Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing
10 best books like Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing (Robert Wolff): The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Ishmael, Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization, Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge, My Ishmael, The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World, LSD: Doorway to the Numinous: The Groundbreaking Psychedelic Research into Realms of the Human Unconscious, Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
| Author | Robert A. Caro |
| ISBN | 0394720245 |
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few have known: that Robert Moses was, for almost...
An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search for truth. He answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking for serious pupils, only to find himself alone in an abandoned office with a full-grown gorilla who is nibbling delicately on a slender...
Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization
| Author | Graham Hancock |
| ISBN | 0517887290 |
Could the story of mankind be far older than we have previously believed? Using tools as varied as archaeo-astronomy, geology, and computer analysis of ancient myths, Graham Hancock presents a compelling case to suggest that it is.
In Fingerprints of the Gods, Hancock embarks on a worldwide quest...
Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge
| Author | Terence McKenna |
| ISBN | 0553371304 |
This book is trash.
I picked up this book because of an interest in drug culture and history. The premise sounds interesting enough: we stopped doing shrooms and got worse as a society.
I'll summarize the book in case the premise sounds interesting to you, so you can get the gist without...
| Author | Daniel Quinn |
| ISBN | 0553379658 |
The gorilla licked his lips - nervously, it seemed to me. "I think we can safely say that I'm not prepared to deal with the needs of a person your age. I think that can be safely said. Yes." "You mean you give up. Is that what you're telling me? You want me to go away because you give up. Don't you think a twelve-year-old...
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
| Author | Alan W. Watts |
| ISBN | 0679723005 |
Alan Watts asks what is the cause of the illusion that the self is a separate ego, housed in a bag of skin, and which confronts a universe of physical objects that are alien to it. Rather a person's identity (their ego) binds them to the physical universe, creating a relationship with their environment...
| Author | B. Alan Wallace |
| ISBN | 0861712765 |
Meditation offers, in addition to its many other benefits, a method for achieving previously inconceivable levels of concentration. Author B. Alan Wallace has nearly thirty years' practice in attention-enhancing meditation, including a retreat he performed under the guidance of the Dalai Lama....
| Author | David Abram |
| ISBN | 0679776397 |
David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural environment. He explores the character of...
LSD: Doorway to the Numinous: The Groundbreaking Psychedelic Research into Realms of the Human Unconscious
| Author | Stanislav Grof |
| ISBN | 1594772827 |
Stanislav Grof's first 17 years of research into non-ordinary states of consciousness induced by LSD and other psychedelics led to a revolutionary understanding of the human psyche. His research was the impetus behind a vastly expanded cartography of the unconscious, including two new realms still...
Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
| Author | David Abram |
| ISBN | 0375421718 |
David Abram’s first book, The Spell of the Sensuous—hailed as “revolutionary” by the Los Angeles Times, as “daring and truly original” by Science—has become a classic of environmental literature. Now Abram returns with a startling exploration of our human entanglement with the...
