Fire in the heart : healers, sages, and mystics /

The third part of a trilogy, continuing the ideas developed in The Magus of Strovolos and Homage to the Sun. Presenting Greek Cypriot spiritual wisdom to the English readership, Markides, a political sociologist, takes a phenomenological approach to the mystical cosmology that he describes. Spiros Sathi (aka Daskalos) and Kostas, Sathi's most advanced disciple and successor, are the two spiritual masters who become the key characters in this conversational work; their ideas about and reports of their experiences with "the worlds that lie beyond the reach of our ordinary senses" form the main substance of the book. Expressing a traditional Greek philosophic notion of the human person as composed of three modalities of being--the material, the psychic, and the noetic--Markides centers much of the discussion on their mastery and the subsequent abilities to engage in out-of-body travel and to transcend karma. This book will appeal to readers interested in paranormal phenomena. ~--Sheila McGinn-Moorer

Daskalos, a Greek Christian mystic of ``unimaginable psychic power,'' and his disciple, Kostas, are the subjects of this credulity-straining report. Based in Cyprus, they communicate with an archangel who once lived on Earth as St. John, author of the Gospel. Able to perform amazing cures and undertake out-of-body travels (here called exomatosis), they drone on endlessly, about Absolute Beingness (God), our inner selves as Holy Monads, reincarnation, karma, chakras (body energy centers). Markides, a University of Maine sociology professior, states that all names in the book are fictitious, which does not inspire confidence. Nor does the appearance of characters such as the Blond Magus, a Macedonian wizard who claims he developed his powers in a Tibetan monastery. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved