Recommended Reading

This is a list of books we recommend. No scriptures will be on this list (scriptures are, of course, recommended, but they speak for themselves as scriptures. These are books of human agency that we, human agents, suggest.)

Paul Eduardo Muller-Ortega

 * The Triadic Heart of Siva: Kaula Tantricism of Abhinavagupta in the Non-Dual Shaivism of Kashmir (Suny Series, Shaiva Traditions of Kashmir)

John Hughes

 * Kashmir Shaivism: The Secret Supreme

Mark Dyczkowski

 * The Doctrine of Vibration: An Analysis of the Doctrines and Practices of Kashmir Shaivism (Suny Series in the Shaiva Traditions of Kashmir) (Paperback)

John Woodroffe (Arthur Avalon)

 * Shakti and Shakta, ISBN 818598803X. (1918)
 * Principles of Tantra (2 vols) ISBN 8185988145.
 * Introduction to the Tantra Śāstra, ISBN 8185988110.
 * Tantra of the Great Liberation (Mahānirvāna Tantra), ISBN 0897440234 (1913).
 * The World as Power, ISBN 1406777064.
 * The Garland of Letters. ISBN 8185988129.
 * The Serpent Power. ISBN 8185988056.

B.K.S. Iyengar

 * B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Yoga, Schocken Books; Revised edition (January 3, 1995), trade paperback, 544 pages, ISBN 0-8052-1031-8
 * B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Pranayama, Crossroad/Herder & Herder; (June 1995), trade paperback, 320 pages, ISBN 0-8245-0686-3
 * B.K.S. Iyengar, The Tree of Yoga, Shambala, (1988), trade paperback, 184 pages, ISBN 0-87773-464-X
 * B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, South Asia Books; 1 edition (August 1, 1993), trade paperback, 337 pages, ISBN 1-85538-225-3
 * B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, Rodale; (2005), hardcover, 282 pages, ISBN 1-59486-248-6

Gopi Krishna

 * Gopi Krishna, Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man, Shambhala Books, 1970. autobiography