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(Nick) Religious Studies PhD candidate (Rice), interested in comparative mythology/philosophy & the intersection of culture, media/technology, & perception.

28 books
Book Cover for: Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sūfism of Ibn 'Arabī, Henry Corbin

Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sūfism of Ibn 'Arabī

Henry Corbin
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"The form of every theophany is correlative to the form of the (mystic's) consciousness to which it discloses itself.” -Henry Corbin, 'Alone with the Alone"

Paperback, 1998

$54.00Member price:$48.60 + Free shipping10% off
Book Cover for: Indian Esoteric Buddhism: A Social History of the Tantric Movement, Ronald Davidson

Indian Esoteric Buddhism: A Social History of the Tantric Movement

Ronald Davidson
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(Ronald Davidson on medieval changes brought about by Dignaga and Dharmakirti, in “Indian Esoteric Buddhism”)

Paperback, 2002

$40.00Member price:$40.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man, Gopi Krishna

Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man

Gopi Krishna
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"The aim of all healthy religious disciplines is to create a highly supple & resilient psychophysiological state able to withstand the tremendous pressure & strains consequent on the arousal of the kundalini power." -Gopi Krishna

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Book Cover for: The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief, George M. Marsden

The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief

George M. Marsden
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“Ironically, Protestant universalism (catholicity, if you will) was one of the forces that eventually contributed to the virtual exclusion of religious perspectives from the most influential centers if American life.” -George Marsden, ‘The Soul of the American University’

Paperback, 1996

$61.00Member price:$61.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: Robert Southey - Chronicle Of The Cid: "They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.", Robert Southey

Robert Southey - Chronicle Of The Cid: "They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity."

Robert Southey
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“They sin who tell us Love can die With life all other passions fly All others are but vanity In Heaven ambition cannot dwell Nor avarice in the vaults of Hell Earthly these passions of the Earth They perish where they have their birth But Love is indestructible” -Robert Southey

Paperback, 2015

$12.24Member price:$6.12 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: A History of Modern Yoga: Patanjali and Western Esotericism, Elizabeth de Michelis

A History of Modern Yoga: Patanjali and Western Esotericism

Elizabeth de Michelis
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(Elizabeth de Michelis, “A History of Modern Yoga”)

Paperback, 2005

$79.95Member price:$79.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: Religions of Ancient India, Louis Renou

Religions of Ancient India

Louis Renou
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“The aim of the whole of Vedic thought may be expressed as the attempt to formulate upanisads (“connections” or “equivalences”)” -Louis Renou, ‘Religions of Ancient India’

Hardcover, 2016

$150.00Member price:$150.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: Hellfire: The Jerry Lee Lewis Story, Nick Tosches

Hellfire: The Jerry Lee Lewis Story

Nick Tosches
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“Look, we’ve only got one life to live. We don’t have the promise of the next breath. I know what I am. I’m a rompin’, stompin’, piano-playin’ sonofabitch. A mean sonofabitch. But a great sonofabitch. A good person.” -Jerry Lee Lewis (from Nick Tosches, “Hellfire”) https://t.co/pnjaMC6U4d

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Book Cover for: Making the Heavens Speak: Religion as Poetry, Peter Sloterdijk

Making the Heavens Speak: Religion as Poetry

Peter Sloterdijk
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Peter Sloterdijk’s newest, on the subject of Religion as Poetry https://t.co/NXS9vlnMC7

Paperback, 2023

$24.95Member price:$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Biography of a Yogi: Paramahansa Yogananda and the Origins of Modern Yoga, Anya P. Foxen

Biography of a Yogi: Paramahansa Yogananda and the Origins of Modern Yoga

Anya P. Foxen
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@djp1974 Orin Tucker (quoted in Anya Foxen’s “Biography of a Yogi”) https://t.co/tqWAd2lprP

Paperback, 2017

$32.99Member price:$32.99 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)