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Book list:
The Passion of the Western Mind – Richard Tarnas
Secret Teachers of the Western World – Gary Lachman
Arcana V: Musicians on Music, Magic & Mysticism – John Zorn
Voudou Nation: Haitian Art Music and Cultural Nationalism – Michael Largey
The Ritual Process – Victor W. Turner
The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth – Michael Spitzer
Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississipi Delta – Robert Palmer
Music of Life – Hazrat Inayat Khan
The Mysticism of Sound and Music: The Sufi Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan
Shamans: Siberian Spirituality and the Western Imagination – Ronald Hutton
Walking on the Wind: Cherokee Teachings for Harmony and Balance – Michael Tlanusta Garrett
Mutual Aid – Dean Spade
The Vulnerary of Christ: The Mysterious Emblems of the Wounds in the Body and Heart of Jesus Christ – Louis Charbonneau-Lassay
The Quest for the Shaman – Thames & Hudson
The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name – Brian C. Muraresku and Graham HancockJourney Into Dreamtime by Munya Andrews
The Early Greek Concept of the Soul by Jan Bremmer
The Soul of the World by Roger Scruton
The Return of the Prodigal Son by Henri J. M. Nouwen
The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives. Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers – Robert L. Heilbroner
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human by Eduardo Kohn
The Way of the Shaman by Michael Harner
Cave and Cosmos: Shamanic Encounters with Another Reality by Michael HarnerThe Art of Losing Control by Jules Evans
Breaking Open: Finding a Way Through Spiritual Emergency by Jules EvansThe Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William JamesWeird Scenes Inside the Canyon by David McGowan
Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False by Thomas Nagel
The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World by Lewis Hyde
Music in Primitive Culture by Author Bruno Nettl
Radical Technologies: the design of everyday life by Adam Greenfield
Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality by Dean Radin Ph.D
The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena by Dean Radin PhD (Paperback)
Prehistoric Belief: Shamans, Trance and the Afterlife by Mike Williams
A History of Western Music by J. Peter Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout
The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History by Mircea Eliade, Jonathan Z. Smith
The Rise of Music in the Ancient World, East and West by Curt SachsThe Spiritual Significance of Music by Justin St. Vincent (2009-12-01) by Justin St. Vincent
Why We Need Religion by Stephen T. Asma
The Orphic Hymns by Professor Apostolos N Athanassakis, Benjamin M Wolkow
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief by Jordan B. Peterson
The Noetic Universe. by Dean Radin by Dean I. Radin
Life After Life: The Bestselling Original Investigation That Revealed “Near-Death Experiences” by Raymond Moody
The Science Delusion: Feeling the Spirit of Enquiry. Rupert Sheldrake by Rupert Sheldrake
The Architecture of Matter by Stephen Toulmin, June Goodfield
When the Sun Danced: Myth, Miracles, and Modernity in Early Twentieth Century Jeffrey S. BennettMicrocosm and Medium by Joseph P Farrell
The Lessons of History by Will Durant, Ariel Durant
Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music by Greg Milner
Little Science, Big Science and Beyond by Derek J.De Solla Price
The Language of Creation: Cosmic Symbolism in Genesis: A Commentary by Matthieu Pageau
Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences by Jeffrey Long, Paul Perry
In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall: 50 Years at Gombe by Jane Goodall
Perpetua’s Passion: The Death and Memory of a Young Roman Woman by Joyce E. Salisbury
Gods of the Ancient Northmen by Dumezil
A History of the Vikings by Gwyn JonesOrpheus: The Song of Life by Ann Wroe
In Search of the Indo-Europeans : Language, Archeology and Myth by J. P. Mallory
The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, Prehistory to A.D. 1450, Second Edition by David C. LindbergThe Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences by Jason A. Josephson-Storm
Implicit Religion: An Introduction by Edward I. Bailey (1999-01-21) by Edward I. BaileyThe Man Who Could Fly – Michael Grosso
Secular Faith Controversy (Issues in Contemporary Religion) by Edward I. Bailey (2001-07-15) by Edward I. Bailey
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Who Killed the Jingle?: How a Unique American Art Form Disappeared by Steve Karmen
Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discovery by Rupert Sheldrake
History of Greek Culture by Jacob BurckhardtModern Man in Search of a Soul by C.G. Jung
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible by Charles EisensteinSacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition by Charles Eisenstein
Ascent of Humanity by Charles EisensteinThe Origins of the World’s Mythologies by E.J. Michael Witzel
African Religion: From Quantum Cosmology to the Symbolism of God by Mbog Bassong
Crossroads and Cosmologies: Diasporas and Ethnogenesis in the New World by Christopher C. Fennell
The Complete Story of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage, Life of Greece, Caesar and Christ, Age of Faith, Renaissance,
Age of Reason Begins, Age of Louis … Revolution, Age of Napoleon, Reformation by Will and Ariel Durant
Paradise Lost (illustrated) – MiltonThe Doré Bible Illustrations – Gustave Doré
The Doré Illustrations for Divine Comedy – Gustave Doré
Doré’s Illustrations for “Paradise Lost” – Gustave Doré
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