http://tantrabookclub.com Read and Be Free Sun, 02 May 2010 15:24:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've wanted to learn this Ganesha Mantra from the Rig Veda for several years now, it has always struck me as being a chant that really conveys and connects with Ganesha Shakti.  For some reason, it has always escaped me.  I would try to learn it, and try as I ... http://tantrabookclub.com/2010/05/karma-shakti-and-mantra/ Some Music by Wynne Paris Saraswati Bum Shiva Wynne's Website http://tantrabookclub.com/2010/02/saraswati/ A few new books made their way into The Library recently, under some fairly auspicious circumstances.  The first two books, The Play of God: Visions of the Life of Krishna and There Are No Secrets: Professor Cheng Man Ch'ing and His T'ai Chi Chuan,  I found one fine morning strolling ... http://tantrabookclub.com/2010/01/new-year-new-aquisitions/ 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.  ... http://tantrabookclub.com/2009/12/a-single-man-by-chris-isherwood/ [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="271" caption="Siddhar Thirumoolar"][/caption] 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 ... http://tantrabookclub.com/2009/12/thirumandiram-post-one/ 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 ... http://tantrabookclub.com/2009/12/the-radience-sutras-first-post/ 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 ... http://tantrabookclub.com/2009/12/new-aquisitions/ 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 ... http://tantrabookclub.com/2009/12/timothy-learys-tao-te-ching/