7.2 Complete Reading Index by Tradition

Yoga & Vedānta

• Patañjali – The Yoga Sūtras (Swami Satchidananda or Georg Feuerstein editions)
• T.K.V. Desikachar – The Heart of Yoga
• B.K.S. Iyengar – Light on Yoga
• Stephen Cope – Yoga and the Quest for the True Self
• James Mallinson – Roots of Yoga
• Adi Śankara – Vivekachūdāmani
• Rupert Spira – Being Aware of Being Aware
• Ramana Maharshi – Talks with Ramana Maharshi
• Nisargadatta Maharaj – I Am That
• Mooji – Vaster Than Sky, Greater Than Space

Buddhism (Theravāda, Mahāyāna, Zen, Vajrayāna)

• Bhikkhu Bodhi – In the Buddha’s Words
• Joseph Goldstein – Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening
• Nyanaponika Thera – The Heart of Buddhist Meditation
• Thich Nhat Hanh – The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching
• Nāgārjuna – The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way
• Matthieu Ricard – Happiness
• Shunryū Suzuki – Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
• Joan Halifax – Standing at the Edge
• Norman Fischer – Training in Compassion
• Dōgen – Shōbōgenzō
• Chögyam Trungpa – Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
• Tsoknyi Rinpoche – Open Heart, Open Mind
• The Dalai Lama – The Union of Bliss and Emptiness

Christian Mysticism

• St. John of the Cross – Dark Night of the Soul
• Teresa of Ávila – Interior Castle
• Meister Eckhart – Selected Writings
• Evelyn Underhill – Mysticism
• Thomas Merton – New Seeds of Contemplation
• James Finley – Christian Meditation

Kabbalah

• Daniel C. Matt – The Essential Kabbalah
• Aryeh Kaplan – Meditation and Kabbalah
• Gershom Scholem – Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism
• Adin Steinsaltz – The Thirteen Petalled Rose
• Rabbi David Cooper – God is a Verb
• The Zohar (Pritzker Edition, vol. 1) – trans. Daniel Matt

Sufism

• William C. Chittick – The Sufi Path of Love
• Coleman Barks (Trans.) – The Essential Rumi
• Jean-Louis Michon & Roger Gaetani – Sufism: Love and Wisdom
• Ibn Arabi – Journey to the Lord of Power
• Robert Frager – Heart, Self, and Soul
• Daniel Thomas Dyer – Ninety-Nine Names of God

Alchemy

• Cherry Gilchrist – Alchemy: The Great Work
• C.G. Jung – The Red Book
• Adam McLean – The Alchemical Tradition in the Late Twentieth Century
• Dennis William Hauck (Trans.) – The Emerald Tablet
• Edward Edinger – Jung and Alchemy

Hermeticism

• The Kybalion – The Three Initiates
• Brian Copenhaver (Trans.) – Hermetica
• Manly P. Hall – The Secret Teachings of All Ages
• Anonymous – Meditations on the Tarot
• Marsilio Ficino – Philosophia Hermetica

Western Magickal Traditions

• Aleister Crowley – The Book of the Law
• Donald Michael Kraig – Modern Magick
• William Whitecloud – The Magician’s Way
• Israel Regardie – The Golden Dawn
• Phil Hine – Condensed Chaos
• Alejandro Jodorowsky – Psychomagic
• Angeles Arrien – The Tarot Handbook

Taoism

• Laozi – Tao Te Ching (Trans. Stephen Mitchell or D.C. Lau)
• Zhuangzi – The Book of Chuang Tzu
• Witter Bynner – The Way of Life
• Benjamin Hoff – The Tao of Pooh
• Deng Ming-Dao – The Wisdom of Taoism
• Eva Wong – Cultivating Stillness

South American Plant–Based Traditions

• Joseph Tafur, M.D. – The Fellowship of the River
• Jeremy Narby & Rafael Chanchari Pizuri – Plant Teachers
• Rachel Harris, Ph.D. – Listening to Ayahuasca
• Jeremy Narby – The Cosmic Serpent
• Arno Adelaars – Ayahuasca: Rituals, Potions, and Visionary Art
• Johannes Wilbert – Tobacco and Shamanism in South America

Druidic & European Animism

• John Michael Greer – The Druidry Handbook
• Sharon Blackie – The Enchanted Life
• Graham Harvey – Animism: Respecting the Living World
• Morris Berman – The Reenchantment of the World
• Sharon Paice MacLeod – Celtic Myth and Religion
• Malidoma Somé – Of Water and the Spirit

North American Indigenous Traditions

• The Sacred Tree – Four Worlds Development Project
• Black Elk – Black Elk Speaks
• Robin Wall Kimmerer – Braiding Sweetgrass
• Paul Shepard – Coming Home to the Pleistocene
• Dhyani Ywahoo – Voices of the Ancestors
• Melissa Nelson (Ed.) – Original Instructions

Additions pending editor review — fourteen traditions added beyond the first .pdf edition. These entries are hidden from public navigation until the Editor publishes them.

Tantra, Kashmir Śaivism and Śākta Traditions — Wallis (2012); Feuerstein (1998); Dyczkowski (1987); Krishna (1967); Sannella (1987).

Gnosticism — Pagels (1979); Jonas (1958); Meyer (2007); DeConick (2016).

Greek Mystery Traditions and Neoplatonism — Plotinus/MacKenna (1991); Kingsley (1999); Shaw (1995); Uždavinys (2008); Wasson, Hofmann & Ruck (1978).

Eastern Orthodox Hesychasm — Palmer, Sherrard & Ware (1979–1995); The way of a pilgrim (1991); Ware (1979); Pseudo-Dionysius/Luibheid (1987); Clément (1993).

Taoist Internal Alchemy (Neidan) and Qigong — Cleary (1991); Pregadio (2011); Kohn (2006); Wong (1997).

Siberian and Central Asian Shamanism — Vitebsky (1995); Eliade (1964) [dated, universalising]; Humphrey & Onon (1996); Buyandelger (2013).

Mesoamerican and North American Peyote Traditions — Estrada (1981); Myerhoff (1974); Stewart (1987); Wasson (1974).

Bwiti and Iboga — Fernandez (1982); Alper, Lotsof & Kaplan (2008) [already verified]; Pinchbeck (2002) [popular account].

African Traditions and the Diaspora — Abimbola (1976); Brown (1991); Somé (1994); Olupona (2014); Thompson (1983).

Sikhism and Hindu Bhakti — Singh (2011); Nesbitt (2016); Hawley (2015); Mehrotra (2011).

Australian Aboriginal Traditions — Stanner (2009); Rose (1996); Yunkaporta (2019).

Theosophy, New Thought and the New Age Lineage — Hanegraaff (1996); Albanese (2007); Horowitz (2009); Leadbeater (1927) [primary source, with caveat]; Ward & Voas (2011).

Gurdjieff and the Fourth Way — Ouspensky (1949); Gurdjieff (1963); de Salzmann (2010); Needleman & Baker (1996).

Secular and Naturalistic Mysticism — James (1902); Maslow (1964); Keltner (2023); Harris (2014); Evans (2017); Rankin (2008).