This book draws inspiration from a wide range of spiritual, philosophical, psychological, scientific, and metaphysical traditions. The following sources are recommended for readers who wish to explore these teachings more deeply.

Channeled Teachings

• Bashar (Darryl Anka) – Blueprint for Change
• Kryon (Lee Carroll) – The End Times, The Recalibration of Humanity
• Michael Teachings – Shepherd Hoodwin (Journey of Your Soul), José Stevens and Simon Warwick-Smith (The Michael Handbook), Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (Messages from Michael)
• Silver Birch (Maurice Barbanell) – Teachings of Silver Birch

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
• Kevin Williams – Near-Death Experiences and the Afterlife (near-death.com)
• Bruce Greyson – After
• Pim van Lommel – Consciousness Beyond Life
• Pamela Rae Heath and Jon Klimo – Suicide: What Really Happens in the Afterlife?

Past Life Regression & Between Lives Studies

• Michael Newton – Journey of Souls, Destiny of Souls
• Brian Weiss – Many Lives, Many Masters
• Walter Semkiw – Return of the Revolutionaries
• Dolores Cannon – Between Death and Life, The Convoluted Universe (Series)
• Edgar Cayce – Noel Langley (ed.), Edgar Cayce on Reincarnation

Out-of-Body Experiences & Consciousness Exploration

• Robert Monroe – Journeys Out of the Body, Far Journeys, Ultimate Journey
• William Buhlman – Adventures Beyond the Body
• Tom Campbell – My Big TOE
• US Army Lt. Col. Wayne McDonnell – Analysis and Assessment of the Gateway Process (1983, declassified CIA report)

Integral Philosophy & Developmental Psychology

• Ken Wilber – Integral Psychology, A Theory of Everything, A Brief History of Everything
• Robert Kegan – The Evolving Self, In Over Our Heads
• Jane Loevinger – Ego Development
• Susan Cook-Greuter – “Postautonomous Ego Development” (1999)
• Don Beck and Christopher Cowan – Spiral Dynamics
• Abraham Maslow – Toward a Psychology of Being

Classical Spiritual Texts

Core Western Texts

• Hebrew Bible / Old Testament
• New Testament
• Gnostic Gospels – see Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels
• Early Christian Mysticism – Meister Eckhart (The Essential Sermons), Teresa of Ávila, John of the Cross

Islamic Mysticism

• Sufism – Rumi, Ibn Arabi, Al Ghazali
• Wahdat al-Wujūd – Ibn Arabi

Eastern Traditions

• Taoism – Tao Te Ching (Laozi), Zhuangzi
• Buddhism – Dhammapada, Nagarjuna
• Zen Buddhism – Bankei Yōtaku (The Unborn), Huangbo, Dōgen
• Tibetan Buddhism – The Tibetan Book of the Dead
• Hinduism & Yoga – Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads, Patanjali (Yoga Sutras)
• Vedanta – Adi Shankaracharya (Vivekachudamani), Swami Vivekananda (Raja Yoga, Jnana Yoga)
• Sri Aurobindo – The Life Divine

Other Classical Philosophies

• Stoicism – Marcus Aurelius (Meditations), Epictetus, Seneca
• Confucian Texts – Analects, Doctrine of the Mean
• Mohism – Mozi

Esoteric & Metaphysical Traditions

• Theosophy – Helena Blavatsky (The Secret Doctrine), Annie Besant (The Ancient Wisdom), C.W. Leadbeater (Man Visible and Invisible, The Inner Life)
• Rosicrucian Teachings – Max Heindel (The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception)
• Hermeticism – Corpus Hermeticum, Kybalion
• Western Esoteric Mysticism – Dion Fortune, Rudolf Steiner
• Meher Baba – God Speaks

Modern Spirituality & Consciousness Studies

• Eckhart Tolle – The Power of Now, A New Earth
• Deepak Chopra – The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, The Book of Secrets, God: A Story of Revelation
• Alan Watts – The Way of Zen, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
• Rupert Spira – Being Aware of Being Aware
• David Hawkins – Power vs. Force
• Jiddu Krishnamurti – Freedom from the Known
• Paul Tillich – The Courage to Be
• Richard Maurice Bucke – Cosmic Consciousness
• William James – Pragmatism

Foundational Physics & Cosmology

• John Archibald Wheeler – At Home in the Universe
• David Bohm – Wholeness and the Implicate Order
• Roger Penrose – The Emperor’s New Mind, Cycles of Time, The Road to Reality
• Max Tegmark – Our Mathematical Universe
• Sean Carroll – Something Deeply Hidden, The Big Picture
• Hugh Everett III – “Relative State Formulation of Quantum Mechanics” (1957); see also The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (DeWitt and Graham, eds.)
• David Deutsch – The Fabric of Reality
• Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose – The Nature of Space and Time
• Andrei Linde – Eternal Inflation Theory
• Alan Guth – Inflationary Cosmology

Consciousness & Metaphysics

• Christopher Michael Langan – “The Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe,” Progress in Complexity, Information, and Design (2002)
• Bernardo Kastrup – The Idea of the World
• Donald Hoffman – The Case Against Reality
• David Chalmers – The Conscious Mind; “Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness,” Journal of Consciousness Studies (1995)
• Anil Seth – Being You
• Immanuel Kant – Critique of Pure Reason

Philosophy & Ethics

• Baruch Spinoza – Ethics
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel – Phenomenology of Spirit
• Friedrich Nietzsche – Thus Spoke Zarathustra
• Albert Camus – The Myth of Sisyphus
• Jean-Paul Sartre – Being and Nothingness
• Martin Heidegger – Being and Time
• Lawrence Kohlberg – The Philosophy of Moral Development
• John Stuart Mill – On Liberty
• Isaiah Berlin – Four Essays on Liberty
• René Girard – Deceit, Desire, and the Novel
• Karl Mannheim – Ideology and Utopia

Psychology & Human Development

• Carl Jung – The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, Aion, Man and His Symbols, Synchronicity
• Sigmund Freud – The Interpretation of Dreams
• Erik Erikson – Childhood and Society
• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
• Martin Seligman – Learned Optimism
• Stuart Brown – Play: How It Shapes the Brain
• Erich Fromm – Escape from Freedom
• Viktor Frankl – Man’s Search for Meaning
• Derek Parfit – Reasons and Persons

Sociology, Economics & Geopolitics

• Karl Marx – Das Kapital, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, The Communist Manifesto
• Max Weber – The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
• Émile Durkheim – The Division of Labor in Society
• György Lukács – History and Class Consciousness
• Theodor Adorno et al. – The Authoritarian Personality
• Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno – Dialectic of Enlightenment
• Herbert Marcuse – One-Dimensional Man
• Stuart Hall – Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices
• Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman – Manufacturing Consent
• John Perkins – Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
• Naomi Klein – This Changes Everything
• Shoshana Zuboff – The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
• Yanis Varoufakis – Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
• Ray Dalio – Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
• Ha-Joon Chang – Bad Samaritans
• Richard Wolff – Democracy at Work
• Michael Hudson – Super Imperialism
• John Mearsheimer – The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
• Benedict Anderson – Imagined Communities
• Eric Hobsbawm – Nations and Nationalism Since 1780
• David Fromkin – A Peace to End All Peace
• Alexis de Tocqueville – Democracy in America
• Francis Fukuyama – The End of History and the Last Man
• Jin Keyu – The New China Playbook
• Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson – Why Nations Fail
• Cory Doctorow – The Internet Con
• Clayton Christensen – The Innovator’s Dilemma
• Jonathan Haidt – The Anxious Generation

Architecture & Urban Studies

• Lewis Mumford – The City in History
• Jane Jacobs – The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Ecology & Economics

• Arne Naess – Ecology, Community and Lifestyle
• E.F. Schumacher – Small Is Beautiful
• Daisaku Ikeda – The Human Revolution

Reincarnation & Soul Research

• Ian Stevenson – Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation
• Jim Tucker – Life Before Life

Additional Disciplines Referenced

• Comparative religion
• Cosmology
• Quantum physics
• Developmental psychology
• Phenomenology
• Existentialism
• Systems theory
• Integral sociology
• Mystical theology
• Literature
• Mythology
• Tetris

 

Note

This bibliography is not exhaustive. It represents the core traditions, authors, and research works that inform the spiritual, philosophical, scientific, and metaphysical worldview presented in this book.