The Varieties of Spiritual Experience: 21st Century Research and Perspectives
By: David B Yaden
4.35
Format: 440 pages, Hardcover
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1. Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
By: Dalai Lama XIV , Thich Nhat Hanh , Arnold Kotler
4.31
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment. … read more
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"Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet."-Dalai Lama XIV, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
"If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love."-Dalai Lama XIV, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
"I have lost my smile, but don't worry. The dandelion has it."-Dalai Lama XIV, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
"Mindful observation is based on the principle of “non-duality"-Dalai Lama XIV, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
2. Tao Te Ching
By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe
4.30
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more
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"The heart that gives, gathers."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
3. The Varieties of Religious Experience
By: William James
3.56
Format: 304 pages,
Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered in Edinburgh 1901/2 "I am neither a theolo… read more
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4. The Divine Comedy
By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum
4.29
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more
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5. Confessions
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more
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6. Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experiences
By: William A. Richards
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the early 1960s, scientists openly advocated for experimentation with psychedelics. This effort,… read more
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8. Meditations
By: Marcus Aurelius , Martin Hammond , Diskin Clay
3.75
Format: 148 pages,
Written in Greek, without any intention of publication, by the only Roman emperor who was also a ph… read more
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9. The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science
By: None , Matthew Immergut , None , None , Culadasa (John Charles Yates) , John Charles Yates
3.91
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Providing step-by-step guidance for every stage of the meditation path, this uniquely comprehensive… read more
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10. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
By: Patañjali , Alistair Shearer
3.66
Format: 162 pages, Hardcover
"A wonderful translation, full of contemporary insight yet luminous with eternal truth."--Jacob Nee… read more
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11. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
By: Aldous Huxley
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more
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12. Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
By: Rolf Potts
3.55
Format: 320 pages,
Vagabondingis about taking time off from your normal life - from six weeks to four months to two ye… read more
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14. Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
By: Tara Brach
4.16
Format: 355 pages, Paperback
For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much--just hear… read more
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"The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom."-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
"I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am."-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
"Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live."-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
"What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?"-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
15. Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind
By: Mike Jay
3.94
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took… read more
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16. A Thousand Ships
By: Natalie Haynes
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
This is the women’s war, just as much as it is the men’s. They have waited long enough for their tu… read more
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"If he tells me to sing one more time, I think I might bite him."-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
"An artist constantly risks falling fully into chaos, instead of transforming it."-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
"Because really, how many cannibalistic giants can one Greek plausibly meet as he sails the open seas?"-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
"We are all human. That means there is something about our experience that is the same. Otherwise, we would not all be human."-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
17. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
By: Gabor Maté
4.32
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more
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18. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
By: Rick Rubin
4.04
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their… read more
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"Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
19. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
By: Mustafa Suleyman
3.86
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more
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20. Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
By: Susan Magsamen
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A life-altering journey through the science of neuroaesthetics, which offers proof for how our brai… read more
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21. How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
By: Michael Pollan
4.27
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most admired writers takes us on a m… read more
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"The opposite of spiritual is not material but egotistical."-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
"Normal waking consciousness feels perfectly transparent, and yet it is less a window on reality than the product of our imaginations-a kind of controlled hallucination."-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
"Nature does in fact teem with subjectivities — call them spirits if you like — other than our own; it is only the human ego, with its imagined monopoly on subjectivity, that keeps us from recognizing…"-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
"The philosophical implications of "predictive coding" are deep and strange. The model suggests that our perceptions of the world offer us not a literal transcription of reality but rather a seamless …"-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
22. The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it
By: Will Storr
4.14
Format: 437 pages, Kindle Edition
For centuries, philosophers and scholars have described human behaviour in terms of sex, power and … read more
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"Whilst we play life as a game, our conscious experience of it takes the form of a story."-Will Storr, The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it
"We build an infinite variety of imaginary games. Groups of people gather together, agree what symbols they’re going to use to mean “status,"-Will Storr, The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it
"The story idealists sometimes tell of humanity says we're natural seekers of equality. This isn't true. Utopians talk of injustice whilst building new hierarchies and placing themselves at the top. W…"-Will Storr, The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it
23. True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart
By: Tara Brach
4.21
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
How do you cope when facing life-threatening illness, family conflict, faltering relationships, old… read more
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"Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path."-Tara Brach, True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart
"Stepping out of the busyness, stopping our endless pursuit of getting somewhere else, is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit."-Tara Brach, True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart
"You have a unique body and mind, with a particular history and conditioning. No one can offer you a formula for navigating all situations and all states of mind. Only by listening inwardly in a fresh…"-Tara Brach, True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart
"Like investigation, healthy doubt arises from the urge to know what is true--it challenges assumptions or the status quo in service of healing and freedom. In contrast, unhealthy doubt arises from fe…"-Tara Brach, True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart
24. Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World
By: Karen Armstrong
3.69
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A profound exploration of the spiritual power of nature--and an urgent call to reclaim that power i… read more
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25. We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds
By: Sally Adee
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Science journalist Sally Adee breaks open the field of bioelectricity—the electric currents that ru… read more
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26. Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking
By: Leonard Mlodinow
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
We’ve all been told that thinking rationally is the key to success. But at the cutting edge of scie… read more
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27. Collective Illusions: Conformity, Complicity, and the Science of Why We Make Bad Decisions
By: Todd Rose
4.07
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and social psychology research, an acclaimed author demonstrat… read more
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"A better system will not automatically ensure a better life,' Havel wrote. 'In fact, the opposite is true: only by creating a better life can a better system be developed.' The smallest choices you a…"-Todd Rose, Collective Illusions: Conformity, Complicity, and the Science of Why We Make Bad Decisions
"-THIS MANY PEOPLE CAN’T BE WRONG If people can see one another’s choices, and if they are merely copying each other, wisdom becomes stupidity in a hurry. In doubting our own judgment and defaulting t…"-Todd Rose, Collective Illusions: Conformity, Complicity, and the Science of Why We Make Bad Decisions
28. Phenomenology: The Basics
By: Dan Zahavi
4.15
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Phenomenology: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to one of the dominant philosophic… read more
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"To claim that there, in addition, exists a behind-the-scenes world, a hidden world that transcends every type of givenness, every type of evidence, and that this is the really real reality, is reject…"-Dan Zahavi, Phenomenology: The Basics
29. Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition
By: Omid Safi
4.51
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
This stunning collection showcases the love poetry and mystical teachings at the heart of the Islam… read more
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30. The Varieties of Spiritual Experience: 21st Century Research and Perspectives
By: David B Yaden
4.35
Format: 440 pages, Hardcover
A cutting-edge guide to the psychology and neuroscience of spiritual experiences Spiritual experie… read more
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31. Neuropsychedelia: The Revival of Hallucinogen Research Since the Decade of the Brain
By: Nicolas Langlitz
4.08
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Neuropsychedelia examines the revival of psychedelic science since the "Decade of the Brain." After… read more
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