Religion audiobooks

A Guided Meditation For Healthful Sleep

By: Belleruth Naparstek

Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Our hugely popular sleep meditation helps those who wake up in the middle of the night and can't fall back to sleep, and it's perfect for people who simply want to doze off faster. For a surprising number of listeners, it eventually replaces sleep medication. Repeated listening at bedtime for 2-3 weeks ensures maximum effectiveness. The Health... 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

Medicine And Miracles

By: Larry Dossey, M.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The role of spirituality in healing and health care is changing and one of the people responsible for this phenomenal turnaround is Dr. Larry Dossey. With miraculous stories from real life and explicit data from medical research Dossey demonstrates that any separation of our inner ways of knowing and our outer health is a huge mistake. Read more

Questions and Answers on Conversations with God

By: Neale Walsch

Narrated by: Neale Donald Walsch

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Millions of readers have come to value the Conversations with God series by Neale Donald Walsch. Many thousands of those readers have had questions for him—questions about good and evil, angels and devils, health, death, prayer, spiritual paths, the nature of God and the universe, and much more.In Questions and Answers on Conversations with God,... Read more

The Second Jewish Book of Why - Abridged

By: Alfred J. Kolatch

Narrated by: Theodore Bikel

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Jewish Book of Why answered fundamental questions of Jewish faith; this second volume digs deeper, addressing the complex, contemporary issues of today’s society. Read more

The Jewish Book of Why - Abridged

By: Alfred J. Kolatch

Narrated by: Eli Wallach

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Find answers to your most frequently asked questions about Jewish faith, worship, culture, and customs in this fascinating best seller. Read more

The Greatest Story Ever Told - Abridged

By: Fulton Oursler

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

Available for the first time in audio, Fulton Oursler's 1949 novel about the life of Jesus Christ was written with powerful simplicity and set against a rich historical background. Read more

Living the Mystical

By: Wayne Teasdale

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Sit back and let a Christian monk, the late Brother Wayne Teasdale, enlighten your understanding of the deep heart within the world's religions. An initiate of Benedictine monk Father Bede Griffiths, who lived in India for four decades, and the way of Sannyasa, Teasdale calls for an "interspiritual age" in which we "drink from the well of... Read more

Friendship with God

By: Neale Walsh

Narrated by: Edward Asner

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Neale Donald Walsch's Conversations with God series has changed the way millions of Americans think about God. The essence of Walsch's message lies at the heart of faith—the sacred place in every person who stands alone with his or her God. In Friendship with God, Walsch shares the next part of his journey and leads us to deepen and strengthen... Read more

Living Joyfully

By: Salle Redfield

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

What control dramas are you acting out? Redfield describes how to recognize four of them. You'll also discover the six human needs we all seek, the one thing people who lead joyful lives have in common, and the key to eliminating depression from your life. Timeless advice from a gentle spirit who truly lives by the principles she espouses. Read more

The Path To Tranquility - Abridged

By: His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Narrated by: Robert Thurman, Laurie Anderson & BD Wong

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Dalai Lama, a living symbol of holiness and selfless triumph over tribulation, has shared his philosophy of peace with today's turbulent world. Yet rarely do we hear him speak with such directness as in this collection of quotations drawn from his own writings, teachings, and interviews.
The Path to Tranquilty, a fresh and accessible... Read more

Kaddish - Abridged

By: Leon Wieseltier

Narrated by: Theodore Bikel

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After his father died, Leon Wieseltier began to observe the traditional year-long period of mourning, going to the synagogue three times a day to recite the prayer known as the mourner's Kaddish. Struck by the profound, yet unexpected power of this practice and the poverty of his knowledge about it, Leon began to study the history and meaning of... Read more

Towards A New World Culture: The Synthesis Dialogues: Part 1

By: H. H. Dalai Lama

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In the fall of 1999, a small group of innovative thinkers from around the world gathered together for five days with H.H. the Dalai Lama of Tibet at his home-in-exile in Dharamsala, northern India, for a special invitation-only dialogue about the future of humanity and the planet. Explored in the first of this special four-part series are... Read more

Towards A New World Culture: The Synthesis Dialogues: Part 4

By: Dalai Lama

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In the fall of 1999, forty innovative thinkers from around the world gathered with H.H. the Dalai Lama of Tibet at his home in Dharamsala, northern India, for a special invitation-only dialogue about the future of humanity and the planet. In this the conclusion of the four part special series we join the participants for a private audience with... Read more

Towards A New World Culture: The Synthesis Dialogues: Part 3

By: H. H. Dalai Lama

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In the fall of 1999, forty innovative thinkers from around the world gathered together with H.H. the Dalai Lama of Tibet at his home in Dharamsala, northern India, for a special invitation-only dialogue about the future of humanity and the planet. In this the third of 4 specials we witness highlights from the third and fourth days of the... Read more

Towards A New World Culture: The Synthesis Dialogues: Part 2

By: H. H. Dalai Lama

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In the fall of 1999, forty innovative thinkers from around the world gathered together with H.H. the Dalai Lama of Tibet at his home in Dharamsala, northern India, for a special invitation-only dialogue about the future of humanity and the planet. In this, the second of four specials, we witness highlights from the third day of this historic event. Read more

The Visitation - Abridged

By: Mary Summer Rain

Narrated by: Nancy Fish

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

An archangel delivers an important message to the world.In what may be her most significant message to the world, Mary Summer Rain describes the visit of an archangel who addresses the spiritual condition of the human race. The archangel' s message is a troubling— if not unexpected— one: our egotism,... 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

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

More Awareness/Less Neurosis

By: Mark Epstein, MD

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

As more and more Westerners become acquainted with Eastern thought, they mistakenly feel that it is only through a negation of the self that one can achieve enlightenment.  Mark Epstein, a Buddhist psychiatrist says, "It’s wrong to think that Buddhist insight wipes out the ego-self; it wipes out the identification of whatever is happening in the... Read more

Secret Ceremonies - Abridged

By: Deborah Laake

Narrated by: Meredith MacRae

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A pioneer in the Mormon exposé , Deborah Laake recounts her strict Mormon upbringing and two disastrous Mormon marriages that left her a pariah in the church. Laake chronicles her life from innocence to full initiation. Married at 19, she describes the voodoo-like rituals and behaviors revealed to her on her wedding day— ... Read more

The Return of the Mother - Abridged

By: Andrew Harvey

Narrated by: Andrew Harvey

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this comprehensive and groundbreaking work, scholar Andrew Harvey unearths traces of the sacred feminine in major world religions as well as in aboriginal and indigenous wisdom traditions. Harvey takes a strong stand against our dependence on "gurus" and "masters," proposing instead an egalitarian model of spiritual community based on... Read more

Letting Go of Second Guessing God

By: Kathleen Norris

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Kathleen Norris's search for a quiet place to write led her to the Dakota plains, and remarkably, to the world of a Benedictine monastery.  In this dialogue, Norris reveals the hidden treasures of the spirit that come to those who live on the heartland of our culture, whether they be monks, townsfolk, farmers or ranchers. Read more