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 Tzu: Tao 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)

– in continuous update … so check in again for more good stuff.