The Lost Secrets of the Ancient Mystery Schools: 11 Steps to Your Divine Self

"How desperately our world needs fresh new spiritual ways to help us break free of our dependency on control, competition, greed, apathy, and dogma. Many of our traditional institutions have failed us, and we look to new ways that are authentic and transformative."

The Lost Secrets of the Ancient Mystery Schools represents the exciting rediscovery of a spiritual teaching method, hidden in sacred texts, that was used for thousands of years in the ancient mystery schools.

This book takes you on a journey of eleven steps consisting of the major turning points of Jesus's life along his path to divinity. You are invited to live these as your own experiences-for example, at the birth of Jesus, imagine yourself in the manger. What gifts were you given? Looking back, what were you given from birth?

The ancient mystery schools were successful in leading their students to the realization of their divine selves. And with this book, the authors wish to share with you how to use it for your own spiritual development.

Virginia Stephenson is an author, spiritual teacher, Christian minister, and student of Zen and Mahayana Buddhism. She holds a BA in American history from Furman University and has written and performed ceremony and ritual to help participants attain higher spiritual consciousness.

Buck Rhodes earned a PhD from The Johns Hopkins University. He is a retired university professor and former president of a biotechnology company. He is also a minister, heart circle organizer, and pipe-carrying shaman. He's published more than a hundred scientific papers and books and currently writes about spirituality.

Virginia and Buck also offer workshops on the teachings found in their first book Can Christians Be Saved: A Mystical Path to Oneness.