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In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching

10 best books like In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching (P.D. Ouspensky): Mysteries, Our Life with Mr. Gurdjieff, When the Impossible Happens: Adventures in Non-ordinary Realities, The Active Side of Infinity, The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia, The Reality of Being: The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff, Psychological Commentaries on the Teachings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, The Secret History of the World: And How to Get Out Alive, The First and Last Freedom, Life is Real Only Then, When 'I Am'

Mysteries
AuthorColin Wilson
ISBN1842931857
Thru personal experience, Colin Wilson discovered that human beings consist of a ladder or hierarchy of selves, whose upper members may be called upon at will for personal transformation & deep knowledge. His new-found knowledge spurred him to write Mysteries: An Investigation into the Occult,...
Our Life with Mr. Gurdjieff
AuthorThomas de Hartmann

Early in the 20th century there was this enigmatic man espousing esoteric theories who some how gained some followers, among them this author, a Russian composer, and his wife. And while Russia was in turmoil during the Bolshevik Revolution they, like true disciples, followed him to where he fancied...
When the Impossible Happens: Adventures in Non-ordinary Realities
AuthorStanislav Grof
Feelings of oneness with other people, nature, and the universe. Encounters with extraterrestrials, deities, and demons. Out-of-body experiences and past-life memories. Science casts a skeptical eye. But Dr. Stanislav Grof—the psychiatric researcher who co-founded transpersonal psychology—believes...
The Active Side of Infinity
AuthorCarlos Castaneda
"Ordinarily, events that change our path are impersonal affairs, and yet extremely personal. My teacher, don Juan Matsus, said this is guiding me as his apprentice to collect what I considered to be the memorable events of my life…. Don Juan described the total goal of the shamanistic knowledge that...
The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia
AuthorPaul Devereux
ISBN0140195408
Many people assume that experimentation with hallucinogens began with Timothy Leary and the psychedelic revolution of the fifties and sixties. In fact, as this illuminating study demonstrates, psychedelics have been used by human societies in every part of the world for ritual and spiritual purposes...
The Reality of Being: The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff
AuthorJeanne De Salzmann
ISBN1590308158
Based on notebooks kept by G.I. Gurdjieff's closest follower, this book offers new insight on his spiritual teachings—a way of gnosis or "knowledge of being" passed on from remote antiquity. It is a complete and uniquely authoritative guide to the great teacher's ideas and to his methods for liberating...
Psychological Commentaries on the Teachings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky
AuthorMaurice Nicoll
ISBN0877289107
This book is a holistic and synchronizing work for life.The level of detail is really spellbinding .Well.. i am not very good at connecting timelines but it should have been during Gurdjieff's time the electron , neutron discoveries were made but the level of detail in explaining the hydrogen tables...
The Secret History of the World: And How to Get Out Alive
AuthorLaura Knight-Jadczyk
ISBN0976504103
(Note: This product description refers to the first, out-of-print edition of Secret History. The latest edition is ISBN: 1897244169)

If you heard the Truth, would you believe it? Ancient civilizations. Hyperdimensional realities. DNA changes. Bible conspiracies. What are the realities?...
The First and Last Freedom
AuthorJiddu Krishnamurti
ISBN0060648317
Out of every "spiritual" book I have read, this one takes the cake. Krishnamurti takes a more philosophical and psychological approach to why we're miserable. Unlike most other books, Krishnamurti doesn't shove pseudo-wisdom in your face and tell you what you need to do to attain enlightenment. He...
Life is Real Only Then, When 'I Am'
AuthorG.I. Gurdjieff
ISBN0140195858
Begun in 1934, this final volume of Gurdjieff's trilogy, All and Everything, is a primary source for Gurdjieff's ideas, methods, and biography. Gurdjieff offers guidance to his "community of seekers," through a selection of talks given in 1930, autobiographical material crucial to understanding...
The Future of the Body: Explorations into the Further Evolution of Human Nature
AuthorMichael Murphy
ISBN0874777305
In the oral and written histories of every culture, there are countless records of men and women who have displayed extraordinary physical, mental, and spiritual capacities. In modern times, those records have been supplemented by scientific studies of exceptional functioning.

Are the...
The Center of the Cyclone: Looking into Inner Space
AuthorJohn C. Lilly
ISBN1579510388
In this long-out-of-print counterculture classic, Dr. John C. Lilly takes readers behind the scenes into the inner life of a scientist exploring inner space, or “far-out spaces,” as Lilly called them. The book explains how he derived his theory of the operations of the human mind and brain from...
Superlearning 2000
AuthorSheila Ostrander
ISBN0440507146
Whether you want to learn a foreign language, improve your tennis game, ace a test, or learn anything two-to-five times faster, the fun and innovative method of superlearning is designed to unlock your limitless potential. This revolutionary program reveals how the right kind of music can enhance...
The Mystical Qabalah
AuthorDion Fortune
ISBN1578631505
A clear explanation of the philosophical structure of the Hermetic Kabbalah, filled with easily-understandable but profound analogies and metaphors to point the way towards true understanding.

Dion Fortune, being a magician and psychic in the early 20th Century, clothed her discourse...
Secret Oral Teachings in Tibetan Buddhist Sects
AuthorAlexandra David-Néel
ISBN0872860124
This is an account of the Madhyamika (Middle Way) school of Buddhism, a method of mediation and enlightenment that was developed by the great Indian teacher Nagarjuna. In a collaboration between the Frenchwoman Alexandra David-Neel and her friend, the Tibetan lama Aphur Yongden, these teaching...
Liber Null and Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic
AuthorPeter J. Carroll
ISBN0877286396
I wasn't terribly impressed with this book at the time I read it, although it does contain some interesting material. Essentially it is the compiled handbooks (or "libers") of the Illuminates of Thanateros (IOT, worked out by Peter Carroll and others during the 1970s and early 1980s. The IOT prides...
The Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library
AuthorKenneth Sylvan Guthrie
ISBN0933999518
As I said about the Presocratics and Stoics in other reviews, all the writings of the first Pythagoreans and of Pythagoras have disappeared and the fragments attributed to Pythagoras are contested. But, if not an exhaustive account of later Pythagorean writings and thought, this book is at least a...
The Collected Works of C.G. Jung
AuthorC.G. Jung
ISBN0691074763
The Collected Works of C.G. Jung is the 1st collected edition, in English translation, of the writings of the Swiss psychiatrist:
1/Psychiatric Studies. Adler & Hull, ed./tr.
2/Experimental Researches. Adler & Stein, ed./tr.
3/Psychogenesis of Mental Disease. Adler, Read,...
The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience
AuthorRobert E.L. Masters
ISBN0892818972
One of the most important books written on the effects of LSD on the human psyche.

• Its authoritative research has great relevance to the current debate on drug legalization.

• Prolific authors Robert Masters and Jean Houston are pioneer figures in the field of transpersonal...
The Boy Who Saw True: The Time-Honoured Classic of the Paranormal
AuthorCyril Scott
ISBN1844131505
He asked me if I believed in ghosts.
And I said, yes.
Then he wanted to know if I'd ever seen one, and I said, lots.
'Weren't you afraid?'
'Not when they're nice ghosts,' said I, 'but I don't like nasty ones ...'

'The Boy Who Saw True differs from all the hundreds of books I have read...
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