My Favorite Reads

These are some of my all-time favorite books, in no particular order. I highly recommend them!

Tarot / Cartomancy

  • Magical Tarot, Mystical Tao by Diane Morgan
  • Medicine Cards by Jamie Samms and David Carson
  • Animal Wise Tarot by Ted Andrews
  • The Witches Tarot by Ellen Dugan
  • A Pictorial History of Tarot by Edward Waite

Intuition Development

  • The Healer’s Manual by Ted Andrews
  • Psychic Protection by Ted Andrews
  • Psychic Witch by Mat Auryn
  • How To Meet and Work With Spirit Guides by Ted Andrews
  • A Journey of Souls by Michael Newton
  • One Last Time by John Edward
  • Book of Dreams by Sylvia Browne

Taoism / Zen / Taijiquan

  • Tao Te Ching by Lau Tzu (Victor Mair translation is my favorite)
  • The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
  • Tao: The Watercourse Way by Alan Watts
  • Scholar Warrior by Deng Meng Dao
  • Introduction to Zen Buddhism by D.T. Suzuki
  • I Ching
  • Sword and Brush by Dave Lowrey
  • The Tao of Mentoring by Chungliang Al Huang
  • Embrace the Tiger, Return to the Mountain by Chungliang Al Huang

Metaphysics and Spirituality

  • Illusions: Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
  • One by Richard Bach
  • The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukov
  • The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
  • The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot
  • Hawaiian Magic & Spirituality by Scott Cunningham
  • Women Who Run With Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
  • Why I’m Not Christian by Bertrand Russel
  • Journey of Souls by Michael Newton

Magick

  • Wicca for the Solitary Practitioner by Scott Cunningham
  • Simplified Magic by Ted Andrews
  • Magick of Reiki by Christopher Penczak
  • Instant Magick by Christopher Penczak
  • Sigil Witchery by Laura Tempest Zarkoff
  • Mastering Magick by Mat Auryn

Nonfiction

  • Cosmos by Carl Sagan
  • Broca’s Brain by Carl Sagan
  • Wonders of the Universe (TV series & book) by Professor Brian Cox
  • A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
  • Parallel Worlds by Michao Kaku
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
  • Life After Life by Bill & Judy Guggenheim (sociology)
  • Synchronicity by Carl Jung (psychology)
  • Stages of Faith by Robert Fowler (developmental psychology)
  • The Hero Within by Carol S. Pearson (archetypes, psychology)
  • The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
  • Drawing On the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards
  • Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil Degrasse Tyson

Fiction

  • Dune (original series) by Frank Herbert
  • Dune (prequels by Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson)
  • Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
  • Contact by Carl Sagan
  • Wolfwalker (series) by Tara K Harper
  • Lightwing by Tara K. Harper
  • Twilight (Series) / The Host by Stephanie Myers
  • Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
  • Incarceron, Sapphique, Relic Master series by Catherine Fisher
  • Fluency by Jennifer Foehner Wells
  • Stranger In A Strange Land by Michael Heinlein
  • The Sorcery Code by Dima Zales
  • The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”

Carl Sagan, Cosmos