Non fiction books read (2025)

• Rational Mysticism  (John Horgan)
• The Grand Illusion (Steve Hagen)
• The Outer Limits of Reason (Noson S. Yanofsky)
• The Web of Life ( Fritjof Capra)
• Mysticism: Value and Validity of Mystical Experiences  (Antti Pilola)

Non fiction books read (2024)

 Self-illusion

• The Ego Tunnel (Thomas Metzinger)
• There is No You (Andrew Halaw)
• Seeing no Self: Essential Inquiries  that Reveal Our Nondual Nature (Katrijn Van Oudheusden)
• Beyond Illusion: Exploring the Six Illusions that Cause  Our Mistaken Belief in a Separate Self (Katrijn Van Oudheusden)
• Selfless Service  (Katrijn Van Oudheusden)
• The Ego Tunnel (Thomas Metzinger)
• There is No You (Andrew Halaw)
• What Am I? A Study in Non-Volitional Living (Galen Sharp)

Idealism

• The Grand Biocentric Design (Robert Lanza)
• Being Myself (Rupert Spira)

Left versus right brain

• The Matter with Things  (Iain McGilchrist)
• The Master & His Emmisary (Ian Gilchrist)

Other books

• The Power of Movies: How Screen and Mind Interact  (Colin McGinn)
• God is Nothingness  (Andre Halaw)
  
  

Non fiction books read (2023)

Idealism

• Dreamed Up Reality: Diving into the Mind to Uncover the Astonishing Hidden Tale of Nature  (Bernardo Kastrup)

Metaphysics

• Reality + (David Chalmers)

Non fiction books read (2022)

Advaita Vedanta 

• Advaita - Tools for Spiritual Unity (Merlyn Swan)

Idealism

• Brief Peeks Beyond: Critical Essays on Metaphysics, Neuroscience, Free Will, Skepticism and Culture (Bernardo Kastrup)
• The Idea of the World: A Multi-Disciplinary Argument for the Mental Nature of Reality  Bernardo Kastrup
  
  

Non fiction books read (2021)

Consciousness

•  The Flip: Who You Really Are and Why It Matters  Jeffrey J. Kripal

Idealism

• Rationalist Spirituality: An exploration of the meaning of life and existence informed by logic and science  (Bernardo Kastrup)
• Why Materialism is Baloney (Bernardo Kastrup)
• More than Allegory (Bernardo Kastrup)

 

World as Simulation

• The Simulation Hypothesis: An MIT Computer Scientist Shows Why AI, Quantum Physics and Eastern Mystics All Agree We Are In a Video Game (Rizwan Virk)

The illusion of the separate self (ego)

• No Self, no Problem (Chris Niebauer)
• The Self Illusion (Bruce Hood)

Advaita Vedanta

• The Greatest Secret: (Rhonda Byrne)

Death and Near Death Experiences

• The Top Ten Things Dead People Want to Tell YOU (Mike Dooley)
• 500 Quotes From Heaven: Life-Changing Quotes That Reveal The Wisdom & Power Of Near-Death Experiences (David Sunfellow)
• The Purpose of Life as Revealed by Near-Death Experiences from Around the World (David Sunfellow)

God

• Mind, World, God: Science and Spirit in the 21st Century (Tam Hunt)

Non fiction books read (2020)

Evidence for God

• How To Know God Exists (Ray Comfort)
• How Science Reveals God: What Every Thinking Person Must Know (Stephen Martin)
• The Experience of God (David Bentley Hart)

Spiritual narratives

• Rethinking Our Story: Can We Be Christian in the Quantum Era?  (Doug Hammack)

God and Science

• Soul Search, A Scientist Explores the Afterlife (David Darling)

Metaphors for God

• God Reflected: Metaphors for God (Flora A. Keshgegian)
• God the What: What our Metaphors for God Reveal About Our Beliefs in God (Carolyn Jane Bohler)
• Wearing God (Lauren F. Winner)

Non fiction books read (2019)

Consciousness

• One Mind: How Our Individual Mind is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why it Matters (Larry Dossey)

Idealism

• The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes (Donald D. Hoffman)

Nature of the self

• Why Buddhism is true (Robert Wright)
• The Ego Trick (Julian Baggini)

Physics and spirituality

• The Tao of Physics (Fritjof Capra)
• You Are the Universe: Discovering Your Cosmic Self and Why It Matters (Deepak Chopra, Menas Kafatos)
• Reality Unveiled: The Hidden Keys of Existence That Will Transform Your Life (and the World) (Ziad Masri)

Evidence for God

• A Quantum Case For God (Dennis Zetting, Randi Zetting)

• The Case for God: What religion really means (Karen Armstrong)

• The Dawkins Delusion?: Atheist fundamentalism and the denial of the divine (Alister McGrath)
• Why There Almost Certainly Is a God: Doubting Dawkins (Keith Ward)

God and physics

• God and the New Physics  (Paul Davies)
• The God Franchise: A Theory of Everything (Alan H. Dawe)
• The Physics of God: Unifying Quantum Physics, Consciousness, M-Theory, Heaven, Neuroscience and Transcendence (Selbie Joseph)
  
  

Advaita Vendanta

• Reflections of the One Life: Daily Pointers to Enlightenment (Scott Kiloby)
• Vedanta: A Simple Introduction (Pravrajika Vrajaprana)
• Why God Permits Evil and How to Rise Above It (Paramahansa Yogananda)

Course in Miracles

• A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles (Marianne Williamson)
  
  

Creativity & Wisdom

• 100-WHATS of CREATIVITY: One-hundred "What-if?" questions to spark your creativity, unmuck your mind, and break through your mental blocks. (Don The Idea Guy Snyder)
• The Book of Beautiful Questions: The Powerful Questions That Will Help You Decide, Create, Connect, and Lead (Warren Berger)
• The Best Advice in Six Words: Writers Famous and Obscure on Love, Sex, Money, Friendship, Family, Work, and Much More (Six-word Memoir) (Larry Smith)

Habits

• Atomic Habits:  (James Clear)