be here now /

be here now /

“The next message you need is always right where you are.”

-RAM DASS

some friends that have helped me along the way :)

but remember that the greatest teacher of all is:

E X P E R I E N C E

( check out my playlists on SPOTIFY if music is your love language - they’re kind of a mess, but made with so much love)

Books:

  • autobiography of a yogi - yogananda

  • becoming supernatural - joe dispenza

  • the celestine prophecy - james redfield

  • the kybalion - the three initiates

  • the tao te ching - hackett classics

  • song of myself - walt whitman

  • the four agreements - don miguel ruiz

  • the fifth agreement - the ruiz family

  • a new earth - eckhart tolle

  • the power of now - eckart tolle

  • the mastery of self - don miguel ruiz jr.

  • the tao of physics - fritjof capra

  • the 7 spiritual laws of success - chopra

  • you are here - thich naht han

  • old path, white clouds - thich naht han

  • journey of souls - michael newton

  • the holographic universe - michael talbot

  • how yoga works - geshe michael

  • become what you are - alan watts

  • the secret teachings of all ages - manly p. hall

  • ACIM (made easy) - alan cohen

  • the wisdom of the enneagram - don richard riso & russ hudson

  • secrets of the talking jaguar - martin prechtel

  • the untethered soul - michael alan singer

  • on the road - keruoac

  • food of the gods - terrence mckenna

  • holy cow - sarah macdonald

  • saltwater buddha - jaimal yogis

  • the limited mind - john sarno

  • the way out - alan gordon

  • atomic habits - james clear

  • man & his symbols - carl jung

  • an intro to zen buddhism - d.t. suzuki

  • siddhartha - herman hesse

  • the hermetica - tim freke & peter gandy

  • the bhagavad gita

  • the bible

  • the upanishads

poetry:

  • love poems from god - daniel ladinsky

  • be here now - ram dass

  • the song of myself - walt whitman

  • the prophet - khalil gabran

  • devotions - mary oliver

  • the essential rumi - coleman barks

  • a book of luminous things -czeslaw milosz

  • any poetry by rumi, hafiz, kabir, meister eckhart, mary oliver, walt whitman, ana swir, etc.

PODCASTS:

TV SHOWS:

  • undone (prime)

  • the good place (netflix)

  • anything on GAIA (streaming device - free episodes on youtube)

films:

  • everything everywhere all at once

  • captain fantastic

  • waking life

  • arrival

  • journeys to the edge of consciousness

  • the alpinist

  • fantastic fungi

  • life itself

  • interstellar

  • the secret life of walter mitty

  • sing street

  • inception

  • kiss the ground

  • they live

  • lucy

  • the other one (grateful dead)

  • man on the moon + jim & andy (watch both back to back)

  • inner worlds, outer worlds (or anything on Gaia for that matter)

  • into the wild

  • dead poet’s society

  • collateral beauty

  • 180 degrees south

  • transcendence

  • dr. strange

“When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous than you thought it was.”

– Alan Watts