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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 messages pointing to higher evolution in man. |
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