Paul Brunton
Published in 1934, A Search in Secret India stands as the work most closely associated with the name Paul Brunton — a pen name adopted by Hyman Raphael Hurst, born in London on 21 October 1898.
Hurst was a British citizen of the United Kingdom who worked as a journalist, philosopher, and writer. Writing in English under the Brunton pseudonym, he pursued careers that spanned journalism, travel writing, and the authorship of spiritual books. His extensive movements earned him the description of world traveler, and it was under the Paul Brunton name that he produced and published his work throughout his career. That pen name became the identity by which he was known as both a travel writer and an author of spiritual books, with his output covering the range of roles — journalist, philosopher, traveler, writer — that defined his professional life.
Paul Brunton died on 27 July 1981, in Vevey. A Search in Secret India, published in 1934, remained the title most directly linked to his reputation and is the work for which he is noted as a writer and philosopher.
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So the first Seers, watching the wanderings of thought within their own minds, discovered that there was something which came into action when thinking momentarily stopped. That Something was the first faint intimation of the soul. Thus the science of soul-discovery was born and the ancients began to teach men how to know the truth about themselves. In.
There is really nothing to be achieved here; only something to be accepted-the fact of your own divinity.
Among the values of meditation is that it carries consciousness down to a deeper level, thus letting man live from his centre, not his surface alone. The result is that the physical sense-reactions do not dominate his outlook wholly, as they do an animal’s. Mind begins to rule them. This leads more and more to self-control, self-knowledge, and self-pacification.
The key to the whole problem of this ancient Mystery-Institution was given by Plutarch when he wrote: ‘At the moment of death the soul experiences the same impressions as those who are initiated into the great Mysteries.’ Scholars.
This withdrawal from the day’s turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It is a necessity, because it tries to provide the conditions wherein we are able to yield ourselves to intuitive leadings, promptings, warnings, teachings, and counsels and also to the inspiring peace of the soul. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions.
They find man a paradoxical being; one capable of descent into the darkest abysses of evil, and yet equally capable of ascent to the sublimest heights of nobility. They.
War is still going on in the hearts and minds of men. This is where it must first be stopped, for it is there that the explosives, whether they later take the form of small bullets or tremendously destructive atom bombs, begin their existence.
What the first Seer found and recorded thousands of years ago, the last Seer finds and agrees with today. But what the first scientist of the nineteenth century found and recorded, the last scientist of today laughs at and flings aside. The.
Those who spend sufficient time on the mystical quest, and with sufficient keenness and guidance, find it infinitely inspiring because it links them – however remotely weakly and momentarily – with an infinite power, an infinite wisdom, an infinite goodness.