Books

Recommended reading:

Title: Self-Inquiry

Author: Swami Shankarananda

Description: In this groundbreaking book, meditation master Swami Shankarananda adapts the ancient path of Self-inquiry to contemporary life. The Shiva Process method of Self-inquiry engages your awareness to effectively remove blocks in the areas of career, relationship, health and spirituality. Building on the teachings of Kashmir Shaivism and Sri Ramana Maharshi, Swamiji provides the tools to reveal your true nature. The accompanying CD guides you step by step through a series of inquiries to help you connect with your inner wisdom. You will be transformed and empowered in every aspect in life.

 Price: $29.95 (includes CD) | How to Order
 

Title: Happy for No Good Reason

Author: Swami Shankarananda

Description: Swamiji’s book is a comprehensive manual of meditation and related topics that will help you transform your life. Learn to meditate with the accompanying CD, deepen your spiritual practice, apply techniques to improve communication and relationships, and identify your true desires. A remarkable guidebook in handling the complexities and subtleties of everyday life.

Price: $29.95 (includes CD) | How to Order

Title: Consciousness is Everything

Author: Swami Shankarananda

Description: Consciousness is the most intimate experience of life, the essence of life itself. Among the many spiritual traditions born and developed in India, one ancient philosophy—Kashmir Shaivism—has explored it completely.

Until now, Kashmir Shaivism was an esoteric field accessible only to a few scholars and other specialists. Here, for the first time, Swami Shankarananda, a Self-realised spiritual master, presents the wisdom of this powerful tradition in a form that will delight and inspire all spiritual seekers.

Reviews: ‘Swami Shankarananda has succeeded in making Kashmir’s Shaiva Yoga come alive in these pages, and I consider this work the best introduction to that tradition thus far’
Georg Feuerstein, copyright ©2006.

‘Rarely does a work come along that I regard as an instant classic. This is likely one...’
Dennis Waterman, copyright ©2004.

Price: $29.95 | How to Order

Title: Carrot in my Ear

Author: Swami Shankarananda

Description: In Carrot In My Ear Swamiji responds to questions from seekers about spiritual practice and philosophy. It is a guidebook to the inner experience, offering insights and techniques to dissolve ignorance and live with energy and awareness. Topics in the book include: The Self and Consciousness, Meditation, Self-Inquiry, Mantra, The Guru, Kundalini Shakti, The Mind, Relationships, Communicating With Compassion and Truth.

Price: $25.00 | How to Order

Title: Voice of the Self

Author: Swami Shankarananda

Description: Begin your meditation or uplift your day with aphorisms that gently guide you to the truth within. Close your eyes and intuitively explore the statements that interest you. A great bedside book to use for contemplation and self-inquiry.

Price: $11.00 | How to Order

Title: Where are you Going?

Author: Swami Muktananda

Description: A great introduction and a clear exposition of the teachings of this great master. A fundamental text.

Price: $27.50 | How to Order

Title: I have Become Alive

Author: Swami Muktananda

Description: A richly informative sequel to Where are You Going?

Price: $27.50 | How to Order

Title: Play of Consciousness

Author: Swami Muktananda

Description: An intimate account of the great master’s experiences on the way to enlightenment. Immensely powerful.

Price: $34.95 | How to Order

Books on Yoga & Wisdom

These texts are from the Eastern tradition of spiritual philosophy. They include some of the jewels of that tradition and emphasise both wisdom and yogic techniques of transformation.

Title: How to Know God

Author: Prabhavananda & Isherwood

Description: An easy-to-read explanation of the yoga aphorisms of Patanjali. One of the classics.

Price: $19.80 | How to Order

Title: Crest-Jewel of Discrimination

Author: Prabhavananda & Isherwood

Description: A clear and beautiful edition of Shankara’s classic text on Vedanta, the yoga of wisdom. A source book on Self-inquiry.

Price: $16.00 | How to Order

Title: The Upanishads

Author: Prabhavananda & Manchester

Description: The Upanishads are noble and ancient scriptures teaching the knowledge of the inner Self. They have inspired Western poets and thinkers for centuries.

Price: $26.40 | How to Order

Title: I Am That

Author: Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Description: Talks and teachings from one of the most highly regarded modern Indian sages. A great spiritual classic.

Price: $49.50 | How to Order

Title: A Search in Secret India

Author: Dr Paul Brunton

Description: Dr Paul Brunton was one of the first Westerners to begin exploring the spiritual teachings of the east. Written in 1934, this book is an inspiring personal account of his spiritual quest.

Price: $35.20 | How to Order

Books on Personal Development

These texts are among the most insightful from the Western tradition of personal development. They work on both the personal and transpersonal levels.

Title: The Pathwork of Self Transformation

Author: Eva Pierrakos

Description: The Pathwork shows us how to accept ourselves fully as we are now, and then to move beyond the negativity, or “lower self,” that blocks our personal and spiritual evolution.

Price: $26.40 | How to Order

Title: In Search of the Miraculous

Author: P. D. Ouspensky

Description: P.D. Ouspensky was one of the foremost students of G.I.Gurdjieff. This book is a fascinating account of Ouspensky’s years with Gurdjieff and his teachings.

Price: $35.20 | How to Order

Title: The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution

Author: P. D. Ouspensky

Description: A collection of essays summerising the teachings of G.I.Gurdjieff.

Price: $19.80 | How to Order