Parables?

[RemoteTouch]

what are some good fiction novels that can be used as a tool for spiritual development?

[no_leaf_clover]

This is like attacking a sphere with a straight line,  there is only so much each author can do for you.


Carlos Castaneda books are well-known for this..


The Hindu "Bhagavad Gita" is well worth the read.  It was one of those texts that changed my life when I read it.

[Stillwater]

Haha....

The Zhuangzi is incredible ( early Daoist text that reads like existentialist literature, many episodic stories)

[caterpillarwoman]

Jed McKenna.There's a trilogy, starting with "Spiritual Enlightenment the Damndest Thing", followed by "Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment" and then "Spiritual Warfare". After that, there's a collection of material from the three books that got edited out for various reasons, which I only recommend if you read all three books and like them.

Jed McKenna is a fictional character (as are we all, which is kind of the point), and the situations are fictional, but the books can be a real challenge to one's concepts of "reality".

[gdo]

What kind of fiction do you like?

Everything you read is part of your development, since YOU are spirit. 

[RemoteTouch]

I like inspirational stories that involve the heart