White Crow Books imprint: 82 books

Readers noteThis is an abridged version of Swedenborgs original, which is about twice the length. When deciding what to omit, avoidance of repetition was usually the determining factor. Even in this edition he revisits his main themes frequently. The original numbering of the paragraphs has been maintained,...

At the very foundation of religious faith and hope is a belief that consciousness will survive death and that we will live on in another dimension of reality. But that foundation easily crumbles when scientific minds are unable to wrap their brains around an afterlife, when they are unable to visualize...

What is the highest state of consciousness? St. Paul called it "the peace that passeth understanding" and R. M. Bucke named it "cosmic consciousness." In Zen Buddhism, the term for it is satori or kensho, while in yoga it is samadhi or moksha, and in Taoism, "the absolute Tao." Thomas Merton used the...

The Book on Mediums, also known as The Mediums Book, was written by Allan Kardec and originally published in 1861. It is the widely respected follow up to The Spirits Book which was published in 1857 and is the second in a series of five books that Kardec wrote that are collectively known as the Spiritist...

When he and his wife were invited to the New York City Park Avenue home of Judge and Mrs William Cannon for a dinner party during October 1926, Dr Neville Whymant, a professor of linguistics at Oxford and London Universities, had no idea that he would be attending a séance with American direct-voice...

Super Joy goes far beyond happiness or contentment. It is the regular and enduring celebration of the delight of daily living, the savoring of the moments of our lives that are all too often missed. This super joy is a joy that feeds rather than takes from the human spirit.Do you think you must get the...

THE GREAT QUESTIONSince mankind came up out of savagery the great problem has been: What is the ultimate end? What if anything awaits on the other side of death's mysterious door? What happens when the hour strikes that closes man's earth career when leaving all the gathered wealth of lands...

We are happy to reissue Sir George Trevelyans classic New Age trilogy; A Vision of the Aquarian Age, Operation Redemption, and Exploration into God. After George transitioned in 1996, The Times obituary read, AN ELDER statesman of the New Age movement, Sir George Trevelyan saw the mission of his later...

One of the most intriguing stories of mediumship on record was told by Hamlin Garland, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, in the last of his 52 books, The Mystery of the Buried Crosses, published in 1939. In 1934, shortly after giving a talk on psychic phenomena in Los Angeles, Garland, a very skeptical...

We are happy to reissue Sir George Trevelyans classic New Age trilogy; A Vision of the Aquarian Age, Operation Redemption, and Exploration into God. After George transitioned in 1996, the British newspaper, The Times obituary read, AN ELDER statesman of the New Age movement, Sir George Trevelyan saw...

Vincent van Gogh is best known for two things - his sunflowers and his ear-cutting. But there are many other ways of knowing this remarkable son of a Dutch pastor, who left his chill homeland for the sunshine of Arles in the South of France; and left us over a thousand frank letters of struggle and...

In many ways Meister Eckhart has had to wait seven centuries to be heard. Born in 13th century Germany much of his life was spent in a monastery; though not all. The Meister in his name means Master and is an academic title from the University of Paris. An admired member of the Dominican Order he...

Christianity As Mystical Fact was compiled from a series of lectures Rudolf Steiner gave in 1902. It was an attempt to explain the mystical qualities of Christianity and it’s evolution from pre-Christian times to the resurrection. The book has become one of Steiners most well known works and it...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart a child prodigy who became an adult genius died in debt and was buried in an unmarked grave in his adopted home of Vienna. Mozart needed no formal lessons in composition. Hed been composing since the age of five and possessed astonishing musical memory able to re-create whatever...