The Simple Road: A Handbook for the Contemporary Seeker
The Simple Road is balm for parched souls. Whatever tradition you belong to, or if you belong to no one tradition, The Simple Road helps you locate the thread of universality that runs through all faiths, and leads you to practices, prayers, methods, and parables that lift your daily journey to a higher, better place.
This brief, powerful book can bring you literally life-saving solace when facing life’s entanglements.
About the Author
Obadiah Harris is the founder and president of the University of Philosophical Research (www.UPRS.edu), an accredited distance-learning college that grants graduate and undergraduate degrees in consciousness studies, transformational psychology, and liberal arts. The school is built upon the intellectual traditions of independent scholar of religion Manly P. Hall (1901-1990), who founded its landmark Los Angeles campus, the Philosophical Research Society. Also president of the Philosophical Research Society, Harris has a long and storied career in both mainstream academia and the American metaphysical culture. He holds a Ph.D. in education administration and supervision from the University of Michigan and an MA in education from Arizona State University, where he was an associate professor of education and director of community education. For almost two decades at Arizona State he designed programs in community outreach and in adult and continuing education. Harris has held numerous ministerial pulpits and collaborated with figures of major influence in contemporary spirituality, including Ernest Holmes (1887-1960). Born in northeastern Oklahoma, he lives in Los Angeles.
Introduction The Road Before You by Mitch Horowitz
THE ART OF SELF-HEALING
Chapter I Sincerity, Receptivity & Retention
Chapter II Creating a Body Open to Healing
Chapter III The Physical Descent of Divine Consciousness
Chapter IV The Mastery of Divine Consciousness
Chapter V Cultivating Inner & Outer Strength
Chapter VI Transformation of the Inner Self: Breaking the Habit of Frustration & Anxiety
OVERCOMING HOSTILE FORCES
Chapter VII Facing Obstacles to Spiritual Growth
Chapter VIII The Divine Life on Earth
Chapter IX A Life Beyond Stress & Suffering
Chapter X Upending the Hostile Forces
Chapter XI Strengthening Weaknesses
Chapter XII The Vanguard of Advancing Spiritual Consciousness
Chapter XIII Defeating the Hostile Forces
THE MYSTERY OF WORK
Chapter XIV The Lilies of the Field
Chapter XV The Invisible Art of Inner Work
Chapter XVI Releasing Oneself to Divine Will
THE PROBLEM OF FREE WILL
Chapter XVII A Reconciliation of Contraries
Chapter XVIII The Partisan Mind
Chapter XIX Egoistic Free Will
Chapter XX Psychic Free Will
SACRIFICE
Chapter XXI The Self-Conscious Being of Man
Chapter XXII The Transformative Sacrifice of Inner Purification
Chapter XXIII Rejection of the Ego & Prioritization of the Soul
LIBERATION FROM GUILT
Chapter XXIV What Is Guilt?
Chapter XXV The Immorality of Theological Guilt
Chapter XXVI Removing Theological Guilt
Chapter XXVII Removing Personal Guilt: From Ignorance to Knowledge
FORGIVENESS
Chapter XXVIII Understanding Forgiveness
Chapter XXIX Forgiveness from the Heart
Chapter XXX The Dangers of Ignorance
Chapter XXXI Becoming a Vessel for Divine Truth
Chapter XXXII The Strong Forgiver Is Thus Purified
LOVE
Chapter XXXIII The Perfect & the Imperfect
Chapter XXXIV Psychic Love