To Useful References
For This Site
RENAISSANCE Choir - Emsworth, Hampshire
Excellent British Choral Society.
An Hour A Day,Vol.II
Lush orchestral sounds, more theatrical then some might desire for religious music.
Virginal, Italian
A wide array of images of early instruments and sound clips. Very precise and academic. This site is a virtual museum of early European musical instruments.
Music in Tamil Nadu
Lumen Valo
The vocal ensemble Lumen Valo is from Helsinki, Finland. They have focused primarily on polyfonic vocal music of the Renaissance, but they make frequent detours into both medieval and contemporary music. They can be reached by e-mail at singers@lumenvalo.fi. They have several CD's on the Alba label.
Music in the Buddhist Faith
This is one of the most complete sites for a basic orientation to the essence of the Buddhist faith in terms that the average Western mind can grasp if it is approached in good faith.
The Science of Myth
Physics and Metaphysics
Preface to The Joyous Cosmology
Archangel Uriel Website
Metaphysical Essays by John Nash
This is a most significant series of essays for a reasonable understanding of the contemporary religious experience. Directly related to life-experience at the start of this new Millennium.
The Bede Griffiths Website
- Not only is this an introduction and tribute to one of the most profound theological profets of our age, it is also one of the most useful sources of on-line references for anyone interested in exploring the Cosmic Christ Consciousness in relation to Eastern religious approaches.
Beyond the Darkness : A Biography of Bede Griffiths by Shirley Du Boulay
In Beyond the Darkness, Shirley Du Boulay traces Bede's ascetic tendencies back to early experiments in communal living after graduating from Oxford. A staunch atheist, Bede, like his professor and friend C.S. Lewis, then rediscovered the spiritual profundity of the Christian tradition. After entering the monkhood, a certain unarticulated pantheism led Bede to pursue the wide-open spiritual landscapes of the East, and to "discover the other half of my soul." In the 1950s, when the rest of the West turned to science and materialism for salvation, he donned the saffron robes of a Hindu monk and started a Catholic ashram in southern India. Left to his own devices by Rome, Bede, through his implacable kindness and theological writings, drew an increasingly large following, right through 1992 when he was drawing thousands of people to talks all over the world. Beyond the Darkness reveals a man who was called a saint while he lived but who achieved that status only through sustained curiosity and sincerity in his search for the truth behind all religions. --Brian Bruya
The Other Half of My Soul : Bede...
Return to the Center
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A Human Search : Bede Griffiths Reflects...
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Christ in India
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Cosmic Revelation : The Hindu Way to God
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Golden String
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Marriage of East and West
The Ibiza of Mariano Tur de Montes
Although this new publication is specifically dedicated to the life and work of the painter, Mariano Tur de Montes, it is a reflection of the Ibiza which fostered and hosted one of the most prolific international "cultural" centers of the second half of the twentieth century.
Osage Monastery
The One Light: Bede Griffiths' Principal Writings Edited and with Commentary by Bruno Barnhart
C.S. Lewis dedicated his autobiography to him. The Dalai Lama credits him with "opening the hearts and minds of mankind to gain understanding and acceptance of all the major religions." Cardinal Hume called him "a mystic in touch with absolute love and beauty." Bede Griffiths is considered by many to be one of the greatest religious leaders of the 20th Century whose influence is only now beginning to emerge. After leaving Oxford and becoming a Catholic and a Benedictine monk, Bede Griffiths went to India "to recover the other half of my soul." There he established an ashram where he spent the remaining thirty?eight years of his life and where pilgrims from all continents came for enlightenment in prayer and meditation. "His whole life and thought," says his principal biographer Shirley du Boulay, "culminated in the knowledge that beyond the opposites, beyond the darkness, was 'that Great Person, of the brightness of the sun.' " Here, in one volume, is the core of his teaching.
