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Autobiography of a Yogi

Paramahansa Yogananda

Yogananda’s spiritual autobiography moves from his Bengali childhood and search for a guru through discipleship under Sri Yukteswar, encounters with saints and yogis, and his work establishing Kriya Yoga in the United States. Memoir, spiritual instruction, interreligious interpretation, and hagiographic wonder stories combine to present yoga as a path toward direct realization of God rather than primarily physical exercise.

Hindu / VedanticModerate349 pages
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The Awakened Brain

Lisa Miller

Clinical psychologist Lisa Miller combines personal narrative with research on spirituality, development, depression, resilience, and the brain. She argues that a capacity for spiritual awareness is part of human life and that cultivating connection to something larger than the isolated self can support meaning and psychological well-being.

Clinical psychology and neuroscience — spirituality and resilienceApproachable288 pages
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The Demon-Haunted World

Carl Sagan; Ann Druyan

Astronomer Carl Sagan, with Ann Druyan, defends scientific skepticism as a public discipline for distinguishing well-supported claims from error, fraud, and wishful thinking. Through discussions of UFOs, alien abduction, pseudoscience, education, media, and the history of scientific inquiry, the book develops a ‘baloney detection kit’ while arguing that wonder and rigorous doubt need not be enemies.

Secular / HumanistModerate480 pages
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The Varieties of Spiritual Experience

David B. Yaden; Andrew B. Newberg

David Yaden and Andrew Newberg update William James's classic inquiry with contemporary psychology and neuroscience. They distinguish types of spiritual experience, examine how such experiences arise and affect people, and separate the study of reported experience from conclusions about ultimate reality.

Psychology and neuroscience of religion — methodologically agnosticDemanding430 pages
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Why Buddhism Is True

Robert Wright

Robert Wright uses evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, personal meditation experience, and selected Buddhist teachings to examine craving, dissatisfaction, perception, no-self, and moral concern. He argues that natural selection shaped minds to pursue fitness rather than see reality impartially, and that mindfulness practice can expose some of these distortions and loosen their hold.

Secular / HumanistApproachable336 pages