Reading Recommendations for Expansion and Exploration

adding to it all the time and i probably forgot many things that i have loved

Spirituality, Ancient Wisdom & Healing

A Course in Miracles - The Foundation for Inner Peace

Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness - Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche

Essential Gnostic Scriptures - Ed. Willis Barnstone & Marvin Meyer

The Seat of the Soul - Gary Zukav

Be Here Now & Still Here - Baba Ram Dass

The Yoga of Jesus & The Autobiography of a Yogi - Paramahansa Yogananda

Peace is Every Step & Living Buddha, Living Christ - Thich Nhat Hanh

The Rig Veda

The Bhagavad-Gita

The Complete Cloud of Unknowing

Seth Speaks & The Nature of Personal Reality - Channeled by Jane Roberts

Becoming Medicine: Pathways of Initiation into a Living Spirituality - David Kopacz & Joseph Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow)

The Way of Qigong: The Art and Science of Chinese Energy Healing - Kenneth S. Cohen

The Dark Night of the Soul - St. John of the Cross

The Sutra of Hui Neng

The Quantum & The Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science & Buddhism Meet - Matthieu Ricard & Trinh Xuan Thaun

Zen Sourcebook: Traditional Documents from China, Korea, and Japan - Ed. Addiss, Lombardo, Roitman

Yoga of Sound: The Life and Teachings of the Celestial Songman, Swami Nada Brahmananda - Michael Grosso

Synchronicity: The Art of Coincidence, Choice, and Unlocking Your Mind - Dr. Kirby Surprise

the work of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj & Adyashanti

Longing for Darkness: Tara and the Black Madonna - China Galland

A Woman Clothed With the Sun - Ed. John J. Delaney

Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge - Ed. Charles Leslie & Allan Young

Anatomy of The Spirit - Caroline Myss

Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom: A Tarot Journey to Self-Awareness - Rachel Pollack

Analog Medicine: A Science of Healing - Ronald L. Hamm

Holistic Tarot - Benebell Wen

Mary Magdalene Revealed - Meggan Watterson

Mudras - Gertrud Hirschi

The Morrigan - Courtney Weber

The Myth of Normal - Dr. Gabor Mate

Quantum Mechanics, Physics, & Science

Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine - Alan Lightman

The New Science of Consciousness - Paul L. Nunez

Cosmological Koans: A Journey to the Heart of Physical Reality - Anthony Aguirre

A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design - Frank Wilczek

Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos - Michio Kaku

Reality Is Not What It Seems & The Order of Time, - Carlo Rovelli

The Elegant Universe & The Fabric of the Cosmos - Brian Greene

The Field - Lynne McTaggart

The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism - Fritjof Capra

Telsa - W. Bernard Carlson

The Loom of God: Tapestries of Mathematics and Mysticism - Clifford A. Pickover

Cymatics: A Study of Wave Phenomena and Vibration - Hans Jenny

The Fourth Dimension: Sacred Geometry, Alchemy, and Mathematics - Rudolf Steiner

Language, Culture, Philosophy, & Literature

The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image - Leonard Shlain

The Consolation of Philosophy - Boethius

Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties - Rainer Maria Rilke

Self-Reliance and Other Essays - Ralph Waldo Emerson

On Anarchism - Noam Chomsky

On the Nature of Things - Lucretius

Metaphors We Live By - George Lakoff & Mark Johnson

Mythology - Edith Hamilton

Touches of Sweet Harmony - S.K. Heninger, Jr.

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

Island - Aldous Huxley

Dune - Frank Herbert, all six that he wrote, especially relevant aside from the first are Children of Dune & Heretics of Dune

Ways of Seeing - John Berger

Swann’s Way - Marcel Proust

Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis

The Lord of the Rings series - JRR Tolkien

The poetry of John Berryman, Ocean Vuong, Hafiz

Not a book, but all of the episodes of the Matt Smith seasons of Dr. Who

A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki

The Southern Reach Quartet - Jeff VanderMeer