By Swami Kriyananda
In this choice of attention-grabbing essays on numerous issues, Swami Kriyananda, a well known and prolific author, provides an method of sleek existence which may look appreciably new. The book's name essay, faith within the New Age, stocks the traditional instructing, universal to many cultures, that point is cyclical, and that we're now in an upward cycle, entering an age of energy-awareness from a darker age of subject. the writer indicates society, political and social occasions, and faith and spiritual associations from the point of view of alternative cycles of time.
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