Reading List
Here you’ll find a collection of reading material that has provided value and inspiration along the path to enlightenment.
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence, by Ray Kurzweil
Learn what the future holds in store from one of the great contemporary computer scientists, Ray Kurzweil. Explore the possiblities in medicine and computers and where the human race may be headed.
The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho
Anatomy of the Spirit, by Caroline Myss
Awakening Intuition: Using Your Mind-Body Network for Insight and Healing, by Mona Lisa Schulz
Learn to recognize your body’s way of communication and the lifestyle changes you can make to live healthier and happier.
Being Digital, by Nicholas Negroponte
Beyond Supernature: A New Natural History of the Supernatural, by Layll Watson
Computer Lib, by Ted Nelson
Connections, by James Burke
Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential, by Barbara Marx Hubbard. Conscious Evolution is best summed up by the following quotes from Hubbard’s text:
“It is now time to bring together those who have the vision, and the passion,to develop the curriculum for conscious evolution.”
“Remember Maslow’s discovery: The key to self-actualization—a life of creativity and joy—is to find work that is intrinsically valuable and self-rewarding.”
Creating from the Spirit: A Path to Creative Power in Art and Life, by Dan Wakefield
Creative Dreaming, by Patricia Garfield, Ph.D.
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, by Carl Sagan
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff…and it’s all small stuff, by Richard Carlson, Ph.D.
The Education of a Graphic Designer, edited by Steven Heller
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, by Jerry Mander
Forms Folds Sizes: All the Details Graphic Designers Need to Know But Can Never Find by Poppy Evans
The title of this book pretty much says it all. If you remember the old Pocket Pal, Forms Folds Sizes takes off on that idea, and then adds to it. In addition to everything in the title of the book, you’ll find information on copyright and trademarks, papers, packaging, postal standards and more. If you want one for the bookshelf, this book could come in handy.
Getting It Printed, by Eric Kenly and Mark Beach.Terrific chapter on Paper.
Graphic Design: The New Basics, by Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips
The Global Brain Awakens: Out Next Evolutionary Leap, by Peter Russell
The Holographic Universe, by Michael Talbot
If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit, by Brenda Ueland
In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations, by Jerry Mander
The Joy of Visualization: 75 Ways to Enhance Your Life, by Valerie Wells
The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World, by Paul Davies
Molecules of Emotion, by Candace Pert
Natural Grace: Dialogues on Creation, Darkness, and the Soul in Spirituality and Science, by Matthew Fox and Rupert Sheldrake
The New Renaissance: Computers and the Next Level of Civilization, by Douglas Robertson
A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Morphic Resonance, by Rupert Sheldrake
Parallel Universes: The Search for Other Worlds, by Fed Alan Wolf
The Physics of Imortality, by Frank J. Tipler
Saints and Madmen: Psychiatry Opens Its Doors to Religion, by Russell Shorto
The Seat of the Soul, by Gary Zukav
Learn to recognize the power of your consciousness and how to benefit from it. Learn how you are evolving and what authentic power is. Written by the author of the Dancing Wu Li Masters.
The Seekers: The Story of Man’s Continuing Quest to Understand His World, by Daniel Boorstin
Steven Hawking’s Universe, by John Boslough
TechGnosis: Technology, Myth and Mysticism in the Age of Information, by Erik Davis
The Third Millennium: Living in the Posthistoric World, by Ken Carey
The Web of Life: An New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems, by Fritjof Capra