Inner Traditions – Bear & Company, also known as Inner Traditions, is a book publisher founded by Ehud Sperling in 1975 and based in Rochester, Vermont

Rochester, Vermont

Rochester is a town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,171 at the 2000 census. Rochester is home to the Quarry Hill Creative Center...

 in the United States.

Inner Traditions publishes books related to New Age

New Age

The New Age movement is a Western spiritual movement that developed in the second half of the 20th century. Its central precepts have been described as "drawing on both Eastern and Western spiritual and metaphysical traditions and then infusing them with influences from self-help and motivational...

 spiritualism

Spiritualism

Spiritualism is a belief system or religion, postulating the belief that spirits of the dead residing in the spirit world have both the ability and the inclination to communicate with the living...

 and esotericism

Esotericism

Esotericism or Esoterism signifies the holding of esoteric opinions or beliefs, that is, ideas preserved or understood by a small group or those specially initiated, or of rare or unusual interest. The term derives from the Greek , a compound of : "within", thus "pertaining to the more inward",...

, mysticism

Mysticism

Mysticism is the knowledge of, and especially the personal experience of, states of consciousness, i.e. levels of being, beyond normal human perception, including experience and even communion with a supreme being.-Classical origins:...

, neoshamanism

Neoshamanism

Neoshamanism is a term signaling a "new" form or a revival of an old form of "shamanism", a system that comprises a range of beliefs and practices concerned with communication with the spiritual world....

, astrology

Astrology

Astrology consists of a number of belief systems which hold that there is a relationship between astronomical phenomena and events in the human world...

, the perennial philosophy

Perennial philosophy

Perennial philosophy is the notion of the universal recurrence of philosophical insight independent of epoch or culture, including universal truths on the nature of reality, humanity or consciousness .-History:The idea of a perennial philosophy has great...

, visionary art

Visionary art

Visionary art is art that purports to transcend the physical world and portray a wider vision of awareness including spiritual or mystical themes, or is based in such experiences.-Definition:...

, Earth mysteries

Earth mysteries

The term Earth mysteries describes an interest in a wide range of spiritual, quasi-religious and pseudo-scientific ideas focusing on cultural and religious beliefs about the Earth, generally with regard to particular geographical locations of historical significance.The study of ley lines...

, sacred sexuality

Neotantra

Neotantra, or Tantric sex, is a term used for the modern, western variations of Tantra. The term refers to both the New Age and modern Western interpretations of traditional Indian and Buddhist tantra...

, alternative medicine

Alternative medicine

Alternative medicine is any healing practice, "that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine." It is based on historical or cultural traditions, rather than on scientific evidence....

, and recordings of ethnic music and accompaniments for meditation

Meditation

Meditation is any form of a family of practices in which practitioners train their minds or self-induce a mode of consciousness to realize some benefit....

.

In 2000, the independent publisher Bear & Company joined with Inner Traditions, moving from Santa Fe, New Mexico

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Santa Fe is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the fourth-largest city in the state and is the seat of . Santa Fe had a population of 67,947 in the 2010 census...

, where it had been founded in 1980 by Gerry Clow and astrologer Barbara Hand Clow.

Inner Traditions publishes other imprint

Imprint

In the publishing industry, an imprint can mean several different things:* As a piece of bibliographic information about a book, it refers to the name and address of the book's publisher and its date of publication as given at the foot or on the verso of its title page.* It can mean a trade name...

s, including Healing Arts Press, Destiny Books, Park Street Press, Bindu Books, and Bear Cub Books.

Authors

Notable authors published primarily or exclusively by Inner Traditions include many of the English language translations of Julius Evola

Julius Evola

Barone Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola also known as Julius Evola, was an Italian philosopher and esotericist...

, in addition to:

• Jose Arguelles
  Jose Arguelles
  Joseph Anthony Arguelles , better known as José Argüelles, was a world-renowned author, artist, visionary and educator. He was the founder of Planet Art Network and the Foundation for the Law of Time. He held a Ph.D...
  
  
• P.M.H. Atwater
• Itzhak Bentov
  Itzhak Bentov
  Itzhak Bentov was a Czech born scientist, inventor, mystic and author. He was an early exponent of what has come to be referred to as consciousness studies.-Life:Bentov was born in Czechoslovakia and moved to Israel....
  
  
• Joachim-Ernst Berendt
  Joachim-Ernst Berendt
  Joachim-Ernst Berendt was a German music journalist, book author and producer specialized on Jazz.-Life:...
  
  
• Mantak Chia
  Mantak Chia
  .Mantak Chia is a Taoist Master. He is best known for his teaching Taoist practices under the names of Healing Tao, Tao Yoga, Universal Healing Tao System and Qigong. Throughout decades of teaching, he has run numerous workshops, written a series of books, and published a number of training videos...
  
  
• Alain Danielou
  Alain Daniélou
  Alain Daniélou was a French historian, intellectual, musicologist, Indologist, and a noted Western convert to and expert on Shaivite Hinduism.-Life:...
  
  
• T. K. V. Desikachar
  T. K. V. Desikachar
  T.K.V. Desikachar is the son and one of the primary students of Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, a prominent yogi credited with being a driving force behind the resurgence of Hatha yoga in recent decades.TKV Desikachar started his career as a civil engineer...
  
  
• Christopher Dunn
  Christopher Dunn (author)
  Christopher P. Dunn, born 1946 in Manchester, England, is an English revisionist history author known for the book The Giza Power Plant: Technologies of Ancient Egypt, which claims that precision machining is evident in ancient Egyptian structures, particularly in the Giza pyramid...
  
  
• A. P. Elkin
  A. P. Elkin
  Adolphus Peter "A. P." Elkin CMG was an Anglican clergyman, an influential Australian anthropologist during the mid twentieth century and a proponent of the assimilation of Indigenous Australians.-Early life:...
  
  
• Matthew Fox
  Matthew Fox (priest)
  Matthew Fox is an American priest and theologian. Formerly a member of the Dominican order within the Roman Catholic Church, Fox is now a member of the Episcopal Church....
  
  
• Georg Feuerstein
  Georg Feuerstein
  Dr. Georg Feuerstein is a German-Canadian Indologist specializing on Yoga. Feuerstein has authored over 30 books on mysticism, Yoga, Tantra, and Hinduism...
  
  
• Joscelyn Godwin
  Joscelyn Godwin
  Joscelyn Godwin is a composer, musicologist and translator, known for his work on ancient music, paganism and music in the occult....
  
  
• Alex Grey
  Alex Grey
  Alex Grey is an American artist specializing in spiritual and psychedelic art that is sometimes associated with the New Age movement. Grey is a Vajrayana practitioner. His body of work spans a variety of forms including performance art, process art, installation art, sculpture, visionary art, and...
  
  
• Ellen Evert Hopman
  Ellen Evert Hopman
  Ellen Evert Hopman, M.Ed., was born in Salzburg, Austria. She is an herbalist, lay homeopath, and counselor who lives and works in western Massachusetts....
  
  
• John Major Jenkins
  John Major Jenkins
  John Major Jenkins is an American author and independent researcher, best known for his works that theorize certain astronomical and esoteric connections of the calendar systems used by the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica...
  
  

• Alejandro Jodorowsky
  Alejandro Jodorowsky
  Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky, known as Alejandro Jodorowsky, is a Chilean filmmaker, playwright, actor, author, comic book writer and spiritual guru...
  
  
• Stephen Larsen
  Stephen Larsen
  H. Stephen Larsen is a psychologist and author who, with his wife Robin Larsen, was on the founding board of advisors of the Joseph Campbell Foundation, and also founded the Center for Symbolic Studies, to carry on with the work of Joseph Campbell...
  
  
• Robert Lawlor
  Robert Lawlor
  Robert Lawlor is a mythographer, symbologist and New Age author of several books.After training as a painter and a sculptor, he became a yoga student of Sri Aurobindo and lived for many years in Pondicherry, India, where he was a founding member of Auroville. In India, he discovered the works of...
  
  
• Ervin László
  Ervin László
  Ervin László is a Hungarian philosopher of science, systems theorist, integral theorist, originally a classical pianist. He has published about 75 books and over 400 papers, and is editor of World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution...
  
  
• Frederick Leboyer
  Frederick Leboyer
  Frederick Leboyer is a French obstetrician, best known for his 1975 book, Birth Without Violence, which popularized gentle birthing techniques, in particular, the practice of immersing newly-born infants in a small tub of warm water — known as a "Leboyer bath" — to help ease the transition from...
  
  
• Jean Markale
  Jean Markale
  Jean Bertrand' directs here. You may have been looking for the Haitian politician Jean-Bertrand Aristide.Jean Markale was the pen name of Jean Bertrand, a French writer, poet, radio show host, lecturer and high school French teacher who lived in Brittany.He published numerous books about Celtic...
  
  
• W. A. Mathieu
  W. A. Mathieu
  William Allaudin Mathieu is a composer, pianist, choir director, music teacher, and author. He studied with William Russo and Easley Blackwood, with North Indian vocalist Pandit Pran Nath for 25 years, and collaborated with Nubian master musician Hamza El Din Hamza El Din.In the 1960s, he spent...
  
  
• Terence McKenna
  Terence McKenna
  Terence Kemp McKenna was an Irish-American philosopher, psychonaut, researcher, teacher, lecturer and writer on many subjects, such as human consciousness, language, psychedelic drugs, the evolution of civilizations, the origin and end of the universe, alchemy, and extraterrestrial beings.-Early...
  
  
• Lewis Mehl-Madrona
  Lewis Mehl-Madrona
  Lewis E. Mehl-Madrona, MD, PhD, is the author of the Coyote trilogy. His work discusses healing practices from Lakota, Cherokee and Cree traditions, and how they intersect with conventional medicine . Mehl-Madrona has been writing about the use of imagery and narrative in healing since the 1980s...
  
  
• Hunbatz Men
  Hunab Ku
  Hunab Ku is the name of a supposed Maya deity, described as "the supreme god" whose name appears in only two colonial sources: the Motul Dictionary and the Chilam Balam of Chumayel...
  
  
• John Michell
  John Michell (writer)
  John Frederick Carden Michell was an English writer whose key sources of inspiration were Plato and Charles Fort...
  
  
• Claudia Müller-Ebeling
  Claudia Müller-Ebeling
  Claudia Müller-Ebeling, Ph.D., is an anthropologist and art historian. She has coauthored with Christian Rätsch on a number of works of shamanic pharmacopoeia, ethnopharmaceuticals and ethnohallucinogens. Müller-Ebeling resides in Hamburg, Germany.-Works:* Müller-Ebeling, Claudia and Christian...
  
  
• Ryuho Okawa
  Ryuho Okawa
  is the CEO and founder of the Happy Science religious organization and the Happiness Realization Party in Japan.After graduating from the University of Tokyo, he joined a Tokyo-based trading house. While working at its New York headquarters on the 40th floor of the 1 World Trade Center from...
  
  
• Joseph Chilton Pearce
  Joseph Chilton Pearce
  Joseph Chilton Pearce is an American author of a number of books on child development. He prefers the name "Joe".He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II...
  
  

• John Perkins
• Christian de Quincey
  Christian de Quincey
  Christian de Quincey, Ph.D., is a philosopher and author who teaches consciousness, spirituality and cosmology at universities and colleges in the United States and Europe. He is also an international speaker on consciousness....
  
  
• Srivatsa Ramaswami
  Srivatsa Ramaswami
  Srivtasa Ramaswami is an Indian yoga teacher and author from Chennai. Ramaswami was a longtime student of the father of modern yoga, Krishnamacharya....
  
  
• Christian Rätsch
  Christian Rätsch
  Christian Rätsch is a German writer ethnopharmacology and psychoactive plants and animals. Rätsch is an anthropologist and author. He was born in 1957 in a Bohemian community in Hamburg, Germany. His father was an opera singer, his mother a ballet dancer...
  
  
• Ravi Ravindra
• Nicki Scully
  Nicki Scully
  Nicki Scully is an author, ceremonialist, healer and teacher in the fields of metaphysics, shamanism and healing. She is a lineage holder in the Hermetic Tradition of Thoth and maintains the Lyceum of Shamanic Egypt. She was ordained as a priestess of Hathor by Lady Olivia Robertson, co-founder of...
  
  
• Marc Seifer
  Wizard, the Life and Times of Nikola Tesla
  The Wizard, the Life and Times of Nikola Tesla is a 1998 biography book by Marc Seifer detailing the life of Nikola Tesla. Tesla developed our entire Alternating Current system, which at the time was thought impossible, radio, robotics, and radar, though few people know about his experiences and...
  
  
• Rupert Sheldrake
  Rupert Sheldrake
  Rupert Sheldrake is an English scientist. He is known for having proposed an unorthodox account of morphogenesis and for his research into parapsychology. His books and papers stem from his theory of morphic resonance, and cover topics such as animal and plant development and behaviour, memory,...
  
  
• Zecharia Sitchin
  Zecharia Sitchin
  Zecharia Sitchin was an Azerbaijani-born American author of books promoting an explanation for human origins involving ancient astronauts. Sitchin attributes the creation of the ancient Sumerian culture to the Anunnaki, which he states was a race of extra-terrestrials from a planet beyond Neptune...
  
  
• Margaret Starbird
  Margaret Starbird
  Margaret Starbird is the author of seven books arguing for the existence of a secret Christian tradition that held Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene , calling it the "Grail heresy".-Works and beliefs:...
  
  
• Rick Strassman
  Rick Strassman
  Dr. Rick Strassman is a medical doctor specialized in psychiatry with a fellowship in clinical psychopharmacology research. Strassman was the first person in the United States after twenty years of intermission to embark in human research with psychedelic, hallucinogenic, or entheogenic substances...
  
  
• Robert Temple
  Robert K. G. Temple
  Robert K. G. Temple is an American author best known for his controversial book, The Sirius Mystery which presents the idea that the Dogon people preserve the tradition of contact with intelligent extraterrestrial beings from the Sirius star-system...
  
  
• James Wasserman
  The Templars and the Assassins
  The Templars and the Assassins: The Militia of Heaven is a non-fiction book written by James Wasserman and published in 2001 by Inner Traditions International...
  
  
• Wallace D. Wattles