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Books to read in preparation for Retreats


              
Psychology                                   

In Search of the Miraculous - P.D. Ouspensky
Views from the Real World Lectures by G. I. Gurdjieff
Theory of Celestial Influence - Rodney Collins
The Last Barrier -  Reshad Feild
Nature of Personal Reality -  Jane Roberts
Cosmic Consciousness - Richard M. Bucke
Toward a Psychology of Being - Abram Maslow
Patterns of Culture - Ruth Benedict
Energy Beyond Thought - R. P. Kaushik

Power of Now - Eckart Tolle

The knee of Listening- Franklin Jones

The Quimby Manuscripts


              
Religion                                          

History of God - Karen Armstrong
The Way and Its Power - Arthur Waley
Taoism ( The Parting of the Way) - Holmes Welch
The Empty Mirror - Janwillem Van De Wetering
Jews, God, and History - Max I. Dimont
First and Last Freedom - J. Krishnamurti


              
Science and Physics                    

 Dancing Wu Li Masters Gary Zukav
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene
Holographic Universe -  Ken Wilber
A New Science of Life - Rupert Sheldrake
Rebirth of Nature - Rupert Sheldrake
Ageless Body Timeless Mind - Deepak Chopra
Origins of Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind - Jaynes
Mega Brain - Michael Hutchinson

Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins

The Planetarization of Consciousness- Dane Rudhyar

                      Tai Chi                         


Chen Style Taijiquan- compiled by Zhaohua Publishing House

Tai Chi Ch'uan Teory and practice- Kuo Lien Ying
Tai Chi boxing Chronicle - Kuo Lien
Ying Xing Yi Quan Xue The study of form-Mind Boxing- Sun Lu Tang


                         Yoga
                         

Bikram's beginning Yoga class- Bikram Choudhury


              
Diet and Nutrition                        
 


Eating Alive - Dr. John Matsen

Secret to Great Health - Dr. John Matsen

 

               Novel                                     

Stanger in A Strange Land - Robert Heinlen
Mind Parasites - Colin Wilson
Shikasta - Doris Lessing

Hopeful Monsters - Nicholas Mosley

Seraphita - Honore de Balzac

Luis Lampart - Honore de Balzac

Don Juan series - Carlos Casteneda

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintanence - Robert Persig

The Discovery of Heaven - Harry Mulish
 
the Catcher in the Rye- Salinger

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