inner-knowing

A memoir of masters, miracles, discipline, and a Christianity read from the East. Yogananda revered Jesus as a fully realized divine master while distinguishing the historical Jesus from the universal Christ Consciousness he embodied. The book asks a question institutional religion often avoids: what if union with God is an experience to enter rather than a doctrine to defend?

114 sayings attributed to Christ, found buried in a clay jar in the Egyptian desert in 1945 — preserved by people who hid them when the institutional church was deciding which Christ to keep. The tone is uncompromising. No narrative. No miracles. No theology built on death and resurrection. Only direct address: know yourselves, the kingdom is already here, drink from this mouth, become like the one I am. The text was suppressed because it makes the move the institution cannot survive — it says you can find this without them.

A fourteenth-century guide to meeting God beyond the reach of concepts. The anonymous author tells the seeker to place every idea—even accurate religious ideas—beneath a 'cloud of forgetting,' then reach toward God with a naked intent of love. Theology can point. Love must cross the remaining distance.