Current study topics (2020)

From Study

Number after the book is percent finished for Kindle, pages remaining for print.

(Black) Racial Justice

Stamped Remix by Reynolds and Kendi 66%

How to Be An Anti-racist by Ibram X. Kendi 43%

 Radical Dharma by williams and Owens 41%

White Fragility by Robin Diangelo 26%

(Indigenous) Racial Justice

Black Elk Speaks by John G. Niehardt 21%

Indigenous Peoples History of the US by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 12%

1491 by Charles Mann – sample

The systems view of life

Understanding Gregory Bateson by Noel Charlton 42%

Designing Regenerative Cultures by Daniel Wahl 30%

Order Out of Chaos by Prigogine and Stengers 22%

Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows 3%

The Tree of Knowledge* by Maturana and Varela

The Systems View of Life by Capra and Luisi (reference for course)

Sleep and dream

Mind Beyond Death* by Dzogchen Ponlop 13%

Waking, Dreaming, Being by Evan Thompson 8%

Sleepyhead by Henry Nicholls 6%

Why we sleep – Sample

Alchemy and relationship

Love and Awakening* by John Welwood 33 pgs

Psychology of Buddhist Tantra* by Rob Preece 13%

Alchemy by Marie-Louise von Franz 224 pgs

Tantra Illuminated by Christopher Wallis

Prajnaparamita, Sunyata, and Interbeing 

The Heart of Understanding by Thich Nhat Hanh 51%

Infinite Circle by Bernie Glassman 106 pgs

Mother of All Buddhas* by Lex Hixon

Mahayana Buddhism by Paul Williams 

The Embodied Mind* by Varela, Thompson, and Rosch

 Evolution of consciousness

The Evolving Self by Robert Kegan 27 pgs

Seeing through the world by Jeremy Johnson 50 pgs

Jung’s Map of the Soul: An Introduction, by Murray Stein 46%

Jung’s Red Book for Our Time Ed. By Murray Stein 21%

Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung 18%

A Secret History of Consciousness by Gary Lachman 6%

Empathy, altruism, and compassion 

A Fearless Heart by Thupten Jinpa 76%

Revolutionary Love by Michael Lerner 56%

Standing at the Edge by Joan Halifax 11%

The Empathic Civilization by Jeremy Rifkin 9%

Moving Toward Global Compassion by Paul Ekman

Poetry

The Masnavi, Book One by Jalal al-Din Rumi, tr. by Jawid Mojaddedi 

A Timbered Choir by Wendell Berry 152 pgs

Faces of love : Hafez and the poets of Shiraz, tr. by Dick Davis

Working toward a shared planetary consciousness that heals the Earth