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Books

Here I list some books that have moved me, educated me, changed me (and some I moved on from).

Books I am grateful for. Books I am in the middle of. Books in my queue.

NVC

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life - Marshall B. Rosenberg (thanks Jon)

Speaking Peace - Marshall B. Rosenberg

Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication - Oren Jay Sofer

Anger, Guilt and Shame - Reclaiming Power and Choice: Reclaiming Power and Choice - Liv Larsson

Philosophy & such

The Flip: Who You Really Are And Why It Matters - Jeffrey K. Kripal

Passport To Magonia: From Folklore To Flying Saucers - Jaques Vallée

The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World - David Abram (Thanks Martijn)

Nietzsche and Zen: Self Overcoming Without a Self - André van der Braak

Phenomenology of Perception - Maurice Merleau-Ponty (Thanks Misters Coolen and De Boer)

The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology - Edmund Husserl (Thanks Ms Brouwer)

On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time (1893–1917) - Edmund Husserl

Spirituality & Culture

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

The Deep Heart: Our Portal to Presence - John J. Prendergast

Resurrecting Jesus: Embodying the Spirit of a Revolutionary Mystic - Adyashanti

Falling into Grace - Adyashanti

Essence of the Upanishads - Eknath Easwaran

The Mind Illuminated - Culadasa

Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl

The Places That Scare You - Pema Chödrön

Abiding in Mindfulness - Joseph Goldstein

Attuned - Thomas Hübl

Healing Collective Trauma - Thomas Hübl

Bhagavad Gita - Eknath Easwaran

Tantra Illuminated: The Philosophy, History, and Practice of a Timeless Tradition - Christopher D. Wallis

Reverse Meditation - Andrew Holocek

The Magic of Vajrayana - Ken Mcleod (Thanks Michael)

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse - Charlie Mackesy (Thanks Suzanne)

Seeing That Frees: Meditations On Emptiness And Dependent Arising - Rob Burbea

I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj - Nisargadatta Maharaj (Thank you India)

Answer to Job - C.G. Jung (Thanks Simon)

Aion: Researches Into the Phenomenology of the Self - C.G. Jung

Light on Yoga - B.K.S. Iyengar

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos - Jordan B. Peterson

Science (based)

Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love - Amir Levine, Rachel Heller

No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model - Richard C. Schwartz

Introduction to Internal Family Systems - Richard C. Schwartz

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma - Bessel van der Kolk

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art - James Nestor

The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari

Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension - Michio Kaku

The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design - Leonard Susskind

The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics - Leonard Susskind

Determined - Robert Sapolsky

Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are? - Frans de Waal

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction - Gabor Maté

The Myth of Normal - Gabor Maté

When the body says No - Gabor Maté

The Transpersonal Vision - Stanislav Grof

Fiction

IT - Stephen King

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami

The Devil's Door Bell - Anthony Horowitz

Onslaught saga - Marvel

The City And The Stars - Arthur C. Clarke

Historical & biographies

Out of the Dark - Hellen Keller

The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection - Michael A. Singer

The Rape of Nanking - Iris Chang

Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds - David Goggins

Memories, Dreams, Reflections - C.G. Jung