In 1656, Amsterdams Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twentythree, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to…
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Rebecca Goldstein
Schocken, August 2009
ISBN: 9780805242737
History, Jewish
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This book is the story of how three brilliant scholars and one ambitious freshman crossed paths in the early sixties at a Harvard-sponsored psychedelic-drug research project, transforming their…
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Don Lattin
HarperCollins, January 2010
ISBN: 9780061966231
Biography & Memoir, Philosophers
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When Bill Wilson, with his friend Dr. Bob Smith, founded Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935, his hope was that AA would become a safe haven for those who suffered from this disease. Thirty years after…
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Francis Hartigan
Thomas Dunne Books, October 2001
ISBN: 9781429927864
Biography & Memoir, Philosophers
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An indispensable work for understanding the life and teachings of one of the most unusual mystics and philosophers of our time. Ten years have past since, in the words of his attending…
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Osho
St. Martin's Press, June 2001
ISBN: 9780312274061
Biography & Memoir, Philosophers
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Few people have failed at love as spectacularly as the great philosophers. Although we admire their wisdom, history is littered with the romantic failures of the most sensible men and women of…
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Andrew Shaffer
HarperCollins, January 2011
ISBN: 9780062036612
Biography & Memoir, Philosophers
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Begun in 1934, this final volume of Gurdjieff's trilogy, All and Everything, is a primary source for Gurdjieff's ideas, methods, and biography. Gurdjieff offers guidance to his "community of seekers…
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G. Gurdjieff
Penguin, August 1999
ISBN: 9781101160411
Philosophy, Metaphics
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Meetings with Remarkable Men, Gurdjieff's autobiographical account of his youth and early travels, has become something of a legend since it was first published in 1963. A compulsive 'read' in the…
For nearly half a century the charismatic, strikingly handsome spiritual teacher J. Krishnamurti gathered an enormous following throughout Europe, India, Australia and North America. From the age of…
Brilliantly researched and wonderfully written, LOVE AND CAPITAL is a heartbreaking and dramatic saga of the family side of the man whose works would redefine the world after his death…