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Consciousness & Spirit
	A Passion for Seeing: Confessions of an Image-maker Frederick Franck Writings and drawings by Frederick Franck Introduction by David Appelbaum, editor of Parabola magazine. A Passion for Seeing gathers a rare feast of stories, impressions, and observations from a writer and artist known for his keen honesty, great heart, and passionate pursuit of the question:... [Read more]
	Ego & Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function on the Psyche Edward F. Edinger A study of the journey to psychological wholeness--a process that Jung described as a conscious encounter between the ego and the archetypal symbols of the collective unconscious. Edinger traces the stages in this process and relates them to the search for meaning through encounters with symbolism in religion, myth,... [Read more]
	Eros and Chaos Veronica Goodchild, Ph.D. In Eros and Chaos, Veronica Goodchild challenges the reigning paradigm that couples chaos with order. She looks at love and its shadows through the lens of the mythologies that unite Chaos and Eros. Moving between personal, collective, archetypal, and cosmic expressions of love, she weaves dream, vision,... [Read more]
	Gentle Bridges: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on the Sciences of Mind Jeremy Hayward, Ph.D., and Francisco Varela, Ph.D. (Eds.) In 1987, Hayward, Varela, and several other Western scientists were invited to India to discuss the interface between the cognitive sciences and Buddhist psychology with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Now comes a clear presentation of the themes discussed at that meeting, including the mind and the brain, the self,... [Read more]
	Interior Castle St. Teresa of Avila One of the most celebrated works on mystical theology in existence, as timely today as when St. Teresa of Avila wrote it centuries ago, this is a treasury of unforgettable maxims on self-knowledge and fulfillment. Teresa was an incredibly gifted teacher whose devotion to the sublimest task--the guidance of others... [Read more]
	Knowledge and the Sacred by Seyyed Hossein Nasr Nasr (Islamic studies, George Washington U.), in a series of ten lectures, argues that, unlike in the West, where scientific thought has been secularized, in the East, knowledge and religious experience have remained unified. Drawing from Buddhist, Hindu, Judaic, Christian, and Islamic traditions, he finds in each the... [Read more]
	Mind Before Matter Trish Pfeiffer (Editor), Paul Devereux (Editor) Materialism is the dominant worldview in the West today. But it is only one worldview, and it doesn't completely work, even, ironically, being gradually undermined by the science that gave rise to it. This anthology of essays from significant figures in the world of science and consciousness studies -- including one... [Read more]
	One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from Global Faiths by Matthew Fox Who but Matthew Fox – former Dominican priest, author of countless influential books such as Original Blessing and The Reinvention of Work, silenced by the Vatican for his controversial statements about creation spirituality, and now an Episcopal priest – would combine rave dances with a religious mass? And who else... [Read more]
	Paths Beyond Ego: The Transpersonal Vision by Frances Vaughan, Ph.D. et al This book is a clarion call for an expanded vision of human possibilities. The 50 essays that make up Paths Beyond Ego apply transpersonal thinking to individual growth, psychotherapy, meditation, dreams, psychedelics, science, ethics, philosophy, ecology and service. The result is an integrated and... [Read more]
	Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research by Stanislav Grof A comprehensive overview of psychiatrist Stanislav Grof’s pioneering work in transpersonal psychology, a discipline influenced by Eastern philosophies which holds that transcendence of the ego can aid in individual and societal evolution. He examines ways in which this transcendence may develop, including through... [Read more]
	Shadow Culture: Psychology and Spirituality in America by Eugene Taylor Dr. Taylor, a historian of psychology at Harvard University, chronicles individual and collective anomalous experiences in the U.S. – from Quakerism and Christian Science, through homeopathy and mesmerism, to today's “folk psychology” and the academic study of these experiences by scientific psychotherapy,... [Read more]
	Spirit of the Shuar: Wisdom from the Last Unconquered People of the Amazon John Perkins and Shakaim Mariano Shakai Ijisam Chumpi The indomitable Shuar of the Amazon--reputed to be the only tribe in the Americas that has never been conquered--have lived as warriors, hunters, cultivators, and healers for generations. Even in today's acquisitive, often wasteful world they defend their rainforests and sustainable ways of life and offer their... [Read more]
	The Heart of the Mind : How to Experience God Without Belief by Jane Katra, Ph.D. & Russell Targ Scientist Russell Targ and spiritual healer Jane Katra join forces again, successfully blending their fascinating research and insights on life and spirit. On the surface, this book is a profound and intelligent discussion of where mysticism and parapsychological science intersect. But at its core, this is a tender... [Read more]
	The Jew in the Lotus: A Poet's Rediscovery of Jewish Identity in Buddhist India by Rodger Kamenetz A personal journey of Jewish spiritual renewal in dialogue with the Dalai Lama. Summoned by the Dalai Lama to Dharamsala, the retreat in northern India that the Tibetan exile community has inhabited since the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1959, a group of eight Jewish leaders goes to India for a week of discussions in... [Read more]
	The Marriage of Sense and Soul: Integrating Science and Religion by Ken Wilber Transpersonal scholar Ken Wilber offers a clear bridge between the achievements of conventional, empirical science and our interior experience, from the logical to the mystical. There is arguably no more critical and pressing topic than the relation of science and religion in the modern world. Science has given us... [Read more]
	The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World's Religions Wayne Teasdale Drawing on his experience as an interreligious monk and mystic, Brother Wayne Teasdale reveals in The Mystic Heart what he calls interspirituality, a genuine and comprehensive spirituality that draws on the mystical core of the world's great religious traditions. After years within the Catholic lay... [Read more]
	The Perennial Philosophy Aldous Huxley "A collection of aphorisms and brief extracts relating to mystical experience. It is both an anthology and an interpretation of the supreme mystics, East and West...This is the first time that anybody has adequately covered the field and showed an equal familiarity with all fields. It is a magnificent... [Read more]
	The Phenomenon of Man by Pierre Teilhard De Chardin Pierre Teilhard De Chardin was one of the most distinguished thinkers and scientists of our time. He fits into no familiar category for he was at once a biologist and a paleontologist of world renown, and also a Jesuit priest. He applied his whole life, his tremendous intellect and his great spiritual faith to... [Read more]
	The Protean Self: Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation by Robert Jay Lifton Don't be put off by the title: this is a clear, concise, and affirmative look at how humans adapt to a constantly changing world. In opposition to much that has been written about the personal and social fragmentation created by our mechanized, technological lives, Lifton argues that we have a "protean self," which is... [Read more]
	The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James When William James went to the University of Edinburgh in 1901 to deliver a series of lectures on "natural religion," he defined religion as "the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine."... [Read more]
	Twilight Goddess: Spiritual Feminism and Feminine Spirituality Thomas Cleary and Sarta Aziz This book is a guided tour of the feminine principles, symbols, and imagery found in Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism, and the Sufi tradition of Islam, with insightful meditations on the deep meanings of these manifestations of the Divine. Goddess worship is among the original forms of human religious expression, and it... [Read more]

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