BOOKS & TOPICS

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Books (free PDFs)
• The Supreme Self — PDF
• History of Mysticism (30th Anniversary Edition, Revised) — PDF
• Jnaneshvar (Revised) — PDF
• The Wisdom of Vedanta (Revised) — PDF
• Thomas à Kempis — On the Love of God — PDF
• Dattatreya — Song of the Avadhut (2014, Public Domain) — PDF
• Plotinus — The Origin of Western Mysticism — PDF
• Mysticism and Science — A Call for Reconciliation — PDF
• The Divine Universe — PDF
• Reflections on the Soul — PDF
• Body and Soul (Fourth Revised Edition, Public Domain) — PDF
• Mystical Theology (Expanded, 2012) — PDF
• The Mystic’s Vision — Essential Articles (Vol. 1) — PDF
• The Mystic’s Vision — Essential Articles (Vol. 2) — PDF
• The Mystic’s Vision — Essential Articles (Vol. 3) — PDF
• The Mystic’s Vision — Supplemental Articles — PDF
• The Mystic’s Vision (Homepage PDF) — PDF
• About Swami Abhayananda (PDF) — PDF

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Topics (articles)
Topics include: mystical experience, nonduality, Vedanta, grace, metaphysics, mind and matter, science and gnosis, and the mystical traditions of the West, India, the Orient, Christianity, and Islam.

• About Mystical Experience
• My Mystical Experience
• Who Are You?
• Fundamentals of Mystical Theology
• How to Know God
• Perfect Nondualism
• Science and Gnosis
• Wave-Particle Duality
• Maya
• The Mystery of Grace
• Mystical Experience as Future Science
• The Western Mystical Tradition
• The Mystical Traditions of India
• The Mystical Traditions of the Orient
• The Christian Mystical Tradition
• The Mystical Tradition of Islam

About this archive
• About Swami Abhayananda
• Context of the Writings
• Archival Note for Researchers
• Preservation & Attribution
• Contact the steward

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