Books by Joyce Collin-Smith
This is the fascinating story of a woman's life and spiritual search that touches on all the great esoteric movements of the last century. Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, her brother-in-law Rodney Collin, and other spiritual supermen fired Joyce Collin-Smith's imagination from a young age and she literally 'sat at the feet' of many such masters and esoteric teachers.
Joyce is a former Fleet Street journalist, from a long line of journalists and writers (including her great grandfather, William Hartley who first initiated in his book: 'The Philosophy of the Human Mind', the possible existence of two brain hemispheres).
CALL NO MAN MASTER
Price £11.99
ISBN 0-7552-0116-7
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Joyce Collin-Smith has spent a life time working with the greatest spiritual masters of the last century. She began in the 1930's, studying the works of Rudolf Steiner, then began a period of 'listening to God' with Frank Buchman (founder of the Oxford Group and Moral Rearmament); she moved on to Pak Subuh (the Indonesian mystic and founder of Subud); before spending six years with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi being initiated by him in the practice of Transcendental Meditation in his early days in the West. She then moved on to ideas of the Fourth Way, introduced by the mystic Gurdjieff with her brother-in-law, Rodney Collin (author of The Theory of Celestial Influence), working and travelling with his Gurdjieff/Ouspensky-inspired group in Mexico. Joyce has remained one of the U.K.'s leading Astrologers and Tarot readers for decades, as well as been an esoteric writer and spiritual teacher of her own development groups. Joyce's fascinating experiences are recorded in her autobiographical work 'Call No Man Master'.
THE PATHLESS LAND
Price £9.99
ISBN 0-7552-0095-0
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This wonderfully written historical novel follows the fortunes of the MacLeods, the great chiefs of Dunvegan and Harris, and Lewis in the Hebrides, during the 16th-17th Century. Based on thoroughly researched events, the turbulent and violent lives of the Western Island Clans of Scotland and their bloody battles are depicted as is their gradual loss of independence.
The story touches on great themes and archetypes as the decline of a set of values, a way of life and a form of masculinity unknown to modern eyes is witnessed through the shattering of the spirit of a great man.
This is adventure story and authentic history, a remembrance of a long-lost way of life, a personality study and a valuable lesson in philosophy.
Johnny Fincham
OF FIRE AND MUSIC
Price £11.95 - $17.95
ISBN 0-7552-0504-9
Kempton Marks
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