Reading list

There are no required readings for the course. There are, however, a large variety of philosophic and spiritual literature that serves as a basis for the class material. The school also runs a small "lending library" of relevant books brought in by students.

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Sample Reading List

- The Geeta (The Gospel of the Lord Shri Krishna) - Shri Purohit Swami, translator. Faber and Faber.

- The Ten Principal Upanishads - Shri Purohit Swami and W. B. Yeats, translators. Faber and Faber.

- Holy Bible - King James Version.

- Good Company (Sayings, Stories, Answers) - Shantanand Saraswati, Shankaracharya of Northern India. Element Books.

- The Man Who Wanted to Meet God (Myths that Explain the Inexplicable) - Shantanand Saraswati, Shankaracharya of Northern India. Element Books.

- Plato: The Last Days of Socrates - Hugh Tredennick, translator. Penguin Classics.

- The Sonnets - William Shakespeare.

- The Odyssey of Homer - E. V. Rieu, Rev. D. C. H. Rieu, translators. Penguin Classics.

- The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi - Forward by C. G. Jung. Shambhala Dragon Editions.

- Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu. Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English, translators. Vintage.

- Dhammapada - Irving Babbitt, translator. New Directions Paperback.

- The Prophet - Khalil Gibran. Alfred A. Knopf.

- Meditations - Marcus Aurelius. Maxwell Stamforth, translator and editor. Penguin Classics.

- Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Robert E. Spiller, editor. Washington Square Press.

- The Perennial Philosophy - Aldous Huxley. Perennial Library/Harper & Row.

- The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution - P. D. Ouspensky. Vintage.

- Shadows in the Cave (Mapping the Conscious Universe) - Graham Dunstan Martin. Arkana.

- Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse. New Directions.

- Songs of Kabir - Rabindranath Tagore, translator. Samuel Weiser.

- How Can I Help? (Stories and Reflections of Service) - Ram Dass and Paul Gorman. Alfred A. Knopf.

- The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle - Namaste Publishing a New World book.

- The Book of Secrets - Dr. Deepak Chopra - Harmony Books.

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