Paul Brunton: The Sensitives

Dynamics and Dangers of Mysticism

The Notebooks of Paul Brunton

Volume Eleven

Larson, 1987

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The psychical is concerned with imaginations, visions, voices, thoughts, and feelings which originate beneath the surface of the ego’s mind, whereas the spiritual is concerned with the higher self. The two are not the same but utterly different in quality and character…the mediumistic…is the same as the psychical but influenced or possessed by what purports to be someone else’s ego, often someon unknnown and usually unseen, or even by what purports to be from the realm of the spiritual itself.

– Paul Brunton

The Sensitives is a timely, informed evaluation of mysticism, “paranormal” experience, sects and cults. Grounded in a clear distinction between productive spiritual practice and dangerous fascination with the occult, it reports on

– How to distinguish self-flattering illusion and spiritual intuition.

– What draws people (leaders and followers) to religio-mystical cults and practices.

– How to distinguish authentic spiritual teachers from self-deluded cult leaders and

dogmatic religionists.

– How to incorporate the mystical and the rational in creative harmony.

The Sensitives is the eleventh volume in The Notebooks of Paul Brunton.