 | Artificial Paradises: Baudelaire's Classic Work on Opium and Wine by Charles Baudelaire
Buy new: £7.49 / Used from: £4.05 Ah, Baudelaire...
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 | Why Work?: Arguments for the Leisure Society by Bertrand Russell
Buy used from: £4.99 Why work? Bertrand Russell explains how you've been duped...
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 | The Doors of Perception: And Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.75 A classic work on psychedelic experience and a fascinating look at art, music, philosophy and psychology - touches on everything, from Zen to Vermeer
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 | Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge by Jeremy Narby
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.08 Given its paradigm busting implications, this book is wonderfully balanced and pragmatic. One to read before passing judgement...
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 | The Body of Myth: Mythology, Shamanic Trance and the Sacred Geography of the Body by J.Nigro Sansonese
Buy new: £16.14 / Used from: £13.25 Takes Joseph Campbell to a whole new level. For anybody with an interest in meditation, myth, Jung etc. this eccentric but brilliant work offers a thoroughly convincing hypothesis as to myth's origins
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 | The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika by Nagarjuna
Buy new: £10.38 / Used from: £10.00 One of the key texts for Tibetan Buddhism, expounding the teaching of emptiness - the commentary brings in relevant connections with Western traditions. You needn't be Buddhist to love this.
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 | The Precious Treasury on the Basic Space of Phenomena (Klon-Chen-Pa Dri-Med-Od-Zer, Seven Treasuries Series.) by Longchen Rabjam
Buy used from: £69.27 Stunningly beautiful, lucid, poetic, and indeed profound - a key work in the Dzogchen tradition of Tibetan Buddhism
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 | Cultivating the Empty Field: The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi (Tuttle Library of Enlightenment) by Daniel Leighton
Buy new: £14.03 / Used from: £6.98 Beautiful practice verses from the 14th century Ch'an (Zen) master of the Song Dynasty
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 | DNA and the I Ching: The Tao of Life by Johnson Yan
Buy used from: £4.69 Certainly worth a look after reading The Cosmic Serpent and The Body of Myth
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 | The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience by Benny Shanon
Buy new: £24.98 / Used from: £29.76 A very close look at the Ayahuasca experience from an academic perspective; engagingly personal too.
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 | Introduction to the Middle Way: Chandrakirti's Madhyamakavatara with Commentary by Jamgön Mipham by Chandrakirti
Buy new: £20.40 / Used from: £13.47 A nice clear translation of Chandrakirti's classic verses on emptiness, with a commentary put together from notes of the great Lama Mipham
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| Precious Treasury of the Way of Abiding (The Seven Treasuries Ser.) by Longchen Rabjam
Buy new: £19.95 / Used from: £35.95 More beautiful and incisive writing from the great Dzogchen master Longchen Rabjampa
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 | Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen by Dogen
Buy new: £8.17 / Used from: £4.98 It takes time and practice to tune in to Dogen. His writing may seem elliptical, but it will, with familiarity, reveal itself to be brilliant, focused and illuminating.
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 | Wising Up the Marks: The Amodern William Burroughs by TM Murphy
Buy new: £18.00 / Used from: £17.74 Ever thought the writer William Burroughs was a load of rubbish? This work will convince you otherwise - truly gets to what the great man's writing is all about.
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 | The Politics of Social Ecology: Libertarian Municipalism by Janet Biehl
Buy used from: £5.99 An introduction to the writings of American anarchist Murray Bookchin (Social Ecology.)
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 | The Reflexive Nature of Awareness (Rang Rig): Tibetan Madhyamaka Defence (RoutledgeCurzon Critical Studies in Buddhism) by Paul Williams
Buy new: £85.50 / Used from: £47.50 A closer look at Mipham and Madhyamaka
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 | Forest Gardening by Robert Hart
Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £5.00 Why not grow a Forest Garden instead?
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 | How to Make a Forest Garden by Patrick Whitefield
Buy new: £11.21 / Used from: £12.26 More tips...
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 | Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £1.21 A marvellous magical work - real literature; forget Lord of the Rings, this is the bee's knees...
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 | Mystical Thought of Meister Eckhart (A Herder & Herder book) by McGinn
Buy used from: £23.42 A great work on the awesome Christian mystic - Eckhart will appeal even to people who don't see much to rave about in Christianity
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 | Contemporary Film Theory (Longman Critical Readers)
Buy new: £20.99 / Used from: £2.95 Watch too much and feel clever...
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 | The Selfless Mind: Personality, Consciousness and Nirvana in Early Buddhism by Peter Harvey
Buy new: £25.64 / Used from: £22.25 Great scholarly work on Nirvana
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 | The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts by Douglas Adams
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 At the very least read the first one...
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