News from Glorian

Spiritual retreats are essential for serious spiritual work, as they provide an opportunity to be temporarily freed from mundane concerns, so you can focus completely on your spiritual life. A good retreat can clarify your daily practice, revive your willpower, and enflame your heart. It is our goal to provide an environment that innundates your spirit with energy and serenity. We also are attempting to provide more retreats, in a diverse range of locations, so that as many people as possible can benefit.

The temple at Padmasambhava Retreat Center in New York

Glorian Publishing will sponsor three retreats in 2012. 

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Hint: it is a book that has not come out yet, but you will get it on Christmas Day!

Have you been helped by the teachings of Gnosis and Samael Aun Weor? Has a particular book, lecture, website, or person changed your life for the better? Please share your story with humanity, or if you like, just say thanks.

Many of us know that Gnosis is a powerful method to change the moment to moment experience of life. Millions of people from around the world have benefited from the knowledge that the Gnostic tradition provides. When others hear your story, they will be inspired and encouraged. 

Give your testimony in our new Testimonials area.

We often receive suggestions to offer our books through on-demand printing services that allow a reader to have a book printed just for them. It would seem that these services would keep books available perpetually, and reduce the expenses of printing books in the traditional manner. However, at this time these services do not aid our primary mission.

Glorian Publishing has experimented with print on demand tools, and they have some usefulness for people who buy books from online retailers like Amazon. However, print on demand is really just an extension of mail order, a system where a customer who already knows about a product contacts the manufacturer to acquire a copy. The books of Samael Aun Weor have long been available direct from schools and instructors by mail order, but after twenty years or so (in English) none of these efforts have brought the books into the primary market for books: book stores, and in fact, the mail order system has interfered.

We have always been concerned that spiritual seekers today can go into any bookstore in the world and will rarely find a book by Samael Aun Weor. That is what we are trying to change. This situation exists because the public still does not know about Gnosis or Samael Aun Weor, so they do not ask for the books in bookstores, thus the bookstores do not know about them either. The "direct to consumer" methods (like mail order) have perpetuated this problem. If a person can get a book from a Gnostic school, they will not ask for it in a bookstore, thus the bookstore never hears about the book. Subsequently, all the other customers in the bookstore never hear about it, because the book is not there for them to see. If the teachings of Gnosis remain available only through specialized methods (mail order, direct to consumer, etc), the broader public will remain unaware of them.

The book Spiritual Power of Sound by Samael Aun Weor is now available as an ebook. It is available today for Apple devices and from Google Books, and will gradually be available at all ebook stores.

This is the first time this book has appeared in English. It explains how conscious use of the energy that pulses within us can open our spiritual eyes and ears to the creative power of sound. This leads us to personal experience of the truth: genuine spiritual experience.

The ebook edition is fully illustrated in color.