Perspectives -- The Timeless Way of Wisdom - Paul Brunton

This is the place to start reading Paul Brunton's posthumously published Notebooks series. A representative survey of all the topics addressed in the notebooks, it touches upon virtually every conceivable aspect of the spiritual quest. Each of its 28 chapters is devoted to one of the 28 "categories" into which Paul Brunton filed his writings. Topics included are meditation, the body, emotions and ethics, the intellect, the ego, world crisis, the arts in culture, psychic experiences, philosophy, the Overself, cosmology, the Absolute, and much more.

Paul Brunton helps us hear the melody behind the medley of today's "spiritual marketplace." His late writings raise the bar for what we can expect of spiritual teachings and teachers, and what we can do for ourselves. Born in London in 1898, he soon became a leading pioneer of much of what we now take for granted. He traveled widely throughout the world (long before it was fashionable) to meet living masters of various traditions with whom he then lived and studied. His eleven early books from 1934-1952 shared much of what he learned, and helped set the stage for dramatic east-west exchanges of the late 20th century.