The Mescal Plant and Ceremony is a 1896 article by James Mooney’s. It sits at the junction of ethnography, comparative religion, and early psychopharmacology—before any of those words had quite settled … Read more and download PDF
Letters from a sufi teacher is a small but remarkably concentrated manual of Islamic mysticism from the 14th century, preserved and translated into English in 1908 by Baijnath Singh for … Read more and download PDF
The varieties of religious experience: a study in human nature by William James is one of the foundational works in the modern study of religion. First delivered as the Gifford … Read more and download PDF
Erewhon by Samuel Butler is one of the most unusual and forward-looking novels of the nineteenth century. Published anonymously in 1872, it presents itself as a travel narrative about a … Read more and download PDF
Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness by Evelyn Underhill is one of the foundational modern works on mystical experience. First published in 1911, it set … Read more and download PDF
The idea of the holy: an inquiry into the non-rational factor in the idea of the divine and its relation to the rational by Rudolf Otto. What does it actually … Read more and download PDF
The Practice of the Wild – Essays by Gary Snyder was published in 1990 and they stand as a cornerstone of Gary Snyder’s work and thought. Gary Snyder was a … Read more and download PDF
Ayahuasca (1939) by Arturo Burga Freitas is one of the earliest written works dedicated to the Peruvian Amazonian brew known today as ayahuasca. Published in Lima, this Spanish-language monograph stands … Read more and download PDF
Arthur Lloyd’s The Creed of Half Japan: Historical Sketches of Japanese Buddhism (1911) remains one of the most perceptive early Western accounts of Japan’s religious life. Written by a long-term … Read more and download PDF