Awakening From the Meaning Crisis Book List:
Episode 1
The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art | David Lewis-Williams
Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence | Andy Clark
Waking From Sleep: Why Awakening Experiences Occur and How to Make Them Permanent | Steve Taylor
Episode 2
Educating Intuition | Robin M. Hogarth
Mind, Reason, and Being-in-the-World: The McDowell-Dreyfus Debate | Joseph K. Schear
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined | Steven Pinker
Educating Intuition | Robin M. Hogarth
Shamanism: A Biopsychosocial Paradigm of Consciousness and Healing | Michael J. Winkelman
Supernatural Selection: How Religion Evolved | Matt Rossano
Metaphors We Live By | George Lakoff
The Origin and Goal of History (Routledge Revivals) | Karl Jaspers
The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions | Karen Armstrong
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Turning Points in Ancient History, 1) | Eric H. Cline
The Axial Age and Its Consequences | Robert N. Bellah
The Dhammapada: The Path of Perfection (Penguin Classics) | Anonymous
Episode 13
The Awakening of the West | Stephen Batchelor
Alone With Others | Stephen Batchelor
Buddhism Without Beliefs | Stephen Batchelor
After Buddhism | Stephen Batchelor
Memoirs of an Addicted Brain | Marc Lewis
Episode 14
The Global Destruction of Home | J Porteous and Sandra Smith
Episode 17
Ethics | Benedictus de Spinoza
The Sovereignty of Good | Iris Murdoch
The Reasons of Love – Book | Harry Frankfurt
The Importance of What We Care About | Harry Frankfurt
A Transformative Experience | L. A. Paul
Episode 18
The Gnostic Religion | Hans Jonas
The Gnostic New Age | April Deconick
Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty First Century Crisis | John Vervaeke
The Courage to Be | Paul Tillitch
American Fascists | Chris Hedges
I Don’t Believe in Atheists | Chris Hedges
PLOTINUS Ennead V.1: On the Three Primary Levels of Reality | Eric Perl
Episode 19
The Confessions | St Augustine
Memoirs of an Addicted Brain | Mark Lewis
Sacred Reading: The Ancient Art of Lectio Divina | Michael Casey
Episode 20
Episode 21
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism | Max Weber
Episode 22
Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain | Antonio Damasio
Episode 23
The Lost Knowledge of the Imagination | Gary Lachman
The Sorrows Of Young Werther | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins
Episode 24
Thinking Being: Introduction to Metaphysics in the Classical Tradition | Eric Perl
In Praise of Heteronomy: Making Room for Revelation (Philosophy of Religion) | Merold Westphal
Transcendence and Self Transcendence | Merold Westphal
Episode 25
Transformative Experience | LA Paul
I Don’t Believe in Atheists | Chris Hedges
Episode 26
Plausible Reasoning | Nicholas Rescher
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking | Daniel C. Dennett
Practical Induction | Elijah Millgram
Episode 27
How to Solve It | George Pólya
Episode 28
Episode 29
Relevance: Communication & Cognition | Dan Sperber
Things and Places | Zenon Pylyshyn
Minimal Rationality | Christopher Cherniak
Episode 32
The Architecture of Cognition: Rethinking Fodor and Pylyshyns Systematicity Challenge | John Symons
Your Brain Is Almost Perfect | Read Montague
Being In The World | Hubert L. Dreyfus
Episode 33
The Joy of Secularism | George Levine
The Mystery of Being: Reflection and Mystery | Gabriel Marcel
Father of American psychology | William James
Truth Is Stranger Than It Used to Be | Brian Walsh
Episode 34
Metaphors We Live By | Lakoff and Johnson
After Phrenology: Neural Reuse and the Interactive Brain | Michael Anderson
Episode 35
The BBC Reith Lectures | Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran
Unlocking the Mystery of Human Nature | Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran
Charles Taylor, Michael Polanyi and the Critique of Modernity | Michael Polanyi
Also sprach Zarathustra | Richard Serra
On Being Me: A Personal Invitation to Philosophy | J. David Velleman
Episode 36
Beyond Price: Essays on Birth and Death | J. David Velleman
Self to Self: Selected Essays | J. David Velleman
The View From Nowhere | Thomas Nagel
Episode 37
A Transformative Experience | L. A. Paul
Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming | Agnes Callard
Mysticism, Christian and Buddhist | DT Suzuki
Episode 38
Meaning In Life and Why If Matters | Susan Wolf
The Psychology of Awakening | Francisco Varela
Mind In Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind | Evan Thompson
Challenging the Modern Synthesis: Adaptation, Development, and Inheritance | Dennis Walsh
The New Science of the Mind: From Extended Mind to Embodied Phenomenology | Mark Rowlands
Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain | Antonio Damasio
The Sacred Depths of Nature | Ursula Goodenough
Episode 39
The Religious Case Against Belief | James Carse
The Religion of the Future | Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Religion for Atheists | Alain de Botton
The New Inquisitions | Arthur Versluis
Wisdom: It’s nature, origins and development | Robert J Sternberg
A Handbook of Wisdom: Psychological Perspectives | Robert J Sternberg
The Cambridge Handbook of Wisdom | Robert J Sternberg
the Scientific Study of Personal Wisdom | Michel Ferrari
Episode 40
Moral Wisdom and Good Lives | John Kekes
Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming | Agnes Callard
Episode 41
Models of Bounded Rationality: Empirically Grounded Economic Reason Volume 3 | Herbert Simon
Episode 42
Thinking Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman
The Ancestral Mind: Reclaim the Power | Gregg Jacobs
Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid | Robert J Sternberg
What Intelligence Tests Miss | Keith E. Stanovich
Episode 43
Practical Wisdom: The Right Way To Do The Right Thing | Kenneth Sharpe
Episode 44
Bounded Rationality | Herbert Simon
Wisdom: Its Nature, Origins, and Development | Robert J Sternberg
A Handbook Of Wisdom: Psychological Perspectives | Robert J Sternberg
The Cambridge Handbook of Wisdom | Robert J Sternberg
Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid | Robert J Sternberg
Applying Wisdom To Contemporary World Problems | Robert J Sternberg
Teaching For Wisdom, Intelligence, Creativity, and Success | Robert J Sternberg
Wisdom, Intelligence, And Creativity Synthesized | Robert J Sternberg
Episode 45
Scientific Understanding: Philosophical Perspectives | Henk de Regt
Understanding Scientific Understanding | Henk de Regt
Explaining Understanding: New Perspective From Epistemology And Philosophy Of Science | Henk de Regt
Transformative Experience | L. A. Paul
Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming | Agnes Callard
Episode 46
The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology | Edmund Husserl
Cartesian Meditations | Edmund Husserl
The Mystical Element in Heidegger’s Thought | John Caputo
The Courage To Be | Paul Tillich
The World Turned Inside Out | Tom Cheetham
All The World An Icon | Tom Cheetham
The Psyche as Sacrament | John Dourley
Paul Tillich, Carl Jung and the Recovery of Religion | John Dourley
Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory Of Everything | Graham Harman
The Scent Of Time | Byung-Chul Han
The Kyoto School: An Introduction | Robert E. Carter
The Nothingness Beyond God: An Introduction To The Philosophy Of Nishida Kitaro | Robert E. Carter
Religion and Nothingness | Keiji Nishitani
Introduction to Phenomenology | Robert Sokolowski
Experimental Phenomenology | Don Ihde
Retrieving Realism | Charles Taylor
Phenomenology of Perception | Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Episode 47
Basic Writings | Martin Heidegger
The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology | Edmund Husserl
The End of Phenomenology | Tom Sparrow
Phenomenology of Perception | Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory Of Everything | Graham Harman
Being-In-The-World | Hubert Dreyfus
What Computers Can’t Do | Hubert Dreyfus
What Computers Still Can’t Do | Hubert Dreyfus
Retrieving Realism | Charles Taylor
Episode 48
The Mystical Element In Heidegger’s Thought | John David Caputo
Heidegger and Asian Thought | Physis
Heidegger’s Hidden Sources | Reinhard May
Lost Knowledge of the Imagination | Gary Lachman
The World Turned Inside Out | Tom Cheetham
All The World An Icon | Tom Cheetham
Our Divine Double | Charles M. Stang
Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming | Agnes Callard
Episode 49
Modern Man in Search of a Soul | Carl Jung
Freud and Philosophy | Paul Ricœur
The Search for Roots | Alfred Ribi
Episode 50
The Courage To Be | Paul Tillitch
Morality & Beyond | Paul Tillitch
The Psyche as Sacrament | John P. Dourley
Paul Tillich, Carl Jung and the Recovery of Religion | John P. Dourley
A Strategy for a Loss of Faith | John P. Dourley
Religion and Nothingness | Keiji Nishitani
Anatheism: Returning To God After God | Richard Kearney
The Rediscovery of Meaning, and Other Essays | Owen Barfield
Lost Knowledge of the Imagination | Gary Lachman
The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings | Philip Zaleski
Owen Barfield: Philosophy, Poetry, and Theology | Michael Vincent Di Fuccia
The Mystical Element In Heidegger’s Thought | John David Caputo