Resources

Research with fMRI shows we use experience of our own emotion when regulating that of others.

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

Letter in Nature from Stanford describing psychic senses and rebuttal from New Zealand saying the results weren’t reproducible.

A 1998 paper from Nature providing evidence for the quantum theory supposition that observation affects reality.

The metaresearch community uses the methods of science to examine science itself, and finds it’s… full of shit.

Dispute resolution in Polynesian countries, with a strong oral tradition instead of a written tradition.

For a scientist on a spiritual path, learning to declutter the mind is different than other professions because you use the mind to work.

Researchers have shown dogs can detect colon cancer. Scent, psi Is there a difference?

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.

Kasia teaches women how to unlock their power in a balanced way. By unwiring subconscious programming.

Spiritual emergence network is a good resource for someone in spiritual emergency who needs to access savvy mental-health services.

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 :)

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.

The website Your Logical Fallacy Is is a basic primer for high-school students on how to think logically.

The poem ‘If’ by Rudyard Kipling is a beautiful list of soul tasks.

Great website disseminating the work of psychiatrist Dr. Murray Bowen on family systems theory.

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

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.

Tricia Barker describes her near-death experience, and residual effects of psychic abilities and medianship.

Mantis character in Guardians of the Galaxy descripting and demonstrating empath abilities.

Daniel Goleman discusses how we feel compassion, and how the experience can be enhanced.

Tiffany Watt Smith discusses sociocultural context for human emotions.

Vilayanur Ramachandran discusses scientific evidence for mirror neurons and empathy.

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

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

Helen Fischer describes the scientific evidence for romantic love.

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.

Chris Langan describes samadhi experience, as the pragmatic end-result of scientific endeavor.

A very powerful song for emotional release and cord-cutting.

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.

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