New Self, New World: Recovering Our Senses in the Twenty-First Century
10 best books like New Self, New World: Recovering Our Senses in the Twenty-First Century (Philip Shepherd): Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change, Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths about Human Nature, When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm, Caravan of No Despair: A Memoir of Loss and Transformation, The Ever-Present Origin, Philosophies of India, No One To Hear You Scream, Digital Barbarism: A Writer's Manifesto, Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin, With a New Preface, Cave and Cosmos: Shamanic Encounters with Another Reality
| Author | William R. Catton Jr. |
| ISBN | 0252009886 |
I've been reading books on “the Problem of Civilization” for several years now. I'm constantly seeking to refine my conceptualization of the way humans interact with each other and their environment. Contrary to what one reviewer says (that most of Catton's book is “common knowledge for any...
Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths about Human Nature
| Author | Agustín Fuentes |
| ISBN | 0520269713 |
There are three major myths of human nature: humans are divided into biological races; humans are naturally aggressive; men and women are truly different in behavior, desires, and wiring. In an engaging and wide-ranging narrative Agustin Fuentes counters these pervasive and pernicious myths about...
| Author | Layne Redmond |
| ISBN | 0609801287 |
Redmond's thesis is quite fascinating, and it is wonderful to see this area of oft-overlooked women's spirituality and religion come to light. However, I was a little disappointed in the writing of this book, finding it straying too far from the intended topic of the history of women's drumming practices....
| Author | Mirabai Starr |
| ISBN | 1622034139 |
On the day her first book came out—a new translation of Dark Night of the Soul by Saint John of the Cross—Mirabai Starr’s daughter, Jenny, was killed in a car accident. “My spiritual life began the day my daughter died,” writes Mirabai. Even with decades of spiritual practice and a deep immersion...
| Author | Jean Gebser |
| ISBN | 0821407694 |
The Ever-Present Origin is a translation of Ursprung und Gegenwart, a book which was published in German in two parts around 1949 and 1953. The central contribution of this book is Gebser's analysis of the history of culture -- mainly but not exclusively Western culture -- in terms of the predominance...
| Author | Heinrich Robert Zimmer |
| ISBN | 0691017581 |
The volume is divided into four sections: The introduction places the position of the Buddhist Tantras within Mahayana Buddhism and recalls their early literary history, especially the Guhyasamahatantra; the section also covers Buddhist Genesis and the Tantric tradition. The foundations of...
No One To Hear You Scream
| Author | Julia Madeleine |
| ISBN | 0980887429 |
In upstate New York, Brett and Pamela Jameson find the house of their dreams on twenty acres of land. Bucolic and serene, it is the answer to all of their prayers. But their dream soon turns into a nightmare when violent ex-gang member Rory Madden, the property's former owner returns, and will stop at nothing...
| Author | Mark Helprin |
| ISBN | 0061733113 |
“A strange, wondrous, challenging, enriching book….Beautiful and powerful…you will not encounter another book like it.”
—National Review online
In Digital Barbarism, bestselling novelist Mark Helprin (Winter’s Tale, A Soldier of the Great War) offers...
| Author | Gray Brechin |
| ISBN | 0520250087 |
First published in 1999, this celebrated history of San Francisco traces the exploitation of both local and distant regions by prominent families—the Hearsts, de Youngs, Spreckelses, and others—who gained power through mining, ranching, water and energy, transportation, real estate, weapons,...
Cave and Cosmos: Shamanic Encounters with Another Reality
| Author | Michael Harner |
| ISBN | 1583945466 |
In 1980, Michael Harner blazed the trail for the worldwide revival of shamanism with his seminal classic The Way of the Shaman. In this long-awaited sequel, he provides new evidence of the reality of heavens.
Drawing from a lifetime of personal shamanic experiences and more than 2,500 reports...
Essays on a Science of Mythology: The Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis
| Author | C.G. Jung |
| ISBN | 0691017565 |
Essays on a Science of Mythology is a cooperative work between C. Kerenyi, who has been called "the most psychological of mythologists," and C. G. Jung, who has been called "the most mythological of psychologists." Kerenyi contributes an essay on the Divine Child and one on the Kore (the Maiden),...
Rites and Symbols of Initiation
| Author | Mircea Eliade |
| ISBN | 0882143581 |
Organizing data from cultures the world over, Eliade lays out the basic patterns of initiation: group puberty rites, entrance into secret cults, shamanic instruction, individual visions, and heroic rites of passage. The vast information, assembled so beautifully, transcends usual scholarship....
Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th-Century America
Now in a new edition, Iron Cages provides a unique comparative analysis of white American attitudes toward Asians, blacks, Mexicans, and Native Americans in the 19th century. This pathbreaking work offers a cohesive study of the foundations of race and culture in America. In a new epilogue, Takaki...
| Author | Thomas Merton |
| ISBN | 0374514445 |
The New Man shows Thomas Merton at the height of his powers and has as its theme the question of spiritual identity. What must we do to recover possession of our true selves? By way of an answer, Merton discusses how we have become strangers to ourselves by our depence on outward identity and success, while...
Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism
| Author | Gareth Knight |
| ISBN | 1578632471 |
In this groundbreaking book, Knight shows how the Qabalah and its basic diagram, the Tree of Life, is a system of relationships among mystical symbols that can be used to gain access to the hidden reaches of the mind. He also demonstrates how the Qabalah is applicable to all mystical traditions and religious...
Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
| Author | Sri Aurobindo |
| ISBN | 0941524809 |
Before giving the Mothers words on this wonderful book I have to say, that I had come to realize recently that if I had to make the choice of only one book for the rest of my life. It would be Savitri. I could carry it with me for several lives and climb ever higher with each one. Never exhausting the fountain...
And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris
| Author | Alan Riding |
| ISBN | 0307268977 |
In the weeks after the Germans captured Paris, theaters, opera houses, and nightclubs reopened to occupiers and French citizens alike, and they remained open for the duration of the war. Alan Riding introduces a pageant of twentieth-century artists who lived and worked under the Nazis and explores...
Out of Exile: Narratives from the Abducted and Displaced People of Sudan
| Author | Craig Walzer |
| ISBN | 1934781134 |
Millions of people have fled from conflicts and persecution in all parts of this Northeast African country, and many thousands more have been enslaved as human spoils of war. In this book, refugees and abductees recount their escapes from the wars in Darfur and South Sudan, from political and religious...
Fantasies of the Master Race: Literature, Cinema & the Colonization of American Indians
| Author | Ward Churchill |
| ISBN | 0872863484 |
Chosen as an “Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights in the United States” by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights.
In this volume of incisive essays, Ward Churchill looks at representations of American Indians in literature and film, delineating a history...
Living Color: The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color
| Author | Nina G. Jablonski |
| ISBN | 0520251539 |
Living Color is the first book to investigate the social history of skin color from prehistory to the present, showing how our body’s most visible trait influences our social interactions in profound and complex ways. In a fascinating and wide-ranging discussion, Nina G. Jablonski begins with...
War and the Soul: Healing Our Nation's Veterans from Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 16 percent (one in eight) of returning Iraq veterans suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. Such vets typically can’t hold jobs. They are incapable of intimacy, creative work, and self-realization. Some can’t leave the house because they...
In and Out the Garbage Pail
| Author | Frederick Salomon Perls |
| ISBN | 0911226052 |
Gestalt Therapy Disrobed– As Seen Through The Eyes Of Its Principal Founder And Most Flamboyant Practitioner.
(A review of In and Out the Garbage Pail by Fredrick S. Perls)
This is Fritz Perls in his own words, as if come across in the baths at Esalen Institute in 1968, holding forth...
The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress
Drawing on two decades of experience as a war correspondent and based on his numerous columns for Truthdig, Chris Hedges presents The World As It Is, a panorama of the American empire at home and abroad, from the coarsening effect of America's War on Terror to the front lines in the Middle East and South...
The Shaking of the Foundations
A collection of twenty-two philisophical sermons by existentialist theologian Paul Tillich, crossing multiple historical and cultural influences; Marx, Buddha, Nietzsche, the Ancient Greeks, Rilke, Kierkegaard and Jesus of Nazareth all play a part in Tillich’s apologetic sermons, based...
