The new religions
By: Jacob Needleman.
Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781585427444
Subjects: Sects -- United States; Religions
Notes: Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1970.  With new introd.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface to the Cornerstone edition; title: Introduction; title: Suspicions; title: What is California?; title: The loss of the cosmic; title: A wider sense of psychology; title: The agonies of religious "relevance"; title: The sense of Asian teachings; title: Why now? why here?; title: The inclusion of the mind; title: The return of the practical; title: The modern underestimation of man; title: Hinduism, Buddhism and Sufism; title: Hinduism; title: Buddhism; title: Sufism; title: The occult; title: The place of California; title: Zen center; title: The embrace of Zen Buddhism; title: "Just sitting"; title: Drugs and "extraordinary" experience; title: Difficulties; title: Suzuki roshi; title: What is a master?; title: The uses of ritual; title: The place of the intellect; title: The question of discipline; title: Tassajara; title: An American zen monastery; title: What is a monk?; title: A monastery in the midst of life; title: The monastery as a laboratory; title: Meher Baba; title: The age of the Avatar; title: Psyche and cosmos; title: The instrumentality of love; title: The life and work of Meher Baba; title: The silence; title: The Baba-lovers; title: A search for the emotions; title: Love from the point of failure; title: Subud; title: The experience of Latihan; title: An "ordinary" man; title: Energies; title: The meaning of submission; title: The energies of sex; title: Social order and self-perfection; title: Understanding death; title: Transcendental meditation (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi); title: Promises; title: The attracted mind; title: The theory of the mantra; title: "It"s easy!"; title: What is a "practical method"?; title: A note on Krishnamurti; title: Instantaneous self-observation; title: A new understanding of freedom; title: Thought and death; title: The surface of Krishnamurti; title: The existence of psychological help; title: Relationship : an example; title: Right education; title: Tibet in America; title: The appearance of Tibet; title: The compassion of reality; title: Why are they here?; title: TarthangTulku; title: The Vajrayana; title: Balanced disillusionment; title: The path to the path; title: "The accumulation of merit"; title: The weight of Tibet; title: The hunger for ideas; title: A more fundamental world; title: Astrology; title: The idea of influences; title: Reincarnation; title: Ideas as tools; title: The sacred in nature; title: The American Indian; title: The silence of nature; title: Western esotericism; title: Civilization in the midst of the cosmos; title: A note about the ideas of Gurdjieff; title: In search of a central question; title: Other groups and teachings; title: Drugs and the problem of work; title: Enthusiasm; title: Spiritual effortlessness.