The Direct Path: Creating a Journey to the Divine Using the World's Mystical Traditions

Harvey, Andrew

ISBN 10: 0767902998 / ISBN 13: 9780767902991

Published by Broadway Books, New York. NY, 2000

About this Item

NYC: Broadway, 2000. 1st edition, inscribed by author on FFE, VG+/VG. Book and dust jacket have some wear & bumping to upper spine & corners, less wear to lower spine & corners, complete spine fade, except for publisher's name. Includes sources and index. "The Direct Path is the Path to God without the dogma or priest or gurus, the Path of Direct self-empowerment and self-awakening. Whether you know it yet or not, you have been on it since the day you were born." Nice copy, 291 pp. BP.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Direct Path: Creating a Journey to the Divine Using the World's Mystical Traditions
• Publisher: Broadway Books, New York. NY
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0767902998
• ISBN 13: 9780767902991
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

A handson guide to spiritual practice by a scholar of spirituality urges seekers to make a direct connection with the divine rather than using gurus or other intermediaries, arguing that all people possess the capacity to find God on their own.

About the Author

World-renowned religious scholar and teacher Andrew Harvey is the author of over thirty books, including the critically acclaimed Son of Man and Journey to Ladakh, and coauthor of the bestselling The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.  Born in South India in 1952, he studied at Oxford University and became the youngest person ever awarded a fellowship to the prestigious All Souls College. He has devoted the past twenty-five years of his life to studying the world's various mystical traditions, living in London, Paris, New York, and San Francisco, and teaching at Oxford, Cornell, and the California Institute of Integral Studies. He currently resides in Nevada with his husband, writer and photographer Eryk Hanut.