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Welcome to Big Sur Tapes - Established in 1989

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Audio Recordings of Wisdom and Inspiration

Big Sur Tapes preserves and publishes a treasury of spoken audio recordings of wisdom and sacred inspiration arising from psychological, esoteric, religious, and shamanic traditions from around the world.

Much of this collection is rare and only available from Big Sur Tapes.

New Releases

John Cody, On Gerald Heard

Stephan Hoeller, Aldous Huxley - Perennial Philosopher

Stephan Hoeller, Gerald Heard - Guide of Souls

Aldous Huxley, Image & Reality

Aldous Huxley, The Religious Experience

Aldous Huxley, Threats to Freedom (Interviewed by Mike Wallace)

Stephan Hoeller, D. H. Lawrence, The Mysteries of Life's Dynamism

Stephen Spender, The Life and Work of D. H. Lawrence

Alduous Huxley and Frieda Lawrence, Memories of D. H. Lawrence

Tom Robbins, Tom Robbins' Odyssey

Brugh Joy, Brazilian Ayahuasca Encounter

Anais Nin, Art & Spirit

 

We publish the voices of:

  • Eminent psychologists such as Abraham Maslow, Viktor Frankl, B. F. Skinner and Fritz Perls;
  • Theologians and mystics such as Allan Watts, Huston Smith, Thomas Merton, Idias Shaw, Ram Dass and Zalman Schactor;
  • Some of the greats in literature and poetry such as Anais Nin, Robert Bly, Ray Bradbury, Henry Miller and Aldous Huxley; and
  • Visionaries and innovators such as Gregory Bateson, Bucky Fuller, Stan Grof, Rupert Sheldrake and Andrew Weil.

Our recordings include those about Gurdjieff, the enneagram, Sufis, Buddhism, the mystical experience, synchronicity, Jung, psychedelics, D. H. Lawrence, sacred music, the I Ching, Tantra and shamanic traditions. 

     
     

Topics - Authors
   Aging
   Anthropology
   Art, Artists, Creativity and
    Spirituality
   Big Sur
   Biographical Information
   Death and Dying
   Early Travelers to the East
   Ethics
   Exploring Consciousness
   Healing
   How Do I Choose A Spiritual
    Tradition?
   Human Potential Movement
   Interconnectiveness of Life
   Intuition, Psychic and Paranormal
    Phenomena
   Learning and Education
   Literature
   Love and Relationship
   Male and Female Identity
   Music
   Mystical Experience
   Mythology
   New Paradigms
   Non-Ordinary States of  
    Consciousness
   Philosophy
   Poetry
   Psychedelics
   Psychology
     Addiction
     Alienation
     Archetypal
     Behaviorism
     Bioenergetics
     Body-Oriented Therapy
     Child Psychology
     Dark Side/Shadow
     Encounter Groups
     Family Therapy
     General Psychology
     Gestalt Therapy
     Holotropic Breathwork
     Humanistic Psychology
     Hypnotherapy
     Identity, Self and Ego
     Jungian Psychology
     Synchronicity
     Transpersonal Psychology
  Psychosis, Madness and Mystical
   Experience
  Religious and Spiritual
   Traditions
     Buddhism General
     Christianity
     Fourth Way and Gurdjieff
     Gnosticism
     Hinduism
     Islam
     Judaism
     Oscar Ichazo and Arica
     Pagan
     Religion General
     Sufi
     Taoism
     Tibetan Buddhism
     Zen Buddhism   
   Sacred Medicine
     Ayahausca
     Peyote
     Mushrooms
   Sacred Music
   Science
   Search For Meaning
   Sense of Wonder
   Sexuality
   Shamanic Traditions
    Huichol Indians of Mexico
    Indians of Mexico
    Mazatec Indians of Mexico
    Native American Church
    South American Church
    Shamanic Traditions General
    Witchcraft
   Simplifying Our Lives
   Social Action
   Sociology
 
 
 
   Spiritual Practices and Tools
     Aikido
     Alchemy
     Astrology
     Chakra System
     Course of Miracles
     Dream Work
     Enneagram
     Holotropic Breathwork
     Hypnosis
     I Ching
     Isolation Tanks
     Kabala
     Magic
     Meditation
     Prayer
     Self Observation
     Sensory Awareness
     Sports
     Story Telling
     Symbols of Transformation
     T'ai Chi
     Tantra
     Tarot
     Vibratory Sound
     Visualization
     Yoga
   Spiritual and Therapeutic Tyranny
   The 60s
   The Nature of Reality
 
 
   
Authors - Topics    
Abrahams, Ralph
Alexander, F. M.
Anderson, Tenshin Reb
Arguelles, Jose and Miriam
Armstrong, Ann and Jim
Arrien, Angeles
Banyacya, Thomas
Bateson, Gregory
Bennett, J. G.
Bergman, Bob
Blofeld, John
Bly, Robert
Bradbury, Ray
Brugh, Jay
Brown, Malcolm
Capra, Fritjof
Cody, John
Commoner, Barry
Condon, Thomas
Cox, Harvey
Cuevas-Barnett, Gloria
El-Sarhan, Adnan Mohammed
Elgin, Duane
Emmanuel
Erickson, Carol
Fadiman, James
Fawel, Ghazi
Feldenkrais, Moshe
Fields, Rick
Frankl, Viktor
Freibott, George
Freud, Anna
Friedman,Maurice
Fuller, Buckminster
Ginsberg, Allen
Glassmzn Roshi, Bernard
Govinda, Lama
Green, Elmer and Alyce
Griffiths, Fr. Bede
Grof, Stan and Christina
Gurdjieff, G.I.
Hall, Robert
Cody, John
 
Halifax, Joan
Hand, Robert
Harman, Willis
Harner, Michael
Hastings, Arthur
Heard, Gerald
Henderson, Joseph
Hill, Leyla Rudhyar
Hoeller, Stephen,
Hofmann, Albert
Houston, Jean
Huang, Al
Huxley, Aldous
Huxley, Laura
Ilsen, Eve
Jackson-Bear, Eli
Jeffers, Robertson
Johnson, Robert
Joyce, James
Keen, Sam
Keleman, Stanley
Kelley, Charles
Khan, Pir Vilayat Inayat
Kornfield, Jack
Kramer, Joel and Diana Alstad
Krippner, Stanley
Krishnamurti, J
Laing, R. D.
Lawrence, D.H.
Lawrence, Frieda
Leary, Tim
Leonard, George
Lilly, John
Lowen, Alexander
Maslow, Abraham
May, Rollo
McCarthy, George
Mead, Margaret
Merrell-Wolff, Franklin
Merton, Thomas
Metzner, Ralph
Miller, Henry
Mookerjee, Ajit
Muller, Robert
Munn, Henry
Murphy, Michael
Myerhoff, Barbara
Naranjo, Claudio
Nin, Anais
Nydahl, Ole
Olatunji, Babatunde
Ornstein, Robert
Osmond, Humphrey
Ouspensky, P. D.
Palmer, Helen
Palmer, Wendy
Pauling, Linus
Pearce, Joseph Chilton
Perls, Fritz
Perls, Laura
Perry, John
Pierrakos, John
Pike, Bishop
Pinkson, Thomas
Prem Das
Pribram, Karl
Puharich, Henry
Purce, Jill
Ram Dass
Ravenscroft, Trevor
Reich, Eva
Reich, Wilhelm
Ring, Kenneth
Rios, Guadalupe De La Cruz
Rivas, Don Agustin
Robbins, Tom
Rogers, Carl
Rohr, Richard
Rolf, Ida
Roscoe, Will
 
 
Rossman, Martin
Rudhyar, Dana
Sandner, Donald
Satir, Virginia
Schachter, Rabbi Zalman
Schultes, Richard
Schutz, Will
Schwarz, Jack
Segal, Robert
Selver, Charlotte
Shah, Idries
Sheldrake, Rupert
Shulgin, Alexander
Silverman, Julian
Simkin, Anna
Simkin, James
Simonton, Carl
Skinner, B. F.
Smith, Huston
Snake, Ruben
Spender, Stephen
Spiegelberg, Frederic
Steindl-Rast, Br. David
Suzuki Roshi, Shunryu
Swami Satchidananda
Szasz, Thomas
Tarnas, Richard
Tart, Charles
Tesla, Nikola
Thompson, William Irwin
Tiller, William
Trungpa Rinpoche, Chogyam
Turner, D. M.
Turtle, Billy and Wayne
Van Dusen, Wilson
Wasson, Gordon
Watts, Alan
Weil, Andrew
Wilson, Colin
Wilson, Robert Anton
Worsley, Jack
Wyer, Loretta