
Karma, conneaion with health—Lifeforce in health and
sickness Drags and drink in mind-body relationship
—Etheric and astral bodies in health and sickness
—Mental disorders—Psycfwlogy and psychoanalysis
11 THE NEGATIVES
Nature—Roots in ego—Presence in the world—In thoughts,
feelings, and violent passions—Their visible and invisible harm
12 REFLECTIONS
13 HUMAN EXPERIENCE
Situation —Evesits —Lessons—World crisis
Refections in old age—Reflections on youth
14 THE ARTS IN CULTURE
Appreciation Creativity—Genius—Art experience
15 THE ORIENT
and mysticism—Reflections on pictures,
sculpture, literature, poetry, music
Meetings with the Occident—Oriental people,
places, practices—Sayings of philosophers
16 THE SENSITIVES
—Schools of philosophy
Psychic and auric experiences—Intuitions
17 the RELIGIOUS URGE
—Seas and cults
Origm —Recognition —Manifestations—Traditional and
less known religions—Conneaion with philosophy
18 THE reverential LIFE
Prayer—Devotfon —Worship—Humility
urren Grace: real and imagined
19 THE REIGN OF RELATIVITY
Coincmisness is relative—Dream, sleep, and wakefnlness—
Time as past, present, andfuture—Space
—Twofold standpoint—Void as metaphysical fact
20 WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY?
Dfinition —Completeness —Balance
21 MENTALISM
—Ftdfilment in man «
Mind and the five senses—World as mental experience
—Mentalism is key to spiritual world
22 INSPIRATION AND THE OVERSELF
Intuition the beginning—Inspiration the completion
—Its presence—Glimpses
23 ADVANCED CONTEMPLATION
Anfs long path—Bird's direct path—Exercises for practice
—Contemplative stillness—'Why Buddha smiled"
—Heavenly Way exercise—Serpent's Path exercise
24 THE PEACE WITHIN YOU
—Void as contemplative experience
Be calm—Practise detachment—Seek the deeper Stillness
25 WORLD-MIND IN INDIVIDUAL MIND
Their meeting and interchange—Enlightenment
which stays—Saints and sages
26 THE WORLD-IDEA
Dimne order of the universe—Change as universal activity
—Polarities, complementaries, and dualities of the universe
27 WORLD MIND
God as the Supreme Individual—God as
Mind-in-activity—As Solar Logos
28 THE ALONE
Mind-In-Itself—The Unique Mind—As Absolute
—True idea of man
Psychology.
100 / BRU.P