"Once the seer, the priestess and the sage were revered by their community. Their roles were considered sacred — the practising of an art, requiring training and experience like any other art. All these individuals tuned into their "psycho-spiritual" powers on our behalf. But each of us has always had the ability to draw upon these powers directly, inside ourselves. This book shows us not only how to exploit our psycho-spiritual potential, it also shows us how to navigate the different realms of inner experience that are our birthright. Psycho-spiritual powers can take time and expertise to discern, especially for the novice. How do we know what we are dealing with? Does the "information" made available to us derive from the subtle energies around the body or does it come from some discarnate being? Or perhaps from an alter ego, the personification of hopes and fears from aspects of our projected selves? This book is drawn from research and first-hand experience from thousands of consultations and teaching sessions over many years.

In addition, the author, at the end of each chapter, uses anecdotes to illustrate and enlighten the reader, and these are sometimes humorous, sometimes sad, sometimes philosophical, and always true. Well-implemented psychic and intuitive guidance can help to move the individual towards wholeness — a new dawn based on working with the heart and the energy of unconditional love. This in turn radiates out to affect the whole of our society. Psycho-spiritual powers enlarge our lives beyond measure."

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"The Consciousness Network: How the Brain Creates our Reality" by Cyriel Pennartz

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"What is the relationship between consciousness and our brain? Are they one and the same? Who are we really? The Consciousness Network presents a novel account of one of the greatest scientific challenges of the twenty-first century: understanding the connection between brain and mind.

The book explores remarkable cases of patients who demonstrate how our impression of reality is created by the brain. Age-old questions about dreams, colour perception, phantom sensations and hallucinations are illuminated by surprising discoveries from the latest brain research. How does consciousness differ from memory, emotions and behaviour? How did it develop during the evolution of life on earth, and does it serve a purpose? Does the brain leave room for free will? In this unique blend of philosophy, history, psychology and neuroscience, Cyriel Pennartz breaks new ground by presenting an original theory of brain and mind, substantiated by brain research in patients and healthy people. This theory, inspired by the seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza, goes significantly deeper than current thinking based on computer models or artificial intelligence.

The Consciousness Network is essential reading for students working at the interface of neuroscience, cognitive psychology, philosophy of mind and cognitive science, as well as anyone interested in consciousness and the brain."

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"Maneki Neko: The Japanese Secret to Good Luck and Happiness" by Nobuo Suzuki (updated)

"What does "good luck" look like and how do you achieve it?

Lucky symbols, lucky numbers, lucky charms and luck-creating rituals—how is it that a disciplined and hard-working country like Japan is so invested in the idea of luck? And what, exactly, does "good luck" mean?

This insightful book—by a leading expert on the subject—explores the ways in which "good luck" symbols and rituals in Japan are used in tandem with diligence and a positive attitude to help people overcome life's many twists, turns and bad patches.

It explores how customs and beliefs play a vital role in creating positive expectations and outcomes—and includes practical exercises for bringing good fortune and happiness into your own life.

Author Nobuo Suzuki acquaints us with beloved Japanese icons of luck, prosperity, and goal-setting and explains what they truly represent—including Maneki Neko (the "Lucky Cat"), Daruma (the "Lucky Buddha") and the Seven Lucky Gods of Good Fortune. We even meet some quirky and much beloved modern Japanese symbols of luck like the "Golden Poop" (yes, you read that right!). And we learn how these symbols all foster a sense of community which contributes to the happiness and well-being of all individuals in Japan.

With this book, luck becomes a matter of self-understanding and connection to others rather than something that exists outside of ourselves and other people. It is an integral part of life and learning to shape out a destiny for ourselves that we can view with pride and contentment."

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"Life After Death" by Dr. Douglas M. Baker

"The question of whether we survive the grave has been in the minds of men for countless ages and is indeed one of the cornerstones of every major world religion, and in particular of the more recent movement of the Spiritualist Church. Many have endeavoured to answer this question, whether out of a personal obsession and devotion or as an act of serving their fellow man, and our libraries are filled with their treatises — some more enlightened than others.

Dr. Douglas Baker is not only well versed on the teachings of Ancient Wisdom, but a qualified medical doctor and has travelled the world investigating and lecturing on, among other things, this very important subject of life after death.

Dr. Baker's concise question-and-answer format makes this mystery-riddled subject very understandable for truth seekers of all ages, and is published in conjunction with his extensive public lecture tour of England in an effort to bring many so-called mystery teachings to the attention of the public as we approach the Age in which man will no longer proceed on "blind faith", but rather becomes a knower."

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"The Path of Nada Yoga: Science, Music, and Healing in the Yoga of Sound" by Stefano Manfrin

"This book explains in detail the bases of the yoga of sound, its therapeutic aspects and its effect on the biological and psychic system of the human being. From the thousand-year old Indian tradition a scientific method to regulate your own emotional and physical state through the vibrational resonance of singing.

The first traces of Nada Yoga appear in the most antique and sacred Indian scriptures such as the Natya Shastra, the Gandharva Veda, the Naradiya Shiksha, and many others. Thanks to the extraordinary work of the musician and researcher Vemu Mukunda it was recovered from the ancient traditions and diffused throughout the world.

The author, Stefano Manfrin, relying on years of in-class experience, as he was committed to spreading the science of Nada Yoga, in this text revisits and further deepens this discipline. He has developed and coined his original contribution: The System of Music-Evolution."

The Serpent Power: The Secrets of Tantric and Shaktic Yoga
translated by Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe)

Who is Kundalini, the Serpent Power? Mythologically, she is an aspect of the Shakti (power or energy) and consort of Shiva. Philosophically, she is the creative energy that eventually forms mind and matter, and comes to rest in the lowest form of matter. She is consciousness: the power of matter to know itself. In terms of Tantric practice, she is the mysterious power that resides in the human body and can be awakened through suitable techniques: special meditations and yogic practices of a particularly powerful nature. She is The Goddess, the ultimate heart of many areas of Eastern religion, not only of Hinduism.

This volume, by the foremost student of Shaktic and Tantric thought, "Arthur Avalon," is the prime document for the study and application of Kundalini yoga. The author covers the philosophical and mythological nature of Kundalini; the esoteric anatomy associated with it; the study of matrass — the chakras, or psychic centers in the human body and their progressive awakening; and the yoga associated with this. This introduction, some 300 pages of unique material, is followed by translations (with long analytical commentary) of two important Tantric documents: The Description of the Six Chakras and the briefer Five-fold Footstool. By working through these documents the reader can acquire the essence of Kundalini yoga.

For centuries this material was a closely guarded secret in India; even native scholars were not allowed access to it. In fact, it was so restricted that many Indologists refused to recognize its existence. It took half a lifetime of searching by Sir John Woodroffe to locate the key documents and further years to find a master able and willing to evoke from the cryptic texts a modus for study and application. The result of Woodroffe's work, however, was one of the most important developments in Indian thought, a key to many areas of art and religion that had hitherto been locked. It is also a work that has great interest to Westerners who wish to acquire for themselves the validity of the ultimate experience.


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मठ के व्यवस्थापक थे महायोगी महातपा! उन्हीं के संचालन में सारा कार्य होता था। उन्हीं के आदेश पर नये प्रवेश करने वाले साधकों को योग-तन्त्र आदि की दीक्षा दी जाती थी। सर्वप्रथम मुझे उन्हीं के सम्मुख उपस्थित किया गया था। काफी लम्बा-चौड़ा कक्ष था। कक्ष की दीवारें सुनहले रंग की थी जिनमें से सुनहले रंग का प्रकाश प्रस्फुटित हो रहा था। ओंकार की मन्द-मन्द ध्वनि भी गूँज रही थी वहाँ पर। वह ध्वनि कहाँ से निकल रही थी, यह मेरी समझ में नहीं आया। मगर यह निश्चित था कि वह किसी व्यक्ति के कण्ठ से नहीं फूट रही थी। उसका उद्गम कुछ और ही था, जो मेरे लिये अज्ञात था।
कक्ष के मध्य में रक्तवर्ण और पीतवर्ण के पारदर्शक स्फ़टिक पाषाण का शतदल कमल पुष्प था, जो स्वयं प्रकाशित हो रहा था। मैंने देखा - उस स्वप्रकाशित कमल पुष्प पर एक दिव्य महापुरुष पद्मासन की मुद्रा में विराजमान थे। वही थे महतपस्वी, महायोगी श्री महातपा। देखने में वे बिल्कुल एक बालक प्रतीत हो रहे थे। लेकिन उनकी आयु सबसे अधिक थी। उनका शरीर भी गुलाबी रँग का और पारदर्शक था। और था पूर्ण अनावृत। गले में मोतियों जैसी माला थी, जिसमें से शुभ्र वर्ण की रश्मियाँ निकल रही थी। वे बिना पलक झपकाये सामने की ओर स्थिर दृष्टि से देख रहे थे। तेजोमय मुखमण्डल पर किसी भी प्रकार का भाव नहीं था।

प्रज्ञा ने आगे कहा - उस दिव्य महात्मा के कक्ष में प्रवेश करते ही मेरी आत्मा को जिस आनन्द और जिस शान्ति का अनुभव हुआ उसे शब्दों में व्यक्त नहीं कर सकती मैं। निश्चय ही उसी आनन्द और शान्ति को परम आनन्द और परम शान्ति कहते होंगे योगीगण।

उसी आनन्द और शान्ति के सागर में आकण्ठ डूबी हुई मैं जब उस दिव्य महापुरुष को निहार रही थी, उसी समय न जाने कब, कैसे और कहाँ से आकर मेरे गले में सुन्दर खिले हुए ताज़े गुलाब के फूलों की माला झूल गयी। घोर आश्चर्य हुआ मुझे। तीव्र सुगन्धमय गुलाब के फूल इतने बड़े-बड़े और सुन्दर थे कि उन्हें इस संसार का नहीं कहा जा सकता।

पुष्प की माला का प्राप्त होना इस बात का संकेत था कि मुझे दीक्षा की आज्ञा परम योगी महातपा से प्राप्त हो गयी है। उसके बाद मुझे दीक्षा कक्ष में ले जाया गया। वहाँ भी एक महायोगी पद्मासन में बैठे हुए दिखलायी पड़े मुझको। वे भी बालक सदृश थे। लेकिन उनकी आयु भी काफ़ी थी। उनके नेत्र बन्द थे। चेहरे पर असीम अलौकिक दिव्य तेज था। मुझे बतलाया गया कि उनका नाम कैवल्यपाद है और सैंकड़ों वर्षों से इसी प्रकार समाधिस्थ बैठे हुए हैं।

कैवल्यपाद का जहाँ आसन था, उसके समीप स्फ़टिक की एक गोलाकर वेदी थी जिस पर स्वर्ण का लगभग दो फुट ऊँचा दीपाधार था। उस दीपाधार पर अष्टधातु के पात्र में एक दीप प्रज्वलित था। पात्र में तेल के स्थान पर कोई अज्ञात तरल द्रव भरा हुआ था, जिसका रंग सोने की तरह था। दीप की ज्योति में किसी प्रकार का कम्पन नहीं था। सबसे आश्चर्य की बात थी कि उस स्थिर ज्योति का प्रकाश अत्यन्त तीव्र था और पूरे कक्ष में फैल रहा था। बाद में ज्ञात हुआ कि वह दीप पिछले कई सौ वर्षों से जल रहा है और निरन्तर प्रकाश बिखेर रहा है।

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"Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion" by Hugh B. Urban

"A complex body of religious practices that spread throughout the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions; a form of spirituality that seemingly combines sexuality, sensual pleasure, and the full range of physical experience with the religious life―Tantra has held a central yet conflicted role within the Western imagination ever since the first "discovery" of Indian religions by European scholars. Always radical, always extremely Other, Tantra has proven a key factor in the imagining of India. This book offers a critical account of how the phenomenon has come to be.

Tracing the complex genealogy of Tantra as a category within the history of religions, Hugh B. Urban reveals how it has been formed through the interplay of popular and scholarly imaginations. Tantra emerges as a product of mirroring and misrepresentation at work between East and West—a dialectical category born out of the ongoing play between Western and Indian minds. Combining historical detail, textual analysis, popular cultural phenomena, and critical theory, this book shows Tantra as a shifting amalgam of fantasies, fears, and wish-fulfillment, at once native and Other, that strikes at the very heart of our constructions of the exotic Orient and the contemporary West."

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Thought Vibration is a classic treatise of new age philosophy by noted American occultist, author, and pioneer of the New Thought movement William Walker Atkinson. In this influential and widely-read work, Atkinson examines the nature of mental thought and its power to affect one's’s life. A central tenet of the New Thought movement is the importance of thoughts in creating real change in person's physical, emotional, and financial life. Negative thoughts will attract negative events and negative people and positive thoughts will bring about positive outcomes. First published in 1906, Atkinson's work remains a timeless and thought-provoking discourse full of tangible examples that demonstrate the power that positive mental thought can have in changing the direction of one's life. Full of practical advice and helpful exercises to assist the reader into putting these theories into action, readers will be inspired to apply the power of positive thinking in their daily lives.

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Zen and the Art of Consciousness
Who are you? When are you? What were you conscious of a moment ago? This groundbreaking book sees acclaimed psychologist Susan Blackmore combining the latest scientific theories about mind, self, and consciousness with a lifetime’s practice of Zen. Framed by ten critical questions derived from Zen teachings and designed to expand your understanding and experience of consciousness, Ten Zen Questions doesn’t offer final - or easy - answers, but instead provides an inspiring exploration of how intellectual enquiry and meditation can tackle some of today’s greatest scientific mysteries. Dr Susan Blackmore is a writer and broadcaster. She lives in Bristol, UK.
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"Religion for Scientists" by Frank Henry

"Following Fritjof Capra’s arguments in The Tao of Physics, this book seeks to draw a connection between Western mysticism and theoretical physics, specifically between string theory and the Hebrew esoteric tradition of Qabala, arguing that the structure of space-time is defined by the Qabalistic Tree of Life.

Modern theories developed to combine the incompatible theories of relativity and quantum mechanics nearly always postulate that the Universe is defined in more dimensions than we are aware of — 10 in the super-symmetrical string theories, and 11 in M-theory and 11D supergravity. This implies that, in addition to the four dimensions from special relativity, there exist six more compactified onto a 6D complex geometry."

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