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<<< 1 2     sort list by title | author The Gift Hafiz An extraordinary new translation of the world-renowned mystic poet Hafiz. Tales for Transformation Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In 1768, at the age of nineteen, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe began to study hermetic literature. This exploration had a huge impact on the early aesthetic education of Europe's great man of letters, the last renaissance titan. In the years that... Ploughing the Clouds The Search for Irish Soma Peter Lamborn Wilson In Ploughing the Clouds, Peter Lamborn Wilson suggests that the ancient Celts of Ireland may have possessed a "Soma" ceremony similar to one described in the Rig Veda, one of the oldest scriptures in the world. Written in India in 1500 BC, the Rig... True Hallucinations Being an Account of the Author's Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil's Paradise Terence Mckenna This mesmerizing, surreal account of the bizarre adventures of Terence McKenna, his brother Dennis, and a small band of their friends, is a wild ride of exotic experience and scientific inquiry. Exploring the Amazon Basin in search of mythical... Sacred Drift Essays on the Margins of Islam Peter Lamborn Wilson Peter Lamborn Wilson proposes a set of heresies, a culture of resistance, that dispels the false image of Islam as monolithic, puritan, and two-dimensional. Here is the story of the African-American noble Drew Ali, the founder of "Black Islam" in... The Powers of the Word Selected Essays and Notes 1927-1943 René Daumal Since his death in 1944, Rene Daumal has come to be recognized as one of the original minds of the twentieth century French letters. Poet, essayist, philosopher and translator, Sanscrit scholar and pupil of Gurdjieff, Daumal was a founder of the... The Book On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are Alan W. Watts A witty attack on the illusion that the self is a separate ego that confronts a universe of alien physical... Secrets of Voodoo Milo Rigaud Secrets of Voodoo traces the development of this complex religion (in Haiti and the Americas) from its sources in the brilliant civilizations of ancient Africa. This book presents a straightforward account of the gods or loas and their function, the... The Perfection of Wisdom In Eight Thousand Lines & Its Verse Summary Edward Conze After the Torah, the Koran and the Gospels, the Indian literature of "The Perfection of Wisdom" has had the greatest impact on the religious consciousness of mankind. Its composition extended for over seven hundred years, and here we offer the reader... The Secret Oral Teachings in Tibetan Buddhist Sects Alexandra David-Neel, Michael Lally This is an account of the Madhyamika (Middle Way) school of Buddhism, a method of mediation and enlightenment that was developed by the great Indian teacher Nagarjuna. In a collaboration between the Frenchwoman Alexandra David-Neel and her friend... Be Here Now Ram Dass Describes one man's transformation upon his acceptance of the principles of Yoga and gives a modern restatement of the importance of the spiritual side of man's nature. The Yage Letters William S. Burroughs The Yage Letters: an early epistolary novel by William S. Burroughs, whose 1952 account of himself as Junkie, published under the pseudonym William Lee, ended "Yage may be the final fix." In letters to Allen Ginsberg, an unknown young poet in New... <<< 1 2