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A university registered and licensed in Hutt River Province
Principality, Australasia
These books may be used for your own enjoyment, or for elective study as part of our degree programmes. Elective units are those chosen by the student apart from the core units. Research your Ph.D. or other doctorate by dissertation without buying any books!
To use one of these texts for taught degree study, simply write a 1,500-word review or appreciation of the book (or of a collection of related essays/articles) and send it to us (you must be enrolled first). The review should show some ability to discern the merit of the book in comparison with similar teachings, and the ability to be critical where necessary.
The links below are all to external sites and we are not responsible for the content of the sites or the books. The sites and books will contain differing views, teachings and opinions. We do not have time to read all of them or to check all of the content of each site!
Please let us know if any of the links below is not working, or if you would like to suggest other links to free/almost-free books on metaphysical, paranormal, spiritual, religious or personal growth topics. If you find objectionable content* in any of the material linked to, please report it to us.
Be aware of when a book was written when assessing its views: older material can contain sexism, intolerance and certain prejudices which were normal for the time and culture, and those aspects need to be put aside when considering the core spiritual teachings of the book. Similar considerations apply, of course, to literature and to many sacred texts. And some historical material promoting prejudice may be provided in order to aid genuine students of the history of religious intolerance which has been a major cause of human suffering, and from which we must escape if we desire a better and saner world.
Happy and enlightening reading!
To suggest a resource for this page - please email comet-uni@tiscali.co.uk
*by objectionable content we do not mean things you disagree with or things contrary to your beliefs! We mean prejudice, hate, offensive sexual content, etc. We have no reason to think that any of the sites we link to are unsavoury, but there is always a possibility that wrong material can get into a site through hacking, hijacking, sabotage, or unauthorised domain transfer.
We keep adding many more great sources!
Ashlag Research
Institute (ARI) This Kabbalah education site is open to everyone and they have
free on-line courses as well as several free kabbalah books by Rav Michael
Laitman PhD
http://www.arionline.info
The B & R Samizdat
Express - huge collections of out of print & classic books on CD and DVD,
including collections of religious, occult and philosophy books
http://www.samizdat.com
Blavatsky Archives
http://www.blavatskyarchives.com
Cyber Library of the
International School of Theology, Leadership University. Classic Christian works
- not many books and appears last updated in 2002.
http://www.leaderu.com/cyber/index.html
Donmeh West -
collection of on-line articles and resources from the controversial Neo-Sabbatean
Collective of the Internet covering Kabbalah, comparative religion and Jungian
spirituality
http://www.donmeh-west.com/
Free downloads of inspirational books from the Cat's Meow
http://www.the-cats-meow.com/ebookdownloads.shtml
Gutenberg Library -
search for public domain e-books by author or title. Classic & out-of-print
works in many fields. Various religions and traditions are found in the
collection, including some Blavatsky, and Baha'i texts.
http://www.gutenberg.org
Hinduism - Free Online Books from Himalayan Academy
http://www.himalayanacademy.com/resources/books/
Huge collection of free occult, metaphysical and inspirational
e-books from Occult Underground
http://www.occult-underground.com/
Mark Twain on
Christian Science - from the Gutenberg Library, a lesser-known book by Mark
Twain
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/1/8/3187/3187.txt
Metaphysical and philosophical free books page at 2020ok.com
http://2020ok.com/11055.htm
New Life Mission -
free Christian e-books & printed books
http://www.bjnewlife.org/english/ebook/
Odyssey of the Soul -
hypnosis and metaphysical site by Hugh Harmon Ph.D. and Pamela Chilton C.Ht.
featuring the free online edition of Volume I of the metaphysical trilogy "Odyssey of the
Soul"
http://www.odysseyofthesoul.org/index.htm
Outreach Judaism -
useful site for Jewish Studies, interfaith studies, comparative religion,
history of religion, study of anti-Semitism, etc. Includes long article by
an expert on use and misuse of Bible Codes and so-called Jesus Codes, and an
on-line copy of Luther's complete work, "Of the Jews and Their Lies" (1543).
http://www.outreachjudaism.org
Religious Tolerance -
this site, dedicated to interfaith understanding, tolerance and peace, has more
than 4,000 essays on various religious and spiritually-related topics. The
collection of essays is also available on CD. They are having financial problems
and would appreciate your donations - so if you value religious freedom and
tolerant exchanges of views, they would appreciate a donation or a CD purchase!
http://www.religioustolerance.org
Rudolf Steiner Archive - Books Section
http://www.rsarchive.org/Books/?rfr=elib
Scribd.com
Scribd is a general on-line publishing site where
anyone can upload and download books and documents on any subject. They have a
lot of material covering religions, spirituality, metaphysics, esotericism,
holistic health and therapies, and related fields in English and in many other
languages. Anyone can upload anything - so beware. Quality varies tremendously
and anything goes, from tracts, cult and paranoid conspiracy literature and
weird stuff to good books uploaded by authors and a lot of bootlegged stuff,
some very badly OCRd and unedited so many words are turned into gibberish. Some
commerical material such as catalogues and prospectuses can be found there too.
Best for finding copies of old public domain material and new works offered to
the public domain, also some scholarly papers and articles.
http://www.scribd.com
Spiritual book download/share portal from
Esnips
http://www.esnips.com/community/spiritual
Spiritualist Books - free downloads from
National Spiritualists' Union
http://www.snu.org.uk/news/books.htm
Sufi and mystical literature - free
downloads
http://www.esnips.com/web/General-files-docs
Superb spiritual library of channeled texts, spiritualism &
allied topics from spiritwritings.com
http://www.spiritwritings.com/library.html
The Unofficial
Infinite Way - Writings by Joel S. Goldsmith on a personal site.
http://www.theunofficialinfiniteway.com
Wandering Bishops (free book from
hometemple.org)
http://hometemple.org/WanBishWeb%20Complete.pdf
Works of Sathya Sai Baba / Agni Yoga Series
http://laluni.helloyou.ws/netnews/
World Public Library
- "The World eBook Library Consortia
Collection shelves more than 500,000+ PDF eBooks in 100+ languages. The World
Public Library Consortia contains 125 of the finest eBook and eDocument
collections published on the Internet today. The mission of the World Public
Library's Acquisition Department is to add new eBooks 24/7 to our shelves."
Specialist collections include Blackmask (covering all subjects including
esoteric/metaphysical); Asian Classics Input
Project; BuddhaNet(tm); CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts Collection; Center on
Religion and Democracy, University of Virginia; Christian Classics Ethereal
Library; Classic Chinese Literature Collection; Center For World Indigenous
Studies (CWIS); Etana: Ancient Near Eastern Archives; Himalayan Academy Sacred
Hindu Literature Collection; Islamic eBook Collection; Sacred Religious Text
Collection; Swami Center Collection: Divine Way of Spiritual Heart: Modern
Hesychasm. [This list of special collections compiled by CoMet from the WPL
website]
http://www.worldlibrary.net/Catalogs.htm
WWW Virtual Library -
Religion section. Contains material on Religion, Buddhist Studies, Pure Land
Buddhism, Taoism, Tibetan Religious and Cultural Centres, Zen Buddhism
http://vlib.org/Religion
WWW Virtual Library -
Indigenous Studies section (including Traditional Medicine)
http://www.cwis.org/wwwvl/indig-vl.html
Yoga - free books from beingyoga.com
http://www.beingyoga.com/texts.htm
Reprints of scarce traditional Literature (not free)
The B & R Samizdat
Express - huge collections of out of print & classic books on CD and DVD,
including collections of religious, occult, philosophy and americana books at
extremely low prices
http://www.samizdat.com
Kessinger Publishing (reprints of rare and classical occult and spiritual books)
http://www.kessinger.net/
Munseys - thousands
of rare books in various ebook formats, including esoteric, religion,
philosophy, and folklore categories to download. [As at October 2007, the site
is still under construction and appears to be funded by donations.]
http://www.munseys.com