TIME AND THE SOUL INTERVIEW

Click Here for the Book

A Celebration of Life

Remembering Dr. Jacob Needleman

Be Ye Lamps Unto Yourselves

An Interview With Jacob Needleman by Samuel Bendeck Sotillos

Read the Interview

THE HEART OF PHILOSOPHY

Three Segments

Primordial Astonishment

The Inner Greatness that Announces Itself in the Form of a Question

The Life of Ideas

The Inner Greatness that Announces Itself in the Form of a Question

View More VIDEOs

Subscribe on YouTube

The Art of Living In The Cultural Revolution

AN ESSAY

Read

I Am Not I:

Listen to Dr. Needleman's Pathways Interview with Paul O'Brian

Play Interview

Praise for I Am Not I from Maria Popova

“In I Am Not I (public library), philosopher Jacob Needleman picks up where Tolstoy and Plath left off, and enlists more of humanity’s most wakeful minds — from Nietzsche and Kierkegaard to William James to D.T. Suzuki — in finding embrocation for, if not an answer to, these most restless-making questions of existence. Out of the inquiry itself arises an immensely hope-giving offering — a sort of secular sacrament illuminating what lies at the heart of the most profound experiences we’re capable of having: joy, love, hope, wonder, astonishment, transcendence.”

— Maria Popova, Brainpickings

A Review of I Am Not I from the SFSU School of Liberal & Creative Arts Journal

“By bringing age-old questions into modern conversation, Needleman aims to be a catalyst for the consciousness he believes all human beings yearn to awaken at some point in their lives. For many, the hunger for greater knowledge begins as young as 14 and peaks during college. This insatiable curiosity in young people initially drew Needleman to teach at SF State in 1962. Needleman finds that the longing for deeper contemplation, and the innate struggle between the logical and metaphysical, has not waned in his students since then.”

— Gospel Cruz, SFSU LCA Journal

Read the full Review

Click Here To Purchase I Am Not I

NOW AVAILABLE
Sorcerers: A Novel
Published by Monkfish Books

An enthralling blend of sorcery, religion and philosophy, from which Jacob Needleman creates a brilliant moral fable for our times.

Sorcerers is the story of a teenage boy growing up in 1950s Philadelphia who is swept into a world of mysterious powers and extraordinary human possibilities. On the threshold of maturity and yearning for something he cannot name, adolescent Eliot Appleman is welcomed into the Sorcerer's Apprentices, a club of young stage magicians, and is soon drawn into a perilous clash between two conflicting forces—the compulsion to manipulate others and the need to discover the deeper truths about his own nature.