The Yoga of Love – Becoming a Lover of the Beloved By James Bean Copyright March 1998     Bhakti Yoga according to the Dictionary of Mysticism is “the yoga of love, the quest of union with the Divine Spirit through Bhakti-marga (the path of love and devotion).” (Frank Gaynor, Philosophical Library) Bhakti is a Sanskrit word for love and…

Wisdom From the Forgotten Gospels by James Bean Copyright September 2003     Though it does seem like it sometimes, Christianity was not invented by Europeans or Americans, the first churches flourished 2,000 years ago in places like Israel, Syria, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, and other countries of the Near and Middle east. It really is possible to…

Website Review: The Mandaen Library by James Bean Copyright August 2005Website Review: The Mandaean Scriptures: http://bit.ly/VUobuM     The story of the Mandaeans (Man-day-yens) of Iraq somewhat resembles the experience of Native American tribes; may they survive; may their ancient wisdom be shared with humanity. In the 1970’s, professor Kurt Rudolph wrote his definitive book on the nature and…

VISIONS OF ALLAH By James Bean Copyright May, 1997, Maine Well-Being Press     The great Sufi mystic Rumi once said, “If you are seeking, seek us with joy, for we live in the kingdom of joy. Do not give your heart to anything else but to the love of those who are clear joy, do not stray…

Tuning the Cosmic Radio Dial, Part Five The Yoga of the Audible Life Stream is the Path of the Masters By James Bean Copyright November 2004     Ancient Schools of Spirituality including: Sant Mat, Kabala, Mandaean Gnosis, Sufism, and others, see themselves as preserving a Perennial Philosophy of the Ages. Some see a line of Masters and…

Tuning the Cosmic Radio Dial, Part Four Nada Yoga: Inner Sound Meditation, the Music of the Spheres By James Bean Copyright November 2004 The person, who is in tune with the universe, becomes like a radio receiver through which the Voice of the universe is transmitted. (Hazrat Khan) This creative current, filling all space, may…

Tuning the Cosmic Radio Dial, Part Three By James Bean Copyright November 2004HEARING THE SOUND CURRENT AND IN THE ANCIENT GNOSTIC RELIGION Before the Sufi mystics of the west, in ancient times there were Gnostics: Jewish, Hermetic, and Christian mystics who also described hearing the Sound, and seeing mystic visions of Light while in deep…

Tuning the Cosmic Radio Dial, Part Two By James Bean Copyright October 2004     Across the many centuries and around the world, mystics, in the scriptures they left behind, recorded some of their experiences with inner Sound, the heavenly Music that comes from beyond the silence. Encountering the Sound Current might be as subtle as hearing a…

Tuning the Cosmic Radio Dial, Part One By James Bean Copyright October 2004Introduction No doubt, many of you saw the movie Contact, based upon the book with that same title authored by the late Dr. Carl Sagan. The story was about SETI – the search of extraterrestrial intelligence. In this film scientists intercepted radio signal…

A History of Simran Practice in the Sant Tradition (Path of the Masters), By James BeanThe Many Names of the Nameless God (Anami) The Nameless God has been given many names over the centuries. There are countless Divine names used as mantras or sacred words of Remembrance in various schools of spirituality. In Dadu Panth, that…