Recommended Reading
The texts listed on this page are recommended by staff and students to open the mind to new ideas and thoughts. These texts and others can be purchased from The School of Philosophy, Newcastle and are also available at libraries and book shops.
As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
Awareness by Anthony De Mello
Emerson and Vedanta by Swami Paramananda
Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson
God Makes the Rivers to Flow by Eknath Easwaran
Good Company by Shantanand Saraswati
Great Thinkers of the Eastern World by Ian P Mcgreal
In Tune with the Infinite by Ralf Waldo Trine
Initiation into the Philosophy of Plato by Raphael
Know Thyself by Dr Craig Hassed
Learning How to Learn by Idries Shah
Meditations on the Soul by Marsilo Ficino
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
New Frontiers in Medicine by Dr Craig Hassed
Philosophy: Principles and Problems by Roger Scruton
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
The Bhagavad Gita translated by Eknath Easwaran
The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav
The Dhammapada translated by Juan Mascaro
The Dialogues of Plato translated by Benjamin Jowett
The Enlightened Mind by Stephen Mitchell
The Four Socratic Dialogues of Plato translated by Benjamin Jowett
The Geeta translated by Shri Purohit Swami
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
The Prosperity Paradoxv by Dr Mark Hassard
The Story of Philosophy by Bryan Magee
The Way of Hermes translated by Clement Sulaman, Dorine Van Oyen, William D Wharton
Voyage of Discovery by Francis C Roles
Yung and the Story of Our Time by Laurens Vand der Post