Sarlo's Guru Rating Service
LITERATURE 
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They are legion, and i have not touched them before, save a few that because of their influence i had listed elsewhere. These authors are rarely if at all acknowledged as masters, even by themselves. Still, many people, impressed by a worldview, freed of some baggage, touched by a poetic expression of That, think they have something worthwhile to say. Many acknowledged masters are also authors of course, but they will not be listed here, just the poets, dreamers and thinkers – and what the hell, maybe even a few artists and musicians. So this is not about their ineffable personages, just their works, some of which have truly been influential spiritual classics. There are most often, in the case of the deceased, no surviving orgs/cults. A few factoids, as usual, and the name of their best-known work will be included.
The links provided will often be just book links, eg Amazon, Alibris and BN. There may be better or more personal sites to be found with a diligent Google search. I will not be looking hard for these guys, but feel free to nominate one who has touched you in this way (Feedback). A yellow asterisk (*) = suggested or located by visitor, thank you.

Basho M 1644-1694 Japanese master haiku poet aka Matsuo Munefusa, Narrow Road to a Far Province 
Itzhak Bentov
M American d1979, science of consciousness type, Stalking the Wild Pendulum
Annie Wood Besant F 1847-1933 Brit many years Pres Theosophical Society, social reformer, The Ancient Wisdom
Black Elk M 1856-1950 Oglala Sioux warrior and healer, Black Elk Speaks
Paul Brunton M 1898-1981 aka Raphael Hurst, Brit journalist, intro'd Ramana et al to the west, the first Guru Rater! A Search in Secret India Unflattering material in Wikipedia 
Richard Maurice Bucke M 1837-1892 Canuck MD, literary executor of Walt Whitman, Cosmic Consciousness 
Titus Burckhardt M 1908-1984 Swiss, wrote lots on Sufism, translator, An Introduction to Sufism
June Campbell* F b1945ish Scot important feminist critique of Tib Buddhism, based on double life with Kalu Rinpoche, Traveler in Space: In Search of Female Identity in Tibetan Buddhism Tricycle interview 
Alain Daniélou* M 1907-1994 French artist, philosopher, musician, polymath deeply steeped in culture of India, explained it all to the West The Myths and Gods of India
Duane Elgin American author, speaker, workshop wallah, informed optimistic view of saving the planet as we evolve, Awakening Earth. WIE Interview
Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz M 1878-1965 British anthropologist, editor of 1st Tibetan classics to come to West, Tibetan Book of the Dead
Maurice Frydman* M 1900-1976 Polish aka Swami Bharatananda hung with Gandhi, Ramana etc, edited and translated Nisargadatta into English, I Am That
Kahlil Gibran M 1883-1931 Lebanese based in US and Europe, The Prophet
David Godman M b1953 English Ramana editor, Papaji chronicler, Be As You Are
Alex Grey M b1955ish American artist of stunning human portraits with anatomically correct interiors and energy, Sacred Mirrors Wild Heart Journal interview with work samples
RP (Rajeshwar Prasad) Kaushik* M Indian d in 70s books are nondual talks transcriptions, Organic Alchemy 
Jed McKenna * M b1975ish(?) American (IA), no personal info. Site is a book promo with reviews. JM is rumoured to not exist, other (bogus) rumours have him as Richard Rose Spiritual Enlightenment -- The Damnedest Thing, said to be fiction
Malcolm J Mitchell* M ?ish Brit? no biodata, book a  "mystical Animal Farm, funny, multi-level learning," long pretentious title subtitled The Hog's Wholey Wash MORE
Mikhail Naimy
M 1889-1988 Lebanese/American poet, essayist, etc aka Mikha il Nu ayma The Book of Mirdad. Page in pdf format
Sri BV Narasimhaswami* M Indian 1874-1956 aka Narasimha Iyer, biographer of both Ramana and Shirdi Sai Baba, major builder of SSB's legacy, Self Realization 
Ohiyesa M 1858-1939 aka Dr Charles A Eastman Sioux / Dakota physician, autobiographer, legend re-teller, essayist, lecturer, The Soul of the Indian 
Arthur Osborne M English d1970, Ramana editor and Shirdi Sai Baba biographer, For Those with Little Dust QUOTE
P.D. Ouspensky * M 1878-1947 Russian mathematician, exponent of Gurdjieff, Tertium Organum
Swami (A.) Parthasarathy M b1927 Indian Vedanta scholar, Chinmayananda, lots of books, Vedanta Treatise
Yogi Ramacharaka* * M ??? unknown/pseudonym of William Walker Atkinson? many important yoga books, c1905. Page tries to unravel his story, Advanced Course in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism
Andrew Rawlinson b1942ish(?) English religion prof, compendium / history of Western gurus, The Book of Enlightened Masters
William Samuel M 1924-1996 American, prolific author on simplicity and innocence, The Child Within Us Lives 
Pete Sierra M b1933ish "best known Cuban-born nondualist on the net," runs A2Z and NDP, contributes to GR, Enlightened Fiction 
Baird T. Spalding III M 1857-1953 Brit grew up in India, engineer, film consultant, Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East (6 vols)
Ulla* F No info, site selling a book of poetry with lots of exclamation marks, nice graphics, Beyond Poetry
Ken Wilber M b1949 Amer, many books, forums, big commentator on spiritual scene, A Brief History of Everything QUOTE Anti 

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