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Great Spiritual Reads and Movies

Welcome to our infamous list of spiritual books and movies for your further exploration. If you have suggestions, write to us! 🙂

BOOK LIST
Biographies of Saints & Masters
  • Tsangnyon Heruka: The Life of Milarepa
  • Chogyam Trungpa: The Life of Marpa the Translator: Seeing Accomplishes All
  • Chogyam Trungpa: Illusion’s Game: The Life and Teaching of Naropa
  • Paramahamsa Yogananda: Autobiography of a Yogi
  • Keith Dowman: The Divine Madman: The Sublime Life and Songs of Drukpa Kunley
  • G.I. Gurdjieff: Meetings with Remarkable Men

  • Swami Rama: Living with the Himalayan Masters
  • Keith Dowman: Sky Dancer: The Secret Life and Songs of Lady Yeshe Tsogyel
  • Yeshe Tsogyal, Erik Pema Kunsang, Tsele Natsok Rangdrol & Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche: The Lotus-Born: The Life Story of Padmasambhava
  • Lama Chonam, Sangye Khandro & Janet Gyatso: The Lives and Liberation of Princess Mandarava: The Indian Consort of Padmasambhava
  • Kunga Nyingpo Taranatha & Cristiana de Falco: The Life of Padmasambhava
  • Swami Nikhilananda & Aldous Huxley: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
  • Marshall Govindan: Babaji and the 18 Siddha Kriya Yoga Tradition
  • Aryel Sanat: The Inner Life of Krishnamurti: Private Passion and Perennial Wisdom
  • Richard Schiffman: Sri Ramakrisha: A Prophet of the New Age
Mind, Meditation & Self
  • Eckhart Tolle: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
  • H. W. L. Poonja & Prashanti De Jager: The Truth Is
  • H. W. L. Poonja: This: Prose and Poetry of Dancing Emptiness 
  • edited by Eli Jaxon-Bear: Wake Up and Roar: Satsang With H. W. L. Poonja (two volumes)

  • Nisargadatta Maharaj: I am that

  • Sri Munagala Venkataramiah: Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
  • Robert Earl Burton: Self-Remembering 

  • Sogyal Rinpoche & Patrick Gaffney: The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
 
  • P.D. Ouspensky: In Search of the Miraculous
  • Alan W. Watts: The Way of Zen
  • G.I. Gurdjieff: Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson: An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man
  • About Yoga – Swami Vivekananda: Complete Book of Yoga: Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Raja Yoga, Jnana Yoga ….or buy separately:
    • Swami Vivekananda: Karma Yoga: the Yoga of Action
    • Swami Vivekananda: Raja Yoga or Conquering the Internal Nature
    • Swami Vivekananda: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
    • Swami Vivekananda: Bhakti-Yoga: The Yoga of Love and Devotion
  • Joseph Murphy: The Power of your Subconscious Mind
  • Swami Satyananda Saraswati: Four Chapters on Freedom: Commentary on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
  • Aaran Solh: Empath to Mystic: The Art of Mastering Your Intuition and Fearlessly Being Yourself
Heart, Soul & Love
  • Hazrat Inayat Khan: Inner Life
  • Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Art of Being and Becoming
  • Hazrat Inayat Khan & Mansur Johnson: Big Tales: All the stories in the 12 volumes of The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Hazrat Inayat Khan: Mastery Through Accomplishment
  • Hazrat Inayat Khan: all his books 🙂
  • Erich Fromm: The Art of Loving
  • Marshal Rosenberg: Non-Violent Communication 
  • Peter Merchand: The Yoga of Nine Emotions
Traditional Yoga Practices
  • H. David Coulter: Anatomy of Hatha Yoga: A Manual for Students, Teachers and Practitioners
  • Surya Namaskara: A Technique of Solar Vitalization
  • Swami Satyananda Saraswati: Asana, Pranayama, Mudra and Bandha
  • Swami S. Nirajanananda: Prana and Pranayama
  • Swami Satyananda Saraswati: Yoga and Kriya: A Systematic Course in the Ancient Tantric Techniques
  • Swami Muktibodhananda: Swara Yoga: The Tantric Science of Brain Breathing
  • Swami Satyananda Saraswati: Yoga Nidra
Spiritual Stories
  • Mikhail Naimy: The Book of Mirdad: The Strange Story of a Monastery Which Was Once Called the Ark
  • Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
  • Reshad Feild: The Last Barrier
  • Paul Brunton: A Search in Secret India
  • Daniel Odier: Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love
  • Chetanananda: They Lived with God: Life Stories of Some Devotees of Sri Ramakrishna
  • Emily F. Bowden: The Fathers of the Desert
  • Lorna Byrne: Angels in my hair
  • Elif Shafak: The Forty Rules of Love
Sacred Texts
  • Max Müller: The Upanishads, Part I + II
  • Paramahansa Yogananda: God Talks with Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita
  • Lao Tse: Tao Te Ching (sometimes also: Loa TzuTao Te King)
  • The Synpotic Gospels > especially: The Gospel of Thomas
  • Swami Lakshman Joo: Vijnana Bhairava: The Practice of Centering Awareness
  • Swami Lakshman Joo: Shiva Sutras: The Supreme Awakening
  • Swami Lakshman Joo: Tantraloka of Abhinavagupta
  • Muktibodhananda Swami: Hatha Yoga Pradipika
  • Patanjali: Yoga Sutra-s Saraswati Satyasangananda: Shri Vijnana Bhairava Tantra: The Ascent
Traditional Tantra
  • Swami Satyananda Saraswati: Meditations from the Tantras
  • Swami Muktananda: Nawa Yogini Tantra: Yoga for Women
  • Satyasangananda: Tattwa Shuddhi: The Tantric Practice of Inner Purification
  • Swami Satyananda Saraswati: Kundalini Tantra
  • Tantra Podcast
Science and Spirituality
  • Andrew Newberg & Eugene D’Aquili: Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief
  • Bruce Lipton: The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consicousness, Matter and Miracles
  • Andrew Newberg & Mark Robert Waldman: How Enlightenment Changes your Brain
  • Andrew Newberg & Mark Robert Waldman: How God Changes your Brain
Altered States of Consciousness & Lucid Dreaming
  • Robert Monroe: Journeys out of the Body
  • Robert Monroe: Far Journeys
  • Robert Monroe: Ultimate Journey
  • Steven LaBerge: Lucid Dreaming: A concise guide of awakening in your dreams and in your life
  • Steven LaBerge: Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming
Emotional Healing
  • Geneen Roth: all her books 🙂 but especially …
    • Geneen Roth: Women, Food and God
    • Geneen Roth: Feeding the hungry heart
    • Geneen Roth: Breaking free from Emotional Eating
  • Lise Bourbeau: all her books 🙂 but especially …
  • Lise Bourbeau: Heal Your Wounds and Find Your True Self: Finally A Book That Explains Why It’s So Hard Being Yourself
  • Barbara Ann Brennan: Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field
  • Barbara Ann Brennan: Light Emerging: The Journey of Personal Healing
Healing, Food & Alternative Medicine
  • Lise Bourbeau: Listen to Your Body, Your Best Friend on Earth
  • Lise Bourbeau: Your Body’s Telling You: Love Yourself!
  • F. Batmanghelidj: Water: For Health, for Healing, for Life: You’re Not Sick, You’re Thirsty!
  • Theodore A. Baroody: Alkalize or Die: Superior Health Through Proper Alkaline-Acid Balance
  • Alisa Vitti: WomanCode: Perfect Your Cycle, Amplify Your Fertility, Supercharge Your Sex Drive, and Become a Power Source
  • Raymond W. Bernard: The Physiological Enigma Of Woman: The Mystery Of Menstruation
  • Barbara Brennan: Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field
  • Barbara Ann Brennan: Light Emerging: The Journey of Personal Healing
  • Norman Doidge M.D.: The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
  • Brandon Bays: The Journey: A Practical Guide to Healing Your Life and Setting Yourself Free
Relationships and Sexuality
  • David Deida: Enlightened Sex: Finding Freedom & Fullness Through Sexual Union
  • David Deida: The Way of the Superior Man
  • David Deida: Dear Lover
  • Nik Douglas & Penny Slinger: Sexual Secrets: The Alchemy of Ecstasy
  • Osho: Tantra: The Supreme Understanding
  • Mantak Chia: The Multi-Orgasmic Man: Sexual Secrets Every Man Should Know
  • Mantak Chia & Rachel Carlton Abrams: The Multi-Orgasmic Woman: Sexual Secrets Every Woman Should Know
  • Mantak Chia & Maneewan Chia: The Multi-Orgasmic Couple: Sexual Secrets Every Couple Should Know
  • Mike Kleist: The Secret to Male Multiple Orgasms and other sex skills
Yogic Management Of Common Diseases
  • Lise Bourbeau: Your body’s telling you “Love yourself!”
  • Lise Bourbeau: Heal your wounds and find your true Self
  • Lise Bourbeau: Listen to your body, your best friend on Earth!
  • Louise Haye: You can heal your life
  • Louise Haye: The Power is within you
  • Robert Moore and Couglas Gillette: King Warrior Magician Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine
Spiritual Art
  • Mario Livio: The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World’s Most Astonishing Number
SPIRITUAL FILMS
  • Peaceful Warrior (2006)
  • The Bow (2005, original: Hwal)
  • Don’t look down (2008, original: No mires para abajo)
  • Bliss (1997)
  • Girl on the bridge (1999, origianl: La fille sur le pont)
  • Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter … and Spring (2003, original: Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom)
  • The Holy Mountain (1973)
  • Ostrov (2006)
  • Tsar (2009)
  • Bab’Aziz (2005)
  • Pay It Forward (2000)
  • August Rush (2007)
  • My Boyfriend is an Angel (2012, origianl: Moy paren – angel)
  • Ambition to Meaning: Finding Your Life’s Purpose (2009)
  • You Can Heal Your Life (2007)
  • Forks over Knifes (2011)
  • The Mistress of Spices (2005)
  • What the bleep do we (k)now!? (2004)
  • Into Great Silence (2007, original: Die große Stille)
  • A Thousand Words (2012)
  • Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972, original: Fratello sole, sorella luna)
  • Little Buddha (1993)
  • Jesus Loves Me (2012, original: Jesus liebt mich)
  • Ayurveda: Art of Being (2001)
  • Waking Life (2001)
  • The Living Matrix (2009)
  • The Life of Buddha (2007)
  • The Yogis of Tibet (2002)
  • Awake: The LIfe of Yogananda (2014)
  • Gandhi (1982)
  • Ashes and Snow (2005)
  • Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds (2012)
  • The Life of Buddha (2007)
  • PK (2014)

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