Vivekananda - A Biography

An absorbing biography of Swami Vivekananda (1863 - 1902) that presents his vast knowledge of Eastern and Western culture, deep spiritual insight, brilliant conversation, broad human sympathy, and colorful personality. Swami Vivekananda, India's first spiritual and cultural ambassador to the West, proclaimed the universal message of Vedanta: the non-duality of the Godhead, the divinity of the soul, the oneness of existence, and the harmony of religions.

Atlantis: The Fate of a Lost Land and Its Secret Knowledge

 With his philosophical and scientific training, Steiner brought a new systematic discipline to the field of spiritual research, allowing for fully conscious methods and comprehensive results. A natural seer, he cultivated his spiritual vision to a high degree, enabling him to speak with authority on previously veiled mysteries.
Samples of his work are to be found in this book of edited texts, which gathers excerpts from his many talks and writings on various themes and feature editorial introductions, commentary, and notes.
 

The Sufi Doctrine of Rumi by William Chittick

Although Rumi has become one of America’s favorite poets, very little is known about the underlying metaphysical foundation which illuminates his language. With beautiful illustrations from the world of Persian Sufism, this introduction opens the door to Rumi’s spiritual universe and it highlights Rumi as a of light whose teaching dispels the shadows which prevent modern man from seeing even his own image in its true form and knowing who he really is.

The Heavenly Village

Sweet and warm, these beautifully told tales will have wide appeal. They're touched with a bit of humor, too: for example, on arrival, one character looks around and asks, "Is this Connecticut?" Readers don't need to be religious to appreciate Rylant's spiritual, whimsical but instructive tales.

 

Reading level: Ages 9-12

Arrested in 1849 for belonging to a secret group of radical utopians, Fyodor Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years in a Siberian labor camp - a terrible mental, spiritual, and physical ordeal that inspired him to write the novel The House of the Dead. Told from the point of view of a fictitious narrator - a convict serving a ten-year sentence for murdering his wife novel describes in vivid detail the horrors that Dostoevsky himself witnessed while in prison. The House of the Dead also describes the spiritual death and gradual resurrection from despair experienced by the novel’s central character ...