Modern Esoteric Spirituality

by Jacob Needleman

Part of the Wold Spirituality series, this is a broad-ranging, illustrated, scholarly treatment of core topics in esoteric spirituality, from one of the world's great authorities on esoterica.

500 pages, Hardcover

First published November 25, 1992

About the author

Jacob Needleman is Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University, former Visiting Professor at Duxx Graduate School of Business Leadership in Monterrey, Mexico, and former Director of the Center for the study of New Religions at The Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He was educated in philosophy at Harvard, Yale and the University of Freiburg, Germany. He has also served as Research Associate at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, as a Research Fellow at Union Theological Seminary, as Adjunct Professor of Medical Ethics at the University of California Medical School and as guest Professor of Religious Studies at the Sorbonne, Paris (1992).