Karma, Biography, and Rebirth Bibliography by Robert McDermott June 2013
Prepared as a Supplementary Reading List for Karma and Rebirth (Fall 2013)
This bibliography (drawn entirely from my library) obviously reflects my interests: philosophy; religion, spirituality, and esotericism; literature; American studies.
Karma and Biography
William Bryant, The Veiled Pulse of Time: An Introduction to Biographical Cycles and Destiny. Anthroposophic Press/Steinerbooks, 1993.
Donald Capps and Walter H. Capps, eds. The Religious Personality. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1970.
Robert Coles. Lives of Moral Leadership. NY: Random House, 2000.
David Feinstein and Stanley Krippner, eds. Personal Mythology: Using Rituals, Dreams, and Imagination to Discover Your Inner Story. Los Angeles, CA: Tarcher, 1988.
William James. Essays in Psychical Research. The Works of William James. Introduction, Robert McDermott. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987.
H.D. Lewis. The Self and Immortality. London: Macmillan, 1973.
Robert Lyons. Autobiography: A Reader for Writers. NY: Oxford, 1977.
Lori and Brian McDermott. Learning to Dance in the Rain. A True Story about Life Behond Death. Bloomington, IN: Hay/Balboa Press, 2011.
Deena Metzger. Writing for Your Life: A Guide and Companion to the Inner Worlds. San Francisco, CA: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992.
Gananth Obeyesekere. Imagining Karma: Ethical Transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek Rebirth. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002.
Amelie Oksenberg Rorty. Ed. The Many Faces of Philosophy: Reflections from Plato to Arendt. NY: Oxford University Press, 2003.
William McKinley Runyan. Life Histories and Psychobiography: Explorations in Theory and Method. NY: Oxford, 1984.
Ben-Ami Scharfstein. The Philosophers, Their Lives and the Nature of their Thought. NY: Oxford, 1980.
Gail Sheehy. Passages: Predictable Crises in Adult Life. NY: E.P.Dutton, 1974.
David Spangler. The Call. NY: Riverhead Books, 1996.
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Betty Staley, Soul Weaving: How to Shape Your Destiny and Inspire Your Dreams. Fair Oaks, CA: Rudolf Steiner Press, 1999.
Richard Tarnas, Cosmos and Psyche. NY: Penguin/Plume, 2006.
Radoslav A. Tsanoff. Autobiographies of Ten Religious Leaders: Alternatives in Chrisitan Experience. San Antonio, TX: Trinity University Press, 1968.
Jennifer Uglow. Ed. The International Dictionary of Women's Biography. NY: Continuum, 1982.
Tanya Wilkinson. Persephone Returns: Victims, Heroes, and the Journey from the Underworld. Berkeley, CA: Circulus/Pagemill, 1996.
_____. Medea's Folly: Women, Relationships, and the Search for Intimacy. Berkeley, CA: Circulus/Pagemill, 1998.
Death, NDE, and Afterlife
S. G. F. Brandon. The Judgment of the Dead: TDhe Idea of Life After Death in the Major Religion. NY: Scribners, 1967.
David Dempsey. The Way We Die: An Investigation of Death and Dying in America Today. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1975.
Herman Feifel. Ed. The Meaning of Death. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1965.
—————. Ed. New Meanings of Death. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1977.
John Hick. Death and Eternal Life. NY: Harper&Row, 1978.
Allan Kellehear. Experiences Near Death. Beyond Medicine and Religion. NY: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Raymond Moody. Life after Death: the Investigation of a Phenomenon—Survival of Bodily Death. NY: HarperCollins, 1975. [13 million copies sold]
Kenneth Ring. Learning from the Light. NY: Insight Books, 1998.
Elizabeth Kubler Ross. On Life After Death. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 1991.
Sukie Miller. After Death: Mapping the Journey. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1977.
Arnold Toynbee and Others. Man's Concern with Death. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1978.
Kenneth Vaux. Ed. Who Shall Live: Medicine, Technology, Ethics. Philadelphia, PA: Fortress Press, 1970.
Edith Wyschogrod. Ed. The Phenomenon of Death. NY: Harper&Row, 1973.
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Rebirth
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother
Sri Aurobindo. The Problem of Rebirth. Pondicherry, India: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, 2005 (1915-21).
K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar. Sri Biography: A Biography and a History. 2 vols. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, 1972.
—————. On the Mother. 2 vols. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, 1978.
Robert McDermott, ed., The Essential Aurobindo. Great Barrington, MA: Steinerbooks, 1987.
The Dalai Lama and Tibetan Buddhism
Janet Gyatso. Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Universtiy Press, 1999.
*Glenn H. Mullin. The Fourteen Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation. Santa Fe, NM: Clear Light Publishers, 2001.
Sogyal Rimpoche. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. Rev. NY: HarperOne. 2-12.
Robert A. F. Thurman. The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Liberatio through Understanding in the Between. NY: Bantam Books, 1994.
Khemey Sonam Wangdu, et. al. Discovery, Recognition, and Enthronement of the 14th Dalai Lama. Dharamsala, H. P. (India): Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 2000.
Christian
Quincy Howe, Jr. Reincarnation for the Christian. Philadelphia, PA: Westminster Press, 1974.
Geddes MacGregor. Reincarnation in Christianity. Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House/Quest Books, 1978.
George G. Ritchie, Jr. M.D. My Life After Dying: Becoming Alive to Universal Love. Intro. Ian Stevenson, M.D. Norfolk, VA: Hampton House, 1992.
Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophists
Athys Floride. Human Encounters and Karma. Great Barrongton, MA: Steinerbooks, 1990
*Erhard Fucke. ed., Biography: Freedom and Destiny: From the Work of Rudolf Steiner. London: Rudolf Steiner Press, 2009.
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Eugen Kolisko. Reincarnation and Other Essays. Bournemouth, UK: Kolisko Archive Pulicaions, 1940.
Robert McDermott, ed., The Essential Steiner. Great Barrington, MA: Steinerbooks, 2012.
Friedrich Rittlemeyer. Reincarnation: Philosophy, Religion, Ethics. Edinborough: Floris Books, 1988.
Rene Querido, ed., intro., A Western Approach to Reincarnation and Karma: Selected Lectures and Writings by Rudolf Steiner. Anthroposophic Press/Steinerbooks, 1997.
Calvert Roszell. The Near Death Experience. Great Barrington, MA: Steinerbooks, 1972.
Sigwart. The Bridge over the River. Great Barrington, MA: Steinerbooks, 1974.
Rudolf Steiner. The Manifestations of Karma. London: Rudolf Steiner Press, 1968 (1910)
_____. The Karma of Vocation. Great Barrington, MA: Steinerbooks, 1984.
_____. Reincarnation and Immortality. Blauvelt, NY: Rudolf Steiner Publications, 1970.
_____. Death as Metamorphosis of Life. CW#182. Great Barrington, MA: Steinerbooks, 2008.
_____. The Influence of the Dead on Destiny. CW#179. Great Barrington, MA: Steinerbooks, 2007.
Guenther Wachsmuth, Reincarnation. Great Barrington, MA: Steinerbooks, 1937./
Autobiographies, Biographies, and Memoirs
The following biographies and autobiographies are listed approximately in chronological order of subject within each section.
American
George R. Marsden. Jonathan Edwards: A Life. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003.
Joseph Ellis. His Excellency George Washington. NY: Knopf, 2004. Franklin
Benjamin Franklin. Autobiography. in Franklin: Writings. NY: Library of America, 1987. Jon Meecham. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power. NY: Random House, 2012.
Walter Isaacson. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. NY: Simon and Schuster, 2003.
David McCullough. John Adams. NY: Simon and Schuster, 2001.
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Ron Chernow. Alexander Hamilton. NY: Penguin, 2004.
*David Herbert Donald. Lincoln. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1995.
*Robert D. Richardson, Jr. Emerson: The Mind on Fire. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995.
*David Mikics. Editor. The Annotated Emerson. Foreword, Phillip Lopate. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.
Walter Harding. The Days of Henry Thoreau. NY: Knopf, 1965.
David S. Reynolds. Walt Whitman: A Cultural Biography. NY: Vintage, 1995.
John Matteson. The Lives of Margaret Fuller. NY: Norton, 2012.
Bell Gale Chevigny. The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller and Her Writing. Old Westbury, NY: Feminist Press, 1976.
Robert D. Richardson. William James in the Maelstrom of American Modernism: A Biography. NY: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
*John Clendenning. The Life and Thought of Josiah Royce. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985.
Joseph Brent. Charles Sanders Peirce: A Life. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1993.
*Steven C. Rockefeller. John Dewey: Religious Faith and Democratic Humanism. NY: Columbia University Press, 1991.
*Clayborne Carson. Ed. The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. NY: Warner Books, 1998.
*John J. Ansbro. Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Making of a Mind. NY: Orbis, 1992.
Linda Lear. Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature. NY: Henry Holt, 1997.
*Michael Mott. The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984.
*Patrick Hart and Jonathan Montaldo. Eds., Thomas Merton. The Intimate Merton: Life Life from His Journals. NY: HarperCollins, 1999.
*Dorothy Day. The Long Loneliness: An Autobiography. Harper & Row, 1952.
*William Miller. Dorothy Day: A Biography. NY: Harper & Row, 1982.
*Mary Catherine Bateson. Composing a Life: Life as a Work in Progress—the Improvisations of Five Extraordinary Women. NY: Penguin/Plume, 1990.
Robert Coles and Jane Hallowell Coles. Women of Crisis. NY: Doubleday, 1979.
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Robin W. Winks. Laurence S. Rockefeller: Catalyst for Conservation. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1997.
David Spangler. A Pilgrim in Aquarius. Findhorn, Scotland: Findhorn Press, 1996.
Arlene R. Quaratiello. Rachel Carson: A Biography. Amherst, MA: Prometheus Books, 2010.
James Carroll. An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.
Joanna Macy. Widening Circles: A Memoir. Gabriola Island BC, CA: New Society Publishers, 2000.
*Don Hanlon Johnson. Body, Spirit and Democracy. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1994.
Irish and British
Richard Holmes. Coleridge: Early Visions: 1772-1804. NY: Pantheon, 1989.
_____. Coleridge: Darker Reflections: 1804-34. NY: Pantheon, 1989.
William Wordsworth. The Prelude or Growth of a Poet's Mind; An Autobiographical Poem: 1799, 1805, 1850. NY: Norton, 1979.
Micheal Mac Liammoir and Eavan Boland. W. B. Yeats and His World. London: Thames and Hudson, 1971.
Henry Summerfield. That Myriad Minded Man: A Biography of G. W. Russell—A.E. Totowa, NJ: Rowan and Littlefield, 1975.
*James Joyce. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. NY: Viking Press, 1916/56.
Chester G. Anderson. James Joyce and His World. London: Thames and Hudson, 1967.
Richard Ellmann. James Joyce. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1959.
R. G. Colligwood. An Autobiography. NY: Oxford, 1939.
Alister McGrath. C. S.Lewis: A Life. London: Tyndale, 2013.
*Alice Mary Hadfield. Charles Williams: An Exploration of his Life and Work. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1983.
*Simon Blaxland-de Lange. Owen Barfield: Romanticism Comes of Age. London: Temple Lodge, 2007.
Peter Conradi. Iris Murdoch: A Life. NY: W. W. Norton, 2001.
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Worldwide
J. G. von Goethe. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life. Hardpress, 2010.
Rowan Williams. Dostoevsky: Language, Faith, and Fiction. Waco, TX: Waco University Press, 2008.
*Sylvia Cranston. HPB: The Extraordinary Life and Influence of Helena Blavatsky. NY: Tarcher/Penguin, 1993.
*Christopher Lindenberg. Rudolf Steiner: A Biography. Great Barrington, MA: Steinerbooks, 2012.
Gary Lachman. Rudolf Steiner: An Introduction to His Life and Work. NY: Penguin/ Tarcher, 2007.
Daniel Joseph Polikoff. In the Image of Orpheus: Rilke, a Soul History. Wilmette, IL: Chiron Publications, 2011.
Paramhansa Yogananda. Autobiography of a Yogi. NY: Philosophical Library, 1946.
Helen Kazantzakis. Nikos Kazantzakis: A Biography. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1968.
Joseph Lelyveld. Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his Struggle with India. NY: Vintage, 2011.
M. K. Gandhi. My Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth. NY: Penguin, 2001 (1927/29).
*Eknath Easwaran. Gandhi: The Man. Petaluma, CA: Nilgiri Press, 1978.
Arvind Sharma. Gandhi: A Spiritual Autobiography. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.
*Peter Hees. The Lives of Sri Aurobindo. NY: Columbia University Press, 20
*Haridas Chaudhuri. Sri Aurobindo: Prophet of Life Divine. San Francisco: Cultural Integration Fellowship, 1973.
*Ursula King. Spirit of Fire: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. NY: Orbis, 1996.
Maurice S. Friedman. Martin Buber: Life and Works. 3 vols. E. P. Dutton, 1981-83.
*C. G. Jung. Memories, Dreams, Reflections. Ed., Aniela Jaffe. NY: Vintage, 1989 (1961).
*Gerhard Wehr. Jung: A Biography. Trans. David M. Weeks. Boston: Shambala, 1987.
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Claire Dunne. Carl Jung: Wounded Healer of the Soul. An Illustrated Biography. NY: Watkins Publishing, 2012.
Laurens van der Post. Jung and the Story of Our Time. London: The Hogarth Press, 1976.
Gary Lachman. Jung the Mystic: The Esoteric Dimension of Carl Jung's Life and Teachings. NY: Penguin/Tarcher, 2010.
Monica Furlong. Zen Effects: The Life of Alan Watts. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986.
Elizabeth Young-Bruehl. Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1982.
Stephen and Roben Larsen. A Fire in the Mind: The Life of Joseph Campbell. NY: Doubleday, 1990.
*His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Freedom in Exile. NY: HarperCollins, 1990.
*Satish Kumar. Path Without Destination: An Autobiography. NY: William Morrow, 1978.
*Jesper Bengtsson. Struggle for Freedom: Aung San Suu Kyi—A Biography. NY: HarperCollins, 2011.
*Allister Sparks and Mpho Tutu. Tutu: Authorized. Foreword, Bono. Introduction, His Holiness the Dalai Lama. NY: HarperCollins, 2011. ``````````````````````````````````````
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