Sources and References

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Module 1: Sources and References

Primary Sources: Ancient Traditions

• Anonymous (“Three Initiates”). The Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece. Yogi Publication Society, 1908.
• Vasistha (attributed). The Yoga Vasistha. Trans. Swami Venkatesananda. State University of New York Press, 1993.
• Ashtavakra Gita. Trans. John Richards. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010.
• Asanga and Vasubandhu. Vijnaptimatratasiddhi (Yogacara Texts). Multiple scholarly translations; see Lusthaus, Dan. Buddhist Phenomenology. RoutledgeCurzon, 2002.
• Sefer Yetzirah (Book of Formation). Trans. Aryeh Kaplan. Samuel Weiser, 1990.
• Eckhart, Meister. The Complete Mystical Works of Meister Eckhart. Trans. Maurice O’C. Walshe. Crossroad Publishing, 2009.
• Loyola, Ignatius of. The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. Trans. Louis J. Puhl, S.J. Loyola Press, 1951.
• Corpus Hermeticum. In Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius. Trans. Brian P. Copenhaver. Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Primary Sources: New Thought & Goddard

• Goddard, Neville. Feeling Is the Secret. DeVorss & Company, 1944.
• Goddard, Neville. The Power of Awareness. DeVorss & Company, 1952.
• Goddard, Neville. Awakened Imagination. DeVorss & Company, 1954.
• Goddard, Neville. Resurrection. DeVorss & Company, 1966.
• Holmes, Ernest. The Science of Mind. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1938 (revised 1966).
• Troward, Thomas. The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science. Dodd, Mead & Company, 1904.
• Shinn, Florence Scovel. The Game of Life and How to Play It. Florence Scovel Shinn, 1925.
• Hill, Napoleon. Think and Grow Rich. The Ralston Society, 1937.

Secondary & Historical Sources

• Horowitz, Mitch. The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality. Inner Traditions, 2018.
• Horowitz, Mitch. Daydream Believer: Unlocking the Ultimate Power of Your Mind. St. Martin’s Essentials, 2022.
• Lachman, Gary. A Secret History of Consciousness. Lindisfarne Books, 2003.
• Goldberg, Philip. American Veda: From Emerson and the Beatles to Yoga and Meditation. Harmony Books, 2010.
• Regardie, Israel. The Middle Pillar: The Balance Between Mind and Magic. Llewellyn Publications, 2004.
• James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature. Longmans, Green & Co., 1902.
• Hanegraaff, Wouter J. New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought. State University of New York Press, 1998.
• Albanese, Catherine L. A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion. Yale University Press, 2007.
• Scholem, Gershom. Kabbalah. Keter Publishing House, 1974.
• Fine, Lawrence. Physician of the Soul, Healer of the Cosmos: Isaac Luria and His Kabbalistic Fellowship. Stanford University Press, 2003.
• Cunningham, Adrian. “Theosophy and the New Thought Movement.” Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 2, no. 2 (1999): 219–240.
• Satter, Beryl. Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement, 1875–1920. University of California Press, 1999.

Neuroscience & Philosophy: Contextual Sources for This Module

• Kastrup, Bernardo. The Idea of the World: A Multi-Disciplinary Argument for the Mental Nature of Reality. John Hunt Publishing, 2019.
• Goff, Philip. Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Mind. Pantheon Books, 2019.
• Seth, Anil. Being You: A New Science of Consciousness. Dutton, 2021.