Halfway up the mountain — Mariana Caplan
This book is very clear and kind, about how to pick an embodied teacher, and how not to proclaim yourself one prematurely.
Happy Money — Ken Honda
This book is an experiential method for healing your relationship to money. This work can be painful, and Honda is truly gentle.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People — Stephen Covey
Covey’s classic is a great secular read that gives clear descriptions of a Westernized practice corresponding to the 8 limbs of yoga.
Spiritual Emergence Network (SEN)
Spiritual emergence network is a good resource for someone in spiritual emergency who needs to access savvy mental-health services.
Superforecasting: the art and science of prediction — Tetlock and Gardner
Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner examine research on people who are better than experts at predicting the future.
We regulate others emotions through our own
Research with fMRI shows we use experience of our own emotion when regulating that of others.
The relationship Cure - John Gottman
John M. Gottman, PhD writes about the scientific evidence on creating and maintaining healthy relationships.
Thinking, fast and slow - Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman, PhD discusses the twinned use of logical and intuitive thought.
The neurons that shaped civilization — Vilayanur Ramachandran
Vilayanur Ramachandran discusses scientific evidence for mirror neurons and empathy.
Presentation: Alain de Botton — A kinder gentler philosophy of success
Alain de Botton discusses success and how we can approach it more gently and lucidly.
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out - Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman is a physicist who worked on the atom bomb. I particularly like his science writing.
The brain in love — Helen Fischer
Helen Fischer describes the scientific evidence for romantic love.
Make The Most Of Your Mind - Tony Buzan
Psi ability is a natural extension of mental fittness. Tony Buzan did a great job at rewiring the assumption that IQ is hardware vs software.
The Concept of Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The life work of psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is on the positive psychology concept of ‘flow”.
Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi talks about his life’s work on finding and accessing higher consciousness states.
Debate on Psi Senses - Nature
Letter in Nature from Stanford describing psychic senses and rebuttal from New Zealand saying the results weren’t reproducible.
Observation Affects Reality - Weizmann Institute Of Science
A 1998 paper from Nature providing evidence for the quantum theory supposition that observation affects reality.
The Art of Deception - Nicholas Capaldi
I am not in any way suggesting you practice deception. This book is a vaccination, a de-wormer if you will.
Your Logical Fallacy Is - School of Thought
The website Your Logical Fallacy Is is a basic primer for high-school students on how to think logically.