Reading List

Below is a curated list of further reading to accompany your course.

Many of the volumes listed are available via our online bookshop.

Anandamayi Ma	Essential Shri Anandamayi Ma
Galileo Galilei	Selected Writings
Hazrat Inayat Khan	Art of Being and Becoming
Helen Keller	The Story of My Life
Hildegard of Bingen	Selected Writings
Jacques Lusseyran	And There Was Light
James Allen	As a Man Thinketh
Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo	Into the Heart of Life
John Keats	The Complete Poems of John Keats
Lao Tzu	Tao Te Ching
Leon MacLaren	Reminders
Marsilio Ficino	Letters Vol. 1
Paul Reps	Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
Pierre Hadot	Philosophy as a Way of Life
Plato	The Last Days of Socrates
	Republic
	Complete Works
Ralph Waldo Emerson	The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Simone Weil	Simone Weil: An Anthology
Seneca	Letters from a Stoic
Shakespeare	Hamlet
	Sonnets
Shri Shantananda Sarasvati	Good Company
	The Man who Wanted to Meet God
Thomas the Apostle	Gospel of Thomas
Vivekananda	Complete Works
Wangari Muta Maathai	Unbowed
William Blake	The Complete Poems
William Wordsworth	Collected Poems
Martin Buber	I and Thou
	Tales of Hasidim
Dalai Lama	The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living
Eugen Herrigel	Zen and the Art of Archery
Victor Frankl	Man's Search for Meaning
Eric Fromm	The Art of Loving
Goleman & Davidson	The Science of Meditation
John Main	Word into Silence
Kabir	Ecstatic Poems
Kahlil Gibran	The Prophet
Leon MacLaren	The Power of Service
Nelson Mandela	Long Walk to Freedom
Paramahamsa Yogananda	Autobiography of a Yogi
Purohit Swami	Bhagavad Geeta
	The Ten Principal Upanishads
Rumi	The Essential Rumi
Steven Pinker	Enlightenment Now
H.P. Shastri	World Within the Mind

Recommended podcasts

Peter Adamson: A History of Philosophy without any Gaps

Please note that just because an author is listed, this does not mean that The School of Philosophy and Economic Science agrees with all the published views of the author. This is also the case with any podcasts included on the list.