Reading

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.  Mortimer J. Adler

Non fiction books read

Fiction books read

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Non fiction books read (2023)

Idealism

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

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)

Non fiction books read (2018)

God experiencing through us

• The God Theory  (Bernard Haisch)
• The Purpose Guided Universe (Bernard Haisch)

Idealism

• Beyond Biocentrism (Robert Lanza)

Science and the universe

• The Science Delusion (Rupert Sheldrake)

Evidence for God

• God's Crime Scene: A Cold-Case Detective Examines the Evidence for a Divinely Created Universe (J. Warner Wallace)

Experiencing God

• How To Know God: The Soul's Journey into the Mystery of Mysteries (Deepak Chopra)

Advaita Vedanta

• The Nature of Consciousness: Essays on the Unity of Mind and Matter (Rupert Spira)
• Being Aware of Being Aware (Rupert Spira)
• Presence, Volume I: The Art of Peace and Happiness (Rupert Spira)
• The Transparency of Things: Contemplating the Nature of Experience (Rupert Spira)
• Collision with the Intimate (Suzanne Segal)
• Tao Te Ching Lao Tzu A Translation: An Ancient Philosophy For The Modern World (Dennis Waller, Martin Ash)
• The Upanishads  (Eknath Easwaran)

David Hawkins

• Dissolving the Ego (David R. Hawkins)
• Discovery of the Presence of God: Devotional Nonduality (David R. Hawkins)
• Transcending the Levels of Consciousness: The Stairway to Enlightenment (David R. Hawkins)

Mysticism

• The Wisdom of the Christian Mystics (Tim Freke)