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To be human is to confuse a satisfying story with a meaningful one, and to mistake life for something huge with two legs.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
This model for individual human development ultimately yields a strategy for cultural transformation, a way of progressing from our current egocentric societies (materialistic, anthropocentric, competition based, class stratified, violence prone, and unsustainable) to soulcentric ones (imaginative, ecocentric, cooperation based, just,
... See moreBill Plotkin • Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World
Gods in Everyman (1989).
Robert L. Moore • Facing the Dragon: Confronting Personal and Spiritual Grandiosity
that place would have to be Esalen, the legendary retreat center in Big Sur, California. Perched on a cliff overlooking the Pacific as if barely clinging to the continent, the Esalen Institute was founded in 1962 and ever since has been a center of gravity for the so-called human potential movement in America, serving as the unofficial capital of
... See moreMichael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
the extraordinary corpus of Patrick Harpur, one of the most criminally underrated scholars of our time.
Bernardo Kastrup • The Daimon and the Soul of the West
They don’t realize that what happens is the most unstable thing in the universe.
Eckhart Tolle • A New Earth: The life-changing follow up to The Power of Now. ‘My No.1 guru will always be Eckhart Tolle’ Chris Evans
Journey of Souls and Destiny of Souls (Llewellyn Publications, 1994 and 2000), both by Michael Newton.
Steven Kessler • The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity
In previous stages, the pursuit of love, recognition, and success shapes our lives slowly but surely to the point that we end up, in the words of poet May Sarton, “wearing other people’s faces.”