Books
These are some books that have helped shape my thinking over the past 10 years or so. As the digital and cultural landscape shifts under our feet, I look to long-form content to ground me. Diving into both the past and the future to help understand the present.
Consciousness
A New Science of Heaven
Robert Temple
Sekret Machines
Tom DeLonge & Peter Levenda
The Romance of Reality
Bobby Azarian
The Singularity Is Nearer
Ray Kurzweil
Time Loops
Eric Wargo
The Science of Magic
Dean Radin
This Is Your Brain on Music
Daniel Levitin
The Shape of Things Unseen
Adam Zeman
Alien Information Theory
Andrew Gallimore
Death by Astonishment
Andrew Gallimore
Giza: The Tesla Connection
Christopher Dunn
Fingerprints of the Gods
Graham Hancock
DMT: The Spirit Molecule
Rick Strassman
Wisdom of Souls
Ann Clark & Karen Joy
The Hidden Messages in Water
Masaru Emoto
Opening the Doors of Perception
Anthony Peake
Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens
John Mack
Culture
Inflamed
Rupa Marya & Raj Patel
The Book of Trespass
Nick Hayes
Natives
Akala
The New Age of Empire
Kehinde Andrews
The Trading Game
Gary Stevenson
Technofeudalism
Yanis Varoufakis
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
Owen Jones
We Can Do Better Than This
Amelia Abraham
My People Are Rising
Aaron Dixon
Black and British
David Olusoga
Italians Forward
Terri Colpi
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Black Voices on Britain
Hakim Adi
Nature
The Dawn of Everything
David Graeber & David Wengrow
Entangled Life
Merlin Sheldrake
The Songs of Trees
David George Haskell
The Genius of Birds
Jennifer Ackerman
Boudica: Dreaming the Eagle
Manda Scott
Any Human Power
Manda Scott
The Wayfinders
Wade Davis
The Songlines
Bruce Chatwin
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Cloudspotter’s Guide
Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Creativity
The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds
John Higgs
William Blake vs the World
John Higgs
The Art of Impossible
Steven Kotler
Gnar Country: Growing Old, Staying Rad
Steven Kotler
The Essential Rumi
Rumi translated by Coleman Barks
Everything Is a Prototype
Brendan Kearns
Wellbeing
The Myth of Normal
Gabor Maté
Humankind: A Hopeful History
Rutger Bregman
The Telomere Effect
Elizabeth Blackburn & Elissa Epel
The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle
How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy!
Paul Chek
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk
Attached
Amir Levine & Rachel Heller
RYA Yachtmaster Handbook
James Stevens
Surf Science
Tony Butt
Stormrider Europe Guide
Bruce Sutherland
Stormrider World Guide
Bruce Sutherland
