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> The AYP list of over 400 yoga,
spiritual, and related books is discussed in Lesson #253.
The books are divided into fifteen categories: 1-Yoga/Tantra,
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,
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6. ASSORTED WESTERN MYSTICS, SAGES AND TEACHERS
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.
Colledge and McGinn -- Meister
Eckhart: The Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises and Defense -- 1982 -- The
writings and philosophy of the great 14th century western mystic.
Da Free John -- Methods
of the Siddhas -- 1973 -- Early talks with Da Free John (Franklin Jones), the
controversial American spiritual master.
Da Free John -- Compulsory
Dancing -- 1979 -- Talks and essays on the "spiritual and evolutionary necessity
of emotional surrender to the Life-Principle."
Da Free John -- The
Four Fundamental Questions -- 1980 -- Talks and essays about human experience and the
practice of an enlightened way of life.
Da Free John -- 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 -- The
God in Every Body Book -- 1983 -- Talks and essays on God realization.
Da Free John -- Dawn
Horse Testament -- 1985 -- The misfit guru's somewhat self-indulgent testament to the
"crazy wisdom" he expounds.
Da Free John -- Love-Ananda
Gita -- 1986 -- A summary of "radical advaitayana Buddhism."
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.
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.
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, or "the
Now."
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
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