The Library
Every page marks what kind of statement it makes: a matter of history, the words of a primary text, the view of scholars, or Metanoia’s own interpretation. How to read the registers.
Philosophy
The Western philosophical inquiry into being, knowledge and the divine.
- Platonism
- Early Greek Philosophy
- Heraclitus
- Parmenides
- Plato
- The Republic
- Forms
- Eros
- Neoplatonism
- Plotinus
- Proclus
- The Enneads
- Stoicism
- Epictetus
- Marcus Aurelius
- Logos
- German Idealism
- G. W. F. Hegel
- F. W. J. Schelling
- Intellectual intuition
- The One
- Baruch Spinoza
- Metaphysics
- Epistemology
- Philosophy of religion
- Philosophy of mind
Indian Philosophy
The Upaniṣads, the Vedānta schools, the Gītā and modern Indian teachers.
- The Upanishads, Part I
- Vedānta
- Advaita Vedānta
- The Bhagavadgîtâ, with the Sanatsugâtîya and the Anugîtâ
- Yoga
- Viśiṣṭādvaita
- Dvaita Vedānta
- Śaṅkara
- Rāmānuja
- Madhva
- Vedānta Deśika
- Vyāsatīrtha
- Patañjali
- The Yoga-System of Patañjali
- Sāṃkhya
- Īśvarakṛṣṇa
- Vācaspati Miśra
- Guṇas
- Ramakrishna
- Swami Vivekananda
- Mahendranath Gupta (“M.”)
- Harmony of religions
- Ramana Maharshi
- Integral Yoga
- Sri Aurobindo
- Vārkarī Tradition
- Jñāneśvar
- Tukārām
- Kashmir Śaivism
- Abhinavagupta
- The bhakti movement
- Caitanya
- Mīrābāī
- Jainism
- Mahāvīra
- Kundakunda
- Ahiṃsā
Christian Mysticism
Contemplative writers of the Christian tradition, East and West, from Augustine to John of the Cross.
- Christian Mysticism
- Hesychasm
- Carmelite mysticism
- Rhineland Mysticism
- Desert Monasticism
- Origen
- Evagrius Ponticus
- John Cassian
- Maximus the Confessor
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Bonaventure
- Catherine of Siena
- Angelus Silesius
- Brother Lawrence
- Apatheia
- Augustine of Hippo
- Gregory of Nyssa
- Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
- Meister Eckhart
- The author of The Cloud of Unknowing
- Johannes Tauler
- Jan van Ruusbroec
- Simone Weil
- Thomas Merton
- Nicholas of Cusa
- Jacob Boehme
- Detachment
- Coincidence of opposites
- Julian of Norwich
- Gregory Palamas
- Teresa of Ávila
- John of the Cross
- Apophatic theology
- Theōsis
- A Book of Contemplation the Which is Called The Cloud of Unknowing
- The Interior Castle
Islamic Mysticism
Sufism and the mystical philosophy of Islam.
- Islam
- Sufism
- Islamic philosophy
- Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya
- al-Ḥallāj
- al-Ghazālī
- Ibn Sīnā
- Ibn ʿArabī
- Suhrawardī
- Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī
- Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār
- Ḥāfiẓ
- Junayd of Baghdad
- Bāyazīd Bisṭāmī
- Aḥmad Sirhindī
- Muhammad Iqbal
- Waḥdat al-shuhūd
- Mullā Ṣadrā
- Tawḥīd
- Fanāʾ
- Waḥdat al-wujūd
- Masnavi i Ma’navi
- Ibn al’Arabi: The Bezels of Wisdom
Jewish Mysticism
Kabbalah, Hasidism and Jewish mystical philosophy.
Buddhism
The Buddha’s teaching and its traditions: Theravāda, Mahāyāna, Zen and Tibetan Buddhism.
- Buddhism
- Theravāda
- Mahāyāna
- Madhyamaka
- Yogācāra
- Zen
- Tibetan Buddhism
- Huayan
- Dzogchen
- Tiantai
- Rinzai Zen
- Pure Land Buddhism
- The Buddha
- Nāgārjuna
- Buddhaghosa
- Śāntideva
- Dōgen
- Fazang
- Zongmi
- Hōnen
- Shinran
- Longchenpa
- Zhiyi
- Linji
- Hakuin Ekaku
- Milarepa
- Kōan
- Emptiness (śūnyatā)
- Non-self (anātman)
- Interpenetration
- Nembutsu
- Other-power
- The Dhammapada
- Mūlamadhyamakakārikā
Taoism
The Dao and its classical interpreters.
Chinese Philosophy
The Confucian and Daoist traditions, from the classical masters to the Neo-Confucians.
Modern Thought
Comparative religion, psychology of religion and consciousness studies.
- Comparative mysticism
- Modern philosophy
- Friedrich Max Müller
- William James
- Evelyn Underhill
- Rudolf Otto
- Aldous Huxley
- W. T. Stace
- R. C. Zaehner
- J. Krishnamurti
- Comparative religion
- Mystical experience
- The perennial philosophy
- The numinous
- Consciousness
- The Varieties of Religious Experience
- The Perennial Philosophy
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Transcendentalism
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Henry David Thoreau
- Over-Soul
Books
The catalogue of books on unitive knowledge: primary texts, translations and scholarship, each connected to the authors, traditions and concepts here. Books will be offered to read wherever the rights allow, once each edition has been reviewed.