Archives: December2009

• A Single Man By Chris Isherwood

  Most of us are primarily familiar with Christopher Isherwood’s Vedantic Works.  He produced some beautiful translations of The Yoga Sutras (How to Know God), The Bhagavad Gita (The Song of God), and Shankara’s Crest Jewel of Discrimination.  We might have also read his spiritual autobiorgraphy, My Guru and His Disciple.  This last book is perhaps [...]

• Thirumandiram, post one

  I discovered a new text recently.  Love it.  From the Tamil, Southern  India, The Thirumandiram has a slightly different vibe from the northern, Kashmiri literature that I am a little more used to.  These teachings of Siddhar Thirumoolar are said to be the seed that later blossomed into Saiva Siddhanta, a very heartfelt and devotional [...]

• The Radience Sutras: First Post

  When I was at Bhakti Fest in Joshua Tree last month, i met a man named Lorin Roche.  He was a scholar and meditation teacher, and had spent several years working on a beautiful, poetic, practical, and accessible version of The Vijnana Bhairava tantra.  The vbt is a delightful text that outlines powerful meditation techniques [...]

• New Aquisitions

  I really enjoy books. I’ve always accumulated them quite easily, read them voraciously, and collected them doggedly. My library reached a new level several years ago when Bhagavan Das asked me to look after a few boxes of his books. There was some good stuff in there, stuff I may not have come across otherwise, [...]

• Timothy Leary’s Tao Te Ching

  Dearest Yogis and Yoginis,
  I am reading a fantastic book.
  They recently republished Timothy Leary’s version of the Tao Te Ching, “Psychedelic Prayers”. (Psychedelic Prayers: And Other Meditations (Leary, Timothy)
  ) I had an old version once, but I gave it to Paulie Zink. I was without one for a while, because I didn’t feel like spending $50 [...]