A Few Books I've Enjoyed

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2012: Biography of a Time Traveler: The Journey of José Argüelles - Stephanie South, Foreword by Daniel Pinchbeck

2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl - Daniel Pinchbeck

A Perfect Union of Contrary Things - (a biography) Maynard James Keenan with Sarah Jensen

About Time: Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution - Paul Davies 

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe - Roger Penrose

Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals - Rupert Sheldrake

Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution - Terence McKenna

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything - Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

Galactic Alignment: The Transformation of Consciousness According to Mayan, Egyptian, and Vedic Traditions - John Major Jenkins

Ideas and Opinions - Albert Einstein

In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives - Steven Levy

Ishmael - Daniel Quin

Island - Aldous Huxley

Paradigms Lost: Tackling the Unanswered Mysteries of Modern Science - John L. Casti

Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos - Michio Kaku

Post Office - Charles Bukowski

Process and Reality - Alfred North Whitehead

Science Set Free: Ten Paths to New Discovery - Rupert Sheldrake

Secrets in the Fields: The Science & Mysticism of Crop Circles - Freddy Silva

Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality: Solving the Quantum Mysteries - John Gribbin

Surfers of the Zuvuya: Tales of Interdimensional Travel - José Argüelles

The Archaic Revival: Speculations on Psychedelic Mushrooms, the Amazon, Virtual Reality, UFOs, Evolution, Shamanism, the Rebirth of the Goddess, and the End of History - Terence McKenna

The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss - Dennis McKenna

The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge - Jeremy Narby

The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics - Gary Zukav (I found a passion for reading I hadn't had when my high school teacher, Mr. Larry Bozick, gave this book to me as a freshman - thanks for that!)

The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell - Aldous Huxley

The Essential Descartes: A comprehensive selection from the writings of the 17th-century thinker who changed the course of Western thought - Edited with introduction by Margaret D. Wilson (René Descartes)

The Evolution of Useful Things - Henry Petroski

The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching -  Terence McKenna, Dennis McKenna

The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About the Ultimate Fate of the Universe - Paul Davies

The Logodaedalian's Dictionary of Interesting and Unusual Words - George Stone Saussy

The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology - José Argüelles

The Phenomenon of Man - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man - Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird

The Sense of Being Stared At: And Other Unexplained Powers of Human Minds - Rupert  Sheldrake

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology - Ray Kurzweil

The Songlines - Bruce Chatwin

The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism - Fritjof Capra

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century - Thomas L. Friedman

Time and the Technosphere: The Law of Time in Human Affairs - José Argüelles 

True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author's Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil's Paradise - Terence McKenna

Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man - Marshal McLuhan

Why Does the World Exist - Jim Holt

Wrinkles in Time: Witness to the Birth of the Universe - George Smoot and Keay Davidson

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea - Charles Seife

- “The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because if the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other - if the artists cannot find the way - then the way cannot be found.” - Terence McKenna

- "I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating. It's not only our reality which enslaves us, the tragedy of our predicament, when we are within ideology, is that when we think that we escape it, into our dreams, at that point we are within ideology." 

   - Slavoj Žižek, The Pervert's Guide to Ideology

- "You can't fault a dog for being a dog." - John R. White

- "Art is a true reflection of the times in which we live...In every work of genius, you will see your own rejected thoughts." - Al Bright

- "Matter has reached the point of beginning to know itself… Man is a star’s way of knowing about stars." - George Wald

- "A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself." - Niels Bohr

- "Remove all the space within the atoms making up the human body, and every person that’s ever lived would fit inside a baseball." - physicist Brian Greene

- “The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.” - Terence McKenna

- “Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.” - Terence McKenna

- "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

- "From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity." - Edvard Munch

- "Life is an endless succession of failure and disappointment." - Sheldon J. Plankton Jr

- "The things you own end up owning you." - Tyler Durden

- "Name one things in this world that is not negotiable." - Walter White

- "Nobody has ever escaped from time, though all of the world's religions are scams predicated on the notion that we can. We all confront our own singularity at the end of time, the end of our own personally history. This is the only eschaton we can realistically look forward to. No one can say, definitively, what happens to consciousness beyond that threshold, whether it is extinguished forever or translates into some sort of virtual reality, whatever that means when we're talking about life after death." - Dennis McKenna from The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss

- “Today, I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self-evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the "instantly available". A new self that needs to contain less and less of an inner repertory of dense cultural inheritance -- as we all become "pancake people" -- spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button. Will this produce a new kind of enlightenment or "super-consciousness"? Sometimes I am seduced by those proclaiming so -- and sometimes I shrink back in horror at a world that seems to have lost the thick and multi-textured density of deeply evolved personality.” - Thomas L. Friedman