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10 best books like The Spectrum of Consciousness (Ken Wilber): The Life Divine, Pronoia is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World is Conspiring to Shower You With Blessings, The Enlightened Mind: An Anthology of Sacred Prose, Interbeing: Fourteen Guidelines for Engaged Buddhism, Truth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority, and Mystery, The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution, Good Goats: Healing Our Image of God, The Stormy Search for the Self, Spiritual Bypassing: When Spirituality Disconnects Us from What Really Matters, Coming to Our Senses: Body and Spirit in the Hidden History of the West

The Life Divine
AuthorSri Aurobindo
ISBN8170586399
This book is impossible to describe, you have to read it. If you feel intimidated by its sheer size, start at the last chapter and then work you way through it in bits and pieces. It is a stunning preview of what is to come in human evolution, written with soul and courage, and stretching you beyond where you...
Pronoia is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World is Conspiring to Shower You With Blessings
AuthorRob Brezsny
ISBN1583941231
Ok, so in a nutshell, this book is the reason that I know my current girlfriend, her daughter, several other good friends, and why I always have a particularly happy picture in my head when I get frustrated (at least once I remember to remember the picture :).

That said, none of that had to do with...
The Enlightened Mind: An Anthology of Sacred Prose
AuthorStephen Mitchell
ISBN0060923202
Both of these anthologies, The Enlightened Heart and the Enlightened Mind, are edited by the scholar, poet, translator, Stephen Mitchell. For those of you interested in poetic and religious ecumenism, I would highly recommend these two works to you. The first is an anthology of world poetry with mostly...
Interbeing: Fourteen Guidelines for Engaged Buddhism
AuthorThich Nhat Hanh
ISBN1888375086
Formulated during the Vietnam War, these ethical guidelines remain a penetrating expression of traditional Buddhist morality and how to come to terms with contemporary issues.

Interbeing offers a practical blueprint for living mindfully, one that has proven useful and meaningful to...
Truth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority, and Mystery
AuthorStarhawk
ISBN0062508164
I have a complicated relationship with Starhawk's writing. I am an atheist. I was a teenager when I was introduced to Neo-Paganism, and it was what led me to finally leave my mother's faith, and slowly become an atheist. This book might appear to be filled with crystal waving New Age woo-woo, but Starhawk...
The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution
AuthorP.D. Ouspensky
ISBN0394719433
This book is something of a contradiction. It could be viewed as a “self help” book, but, unlike the majority of these, it does not reassure the reader or boost his or her confidence. It begins from the premise that most of our thoughts and actions are mechanical, and proceeds to suggest that it requires...
Good Goats: Healing Our Image of God
AuthorDennis Linn
ISBN0809134632
What a great, but intriguing book. Published by the Society of Jesus and yet this book seems to differ greatly from traditional Catholic of even Western Christian teaching. Sprinkled throughout is several streams of Christianity (I.e. Augustine, Barth, and Balthasar). Well sourced and approachable...
The Stormy Search for the Self
AuthorChristina Grof
Many people are undergoing a profound personal transformation associated with spiritual opening. Under favorable circumstances, this process results in emotional healing, a radical shift in values, and a profound awareness of the mystical dimension of existence. For some, these changes are...
Spiritual Bypassing: When Spirituality Disconnects Us from What Really Matters
AuthorRobert Augustus Masters
ISBN1556439059
Spiritual bypassing—the use of spiritual beliefs to avoid dealing with painful feelings, unresolved wounds, and developmental needs—is so pervasive that it goes largely unnoticed. The spiritual ideals of any tradition, whether Christian commandments or Buddhist precepts, can provide...
Coming to Our Senses: Body and Spirit in the Hidden History of the West
AuthorMorris Berman
An ambitious and provocative analysis of the relationship between culture, mind, and body in the history of Western society, Morris Berman's influential classic Coming to our Senses has been engrossing audiences with its carefully-researched and thoughtful exploration of somatic experience...
The Adventure of Self-Discovery: Dimensions of Consciousness and New Perspectives in Psychotherapy and Inner Exploration
AuthorStanislav Grof
ISBN0887065414
Here Grof presents a useful model of the psyche--a model extended by his thirty years of studying non-ordinary states of consciousness. It is useful for understanding such phenomena as shamanism, mysticism, psychedelic states, spontaneous visionary experiences, and psychotic episodes. The...
Sri Aurobindo, or The Adventure of Consciousness
AuthorSatprem
ISBN8185137609
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The Deep Self: Consciousness Exploration in the Isolation Tank
AuthorJohn C. Lilly
ISBN0895561166
Published over thirty years ago and now with a new introduction by the author, this classic work presents the methods and conclusions of more than 25 years of experimentation with the isolation tank meditative experience. Drawing on the personal testimony of many who tried it, including Burgess Meredith,...
Right Where You Are Sitting Now
AuthorRobert Anton Wilson
ISBN0914171453
Discusses consciousness, the nature of God, sexuality, human knowledge, robots, and the future.

Robert Anton Wilson, best known as the chronicler of the Illuminatus conspiracy, is a leading futurist, author and guerilla ontologist. In this controversial classic he probes: Emic reality,...
Forgotten Truth: The Common Vision of the World's Religions
AuthorHuston Smith
ISBN0062507877
Even this book is not beach reading. You should have an interest in religions beyond your own denomination, if any, or in understanding how thinkers of the past used to see the world.

You will be hard pressed to find a clearer and more readable explanation of the common framework for the great...
Head Trip
AuthorJeff Warren
ISBN1851685618
Warren, a Canadian science journalist, combines the rigorous self-experimentation of Steven Johnson's Mind Wide Open with the wacky self-experimentation of A.J. Jacobs's The Know-It-All in this entertaining field guide to the varying levels of mental awareness. Beginning with the mild hallucinogenic...
Elements of the Real in Man
AuthorA.H. Almaas
ISBN0936713011
The Diamond Method came highly recommended by both a friend and by The Christine Center in central WI--a place I deeply respect. Without these endorsements, I doubt I ever would have picked up anything by Almaas. I'm skeptical of spiritual teachers who talk in perpetual, sweeping generalities, who...
In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life
AuthorRobert Kegan
ISBN0674445880
If contemporary culture were a school, with all the tasks and expectations meted out by modern life as its curriculum, would anyone graduate? In the spirit of a sympathetic teacher, Robert Kegan guides us through this tricky curriculum, assessing the fit between its complex demands and our mental...
Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership and Change
AuthorDon Edward Beck
ISBN1405133562
Spiral Dynamics introduces a new model for plotting the enormous economic and commercial shifts that are making contemporary business practice so complex and apparently fragmented. Focusing on cutting-edge leadership, management systems, processes, procedures, and techniques, the authors...
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