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Halfway up the mountain  — Mariana Caplan
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Halfway up the mountain — Mariana Caplan

This book is very clear and kind, about how to pick an embodied teacher, and how not to proclaim yourself one prematurely.

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Happy Money — Ken Honda
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Happy Money — Ken Honda

This book is an experiential method for healing your relationship to money. This work can be painful, and Honda is truly gentle.

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People — Stephen Covey
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People — Stephen Covey

Covey’s classic is a great secular read that gives clear descriptions of a Westernized practice corresponding to the 8 limbs of yoga.

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Spiritual Emergence Network (SEN)
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Spiritual Emergence Network (SEN)

Spiritual emergence network is a good resource for someone in spiritual emergency who needs to access savvy mental-health services.

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Superforecasting: the art and science of prediction — Tetlock and Gardner
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Superforecasting: the art and science of prediction — Tetlock and Gardner

Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner examine research on people who are better than experts at predicting the future.

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We regulate others emotions through our own
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We regulate others emotions through our own

Research with fMRI shows we use experience of our own emotion when regulating that of others.

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The relationship Cure - John Gottman
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The relationship Cure - John Gottman

John M. Gottman, PhD writes about the scientific evidence on creating and maintaining healthy relationships.

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Thinking, fast and slow - Daniel Kahneman
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Thinking, fast and slow - Daniel Kahneman

Daniel Kahneman, PhD discusses the twinned use of logical and intuitive thought.

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The neurons that shaped civilization — Vilayanur Ramachandran
Film Locke 10/31/21 Film Locke 10/31/21

The neurons that shaped civilization — Vilayanur Ramachandran

Vilayanur Ramachandran discusses scientific evidence for mirror neurons and empathy.

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Presentation: Alain de Botton — A kinder gentler philosophy of success
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Presentation: Alain de Botton — A kinder gentler philosophy of success

Alain de Botton discusses success and how we can approach it more gently and lucidly.

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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out - Richard Feynman
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out - Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman is a physicist who worked on the atom bomb. I particularly like his science writing.

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The brain in love — Helen Fischer
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The brain in love — Helen Fischer

Helen Fischer describes the scientific evidence for romantic love.

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Make The Most Of Your Mind - Tony Buzan
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Make The Most Of Your Mind - Tony Buzan

Psi ability is a natural extension of mental fittness. Tony Buzan did a great job at rewiring the assumption that IQ is hardware vs software.

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The Concept of Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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The Concept of Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The life work of psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is on the positive psychology concept of ‘flow”.

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Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi talks about his life’s work on finding and accessing higher consciousness states.

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The Dunning–Kruger Effect - David Dunning
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The Dunning–Kruger Effect - David Dunning

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Debate on Psi Senses - Nature
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Debate on Psi Senses - Nature

Letter in Nature from Stanford describing psychic senses and rebuttal from New Zealand saying the results weren’t reproducible.

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Observation Affects Reality - Weizmann Institute Of Science
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Observation Affects Reality - Weizmann Institute Of Science

A 1998 paper from Nature providing evidence for the quantum theory supposition that observation affects reality.

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The Art of Deception - Nicholas Capaldi
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The Art of Deception - Nicholas Capaldi

I am not in any way suggesting you practice deception. This book is a vaccination, a de-wormer if you will.

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Your Logical Fallacy Is - School of Thought
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Your Logical Fallacy Is - School of Thought

The website Your Logical Fallacy Is is a basic primer for high-school students on how to think logically.

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Zen, Kundalini

Consciousness only has two directions, toward greater consciousness or away from it.

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On emotions and spiritual awakening for skeptics
Emotion, Healing
On emotions and spiritual awakening for skeptics
Emotion, Healing

Emotions are different from thoughts and usually underdeveloped abilities.

Emotion, Healing
On questions and answers
Zen, Kundalini, Psi
On questions and answers
Zen, Kundalini, Psi

The most important skill you need to successfully navigate a spiritual path is the ability to ask a question, and get an answer.

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On zen and spiritual awakening for skeptics
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On zen and spiritual awakening for skeptics
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A spiritual awakening is a spiral path. Zen is about cutting some rings out of the spiral.

Zen
Defining the terms ‘skeptic’ and ‘spiritual awakening’
Science, Kundalini
Defining the terms ‘skeptic’ and ‘spiritual awakening’
Science, Kundalini

A skeptic is a person who questions things. A spiritual awakening is unexpected entre to higher-level cognitive functions.

Science, Kundalini
On science and spiritual awakening for skeptics
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On science and spiritual awakening for skeptics
Science

Science is one way to know things, spirituality is another, they do best when they are integrated.

Science
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Kundalini
On kundalini and spiritual awakening for skeptics
Kundalini

A basic blog to introduce the concept of kundalini to people who don’t know anything about it.

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On psi and spiritual awakening for skeptics
Psi

The experience of psi and psychic phenomena can be one of the most distressing aspects of a spiritual awakening for a scientist.

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