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.
Sample Reading List
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.
The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle - Namaste Publishing a New World book.
The New Earth - Eckhart Tolle
From Science to God - Peter Russel
Who You Are - Joseph Kloss
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.
The Perennial Philosophy - Aldous Huxley. Perennial Library/Harper & Row.
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
Holy Bible - King James Version.
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 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 Book of Secrets - Dr. Deepak Chopra - Harmony Books.
