Paul Brunton (1898-1981) was a British philosopher, mystic, and traveler. He left a successful journalistic career to live among yogis, mystics, and holy men, and studied a wide variety of Eastern and Western esoteric teachings. With his entire life dedicated to an inward and spiritual quest, Brunton felt charged with the task of communicating his experiences to others and, as the first person to write accounts of what he learned in the East from a Western perspective, his works had a major influence on the spread of Eastern mysticism to the West. Taking pains to express his thoughts in layperson's terms, Brunton was able to present what he learned from the Orient and from ancient tradition as a living wisdom. Paul Brunton's writings sum up his view that meditation and the inward quest are not exclusively for monks and hermits, but will also support those living normal, active lives in the Western world.

--From Paul Brunton: Essential Readings By Godwin, Cash and Smith

• A Mind for Peace, by Anna Bornstein

• Paul Brunton, an appreciation by John Behague

• Rediscovering Paul Brunton, by Platek and Soiffer, East West Journal, October 1986

• Beyond the Maps: Paul Brunton's View of Self-Transformation, by Paul Cash, The American Theosophist, 1984

• Reflections on Paul Brunton, by Paul Cash, Yoga International, May/June 1994

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• Meditations for People in Crisis (S. & L. Cohen, eds.)

• What Is Karma? (P. Cash, ed.)

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• Paul Brunton: A Personal View, by Kenneth Thurston Hurst

• Paul Brunton: Essential Readings, by J. Godwin, P. Cash, & T. Smith