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Back to the Truth: 5000 years of Advaita

12 reviews
Dennis Waite

O Books, 2007

A Masterful Guide to Advaita
A profoundly astute and masterful guide to the field of Self-discovery. An authoritative scholar, Dennis writes with supreme clarity as he skillfully expounds, logically analyzes and insightfully integrates the wisdom of classical and contemporary teachers with the principles of Advaita. - Katie Davis, Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment

Sacred Mirror: Nondual Wisdom & Psychotherapy (Omega Book (New York, N.Y.).)

10 reviews

Paragon House Publishers, 2003

A new direction in psychotherapy
Reality, Self, unconditioned mind, awakening, presence, silence, emptiness, being, nondual. If these are words you'd like to hear associated with psychotherapy, this book will be very welcome. The Sacred Mirror is a collection of original writings by leading practitioners of nondual psychotherapy. Each author -- in his or her own fashion, and with varying degrees of emphasis -- addresses the ...

Radical Happiness: A Guide to Awakening

16 reviews
Gina Lake

Endless Satsang Foundation, 2007

A Supremely Intelligent Guide
Radical Happiness is a supremely intelligent guide to awakening from the delusion of the mind and its time. Gina points with clarity and wisdom, while offering practical exercises and helpful resources, so that we may realize the extraordinary delight of the Heart. - Katie Davis, Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment

Listening from the Heart of Silence: Nondual Wisdom & Psychotherapy

7 reviews

Paragon House Publishers, 2007

Non-dualism in psychotherapy
Until the 1980's and 1990's (with the important exception of Carl Jung), psychotherapy has been helpless to work with people in the realm of spirituality, and more specifically in the state of non-dualism. We are in an age where, to paraphrase Mark Epstein, spirituality has left the hands of the monastics and is now in the hands of householders -- and psychotherapists. To be able to enter, ...

Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment

11 reviews
Katie Davis

Awake Spirit Publishing, 2008

The One Who Loves Her
In 1986, the author, Katie Davis, owned an aerobics business named Body by Katie. One day of that year, while Katie was teaching a superfit class, she simply disappeared from all earthly experience into the divine mystery beyond all awareness of form. Clearly a challenge to put into words, Katie calls this divinity within us, Awake Joy, the essence of living. Though her attention returned to the ...

Choosing Love: How to Find True Love and Keep It Alive

6 reviews
Gina Lake

Endless Satsang Foundation, 2008

A Must- Read for all spirtually oriented people
By far the best book on conscious relationships written to-date. Easy, short and to-the-point, this amazing book transmits an energy while helping you get back in touch with your Essence. As a relationship coach and workshop facilitator, I thought there weren't any books that had new or better information. I was wrong. This one is full of practical understandings which help you see how your ...

The complete works of Swami Vivekananda

21 reviews
Vivekananda

Advaita Ashrama, 1970

Excellent read that walks the line between intellect and spirit.
I am only part way through the first volume, but it is far enough into the works to gather an understanding of the maginitude of Swami Vivekananda's understanding and straight forward elucidation of Vedanta. His writings are intellectual in nature with a strong undercurrent of spiritual truth. He has the ability to stir within the mind something unspeakable through his words. This is a testament ...

There Is Only Now

10 reviews
Scott Morrison

21st Century Renaissance, 1997

Just Great
This book is an intellectual discourse on someone's view of religion but a guide for people having personal spiritual experiences. I loved the book. I would also recommend the book An Encounter With A Prophet for the same reasons I appreciated this book

Embracing the Now: Finding Peace and Happiness in What Is

11 reviews
Gina Lake

Endless Satsang Foundation, 2008

A Practical Guide to Awakening
Gina Lake has done it again and this may be her best work to date. This is an outstanding clear and practical guide to awakening. The book serves to anchor what has been seen and felt in an enlightenment experience so that this awakened awareness can become our normal state of consciousness rather just the background for the temporal and impermanent. Great teachers like Eckhart Tolle are rare ...

Awake in the Heartland: The Ecstasy of What Is

21 reviews
Joan Tollifson

Trafford Publishing, 2003

This book changed my life.
Awake in the Heartland changed my life. I had been practicing Buddhism for 20 years but never understood that the mirage character (what I call 'me') was not the one to wake up. Also that the path is not about trying harder, as most religions encourage, but about relaxing into what is. It gave me completely new insights as to the way to work. I bought two of the books--one as a loaner--as ...

A Net of Jewels: Daily Meditations for Seekers of Truth

3 reviews
Ramesh s. Balsekar

Advaita Press, 1996

Two Thumbs Up
These 365 jewels, one for each day of the year, are classic Ramesh--fresh, stimulating, profound, and just plain fun. I laughed out loud several times while reading the book. The path to enlightenment, of course, is not a path. It is a progressive letting go of ideas until nothing obscures the truth. The truth confronts us every moment, but we are attached to so many silly ideas. In this book, ...

The Collected Works

4 reviews
Ramana Maharshi, Maharshi Ramana

Rider & Co, 1969

Most simple and direct way to reach God-from Maharshi
The vedic literature which is voluminous contains descriptions of various methods to realise God. Good number of books came in to light describing the methods eunciated in these scriptures.But most of the methods underline the need to have a Guru(Teacher)from whom only the secrets of sadhana(efforts)can be obtained. But Here is a great Maharshi who gives you a direct most simple technique ro ...

The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda: v. 1

4 reviews
Swami Vivekananda

Advaita Ashrama, India, 2003

Find answers to the idea of God and religion ..and anything!
I was 7 years old when I heard the name Swami Vivekananda for the first time. And I never took interest to know more of him for the next 15 years. When I was 21, I started with a small book as big as a pocket telephone diary. It contained the important extracts from the The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda. And then I decided to buy this book. And I came to know that it is 8 volumes. I ...

Ramakrishna and His Disciples

6 reviews
Christopher Isherwood

Advaita Ashrama,Calcutta, 1974

Meeting a Master's Mandala
Ramakrishna is an interesting case-an Avatar of God born and living in an age of imperial rationalism, a master famous for teaching Advaita and for his worship of a personal God, and a man often fearful of women while remaining intensely devoted to the black Mother goddess, Kali. Even his closest disciples found him a mystery, and could not always bring themselves to agree with him (c.f. ...

Advaita Vedanta : A Philosophical Reconstruction

5 reviews
Eliot Deutsch

University of Hawaii Press, 1969

An excellent brief introduction to Advaita Vedanta.
For anyone who may have become curious about Advaita Vedanta, and who is looking for a good introduction to what many feel is one of the greatest philosophical achievements of either the East or West, there could be no better guide than this book. Eliot Deutsch, professor of philosophy at the University of Hawaii and for many years editor of the prestigious journal, 'Philosophy East and West,' ...

Living from the Heart

5 reviews
Nirmala

CreateSpace, 2008

A "Disarming" Read
I have had the pleasure of sitting in Satsangs with Nirmala, as well as reading his books, and find that there is a feeling of total acceptance which permeates his being, and is equally felt through his writings. I hope I am not exposing a secret when I say that although there are many approaches in spiritual literature which direct us to move from the head to the heart, I find in Nirmala's ...

Happiness Beyond Thought: A Practical Guide to Awakening

5 reviews
Gary Weber

iUniverse, Inc., 2007

A Treasure Chest of Practices
Gary Weber writes seamlessly and his Non-dual wisdom is clear throughout. Happiness Beyond Thought is a practical book that offers strategies for seekers on the road to enlightenment. Weber generously and passionately shares every trick in the book, a book that began more than 2,500 years ago, and includes the many practices and queries that have supported him on his own journey to becoming a ...

Journey Into Now: Clear Guidance on the Path of Spiritual Awakening

6 reviews
Leonard Jacobson

Conscious Living Publications, 2007

A Great Book
Journey Into Now is a complete and comprehensive guide to awakening. This book covers the vast terriority of the soul. It is concise, easy to read and yet profoundly mystical. My journey until now has been difficult and complex, and the simplicity of this book resonates deeply with me. I was hungry for the real thing, and this book has delivered.

Why Lazarus Laughed: The Essential Doctrine, Zen--Advaita--Tantra

4 reviews
Wei Wu Wei

Sentient Publications, 2004

A Must Read
"Man is a river...never the same for two consecutive seconds" says Wei Wu Wei in this collection of enlightening essays. Packed with insights and encouragement, every page of this book has something to offer. Why Lazarus Laughed focuses on what Zen, Advaita, and Tantra have in common; what essential doctrines they share. This focus provides a refreshing look at the common questions that we all ...

Anatomy of Desire: How to Be Happy Even When You Don't Get What You Want

3 reviews
Gina Lake

Endless Satsang Foundation, 2007

Reality Beyond All Fantasy
Gina Lake intimately dissects the entire landscape of desire and skillfully points us to the Reality that is beyond all fantasy. In a well written, grounded and pragmatic manner, she guides us to awaken from the ego's endless cravings and invites us to discover the uncaused joy of the Heart. - Katie Davis, Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment

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