Category Archives: Free E-Books
…damp, drizzly November in my soul…
Note: this blog will have it’s 100,00th visitor sometime this week. Maybe tomorrow. Really. But that isn’t the point- When I was about 11 I decided to memorize “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville. I had read the book … Continue reading
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DSM 5 drafted, Kill Ugly Radio and Friends
In what has to be considered a bold move, the APA has posted the draft of the DSM 5 on the web and made it available for reading and comment here. A variety of changes and non-changes are already attracting … Continue reading
Sadhana, Mostly Western Style
I have posted a variety of articles and books regarding Sadhana, primarily from the traditions of Yoga (both Hindu and Buddhist). Today I would like to provide some background and examples of Christian Sadhana along with full-text downloadable books written by some of … Continue reading
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Upanishads, Part 2
Scroll down a ways for Part 1. Max Muller Translation, mostly. I just finished cleaning up the text tonight- eliminating some verbose debris, removing the original page numbers and fixing weird paragraph splits. This is a 19th century translation and … Continue reading
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Wednesday Book Club
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. -Aldous Huxley First- Someone said something the other day and used a phrase I remember from reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. I don’t remember the phrase … Continue reading
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Sunday Soup May 3rd 2009
First, some poetry readings compliments of Librivox: lesel-mueller-monet-refuses-the-operation gary-snyder-how-poetry-comes-to-me charles-simic-i-was-stolen-by-the-gypsies sylvia-plath-daddy sylvia-plath-ariel david-ray-the-greatest-poem-in-the-world Not cleaned up, so formatting is weird, from Project Gutenberg, The Life of St. Francis by Paul Sabatier: lifeofstfrancis By HH Shamar Rinpoche, The Seven Points of … Continue reading
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Thought Relics- Tagore
Today’s offering is another book by Rabindranath Tagore, Thought Relics, which he also translated into English. It is in the public domain and the full download is at the bottom of this post as a Word Document. First, some excerpts: … Continue reading
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Dip deeply into the Dao, Soup Sippers of the Moon
An assortment of audio and doc format translations of the Tao Te Ching. What more can I say? It’s the way. The Tao Te Ching Translation by Gia Fu Feng & Jane English Comments and layout by Thomas Knierim E-Book, … Continue reading
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J. Krisnamurti- Free E-Book- Freedom from the Known
Jiddu Krishnamurti background: (from Wikipedia article) Jiddu Krishnamurti (Telugu: జిడ్డు కృష్ణ మూర్తి) or J. Krishnamurti (Telugu: జే . కృష్ణ మూర్తి), (May 12, 1895–February 17, 1986) was a well known writer and speaker on philosophical and spiritual subjects. His subject matter … Continue reading
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Sadhana- The Realization of Life by Rabindranath Tagore
At long last, I’ve come across an audio of Sadhana- The Realization of Life by Rabindranath Tagore (the most popular post ever on this blog- go here for the complete e-book download). Now, I have the LibriVox, public domain audio … Continue reading
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