Scripture and Readinglist
Here I share the scriptures, books and texts that I have been reading during my journey, books that have been truly transformative and written by true teachers that resonate with my process of awakening to the reality of What Is. Of course this list is not exhaustive, but it represents the path I walked and whom I walked it with. So I do not call this recommended reading, but just reading list. I hope some of them will accompany you on your path. Each one of them are a gift of God to support awakening for us and for God.
Come back to this section as it will be updated continually.
“No epoch is finally privileged, we are all tomorrow’s food. The process continues, and spirit is found in the process itself, not in any particular epoch or time or place”
The Surrender Experiment. Michael A. Singer
Michael A. Singer, author of The Untethered Soul, tells the extraordinary story of what happened when, after a deep spiritual awakening, he decided to let go of his personal preferences and simply let life call the shots.
Yoga in Practice. David G White
Yoga is a body of practice that spans two millennia and transcends the boundaries of any single religion, geographic region, or teaching lineage. In fact, over the centuries there have been many "yogas"—yogas of battlefield warriors, of itinerant minstrels and beggars, of religious reformers, and of course, the yogas of mind and body so popular today.
Soma in Yoga and Ayurveda. David Frawley
What is the secret of Soma, the legendary mystic drink of immortality, first lauded by India's ancient Vedic seers? Is Soma a single plant, type of plants, a way of healing, a special intoxicant, or an inner elixir produced by Yoga and meditation?
The Atman Project. Ken Wilber
Wilber traces human development from infancy into adulthood and beyond, into those states described by mystics and spiritual adepts. The spiritual evolution of such extraordinary individuals as the Buddha and Jesus hints at the direction human beings will take in their continuing growth toward transcendence.
Seek The Eternal. Swami Chinmayananda
Possession of wealth is but one aspect of human yearning, for no sooner the sense objects are secured, the mind longs for indulgence in sensual pleasures. Thus, with the object of finding happiness through such indulgence, man contacts them but is disappointed.
Be as you Are. Ramana Maharshi
For the benefit of those in the top two categories Sri Ramana taught that the Self alone exists and that it can be directly and consciously experienced merely by ceasing to pay attention to the wrong ideas we have about ourselves.
Meditation and Life. Swami Chinmayananda
When you wear your Sunday suit, it moves and behaves just as the wearer. When the same suit is off the back of the wearer and is hanging on its hanger, it has no movement. The suit is dead when its master, the wearer, is not within its folds, vitalising, directing and determining its movement
Forgive Me. Swami Chinmayananda
To be born from the present state of entanglement into a new state of inner beauty and sense of holiness is indicated in all the scriptures of the world as a new birth. ‘Twice-born’ (dvija) is the name given to a spiritual seeker.
Sapiens. Yuval Noa Harari
Why do anything else when your lifestyle feeds you amply and supports a rich world of social structures, religious beliefs and political dynamics? All this changed about 10,000 years ago, when Sapiens began to devote almost all their time and effort to manipulating the lives of a few animal and plant species.
Getting Where You Are. Steven Harison
We investigate spirituality, either to supplement our religious beliefs or to replace them. We try yoga, meditation, astrology. We are getting healthier, quieter, lighter. We talk the talk and we even walk some of the walk. We speak with authority about the heart chakra and our Moon in Capricorn.
Ayahuasca in My Blood. Peter Gorman
So while the rose suggests we come to her to bathe in her glorious scent, the master plant teachers warn us away from them. You pretty much have to want what they have to offer, and be willing to prove it with physical discomfort, before they will share.
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism. Chögyam Trungpa
Ego is able to convert everything to its own use, even spirituality. For example, if you have learned of a particularly beneficial meditation technique of spiritual practice, then ego’s attitude is, first, to regard it as an object of fascination and, second, to examine it.
A New Earth. Eckhart Tolle.
The answer is simple, once you realize what the ego is and how it works. When forms that you had identified with, that gave you your sense of self, collapse or are taken away, it can lead to a collapse of the ego, since ego is identification with form.
Self Inquiry. Ramana Maharshi
Therefore, making the corpse-body remain as a corpse, and not even uttering the word ‘I’, one should enquire keenly thus: “Now, what is it that rises as ‘I’?” Then, there would shine in the Heart a kind of wordless illumination of the form ‘I-I’.
The Cosmic Serpent. Jeremy Narby
My own experience with ayahuasca-induced hallucinations was limited, but was sufficient to suggest a trail. Ayahuasquero Ruperto Gomez, who had initiated me, had called the hallucinogenic brew “the television of the forest,”
Be Here Now. Ram Das
As you come to understand fully that you will be finished with human suffering only when you are living in the fourth chakra (or higher), and you become strongly committed to “getting on with it,” then the method is straightforward. Keep converting every relationship into one of compassion.
On having no head. D.E. Harding
What actually happened was something absurdly simple and unspectacular: just for the moment I stopped thinking. Reason and imagination and all mental chatter died down. For once, words really failed me. I forgot my name, my humanness, my thingness, all that could be called me or mine.
Be Love Now. Ram Das
True, sometimes you have to prime the pump before your heart is open enough to love that deeply. You begin a process of purification based on how you think it could be.
Pior Unity. Adi Da Samraj
The prophetic calling running through the whole book is that if we want to find the real basis for a new human culture we must look beyond the outer world of separate objects, others, and events to the source, the root-condition in which all our experience is actually happening.
Doing Nothing. Steven Harrison
I sought out every mystic, seer, and magician I could find throughout the world. I subjected myself to severe austerities, long periods of isolation, and meditation. I studied the world's philosophies and religions.