RESOURCES
Below are a number of books, websites and podcasts that have been immensely helpful in my spiritual growth. I read each book exactly at the moment I needed to read it in order to take my journey into its next phase. I hope you find these equally useful.
Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha, by Daniel Ingram
If you are interested in developing your capacity for deep meditation, this is the book for you. It carefully walks you through the methods of both concentration and insight practices. It is the primary means by which I attained Stream Entry, the first path in the process to Buddhist enlightenment. Upon attaining Stream Entry, much of the initial confusion falls away, and it becomes clear that there is a path, and that one is on it. From there, one tends to move more in alignment with one’s guidance, more easily discovering the next steps on the path.
Although the transmissions offered at Truth Resonates (including enlightenment) avoid the need for the kind of hard-core meditation that Daniel Ingram teaches, building up these skills and understanding is nevertheless quite helpful in one’s spiritual journey. There is always a place for meditation and stillness in one’s life, and the ability to observe one’s bodily sensations as they are occurring is an important key to finding enduring happiness.
The Ra Contact: Teaching the Law of One, by Don Elkins, Carla Rueckert and Jim McCarty
The Ra Contact is a two-volume reorganized edition of the original five-volume set of channelling sessions (known as the Ra Material), in which an unconscious Carla channeled the 6th density entity Ra (the Egyptian god), while Jim stayed in meditation to provide energetic support and Don served as the questioner. Due to the unique relationship between the three people and their particular talents and skills, Ra came through with astonishing clarity for the time period (the world had much less 4th density light pervading it in the early 1980’s, and it was therefore much more difficult to channel or do magic).
From the standpoint of my current spiritual growth and understanding, about 90% of the information in the Ra Contact is accurate, which is considerably better than most channeled entities. Channeling is only as clear as the clarity of the channeler. If you think of each channeler’s consciousness as located at the center of a quartz crystal, then that channeler’s karma can be thought of as occlusions and cracks that distort and block the light of All That Is from fully pervading them. Therefore, the message received by the channeler is often only as advanced as their own level of spiritual growth, and contains distortions related to their own karma. While some of that did seep into the Ra Contact, the vast majority of it is astonishingly accurate. As with all things, take what resonates and set aside the rest.
The Ra Contact explores the nature of our reality and discusses in detail the densities of our existence. It also spends some time discussing humanity’s past, aliens, UFOs, the nature of consciousness, magic, healing and how to begin the process of balancing oneself. The lessons taught in this book led me to develop meditations for myself that quickly led to attaining the second path towards enlightenment, little more than a month after attaining Stream Entry.
The second volume of the Ra Contact is available here.
L/L Research Conscious Channeling Library
L/L Research is an organization created by the authors of the Ra Material devoted to conscious channeling in order to help to heal the world. The participants in the channeling group collectively channel various entities, including an entity known as Q’uo, which is a combination of a 5th density entity known as Latwii and the 6th density entity known as Ra. This initially allowed Carla (and later the other members of L/L Research) to channel information from Ra without requiring a unconscious trance state. When members of L/L research join together for a channeling session, one person tends to channel at a time. However, the entity often moves between the various channelers and maintains a clear and consistent message throughout. The reason that the channels are so pure is that the group mind of the participants in the channelling session is what is actually channeling the entity. The group mind, although comprised of beings that still have many karmic distortions, is less distorted, since it can perceive clearly along a particular axis so long as any member of the group can perceive clearly along that axis. This allows the group mind to be much less distorted than any individual member.
The transcripts of these channeling sessions are available on the L/L Research website, dating all the way back to the 1970’s.
There is also a podcast available, known as Living Love & Light, that reads aloud many of the earlier sessions and sets them to music. Many of the sessions are truly beautiful.
Seeing that Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising, by Rob Burbea
I credit this book with much of my early 3rd Path work. It is a thoughtful and steady trip down the rabbit hole of emptiness. It will help you to reframe your entire relationship with your relationship with reality (yes, I meant to say that twice).
I have yet to come across a work more powerful for opening someone to their potential as a divine feminine embodiment of All That Is. Men and women alike can find enormous benefit in the channeled words of this book. One point of note — much of the transmissions directly targets deep karmas within humanity, and so do not be surprised if the process of reading, despite the simplicity of the words and message, is extremely difficult.
Seth, Abraham, Bashar!: All That You See is Yourself, by Richard Gentle
This is a very short (only 78 pages) book that packs an incredible punch. The author Richard Gentle summarizes the main teachings of three channeled entities: Seth, channeled by Jane Roberts; Abraham, channeled by Esther Hicks, and Bashar, channeled by Darryl Anka. Richard weaves the teachings together in a highly readable format that provides fantastic framing and context for the main teaching of all of these entities, which is that we create the reality we believe in. External reality is nothing more than a reflection of our individual and collective internal realities.
The Seth Material, by Jane Roberts
This is the first book written by Jane Roberts containing channeled information from Seth, who describes himself as an energy personality essence no longer focused in physical matter. Over the course of this book, Jane sets out information about: reincarnation and the space between lives; health and the healing of illness; dreams and out-of-body experiences; the true nature of time; the God concept; the nature of physical reality; and the multi-dimensional self.
Seth Speaks: the Eternal Validity of the Soul: this book continues the exploration of consciousness begun in The Seth Material. The book is dictated almost entirely by Seth, with the only additions being notes and other information included by Jane’s husband Rob related to each channeling session. Here is how Seth begins his book: “If you believe firmly that your consciousness is locked up somewhere inside your skull and is powerless to escape it, if you feel that your consciousness ends at the boundary of your body, then you sell yourself short, and you will think that I am a delusion. I am no more a delusion than you are. I can say this to each of my readers honestly: I am older than you are, at least in terms of age as you think of it. If a writer can qualify as any kind of authority on the basis of age, therefore, then I should get a medal. I am an energy personality essence, no longer focused in physical matter. As such, I am aware of some truths that many of you seem to have forgotten. I hope to remind you of these.”
The Nature of Personal Reality: Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know. This book focuses on what is really the core teaching of Seth: that we create our reality based on our beliefs. It discusses the nature of our personal reality in detail and addresses ways to improve our experience in this life.
The Magical Approach: Seth Speaks about the Art of Creative Living. This book is a fantastic grounding in the magical approach — an orientation towards life that moves entirely with the understanding that our reality is formed based solely on our beliefs.
The remaining Seth books are also incredibly good, but require greater investments of time and attention to fully explore them, as they go much deeper into the complex nature of the human psyche and our experience in this reality.
How To Do Magic That Works, by Genevieve Davis
I have yet to come across any book that more clearly and articulately sets out a workable technique for manifestation. Genevieve does an incredible job of laying out the path of accurate and wholesome manifestation of one’s reality, ending in the one place that all of us hope to one day find ourselves — with the enduring belief that all is well, always.
When I first started seeking, I read the worldwide bestseller The Power of Now. At the time, I could sense that there was something important in the text, but I couldn’t seem to really comprehend the message. I picked up A New Earth recently, which explores similar themes to The Power of Now. This time, every word was startingly clear and comprehensible, and the book spoke to the very depths of my soul. It was instrumental in my coming into complete presence in the now, and discovering enduring joy in every moment. I highly recommend A New Earth and The Power of Now. Eckhart Tolle speaks to your soul if you let him.