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020 $a9781585427444
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050 00 $aBL2525$b.N43 2009
082 00 $a209.0973$222
100 1 $aNeedleman, Jacob.
245 14 $aThe new religions /$cJacob Needleman.
260 $aNew York :$bJeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin,$cc2009.
300 $ap. cm.
500 $aOriginally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1970. With new introd.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aSuspicions -- 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.
650 0 $aSects$zUnited States.
650 0 $aReligions.