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u/seagoonie · 11 pointsr/spirituality

Here's a list of books I've read that have had a big impact on my journey.

First and foremost tho, you should learn to meditate. That's the most instrumental part of any spiritual path.

 Ram Dass – “Be Here Now” - https://www.amazon.com/Be-Here-Now-Ram-Dass/dp/0517543052 - Possibly the most important book in the list – was the biggest impact in my life.  Fuses Western and Eastern religions/ideas. Kinda whacky to read, but definitely #1

Ram Dass - “Journey Of Awakening” - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006L7R2EI - Another Ram Dass book - once I got more into Transcendental Meditation and wanted to learn other ways/types of meditation, this helped out.

 Clifford Pickover – “Sex, Drugs, Einstein & Elves…” - https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Drugs-Einstein-Elves-Transcendence/dp/1890572179/ - Somewhat random, frantic book – explores lots of ideas – planted a lot of seeds in my head that I followed up on in most of the books below

 Daniel Pinchbeck – “Breaking Open the Head” - https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Open-Head-Psychedelic-Contemporary/dp/0767907434 - First book I read to explore impact of psychedelics on our brains

 Jeremy Narby – “Cosmic Serpent” - https://www.amazon.com/Cosmic-Serpent-DNA-Origins-Knowledge/dp/0874779642/ - Got into this book from the above, explores Ayahuasca deeper and relevancy of serpent symbolism in our society and DNA

 Robert Forte – “Entheogens and the Future of Religion” - https://www.amazon.com/Entheogens-Future-Religion-Robert-Forte/dp/1594774382 - Collection of essays and speeches from scientists, religious leaders, etc., about the use of psychedelics (referred to as Entheogens) as the catalyst for religion/spirituality

 Clark Strand – “Waking up to the Dark” - https://www.amazon.com/Waking-Up-Dark-Ancient-Sleepless/dp/0812997727 - Explores human’s addiction to artificial light, also gets into femininity of religion as balance to masculine ideas in our society

 Lee Bolman – “Leading with Soul” - https://www.amazon.com/Leading-Soul-Uncommon-Journey-Spirit/dp/0470619007 - Discusses using spirituality to foster a better, more supportive and creative workplace – pivotal in my honesty/openness approach when chatting about life with coworkers

 Eben Alexander – “Proof of Heaven” - https://www.amazon.com/Proof-Heaven-Neurosurgeons-Journey-Afterlife/dp/1451695195 - A neurophysicist discusses his near death experience and his transformation from non-believer to believer (title is a little click-baity, but very insightful book.  His descriptions of his experience align very similarly to deep meditations I’ve had)

 Indries Shah – “Thinkers of the East” - https://www.amazon.com/Thinkers-East-Idries-Shah/dp/178479063X/ - A collection of parables and stories from Islamic scholars.  Got turned onto Islamic writings after my trip through Pakistan, this book is great for structure around our whole spiritual “journey”

 Whitley Strieber – “The Key: A True Encounter” - https://www.amazon.com/Key-True-Encounter-Whitley-Strieber/dp/1585428698 - A man’s recollection of a conversation with a spiritual creature visiting him in a hotel room.  Sort of out there, easy to dismiss, but the topics are pretty solid

 Mary Scott – “Kundalini in the Physical World” - https://www.amazon.com/Kundalini-Physical-World-Mary-Scott/dp/0710094175/ - Very dense, very difficult scientific book exploring Hinduism and metaphysics (wouldn’t recommend this for light reading, definitely something you’d want to save for later in your “journey”)

 Hermann Hesse – “Siddartha” - https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/siddhartha-hermann-hesse/1116718450? – Short novel about a spiritual journey, coming of age type book.  Beautifully written, very enjoyable.

Reza Aslan - “Zealot” - https://www.amazon.com/ZEALOT-Life-Times-Jesus-Nazareth/dp/140006922X - Talks about the historical Jesus - helped me reconnect with Christianity in a way I didn’t have before

Reza Aslan - “No god but God” - https://www.amazon.com/god-but-God-Updated-Evolution/dp/0812982444 - Same as above, but in terms of Mohammad and Islam.  I’m starting to try to integrate the “truths” of our religions to try and form my own understanding

Thich Nhat Hanh - “Silence” - https://www.amazon.com/Silence-Power-Quiet-World-Noise-ebook/dp/B00MEIMCVG - Hanh’s a Vietnamese Buddhist monk - in this book he writes a lot about finding the beauty in silence, turning off the voice in our heads and lives, and living in peace.

Paulo Coelho - “The Alchemist” - https://www.amazon.com/Alchemist-Paulo-Coelho/dp/0062315005/ - Sort of a modern day exploration of “the path” similar to “Siddhartha.”  Very easy and a joy to read, good concepts of what it means to be on a “path”

Carlos Castaneda - "The Teachings of Don Juan" - The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge https://www.amazon.com/dp/0671600419 - Started exploring more into shamanism and indigenous spiritual work; this book was a great intro and written in an entertaining and accessible way. 

Jean-Yves Leloup - “The Gospel of Mary” - https://www.amazon.com/Gospel-Mary-Magdalene-Jean-Yves-Leloup/dp/0892819111/ - The book that finally opened my eyes to the potentiality of the teachings of Christ.  This book, combined with the one below, have been truly transformative in my belief system and accepting humanity and the power of love beyond what I’ve found so far in my journey.

Jean-Yves Leloup - “The Gospel of Philip” - https://www.amazon.com/Gospel-Philip-Magdalene-Gnosis-Sacred/dp/1594770220 - Really begins to dissect and dive into the metaphysical teachings of Christ, exploring the concept of marriage, human union and sexuality, and the power contained within.  This book, combined with the one above, have radically changed my perception of The Church as dissimilar and antithetical to what Christ actually taught.

Ram Dass - “Be Love Now” - https://www.amazon.com/Be-Love-Now-Path-Heart/dp/0061961388 - A follow-up to “Be Here Now” - gets more into the esoteric side of things, his relationship with his Guru, enlightenment, enlightened beings, etc.

Riane Eisler - “The Chalice and the Blade” - https://www.amazon.com/Chalice-Blade-Our-History-Future/dp/0062502891 - An anthropoligical book analyzing the dominative vs cooperative models in the history and pre-history of society and how our roots have been co-opted and rewritten by the dominative model to entrap society into accepting a false truth of violence and dominance as “the way it is”

u/FaceySpacey · 1 pointr/spirituality

the hard part about it is that there's positive things mixed up with negative things. so you're left figuring out what's what--or maybe you're not. Are you her boyfriend? I get the sense you wish you were, or it's something like that, even if you're a same sex best friend. It sounds like it may be you who needs to let go.

But without being there to fully assess the situation, I would bet it's exactly what you called it: "some sort of shortcut with dealing with a lot of personal issues." It's not that the spiritual stuff doesn't have immense truth. But all to often people new to "the path" use "the path" as a way to avoid facing their real problems. And it definitely can be dangerous. But it also can be just the outlet they need. Sometimes people need a positive outlet whatever that is, to be obsessed about it, etc, if that takes them away from their problem. One of their primary problems before usually is that they are obsessed with their problem. Maybe later she can circle back and examine it (rather than avoid it) with new eyes.

Spirituality at its core is all about questioning your own motivations and intentions. I urge you to do just that, not just hers. If you're able to be open and honest with your intentions, you may be lucky (though its not a guarantee) and it rubs off on her and she gets honest about hers. But either way, you first. Make sure your intentions are straight.

If your intentions are straight, and your coming fully from a place of concern--why not immerse yourself and learn what she's learning. Here's your reading to do list:

-Robert Monroe (the grandfather of out-of-body experiences). Read his first book: Journeys out of Body

https://www.amazon.com/Journeys-Out-Body-Out-Body/dp/0385008619

-Drunvalo (The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life). This is likely stuff she's into. Along with stuff from the Spirit Science Videos (they pretty much borrowed Drunvalo's whole speel). Here's the youtube playlist of their animations that made them famous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmN2RL4VJsE&list=PL2C2FBAB7E002EE3E

-if you really want to get into it read Thomas Campbell's My Big Toe (Theory of Everything). Read the first book.


I could list a million more out-of-body experience slash astral projection authors. There literally is millions of people experiencing mystical states my friend, and tens of thousands writing books about it. Basically your dream nature (i.e. where you invent whole realities in your head while you sleep) is closer to your true nature than what you experience here on planet earth on a daily basis. That is to say you're a sort of imagination machine. That's what all these authors are saying. There's a whole movement around this stuff. Immerse yourself if you really care. Otherwise, you're a dilettante feigning concern for ulterior motives. Your friend is on to something big here.

Thomas Campbell pioneers a concept called "Open Minded Skepticism." In western secular culture, we're too skeptical. It destroys our ability to imagine, to tap into our true spiritual imagination capabilities that you experience every night when you sleep. However, some people like I think your friend here are too "open minded." According to Thomas Campbell--and from my own experience--this conversely is problematic because it leads people to feel as though they know things they did not experience for themselves, which kills any real motivation to ask questions and figure things out on their own. In short, these people that think they know everything about spirituality can become know-it-alls, doing it for the wrong reasons, and miss what they really should be learning. So you need a balance (as with everything). You need to be open minded, but you need to be skeptical until you verify possibilities through your own experience. I.e. your own experience out of body, in mystical states, etc.

You seem like the more rational one. In Drunvalo's Ancient Secret of the Flower Life, he champions a concept of "Left Brain vs Right Brain" and the idea that male thinking is the more rational left brain side whereas female thinking is the more imaginative intuitive heartfelt right brain side. Specifically what he champions is that we western scientific secular people need to use logic to convince the left brain that what the right brain intuits is true. You need to spiritual logic to convince yourself to live in your heart. Our logical minds need to consciously understand the consciousness system we are living in, in order to live up to our true more intuitive imaginative nature.

Again, you're an imagination machine, with more powers than we currently feel and know we are capable of. According to Campbell (who by the way worked at Robert Monroe's consciousness exploration facility), we are baby consciousness in a petri dish called "planet earth" designed specifically so we can grow ourselves into higher/greater consciousness. So we live in an experiment. It's an experiment that is trying to grow us. It's also trying to get better at growing us. It's a virtual reality. And outside of this reality is more virtual realities, and so on. That's how consciousness works. Like in Men in Black when you zoom out and see one reality inside another. Got it!

So your job is to convince your left brain that a shred of any of this is true by doing your homework and reading what the many who've gone before you have said. I invite you to amazon.com. Good luck!

u/LightBringerFlex · 2 pointsr/spirituality

Ya, it's still convo with God but book for under a,new subtitle. Same author of course.

4. Home with God discussing death and afterlife.

https://www.amazon.com/Home-God-Life-That-Never/dp/0743267168

5. Friendship with God discussing the step by step process on how to make God your best friend and work with him to forge your future.

https://www.amazon.com/Friendship-God-Neale-Donald-Walsch/dp/0425189848/ref=pd_sim_14_3?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0425189848&pd_rd_r=8TPW9GPDST108FE6A0AM&pd_rd_w=U3TqC&pd_rd_wg=t7isz&psc=1&refRID=8TPW9GPDST108FE6A0AM

6. Communion with God. I think this covers ancient myths that formed and have harmed our planet to this day and how to overcome them.

https://www.amazon.com/Communion-God-Neale-Donald-Walsch/dp/0425189856/ref=pd_sim_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0425189856&pd_rd_r=8TPW9GPDST108FE6A0AM&pd_rd_w=U3TqC&pd_rd_wg=t7isz&psc=1&refRID=8TPW9GPDST108FE6A0AM

7. Tomorrow's god - this has to do with actually understanding the real god vs the Biblical God and how this god plays out in our lives.

https://www.amazon.com/Tomorrows-God-Greatest-Spiritual-Challenge/dp/0743463048/ref=la_B000APZH4Y_1_20?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1483810346&sr=1-20&refinements=p_82%3AB000APZH4Y#customerReviews

8. New revaluation concerns the peaceful revolution we are in.

https://www.amazon.com/New-Revelations-Conversation-God/dp/074346303X/ref=pd_sim_14_3?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=074346303X&pd_rd_r=KQSYN4Q8S91CF23FWWWX&pd_rd_w=YwD35&pd_rd_wg=yWn5i&psc=1&refRID=KQSYN4Q8S91CF23FWWWX

u/MoonbeamThunderbutt · 1 pointr/spirituality

I'd really recommend the book Journey of Souls by Michael Newton if you're searching for "meaning of life" stuff. It made me remember why I'm here and made me feel so much less anxious about everything. I know what's truly important now: learning lessons, growing as a person, and enjoying the masquerade of life here on earth.

Human life is a dream that we forget isn't real, because getting sucked into the role is fun and it's how we learn. We are so much more than what we appear to be, but it's ok not to remember. Just do the best you can and enjoy life for what it is: an opportunity to feel the sunshine on your face, help others, try new things, and overcome struggles.

u/raajksauthor · 1 pointr/spirituality

Hey I have been engaged in this sort of writing for a while now. I have just self published one of my books in the series named "Bahá'u'lláh and the mission of God manifestation". You can find the book on

Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Bah%C3%A1ull%C3%A1h-Mission-Manifestation-Play-Book-ebook/dp/B0813H6536/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=bahaullah+and+the+mission+of+god+manifestation&qid=1574431386&sr=8-1

I hope you like the work and it becomes one of your favorite righting! Love & Peace!

u/AprilLudgateDwyer · 1 pointr/spirituality

I like anything well-channeled. So Seth stuff, Orin (living w joy, opening to channel) https://www.amazon.com/Living-Joy-Personal-Spiritual-Transformation/dp/1932073515) , Edgar Cayce readings, the book on the Findhorn garden https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Findhorn_Garden_Story.html?id=Uv4jetYoAvMC, Abe-Hicks https://www.amazon.com/Ask-Given-Learning-Manifest-Desires/dp/1401904599 I also like Bart Erhman's athiesty books on Jesus https://www.amazon.com/How-Jesus-Became-God-Exaltation/dp/0061778184 , bc he makes a more accurate portrait of that teacher.

Also material-spiritual stuff like Sikh knowledge of diet.

u/movinonup2east · 1 pointr/spirituality

I am currently listening (taking) this class. It is by the gentlemen who wrote "Untethered Soul". It explains all the subconscious pieces and SO much more. I highly recommend the book and the class. It explains exactly why things like "I don't deserve to be happy" are there and how to release them.

u/Mister_Foxx · 3 pointsr/spirituality

Don't stop! :)

You are most likely in a period of equanimity. Practice over long periods of time increases periods like this. Sometimes things are good. Sometimes they aren't. If things become difficult, STILL don't stop - instead examine your dissatisfaction. Ask yourself if dissatisfaction exists when your mind is quiet. Note that dissatisfaction, as well as happiness are transient object. REAL joy arises when there is no holding on to being one or the other.

Reading dharma is good. It helps to get some idea of what you are looking for. Try:

https://www.amazon.com/Art-Skill-Buddhist-Meditation-Concentration/dp/1626252939/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1439255113&sr=8-1&keywords=the+art+and+skill+of+buddhist+meditation

Or:

https://www.amazon.com/Untethered-Soul-Journey-Beyond-Yourself/dp/1572245379/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1522796945&sr=1-1&keywords=untethered+soul

Bows.

u/[deleted] · 1 pointr/spirituality

Check out Gnosticism and Christian mysticism. They both have all the answers you're looking for. Definitely look into the gnostic gospels. Highly recommend this book on Christian mysticism ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385416318/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_awdb_t1_EC7RCbSR017H0 ). It has everything you would ever want to know about life and more. It completely changed my life.

u/_wokeAF · 0 pointsr/spirituality

Categorizing this book as spiritual is subjective, but I recommend it to anyone questioning their reality.

u/reallyserious · 1 pointr/spirituality

"Freedom from the known" by Jiddu Krishnamurti. He said something to the effect (paraphrazing) "when you follow someone else you no longer pursuit truth".

u/flytohappiness · 4 pointsr/spirituality

I felt much lonely until I connected with my inner child. Read this. It changed my life:
www.amazon.com/Healing-Your-Aloneness-Finding-Wholeness/dp/0062501496

u/0x5A414D414C45 · 1 pointr/spirituality

> don't react, live my own life

Those are saying opposite things.

> No job offers

What have you done in order to find offers?

> no fair treatment

I don't know the last time I was treated fairly. People likely think that I don't treat them fairly even though I try my hardest. That is an immutable truth for every human on the face of the planet.

> constant harassment [wish you were in my shoes]

I was bullied to the point of physiological reaction, I acquired a life-threatening condition due to stress. I'm still alive and kicking. If someone sees fit to harass me, their loss - I am an amazing person and I'm proud of what little I've done.

> no dates

I think you've explained why.

> no good luck

Luck is created. I always thought I was a lucky guy (despite everything) but as I got older I realized my plans always have plans within plans. There is always a contingency. I plan for failure, others belligerently fight for success. You are in the group that blames, never changes and continues to have no "luck." Either way, "lucky" people are merely people who have laid down groundwork for future success.

> I love how easy it is for people to disregard what i'm experiencing.

Nobody disregards your experiences. People face a range of different problems, maybe not the same as yours. What people struggle to sympathize with is someone who is falling victim to those circumstances. We are all fighting and struggling to be happy, every single person on the face of the planet, including the 1%, including the 0.00001%. Every person on this planet has a reason to be miserable, to be unlucky, to be unsuccessful. Many people choose to take action and defy those reasons.

This has nothing to do with spirituality and everything to do with you.

This book might help.