Philip Goldberg has been studying India’s spiritual traditions for more than forty years, as both a practitioner and an author. After teaching Transcendental Meditation in early 1970s, he became a professional writer and has written or co-written 19 books, including The Intuitive Edge, Making Peace With God, Roadsigns on the Spiritual Path and his most recent work, American Veda: From Emerson and the Beatles to Yoga and Meditation, How Indian Spirituality Changed the West. The book was greeted by enthusiastic reviews from journalists and experts in the field.
He is also published novelist and a member of both the Writers Guild of America and the Authors Guild. His blogs appear regularly on the Huffington Post, Elephant Journal and other sites.
An ordained interfaith minister and spiritual counselor as well, Phil was the founding director of the Forge Guild of Spiritual Leaders and recently created Spiritual Wellness and Healing Associates (SWAHA) in Los Angeles, with his wife,acupuncturist Lori Deutsch.
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“An illuminating, gracefully written, and remarkably thorough account of India’s spectacular impact on Western religion and spirituality.”
—Deepak Chopra
“American Veda shows us how we got to where we are. It chronicles a revolution in consciousness and describes India’s lasting influence on our culture, from gurus, meditation, and yoga to sitar music and aromatic curries. Savor it.”
—Michael Bernard Beckwith, author of Spiritual Liberation: Fulfilling Your Soul’s Potential
In February 1968 the Beatles went to India for an extended stay with their new guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. It may have been the most momentous spiritual retreat since Jesus spent those forty days in the wilderness. The media frenzy over the Fab Four made known to the sleek, sophisticated West that meek, mysterious India had something of value. Our understanding and practice of spirituality would never be the same.
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With these words Philip Goldberg begins his monumental work, American Veda: From Emerson and the Beatles to Yoga and Meditation, How Indian Spirituality Changed the West (Harmony Books; Hardcover; November 2, 2010), a fascinating look at India’s remarkable impact on Western culture, with a foreword by Huston Smith. Goldberg’s eye-opening chronicle shows how the ancient philosophy of Vedanta and the mind-body methods of Yoga have profoundly influenced the nation, producing a radical shift in the worldview of millions.
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What exploded in the 1960s actually began more than two hundred years earlier, when the United States started importing knowledge as well as tangy spices and colorful fabrics from Asia. The first translations of Hindu texts found their way into the libraries of John Adams and Ralph Waldo Emerson. From there the ideas spread to Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and succeeding generations of receptive Americans, who absorbed India’s “science of consciousness” and wove it into the fabric of their lives.
Charismatic teachers like Swami Vivekananda and Paramahansa Yogananda came west in waves, prompting leading intellectuals, artists, and scientists such as Aldous Huxley, Joseph Campbell, Allen Ginsberg, J. D. Salinger, John Coltrane, Dean Ornish, and Richard Alpert to adapt and disseminate what they learned from them. The impact has been enormous, enlarging our current understanding of the mind and body and dramatically changing how we view ourselves and our place in the cosmos.
With fascinating stories of key players and the times they lived in, Goldberg paints a compelling picture of this remarkable East-to-West transmission, showing how it accelerated through the decades and eventually moved from the counterculture into our laboratories, libraries, and living rooms. Now physicians and therapists routinely recommend meditation, words like karma and mantra are part of our everyday vocabulary, and Yoga studios are as ubiquitous as Starbucks cafés. The insights of India’s sages permeate so much of what we think, believe, and do that they have redefined the meaning of life for millions of Americans—and continue to do so every day.
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In 2009, Newsweek ran a provocative essay titled “We Are All Hindus Now.” American Veda tells exactly why and how that came to be. It is not only the very first popular history of Indian religion and philosophy in America, it is a stirring tribute to India, whose ancient traditions continue to influence our everyday lives.
About the Author
PHILIP GOLDBERG is the author or coauthor of nineteen books, including Roadsigns: On the Spiritual Path and The Intuitive Edge. Based in Los Angeles, he is an ordained interfaith minister, a public speaker and seminar leader, and the founder of Spiritual Wellness and Healing Associates. He is director of outreach for SpiritualCitizens.net and blogs regularly on religion for the Huffington Post. Visit http://www.philipgoldberg.com or http://www.americanveda.com for more information.
Philip Goldberg on American Veda: How Indian Spirituality Changed the West
In 1968, the Beatles went to India for an extended stay with their new guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a spiritual retreat that exploded the ancient philosophy of Vedanta and the mind-body methods of Yoga into popular Western culture, an introduction that actually began when translations of Hindu texts penetrated the thinking of John Adams and Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the ideas spread to Thoreau, Whitman, and succeeding generations of receptive Americans, who absorbed India’s “science of consciousness.”
Philip Goldberg, author, director for SpiritualCitizens.net, and Huffington Post blogger on religion, traces this movement from Emerson to the Beatles to Yoga and Meditation. http://www.philipgoldberg.com
About Numerology for Healing
A unique approach to using numerology to identify life challenges and karmic lessons to heal emotional and physical problems
• Provides a clear method for identifying challenges specific to your birthday and name
• Details 185 health conditions and how to address the causes using numerology–from addictions and Alzheimer’s disease to thyroid problems, heart failure, and cancer
• Offers guidance in understanding universal abandonment issues and how these affect our behavior
In Numerology for Healing, Michael Brill combines numerology with psychology, quantum physics, and the concepts of gematria and reincarnation to create a unique approach to healing emotional and physical problems based on life challenges and karmic lessons. Humans suffer from a profound sense of abandonment when the soul is decanted from the Universal Oneness into the confines of a personality. Brill explains how this sense of abandonment manifests itself in two principal types of behavior: people work to be loved and appreciated for who they are, or they try to control and micromanage their lives and relationships so that nothing goes wrong. Both of these behavior patterns are exhausting physically, emotionally, and mentally and are clear catalysts for illness.
Brill details 185 physical and mental health conditions and shows how to identify and treat the causes–from addictions and Alzheimer’s disease to thyroid problems, heart failure, and cancer. For instance, he reveals that, in general, illnesses beginning with the letter “A” (acne and alcoholism) have issues of self-esteem as one of the basic causes, whereas illnesses beginning with letter “G” (gallstones and glaucoma) are associated with a need to be in control, in relationships or at work. By using the numerology of your birth date and name, Numerology for Healing makes it easy to identify your positive and negative tendencies and characteristics and to use them as the key to achieving a healthier life.
About the Author Michael Brill, a numerologist since 1985, has worked with schools, businesses, and government, including ten years with the aerospace industry and two years with NASA. The author of Know Your Numbers, Know Your Self, he has appeared on FOX television and 450 radio programs in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the Cayman Islands. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
With a foreword by Dutch cardiologist, Dr Pim van Lommel, and endorsed by neuropsychiatrist Dr Peter Fenwick and Brenda Dunne of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory, the explanations offered in this book for the existence of the human consciousness (soul, spirit) beyond the physical body, have the backing of some of the world’s most eminent medical and scientific researchers of life after death.
Based on an advanced, new scientific approach to studying the consciousness as proposed by Dr. Waldo Vieira, one of the world’s foremost consciousness researchers, (according to Who’s Who in the 21 st Century 2002 )
Less Incomplete provides a comprehensive understanding of the reality of the human condition beyond the physical body, offering readers a profound opportunity to increase their self-awareness, self-confidence, balance and maturity, and to take control of their experience of life.
In this book, Sandie Gustus presents the key themes of conscientiology and projectiology, the two new sciences proposed by Dr. Vieira.
Conscientiology is the science that studies the consciousness, investigating all of its attributes, properties, characteristics, bodies, lives and phenomena. It is important to make the distinction here between the consciousness and consciousness . In the context of this book the consciousness is used as a synonym of soul, spirit, or self. Consciousness – on its own – is typically used to imply the state of being aware or lucid.
Each of the first three parts of this book focuses on a specific attribute of the consciousness; that it is multidimensional, that it is multiexistential (i.e. it reincarnates) and that it evolves.
Projectiology is the sub-discipline of conscientiology dedicated to the study of the projection of the consciousness outside of the physical body (out-of-body experience, OBE), and is important as the OBE is an effective tool for personally verifying what lies beyond our material world.
Part Four instructs the readers on how to use the OBE, a natural human capacity, to verify the information in the first three parts of the book for themselves.
Once the key concepts of these sciences have been read and understood, their true value becomes apparent, for it is possible to apply this knowledge in a very direct and practical way in favour of one’s own personal development, to potentially life-changing effect. Readers will learn, for example, how to:
>identify their purpose in life and move towards it with discernment,
conviction and self-motivation;
>avoid repeating the mistakes of past lives;
>know themselves more completely and realize their full potential, to
>face and overcome their limitations and shortcomings through frank
>self-analysis, and to get the most out of their strong traits;
>have more positive helpers (spirit guides) and people around them,
>and how to protect themselves from negative influences;
>master their energy and use it as a tool to heal themselves and
others.
In examining the dynamics and interrelationships between a multitude of subjects related to the consciousness, the comprehensive yet straightforward approach of this book allows for a complete picture of the reality of human existence to emerge. It is only in having this bigger picture that readers can identify their place in it and so take the next step towards living more meaningful everyday lives that take into account the entirety of their existence as a human consciousness.
Sandie Gustus
Sandie Gustus’s professional background is in marketing and communications. She has lived and worked in her native Australia, France, the United Arab Emirates, Switzerland and the U.K. She holds a Bachelor of Arts, a Post-Graduate Diploma of Education, and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations. She lives in Surrey, England, where she is responsible for the Communications function for the EMEA region for an American multinational.
When Sandie first came across the International Academy of Consciousness (IAC, an organization associated with Dr. Vieira’s work) in 2001, she was working with a specialized agency of the United Nations in Geneva. She began volunteering for the IAC the following year. Having already spent several years in pursuit of self-knowledge, studying at the IAC had such an impact on her life that in 2003 she left Geneva and moved to London to train to be an instructor with the IAC, to promote its courses, and to assist in expanding its reach across Europe.
The IAC, a global non-profit scientific research and educational organization, offers over 100 different courses in several languages across five continents.
The IAC is currently constructing the IAC Research Center in Évora, Portugal, funded by revenue generated from its courses and publications. The facilities at the research center provide interested individuals with opportunities for producing psychic experiences and expanding self-awareness. The IAC also publishes the Journal of Conscientiology, a quarterly scientific journal of leading-edge articles on paranormal and consciousness studies.
As Sandie explains in the introduction to Less Incomplete, “During these years working for the IAC, it gradually became apparent to me that there was a role to be played as a kind of bridging ‘interpreter’ between Dr. Vieira and lay readers interested in enriching their knowledge of the human consciousness and the wider realities in which we exist. Vieira’s own books are notoriously sophisticated, technical and intellectual in style, but his priority was to further human knowledge by faithfully and accurately recording the details of his research, not to write a bestseller. My endeavor, with this book, is to make his work available to a wider nonacademic audience by presenting it in a language and format that everyone can understand and follow, without compromising the integrity of his ideas in any way. Einstein once said that “it should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid” so I figure it should be equally possible to explain conscientiology to the general reader.”
Less Incomplete is Sandie’s first book. She has published numerous articles on the consciousness, bioenergies and related phenomena in the UK and internationally.
The Anthony Peake Consciousness Hour: Sandie Gustus
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Author talk at Watkins, November 2011. In her new book, Less Incomplete, Sandie Gustus presents the key themes of conscientiology and projectiology, the two new sciences proposed by Dr. Vieira.
With a foreword by Dutch cardiologist, Dr Pim van Lommel, and endorsed by neuropsychiatrist Dr Peter Fenwick and Brenda Dunne of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory, the explanations offered in this book for the existence of the human consciousness (soul, spirit) beyond the physical body, have the backing of some of the world’s most eminent medical and scientific researchers of life after death.
