A profound look at how East and West can better understand each other, and how we can achieve self-mastery in our own lives. Doug Boyd helps to correct all the misconceptions that Westerners have about the ways of Eastern philosophy and thought from these enlightened men.
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A profound look at how East and West can better understand each other, and how we can achieve self-mastery in our own lives. Doug Boyd helps to correct all the misconceptions that Westerners have about the ways of Eastern philosophy and thought from these enlightened men.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. xx, 330 pages. Personal notes written in pencil on most of the front flyleaf. Prev owner's name and number in ink on the rear paste-down. Remainder stamp on the lower page edges. Page edgtes lightly foxed. Cloth-backed papered boards in lightly edge-worn dust-jacket. The book is concerned with the wide men of India called 'swamis", their teachings and methods of achieveing peace, their wasy of life and often astonishing mental powers, their holy purpose and very human personalities.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. First printing; full numberline. Tan boards, silver stamped initials, maroon cloth spine wrap, silver spine titles, lt. shelf wear. Pages very good. Dj moderate edge wear; clipped, protected in new clear sleeve. Couple bookstore marks. Doug Boyd's lively personal exploration into the lives, teachings, methods, and mental powers of the swamis in India. Boyd, author of 'Rolling Thunder, ' spent several months in India and was personal assistant to Swami Rama during testing at the Menninger Foundation. 'This book is at once two things: a profound look at just what East and West can mean to each other, at how we can achieve self-mastery and happiness both in the context of our own lives and of the world we live in; and a series of marvelous portraits of the swamis, babas, yogis, and ordinary Indians and Americans whom Boyd encountered: holy, irascible, pompous, benign, learned, and foolish. 330 pages.
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Very Good. Size: 8x5x1; Very good paperback copy, from a personal collection (NOT ex-library). Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy; text also very good. Interior appears free of markings. Light shelfwear. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
