The reading/study materials, references, information, and links on this page and its subpages will provide you tools and resources for learning more about the mystical life and the inner journey by which you will be living that life. The personages you will encounter on the “Teachers” segment page have been, and continue to be, my spiritual teachers. Other personages you will encounter in the other segments are valued friends along the path. I am grateful to/for them and very appreciative of the spiritual wisdom they shared and leave behind for the benefit of humanity.)
In the segment-subpage links provided below, you will find samplings of proven spiritual teachers, reputable book authors and/or reliable translators, Web authors, film makers, etc., whose works and contributions to global enlightenment offer us a pure and authentic mysticism. I consider them the cream of the crop I have tasted. You will observe that the samplings cover a wide spectrum of religious cultures and traditions, as well as esoteric schools and systems — Hinduism, Buddhism (Tibetan and Zen), Christianity, Islam, etc. Coming from a variety of religious systems or cultural settings, any one or a number of them will surely appeal to you. You will not — you cannot — go wrong with them.
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A Word of Wisdom and Advice
Aspiring mystics and students of mysticism must exercise caution and discernment in selecting a spiritual teaching or their teacher. Very many well-meaning and popular teachers fail to meet and pass the standards of mystical purity and authenticity with respect to their teachings. They are pseudo-mystics, at best. Some are plain charlatans or profit-motivated moneymakers. They lead you to dark or hazy areas of the mind, or deceive you as they take you on a wild goose chase or a merry-go-round ride on the human condition. They mislead you with tentative emotions of “feeling good” or a false sense of well-being, and with erroneous teachings of oneness and false assurances of happiness, peace, prosperity, or enlightenment itself. But they are unable to bring you to the threshold of true mystical experience, spiritual transformation and illumination. They cannot deliver the pure Truth which they, themselves, do not uphold in its purity and fail to embody in consciousness. They simply cannot give what they do not have. Beware of the wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
(Yeshua, The Gospel According to Matthew 7:16-18, KJV; emphasis supplied.)
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
(Yeshua, The Gospel According to Matthew 7:16-18, KJV; emphasis supplied.)
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Lao Tzu, Founder of Taoism
Allow yourself to yield, and you can stay centered.
Allow yourself to bend, and you sill stay straight.
Allow yourself to be empty, and you’ll get filled up.
Allow yourself to be exhausted,
and you’ll be renewed.
Having little, you can receive much.
Having much, you’ll just become confused.
(Lao Tzu, “Tao Te Ching,”
Brian Browne Walker translation)
