The following reading list attempts to achieve a balance between the older classical books and modern expositions:

• Brennan, Barbara Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field (Bantam 1988)
• Brunton, Paul Healing of the Self Volume 7 of The Notebooks of Paul Brunton (Larson 1984-1986)
• Dale, Cyndi The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy [Illustrated] (Sounds True 2009)
• Johari, Harish The Chakras (Destiny 1987)
• Krieger, Dolores Therapeutic Touch As Transpersonal Healing (Lantern Books 2002)
• Krieger, Dolores Accepting Your Power to Heal: The Personal Practice of Therapeutic Touch (Bear 1993)
• Kunz, Dora & Dolores Krieger The Spiritual Dimension of Therapeutic Touch (Bear & Co. 2004)
• Leadbeater, C.W. Man, Visible and Invisible (TPH 1907/2000)
• Leadbeater, C.W. The Chakras (TPH 1972)
• Payne, Phoebe D. & Laurence J. Bendit The Psychic Sense (Faber & Faber 1943/1958)
• Schwartz, Gary E. The Energy Healing Experiments: Science Reveals Our Natural Power to Heal (Atria Books 2007)