(07-28-2021, 09:51 PM)Steppingfeet Wrote: Some day I'd like to take make a greater survey of the mystics, West and East.
If you do, please allow me to work with you. I've been wondering a lot, lately, why Ra makes so little mention of the sages of the East (Padmasambhava, Babaji, Yukteswar, ad infinitum.....)
The book, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, written by Sogyal Rinpoche, would be a good resource to employ, as it mentions a considerable number of prominent Tibetan Buddhists, as well as, of course, teachings which deserve our attention and study.
Edited to add: Gary, I assume that you have read Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi. At almost every Homecoming I prod people to re-read chapter 43 of that book, as so much of importance is laid clear there. Did you ever get around to that?
Here's a book to put at the top of the "read pile": Fourth Uncle in the Mountain, by Marjorie Pivar and Quang Van Nguyen.