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The Hidden Thread: Religion, Spirituality, Esotericism, and Philosophy in the Human Search for Meaning
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ISBN13: 9798175398282
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 18 2026
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 18 2026
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Four traditions of inquiry. One question that never disappears: What is real, and how should we live?
Religion, spirituality, esotericism, and philosophy are often placed on separate shelves. Yet each addresses the human search for meaning, transformation, truth, and a life worth living. The Hidden Thread brings these fields into a clear, critical, and compassionate conversation.
Religion, spirituality, esotericism, and philosophy are often placed on separate shelves. Yet each addresses the human search for meaning, transformation, truth, and a life worth living. The Hidden Thread brings these fields into a clear, critical, and compassionate conversation.
Drawing on major religious traditions, mystical experience, philosophy, psychology, ritual, modern esotericism, and the spiritual marketplace, Vikash Rowtho examines where these paths overlap - and where they genuinely disagree. He asks how authority earns trust, what suffering means, whether the self endures, what may follow death, and how seekers can distinguish wisdom from manipulation.
Beginning with a childhood encounter that unsettled his understanding of sacred authority, Rowtho develops a practical discipline of discernment: remain open without becoming gullible, critical without becoming closed, and committed without surrendering the right to think.
For believers, skeptics, and seekers unwilling to trade wonder for certainty.
Beginning with a childhood encounter that unsettled his understanding of sacred authority, Rowtho develops a practical discipline of discernment: remain open without becoming gullible, critical without becoming closed, and committed without surrendering the right to think.
For believers, skeptics, and seekers unwilling to trade wonder for certainty.
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