Far Country

by Paul Twitchell

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265 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1979

About the author

When Paul Twitchell made Eckankar known to the modern world in 1965, he separated spiritual truths from the cultural trappings which had surrounded them. Average people could begin to experience the Light and Sound of God while still living a happy, steady, and productive life.

Paul Twitchell was born in Kentucky in the early part of the twentieth century and served in the US Navy during the Second World War.

A seeker from an early age, he was introduced to a group of spiritual Masters who would change the course of his life. These were the Vairagi ECK Masters. While they trained Paul to become the Living ECK Master, he explored a wide range of spiritual traditions under different teachers. The high teachings of ECK had been scattered to the four corners of the world. Paul gathered these golden teachings of Light and Sound and made them readily available to us.

It was these God experiences he chronicled in his book, The Tiger's Fang. Paul Twitchell eventually joined the Vairagi Order and was given the task of bringing Eckankar to the world. He became the Living ECK Master.

By 1965, Paul was giving Soul Travel workshops in California and offering discourses on the teachings of Eckankar. A community of ECKists began to grow. In 1970, Eckankar was established as a nonprofit religious organization. Paul Twitchell died in 1971, but not before he initiated many into the ECK teachings.

The present-day Living ECK Master is Sri Harold Klemp. He continues to give new life to the age-old spiritual teachings of ECK. (www.Eckankar.org)

Reviews

[Carrie Poppy · Rating 1 out of 5]

Bafflingly vapid.

[Frobisher Smith · Rating 4 out of 5]

A series of discourses delivered by Rebezar Tarz, ECK Master and one of Paul Twichell's primary spiritual guides. I'm giving it three stars because it is very dense and full of digressions and aspects of the ECKANKAR teachings are better explained in other books. While I think it was a good read and informative it is not a good place to start if you are new to the path of ECK, the Flute of God and The Key to Secret Worlds are much better if you want an intro to ECK from Paulji.

[Yaaresse · Rating 3 out of 5]

Every wonder why so many creators of new religious groups also fancied themselves sci-fi writers?
Sounds like an English Lit thesis just begging to be written.

I recall this was an entertaining read, anyway.
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[Gervaze · Rating 5 out of 5]

'A classic.