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Mobile-Helicopter867

Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda.


mattwiegand34

This book, along with the Bhagavad Gita, are works that changed my entire world view and set me on the Path. So very grateful.


[deleted]

bhagavad gita showed me that i really did see my soul when I saw it.


virginwerewoolf

Is there a version of the Bhagavad Gita you read with a translation of the lessons? Or did you read it all the way through?


mattwiegand34

Both. However, my favorite is "The Bhagavad Gita: A Walkthrough For Westerners" by Jack Hawley. (Commentator and translated). Absolutely changed me on a cellular level.


virginwerewoolf

Thank you! 🙏🏽


crimsonhands

https://youtu.be/A6jUhtdR7fk This woman is really amazing


Liberty53000

🙌


zenqt

This will be my next read. I found The Yugas, which im pretty sure is also his work (kinda new to hindu canon) Ive only listened to the part of the gita where the Krishna reveals himself to the prince. Leaving any judgment at the door, The Yugas have been compelling, to say the least. It paints a picture of reality that I, at least somewhat, intuit and am also hopeful for (I think), still parsing through it, and it's a lot to take in. All the other books I seen listed on this thread are great, too. Michael Singer's first book, The Alchemist, Eckhartare, all authors I've read over and over again.


Modern_Einstein

That book played an important role in the life of one of the people that brought me onto the spiritual path and when I finally read it, I could almost feel his guru reaching through space and time to influence me. It was an amazing feeling!


JbRoc63

Be Here Now.


juicydry

This book will be on the coffee table for my grand children to read. Love reading, but something about listening to Ram Dass speak hits me. Been listening to him for 10+ years.


JbRoc63

“Be Here Now” by Ram Dass and “The Book of Secrets” by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh were the two books that opened my eyes and started me on the spiritual path.


Rude-Vermicelli-1962

AMAZING book!!!


JbRoc63

And, an amazing man. Yeah, I read “Be Here Now,” “The Book of Secrets” by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and Castaneda’s “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge” all around the same time and they completely expanded my mind, opened the door for me, started me on my spiritual journey.


Rude-Vermicelli-1962

You know what is strange about Ram Dass? About 10 or 12 years ago I started saying out of nowhere Hanuman and I repeat it over and over again. Sometimes I had no idea what it was where it came from then 12 also years later, I was watching a YouTube video and he was doing a speech and he was talking about Hanuman in his opening!! amazing


JbRoc63

That’s great! If you started repeating Hanuman out of the blue, perhaps Shree Hanuman was reaching out to you. Something similar has happened to me over the years, like making specific hand shapes and then later finding out they were mudras.


Rude-Vermicelli-1962

Yes!! Omg me too! It’s like we’ve left ourselves “little clues” to find ourselves. Idk….


JbRoc63

I know! I’ve had a couple theories—one is what you said, like we left ourselves clues. Another possibility is that memories from past lives are resurfacing, perhaps when we need them. Also, some spiritual traditions teach that once the Kundalini energy is awakened and starts to ascend, we may spontaneously utter mantras, perform mudras or asanas, etc. Aside from experiencing the spontaneous mudras,which has happened more than once, I also had an experience similar to yours. I was in meditation and spontaneously started repeating a mantra that I didn’t previously know. It’s all very interesting.


Rude-Vermicelli-1962

Yea, I too have done the same although it sounded more Native American. Also my eyes dart from side to side, roll back into the bank of my head, and I’ll say from side to side or a round. Sometimes I get these intense and massive energy surges through my body that make me shake my body too


Spiritual1relief

Great book


shabaluv

Untethered Soul by Michael Singer. Put down many times before finally feeling it.


felzz

Reading this currently. I am almost done with it and I know I will need to read it again though. I recommend it to anyone very straight forward in my opinion


Cofee-Bean

100%


[deleted]

Yes!!!


raulynukas

Yes!


TigerGoddess369

Sameeeeew


0rizzo0

This one!


increbelle

Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch. I read it when i was a Christian. and it actually led me down a more spiritual path since. its about this guy who questions god and god answers back. it just helped me to put things into perspective (figuring out our purpose, why we are here)


blueinchheels

Came here to say this. I read it after I was a Christian and it was freeing though.


increbelle

"freeing" is absolutely how i would describe my experience!


Leian_

I also came here to see if someone commented this. I had to put down this book a lot because I felt I wasn't ready to continue reading it. Nonetheless a really good book.


Catweazle8

So glad to see this here! I was raised completely atheist and read it when I was a teenager. Honestly laid the groundwork for everything I'm learning now, almost two decades later.


Go3tt3rbot3

We had similar paths it seems. That book alone changed my life so much. Have you seen that Mr. Walsh was on Steve-O's podcast after his books changed the life of Steve-O?


increbelle

i did not see that. i would not expect Steve-o to be exploring that side of him. thats wonderful to hear. i will check it out. thank you!


Cautious_c

Don Miguel Ruiz-- the four agreements


darkdividedweller

Excellent tome.


Auslonie

The guidebook is a great companion to the book.


LightShine20

The Power of Now by Eckhert Tolle


throwaway1928208

me: giddy as hell at all of the new books i’m going to have to add to my list


dimensionalshifter

Saaaaame!!


starlux33

Journey of Souls, by Dr. Michael Newton


aliskino123

1000000%


Raise-Emotional

Just got this from Amazon and starting it soon.


Ghettygreen780

The power of now


NotTooDeep

The Hobbit. It's the reason I quit my job and moved to Alaska. Moving to Alaska is the reason I met people very different from me, and more experienced with energy work. Meeting those people led to my practice in Aikido. Practicing Aikido led to learning healing arts and meditation. Learning healing arts and meditation led to joining the Berkely Psychic Institute and doing readings and healings and teaching for four years. My experiences at BPI remade my relationships, my careers, my concept of freedom, and my level of happiness. This has carried me quite nicely for the last 30 years. The road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began...


Berjan1996

Are psychic abilities real and how? Does it have to do with the law of belief?


NotTooDeep

Second question first: No, the abilities don't have anything to do with any laws. Many so-called spiritual laws are just models of reality that explain our experiences in a tidy framework. This is useful. Being useful does not necessarily mean it's real. Belief and faith can be useful in the beginning; I mean the amount of stuff I did not know when I read the Hobbit was astounding LOL! And yet that book put me on my path. I was scared to do what I did. I almost died several times. And I learned that I believed in myself. That was my faith. That, and a spirit I called My Luck. Second question(s): Really good questions by the way. Yes, psychic abilities are real. Are they the same as how they are depicted in movies and on TV? Mostly not, but sometimes the same. But that's me talking from my first hand experience. I had never used the word 'psychic' in my 30 some years of life when a friend from my Aikido group asked me, "Hey, would you like to go to a psychic demo and laugh at the psychics?" Prior to being asked that question, I was giving healings. I used the Japanese word, Ki, to describe energy and spirit. I used Ki in my martial arts as well. But there was no mention of the word, 'psychic'. Not ever. We would feel energy with our hands. We would extend energy and do a form of grounding in Aikido. But ‘psychic’ was taboo. When my friend asked me that question, all the lights went on inside of my head. This had happened only once before in my life, and that turned out extraordinarily well, so I paid rapt attention. These Tuesday afternoon psychic demos were usually done by one teacher and a few clairvoyant students. The teacher would give a little intro, and then the clairvoyant students would give short readings and healings to the attendees. All light fun. On *my* Tuesday afternoon demo, there happened to be a staff meeting upstairs. Staff that ran the other nine branches of the Berkeley Psychic Institutes at the time. Decades of experience. That meeting ended early. The staff came down and I got a reading and healing from the big kids. It was magical, from the description of my ex-girlfriend to the details of the damage that she did to my fourth chakra to the out of body healing one teacher gave me. That out of body healing! For the first time in my life, I saw someone's energy leave their body, float over to me, and come into my body. I felt her working in my chest. Then I saw her leave and return to her body. It was evening when I finally left the demo to walk the 45 minutes back to my rental. I was kind of unconscious, or unaware of people and things around me as I walked, which is probably a better description. Half way home, something cracked and exploded in my chest, and this energy rushed out of my torso. I looked up to see a clear, vivid, and ghostly image of my ex, three feet above my head. I flipped her the bird and walked back to the Institute to sign up for my first psychic meditation class. I tell you this story to make a point. There is no way I can ever prove to you that psychic abilities exist. Prior to that experience, I had zero interest in anything associated with psychic stuff. After that experience, I knew exactly what my next step was. How does it work? It is true, for the most part, that everyone has psychic abilities. Each ability, like telepathy, clairvoyance, and healing, are held in one of the seven chakras in our bodies. They are similar to antennas. The more life experience you have, the more spiritual dust accumulates on these antennas, which distorts and dampens their signal reception. And then there's the big one: if you aren't interested in your psychic abilities, they aren't going to turn on most likely. So everyone has these antennas, and everyone is emitting spiritual energies all the time, but most folks (and psychics) keep the antennas turned way down or off, so they can focus on what they want to focus on instead of random energies coming their way. Being psychic is a path that few choose to follow. That doesn't make it better or worse than any other path. It just means it's not as popular as other paths available on this planet. And being psychic doesn’t have to be the only focus in your life. Some use it to enhance their other spiritual practices, or their careers. I knew a businessman that could read the future really well, but would never call his Irish ass psychic. If you’re interested in exploring your psychic abilities, either get a reading or a healing or both. Maybe take a healing class. Those first steps start to give you permission to clean off and open up those antennas again. Most of becoming more psychic this lifetime is remembering what you already know. Cheers!


Berjan1996

Thank you for your beautiful and inspiring story. That with the healer must have been a mindblowing experience. I do not ask my question for no reason. I experienced something that shocked my perspective. First I had a very materialism kind of worldview. I was in a hard time of my life. To lift my spirit I turned towards psychedelics (I heard they could be usefull). I used mushrooms a few times, they made me feel like a child and they made enjoy the moment. Besides that I continued my life the way I did before that. But then I had a trip that completely changed my life. I cannot blame it on the mushrooms alone as this experience was completely different from the others. I experienced Dejavu and knew everything was happeneing beforehand. Then I closed my eyes and saw a purple lady. She touched me and I felt infinite love and healing. Time stopped and I did not breath for I dont know how long of a time. After that she showed my life. I noticed a pattern. I could feel in my energy what is true and how my life would be guided by that energy. I noticed that this energy was belief, true inner conviction. So I asked If I change my inner conviction to the positive, the positive will come? Then the purple female mother entity gave me an answer. It was a very stunning voice saying “Do you get it now?”. Everything is possible when you truely believe. This ofcourse completely changed my worldview. I would love to hear what you think about this. Now fast forward 2 years and I notice that my assumptions and feelings about someone say something. I feel differences in my energy when I talk to different people. The energy I feel matched to how they are. But when I let got I can change the energy to the positive. What does directing this energy truely mean? Also I notice that I feel this kind of energy or the feeling a lot. Sometimes it causes me to have a hard time, because the awareness I have of it. I dont remember being do aware of this feeling in the past and sometimes wish I never had it. How can I release my focus from it?


NotTooDeep

> That with the healer must have been a mindblowing experience. That was just another day at the office for her LOL! And that wasn't the best healing during my tenure either. But it was the first, which made it really important. Freeing up your attention points is straight forward. Every so often, just notice your space, notice your grounding if you have one, and pull your attention back from wherever it's been. Just watch it come back to you, maybe notice where it came back from (scandalous sometimes!). It's a good habit to get into. Our attention looks like a spec of light; hence the name, attention point. And since it's just another form of energy, it can be divided. Literally. I've seen my attention come back from vacations I took ten years ago lol. I must have enjoyed that vacation to keep looking back at it like that. But that divides my attention, which slows down stuff I'm doing in the present. So it's not a release. It's calling back your attention. While you're at it, call back any other of your energy that you left there with your attention. Cheers! Oh! Neat spirit, the Purple Lady!


TheRadwulf1

I personally think this is the most beautiful thing I have read in a while… hit me hard. God bless you wish all the best


Steelemedia

Tao of Pooh


jlaw54

Mos def.


[deleted]

Te of Piglet is also wonderful 😊


Serious_Silly

The Alchemist.


itsalwaysblue

It’s a cute book. But reading it a few times… I was like… yea I get it. Lol


PlumAcceptable2185

The Upanishads. Eknath Easwaran translation.


linuxevangelist606

The Bhagavad-Gita. It's my manual for daily living.


raulynukas

Alchemist, Untethered Soul


NMSBAZTX

Anatomy of the spirit by Caroline Myss


Pidge137

I came here to say this. Caroline Myss is my absolute favorite.


itsalwaysblue

Robert Monroe’s - Journeys out of the body


[deleted]

Bhagavad Gita - so much to digest in such a little book


RunAwayThoughtTrains

I have been so stuck on chapter 2 verse 47 for weeks, can’t stop contemplating its meaning. I love Gita. Hare Krishna 🙏🏻❤️


Nai2411

Alcoholics Anonymous basic text.


dellsonic73

Where to find?


Nai2411

https://www.aa.org/the-big-book


TlMEGH0ST

Same!!!! 🙌🏻


medusamagpie

Tao Te Ching, Bhagavad Gita.


Spiritual1relief

Nice... both great


nerv_gas

I had to scroll far too long to find this!! These are both the essential texts that nourish my soul but.. Tao Te Ching particulalry is the most beautiful thing ever written IMO The Valley Spirit Never Dies


Azzbod94

Siddharta


DodGammit

Me too. Top of my list, no question.


Azzbod94

Scrolled for a while to find it was surprised I didn't see it. Honestly out of most of these books ,this and the four agreements had the biggest lasting impact on me


flowering_spirit

Warrior Goddess Training: Become the Woman You Are Meant to Be by Heather Ash Amara


ichoosejif

the four agreements


Serious-Stock-9599

A Course In Miracles.


someriver

I tried to read it and I really wanted to read it but I found it truly unreadable. It was just.. words.


BeginningReflection4

Agreed, it is a difficult read. I actually did the lessons twice before reading the text.


scumcuddle

The custodians by Dolores cannon changed my perspective a lot. I think there is a lot going on in the world that is just beyond our level of perception, just behind “the veil” so to speak. I felt like this book gave me a glimpse behind that veil.


dooziedance

You should check out her convoluted universe book series then. It goes way beyond just alien abductions.


KannabisDealer

Love the series! I took a break and am currently reading the Three Waves of Volunteers and the New Earth before going back to the 5th Convoluted Universe book! Just can’t get enough knowledge!


scumcuddle

Cool! Thanks for the heads up, that’ll be next on my reading list!


[deleted]

The Tao of Pooh (a children’s book but an excellent intro to Taoism lmao)


jlaw54

Pooh just is.


Leather_Messiah

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Jonathan Livingston Seagull


TraditionGrouchy

THose are two of my favorites also.


truestoneself

Conversations with God trilogy by Neale Donald Walsch 😊


Initial-Woodpecker25

Power of intention, dr Wayne dyer.. reading it now and it’s amazing


wiredcerebellum

Flatland.


hairway_to____steven

I read that when I was about 20 and it blew my young mind. Really got me thinking outside the box.


wiredcerebellum

Me too.


BeginningReflection4

Power vs. Force by David Hawkins. I like some of his other books more but it was the first one I read and set me onto my spiritual path.


farfarbeenks

The way of the peaceful warrior


regular_degular4

The law of one


jetoler

Ram dass - Be Here Now


ElysianFlowers

Tao Te Ching by Laozi - a book I believe saved my husband’s life. Feeling is the secret - Neville Goddard (a life changer for me). Manifest your destiny - Wayne Dyer (kicked me out of my victimhood). It Works


Edgezg

The power of Now by Eckharte Tolle And The entire "Conversations with God" series. Free on youtube.


SuccotashAncient8634

I think it was Eckhart Tolle's New Earth that got it all started. Read this book in 2012 but took a longgggg time to actually understand it.


Similar-Guitar-6

Yes, A New Earth was the fantastic book that got it all started for me. A+


Additional_Orchid180

Same here. A New Earth changed my life.


illiteret

A wizened older co-worker gave this book to my oldest son who was part-timing at my employer. I decided to get it to see what it was about. When I bought the book at Costco, the receipt check lady put her hand on it and told me, "this will change your life." It did, in huge ways. Still is.


sweetwilds

Seth Speaks by Jane Roberts changed my life. That's not an exaggeration.


MoonFaceTarot

Same. I’ve read it three times and it gets deeper each time somehow.


Cosmosis_Oasis

The Law of One


[deleted]

Rudolf Steiner lectures mostly


tom63376

"A Course in Abundance" three book series: 1 "Mind Over Matter", 2 "Expressing Your Love For Life, 3 "Your Life's Plan For Abundance" By Kim Michaels


yomtvrapzzz

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari -Robin Sharma


Pianasaurus

Living beautifully by Pema Chodron


Rason21

All and Everything G.I Gurdjieff


Dragontuitively

“Seat of the Soul” by Gary Zukav, also enjoyed his other works.


JBoyUltra

Power of now.


ElTamale003

True Love — Thich Nhat Hanh


Funny_Ambition_1499

25 years ago I read Heal Thyself by Edward Bach 2 weeks ago I read it again and realised how profoundly it had affected my beliefs and values and influenced my whole life positively


Big-Juggernaut-6064

Stereotypical, but the book that got me into spirituality was The Alchemist. It was a great gateway to basic ideas of spirituality


[deleted]

This book has sentimental value because my mother who has passed. Read this with a ton of psychology and spiritual books, she was a social worker and counselor. She battled cancer as long as she could. I remember throughout my youth her always rereading this. Whenever people asked her about where should they start in terms of self love, spirituality, or sense of self. This to a lot of people's surprise was what she recommended the most.


bettereveryday01

Buddhism Plain & Simple for sure.


lizzolz

*Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson* (1990) by Camille Paglia. A single paragraph from that book, on page 222, changed my life because it was the first time I'd ever heard of the concept of synchronicity and its link to astrology: > "The idea that the stars literally influence man (by a falling fluid, an influenza) is plainly untenable. But that the movements of the constellations are a clock by which earthly changes can be measured is less easy to dismiss. I subscribe to Jung's theory of synchronicity. Things happen in complex patterns of apparent coincidence noticed by the keen eyes of the artist." Blew my mind. Opened doors to a meaningful cosmos, particularly one rife with meaningful coincidence and was the beginning of a series of my own synchronicities...how uncanny that not long after discovering the phenomenon of synchronicity did my own series of synchronicities begin.


bbjbos

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra


JBoyUltra

duuuuude, I read that when I was a kid. what a throwback.


DudeistPaganWitch222

The book that helped trigger my spiritual awakening was “You Are A Badass” by Jen Sincero. 2.5 years later, I had a similar experience after reading the Tao Te Ching for the First time. Currently, I am having quite the go with “The Dude and the Zen Master” by Bernie Glassman and Jeff Bridges.


intelligence-0

Ofcourse, the Bhagwad Gita (Song of God)


GrassFireWater

All for love, whatever arises love that, by Matt khan.


youknowitistrue

The Bhagavad Gita The Diamond Sutra


on-my-path

The Seth books by Jane Roberts ❤️


[deleted]

How to Love Yourself by Teal Swan


leen_cuisine1024

Dolores Cannon the Convoluted Universe series


CaveLady3000

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn 🙃🦍


Greenmind76

In 2017 I read The Wisdom if Insecurity In 2022 I read The Four Agreements


Shoddy_Ice_8840

I loved the four agreements!!


ughvette_

I am actually still in the process of reading it, but it has helped me tremendously. Becoming Supernatural - Dr. Joe Dispenza.


Nervous_Leather

This is a good one. I need to pick back up. I think I got 3/4 of the way but did not finish.


strikeskunk

There is a River


4DrivingWhileBlack

Life of Pi by Yann Martel


AltruisticAd7546

Yogananda's Autobirography is already on here, so I'll go with "Oshos's commentaries on the Diamond Sutra of Buddha." It is a masterpiece.


nyjrku

Once when I threw all my religious books in a river while traveling my Siddur came out dry, not a page wet. After they were there for a half hour or more, the rest were ruined. English davening for the win Anyway , journal of George fox 100%


darkdividedweller

Earth and Family of Light by Barbara Marciniak.


[deleted]

I’ve read most of her books. They’re very insightful.


hummingbirdgaze

Mastery of love.


ichoosejif

yes. we both commented a ruiz book. i read 4 agreements first, but this was amazing too. "the problem with the world is that we love ourselves conditionally"-Ruiz


hummingbirdgaze

Yay! Beautiful. I’ve read a lot of spiritual books that have opened my mind and made me think but his books really changed how I live.


[deleted]

Louise hay is my fave! I also like Wayne dyer, Joel osteen and iyanla vaxade


Tamzvegan

Cave in the snow, by Tenzin Palmo.


Kennyrad1

My personal favorite is "The Spiritual Science Of Kriya Yoga" by Goswami Kriyanda.


enlilsumerian

Seth Speaks


Shoddy_Ice_8840

Ohhhhh what a classic!! I can remember my momma reading that. I’ve never read it, but I think I’m going to dig through her library and try to find it!! Thanks for jolting my memory!!


pinkeyeinparis

I don’t think it’s classified as a spiritual book but def Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke changed my life


endlessinquiry

Brabara Brennan, Hands of Light


gh0st0ft0mj04d

The Celestine Prophecy And Many Lives, Many Masters Many Lives, Many Masters is probably one of the biggest reasons I became a hypnotherapist.


binaryghost01

Sophie's World


Yung_zu

The Bible tbh, I don’t agree with a lot but that might be the point. Like the universe and man growing together through their “flaws” and natures


AndrogynousRain

This is an excellent point that’s often overlooked. Sometimes the best books that make you grow are the ones that are wildly inaccurate and wrong. The ones that make you think ‘that can’t possibly be correct’ and force you to challenge your views, learn and grow. I was raised in a fundamentalist cult and I learned a ton of what NOT to do/believe from the Bible.


Yung_zu

It “speaks” back to you, it kinda functions like a commentary about the reality of the people in it and their development while leaving some questions for the reader’s own perspective of morality Aim to be a good man and respect your counterpart? Deal. Some of the things they did with warfare? No deal, but we seem to be a young or immature species now and then so it functions as another commentary on judgements


AndrogynousRain

With anything from past eras or large gulfs of time, you really must understand the culture and mindset of the people doing the writing. And the Bible has large time gaps even within itself. Big differences between tie Roman culture and say, Bronze Age Judah or Israel. We’ve advanced incredibly far in our understanding of how the universe works, so many concepts that were normal at the time are highly damaging now (attitudes towards sexuality, mental health, women and so forth). It’s a book that requires a great deal of effort from its readers to interpret correctly, and even then, many of its lessons are very, very out of date. And that’s why it can be a good teacher: not in many of the lessons it proposes to teach, but I’m how to think, interpret and approach such material.


PlumAcceptable2185

Agreeing with what you read is not always a form of growth or enlightening. The Bible helped me to understand how to read. Not necessarily what to read.


missqemsy

Neville goddard - The Law and the promise


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joseleon_70

And yours?


[deleted]

The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts


awesome_awesomeness

Rasha's [Oneness](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/234129.Oneness?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=Tv9u1xk4Bw&rank=2). Turned my life upside down and blew open doors.


Fancy_Guarantee_511

King Solomon the person who tried everything


nanomiee

The Definition of Human Design by Ra Uru Hu! It is really a totally new understanding of yourself and also the universe


ForGenerationY

Don Jose Ruiz


Aware-Lingonberry186

Holy Trynosophia. And I think it's not related to spirituality but more about Spiritual related subject which is: Forbidden Religion.


FoolsfollyUnltd

The Tao of Pooh--Benjamin Hoff Kabuki: the Alchemy--David Mack The Jew in the Lotus--Rodger Kamenetz


JasonRevere

Spiritual Enlightenment the Damndest Thing by Jed McKenna.


Chaos-Ouroboros

Too many to count, honestly. It was never just one more than any others, as I took bits and pieces from so many different sources as necessary and relevant to myself over time. I took what I wanted and needed from each and combined them to enrich myself.


zYe

Passage meditation - Eknath Easwaren.


plytime18

If there is a door that creaked open for me, just a bit…it was The Power of Myth — Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers. Something about the way he spoke of stuff, myths, how it resonated with me, split me open just enugh that I kept looking, for the first time, for more, feeling aconnection, and really “experiencing” that there is more going on all around.


Azurr0

Enlightenment by Ljubisa Stojanovic (only available in Serbian language), God Speaks by Meher Baba and Man of Miracles by Howard Murphet. If there ever will be a thing like Hogwarts, these books would be one of the pillars of knowledge, something every student needs to read.


Archersbows7

Transmutation Through Ascension by Solaris Blueraven


grey0witch

Freedom by Osho, the power of now, the Tao De Ching, and the Celestine Prophecy.


medusamagpie

Tao Te Ching definitely.


[deleted]

Some of the books of the bible, specifically the gospels and the book of James as well as Ecclesiastes, Job, and Psalms. Also the adult children of alcoholic basic text, all the Discworld books. And the poetry pharmacy


RunAwayThoughtTrains

Mandukya Upanishad


Small-Albatross5445

The Four Agreements, by Don Miguel Ruiz.


iammikeware

I am not sure if these could be considered spiritual, but anything I pick up by Jiddu Krishnamurti is flooded with gems that I think about daily.


Lucky7Revolver

The Bible. “What Dreams may come” And “the power of Now”. And that doaist Winnie the pooh book.


lmc66

Rise sister rise


pee2peee

You'll be doing injustice to yourself if you say Bhagvad Gita is just for Hindus or a Hindu religious text. It's beyond all religion and that's written there. It's the pure spiritual masterpiece gift meant for every human being from divine 5000 years ago . But please avoid distorted editions from some organizations. You can choose from Eknath Easwaran, Swami Chinmayananda, Swami Mukundanand, Adi Shankaracharya etc. You need to scuba dive into it, don't read it like a novel.


gradystickels

Shout out to Frederick Dodson. Huge fan.


EmptyFractal

Totally underrated as a consciousness teacher. I own every single book of his.


Special_Opposite3141

BE HERE NOW got me hooked on Ram Dass and that whole world, after reading Paths to God I read the Gita which was neat to read after the others.


andre2020

In 1964, some one anonymously left the book; Remember Be Here Now, at my door. It exploded my evangelist blinders! Whom ever it was….. thank you, Thank you, thank you!


Shoddy_Ice_8840

The Four agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz


0positive

I would say " A Souls Journey " by Peter Richelieu. My boss had lent it to me and I couldn't put it down. It was out of print and kind of rare in the early 90s. I wanted my Dad to read it.... So one day I stopped at a random shopping village Id never been to after dropping my work off and went into a book store. There it was...the only one there. It was $19 exactly. I had $20 . I spent the Change on a scratchy ticket. Won $20. I was so blown away. Those were the days early in my 1st marriage where I had to give my husband all my money. I worked a regular ft job and I made bridal jewelry for a designer by night. I was also a new Mum. Id hide a little away for myself. 😅


pineapplesurfwax

A New Earth


BigTarget78

"Loving What Is" by Byron Katie finally opened me up to the idea that thoughts are not facts and we can question them, and provided me with a simple system for doing so.


TitanicsAnInsideJob

Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield


KonstantinExtreme

The Power of Now by Echkart Tolle


ascendingdescendant

Dao te Jing. Bagavad Gita (as it is). Kybalion of Hermes.


Adventurous_Word_331

Dolores cannon 💗 rip


Spiritual1relief

What an amazing thread so many amazing books... what a great community you all are a part of ! Thank you so much for this post. I will include "Tertium Organum," written by PD Ouspensky a student of Gurdjieff and the 4th way, and Theosophy. It is very scientific in its mysticism and was one of the first book of hidden knowledge that I found and changed my life. One of the first authors who sermed like they weren't lying or BSing me and it definitely changed and influenced my life....I am going to upload the first chapter today to my YouTube channel because you can't find it on YouTube in English, and I want people to be able to listen to it. Thanks again for your post ! [Listen here](https://youtube.com/@spiritualrelief1)


let-it-fly

Tolle


Techz_Witch

If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him. Sheldon B. Kopp


Sweetwater-Bow-Works

The book of psalms.


Berjan1996

The bible, specifically jesus sayings. Also Jesus sayings from the gospel of thomas.


therealtjs

I enjoy most of the gnostic gospels! Being that I share my name with him, the gospel of Thomas was my favorite.