Phil’s Books

Spiritual Practice for Crazy Times

Spiritual Practice for Crazy Times is a timeless manual for building and sustaining a foundation of peaceful strength in an ever-changing world. It provides powerful techniques to help you ward off the ravages of modern life and remain grounded and centered in stormy situations.

By learning how to take refuge in the stillness within, you can build a solid foundation for bringing some sanity to the crazy world.

American Veda

“In February 1968, the Beatles went to India for an extended stay with their new guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. It may have been the most momentous spiritual retreat since Jesus spent those forty days in the wilderness.” With these words, Philip Goldberg begins his monumental work, American Veda, a fascinating look at India’s remarkable impact on Western culture. This eye-opening popular history shows how the ancient philosophy of Vedanta and the mind-body methods of Yoga have profoundly affected the worldview of millions of Americans and radically altered the religious landscape.

The Life of Yogananda

He was called “the 20th century’s first superstar guru” (Los Angeles Times), and today, nearly a century after he arrived in the United States, he’s still the best known and most beloved of all the Indian spiritual teachers who have come to the West. Now, finally, Paramahansa Yogananda has the authoritative biography he deserves.

Yogananda, considered by many to be the father of modern yoga, has had an unsurpassed global impact thanks to the durability of his teachings, the institutions he created or inspired, and especially his iconic memoir, Autobiography of a Yogi.

Roadsigns on The Spiritual Path: Living at the Heart of Paradox

An indispensable book for anyone on a spiritual path, whether within a mainstream tradition or a journey of one’s own. The book recognizes that everyone’s path is unique, and that while the road is filled with glory and bliss, it also contains ambiguous turns and contradictory directions as well as roadblocks, dead-ends and potholes. Based upon 3 decades of personal experience and years of research, this book provides the road signs every soul searcher needs. It leads to the best kind of guidance you can have: your own answers based on your own reflection and your own unique needs.

This is Next Year

Philip Goldberg’s only published novel. It is based in part on his childhood. Writing it was both personally enriching and creatively satisfying. If you love baseball and/or New York circa 1955 and/or warm family stories, this is for you. Originally published by Ballantine Books, it was resurrected by the Authors Guild’s back-in-print program with iUniverse.

The Intuitive Edge: Understanding and Applying It in Everyday Life

Exclusively rational approaches to decision-making and problem-solving are inadequate in our increasingly complex world. Intuition can provide a crucial edge, enhancing our ability to discover, create, predict, and evaluate. The Intuitive Edge shows how to make the most of our natural–but tragically neglected–intuitive powers.

Creating Magic: 10 Common Sense Leadership Strategies from a Life at Disney

A terrific guide to powerful, effective leadership by the Former Executive Vice President of Operations at Walt Disney World. The book is based on the Disney Institute Leadership Strategies, which Lee created. As Lee puts it, “It’s not the magic that makes it work; it’s the way we work that makes it magic.”

Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior

Practical, proven steps to transform 40 common self-defeating behaviors, including procrastination, envy, obsession, anger, self-pity, compulsion, neediness, guilt, rebellion, inaction, and more.

The Best That I Can Be

It was a great privilege for Philip to collaborate with Rafer on this moving autobiography of a world-class athlete and a world-class human being. His life, from the height of Olympic glory to the depth of being at Bobby Kennedy’s side when he was assassinated, has been extraordinary and inspiring.