Book Lists
While there are extensive bibliographies in each of Professor Anderson's published books, this page gives a starter list of the books that he referred to regularly. Please contribute!
We would also very much appreciate getting the book lists from each of his classes. If you were an SDSU student, you probably remember his amazing class book lists! We are speaking of the ancient times before the Internet, before amazon.com, a time when there were no intertubes to speed books right to your mailbox, much less to your phone or e-reader. Aztec Shops used to publish a flimsy little booklet on a given day before classes started with the required and optional books for each class. While most professors listed only one or two books per class, Dr. Anderson would have 10 or more. The bookstore never seemed to plan for the fact that half of San Diego would to swoop in the day the class book list was published and buy all the books on Dr. Anderson's class lists, leaving the shelves empty for the registered students. We would like to offer those book lists here so that the other half of San Diego and the rest of the world can have access to them! Please share any you have!
Please note the book titles below are linked to amazon.com, and note that there can be many different editions of some titles.
- Bhagavad Gita, tr. Franklin Edgerton, and tr. Winthrop Sargeant
- I Am That, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj tr. Maurice Frydman
Hinduism/Advaita
- I Ching or Book of Changes, tr. Wilhelm/Baynes
- The Taoist I Ching, Liu I-ming, by Thomas Cleary
- Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu, various translators including Blakney, Wing-tsit Chan, Duyvendak, Lin Yutang, D.C. Lau
- Reflections on Things at Hand, Chu Hsi and Lu Tsu-Ch'ien, tr. Wing-Tsit Chan
- Chuang Tsu,, tr. Burton Watson
Chinese Scripture
- The King James Bible
- Meister Eckhart: Mystic and Philosopher, Reiner Schürmann
- The Mind's Road to God, St. Bonaventure
Christianity
- Rider Tarot pack
- The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Arthur Edward Waite
- The Tarot: A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages, Paul Foster Case
Tarot
- The New Man, Maurice Nicoll
- The Mark,, Maurice Nicoll
- The Fourth Way, P. D. Ouspensky
- The Strange Life of Ivan Osokin, P. D. Ouspensky
Gurdjieff
- Gravity and Grace, Simone Weil
- Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death, Søren Kierkegaard, tr. Walter Lowrie
- Meditations on Quixote, Jose Ortega y Gasset, tr. Evelyn Rugg and Diego Martin
- Fragments, Heraclitus, ed. T.M. Robinson
- The Life of Reason, George Santayana