Reading List

Memoir / (Auto) Biography

Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda (Awakening)
In Search of the Miraculous, P. D. Ouspensky (Awakening for the hyper rational)
Grace and Grit, Ken Wilbur (Grief and Loss)
Play of Consciousness, Swami Muktananda (Awakening)
Cave in the Snow, Vicki Mackenzie (Heroine’s Journey)
Journey’s Out of the Body, Robert Monroe
When the Impossible Happens, Stan Groff
In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park
The Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Night Trilogy, Elie Wiesel (Holocaust)
Memories, Dreams, Reflections, C.G. Jung
In Love with the World, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (The death process)
The Electric Kool Aid Acid Trip, Tom Wolfe
The Life of Milarepa, Tsangnyon Heruka
Being Selfish, Sarah Marshank (Heroine’s Journey)
The American Prophet, Sydney Kirkpatrick
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
AutoBiography of Malcolm X, Alex Haley and Malcolm X
Hiking with Nietzsche, On becoming Who you Are, John Kaag
Educated, Tara Westover (Heroine’s Journey)
A Book of Life, Peter Kingsley

Toxic: Heal Your Body from Mold Toxicity, Lyme Disease, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, and Chronic Environmental Illness, Neil Nathan, MD
Breath, the New Science of a Lost Art, James Nestor
Healing Chronic and Complex Health Conditions: Dr Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, PhD / Sophia Health Institute, Dr Christine Schaffner / Imma, Dr. Amanda Wilms, Dr Katie Dahlgren, Dr Alison Hoffman, Dr Irena Strelyuk
Therapy & Archetypal Analysis: Shannon Pernetti, Diane Steinbrecher, Muriel McMahon, Bonnie Lynn Pfeiffer, Assisi Institute

On Death and Dying, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
In Love with the World, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Die Wise, Stephen Jenkinson
Death of Ivan Illych, Leo Tolstoy (A masterful portrayal of a muggle dying a muggle death surrounded by muggles, and only dimply aware that they could have been another way.)

All Disease Come From the Heart. The Pivotal Role of the Emotions in Classical Chinese Medicine, Heiner Freuhoff
Pathogens and Politics: Further Evidence That Parasite Prevalence Predicts Authoritarianism, Damian R. Murray ,Mark Schaller,Peter Suedfeld
The Psychological and Socio-political Consequences of Infectious Diseases, Leor Zmigrod, Tobias Ebert, Friedrich M. Götz, & Peter Jason Rentfrow. Affiliations: Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, Behavioral and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK3Mannheim Centre for European Social Research, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
The cognitive and perceptual correlates of ideological attitudes: a data-driven approach, Leor Zmigrod, Ian W. Eisenberg, Patrick G. Bissett, Trevor W. Robbins and Russell A. Poldrack, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, Behavioral and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA