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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorWhy Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Enlightenment
Robert Wright · 336 pages
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Miguel Ruiz · 164 pages
In The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love. A New York Times bestseller for over a decade An international bestseller publishe
Psychology and Religion
C.G. Jung · 138 pages
Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis
Erich Fromm, D.T. Suzuki, Richard Martino, Richard J. DeMartino · 180 pages
Study combining aspects of religion and psychotherapy by leading psychoanalyst, an authority on Buddhism, and a student of Zen Buddhism in Japan.
Psychoanalysis and Religion
Erich Fromm · 119 pages
The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World
Dalai Lama XIV, Howard C. Cutler · 305 pages
Blending common sense and modern psychiatry, The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World applies Buddhist tradition to twenty-first-century struggles in a relevant way. The result is a wise approach to dealing with human problems that is both optimistic and realistic, even in the most challenging times.How can we expect to find happiness and meaning in our lives when the modern world seems such an un
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
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
Sam Harris · 256 pages
For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Waking Up is a guide to meditation as a rational practice informed by neuroscience and psychology. From Sam Harris, neuroscientist and author of numerous New York Times bestselling books, Waking Up is for the twenty percent of Americans who follow no religion but who suspect that important truths can be found in the experienc
Ego and Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function of the Psyche
Edward F. Edinger · 304 pages
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
Religions, Values, and Peak-Experiences
Abraham H. Maslow · 123 pages
Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl · 191 pages
"Viktor Frankl is known to millions of readers as a psychotherapist who has transcended his field in his search for answers to the ultimate questions of life, death, and suffering. Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning explores the sometimes unconscious basis human desire for inspiration or revelation, and illustrates how life can offer profound meaning at every turn."--BOOK JACKET.
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
The Varieties of Religious Experience
William James · 470 pages
This is one of the most remarkable books ever written about religious experience. James captures the reader’s attention with vivid instances of religious experience collected from diverse sources, including classical religious texts, newspaper articles, and clinical studies. In this collection of Gifford lectures given in Scotland in 1901, James analyzes religious experience, using wonderful examp
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.
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.
The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness
Alan W. Watts · 106 pages
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Eckhart Tolle · 316 pages
The highly anticipated follow-up to the 2,000,000 copy bestselling inspirational book, The Power of NowWith his bestselling spiritual guide The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle inspired millions of readers to discover the freedom and joy of a life lived "in the now." In A New Earth, Tolle expands on these powerful ideas to show how transcending our ego-based state of consciousness is not only essential
Erinnerungen, Träume, Gedanken
Carl Gustav Jung · 422 pages
Trying Not to Try: The Art of Effortlessness and the Power of Spontaneity
Edward Slingerland · 304 pages
Iron John: A Book About Men
Robert Bly · 287 pages
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
Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature
Connie Zweig, Jeremiah Abrams · 335 pages