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"A Rare First Edition"
This rare first edition of The Lost Spiritual World spans 12.5 x 18.5 inches when opened. It was printed on a high quality, offset color lithographic press using Japanese matte paper and an additional twelve metallic inks. Much of the production had to be finished by hand by top craftsmen, due to its complexity. These pdfs can only give you a rough approximation of the experience of holding this luxurious, wavy shaped book in your hands. Click on the images to view larger pdf.
Pages 10-11: Dive in
The book begins with a two page black and white introduction, in the form of a parable. You can spend your life on the surface, in the boats of doctrines and arguments and rational analysis, or you can let go and dive in, and learn to see with your heart, as a new kind of spiritual explorer.
Pages 112-113: Explore the Good in All Religions
Something profound is in the air right now. We're witnessing the emergence of a new generation of "spiritual chemists," who combine the best elements from each tradition to create a new spiritual synthesis within their hearts and their communities. The artwork shows a chemist mixing Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam with psychology, quantum physics, neuroscience, and linguistics.
Pages 98-99, Harness the Hidden Power of Thought
Mark's Gospel was the first written and, scholars believe, the closest we will ever get to the "historical Jesus." He famously described a scene in which Jesus was "unable to perform a single miracle" because no one believed that he could. Mark beautifully captured a timeless truth about spirituality (which many recent scientific studies are affirming): your beliefs are so powerful that they can help you heal—or literally stop you from healing. "No one can heal us except through the hidden power of our own thoughts," writes the Hindu sage Yogananda Paramahansa.
Pages 80-81: Zen Jesus
Even Jesus understood that you cannot literally stand up, say presto, and suddenly calm a storm. He taught, rather, that to calm the storms of life you must first calm the storms within. His "trusting mind was one with the nondual," as the third Zen Patriarch, Sengstan, famously put it.
Pages 58-59: Spiritual, Not Religious
Most people don't realize that the doctrine of original sin emerged with Augustine, hundreds of years after Rabbi Jesus' death. The historical Jesus, as portrayed in Mark's Gospel, was much closer in spirit to Helen Schulman. In her spiritual classic, A Course in Miracles, she wrote, "Sin is a lack of love." In two thousand years, no one has offered a better definition of sin than this.
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Parable of the Scuba Diver
Spiritual Chemists
The Hidden Power of Thought
Zen Jesus
Spiritual, Not Religious
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