The word yoga means union in Sanskrit. Many of the yoga traditions believe that the practices of yoga lead to union of a person with his or her true nature, or with God or the...
Sherlock Holmes, a fictional character of the late 19th and early 20th century created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is a brilliant London-based...
The Media ran exaggerated accounts of his bravado and colorful personality, styling him as a Robin Hood figure.In response, J. Edgar Hoover, then director of the Bureau of...
Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to multiple presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant...
The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the Late Spring and Autumn Period. The work, which is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun...
The Ramayana is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of the ancient Vedas of India, the other being the Mahābhārata.The great epic, traditionally ascribed to Valmiki, narrates...
The ancient 5000 year old Vedic scripture the Bhagavad Gita intimately details the rebirth of the spiritual from the psychical: the same sacred theme which the realized yogis of...
The Ramayana is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of the ancient Vedas of India, the other being the Mahābhārata.The great epic, traditionally ascribed to Valmiki, narrates...
In this biography Mary A. Hamilton gives a British person’s perspective on the 16th President of the United States. A glowing tribute to “Honest Abe”, the author traces...
Aleister Crowley was born 12 October 1875. He was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. He founded the religion of Thelema,...