Meaning in Absurdity: What Bizarre Phenomena Can Tell Us about the Nature of Reality
By: Bernardo Kastrup
4.39
Format: 134 pages, ebook
This book is an experiment. Inspired by the bizarre and uncanny, it is an attempt to use science an…
Want to Read $ 10.99"The most exciting discoveries always entail the loss of previously held certainties."-Bernardo Kastrup, Meaning in Absurdity: What Bizarre Phenomena Can Tell Us about the Nature of Reality
"The most exciting discoveries always entail the loss of previously held certainties."-Bernardo Kastrup, Meaning in Absurdity: What Bizarre Phenomena Can Tell Us about the Nature of Reality
"Our consensus world-instantiation is a metaphor of mind for mind; a self-referential ‘strange loop."-Bernardo Kastrup, Meaning in Absurdity: What Bizarre Phenomena Can Tell Us about the Nature of Reality
"Our consensus world-instantiation is a metaphor of mind for mind; a self-referential ‘strange loop."-Bernardo Kastrup, Meaning in Absurdity: What Bizarre Phenomena Can Tell Us about the Nature of Reality
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1. Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry
By: Owen Barfield
3.87
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
Saving the Appearances is about the world as we see it and the world as it is; it is about God, hum… read more
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2. The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
By: Alan W. Watts
3.00
Format: 508 pages, Mass Market Paperback
At the root of human conflict is our fundamental misunderstanding of who we are. The illusion that … read more
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3. The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge
By: Jeremy Narby
3.46
Format: None pages, Paperback
This adventure in science and imagination, which the Medical Tribunesaid might herald "a Copernican… read more
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4. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine
By: Douglas Gillette , Robert L. Moore
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
The corporate "yes man," the wife-beater, the hot-shot male junior executive and the emotionally di… read more
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5. The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling
By: James Hillman
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Plato and the Greeks called it "daimon," the Romans "genius," the Christians "guardian angel." Toda… read more
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6. The Philosophers’ Secret Fire: A History of the Imagination
By: Patrick Harpur
3.78
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
The visionary tradition of spirits, gods, and demons continues to subvert our rational universe, er… read more
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7. Passport to Magonia: On UFOs, Folklore, and Parallel Worlds
By: Jacques F. Vallée
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Over two decades ago, eminent scientist Vallee wrote a provocative book about alleged UFO landings,… read more
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8. Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
By: David Lynch
4.29
Format: 426 pages,
Where do ideas come from? In Catching the Big Fish, internationally acclaimed filmmaker David Lynch… read more
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9. Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
By: Anil Seth
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Being You is not as simple as it sounds. Somehow, within each of our brains, billions of neurons wo… read more
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10. The War on the West
By: Douglas Murray
4.28
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
An Instant New York Times Bestseller! China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim… read more
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"To delegitimize the West, it appears to be necessary first to demonize the people who still make up the racial majority in the West. It is necessary to demonize white people."-Douglas Murray, The War on the West
"Race is now an issue in all Western countries in a way it has not been for decades. In the place of color blindness, we have been pushed into racial ultra-awareness. A deeply warped picture has now b…"-Douglas Murray, The War on the West
"Like all societies in history, all Western nations have racism in their histories. But that is not the only history of our countries. Racism is not the sole lens through which our societies can be un…"-Douglas Murray, The War on the West
"Historical criticism and rethinking are never a bad idea. However, the hunt for visible, tangible problems shouldn't become a hunt for invisible, intangible problems. Especially not if they are carri…"-Douglas Murray, The War on the West
11. The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
By: Donald D. Hoffman
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? Challenging leading scientific theories that claim th… read more
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"Once we know the rules that human vision uses to decode messages about fitness, we can use those rules to send the messages we want. Consider jeans."-Donald D. Hoffman, The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
12. The Order of Time
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explo… read more
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"Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed from within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Before Newton, time for humanity was the way of counting how things changed. Before him, no one had thought it possible that a time independent of things could exist. Don't take your intuitions and i…"-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
13. The Invisible College
By: Jacques F. Vallée
4.15
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Here at last is a sensible book about Unidentified Flying Objects that neither sensationalizes the … read more
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"It is becoming technically feasible for sounds and images to be projected into people’s minds at a distance. Is this part of the technology that creates the UFO phenomenon? Could the required equipme…"-Jacques F. Vallée, The Invisible College
14. American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology
By: D.W. Pasulka
3.91
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in … read more
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15. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
By: Sebastian Junger
3.92
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more
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"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
16. UFO of God: The Extraordinary True Story of Chris Bledsoe
By: Chris Bledsoe
4.40
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
* * SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE * *Are the biblical stories of angels in the Old Testament be… read more
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17. Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences
By: D.W. Pasulka
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A revolution is underway. For the first time in human history, we are at the cusp of experiencing c… read more
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18. The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name
By: Brian C. Muraresku
4.26
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking, controversial dive into the role psychedelics have played in the human experience… read more
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"...there’s only one thing the Vatican finds more suspicious than drugs. And that’s women."-Brian C. Muraresku, The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name
"Over twenty-five hundred years into this experiment we call the West, is there any chance of reconciling the two competing worldviews that clashed so dramatically at the end of the fourth century AD?…"-Brian C. Muraresku, The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name
19. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
By: John Koenig
4.46
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “It’s undeniably thrilling to find words for our strangest feelings…Koeni… read more
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"liberosis n. the desire to care less about things—to loosen your grip on your life, to stop glancing behind you every few steps, afraid that someone will snatch it from you before you reach the end z…"-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
"harke n. a painful memory that you look back upon with unexpected fondness, even though you remember having dreaded it at the time; a tough experience that has since been overridden by the pride of h…"-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
"Maybe there is no single self to speak of. Maybe you're a shifting collage of many different personas, each as authentic as the next. A kaleidoscope of ever-moving fragments, reflecting a thousand li…"-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
"But maybe all along, we had the story backward. Maybe we were the ones who cast out the jungle, who striped it naked, and tried to teach it good and evil, breaking it down into pieces that served a p…"-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
20. Them
By: Whitley Strieber
4.04
Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition
"Them," is a new, mystery-busting vision of the close encounter experience--which is VERY different… read more
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21. Escaping from Eden
By: Paul Wallis
4.50
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
The familiar stories of the book of Genesis affirm that God made the universe, planet earth, and yo… read more
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22. Shanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese (Untimely Meditations Book 8)
By: Byung-Chul Han
4.29
Format: 73 pages, Kindle Edition
Shanzhai is a Chinese neologism that means "fake," originally coined to describe knock-off cell pho… read more
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23. Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
By: David J. Chalmers
3.73
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
Virtual reality is genuine reality; that’s the central thesis of Reality+. In a highly original wor… read more
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24. They Flew: A History of the Impossible
By: Carlos M.N. Eire
4.10
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning historian’s examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their… read more
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25. Unidentified Flying Hyperobject: UFOs, Philosophy, and the End of the World
By: James D. Madden
4.28
Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition
Unidentified Flying UFOs, Philosophy, and the End of the World is an application of the tools of a… read more
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26. Irriducibile: La coscienza, la vita, i computer e la nostra natura (Italian Edition)
By: Federico Faggin
3.82
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
Federico Faggin è il padre del microprocessore e di altre invenzioni che hanno rivoluzionato la tec… read more
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"«Nella prima parte di questo libro ho tratteggiato la visione del mondo basata sull’interpretazione della fisica contemporanea, che si è occupata soprattutto di capire come funziona il mondo inanimat…"-Federico Faggin, Irriducibile: La coscienza, la vita, i computer e la nostra natura (Italian Edition)
27. Meaning in Absurdity: What Bizarre Phenomena Can Tell Us about the Nature of Reality
By: Bernardo Kastrup
4.39
Format: 134 pages, ebook
This book is an experiment. Inspired by the bizarre and uncanny, it is an attempt to use science an… read more
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"The most exciting discoveries always entail the loss of previously held certainties."-Bernardo Kastrup, Meaning in Absurdity: What Bizarre Phenomena Can Tell Us about the Nature of Reality
"Our consensus world-instantiation is a metaphor of mind for mind; a self-referential ‘strange loop."-Bernardo Kastrup, Meaning in Absurdity: What Bizarre Phenomena Can Tell Us about the Nature of Reality
"It seems that we must always have a story - a myth - or the world itself would vanish before our eyes."-Bernardo Kastrup, Meaning in Absurdity: What Bizarre Phenomena Can Tell Us about the Nature of Reality
"Your life is a patchwork of projected concepts; a thin conceptual crust around an unfathomable core of the amorphous substance of existence."-Bernardo Kastrup, Meaning in Absurdity: What Bizarre Phenomena Can Tell Us about the Nature of Reality
28. Rationalist Spirituality
By: Kastrup Bernardo
4.38
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Why does the universe exist and what are you supposed to do in it? This question has been addressed… read more
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29. Dreamed up Reality
By: Kastrup Bernardo
4.51
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A strong and growing intuition in society today is the idea that our thoughts create our own realit… read more
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30. Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs
By: Luis Elizondo
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The former head of the Pentagon program responsible for the investigation of UFOs—now known as unid… read more
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