The third eye : the autobiography of a Tibetan lama

T. Lobsang Rampa was preordained to be a Tibetan priest, a sign from the stars that could not be ignored. When he left his wealthy home to enter the monastery, his heart was filled with trepidation, with only a slight knowledge of the rigorous spiritual training and physical ordeal that awaited him . . . . This is his story, a hauntingly beautiful and deeply inspiring journey of awakening within Chakpori Lamasery, the temple of Tibetan medicine. It is a moving tale of passage through the mystic arts of astral projection, crystal gazing, aura deciphering, meditation, and more, a spiritual guide of enlightenment and discovery through the opening of the all-powerful, the all-knowing . . . . "Fascinates the reader!" — Miami Herald When Rampa left his wealthy home to enter the monastery, his heart was filled with trepidation. This is his story, a deeply inspiring journey of awakening within the Chakpori Lamasery, the temple of Tibetan medicine. A moving tale of passage through the mystic arts. Reissue. This is one of the strangest books ever published. The facts that it presents are fantastic, incredible. But, the author points out, many travellers’ tales have been laughed to scorn. "these men were disbelieved," he writes. "They were eventually proved to be truthful and accurate. So will I be." -From the back cover of the Corgi edition