Author: Lex Hixon
Publisher: New Age Books
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 214
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8178221586
Description
What is enlightenment, the ultimate goal of all sacred traditions? How does it affect the lives of those who experience it? Is there a common ground to how various traditions approach it? What does it mean for us today? This book is an unusually clear and readable exploration of these questions.
Its experiential bent and spirit of universality have brought it wide recognition as a classic. Lex Hixon warmly guides the reader through an intriguing array of traditional teachings to the essential truth of all the world's great religions, which is simply to come home. Invoking the essence and texture of different sacred paths, he presents enlightenment as the full flowering of human nature, accessible to everyone.
REVIEWS
Lex Hixon guides our spiritual journey with the deliciously subtle light of a honed intellect and an open heart.
-Ram Dass
Outstanding as an introduction the world's great mystical traditions, I have used Coming Home in my philosophy of religion course for over fifteen years. The book's purpose is to point to similar patterns of thought and experience across those traditions, but it never does so by abstracting them out. Instead it thoroughly embeds them in the lives and voices of individual mystics. It is this that makes its accessible as well as personally and intellectually inspiring to students.
-Nancy Baker
Contents
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
NOTE ON TERMINOLOGY
PREFACE TO THE LAST EDITION
CHAPTER ONE
Contemplative Thinking
CHAPTER TWO
The Tantric Way of the Goddess Kali
CHAPTER THREE
The Way of Natural Enlightenment
CHAPTER FOUR
Ten Seasons of Enlightenment
CHAPTER FIVE
There is Only the One
CHAPTER SIX
The Landscape That Laughs
CHAPTER SEVEN
The New Aeon Has Dawned
CHAPTER EIGHT
Allah Alone Can Know Allah
CHAPTER NINE
Conversation With an Ancient Chinese Sage
CHAPTER TEN
Designing an Experiment in Contemplation