Recommended Reading & Viewing
Reading
I Ching - The precursor to Taoism, the book is a guide for The “Superior Man” thought to be around 5000 years old and my stalwart reading of several decades, I can’t recommend this book highly enough - a How To manual of Spiritual Intelligence
The Richard Wilhelm Translation of this remarkable text has a forward by his friend Carl Jung, who used it on his clients, and would recommend this edition
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Thought Vibration (1908) & The Subconscious & Superconscious Planes of Mind (1909) - William Walker Atkinson
Both books are extremely insightful into higher thought, the superconscious mind and the nature of energy and attraction
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The Awakened Mind: Biofeedback and the Development of Higher States of - Maxwell Cade
His research using EEG’s on both healers and their clients found that both healer and client enter into theta and delta brainwaves where the deeper healing and regeneration happen. He also conducted similar experiments with established Zen Masters and Swamis. Interesting read for anyone wanting to understand more about how different brain waves impact us
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The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
Beautiful and uplifting, and a short read for when you’re in need of inspiration and insight but don’t feel like starting a long book
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The Over-Soul (1841) - Ralph Waldo Emerson. This has one of the most beautiful passages on the nature of our soul ever written:
”What we commonly call man does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue; when it flows through his affection, it is love. And the blindness of the intellect begins when it would be something of itself.”
Essay: The Over-Soul
The Spirituality of Work & Leadership: Finding Meaning, Joy, and Purpose in What You Do (Humanizing Business Book 1) - Paul Gibbons
Excellent insight into how spirituality drives business and helps them to prosper. Paul Gibbons says “The problem is that you cannot cut a check to buy your workers meaning—you need to provide work that has intrinsic value—a purpose, not just a paycheck. But businesses aren’t temples and business leaders aren’t priests or spiritual gurus. How do leaders lead meaning-making at work and the more purposeful businesses that 21st-century workers claim they crave?
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Getting The Love You Want: A Guide for Couples - Harville Hendrix
Probably the best book I’ve read on relationships. Simply written and insightful, Dr. Hendrix was a Pastor and the church asked him to do couple’s counselling. He was so good at it they sent him to Harvard to do his PhD in couples’ therapy and he wrote this book. For this edition he and his wife, Helen LaKelly Hunt, have added a new introduction
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Healing in a Hospital: Scientific evidence that spiritual healing improves health - Sandy Edwards
Sandy Edwards conducted this research with University of Birmingham with Lottery funding. “The findings suggest that substantial cost savings could be made by the NHS… ‘Spectacular research results and a very impressive book. Patients and clinicians should take this seriously.’ Dr Michael Dixon LVO, OBE, FRCGP, FRCC; Chair of Council, College of Medicine”. Sandy also trained with The Healing Trust
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Viewing
Brian Tracy on the Superconscious Mind:
"Something good will happen good to me today”
Amy Cuddy’s Ted Talk on how Power Poses can impact our confidence in just two minutes:
Your body language may shape who you are
Transcendence Series 1 Episode 1 on What’s In Our Food? featuring Novak Djokovic on how he transformed his career by his diet:
Episode 1 of Transcendence - What’s In Our Food?
Research by UCLA on the human energy field - what we call the etheric layer - using Kirlean photography
Kirlian Photography at UCLA
Ian Fuhr on Servant Leadership - The subversive power of servant leadership, TEDJohannesburg
Servant Leadership Ted Talk
Dr. Rollin McCraty of the HeartMath Institute uses recent data to show that our hearts are not only in sync with the earth’s magnetic field, but are also in sync with each other
Connecting with the Heart's Intelligence: Rollin McCraty
Articles
Harvard neuroscientist: Meditation not only reduces stress, here’s how it changes your brain in just 8 weeks
How meditation can literally change your brain
Research by the University of Missouri showing there is no single God Spot in the brain. Activity is mainly in the right pariatal lobe, as mystics have been saying for millennia. “Spirituality is a much more dynamic concept that uses many parts of the brain.”
No ‘God Spot’ In Brain, Spirituality Linked To Right Parietal Lobe
Using a brain imaging technique Newberg, a radiologist at the University of Pennsylvania, and his team studied a group of Tibetan Buddhist monks as they meditated. The scans provided remarkable clues about what goes on in the brain during meditation.
Meditation mapped in monks
In 1920 a Russian astrophysicist, Alexander Tchijevsky, whilst fighting in WW1 was struck by the connection between the flare up in battles and increased solar activity. He mapped out the incidents of solar activities against increases in human activity from 1750 to 1920. This paper shows the correlation between the two and is widely accepted to be authoritative
Link between solar activity and increases in human activity
Forbes magazine: A look at why “Meditation is becoming a daily habit for many of the most successful people in the creative and business worlds.”
The Benefits Of Meditation In Business
Research showing the severity of Covid symptoms and how fast patients recover is connected to gut health
Gut bacteria tied to COVID-19 severity, immune response
Research shows meditation improves gut bacteria and therefore improves immune response. In the absence of stress, a healthy microbiota produces short-chain fatty acids that exert anti-inflammatory and antitumor effects
The Effects of Stress and Meditation on the Immune System
Research by UCLA on the relationship between Serotonin and gut bacteria shows that an estimated 90% of the body's serotonin is produced in the gut, where it influences gut immunity. Serotonin is a neurotransmitter which serves many functions in the body including playing a role in emotions and happiness
Study shows how serotonin affects the gut's microbiota
You And Your Business Have 7 Seconds To Make A First Impression: Here's How To Succeed. Your energy speaks louder about you than anything else and it pays to invest time making sure your energy is clear and radiant: Making the most of first impressions