Stairway to the Stars - Sufism, Gurdjieff and the Inner Tradition of Mankind

Informationen zum Autor Max Gorman was born in Karachi, India (now Pakistan). He was educated at a convent in the Himalayas, then Lawrence School, Mount Abu, and privately by a hermit in a ruin in the jungle near Delhi. Next he was sent to Rugby School. He went to Oxford, mystic rather than academic, to read Poetry under the guise of History. He became wandering tutor to sons of owners of Scottish Castles and English mansions. He returned to Oxford to teach literatire, before taking up the post of Tutor in Environmental Ethics at the Extramural Department of the University. He moved to the fair city of Brighton to work at the Friends Adult Education Centre as tutor in Mystical Studies and Early Christianity. He has held Seminars in developmental philosophy at the University of Brighton, and the University of Sussex. Klappentext An introduction to mystical philosophy and the concept of inner development by looking at a number of its great schools. Inhaltsverzeichnis CHAPTER ONE - Prelude CHAPTER TWO - The message of the mystic CHAPTER THREE - Towards the recognition of sleep CHAPTER FOUR - The meaning of esotericism CHAPTER FIVE - The inner circle of humanity CHAPTER SIX - The way CHAPTER SEVEN - The mystery schools CHAPTER EIGHT - The Gnostics CHAPTER NINE - The art of alchemy CHAPTER TEN - Zen CHAPTER ELEVEN - Gurdjieff, enemy of sleep CHAPTER TWELVE - The way of the sufi FURTHER READING

Product details

• Authors: Max Gorman, Gorman Max
• Publisher: Stylus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2010
• EAN: 9781904658320
• ISBN: 978-1-904658-32-0
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Esoterics: general, reference works; RELIGION / Meditations, RELIGION / Spirituality, Spirituality & religious experience, Spirituality and religious experience, Islamic groups: Sufis