This is a fantastic resource for sensitives by Mary Mueller Shutan. She has a very balanced, feminine perspective on awakening.

Smoky quartz is for empaths. It’s pretty much like insulin for a diabetic. It works as a filter to tells you what energy is yours and what isn’t

Amethyst is a cleansing stone that works for psychics and sensitives. It is good for both healing and cleansing.

Citrine is a stone that blocks out psychic input, you can wear it to decrease distraction when you are doing a cognitive task.

Selenite is a wicking stone and will suck out negative energy. I place it on acupressure points to clear meridian lines.

Obsidian is a protection stone that works for psychics and sensitives. It has the property of “never being used for evil”.

Eugene Herrigel wrote a very lovely book on zen which has the property of being accessible at any level of the spiritual journey.

The Happy Sensitive is a lovely website for empaths by Caroline van Kimmenade. It helped me out of extreme crisis and gave me basic coping skills.

Dr. Eben Alexander’s personal account of spiritual awakening through an NDE is written specifically for a skeptical medical audience.

Bonnie Greenwell is a social scientist who did her Ph.D. on kundalini experiences. Very accessible work to a Western scientist.

In the 1990s doctors (finally) decided to start using scientific evidence to justify their clinical decision-making.

Nick Bostrom’s simulation argument is a philosophical paper presenting a very good logical argument that reality as we know it, isn’t real.

Mary Shutan is the sanest and most informed voice I have found discussing the care and utilization of strong psychic abilities.

Dora Kunz clearly describes auras as reflecting people’s ability to translate spiritual goals into the real world.

The basic premise of Dollhouse is an interesting version of reincarnation and a lot of the storyline explores this premise in a safe fictionalized space.

Gopi Krishna documented his kundalini experience very rigourously - the authoritative work on the subject for a skeptic.

The storyline of the Framework details different awakening styles and what is required for a spiritual awakening.

McKenna’s writing is based on the Zen Buddhist tradition but he writes in a form and syntax that is very accessible to Westerners.

Rumi was not only awakened, but he also described this state with whimsy and compassion in both poetry and dance. His words bleed love and one does not need to be a spiritual student to appreciate their beauty.

An excellent book that is essential to ground an inflated ego at some point in the awakening. I wish I’d read it earlier than I did but c'est la vie.