Currently reading:
Vijnana Bhairava: The Manual for Self-Realization by Swami Lakshmanjoo. It contains 112 spiritual practices for reaching enlightenment.
A Course in Consciousness by Stanley Sobottka - google this it's a free e-book download. He's emeritus professor in physics at University of Virginia, but I believe he also has direct non-dual realization. It puts enlightenment in context with the latest development in physics, and then goes onto a truly excellent guide to using many different jnana yoga techniques as a spiritual practice, teaching us to use the intellect to slice through confusion and ignorance.
The Transparency of Things by Rupert Spira. Haven't started this yet but: The purpose of Rupert's book is to look clearly and simply at the nature of experience, without any attempt to change it. A series of contemplations lead us gently but directly to see that our essential nature is neither a body nor a mind. It is the conscious Presence that is aware of this current experience. As such it is nothing that can be experienced as an object and yet it is undeniably present. However, these contemplations go much further than this. As we take our stand knowingly as this conscious Presence that we always already are, and reconsider the objects of the body, mind and world, we find that they do not simply appear to this Presence, they appear within it. And further exploration reveals that they do not simply appear within this Presence but as this Presence. Finally we are led to see that it is in fact this very Presence itself that takes the shape of our experience from moment to moment whilst always remaining only itself. We see that our experience is and has only ever been one seamless totality with no separate entities or objects anywhere to be found.
7 Steps to Awakening (Ramana Maharshi (Author), Nisargadatta Maharaj (Author), Vasistha (Author), Sankara (Author), Sadhu Om (Author), Muruganar (Author), Annamalai Swami (Author). This is a collection of well-organized quotes from those authors.
The Direct Path : A user's guide by Greg Goode. I dip into this one when I'm feeling very quiet and deep inner silence is present. "Have you ever done nondual inquiry and said to yourself, "I understand it intellectually but I don't feel it. It's not my experience!" If so, The Direct Path could be for you. This book is the "missing manual" to the Direct Path. For the first time in print, Direct-Path inquiry is presented from beginning to end and beyond, in a "user-friendly" way. The core of the book is a set of 40 experiments designed to help dissolve the most common nondual sticking points from simple to subtle. The experiments cover the world, the body, the mind, abstract objects and witnessing awareness. You are taken step by step from the simple perception of a physical object all the way to the collapse of the witness into pure consciousness. Your "take-away" is that there's no experiential doubt that you and all things are awareness, openness and love."
Am on week 3 of my third time through The Presence Process by Michael Brown. This is a deep journey into the heart and the tendency to react emotionally to life (with anger, grief, fear or their derivative emotions). Slowly we enter deeply into our pain body and find freedom from our habitual reactive tendencies, in many cases integrating the tendency to react, so that where once there was emotional reactivity, there is now calm, clear presence.
More and more I find spiritual practice is every single waking moment of day to day life. Mundane day to day life is really the greatest the guru we have available to us if met in the right way.
So that's my list, well that and Pandora the Vampire and Vittorio the Vampire by Anne Rice. Just finished Pandora, now onto Vittorio
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