This book draws inspiration from a wide range of spiritual, philosophical, psychological, and metaphysical traditions. The following sources are recommended for readers who wish to explore these teachings more deeply.
Channeled Teachings
- Bashar (Darryl Anka) – The Bashar Material, Blueprint for Change
- Kryon (Lee Carroll) – The End Times, The Recalibration of Humanity
- Michael Teachings – Shepherd Hoodwin (Journey of Souls, The Michael Handbook), José Stevens, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Near‑Death Experiences & Afterlife Research
- Raymond Moody – Life After Life
- Kenneth Ring – Heading Toward Omega
- Victor Zammit – A Lawyer Presents the Evidence for the Afterlife
- P.M.H. Atwater – Beyond the Light
- Kelvin Williams – Otherworld
- Bruce Greyson – After
Past‑Life Regression & Between‑Lives Studies
- Michael Newton – Journey of Souls, Destiny of Souls
- Brian Weiss – Many Lives, Many Masters
- Walter Semkiw – Origin of the Soul
- Dolores Cannon – Between Death and Life, The Convoluted Universe (Series)
Out‑of‑Body Experiences & Consciousness Exploration
- Robert Monroe – Journeys Out of the Body, Far Journeys
- William Buhlman – Adventures Beyond the Body
- Tom Campbell – My Big TOE
Integral Philosophy & Developmental Psychology
- Ken Wilber – A Brief History of Everything, The Integral Vision
- Robert Kegan – The Evolving Self, In Over Our Heads
- Jane Loevinger – Ego Development
- Clare Graves / Spiral Dynamics – Beck & Cowan, Spiral Dynamics
Classical Spiritual Texts
Core Western Texts
- Hebrew Bible / Old Testament
- New Testament
- Gnostic Gospels
- Early Christian Mysticism – Meister Eckhart, Teresa of Ávila, John of the Cross
Islamic Mysticism
- Sufism – Rumi, Ibn Arabi, Al‑Ghazali
Eastern Traditions
- Taoism – Tao Te Ching (Laozi), Zhuangzi
- Buddhism – Dhammapada, Majjhima Nikaya, Nagarjuna
- Zen Buddhism – Shōbōgenzō (Dōgen), Huangbo, Bankei
- Tibetan Buddhism – The Tibetan Book of the Dead
- Hinduism & Yoga – Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
- Vedanta – Adi Shankaracharya, Vivekachudamani
- Sankhya & Indian Metaphysics – Samkhya Karika
Other Classical Philosophies
- Mohism (Mozism) – Mozi
- Confucian Texts – Analects, Doctrine of the Mean
- Stoicism – Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Seneca
Esoteric & Metaphysical Traditions
- Theosophy – Helena Blavatsky, Annie Besant, C.W. Leadbeater
- Rosicrucian Teachings – AMORC, Max Heindel
- Hermeticism – Corpus Hermeticum, Kybalion
- Western Esoteric Mysticism – Dion Fortune, Rudolf Steiner
Modern Spirituality & Consciousness Studies
- Eckhart Tolle – The Power of Now
- David Hawkins – Power vs. Force
- Alan Watts – The Way of Zen
- Rupert Spira – Being Aware of Being Aware
- Thomas Campbell – My Big TOE
- Steven Greer – Hidden Truth: Forbidden Knowledge; Disclosure Project (CE-5 / consciousness & extraterrestrial contact research)
Foundational Thinkers
- John Archibald Wheeler
– Participatory Anthropic Principle, “It from Bit” - David Bohm – Wholeness and the Implicate Order
- Roger Penrose – The Emperor’s New Mind
- Max Tegmark – Our Mathematical Universe
- Sean Carroll – The Big Picture, Something Deeply Hidden
- Leonard Susskind – The Cosmic Landscape (string theory & multiverse)
- Paul Davies – The Goldilocks Enigma (anthropic principle)
Consciousness & Metaphysics
- Christopher Michael Langan – Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe (CTMU)
- Bernardo Kastrup – The Idea of the World
- Donald Hoffman – The Case Against Reality
Parallel Universes, Anthropic Principles, and the Multiverse
- Hugh Everett – Many Worlds Interpretation
- Andrei Linde – Eternal Inflation Theory
- Alan Guth – Inflationary Cosmology
- Brandon Carter – Anthropic Principle (weak & strong forms)
- Multiverse Theorists – Tegmark, Susskind, Carroll, Smolin
Geopolitics & Global Affairs
- John Mearsheimer – The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
- Scott Ritter – Iraq Confidential (and other works on military intelligence & international law)
- Noam Chomsky – Hegemony or Survival
Additional Disciplines Referenced
- Comparative religion
- Cosmology
- Quantum physics
- Developmental psychology
- Phenomenology
- Existentialism
- Metaphysics
- Systems theory
- Integral sociology
- Mystical theology
Note
This bibliography is not exhaustive. It represents the core traditions, authors, and research works that inform the spiritual, philosophical, and metaphysical worldview presented in this book.