Finding The Still Point

Finding the Still Point

A Spiritual Response to Stress

Tom Harpur

Tom Harpur focuses on a spiritual approach to coping with stress.  He gives evidence that the mind, the body, and the spirit must be healthy to create a whole person.  Those who make a spiritual response to stress have a time-tested, rich and highly rewarding treasury of wisdom and inspiration from which to draw.

Using sacred texts from the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and other religions, along with new scientific findings, Harpur proves that faith is an irreplaceable resource for approaching stress.  In reading the ancient wisdoms, you will see where modern coping techniques, such as the use of breath, mindfulness, and other forms of meditation, originated.  As the years passed, the techniques were divorced from their spiritual roots, and now lack a potency which they were meant to have and impart.

Organized into four sections - The Contemporary Scene, The Spiritual Reponse, Sources and Mantras, and the God Within - the book considers spiritual meditation and other approaches from many traditions.