CONTENTS

Foreword by The Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation

Preface by Paul Brunton

ONE: Beyond Yoga

Who Am I?; What Is the Meaning of the World?; Apprenticeship to Yoga; Waiting for Wisdom

TWO: The Ultimate Path

The Three Grades of Yoga; Where I Now Stand

THREE: The Religious and Mystic Grades

What Meditation Is; A Summary of Mysticism; Mysticism Is Not Enough

FOUR: The Hidden Philosophy of India

The Philosophy of Truth; The Secret Doctrine of India

FIVE: The Philosophical Discipline

The Truth Above All; Hold On and Hope On; Think!; Inner Detachment; Concentration, Calmness, and Reverie; Discipline Emotion and Purify Character; Give Up the Ego!

SIX: The Worship of Words

The Psychopathology of Words; Strange Discoveries about Truth, God, and Spirit; What Is a Fact?

SEVEN: The Search After Truth

The Thinking Way; Through Intuition and Mysticism; The Philosophic Insight

EIGHT: The Revelation of Relativity

The Tricks of Time; The Doctrine of Standpoints; Man’s Expanding Space-Time Sense

NINE: From Thing to Thought

From Eye to Mind; The Birth of Conscious Experience

TEN: The Secret of Space and Time

The Illusions of Geometry; Mental Projections; The Making of Space and Time

ELEVEN: The Magic of the Mind

The Riddle of Sensations; The Primacy of Thought; What Are Things?

TWELVE: The Downfall of Materialism

From the Unreal to the Real; The World As a Thought

EPILOGUE: The Philosophic Life

On Conduct and Art; The Doctrine of Karma; The Welfare of the World; A Philosophic View of the World Crisis

APPENDIX 1: Some Misconceptions Cleared Up, by Paul Brunton

APPENDIX 2: Additional Resources from The Notebooks of Paul Brunton, Compiled by the Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation Editors

Notes

Index

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