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Advanced Yoga Practices Plus
Yoga and Spiritual Book List |
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The AYP list of
nearly 500 yoga,
spiritual, and related books is discussed in Lesson #253.
The books are divided into fifteen categories:
1-Yoga/Tantra/Advaita-Vedanta,
2-Buddhism,
3-Taoism, 4-Theosophy,
5-Judeo/Christian,
6-Western Mystics/Teachers,
7-Islam/Sufism, 8-Shamanism,
9-Channeled
Teachings,
10-Biographies,
11-Inspiring Stories,
12-Health,
13-Sexology,
14-Death/Reincarnation,
and 15-Other Related Books.
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6. ASSORTED WESTERN MYSTICS, SAGES AND TEACHERS
Adams Robert --
Silence of the Heart -- 1997 -- Talks with an American self-realized
master, who was also a disciple of Ramana Maharshi.
Adyashanti --
The Impact of Awakening -- 2000 -- A collection of satsang dialogues
from a young Zen spirtual master.
Adyashanti --
My Secret is Silence -- 2003 -- Poems and journal entries reflecting
Adyashanti's teachings on non-dual enlightenment.
Adyashanti --
Emptiness Dancing -- 2004 -- A broad range of satsang talks with the
California Zen master.
Adyashanti --
The End of Your world -- 2010 -- Practical information on the
experiences and challenges of middle and end stage enlightenment.
Adyashanti --
The Way
of Liberation - A Practical Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment -- 2012 --
A concise summary of the author's teachings, and a call to form study
groups.
Buber, Martin --
Ecstatic
Confessions - The Heart of Mysticism -- 1909 -- Classic work on testimonies of mystics
throughout the centuries expressing their encounters with the inner divine. Includes
ecstatic accounts from Pagan, Gnostic, Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish,
Muslim, Hindu, Taoist and other sources.
Da Free John (Adi Da) --
Knee
of Listening -- 1972 -- Spiritual autobiography of Da Free John/Adi
Da (Franklin Jones), the
controversial American spiritual master.
Da Free John (Adi Da) --
Methods
of the Siddhas -- 1973 -- Early talks with Da Free John (Franklin Jones), the
controversial American spiritual master.
Da Free John
(Adi Da) --
Compulsory
Dancing -- 1979 -- Talks and essays on the "spiritual and evolutionary necessity
of emotional surrender to the Life-Principle."
Da Free John
(Adi Da) --
The
Four Fundamental Questions -- 1980 -- Talks and essays about human experience and the
practice of an enlightened way of life.
Da Free John
(Adi Da) --
Crazy
Da Must Sing, Inclined to his Weaker Side -- 1982 -- The American spiritual
misfit shares his "confessional poems of liberation and love."
Da Free John
(Adi Da) --
The
God in Every Body Book -- 1983 -- Talks and essays on God realization.
Da Free John --
Easy
Death -- 1983 -- On
the
"transcendence of death and
everything else."
Da Free John
(Adi Da) --
Dawn
Horse Testament -- 1985 -- The misfit guru's somewhat self-indulgent testament to the
"crazy wisdom" he expounds.
Da Free John
(Adi Da) --
Love-Ananda
Gita -- 1986 -- A summary of "radical advaitayana Buddhism."
de Leeuw, GertJan --
God The Architect
-- 2010 --
A
devotional spiritual work, which discusses
God,
religion, devotional meditation, Vedic astrology, western science, western
society, the limitations of logic and reason and the esoteric and occult
paradigms.
Eckhart, Meister by
Colledge and McGinn --
Meister
Eckhart: The Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises and Defense -- 1982 -- The
writings and philosophy of the great 14th century western mystic.
Eckhart, Meister --
Meister Eckhart - From Whom God Hid Nothing -- 1996 -- Sermons, wrings
and sayings from the great medieval Christian mystic.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo --
Emerson's
Essays -- 1841 -- Emerson was a student of early translations of the Bhagavad Gita and
Upanishads. One of the first Western thinkers to write of universal consciousness (the
"oversoul") and spiritual laws inherent within humankind, viewing the world from
the inside. A precursor to the rise of yoga in the West.
Katie, Byron (with Stephen Mitchell)
--
Loving
What Is -- 2002 -- A practical guide for using self-inquiry
(processing four
simple questions, which she calls "the work") to achieve real happiness in daily
living.
Katie, Byron --
I Need Your Love - Is That True? -- 2005
-- Using "The Work" to stop seeking love, approval and
appreciation, and start finding them instead.
Katie, Byron (with Stephen Mitchell)
--
A Thousand Names for Joy -- 2007
-- Stories from the author's life, demonstrating "The
Work" in action.
Kavanaugh and Rodriguez --
Collected
Works of St. John of the Cross -- 1963 -- The amazing devotional writings of this 16th
century monk.
Ouspensky, PD --
Tertium
Organum - A Key to the Enigmas of the World -- 1922 -- One of the first books to
relate the theory of relativity to consciousness, stating humanity to be on the threshold
of a breakthrough to cosmic consciousness.
Ouspensky, PD --
New
Model of the Universe -- 1931 -- Principles of Gurdjieff's psychological method in
application to science, religion and art.
Ouspensky, PD --
The
Fourth Way -- 1957 -- Ouspensky's lectures on G.I. Gurfjieff's teachings on inner
development in ordinary daily life.
Rose, Richard --
The Albigen Papers -- 1973 -- Non-duality, West Virginia style.
Ryan, John K. --
Confessions
of St. Augustine -- 1960 -- Spiritual autobiography of the great Christian sage.
Steiner, Rudolf --
Philosophy
of Freedom -- 1894 -- Steiner's masterwork on free will, inner development, natural
science, and human evolution.
Steiner, Rudolf --
Theosophy
-- An Introduction to the Spiritual Processes in Human Life and in the Cosmos -- 1910
-- Steiner's overview of Theosophy, which he used as a basis to form his own philosophy
and movement - Anthroposophy.
Steiner, Rudolf --
Knowledge
of Higher Worlds and its Attainment -- 1918 -- Covering initiation, training,
transformation, and continuity of consciousness.
Steiner, Rudolf --
Outline
of Occult Science -- 1922 -- On inner nature of life and evolution of the cosmos and
man.
Theresa of Avila/ Peers --
Way
of Perfection -- 1964 -- The great St. Theresa of Avila on prayer.
Thoreau, Henry David --
Walden;
Or, Life in the Woods (150th Year Anniversary Illustrated Edition) -- 1854 -- The
great ecological and philosophical book written after an extensive (and little known by
Walden readers) study of the Indian scriptures available in his day.
Tolle, Eckhart --
The
Power of Now -- 1999 -- Popular guide book on living in stillness,
non-duality,
or "the
Now."
Tolle, Eckhart --
Stillness Speaks --
2003 --
Essays and verses designed to bring
the reader into stillness.
Tolle, Eckhart --
A New Earth - Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
--
2005 --
Broadening "The
Power of Now" to a global view. In addition to the personal transformational
message (always welcome), this is an across-the-board attack on "ego-based"
living (maybe not so welcome by some).
Twitchell, Paul --
Tiger's
Fang -- 1967 -- The first book on Eckankar, recording Twitchell's time and experiences
with a Tibetan adept.
Twitchell, Paul --
Eckankar
- The Key to Secret Worlds -- 1969 -- Principles and practices of soul travel as a
path to God.
Twitchell, Paul --
Flute
of God -- 1969 -- The fundamental philosophy of Eckankar.
Twitchell, Paul --
Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad,
Book 1 -- 1970 -- The first of twelve volumes of an ancient Tibetan scripture on
Eckankar - the science of soul travel.
Twitchell, Paul --
The
Far Country -- 1970 -- On planes of existence beyond the physical senses.
Twitchell, Paul --
Spiritual
Notebook -- 1971 -- Eckankar, the races of humanity, saints and saviors, world
religions, soul travel...
Whitman, Walt --
Leaves
of Grass -- 1891 -- This is Whitman's ode to a new America in a new style of poetry.
He was an avid student of the Bhagavad Gita and other Indian scriptures.
Wild, Henry Douglas --
Shakspeare -
Prophet for Our Time -- 1971 -- An analysis of the great playwright's prophetic
messages pointing to higher evolution in man.
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