Kumankaya's Essential Reading List.
- Kumankaya Healing Center
- Nov 3, 2025
- 2 min read
Updated: Nov 7, 2025
There are several hundred books that adorn the shelves of Kumankaya's library. But there are a select few that we stand behind...
These are some of the best accounts of plant medicine, lucid dreaming, emotional mastery, and insightful storytelling. For all eager students and avid learners, if you haven't read these yet, now might be the time.
We hope you get as much out of them as we did.
A Swiss science journalist, Yves Duc has dived into the mysterious world of Amazonian shamans, a world totally at odds with rational science, and experienced at first hand the initiation rites undergone by apprentices…
Very few Westerners have undergone an Amazonian shamanic education over such a long time-period, apprenticed to a single healer, and to date even fewer have delivered such a detailed and complete account.
Dreams of Awakening is a thorough and exciting exploration of lucid dreaming theory and practice within both Western and Tibetan Buddhist contexts.
This revised edition includes up-to-date scientific research, new sections on the use of lucid dreaming to aid the treatment of anxiety, panic attacks, nightmares and healing your inner child, together with brand new techniques for day- and night-time practice.
When Herman Hesse visited India in the early days of the 20th century, he was captivated by the people, their customs, their culture, and their religion.
On returning to Germany, he wrote a masterpiece on a young man's search for identity and meaning in a civilization that has lost its way. Loosely based on the early life of the Buddha, the book documents the journey of self-discovery and spiritual awakening of a character called Siddhartha.
In The Four Agreements, a perennial bestseller published in dozens of languages worldwide, don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom,
The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.
Every emotion―even shame, anger, and anxiety―brings us vital information and wisdom. Emotions―especially the unwanted and dishonored ones―hold a tremendous amount of energy.
“Too often, we either repress our feelings or let them run wild,” says researcher and educator Karla McLaren. “What many of us were never taught are the fundamental skills for honoring and understanding our profound, powerful emotions.”
In The Way of the Superior Man, Deida explores the most important issues in men’s lives―from career and family to women and intimacy to love and spirituality―to offer a practical guidebook for living a masculine life of integrity, authenticity, and freedom.
Join this bestselling author and internationally renowned expert on sexual spirituality for straightforward advice, empowering skills, body practices, and more to help you realize a life of fulfillment, immediately and without compromise.
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