Alan Jacobs has made a lifelong study of mysticism and is a regularly published author and poet. He is an accomplished and highly respected anthologist - the editor of Poetry for the Spirit and Peace of Mind and the author of The Essential Gnostic Gospels and When Jesus Lived in India, as well as several titles in the Sacred Texts series: Tales from Rumi, The Gnostic Gospels and The Upanishads; he is also the editor of Native American Wisdom and Plato's Republic in that series.

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Alan Jacobs has made a lifelong study of mysticism and is a regularly published author and poet. He is the editor of Poetry for the Spirit and Tales from Rumi and the beautiful poetic translations of The Upanisads also in this series.