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The Varieties of Religious Experience

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Modern Man in Search of a Soul

C.G. Jung · 244 pages

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The Hero With a Thousand Faces

Joseph Campbell · 456 pages

A thoroughly intense and all-embracing read. In the 2-page preface written in 1948, he states such ground-shakingly obvious facts about the human psyche, that you'll wonder why these ideas had never dawned on you before. Then, into the main text of the book, and you're spirited away into an adventure that explores all forms of mythology and their importance in founding different cultures all aroun

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Civilization and Its Discontents

Sigmund Freud · 116 pages

Originally published in 1930, this book seeks to answer ultimate questions. What influences led to the creation of civilization? How did it come to be? What determines its course? In this classic work, Freud addresses the contest between aggression and eros, and speaks to issues of human creativity and fulfillment, the place of beauty in culture, and the effects of repression.

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Man and His Symbols

C.G. Jung, Joseph L. Henderson, Aniela Jaffe, Jolande Jacobi, Marie-Louise von Franz · 320 pages

Excerpt from back cover: "This book, which was the last piece of work undertaken by Jung before his death in 1961, provides a unique opportunity to assess his contribution to the life and thought of our time, for it was also his first attempt to present his life-work in psychology to a non-technical public...What emerges with great clarity from the book is that Jung has done immense service bot

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On Christian Doctrine

Augustine of Hippo · 1,278 pages

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Psychoanalysis and Religion

Erich Fromm · 119 pages

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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

Emile Durkheim · 416 pages

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The Kingdom of God Is Within You

Leo Tolstoy · 352 pages

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The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

Mircea Eliade · 256 pages

Famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves residents of a completely profane world are still unconsciously nourished by the memory of the sacred. Eliade traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times in terms of space, time, nature, and the cosmos. In doing so he shows how the total human experience of the religious man compares

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The I Ching or Book of Changes

Anonymous · 740 pages

A translation of the early document of Chinese philosophy with explanatory notes.

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The Complete Works

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Karlfried Froehlich · 336 pages

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Miracles

C.S. Lewis · 192 pages

An impeccable inquiry into the proposition that supernatural events can happen in this world. C. S. Lewis uses his remarkable logic to build a solid argument for the existence of divine intervention. "This book is intended as a preliminary to historical inquiry. I am not a trained historian, and I shall not examine the historical evidence for the Christian miracles. My effort is to put my reade

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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

David Hume · 129 pages

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Power vs. Force

David R. Hawkins · 330 pages

Presents a study of kinesiology, a science based on the testing of an all-or-none muscle response stimulus, and claims that the techniques described can provide people with the means by which to calibrate levels of truth and determine whether they are being misled in most any situation.

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Toward a Psychology of Being

Abraham H. Maslow · 184 pages

First published in 1962, ‘Toward a Psychology of Being’ was written by Abraham H. Maslow, an American psychologist who was best known for creating Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization.\ This book develops on Maslow’s key theories of motivation and self-actualization, which were firs

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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

Gustave Le Bon · 208 pages

"Gustave LeBon's The Crowd is not only a classic, but one of the best-selling scientific books in social psychology and collective behavior ever written. Here, LeBon analyzes the nature of crowds and their role in political movements. He presents crowd behavior as a problem of science and power, a natural phenomenon with practical implications. Originally published in 1895, LeBon's book was the fi

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The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

Aldous Huxley · 151 pages

"Doors of perception" describes how the author submitted himself as a guinea pig to mescaline. "Heaven and hell" explains how drugs can take the experimenter into an unexplored world of the mind. This world can have the characteristics of heaven, but negative emotions will turn it into hell.

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The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

Jonathan Haidt · 297 pages

Applies the latest findings in psychology and brain research to the wisdom of the ancients to define what makes people happy and how you can find more happiness in your life. Confirms and builds on the happiness formula defined by other psychologists: H=S+C+V or Happiness = your biological Setpoint + the Conditions of your life + the Voluntary activities you do

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Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought

Pascal Boyer · 430 pages

Formerly at Princeton, King's College, Cambridge and the University of Lyon, Pascal Boyer is Professor of Anthropology at Washington University in St Louis, MissouriWhile human religious practice and belief are extraordinarily varied, they are nevertheless not infinitely so. The varieties of belief have provided generations of anthropologists and religious scholars with material for research; ther

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Fear and Trembling/Repetition

Soren Kierkegaard · 464 pages

The two books comprised in this volume are in greater demand than any other works of Kierkegaard. This preference is a credit to the public taste, for Kierkegaard himself called them "the most perfect books I have written," though in this commendation he included The Concept of Dread, and later stretched it to include Training in Christianity.

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The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

M. Scott Peck · 316 pages

Confronting and solving problems is a painful process which most of us attempt to avoid. Avoiding resolution results in greater pain and an inability to grow both mentally and spiritually. Drawing heavily on his own professional experience, Dr M. Scott Peck, a psychiatrist, suggests ways in which facing our difficulties - and suffering through the changes - can enable us to reach a higher level of

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The God Who is There

Francis A. Schaeffer · 191 pages

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