Swami Kriyananda

Out of the Labyrinth (eBook, ePUB)

For Those Who Want to Believe But Can't

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Produktbeschreibung

Out of the Labyrinth

For Those That Want to Believe, But Can't Swami Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters)

The last hundred years of scientific and philosophical thought have caused dramatic upheavals in how we view our universe, our spiritual beliefs, and ourselves. With the advent of Darwinism, relativity, nihilism, and existentialism, traditional religious dogmas have been challenged as never before. Increasingly, people are wondering if enduring spiritual and moral truths even exist.

This book brings fresh insight and understanding to this difficult problem. In clear and accessible language, Walters demonstrates the genuine compatibility of scientific and religious values, and how science and our most cherished moral values actually enrich and reinforce one another. The author lays out a new approach to spirituality that both solves the problem of meaninglessness and champions the possibility of human transcendence and divine truth.

Topics covered include:

• Institutions and the Individual
• Nihilism and the Search for Values
• Values-Absolute or Relative?
• Truth in Relativity
• Meaning in Evolution?
• In Search of an Absolute
• The Law of Transcendence

This book is a must for anyone struggling to find answers to these questions and the meaning of human existence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Crystal Clarity Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781565895331
• Artikelnr.: 75895025

Autorenporträt

A prolific author, accomplished composer, playwright, and artist, and a world-renowned spiritual teacher, Swami Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters, 19262013) referred to himself simply as a close disciple of the great God-realized master, Paramhansa Yogananda. He met his guru at the age of twenty-two, and served him during the last four years of the Master's life. He dedicated the rest of his life to sharing Yogananda's teachings throughout the world.

Kriyananda was born in Romania of American parents, and educated in Europe, England, and the United States. Philosophically and artistically inclined from youth, he soon came to question life's meaning and society's values. During a period of intense inward reflection, he discovered Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi, and immediately traveled three thousand miles from New York to California to meet the Master, who accepted him as a monastic disciple. Yogananda appointed him as the head of the monastery, authorized him to teach and give Kriya initiation in his name, and entrusted him with the missions of writing, teaching, and creating what he called world brotherhood colonies.

Kriyananda founded the first such community, Ananda Village, in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California in 1968. Ananda is recognized as one of the most successful intentional communities in the world today. It has served as a model for other such communities that he founded subsequently in the United States, Europe, and India.