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43. Alexander, “Space, Time and Deity,” quoted in Underhill, op. cit., p. 29.
44. Bergson, ibid., p. 191.
Chapter 4
1. Thomas Berry, The Dream of the Earth, San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1988, p. 132.
2. Yervant Terzian and Elizabeth Bilson, eds., Carl Sagan’s Universe, Cambridge University Press, 1997, p. 148. Also see the highly regarded physicist, Alex Vilenkin, who writes: “At the heart of the new worldview is the picture of an eternally inflating universe. It consists of isolated “island universes,” where inflation has ended. . .” op. cit., p. 203. Also see, for example, Marcus Chown, “Into the Void,” New Scientist, November 24, 2007, who explores whether a giant void in the universe could be the imprint of another universe.
3. Wheeler, quoted in Renee Weber, “The Good, the True, the Beautiful,” in Main Currents, p. 139.
4. Ibid., p. 140.
5. Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth, with Bill Moyers, New York: Double-day, 1988, p. 217.
6. Stephen Mitchell (trans.), Tao Te Ching: A New English Version, Harper & Row, 1988, Chapter 25.
7. The quote by Shao is taken from: Garma Chang, The Buddhist Teaching of Totality: The Philosophy of Hwa Yen Buddhism, University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1971, p. 111.
8. Rumi, quoted in Andrew Harvey, The Way of Passion: A Celebration of Rumi, Berkeley: Frog, Ltd., 1994, p. 189.
9. Yung-chia Hsuan-chueh was a scholar and a monk who lived in the years 665 to 713 and was one of the most gifted teachers of the Ch’an (Zen) school during the T’ang Dynasty of China.
10. Lankavatara Sutra, D. T. Suzuki, trans., Boulder: Prajnñ Press, 1978, p. 8.
11. Underhill, Mysticism, op. cit., p. 101.
Chapter 5
1. Brian Swimme, op. cit., p. 112.
2. Russell Targ was the co-founder of the psychic research program at SRI in the early 1970s and would later write, “We are not a body, but rather limitless, nonlocal awareness animating or residing as a body.” [emphasis in original] See: Targ, Limitless Mind: A Guide to Remote Viewing and Transformation of Consciousness, Novato: CA: New World Library, 2004, p. xii.
3. Bernard Haisch, The God Theory, op. cit.
4. David Bohm, op. cit., p. 45.
5. James Robinson, ed., Nag Hammadi Library, 1st edition, San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1977, p. 123. Elsewhere in the Gnostic sources, Jesus is quoted by the disciple James as saying: “Search ever and cease not till ye find the mysteries of the Light, which will lead you into the Light-kingdom.”
6. See, for example, the article: “The Quakers: Children of the Light,” at the Quaker site: http://www.fum.org/about/friends.htm Also see a discussion of inward light at: http://www.quakers.org/inwardlight.php
7. Robert Cummings Neville (ed.), Ultimate Realities, New York: SUNY, 2001, p. 52.
8. See, for example: Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Alchemy of Light, Inverness, CA: Golden Sufi Center, 2007.
9. Quoted in Andrew Harvey, The Way of Passion, op. cit., p. 138.
10. Most Buddhists do not deny the existence of a soul as a life stream of luminous consciousness; instead, they deny the soul is an unchanging, autonomous entity. In turn, meditation is seen as a vehicle for discovering ourselves as an ever-flowing life stream and relaxing directly into the flow of self-luminous knowing.
11. Harvey, ibid., p. 160.
12. Robert Bly (trans.), The Kabir Book, Boston: Beacon Press, 1977, p. 21.
13. “Love” is described in the Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd edition, Wood-bridge, CT: Macmillan Reference, December 2004.
14. Quoted in Matthew Fox, Creation Spirituality, op. cit., p. 28.
15. Ibn al-Arabi, quoted in Robert Ellwood, Jr., Mysticism and Religion, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1980, p. 92.
16. Jesus quoted in The Gospel of Thomas, Nag Hammadi Library, James Robertson, general editor, San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1977, p. 124.
17. An Arabic inscription on a city gate of Fatepuhr-Sikri in India.
18. See, for example, Tsele Natsok Rangdrol, The Mirror of Mindfulness: The Cycle of the Four Bardos, E. Kunsang (trans.), Boston: Shambhala Press, 1989.
19. Rangdrol, Ibid., pp. 8-10.
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