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The books in this section are highly recommended. Some of the books are considered to be essential Classics of Spirituality, such as the Dhammapada and Bhagavad Gita, and many of the authors are looked upon as important authorities on particular traditions, and diverse avenues of spiritual thought and practice. They have been included on this website not only because of the wisdom they contain, but also because the fellowship believes in the importance of study and reflection upon the spiritual teachings of the world.
The wholesome development of our mind and acceptance of different faiths and practices is an integral part of spiritual growth and maturity. Understanding needs to accompany our practices and experiences on the path in order to supply us with a balanced perspective on life and spiritual unfoldment. We hope that you find much that will nourish and encourage you in your ongoing spiritual quest for the underlying eternal compassionate truth that unites us all.
Creation Centerd Spirituality
Integral and Universal Wisdom and Spiritual Psychology
Psychic, Mediumistic and Transpersonal Phenomena
Yogic Paths
Christian Spirituality
Buddhist Spirituality
Influential Jewish Writers on Philosophy and Spirituality
Sufi Wisdom
Spiritual Philosophy
Meditation Practices
Manuals on the Power of Prayer
Mantra
Retreat Guides
Facing and Overcoming Illness and Caring for the Dying
New Thought and Personal Growth
Biographies
Creation Centred Spirituality
Thomas Berry, The Dream of the Earth, Bell Tower.
Thomas Berry, The Great Work, Bell Tower.
Thomas Berry, The Great Work, Sierra Book Club.
Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme, The Universe Story,HarerCollins.
Grace Blindell, What is Creation Centred Spirituality?, Association for Creation Spirituality.
Michael Dowd, Thank God for Evolution, Council Oak Books.
David Frawley, Yoga and the Sacred Fire, Motilal Banarsidass.
Matthew Fox, Creativity: Where the Divine and the Human Meet, Tarcher/Putnam.
Matthew Fox, Original Blessing, Tarcher/Penguin.
Matthew Fox and Rupert Sheldrake, Natural Grace, HarperCollins.
Roger Gottlieb (editor), The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology, Oxford University Press.
Matthew Henry, Orignally Blessed: The 25th Annivserary of Matthew Fox’s Original Blessing, Creation Spirituality Communities.
Joel Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams,The View from the Centre of the Universe, Fourth Estate.
Brian Swimme, The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos, Orbis.
Brian Swimme, The Universe is a Green Dragon, Bear and Co.
E O Wilson, Te Creation: An Appeal to Save the Earth, W W Norton.
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Integral and Universal Wisdom and Spiritual Psychology
Roberto Assagioli, Psychosynthesis: A Manual of Principles and Techniques, Aquarian.
Sri Aurobindo, A Greater Psychology: An Introduction to the Psychological Thought of
Sri Aurobindo (edited by A.S. Dalal), Tarcher/Putnam.
Swami Dharmananda and Santoshan, The House of Wisdom, O Books. Don Edward Beck and Christopher C. Cowan, Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership and Change, Blackwell.
Brant Cortright, Psychotherapy and Spirit: Theory and Practice in Transpersonal
Psychotherapy, SUNY.
Vivianne Crowley, Jungian Spirituality, Thorsons.
John Davis, The Diamond Approach: An Introduction to the Teachings of A. H. Almaas,
Shambhala.
Glyn Edwards and Santoshan, Unleash your Spiritual Power and Grow, Foulsham/Quantum.
Daniel Goleman (narrated by), Destructive Emotions and How we can Overcome Them: A Dialogue with the Dalai Lama, Bloomsbury.
Christina Grof and Stanislav Grof, The Stormy Search for the Self: Understanding and
Living with Spiritual Emergency, Thorsons.
Jack Kornfield, After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the
Spiritual Path, Rider.
Swami Rama, Rudolph Ballentine and Swami Ajaya, Yoga and Psychotherapy: The
Evolution of Consciousness, The Himalayan Press.
Wayne Teasdall, The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World’s
Religions, New World Library.
Frank Visser, Ken Wilber: Thought as Passion, SUNY.
Roger Walsh and Frances Vaughan (editors), Paths Beyond Ego: The Transpersonal
Vision, Tarcher/Putnam.
John Welwood, Towards a Psychology of Awakening: Buddhism, Psychotherapy, and the Path of Personal and Spiritual Transformation, Shambhala.
Ken Wilber, Integral Spirituality, Integral Books.
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Psychic, Mediumistic and Transpersonal and Phenomena
Paul Beard, Survival of Death, Pilgrim Books.
Harry Boddington, Materialisations, Psychic Press.
Harry Boddington, University of Spiritualism, Psychic Press.
Nona Coxhead, Mind Power, Mandala.
Glyn Edwards and Santoshan, Tune in to your Spiritual Potential, Foulshan/Quantum Books
Rosemary Ellen Guiley, Harper’s Encyclopedia of Mystical and Paranormal Experience, Harper Collins.
Brian Inglis, Science and Parascience: A History of the Paranormal, 1914-1939, Hodder and Stoughton.
Raynor C. Johnson, The Imprisoned Splendour, Hodder & Stoughton.
David Lorimer, Whole in One: The Near Death Experience and the Ethic of Interconnectedness, Arkana.
J. J. Morse, Practical Occultism, Psychic Press.
Ursula Roberts, All About Mediumship, Two Worlds.
Archie Roy, The Archives of the Mind, SNU Publications.
Santoshan (with Conversations with glyn Edwards), Realms of Wondrous Gifts: Psychic, Mediumistic and Miraculous Powers in th e Great Wisdom Traditions, Gordon Higginson Fellowship.
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Yogic Paths
Swami Adiswarananda, Meditation and its Practices: A Definitive Guide to Techniques
and Traditions of Meditation in Yoga and Vedanta, Skylight Paths.
Sri Aurobindo, The Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo’s Teachings and Method of Practice,
Lotus Light.
TKV Desikachar, Reflections on Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Krishnamacharya Yoga
Mandiram.
Swami Dharmananda Saraswati, Breath of Life: Breathing for Health Vitality and
Meditation, Dharma Yoga Centre (and Motilal Banarsidass).
Mircea Eliade, Yoga: Immortality and Freedom, Princeton.
Georg Feuerstein, The Deeper Dimensions of Yoga: Theory and Practice, Shambhala.
Georg Feuerstein, The Shambhala Guide to Yoga, Shambhala.
David Frawley, Yoga: The Greater Traditions, Mandala.
David Frawley, Tantra Yoga and the Wisdom of the Goddess, Passage Press.
Alan Jacobs, The Principal Upanishads: A Poetic Translation, O Books.
Satish Kumar, The Spiritual Compass, Green Books.
Juan Mascaro (translation by), The Bhagavad Gita, Penguin Books.
M. P. Pandit, The Yoga of Self-Perfection, Dipti.
Swami Shankarananda, Consciousness if Everything: The Yoga of Kashmir Shaivism,, Shaktipat.
Swami Sivananda Radha: Mantras: Words of Power, Timeless Books.
Swami Satyananda Saraswati, A Systematic Course in the Ancient Tantric Techniques
of Yoga and Kriya, Yoga Publications Trust.
Vimala Thakar, Insights into the Bhagavad Gita, Motilal Banarsidass.
Susunaga Weeraperuma (compiler), The Essential Swami Ramdas, World Wisdom.
Paramahansa Yogananda, Man’s Eternal Quest, Self-Realization Fellowship.
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Christian Spirituality
Matthew Fox, The Coming of the Cosmic Christ, HarperCollins.
Bede Griffiths, The One Light: Bede Griffiths Principal Writings (edited with a
commentary by Bruno Barnhart), Templegate.
Ursula King, Christ in all Things: Exploring Spirituality with Teilhard de Chardin,
SCM Press.
John Main, Essential Writings (selected with an introduction by Laurence Freeman),
Orbis Books.
John R Mabry, The Way of Thomas, O Books.
Thomas Merton, The Inner Experience, HarperSanFrancisco.
Henri J. M. Nouwen, Seeds of Hope: A Henri Nouwen Reader (edited by Robert Durback),
Image Books Double Day.
Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels, Phoenix.
Andrian B. Smith, The God Shift: Our Changing Perception of the Ultimate Mystery,
Liffey Press.
Brian C. Taylor, Becoming Human: Core Teachings of Jesus, Cowley Publications.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (writings selected with an
introduction by Ursula King), Orbis Books.
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Buddhist Spirituality
Ajahn Chah, Food for the Heart: The Collected Teachings of Ajan Chah, Wisdom.
Matthew Flickstein, Swallowing the River Ganges: A Practice Guide to the Path of Purification, Wisdom.
Ven. Henepola Gunaratana, Mindfulness in Plain English, Wisdom.
Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching: Transforming Suffering into
Peace, Joy and Liberation - the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path and
other Basic Buddhist Teachings, Parallax.
Jack Kornfield, A Path with Heart: A Guide through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual
Life, Rider.
The Ven. Balangoda Ananda Maitreya (translation by), The Dhammapada: The Path of
Truth (revised by Rose Kramer), Parallax.
Rob Preece, The Alchemical Buddha: Introducing the Psychology of Buddhist Tantra,
Mudra Publications.
Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught, Oneworld.
Master Sheng-yen with Dan Stevenson, Hoofprints of the Ox: Principles of the Chan
Buddhist Path as Taught by a Modern Chinese Master, Oxford University Press.
Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and
Practice, Weatherhill.
Nyanaponika Thera, The Vision of the Dhamma, Buddhist Publication Society.
Tarthang Tulku, Gestures of Balance, Dharma Publishing.
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Influential Jewish Writers on Philosophy and Spirituality
Martin Buber, I and Thou, T&T Clark.
Rabbi David A Cooper, Ecstatic Kabbalah, Sounds True.
Michael Lerner, Spirit Matters, Hampton Roads.
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Sufi Wisdom
James Fadiman and Robert Frager (editors), Essential Sufism, Castle.
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, The Call of the Dervish, Omega.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, The Garden of Truth, HarperOne.
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Spiritual philosophy
Sri Aurobindo, (compiled with a summary and notes by P. B. Saint-Hilaire), The Future
Evolution of Man: The Divine Life upon Earth (selected from the works of Sri
Aurobindo), Sri Aurobindo Ashram.
Roy Bhaskar, Meta-Reality: The Philosophy of meta-Reality, Vol. 1, Creativity, Love and
Freedom, Sage.
Edward Craig (eidited by), The Shorter Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Routledge.
Christopher W. Gowans, Philosophy of the Buddha, Routledge.
The Dalai Lama, Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for a New Millennium, Little
Brown.
Ian P. McGreal (editor), Great Thinkers of the Eastern World: The Major Thinkers and
Philosophical and Religious Classics of China, India, Japan, Korea and the World of
Islam, HarperCollins.
Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood (translated by), Shankara’s Crest-Jewel
of Discrimination, Vedanta Press.
Keith Ward, Concepts of God: Images of the Divine in Five Religious Traditions,
Oneworld
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Meditation Practices
Achaan Chah, A Still Forest Pool, A Quest Book.
Roy Eugene Davis, An Easy Guide to Meditation, CSA Press.
Eknath Easwaran, Meditation, Nilgiri.
Stephen Levine, A Gradual Awakening, Gateway.
John Main, The Hunger for Depth and Meaning, Medio Media.
John Novak, How to Meditate, Crystal Clarity.
Hari Prasad Shastri, Meditation: Its Theory and Practice, Shanti Sadan.
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Manuals on the Power of Prayer
Eric Butterworth, The Universe is Calling, Harper San Francisco.
M.V. Dunlop, Contemplative Meditation, Fellowship of Meditation.
Shirley C. Hughson, Contemplative Prayer, SPCK.
Thomas Keating, Open Mind, Open Heart, Element.
Henri J. M. Nouwen, The Only Necessary Things: Living a Prayerful Life (compiled
and edited by Wendy Greer), Darton, Longman and Todd.
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Mantra
Swami Vishnu Devananda, Meditation and Mantras, Om Lotus.
Eknath Easwaran, The Unstruck Bell, Nilgiri.
Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, The Power of Mantra and the Mystery of Initiation, Yoga International Books.
Swami Sivananda Radha, Mantras: Words of Power, Timeless Books.
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Retreat Guides
Roger Housden, Retreat: Time Apart for Silence and Solitude, Thorsons.
Stafford Whiteaker, The Good Retreat Guide, Rider.
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Facing and Overcoming Illness and Caring for the Dying
Julie Friedeberger, A Visible Wound: A Healing Journey through Breast Cancer, Element.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, On Death and Dying, Collier.
Stephen Levine, Who Dies? Doubleday.
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New Thought and Personal Growth
Roy Eugene Davis, Studies in Truth, CSA Press.
Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind, Putnam.
Ernest Holmes, This Thing Called You, Putnam.
Ursula Roberts, Hints on Spiritual Unfoldment, Psychic Press.
Ralph Waldo Trine, In Tune with the Infinite, Mandala.
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Biographies
Shirley Du Boulay, Beyond the Darkness: A Biography of Bede Griffiths, O Books.
Matthew Fox, Confessions, HarperCollins.
Ursula King, Spirit of Fire: The Life and Vision of Teilhard de Chardin, Orbis Books.
Nyanaponika Thera and Hellmuth Hecker (edited with an introduction by Bhikkhu Bodhi),
Great Disciples of the Buddha: Their Lives, Their Works, Their Legacy, Wisdom Books.
Yogi Manmoyanand, Sivananda Buried Yoga, O Books.
A M B Nanasampanno, Ven. Acariya Mun Bhuridatta Thera, Forest Dhamma (free
distribution).
Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi, Self-Realization Fellowship.
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