Recommended Reading

Life and Work

Mastery At Work: 18 Keys For Achieving Success, Fulfillment And Joy In Any Profession
by Nicole Grace
ISBN: 0974785210

Mastery At Work: 18 Keys For Achieving Success, Fulfillment And Joy In Any Profession is a rare book. Based on The Three-Fold Path to Mastery, it reveals unusual and practical business advice, as well as secret techniques derived from spiritual and mystical traditions for transcending ordinary existence to achieve both personal evolution and professional success. This is a book that transforms lives.


Buddhism / Vedanta / Hinduism

Srimad Bhagavatam: The Wisdom of God
translated by Swami Prabhavananda
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Bhagavad Gita: The Song of God
translated by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood
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Autobiography of a Yogi
by Paramhansa Yogananda
ISBN: 0876120796

The original text of Yogananda''s classic introduction to Eastern mysticism.


The Eternal Companion: Brahmananda, His Life and Teachings
by Swami Prabhavananda
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Dhammapada: Teachings of the Buddha
translated by Thomas Byrom
ISBN: 0877739668

The Dhammapada is one of the most popular and accessible books in all of Buddhist literature. In it are the words of the Buddha, teaching that all suffering stems from desire and that the way to attain freedom is to purify the heart and follow the way of truth. Thomas Byrom''s verse rendering of the Dhammapada uniquely captures the Buddha''s original teachings with simplicity and lyricism.


Fiction

Harry Potter Series
by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
ISBN: 0439827604

Harry''s first six years of magic, mystery, and adventure at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry are now available in a handsome hardcover boxed set. Includes books one through six: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix; and the most recent addition to the bestselling series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Christian Mysticism

Gnostic Gospels
by Elaine Pagels
ISBN: 0679724532

Gnosticism''s Christian form grew to prominence in the 2nd century A.D. Ultimately denounced as heretical by the early church, Gnosticism proposed a revealed knowledge of God ("gnosis" meaning "knowledge" in Greek), held as a secret tradition of the apostles. In The Gnostic Gospels, author Elaine Pagels suggests that Christianity could have developed quite differently if Gnostic texts had become part of the Christian canon.

Mysticism

Awakening Osiris: The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Translated by Normandi Ellis
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Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan
by Carlos Castaneda
ISBN: 0671732463

This volume shows the reader the means by which a "man of power" sees, as opposed to merely looking, and how by his concentrated "seeing" he can, indeed must, "stop the world." In it, Carlos Castaneda describes the lessons, the omens, the exercises of the will and body, the arduous trials and tests, the simple yet mysterious demonstrations, the extraordinary visions and experiences by which don Juan, his mentor and friend, prepares him for the task of perceiving things as they are, instead of describing them by the words, conventions and standards of conventional, a priori ideas and language.

Tales of Power
by Carlos Castaneda
ISBN: 0671732528

Don Juan concludes the instruction of Castaneda with his most powerful and mysterious lesson in the sorcerer''s art -- a dazzling series of visions that are at once an initiation and a deeply moving farewell.

The Power of Silence: Further Lessons of Don Juan
by Carlos Castaneda
ISBN: 067173248X