In Search of the Primordial Tradition: Uniting World Religious Experience and Recovering a Lost Esoteric Christianity

In Search of the Primordial Tradition and the Cosmic Christ is a must for those interested in the Western Esoteric Tradition and its relevance to understanding the contemporary crisis in religion, science, and human culture.

Its author, Fr. John Rossner, a visionary priest and professor of comparative religion at Concordia University in Montreal, argues convincingly that there is indeed a "Primordial Tradition" and a "Lost Esoteric Christianity" waiting to be rediscovered by those who are prepared to receive it.

In these pages you will find evidence for the following hypotheses:

•   Throughout history "primal experiences" (i.e. visions, apparitions, out-of-the-body journeys, prophecies, divination, telepathy, distant-viewing, and healings) have played a forgotten role in the birth of great religions and civilizations of the world, including Christianity.
•   Modern Western secular culture has lost contact with such psychic roots of ancient wisdom, and regarded them as little more than "pre-scientific superstition."
•   But today, ancient spiritual insights and modern scientific discoveries have begun to surface and converge, in a process which will eventually bring us to a "second Copernican Revolution" in science, and a better understanding of the origins of human religious experience.

The author shares a new world of very ancient meaning waiting to be rediscovered within the major salvation myths, symbols and rituals of the religions of the ancient world.