A Rough Spiritual Training Guide

Here is what the current top level of research has uncovered about spiritual training:

There are four levels of reality, the one most people (97 - 99%) live exclusively in, is the first. I've taken the workable resources I've found and assigned them by level for workability

Note that all tools actually are applicable on all levels - it's the intention and use which determines the results.

A serious study of these levels themselves would be best found in Dr. Serge Kahili King's "Urban Shaman".

First Level - Objective: 
Here we find the most useful tools as being self-help classics. That line most basic pivots around Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich".

Hill credited Charles Haanel for his success in a letter. Haanel was influenced heavily by Thomas Troward (among other authors). Troward himself studied all the major religions in their own language while a Judge in provincial India.

Later authors who profited by study of Hill were Earl Nightingale, and his protege' Bob Proctor.

An offshoot of this is T. Harv Eker, who pushes spiritual training and progress through his Millionaire Mind Instensive.

Also at this level is Silva Method and Levenson Releasing Technique. Silva allows you to quickly reach an effective meditative state. Release Technique allows quick handling of emotional programs so that you can simply identify and release non-workable self-programming which may still be affecting your daily living.

Releasing in conjunction with Silva Method (and vice-versa) tends to supercharge their results.

Second Level - Subjective:
This is also the intuitive or psychic level.

The tools here are Silva's UltraMind, particularly the LaTourette version. Laura Silva has expanded on her father's work with Silva Peaks, covering roughly the same material, but in an updated version (and improved marketing approach.)

Napoleon Hill's chapter on the Sixth Sense is also applicable. He offers many tools throughout his book which verge on the psychic.

Third Level - Symbolic:
This is also the area of dreams.  While Huna has the Dream Garden, Silva has the Mental Laboratory. Hill covered this with his "Invisible Counselors".  All are workable techniques to find meaning behind dreams - and this dream we call life.

But dreams can also be crafted and used as a tool. There is an introductory dreams section in Dr. King's "Mastering Your Hidden Self". However, more techniques are discussed in his "Urban Shaman".

Two very useful books in this area are Joseph Campbell's "Hero With A Thousand Faces," and Chris Vogler's "Writer's Journey".  Both explore the idea of Jung's archetypes as simple methods of sorting out the influences within any given dream-world, as well as the characters within it.

Techniques which enable Lucid Dreaming or Astral Projection or Remote Viewing would probably be workable. Again, consider them in light of King's notes about dreams being an always-on ability, first.

Fourth Level - Holistic:
This is still under research. At this point, you become closest to Self - a hairline breadth away.

The bulk of this deals with being everything around you. Any error or problem or situation is due to an insufficiency of beingness extended in that direction, or into that identity or object or lifeform.

Closest approach to this would be Release Technique at its upper end of application - where you release any need or want for actual separation from the universe. Your individuality itself can be let go of - quite a bit beyond the simple fear of death. This is the start of regaining your own immortality, which can't be described in simple terms of the earlier 3 levels.

At this level, you Just Be.

Now.