The Heart of the Mind: How to Experience God Without Belief

by Jane Katra, Russell Targ

The Heart of the Mind demonstrates that experiencing the presence of God doesn't require knowledge of theology or belief in the supernatural. The authors present evidence that by simply calming our minds and opening our hearts, we can find the meaning, love, and healing that spiritual mystics have described throughout the ages.

194 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1999

Reviews

[Justin Jaeger]

I actually chose to put this one down. I was reading it for research on a project and while there is much information on what average people would call "paranormal" experience, there is very little on religion specifically. The authors really use it as a way to promote their practices of new age spirituality. It can work in other formats, but here, when they try to scientifically show the results of meditative behaviors and psychic phenomena it comes off as incomplete, biased, and preachy. Exclamation marks are rampant as well and in this type of non-fiction, they show me a weakness in argument and are a major pet peeve of mine.

[Julia]

First let me say, I find the psychic experiments described hard to believe. I would be thrilled to find out that I am wrong to feel that way though.

As a person who has felt that experience of connecting to universal consciousness and had experiences that feel like that come from outside myself, feeling a connection to a great Unity, but still struggles with the word "God", I had a mindset shift after reading this book. I don't need an organized religion, but I have learned that many paths and practices including those in the major world religions have already been discovered that could help me on my journey in the direction of enlightenment. And I have also discovered the Unity Church in Charleston that has been a great place for learning and growing and communing with like minded people. So if you're a person that leans agnostic but yearns for something more, you might find some helpful information in here.