Spirit: Resources for Going Deeper
The book points to five researchers whose work forms the evidentiary backbone of the consciousness chapters. Start wherever you feel pulled.
Curated Reading List
Michael Newton
Journey of Souls | Destiny of Souls
Pioneered life-between-lives hypnotherapy. Thousands of case studies documenting consistent accounts of the afterlife.
Robert Schwartz
Your Soul's Plan
Explores the idea that we plan our major life challenges before birth for the purpose of spiritual growth.
Dolores Cannon
Between Death and Life
Decades of regression hypnosis work documenting what subjects report about the space between incarnations.
Kenneth Ring
Life at Death | Heading Toward Omega
Academic near-death experience researcher. Rigorous methodology applied to extraordinary claims.
Jim Tucker
Life Before Life | Return to Life
Successor to Ian Stevenson at the University of Virginia. Studies children who report memories of previous lives.
The Gateway Experience
The Monroe Institute in Faber, Virginia has spent over five decades researching altered states of consciousness through audio-guided meditation technology called Hemi-Sync. Their Gateway Experience program uses binaural beat frequencies to facilitate expanded awareness states.
This is not fringe speculation. The U.S. Army commissioned a classified analysis of the Gateway Process in 1983, authored by Lieutenant Colonel Wayne M. McDonnell. That report was declassified and is now available through the CIA Reading Room.
The Orchard Visualization
Two people walking down a path in an apple orchard. Late afternoon light coming through the leaves in broken gold. The air smells like earth and fruit and something older than both.
A quiet conversation. Not about anything in particular. Just the kind of talk that happens when two people are finally honest with each other. Dappled light. Bare feet on cool ground. The sense of having been here before, and that it is safe to be here again.
Guided Orchard Visualization
“I don't know what I encountered. I know what I experienced. I know it changed me.”