Mystics of the XX century. Gift book bound in leather

Biographies and teachings from Gurdjieff and Osho to Tsiolkovsky

The XX century, generous with technical achievements, scientific discoveries, wars and revolutions, left a rich legacy not only in the world of external achievements. No less intense was the knowledge of the inner world of man and those hidden forces that have been hiding in him since the moment of Creation. This area, inaccessible to `positive` knowledge, was submitted only to those natures who, under the visible, were able to discern the invisible. By tradition, they are called mystics. And no matter how diverse their teachings are, they have about the same goal - Integrity and Enlightenment. Some of the teachings presented in the Encyclopedia, along with the figures of their creators, are already known to the reader, this applies primarily to Gurdjieff, Castaneda, Osho. At the same time, the teachings of others, for example, Watts, Teilhard de Chardin, Crowley, Ivanov, have not yet been widely published, and the mysticism of the third was covered by big politics or science, like Gandhi, Tsiolkovsky, Herbiger; therefore, along with sketches of personal biographies of outstanding mystics of the XX century, this book also presents the most significant provisions of their views, which allows us to regard this "Encyclopedia" as a kind of introductory course in the mystical teachings of our century.