Books for A Change

2010-10-12T00:22:00.000-07:00

Stone Hill Foundation Publishing Pvt. Ltd. offers outstanding books on the subjects of body/mind/spirit, nonsectarian nonduality, consciousness studies, spiritual teachings, and the wisdom traditions of the world through its imprints EDITIONS INDIA and ARUNACHALA PRESS.

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The market for books on spirituality and mind/body subjects is the fastest growing for any segment of the book market in India. We are not only publishing the most significant international authors in India, but we are also introducing a number of our authors to Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Australia, New Zealand, and English-speaking Africa.

Our books are nonsectarian. Those that are reprints under our EDITIONS INDIA imprint have been harvested from the best small presses abroad, publishers who are connoisseurs of the most valuable new writing in the West in the specialized field of non dual spirituality and the new paradigm. Their authors are found highly recommended on Websites devoted to this subject field, and many tour extensively around the world, including India. STONE HILL FOUNDATION PUBLISHING seeks to help facilitate the India tours of as many of these as possible so that readers will have the opportunity to meet these outstanding teachers and the media will be interested in interviewing them, thus publishing our books. A number of our authors also have Websites where readers can learn more about their teachings.

Our imprint ARUNACHALA PRESS is named for the famed red stone hill rising above Sri Ramana Maharshi’s ashram in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India. It brings out original titles for the Indian and world markets, acquired both in India and abroad.

FESTIVAL BOOKS also produce original titles, highly illustrated, on topics including pilgrimage centers and spiritual figures.

We market our carefully produced books in the subcontinent with new and professional methods of promotion and publicity. Our covers speak for themselves in terms of eye appeal and information designed for the reader to quickly catch the spirit of each author’s work. Pages of testimonials occur in many of our books, and a number have additional front and back matter, including author interviews.

Eckhart Tolle & Sri Aurobindo: Two Perspectives on Enlightenment

2010-10-11T00:23:00.000-07:00

A.S. Dalal

At the turn of the millennium, former Cambridge physicist Eckhart Tolle caught the attention of spiritual seekers all over the world with his first book, The Power of Now.

His teaching, interspersed with elements from Buddhism, Advaita (nondual) Vedanta, and Christianity, is relatively neutral and powerfully direct. It does, however, lean strongly toward the Buddhist perspective in its view of reality, and the nature and process of enlightenment. This presents a sharp contrast to the dominant Hindu perspective as found in the Bhagavad Gita.

Described by Ken Wilber as "India’s greatest modern philosopher-sage" and as "the greatest of all Vedantic philosophers," Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) is considered one of the foremost philosophers of the 20th-century, and was, as well, a political activist, mystic, spiritual leader, poet, and yogi. His unique contribution to the development of the human potential was realized through his integration of Eastern and Western cultures.

As well as comparing aspects of Eckhart’s teaching and Sri Aurobindo’s yoga, Dr. A. S. Dalal relates these teachings to the story of his own spiritual quest. A Moslem by birth, Dr. Dalal was born in Tanzania, moved to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram for seven years, then worked in the U.S. as a psychologist for over two decades before returning to the ashram where he now lives. He has compiled ten books based on the work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, and has written two books integrating Sri Aurobindo’s psychological thought with modern psychology. Various books of his, published in India and abroad, have been translated into French, Italian, German, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, Lithuanian, Korean, and several Indian languages.

ISBN: 81-89658-31-X; PAGES: 184; SIZE: 5.5 X 8.5 in.; Price: Editions India Rs. 300; Arunachala Press (international edition) $.14.95 (U.S), €. 12.95 (U.K)Philosophy/Religion/Consciousness Studies

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Before I Am

2010-10-11T00:10:00.000-07:00

Mooji
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Life—who lives it?
Knowledge—who seeks it?
Death—who fears it?
Paths—who follows them?
Enlightenment—who attains it?
I do
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Now, find out what ‘I’ is!

“Mooji’s book offers an unending flow of inspiration from the Reality of Being. He throws you back to what you already are in a direct, clear, profound, and compassionate way. Take the only risk worth taking: to Be before ‘I am.’” ---Gangaji
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“If you feel, like I used to, that you missed out on meeting one of the great masters who shed their bodies some time ago, you will be very pleased to find evidence in these pages that this eternal principle has found a new incarnation in Mooji.” ---Zenji

ISBN: 81-89658-18-2; Price: Rs. 295; Arunachala Press (international edition) $14.95, £10.95, €12.95; Pages: 184; Size: 6 x 9 in.Halftone and Color Illustrations; Spirituality/Philosophy

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God Without Religion

2010-10-10T23:21:00.000-07:00

Sankara Saranam
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Winner of the USABookNews.com
Best Book Award Spirituality Category
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Disillusioned with organized religion, some people escape into New Age movements, and others retreat from their spiritual moorings altogether. A more satisfying and transformative option for some is to embark on a quest to discover God independently. Using time-tested tools of spiritual investigation, it becomes possible to examine our present beliefs, explore the nature of God and sense of self, and ultimately expand our identity beyond its borders. This book introduces this age-old approach to spiritual inquiry for modern-day readers. Step by step, it offers a bridge between organized religion and mystical spirituality for anyone questioning traditional dogma or its legacy of divisiveness. It also assists in overcoming limitations and notions of exclusivity promoted by New Age movements. Included are 17 universal techniques for developing a new view of what is meant by God and for broadening our view of ourselves, others, and all of life.

The author is the son of self-exiled Iraqi Jews and holds a degree in religion from Columbia University and an M.A. in Sanskrit and Classic Eastern Texts from St. John’s College, Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is a teacher, composer, and former monk.

“God Without Religion advocates a more intelligent and thoughtful approach to the spiritual life … and offers positive ways to develop a spiritual viewpoint.” ---THOMAS MOORE, author of Care of the Soul and Dark Nights of the Soul

“Beautifully articulated. … A work appropriate for anyone in search of spiritual meaning.” ---MICHAEL SHERMER, publisher of Skeptic magazine and columnist with Scientific American magazine

“This book’s bold message is vital.” ---LARRY DOSSEY, M.D., author of Healing Beyond the Body and Reinventing Medicine

ISBN: 81-89658-09-3; Price: Rs. 475; Pages: 352; Size: 6 X 9 in.
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A New Science of Life

2010-10-10T23:07:00.000-07:00

Rupert Sheldrake

“As far-reaching in its implications as Darwin’s theory of evolution.”

---Body/Mind Bulletin

"An important scientific inquiry into the nature of biological and physical reality.” ---New Scientist

“An immensely challenging and stimulating hypothesis, which proposes an unorthodox approach to evolution.” ---Arthur Koestler, author of The Lotus and the Robot and The Ghost in the Machine

“Sheldrake is a Cambridge-trained research biologist whose modest proposals … have upset scientific orthodoxy.” ---Utne Reader

Why do many phenomena defy the explanations of conventional biology and physics? For instance, when laboratory rats in one place have learned how to navigate a new maze, why do rats elsewhere seem to learn it more easily? Rupert Sheldrake describes this process as morphic resonance: the past forms and behaviors of organisms, he argues, influence organisms in the present through direct connections across time and space. Calling into question many of our fundamental concepts about life and consciousness, Sheldrake reinterprets the regularities of nature as being more like habits than immutable laws.

The first edition of A New Science of Life created a furor when it appeared, provoking the outrage of the old-guard scientific community and the approbation of the new. The British journal Nature called it “the best candidate for burning there has been for many years.” A lively debate ensued, as researchers devised experiments testing Sheldrake’s hypothesis, including some involving millions of people through the medium of television. These developments are recorded in this revised and expanded edition.

Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D., is a former Research Fellow of the Royal Society and was a scholar of Clare College, Cambridge, and a Frank Knox Fellow at Harvard University. He is the author of several ground-breaking books in the field of new science, including biology.

ISBN: 81-89658-20-4 ; Price: Rs. 450 ; Pages: 272 ; Size: 6 x 9 in.

Spirituality/Philosophy

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The Rebirth of Nature

2010-10-10T22:44:00.000-07:00

Rupert Sheldrake
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Reviews of This Classic Contribution to New Science:
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Deepak Chopra, M.D. —
“The Rebirth of Nature is a breakthrough book, beautifully written and spiritually oriented. It shows our intimate relationship with the universe — that we are a part of a breathing, living, thinking cosmos and that intelligence is a pervasive reality inseparably one with nature. This book will take everyone who reads it to new heights of understanding.”
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Publishers Weekly (U.S.) —
“This frontal assault on conventional science embodies a radical rethinking of humanity’s place in the scheme of things.”
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American Library Association’s Booklist —
“A beautifully written, deeply felt, and sinuously argued challenge to many habits of thought.”
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RUPERT SHELDRAKE, one of the world’s foremost biologists, has revolutionized scientific thinking with his vision of a living, developing universe with its own inherent memory. In this book he urges us to move beyond the centuries-old mechanistic view of nature, explaining in lucid terms why we can no longer regard the world as inanimate and purposeless. Through an astute critique of the dominant scientific paradigm, Sheldrake shows how recent developments in science itself have brought us to the threshold of a new synthesis in which traditional wisdom, intuitive experience, and scientific insight can be mutually enriching.
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ISBN: 81-89658-22-0; Price: Rs. 450; Pages: 260; Size: 6 x 9 in.

New Science/Ecology

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The Presence of the Past

2010-10-10T22:40:00.000-07:00

Rupert Sheldrake
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“Our memories may not be stored inside our brains, as we usually assume they must be.”

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Morphic fields, like the known fields of physics, are non-material regions of influence extending in space and continuing in time. When any organic or inorganic organized system ceases to exist, its organizing field disappears from its place, but its morphic field does not disappear, appearing again physically in other times and places, wherever and whenever the physical conditions are appropriate. And containing within itself a memory of its previous physical existence.

The Presence of the Past lays out the evidence for Sheldrake’s controversial theories, exploring its implications in the fields of biology, physics, psychology, and sociology. At the same time, Sheldrake delivers a stinging critique of conventional scientific thinking, which sees nature as a machine that, although constant and governed by eternal laws, is nonetheless somehow evolutionary. In place of the mechanistic, neo-Darwinian worldview he offers a new understanding of life, matter, and mind.

Rupert Sheldrake is a former Research Fellow of the Royal Society, and was a scholar of Clare College, Cambridge, and a Frank Knox Fellow at Harvard University. He is the author of several ground-breaking books in the field of new science, including biology.

“Engaging, provocative … a tour de force.” ---Washington Post.

“So compelling that it sets the reader to underlining words and scribbling notes in the margin.” ---Nicholas Humphrey, author of The Inner Eye.

“Bold, clear, and incisive, Sheldrake’s thesis constitutes a sweeping challenge to the very fundamentals of established science. It may outrage or delight, but it will never fail to stimulate. Sheldrake has a remarkable ability to identify the weak spots of scientific orthodoxy.” ---Paul Davies, author of The Edge of Infinity.

ISBN: 81-89658-21-2 ; PRICE: Rs. 650 ; PAGES: 416 ; SIZE: 6 x 9 in.

New Science/Ecology

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Awakening to the Dream

2010-10-10T11:16:00.000-07:00

Leo Hartong

“This book is written with a clarity of perception that is rare to find in the multitude of published outpourings that these days purport to express wisdom “TONY PARSONS, Author of As It Is

For most readers, the author’s realizations will go against their direct experience, a certain indication that Awakening to the Dream contains that which is critical for their most heartfelt need. The bleak realities of life and sense of separation are no match for the outpouring of insights contained in this extremely readable book. The author’s use of “to” rather than “from” in the title is of profound significance to all concerned about what “enlightenment” will mean to their lives.

Author comment: “The text of Awakening to the Dream does not state that improvement of personal circumstances is impossible, but that there is no separate you to do it, When improvements happen, they happen, and if this seems to include personal action and input, then that is what happens. In Awakening to the Dream it is said that there is no ‘you’ having a life, but only life appearing as everything including the pattern identified as ‘you.’”

“I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It could become a classic!”—JERRY KATZ, owner and initiator of the Website Noduality Salon

ISBN 10: 81-89658-05-0; pp. 168; paperback; 6 x 9; Rs. 275 (EI), U.S. $14.95, Canada $19.95, U.K., ₤12.95, Eur. €14.95 (AP)

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What's Next After Now?

2010-10-10T10:34:00.000-07:00

Steven Harrison

The author, whose seminal work Doing Nothing: Coming to the End of the Spiritual Search, helped guide spiritual seekers to the experience of the present without practices, now takes us one step further into the transforming experience of a “post-spiritual” life. Spiritual seekers by the thousands have come to the end of the masters and gurus, the religions and philosophies, and the process of “getting better.” The spiritual marketplace has discovered the “power of now” and learned all about the present moment — but is that it? Is it that simple? What’s next after now?

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When we give up spirituality –– not out of a reaction or because we have completed some mythical journey –– and we drop into the present, what is the post-spiritual reality and how do we live it creatively? Steven Harrison probes these questions, deepening the discovery that the present is a place of boundless creativity in which we can be constantly challenged and inspired to fulfill the wonders of the human potential. Steven Harrison is one of the most insightful and provocative authors in the arena of spiritual inquiry today.
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ISBN: 81-89658-11-5; Price: Rs. 250; Pages: 170; Size: 5.5 X 8.5 in.

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Coming Home: An Invitation to Rediscover Beingness

2010-10-10T10:10:00.000-07:00

Jan Kersschot, M.D.

Belgian physician and author Jan Kersschot has written this book as an initiation into a new way of seeing, into the recognition that being concerned about life is not the practical defensive stance we have to accept as necessary to advance in the world and to survive.

Likewise, the simplicity of everyday life is not the negative we’ve been taught to avoid, but an entryway into the “open secret.” Kersschot gives easier access to what Zen Buddhism, Taoism, Vendanta, and Tantra all describe, with a writing style that’s direct, compelling, and requires no religious or philosophical touchstones. He moves the reader “beyond effort, belief, and path into a new perception,” as author Tony Parsons says.

Dr. Jan Kersschot obtained his medical degree from the University of Antwerp. As his interest in the nature of appearances deepened, he studied the written traditions worldwide and also sought out leading teachers in the field of nondual spirituality. Deepening insights lead to the writing of several books in the field. He also is the originator of the healing technique of Biopuncture which he has taught to professionals internationally.

ISBN: 81-89658-41-7; PAGES: 176; SIZE: 6 X 9 in.; Price: Editions India Rs. 325; Arunachala Press (international edition) $16.95 (U.S), $21.95 (Can.) €14.95 (U.K)
Philosophy/Religion/Nonduality/Consciousness Studies

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The Myth of Enlightenment

2010-10-10T03:11:00.000-07:00

Karl Renz

Whether you can meet Karl Renz in person or through this book, the encounter will leave you with a radically different sense of yourself. Karl’s unique ability lies in exposing the beliefs we’ve built our lives on, beginning with our root sense of individuality. Our current predicament is the result of believing ourselves to be something other than what. Throughout these dialogues, Karl unceasingly brings us back to the truth of our real nature by helping us recognize the fleeting and impermanent nature of the self we’ve come to believe in. Even momentarily seeing the truth of who we really are immediately frees us, if only temporarily, from these limitations we impose on ourselves.

Karl’s purpose—if we can say he even has one—is to reflect our own divinity, which he skillfully and uncompromisingly expresses throughout the pages of this book. By realizing the implication of his words, we can live life to its fullest and experience the boundless freedom that is our essence.

KARL RENZ is originally from the Lower Saxony area of Germany. He studied agriculture before focusing on art, and since 1980 he has worked in Berlin as a musician and painter.

Toward the end of the 1970s, Karl had a profound inner experience that awakened him to the realization of immortality and dissolved the concept of a separate self. Since the early 1990s, he has responded to numerous invitations to hold dialogues and meetings throughout the world.

ISBN: 81-89658-12-3; Price: Rs. 375; Pages: 320; SIZE: 6 X 9 in. Spirituality/Philosophy/Consciousness Studies

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Integrality through Transformational Yoga

2010-10-10T03:05:00.000-07:00

Swami Vidyanand & Sharda Nandram
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Centered energy and a balanced life are two requisites to link productivity with a peaceful mind. The Transformational Yoga of Swami Vidyanand offers a means to create these conditions for all those seeking improvement in their professional or personal experience.
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Finding meaning in a busy lifestyle focused on the outer world doesn’t work, as many managers and entrepreneurs are recognizing. Integrating business life with our inner self through the principles of Transformational Yoga will give a sense of awakened energy as the adventure of deeping our insight progresses on several levels. This book includes 69 color photos and diagrams.

ISBN : 81-89658-25-5; Price: Editions India Rs. 400; Arunachala Press (international edition) $21.95 (U.S.), $26.95 (Canada), £16.95 (U.K.) €18.95 (Europe)

Pages:104; Size: 7.5x9;

Yoga/Psychology/Health/Indian Philosophy/Integral Studies

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The Life and Teachings of Jillellamudi Amma

2010-10-10T02:54:00.000-07:00

Ekkirala Bharadwaja

‘The Gods assume various forms and come as incarnations to meet

various needs. But Mother exists forever and includes everything within herself.’

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When he published this book in 1967, author Ekkirala Bharadwaja was the first to describe Anasuya Devi, popularly known as Jillellamudi Amma, and her ashram, recording her sayings and the happenings surrounding her up to the late 1960s. This first-person, present-tense account gives a vivid picture of what it was like to be graced with her presence.
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Author and academician Timothy Conway, Ph.D., writes, 'Anasuya Devi is, to my mind, one of the greatest spiritual presences ever to be embodied in this planet, a highly remarkable Divine Mother of modern times.'
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One of the most profound, enigmatic, and radical spiritual figures, Jillellamudi Amma lived her entire life as a househoulder, to all appearances a typical village wife and mother in the state of Andhra Pradesh on India's southeast coast. Born Anasuya Devi, she was far from typical, however, and even as a small child acted as a guru to pundits and priests. Among her sayings:

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"If Knowledge is Brahman, why not Ignorance" "Where is the question of a good way to Atman when everything you see is that?" "Vedanta is that which is not understood either by the one that expounds it or the one that listens to it."
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After Amma laid aside her physical form on June 12, 1985, a life-size image of her was installed in 1987 at the temple in her ashram. Jillellamudi has become a pilgrimage centre where the continuous chanting of Amma's namam, "Jaya ho Mata Sree Anasuya Raja Rajeswari Sree Pararpari," is done. Amma stated, "Even without the body, my work continues." Today, many people confirm this.
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ACHARYA EKKIRALA BHARADWAJA did his M.A. (English) at Andhra University in 1959, and worked as Lecturer in English in several colleges in Andhra Pradesh from the early 1960s till he quit in the mid-seventies to pursue a spiritual path of life. He spent a number of years in Jillellamudi, observing and analyzing Amma's philosophy at close quarters. He authored many books in English and Telugu on Amma, Shirdi Sai Baba, and other saints. He was also a former editor of Matrusri, the monthly jounal in English published at Jillellamudi.

ISBN: 81-89658-44-1; Price: Editions India Rs. 195; Arunachala Press (international edition) $14.95, €12.95; Pages: 176; Size: 25 x 9 in. Halftone Illustrations

Spirituality/Philosophy/Religion/Consciousness Studies/Biography/Women's Studies

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An Evolutionary Agenda for the Third Millennium

2010-10-10T02:48:00.000-07:00

Alan Sasha Lithman
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ALAN SASHA LITHMAN was in the forefront of the most positive social changes taking place in the ‘60s, joining the global community-building experiment of Auroville, India, which continues today.
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After meeting The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram in nearby Pondicherry, he helped jumpstart the movement that turned an ecologically ravaged plateau into a lushly vegetated, multicultural community. This evolutionary activist is a lecturer-writer engaged in a number of social, environmental, and community-based initiatives worldwide, including the Institute of Noetic Sciences, which helped underwrite this book.

ISBN: 81-89658-19-0; Price: Rs. 350; Pages: 248; Size: 5.5 in. x 8.5 in. Spirituality/Philosophy/Religion/Consciousness Studies

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Women of Power and Grace

2010-10-10T02:41:00.000-07:00

Timothy Conway, Ph.D.
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The deeds, miracles, and teachings of these nine beautiful and inspiring female role models, performing miracle healings and ministering divine love and compassion on a par with Jesus and the Buddha, will be an inspiration to those who seek the deepest and most powerful forms of spirituality.

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This book includes many of their teachings in their own words with special emphasis on the women of India who teach the sublime nondual Vedanta philosophy—one of the greatest achievements in the history of human thought. The stories of these spiritual champions of the highest order will excite the reader with the possibility of his or her own direct God-realization and the fullness of divine love, bliss, peace, freedom, and power. The author says that it has been a great joy to hear from so many readers about how one or more of these holy ones has touched their lives in some real, transformational manner.
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The author, Timothy Conway, is a spiritual teacher and educator living in Santa Barbara, California. He received double majors in religious studies and psychology from the University of California and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in East–West psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He has met and studied with many of the most esteemed spiritual leaders of our time and has made a fairly exhaustive study of the world’s sacred literature, including hundreds of rare but crucially important works dealing with the highest stages of enlightenment.

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ISBN: 81-89658-26-3, Price: Rs. 650; Pages: 352; Size: 5.5 x 8.5 in.

Spirituality/Philosophy

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The Knowledge Society

2010-10-10T02:22:00.000-07:00

Marc Luyckx Ghisi

“A superb synthesis of today’s burning issues of globalization, the transition to post-industrial futures, the growth of post-carbon, “green” economies worldwide, changing paradigms in science, economics, and management—all enfolded in a deep cultural analysis of changing ethical, religious, and spiritual values. Marc’s deeply personal style illuminates his heroic synthesis. He shows how our endangered human family can redesign our various civilizations toward more peaceful, just, and sustainable futures for all life on Earth.” Hazel Henderson, author, Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy and Building a Win-Win World.

Masterfully crafted to caringly expel the reader from the comfort of the sancrosanct.” Frederick C. Dubee, Senior Advisor, Global Compact, Executive Office of the Secretary-General, United Nations. “The Knowledge Society provides dramatic insights into how the world will change within the next five decades. With his concept of a transmodern society, Marc Luyckx Ghisi opens a perspective to the powerful trends away from the industrial society with its pyramidal structures towards a planetary knowledge society based on cultural creativity.” Karlheinz Steinmuller, author, futurist, Director of Z-punkt GmbH, Büro für Zukunftgestaltung, Berlin. “Marc Luyckx Ghisi is a ‘transmodern’ renaissance man.” Walter Link, chair of the GlobalAcademy and the Global Leadership Network. “An important book, one that marks an important transition ... a blueprint for hope and wise action.” David Rooney, UQ BusinessSchool, University of Queensland. “A book of utmost relevance for our times.” Göran Carstedt, Ph.D., Chairman, The Natural Step International, former executive at Volvo and IKEA.

ISBN: 81-89658-14-X; Price: Editions India Rs.375, Arunachala Press (international edition) $22.95, €21.95; Pages: 214; Size: 6 x 9 in.

Futuristic Studies/Sustainability/Economics/Management/Sociology/Social Theory/Politics/New World Order

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The Enneagram of Liberation

2010-10-10T02:08:00.000-07:00

Eli Jaxon-Bear
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In an enthralling book, the author-teacher uses the powerful, ancient symbol of personality types, the Enneagram, to reveal who you are NOT, opening the mind to the infinite spaciousness of being — free of past, present, and future.
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The Enneagram, an ancient method of diagnosing our psychological fixations, has been interpreted in our time as an illusory medicine to cure an imaginary disease—the egoic idea of separation from God, from one’s true source. The cure is to employ it as the amazing wisdom mirror it was intended to be, to use it to see past all false identification to the truth of being. Eli Jaxon-Bear presents a radically new model of the ego and the psyche in a fresh approach to spiritual awakening by using the Enneagram’s nine fixated structures of ego to clearly describe who you are not.
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From the book: “It is a fortunate and mysterious moment when the desire for happiness leads to the investigation into personal identity, also known as self-inquiry. In the light of direct self-inquiry, limitations that once seemed to define oneself are discovered to exist only on the surface of consciousness in one’s imagination.” Among featured cover endorsements: “A warm, engrossing book … readers will be well served by its wit and wisdom.” — Russ Hudson and Don Richard Ruso, authors, The Wisdom of the Enneagram.
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ISBN : 81-89658-00-X; Price: Rs. 395; Pages: 195; Size: 6 x 9 in.

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The Life We Are Given

2010-10-10T01:56:00.000-07:00

George Leonard, Michael Murphy
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“The Life We Are Given is a powerful, compelling, comprehensive approach to individual transformation and community enrichment. Author Ken Wilber.

“Bringing theory down to earth, learning to live the higher states we’ve talked about and intuited, George Leonard and Michael Murphy are at the cutting edge, as usual. Investigate with them the experiences of committed practice. “James Redfield—author of The Celesting Prophecy.

“This book is a remarkable integration of spiritual, psychological, social nutritional, and bosy techniques to create a lifelong program of seelf transformation. There is nothing like it!” Willis W. Harman, President, Institute of Noetic Sciences.

“This marvelous account of a bold experiment by a group of psychonauts bent on transforming mind, body, and spirit may well be the best outline we have of what could be called course leading to a Master’s in Transformative Practice.” Sam Keen, author of Hymns to an Unknown God and Fire in the Belly.

“By combining philosophy and theory with specific instruction, Leonard and Murphy are once again pioneering at the edge between the known and the unknown in human potential.” Philip Moffitt, author of The Power to Heal.

The Life We Are Given is synthesis and culmination of seventy yerars’ combined experience by two of the wisest and most pioneering explorers and teachers of the possibilities of human transformation. I recommend it highly.” Dean Ornish, M.D., President and Director, Preventive Medicine Research Institute.

ISBN: 81-89658-43-3; Price: Rs. 350; Pages: 224; Size: 7.5x 9 in.
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Spirituality/Phychology/Philosophy/Health/New Age

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The Metaphysical Intuition

2010-10-10T01:44:00.000-07:00

Swami Siddheswarananda

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These unusual and moving commentaries on chosen verses of the Bhagavad Gita masterfully unlock the sacred text’s mystical insights. These are last writings of the extraordinary Swami Siddheswarananda, who was born into the royal family of Cochin, Kerala, India, and became a monk of the Ramakrishna order. He spent most of his life, however, in service to French adherents of Vedanta. He founded and, until his death, was the spiritual head of the Centre Vedantique Ramakrichna in the picturesque river town of Gertz, France. This book is the culmination of a lifetime of spiritual search and includes commentaries on aspects of the Mandukya Upanishad.

In these teachings, the Swami seeks to convey an experience of an intuition operating beyond logic, outside the play of opposites, through which seekers can more readily sense the nature of reality. To elucidate his meanings and to make them broadly accessible, the Swami draws on the writings of others including Meister Eckhart, Ramana Maharshi, Adi Sankara, Hubert Benoit, and Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda.

Originally written in French, we are publishing the first English translation internationally under the ARUNACHALA PRESS imprint, as a co-publication with Monkfish Publishing Co., Rhinebeck, NY, and the Indian edition under the Editions INDIA imprint.

ISBN: 81-89658-01-8; Price: Rs. 295; Pages: 192; SIZE: 5.5 x 8.5 in.

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The Simplest Way

2010-10-10T01:37:00.000-07:00

Madhukar
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With his guru H.W.L. Poonja, affectionately called “Papaji,” this former TV broadcaster in Germany became immersed in effortlessness, and is effectively communicating this ease on speaking tours in the West and in India. Don’t concentrate on sadness, and don’t imagine or try to achieve happiness, he urges. Any kind of experience is a waste of time that can be spent going directly to your Heart.

Madhukar’s teaching is so relaxed that he encourages people not even to relax. Relaxing is too much effort, he says. Any effort for someone who is already peace Itself is obviously unnecessary, and this spiritual teacher is not willing to settle for anything less than what already exists, which he calls our True Being, the Essence.

Why this is not an actuality to most is pursued by him through the tangle of concepts and words we call our lives. Identifying ourselves with our moods, positive and negative opinions, the poison that is our doubts, and the tyrants called feelings are some of the aspects he identifies as the ego-centered programming of many lifetimes.

ISBN: 81-89658-04-2

Price: Editions India Rs. 350; Arunachala Press (international edition) $19.95

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The Texture of Being: Understanding Your True Self

2010-10-10T00:15:00.000-07:00

Roy Whenary

This is a philosophy-free primer on nondual spirituality and the search for our source. It’s an ideal introduction for those seeking to center their attention on nondual reality in daily life. British poet and meditational music writer and producer Roy Whenary puts the mind in its place for good. He makes clear the critical distinction between feeling and feelings, revealing the true source of the latter to be in the mind, not our essence.

Severing our strong and sentimental identification with the Self allows us to move from mind-driven personal reactions to mind-free effective action. Feeling is seen as a different and more profound intelligence. Roy Whenary’s interest in Eastern spiritual philosophies began in the late 1960s, and his main inspirations have been J. Krishnamurti, Nisargadatta Maharaj, and Jean Klein.

“... Roy appeals from the heart directly to the heart for us to recognize our true nature and abandon once and for all the traditional pursuits of pleasure, prestige, and prosperity, which can never lead to happiness.” JERRY KATZ, founder of www.nonduality.com

ISBN: 10: 81-89658-06-9; 13:978-81-89658-06-9; Price: Rs. 275; Pages: 160; Size: 5.5 x 8.5 in. Spirituality/Philosophy/New Age/Nonduality/Consciousness Studies

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What's Wrong with Right Now? (Unless You Think About It)

2010-10-10T00:13:00.000-07:00

“Sailor” Bob Adamson

One of the “pioneers” of the modern, term-free articulation of nondual spirituality, “Sailor” Bob Adamson had his own spiritual search come to an end in the presence of another radical teacher, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, in the mid-1970s in Bombay. Since then he has shared his understanding at his home in Melbourne with those looking for direct access to the essential questions of life.

Delivered with a rare immediacy and authority, his words cut through the self-imposed barriers of the mind and reveal the freedom that is our original nature.

“Bob’s words are all so clear and simple, right to the heart of things ... . There is a transmission in these pages that stops the mind and opens the heart.” JOAN TOLLIFSON, author

“Bob’s teaching is always showing that the nature of the mind is to divide, that ‘understanding is all’ (to quote Nisargadatta), and that understanding arises out of direct experience, ‘right here, right now, full stop,’ presence-awareness.” JERRY KATZ, http://www.nonduality.com/

ISBN: 10:81-89658-07-7; 13:978-81-89658-07-6; Price: Rs. 275; Pages: 148; Size: 75.5 x 8.5 in.Spirituality/Philosophy/New Age/Nonduality/Consciousness Studies

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It Happens by Itself

2010-10-09T01:24:00.001-07:00

Isaac Shapiro

The dialogue format is a deceptively simple one without any literary pretensions, and perhaps that makes it an ideal crucible for the genius inherent in the Self-aware to be inspired and expressed in the most dramatic, direct, and practical words. In the course of their candid revelations about their deepest fears and hopes, Isaac’s audience finds their conditioned reactions derailed by his steadfast insistence that one Reality fits all, and there’s no escape from it.

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These dialogues with a Self-realized teacher as highly regarded as Isaac Shapiro offer an opportunity to be yourself as never before, an encouragement to experience life directly, a call to let go of your false identity. This is a radical’s invitation to come to the end of “good” and “bad,” and see beyond the drama of identification with our life stories.
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Isaac is from South Africa and now lives in Australia.
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Mentored by one of the greatest spiritual teachers of the 20th century, H.W.L. Poonja (known as “Papaji”) of Lucknow, India, he was urged by Papaji to share his insights with others. Isaac guides seekers from all parts of the world, gently, with compassion and humor, away from suffering and confusion to the very heart of their being, to freedom, to That which is. And how does all this happen? It happens by itself. . “At the cutting edge of spiritual exploration. He is an embodiment of the New Man.” — ARJUNA ARDAGH, author of the best-selling The Translucent Revolution.

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ISBN: 81-89658-02-6; Price: Rs. 275; Pages:192; Size:5.5 x 8.5 in.
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Escaping from a Dream Tiger

2010-10-09T01:24:00.000-07:00

Isaac Shapiro

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In reading these dialogues with a Self-realized teacher (now based in Australia), we can’t help but see the folly of feeling we have individual concerns.As others ask the questions on our own minds, individuality begins dropping away when we become caught up in the common plight of all humanity.
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From the book: “Forget about the situation. You’re watching a bad movie on television, and you ask, “How do I watch something else?” Change the channel! You’ve been on the problem channel and this is the Truth Channel. So, if you try to deal with problems, then your life is about problems. If you’re interested in Truth, then your life is about Truth … And to find Truth is so simple, really so simple. Then you find the end of all your problems.”

“Isaac Shapiro is one of those rare human beings who have the courage to walk their talk.” — ALF LUECHOW, founder of Luechow Press

ISBN: 81-89658-03-4; Price: Rs. 275; Pages: 88; Size: 5.5 x 8.5 in.

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The Questions to Life's Answers

2010-10-09T01:22:00.000-07:00

Steven Harrison

This best-selling author’s books always “come in the back door” to explore what’s beyond the “why” of our mysterious existence called life. Short-circuiting the ruts of the usual routes of inquiry, he brings our minds to a halt that permits a new understanding to enter.

Harrison sets the scene for our predicament: We are great doers. We can destroy forests, build huge cities, take over whole continents. We’ve proven that we can do, but we haven’t proven we can just be, happily. In no urban world culture is there respect for the simple act of existing. When you meet someone they usually say, “What do you do?” When we see someone we know, our first interest is “What have you been doing?”

“In a world where content is just the vehicle for commerce, commerce the means to wealth, and wealth the expression of our value, we have come to feel that our lives are without purpose, without connection, without grounding. This world of separation is maintained by the motion of our lives, perpetuated by the distractions and busyness that ultimately translate into a life of tremendous stress.” This book gives access to the alternatives in a direct, informal approach, beginning with the unsatisfactory answers we’ve accepted to our dilemmas and finding out what the real questions should have been.

In this original and inspiring work, Steven Harrison lays bare the workings of the mind with brilliant clarity. Grappling with the questions we all have about life, he deconstructs the prevailing spiritual, therapeutic, and self-help methods we use to try to change ourselves. By taking this journey of exploration with him, we come face-to-face with the unknown and the potential for radical transformation.

ISBN: 81-89658-14-4; Price: Rs.225; Pages: 184; Size: 5.5 x 8.5"; Rs.275
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Being One

2010-10-09T01:21:00.000-07:00

Steven Harrison

The mind is the wrong go-between to help us with our relationships.The mind will always bemoan its fate. It will never be satisfied. Its nature is only conflicted. It is in conflict in relationship. It is in conflict alone. The cave of the recluse won’t make us happy.

The household won’t make us happy.

The mind cannot be happy Then?

“Then … ?” is what this book is about, as best-selling author Stephen Harrison looks at the possibilities for peace and pleasantness in close relationships between people who remain confused and conflicted despite having found companionship and love. Are humans suitable companions for one another, even after graduating from all the one-on-ones and workshops on self-fixing? Well, maybe, he says, if they are so fed up that they give up. Thoroughly exhausted from trying to bring about the myth, they can finally experience what extraordinary changes are possible when self-centered effort no longer blocks free-flowing life in all its originality.

ISBN: 81-89658-11-5; Price: Rs. 225; Pages: 160; Size: 5.5 X 8.5 in.

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Doing Nothing: Coming to the End of the Spiritual Search

Steven Harrison

“Seeking answers to Life’s questions, I sought out every mystic, seer, and magician I could find throughout the world. I subjected myself to severe austerities, long periods of isolation and meditation. I studied the world’s philosophies and religions. I spent long periods in India and in the Himalayas, searching, contemplating, being ...”

A “powerful yogi” finally forced this sincere seeker into a profound realization that shut down his mind and put him directly in touch with something other than the ego. In simple yet breathtakingly impressive prose, Harrison provides a life-changing map to that space he found between thoughts, where divine consciousness is blatantly apparent.

This fascinating exploration of a changed mind is for readers who have avidly followed practices that have not fundamentally changed their lives.

“There is no way to praise this powerful, extraordinary book sufficiently. The honesty and integrity it calls for are a challenge.” --Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of The Crack in the Cosmic Egg.

“A tour de force by the author and a treat for the reader.” --Thomas Szasz, M.D., author of The Myth of Mental Illness

ISBN: 0-87477-941-3; Pages: 144; Price: Rs.175; Size: 5.5 X 8.5 in. Hard Back.

Relentless Love: The Power of a Transformative Life

Edwin Carl Smith

If “love makes the world go ‘round” why is our experience of life and each other so unloving? Perhaps it is because we have become addicted to faulty survival techniques, institutions, and practices that make it hard to see ourselves in others. What we learn intellectually doesn’t help us be loving or recognize loving. Fantasizing is barking up the same tree.

A sense of community between another or among many is natural, says this author, throughout the worlds of flora and fauna. It’s a relentless force crammed with love that we can relax into but not acquire. That is his definition of the enlightened state that sets the stage for the condition of lasting loving.

The core message of this book is considered secret in some traditions so that people don’t become even more lost in ideas. Emptying out the vocabulary of love yet retaining respect for loaded words like “trust” is part of becoming that new, ever-attractive person that others can’t help but love. Readers who “try on” the author’s discoveries may find that abandoning “strategies” and defenses brings about the conditions that were always there but only masked.

ISBN: 1-59181-021-3; Price: Rs.100 ; Pages: 144; Size: 6 X 9 in.

Dancing With The Master

2010-10-09T01:20:00.000-07:00

Sri Vast

Sri Vast, a spiritual master from South India attuned to the concerns of contemporary society, is closely identified with both ecospirituality and freeing individuals from artificial role-playing in their lives. Finding out what “being natural” means and living daily from this vibrant focus is the strong attraction of his “Inner Yoga.”

Imprints: EI/Sri Vast International Foundation (SVIF),
AP/SVIF;
ISBN 10:0-9824358-0-9; ISBN 13: 978-0-9824358-0-9, pp, 204, paperback, 5½ ´ 8½ in.
Rs. 350, $19.95, £16.95, €22.95

Discovering Universal Reality

2008-10-10T03:25:00.000-07:00

Paramahamsa Tewari

The space of the universe is accepted as an infinite voidness filled with matter and force fields. However, our traditional concepts of three dimensional Euclidean space, and also of universal time, have been revised, whereas the structural relationship between space and matter is yet to be explored by contemporary physics.

By not taking space interaction into account, modern theories in quantum physics have ignored spatial forces in nuclear structure as well as in elementary particles and, therefore, failed to identify the fundamental particles - the electron. It has been shown in this work that the primary source of cosmic energy arises in the dynamics of space that originates and creates matter and fields—thereby indicating that current physical theories are clearly on the wrong track with regard to the basic properties of space.

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ISBN: 81-89658-10-7; Price: Rs. 350; Pages: 180; Size: 5.5 x 8.5in;
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