Tim Boyd, On the Verge of Wisdom. Available on Amazon. click HERE. Also available at The Theosophical Publishing House, Adyar, Chennai, click HERE.
First, my gratitude to Tim Boyd, International President of the TS Adyar, for inviting me, and others from various theosophical traditions, persuasions, as well as unaffiliated students, to the 12th World Conference of the Theosophical Society in Vancouver, Canada.
Henry Corbin, The Man of Light in Iranian Sufis. Available at Amazon. For more details click HERE
This work illuminates the inner nature and meaning of many occult and spiritual teachings. The central theme throughout these pages pertains to The Man of Light and the mystical, yet real world which is its abode. The theosophical reader may loosely equate the content of this book with the manasic light of our being and its subjective experiences on its journey back towards reunion with the Spiritual Ego.
Michael Shermer. The Believing Brain; From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies – How we construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths. Available on Amazon. For more details click HERE
Fantasy and fiction, truth and deception, magical thinking and plausible reality are all around and often within us. Emotionally driven faith with its feel-good beliefs and superficial convictions, in contrast to experientially verified relative truths, whether spiritual, psychic, or material, are always vying for our attention. For theosophists trying to find their way through this maze of illusionary reality, “The Believing Brain” could be a helpful guide on their journey. The work reviews scientific ideas that may require some deeper reflection, in its quest to better understand the brain’s tendency to perhaps blindly believe.
Kashmir Shaivism, The Secret Supreme, Swami Lakshman JEE - State University of New York Press under the imprint of the Universal Shaiva Trust. Available at Amazon. For more details click HERE
It has been stated that Kashmir Shaivism and its traditional views, had remained concealed for at least eight hundred years, prior to the public exposition of its teachings. It was also believed to be an exclusively “oral tradition”, and that Swami Lakshman JEE, of our time, was the last living authentic teacher in the line of this wisdom tradition at the time of his transition, September 27, 1991.
Six Theosophic Points and Other Writings, Jacob Boehme, Ann Harbor Paperback; The University of Michigan Press. Available at Amazon. For more details click HERE
Although we have done a previous review of Jacob Boehme’s work, The Key, it was felt that a reading and study of this text, by students of deep theosophical study, would be of significant benefit. It can be read alongside HPB’s The Secret Doctrine, especially that of cosmogenesis. As HPB felt that Jacob Boehme was a “nursling of the Nirmanakaya’s, these writings will be found to be a great complement to her work.
Jhana Consciousness: Buddhist Meditation in the Age of Neuroscience, Paul Dennison. Available at Amazon. For more details click HERE
For those having an interest in underlying neurological correlates of subjective stages of meditative withdrawal, this work will be found enlightening. It presents the idea that our overwhelming attachment to this sensory based objective world, and sense of “I”, can be progressively and systematically overcome through meditational practice. The author seeks to demonstrate this by providing us with data obtained from meditators, using the techniques of Buddhist based Jhâna meditation, as practiced according to the methods used by practitioners of the “Samatha Trust Tradition”. The research study was carried on from 2014 through 2019 utilizing electroencephalogram brain wave recordings correlated with “Jhâna states”.