The Biology of Belief – Bruce Lipton
How your beliefs can change your DNA, from a scientific perspective. This fact shows why alien hybridization is unnecessary for humanity to evolve.
The Way Out – Joseph Benner
Small book on aligning with your Higher Self, with special focus on transcending matrix-trapped living conditions.
The Way to the Kingdom / Brotherhood – Joseph Benner
Two books in one. First is a full course in awakening to your Christ self, of which the other Benner books are but introductions. Brotherhood is a small book with emphasis on what dark forces we are up against.
Illusions – Richard Bach
Novel about a reluctant messiah and his apprentice, and the transcendent lessons taught to him about reality being an illusion.
Quiet Mind – White Eagle
Pocketbook of inspirational and true sayings by White Eagle, in Christian context. Works well as an oracle, and gives decent advice about living with spiritual integrity and balanced vibes.
The Gospels of Thomas – Jean-Yves Leloup
Translation and commentary on the gnostic Gospel of Thomas, a collection of the sayings of Jesus, of which three quarters are straight out of the Bible but the way they are written is different. Closer to the original teachings than the Bible itself.
The Short Path to Enlightenment – Paul Brunton
Good introduction to Paul Brunton’s writings. Excerpts from Brunton’s notes on the Short and Long Paths to enlightenment. Conditioning the Lower Self versus aligning with the Higher Self.
The Gift of Grace – Paul Brunton
On synchronicity and the influence of the Higher Self in our lives, and the conditions under which divinity reaches down to us and helps us out.
William Walker Atkinson
Books by the author of the Kybalion, on hermetic knowledge concerning the power of consciousness, subtle energies, self-improvement, and self-mastery. Classic and foundational texts on this subject, back when formerly secret society knowledge was given the green light to be presented to the public.
Joseph Murphy
Another esoteric teacher of the early 1900s who taught the right use of metaphysical laws toward greater harmony, self-empowerment, healing, and happiness. This, decades before the New Age picked up and ran with its own distorted version of it. Goes well with Atkinson’s material.
The Stellar Man – John Baines
Synthesis of modern psychology and Hermeticism. Thorough explanation of the Hermetic Principles. Also includes a legend of how Moses screwed things up by making a pact with a demonic entity named “Y”.
Cry of the Eagle – Theun Mares
Second book in the Toltec Teaching Series. Mares gets more technical regarding Toltec Shamanism. Focus is on being a warrior and training your consciousness. Includes instructions on how to do Active Dreaming (aka wake-induced-lucid-dreaming for esoteric purposes). (online)
Mists of Dragon Lore – Theun Mares
Third book in the Toltec Teaching Series. More technical lessons. It becomes clear at this point that Toltec teachings have off-planetary origin, as with Sufism and Hermeticism. (online)
Shadows of Wolf Fire – Theun Mares
Fourth book in the Toltec Teaching Series. Recaps the first three and fills in lots of blanks, then gets onto the “Sorcerer’s Explanation” which is pure Gnostic Truth wrapped in myth. Mares knows what he’s talking about. (online)
Theosophy – Rudolf Steiner
Steiner’s primer on Anthroposophy. Not a summary of Blavatsky’s Theosophy, but rather his own take on it, based on his occult perceptions and investigations. Astral, etheric, physical body defined. (online)
Mani and Steiner – Christine Gruwez
Metaphysical research into Manichaeism, the redemption of darkness by light, and its role in humanity’s future according to Rudolf Steiner.
Stages of Higher Knowledge – Rudolf Steiner
Every book by Steiner has big blanks that only other books and lectures of his fill in. This one is a major blank-filler. Explains the three higher states of consciousness that one achieves through esoteric training. (online)
The Incarnation of Ahriman – Rudolf Steiner
The interplay between Ahriman, Lucifer, and Christ — the three intelligences actively at work in our history. Helps overcome binary thinking, since this trinary model is closer to reality. Explains a lot about the way things are in the world.
Initiation Into Hermetics – Franz Bardon
Magical / occult training. Recommended for information purposes only. Some of the exercises are good, but others get too close to black magic. Has valuable information on mirror scrying (psychomanteum) and various types of thoughtforms including parasitic ones. Bardon was experienced in occult pathologies and useful advice for treating them can be gleaned from this book. (online)
Meditations on the Tarot – Anonymous
Philosophical essays on esotericism inspired by the tarot deck. Good insights here and there, though quite intellectual with an unfortunate Catholic bias.
In Search of the Miraculous – P.D. Ouspensky
Introduction to Fourth Way philosophy. Focuses on man being asleep at the wheel and mechanical in his habits like a robot, and how to fight that. As the subtitle says, these are fragments of an unknown teaching: thus incomplete. What’s missing is the heart component. See Mouravieff for that. (online)
Gnosis, Volumes I, II, III – Boris Mouravieff
Supposedly based on the original teachings of which Fourth Way is just a collection of fragments. Main source is inner Eastern Orthodox, but probably traces back to Sufi and related groups. Something valuable on every page. Not a fan of his political views, but the esoteric stuff is spot on. Includes discussion on spiritless humans, called pre-Adamics in the book. (online only)
The Hidden Teachings of Yoga – Paul Brunton
Puts into perspective the various meditation disciplines and how they relate, why contemplation and philosophical revelation is the highest form of it. Includes good info on what esoteric training entails.
The Wisdom of the Overself – Paul Brunton
Sequel to The Hidden Teachings of Yoga. Gets into depth on cosmology, metaphysics, esoteric development, karma and freewill, dream and sleep, and exercises to practice. Dense philosophical work along the lines of Steiner.
The True and Invisible Rosicrucian Order – Paul Foster Case
The historical and esoteric structure of Rosicrucianism as understood by Case. Thorough explanations on the various grades and pathways of initiation. His interpretation depends heavily on tarot and Qabalah. True Rosicrucianism is more generic than this, but there are many forms and derivations of it and this is one.
Energy Work – Robert Bruce
Bruce’s system of subtle energy stimulation, needed to activate latent subtle energy structures in the body, i.e. build the hardware.
The Silva Mind Method – Jose Silva
How to interact with your subconscious using an internally created graphical user interface. This is necessary once you have built up the subtle energy structures via other methods. Otherwise you just have the hardware without the software.
How to Know Higher Worlds – Rudolf Steiner
Steiner outlines what it takes to develop psychic powers. Specific emphasis on spiritual integrity and functional training of spiritual qualities – something few other sources ever discuss, and maintaining continuity of consciousness through different states. (online)
A Way of Self-Knowledge – Rudolf Steiner
Follow-up to How to Know Higher Worlds. Probably Steiner’s best book. Gets into the physical, etheric, astral, and spirit body and what happens exactly when you become clairvoyant.
Hypsoconsciousness – John Baines
Technique for shifting into a deep altered state of consciousness useful for esoteric development. Goes well with the Silva Method.
Seth Speaks – Jane Roberts
Classic channeling text with metaphysical advice for daily living. May be the first New Age book to introduce concept of timelines and probable futures.
The Cassiopaean Transcripts – LKJ, et al…
Fourteen years of channeled transmissions from higher dimensional light beings. Done through Ouija board, thus concise in their responses. Despite corruption, I’d say the core cosmology concerning the densities, and the tactical advice concerning negative forces, is valid because it completely matches my experience and research to date. Goes well with the Ra Material / Law of One. (online only)
Bringers of the Dawn – Barbara Marciniak
Part of same paradigm bundle as the Cassiopaean Transcripts and Ra Material, but written in a more colloquial and empowering style. Greater emphasis on why some of us are here in relation to the upcoming Shift. Good balance between conspiracy and spirituality. (online)
The Law of One, Book I
Channeling done in early 1980s, of quality and profundity greater than anything before and possibly after. Meshes well with the Cassiopaean Transcripts and Bringers of the Dawn, though in comparison is more technical and dense. (online)
The Law of One, Book II
Second book in the Ra Material / Law of One series. The series explains the concepts of STS and STO to a very fine degree, and likewise with the densities. (online)
The Law of One, Book III
Third book in the Ra Material / Law of One series. There are also books IV and V but I don’t consider them as important or monumental as the first three. (online)
The Convoluted Universe, Book 1 – Dolores Cannon
Transcripts of sessions with hypnotized subjects taken so deep that other consciousnesses come through. The quality of information that comes through is hit or miss, but some of the subjects are completely fascinating and plausible.
The Convoluted Universe, Book 3 – Dolores Cannon
Most recent book by Cannon on her hypnosis work. Fascinating as always. These three volumes are great as mind-stretchers, to help you consider possibilities not previously imagined about what could be going on.
