Religion in the New Age: And Other Essays for the Spiritual Seeker
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Our planet is in an “Age of Energy” that will affect us for centuries to come. We can see evidence of this Energy Age all around us: in ultra-fast computers, the quickening of communication and transportation, and the shrinking of time and space. How will all these changes affect the way we live and worship? Religion in the New Age explores how this new age of energy will change every aspect of our lives—especially our spiritual seeking. This fascinating book of essays covers a wide range of societal shifts, including the growing trend against complexity and a move toward simplicity; an increasing demand for quality over quantity; a movement away from organized religion toward personal inner experience; a recognition of the need to understand others better and universalize our love; and more.
Swami Kriyananda, a direct disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda, is widely considered one of the world’s foremost experts on spiritual practice, meditation, and yoga. He has written nearly 100 books—including interpretations of the Bible and Bhagavad Gita—which have been translated into more than 30 languages. In 1968 he founded Ananda Village, which over the past 40 years has become one of the most successful intentional spiritual communities in existence. Today, Ananda includes retreats and teaching centers, six cooperative spiritual communities, and over 100 meditation groups worldwide.
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One of the foremost spiritual teachers of Yoga principles in the world. In 1948, at the age of twenty-two, he became a disciple of the Indian yoga master and world teacher, Paramhansa Yogananda (author of the classic, Autobiography of a Yogi). At Yogananda’s request, Swami Kriyananda devoted his life to teaching and writing, and helping others to experience the joy and living presence of God within. Over the course of more than sixty years, Kriyananda lectured on four continents in seven languages. His television programs, audio and video recordings of his talks and music, and his many books in twenty-eight languages have touched the lives of millions. Swami Kriyananda took the ancient teachings of Raja Yoga and made them intensely practical and immediately useful for people in every walk of life, on a daily basis. His books and teachings cover nearly every field of human endeavor, including spiritualizing business life, leadership, education, the arts, community life, and science. He wrote extensive commentaries on the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita. Swami Kriyananda was also known as the “father of the intentional communities movement,” which began in the United States in the late 1960s. Inspired by his guru’s dream of establishing spiritual communities, in 1968 he founded the first of what are now ten Ananda communities worldwide. They provide a supportive environment of “simple living and high thinking,” where a thousand full-time residents live, work, and worship together. “The time has come for people to live lives of even higher dedication than that which inspired monks and nuns of the past.... The time has come for people to direct their spiritual awareness also downward into matter... to everything they do: their work, to education, to family life, to friendship, to their communications with strangers, to the way they build their homes — to all the most mundane, practical aspects of daily, human life." “Men need now to become God-centered from within, and from that center to see God everywhere, in everything." —Cities of Light by Swami Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters)
