Bibliography: Miscellaneous

• Storr, Anthony, Feet of Clay, A Sudy of Gurus, London: HarperCollins, 1997
• Abhayananda, S. History of Mysticism - The Unchanging Testament, Atma Books, Naples, Florida, 1987

Bibliography: Masters

The Buddha

The texts listed here are a small selection from the Pali canon. Buddhist literature from other traditions including the Mahayana, Zen, and Tibetan Buddhist traditions have not been included, but represent a vast treasure-house of jnani spiritual insight.

• Saddhatissa, H. (Trans.), The Sutta-Nipata, Richmond: Curzon Press, 1994
• Norman, K.R. (Trans.), The Elders' Verses (Vols I and II), Oxford: Pali Text Society, 1991
• Bikkhus Nanamoli and Bodhi (Trans.), The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, Massachusetts: Wisdom Publications, 1995

Andrew Cohen

• Cohen, Andrew, An Unconditional Relationship to Life, Larkspur: Moksha Press, 1995
• Cohen, Andrew, In Defence of the Guru Principle, Massachussets: Moksha Press, 1999
• Cohen, Andrew, Autobiography of an Awakening, Corte Madera: Moksha Press, 1992

G.I.Gurdjieff

• Gurdjieff, G.I. Life is real only then, when "I am", Viking Arakana, New York, 1978
• Gurdjieff, G.I. Meetings with Remarkable Men, Picador, London, 1978
• Bennett, J. Witness (2nd Ed.) Turnstone Press, Wellingborough, 1983
• Bennett, J.G. and Elizabeth, Idiots in Paris - Diaries of J.G.Bennett and Elizabeth Bennett, 1949, Samuel Weiser, 1991
• Hartmann, de, Thomas and Olga, Our Life with Mr Gurdjieff, Arkana London 1992
• Ouspensky, P.D. In Search of the Miraculous - Fragments of an Unknown Teaching, Arkana
• Nott, C.S. Teachings of Gurdjieff - A Pupil's Journal, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982
• Peters, Fritz, Boyhood with Gurdjieff, Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1980
• Zuber, René, Who are you, Monsieur Gurdjieff?, London, Boston and Henley, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980
• Moore, J. Gurdjieff: The Anatomy of a Myth - A Biography, Element Books Shaftesbury 1991

Douglas Harding

• Harding, D.E. On Having No Head - Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious, London: Arkana, 1986
• Harding, D.E. Head Off Stress - Beyond the Bottom Line, London: Arkana, 1990
• Harding, D.E. The Hierarchy of Heaven and Earth, Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1979
• Harding, D.E. The Near End - The Science of Liberation and the Liberation of Science, Shollond, Nacton, Ipswitch IP10 OEW
• Harding, D.E., The Trial of the Man who Said he was God, London: Arkana, 1992

Jiddu Krishnamurti

• Krishanmurti, J. The Only Revolution, New York and Evanston: Harper and Row, 1970
• Krishnamurti, J. The Awakening of Intelligence, Victor Gollancz, London, 1973
• Lutyens, M. The Life and Death of Krishnamurti, Rider, London, 1991
• Chandmal, Asit, One Thousand Moons - Krishnamurti at Eighty-Five, New York: Abrams 1985

Mother Meera

• Meera, Mother, Answers, London: Rider, 1991
• Harvey, Andrew, Hidden Journey, London: Rider, 1991
• Meera, Mother, Bringing Down the Light, Dornburg-Thalheim, 1991

Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) these are an arbitrary selection from over 500 titles

• Rajneesh, B.S., Krishna - The Man and His Philosophy, Oregon: Rajneesh Foundation Internation, 1985
• Rajneesh, B.S., Roots and Wings - Talks on Zen, London, Boston and Henley: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979
• Rajneesh, B.S., Theologia Mystica - Discourses on the Treatise of St. Dionysius, Rajneesh Foundation International, Oregon U.S.A., 1983
• Rajneesh, B.S., Yoga - The Alpha and the Omega, Rajneesh Foundation, Poona, 1976.
• Rajneesh, B.S., Zarathustra - a god that can dance, Cologne, Stuttgart, Hanover: Rebel Publishing House GmbH, 1987

Ramana Maharshi

• Osborne, Arthur (Ed.) The Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi, London: Rider, 1969

Ramakrishna

• M., (Trans. Swami Nikhilnanda), The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Centre, 1984
• Rolland, Romain, The Life of Ramakrishna, Calcutta: Advaita Ashrama (Publication Department), 1992
• Isherwood, Christopher, Ramakrishna and his Disciples, London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 1986
• Hixon, Lex, Great Swan - Meetings with Ramakrishna, Boston and London: Shambala, 1992

Jelaluddin Rumi

• Rumi, Jelaluddin, Mystical Poems of Rumi - 1, (trans. A.J.Arberry), Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1968.
• Rumi, Jelaluddin, The Ruins of the Heart (trans. Edmund Helminski) Putney: Threshold, 1981
• Nurbakhsh, Dr Javad, Sufism, New York: Khaniqahi-Nimatullahi Publications, 1982

Walt Whitman

• Whitman, Walt, Leaves of Grass, Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, 1990
• Whitman, Walt, Specimen Days, London: The Folio Society, 1979
• Chari, V.K. Whitman in the Light of Vedantic Mysticism, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1976
• Bucke, R.M. Cosmic Consciousness - A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind, Olympia Press, London, 1972
• Bucke, R.M. Walt Whitman, Philadelphia, 1883
• Burroughs, John, Whitman: A Study, London 1894
• Carpenter, Edward, Days with Walt Whitman, London: George Allen, 1906

Bibliography: Nature Mysticism

Annie Dillard

• Dillard, Annie, Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek, London: Jonathon Cape, 1975
• Dillard, Annie, Teaching a Stone to Talk, HarperPerennial 1992

Richard Jefferies

• Jefferies, R. The Story of My Heart, MacMillan St Martin's Press, London 1968
• Looker, S.J. (Ed.) Jefferies England, London: Constable, 1937

Henry Thoreau

• Thoreau, Henry, Walden and Other Writings, Bantam, 1962
• Cook, Reginald Lansing, 'The Nature Mysticism of Thoreau' in The Concord Saunterer, Middlebury, Vermont: Middlebury College Press, 1940

Thomas Traherne

• Traherne, Thomas, Selected Poems and Prose, London: Penguin

Miscellaneous (related to Nature Mysticism)

• James, W. The Varieties of Religious Experience, Penguin Books, Middlesex, England, 1986
• Lovelock, James, Gaia - A New Look at Life on Earth, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1995
• Mercer, J.Edward, Nature Mysticism, London: George Allen and Co., 1913 (new edition available, see Links)
• Sheldrake, R. A New Science of Life - The Hypothesis of Formative Causations, Paladin Grafton Books (Collins) London, Glasgow, Toronto, Sidney, Auckland, 1985
• Sheldrake, R.The Rebirth of Nature - New Science and the Revival of Animism, Rider London, Sidney, Aukland, Johannesburg 1993
• Underhill, E. Mysticism - The Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness, Oneworld Publications, Oxford, UK, 1993

Bibliography: Jnani and the West

• Rawlinson, Andrew, The Book of Enlightened Masters - Western Teachers in Eastern Traditions, Chicago and La Salle, Illinois: Open Court, 1997

Pythagoras and Heraclitus

• The Golden Verses of the Pythagoreans, Godalming, Surrey: The Shrine of Wisdom, 1980
• Heraclitus The Fragments of Heraclitus, Guild Press, Bray 1976

Socrates

• Xenophon Conversations of Socrates, Trans.: Hugh Tredennick and Robin Waterfield, London: Penguin, 1990
• Plato, The Last Days of Socrates, Trans.: Hugh Tredennick, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969
• Plato, Works, English, Trans.: Jowett, Oxford, 1964

Plotinus

• Plotinus, The Enneads, (Trans. Stephen MacKenna), London: Penguin Books, 1991
• O'Brien, Elmer (Trans.), The Essential Plotinus, Indiana: Hackett Publishing Company, 1964

Meister Eckhart

• Eckhart Selected Treatises and Sermons, The Fontana Library, Collins, 1963

Christianity

• Cameron Ron, (Ed.), The Other Gospels - Non-Canonical Gospel Texts, Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 1982
• Augustine (Saint), Confessions, (trans. Pine-Coffin, R.S.) Penguin Books, Middlesex, England 1986
• Rolle, Richard, The Fire of Love, London: Penguin 1972
• Kempis, T. a. The Imitation of Christ, Penguin Books, Middlesex, England, 1975
• St. John of the Cross, The Dark Night of the Soul, London, Sydney, Auckland, Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton 1988

Spinoza

• Spinoza Ethics - TIE - Selected Letters, Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 1992