The Littlest Library

Achdut is the Hebrew אַחְדוּת  word which means: Unity and since the nature of this blog is to speak about all things of interest to the Human Being vs. the Human Doing (read: the verb, not the noun), it became apparent that there needed to be a library of documents (pdf) that discusses all sorts of things integral to a proper human ecology, not necessarily the mere cacaphony of cogs and dials under their own purpose but as part of the Whole.

Some of the topics that will be found here to download will concern topics interested in:

• Philosophy: Art & Human Aesthetics
• Education Reformation!
• Spiritual Natures
• Sustainability & Civilizations
• Nutrition, Health & the Body
• Educating Yourself & World Cultures
• Literature & Poetry

as well as Recommended purchases for books unavailable online but worth the read.

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Library (pdf)

Education Reformation

• The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto
• Child Honoring by Raffi Cavoukian
• What Are Schools For? By Ron Miller
• An Essay on Education & Spirituality (compiled) by William F. Pinar
  
• The False Promise of Classical Education by Lisa van Damme
  
• The Child’s Changing Consciousness by Rudolf Steiner
• Education as a Force for Social Change by Rudolf Steiner
• Education of the Child by Rudolf Steiner
• Essentials of Education by Rudolf Steiner
• The Genius of Language by Rudolf Steiner

Nutrition, Health & the Body

• Nutrition & Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price, D.D.S.

Alchemy

• David Hudson & Monoatomic Elements
• Alchemy Key by Stuart Nettleton
• Science Of Oneness by David Wilcox
• Shift Of The Ages by David Wilcox
• The “Anti-Christ” by Dr. George W. Carey
• The Tree of Life Exposed by Dr. George W. Carey
  

Esoteric & Essene Christianity

• Jesus & Christ by Rudolf Steiner
• Yashua or Paul by Rev. Brother Nazariah, D.D.
• Christianity as Mystical Fact by Rudolf Steiner
• The Perfect Way or Finding the Christ by Anna Bonus Kingsford
• Clothed with the Sun by Anna Bonus Kingsford
• Mystic Christianity by Yogi Ramacharaka
• May A Christian Believe in Reincarnation? by Swami Nirmalanada Giri
• Gnostic Handbook by the Institute of Gnostic Studies
• Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Baignet, Leigh & Lincoln
• Plutarch’s Parable
• Gospel of the Holy Twelve, Translated by Rev. Ouseley

Church Fathers

• Of God & His Creatures by St. Thomas of Aquinas
• City of God & Christian Doctrine by Augustine of Hippo
• Journey of the Mind into God by Bonaventure
• The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola
• The Way of Perfection by St. Theresa of Avila
• On Prayer by Origen

Theosophical Studies

• An Outline of Occult Science by Rudolf Steiner
• The Divine Pymander by Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus
• The Lost Meaning of Death by Alvin Boyd Kuhn
• The Rosicrucian Documents
• Mysticism: A Study in Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness by Evelyn Underhill
• The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors by Kersey Graves

Kabbalah

• The Path of Kabbalah by Rav. Michael Laitman
• Kabbalah Revealed by Rav. Michael Laitman
• Kabbalah Science & the Meaning of Life by Rav. Michael Laitman

Vedanta

• The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Yogi Madhvacarya
• Super Science of Gayatri by Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya
• Do Hindus Believe in More than One God? by Dr. R.K. Lahiri, PhD
• Why Be a Hindu by Stephen Knapp

Recommendations

Philosophy: Art & Human Aesthetics

• A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
• An Alchemy of the Mind: The Marvel & Mystery of the Brain by Diane Ackerman
• Critique of the Power of Judgment by Immanuel Kant
• Selected Non-Fictions by Jorges Luis Borges
• Phenomenology of Spirit by G.W.F. Hegel
• Being & Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
• Being & Time by Martin Heidegger
• Philosophy of the Flesh: The Embodied Mind & Its Challenge to Western Thought by George Lakoff & Mark Johnson

Education Reformation!

• Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv

Spiritual Natures

• Time & the Technosphere: The Law of Time in Human Affairs by José Argüelles
• Kundalini Vidya by Joan Shivarpita Harrigan
• The Wisdom of Vedanta by Swami Abhayananda
• Advaita Vedanta by Eliot Deutsch
• God is a Verb by Rabbi David A. Cooper
• The Yoga of Jesus: Understanding the Hidden Teachings of the Gospels by Paramahasana Yogananda
• Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor by Joseph Campbell
• The Pagan Christ by Tom Harpur
• From Jesus to Christ by Rudolf Steiner
• The Messiah Before Jesus: The Suffering Servant of the Dead Sea Scrolls by Israel Kohl
• Esoteric Christianity by Annie Besant
• Beyond the Essene Hypothesis: The Parting of Ways Between Qumran & Enochic Judaism by Gabriel Boccaccini
• Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahasana Yogananda
• Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chögyam Trungpa
• Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior by Chögyam Trungpa
• The Gnostic Bible by Willis Barnstone
• Nature’s Open Secret: An Introduction in Goethe Scientific Writings by Rudolf Steiner
• From Whom God Hid Nothing by Meister Eckhart
• Serpent of Light by Drunvalo Melchizedek

Sustainability & Civilizations

• Endgame Vol.1: The Problem With Civilization by Derrick Jensen
• Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests by Derrick Jensen
• Minding Nature: The Philosophers of Ecology by David Macauley
• The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception & Language in A More-Than-Human World by David Abram
• The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan
• Second Nature: A Gardner’s Education by Michael Pollan
• The Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long by Eliot Coleman
• Food Not Lawns: Turn Your Yard into a Garden & Your Neighborhood into a Community by Heather Coburn Flores
• Seed to Seed: Seed Saving & Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners by Suzanne Ashworth
• Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture by Toby Hemenway
• Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual by Bill Mollison
• How to Make a Forest Garden by Patrick Whitefield
• Hidden Nature: the Startling Insights of Viktor Schauberger by Alick Bartholomew
• Living Energies: An Exposition of Concepts Related to the Theories of Viktor Schauberger by Callum Coats
• The Fertile Earth: Nature’s Energies in Agriculture, Soil Fertilization & Forestry by Viktor Schauberger
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
• Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben
• Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken
• Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus
• The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City by Kelly Coyne

Nutrition, Health & the Body

• In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
• Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen by Anne Lappe
• Prakriti: Your Ayurvedic Constitution by Robert Svoboda
• Ayurvedic Cooking for Self Healing by Usha and Vasant Lad
• Eat-Taste-Heal: An Ayurvedic Cookbook for Modern Living by Thomas Yarema
• Yoga of Herbs, Ayurvedic Guide by Vasant Lad
• Perfect Health: The Complete Mind-Body Guide by Deepak Chopra
• Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind-Body Medicine by Deepak Chopra
• Heaven’s Banquet: Vegetarian Cooking for Lifelong Health the Ayurvedic Way by Miriam Kasin Hospodar
• Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook That Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition & Diet Dictocrats by Sally Fallon
• The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons & Recipes from a Delicious Revolution by Alice Waters
• Chez Panisse: Vegetables by Alice Waters
• Conscious Eating by Gabriel Cousens
• Spiritual Nutrition by Gabriel Cousens
• Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine by Gabriel Cousens
• Sunfood Diet Success System by David Wolfe
• Eating for Beauty by David Wolfe
• Raw Food/Life Force Energy by Natalia Rose
• Alkalize or Die by Theodore A. Baroody
• Thrive: The Vegan Nutrition Guide for Optimal Performance in Sports & Life by Brendan Brazier

Educating Yourself & World Cultures

• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
• Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Create Peace…One School At a Time by Greg Mortenson
• Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins
• The Game as Old as Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hitmen and the Web of Global Corruption by Steven Hiatt
• Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky
• Orientalism by Edward Said
• Power, Faith & Fantasy: America & the Middle East, 1776 – Present by Michael B. Oren
• Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies by Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit
• Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History is Restoring Grace, Beauty & Justice to the World by Paul Hawken
• Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply by Vandana Shiva
• An Empire of Wilderness: Travels into America’s Future by Robert D. Kaplan
• The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past by John Lewis Gaddis
• The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, From Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy by Robert D. Kaplan