There are lots of books out there on a variety of
New Age subjects and the array can be bewildering. I can tell if a book will
benefit me simply by picking it up and feeling it. You might try the same next
time you’re in a bookstore. Until then, here’s a handy guide for some of the
books that I found useful and rewarding.
Choose a category from the list below or scroll down at your leisure.
Still one of the most approachable subjects in the New Age field, astrology
can help us understand how the stars and planets influence and shape our lives
and the world around us.
Alan Oken's Complete Astrology by Alan Oken gives an in-depth look at
astrology for readers searching for the larger picture. Comparing the sun
signs of cities and countries, for instance, enables us to see why some
places can be said to work for us while others seem to work against us.
Discover which cities are best suited for your career, love and home life.
New Moon Astrology by Jan
Spiller is a clear, practical handbook on how to make your dreams come true
by using the transformative astrology of moon cycles.
Secrets From A Stargazer’s Notebooks by Debbi Kempton-Smith is easily
the most enjoyable book on personal astrology I've read. This woman's fantastic
sense of humour kept me turning the pages as I'd if picked up a hot thriller.
You'll be amazed by what you didn't know about yourself and your friends.
Sacred Contracts by Caroline Myss may seem out of place here, but it's a
tribute to Myss that her exploration of the awakening of the divine potential in
all of us straddles health, inner wisdom and astrology. This is really a
synthesis of all of these subjects based on the house system of everyday
astrology.
The soul's way of communicating directly with us, there's more to dreaming,
Horatio, than is dreamt of in our philosophy.
Edgar Cayce on Dreams by Harmon H. Bro is, despite its occasionally
murky writing, the best dream book there is. It should be. It's from a master.
Find out how to harness your dream power.
Alternate forms of healing can compliment the more traditional ones with great success.
Here are some brilliant resources.
Energy Anatomy by Caroline Myss shows clearly that her brilliance
consists of synthesizing old wisdom and making it new again. While she isn't the
first to suggest the co-relation between divergent religions (she neatly
parallels the seven Christian Sacraments, the Jewish Kabbalah and Indian Chakras),
she is the first to make it approachable in a powerful and meaningful way.
Discover the relationship between energy and your health. This book (or the CDs,
as I much prefer her narrative voice to her writing) is the best example of her
work so far.
The Edgar Cayce Handbook For Health by Harold J. Reilly and Ruth Hagy
Brod is the essential Cayce primer on health and health-related issues such
as diet, exercise, attitude, etc. Indespensible reading from the Association
for Research and Enlightenment.
Edgar Cayce Encyclopedia of Healing by Reba Ann Karp is my favourite,
and a book I wouldn't be without. It gives guidelines on a wide variety of
ailments, coupling these with Cayce's recommended treatments culled from
thousands of readings.
Heal Your Body by Louise L Hay provides an intelligent, thoughtful
look at self-healing through self-understanding. Learn the emotional causes
of physical illness and the proper responses to treat them.
Meditation is the basis for all psychic activity. Here are some great guides.
The Power of Now
by Eckhart Tolle is a book I've never finished and hope I never do. It's an
ever-replenishing fount of wisdom. I don't read it straight-forwardly, but dip
into it when I need affirmation. I always find the answer right where my finger
directs me. It's the Zen way to do things.
The Seven Mansions of Colour by Alex Jones is sadly out-of-print, yet
this explanation of colour-based meditation is one of the best and clearest
I've found. See if you can find a second-hand copy.
How To Heal With Color by Ted Andrews is another great guide to
colour meditation. Easily understood and accomplished meditation guidelines
for the beginner, but not limited to beginners.
A word that means a lot of things, but basically it stands for “intuition”. Learn more about the still, small voice within us all.
The Edgar Cayce Books by various authors – the first one that captured my lifelong attention (I picked it up when I was just 12) was
Edgar Cayce The Sleeping Prophet by Jess Stearn. Cayce was the greatest psychic of the 20th century, and a well-spring of knowledge for every important psychic working today, whether they acknowledge him or not. (And I’m always surprised at the ones who don’t). His output was prodigious. Pick any “New Age” subject and look up Cayce’s references to it – chances are you’ll find an entire book on it, whether it’s dream interpretation, reincarnation, Atlantis, healing, harnessing your psychic powers, astrology, religion, Jesus Christ or the Dead Sea Scrolls.
As a philosophy of wisdom and magic, the Qabalah is to the West what Yoga is
to the East: a living system of spiritual development. Here are my favourite
books on the topic.
The Mystical Qabalah by Dion Fortune is still controversial years after
its publication. As much as I admire this book, I'm loathe to list it due to
a negative outlook on same-gender sex. (Edgar Cayce and all psychics worth
their salt maintain a positive position on the subject.) Still, Fortune's is
the best book on the Qabalah I've encountered. Her beliefs were partially a
product of her times (a Victorian, she lived through the Oscar Wilde
trials), as well as a prescient but not entirely comprehended knowledge of
the ravages that AIDS would wreak in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Read with an open mind.
An Introduction to the Mystical Qabalah by Alan Richardson seems
more a primer on ritual magic, yet this is nonetheless an excellent
introduction to the wisdom of the magical Tree of Life. Easy to read,
rationalistic in outlook, and practical in application, the exercises in
chapters 4 and 5 are particularly potent.
What's more important in our day-to-day lives than the people we share them
with? Find out why so many of us do so badly at such an important subject and
learn how to improve your loving and living.
Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus by John Gray contains some
straightforward thinking from a popular author on what can go right and
drastically wrong in any relationship.
How Much Did You Love? What Did You Learn? by Alex Jones is
another one of those books I don't read from cover-to-cover, but simply
pick up every now and then for a quick thought boost. Vitamins for the
soul.
Love Without Conditions by Paul Ferrini is an in-depth but
easy-to-read look at how we think and feel in our relations with others as
well as with ourselves.
Anyone intrigued by the CIA-related scandals on psychic spying will be
fascinated by these accounts of the US government's Project Stargate.
Psychic Warrior by Alan Moorehouse offers a chilling account of a
CIA-trained spy, his psychic explorations and eventual defection from the
organization that tried to kill him.
Mind Trek by Joseph McMoneagle is one of the first and best accounts of
Remote Viewing. McMoneagle tells his story beginning with the Near Death
Experience that opened him to the greater possibilities of his life.
Beyond Remote Viewing by Jeffrey Round is my
How-To account of this phenomenon. When I first heard of Remote Viewing in
the mid-90s, I thought, 'That's what I do!' As I read the literature on
the subject, I realized that none of the books tells you how to do it.
(And some of the courses cost $2000 or more.) I've since taught numerous
classes on the subject with great success on the part of everyone who has
persevered and completed the course. Anyone can do it with patience and
willpower. Here's my downloadable, six-part series on how to become a
Remote Viewer and much more.
The cornerstone of Western Occultism and Hermetism, the Tarot is said to
contain the sacred keys of Initiation. The 19th century Hermetic master Eliphas
Lévi called it "the grandest conception of human genius." Of course,
it's also a fun way to increase your intuitive capabilities.
A Complete Guide to the Tarot by Eden Gray is the first book I read
on the subject as an adolescent. I couldn't find real Tarot cards, so I stripped
an old deck and made my own. A fine introduction to a monumental subject.
The Grand Etteilla by Jeffrey Round offers concise meanings for one
of the best Tarot decks there is. Encyclopedic in scope, this deck utilizes
symbols, words, colours and numbers all at once. (The deck is available on the
Internet if you can't find it elsewhere: http://www.trigono.com/tarots/TA03TAGE.htm.)
It comes with a booklet giving the supposed meaning of the cards, but it's
highly inaccurate. Here's my explication of the hidden meanings of the Grand
Etteilla cards, based on nearly two decades of usage.
A Cage of Bones by Jeffrey Round. Dion Fortune was both a novelist and
a writer on esoterics. And so am I. Here's my explication of the 12th Arcanum of
the Tarot, Sacrifice. Don't worry, it's still a readable story and you might not
recognize it as anything more than that if you weren't aware of it. Autographed
copies available.
El Tarot
by Mouni Sadhu is a grumpy old book by a true Master. It
tries to distill an entire philosophy of living into 360 pages. And it succeeds!
Sometimes hard to find, this is the bible of esotericists and a must-read for
any informed psychic work. Originally published as "The Tarot" ISBN:0-87980-157-3
Note: Some of these books have gone in and out of
print a number of times. If you can’t get them from the usual sources, try
locating them on a used book site such as www.bibliofind.com.