The Essential Mystics 
Subtitle: Selections from the World's Great Wisdom Traditions
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: May 7, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780062513793
Subjects: Mind, body, spirit: mysticism & self-awareness; Mysticism; Religion - Church History; Religion; Religion / General; Spirituality - General; Comparative studies
First sentence: During the last twenty years, many people have begun to realize that unless the human race listens to the "voices of the first world," the voices, that is, of those original human cultures that lived in naked and reverent intimacy with nature, it may well die out.