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Eckankar-The Key to Secret Worlds by Paul Twitchell Eckankar-The Key To Secret Worlds By Paul Twitchell Book Cover (Front) (Back) Scan / Edit Notes Soul Travel Foreword by Brad Steiger 1 - The Secret Path to God Via Soul Travel 2 - The Reality of Transcending the Physical Body 3 - The Perplexing Techniques of Soul Travel 4 - The Spiritual Travelers and Their Techniques 5 - The Psychology of the Spiritual Self 6 - The Basic Principles of Eckankar 7 - Unique Case Histories of Soul Travelers 8 - Solving Life's Problems with Eckankar 9 - Preparation for the Journey to God 10 - The Lonely Journey in the Heavenly Worlds 11 - The Etheric Hierarchy of the Heaven-Worlds 12 - The Illuminated Way as the Ultimate Experience A Glossary of ECK Words and Terms ~~~~~~~ Scan / Edit Notes This is not a bad book for those whom are interested in Out of Body Experiences (OOBE) and the methods by which one can achieve such a state. Paul Twitchell was a controversial figure which ended up starting his own sect. Some of techniques are useful but the rest of 'his philosophy' is dubious at best. Many years later Paul Twitchell (and some of his books) were brought into question with a charge of plagiarism (amongst other things). Versions available and duly posted: Format: v1.0 (Text) Format: v1.0 (PDB - open format) Format: v1.5 (HTML) Format: v1.5 (Ubook-HTML) Genera: Soul Travel (OOBE) Extra's: Pictures Included Copyright: 1969 Scanned: September 11th 2003 Posted to: alt.binaries.e-book (HTML-PIC-TEXT-PDB Bundle) alt.binaries.e-book (HTML-UBook) Note: The U-Book version is viewable on PC and PPC (Pocket PC). Occasionally a PDF file will be produced in the case of an extremely difficult book. 1. The Html, Text and Pdb versions are bundled together in one rar file. (a.b.e) 2. The Ubook version is in zip (html) format (instead of rar). (a.b.e) ~~~~ Structure: (Folder and Sub Folders) {Main Folder} - HTML Files | |- {Nav} - Navigation Files | |- {PDB} | |- {Pic} - Graphic files | |- {Text} - Text File -Salmun ~~~~~~~ Soul Travel The physical body is locked into the physical bonds of the everyday world, subject to the stresses of gravity, and victim to all of the weaknesses that have beset mankind for thousands of years. Yet man is more than just a physical body; he is also spiritual essence. And this essence - the mind or the soul - is free to travel apart from the body. While so free, the problems that torment the earth-bound are as nothing beside the mysteries of the universe. Sri Paul Twitchell, rediscoverer of the ancient science of ECKANKAR, shows you how to free the soul from the body. In an easy-to-understand, step-by-step method, he shows you the way to the universe! Eckankar-The Key To Secret Worlds is your key to solving all problems, your passport to the complete life! ~~~~~~~ Foreword The reader who wishes to possess a massive compendium of esoteric and spiritual knowledge need look no further than ECKANKAR - The Key to Secret Worlds. Sri Paul Twitchell, the Occident's principal exponent of "soul travel," described as the ability to leave one's body to journey along the various spiritual levels, presents in this book explicit accounts of how others have left their fleshly shells to tread the "illuminated path," and details step-by-step aids on how the reader might himself attain soul projection. This concept of projecting one's soul out of one's body may seem a bit bizarre to certain readers, but it is of interest to note that a number of academicians, scholars and researchers have begun to take such claims very seriously and have begun to conduct experiments of their own in out- of-body travel. Dr. Eugene E. Bernard, professor of psychology at North Carolina State University, and Dr. Charles Tart, psychologist and lecturer at the University of California, are conducting laboratory experiments in an attempt to prove that some people do indeed have the ability to leave their bodies and float off to the ceiling, another room, or, in some cases, locations thousands of miles away. Former University of Florida staff member Dr. Hornel Hart has remarked that he is convinced that "... a world exists that is invisible to our physical senses and yet is a realm of objective experience and of social contacts between conscious personalities." Sri Paul Twitchell claims to have found the key to these invisible worlds. In ECKANKAR, Paul Twitchell tells us, after one has mastered the perplexing techniques of soul travel, he can actually experience the reality of transcending the body. The spiritual leader claims further that there exist etheric masters and teachers whose task it is to aid the neophyte soul traveler - call them angels, guides, or masters, Paul Twitchell insists that they are ever alert to assist the sincere spiritual seeker. I do not suppose there is any real way to prove the reality of such personal, subjective experiences, but Paul Twitchell offers the testimony of dozens of saints, gurus, and soul travelers from all ages and times to corroborate the truth of his allegations. Since this book deals so intensely with subjective experience, it must be for each individual truly to plumb the depths of ECKANKAR - The Key to Secret Worlds and evaluate the text in terms of how completely it speaks to his own inner self. Certainly the reader who is interested in the occult and the esoteric will find the dictionary of terms included in the back of this book to be of great benefit and enormously supplementary to his own understanding of this area of spiritual teaching. Brad Steiger ~~~~~~~ 1 - The Secret Path To God Via Soul Travel Soul, the Atma Sarup, is the natural body of man, which the vast majority of the species Homo sapiens have forgotten how to use properly in the many ages of dwelling on this planet. Spiritual teachers, saints and others have learned how to accomplish soul traveling, that is, journeying to etheric realms in the Atma Sarup, and have taught it to those interested in visiting the heavenly kingdoms. There has always been a suppression of the teaching of soul travel by the forces of orthodox thinking, and such repression of this knowledge accounts for the fact that the principles of soul travel are generally unknown or misunderstood by those interested in spiritual subjects. However, the theory of cosmic consciousness is well established as a part of the esoteric sciences - a great quantity of literature has been produced by the followers of the Hindu and Vedantist religions. After studying under several masters of the science of soul travel, I came to the conclusion that it, more than any other mystic technique, suffers from a problem of semantics. It seems that hardly any two persons practicing the art of getting out of the body utilize the same language in describing either the experience or the mental techniques employed in accomplishing soul travel. In other words, the nomenclature of mysticism has not been adequately compiled, nor has soul travel a standard vocabulary which might be effectively employed in the manner of certain other divisions of the esoteric studies. This is because we find fewer soul travelers in the pure form than we find clairvoyants, telepaths, seers, or water dowsers. I would venture to say that although almost everybody can practice soul travel, perhaps only one in a hundred reaches the spiritual heights. Such lack of full cosmic realization is due mainly to the confusion caused by the lack of any common language to convey just what goes on in the spiritual worlds which the soul visits. He who has fully accomplished soul travel finds it nearly impossible to communicate his experience to others once he has returned to the physical form, especially when his traveling has taken him above the astral world into the higher planes. Soul travel is known by various names, e.g., soul projection, separation of spirit from the body, out-of-the-body experience, and spiritual traveling, to name a few. Its purpose is mainly to enable the soul to leave the physical body, travel through the higher spiritual worlds, and eventually arrive at its ultimate destination - the Anami Lok, the word for the nameless region, or true heaven, wherein dwells the SUGMAD, God. I could come and go in the soul body at an age when most children are not aware of what is going on around outside themselves, but my soul traveling was a fact generally kept secret. In accordance with the ancient idea that talk brings about trouble with those who do not know of spiritual works, the members of our family remained silent. We were all able to move in and out of our bodies, except my foster mother, who frowned on the practice. Only my half-sister and I discussed it, and she, being several years older, taught me the art of soul travel when I was at the age of three. By the time I met my first teacher, Sudar Singh, of Allahabad, India, at age fourteen, getting out of the body was as natural as eating. However, in the time between my introduction to this eminent guru and the present, a lot of spiritual polishing had to be done, and I had to gain a necessary and deeper understanding of soul travel. The conclusion which I finally reached is that anyone can practice soul travel, whether he is under a spiritual teacher or not, although it is always better to have a guru in order to save the wear on oneself which would naturally come about in the trial-and-error method of self- teaching.
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