This Book List was originally put together by Ron Mangravite,
Barbara Johnson, Cynthia Edson, and Jill Bugbee (now Jill Rand). Some others have been
added.
Authors unknown:
_______: Emissary from Planet #5
_______: The Witch's Dream.
Adler, Margot:.......................... Drawing Down the
Moon.
Andrews, Lynn:........................ Medicine Woman ( 1981);
Jaguar Woman; Crystal Woman. Native American shamanism disguised
a bit to protect her sources.
Bach, Richard:......................... Illusions - the
Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah. Inspirational light reading.
Baigent, Michael, ...................
Holy Blood, Holy Grail
Richard Leigh & Henry Lincoln:.
Bailey, Alice :..........................
Ponder On This. Also her many other books. 19th century. Predicted group formation.
Bentov, Itzhak:......................... Stalking the Wild
Pendulum. 1977 mystical physics.
Blake, A.G.E.:.......................... A Seminar on Time.
a Gurdjieff-system student.
Blair, Lawrence:....................... Rhythms of Vision.
Blavatsky, Mme:...................... Studies In Occultism.
from theosophical press.
Bryant, Dorothy:....................... The Kin of Ata Are
Waiting for You. mystical feminism.
Burland, C.A............................
Feathered Serpent And Smoking Mirror- the Gods and Cultures of Ancient . Mexico 1975 and Forman,Werner:......................
Campbell, Joseph:................... Hero With A Thousand Faces,
revised 1968. history of an archetype. 1949
Campbell, Joseph:................... Inner Reaches of Outer
Space, Metaphor As Myth and As Religion
Campbell, Joseph:................... The Way of the Animal Powers,
Volume 1 in the Historical Atlas of World
Mythology. 1959-1987
Capra, Fritjof:........................... The Tao of Physics.
1976 mystical physics.
Castenada, Carlos:................... The Teachings of Don Juan; A
Separate Reality; Journey to Ixtlan;
.............................................. Tales of Power;
The Second Ring of Power; The Eagle's Gift; The Fire From
...............................
Within; The Power of Silence; and whatever else comes out. Yaqui Indian sorcery,
shamanism, etc
Collin, Rodney:........................ Theory of Celestial
Influence; Theory of Celestial Harmony; Theory of Eternal Life,
............................................... etc. he was a student of Ouspensky, thus a
Gurdjieffian.
DeRopp, Robert:...................... The Master Game (
1968); Self-Completion; The Warrior's Way.
Edinger:..................................
Ego and Archetype.
Ellis, Normandi:........................ Awakening Osiris.
the Book of Coming Forth into Day.
Frazer, James:......................... The New Golden Bough.
1975.
Goodman, Dr. Felicitas:............ Where The Spirits Ride The Wind.
ecstatic body postures.
Gore, Belinda:......................... Ecstatic Body Postures.
1995. ISBN 1-879181-22-3 Updated from Where The Spirits
............................................
Ride The Wind, but with drawings instead of photographs
Gray, William:........................... The Sangreal Tarot.
1988.
Hanson, L. Taylor:.................... He Walked the Americas. 1963.
Heidel, Alexander:................... The Gilgamesh Epic And Old
Testament Parallels. 1946, 1949. Univ. Chicago
............................................... Press.
Note the date, but use to compare other translations
Highwater, Jamahe:.................. The Primal Mind Vision &
Reality in Indian America. 1981 North American Indian Ceremonies,
............................................... Music
& Dances. 1977
Keen, Sam:............................. Fire In The Belly.
1991
Koltuv, Barbara Black, Ph.D.:.... The Book of Lilith. 1986. ISBN
0-89254-014-1. Very feminist overview of
Lilith myths,
........................................... history and variations. Compare
with others
Kramer, Samuel Noah:............. The Sumerians. 1963 Univ. Chicago Press pb. Old White Male scholarship, but
useful for comparison with
radical feminists. Note that he worked well with Diane Wolkstein.
Lamy, Lucie:............................ Egyptian Mysteries.
1981 Thames and Hudson. Good pictures.
Lawlor, Robert:......................... Sacred Geometry.
1982 Thames and Hudson. Good for symbolism but errors in math and
some proofs.
...............................................Schneider
is more accurate.
Lonegren, Sig:......................... Labyrinths Ancient
Myths And Modern Uses.
Mertz, Henriette:....................... Atlantis, Dwelling Place of the Gods. 1976. Theory that
Atlantis was the Southeastern U.S.A.
Naydler, Jeremy:..................... The Temple of the Cosmos. 1996. ISBN
0-89281-555-8 good for Egyptian myth and astral.
Pearson, Carol:........................ The Hero Within.
archetypes.
Pearson, Carol:........................ Awakening The Heroes
Within. 1991 revised. archetypes
Pennick, Nigel:........................ Mazes And Labyrinths
(London Robert Hale, 1990). Not perfect, it's still an excellent book on labyrinths
Perera, Sylvia:......................... Descent to the Goddess
- A Way of Initiation for Women. 1981. Inner City Books
............................................... (a Jungian publisher). ISBN 0-919123-05-8 reasonably
good on Sumerian myth but
............................................... compare
details of translations with others.
Pritchard, J:............................. The Ancient Near
East (2 volumes), 1958, Princeton Univ. Press. includes
some of
...............................................
the other hymns to Inanna.
Purce, Jill:............................... The Mystic Spiral.
Thames and Hudson. picture book.
Sandars, N.K.:......................... Poems of Heaven And
Hell From Ancient Mesopotamia. 1971 Penguin Classics pb
. ..............................................good
translations of Sumerian myth.
Schneider, Michael:................. A Beginner's Guide to
Constructing the Universe. 1994
Schoch, Robert M., Ph.D.:........ Voices of the Rocks a Scientist Looks at
Catastrophes & Ancient Civilizations. ...............................................
1999.
Stone, Merlin:.......................... When God Was A Woman.
1976. Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch. Very feminist. has some interesting bits.
Tannen, Deborah, Ph.D.:.......... You Just Don't Understand. 1990
Ballantine Books pb. Why men and women in this
culture get totally different messages ......................................... from the same words.
Temple, Robert:.......................
The Sirius Mystery. 1976-1987
Watts, Alan:..............................
Lord of the Four Quarters; The Two hands of God; The Wisdom of the Serpent
Watts, Alan, ed.:....................... Patterns of Myth (3
volumes)
White, John:............................. Frontiers of
Consciousness; Kundalini, Evolution and Enlightenment;
............................................... What
Is Enlightenment? he's said to be easy to read
Wilber, Ken:............................. Up From Eden - A Transpersonal View of Human Evolution.
Also The Atman
............................................... Project,
No Boundary, The Sociable God, The Holographic Paradigm, Quantum
............................................... Questions.
- anything, but he's not easy reading
Wilson, Robert Anton:............... Quantum Psychology. 1990.
mystical physics, the mind.
Wolkstein, Diane
Inanna Queen of Heaven and Earth, her stories and hymns from Sumer. 1983.
and S.N. Kramer: ................. Many hymns,
illustrated with photographs of image from Sumerian tablets and
seals.
Wood, David:........................... GenIsis--The First
Book of Revelations. 1985. ISBN 0-85936-180-2. numbers,
...............................................
sacred geometry, Rennes-le-Chateau. He goes overboard but it's an interesting
overboard.
Zimmer:...................................
The King And The Corpse (Tales of Soul's Conquest of Evil)
Zola, Emile:............................. Anything. he's useful
for archetypes.
Zukav, Gary:............................ The Dancing Wu Li
Masters. mystical physics.
The
most beautiful and profound emotion