Spiritual help books

I have been browsing, but I just can't seem to find much. Some people tell me it's Mystical, that you have a taste of awakening or something like that.
Run. You might be interested in the latest "Life After God" podcast. It's a woman who went to regular church as a child, but was starting to doubt it, it wasn't all that lively. Then her sister invited to this charismatic prophetess, and boy was it lively. She got all filled with the spirit. The woman had no religious grounding, she jumped from Judaism to paganism to whatever. What she was good at was controlling and manipulating people. I'm not saying all religion does that, I'm saying the idea of suspending your mental faculties to obtain knowledge makes you vulnerable to a person like that.