Further Reading
Some readers have asked me for further reading about subjects mentioned in my books. Here are some books that have inspired me…
–AS
For readers of Luminarium
- Neurotheology/Consciousness
- Why God Won’t Go Away, by Andrew Newberg and Eugene D’Aquili
- I Am a Strange Loop, by Douglas Hofstader
- Zen and the Brain, by James H. Austin
- The Embodied Mind, by Varela, Thompson, and Rosch
- Network/Complexity Theory
- The Genius Within, by Frank T. Vertosick
- At Home in the Universe, by Stuart Kauffman
- Misc. Science and Metaphysics
- Programming the Universe, by Seth Lloyd
- Biocosm, by James N. Gardner
- The Mind of God, by Paul Davies
- Atheistic/Skeptical Perspectives
- Religion Explained, by Pascal Boyer
- Dying to Live, by Susan Blackmore
- The Unconscious Quantum, by Victor Stenger
- Hinduism/Advaita/Kundalini
- The Kalki Purana, trans. B.K. Chaturvedi
- The Myths and Gods of India, by Alain Daniélou
- Consciousness Speaks, by Ramesh Balsekar
- The Integral Yoga, Sri Aurobindo
- Living with Kundalini, by Gopi Krishna
- Zen/Other Buddhism
- Zen Training, by Katsuki Sekida
- Dream Conversations, by Muso Kokushi
- Mind Body Zen, by Jeffrey Maitland
- The Myth of Freedom and Crazy Wisdom by Chögyam Trungpa
- Hakuin on Kensho, by Albert Low
- Contemplative Christianity/Various/Unaffiliated
- The Path to No Self and The Experience of No Self, by Bernadette Roberts
- Zen and the Bible, by J.K. Kadowaki
- Emptiness Dancing and The End of Your World, by Adyashanti
- Collision With the Infinite, by Suzanne Segal
For readers of The Savage Girl
- The Conquest of Cool, by Thomas Frank
- The Strategy of Desire, by Ernest Dichter
- Madness and Modernism, by Louis A. Sass
For readers of City in Love
- Metamorphoses by Ovid, trans. Alan Mandelbaum