Psychedelia/ Evolution of Consciousness
- The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
- Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution by Terence Mckenna
- Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati by Robert Anton Wilson
- Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
- High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies by Erik Davis
- The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
Buddhism
- Engaging Buddhism: Why it matters to Philosophy by Jay L. Garfield
- Tsong Khapa’s Speech of Gold in the Essence of True Eloquence: Reason and Enlightenment in the Central Philosophy of Tibet by Robert Thurman
- Self, Reality and Reason in Tibetan Philosophy by Thupten Jinpa
- Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic: A Manifesto for the Mind Sciences and Contemplative Practice by Alan Wallace
- How to Practice Shamatha Meditation: The Cultivation of Meditative Quiescence by Gen Lamrimpa, traslated by Allan Wallace
- The Emptiness That Is Form:The Nonconceptual Embodiment of Buddhahood by Thomas Yarnall
- The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Liberation Through Understanding in the Between by Robert Thurman
- Introduction to Tantra: The transformation of desire by Lama Yeshe
Technology & evolution
- Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan
- The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil
Nature of language/symbolic representation
- Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
- Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
Neuroscience
- The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind by Alan Wallace
- The Mind at Night by Andrea Rock
- Train your Brain, Change your Mind: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves by Sharon Begley
Sufism
The Universe in You: An inner journey guided by Rumi translated by Omid Arabian
The Garden of Truth: The Vision & Promise of Sufism, Islam’s Mystical Tradition by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Masnavi by Rumi translated by Jawid Mojaddedi
The Sufi Doctrine of Rumi by William Chittick
The Sufi Book of Life: 99 Pathways of the Heart for the Modern Dervish by Neil Douglas-Klotz
Mind Play
- Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Philosophical Fiction
- Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman
- Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
- Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- When Nietzche Wept by Irvin D. Yalom
Spiritual self-help
- The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael Singer
- Be Here Now by Ram Dass
Sacred Texts
- Bible
- Quran
- Shahnameh by Abdulghasem Ferdowsi
Archetypal psychology
- Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
- Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride: A Psychological Study by Marion Woodman
- Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness by Marion Woodman
- The Red Book by Carl G. Jung
- The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
- Holding the Tension of the Opposites by Marion Woodman
- Projection and re-collection in Jungian psychology: reflections of the soul by Marie-Louise von Franz
Miscellaneous
- A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda
- Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
- Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard
- Monadology by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz