Links: Miscellaneous

• http://web.ukonline.co.uk/mr.king (Mike King)
  These are the home pages of Mike King, author of this site, and contain other spiritual writings, biographical details, and electronic arts projects.

• http://www.templeton.org (John Templeton Foundation)
  This is the site for the the John Templeton Foundation which fosters the advancement of religion through various prizes and competitions. It recently gave an award for an essay about jnani by Mike King which can be found at: (http://web.ukonline.co.uk/mr.king/writings/essays/templeton/network0.html).

• http://www.cis.plym.ac.uk/SciMedNet/home.htm (Scientific and Medical Network)
  This organisation is dedicated to fostering both rational and intuitive insights in medicine, science, and education

• http://spiritualsearch.webprovider.com/index.htm (Guide to Spiritual Teachers)
  This useful site is run by Shawn Nevins and lists a number of spiritual teachers and Masters, giving them star ratings. There are some useful comments and links here, based on Nevin's own preferences. These seem to be strongly jnani, indicated by a very low rating for Mother Meera, and also based on a requirement that the teacher has a practice or method to be followed.

• http://www.crosswinds.net/~shunya ('The secret of I')
  This site is about the spiritual life of Shunya Muni, containing personal experiences, descriptions of spiritual teachers and Masters, and useful links. Some of the insights are quite illuminating, and show a considerable depth of thinking and experience in the spiritual life.

• http://www.harrison.dircon.co.uk/wpm/index.htm
  The World Pantheist Movement. "The WPM is the largest and most dynamic grouping of pantheists on the Net, with a growing range of activities. It has a lively mailing list, with almost 1000 members (May 2000)"

• http://www.wie.org/
  What is Enlightenment online magazine. Founded through (or around?) Andrew Cohen, but has a wide brief to explore its eponymous question.

Links: Masters

Many recent or living Masters have 'official' web sites and also sites constructed by admirers or detractors. Please email with information on useful sites or broken / moved links.

The Buddha

• http://nav.webring.org/hub?ring=dharma;list
  This site lists all the member sites of the Dharma webring.
  

• http://www.fwbo.org
  Home page for the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order.

• http://www.palitext.demon.co.uk/
  The Society was founded in 1881 by T.W. Rhys Davids "to foster and promote the study of Pali texts".
  

• http://cambodianbuddhist.org/english/website/lib/
  The texts archived here at Access to Insight include short essays, translations and commentaries of suttas from the Pali Canon, books on meditation practice, and much more.

Andrew Cohen

• http://www.andrewcohen.org
  This is Andrew Cohen's official web site.

• http://www.poonja.com
  This site is dedicated to Andrew Cohen's teacher, Poonjaji (a disciple of Ramana Maharshi).

G.I.Gurdjieff

• http://www.gurdjieff.org/
  The official Gurdjieff Foundation website, 'a source of informed essays and commentary on the history, writings, and teachings of George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff'
  
  
• http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/0Gurdjieff/gurdjieff-links.html
  An informal Gurdjieff links site
  
  
• http://www3.mistral.co.uk/gsg/
  Gurdjieff studies group, London, UK.
  

Douglas Harding

• http://www.headless.org
  This is Douglas Harding's official web site, run by Richard Lang for the Shollond Trust.

Richard Jefferies

• http://www.sirius.com/~treitel/jefferies.html
  The home page for the Richard Jefferies Society, with a contact for the Jefferies museum.

• http://www.britannica.com/seo/j/john-richard-jefferies
  The Jefferies entry in the on-line Encylopaedia Brittanica

Jiddu Krishnamurti

• http://www.kfa.org
  This is the official site of the Krishnamurti Foundation of America™ founded in 1969 by J. Krishnamurti.

• http://kinfonet.org
  This contains various Krishnamurti resources, including a discussion forum.

• http://www.werobot.com/jk
  This is another Krishnamurti resource.

Mother Meera

• http://mothermeera.com
  Mother Meera's semi-official site.

• http://www.midcoast.com/~jim/Meera
  Unofficial resource for Mother Meera.

• http://www.wie.org/j10/mm1.html
  Georg Feuerstein's essay on Mother Meera.

Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)

• http://www.osho.org
  This is Osho's official web site.
  

• http://www.religioustolerance.org/rajneesh.htm
  This site presents an impartial overview of Osho, but not in any great depth.

Ramana Maharshi

• http://www.tamilnation.org/religion/ramana.htm
  Tamilnation > Spirituality & the Tamil Nation > Ramana Maharshi
  

• http://members.tripod.com/~rmclb/index.htm
  Ramana Maharshi Centre For Learning Bangalore, India
  

• http://www.sentient.org/amber/index.html
  Ramana Maharshi and other Advaita: This site lists a number of recent and living 'Advaita' teachers, including Douglas Harding. 'Advaita' can be used in the same way as jnani, though this list contains some Masters who we would call bhakti using the definitions in this site.
  
  
• http://world.std.com/~msnow/ramana.html
  This site lists some centers devoted to the Maharshi's life and teaching.

Ramakrishna

• http://www.ramakrishna.org
  This is the official Ramakrishna web site

• http://www.vivekananda.org
  This website is dedicated to Vivekananda, Ramakrishna's chief disciple. The site says: 'Swami Vivekananda here gives us the essence of devotional life', which is interesting considering his jnani emphasis.

Jelaluddin Rumi

• http://www.rumi.net
  Site devoted to Rumi. 'This site is based on the work of award- winning Rumi translator and performer Shahram Shiva and his long time association with the poet.'

• http://www.mevlana.net
  Official Rumi site created by descendents of Rumi devoted to him and the Mevlana Sufi Order.

• http://www.rumifest.org
  Details of Rumi festivals. 'A Festival honoring the birth of the great mystic poet Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi. This year we are celebrating the murshidas: women teachers opening the path of Hz. Mevlana.'

Walt Whitman

• http://web.ukonline.co.uk/mr.king/writings/essays/kwns/w1.html
  A detailed analysis of Whitman as spiritual master by the site author (Mike King).

• http://whitman.hypermart.net/home.htm
  A Whitman web resource.

• http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/whitman/bib/98bib.html
  1998 Bibliography. (Little of the writings about Whitman here hint at his spiritual status.)

• http://www.wlbentley.com/wwic/WWIClink.html
  Whitman links.

• http://www.bartleby.com/142/index.html
  The complete Leaves of Grass online with hypertext links.

Links: Nature Mysticism

John Burroughs

• http://www.ecotopia.org/ehof/burroughs/index.html
  Ecology Hall of Fame pages devoted to John Burroughs

• http://nimidi.amnh.org/burroughs/burroughs.html
  A Burroughs resource

• http://www.johnburroughs.org/
  The John Burroughs Association

• http://www.mhonline.net/~black/books/burroughs.html
  Online book purchasing details for Burroughs biography

• http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/1.1/features/carroll/sampler.htm
  A John Burroughs Sampler

Annie Dillard

• http://www.earthlight.org/earthsaint24.html
  'Earthsaint: Annie Dillard' article from EarthLight Magazine

• http://www.mtsu.edu/~dlavery/noticer.htm
  Essay on Annie Dillard by David Lavery, English Department, Middle Tennessee State University

• http://sandra.stahlman.com/dillard.html
  Essay on Annie Dillard by Sandra Stahlman Elliott

Richard Jefferies

• http://www.sirius.com/~treitel/jefferies.html
  The Richard Jefferies Society
  

• http://www.sirius.com/~treitel/rj_list.html
  Books by Richard Jefferies

• http://www.britannica.com/seo/j/john-richard-jefferies/
  Brittanica article on Jefferies

John Muir

• http://www.contribute.com/muir/muir.html
  The John Muir Memorial Association

• http://www.sierraclub.org/history/muir/
  The Sierra Club website section on John Muir

• http://www.sierraclub.com/john_muir_exhibit/john_muir_center_for_regional_studies/
  The John Muir Center for Regional Studies

• http://www1.uop.edu/library/deptholtmuir.html
  The John Muir Collections at University of the Pacific Library

Rupert Sheldrake

• http://www.sheldrake.org/
  Rupert Sheldrake's offical webpage

• http://www.wie.org/j11/angels.html
  What Is Enlightenment (Journal) interview with Rupert Sheldrake

Henry Thoreau

• http://usmh12.usmd.edu/thoreau/
  CyberSaunter, Henry David Thoreau; includes image library

• http://www.geocities.com/~freereligion/1thorea.html
  Online resource for Thoreau including text sources

Thomas Traherne

• http://mum.edu/msvs/trahernepart1.html#Dobell folio
  Online text for the Dobell folio, with comment and analysis

Miscellaneous (related to Nature Mysticism)

• http://web.ukonline.co.uk/mr.king/writings/essays/essaysukc/natmyst0.html
  More on Nature Mysticism from the site author (Mike King)
  

• http://www.jjnet.com/emerson/
  Online text sources for Ralph Waldo Emerson

• http://www.geocities.com/~freereligion/
  Site devoted to the American Transcendentalists

• http://www.kessinger-publishing.com/catalog/titles/ISBN_1-56459-583-8.html
  Online book purchasing details for John Mercer's Nature Mysticism

Links: Jnani and the West

Pythagoras and Heraclitus

• http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/p/pythagor.htm
  Entry in Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Pythagoras.

• http://history.hanover.edu/texts/presoc/pythagor.htm
  Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans, Fragments and Commentary Arthur Fairbanks, ed. and trans. The First Philosophers of Greece.

• http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pythagoras.html
  Introduction and historical background to Pythagoras.

• http://cis.paisley.ac.uk/crow-ci0/Articles/heraclitus.html
  A new translation of Heraclitus [Note: this seems both clumsy and harder to extract a jnani understanding from, but useful as an illustration of the extent to which we are at the mercy of the translator when it comes to the subtleties of the spiritual life].

• http://members.aol.com/Heraklit1/heraklit.htm
  Personal view on Heraclitus from Paul Harrison author of site on scientific pantheism.

• http://plato.evansville.edu/public/burnet/ch3b.htm
  Heraclitus as discussed in Plato and elsewhere, with some useful biographical detail.

• http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/9994/heidher.html
  Heidegger's understanding of Heraclitus.

Socrates

• http://web.ukonline.co.uk/mr.king/writings/essays/essaysukc/socmys0.html
  More details discussion of Socrates as mystic from the site author (Mike King)

• http://socrates.clarke.edu/
  College course pertaining to Socrates with textual sources.

• http://www.btinternet.com/~socratic/
  Plug for book by ANTHONY GOTTLIEB, has useful excerpts and links.

• http://www.gla.ac.uk/Acad/Philosophy/Greek-Plato/index.html
  College course on Plato.

• http://www.durham.ac.uk/Classics/histos/1998/rowe.html
  Essay by Christopher Rowe (Department of Classics, University of Durham).

Plotinus

• http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/p/plotinus.htm
  Entry in Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Plotinus.

• http://members.aol.com/heraklit1/plotinus.htm
  Personal view on Plotinus from Paul Harrison author of site on scientific pantheism.

• http://classics.mit.edu/Plotinus/enneads.1.first.html
  Online text source for Enneads, translated by Stephen Mackenna and B. S. Page.

• http://radicalacademy.com/philplotinus.htm
  The Radical Academy pages on Plotinus.

• http://www.kheper.auz.com/topics/Neoplatonism/Neoplatonism-history-of.htm
  Brief outline of Neoplatonism.

Meister Eckhart

• http://www.op.org/eckhart/default.HTM
  The Eckhart Society.

• http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?ti=017E3000
  Encarta entry for Eckhart.

• http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05274a.htm
  Entry for Eckhart in the Catholic Encyclopaedia.

• http://www.elib.com/Steiner/Books/GA007/Mystism/Meister.html
  Essay from Rudolf Steiner Archive.

Spinoza

• http://frank.mtsu.edu/~rbombard/RB/spinoza.new.html
  A Spinoza resource including online texts.

• http://www.rulimburg.nl/~spinoza/club.htm
  Another Spinoza resource.

• http://www.dircon.co.uk/meta4/spinoza/
  Life and works of Spinoza.

• http://iq.orst.edu/phil302/spinoza.html
  Useful 'timeline' biography of Spinoza from Oregon State University.

• http://members.aol.com/Heraklit1/spinoza.htm
  Personal view on Plotinus from Paul Harrison author of site on scientific pantheism.