Books to open heart and mind to panenthea
Be Here Now
by Ram Dass
A beautifully told story of one man's spiritual awakening… how a former Harvard professor tuned in, turned on, and dropped out to become a leading spiritual figure of the 1960s. A book to treasure.
Passport to the Cosmos
by John Mack
The author was a professor of psychiatry at Harvard University who became convinced of the veracity of UFO abduction experiencers. His first book, Abduction
The Yoga of Eating
by Charles Eisenstein
This book goes beyond all prescriptive diets of eat this, don't eat that to illuminate some deeper principles: principles of self-trust, inner authority, and authentic desire. Provides powerful tools to distinguish appetites from cravings and end the regime of willpower and control, and unify health and pleasure, discipline and desire. This is one of the most revolutionary books on diet and nutrition out there. You will never think about food the same way again.
The Biology of Transcendence
by Joseph Chilton Pearce
Subtitled "A blueprint of the human spirit," this book describes the development of spiritual transcendence as a function of brain development. Explains why this gets cut short in our society. Did you know that in most of us, the functions of the prefrontal cortex never get developed? Did you know that the heart also has billions of neurons? Incredible.
Conversations with God
by Neil Donald Walsh
Fed up with his life, the author basically asks God out loud, Why does my life suck? Why am I such a failure? Why am I suffering? and actually gets an answer in the form of words that his hand starts writing all by itself. This book is the first of a series and in the opinion of many, the best. It transmits an understanding of the divine that is omnipresent and personal.
Creative Visualization
by Shakti Gawain
Short, easy to read, and powerful. A no-holds-barred manual for personal empowerment based on the concept that your beliefs determine your experience of reality. This book is a classic that was instrumental in launching a new paradigm.
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
by Chogyam Trungpa
A classic of Buddhist psychology and a bracing antidote to acquisitiveness in the spiritual realm. This book is absolutely essential reading for anyone who identifies themselves as a spiritual person.
Essential Rumi
by Coleman Barks
Rumi is widely considered the world's greatest mystic poet, and Barks does a beautiful job of translating his art. Transcending all dogmas, Rumi's poems call out over the centuries.
Hands of Light : A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field
by Barbara Ann Brennan
If you think energy healing is a bunch of new age claptrap, you will be amazed at the cogency and sweep of Barbara Ann Brennan's healing methods and underlying theory of human sickness and health.
The Holographic Universe
by Michael Talbot
In easily accessible language, this book provides a scientific context for miracles, anomalies, and paranormal phenomena. Talbot provides fascinating examples, some of them quite well-documented, of events that just don't fit into the scientific world-view most of us have come to accept. Let me put it another way: This book will blow your mind if it is at all open.
The Lost Language of Plants
by Stephen Harrod Buhner
Inspiring and alarming, this book lays out the science behind such ideas as "All life is connected" with fascinating examples from ecology and medicine. It is a clarion call to a new relationship with our bodies, plants, life, and the planet. Includes some frightening material on the pharmacological pollution of the environment.
Many Lives, Many Masters
by Brian Weiss
The story of a totally mainstream, highly respected psychiatrist whose life was turned inside-out by a patient who started recalling past lives under hypnosis, and delivered messages to him from "the beyond."
The Garden of Fertility
by Katie Singer
Did you know that a woman can learn to tell, with near 100% accuracy, when she is and is not fertile? End your reliance on dangerous birth control pills and annoying contraception by getting in tune with your body, so that you can consciously choose when to become pregnant.
You Can Heal Your Life
by Louise Hay
This is a wonderful, empowering book that helps people take responsibility for their own health and wellbeing, whether physical, emotional, financial, etc. Easy to read too. Illustrates the power of our beliefs to mold our reality.
Plant Spirit Medicine
by Eliot Cowan
Presents a radically different approach to medicine and health based on the energetic and spiritual properties of plants. It also provides good insight into the indigenous mindset, and some really amazing healing stories.
Nourishing Traditions
by Sally Fallon
A sumptuous book on nutrition and cooking that reconnects us with the traditional wisdom of our ancestors. This book puts traditional diets in a context that makes sense ethically, environmentally, and nutritionally, and reconnects us with the fundamental nourishment of the universe. The recipes are fantastic too!
Small is Beautiful
by E.F. Schumacher
Subtitled "Economics as if People Mattered," this classic work questions the doctrine of progress and argues for a world of smaller, more local institutions.
The Tracker
by Tom Brown Jr.
One reviewer wrote "This man has experienced more during his childhood than most will ever experience during a lifetime." This book describes the author's childhood in the New Jersey pine barrens under the tutelage of an old Apache tracker. Reading it, one senses the spiritual richness of indigenous life, the profundity of communication with nature that is possible, and the magnificence of experience that nature can provide.
Impro: Improvisation and the Theater
by Keith Johnstone
You will laugh out loud again and again as you read this book. Try out some of the ideas with your friends to reconnect with your inborn spontaneity and creative genius.