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Written & narrated by Huston Smith - Original Audio Nonfiction - 10 CASSETTES - 10 hours

Publisher, Sounds True (March 1997)

For half of this century, Huston Smith has covered the world seeking answers to the supreme questions in life: Why are we here? What do we really want? What does it all mean? Going from humble village temples to glinting mosques and towering cathedrals, Smith has uncovered the spiritual treasures buried beneath thousands of years of historical and scientific distortions. Now, in his own words, Smith shares the true story of his epic search for the seeds of wisdom on Religions of the World.

Huston Smith's intent is to uncover the fullness of our humanity - to encourage us to break free from the narrow corridors of orthodox theology - and to awaken us to the greatest truths: the values and beliefs that allow us to triumph as people and as cultures. For this is not the story of religious institutions, but of the eternal truths that inspire them, as viewed through the eyes of this great scholar, teacher, and author.

With Huston Smith as your personal guide, you will examine the defining perspectives within the world's central religions - the teachings that have touched his own life directly - and learn how these traditions differ while retaining a common interior language that speaks to our highest aspirations.

Complete on ten challenging cassettes, Religions of the World looks beyond information, beyond doctrine and dogma, into the wisdom at the very heart of these great traditions: Taoism; Christianity; Judaism; Primal religions; Buddhism; Hinduism; Confucianism and Islam. Here is perhaps the greatest story ever told: how religion comes alive with a sacred flame, bringing light to the darkest corners of the human soul. Over ten hours of direct learning with this esteemed scholar.

LEARN MORE ABOUT:

The six pillars of life that science cannot touch
Three inescapable challenges and how religion helps us meet them
The four common features of mystical experience
Hinduism's timeless view of the transpersonal God
The yogic paths to the divine: Jnana, Bhakti, Karma
Buddhism’s "secrets of sorrow"
The three major divisions of Buddhism and their impact on the West
Confucianism’s exquisite map of human relationships
The Way and its power: Taoism’s energizing spirit of the universe
Judaism’s six great themes Christianity, science, and the power of the "invisible spirit"
The remarkable similarities between Buddhism and Christianity
Islam’s "99 Beautiful Names of God," and the secret of the 100th