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In Practical Mysticism, Evelyn Underhill distills the essential (and comprehensible) steps that comprise the process of achieving mystical understanding. Though she uses the pantheon of Christian mystics as her guide, her methodology transcends any particular faith and offers a common sense approach to self-improvement and enhanced awareness.

The little family of mystical treatises that is known to students as “the Cloud of Unknowing group” deserves more attention than it has hitherto received from English lovers of mysticism, for it represents the first expression in our own tongue of that great mystic tradition of the Christian Neoplatonists that gathered up, remade, and “salted with Christ's salt” all that was best in the spiritual wisdom of the ancient world.

This audiobook will combat the idea that te spiritual life - or the mystic life, as its more intense manifestations are sometimes called - is to be regarded as primarily a matter of history. It is not. It is a matter of biology.

Twelve Powerful Prayers offers audio recording of prayers from the Bible, great Saints, sacred texts, and prophets who used these prayers for hundreds of years to invoke and strengthen their faith and relationship with God. Prayers include: Christ Our Morning Star, At the Rising of Your Sun, Prayer of St Columba, I Will be Busy, Prayer of a Breton Fisherman, Close to Me, The Grail Prayer, Knowing Me Better, God in My Daily Life, Sarum Prayer, Healing Our Memories, Psalm 23.

In the middle ages, Christianity shared much with Buddhism and other Eastern philosophies. Listen to learn how Christian mystics came to the same conclusions as those from very different faiths. This edition has been adapted from the 1923 version into modern English to make the ideas more accessible to today's listener, the Cloud of Unknowing distills a complex mystical epistemology and discipline into engaging, understandable prose.