Notebooks of Paul Brunton Vol. 7 : Pt. 1 Healing of the Self; Pt. 2 the Negatives

by Brunton, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780943914268
• ISBN10: 0943914264
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1987-05-01
• Publisher: Natl Book Network

Summary

This seventh volume in The Notebooks of Paul Brunton is an in-depth presentation of the tenth and eleventh major categories in the personal notebooks Dr. Paul Brunton reserved for posthumous publication. Bost sections of this volume are immediately useful. Each deals with a topic currently receiving a great deal of attention on both the personal and the professional levels. Part 1 Healing of the Self, treats the mind-ody relationship and contrast conventional, psychic, and spiritual approcahes to healing. Recommnding a combination of conventional and alternative methods, it gives a variety of practical techniques in self-healing. Part 2, The Negatives, examines the nature and roots of evil and traces its activity in recent and impending world events.

Table of Contents

Editors' Introduction	p. ix
Healing of the Self
The Laws of Nature	p. 3
The spiritual importance of health	p. 3
Disease has hidden causes	p. 5
Physical mortality	p. 9
The Philosopher's body	p. 17
The Universal Life-Force	p. 22
The vital body	p. 24
Nature's healing power	p. 26
Exercises and meditations	p. 29
The Origins of Illness	p. 37
The karma of the body	p. 37
Mental states and physical conditions	p. 43
The importance of hygiene	p. 52
Dangers of drugs and alcohol	p. 55
Healers of the Body and Mind	p. 59
Services of the healing arts	p. 59
Medicine and surgery	p. 64
The practices of psychology	p. 67
Neurosis and its treatment	p. 74
Hypnosis	p. 78
The Healing Power of the Overself	p. 82
Spiritual and mental healing defined	p. 82
Mental healing--its limited success	p. 86
Healers and the spiritual path	p. 94
The work of the Overself	p. 99
Seek inner peace	p. 105
The Negatives
Their Nature	p. 3
Their Roots in Ego	p. 12
Special tests for questers	p. 20
Their Presence in the World	p. 25
Materialism	p. 33
Unbalanced technological development	p. 35
Hatred and violent revolution	p. 39
Totalitarianism, Communism	p. 40
War	p. 57
Causes of war	p. 60
WWII, Nazism, Fascism, Hitler	p. 64
Effects of WWII	p. 80
World War III	p. 94
Constructive alternatives: collective	p. 98
Crime and punishment	p. 124
Pacifism: general non-nuclear ethic	p. 129
Pacifism in light of nuclear threat	p. 131
Constructive alternatives: individual	p. 138
In Thoughts, Feelings, Violent Passions	p. 143
Their presence	p. 143
Ways of responding	p. 150
Their Visible and Invisible Harm	p. 162
Index for Part 1
Index for Part 2
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