 | Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East by Gita Mehta
Buy used from: £1.46 East West context.
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 | Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion and Excess at San Fransisco Zen Center by Michael Downing
Buy new: £11.25 / Used from: £7.14 Scandal & spirituality go together like bacon & eggs (tofu & soy, if you prefer). If you are interested in matters spiritual & ethical then you need explore this.
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 | What is Good?: The Search for the Best Way to Live by A.C. Grayling
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.85 If you are checking out this list then you are probably interested in being good. Or educating yourself for a career as a dodgy Guru (lucrative career option). In either case, read this book!
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 | The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power by Joel Kramer
Buy new: £11.26 / Used from: £7.62 Kramer is a Yogic Individualist with interesting things to say. It was he who originated the concept of "playing the edge" .
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 | Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer
Buy new: £8.57 / Used from: £5.20 In the Yogic community, we need to give this some thought.
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 | A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives by Cordelia Fine
Buy new: £5.99 Yogis need some knowlege of how the brain functions.
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 | The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions by Robert Todd Carroll
Buy new: £9.07 / Used from: £4.85 Delves behind some cherished notions. Delving is good. Where delving is discouraged or feared - you know that something is up! Oh & my ear candles went in the bin. Blush.
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 | Yoga Anatomy: Your illustrated guide to postures, movements, and breathing techniques by Leslie Kaminoff
Buy new: £10.10 / Used from: £8.15 Relates Yogic theories to science - also a fantastic anatomy book.
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 | Teaching Yoga: Ethics and the Teacher-student Relationship by Donna Farhi
Buy new: £6.91 / Used from: £10.21 Deals with ethics & other aspects of this unique & pitfall laden role. A must read for Teachers.
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 | My Life in Orange by Tim Guest
Buy used from: £0.01 Fascinating story of Tim's life growing up in Bagwan Shree Ragneesh (now re-branded "Osho") communes.
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 | Yoga School Dropout by Lucy Edge
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.11 Funny & insightful. A whistle stop tour of some famous Ashrams. I like her conclusion - that real Yoga & virtue reside in the everyday, & the humble.
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 | The Passionate Mind by Joel Kramer
Buy new: £10.50 / Used from: £3.99 Essential Kramer.
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 | The Yoga Tradition: Its History, Literature, Philosophy and Practice by Georg Feuerstein
Buy new: £14.41 / Used from: £14.83 "The" Yoga History book. One of the few properly scholarly ones. Though Feuerstein does beleive some strange things (see intro).
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 | The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice by T.K.V. Desikachar
Buy new: £8.77 / Used from: £7.30 Top stuff.
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 | Yoga: The Spirit and Practice of Moving into Stillness by Erich Schiffmann
Buy new: £8.42 / Used from: £6.79 |
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