“The Journey Home” by Radhanath Swami. It’s the biography of an American who goes on a journey to India and ends up becoming a Hindu Swami.
It was way more interesting than I thought it would be. He spent years just wandering around remote jungles and living in tiny temples. I’m not a religious or particularly spiritual person, but he dedicated his whole life to finding his spiritual truth, and hearing about that was really cool.
I guess I always rolled my eyes at those hippie types, but his journey seemed really authentic.
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Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist by Eli Saslow — all about Derek Black, who was supposed to be the future of white nationalism (& his dad started Stormfront and his godfather is David Duke!)
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Circadian Algorithms changed how I think about sleep and dreams. Fun stuff!
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The blue wonder by Frauke Bagusche. Amazing book on the ocean and it’s importance to us 💙
It also made me aware of just how in-depth the whole “UFOs are real” and “I’ve been abducted by aliens” idea is, particularly in the USA, and how despite a plethora of evidence, science and proof against the notion of little green men floating through walls in the middle of the night, doing sexual experiments on seemingly normal people and then Returning them to bed, all tucked in, people are still adamantly obsessed and to a point cult like about it.
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“The Red Tent” by Anita Diamant
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All But My Life, by Gerda Weissman-Klein, which made me think about how humans adjust and adapt to circumstance, even in the midst of unthinkable tragedy. It’s the story of her life in the Holocaust. If I were in charge for a day, I’d add it to all high school reading lists.
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George Orwell got rid of access to any of his money & lived as a poor/homeless person, then wrote a book about it. It’s called Down & Out in Paris & London, and it taught me a lot about poverty. Made me feel that the homeless should be able to spend whatever they have on cigarettes and alcohol if they want to, whereas before I didn’t want to give money because they would just “waste it.”
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Sapiens – I realize it’s a little controversial but it did make me realize humanity at large and how significant and insignificant we are.
I recommend this as often as possible, “Manufacturing Consent”.
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Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finnen Boylan
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A little life
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I dunno but everyone needs to read Miriam Toews Women Talking
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Seth Speak by Jane Roberts
Teaches about who we are, how to operate our consciousness and the bigger picture of All That Is.
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Brain on Fire, certainly.
As someone just developing my psych background at the time of reading it, that book was quite powerful.
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Just Mercy changed my perspective on the death penalty.
It’s profoundly moving as a spiritual non-fiction sequel to “To Kill a Mockingbird.” I found myself emotional as Bryan Stevenson, an attorney and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, tells the story of Walter McMillian and other people (intellectually disabled, children, pregnant women) on death row or serving life in prison.
Before reading this book, I supported the death penalty. If #blacklivesmatter – if #AllLivesMatter if you want to counter that – then I cannot morally support it any longer. I don’t know what the solution is, but I’ve come to believe that the death penalty is too problematic at best and inherently racist at worst.
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*The Power Broker* by Robert Caro
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Journey of Souls.
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Sapien.
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Smoke gets in your eyes is a great book about death
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**- Medical Apartheid** by Harriet A. Washington
*I had no clue about the holocaustlike medical experiments done on black people and how many modern medicine/surgical procedure/biological weapon/contraceptive and more came from it.*
– **The Butchering Art** by Lindsey Fitzharris
*An eye opening book about victorian surgery/medicine.*
– **Doctors from Hell** by Vivien Spitz
*I have heard about many of the gruesome experiments during the holocaust, but I didn’t know what were the purpose of them. This book explained a lot.*
– **Command and Control** by Eric Schlosser
*I was shocked when I understood how comical the safety measures were during the cold war. Who would’ve thought Dr Strangelove was not just a brilliant comedy but mirrored the entire situation perfectly that was going on around the time.*
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“The Journey Home” by Radhanath Swami. It’s the biography of an American who goes on a journey to India and ends up becoming a Hindu Swami.
It was way more interesting than I thought it would be. He spent years just wandering around remote jungles and living in tiny temples. I’m not a religious or particularly spiritual person, but he dedicated his whole life to finding his spiritual truth, and hearing about that was really cool.
I guess I always rolled my eyes at those hippie types, but his journey seemed really authentic.
Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist by Eli Saslow — all about Derek Black, who was supposed to be the future of white nationalism (& his dad started Stormfront and his godfather is David Duke!)
Circadian Algorithms changed how I think about sleep and dreams. Fun stuff!
The blue wonder by Frauke Bagusche. Amazing book on the ocean and it’s importance to us 💙
[The demon-haunted world ](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17349.The_Demon_Haunted_World) had me reevaluating my perspective of religion in terms of critical thinking.
It also made me aware of just how in-depth the whole “UFOs are real” and “I’ve been abducted by aliens” idea is, particularly in the USA, and how despite a plethora of evidence, science and proof against the notion of little green men floating through walls in the middle of the night, doing sexual experiments on seemingly normal people and then Returning them to bed, all tucked in, people are still adamantly obsessed and to a point cult like about it.
“The Red Tent” by Anita Diamant
All But My Life, by Gerda Weissman-Klein, which made me think about how humans adjust and adapt to circumstance, even in the midst of unthinkable tragedy. It’s the story of her life in the Holocaust. If I were in charge for a day, I’d add it to all high school reading lists.
George Orwell got rid of access to any of his money & lived as a poor/homeless person, then wrote a book about it. It’s called Down & Out in Paris & London, and it taught me a lot about poverty. Made me feel that the homeless should be able to spend whatever they have on cigarettes and alcohol if they want to, whereas before I didn’t want to give money because they would just “waste it.”
Sapiens – I realize it’s a little controversial but it did make me realize humanity at large and how significant and insignificant we are.
Ending Aging by Aubrey de Grey. Read the book for free [here](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL12284524W/Ending_Aging?edition=key%3A/books/OL17932740M).
I recommend this as often as possible, “Manufacturing Consent”.
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finnen Boylan
A little life
I dunno but everyone needs to read Miriam Toews Women Talking
Seth Speak by Jane Roberts
Teaches about who we are, how to operate our consciousness and the bigger picture of All That Is.
Brain on Fire, certainly.
As someone just developing my psych background at the time of reading it, that book was quite powerful.
Just Mercy changed my perspective on the death penalty.
It’s profoundly moving as a spiritual non-fiction sequel to “To Kill a Mockingbird.” I found myself emotional as Bryan Stevenson, an attorney and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, tells the story of Walter McMillian and other people (intellectually disabled, children, pregnant women) on death row or serving life in prison.
Before reading this book, I supported the death penalty. If #blacklivesmatter – if #AllLivesMatter if you want to counter that – then I cannot morally support it any longer. I don’t know what the solution is, but I’ve come to believe that the death penalty is too problematic at best and inherently racist at worst.
*The Power Broker* by Robert Caro
Journey of Souls.
Sapien.
Smoke gets in your eyes is a great book about death
**- Medical Apartheid** by Harriet A. Washington
*I had no clue about the holocaustlike medical experiments done on black people and how many modern medicine/surgical procedure/biological weapon/contraceptive and more came from it.*
– **The Butchering Art** by Lindsey Fitzharris
*An eye opening book about victorian surgery/medicine.*
– **Doctors from Hell** by Vivien Spitz
*I have heard about many of the gruesome experiments during the holocaust, but I didn’t know what were the purpose of them. This book explained a lot.*
– **Command and Control** by Eric Schlosser
*I was shocked when I understood how comical the safety measures were during the cold war. Who would’ve thought Dr Strangelove was not just a brilliant comedy but mirrored the entire situation perfectly that was going on around the time.*