100 Books Like The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light

It is a pivotal book, and I have used it for nearly everything I’ve written. It is very well thought out, researched, translated, and contains a lot of material that other early researchers of Egyptian spirituality overlooked. When I was downsizing my library, I found I had two copies of this book and I kept them both. One I had heavily underlined, and the other pristine version I kept as clean as possible.

Many of the myths that were told in other tomes were told here in clear, concise language. In every class I teach, I recommend this book to those who ask, “Where can I find more about what the Egyptians actually thought about God… the afterlife…, and the role of man in the sciences?” Here it is.

I read this book several times when it first came out. I attended Jean’s mystery school based on this seminal work. It became a part of nearly every bibliography of every book I authored because of her radical way of accessing one’s consciousness.

She emphasized creativity and boundless potentiality. Because of her work, my interest in metaphysical work grew. Her deep dive into ancient histories fueled my work in Egyptian symbols. As a result, I traveled with Jean on my first tour of Egypt.

I love, love, love this compact, illustrated compendium for its exploration of sacred texts from various world religions. This book became my first go to book for creating texts adaptable for sermons and lectures on spirituality and consciousness.

I relish the many perspectives on the universal themes of the nature of the Supreme Being, what constitutes the good life, why love and service matter, what the role of fate and free will is in our lives, and how consciousness survives death.

I recommend it to every one of my metaphysical students preparing for ordination as a priestess in the Kemetic religion or as a Spiritualist minister.

The study of angels became a natural outgrowth for me out of my study of Egypt. In the end, it is important to understand the consciousness of the metaphysical mind of the ancients as well as the moderns. This book offered me both.

I celebrate the way this book bridges the concepts of science and spirit. Quantum physics and quantum mechanics as ways I understand now as the building blocks of matter, mind, and creative imagination. I liked the way it challenged a materialistic and mechanical view of the world. To me, physics is applied magic. It had me thinking deeply about the nature of reality, consciousness, and the intersection of science and spirituality.

Although I adore both authors separately, this book went over the top in becoming a dialog between two seminal thinkers and philosophers.

What I like about Prakash's book is that it is a very analytical text, very technical in a sense: it is simply trying to see if there are influences in Indian mythological stories from other cultures.

And with the same simplicity, he shows that there are, and in particular, Greek ones. He does it in such a way that you don't have to know much about Indian myths to understand it, and with a lot of (sometimes too much?) prudence.

This is a wonderful historical fiction story, which I love for the way the tale has been crafted around a ghostly lighthouse inhabitant, weaving in and out of time.

Lighthouse legends and their historical backgrounds have always been fascinating for me. Fictional stories based on historical facts always draw me in. This particular author visits the locations in the stories to gather the information, which is something I admire greatly. The kids in this story become convinced they could assist in helping to right a past wrong. It had me thinking: what if we were able to do that?

I love this as a page-turning adventure for young readers to immerse themselves and learn some interesting facts, along with a tale for the imagination.

When the pandemic first started and we learned that we would be teaching fully online, I snuck back into my office on campus to grab the books I knew that I would need during the pandemic. This was one of the first books I grabbed because I knew that I needed to reread it before I answered any questions about COVID.

Paula Treichler does an amazing job discussing how disease has an “epidemic of meanings” and how those meaning influence the decisions we make and how we treat others. This book clearly shows how some narratives take hold while others are obscured. 

Know your audience? I’m kidding—never condescend; there’s nothing to be gained. Leave the smug cleverness to the Gladwells and Pinkers; we’re seeking higher ground here. What is culture? Don’t act like you don’t want to talk about it – or the stakes. This is THE TALK we actually need to have.

We have an affinity for our own habits, and Bourdieu walks us through them using the socially innocent language of likes and dislikes. His is a very straightforward discussion of experiences and social conditions that you didn’t know you needed. How do tastes vary, and why? Hmmmm.

I think this is probably one of the most interesting, albeit lesser-known, books about the modern Stoic revival. Modern Stoicism is a dynamic movement that comprises many different voices and potential applications of the philosophy.

I love how this varied collection of essays, under the skillful editorial eyes of Greg Sadler and Leah Goldrick, has us thinking one minute about how Stoicism and mindfulness can intertwine and the next about what a Stoic would make of Jordan Peterson, all the while never losing sight of the power of the philosophy for personal transformation.

I highly recommend this book, a comprehensive ‘snapshot’ of all the different ways Stoicism can enrich our personal and collective lives. 

Culture is how we group ourselves. Culture is how we see. To make ourselves understood by people of other cultures, we have to lend them our eyes. That’s hard, but Yu Hua meets that challenge for me. His book China in Ten Words offers ten essays about China, each with a one-word title: Revolution. Reading. Copycat. Words like that. Each essay surrounds its title-word with content until one understands what the word means, not to oneself, but to Hua. The essays work like a fusion of memoir and history. They draw the reader into one man’s experience; and at the same time they illuminate a broad patch of history—Maoist and post-Maoist China.