A bridge to the tools, practices and ideas which fuel powerful and personal spiritual journey: Your spiritual journey is an exploration, an adventure into the best of who you are and can become. As you let go of your out-dated beliefs, habits, fears, expectations, blame and judgment, life as spiritual journey helps uncover your wholeness and balance, your truth, trust and love. When you approach the Akashic Records as spiritual practice, you join as a traveller willingly engaging with your life within the great unknown of the boundlessness. Spiritual journey embraces your heart, integrates your soul, and brings mind and body together all as one. Not one path, many. Not many mountains, one. Whether you open the Akashic Records or not, this book is a guide for your spiritual journey and practice. Many Paths, One Mountain contains a rich and varied toolbox for the serious spiritual seeker including: The Five Steps of Your Spiritual Journey with insights into each step’s challenges and opportunities. Twenty-seven Spiritual Practices to help you examine your personal opportunities for spiritual growth and understanding with applications within your own Akashic Records. Personalized Paths for three different readers: Those new to the spiritual journey, those new to the Akashic Records, and those several steps down their paths. Questions for Reflection about your journey to use as personal inquiry or within your own Akashic Records. Affirmations of support for each step of your journey.

In today's world, you don't have to look far to find violence, hatred, and deep spiritual rifts. From discouraging headlines of religious upheaval splashed across the front pages, to quiet tensions among people you encounter every day, divergences in the way humans lead their spiritual lives crop up in many different ways. Holding the firm belief that our likenesses vastly outnumber our differences, Dr. Patrick Swift compiled One Mountain, Many Paths in the wake of the September 11th attacks. One Mountain, Many Paths is filled with uplifting quotes from the sacred texts of all the great religious traditions. Serving as a collection of guideposts for the reader's spiritual journey, the book illuminates the common threads of faith, hope, and love that weave together these traditions—including Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, indigenous proverbs, and many others.

Peter Aykroyd spent his childhood watching his family's parlor séances through the crack of a basement door. Here, for the first time, Aykroyd tells the strange and delightful story that inspired his son, Dan, to make the mega-hit, Ghostbusters. Part history, part family legend, A History of Ghosts starts in 1848 in upstate New York, where the spiritualist craze first began. Aykroyd introduces the reader to notable mediums while telling the story of the development of spiritualism, interweaving a personal history marked by a fascination with ghosts and spirits with the larger narrative about the role the paranormal has played in our culture. Such legendary figures as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini appear and vanish. Everyone loves a good ghost story. Successful TV shows such as Medium and Ghost Hunters are proof that our national obsession with ghosts is here to stay. Millions of Americans believe in the paranormal—and even skeptics have heard a bump in the night and suspected it might be something supernatural.

There are many paths up the mountain, and they all lead to the top. This is just one pathmy path. Its not the right path, nor is it the wrong path; its just mine and I want to share it with you to help you find your own path up the mountain. When I was at drama school I was struggling with the teachings of one particular tutora man revered for his knowledge of the craft and history in theatre. But what he was saying/teaching wasnt striking a chord with me. That wasnt the way that I did it, so I thought, Is my whole technique wrong? But why does it feel right? Then, a very wise teacher sat me down and explained that I wasnt at drama school to learn how to act using his technique. I was there to create my own method. Take a bit of what hes teaching, the bit that resonates with you, take a bit of what Im teaching, what shes teaching, what theyre teaching, and so on, and create your own method. And then, over the years, add to it when you learn from other actors, teachers, and acting jobs. This advice has translated to many other areas of my life and impacted my spiritual beliefs. That is what this book is about. It isnt about saying that this is the correct path up the mountain or the way towards enlightenment. It is just a path up the mountain. This book details my beliefs, my knowledge, and my path. Nothing in this book is wrong; it is all 100 percent right. For me. For now.

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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This is a thoughtful essay, well research and written with special edits by Reverend Sifu Sylvain Chamberlain on the core of all Buddha's teachings on the process of all phenomena and noumena. The concept of Dependent Origination also known by other transliterations as Conditioned Genesis, end several others, are repeated discussions in various sutra throughout the Buddha's 58 years of teaching. It is the fundamental concept in Tien-Tai's 3000 realms in a single thought moment, Nichiren's Ichinen Sanzen, the Satipatthana's formation of bodies, and countless discourses. Well explained with many source references, this essay will contribute a greater understanding in yet another voice, for those seeking a well reasoned argument for the practice and insight into liberation from the sufferings of samsara.

Scientist, teacher, author, and champion of the natural world, Dr. Kenneth S. Norris reveals the insights gained over a lifetime devoted to learning and teaching about the natural world and human nature, and the global environmental crisis we've helped to bring upon ourselves.