FrankX LibraryA New EarthEckhart Tolle
Contemporary teaching
A New Earth
Eckhart Tolle
Tolle extends his account of presence into a discussion of ego, identity, and human relationships.
2 min guideA FrankX reading collection · 18 books
Awareness & inner life
Start with a question you can notice in daily life: what happens when you stop believing every thought? This shelf pairs spiritual memoir, contemporary teaching, and psychological perspectives. Read personal testimony as testimony, and compare the practices without assuming their worldviews are identical.
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18 books
FrankX LibraryAutobiography of a YogiParamahansa Yogananda
Spiritual memoir
Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda
Yogananda’s account of his life, teachers, and spiritual search connects personal narrative with his presentation of yoga to a wider readership.
2 min guideFrankX LibraryBe Here NowRam Dass
Spiritual memoir
Be Here Now
Ram Dass
An illustrated meeting of spiritual autobiography and practice, shaped by Ram Dass’s transformation and encounter with Indian devotional traditions.
2 min guideFrankX LibraryLiving UntetheredMichael A. Singer
Contemporary teaching
Living Untethered
Michael A. Singer
A continuation of Singer’s teaching on awareness, emotional patterns, and the work of releasing inner resistance.
2 min guideFrankX LibraryThe DhammapadaTeachings attributed to the Buddha
Primary text
The Dhammapada
Teachings attributed to the Buddha
A Buddhist verse collection concerned with conduct, attention, suffering, and the path of practice.
2 min guideFrankX LibraryThe Miracle of MindfulnessThich Nhat Hanh
Contemporary teaching
The Miracle of Mindfulness
Thich Nhat Hanh
A Buddhist introduction to bringing attention into ordinary activities, with a gentle emphasis on everyday practice.
2 min guideFrankX LibraryThe Power of NowEckhart Tolle
Contemporary teaching
The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle
Tolle’s teaching on presence examines identification with thought and the tendency to live through remembered pasts and imagined futures.
2 min guideFrankX LibraryThe Surrender ExperimentMichael A. Singer
Spiritual memoir
The Surrender Experiment
Michael A. Singer
Singer’s memoir describes how his practice of surrender developed through everyday decisions, community, and business life.
2 min guideFrankX LibraryThe Untethered SoulMichael A. Singer
Contemporary teaching
The Untethered Soul
Michael A. Singer
Singer invites readers to notice the inner voice and examine their relationship with thoughts, emotions, and resistance.
2 min guideFrankX LibraryThe Yoga SutrasAttributed to Patanjali
Primary text
The Yoga Sutras
Attributed to Patanjali
A compact classical account of yoga concerned with mind, practice, and liberation. Its scope extends well beyond physical postures.
2 min guideFrankX LibraryVijñāna-bhairava-tantraAnonymous; Shaiva Tantric tradition
Primary text
Vijñāna-bhairava-tantra
Anonymous; Shaiva Tantric tradition
A historical Shaiva Tantric dialogue presenting 112 contemplative practices within a religious understanding of awareness.
2 min guideFrankX LibraryWhen Things Fall ApartPema Chödrön
Contemporary teaching
When Things Fall Apart
Pema Chödrön
Contemplative reflections on meeting uncertainty and difficulty, grounded in Pema Chödrön’s Buddhist teaching.
2 min guideFrankX LibraryWisdom UntetheredMichael A. Singer
Contemporary teaching
Wisdom Untethered
Michael A. Singer
The Time for Questions brings Singer’s teaching into a question-led format concerned with applying spiritual ideas to ordinary life.
2 min guideFrankX LibraryHandbook to Higher ConsciousnessKen Keyes Jr.
Reading field note
Handbook to Higher Consciousness
Ken Keyes Jr.
Keyes built a practical system for converting emotion-backed demands into preferences, then using every disturbance as diagnostic feedback. Its durable core is outcome-independent action: want intensely, love without coercion, act decisively, and require no result to certify your wholeness.
22 min guideFrankX LibraryM TrainPatti Smith
Book review
M Train
Patti Smith
Patti Smith's second memoir is Just Kids turned inward: not a career narrative but a map of a creative consciousness at rest and at work. Organized around cafés, objects, journeys, reading, and grief for her late husband Fred “Sonic” Smith, it argues that presence is built from small repeated acts — the same table, the same coffee, the same attention — not from big moments.
7 min guideFrankX LibraryAltered TraitsDaniel Goleman and Richard Davidson
Book review
Altered Traits
Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson
A methodical audit of meditation research by two scientists who have studied it for 50 years combined. Goleman and Davidson separate what the data actually shows (reduced amygdala reactivity, sustained attention gains, structural brain changes with long practice) from overclaimed benefits, and define what "deep practice" looks like compared to the light doses most apps deliver.
7 min guideFrankX LibraryThe Creative Act: A Way of BeingRick Rubin
Book review
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin
Rick Rubin’s first book is the inner-state manual for the collection: not "make content" but how to be tuned enough that creation passes through you. Across 78 short meditations he argues the quality of your art is a direct function of the quality of your attention — and that your lifestyle should make you more receptive, not merely more stimulated. Draws on Zen and Taoist frames without citing them.
7 min guideFrankX LibraryNo Bad PartsRichard C. Schwartz
Book review
No Bad Parts
Richard C. Schwartz
Schwartz, the founder of Internal Family Systems, makes the case that the mind is not one voice — it is a system of parts (managers, firefighters, exiles) governed by a Self with eight leadership qualities. There are no bad parts, only burdened ones. The model is one of the cleanest available frameworks for personal development, leadership, and (in our extension) for designing self-led AI architectures.
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