InnerLight Bookstore

The CIIS InnerLight Bookstore is a small, innovative college bookstore that provides students and faculty with materials for classes and research.

>>List of required textbooks for fall 2011 courses.
>>List of required textbooks for spring 2012 courses.

The CIIS Bookstore holds a used book buyback at the end of the Spring and Fall semesters, and pays cash up to 50% of the new price of the book depending on the title. The next buyback will be December 5-9 and December 12-16 from 12-4 pm each day.

The Bookstore carries textbooks for all courses offered at CIIS and publications including the following to explore body, mind, and spirit:

• Psychology

• Eastern and Western Spirituality and Religion

• Philosophy

• Somatics

• Drama Therapy

• Women's Spirituality

• Psychological Astrology

• Ecology

• Science and Spirituality

• Anthropology

• Research and Writing

The Bookstore also carries CDs, mugs, cards, journals, T-shirts, incense, and school supplies. It is located on the 3rd floor of 1453 Mission Street and is open to the public. Contact us at (415) 575-6179 or bookstore@ciis.edu.

For mail-order services, please contact Bookstore Manager Steven Swanson or (415) 575-6178.

Spring Hours (beginning 1/17/12)

Monday to Thursday

11:30 am* to 6:30 pm

Friday

11:30 am* to 4 pm

Saturday

12-4 pm

 

Closed Sunday

*Open at 11am first couple weeks of semester

Currently open 12-4 Mon-Fri through 12/21, closed for the holidays from 12/22-1/2

Faculty Publications

In addition to a variety books, the Bookstore stocks an extensive collection of published works by California Institute of Integral Studies founder Dr. Haridas Chaudhuri and CIIS faculty.

 

Angana Chatterji

• Violent Gods: Hindu Nationalism in India's Present

Brant Cortright

• Integral Psychology
• Psychotherapy and Spirit

Renee Emunah

• Acting for Real: Drama Therapy Process, Technique, and Performance

Jorge Ferrer

• Revisioning Transpersonal Theory: A Participatory Vision of Human Spirituality
• The Participatory Turn: Spirituality, Mysticism, Religious Studies

John Fox

• Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-Making

Steven Goodman

• Tibetan Buddhism: Reason and Revelation

Ian J. Grand

• The Body in Psychotherapy: Inquiries in Somatic Psychology (edited with Don Hanlon Johnson),

Stanislav Grof

• The Adventure Of Self-Discovery: Dimensions of Consciousness And New Perspectives In Psychotherapy

• Beyond the Brain: Birth, Death And Transcendence In Psychotherapy

• The Holotropic Mind: The Three levels Of Human Consciousness And How They Shape Our Lives

• The Cosmic Game: Explorations of The Frontiers of Human Consciousness

• LSD: Doorway to the Numinous: The Groundbreaking Psychedelic Research into Realms of the Human Unconscious

• Psychology Of The Future: Lessons From Modern Consciousness Research When The Impossible Happens: Adventures In Non-Ordinary Reality

Judye Hess

• Core Focused Family Therapy: Moving From Chaos to Clarity

Don Hanlon Johnson

• Everyday Hopes, Utopian Dreams
  
• The Body in Psychotherapy: Inquiries in Somatic Psychology (edited with Ian J. Grand)
• The Meaning of Life in the 21st Century: Tensions Among Science, Religion, and Experience
• Body, Spirit and Democracy
• Bone, Breath and Gesture:Practices of Embodiment
• Groundworks: Narratives of Embodiment

Constance Jones

• Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Senior Author with James D. Ryan

Meg Jordan

• Listening to the World (DVD)

Michael Kahn

• Basic Freud

• Between Therapist and Client: The New Relationship

Eva Leveton

• Eva’s Berlin
• Clinician's Guide to Psychodrama
• Healing Collective Trauma Using Sociodrama

Joanna Macy

• Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory
• World as Lover, World as Self
• Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World
• Widening Circles: A Memoir

Robert McDermott

• The Essential Aurobindo

• The Essential Steiner

Ralph Metzner

• Sacred Mushroom of Visions: Teonanacatl
  
• Sacred Vine of Spirits: Ayahuasca
• The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience
• Green Psychology—Transforming our Relationship to the Earth

Alfonso Montuori

• Social Creativity, vols. 1-2 (co-edited with Ronald E. Purser)

Jack Morin

• The Erotic Mind: Unlocking the Inner Sources of Sexual Passion and Fulfillment

F. David Peat

• Gentle Action: Bringing Creative Change to a Turbulent World
• Flickering Reality
• Pathways of Chance
• Blackfoot Physics

John J. Prendergast

• Listening from the Heart of Silence and Sacred Mirror: Nondual Wisdom & Psychotherapy
• The Sacred Mirror

Robin Robertson

• Mining the Soul: From the Inside Out

• Indra's Net: Alchemy & Chaos Theory as Models for Self-Transformation

James Ryan

• Civakacintamani: The Hero Civakan, the Gem that Fulfills All Wishes (trans.)
• Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Senior Author with Constance Jones

Rina Sircar

• The Psycho-Ethical Aspects of Abhidhamma

Charlene Spretnak

• Relational Reality

• The Resurgence of the Real

Brian Swimme

• The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos
• The Universe Is a Green Dragon
• The Universe Story

Richard Tarnas

• Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View
• The Passion of the Western Mind