Recommended reading list (extended): inner development, psychology, economics, history, gardening, civilization, sexology, agriculture, esotericism, health, and more.
Spirituality/Philosophy/Consciousness/Inner development
Title - Author
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The Albigen Papers - Richard Rose (and his other books)
Spiritual Enlightenment: the damnedest thing – Jed Mckenna (and his other books, enlightenment trilogy, the dreamstate triology and the jed talks trilogy)
Mud And water – A collection of talks by the Zen master Bassui
The conquest of illusion – J. J. Van der Leeuw
The zen teachings of Huang Po: on transmission of mind – John Blofield
Electrical Chrisitanity: L Ron gardner (have a look at his exceptional recommended reading list)
I am that – Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Skeletons – Ikkyu
Sri Ramana Gita - Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi
Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
On the taboo against knowing who you are – Alan Watts (and his other books)
Bernado Kastrup – many books
Kapil Gupta – many books
Stranger in a strange land - Heinlein
Collected works - Ramana Maharshi
Courage - Osho
Mind is a myth - U.G Krishnamurti
Bhagavad Gita - Eknath Easwaran
Hua Hu Ching - Lao Tzu
Tao te Ching - Lao Tzu
Nothing ever happened - David Godman.
Wake up and roar - H. W. L. Poonja
The book of life - Jiddhu Krishnamurti (and his other books)
The ultimate medicine - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Ultimate Understanding - Ramesh S. Balsekar
Confusion No More - Ramesh S. Balsekar
Prinicipal Upanishads - Comments by Shankara
Siddartha - Herman Hesse
The essential Rumi - Jelaluddin Rumi
Sein und Zeit Martin - Heidegger
Awakening to the dream - Leo Hartong
Never Mind - Wayne Liquorman (Ram Tzu)
Ethica - Spinoza
The Science of Self Realization - A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Pabhupada
The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
Dewdrops on a lotus leaf - Ryokan
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
Power vs. Force - David R. Hawkins (and other books)
Tomorrow's God - Neale Donald Walsch
Biology of Belief - Bruce H. Lipton
Self Reliance - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Unbearable lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Care of the soul - Thomas Moore
Autobiography of a yogi - Paramahansa Yogananda
The essential Gnostic gospels - Alan Jacobs
Living without a head - Douglas E. Harding
Light on Life - Iyengar, B.
Vitality, Energy, Spirit - Thomas Cleary (and his other books)
Unlocking the Zen Koan: A New Translation of the Zen Classic Wumenguan - Thomas Cleary
A course in miracles - Helen Schuman
The way to love - Anthony de Mello (and his other books)
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Writings of:
Sri Aurobindo Hymns of the mystic fire
David Frawley
Ganapati Muni
Heraclitus
Jung
Wei Wei Wu
Plotinus
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Swedenborg
Walt Whitman
Poet-Recluses-Monks
Works of:
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Ryokan
Ikkyu
Hanshan
Saigyo
Rengetsu
Fenggan
Banzan
Hakuin
Bankei
Huang Po
Basho
Lung-Gom-Pa runners from Tibet
Tendai Marathon Monks
Marathon Monks of Mount Hiei
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Zen koans
The blue cliff records Zen Koans
Book of equanimity Zen koans
The gateless gate (Wumenguan) Zen koans
The true Dharma eye - Zen koan
Sand and pebbles - Zen Koans
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Thich Nhat Hanh - Many books
I Ching The book of changes and the unchanging truth
Teachings of the yellow emperor (Huangdi Yinfujing) - Four scriptures of the yellow emperor
Yellow Emperor Inner Canon (Huangdi Neijing)
Guanzi ; by Guan Zhong - master Guan
Feng Shui interior design - Eva Wong
Steel this book - Abbey Hoffman
Agora Robert - Svoboda
Holographic Universe - Michael Talbot
World as lover, world as self - Joanna Macy
The Tao of Physics - Fritjof Capa
Ageless body,Timeless Mind - Deepak Chopra
Magic and Mystery in Tibet - Alexandra David Neel
Response in the living and non-living - Jagadis Bose
Philosophy of Freedom - Rudolf Steiner
The Phenomenon of man - Pierre Teilhard de Jardin
The Ultimate Journey - Robert Monroe (Conscioussness, out of body excursions)
Realities of the Dreaming Mind: The Practice of Dream Yoga - Swami Sivananda Radha
Possession Demonicacal and other - Oesterreich, T.K
The Rainbow body and Resurrection - Francis Tiso
Lost secrets of immortality - Barclay Powers
The flavour of liberation, vol 1,2,3 - Burgs
Beyond the veil - Burgs
Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha: An Unusually Hardcore Dharma Book: Daniel M Ingram
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The Future of the body (a massive historical and cross-cultural collection of documentation of various occurrences of extraordinary human functioning such as healing, hypnosis, martial arts, yogic techniques, telepathy, clairvoyance, and feats of superhuman strength) - Michael Murphy
The body electric - Robert O. Becker
A new science of life: The hypothesis of Formative Causation – Rupert Sheldrake Morphogenetic fields, all-pervasisve fields unbounded by time or space.
Margins of reality: the role of consciousness in the physical world - Robert G. Jahn
The secret doctrine H.P. Blavatsky
Isis Unveiled: Secret of the Ancient Wisdom Tradition - Madame Blavatsky's
Occult Chemistry - Beasant and Leadbeater
The invisible influences: Zivorad Mihajlovic Slavinshki
Peat New Pathways: Zivorad Mihajlovic Slavinshki (and his other works)
Clearing entities: Frederick Dodson
Entity possession: Freeing the Energy body of negative influences: Samuel Sagan, M.D
You can heal anyone: Frederick Dodson (and his other books)
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Geopolitics/Global history
The grand chessboard - Zbignew Brevinsky
The Silk Roads - Peter Frankopan
In the shadows of the american century _ Alfred W. McCoy
Asia´s reckoning - Richard McGregor
The politics of heroin - Alfred W. McCoy
Wolfszeit - Harold Jahner
Red notice - Bill Browder
Lessons of history - Durant
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Society/Civilization
The rational optimist - Matt Ridley (and his other books)
Ascent of humanity - Charles Eisenstein (and his other books)
Critical path - Buckminster Fuller
The Hope: A guide to Sacred activism -Andrew Harvey
Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
The Story of B - Daniel Quinn
The great disruption - Paul Gilding
World on the edge - Lester R. Brown
Plan B 4.0 - Lester R. Brown
The third industrial revolution -Jeremy Rifkin
Randall Munroe - The thing explainer
Endgame 1 and 2 - Derek Jensen
The Value of Nothing - Raj Patel
The 48 laws of power - Robert Greene
Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis - Annie Jacobson
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Taoism
Awakening healing Energy through the Tao -Mantak Chia (also all his other 70 books)
Secrets of Self Healing - Dr. Maoshing Ni
Secrets of Longevity - Dr. Maoshing Ni
Su Nu Ching - Chinese Medical Taoist Text
The book of balance and harmony - Hua-ching Ni Taoist teacher
Qigong Teachings of a Taoist Immortal: The Eight Essential Exercises of Master Li Ching-Yun - Stuart Alve Olson
Sexology/Sexual energy/Celibacy
The sex connection - Alan Fitzpatrick
Taoist Secrets of love - Mantak Chia
Healing love through the tao - Mantak chia
A history of celibacy - Elizabeth Abbott
The tao of sexology - the book of infinite wisdom - Wang
The multi-orgasmic Man - Mantak Chia
The multi-orgasmic Woman - Mantak Chia
The multi-orgasmic couple - Mantak Chia
The Red Queen: Sex and the evolution of human nature - Matt Ridley
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Native American Indians
Bury my heart at wounded knee - Dee Brown
Shamanism
Shamanism - Piers Vitebsky
The way of the Shaman - Harner
Teachings of Don Juan - Carlos Casteneda
Building/Materiality/Design
A pattern language - Christopher Alexander
The Nature of Order - Christopher Alexander
Cradle to Cradle - William McDonough & Michael Braungart
In the Bubble John - Thackara
Lucid Dreaming
Alles over dromen - Victor Schoenmaker (Dutch Book)
The Tibetan Yogas of dreams
Life/Family
Life and how to survive it - Robin Skynner, John Cleese
Family and how to survive them - Robin Skynner, John Cleese
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Psychology/Mental constructs
Games people play - E. Berne
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - Charles Mackay
Adam Grant - Originals
Skin in the game - Nassim Taleb (and his other books)
Nonviolent communication - Marshell B Rosenberg
Economics/Alternative Economics/Business
Sacred Economics - Charles Eisenstein
Economyths (ten ways that economics gets it wrong) - David Orrell
The ecology of Commerce - Paul Hawken
Confessions of an economic hitman - John Perkins
The Future of money - Bernard Lietaer
The big reset - Willem middelkoop (and his other books)
How Asia works - Joe studwell
Business Adventures - John Brooks
When money dies - Adam Fergusson
The bitcoin standard & fiat standard - Saifedean Ammous
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Health/Food
Transformational Weightloss - Charles Eisenstein
The instinct to heal - David Servan Schreiber
Anti-Cancer - David Servan Schreiber
Healing the Gerson way - C. Gerson
The China study - Colin Campbell
Why zebra’s do not get ulcers - Robert Sapolsky
The end of food - Paul Roberts
Diet for a small planet - Frances Moore Lappé
Hope’s edge - Frances Moore Lappé
You Are What You Eat - Gillian McKeith
The New Optimum Nutrition Bible - Patrick Holford
Healthy At 100 - John Robbins
Health Wars - Philip Day
The sunfood diet - David Wolfe (and other books)
50 secrets of the world’s longest living people - Sally Beare
Sprouts, the miracle food - Steve meyerowitz
Green for life - Fictoria Boutenko
The complete book of Raw food - Julie Rodwell
Raw Food Controversies - Frederic Patenaude
The Anti-aging Plan - Roy L. Walford
Your body’s many cries for water - F. Batmanghelidj
Wild fermentation, the flavor, nutrition and craft of live culture foods - Fallon,Katz
Siesta and the Midnight Sun: How our bodies experience time - Jessa Gamble
Confessions of a medial heretic: Robert S. Mendelsohn
Plants/Energy
Primary perception : Biocommunication with plants, living foods, and human cells - Cleve Backster
Response in the living and non-living Jagadis - Chandra Bose
Victor Schauberger collection
Tuning into nature - P. Callahan
The secret life of plants - Peter Tompkins Christopher Bird.
The secret life of nature - Peter Tompkins
The secret teaching of plants - Stephen Buhner
Perelandra Garden Workbook: A Complete Guide to Gardening with Nature Intelligences - Machaelle Small- Wright
Permaculture
Permaculture A Designers' manuel - Bill Mollison
The earth care manual - Patrick Whitefield
The agro rebel - Sepp Holzer
Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture - Sepp Holzer
Gaia’s Garden, a guide to home scale permaculture - Toby Hemenway
Another kind of garden (compost heating system) - Jean Pain
Alternative agricultural strategies
Secrets of the soil - Peter Tompkins
Sea Energy Agriculture - Maynard Murray
Gardening for life – The biodynamic way Maria Thun
Agriculture Course: The Birth of the Biodynamic Method - Rudolf Steiner
One Straw Revolution - Masanobu Fukuoka
A natural way of farming - Masanobu Fukuoka
Fertility from the ocean deep - Charles Walters
Bread from stones - Julius Hensel
Eco-farm - Charles Walters
The non-toxic farming handbook - Philip Wheeler
Gardening/Herbs/Self-Sufficiency
Encyclopedia of organic gardening –
The henry Doubleday Research association - Editor in chief Pauline Pears.
American Horticultural Society's A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants
Rodale’s illustared encylopedia of perennials - Ellen Philips
Perennial Vegetables - Eric Toensmeier
The new complete book of self-sufficiency - John Seymour
The complete book of raising livestock and poultry - Katie Tear and Dr. Alistair Fraser
Plants for a future - Ken Fern
Roots Demystified - Robert Kourik
The weather resilient Garden - Charles Smith
Planting green roofs and living walls - Nigel Dunnet
Bob Flowerdew’s complete fruit book -Bob Flowerdew’s
How to grow winter vegetables - Charles Dowding
Practical Self-sufficiency - Dick and James Strawbridge
Plant Pathology - George Nicohlas Agrios
The illustrated herbal - Philippa Back
Fruits and Vegetables from seed - Richard Goerer
How to make your own drugs? - James wong
Small Green Roofs - Nigel Dunnet
Edible Flower Garden - Rosalind Creasy
The vegetable garden (1880) - M.M. Vilmorin-Andrieux
Breed your own vegetable varieties - Carol Deppe
Weeds and what they tell us - Ehrenfried Pfeiffer
Weeds: control without poisons - Charles Walters
Farmers of Forty Centuries - F. H. King
Soil grass and cancer - Andre Voisin
The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love - Kirstin Kimball
Forest Garden
Creating a forest garden - Martin Crawford
Edible Forest Gardens - Eric Toensmeier/Dave Jack
Tree Crops: A permanent Agriculture - J. Russel Smith
Agroecology - Miguel Altieri
Forest Gardening - Robert Hart
Temperate Agroforestry systems - A. G. Gordon
Agroforesty for soil management -Anothony Young
The Woodland Way - Ben Law
How to make a forest - Garden Patrick Whitefield
Designing and maintaining your edible landscape naturally - Robert Kourik
Complete book of Edible Landscaping - Rosalind Creasy
Mushrooms/Wild Food
Wild Food - Roger Phillips
Mushrooms - Roger Phillips
Mycelium Running: How mushrooms can save the world - Paul Stamets
Bees
Natural Beekeeping - Ross Conrad
Keeping Bees, a complete practical guide - Paul Peacock
Water Gardens
Plants for Water gardens - Helen Nash
Low-Maintenance Water Gardens -Helen Nash
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Hallucinogenics:
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How to change your mind - Michael Pollan (and all his other books)
The cosmic serpent - Jeremy Narby
Food of the gods - Terrance Mckenna
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Misscellaneous:
Calvin & Hobbes
Mr Nice - Howard Markes
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
Guust flater (Belgian cartoon in dutch)
Kuifje (Belgian cartoon, also called TinTin)
xkcd - Randall Munroe (and other books)
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