TY - BOOK AU - P. Brunton TI - Perspectives: the time less way of wisdom U1 - 100 PY - 2009/// CY - New Delhi PB - New Age Books KW - Psychology N1 - 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 ER -