Russell Erwin

If there is one thing I hate in these profiles its when the person says they read a lot but that there are just too many books to list. I shall attempt to defeat that by actually listing TOO MANY BOOKS. My current favorite is the Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism, two volumes. Other books of interest in no particular order: Anything by Shri Gurudev Mahendranath, The Philosophy of Gorakhnath, Siddha Quest for Immortality, Atharva Veda, Avadhut Gita, Seeking Bauls of Bengal, Kalika Purana, The Alchemical Body, I Am That, The Ultimate Medicine, Shamanism and Tantra in the Himalayas, A Systematic Course in the Ancient Tantric Techniques of Yoga and Kriya, Kularnava Tantra,The Presence of Siva,The Madness of the Saints, Paschal Beverly Randolph by Deveney, The American Creed by Forrest Church, anything by Tobias Churton, Views From the Real World by Gurdjieff, The Wildest Colts Make the Best Horses by J. Breeding, Visual Magic by Jan Fries, A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, The Gnostic Bible, Living Presence by Helminski, Satan's Tragedy and Redemption in Sufi Psychology by Awn, The Unknown God by Starr, The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts Edited by Faulkner, Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt by Hornung, The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation by Betz, The Mind of Ancient Egypt by Assman, The Mechanics of Ancient Egyptian Magical Practice by Ritner, The Goddess Sekhmet by Masters, The Egyptian Hermes by Fowden, Reading Egyptian Art by Wilkinson, Egyptian Philosophers by Asante, Maat: the Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt by Karenga, Zurvan a Zoroastrian Dilemma by Zaehner, Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson by Gurdjieff, Lords of the Left Hand Path by Flowers, Trickster Makes This World by Hyde, Aghora: At the Left Hand of God by Svoboda, Lal Ded: the Great Kashmiri Saint-poetess, The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi by Prabhu, Non-violent Communication by Rosenberg, The Mysterious Stranger and Other Curious Tales by Twain, Powers of Horror by Kristeva, Three Essays on Freedom by Parsons, The New Oxford Annotated Bible, Demian by Hesse, Mastery by Leonard, Transformations of the Inner Self in Ancient Religions by Assman and Stroumsa, Eds., Face of the Deep: a Theology of Becoming by Keller, Flow: the Psychology of Optimal Experience by Csikszentmihalyi, Spirituality for the Skeptic by Solomon, Jesus for the Non-Religious by Spong, Against the Modern World by Sedgwick, The Jefferson Bible by Jefferson, Beyond Belief by Pagels, Isaac Newtons Freemasonry by Bauer, Hermetic Magic by Flowers, Religion and Time by Balslev & Monhanty, Eds., Perspectives on Initiation by Guenon, Toward Awakening by Vaysse, English Romantic Writers by Perkins, The Zohar Pritzker Editions by Matt, Trans., Integral Tarot by Wagner, Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot by DuQuette, The Law is For All by Crowley & Regardie, the Complete Magician's Tables by Skinner, will post more later.