{"id":10733,"date":"2026-09-22T10:12:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T08:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kinthia.com\/blog\/esoteric-books-recommended-reading\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T10:12:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T08:12:40","slug":"esoteric-books-recommended-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kinthia.com\/en\/blog\/esoteric-books-recommended-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Esoteric Books: Recommended Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you asking yourself &#8220;How do I know if I have a gift?&#8221;, &#8220;How do I communicate with the dead?&#8221;, or &#8220;How do I develop my abilities?&#8221; Then read this. This &#8220;library&#8221; section, which I&#8217;ll update as regularly as I can, gives you the books worth reading. I rank them by level: beginner, intermediate, and advanced.<\/p>\n<p>When you set out on the esoteric adventure, reading is essential (if not mandatory). Why? Because starting without any foundations, or without knowing the slightest esoteric teaching, is truly risky.<\/p>\n<p>Would you go bungee jumping without the cord? No. Esotericism works the same way.<\/p>\n<p>In my view, two books are must-reads:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kardec: &#8220;The Spirits&#8217; Book&#8221; and &#8220;The Mediums&#8217; Book&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-6 text-center\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/rcm-fr.amazon.fr\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;IS2=1&#038;nou=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=FF8500&#038;t=kinthia-21&#038;o=8&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;asins=2290346888\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-lg-6 text-center\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/rcm-fr.amazon.fr\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=FF8500&#038;t=kinthia-21&#038;o=8&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;asins=229000118X\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Both are full of practical, interesting advice, and rich in teachings. You have to read them. You&#8217;ll learn what kind of medium you are, how to develop your abilities, how to communicate with the Spirits, and so on. A small reading tip: take your time, so that Kardec&#8217;s teaching has a chance to sink in.<\/p>\n<p>For beginners who want to ease into the world of psychic reading and learn without effort, I also recommend Laurence Pelegry&#8217;s &#8220;Initiation \u00e0 la voyance&#8221; (an introduction to clairvoyance) and Marie Delclos&#8217;s &#8220;Le guide de la voyance&#8221; (a guide to clairvoyance).<br \/>\nBoth are written in a truly lucid, clear style. Another one, with a more general approach that beginners may find easier to take in: Paul Roland&#8217;s &#8220;Et si vous \u00e9tiez m\u00e9dium&#8221; (what if you were a medium?). I wouldn&#8217;t recommend it to experienced readers, or to those who are already well advanced. It&#8217;s mainly a simple, easy-to-follow first approach.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-4 text-center\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/rcm-fr.amazon.fr\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=FF8500&#038;t=kinthia-21&#038;o=8&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;asins=2841971236\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-lg-4 text-center\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/rcm-fr.amazon.fr\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=FF8500&#038;t=kinthia-21&#038;o=8&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;asins=2290352543\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-lg-4 text-center\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/rcm-fr.amazon.fr\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=FF8500&#038;t=kinthia-21&#038;o=8&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;asins=2012602215\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>For beginners and advanced readers alike, one of the best I currently know, and one that covers quite a few esoteric topics, is Jane Struthers&#8217;s &#8220;The Psychic Bible&#8221; (in French, &#8220;La bible de la parapsychologie&#8221;, translated by Antonia Leibovici).<br \/>\nTo me, it&#8217;s one of the best on the market. And of course, I can&#8217;t leave out Boutboul&#8217;s book: &#8220;D\u00e9veloppez vos facult\u00e9s psychiques et spirituelles&#8221; (develop your psychic and spiritual abilities).<br \/>\nIts pictures make the author&#8217;s points easy to grasp, which is why I also recommend it to those who understand better with images (that&#8217;s me!). It&#8217;s very easy to follow and speaks to beginners and advanced readers alike. Very informative.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-6 text-center\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/rcm-fr.amazon.fr\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=FF8500&#038;t=kinthia-21&#038;o=8&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;asins=2844458815\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-lg-6 text-center\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/rcm-fr.amazon.fr\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=FF8500&#038;t=kinthia-21&#038;o=8&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;asins=2911525663\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve already read Kardec, there&#8217;s a very interesting book by Rose Vanden Eynden: &#8220;So You Want to Be a Medium?&#8221;.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s just as clear. Rose Vanden Eynden has her own approach, and she goes further into the question of Angels.<br \/>\nOn that subject, it&#8217;s a reference work in my view. I really enjoyed reading it: it&#8217;s easy to understand, and the writing is very pleasant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-center\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/rcm-fr.amazon.fr\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=FF8500&#038;t=kinthia-21&#038;o=8&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;asins=2895654832\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you want to dig into the chakras, I recommend Joan-P Miller&#8217;s practical chakra handbook.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s very detailed. You&#8217;ll come away with a deep knowledge of each of our chakras.<br \/>\nIt even offers a view on the links between the chakras, daily life, food, and so on. Quite informative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-center\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/rcm-fr.amazon.fr\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=FF8500&#038;t=kinthia-21&#038;o=8&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;asins=2848950110\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For intermediate and advanced readers, I can only strongly recommend Roger de Lafforest&#8217;s &#8220;Ces maisons qui tuent&#8221; (houses that kill).<br \/>\nThis book is absolutely remarkable, and very, very informative.<br \/>\nI devoured it from cover to cover.<br \/>\nThe author explores the link he sees between the ground a house stands on and the lives of the people who live in it. His in-depth research inspires the reader.<br \/>\nThis book is a marvel. A few small points in the writing bothered me and make it heavier, but that&#8217;s only my opinion, so it&#8217;s subjective.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-center\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/rcm-fr.amazon.fr\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=FF8500&#038;t=kinthia-21&#038;o=8&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;asins=2221001451\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For advanced readers, I can only point you to the teachings of Father Fran\u00e7ois Brune, which are, in my view, the most beautiful after Kardec&#8217;s.<br \/>\nHe explains the means we have to contact the &#8220;departed&#8221;, and we learn that the dead aren&#8217;t dead in the strict sense of the word.<br \/>\nIf you are grieving, this reading will change your mind on quite a few points. The two volumes go together, and I think you really must read them both.<br \/>\n&#8220;Les morts nous parlent&#8221; (the dead speak to us), volumes 1 and 2.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-6 text-center\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/rcm-fr.amazon.fr\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=FF8500&#038;t=kinthia-21&#038;o=8&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;asins=2253125911\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-lg-6 text-center\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/rcm-fr.amazon.fr\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=FF8500&#038;t=kinthia-21&#038;o=8&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;asins=225312592X\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>For those who are grieving, I also warmly recommend a book that moved me deeply: &#8220;Dites-leur que la mort n&#8217;existe pas&#8221; (tell them that death does not exist) by Jean Winter and G\u00e9rald de Dampierre.<br \/>\nThis book is a pure delight, a spellbinding, irresistible kind of magic. It&#8217;s quite simply a reference for anyone who wants to understand the afterlife and communication through automatic writing.<br \/>\nYou absolutely must read it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-center\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/rcm-fr.amazon.fr\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=FF8500&#038;t=kinthia-21&#038;o=8&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;asins=2911525183\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now!<\/p>\n<p><b>I am firm on one point: people in a fragile state (emotionally, mentally, or otherwise) should under no circumstances approach esotericism!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The esoteric books I recommend, ranked by level from beginner to advanced: Kardec, mediumship, psychic abilities, chakras, the afterlife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fortune-telling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kinthia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kinthia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kinthia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinthia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinthia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinthia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10774,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinthia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10733\/revisions\/10774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinthia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kinthia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinthia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinthia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}