Sources
No one can walk the path for us.
We can, however, still benefit from following in the footsteps of those that have gone before us. I have enormous gratitude for all the inspiration I’ve been blessed to receive in this life. To follow what I have heard is the ultimate devotion.
Here are some of the books I’ve found meaningful on my journey:
A
- Adyashanti – Emptiness Dancing
- Adyashanti – Resurrecting Jesus
- Adyashanti – True Meditation
- Dr. Eben Alexander – Proof Of Heaven
- Tsultrim Allione – Feeding Your Demons
- Daniel G. Amen, M.D. – Change Your Brain, Change Your Body
- Daniel G. Amen, M.D. – Change Your Brain, Change Your Life
- Anonymous – The Cloud of Unknowning
- Nell Arnaud – Grounding
- Thomas Ashley-Ferrand – Healing Mantras
- Thomas Ashley-Ferrand – Shakti Mantra
B
- Ramesh S. Balsekar – Pointers From Nisargadatta
- Richard Bach – Hypnotizing Maria
- Richard Bach – Illusions
- Richard Bach – Illusions II
- Richard Bach – Johnathan Livingston Seagull
- Richard Bach – One
- Richard Bach – The Bridge Across Forever
- Ernest Becker – The Denial of Death
- Susan Blackmore – The Meme Machine
- David Brooks – How To Know A Person
C
- Carlos Castaneda – Journey to Ixtlan
- Carolos Castaneda – The Teachings of Don Juan
- Master Charles – Forgiving the Unforgivable
- Master Charles – The Bliss of Freedom
- Pema Chodron – The Wisdom of No Escape
- Deepak Chopra – Ageless Body, Timeless Mind
- Deepak Chopra – Book of Secrets
- Deepak Chopra – Buddha
- Deepak Chopra – Life After Death
- Deepak Chopra – The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
- Deepak Chopra – The Third Jesus
- Guy Claxton – Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind
- Paulo Coelho – The Alchemist
- Andrew Cohen – Evolutionary Enlightenment
- David A. Cooper – God Is A Verb
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – Flow
D
- Antonio Damasio – Feeling & Knowing
- Ram Dass – Be Here Now
- Ram Dass – Polishing the Mirror
- Davidji – Secrets of Meditation
- John Diamond, M.D. – Your Body Doesn’t Lie
- Joe Dispenza – Becomming Supernatural
- Joe Dispenza – Evolve Your Brain
- Wayne Dyer – The Power of Intention
- Wayne Dyer – Inspiration
E
- Eknath Easwaran – The Mantram Handbook
- Masuru Emoto – The Hidden Messages in Water
F
- Jack Forem – Transcendental Meditation
- Viktor E. Frankl – Man’s Search for Meaning
- David Frawley – Mantra Yoga & Primal Sound
- Thomas M. French & Erika Fromm – Dream Interpretation
G
- Shakti Gawain – Awakening
- Yukteswar Giri – The Holy Science
- Malcom Gladwell – Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
- Malcom Gladwell – Outliers: The Story of Success
- Malcom Gladwell – Talking To Strangers
- Malcom Gladwell – The Tipping Point
- James Gleick – Chaos
- Joel S. Goldsmith – Conscious Union With God
- Joel S. Goldsmith – Invisible Supply
- Joel S. Goldsmith – Love & Gratitude
- Joel S. Goldsmith – Meditation & Prayer
- Joel S. Goldsmith – The Mystical I
- Joseph Goldstein – A Heart Full of Peace
- Daniel Goleman – Focus
- Fran Grace, Ph.D. – The Power of Love
- Adam Grant – Give And Take
- Glenda Green – Love Without End
- Stephen Grosz – The Examined Life
H ~ I ~ J
- Thich Nhat Hanh – Living Buddha, Living Christ
- Thich Nhat Hanh – How To Walk
- Rick Hanson – Buddha’s Brain
- Baba Hari Dass – Everyday Peace
- David R. Hawkins – Book of Slides
- David R. Hawkins – Dialogues on Consciousness & Spirituality
- David R. Hawkins – Discovery of the Presence of God
- David R. Hawkins – Dissolving the Ego, Realizing the Self
- David R. Hawkins – Healing & Recovery
- David R. Hawkins – I
- David R. Hawkins – In The World, But Not Of It
- David R. Hawkins – Letting Go
- David R. Hawkins – Power vs. Force
- David R. Hawkins – Reality, Spirituality and Modern Man
- David R. Hawkins – Success is for You
- David R. Hawkins – The Eye of the I
- David R. Hawkins – The Wisdom of Dr. David R. Hawkins
- David R. Hawkins – Transcending the Levels of Consciousness
- David R. Hawkins – Truth vs. Falsehood
- Susan Hawkins – Life With Doc
- Susan Hawkins – The Man Who Mapped Consciousness
- Robert Holden, Ph.D. – Be Happy
- Gerald Huther, Ph.D. – The Compassionate Brain
K
- Daniel Kahneman – Thinking, Fast & Slow
- Michio Kaku – The Future of the Mind
- Byron Katie – Loving What Is
- Jack Kornfield – A Path With Heart
- Jack Kornfield – Meditation for Beginners
- Steven Kotler – The Rise of Superman
- Joel Kramer – The Passionate Mind
- Jiddu Krishnamurti – Freedom From the Known
- Jiddu Krishnamurti – As One Is
- Jiddu Krishnamurti – Think On These Things
- Jiddu Krishnamurti – Krishnamurti’s Journal
- Dilip Kumar – Yantra Images
L
- Dalai Lama – Freedom In Exile
- Dalai Lama – The Art of Happiness
- Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu – The Book of Joy
- Robert Lawlor – Sacred Geometry
- Pixie Lighthorse – Boundaries & Protection
- Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D. – The Biology of Belief
- Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D. – The Honeymoon Effect
- Mary Lutyens – Krishnamurti: The Years of Awakening
M
- Nisargadatta Maharaj – I Am That
- Nisargadatta Maharaj & Mohan Gaitonde – Nothing Is Everything
- Nisargadatta Maharaj – Prior To Consciousness
- Nisargadatta Maharaj – Meditations with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
- Ramana Maharshi – Collected Works
- Ramana Maharshi – In His Own Words
- Ramana Maharshi – Who Am I?
- Lama Marut – Be Nobody
- Suresh Mehta – Meditations with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
- Patricia Mercier – The Chakra Bible
- Stephen C. Meyer - Return of the God Hypothesis
- Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche – In Love With the World
- Sakyong Mipham – Turning the Mind Into an Ally
- Bill Morgan – The Meditator’s Dilemma
- multiple authors – Self Awareness Practice Instructions
- Jon Mundy, Ph.D. – Living a Course in Miracles
N ~ O
- Luis E. Navia – Socrates
- James Nestor – Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
P ~ Q
- Joseph Chilton Pearce – The Biology of Transcendence
- Eva Pierrakos & Donovan Thesenga – Fear No Evil
- Eva Pierrakos & Donovan Thesenga – Surrender to God Within
- Harold Waldwin Percival – Thinking & Destiny
- Swami Pradhavananda & Christopher Isherwood – Shankara’s Crest-Jewel of Discrimination
R
- Sivananda Radha – Mantras: Words of Power
- Matthieu Ricard – On The Path to Enlightenment
- Matthieu Ricard & Trinh Xuan Thuan – The Quantum & The Lotus
S
- Satyananda Saraswati – Four Chapters on Freedom
- Satyanana Saraswati – Meditations from the Tantras
- Satyananda Saraswati – Yoga Nidra
- Christopher Sartain - The Sacred Science of Yoga & the Five Koshas
- Helen Shucman & William Thetford – A Course In Miracles
- Michael Singer – The Untethered Soul
- Mirabai Starr – Saint Teresa of Avila
- Matthew Syed – Blackbox Thinking
T ~ U
- Michael Talbot - The Holographic Universe
- John Tarrant – Bring Me the Rhinoceros
- Jill Bolte Taylor – My Stroke of Insight
- Mother Teresa – Come Be My Light
- Rajmani Tigunait, Ph.D. – The Secret of the Yoga Sutra
- Eckhart Tolle – A New Earth
- Eckhart Tolle – The Power of Now
- Eckhart Tolle – Stillness Speaks
- Chogyam Trungpa – Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
V
- Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D. – The Body Keeps the Score
- Swami Vimuktananda – Aparoksanubhuti (Self Realization)
W ~ X
- Cami Walker – 29 Gifts
- Evan Harris Walker – The Physics of Consciousness
- Neal Donal Walsch – Conversations With God – Book 1
- Neal Donal Walsch – Conversations With God – Book 2
- Neal Donal Walsch – Conversations With God – Book 3
- Neal Donald Walsch – Friendship With God
- Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D. – Absence From Felicity
- Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D. – A Vast Illusion
- Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D. – Healing The Mind
- Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D. – The Stages of Our Spiritual Journey
- Watkins Publishing – The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
- Alan Watts – Behold the Spirit
- Alan Watts – The Way of Zen
- Alan Watts – The Wisdom of Insecurity
- Scott Weems – Ha! The Science of When We Laugh & Why
- Richard Whitehurst – Mahamantra Yoga
- Anna Wise – Awakening the Mind
- Anna Wise – High Performance Mind
- Robert Wright – Why Buddhism Is True
Y ~ Z
- Paramahansa Yogananda – Autobiography of a Yogi
- Paramahansa Yogananda – Journey to Self-Realization
- Paramahansa Yogananada – Man’s Eternal Quest
- Paramahansa Yogananda – The Yoga of Jesus