Tiffany Watt Smith discusses sociocultural context for human emotions.

John M. Gottman, PhD writes about the scientific evidence on creating and maintaining healthy relationships.

Daniel Kahneman, PhD discusses the twinned use of logical and intuitive thought.

Vilayanur Ramachandran discusses scientific evidence for mirror neurons and empathy.

Adiamante is an excellent description of how a higher-consciousness society might choose to live.

Hypnosis and research to remove subconscious limiting beliefs about happiness. Very comforting.

Viktor Frankl was in a concentration camp when he developed this book. A crucial voice in any discussion of modern spirituality.

Alain de Botton discusses success and how we can approach it more gently and lucidly.

Richard Feynman is a physicist who worked on the atom bomb. I particularly like his science writing.

Craig is a great resource for anyone experiencing a true kundalini awakening. He’s an embodied teacher, has a great website, and his videos are dope :)

Craig talks about kundalini symptoms and how they differ from other energies.

Helen Fischer describes the scientific evidence for romantic love.

A historically accessible, and pretty accurate depiction of a spiritual awakening.

Krishnamurti is an essential reference for anyone interested in meditation, metacognition, or just good writing. Love him.

Psi ability is a natural extension of mental fittness. Tony Buzan did a great job at rewiring the assumption that IQ is hardware vs software.

The life work of psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is on the positive psychology concept of ‘flow”.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi talks about his life’s work on finding and accessing higher consciousness states.

No discussion of modern spirituality would be complete without a reference to Star Wars although its really only a pop-culture version of real spirituality.

Maxfield Parrish has artwork that is really otherworldly beautiful. It looks like what I see in this world with my psi senses.

I only ever recommend one psychic to people. Kjarlune Rae is very helpful, and she understands where psi ends and common sense and emotional intelligence begins.