I noticed below that someone was recommending books like The Third Eye by a guy called Lobsang Rampa so I decided to check it out on the Internet. I came up with this info:
''There has been a spate of books geared for the spiritual seeker carried in recent decades by publishing houses hoping to tap the expanding New Age/metaphysical market. Lenz’s own book mimics many others that use literary devices such as a mysterious spiritual master from a mysterious and ancient spiritual order. The remote Himalayan cultures and exotic Tibetan teachers have been foils for many authors. Often these authors gain a cult following gullible enough to believe that the writer actually experienced what he wrote about. For instance, there have been hundreds of thousands of people who believed that the books by T. Lobsang Rampa—the first was The Third Eye in 1956—were true stories by a Tibetan monk who gained psychic powers. In reality, T. Lobsang Rampa never existed. The books were written by Cyril Henry Hoskin, the son of a British plumber. He had never visited the Orient.''