My Favorite Non-fiction Books

• 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
• Buddha’s Brain by Rick Hanson
• The Shaman’s Doorway: Opening Imagination to Power and Myth by Stephen Larsen and John Halifax
• Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• 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
• The Dark Places of Wisdom by Peter Kingsley
• 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