UNDERSTANDING ISLAM.
New York: Roy Publishers, 1963. First US edition. 159 pages. More
New York: Roy Publishers, 1963. First US edition. 159 pages. More
Bloomington: World Wisdom, 2011. A New Translation with Selected Letters; Foreword by Annemarie Schimmel; 263 pages. More
New York: 1994. First edition. Contains "Bodies of Sleep, Garments of Skins" by Stuart Smithers - Ancient views of the relationship between body and soul, "Dangerous Outfits" by Nouk Bassomb - Be careful where you go in borrowed clothes, "Pascal's Jacket" by Noelle Oxenhandler - A meditation on hiddenness, "Every..... More
New York: 2000. Contains "Leaping Over" by Joseph Bruchac - Native American lore of the threshold; "The Gods of Metes and Bounds" by David Hoffman and Sharon Hoffman - Respect for boundaries; "Threshold of Chastity" by Devdutt Pattanaik - Social propriety in the Ramayana; "Information Ecology" by David Rothenberg -..... More
New York: 1988. Contains "The Crane at the Pond" by Eknath Easwaran - A life-or-death test from The Mahabharata; "Beyond the Trap of the Mind" - A conversation between William Segal and D.M. Dooling; "The First Question of All" by Richard Lewis - Children's questions; "Something Else" by P. L...... More
New York: 1995. Contains "In Light of Meaning: An interview with William Segal" - Speaking from the center; "Speaking in Tongues" by Mordechai Beck - The meaning of Babel; "The Word Made Flesh" by Tod Harri - The roots of written language; "The Story of the Arrowmaker" by N. Scott..... More
New York: 2000. First edition. Contains "Misfortune's Fortune" by Laura Simms -That unpredictable play of reversal in stories, "Moving Through Milestones" - An interview with Sobonfu Somv, "Beyond Fate" by David and Sharon Hoffman - Chance interventions in the inevitable, "What Is Our Own Doing?" by Plotinus - A classic..... More
Temple of Justice, 2019. First edition. 97 pages. More
2005. 277 pages. As a Young man, Frank Sinclair looked for, and found, the teaching of G.I. Gurdjieff in Cape Town, South Africa, some eight years after Gurdjieff's death. Moved by his first encounter with Gurdjieff''s chief pupil, Madame Jeanne de Salzmann, at Franklin Farms (the old Ouspensky estate at..... More
New York: 2007. Contains NEW WORLD, OLD MEN by Patrick Laude, Can America harbor the City of God?; A RETURN TO TRADITION, An interview with Frank Sinclair, president of the Gurdjieff Foundation of New York; ON THE OLD AND THE NEW by Jiddu Krishnamurti, How to approach the world afresh;..... More
Kuala Lampur: Privately Printed, 1977. First edition. Limited to 300 copies, this one unnumbered; 10.5" x 8"; Each monograph is individually paginated: [14], (xviii), 14, 24, 94, 20, 6, 20, [16], 8, 12, 8, 6, 10, 20, 68, 26, 8, 28, 16, 16, 8, [16], 12, 12, 12, 20, 20..... More
Kuala Lampur: S. Durai Raja Singam, 1981 - 1984. First edition. Two volumes; Limited to 200 copies; Introduction by A.K. Saran; "A comprehensive bibliography of all his publications from 1895 to 1981"; 9.5" x 6.5" paperbacks; Vol I: xlvi, 424 pages; Vol II: [viii], 565 pages;. The Introduction points out..... More
Kuala Lampur: S. Durai Raja Singham, 1980. First edition. Limited to 200 copies, this one unnumbered; Essentailly a copy of Singam's scrapbook of images and letters related to Coomaraswamy; 10" x 7.25" paperback; 255 pages. "What might a man want to do after he has spent years working on Coomaraswamy..... More
Bloomington: 2008. Foreword y Harry Oldmeadow; 209 pages. Discover the common ground shared between Islamic Sufism and Hindu Bhaktism through their literary expressions. This book examines two classic love poems—The Story of Layla Majnun (written by Nezami in the Sufi tradition) and Gita Govinda (written by Jayadeva in the Hindu..... More
New York: 2008. Contains THE GODDING PROCESS David A. Cooper - A revelatory understanding of God, from the Kabbalah, GOD IS THE GOOD Patrick Laude - A masterful survey of God across the Traditions, IN THE SPIRIT OF GOD Nicholas Motovilov and St. Seraphim of Sarov - Meeting a saint..... More
Hillsdale: Sophia Perennis, 2005. Third edition, revised. Foreword by Seyyed Hossein Nasr; 156 pages. Beginning with the recognition the current quantum mechanical world views suffer from a certain 'residual cartesianism' that has been smuggled in unconsciously. The moment one discards this hidden premise, quantum theory begins to 'make sense' in..... More
Middlesex: Perennial Books, 1979. Double issue; Contents include Memorial for Francis Clive-Ross, Sophia Perennis by Frithjof Schuon, Fate, Foresight and Freewill by Ananda Coomaraswamy, Insight into Alchemy by Titus Burckhardt, A Muslim's Reflections on Hans Küng by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, The Destruction of The Christian Tradition - IV by Rama..... More
New York: 2001. Contains "A Fool's History of Human Civilization" by Joy Thompson - Or, a history of Everyman, "Falling and Rising in Love" by Rama Devagupta - The story of Laila and Majnu, "At Home in the Land of the Little Green Waiting-Maid " by Nan Runde - A...... More
New York: Society for Myth and Tradition, 1984. First printing. Contains "The Thief in Krishna" by John Stratton Hawley - Stealing the heart, "Birthright" by Jonathan Omer-Man - Esau speaks, "The Golden Bowl" by Robert A.F. Thurman - The Buddhist path of limitless generosity, "Den of Thieves" by D.M. Dooling..... More
New York: Society for Myth and Tradition, 1985. First edition. Contains "Living in the Rift" by Philip Zaleski - The contemporary challenge, "Out of Chaos" by Vine Deloria, Jr. - The exilic mission of the Native American, "Now, Farewell and Hail" by P.L. Travers - Lost and found, "We Are..... More
New York: 1994. First edition. Contains "Treasure Teachings: An interview with Robert Thurman" - Discovering Buddhism's secret knowledge; "The Heart of Ritual" by Eliezer Shore - The treasure of repetition; "Holy Foolishness" by Jim Forest - Unexpected saints in the Russian Orthodox tradition; "In Search of Hidden Wonder" by John..... More
2009. Includes 15 essays not published in 'The Taste for Things That Are True', incuding "Some Reflections on What is Specific to Gurdjieff's Teaching"; 228 pages. It would be fitting to say of Henri Tracol, a pupil of G. I. Gurdjieff, that all through his life he called many sides..... More
New York: 2004. Contains "The Devil in the Way" by Stephen Batchelor - Emptiness as a path; "First Question" by Ravi Ravindra - What lies behind our masks?; "The Gift of the Call" by Christopher Bamford - From duality to unity; "The Woman in Chains" by Natalie Baan - Andromeda..... More
San Rafael: Sophia Perennis, 2008. First edition. 184 pages. Charles Upton: "Human love has fallen on hard times; it has been 'officially discredited.' Even liberal humanitarianism is not what it used to be; how then can romantic love, which in its origins is essentially aristocratic (in Meister Eckhart's sense when..... More
Hillsdale: Sophia Perennis, 2005. First edition. 246 pages. The Men's Movement has come, and for the most part gone. While it was here, it gave us an opportunity to learn something about the Warrior Spirit—not in the context of militarism, or economic acquisitiveness, or the martial arts subculture, or gang..... More