Consciousness Unfolding
The Original Text of a Classic Infinite Way Teaching
Published on 3. April 2018
Book
Hardback
182 pages
978-1-5154-2924-1 (ISBN)
Description
Consciousness Unfolding presents Joel S. Goldsmith's original teaching on spiritual awareness, divine consciousness, meditation, and the inner realisation of God as individual being. This edition follows the original text and does not include the later-added two chapters found in some modern editions. That distinction matters: the book is strongest when read in its original shape, as a concentrated statement of Goldsmith's early Infinite Way teaching rather than as a later expanded version.
Based on Goldsmith's 1948-1949 classes in San Francisco and Los Angeles, Consciousness Unfolding explores the awakening of spiritual consciousness through prayer, contemplation, scriptural truth, healing, and the recognition of divine presence as the substance of life. Goldsmith's emphasis is not on external doctrine but on inward realisation: the gradual disclosure of God, or divine Consciousness, as the reality of individual being. For readers of New Thought, Christian mysticism, metaphysical religion, spiritual healing, and practical contemplative teaching, this original-text edition offers a cleaner and more direct presentation of one of Goldsmith's central works. The official Goldsmith site describes the book as based on transcripts of 1948-1949 classes and notes that recordings were not used in its preparation.
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Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
423 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5154-2924-1 (9781515429241)
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Joel S. Goldsmith (1892-1964) was an American spiritual teacher, author, lecturer, and founder of The Infinite Way, a modern metaphysical teaching centred on divine consciousness, contemplative prayer, spiritual healing, and the direct inward realisation of God. Originally associated with Christian Science healing, Goldsmith developed an independent body of work that drew on Christian scripture, mysticism, New Thought, and universal spiritual principles while avoiding rigid denominational framing. His books and classes attracted readers seeking a practical path of meditation, inner stillness, healing prayer, and spiritual awakening.Goldsmith's writing is especially important within twentieth-century New Thought and modern mystical literature because it places emphasis on consciousness itself: not merely positive thinking or affirmation, but the transformation of awareness through the recognition of divine reality as the substance of individual life. Works such as The Infinite Way, Consciousness Unfolding, The Art of Meditation, and Practicing the Presence continue to speak to readers interested in metaphysical spirituality, Christian mysticism, contemplative practice, spiritual healing, prayer, and the inner life. His teaching remains distinctive for its quiet authority, its insistence on lived realisation rather than outward ceremony, and its sustained focus on the unfolding of God-consciousness within ordinary human experience.