What are your favorite spiritual books?

[ExploringReality]

I absolutely love reading the juiciest books on non Duality, psychedelic States of consciousness and enlightenment. What book gave you the most impact on your life? I have taken LSD in the past numerous times and devoured whole books in a span of 7 hours. One of my favorites is "Be Here Now" by ram dass. I also love "conversations with God".

[Aaron p]

I've recently discovered that one of the most relaxing things I have now is reading small portions of the bagavad Gita at night time when I roll into bed before I eventually fade Into temporary oblivion 

[Aaron p]

@Leo Gura can you remember what book is on your booklist that talks about how the brain is made by consciousness not consciousness by the brain?

I think I loosely remember it using some analogies about the brain being like a radio (localising consciousness and receiving it by a process of frequential filtration but not actually creating the signal) and also a whirlpool (once again localising consciousness but this analogy showed that the brain itself is made of consciousness).

Can you remember what this book is called?

I really need the name of the book

[Oppositionless]

The Holographic Universe,

the Zen Teachings of Huang Po 

 

[Someone here]

The collected works of Robert Adams. 

[Arthogaan]

Awakening to reality guidebook from awakeningtoreality.com

And

Awake: it's your turn by Angelo Dilulo

are two of the most clear, technical no bullshit books I have come across during my journey.

[Nilsi]

Peter Ralston’s Consciousness Trilogy and classic phenomenological texts like Edmund Husserl’s Ideas and Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time.

Classic Hindu/Buddhist texts like the Rig Veda, Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads, etc.

Friedrich Nietzsche’s Collected Works, Gilles Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition, and Jacques Lacan’s Écrits.

[integration journey]

Anything by Vernon Howard is considered gold for me

[Davino]

I like this book

Zen: The Art of Simple Living

It's good for baseline consciousness. I like it because it's very simple, grounded and it enhances your baseline consciousness in a subtle but noticeable constant way. It's surprising how the habit of putting properly your shoes when you arrive home can have such an impact in your consciousness and mind.

[Hojo]

I only read half of sadgurus book on karma. It will give you a clear understanding on karma and how to stop it or slow it down and how its not eye for an eye and how it has nothing to do with anyone else.

Edited Saturday at 08:21 PM by Hojo

[Eskilon]

The Book Of Secrets by Osho. Not just the best spiritual book, but probably the best book ever written. 

[Nilsi]

10 minutes ago, Eskilon said:

The Book Of Secrets by Osho. Not just the best spiritual book, but probably the best book ever written. 

I love Osho, but the size of this book has always been a bit intimidating. Still, I’m really intrigued and will probably check it out sooner or later.

[Breakingthewall]

I never have read it but I ask questions about it to chatgpt and seems that bhavad gita is very interesting .

I ask also about Buddhism and seems limited. Christianity and Islam are interesting but also limited in some senses, even the sufis that are great are superficial in some senses. Are very deep about the human nature, but they don't understand the dimension of reality, seems that Gita does.

[Davino]

11 hours ago, Breakingthewall said:

I never have read it but I ask questions about it to chatgpt and seems that bhavad gita is very interesting .

Bhavad gita is very good for being so old, still very relevant in the Awakening process. I recommend the Aurobindo translation.

[Aaron p]

Materialism is baloney!

[ExploringReality]

These are all amazing books, and very thankful for you guys sharing. I have over 100 books collected before I encountered actualized.org, plus his amazing book list portal which is exciting and you guys are recommending some that I haven't read. I have the osho book of secrets, it's huge and has many techniques that range from tantra, lucid dreaming, transcending death, third eye meditations ect ... Very powerful shit. I once practiced a specific meditation in that book before bed, which caused a gnarly paralysis followed by an encounter with death, it scared me so the next morning I continued with this book, and in the next paragraph osho said that Ramana maharishi had an experience when he was 16 that he was about to die from a nightmare he had, he accepted it and his body became stiff, in which he awoken to the Absolute.

Edited Sunday at 11:20 PM by ExploringReality

[Ishanga]

Eckhart Tolle New Earth and Power of Now, very basic and simple Spirituality explained very well, these books got me on this path..

Sadhguru's  A Yogi's Guide to Joy, basically an overview of his Inner Engineering program, its a step by step explanation of Reality, the How's and Why's of Consciousness in modern Day terms, completely relatable and applicable to anyone that can read it...!

[Spiritual Warrior]

Jed McKennas series

The End of your world by Adyashanti

Peter Ralston books 

[ExploringReality]

Those tolle books are what got me on the path as well, Peter Ralston is an absolute banger of a beast man.  I love Alan Watts books too those are amazing especially after having a satori and having peak experiences on psychedelics. 

[Trayambakam]

The Path of Sri Ramana 

Free here - https://www.sriramanateachings.org/The_Path_of_Sri_Ramana_Part_One.pdf

This book, written by one of his students, does a fantastic job at explaining the 'Who and I?' practice recommended by Ramana. 

"The first person is nothing but the thought ‘I', and this alone is mind. The second and third persons will rise only after the rising of the first person, ‘I'. The world is nothing but second and third persons. In sleep the first person feeling, ‘l am the body', does not exist; that is why the world (the second and third persons) does not exist there.

The first person thought, ‘I', has this peculiar property: if (by enquiring ‘Who am I?’) attention is focused on it in order to discover what it is, this ‘I’ thought will subside. But on the contrary, the more we attend to thoughts pertaining to the second and third persons, the more they will increase."

"Self-enquiry is unnecessary for Self and Self-knowledge is impossible for the ego"