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Essays listed in chronological order starting with most recent. For archives, please see previous volumes below.
  • Writer's pictureRudy Bauer

Book List Section 3


Rudolph Bauer, PhD


Washington Center For Consciousness Studies

Suggested Readings Section #3


Muktananda, Swami, From the Finite to the Infinite, Syda Foundation

Muktananda, Swami, Kundalini:  The Secret of Life, Syda Foundation

Muktananda, Swami, Mukteshwari, Syda Foundation

Muktananda, Swami, The Perfect Relationship:  The Guru and the Disciple, Syda Foundation

Muktananda, Swami, Resonate with Stillness:  Daily Contemplations, Syda Foundation

Muktananda, Swami, Where Are You Going:  A guide to the Spiritual Journey, Syda Foundation

Muller-Ortega, Paul, The Triadic Heart of Shiva, SUNY, 1989

Odier, Daniel, Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love, Inner Traditions, 1997

Odier, Daniel, Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening, Inner Traditions, 1999

Odier, Daniel, Yoga Spandakarika: The Sacred Texts at the Origins of Tantra, Inner Traditions, 2004

Prajnananda, Swami,  A Search for the Self: The Story of Swami Muktananda, Gurudev Siddha Peeth 1981

Saso, Michael, The Gold Pavilion:  Taoist Ways to Peace, Healing and Long Life, Tuttle Publishing 1995

Sastry, Alladi Mahadevi, Dakshinamurti Stotra of Sri Sankaracharya, 1978

Shahmaghhsoudi, MTO, The Fragrance of Sufism, University Press of America, 1996

Sharma, Chandradhar, The Advaita Tradition in Indian Philosophy, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 2007

Silburn, Lilian, Kundalini: Energy of the Depths, State University Press of New York, 1988

Siderits, Mark, Evan Thompson, Dan Zahavi, Self, No Self – Perspectives From Analitical, Phenomenological and Indian Thought, Oxford  University Press 2011

Singh, Jaideva, Siva Sutras: the Yoga of Supreme Identity, Montilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1979

Singh, Jaideva, Vijnanabhairava or Divine Consciousness, Montilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1979

Singh, Jaideva, Abhinavagupta: A Trident of Wisdom, State University of New York Press, 1989

Singh, Jaideva, Abhinavagupta:  Paratirsika-Vivarana:  The Secret of Tantric Mysticism, Montilal Banarsidass Publishers, 2005

Thrangu Rinpoche, The Uttara Tantra: A Treastise on Buddha Nature, Root Text Translation, Sri Satguru Publications, 1989

Watson, Burton, The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-Chi: A Translation of the Lin-Chi-Lu, Columbia, 1993

White, David, The Alchemical Body; Siddha Traditions in Medieval India, University of Chicago Press, 1996

White, David Gordon, Kiss of the Yogini, Tantric Sex in it’s South Asian Context, University of Chicago Press 2003

White David, Tantra in Practice, Princeton University Press, 2000

Woodroffe, Sir John, The Garland of Letters, Ganesh and Company 1979

Wong, Eva (translator). Holding Yin, Embracing Yang: Three Taoist classics on meditation, breath regulation, sexual yoga, and the circulation of internal energy, Shambala, 2005

Wozniak, Jo Ann et. al. Yan Xin Qiqong and the Contemporay Sciences, International Yan Xin Qiqong association, 1991

Zuyin, Lu, Scientific Qiqong Exploration: The Wonders and Mysteries of Qi, Amber Leaf Press, 1997

Phenomenology, Psychology and Philosophy

Armstrong, Karen. The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism, Random House, 2000

Balis, George U. Psychiatric Clinical Skills in Medical Practice, Butterworth Publishers 1978

Bateman, Anthony and Peter Fonagy, Mentalization-Based Treatment for Borderline Personlality Disorder,  Oxford University Press 2006

Beckett, Samuel, Waiting for Godot, Grove Press 1954

Bortoft, Henri. Goethes’s Scientific Consciousness, The Institute for Cultural Research, 1998

Bozga, Adina, The Exasperating Gift of Singularity:  Husserl, Levinas, Henry, Zeta Books 2009

Bryden, Mary Deleuze and Religion, Taylor and Francis Books, 2001

Bruzina, Ronald, Edmund Husserl and Eugen Fink: Beginnings and ends in phenomenology 1928 – 1938

Butler, Judith, Subjects of Desire:  Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France, Columbia University Press, 1987

Capobianco, Richard, Engaging Heidegger, Universtiy of Toronto Press 2010

Caputo, John D. The Mystical Element in Heidegger’s Thought, Fordham University Press, 1986

Caputo, John D. Radical Hermeneutics:  Repition, Deconstruction, and the Hermeneutic Project, Indiana University Press 1987

Carmen, Taylor, et al. The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty, Cambridge University Press, 2005

Cobb, Noel, Archetypal Imagination:  Glimpses of the Gods in Life and Art, Lindisfarne Press 1992

Deleuze, Gilles, Pure Immanence, Essays on a Life, Zone Books 2001

Depraz, Natalie et al, eds. On Becoming Aware: Advances in Consciousness Research, John Benjamins, 2003

Derrida, Jacques, The Work of Mourning, Chicago University Press, 2001

Dreyfus, Hubert L and Mark A. Wrathall, The Companion to Heidegger, Blackwell Publishing 2005

Eigen, Michael. Ecstasy, Wesleyan University Press, 2001

Eigen, Michael, The Psychoanalytic Mystic, Free Association Books 1998

Federn, Paul, M.D. Ego Psychology and the Psychoses, Basic Books 1952

Fehmi, Les PhD and Jim Robbins, Open Focus Brain:  Harnessing the Power of Attention to Heal Mind and Body, Trumpeter Books 2007

Fink, Bruce, A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis:  Theory and Technique, First Harvard University Press, 1997

Flynn, Bernard and Wayne J. Froman and Robert Vallier, Merleau-Ponty and the Possibilities of Philosophy:  Transforming the Tradition, SUNY Press 2009

Fonagy, Peter, et al. Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of the Self, Other Press, 2002

Forman, Robert K.C. The Problem of Pure Consciousness, Oxford University Press 1990

Haar, Michael, Heidegger and the Essence of Man, State University of New York, 1993

Hallward, Peter, Out of This World:  Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation, Verso 2006

Harper, Ralph, On Presence:  Variations and Reflections, John Hopkins University Press, 2006

Heidegger, Martin, Basic Writings, Harper 1977

Heidegger, Martin. Contributions to Philosophy, Indiana University Press, 1989

Heidegger, Martin, Four Seminars, Indiana University Press 1986

Heidegger, Martin, Mindfulness, Continuum Intl Pub 2006

Heidegger, Martin, Off the Beaten Track, Cambridge University Press 2002

Heidegger, Martin, On the Way to Language, Harper and Row 1971

Heidegger, Martin, Trancedental, Stanford University Press 2007

Henry, Michel, The Essence of Manifestation, Martinus Nijhoff 1973

Hill, Phillip, Lacan for Beginners, For Beginners Books 1997

Hurtak, J.J. Gnosticism:  Mystery of Mysteries, The Acadamy for Future Science, 1970

Kapstein, Mathew, ed., The Presence of Light: Divine Radiance and Religious Experience. University of Chicago Press, 2004

Lacan, Jacques, My Teaching, Verso 2008

Leloup, Jean-Yves, The Sacred Embrace of Jesus and Mary:  The Sexual Mystery at the Heart of the Christian Tradition, Inner Traditions, 2005

Levin, David Michael, The Philosopher’s Gaze, Modernity in the Shadows of Enlightenment, Duquesne University Press, 1999

Levinas, Emmanuel, Outside the Subject, Stanford University Press, 1987

Madison, Gary. The Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty, Ohio University Press, 1981

Marcel, Gabriel. The Mystery of Being: Volume I: Reflection and Mystery, St. Augustine Press, 2001

Marion, Jean- Luc. Being Given: Toward a Phenomenology of Givenness, Stanford University Press, 2002

Marion, Jean-Luc, In Excess:  Studies of Saturated Phenomena, Fordham University Press, 2002

Marion, Jean-Luc, The Crossing of the Visible, Stanford 1996

Maritain, Jacques, Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry, Pantheon Books 1953

Marmion, Declan and Mary E. Hines, The Cambridge Companion to Karl Rahner, Cambridge University Press 2005

May, Rollo, Existence:  A New Dimension in Psychiatry and Psychology, Basic Books 1958

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, The Incarnate Subject:  Malebranche, Biran and Bergson on the Union of Body and Soul, Humanity Books, 2001

Mitrani, Judith. A  Framework for the Imaginary: Clinical Explorations in Primitive States of Being. Jason Aronson, 1996

Mohanty, J.N. The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl, Yale University, 2008

Moran, Dermot. Introduction to Phenomenology, Routeldge, 2000

Mugerauer, Robert, Heidegger and Homecoming, The Leifmotif in the Later Writings, University of Toronto Press 2008

Odajnyk, Walter. Gathering the Light: A Psychology of Meditation, Shambhala, 1993

Park, Jin Y. and Gereon Kopf, Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism, Lexington Books 2009

Parr, Adrian, The Deleuze Dictionary, Edinburgh University Press 2005

Parsons, William. The Enigma of the Oceanic Feeling: Revisioning the Psychoanalytic Theory of Mysticism, Oxford University Press, 1999

Primozic, Daniel Thomas. On Merleau-Ponty, Wadsworth-Thomas Learning, 2001

Polster, Erving and Miriam, Gestalt Therapy Integrated, Brunner/Mazel Publishing 1973

Scott, Nathan A. The Poetics of Belief, The University of North Carolina Press, 1985

De Sercey, Patrick. Being Space, Moon Bear Press, 1991

Sokolowski, Robert Introduction to Phenomenology, Cambridge University Press 2000

Steinbock, Anthony J., Phenomenology and Mysticism:  The Verticality of Religious Experience, Indiana University Press 2007

Stern, Daniel N. The Present Moment in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life, Norton and Co. 2004

Stolorow, Robert, Trauma and Human Existence,

Stolorow, Robert and George Atwood. Contexts of Being: The Intersubjective Foundations of Psychological Life, The Analytic Press, 1992

Van Buren, John, The Young Heidegger:  Rumor of the Hidden King, Indiana University Press 1994

Varela, Francisco and Jonathan Shear, eds. The View from Within: First-person approaches to the Study of Consciousness, Imprint Academic, 2000

Voruz, Veronique and Bogdan Wolf, The Later Lacan, An Introduction, Suny Press, 2007

Watson, Gay, et al. The Psychology of Awakening:  Buddhism, Science and Our Day-to-Day Lives, Weiser 2000

Welton, Donn, The New Husserl – A Critical Reader, Indiana University Press 2003

Wilberg, Peter, Heidegger Phenomenology and Indian Thought, New Gnosis Publications 2008

Wilczek, Frank, The Lightness of Being:  Mass, Ether and the Unification of Forces, Basic Books 2008

Winnicott, Donald. Playing and Reality, Tavistock Publications, 1971

Winnicott, Donald. Holding and Interpretation, Grove Press, 1986

Winnicott, D.W. Psychoanalytic Explorations, First Harvard U, 1989

Wolinshy, Stephen. The Beginners Guide to Quantum Psychology, Cordon Art, 2000


Science and Healing

Barron, John, The Book of Nothing, Vintage Books, 2002

Cumming, Heather and Karen Leffler, John of God, The Brazilian Healer, Atria Books 2007

Goldsmith, Joel, The Art of Spiritual Healing, Harper, 1959

Laughlin, Robert, A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down, Basic Books, 2005

Laszlo, Ervin, The Connectivity Hypothesis: Foundations of an Integral Science of Quantum, Cosmos, Life, and Consciousness.  State University of New York, 2003

Laszlo, Ervin, Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything, Inner Traditions, 2004

Laszlo, Ervin. The Connectivity Hypothesis: Foundations of an integral science of quantum, cosmos, life, and consciousness, State University of New York Press, 2003

McTaggart, Lynne, The Field: The Quest for the Secret force of the Universe, Harper Collins, 2002

Newberg, Andrew et al, Why God Won’t Go Away, Ballantine Books, 2001

Osho, Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously, Insights for a new Way of Living, St. Martin’s Griffen, 1999

Pearl, Eric, The Reconnection: Heal Others, Heal Yourself, Hay House, 2001

Sheldrake, Rupert, Terence Mckenna, and Ralph Abraham, The Evolutionary Mind: Trialogues at the Edge of the Unthinkable, Trialogue Press, 1998

Sheldrake, Rubert. The Hypothesis of a New Science of Life, Park Street Press, 1995

Tilak, Breaking Reality and other Explorations in Consciousness, EBB publishing, 2000

Wallace, Alan B. Buddhism and Science, Columbia University Press, 2003

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