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Beyond the Power of Now: A Guide to, and Beyond, Eckhart’s Tolle’s Teachings
Enlightenment and the Mind
Light on Relationships
What Eckhart Tolle Does Not Want You to Know: Slicing and Dicing the Oprah-Approved Pop Guru
A “New Earth,” an Old Rant
Time and the Timeless Now
Electrical Christianity: A Revolutionary Guide to Jesus’ Teachings and Spiritual Enlightenment
The “Electrical” Eucharist (The Radical Essence of Jesus’ Teachings)
Holy Baptism (Spirit-Initiation)
Super Jesus (tentative title)
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Non-Traditional/Inter-Traditional Spiritual Texts
A Brief History of Everything (Ken Wilber)
A Guide to the Present Moment (Norah Elkrief)
Awakening to the Obvious (Adyashakti/Mark Canter)
Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson (G.I. Gurdjieff)
Beyond the Place of Laughter and Tears in the Land of Devotion (David Spero)
Coming into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness (William Irwin Thompson)
Diamond Heart: Book Five (A.H. Almaas)
Dirty Enlightenment (Peter Brown)
Evolutionary Enlightenment: A New Path to Awakening (Andrew Cohen)
Hridaya Rosary (Adi Da Samraj)
I: Reality and Subjectivity (David R. Hawkins)
In Search of the Miraculous (P.D. Ouspensky)
Integral Psychology (Ken Wilber)
Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (Ayn Rand)
Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path (Rudolf Steiner)
Knowledge and the Sacred (Seyyed Hossein Nasr)
Krishnamurti’s Notebook (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Meditation: A Foundation Course (Barry Long)
Meetings with Remarkable Men (G.I. Gurdjieff)
Monsoon of Grace (Adyashakti)
Not Two Is Peace (Adi Da)
Only Fear Dies (Barry Long)
Real God Is the Indivisible Oneness of Unbroken Light (Ruchira Adi Da Samraj)
Super Accelerated Living (Bentinho Massaro)
The Awareness Principle (Peter Wilberg)
The Book of Enlightenment (Anadi)
The Essential Frithjof Schuon (Frithjof Schuon/Seyyed Hussein Nasr)
The Essential Rene Guenon: Metaphysics, Tradition, and the Crisis of Modernity (Rene Guenon)
“The Eye of the I” (David R. Hawkins)
The First and Last Freedom (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
The Foundation Stone Meditation (Rudolf Steiner)
The Idea of the Holy (Rudolf Otto)
The Knee of Listening (Adi Da Samraj)
The Master Game: Pathways to Higher Consciousness (Robert de Ropp)
The Method of the Siddhas (Franklin Jones/Da Free John/Adi Da)
The Mystique of Enlightenment (U.G. Krishnamurti)
The Paradox of Instruction (Bubba Free John/Adi Da)
The Perennial Philosophy (Aldous Huxley)
The Power of Now (Eckhart Tolle)
The Presence Process (Michael Brown)
The Reign of Quantity and the Sign of the Times (Rene Guenon)
The Seven Laws of Spiritual Success (Deepak Chopra)
The Ten Thousand Things (Robert Saltzman)
The Transcendent Unity of Religions (Frithjof Schuon)
The Way of Initiation, or How to Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds (Rudolf Steiner)
What Is Enlightenment? (William Bodri)
Eastern Spiritual Texts
A Guide to Tranquil Wisdom Insight Meditation (Bhante Vimalaramsi and David C. Johnson)
Acceptance of What Is (Wayne Liquorman)
An Extraordinary Absence (Jeff Foster)
Approaching the Great Perfection (Sam van Schaik)
Aspects of Tantra Yoga
Autobiography of a Yogi (Paramahansa Yogananda) An Overrated Spiritual “Classic”
Awakening Kundalini (Lawrence Edwards)
Awakening to the Dream (Leo Hartong)
Awakening to the Natural State (John Wheeler)
Awakening Shakti (Sally Kempton)
Be As You Are (Ramana Maharshi/David Godman)
Be Who You Are (Jean Klein)
Big Mind, Big Heart (Dennis Genpo Merzel)
Breath of the Absolute (Mooji)
Buddha in Blue Jeans (Tai Sheridan)
Buddha’s Brain (Rick Hanson)
Buddhism Plain and Simple (Steve Hagen)
Buddhist Illogic (Avi Sion)
Buddhist Phenomenology (Dan Lusthaus)
Consciousness is Everything (Swami Shankarananda)
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism (Chogyam Trungpa)
Dark Buddhism (Morgan D. Rosenberg)
Dzog Chen and Zen (Namkhai Norbu)
Dzogchen Teachings (Chogyal Namkhai Norbu)
Emptiness Dancing (Adyashanti)
Ending Stress: A Practical Guide to Nondual Meditation” (Jonathan Harrison)
Entry into the Inconceivable (Thomas Cleary)
Essence of Mind (Jes Bertelsen)
Existence and Enlightenment in the Lankavatara-Sutra (Florin G. Sutton)
Falling into Grace (Adyashanti)
Freedom and Resolve (Gangaji)
God is Nothingness (Andre Doshim Halaw)
Heart Drops of the Dharmakaya (Sharza Tashi Gyaltsen)
How to Attain Enlightenment: The Vision of Nonduality (James Swartz)
How to Know God (Swami Prabhavananda/Christopher Isherwood)
Hua-Yen Buddhism ( Francis H. Cook)
I Am That (Nisargatta Maharaj)
I Am That I Am (Francis Bennett)
Indra’s Net (Rajiv Malhotra)
Inner Tantric Yoga (David Frawley)
Introduction to Emptiness (Guy Newland)
Kashmir Shaivism: The Supreme Secret (Swami Laksmanjoo)
Kundalini (Lilian Silburn)
Kundalini Energy and Christian Spirituality (Philip St. Romain)
Kundalini: Evolution and Enlightenment (John White)
Kundalini Rising (Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, Dorothy Walters, et al.)
Kundalini Tantra (Jan Esmann)
Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man (Gopi Krishna)
Kundalini Yoga (Swami Sivananda)
Lankavatara Sutra (D.T. Suzuki)
Living Nonduality: Enlightenment Teachings of Self-realization
Living Yogacara (Tagawa Shun’ei)
Madhyamaka and Yogacara: Allies or Rivals? (Jay L. Garfield and Jan Westerhoff)
Madhyamika and Yogacara (Gadjin M. Nagao)
Meditation on Emptiness (Jeffrey Hopkins)
Mindfulness (Dr. Evan Gray)
Myths of Enlightenment and the End of Becoming (Roy Melvyn)
Nagarjuna’s Seventy Stanzas (Nagarjuna and David Ross Komito)
Natural Perfection (Keith Dowman)
Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be (Graham Ellis and Joey Lott)
On Having No Head (Douglas E. Harding)
Play of Consciousness (Swami Muktananda)
Practical Zen (Julian Daizan Skinner)
Pratyabhijnahrdayam (Jaideva Singh)
Principal Yogacara Texts (Rodney P. Devenish)
Quintessential Dzogchen (Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche)
Radical Inclusivity (Jeff Carreira)
Radically Condensed Instructions for Being Just as You Are (J Matthews)
Rainbow Painting (Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche)
Return to the Center (Bede Griffiths)
Right Concentration (Leigh Brasington)
Sat-Darshana Bhashya and Talks with Maharshi (Kapila Sastriar)
Selected Sayings from The Perfection of Wisdom (Edward Conze)
Self-Liberation through Seeing with Naked Awareness (John Myrdhin Reynolds)
Simply Notice (Peter Francis Dziuban)
Siva Sutras (Jaideva Singh)
Some Sayings of the Buddha According to the Pali Canon (F.L. Woodward)
Spaciousness: The Radical Dzogchen of the Vajra-Heart (Keith Dowman)
Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing
Sri Ramana Gita (Sri Ramana Maharshi)
Standing as Awareness (Greg Goode)
Studies in the Lankavatara Sutra (D.T. Suzuki)
Sun Seeking Light (Joshua Benavides)
Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi (Sri Munagala Venkataramiah)
Tantra Illuminated (Christopher D. Wallis)
That is That (Nirmala)
The Art of Living: Vipassana Meditation as Taught by S.N. Goenka (William Hart)
The Attention Revolution (B. Alan Wallace)
The Book of Undoing (Fred Davis)
The Buddhist Teaching of Totality (Garma C.C. Chang)
The Crystal and the Way of Light (Chogyal Namkhai Norbu)
The Cycle of Night and Day (Namkhai Norbu)
The Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of Hui Neng (A.F. Price and Wong-Mou-lam)
The End of the Spiritual Path (Salvadore Poe)
The End Of Your World (Adyashanti)
The Essential Swami Ramdas (Swami Ramdas)
The Experience of Samadhi (Richard Shankman)
The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way
The Heart of Buddhist Meditation (Nyanponika Thera)
The Heart of Buddha’s Teachings (Thich Nhat Hanh)
The Heart Sutra (Red Pine)
The Kundalini Experience: Psychosis or Transcendence (Lee Sannella)
The Kundalini Guide (Bonnie Greenwell)
The Lankavatara Sutra (Red Pine)
The Lion’s Roar (Nyoshul Khen)
The Mind Illuminated (Culadasa)
The Most Direct Means to Eternal Bliss (Michael Langford)
The Natural Bliss of Being (Jackson Peterson)
The Open Secret (Tony Parsons)
The Path of the Yoga Sutras (Nicolai Bachman)
The Philosophy of Classical Yoga (Georg Fuerstein)
The Philosophy of Sadhana (Deba Brata SenSharma)
The Practice of Dzogchen (Longchenpa, Harold Talbott (editor), Tulku Thondrup (translator))
The Practice of Dzogchen in the Zhang-Zhung Tradition of Tibet (John Myrdhin Reynolds)
The Precious Treasury of the Way of Abiding (Longchen Rabjam)
The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga (C.G. Jung)
The Reality Sutras (Sambhavi Sarasvati)
The Recognition Sutras (Christopher Wallis)
The Serpent Power (Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe))
The Silence of the Heart (Robert Adams)
The Supreme Source (Chogyam Namkhai Norbu, Adriano Clemente)
The Synthesis of Yoga (Sri Aurobindo)
The Third Turning of the Wheel (Reb Anderson)
The Three Pillars of Zen (Roshi Philip Kapleau)
The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation (W.Y. Evans-Wentz)
The Transparency of Things
The Triadic Heart of Siva (Paul E. Muller Ortega)
The Truth Is (Sri H.W. L. Poonja)
The Two Truths Debate (Sonam Thakchoe)
The Untethered Soul (Michael A. Singer)
The Way of Liberation (Adyashanti)
The Way of Non-Attachment (Dhiravamsa)
The Yoga of Power (Julius Evola)
The Way of Zen (Alan Watts)
The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion (Prem Prakesh)
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Charles Johnston)
The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali (Cliff Hartranft)
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Edwin F. Bryant)
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Sri Swami Satchidananda)
The Yoga Tradition (Georg Fuerstein)
The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma (Red Pine)
The Zen Teaching of Huang Po (Huang Po and John Blofeld)
Tracing Back the Radiance (Robert E. Buswell Jr.)
Who Am I? (Jean Klein)
Wonders of the Natural Mind (Tenzin Wangyal)
Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali (Swami Hariharananada Aranya)
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Mukunda Stiles)
You’re Trying Too Hard (Joey Lott)
Zen Mind, Beginners Mind (Shunryu Suzuki)
Western Spiritual and Occult Texts
A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman and William T. Thetfort)
An Introduction to Cabala (Z’ev ben Shimon Halevi)
Awareness (Anthony De Mello)
Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening (Cynthia Bourgeault)
Esoteric Secrets of Meditation and Magic (Paul Foster Case)
God is a Verb (David A. Cooper)
Immortal Diamond (Richard Rohr)
Initiation into Hermetics (Franz Bardon)
Inner Christianity (Richard Smoley)
Integral Spirituality (Paul R. Smith)
Jesus Christ, Sun of God (David Fideler)
Jewish Meditation (Aryeh Kaplan)
Kabbalah, Hermeticism, and M-theory (Michael Faust)
Kabbalah: New Perspectives (Moshe Idel)
Living Gnosis (Tau Malachi)
Meditation and Kabbalah (Aryeh Kaplan)
Meditations on the Tarot (Valentin Tomberg)
Mysticism (Evelyn Underhill)
Open Mind, Open Heart (Thomas Keating)
Path of the Kabbalah (David Sheinkin)
Peace Pilgrim (Peace Pilgrim)
Putting on the Mind of Christ (Jim Marion)
Sefer Yetzirah (Aryeh Kaplan)
The Awakening Ground (David Chaim Smith)
The Big Book of Christian Mysticism (Carl McColman)
The Chicken Qabalah of Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford (Lon Milo DuQuette)
The Cipher of Genesis (Carlo Suares)
The Essential Kabbalah (Daniel C. Matt)
The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism (Bernard McGinn)
The Foundations of Mysticism (Bernard McGinn)
The Hermetic Kabbalah (Colin A. Low)
The Hermetic Qabalah
The Holy Trinity and the Law of Three (Cynthia Bourgeault)
The Initiatic Path in the Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah (Samael Aun Weor)
The Key to the True Kabbalah
The Kybalion (Three Initiates)
The Mystic Christ (Ethan Walker 111)
The Mystical Qabalah (Dion Fortune)
The Mystical Thought of Meister Eckhart (Bernard McGinn)
The Naked Now (Richard Rohr)
The One Thing Is Three (Michael Gaitley)
The Tarot, a Key to the Wisdom of the Ages (Paul Foster Case)
The Trinity (Dr. Chuck Missler)
The Unbearable Wholeness of Being ( Ilia Delio)
The Way (Michael Berg)
The Way of Tarot (Alejandro Jodorowski)
The Work of the Kabbalist (Z’ev ben Shimon Halevi)
What Is The Trinity? (R.C. Sproul)
Zohar (Daniel C. Matt)
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