Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Beyond the Doors of Perception into the Dreaming of Earth
10 best books like Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Beyond the Doors of Perception into the Dreaming of Earth (Stephen Harrod Buhner): The Crystal Cave, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell, Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge, How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety, At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity, Turning the Mind Into an Ally, Downward to the Earth
Author | Mary Stewart |
ISBN | 0060548258 |
Fifth century Britain is a country of chaos and division after the Roman withdrawal. This is the world of young Merlin, the illegitimate child of a South Wales princess who will not reveal to her son his father's true identity. Yet Merlin is an extraordinary child, aware at the earliest age that he possesses...
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Author | Robin Wall Kimmerer |
ISBN | 1571313354 |
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these lenses of knowledge together...
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Author | Pema Chödrön |
ISBN | 1570623449 |
The beautiful practicality of her teaching has made Pema Chödrön one of the most beloved of contemporary American spiritual authors among Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. A collection of talks she gave between 1987 and 1994, the book is a treasury of wisdom for going on living when we are overcome...
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
Author | Aldous Huxley |
ISBN | 0060595183 |
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. These two astounding essays are among the most profound studies of the effects of mind-expanding drugs written in this century. Contains the complete texts of
The Doors of Perception
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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...
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
Author | Michael Pollan |
ISBN | 0241294223 |
Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most admired writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousness
When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to researchers, scientists and doctors as if the world might be on the cusp...
The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
Author | Alan W. Watts |
ISBN | 0394704681 |
In this fascinating book, Alan Watts explores man's quest for psychological security, examining our efforts to find spiritual and intellectual certainty in the realms of religion and philosophy. The Wisdom of Insecurity underlines the importance of our search for stability in an age where human...
Author | Stuart A. Kauffman |
ISBN | 0195111303 |
A major scientific revolution has begun, a new paradigm that rivals Darwin's theory in importance. At its heart is the discovery of the order that lies deep within the most complex of systems, from the origin of life, to the workings of giant corporations, to the rise and fall of great civilizations....
Strengthening, calming, and stabilizing the mind is the essential first step in accomplishing nearly any goal. Growing up American with a Tibetan twist, Sakyong Mipham talks to Westerners as no one can: in idiomatic English with stories and wisdom from American culture and the great Buddhist teachers....
Author | Robert Silverberg |
ISBN | 0451044975 |
Who knoweth the spirit of men that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? -Ecclesiastes 3:21
Okay, they did resemble elephants, it can't be denied. That led many people to underestimate the Nildoror and their obviously more fearsome commensals, the Sulidoror.
But...
Author | Demetra George |
ISBN | 0062503707 |
Exploring the mystery, wisdom, and power of the dark phase of the moon's cycle--a lunar-based model for moving through the dark times in our lives with understanding, consciousness, and faith in renewal.
The moon's dark phase has traditionally been a time of fear and superstition, a time...
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Author | Adrienne Maree Brown |
ISBN | 1849352607 |
Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent...
Author | Peter Kingsley |
ISBN | 1999638409 |
Catafalque offers a revolutionary new reading of the great psychologist Carl Jung as mystic, gnostic and prophet for our time.
This book is the first major re-imagining of both Jung and his work since the publication of the Red Book in 2009--and is the only serious assessment of them written...