Indy’s Reference Library
Depending upon my mood and the issues with which I am dealing, I like to begin the first two hours of my early morning with coffee and guidance from the various shelves of my ready reference library listed below. I believe that this early morning effort helps support and reinforce what I am trying to do with my personal life and also with my writing.
First Shelf
- Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi–Flow
- Robert A. Johnson–Transformation
- Peace Pilgrim’s Last 10-Minute Interview Recorded in Knox, Indiana
- Paul Brunton–A Search in Secret India
- Herman Hesse—Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, The Glass Bead Game
- W. Somerset Maugham—The Razor’s Edge
- Henry David Thoreau–Walden
- Carlos Castaneda—The Teachings of Don Juan (specifically pages April 8-15, 1962)
- Erich Fromm—To Have or to Be
- Gandhi—The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi (Dover Publications)
- The Way of a Pilgrim (Skylight Illuminations translated by Gleb Pokrovsky)
- Nikolaos Bakalis–Handbook of Greek Philosophy
- Professor James Hall, University of Richmond, Philosophy of Religion Course, The Teaching Company
- The Enlightened Mind, an Anthology of Sacred Prose (edited by Stephen Mitchell)
- Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke–Cosmic Consciousness
Third Shelf
- Tao Te Ching (Stephen Mitchell addition)
- The Bhagavad Gita (translated by Eknath Easwaran)
- What Everyone Needs to Know About Islam—John L. Esposito
- Kabbalah: The Way of the Jewish Mystic—Perle Epstein
- The Experience of Insight—Joseph Goldstein
- The Diamond Sutra; The Sutra of Hui-Ning (Shambala Dragon Edition)
- The Awakening of Faith (attributed to Asvaghosha and translated by Yoshito S. Hakeda)
- The Gospel of Jesus (James M. Robinson)
Fourth Shelf
- Vivekananda—Inspired Talks; Jnana Yoga; other yogas also available
- Reincarnation and the Law of Karma—William Walker Atkinson
- Meister Eckhart from Whom God Hid Nothing (Shambhala Publications)
- Ibn Al’Arabi—The Bezels of Wisdom
Fifth Shelf
- Franklin Merrell-Wolff–Experience and Philosophy
- Shankara—Crest Jewel of Discrimination
- Jesus—The Sermon on the Mount