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What kinds of meditation have you practiced till now? Bardon's book is good, but needs extreme dicipline, which is difficult to accomplish

"Mosque" usually is just a place for congregational prayer. There is a guy who calls for prayer, and another one (Imam) who leads it. Imam is usually an expert of personal jurisprudence, so people also ask their religious questions from him. The organisations are usually for political reasons...

Muslims dont have a church. We have scholars (4-6-10 years of education in Quran, Hadith, Jurisprudence, philosophy, mysticism etc), whose consensus make the orthodoxy. Their responsibility is to maintain and transmit deen. Deen's job is to accelerate human advancement in all levels, specially...

A soft WW3 has started on the lines that divide russian and american areas of influence. It will expand slowly, to Serbia, hungary, czech, slovak, baltics any of these places. The terrorists, they are a problem that began with western intervention in the first place, back in the days of cold...

Thanks for your replies. I will look into these when I get time. Thomas, you have raised a bigger question for me now. What exactly is that which differentiates a common christian for a mystic christian. Becasue throughout my studies, I have seen mysticism is associated with some specfic...

I have read Heindel,Steiner and hermetica. Apart from gnostics, the list you gave are mainly western traditions. They take from neoplatonism, hermetism and a bit from kabbalah/hindu/buddhist tradition. It isnt exactly christian.

Hi, I am reasonably knowledgeable in sufi, buddhist, hindu, and western esoteric traditions. It was weird that I couldnt find much about christian mysticism on the net. There wasent much data on theory and zero information on practice. So anybody? :)

Tablets of stone and red letter bible is as original as it gets (In JudeoChristian tradition). The rest is all dubious. And yes, you will find different percentages of truth everywhere. But nobody can tell you where you will find YOUR truth. May be meditate, read stuff, find whats common in...

thats ok. to me they make much more sense then a generic hindu or buddhist stand on reincarnation. :)

IMO all the questions you have raised in this thread can be answered using their system.

Yes, Balvatsky, Bessant, Leadbeater etc. Yes they dont represent any tradition, still they mainly take from the dharmic ones. And the metaphysical system makes perfect sense, regardless of if one believes them or not. My take on this, unless one is evolved enough to actually see (all mystical...

Thomas, Have you read theosophy's view on the matter? Because their system (despite on believes it or not) is much more rational than hindu or buddhist ones.

There is no moral dialemma here. All interventions are for Real Politik, not for humanity. From Moseddeq to Isis in muslim word, and all major interventions in latin and SEAsian regions back in coldwar days. It just gets "sold" as moral. Otherwise nobody spends trillions of dollars to save...

Different traditions use different methods. In my opinion Tibetan forms of Buddhism are a very advenced path for spiritual awakening within dharmic tradition. Yoga is more of an ascetism path, while buddhism is more about compassion.

You are right, no idea, thats how its written in wikipedia

To me these seem more accurate attributes of spiritual awakening Śubhecchā (longing for the Truth): The yogi (or sādhaka) rightly distinguishes between permanent and impermanent; cultivates dislike for worldly pleasures; acquires mastery over his physical and mental organism; and feels a...

AFAIK the historic Buddha didnt teach anything theistic. His sole focus was eradication of suffering only, rather that creating another god in a land where gods were already abundant.

Will, believe me, you wont find many muslims who take taliban or sauds very seriously. But they get a lot of air time on western media, and so people think all muslims believe/practice what they do.

Interestingly I havent heard this. One can obviously get the meaning of Quran form a translation, but not the complete flavor of it in any other language apart from Arabic. Quran is in the form of rhyming speech, so all of the poetic value gets destroyed in translation, which feels very flat...

Allah is transendent, unchanging, eternal, unique, omniscient, omnipotent etc. World is a manifestation of his attributes and actions, and obviously his quality of "being". So he is both transcendent and imminent at the same time.