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 Autobiography
of a Yogi
Paramhansa Yogananda
An
absolutely wonderful and life changing book. Read it and then read it
again! An autobiographical account of an early nineteenth-century yogi
as he reaches self-realization, identification with his larger self, mankind,
and union with his God.
 Black
Elk Speaks
Nicholas Black Elk
"Black Elk Speaks"
is the acclaimed story of Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk
(1863-1950) and his people during the momentous, twilight years of the
19th century.
 Meetings
with Remarkable Men
G.I. Gurdjieff
This is one of the few
records published by Gurdjieff in which he offers guidance to his 'community
seekers', the pupils from many countries who joined him in Paris and New
York. A strange book that explores some of the lesser known aspects of
Eastern spirituality.
 The
Journey to the East
Hermann Hesse
Read this and you'll discover
what's behind this website's 'Spiritual walks'. This is a wonderful spiritual
parable and greatly influenced my writing and thoughts. Another one for
the ageing hippies.
 Journey
of Souls
Michael Newton PhD
Gets a bit carried away
in places and some of the claims are debatable. This book offers accounts
from people hypnotically regressed to the spirit world, to the 'life between
lives' A good read.
 Edgar
Cayce on Atlantis
Edgar Cayce
Drawing on his life readings,
and within the context of reincarnation, Cayce offers evidence of the
civilisation of Atlantis - showing how its achievements and failures directly
relate to the conflict of the late 20th century. Here are insights into
mankind's past as seen through Atlantis.
 Life
After Death
Ian Wilson
By the author of "Jesus:
the Evidence". This book investigates the question of whether there
is life after death, based on real-life experiences. It explores aspects
of the near-death experience, such as the floating "out of body"
and the "going back" to physical life. I met the author- and
liked him even though he can be a bit of a sceptic.
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 Man's
Eternal Quest
Paramahansa Yogananda
Wonderful philosophy that
binds East and West. Includes a little about the Afterlife. In this first
volume of the collected talks and essays of Paramahansa Yogananda, readers
will journey through some little-known and seldom-explained aspects of
meditation, life after death, healing, and the power of the mind.
 Jesus
Lived in India
Holger Kersten
As well as coming across
age-old links between the Israelites and the East, the author finds evidence
of the following - the youthful Jesus who followed the ancient Silk Road
to India, while in India he studied Buddhism, adopted its tenets and became
a spiritual master, that he survived the crucifixion and, after the "resurrection",
he returned to India to die of old age and that he was buried in Srinagar,
the capital of Kashmir.
 Crossing
Over
John Edward
This is the man who got
mediumistic demonstrations on TV. Copied in the UK this is books shows
a sincere man with integrity and a very powerful mediumistic talent. I
certainly enjoyed it.
 The
Original Rider Waite Tarot Pack
by A.E. Waite
In 1909, Arthur Edward Waite
encouraged Pamela Colman Smith to produce a tarot deck with appeal to
the world of art that would have significance behind the symbols, and
thus make the deck more important than tarot packs previously used for
centuries. The result was the unique Rider-Waite Tarot deck which has
endured as the world's most popular 78-card tarot deck.
 The
Hero with a Thousand Faces
Joseph Campbell
A study of heroism in
the myths of the world - an exploration of all the elements common to
the great stories that have helped people make sense of their lives from
the earliest times. It takes in Greek Apollo, Maori and Jewish rites,
the Buddha, Wotan, and the bothers Grimm's Frog-King
 In
Tune with the Infinite
Ralph Waldo Trine
A work on spirituality,
containing a lifetime's distilled wisdom on the art of living - body,
mind and soul. It demonstrates the power of the mind to influence our
happiness and is thus one of the earliest examples of positive thinking.
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 Sai
Baba - the Embodiment of Love
Peggy Mason, Ron Laing
Peggy Mason was a Spiritualist
turned Sai Baba devotee. Here is here story of her encounter with the
God-man. Naturally she asks him about mediumship!
if you're not a Sai devotee, it might make you start seeing things from
a totally new perspective.
 The
Jesus Sutras
Martin Palmer
This
book provides a popular history and translation of these texts. It recounts
the story of the first Christian missions to China and explains how the
Church of the East blended Eastern and Western spiritual principles, and
how Jesus became a Buddha Christ.
 Illusions
Richard Bach
Give it a go if your interested
in conscious evolution on Earth; the story is filled with excellent humour
and some really excellent insights into living harmoniously on Earth at
the beginning of the 21st century.
 Voyages
into the Unknown
Bruce Moen
This books shows how you
can develop your skills in handling ghosts, and "people" who
have died and don't know which way to go. Looses the plot in places I
feel. Very popular in the USA though.
 Tarot
Total Rider Waite Tarot With Book
Gunter Hager
The Rider pack is one
of the easiest tarot set to use. This one comes with a book though there
are other versions you can choose. It's the one I use.
 The
Cathars and Reincarnation
Arthur Guirdham
This is the story of the
oppression of the Cathar Xtians in France 13th cent. Dr Guirdham uses
not only the facts of accepted history but the records of a number of
people who have far memories of those violent times.
 Voices
from Paradise
Judith Chisholm
An excellent introduction
to Electronic Voice Phenomenon. Very popular book at the moment. Judith
Chisholm allows readers of her book 'Voices from Paradise' an exquisite
and intimate insight into the shadowlands of a mother's grief initiated
by the death of her beloved son, Paul.
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