Philosophy audiobooks

Healing and the Mind

By: Bill Moyers

Narrated by: Bill Moyers

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In the best-selling companion volume to the PBS series, acclaimed television journalist Bill Moyers explores the fascinating, complex, powerful connection between mind and body in human health. Ancient medical science told us our minds and bodies are one. So did philosophers of old. Now, modern science and new research are helping us to... Read more

Awakening the Buddha Within - Abridged

By: Lama Surya Das

Narrated by: Lama Surya Das

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Lama Surya Das, the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition, presents the first comprehensive book of Western Buddhism for the modern-day spiritual seeker.

Buddhism offers a profound yet practical path to enlightenment.  In this loving and generous book, the American-born and Tibetan-trained Lama Surya Das offers at once a... Read more

Practice Makes Perfect

By: Bo Lozoff

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Following your bliss is not always easy.  In fact according to Bo Lozoff, there's only one thing more difficult:  not following your bliss.  Lozoff is following his at the Human Kindness Foundation he co-founded, where he gets to "see people in some of the most profound changes of their lives." Read more

Appreciating Your Originality

By: Thomas Moore

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

As former monk Thomas Moore points out many of us are working overtime to "build and manufacture a self, just as we build and manufacture the world."  Moore explores how and why we cover up who we really are and offers a vivid sense of what it means to live with passion and creativity through following the lead of your authentic self. Read more

Saint Augustine

By: Garry Wills

Narrated by: Alexander Adams

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

For centuries, Augustine's writings have moved and fascinated readers. With the keen eye of a writer whose own intellectual analysis won him a Pulitzer Prize, Gary Wills examines this famed fourth-century bishop and seminal thinker whose grounding in classical philosophy informed his interpretation of Christian doctrine. Saint Augustine explores... Read more

Self-Reliance

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Peter Johnson

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

From the spiritual to the economic, Emerson s Self-Reliance details the various aspects of a man s ability to rely on himself for survival. This 19th century essay resolutely supports Emerson s life-long belief in individualism and encourages mankind to pass over practices like conformity and false consistency for following intuition and... Read more

The Art of Living - Abridged

By: Epictetus & Sharon Lebell

Narrated by: Richard Bolles

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Epictetus, one of the greatest of the ancient thinkers, believed that the primary mission of philosophy is to help ordinary people meet the challenges of daily life and deal with losses, disappointments, and grief. His prescription for the good life: master desires, perform one's duties, and learn to think clearly about oneself and the larger... Read more

Expanding Human Spirit

By: Huston Smith, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Westerners look to science to explain the way things are. Yet science often overlooks something essential to life: the human spirit. Although spirit cannot possibly be seen through the lens of a microscope, captured on a video camera or explained through scientific experiments, few of us would deny that it exists. Huston Smith breathes new life... Read more

Essential Mystery

By: Huston Smith, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The life of Huston Smith reads like an adventure novel.  One of the foremost religious scholars of our time, Smith lived in a missionary household in China, monasteries in Japan, and a sweat lodge in North America. Introduced to Vedanta through spiritual pioneers Aldous Huxley and Gerald Heard, he engaged many of the contemporary wisdom giants. Read more

More Charles Kuralt's American Moments - Abridged

By: Charles Kuralt

Narrated by: Charles Kuralt

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

More Charles Kuralt's American Moments takes us on a wonderful, joyous exploration of Americana with this second volume of never-before-available spoken-word accounts of what makes the United States so special.
An American Moment with Charles Kuralt -- a timeless series of television essays about uniquely American people, places, and ideas --... Read more

Noble Thoughts / Noble Life

By: Satish Kumar

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Satish Kumar, whose inner journeys proved deep as his travels were long, tells you stories about love, courage, and the triumph of the human spirit in his unpretentious yet compelling style. Read more

Great Questions, The:  Mind, Consciousness and Meaning

By: Jean-Francois Revel & Matthieu Ricard

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1996, internationally-renowned philosopher Jean-Francois Revel and his son Matthieu Ricard, a Buddhist monk, spent ten days in the mountains overlooking Kathmandu discussing the most fundamental questions of human existence. Read more

Chuang Tsu - Abridged

By: Gia Feng

Narrated by: Chungliang Al Huang Huang

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Brilliant, mystical, pragmatic, and witty, Chuang Tsu has been called the world's first anarchist by some. Even 2,000 years after his death, his provocative Taoist text remains in the forefront of ancient Chinese philosophical study. An essential sourcebook in the Taoist canon, the sublime prose of this spiritual classic provides a profound and... Read more

Unleashing The Soul

By: Marion Woodman

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Woodman believes that facing the intense power of your own heart is the only way to truly connect with other living things. She says we must not be "afraid of the intensity of opening ourselves to our real personhood." Her insight in analyzing ancient folk tales and applying them to current events is intriguing. She will inspire you to get out... Read more

Charles Kuralt's American Moments - Abridged

By: Charles Kuralt

Narrated by: Charles Kuralt

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Charles Kuralt is a national treasure, a reporter and man of the world who was to many the real and true voice of America. For more than thirty-five years, he delighted us with his On the Road reports, as an anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning, and with bestselling books that include On the Road with Charles Kuralt and Charles Kuralt's America. As... Read more

Being in the Zone

By: Chungliang Al Huang

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Creating meaning out of our lives gives us a purpose in being alive.  But in all our pondering, sometimes we forget to actually live. Chungliang Al Huang believes that “being alive is more important than the meaning of life.” Read more

The First People - 11,000 Years of Wisdom

By: Evan T. Pritchard

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A descendant of the MicMac Indians and tutored by Algonquin elders, Evan Pritchard has done much to bring recognition of this tribe’s influence on the culture, history and government of the United States.  He speaks of the “crossroads” we now face, and how the ancient Algonquins knew a time would come when, “What we do now matters more than it... Read more

Doing What You Love And Loving What You Do - Part Ii

By: Justine Willis Toms & Michael Toms

Narrated by: Jacqui Dunne

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is Part II of an evocative interview aimed at finding our true passion and integrating it into our life, both on and off the job. It's about finding joy, taking initiative and making the jump. But before you leap, Justine says, "There is an art to choosing well." Read more

Doing What You Love And Loving What You Do - Part I

By: Justine Willis Toms & Michael Toms

Narrated by: Jacqui Dunne

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

To actually be paid for doing what you love would be a dream come true.  But how do you discover your passion?  And how do you find a way to bring that spirit into the workplace?  Justine and Michael Toms, co-founders of New Dimensions Radio and New Dimensions Broadcasting Network, are living proof that it can be done. Read more

Real Time

By: Jacob Needleman, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

It seems as if time is speeding up and most of us are feeling like victims of “busyness” as we become obsessed with being more efficient. Needleman likens time management to "rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic." He discusses the meaning of time, how we may experience the gifts of time, and time as a question rather than a problem. Read more

True Prosperity

By: Shakti Gawain

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

When most of us think of prosperity, we immediately think of money.  Shakti Gawain has another definition:  "Prosperity is the experience of having what we truly need and want in life.  Prosperity is an experience, it doesn't come from anything external." Read more

Lifelong Learning

By: Marilyn Schlitz & Tom Hurley

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The Institute of Noetic Sciences was founded in 1973 after astronaut Edgar Mitchell traveled to the moon and saw Planet Earth from outer space--a journey that transformed his life.  Tom Hurley and Marilyn Schlitz talk with Michael Toms about how Noetic Sciences was founded, what it has accomplished and where it is headed. Read more

Finding Your Inner Goddess

By: Carol Christ

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Growing numbers of people have begun to turn back to old ways of worshipping the divine in a feminine sense.  Carol Christ provides a guide to understanding this new Goddess-spirituality movement.  According to Christ, "the Goddess brings about a great metaphoric shift in the way we think about God," and the changes that Goddess-religion can... Read more

Kabbalah Revealed

By: Rabbi David Cooper

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Ancient Jewish sages developed the tradition of the kabbalah.  Rabbi David A. Cooper is among the first to bring the mystery and mysticism of kabbalah to us in a way that is easy to understand.  Kabbalah is about bringing human consciousness to its full potential, recognizing that we are partners with God in the continuous process of creation. Read more