Mauritius: Divine Life Society (Mauritius), 1972. 32p., staplebound wraps with black and white photo of the Swami on the cover; small piece of colored tape on spine, mild handling wear, especially to spinefold. Contributions by various admirers. More about Swami Venkatesananda
Cat.No: 204026
n.p. Maum Meditation, 2008, 2009. Two staplebound booklets, both with the main title "Cleansing Mind and Body," with leaflets laid in announcing seminars in the San Francisco Bay Area. More about Two brochures for Maum Meditation
Cat.No: 223339
[San Francisco]: the journal, 1974. 47p., photographic illustrations, 9 x 6 inch staplebound wraps; somewhat edgeworn. Doctrine, memorials, news, and a discussion of land purchase: Tassajara was paid off in 1972, the SF Center and Green Gulch still mortgaged. More about Wind Bell. Publication of Zen Center volume XIII , Nos. 1-2, 1974
Cat.No: 233607
Lenox, MA: Moksha Press, 1997. Magazine. 95p., 8.5x11 inches, perfectbound glossy magazine, illus., very good. Issue theme: The Modern Spiritual Predicament. Ken Wilber, Georg Feuerstein, Deepak Chopra, Andrew Cohen, and other deep thinkers abound. More about What is Enlightenment? issue 12, Fall/Winter 1997
Cat.No: 206833
Lenox, MA: Moksha Press, 1998. Magazine. 191p., 8.5x11 inches, perfectbound glossy magazine, illus., very good. The Dalai Lama, Swami Dayananda, Frances Vaughan, Andrew Cohen, and other deep thinkers abound. More about What is Enlightenment? issue 14, Fall/Winter 1998
Cat.No: 206835
Larkspur, CA: Moksha Press, 1995. Magazine. 46p., 8.5x11 inches, staplebound glossy magazine, illus., mild wear at spine, rust on staples, else very good. Andrew Cohen, Swami Krishnananda, Lee Lozowick, and other spiritual teachers abound. More about What is Enlightenment? Vol. 4, No. 2, Summer 1995
Cat.No: 206827
Larkspur, CA: Moksha Press, 1996. Magazine. 79p., 8.5x11 inches, staplebound glossy magazine, illus., mild wear at spine, rust on staples, else very good. Issue on Women and Enlightenment, Mother Meera, Anandamayi Ma, Z. Budapest, and Andrew Cohen, among others. More about What is Enlightenment? Vol. 5, No. 2, Fall/Winter 1996
Cat.No: 206830
Ellensburg WA: Kapala Press, 2015. Paperback. Unpaginated, about 45p., softbound booklet in 8x5.5 inch decorated wraps decorated with color photo of author's assemblage. A fine unhandled copy. Mister Dorje has taken up art as well as Tibetan buddhism, advised that the two are compatible: inevitable vanity of accomplishment can be... More about A History of a Novel Idea
Cat.No: 219519
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. Hardcover. xviii, 280p., illustrated with scattered tables, figures and photos; first edition hardbound in grey cloth titled black and bright blue dust jacket titled white. Jacket edgeworn with a couple short tears and a seller's small sticker at the upper corner; item is otherwise quite... More about Gedatsu-Kai and Religion in Contemporary Japan; Returning to the Center
Cat.No: 232073
Twain Harte: Reunion Press, Inc., 1984. [128p.], glossy colorphoto wraps, later printing (same year as first), some pressure marks on back and front covers, otherwise slightest signs of handling (no singe marks either). Color cover photo shows "Peggy Dylan walking on 1200 F coals." Attitude-towards-universe meditation techniques; the Burkans' rap... More about Guiding yourself into a spiritual reality; revised edition [subtitle from cover text: From the...
Cat.No: 148626
Berkeley: Dharma Foundation, 1988. Newspaper. 32p., folded tabloid, lightly toned, illus., mailing label on lower front cover, else very good. Includes: Forum on Psychotherapy and Meditation with Ram Dass, Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield, Frances Vaughan, Roger Walsh and others, interview with Jack Engler, two short pieces by Thich Nhat Hanh... More about Inquiring Mind, Summer 1988, Vol. 5, No. 1, Special Psychology Issue; A Semi-annual Journal of...
Cat.No: 227933
Berkeley: Dharma Foundation, 1990. Newspaper. 32p., folded tabloid, lightly toned, illus., mailing label on lower front cover, else very good. Includes: Interview with Stephen Levine, a Tibetan View of Death, Death Awareness Practice, directory of sitting groups, 1990 Vipassana retreat schedules, etc. More about Inquiring Mind, Winter/Spring 1990, Vol. 6, No. 2, Special Issue on Death and Serving the Dying;...
Cat.No: 227935
Orissa India: Karar Ashram, 1981. Paperback. Unpaginated preliminaries, 156p., illustrated with several diagrams; 8.5x5.5 inch paperbound with a sewn textblock, the original threads holding nicely so far but two splits have developed in the lower spine panel so that textblock's signatures show two hairline cracks. Item has been heavily read... More about Kriyayoga, The Scientific Process of Soul-Culture & the Essence of All Religions. [Second...
Cat.No: 229607
n.p. n.pub. n.d. 14p., mimeographed sheets folded to make 5.5x7.5 inch pamphlet; cover foxed with two stains, interior clean. This appears to be a version of Huxley's pamphlet by this title that was circulated at Trabuco College in 1943. The first page appears identical to the Trabuco copy illustrated on..... More about Seven Meditations
Cat.No: 135967
Hauppauge NY: Barron's Educational Series, Inc. / Gaia Books Ltd., 2002. 143p., coated paperstock throughout, color-photo illustrations integrated with text, softbound in 10x7 inch glossy cardstock wraps. Slight edgewear, a sound clean copy, very good. Author at this writing had been "teaching in the West" for twenty years. More about The Way of Tea The Sublime Art of Oriental Tea Drinking
Cat.No: 184114
no city: Snow Lion Publications, 1989. 87p., texts in Tibetan script and a pleasant English font, illustrated with saints' portraits in outline , softbound in 10.5x8 inch stapled wraps. Covers bear a little mild smudging and the margins are faintly toned, entirely clean within and quite sound, a very good copy. More about Kalachakra Initiation, Los Angeles, 1989. Second revised edition
Cat.No: 228977
Big Sur: Esalen Inst. 1996. 72p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrations, course descriptions, biographies, very good in stapled wraps. More about The Esalen catalog: May-October 1996
Cat.No: 193112
n.p. Human Kindness Foundation, n.d. [6p.], 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled at upper left corner. Text appears to have been downloaded from internet, in a form very different from what is now on the website of the Human Kindness Foundation. Discusses the Project's goal of teaching compassion to prisoners. More about Prison-Ashram Foundation
Cat.No: 141096
San Bernardino, CA: the author, 2016. 433p., gargantuan paperback novel (11x8 inches), rather an awkward format for fiction because of the resultingly huge printblocks. First installment in a spiritual trilogy by the Princeton graduate who became a meditation teacher (though flunked book design). From back-cover introductory text: "..the world's longest... More about Remembering eternity. Volume 1: The Sun Inside
Cat.No: 217914
South Fallsburg NY: SYDA Foundation. Paperback. ii, 173p., list of publications, text reproduced from doublespaced typescript. There are no illustrations, except for a photoportrait of Muktananda on the cover. Mildly edgeworn, a sound copy clean within. More about Understanding Siddha Yoga. Volume 1
Cat.No: 202628
Rajneeshpuram, OR: Rajneesh Foundation International, 1983. 225, [20] pages, paperback, pages evenly toned, ownership signature on front free endpaper. Published by Ma Anand Sheela through the Foundation, at the group's Oregon commune. More about The Orange Book: the meditation techniques of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Cat.No: 224783
Encinitas: Biodhi's Press, 2000. xi, 110p., prefaces, photos, appendixes, second edition in wraps. A penetrating colorless stain has affected entire textblock at top corner. More about Wakeful
Cat.No: 145396
Rikhikesh, India: Sivananda Publication League, 1947. iv, 158p., orange boards with mild external wear and a small snag at the tail. Inscribed by Sivananda in blue pen on flyleaf. Ex-private library of the American Academy of Asian Studies. More about Siva the prophet of the new age
Cat.No: 124235
Rikhikesh, India: Sivananda Publication League, 1951. xxxii, 166p., wraps. Inscribed by Sivananda in blue pen on flyleaf. Title penned on spine, traces of blue paper labels inside covers. Not in OCLC. More about How to get sound sleep
Cat.No: 124233
Rikhikesh, India: Yoga-Vedanta Forest University, 1955. xii, 168 p., stiff wraps in slightly foxed dj. OCLC lists one copy. More about Sivananda's Teachings (A to Z
Cat.No: 124226
