Rational Mysticism: Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment

10 best books like Rational Mysticism: Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment (John Horgan): Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals, How to Be an Antiracist, The Snow Leopard, The Varieties of Religious Experience, DMT: The Spirit Molecule, Selected Poems, Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, Designa: Technical Secrets of the Traditional Visual Arts, The Diamond That Cuts Through Illusion: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Diamond Sutra, The Historical Figure of Jesus

Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

Author	John N. Gray
ISBN	1862075964

This smallish book is one of the most depressing and pessimistic 200 pages I have read in a long time. John Gray has been getting darker and darker in his vision of the world and Straw Dogs finally brings him round to bleak nihilism.

The book has many virtues. It is written in an admirably simple...

How to Be an Antiracist

Author	Ibram X. Kendi
ISBN	0525509283

Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist...

The Snow Leopard

Author	Peter Matthiessen
ISBN	0140255087

“The sun is roaring, it fills to bursting each crystal of snow. I flush with feeling, moved beyond my comprehension, and once again, the warm tears freeze upon my face. These rocks and mountains, all this matter, the snow itself, the air- the earth is ringing. All is moving, full of power, full of light.”...

The Varieties of Religious Experience

Author	William James
ISBN	1402199031

"I am neither a theologian, nor a scholar learned in the history of religions, nor an anthropologist. Psychology is the only branch of learning in which I am particularly versed. To the psychologist the religious propensities of man must be at least as interesting as any other of the facts pertaining...

DMT: The Spirit Molecule

Author	Rick Strassman
ISBN	0892819278

A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death & Mystical Experiences.
A clinical psychiatrist explores the effects of DMT: A behind-the-scenes look at the cutting edge of psychedelic research.

From 1990 to 1995 Dr. Rick Strassman conducted US DEA-approved...

Selected Poems

Author

Langston Hughes

With the publication of his first book of poems, The Weary Blues, in 1926, Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in black writing in America.  The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who "rushed the boots of Washington"; of...

Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism

Author	Michelle Goldberg
ISBN	0393329763

Michelle Goldberg, a senior political reporter for Salon.com, has been covering the intersection of politics and ideology for years. Before the 2004 election, and during the ensuing months when many Americans were trying to understand how an administration marked by cronyism, disregard for the...

Designa: Technical Secrets of the Traditional Visual Arts

Author	Adam Tetlow
ISBN	1620406594

I love this book. It's great on several levels. For the lover of art and design, this is a great read that explains the art and science behind what we view as appealing. As a designer I also appreciate the step by step instructions in creating some seemingly complex designs. In my opinion if one is using it...

The Diamond That Cuts Through Illusion: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Diamond Sutra

Author	Thich Nhat Hanh
ISBN	0938077511

The Diamond That Cuts Through Illusions presents a dialogue between the Buddha and his disciple Subhuti which illuminates how our minds construct limited categories of thought. It offers us alternative ways to look at the world in its wholeness so we can encounter a deeper reality; develop reverence...

The Historical Figure of Jesus

Author	E.P. Sanders
ISBN	0140144994

random thoughts:

-for Sanders, Jesus was (and this is not surprising to anyone who has read his other works on Jesus and Paul) very much a faithful, observant Jew; I largely agree; the conflicts with the Pharisees seem, when actually read in context, fairly minor in and of themselves, though...

The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence

Author	Deepak Chopra
ISBN	0609600427

As elegant as his bestselling How to Know God and as practical as his phenomenal The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, this groundbreaking new book from Deepak Chopra contains a dramatic premise: Not only are everyday coincidences meaningful, they actually provide us with glimpses of the field of infinite...