A Little Less Broken – Marian Schembari
How an Autism Diagnosis Finally Made Me Whole One woman’s decades-long journey to a diagnosis of autism, and the barriers that keep too many neurodivergent people from knowing their true selves.
How Emotions Are Made – Lisa Feldman Barrett
Preeminent psychologist Lisa Barrett lays out how the brain constructs emotions in a way that could revolutionize psychology, health care, the legal system, and our understanding of the human mind. The science of emotion is in the midst of a…
In Search of the Miraculous – P.D. Ouspensky
Since its original publication in 1949, In Search of the Miraculous has been hailed as the most valuable and reliable documentation of G. I. Gurdjieff’s thoughts and universal view. This historic and influential work is considered by many to be…
Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha is a novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha. The book, Hesse’s ninth novel, was written in German, in a simple, lyrical…
A Short History of Decay – E.M. Cioran
E. M. Cioran confronts the place of today’s world in the context of human history—focusing on such major issues of the twentieth century as human progress, fanaticism, and science—in this nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature…
Food of the Gods – Terrence McKenna
The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution In Food of the Gods, Terence McKenna’s research on man’s ancient relationship with chemicals opens a doorway to the divine, and perhaps a…
Wisdom of Life – Arthur Schopenhauer
The Wisdom of Life’ is a short philosophical essay by the Nineteenth-century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860). In this last published work, Arthur breaks down happiness into three parts and explores the nature of human happiness, and tries to understand…
Know Nothing
When we talk about ‘knowing nothing’, we are describing an intellectual state of accepting the possibility of being wrong about anything and everything we “know”, no matter how sure or obvious that knowledge may be. ‘Know no thing’ might be…