Reading List
Below is a curated list of further reading to accompany your course.
Many of the volumes listed are available via our online bookshop.
| Anandamayi Ma | Essential Shri Anandamayi Ma |
| Galileo Galilei | Selected Writings |
| Hazrat Inayat Khan | Art of Being and Becoming |
| Helen Keller | The Story of My Life |
| Hildegard of Bingen | Selected Writings |
| Jacques Lusseyran | And There Was Light |
| James Allen | As a Man Thinketh |
| Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo | Into the Heart of Life |
| John Keats | The Complete Poems of John Keats |
| Lao Tzu | Tao Te Ching |
| Leon MacLaren | Reminders |
| Marsilio Ficino | Letters Vol. 1 |
| Paul Reps | Zen Flesh, Zen Bones |
| Pierre Hadot | Philosophy as a Way of Life |
| Plato | The Last Days of Socrates |
| Republic | |
| Complete Works | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Simone Weil | Simone Weil: An Anthology |
| Seneca | Letters from a Stoic |
| Shakespeare | Hamlet |
| Sonnets | |
| Shantananda Saraswati | Good Company |
| The Man who Wanted to Meet God | |
| Thomas the Apostle | Gospel of Thomas |
| Vivekananda | Complete Works |
| Wangari Muta Maathai | Unbowed |
| William Blake | The Complete Poems |
| William Wordsworth | Collected Poems |
| Martin Buber | I and Thou, |
| Tales of Hasidim | |
| Dalai Lama | The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living |
| Eugen Herrigel | Zen and the Art of Archery |
| Victor Frankl | Man’s Search for Meaning |
| Eric Fromm | The Art of Loving |
| Goleman & Davidson | The Science of Meditation |
| John Main | Word into Silence |
| Kabir | Ecstatic Poems |
| Kahlil Gibran | The Prophet |
| Leon MacLaren | The Power of Service |
| Nelson Mandela | Long Walk to Freedom |
| Paramahamsa Yogananda | Autobiography of a Yogi |
| Purohit Swami | Bhagavad Geeta |
| The Ten Principal Upanishads | |
| Rumi | The Essential Rumi |
| Steven Pinker | Enlightenment Now |
| H.P. Shastri | World Within the Mind |
| Recommended Podcasts | |
| Peter Adamson: A History of Philosophy without any Gaps | |
DISCLAIMER: Please note that just because an author is listed, this does not mean that The School of Philosophy and Economic Science agrees with all the published views of the author. This is also the case with any podcasts included on the list.