Paul Brunton  

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Paul Brunton is the pen name of Raphael Hurst (21 October 1898 – 27 July 1981), a British author of spiritual books. He is best known as one of the early popularizers of Neo-Hindu spiritualism in western esotericism, notably via his bestselling A Search in Secret India (1934) which has been translated into over 20 languages.

Brunton was a proponent of a doctrine of "Mentalism", or Oriental Mentalism to distinguish it from subjective idealism of the western tradition. Brunton expounds his doctrine of Mentalism in The Hidden Teachings Beyond Yoga (1941, new ed. 2015 North Atlantic Books), The Wisdom of the Overself (1943, new ed. 2015 North Atlantic Books) and in the posthumous publication of The Notebooks of Paul Brunton in 16 volumes (Larson Publications, 1984-88).

Bibliography

Books

• Are You Upward Bound with William G. Fern (1931)
• A Search in Secret India (1934)
• The Secret Path (1935)
• A Search in Secret Egypt (1936)
• A Message from Arunachala (1936)
• A Hermit in the Himalayas (1936)
• The Quest of the Overself (1937)
• Indian Philosophy and Modern Culture (1939)
• The Inner Reality (1939) [published in the US as Discover Yourself, same year]
• Hidden Teaching Beyond Yoga (1941)<ref>Some information</ref>
• Wisdom of the Overself (1943)
• Spiritual Crisis of Man (1952)

Miscellaneous

• Brunton, Paul. 1975. "A Living Sage of South India" in The Sage of Kanchi New Delhi: Arnold-Heinemann, New Delhi. ed by T.M.P. Mahadevan, chapter 2
• Brunton, Paul. 1959, 1987. Introduction to Fundamentals of Yoga by Rammurti S. Mishra, M.D. New York; Harmony Books
• Brunton, Paul. 1937. "Western Thought and Eastern Culture" The Cornhill Magazine
• Brunton, Paul. 1951. Introduction to Wood, Ernest Practical Yoga London: Rider
• Plus articles in Success Magazine, Occult Review, and The Aryan Path

Posthumously published texts

• Essays on the Quest (1984)
• Essential Readings
• Conscious Immortality
• Notebooks of Paul Brunton (1984–88)