Center for Sacred Sciences Publication Catalog

BOOKS

Title (mouse over title for tooltip info)

Author(s)

Date

Length

Joel

2009

410 p.

Paperback. $27.95 (Also available at $27.95 from Amazon.com, or you can order it direct from the on-demand printer Lulu.com for just $18.00)

Joel

1985

262 p.

Paperback. $11.95 (Also available from Amazon.com)

Joel

1996

83 p.

Paperback. $6.95 (Also available from Amazon.com)

VIDEOS

Title (mouse over title for tooltip info)

Author(s)

Date

Length

Joel

2007

46 min.

DVD. $21.95

Joel

2005

71 min.

DVD. $17.95
n.b.: While the audio on this DVD is completely intelligible, sounds from a lecture being given in the next room can occasionally be heard in the background.

Joel

1993

47 min.

DVD edition, re-edited, with music. $21.95

Joel

1992

77 min.

DVD edition, re-edited, with music. $21.95

Joel

1992

39 min.

DVD. $21.95

Joel

1992

67 min.

DVD. $17.95
n.b.: Some portions of the video display sharp contrast fluctuations.

Joel and Wolff

1983

70 min.

DVD. $17.95

MP3 AUDIO SETS: Way of Selflessness
The twelve Way of Selflessness sets of audios (96 talks) for use with the Way of Selflessness distance studies course are available on a single DVD containing all the talks in high quality mp3 format.

Title

Author(s)

Date

Length

CD#

Way of Selflessness: Sets 1-12 on a single data DVD, $125

Joel

various

80 talks

wosDVD1

All 96 mp3 talks for the entire Way of Selflessness course, including Sets 1-8 and supplemental sets 1-4

MP3 AUDIO SETS: Other Audios
Each mp3 audio disc listed below contains a set of talks in high quality mp3 format.

Title

Author(s)

Date

Length

CD#

Meditation Series: Five Talks from the Fall 2003 Retreat, $20

Joel

various

5 talks

medMP3

Concentration Practice; Choiceless Awareness; Liberating Thoughts, Desires and Aversions; Returning to the Source; Doing Nothing

Devotion Series: Seven Talks from the Fall 2005 Retreat, $28

Joel

various

7 talks

devMP3

Verbal Prayer; Prayer in the Heart; Purifying the Heart; Entering the Spiritual Heart; Unceasing Prayer; Silent Prayer; Doing Nothing

Inquiry Series: Eight Talks from the Fall 2006 Retreat, $32

Joel

various

8 talks

inqMP3

Preparation Meditation, Impermanence and Emptiness, Causes and Correlations, Are You a Body?, Are You Emotions?, Are You Thoughts or Will?, Are You the Experiencer?, Doing Nothing

Liberating Emotions Series: Seven Talks from the Fall 2009 Retreat, $28

Joel

various

7 talks

TEMP3

Spacious Awareness, Understanding Emotions, Desire and Aversion, Pride and Envy, Ignorance, True Nature Part 1, True Nature Part 2

SINGLE AUDIOS
Each item contains a single talk on cassette tape or audio CD

Audio Tapes: $8.50 each, or $8 each when a complete set is ordered

Audio CDs: $9.50 each, or $9 each when a complete set is ordered

FOUNDATIONAL TEACHINGS

Title

Author(s)

Date

Length

CD#

Tape#

Joel

9/15/96

68

cd122

1063

Joel

10/13/96

63

cd123

1064

Joel

11/10/96

67

cd124

1065

Joel

1/19/97

62

cd125

1066

Joel

2/9/97

61

cd126

1067

Practicing Precepts: 1 of 4

Joel

9/26/99

71

cd77

1250

Practicing Precepts: 2 of 4

Joel

11/21/99

68

cd78

1252

Practicing Precepts: 3 of 4

Joel

12/19/99

78

cd79

1272

Practicing Precepts: 4 of 4

Joel

1/30/00

64

cd80

1275

The Seven Virtues (Set of 7)

First Virtue: Courage, 1 of 7

Joel

11/12/95

72

cd183

993

Second Virtue: Humility, 2 of 7

Joel

12/10/95

65

cd184

994

Third Virtue: Justice, 3 of 7

Joel

1/14/96

66

cd185

1020

Fourth Virtue: Patience, 4 of 7

Joel

2/25/96

68

cd186

1022

Fifth Virtue: Gratitude, 5 of 7

Joel

3/10/96

65

cd187

1023

Sixth Virtue: Mercy, 6 of 7

Joel

4/14/96

46

cd188

1025

Seventh Virtue: Joy, 7 of 7

Joel

5/12/96

61

cd189

1026

Seven Stages of the Spiritual Path (Set of 7)

One: Awakening of Faith

Joel

3/9/97

59

cd83

1072

Two: Investigation of Teachings

Joel

4/27/97

62

cd84

1086

Three: Unification of Self

Joel

5/11/97

59

cd85

1087

Four: Purification of Mind

Joel

6/22/97

61

cd86

1088

Five: Illumination of Heart

Joel

7/13/97

73

cd87

1089

Six: Kenosis

Joel

7/20/97

69

cd88

1090

Seven: Gnosis

Joel

8/10/97

69

cd89

1091

Is There Help from Above? (Set of 2)

Is There Help from Above? Part 1 of 2

Joel

7/25/93

57

cd258

851

Is There Help from Above? Part 2 of 2

Joel

7/25/93

55

cd259

852

Practices of the Night (Set of 2)

Practices of the Night I -- Spiritual Interpretation of Dreams

Joel

4/19/98

75

cd92

1129

Practices of the Night II -- Meditation in Dreams

Joel

4/26/98

69

cd93

1130

Purpose of the Spiritual Path

Joel

10/31/92

37

cd402

1900

The Retreat

Joel

7/21/96

70

cd109

1060

Mystical Prayer

Joel

11/23/97

76

cd179

1106

Why Walk a Spiritual Path?

Joel

6/21/98

77

cd170

1132

Joel

11/8/98

74

cd111

1134

Why Morality Matters

Joel

3/14/99

63

cd127

1202

Anatomy of Awakening

Joel

8/13/00

75

cd95

1342

Liberating Emotions

Joel & Andrea

1/28/01

79

cd97

1462

Joel

7/8/01

77

cd117

1499

Varieties of Mystical Experience

Joel

2/17/02

67

cd98

1550

Self Inquiry: a Guided Meditation

Joel

3/24/02

75

cd91

1585

Four Kinds of Practice

Joel

6/26/05

59

cd400

1898

Awareness of Neediness

Todd Corbett

1/21/07

62

cd477

1935

ENLIGHTENMENT

Title

Author(s)

Date

Length

CD#

Tape#

There Is Only One Enlightenment

Joel

8/11/91

43

cd267

677

"My" Enlightenment

Joel

8/16/92

69

cd226

785

Enlightenment: A Thirteen Year Perspective

Joel

8/4/96

69

cd176

1061

Are There Levels of Enlightenment?

Joel

11/17/95

53

cd177

1068

How Does a Gnostic Live?

Joel

8/9/98

60

cd180

1133

The Journey In God

Joel

12/13/98

48

cd137

1190

What's Inside My Head?

Joel

2/21/99

78

cd112

1201

Three Fruits of Enlightenment

Joel

8/8/99

62

cd101

1248

Truth Cannot Be Denied

Joel

8/11/02

65

cd121

1710

Spiritual Death

Joel

8/10/03

73

cd246

1835

Awakened by Death

Todd Corbett

2/23/05

64

cd374

1884

Direct Pointing

Joel

8/14/05

62

cd414

1904

Consciousness Unveiled: Fred's Awakening

Fred Chambers

3/29/2006

61

cd450

1915

Joel

8/9/2009

47

ASPECTS OF PRACTICE

Title

Author(s)

Date

Length

CD#

Tape#

Inquiry #1: Preparation Meditation

Joel

10/14/06

67

cd478

1936

Inquiry #2: Impermanence and Emptiness

Joel

10/15/06

61

cd479

1937

Inquiry #3: Causes and Correlations

Joel

10/15/06

50

cd480

1938

Inquiry #4: Are You a Body?

Joel

10/16/06

66

cd481

1939

Inquiry #5: Are You Emotions?

Joel

10/17/06

63

cd482

1940

Inquiry #6: Are You Thoughts or Will?

Joel

10/18/06

64

cd483

1941

Inquiry #7: Are You the Experiencer?

Joel

10/19/06

60

cd484

1942

Inquiry #8: Doing Nothing

Joel

10/20/06

65

cd485

1943

Devotion #1: Verbal Prayer

Joel

10/16/05

60

cd416

1908

Devotion #2: Prayer in the Heart

Joel

10/17/05

62

cd417

1909

Devotion #3: Purifying the Heart

Joel

10/18/05

64

cd418

1910

Devotion #4: Entering the Spiritual Heart

Joel

10/19/05

72

cd419

1911

Devotion #5: Unceasing Prayer

Joel

10/20/05

68

cd420

1912

Devotion #6: Silent Prayer

Joel

10/21/05

67

cd421

1913

Devotion #7: Doing Nothing

Joel

10/21/05

60

cd422

1914

Joel

10/12/03

68

cd298

1841

Joel

10/13/03

58

cd299

1842

Joel

10/13/03

57

cd300

1843

Joel

10/13/03

64

cd301

1844

Joel

10/13/03

61

cd302

1845

Lib. Emot. #1: Spacious Awareness

Joel

10/16/2009

69

Lib. Emot. #2: Understanding Emotions

Joel

10/17/2009

69

Lib. Emot. #3: Desire and Aversion

Joel

10/18/2009

62

Lib. Emot. #4: Pride and Envy

Joel

10/19/2009

60

Lib. Emot. #5: Ignorance

Joel

10/20/2009

61

Lib. Emot. #6: True Nature, Part 1

Joel

10/21/2009

62

Lib. Emot. #7: True Nature, Part 2

Joel

10/22/2009

59

Ego & Egolessness

Joel

1/12/92

62

cd247

703

Beyond Good and Evil

Joel

1/19/92

40

cd248

704

Precepts & Perfection

Joel

3/29/92

44

cd249

723

Who Are You, Really?

Joel

5/21/92

75

cd403

1901

Passion

Joel

5/24/92

43

cd244

763

Fear of Enlightenment

Joel

6/28/92

61

cd250

780

Fairness & Forgiveness

Joel

7/12/92

44

cd251

781

Gnosis and Dreaming

Joel

7/19/92

69

cd225

782

Sex and Sacrament

Joel

9/20/92

44

cd253

788

Who Am I?

Joel

10/25/92

55

cd254

808

The Left Hand of God

Joel

11/8/92

52

cd255

809

Meditation and Decisions

Joel

1/10/93

55

cd274

820

Breath of the Buffalo

Joel

5/16/93

48

cd227

848

Karma and Compassion

Joel

9/19/93

60

cd229

883

Thought

Joel

12/19/93

73

cd230

886

Tolerance

Joel

4/10/94

71

cd232

925

Beauty

Joel

4/24/94

80

cd233

930

Practical Advice for the Path

Joel

5/8/94

40

cd234

931

Go as Nothing

Joel

5/29/94

64

cd236

949

Gnosis and Compassion

Joel

7/31/94

68

cd193

952

The Heart of Yearning

Joel

9/18/94

70

cd237

954

Practicing at Work

Joel

5/28/95

67

cd175

982

Remember to Remember

Joel

6/16/95

70

cd190

983

Reality, Morality, and Illusion

Joel

10/15/95

69

cd194

992

What Jesus Taught

Joel

12/25/95

53

cd195

996

From "It" to "I" the Experience of God

Joel

6/30/96

50

cd197

1029

Undertaking a Solo Retreat by Jennifer Knight

Jennifer Knight

12/15/96

73

cd241

1059

Transforming Relationships

Joel

9/29/96

60

cd108

1062

The Paradox of Self-will

Joel

2/23/97

47

cd110

1071

Inner Guidance

Joel

3/16/97

66

cd165

1084

Ladder of Love

Joel

3/23/97

67

cd166

1085

Here to Learn, Here to Love, Here to Serve

Joel

9/14/97

59

cd178

1105

The Wisdom of Myth and Dreams

Joel

5/16/99

49

cd114

1205

Spiritual Warfare

Joel

5/23/99

63

cd138

1206

Expectations

Joel

6/27/99

51

cd115

1208

Worldly Pleasures and the Spiritual Quest

Joel & Andrea

11/14/99

47

cd102

1251

Basic Awareness Meditation A Guided Meditation

Andrea Pucci

3/12/00

66

cd90

1279

The Role of Devotion on the Mystical Path

Joel

3/26/00

54

cd172

1331

Everything Is Love; includes a meditation w/Andrea

Joel & Andrea

4/9/00

57

cd173

1332

The Subtleties of Surrender

Joel

6/18/00

76

cd181

1334

Experience and Knowledge

Joel

7/9/00

61

cd94

1341

Enlightenment and Practice

Joel & Andrea

12/10/00

67

cd96

1452

Loneliness: the Heart of Longing

Andrea Pucci

2/11/01

67

cd129

1463

The Function of Insight

Joel

3/18/01

55

cd141

1464

Taking the Teachings to Heart

Joel & Tom Kurzka

4/8/01

57

cd142

1480

Finding the Center of Your Mandala

Andrea Pucci

4/29/01

64

cd143

1481

Depression and The Dark Night

Joel

11/11/01

52

cd100

1502

The Relationship Between Love and Truth

Joel

12/9/01

59

cd103

1547

What Use Is Grief?

Joel

1/13/02

55

cd81

1549

Cutting Through Spiritual Attachments

Joel

3/17/02

59

cd99

1586

Deconstructing the Delusion of Time

Joel

6/30/02

66

cd119

1708

Passion on the Path

Joel

11/10/02

54

cd134

1719

Faith, Practice, and Awakening

Joel

11/24/02

52

cd136

1721

What Is Love?

Joel

7/27/03

52

cd245

1834

Finding a True Teacher

Joel

2/8/04

57

cd297

1840

What to Practice

Joel

6/13/04

58

cd319

1879

Cultivating Love and Compassion

Joel

9/26/04

61

cd342

1881

Taking the Bodhisattva Vow

Joel

11/13/04

52

cd362

1882

The End of Struggle

Todd Corbett

3/20/05

64

cd374

1884

Inner Renunciation

Joel

10/15/05

62

cd500

1944

From Relationship to Aloneness

Todd Corbett

11/20/05

55

cd415

1905

How Suffering Gets Us to the Truth

Todd Corbett

12/11/05

71

cd449

1907

Take Up Your Cross

Todd Corbett

6/11/06

68

cd462

1919

Drop the Story

Joel

7/9/06

58

cd465

1920

Truth Has No Name

Todd Corbett

11/12/06

69

cd476

1928

Sweet Little Babies

Todd Corbett

4/26/2009

58

Treasure Hunt for God

Fred Chambers

5/17/2009

35

MYSTICAL PHILOSOPHY

Title

Author(s)

Date

Length

CD#

Tape#

Religion: Esoteric & Exoteric

Joel

9/30/90

51

cd264

632

Joel

9/8/91

44

cd268

678

Gratitude & Grace

Joel

11/24/91

57

cd269

700

Joel

12/25/91

67

cd270

702

Consciousness Without Form

Joel

1/26/92

42

cd271

705

The Infinite Finite

Joel

3/8/92

44

cd272

722

Boundaries and Compassion

Joel

7/26/92

61

cd252

784

Shifting the Base of Reference

Joel

8/8/92

65

cd404

1902

Two Truths: the Relative and the Absolute

Joel

6/13/93

58

cd257

849

Suffering and Indifference

Joel

6/27/93

59

cd228

850

Time and Eternity

Joel

1/30/94

67

cd231

905

Reality, Karma, and Rebirth

Joel

12/10/94

60

cd238

958

Mysticism and Madness

Joel

4/9/95

61

cd239

960

Three Pillars of Mysticism

Joel

3/24/96

77

cd107

1024

The Purpose of Suffering

Joel

11/24/96

72

cd198

1069

The "New Age" from a Spiritual Perspective

Joel

11/15/98

75

cd171

1189

I Was a Treasure

Joel

2/14/99

62

cd131

1192

God & Emptiness

Joel

3/21/99

68

cd130

1203

Mother in the Mystical Traditions

Joel

5/9/99

59

cd113

1204

Everything Perishes Except His Face

Joel

7/18/99

75

cd139

1209

An Overview of the Spiritual Path

Joel

9/19/99

55

cd106

1249

Synchronicity on the Mystical Path (diagram)

Joel

2/13/00

72

cd116

1276

Identity and Difference

Joel & Andrea

2/27/00

59

cd104

1278

Christianity: Esoteric and Exoteric

Joel

5/21/00

79

cd174

1333

Consciousness: Two Worldviews

Joel

10/29/00

65

cd132

1370

To Practice or Not to Practice

Joel

12/17/00

67

cd140

1460

Talking About Nothing

Joel & Andrea

1/21/01

56

cd128

1461

Forsaking Yourself Day by Day

Joel

5/27/01

57

cd144

1484

Mystics of Ancient Greece

Tom McFarlane

3/10/02

48

cd82

1584

What's the Story on "Stories?"

Joel

7/14/02

60

cd120

1709

What Are Sacred Sciences?

Joel

10/27/02

57

cd133

1718

Gnosis and the World

Joel

5/25/03

61

cd242

1832

Logos and the New Worldview

Tom McFarlane

6/22/03

68

cd243

1833

Reincarnation

Joel

11/23/03

66

cd275

1838

Subject and Object are One

Joel

8/8/04

60

cd341

1880

Gnosis, Ego, and Love

Joel

1/15/05

52

cd373

1883

MYSTICISM & SCIENCE

Title

Author(s)

Date

Length

CD#

Tape#

Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness

Joel

1/26/97

77

cd164

1070

The Great Debate in Quantum Physics

Tom McFarlane & Damien Pierce

11/17/02

69

cd135

1720

Beyond Theories

Tom McFarlane

1/11/04

46

cd280

1839

Darwinism, Creationism, and Mysticism

Joel

7/17/05

70

cd401

1899

MYSTICISM & SOCIETY

Title

Author(s)

Date

Length

CD#

Tape#

The City of God: the True Spiritual Community

Joel

6/16/91

41

cd266

674

The Spiritual Root of Intolerance

Joel

1/31/93

53

cd256

828

Peace

Joel

5/22/94

52

cd235

932

Answer to Auschwitz

Joel

5/21/95

63

cd240

981

Our Moral Responsibility to Children

Joel

5/24/98

45

cd169

1131

September 11: How Do We Respond?

Joel

9/23/01

79

cd118

1501

The Feminine Face of Mysticism

Joel

7/31/05

45

cd413

1903