Drugs, mysticism and make-believe

Zaehner, R.C.

Collins

In this book, Our Savage God, especially in his essay "Rot in the Clockwork Orange", author Zaehner argues against aspects of an ancient monism which he sees as leading logically to excess, not only of the kind propagated by Timothy Leary, or even earlier by Aleister Crowley, but perhaps eventually, ultimately to the criminal depravity of Charles Manson. Here Zaehner provides a warning how the misuse of theology can result in horror.

Our savage god

Religion & Spirituality

The city within the heart

Unwin Paperbacks

Explains the history, doctrines, and practices of the major religions of both the East and West which have survived to become dominant faiths in the modern age

The concise encyclopedia of living faiths;

Hutchinson

Hinduism is both a way of life and a highly organized social and religious system, but in the modern world its essentials, perhaps more than those of any other major religion, are undergoing a process of redefinition. Professor Zaehner's book traces these concepts through the four-thousand year development of Hinduism, and explains the enduring foundations from which it continues to flourish and grow. This book's great merit is that it conveys the essence of concepts such as moksha, karma and sanatana dharma to the newcomer without over-simplification. It remains a penetrating interpretation of the multiple facets of Hinduism from ancient times to the present day.

Hinduism

Oxford Univ. Press

Teachings of the Magi

Oxford Univ. Pr.

Dialectical Christianity and Christian materialism: The Riddell memorial lectures, fortieth series, delivered at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne on 25, 26, and 27 February 1969,

Oxford University Press

The first 3 chapters in this book were delivered as lectures at St. Stephen's College, Delhi. An extra lecture was delivered to the Faculty of Philosophy at Christian College, Tamburam Madras. This lecture is chapter 4 of this book.

Evolution in religion: A study in Sri Aurobindo and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,

Clarendon Press

The Dawn and Twilight of Zoroastrianism

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

The author, one of the foremost writers in the history of religions, intended this book to be the starting point for those searching for a personal religious experience and begins with an examination of the nature of mystical states and their differentiation from drug-induced states. He proceeds to the question of whether there is religious experience to either state. He offers those impatient with a traditional Christianity alternate routes to explore, by examining Zen, the Upanishads, Huxley, Bonhoeffer, Leary, Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and commenting upon each with his ascerbic wit. This reprint of the 1972 American edition published by Pantheon contains a new foreword by one of Zaehner's former Oxford students, William L. Newell.

Zen, drugs, and mysticism,

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Pantheon Books

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