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The list below includes books that I would recommend for those interested in further reading in the various subject areas. Some of the books are out-of-print, and may be difficult to find. I have included links at the bottom of the page for searching for used and out-of-print books. This list is also not yet complete. Check back from time to time for more additions.

Religion

Islam

• The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks

• An Introduction to Sufism, Titus Burckhardt

• Islam: The Straight Path, John L. Esposito

• Essential Sufism, James Fadiman

• The Heart of Islam, Seyyed Hossein Nasr

• Understanding Islam, Frithjof Schuon

Christianity

• Meeting Jesus Again, for the First Time, Marcus J. Borg

• The Gospel of Emerson, Newton Dillaway

• Consent, Newton Dillaway

• Lost Scriptures, Bart D. Ehrman

• Who Wrote the Gospels?, Randel McCraw Helms

• A Testament of Devotion, Thomas R. Kelly

• Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing, Sören Kierkegaard

• New Seeds of Contemplation, Thomas Merton

• No Man Is An Island, Thomas Merton

• Thoughts in Solitude, Thomas Merton

• Run to the Mountain, Thomas Merton

• The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels

• On Listening to Another, Douglas Van Steere

• Dimensions of Prayer, Douglas Van Steere

Judaism

• The Way of Response, Martin Buber

• I and Thou, Martin Buber

• The Gift of the Jews, Thomas Cahill

• God is a Verb, David A. Cooper

• Entering the Sacred Mountain, David A. Cooper

• Bringing Heaven Down to Earth, Tzvi Freeman

• Basic Judaism, Rabbi Milton Steinberg

• Who Is Man?, Abraham Joshua Heschel

• The Insecurity of Freedom, Abraham Joshua Heschel

• I Asked for Wonder, Abraham Joshua Heschel

Buddhism

• An Open Heart, The Dalai Lama

• How the Swans Came to the Lake, Rick Fields

• Opening to You: Zen Inspired Translations of the Psalms, Norman Fischer

• Zen Keys, Thich Nhat Hanh

• Interbeing, Thich Nhat Hanh

• After the Ecstasy, The Laundry, Jack Kornfield

• A Path With Heart, Jack Kornfield

• Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, Shunryu Suzuki

• Not Always So, Shunryu Suzuki

• Meditation in Action, Chögyam Trungpa

Hinduism

• Bhagavad Gita and Its Message, Sri Aurobindo

Taoism

• The Tao of Physics, Fritjof Capra

• The Book of the Heart: Embracing the Tao, Loy Ching-Yuen

• The Essential Tao, Thomas Cleary

Tribal

• The Feathered Sun, Frithjof Schuon

• Of Water and the Spirit, Malidoma Patrice Somé

Comparative & General Texts of interest

• Cosmos and History, Mircea Eliade

• The Sacred and the Profane, Mircea Eliade

• The Two and the One, Mircea Eliade

• Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, Mircea Eliade

• Struggle and Fulfillment, Donald Evans

• The Confirmation of Otherness, Maurice Friedman

• Coming Home, Lex Hixon

• The Mystic Masters Speak!, Vernon Howard

• The Perennial Philosophy, Aldous Huxley

• The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James

• Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, Karl Jaspers

• The Jew in the Lotus, Rodger Kamenetz

• Critique of Religion and Philosophy, Walter Kaufmann

• The Faith of a Heretic, Walter Kaufmann

• The Transcendent Unity of Religion, Frithjof Schuon

Philosophy

• A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues, Comte-Sponville, Andre

• Time and the Art of Living, Robert Grudin

• Philosophy in the Flesh, Lakoff and Johnson

• After Virtue, Alisdair MacIntyre

• Essentials, Jean Toomer

• Conversation, Theodore Zeldin

Critical Thinking

• The Closing of the American Mind, Howard Bloom

• Developing Critical Thinkers, Stephen D. Brookfield

• Metaphors We Live By, Lakoff and Johnson

• Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman

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