Recommended Reading: Taoism
November 18, 2007 by Al Link
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Recommended Reading: A Spiritual Reading List Selected Topics "Taoism" John Blofeld. Taoism. ISBN: 1570625891 “From the Tao all the myriad objects derive their being, their illusory separateness being wrought by the interplay of yin and yang.” Blofeld has published many books on Buddhism, Taoism, and Tantra. Thomas Cleary. Practical Taoism. ISBN: 1570622000 Cleary, a [...]
Recommended Reading: Zen Buddhism
November 14, 2007 by Al Link
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Recommended Reading: A Spiritual Reading List Selected Topics Zen Buddhism Eugen Herrigel. Zen in the Art of Archery. ISBN: 0375705090 There is the Zen of no mind in which you eat when hungry, rest when tired, and stop when finished. There is also the Zen known through the ritualized arts of discipline and [...]
Recommended Reading: Buddhism
November 10, 2007 by Al Link
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Recommended Reading: A Spiritual Reading List Selected Topics Buddhism Stephen Batchelor. Buddhism Without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening. ISBN: 1573226564 According to this former Buddhist monk, you don’t need to believe anything in order to apply the practices of Buddhism such as mindfulness. Much of it comes down to [...]
Recommended Reading: Breathing
November 6, 2007 by Al Link
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Recommended Reading: A Spiritual Reading List Selected Topics Breathing Dennis Lewis. Free Your Breath, Free Your Life: How Conscious Breathing Can Relieve Stress, Increase Vitality, and Help You Live More Fully. ISBN: 1590301331 Lewis demonstrates how to find breathing practices most suitable to you rather than assuming there is one best way to breathe for [...]
Recommended Reading: Alan Watts
November 1, 2007 by Al Link
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Recommended Reading: A Spiritual Reading List Selected Authors Alan Watts For more than forty years, Alan Watts earned a reputation as the most authoritative and insightful interpreter of Eastern philosophies for Western readers. Watts has such a unique way with words that you might feel as if you were reading your own thoughts. Author [...]
Recommended Reading: Franklin Merrell-Wolff
October 28, 2007 by Al Link
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Recommended Reading: A Spiritual Reading List Selected Authors Franklin Merrell-Wolff Franklin Merrell-Wolff (mystic, author, philosopher, mathematician) grounds his philosophy and teaching not in rational speculation but in personal, direct, mystical realizations. Wolff’s spiritual search drew him to the philosophical works of the Indian sage Shankara, founder of the Advaita Vedanta school of Hindu [...]
Recommended Reading: John Lilly
October 24, 2007 by Al Link
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Recommended Reading: A Spiritual Reading List Selected Authors John C. Lilly The explanatory principle will save you from the fear of the unknown. I prefer the unknown…–John Lilly In the province of the mind, there are no limits. –John Lilly Lilly’s list of scientific achievements requires a full page in Who’s Who [...]
Recommended Reading: Stephen Levine
October 20, 2007 by Al Link
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Recommended Reading: A Spiritual Reading List Selected Authors Stephen Levine Steven Levine, formerly director of the Hanuman Foundation’s Dying Project, and his wife, Ondrea Levine, have been counseling the dying for over 30 years. According to Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, “His work is magic.” Who Dies? An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying. ISBN: 0385262213 [...]
Recommended Reading: Ram Dass (Richard Alpert)
October 16, 2007 by Al Link
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Recommended Reading: A Spiritual Reading List Selected Authors Ram Dass Ram Dass, formerly Richard Alpert, was a professor dismissed from Harvard in 1963, along with colleague Timothy Leary, because of his experiments with mind-altering drugs such as LSD. In 1967 he traveled to India, found his guru (Neem Karoli Baba), then returned to [...]
Recommended Reading: Carlos Castaneda
October 12, 2007 by Al Link
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Recommended Reading: A Spiritual Reading List Selected Authors Carlos Castaneda Over eight million copies of Castaneda’s books have been sold. Although critics have said his work is fiction (not ethnographically accurate), Castaneda maintained his writings were anthropology. In 1973 he was granted a Ph.D. in anthropology by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). [...]
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