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World Religion
General
The New Believers: A Survey of Sects, Cults and Alternative Religions/David
V. Barrett (Cassell & Co, London, UK), 2001.
The World's Religions/Ninian Smart (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
UK), Second edition, 1998. Also, Atlas of the World's Religions, (Oxford
University Press),1999.
The Atlas of Holy Places & Sacred Sites/Colin Wilson (DK Publishing,
New York, NY, USA), 1996.
An Anthology of Sacred Texts By and About Women/Serinity Young, ed. (The
Crossroad Publishing Co., New York, NY, USA), 1995.
The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions/Huston Smith (Harper
Collins, New York, NY, USA), 1991.
Classic Ancient Mythology/Richard Patrick and Peter Croft (Galley Press,
London, England), 1987.
Eerdmans' Handbook to the World's Religions (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Co., Grand Rapids, MI 49503 USA), 1982.
When God Was a Woman/Merlin Stone (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers,
New York and London), 1976.
Philosophical and Devotional
Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation/Stephen Mitchell (Harmony Books, New
York, NY, USA), 2000. [Also, Bhagavad Gita: Krishna's Counsel in Time of
War/Barbara Stoler Miller (Bantam Books, New York, NY, USA), 1986.]
The Yoga Tradition: Its History, Literature, Philosophy and Practice/Georg
Feuerstein (Hohm Press, Prescott, AZ 86302 USA), 1998.
Where Are You Going? A Guide to the Spiritual Journey/Swami Muktananda (SYDA
Foundation, S. Fallsburg, NY 12779 USA), 1994.
Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras/Diana L. Eck
(Beacon Press, Boston, MA 02108 USA), 1993.
Tao Te Ching: A New English Version with Foreword & Notes/Stephen Mitchell
(Harper & Row, New York, NY, USA), 1988.
Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition/David
Kinsley (University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, USA), 1986.
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind/Shunryu Suzuki (Weatherhill, New York & Tokyo),
paperback edition, 1982.
Love Song of the Dark Lord: Jayadeva's Gitagovinda/Barbara Stoler Miller,
ed. & trans. (Columbia University Press, New York, NY, USA), 1977.
Vitalizing
The Okinawa Program: How the World's Longest-Lived People Achieve Everlasting
Health--And How You Can Too/Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox,
Ph.D. & Makoto Suzuki, M.D. (Clarkson Potter/Publishers, New York, NY
USA), 2001 [Tai Chi and nutrition].
Brain Longevity: The Breakthrough Medical Program that Improves Your Mind
and Memory/Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D. with Cameron Stauth (Warner Books,
New York, NY 10020 USA), 1997 [yogic mind-body exercises].
The Complete System of Self-Healing: Internal Exercises/Dr. Stephen T. Chang
(Tao Publishing, San Francisco, CA), 1986. [theory and practice of the Tao
of Revitalization]
Dance Meditation: Essays/Dianne McPherson, www.dancemeditation.org
[vitalizing practice drawn from yogic, Sufi and western sources].
Also of interest...
Cleansing the Doors of Perception: The Religious Significance of Entheogenic
Plants and Chemicals/Huston Smith (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, New York, NY
10014 USA), 2000.
Coming into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness/William
Irwin Thompson (St. Martin's Press, New York, NY 10010), 1996.
Timeless Healing: The Power and Biology of Belief/Herbert Benson, MD with
Marg Stark (Scribner, New York, NY 10020 USA), 1996.
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