Agent 888 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Agent 888 on X(Nick) Religious Studies PhD candidate (Rice), interested in comparative mythology/philosophy & the intersection of culture, media/technology, & perception.

Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sūfism of Ibn 'Arabī
Henry Corbin"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
Indian Esoteric Buddhism: A Social History of the Tantric Movement
Ronald Davidson(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)
Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man
Gopi Krishna"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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The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief
George M. Marsden“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)
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“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
A History of Modern Yoga: Patanjali and Western Esotericism
Elizabeth de Michelis(Elizabeth de Michelis, “A History of Modern Yoga”)
Paperback, 2005
$79.95Member price:$79.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Religions of Ancient India
Louis Renou“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)
Hellfire: The Jerry Lee Lewis Story
Nick Tosches“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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Making the Heavens Speak: Religion as Poetry
Peter SloterdijkPeter 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
Biography of a Yogi: Paramahansa Yogananda and the Origins of Modern Yoga
Anya P. Foxen@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)