An introduction to religious and spiritual experience

The Varieties of Religious Experience
(2002 edition) 
Routledge, London and New York. p. 29.
18 
The Mediators, Nine Stars in the Human Sky
, John Macquarrie (1995) p. 7.

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19 John Bowker 
Worlds of Faith, Religious Belief and Practice in Britain Today
(1983) Ariel Books, BBC, London. p. 130.
20 Tariq Ramadan 
The Messenger, The Meanings of the Life of Muhammad
(2007) Penguin Books, London. p. 29.
21 
A Course in Miracles
(London, Arkana 1985).
22 Griffiths, Bede 
The Marriage of East and West 
(1982) Templegate Publishers, 
Illinois. pp. 102, 103.
23 ‘SvetasvataraUpanishad’ 1.8 in 
Upanishads 
translated by Patrick Olivelle 
(1998) OUP, Oxford. p. 254.
24 
Bhagavad-Gita As It Is 
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1983, 
1985) Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, Lichtenstein. p. 567.
25 Ibid. p. 422.
26 www.zarathushtra.com
27 Dates established by Richard Gombrich in 
Dating the Buddha: A Red 
Herring
Revealed
(1992).
28 
Tao Te Ching
by Lao Tsu, translated by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English (1973) 
Wildwood House, UK. 
29 Genesis Chapters 6–9.17.
30 Genesis 22. 114.
31 Exodus 34:2730.
32 Mark 1:10, 11.
33 Bahá’u’lláh,
 Epistle to the Son of the Wolf
rev. ed. (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publish-
ing Trust, 1979), p. 22. 
34 George Fox – An Autobiography, CHAPTER I. Boyhood – A Seeker
1624–1648 
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
, as scanned and edited by 
Harry Plantinga.
35 From website of the Theosophical Society of America, The Esoteric World of 
Madame Blavatsky. By Vera P. de Zhelihovsky (HPB’s sister) [Collated from 
Zhelihovsky 1894–1895, 203, 204, 203; and Sinnett 1886, 30–35, 37–39] 
Consulted Jan. 2008.
36 Shepherd A. P. 
Scientist of the Invisible, 
Rudolf Steiner
 
(1954) Inner 
Traditions International, USA.
37 Rudolf Steiner 
The Course of My Life
(1977) Anthroposophic , New York. 
p. 319.
38 Lissau, 
Rudi Rudolf Steiner, Life, Work, Inner Path and Social Initiatives 
(1987) Hawthorn Press, Stroud, UK.
39 Alister Hardy 
The Divine Flame
(1966, 1978) RERU, Oxford.
40 Srila Prabhupada 
On Chanting Hare Krishna
(1999) Bhaktivedanta Book 
Trust, USA. p. 12.
41 Mother Meera 
Answers
(1991) Rider, London. pp. 17, 41.
42 Eckhart Tolle 
Practising the Power of Now
(2001 USA) (2002) Hodder and 
Stoughton, London. p. 7.
43 Fritjof Capra 
The Tao of Physics
(1976, 1992) Flamingo, London. p. 11.
44 Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh 
Living Prayer
(1966, 1990) DLT, 
London. p. 7.

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45 Experience given to author in March 2008. 
46 Quoted from Reynold A. Nicholson 
The Mystics of Islam
in Cafer Yaran 
Muslim
Religious Experience
(2004) Occasional Paper No. 41 RERC, 
Lampeter. p. 1.
47 John Bowker 
Worlds of Faith, Religious Belief and Practice in Britain Today
(1983) BBC, London. p. 147.
48 Meg Maxwell and Verena Tschudin 
Seeing the Invisible
(1990, Penguin) 
(2005) RERC, Lampeter. pp. 69–70.
49 George H. Gorman 
Introducing Quakers
(1981) QHS, London.
50 Anita Billington, first published in 
The Friends’ Quarterly
Vol. 25, No. 7, 
July 1989. p. 300.
51 Deepak Chopra