A guide and source-book that is simultaneously age-old and brand-new, Donald Watson's dictionary of mind and spirit is of interest not only for practical self-exploration but is also vastly entertaining.

It provides succinct and lucid descriptions of the world's disciplines from the earliest times to the present. donald Watson draws on an encyclopaedic knowledge of the past and also show how the work of contemporary scientists corroborates the revelation of earlier mystics and philosophers.