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Recommended Reading List

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

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

On Bullshit | Harry Frankfurt

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

Thinking, Being | 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

After God | Peter Sloterdijk

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

Relevance | Dan Sperber

Episode 29

Relevance: Communication & Cognition | Dan Sperber

Things and Places | Zenon Pylyshyn

Minimal Rationality | Christopher Cherniak

Rationality | Harrold Brown

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

Wonder | Robert Fuller

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

The Idea of Holy | R. Otto

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

Meaning in Life and Why It Matters: 40 (The University Center for Human Values Series) | Susan Rose Wolf

Episode 37

Ethics | Benedict Spinoza

Communitas | Edith Turner

A Transformative Experience | L. A. Paul

Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming | Agnes Callard

Mysticism, Christian and Buddhist | DT Suzuki

Cohering the Integral We Space: Enabling Collective Emergence, Wisdom and Healing in Groups | Olen Gunnlaugson

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 

Biased | Henry Priest

The 25 Cognitive Biases: Understanding Human Psychology, Decision Making & How to Not Fall Victim to Them | Kai Musashi

Episode 42

Thinking Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman

The Ancestral Mind: Reclaim the Power | Gregg Jacobs

Mindset | Carol Dweck

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

The Scientific Study of Personal Wisdom: From Contemplative Traditions To Neuroscience | Michel Ferrari 

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

Imaginal Love | 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

The New Gnosis | Robert Avens

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

Imaginal Love | 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

Jung | Anthony Storr

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