An edition of The new religions
(1970)
The new religions
by Jacob Needleman
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Now restored to print, here is philosopher Jacob Needleman's groundbreaking study of America's alternative spiritual movements, with a new introduction by the author.Originally published in 1970, The New Religions was the first full-scale study of alternative spirituality in America. It remains unparalleled for the intellectual depth and seriousness with which it regards Eastern, New Age, and alternative faiths on the American landscape.
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Religions, Sects, United States, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality, Godsdienstige bewegingen, SectesPlaces
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The new religions.
Publish date unknown, Simon & Schuster of Canada
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067178126X 9780671781262
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Table of Contents
Preface to the Cornerstone edition
Introduction
Suspicions
What is California?
The loss of the cosmic
A wider sense of psychology
The agonies of religious "relevance"
The sense of Asian teachings
Why now? why here?
The inclusion of the mind
The return of the practical
The modern underestimation of man
Hinduism, Buddhism and Sufism
Hinduism
Buddhism
Sufism
The occult
The place of California
Zen center
The embrace of Zen Buddhism
"Just sitting"
Drugs and "extraordinary" experience
Difficulties
Suzuki roshi
What is a master?
The uses of ritual
The place of the intellect
The question of discipline
Tassajara
An American zen monastery
What is a monk?
A monastery in the midst of life
The monastery as a laboratory
Meher Baba
The age of the Avatar
Psyche and cosmos
The instrumentality of love
The life and work of Meher Baba
The silence
The Baba-lovers
A search for the emotions
Love from the point of failure
Subud
The experience of Latihan
An "ordinary" man
Energies
The meaning of submission
The energies of sex
Social order and self-perfection
Understanding death
Transcendental meditation (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)
Promises
The attracted mind
The theory of the mantra
"It"s easy!"
What is a "practical method"?
A note on Krishnamurti
Instantaneous self-observation
A new understanding of freedom
Thought and death
The surface of Krishnamurti
The existence of psychological help
Relationship : an example
Right education
Tibet in America
The appearance of Tibet
The compassion of reality
Why are they here?
TarthangTulku
The Vajrayana
Balanced disillusionment
The path to the path
"The accumulation of merit"
The weight of Tibet
The hunger for ideas
A more fundamental world
Astrology
The idea of influences
Reincarnation
Ideas as tools
The sacred in nature
The American Indian
The silence of nature
Western esotericism
Civilization in the midst of the cosmos
A note about the ideas of Gurdjieff
In search of a central question
Other groups and teachings
Drugs and the problem of work
Enthusiasm
Spiritual effortlessness.
Edition Notes
Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1970. With new introd.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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