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In this inspirational collection of stories, Swami Rama relates his experiences with the great teachers who guided his life, including Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, Sri Aurobindo, and Ramana Maharshi. It documents Swami Rama's spiritual quest, which showed him that direct experience is the source of real knowledge.

The sacred word and its power to illuminate and transform our lives lie at the core of the Judeo-Christian, Buddhist, Sufi, and Islamic traditions. By drawing on stories from his own experience and from the lives of the sages, Pandit Tigunait makes this esoteric science accessible to a 21st century audience. He explains what a mantra is, why various classes of mantras bring different results, and how to use the power inherent in a meditative mantra to awaken inner peace and fuel spiritual enfoldment.

On the surface, this is a biography of an accomplished seeker who mastered the practices of yoga and brought a system for understanding the mysteries of body, mind, and spirit to students in the West. But, like the life of Swami Rama, this audiobook offers more than a sequence of astonishing events. As you read the stories of authentic guru-disciple relationships Swami Rama had both with his master and with his own students, you will see how the spiritual wisdom is transmitted through generations. This book also serves as a guide to advanced practices of yoga and tantra not commonly understood in modern times.

What happens when we die? How does our present life shape our future? What part of us survives death? From Death to Birth takes us on a vivid tour of the soul's journey from one lifetime to another, revealing little known or understood aspects of spiritual life along the way. Through a series of lively stories drawn from the ancient scriptures and his own experience, Pandit Rajmani Tigunait reveals the truth about karma, how we create it, why it becomes our destiny, and how we can use it to shape the future of our dreams.

The Yoga Sutra is the living source wisdom of the yoga tradition. Using it as a guide, we can unlock the hidden power of yoga, and experience the promise of yoga in our life. The Yoga Sutra is as fresh today as it was 2200 years ago when it was discovered by the sage Patanjali. It is the first practitioner-oriented commentary which is fully grounded in a living tradition. By applying its living wisdom in our practice, we can achieve the purpose of life: lasting fulfillment and ultimate freedom.

The Thomistic Institute exists to promote Catholic truth in our contemporary world by strengthening the intellectual formation of Christians at universities, in the Church, and in the wider public square. The thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Universal Doctor of the Church, is our touchstone. The Thomistic Institute Podcast features the lectures and talks from our conferences, campus chapters events, intellectual retreats, livestream events, and much more. Founded in 2009, the Thomistic Institute is part of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of ...

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian school of economics. Recordings of the lectures and seminars presented at the Mises Institute, 18–24 July 2021.

The Institute of Men exists to build, strengthen, and form Christian men who build God’s church, strengthen their marriages, and form their children. When I was 23 years old, I was directionless. My father asked me a question that changed my life: what kind of man do you want to be? That question is at the heart of everything you do as a man. Once you figure out what kind of man you want to be, you are ready for anything.

The Bahnsen Institute exists to promote the work and thought of the late Dr. Greg L. Bahnsen.Dr. Bahnsen is chiefly noted for his seminal contribution to the field of apologetics, but he was also a thinker of considerable breadth. He integrated historic Reformed theology, traditional covenant theology, and Christian philosophy into a comprehensive world-and-life view.Accordingly, the Bahnsen Institute seeks to equip the saints to “take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ” and to promote a God-centered approach to epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics in thought, word, and ...

The Augustine Institute Show with Dr. Tim Gray is an exciting new, weekly Catholic talk show airing on Formed that brings the truth and beauty of the Gospel to Catholics all over the world. This exciting initiative is an amazing addition to the Augustine Institute’s robust and innovative programming, which aims to help Catholics understand, live, and share their faith.

From the creative minds of the scholarly group behind the groundbreaking Jesus Seminar comes this provocative and eye-opening look at the roots of Christianity that offers a thoughtful reconsideration of the first two centuries of the Jesus movement, transforming our understanding of the...

The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast explores pressing cultural issues from the perspective of Rand’s philosophy, Objectivism.

Practical Criticism is a series of the Podcast for Social Research. Each episode features a discussion of a different object from the cultural sphere; the catch is that only one participant knows in advance what that object is.

Aspen Ideas to Go is a show about bold ideas that will open your mind. Featuring compelling conversations with the world’s top thinkers and doers from a diverse range of disciplines, Aspen Ideas to Go gives you front-row access to the Aspen Ideas Festival.

Day by Day, is a new concept to help you master the whole of Breslov teachings – and make Rebbe Nachman’s guidance and encouragement part of your everyday life. Each day, you’ll spend a short time studying excerpts from ten major Breslov works. On this schedule, you’ll complete all these books in a year’s time. These include the Rebbe’s seminal teachings: The Aleph-bet Book, Rebbe Nachman’s Stories, Tzaddik, and Rebbe Nachman’s Wisdom. Also included are works by Reb Noson which exemplify and illuminate the Rebbe’s teachings: Kitzur Likutey Moharan, Reb Noson’s Prayers, and ...

The Sarasota Institute is a 21st Century Think Tank. We are interested in leading the questioning and thinking on 10 major topics that will largely shape the United States and the world in this century. These 10 topics are: technology, global policy, natural resources, marketing and media, intelligence, health care, education, democracy, climate change and capitalism. We are not political. We were co-founded by futurist David Houle, marketing guru Philip Kotler, and financial futurist Jason Voss in 2017. We are a non-profit corporation. Look into the future with us!

Applying Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism to the most pressing free speech issues of the day, the essays in this book reveal the attacks on free speech to be the product of destructive ideas - ideas that are eroding Western culture at its foundation. They expose those ideas and the individuals who hold them, and, importantly, they identify the only ideas on which Western civilization can be sustained: reason, egoism, and individual rights.

Professor Block's book is among the most famous of the great defenses of victimless crimes and controversial economic practices, from profiteering and gouging to bribery and blackmail. However, beneath the surface, this book is also an outstanding work of microeconomic theory that explains the workings of economic forces in everyday events and affairs.

Erich Fromm und Herbert Marcuse – Die zweite Generation der Kritischen Theorie. Der erfahrene Autor und Herausgeber Bert Alexander Petzold erläutert verständlich und strukturiert Basiswissen zu den berühmten Philosophen der Frankfurter Schule Erich Fromm und Herbert Marcuse. Beide teilten zunächst eine kritische Perspektive auf den Kapitalismus und die bürgerliche Gesellschaft und verbanden die Theorien von Karl Marx mit den Ideen der Psychoanalyse von Sigmund Freud.

As-salamu 'alaykum! Hosted by young, traditionally trained ulama (Islamic scholars) from New York and operating under Sahifah Institute, Midnight Mawlanas brings you late-night conversations on a variety of Islamic topics that can be both candid and deeply thought-provoking. In talks among ourselves and with guest scholars and non-scholars, we address concerns that occupy the hearts of many Muslims around the world, especially new Muslims and those who are finding their way again. In a world where information floods every aspect of our lives from countless outlets, it is a pressing need of the...