Lost Knowledge of the Imagination
By: Gary Lachman
4.29
Format: 145 pages, Kindle Edition
The ability to imagine is at the heart of what makes us human. Through our imagination we experienc…
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1. The Courage to Be
By: Paul Tillich , Peter J. Gomes
4.09
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Paul Tillich describes the dilemma of modern man and points a way to the conquest of the problem of… read more
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"Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge."-Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be
"Joy is the emotional expression of the courageous YES to one's own true being."-Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be
"Le courage d'être s'enracine dans le Dieu qui apparaît quand Dieu a disparu dans l'angoisse du doute."-Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be
"في الحقبة الحديثة انطلق العلم يفجر الطاقات الكامنة في الانسان منذ نهاية العصور الوسطى، لكن العلم انقلب على الانسان لأن الإنسان استغله لاستعباد الانسان."-Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be
2. The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry
By: Rupert Sheldrake
4.08
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fund… read more
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- history
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- spirituality
3. Demian
By: Hermann Hesse
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
Wie alle Hauptwerke Hermann Hesses hat auch der Demian, den der damals 40jährige Autor mitten im Er… read more
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"Fate and character are different names for the same idea."-Hermann Hesse, Demian
"En estos momentos tuve una certeza fulminante: cada uno tenía una “misión"-Hermann Hesse, Demian
"You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value."-Hermann Hesse, Demian
"I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?"-Hermann Hesse, Demian
4. Tao Te Ching
By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe
4.30
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more
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"The heart that gives, gathers."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
5. Armadale
By: John Sutherland , Wilkie Collins
3.94
Format: 721 pages, Paperback
When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of… read more
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"A judge, replied the Empress, is easy to be had, but to get an impartial judge, is a thing so difficult."-John Sutherland, Armadale
"The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!"-John Sutherland, Armadale
"...that much gold, and great store of riches makes them mad, insomuch as they endeavour to destroy each other..."-John Sutherland, Armadale
"Allan found his place for the second time, and fell headlong into the bottomless abyss of the English Law. “Page 280,"-John Sutherland, Armadale
6. 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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7. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
By: Philip E. Tetlock , Dan Gardner
3.95
Format: 768 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Bestseller An EconomistBest Book of 2015 "The most important book on decision maki… read more
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9. Meditations
By: Marcus Aurelius , Martin Hammond , Diskin Clay
3.75
Format: 148 pages,
Written in Greek, without any intention of publication, by the only Roman emperor who was also a ph… read more
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10. Nine Stories
By: J.D. Salinger
3.67
Format: 346 pages, Paperback
"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" (1948) "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" (1948) "Just Before the War wi… read more
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12. On Bullshit
By: Harry G. Frankfurt
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A #1 "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is s… read more
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13. Steppenwolf
By: Hermann Hesse , Basil Creighton , کیکاووس جهانداری
4.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Steppenwolfis a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. Th… read more
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14. Mount Analogue
By: René Daumal
2.69
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
In this novel/allegory the narrator/author sets sail in the yacht Impossible to search for Mount An… read more
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15. The Secret Tradition of the Soul
By: Patrick Harpur
3.97
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
In The Secret Tradition of the Soul, author Patrick Harpur argues that answers to life's most diffi… read more
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16. Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
By: James P. Carse
3.51
Format: None pages,
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17. On the Genealogy of Morals
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith
4.13
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more
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- history
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"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
18. What Is Ancient Philosophy?
By: Pierre Hadot , Michael Chase
3.66
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A magisterial mappa mundiof the terrain that Pierre Hadothas so productively worked for decades, th… read more
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19. Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche
By: Robert A. Johnson
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
This powerful work from the acclaimed Jungian analyst and best-selling author of He, She, and We ex… read more
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20. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
By: Aldous Huxley
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more
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21. 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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22. El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
By: Irene Vallejo
4.26
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
Este es un libro sobre la historia de los libros. Un recorrido por la vida de ese fascinante artefa… read more
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- history
"Los libros nos convierten en herederos de todos los relatos: los mejores, los peores, los ambiguos, los problemáticos, los de doble filo. Disponer de todos ellos es bueno para pensar, y permite elegi…"-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
"Ler é um ritual que implica gestos, posições, objetos, espaços, materiais, movimentos, modulações de luz. Para imaginarmos como liam os nossos antepassados, precisamos de conhecer, em cada época, ess…"-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
"desde os primeiros séculos da escrita até à idade Média, a norma era ler em voz alta, para si próprio ou para os outros, e os escritores pronunciavam as frases à medida que as escreviam ouvindo assim…"-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
23. 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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24. The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
By: Iain McGilchrist
4.80
Format: 1500 pages, Hardcover
Is the world essentially inert and mechanical - nothing but a collection of things for us to use? A… read more
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- psychology
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"On the left hemisphere of the brain: 'Because it knows less, it thinks it knows everything."-Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
"Cynicism appears to be a coping strategy by the cognitively less gifted to avoid being duped by others."-Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
"To Heraclitus it was the logos; to Lao Tzu the tao; to Confucius lǐ; in Hinduism Brahman, and to the Vedic tradition Ṛta; in Zen ri; o Arabic peoples, since pre-Islamic times, Allah; to Hebrews YHWH.…"-Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
"Wittgenstein wrote: 'To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life.' And he continued: 'To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end o…"-Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
25. William Blake vs the World
By: John Higgs
4.17
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
Poet, artist, visionary and author of the unofficial English national anthem 'Jerusalem', William B… read more
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26. Plato's Critique of Impure Reason: On Goodness and Truth in the Republic
By: D.C. Schindler
4.76
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
Plato's Critique of Impure Reason offers a dramatic interpretation of the Republic, at the center o… read more
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27. Thinking Being: Introduction to Metaphysics in the Classical Tradition (Ancient Mediterranean and Medieval Texts and Contexts: Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition, 17)
By: Eric D. Perl
4.49
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Eric D. Perl, Loyola Marymount University In Thinking Being, Eric Perl articulates central ideas… read more
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28. Lost Knowledge of the Imagination
By: Gary Lachman
4.29
Format: 145 pages, Kindle Edition
The ability to imagine is at the heart of what makes us human. Through our imagination we experienc… read more
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29. Love and the Postmodern Predicament: Rediscovering the Real in Beauty, Goodness, and Truth (Veritas Book 28)
By: D.C. Schindler
4.48
Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition
The computer has increasingly become the principal model for the mind, which means our most basic e… read more
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30. Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
By: John Vervaeke
4.85
Format: None pages, Audiobook
We are in the midst of a mental health crisis. There are increases in anxiety disorders, depression… read more
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31. Uncertain Places: Essays on Occult and Outsider Experiences
By: Mitch Horowitz
4.11
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
An exploration of our extraordinary shift away from materialism toward renewal of the numinous, mys… read more
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