Spiritual Initiation and the Breakthrough of Consciousness: The Bond of Power
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Spiritual Initiation and the Breakthrough of Consciousness: The Bond of Power
By (Author) Joseph Chilton Pearce
Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Inner Traditions Bear and Company
23rd July 2003
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
291.42
Physical Properties
Paperback
192
Width 152mm, Height 222mm, Spine 13mm
1g
Description
Explains the phenomenon of shaktipat, the spiritual transmission of power from a teacher to a devotee
Shows how technology has eroded personal power and how insight and awareness can play a higher role in our lives
Reveals how insight is the vehicle for profound self-transformation
Shakti is the creative force, the bonding power, that holds the universe together. Shaktipat is the moment when enlightenment is conferred upon a student instantaneously by his masters touch. The guru conferring shaktipat creates a bond of power in those who have accepted him or her as their teacher. In Spiritual Initiation and the Breakthrough of Consciousness Joseph Chilton Pearce describes his experience of shaktipat from his teacher Swami Muktananda. From this awakening Pearce experiences a dramatic shift of mind and comes to the realization that perception is reality and that insight is our only vehicle for profound self-transformation.
Oneness with God is the birthright of every individual, though we are culturally vaccinated to resist experiencing this higher consciousness. Our search for objective truth has lead us not to wholeness, but instead to the belief that we have no bond to each other, to God, or to an inanimate, physical world. Our technology reduces our ability to experience revelation and leads us instead toward the chatter of confused thinking. The challenge faced by modern humanity, which is the challenge Muktananda gave to his students, is to passionately gather up the scattered fragments of our lives and channel them into the creative realm, where with insight or revelation we will be able to become more than ourselves.
Author Bio
Joseph Chilton Pearce (1926-2016) is the author of The Death of Religion and the Rebirth of the Spirit, The Biology of Transcendence, The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Magical Child, and Evolutions End. For more than 35 years, he lectured and led workshops teaching about the changing needs of children and the development of human society. He lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
