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Watkins Books is London's oldest esoteric bookshop specializing in esotericism, mysticism, occultism, oriental religion and contemporary spirituality. The book store was established by John M. Watkins, a friend of Madame Blavatsky, in 1897 at 26 Charing Cross. John Watkins had already been selling books via a catalogue which he began publishing in March 1893.〔Watkins Review, Issue 24, June 2010〕 The first biography of Aleister Crowley mentions that Crowley made all of the books in Watkins disappear and magically reappear.〔Page 268, 1952 edition of ''The Great Beast'' by John Symonds〕 Geoffrey Watkins (1896–1981) owned and managed the store after his father. He was also an author〔http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3403804790.html〕 and publisher, with notable books including first publishing Carl Gustav Jung's 1925 edition of ''Septem Sermones ad Mortuos''. In 1901, Watkins Books moved to 21 Cecil Court where it has been continuously trading ever since. It publishes a magazine called the ''Watkins' Mind Body Spirit magazine'', which has featured leading authors from mind-body-spirit and esoteric fields. Watkins Books has been owned by Etan Ilfeld since March 2010.〔http://www.thebookseller.com/news/deal-agreed-over-watkins-books.html〕〔Kindred Spirit, Issue 109〕 Since then, a new website has been launched, and the store regularly hosts book launches and signings. Additionally, the Watkins website has integrated a spiritual map of London that everyone is invited to contribute to. Watkins Books has also published a free Mind Body Spirit app that is available on the iPhone/iPad and Android devices. ==Watkins' Spiritual 100 list for 2012== The February 2012 issue (Number 29) of ''Watkins Mind Body Spirit'' ranks the world's top 100 most spiritually influential living people. The three main factors used to compile the list were: # the person has to be alive; # the person has to have made a unique and spiritual contribution on a global scale; and # the person is frequently googled, appears in Nielsen Data and is actively talked about on the Internet. The list follows: # Dalai Lama # Eckhart Tolle # Thich Nhat Hanh # Deepak Chopra # Paulo Coelho # Elizabeth Gilbert # Iyanla Vanzant # Ken Wilber # James Redfield # Rhonda Byrne # Alice Walker # Nelson Mandela # Wayne Dyer # Doreen Virtue # Michio Kaku # Oprah Winfrey # Alejandro Jodorowsky # Mantak Chia # Desmond Tutu # Alex Grey # Peter Russell # Byron Katie # Ram Dass # Esther Hicks # Bernie Siegel # # Brian Weiss # Andrew Cohen # Sri Sri Ravi Shankar # Robin Sharma # Steve Taylor # Z’ev ben Shimon Halevi # Andrew Harvey # Marianne Williamson # Lisa Williams # Francis Chan # Don Miguel Ruiz # Masaru Emoto # Gregg Braden # Andrew Weil # Erich von Däniken # Adyashanti # Krishna Das # Sonia Choquette # Joseph Ratzinger # Louise Hay # Amma # Vladimir Megre # Ervin Laszlo # Elaine Pagels # # Seyyed Hossein Nasr # Neale Donald Walsch # Drunvalo Melchizedek # Pema Chödrön # Diana Cooper # Bruce Lipton # Dan Millman # Karen Armstrong # Graham Hancock # David R # Jack Canfield # Clarissa Pinkola Estés # Sogyal Rinpoche # Swami Ramdev # Philip Berg # Caroline Myss # Michael Newton # Daisaku Ikeda # Vadim Zeland # John Bradshaw # Richard Bandler # Jean Houston # Starhawk # Daniel J # # Judy Hall # Gary Snyder # Patrick Holford # Oberto Airaudi # Dr Azmayesh # Mother Meera # Rabbi Michael Lerner # Lynne McTaggart # Michael Beckwith # Satya Narayan Goenka # Satish Kumar # Paramahamsa Nithyananda # Rowan Williams # Prem Rawat # Mooji # Stanislav Grof # Grant Morrison # Jon Kabat-Zinn # Dolores Cannon # Gangaji # Shakti Gawain # Claudio Naranjo # Mastin Kipp # Marion Woodman 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Watkins Books」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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