A student asked:I have heard the phrase "listening to the book in all three centers" and I am not clear on how it can be done.Orage:It isn't a matter of how it can be done, but of understanding what it means and then wishing to hear the book that way. Remember how you listened to stories you heard when you were a child, so that you participated, your hair stood on end and your eyes shone or you wept? That is readi...

Alfred Richard Orage (1873-1934), whom G. B. Shaw declared the most brilliant editor of the past century, suddenly laid down his pencil in 1922 and sold his famous journal The New Age to work with the mystic G. Gurdjieff in France. Orage hoped that with Gurdjieff's help, he could come to a more fundamental understanding of the human species. For Orage, modern man had come to the end of his tether, and without the development of new faculties, he was convinced that the problems tha...

In "Readers and Writers (1917-1921)," A. R. Orage offers a profound exploration of the intricate relationship between authors and their audiences during a transformative era in literature. The collection of essays embodies Orage's incisive literary style, marked by keen observation and a deep appreciation for both established and emerging authors. Written in the aftermath of World War I, these essays engage with the shifting literary landscape, addressing the evolving role of literature in...

An invaluable resource for students of self-development, especially those with a particular interest in the ideas of George Gurdjieff and Pyotr Ouspensky.While editing a publication he cofounded, The New Age, A. R. Orage formed a study group of practicing psychologists—including Dr. Maurice Nicoll, one of Jung's foremost exponents—to study psychoanalysis. They reached the conclusion that the need in psychology was not psychoanalysis but, psycho-synthesi...

Why We Still Haven't Found What We're Looking ForWe long for heaven, and we will never feel fully at home until we get there. This keen insight into our souls pervades the writings of C. S. Lewis. From his Chronicles of Narnia to Mere Christianity, Lewis's writings continually return to the theme of heaven as our true home, the land we have been searching for our whole lives, a place where all is finally made right and that all the joys in this life point to. With selections from T...

The lessons which compose this volume, originally appeared in the shape of monthly lessons. These lessons met with a hearty and generous response from the public, and the present volume is issued in response to the demand for the lessons in a permanent and durable form. There have been no changes made in the text.The publishers take the liberty to call the attention of the reader to the great amount of information condensed within the space given to each lesson. Students have told ...

"The Complete Works of William Walker Atkinson" brings together the most influential writings of one of the pioneering figures of the early self-help, mental science, and New Thought movements. William Walker Atkinson combined philosophy, psychology, spirituality, and personal development into a body of work that continues to fascinate readers interested in mental power, success, willpower, and the hidden potential of the human mind. This extensive collection offers access to an extraordin...

A manual of practical psychology. The values to be derived from such a work are necessarily suggestive, and nothing is more powerfully helpful to any one than suggestions. So when considering in this book the subjects of mind and will, ably and interestingly presented by Mr. Atkinson, the reader must be benefitted, for it is the law of suggestion that attributes, elements of greatness within respond to suggestions from without. No one, therefore, can carefully read this book without awaken...

Being one of James Allen's earliest works, this book leads you on the essential road to financial wealth. This is the annotated edition including a rare essay about James Allen, a Prophet of Meditation. Contents: 1. The lesson of evil 2. The world a reflex of mental states 3. The way out of undesirable conditions 4. The silent power of thought: controlling and directing one's forces 5. The secret of health, success and power 6. The secret of abounding happiness 7. The realization of prospe...

Inspired as I am by a deep conviction, springing from a long line of experimental elucidations and deductions pointing to the conclusion that, if a man desires sincerely and seriously, and out of no mere curiosity, to attain to the knowledge of the way leading to Real Being, and if he fulfils to this end all that is requested of him and begins, in fact, among Other things to aid indirectly, and from his very first step, the attainment of this by Others, he will, by this act alone, become a...

In Clairvoyance, Charles Webster Leadbeater offers one of the Theosophical movement's most systematic expositions of "second sight," classifying clairvoyant perception by range, condition, and spiritual development. Written in lucid, instructional prose, the book combines metaphysical taxonomy with anecdotal illustration, presenting occult perception as both latent human faculty and disciplined esoteric science. Situated within late Victorian occult revivalism, it reflects an era fascinate...