 | Magical Path
My own personal website. Contains mostly my own writings.
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 | The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.15 Most of the works of Carlos Castaneda are worth reading. This is the first.
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 | Journey To Ixtlan by Carlos Castaneda
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $3.49 Another worthwhile book by Carlos Castaneda. Read Castaneda with "suspended disbelief".
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 | Toltecs of the New Millennium by Victor Sanchez
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $1.14 A powerful tale about a magical journey. Worth reading before The Teachings of Don Carlos.
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 | The Teachings of Don Carlos: Practical Applications of the Works of Carlos Castaneda by Victor Sanchez
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $0.98 Some great insights into life. Some useful techniques in the lineage of Carlos Castaneda / Don Juan.
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 | Psychosynthesis: A Collection of Basic Writings by Roberto Assagioli
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $13.41 Assagioli has some important teachings regarding identification/dis-identification and Will. He was a Qabalist and Theosophist.
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| The Act of Will: 2 (An Esalen book) by Roberto Assagioli
Buy used from: $30.00 Assagioli's work dealing with the Will.
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 | Transpersonal Development: The Dimension Beyond Psychosynthesis by Robert Assagioli
Buy used from: $9.61 Assagioli's "final" book, actually a collection of essays and notes published after his death
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| An Alchemical Treatise on the Great Art by Antoine-Joseph Pernety
Buy used from: $29.11 An excellent introduction to Hermetics and Alchemy.
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 | Alchemists Handbook: (Manual for Practical Laboratory Alchemy by Frater Albertus
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $7.95 For those with an interest in practical alchemy, this is a great start. Albertus was a modern alchemist who influenced many including Israel Regardie.
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 | Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece by Three Initiates
Buy new: $22.37 / Used from: $5.90 A good introduction to Hermetic Axioms. One of the Three Initiates was Paul Foster Case of Builders of the Adytum (BOTA) fame.
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 | The Golden Dawn: The Original Account of the Teachings, Rites & Ceremonies of the Hermetic Order (Llewellyn's Golden Dawn Series) by Israel Regardie
Buy new: $25.05 / Used from: $16.95 Anything by Regardie is worth reading. I offer this suggestion for those with a particular interest in the Golden Dawn tradition.
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| Philosopher's Stone by Israel Regardie
Buy used from: $18.57 Written before Regardie studied laboratory alchemy under Albertus, but a great introduction to Alchemy and Psychology.
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 | The Complete Guide to the Kabbalah: How to Apply the Ancient Mysteries of the Kabbalah to Your Everyday Life by Will Parfitt
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $6.46 Will Parfitt writes in an easy to understand manner. With his background in Psychosynthesis I highly recommend his writings.
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 | The Invisible Partners: How the Male and Female in Each of Us Affects Our Relationships by John A. Sanford
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $0.01 A good introduction to the Jungian concepts of the Anima and Animus. Important applications in magic and self growth. Sandford's other books are also worth a read.
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 | Moon Magic by Dion Fortune
Buy new: $17.05 / Used from: $6.87 A novel by Dion Fortune. I like fiction as a way of presenting esoteric concepts. Fortune's non-fiction is also worth reading.
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 | Spiritual Emergency (New Consciousness Reader) by Stanislav Grof
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $3.00 Learning to differentiate between spiritual emergence and mental illness is useful for the those interested in self exploration.
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 | Magick Without Tears by Aleister Crowley
In my opinion this is the best of Crowley's books dealing with Magic.
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| Trance: From Magic to Technology by Dennis R. Wier
Buy used from: $4.75 An excellent resource on Trance states. Essential reading if you want to go beyond the basics of trancework.
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 | The Tracker by Tom Brown
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.64 Tom Brown's books are a good read with snippets of teachings of Tom's mentor, Stalking Wolf. Some good points to ponder.
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