My Favorite Non-fiction Books
(I recommend the ‘blue’ citations to my students)- Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology by David Abram
- The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram
- The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization by William Barrett
- Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology by Gregory Bateson
- Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences) by Gregory Bateson
- The Anthropic Cosmological Principle by John D. Barrow, Frank J. Tipler and John A. Wheeler
- God’s Ecstasy: The Creation of a Self-Creating World by Beatrice Bruteau
- Radical Optimism: Practical Spirituality in an Uncertain World by Beatrice Bruteau
- Adventures Beyond the Body: How to Experience Out-of-Body Travel by William Buhlman
- Inka Mountain Magic by Zane Curfman
- A New Synthesis of Evolution (Teilhard de Chardin) by Joseph Kopp
- The Phenomenon of Man by Teilhard de Chardin
- In Search of the Medicine Buddha: A Himalayan Journey by David Crow
- The Principles of Quantum Mechanics by Paul A. M. Dirac
- All Consuming Images: The Politics Of Style In Contemporary Culture By Stuart Ewen
- Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman
- The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard P. Feynman
- The Coming of the Cosmic Christ: The Healing of Mother Earth and the Birth of a Global Renaissance by Matthew Fox
- Science and the Reenchantment of the Cosmos: The Rise of the Integral Vision of Reality Paperback by Ervin Laszlo
- Flesh of the Gods by Peter Furst
- Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking by R. Buckminster Fuller, E.J. Applewhite and Arthur L. Loeb
- Healing Our Deepest Wounds: The Holotropic Paradigm Shift by Stanislav Grof
- The Adventure of Self-Discovery: Dimensions of Consciousness and New Perspectives in Psychotherapy and Inner Exploration by Stanislav Grof
- Meetings with Remarkable Men by Georges Gurdjieff
- Gentle Bridges: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on the Sciences of Mind by Jeremy W. Hayward and Francisco J. Varela
- Integral City by Marilyn Hamilton
- The Shaman’s Doorway: Opening Imagination to Power and Myth by Stephen Larsen and John Halifax
- The Coming Interspiritual Age by Kurt Johnson and David Robert Ord
- Sorcery and Shamanism: Curanderos and Clients in Northern Peru by Donald Joralemon and Douglas Sharon
- The Undiscovered Self by Carl G. Jung
- Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung
- Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung, Aniela Jaffe, Clara Winston and Richard Winston
- The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution by Stuart A. Kauffman
- At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity by Stuart Kauffman
- A Story Waiting to Pierce You: Mongolia, Tibet and the Destiny of the Western World by Peter Kingsley
- Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos by Roger Lewin
- The Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton
- Peruvian Shamanism: The Pachakuti Mesa by Matthew Magee
- Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology by Jacques Monod and Austryn Wainhouse
- Anatomy of the Spirit by Caroline Myss
- Principles of Neurotheology by Andrew Newberg
- In Search of the Miraculous by PD Ouspensky
- psychology of man’s possible evolution by PD Ouspensky
- The Emperor’s New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics by Roger Penrose and Martin Gardner
- The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience by Benny Shanon
- The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper
- Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach by Karl Popper
- Wisdom Of The West: A Historical Survey of Western Philosophy in Its Social and Political Setting by Bertrand Russell
- Eduardo el Curandero: The Words of a Peruvian Healer by Eduardo Calderon, Richard Cowan, Douglas Sharon and F. Kaye Sharon
- The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer
- Wizard of the Four Winds: A Shaman’s Story by Douglas Sharon
- Art of the Andes: From the Chavin to Inca by Rebecca Stone
- DMT, the Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman
- The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World’s Religions by Wayne Teasdale and the Dalai Lama
- The Spirit of Shamanism by Roger Walsh
- The Integral Vision: A Very Short Introduction to the Revolutionary Integral Approach to Life, God, the Universe by Ken Wilber
- Integral Psychology: Consciousness, Spirit, Psychology, Therapy by Ken Wilber
- Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
- Integral Ecology: Uniting Multiple Perspectives on the Natural World by Sean Esbjorn-Hargens, Michael E. Zimmerman and Marc Bekoff
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