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Books can be helpful and intimate companions as you travel the way of the spirit. Here's a place where you can glimpse some of the best new works available. We've also added a sprinkling of first-rate selections that have proved the test of time.
Mastering the Toltec Way
by Susan Gregg
Red Wheel/Weiser, 2003
This book of daily insights is structured according to the moon's cycles: it contains 13 chapters, each with meditations for 28 days, and readers are encouraged to begin a new chapter at a new or full moon. Gregg, author of "The Toltec Way" and "Dance of Power," draws upon Toltec wisdom and stories to help readers develop a heightened spiritual awareness, which she says is quite different from what the mind sees. She asks that readers commit themselves for a full year to the book's exercises, promising that their lives will "change dramatically" if they abandon themselves to the program. Throughout, visualization exercises offer opportunities to cultivate awareness. (Publishers Weekly)
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Real Power
by James A. Autry, Stephen Mitchell
Putnam Publishing Group, 1998
The Tao Te Ching is the world's oldest leadership manual, written, according to legend, by the sage Lao-tzu in the sixth century B.C.E. In this book, premier business consultant James A. Autry and bestselling author and translator Stephen Mitchell present a modern-day guide to business leadership drawing on the age-old lessons of the Tao Te Ching. With simple, evocative essays, commenting on a selection from the Tao Te Ching, they show how its elegant wisdom can transform the workplace from a source of stress into a source of creativity and joy--and make work, at any level of the corporate ladder, more fulfilling than ever before. (Putnam Publishing Group)
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The Secret Teachings
by Manly P. Hall
Tarcher, 2003
In 1928, a 20-something Renaissance man named Manly Hall self-published a vast encyclopedia of the occult, believing that "modern" ideas of progress and materialism were displacing more important and ancient modes of knowledge. Hall's text has become a classic reference, dizzying in its breadth: various chapters explore Rosicrucianism, Kabbalah, alchemy, cryptology, Tarot, pyramids, the Zodiac,
Pythagorean philosophy, Masonry and gemology, among other topics. Readers will marvel at the sheer scope of Hall's research and imagination, and at J. Augustus Knapp's famous illustrations, including a 16-page color insert. (Publishers Weekly)
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In the Dark Places of Wisdom
by Peter Kingsley
Inverness, Calif.: Golden Sufi Center, 1998
The founders of Western philosophy are acknowledged to be a collection of ancient Greek thinkers known as the Pre-Socratic philosophers. They’re usually seen as pioneers of logic and scientific inquiry. In this unusually clear and easy-to-read volume, classical scholar Peter Kingsley argues that they were also deeply religious visionaries; some were close to what we today would call shamans. Kingsley’s scholarship is impeccable. He has not only opened up our view of this formative period in Western thought, but he’s done a tremendous service in making the insights of archaeology and philology accessible to general readers.
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Hua Hu Ching
Translated by Brian Walker
San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995
The Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu has become a phenomenon among today’s spiritual seekers. It exists in many translations and serves as a perennial source of inspiration. Another work attributed to Lao Tsu, the Hua Hu Ching, isn’t as well known, but is equally powerful and inspiring. This rendition by Brian Walker is fresh, lively, and engaging.
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Forgotten Truth
by Huston Smith
San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992
Huston Smith is best known as the author of The World’s Religions, but his basic philosophical stance isn’t well understood. In this brief, clear book, he sets out his own views, which are centered on his own understanding of traditional wisdom. He criticizes the rigidly secular vision of modernity and even takes on Darwinism. You will almost certainly disagree with parts of this book. But it will make you see the world, and the contemporary scene, with fresh eyes.
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Women in Praise of the Sacred
Edited by Jane Hirshfield
New York: HarperCollins, 1994
This collection of spiritual poetry by women spans a range of five millennia and has already come to be regarded as a classic. It starts with Enheduanna, a Sumerian priestess who lived around 2300 B.C. Her hymn to Ihanna praises this moon goddess, "lady of all powers, in whom light appears." Other great works featured are a hymn to Aphrodite by the Greek poet Sappho, a poem by the Muslim saint Rabi’a, and even a text attributed to the Queen of Sheba. More recent writers include Anne Bradstreet, the first American poet, Emily Dickinson, and the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. The translations are fresh and contemporary.
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American Indian Myths and Legends
Edited by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz.
New York: Pantheon, 1984
Combines a bounty of unpublished tales related to the authors by living storytellers with the best of folklore sources to provide 160 myths and legends of more than 80 tribal groups across the continent. (Amazon.com)
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The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook
Edited by Marvin W. Meyer.
San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1987
The best English translations of forty sacred texts describing the mystery religions of the ancient Mediterranean world. (Amazon.com)
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The Essential Mystics
Edited by Andrew Harvey.
San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1996
From Buddha to Christ, the mystic's journey involves the direct, unmediated encounter with the presence of an almost unfathomable mystery. Here are thematically grouped extracts from the major wisdom traditions, including the Way of Tao, the Way of Beauty (Ancient Greece), the Way of Love in Action (Christianity), and many others. Each is beautifully introduced with insightful analysis. (Ingram)
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The Inner Treasure
Edited by Jonathan Star.
New York: Tarcher/Putnam, 1999
Here is an unmatched introduction to the Bhagavad Gita, the Tao Te Ching, Rumi, and the world's most powerful mystic works, with modern-day translations. (Amazon.com)
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