Product Description

Please change the author's name on The Mystic Christ (0972931708), Soft Moon Shining (0972931724) & Finding God's Love (0972931716) to Ethan Walker.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #171758 in Books
• Published on: 2003-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 267 pages

Review
The Mystic Christ is a masterful presentation of deep spiritual principals that are clearly explained in simple terms. -- Mindy Longhorn, Devi Press, August 3, 2003

About the Author
Walker was a practicing counter-culture hippie in 1967 at the age of 18 when he began to explore eastern philosophy and the European mystery schools. He spent two years in the Rosicrucian Order followed by four years under the tutelage of Mark Prophet, the founder of The Summit Lighthouse. He studied, lived and worked at that organization as a renunciate. After the death of Mr. Prophet, Walker had an intense spiritual experience while studying the teachings of Ramana Maharshi. This prompted him to dedicate himself to the philosophy of advaita or non-duality and the practice of atma vichara or meditation on the formless Self. This culminated in a deep understanding of the nature of the ego. A strong desire to be permanently rid of the ego arose within him. Shortly thereafter, Walker met his guru, Mata Amritanandamayi or Ammachi, the hugging saint, in 1988.

Ammachi advised that practicing non-duality alone is dry, like eating stones. She directed him to practice the devotional path. She explained that non-duality is the goal and devotion is the means. Walker’s devotional practices began with the Divine Mother as the point of concentration. At this stage he saw her as a benign, loving and compassionate Mother Mary figure. This continued for several years until he began to focus on the Divine Mother in the form of the goddess Kali who wields the compassionate sword of liberation. As his devotional meditations continued, he developed a close relationship with and absorption in Mother Kali. After several years of this, he began to see the Divine Mother in everyone and everything. All along this journey, Walker was guided by Ammachi.

Throughout this 35-year spiritual odyssey, Walker has also maintained a deep interest in Buddhism with particular fondness for the Zen master Suzuki Roshi and the Tibetan tradition. Walker is greatly influenced by the Indian saints Ramakrishna and Nisargadatta Maharaj. Later in his practice, he pursued the study of Jesus, his life and teachings, and experienced deep devotion to the Master. Inspired by the similarity between Jesus’ life and teachings and the path of the eastern masters, Walker spent five years researching and writing The Mystic Christ.

Walker is the author of two other books. Soft Moon Shining is a collection of 230 devotional poems and 60 illustrations that revolve around his relationship with the Divine Mother. Finding God’s Love is a how-to book exploring the theory and practice of the path of love and devotion.

Walker was married in 1978 to his wife Marsha and has three children and two grandchildren. He hand-built the house in which he and his wife have lived for 24 years. They have owned and operated an electronics and software manufacturing company since 1990. Walker is also an accomplished musician, singer and composer.

Customer Reviews

A thought-provoking and insightfully emphatic exploration
Very highly recommended reading, The Mystic Christ: The Light Of Non-Duality And The Path Of Love According To The Life And Teachings Of Jesus by Ethan Walker is a passionate and deeply spiritual exploration of embracing the unity of selfless love for God, and following the divine message of Jesus given 2,000 years ago. Casting the uncontrolled ego as the Antichrist, and its self-centeredness as anti-love, The Mystic Christ is stark in its message that the greatest thing wrong with society today is that love has been lost. A thought-provoking and insightfully emphatic exploration of the hard road to spiritual renewal, Walker's seminal work is enhanced with more than 230 scriptural references from the Old and New Testaments, as well as quotations from Buddha, Krishna, Lao Tzu, the Gnostic Gospels, the Koran, and the Jewish Kabbalah.

This is the Christianity that appeals to all religions
I very much appreciate these writings on Jesus the Christ, by Ethan Walker. It takes a lot of research, a gathering of many facts, dispelling a lot of propoganda generated and manipulated over ages by the existing religious order. I grew up a Hindu in India, studying in a Jesuit school and always wondered why the missionaries were so hell bent on saying their way was the only way (Jesus never said that) and realize that the greatest lesson I have learned is that Ego (being proud of only your religion is also a sign of the ugly EGO at play) is what inhibits love and peace. I think this book makes it clear that there are many paths to Love (our Father or heaven) and that seeing God evident in all his creation and in your neighbor is the only doctrine that really matters.

This is a Jesus that I can believe in. Ethan's book will do more good for Christianity and other faiths than centuries of evangelism. God bless.

Finally. . .
The grace and wit with which Mr. Walker writes would be welcome, regardless of the subject. However, as a Buddhist I must say that there are very (VERY) few volumes of Christian literature that have actually deepened my appreciation of not only the mystic aspects of Christianity, but Christianity as a whole as much as The Mystic Christ.

This book is informative, without being preachy. It is witty, without being sarcastic. And it is honest, without prosyletizing.

I own a small gift shop in a small-ish Oklahoma town, and we go through about a dozen copies a month. It is possibly our best selling single volume.

Thank you, Mr. Walker, for your insightful and interesting product.