A book I like to recommend to people interested in getting started in meditation is “A Path With Heart” by Jack Kornfield. It’s written by an author who is very decided not a rationalist and it’s filled with lots of references to supernatural things, but it’s also a very kind and gentle introduction to meditation and wider practice of the way. If you think of the supernatural stuff as metaphors rather than claims about physical reality, I think it can be quite helpful and teaches a lot of techniques and gives some good motivations for why and how they are useful.
A book I like to recommend to people interested in getting started in meditation is “A Path With Heart” by Jack Kornfield. It’s written by an author who is very decided not a rationalist and it’s filled with lots of references to supernatural things, but it’s also a very kind and gentle introduction to meditation and wider practice of the way. If you think of the supernatural stuff as metaphors rather than claims about physical reality, I think it can be quite helpful and teaches a lot of techniques and gives some good motivations for why and how they are useful.