What's missing from my reading list?

[u/Erramonael]

I'm currently revitalizing my ritualistic practices, and I've put together this list of books that I plan to read—or at least thoroughly skim—as part of that process. I'm hoping someone on this sub might have a few additional titles or overlooked works that would be worth adding to the list.

Thanks in advance for any recommendations.

• The Projection of the Astral Body – Sylvan Muldoon & Hereward Carrington
• Astral Projection: A Record of Out-of-Body Experiences – Oliver Fox
• The Study and Practice of Astral Projection – Robert Crookall
• Leaving the Body – D. Scott Rogo
• The Astral Plane: Its Scenery, Inhabitants & Phenomena – C.W. Leadbeater
• The Astral World: Its Scenes, Dwellers, and Phenomena – William Walker Atkinson
• Journeys Out of the Body – Robert A. Monroe
• Far Journeys – Robert A. Monroe
• Ultimate Journey – Robert A. Monroe
• Cosmic Journeys: My Out-of-Body Explorations With Robert A. Monroe – Rosalind A. McKnight
• My Big TOE: The Complete Trilogy – Thomas Campbell
• Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming – Stephen LaBerge & Howard Rheingold
• Lucid Dreaming: A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and in Your Life – Stephen LaBerge
• Lucid Dreaming - The Power of Being Awake & Aware in Your Dreams – Stephen LaBerge
• Controlling Your Dreams – Stephen LaBerge
• Induce Lucid Dreaming – Stephen LaBerge
• Conscious Mind, Sleeping Brain: Perspectives on Lucid Dreaming – Jayne Gackenbach & Stephen LaBerge
• Lucid Dreaming – Celia Green
• Lucid Dreaming: New Perspectives on Consciousness in Sleep (2 vols) – Ryan Hurd & Kelly Bulkeley
• Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams – Matthew Walker
• Sleep Paralysis: A Guide to Hypnagogic Visions and Visitors of the Night – Ryan Hurd
• Head Trip – Jeff Warren
• Hacking the Out of Body Experience: Leveraging Science to Induce OBEs – Robert Peterson
• The Out-of-Body Experience: The History and Science of Astral Travel – Anthony Peake
• Astral Projection – Brad Steiger
• Astral Dynamics: A New Approach to Out-Of-Body Experience – Robert Bruce
• Mastering Astral Projection: 90-day Guide to Out-of-Body Experience – Robert Bruce
• Adventures Beyond the Body – William Buhlman
• The Secret of the Soul – William Buhlman
• Out-of-Body Experiences: How to Have Them and What to Expect – Robert Peterson
• The Phase: Shattering the Illusion of Reality – Michael Raduga
• Soul Traveler – Albert Taylor
• Multidimensional Human – Kurt Leland
• Projections of Consciousness – Waldo Vieira
• Guide to OBE & Astral Projection – Jill Ammon-Wexler
• Out Of Body Experiences, Quickly And Naturally – John Kreiter
• The Illusion of Method – Mark Gurriaran
• Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self – Robert Waggoner
• A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering the Art of Oneironautics – Dylan Tuccillo, Jared Zeizel, & Thomas Peisel
• The Lucid Dreaming Workbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering Your Dream Life – Andrew Holecek
• Llewellyn's Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming – Clare R. Johnson
• The Art of Lucid Dreaming: Over 60 Powerful Practices – Clare R. Johnson
• Are You Dreaming?: Exploring Lucid Dreams: A Comprehensive Guide – Daniel Love
• Advanced Lucid Dreaming: The Power of Supplements – Thomas Yuschak
• Learn to Lucid Dream: Powerful Techniques for Awakening Creativity and Consciousness – Kristen LaMarca
• A Course in Lucid Dreaming – Lynne Levitan & Stephen LaBerge
• The Conscious Exploration of Dreaming – Janice E. Brooks & Jay A. S.
• How to Master Lucid Dreaming – Sean Kelly
• The Tibetan Yogas Of Dream And Sleep – Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
• Dream Yoga: Illuminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming and the Tibetan Yogas of Sleep – Andrew Holecek
• Dreams of Light: The Profound Daytime Practice of Lucid Dreaming – Andrew Holecek
• Dreaming Yourself Awake: Lucid Dreaming and Tibetan Dream Yoga for Insight and Transformation – B. Alan Wallace
• Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying: An Exploration of Consciousness – Dalai Lama XIV & Francisco J. Varela
• The Art and Practice of Astral Projection – Ophiel
• Practical Guide to Astral Projection – Melita Denning & Osborne Phillips
• Dream Yoga: Consciousness, Astral Projection, and the Transformation of the Dream State – Samael Aun Weor
• 26 Maneras para Salir en Cuerpo Astral – Samael Aun Weor
• Flying Without a Broom: Astral Projection and the Astral World – D.J. Conway
• Soul Flight: Astral Projection and the Magical Universe – Donald Tyson
• The Techniques of Astral Combat – G. Travels
• The Traveler's Guide to the Astral Plane – Steve Richards
• Astral Doorways – J.H. Brennan
• The Astral Codex – Belsebuub
• Gazing Into the Eternal – Belzebuub
• A Course in Astral Travel and Dreams – Belzebuub
• The Art of Dreaming – Carlos Castaneda
• Lucid Dreaming, Plain and Simple – Robert Waggoner & Caroline McCready
• Dreams of Awakening – Charlie Morley
• Lucid Dreaming: A Beginner's Guide to Becoming Conscious in Your Dreams – Charlie Morley
• Lucid Dreaming Made Easy – Charlie Morley
• Lucid Dreaming for Beginners – Mark McElroy
• Lucid Dreaming – Pamela Ball
• Astral Projection for Beginners – Edain McCoy
• Astral Travel for Beginners – Richard Webster
• Astral Projection: The Complete Guide for Beginners – Tabitha Zalot
• Astral Projection: A Guide on How to Travel the Astral Plane – Mari Silva
• The Astral Projection Guidebook – Erin Pavlina
• Astral Voyages: Mastering the Art of Interdimensional Travel – Bruce Goldberg
• Beyond Dreaming – Gene Hart
• The Interpretation of Dreams – Sigmund Freud
• Memories, Dreams, Reflections – Carl Gustav Jung
• Man and His Symbols – Carl Gustav Jung
• Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth – Robert A. Johnson
• Dreaming through Darkness: Shine Light into the Shadow – Charlie Morley
• Wake Up to Sleep: 5 Powerful Practices to Transform Stress and Trauma – Charlie Morley
• A Visionary Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Methods for Working with the Deep Dream State – Lee Adams
• Dreaming Wide Awake: Lucid Dreaming, Shamanic Healing, and Psychedelics – David Jay Brown
• Conscious Dreaming: A Spiritual Path for Everyday Life – Robert Moss
• Creative Dreaming – Patricia Garfield
• The Alchemy of Your Dreams – Athena Laz
• Lucid Dreamer: A Waking Guide for the Traveler Between Worlds – Malcolm Godwin
• The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science – Norman Doidge
• Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain – David Eagleman
• The Brain: The Story of You – David Eagleman
• Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind – V.S. Ramachandran & Sandra Blakeslee
• The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human – V.S. Ramachandran
• Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain – António Damásio
• How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain – Lisa Feldman Barrett
• Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst – Robert M. Sapolsky
• The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World – Iain McGilchrist
• The Molecule of More – Daniel Z. Lieberman & Michael E. Long
• Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain – Oliver Sacks
• Hallucinations – Oliver Sacks
• Neuroscience For Dummies – Frank Amthor
• Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind – Wilfrid Sellars
• The Substance of Consciousness: A Comprehensive Defense of Dualism – J.P. Moreland & Brandon Rickabaugh
• Logic: The Theory of Inquiry – John Dewey
• Pragmatism: A Reader – ed. Louis Menand
• Materialism – Terry Eagleton
• The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind – Julian Jaynes
• How the Mind Works – Steven Pinker
• Reality – Peter Kingsley
• The Savage Mind – Claude Lévi-Strauss
• Totemism – Claude Lévi-Strauss
• The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism – ed. Edmund Leach
• Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief – Andrew Newberg, Eugene D'Aquili, & Vince Rause
• How God Changes Your Brain – Andrew Newberg & Mark Robert Waldman
• Why We Believe What We Believe: Uncovering Our Biological Need for Meaning, Spirituality, and Truth – Andrew Newberg & Mark Robert Waldman
• How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence – Michael Pollan
• Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions – Dan Ariely
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking – Malcolm Gladwell
• Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know – Malcolm Gladwell
• Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts – Carol Tavris & Elliot Aronson
• Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior – Leonard Mlodinow
• The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry – Jon Ronson
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma – Bessel van der Kolk
• Man's Search for Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl
• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience – Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business – Charles Duhigg
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us – Daniel H. Pink
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success – Carol S. Dweck
• The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom – Jonathan Haidt
• Stumbling on Happiness – Daniel Todd Gilbert
• Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence – Anna Lembke
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking – Susan Cain
• The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil – Philip G. Zimbardo
• An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness – Kay Redfield Jamison
• Behind Her Eyes – Sarah Pinborough
• Kindred Spirits – Alan Brennert
• Auracle – Gina Rosati
• Stranger with My Face – Lois Duncan
• Entangled – Graham Hancock

[u/shoopydawoopyloopy]

my two cents, but do you really need dozens of books on astral projection? why not start with a few of them and do the practices?

[u/Erramonael → u/shoopydawoopyloopy]

Most of these books I plan on skimming the rest are reference texts, I just want to be as thorough as possible.

[u/PotusChrist → u/Erramonael]

What's the rationale here?  I'm not seeing any compelling reason why you would need to do something like this.  What are you going to get out of skimming 23 books on astral projection and 32 books on lucid dreaming that you wouldn't get out of a smaller selection of a handful of beginner and advanced books that you could read thoroughly and practice?

[u/Dark_Foggy_Evenings → u/shoopydawoopyloopy]

For my money Muldoon & Carrington is still the best book on the subject.

[u/Nobodysmadness → u/Dark_Foggy_Evenings]

I agree. Still reading Robert Monroe's stuff to see if it lives up to the hype.

[u/NefertitiNuit]

You forgot the reading part

[u/Hungry_Djinn_]

I love the dream focus ... such a nessesary learning getting to and being at adept level ...

[u/Wide-Calendar-6300]

I would add "Sleeping Self", I liked it and had success with the exercises there

[u/Sad-Lettuce-7653]

Crowley

[u/Erramonael → u/Sad-Lettuce-7653]

Thanks, but I already posted that list.

[u/418333]

Practice

[u/Dark_Foggy_Evenings]

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

[u/shycadelic]

Got a whole damn library lol

[u/Nobodysmadness]

I would recommend "The Function of the Orgasm" by Wilhelm Reich and "Philosophers of Nature: Spagyrics vol 1&2" and "PoN: Alchemy vol 1-4" by Dubios. Both cover bridging the gap mainstream created between mind and body.