Inner Yoga: Selected Writings of Sri Anirvan by Sri Anirvan
Clear, concise and multi-leveled, Sri Anirvan, best known to Westerners from Lizelle Reymond's To Live Within, takes the celebrated Yoga sutras of Patanjali as his framework, as he explains the eight limbs of yoga as reflected in Samkhya, Tantra, Buddhism and Vaishnavism.
Glossary, 187 pp.
Price: $12.00
Zen-Brain Reflections by James H. Austin, M.D.
Austin, a clinical neurologist, researcher, and Zen practitioner, examines the evolving psychological processes and brain changes associated with long-range meditation. He draws not only on the latest neuroscience research and new neuroimaging studies but also on Zen literature and his personal experience with alternate states of consciousness.
586 pp.
Price: $40.00
The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi by William C. Chittick
Noted Sufi scholar William Chittick translates for the first time certain aspects of Rumi's teachings, selecting and rearranging Rumi's poetry and prose in order to leave aside unnecessary complications and to present his ideas in his own words in an orderly fashion. It surveys the basic Sufi and Islamic doctrines concerning God and the world, the role of man in the cosmos, the need for religion, man's ultimate becoming, the states and stations of the mystical ascent to God, and the means whereby literature employs symbols to express "unseen" realities.
433 pp.
Price: $27.00
The Tao of Voice by Stephen Chun-Tao Cheng
A new East-West approach to transforming the singing and speaking voice.
142 pp.
Price: $15.00
Music and the Power of Sound: The Influence of Tuning and Interval on Consciousness by Alain Daniélou
An important book, heretofore virtually unobtainable in the West, it traces the development of musical scales from their origins in China and India, through the merging in ancient Greece of these two systems, and on to the development of the Western musical traditions of modal and polyphonic music.The musicians of antiquity understood scales to be either cycles of simple intervals, as in China; arrays of varying intervals around a central pitch, as in India; or a combination of the two, as in Greece. Any one of these methods of construction resulted in a multitude of contrasting scales, each capable of expressing distinct emotional and spiritual states. Those scales, says Daniélou, not only reflected but also influenced the spiritual values of their parent civilizations.
Hardcover, 172 pp.
Price: $25.00
The Phallus: Sacred Symbol of Male Creative Power by Alain Daniélou
Celebrating the masculine symbol of creative energy in the religious traditions of East and West, Daniélou surveys its expression through the phallic Neolithic amulets, obelisks and the ithyphallic pharaohs, mukha lingams of India, and European standing stones. Considered also are diverse mythologies of the Celts (Cernunnos, the Horned God, Greek [Pan, Hermes, Priapus] and Hindus [Ardhanarishhvara, the androgyne]). Manifestation of the creator, a source of bliss and transcendence, Daniélou argues, the phallus must assume this symbolic role again, if the link to the divine is not to be sundered.
Photographs, illustrations, 117 pp.
Price: $20.00
Shiva & The Primordial Tradition: From the Tantras to the Science of Dreams by Alain Daniélou
Exploring the relationship between Shaivism and the West, Daniélou—who lived in India for 15 years, using only Sanskrit and Hindi and studying music and philosophy with eminent scholars—provides an extensive examination of the chief tenets underlying Shaivsim and how they relate and bridge the gap between science and religion.
Index, 129 pp.
Price: $15.00
Yoga: Mastering the Secrets of Matter and the Universe by Alain Daniélou
Based entirely on original published and unpublished Sanskrit sources, Daniélou, a distinguished Orientalist who lived in India for over 20 years, explores the methods of yoga in its different forms, including techniques of the "left-hand" paths.
Index, 195 pp.
Price: $15.00
Sunyata: Rare-Born Mystic by Ed Dougal
With just the right voice and page after page of hand-drawn images matched with his own handwriting, the author traces the unusual life of Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen who, though born into ego-consciousness in 1890 in Denmark, never lost the non-dual mystic consciousness of what he called "the Invisible Real." Invited to India "to teach Silence" by the poet Tagore, Brother Alfred, as he was known then, felt a kindred consciousness in India. After much travel, he arrived in the hill town of Almora, where on a high ridge he built a stone hut. It had no running water, no electricity, no heat. What he did have was solitude, pure air and a 23-mile vista of Himalayan mountain peaks. He lived on five rupees a month given to him by a devotee. In researching his book Search in Secret India, Paul Brunton met Brother Alfred and introduced him to the great Indian Advaita sage Ramana Maharshi who gave him the name "Sunyata," meaning full solid emptiness. Sunyata lived in Almora until 1979, when friends of Alan Watts brought him to Sausalito. There, aboard Alan Watts' houseboat, he gave a weekly darshan, always insisting he had "Nothing to teach, nothing to sell." In 1984 at the age of 94, "Mr. Nobody," as his American devotees affectionately referred to him, passed into the Invisible Real.
250 pp.
Price: $30.00
Hara: The Vital Center of Man by Karlfried Graf Dürckheim
Dürckheim spent eight years in Japan before World War studying the age-old techniques of Zen Buddhism so deeply as to become one of its first Western authorities. In this classic now retranslated, the focus is on a belly-centered posture and attitude of Hara, the center of the vital force, rather than the "chest-out-belly in" posture and attitude of the West.
Photos, index, 202 pp.
Price: $15.00
Insights into Islamic Esoterism & Taoism by René Guénon
This small volume brings together a number of Guénon's early articles on Sufism and the particularities of its initiation by defining its fundamental elements. Articles include: "The Influence of Islamic Civilization in the West," "The Science of Hand-Reading in Sufism," "Notes on Angelic Number Symbolism in the Arabic Alphabet," and "Taoism and Confucianism."
89 pp.
Price: $19.00
Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources by Martin Lings
Based on Arabic sources of the eighth and ninth centuries, the noted Islamic scholar Martin Lings brings a vast erudition and gift for narrative that gives a freshness and directness to the words of those who heard Muhammad speak and who witnessed the events of his life. Given the current reciprocal destruction, this would make a good beginning to understanding Islam.
359 pp.
Price: $20.00
Christianity & The Doctrine of Non-Dualism by A Monk of the West
The author, a Cistercian monk, holds that non-dualism as neither pantheism nor monism and is not incompatible with orthodox Christianity and the strictest understanding of Advaita Vedanta, or non-dualism. It has always been implicit in Christianity and is explicit in the works of Dionysius the Areopagite, Eriugena and Eckhart.
136 pp.
Price: $18.00
The Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi edited by Arthur Osborne
A compendium of the seminal Advaita sage's original works. It includes the Five Hymns to Arunachala, as well as the two sets of Forty Verses along with miscellaneous works including Aatma Vidya. An inclusive overview of the purest of the ancient Hindu teachings. A must read for the serious Advaita Student.
192 pp.
Price: $15.00
The Teachings of Ramana Maharshi edited by Arthur Osborne
This companion volume to Ramana Maharshi and the Path of Self-Knowledge contains many of his actual conversations with students and seekers. He taught the purest form of Advaita Vedanta (non-dualism) through the discipline of Self-Enquiry. No previous knowledge of Hinduism is needed to understand what is being discussed.
200 pp.
Price: $16.00
The Yoga of the Bhagavad Gita by Sri Krishna Prem
Here India's most sublime spiritual teachings and mystical power are lucidly, verse by verse, clarified and brought to life by Sri Krishna Prem, the Englishman Richard Nixon.
Appendices, glossary, 238 pp.
Price: $14.00
To Live Within by Lizelle Reymond & Sri Anirvan
Like her My Life With a Brahman Family and Shakti Lizelle Reymond gives an account of her five years of communal living with Sri Anirvan, a spiritual master of Samkhya, whose teachings were much in accord with Gurdjieff. Included are a number of his talks and essays showing a rare depth and precision of spiritual understanding.
Glossary, 333 pp.
