Books like Hidden wisdom by Richard Smoley

The Kybalion offers the core principles of Hermetic philosophy, tracing their origins in ancient Egypt and Greece and inviting scholars to reflect on the enduring truth of these timeless teachings.

Bob Frissell’s guide blends personal self‑discovery with teachings on polar shifts, Hopi prophecies, and hidden government forces, offering a New Age perspective on spiritual lives and higher selves.

This work, incorporating previously unpublished interviews and articles, retraces the quest of Henry Corbin into the imaginal realm of the unseen real, the domains of angels and numinous beings. A study of religious philosophy, an exploration of visionary faith, these pages offer a superb meditation on the great themes of Perso-Islamic mysticism - the Sufi theory of knowledge, the voyage within the soul, le rituel de la coupe - and an illuminating glimpse into the philosophic universes of Sohravardi, Ibn Arabi, and Molla Sarda Shirazi.

The success of books such as Elaine Pagels's Gnostic Gospels and Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code proves beyond a doubt that there is a tremendous thirst today for finding the hidden truths of Christianity – truths that may have been lost or buried by institutional religion over the last two millennia. In Forbidden Faith, Richard Smoley narrates a popular history of one such truth, the ancient esoteric religion of gnosticism, which flourished between the first and fourth centuries A.D., but whose legacy remains even today, having survived secretly throughout the ages.

"Western esotericism has now emerged as an academic study in its own right, combining spirituality with an empirical observation of the natural world while also relating humanity to the universe through a harmonious celestial order. This introduction to the Western esoteric traditions offers a concise overview of their historical development." "Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke explores these traditions, from their roots in Hermeticism, Neo-Platonism, and Gnosticism in the early Christian era up to their reverberations in today's scientific paradigms. While the study of Western esotericism is usually confined to the history of ideas, Goodrick-Clarke examines the phenomenon much more broadly. He demonstrates that, far from being a strictly intellectual movement, the spread of esotericism owes a great deal to geopolitics and globalization." "Goodrick-Clarke further examines modern esoteric thought in the light of new scientific and medical paradigms along with the analytical psychology of Carl Gustav Jung. This book traces the complete history of these movements and is the definitive account of Western esotericism."--Jacket.

Organized into three sections--Lifeology, Control, and Thrive--Modern Esoteric delves into human history in an unconventional way and reorients the curious to include radically different theories and points of view, leading towards new and exciting thoughts on achieving your maximum potential. The Lifeology section explores the long and storied alternative narrative of life on this planet. The Control section examines how Big Brother is here in the form of the New World Order. Finally, the Thrive section looks at all the ways humans are evolving to achieve their full potential.