Mysteries of the Heart

THE LAUGHING MAN VOL. 4. NO. 2

©1983 Laughing Man Institute.
Editorial:
Laughing Matters (letters: Arden, Bourdot, Theobald, Elgin).
The Seven Stages of Life.
A Matter of Heart by Georg Feuerstein.
Stage One:
Education for Ecstasy. The Moment of Learning Is a Moment of Delight
by George Leonard.
“THE GREAT LIFETIME ILLUMINATION.”
Attracting Children to Happiness: Two Stories by Peter Churchill.
Stage Two:
Change of Heart: Annunciation by Blair Trernoureux.
“DO YOU NEED A MIRACLE?”
The Divine Madman translated by Keith Dowman and Sonam Paljor.
Stage Three:
Science & Love: Does Chemistry Make the World Go Round? by Ty
Koontz.
The Miraculous Heartbeat by The Laughing Man Staff in conjunction
with Scott Anderson, M.D.
Stage Four:
Bridal Mysticism: A Gift of All That One Is an interview with Mother
Tessa Bielecki.
The Beloved Came Running to Meet Me: Devotional Poems of Mirabai.
Stage Five:
Beyond the Vertical Path.
“You Do Not Beat the Heart”.
In What Does the True Abide? (intuitions of the Heart: Blaise Pascal,
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, St. Seraphim, Lati Rimbochay and Jeffrey
Hopkins, Swami Yogeshwaranand Saraswati Ji Maharaj, Elmer Green,
Irwin Thompson, David V. Tansley, Herbert Thurston, W. Mariner,
Mahanarayana Upanishad, Isha Scwaller de Lubicz, Macauliffe,
MotS).
Stage Six:
Awakening to the Self: The Heart Is the Self: Two talks by Sri Ramana
Maharshi.
Stage Seven:
The Transcendental Heart: The Transmission of the Heart by Ty
Koontz.
ENLIGHTENMENT IS POSSIBLE! (with “(3/26/83)”)
Reviews:
Glimpses of a Great Soul: A Portrait of Swami Saradananda by Swami
Aseshananda.
Beyond the Gates of Death: A Biblical Examination of Evidence for
Life after Death by Hans Schwarz.
Mandukya Upanishad: Enlightenment without God by Sri Swami Rama.
Dream-Symbolism in the Sramanic Tradition by Jagdish P. Sharma and
Lee Siegel.
The Imprisoned Mind by Akhileshwar Jha.