Recommended Reading: A Spiritual Reading List
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Tantric Sacred Sexuality
Pala Copeland and Al Link.Soul Sex
: Tantra for Two. ISBN: 1564146642
Our first book exploring relationship as spiritual practice using Tantric and Taoist approaches to sacred sexuality. We help you learn how to create love for a lifetime together.
Margo Anand. The Art of Sexual Ecstasy: The Path of Sacred Sexuality for Western Lovers. ISBN: 0874775817
This book is a complete sacred sex course in itself. With lots of meditations, activities, and exercises, it is particularly suited for couples who want to open up to each other emotionally as well as physically.
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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 beauty such as archery, swordsmanship, brush-and-ink, the tea ceremony, or flower arranging. This book is Herrigel’s story of striking the target bull’s-eye blindfolded.
Robert M. Pirsig. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values. ISBN: 0060958324
This is a book suitable for the deepest thinker while at the same time opening the heart. It is worthy to be read many times. One of the best books Al has ever read.
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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 being fully awake and present from moment to moment.
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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 everyone. Choose from seven different self-directed ways of working with breath. Want to reduce the stress load in your life? Breathing properly is one of the best places to start.
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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 of more than twenty-five books (everyone a gem to read), he was an editor, Anglican priest, graduate dean, broadcaster, lecturer, and entertainer. He held fellowships from Harvard University and the Bollinger Foundation and was Episcopal Chaplain at Northwestern University during the Second World War.
He became professor and dean of the American Academy of Asian Studies in San Francisco, created the series “Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life” for National Educational Television, and served as a visiting consultant for psychiatric institutions, hospitals, and the United States Air Force. He traveled widely, including such countries as Japan, Burma, Ceylon, and India. Watts died in 1973.
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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 philosophy. The following two books provide a detailed record of his realizations and a lucid philosophical description of Transcendental Consciousness. Wolff died in 1985.
Pathways Through To Space. ISBN: 0517527774
This is the story of his personal realization of Nirvana—God Consciousness.
The Philosophy of Consciousness Without an Object: Reflections on the Nature of Transcendental Consciousness. ISBN: 0517549492
This is the author’s philosophy of Transcendental Consciousness based upon his realization of Nirvana. The fundamental principle in all of Wolff’s teaching is that consciousness is primary (original) and not derived from anything else.
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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 in America. He pioneered the original neuroscientific work in electrical brain stimulation, mapping out the pleasure and pain pathways in the brain. He conducted the first research on inter-species communication with dolphins and whales. He invented the isolation tank and conducted significant research on sensory deprivation. Lilly died in 2001.
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