Halfway up the mountain — Mariana Caplan
This book is very clear and kind, about how to pick an embodied teacher, and how not to proclaim yourself one prematurely.
Happy Money — Ken Honda
This book is an experiential method for healing your relationship to money. This work can be painful, and Honda is truly gentle.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People — Stephen Covey
Covey’s classic is a great secular read that gives clear descriptions of a Westernized practice corresponding to the 8 limbs of yoga.
Astronaut 10 Commandments — ASCAN
A deceptively simple classic to describe the divine masculine. How men express balanced power.
Women Who Run With the Wolves — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
This book is critical for both women and men who are waking up and need to understand the divine feminine.
They Went Whistling — Barbara Holland
This book is for women working on issues of feminine power. A common issue for Western women in awakening.
The Complete Cord Course — Mary Shutan
This book is to maintain energetic attachments which is invaluable to people who are sensitive.
Working With Kundalini — Mary Shutan
Mary Shutan’s kundalini book is very specific and accurate for advanced stages of permenant kundalini awakening.
Superforecasting: the art and science of prediction — Tetlock and Gardner
Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner examine research on people who are better than experts at predicting the future.
A Deadly Education — Naomi Novik
Naomi Novik wrote a lighthearted novel about what life is like for a budding shaman. Rules to live by in a fun and wicked tale.
Shaman, healers, and medicine men - Holger Kalweit
Holger Kalweit wrote a respectful and careful anthropological text to describe Indigenous healers around the world.
Hands of light - Barbara Ann Brennan
Barbara Ann Brennan was a physicist and energy healer who wrote Hands of Light a basic spiritual anatomy textbook.
Convoluted universe, Book 4 - Dolores Cannon
Dolores Cannon is a well-known hypnotist who faithfully transcribed her sessions with her clients. Read with discernment.
Promethus rising - Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson does a good job of discussing subconscious wiring and archetypes — read with discernment.
The relationship Cure - John Gottman
John M. Gottman, PhD writes about the scientific evidence on creating and maintaining healthy relationships.
Thinking, fast and slow - Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman, PhD discusses the twinned use of logical and intuitive thought.
Adiamante - L. E. Modesitt Jr.
Adiamante is an excellent description of how a higher-consciousness society might choose to live.
I can make you happy - Paul McKenna
Hypnosis and research to remove subconscious limiting beliefs about happiness. Very comforting.
Man’s Search for Meaning - Victor Frankl
Viktor Frankl was in a concentration camp when he developed this book. A crucial voice in any discussion of modern spirituality.
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out - Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman is a physicist who worked on the atom bomb. I particularly like his science writing.